barack obama never wanted to give a speech like this. he was perfectly to prepared and be above politics and seen a complete collapse of leadership. people can happiest taking the gloves off. when you hear him do it, somebody else write it off. when you hear someone like him go against the tradition and listen to his words very carefully, he is speaking from his heart. he's not playing politics. he believes democracy is imperil and i don't want to be a dep cat jumping up and down saying go, go, go because the heartbreak under the decision he's made i know. >> i would say that it may be heartbreaking but he's forced to come out and basically open about what is happening people. i think it's not just going to be negative trump. he is going to lift up barack obama. he was side by side with him. i think the lead -- >> with biden. >> to his speech. right. excuse me. the lead into the speech will be a montage, which shows him honor to joe biden, make sure people understand who biden is. he's also going to tell the truth, which is so important.

obama was speaking several times he tweeted out often in caps attacking barack obama attacking joe biden he was as they see on social media these days very much triggered by the speech that barack obama gave while kummel harness and her speech is certainly a moment of history i think most people will be talking in the next few hours and certainly into the news shows here in the united states on thursday about that startling speech from president former president barack obama and his criticisms of current president donald trump. our correspondent there in washington d.c. many thanks let's get to stephanie brown james the co-founder of the collective an organization working to address representation of african americans in public office many thanks for joining us so what was your reaction to. come along harris's each there was it what you expected what you had in mind. i would say it doesn't was what i expected i'll tell you that her speech to me was completely. in line with the theme tonight a more perfect union and i thought that it was a perfect follow up to president barack obama's spe

saying, barack obama didn't want to give this speech. he knows it is a break from norm, but he literally does feel democracy is on the line. how to take the speech, this individual told me, literally. take it literally. if people are inspired by it, great, but generally they want people to feel unsettled. that is the point of the speech this evening from barack obama to make people feel disturbed by what he sees. for a former president to come out and say this current president is a threat to democracy. and as a sidebar to that, it's interesting that while barack obama was making the case basically that donald trump is an un-serious person and unfit for this office, the response of donald trump, as abby noted, is to be going on a twitterstorm, leveling all sorts of allegations and falsehoods and wild statements in all caps on twitter, which is obviously not how we are used to american leaders behaving. another point i wanted to make, dana, and i want to get your thoughts on this is i said earlier that kamala harris' talk about structural

it shows you how high barack obama feels the stakes are. i know you have got many other bbc programs to talk to. we must let you go. thank you very much for that. all eyes will be on kamala harris tonight as she steps up to accept the nomination as the party's candidate for vice president. she'll become the first woman of colour in us history, to do so. kamala harris is half jamaican, half indian, and her indian heritage has been key in shaping her ideas. rajini vaidya nathan reports. my grandparents were phenomenal. we would go back to india every other year. in social media videos, kamala harris has often talked about the importance of her indian roots. my grandfather would take me on his morning walk. it was on the pristine sands of elliot's beach in the south indian city of chennai where she says her political views were shaped. a young kamala harris would join her grandfather, pv gopalan, on walks with his friends. i would hold his hand and i remember the stories that they would tell and the passion with which they spoke about the impo

there were two presentations by barack obama. they ran the video, the whole white house video of president obama giving joe biden the presidential medal of freedom which came as a surprise to joe biden. and i personally had forgotten the surprise element of it, which we saw on video. and so you saw that incredible embrace of joe biden the person, the man by barack obama. and in barack obama's speech he referred to him as a brother. he said he was choosing a governing partner for a vice president but he discovered a brother. he couldn't have hugged him more closely on a personal level. and yes there was a lot of apocalyptic language used by the president. all of that was merited. all of that will get plenty of attention, but i want to focus on that very, very personal bond that president obama delivered for joe biden tonight. >> our guests are staying with us. just ahead an example of some of what tonight's speech making was about. the incombpt president saying the movement that the fbi has labeled a dangerous fringe group loves t

obama was talking about how he he trades in conspiracy theory the fact that barack obama spied on this campaign is exactly a conspiracy theory so this was staggering staggering speech that we just heard from barack obama and an attack on donald trump that is clearly drawing blood to donald trump has resisted the temptation so far on the fox tonight not to make any comment about the d.n.c. he hasn't been live tweeting anything or talk lyrically clearly barack obama and his words got the most of them in the last 1015 minutes and he decided he was going to speak to his supporters but stunning speech absolutely stunning it really was quite something let's focus on some of the other parts of the speech then the. 3rd part if we say it was in 3rd the 3rd part really focusing on democracy and a really powerful line that's what's at stake now our democracy don't let them take away your power don't let them take away your democracy. and if you haven't been following developments here in the united states over the last week or so there's been a big concern particularly about mail in voting many p

i think both obama remember michelle obama with a brilliant speech 2 days ago now barack obama with a speech which i have never ever expected nor heard from him in the last 3 years it is as you said he took the gloves off this was a takedown a 4 alarm fire a full frontal punch into the face of president donald trump and this is not usual not at all the present president barack obama has tried for the last 3 and a half years to actually he really quiet because that is the tradition he has a as a former president you do not criticize the sitting president even if you absolutely disagree with his performance or politically but in this case i think barack obama really had to pull in his mind the emergency brake because he sees democracy democratic institutions in danger in the united states and says of course that donald trump never was serious about actually getting the job really done the work serious about the job being a president and will do almost anything to get reelected that means destroying democracy so that was a absolute huge deal and a full frontal assault against the sitting

barack obama was supposed to be the closing speaker. but when harris was selected as the running mate, obama said i would like to switch positions with with her and have her be the last closing speech as a way to pass the torch to the new generation of leaders is what they said. >> so you were at the chase senator in downtown wilmington as senator harris took the stage, what was it like? >> that's right. i was not sitting in my hotel like i have been a lot of the time while in wilmington. but i was there last night, and it was a good reminder of how things are totally different. the room that we were in, yasmin was so silent you could hear a pin drop. it had to be that way, there were about 30 of us in there, all reporters, and i'm grateful to be one of about 30 americans who got to see the speech live in person. but it was as if senator harris didn't know we were there or couldn't acknowledge that we were there, because we weren't supposed to be there. her audience was a national audience not the folks in the room. but to watch her giv

is not true and false but again don trump reacting in real time to what he heard from barack obama and that wasn't really nice stephanie joining us from washington with all the details about this historic night for american politics thank you very much. bellerose ian opposition leaders have welcomed a unanimous decision by european union leaders to reject the results of the election that kept president alexander loci shango in power after a virtual conference of $27.00 national leaders and top officials from the block they also announced sanctions against a large number of individuals involved in alleged voting fraud and violence against protesters. this is not lunch time or the end of a shift this is another nail in the coffin of credibility. because will crack the state run chemicals factory threats have no power over them any more. protests because one of the countries find track to factories to join them but some decide to keep their jobs. these miners were already outside at a rally across the industrial heartlands of balor us rejection of ricocheting cuz regime has gone nationwid

barack obama, of course. the former secretary of state, hillary clinton, who lost to mr trump four years ago said the president was dangerous. who won the popular vote lost to those key swing states by 80,000 votes. she said the president was dangerous. forfour for four years, people have told me, i didn't realise how dangerous he was. i wish they could do it all over, or worse, i should have voted. look, this can't be another woulda coulda shoulda election. if you vote in person, do it early. become a poll worker. most of all, no matter what, vote. as michelle obama and bernie sanders warned us, if trump is re—elected, things will get even worse. that's why we need unity now more than ever. remember back in 2016 when trump asked, what do you have to lose? well, now we know. our healthcare, our jobs, our loved ones. our leadership in the world and even our post office. hillary clinton there. i'm nowjoined from san francisco by ben labolt who was national press secretary for president obama's re—election c

president barack obama breaks with convention launches a scathing attack on donald trump obama endorsed joe biden the president. we must elect a president who will bring something different to achieve come on the harris outlines her vision for a more inclusive america as she accepts the democratic nomination for vice president. i'm on inside this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up iran will never have a nuclear weapon. donald trump puts pressure on the u.n. to reimpose sanctions on iran often embarrassing defeat to extend an arms embargo. defiant and determined protesters braved the threat of a renewed crackdown in groups to rally against the will of the president. former u.s. president barack obama has delivered a stinging rebuke of his successor on day 3 of the democratic national convention he says donald trump has shown no interest in putting in the work and has sought. need to help himself and his friends obama urged americans to vote for joe biden in the presidential election saying he has the ability to lead the country out of dark times. a former democratic nominee hill

you know, joe biden helped barack obama make the final call. and i thought a really compelling moment was actually revisiting when president obama awarded him with the presidential medal of freedom. and we got to hear about joe biden's 50 years in public service, the fact he managed through an economic recovery before, helped prevent two pandemics, h1n1 and ebola from taking over the country today. and facing the pandemic we are today. it was a stark contrast on that front but he really has the sole ability to credential joe biden's ability to be in the oval office, to make those tough decisions and tough calls, and i thought he balanced both of those priorities tonight. >> it's fascinating hearing you break that down, again, given your personal experience with the president. and both of you laying this out, we are living through history right now. it's 2020. everyone knows what a hard year it's been even before you get into democracy and politics. but sometimes as things fly at us whether in the newsroom or citizens it takes a min toot go what

i've seen barack obama speak in person, i've seen him speak on television. i've seep him get misty-eyed. the president looked like he was about to cry, and i don't mean that in a bad way. i mean barack obama emanated tonight i love this country, and it could be gone, and i want you all to understand that. if you looked in his eyes, there was a passion i have never seen before in this president. it was an emotion i've never seen from the president. it was not his most fiery speech or rah-rah speech it. was, i love this place, i know you do, too, and we've got to get together to save it. >> alicia, by the end of the gop convention coming up around this time next week, it has been said if they're successful, americans will believe the nominee is hunter and not joe biden. how are they going to counter some of the arguments made tonight on guns and shootings, on immigration, or just not at all? >> they're going to paint a very different picture of america. we've already seen that with some of the people who are going to be slated to speak there. they will speak a

now here's barack obama doing this for joe biden. barack obama more popular than ever. at the time in 2012 bill clinton was the more popular one. he loaned his political capital to obama. now obama is having to loan his political capital to joe biden. i think the fact that he's willing to use it in such a strong way, i think shows you how motivating it is for the obamas to see trump out of office. >> all right, chuck, thank you. as we continue to watch that feed, most of the speakers tonight have been women. right now they're talking about violence against women, domestic violence. we've heard also from house speaker nancy pelosi, former congresswoman gabby giffords who was shot in arizona and as mentioned senator elizabeth warren we'll hear from in just a few minutes. >> a short time ago the democrats 2016 nominee for president, hillary clinton, made her case for joe biden. here's some of what she had to say. >> for four years people have told me, i didn't realize how dangerous he was. i wish i could do it all over. or worst, i could have voted. look, this can't be ano

the barack obama anger translator. but i, also, do think, you know, kind of knowing people who worked in the white house, barack obama really, truly, did believe in bipartisanship. really, truly, did believe that he could -- that some -- that some of the kind of the poisonous in our policy, in our politics, was the legacy of the baby-boom generation, and he could transcend it. i think barack obama's biggest mistake in politics was having too much faith in the decency and governing intentions of the republican party. and i think that that's all gone now. >> before we have to wrap for the hour. i did want to talk to you about the nation's coronavirus response. we know these negotiations have been taking place in washington. hopefully, presumably, early next week, we'll have some kind of draft deal between members of congress and the white house. this week, we had another hearing with the leaders of the task force. the medical leaders of the task force fighting coronavirus. dr. anthony fauci said he was cautiously optimis

obama and kamala harris making a direct message at donald trump, something that barack obama has hesitated to do over the first three years or so, ramped it up a little bit more in recent months but nothing like we saw last night. >> the democrats' criticism of president trump was both emotional, biting, blistering as well as told through the stories of individual people, including, of course, that very powerful speech by gabby giffords, her aides say she worked months to give that speech. it was something you could tell people were putting their heart and soul into. there was also that young woman who said her mother was deported by the trump administration, her father had been a supporter for the president, but he's not supporting him now because his wife has been torn away from her family. we saw president obama really make the case in the same way that michelle obama made the case that donald trump isn't up to the job. saying as you pointed out he has not grown into the job because he simply cannot do so. that dove tails with what michelle obama was saying, he can't fake his way throug

we are going to as you just are said hear from former president barack obama. i am told that you can expect president obama to talk about what it is like firsthand to work with joe biden. of course biden served as his vice president for eight years, so he really has perspective that frankly no one else can offer. so he is going to draw on that. but he is also going to cast this election as one that is putting democracy on the line. he will reiterate what we heard from former first lady michelle obama which is a call to everyone to get out and vote. and then we'll hear from former secretary of state and presidential nominee herself hillary clinton. this will also be a big moment of the night. she was a history-maker in her own right of course, craig, and we are told that she will offer a very sobering indictment of the trump presidency. so three big speech from three history makers in their own right. >> that is a good point. kristen welker there in wilmington. shaq, walk us through what stood out about night two of the convention and how the dnc has been able t

barack obama, embracing the man he calls a brother. and in one more sign of what a battle this campaign will be, president trump has already fired back from the white house. declaring he ran for president simply because obama failed. the democrats are also shining a light on some of their most prominent women, nancy pelosi, elizabeth warren, hillary clinton and the senator breaking a new barrier, kamala harris, who will formally accept the nomination tonight. and broke the tradition by kicking the evening off herself. >> i know many of you plan to vote this year, but you've also heard about obstacles and misinformation and folks making it harder for you to cast your ballot. so i think we need to ask ourselves, why don't they want us to vote? why is there so much effort to silence our voices? and the answer is because when we vote, things change. >> kamala harris right there from wilmington, delaware. mary bruce is there, too. this is her night. >> this is a huge moment of significance for women, for women of color, and especially for y

barack obama says it is about the meaning of america. the challenge for her did to knit her personal story with the larger biden campaign which is we are in touch with those fundamental values of america. and that's what she, that is the level she can raise to in her speech tonight. >> jamal, i was thinking that tonight could have been called ladies night if it weren't for barack obama because we have heard from so many powerful women, also elizabeth warren speaking tonight as well. hillary clinton, to hear her address, mentioning that again she won the popular vote by 3 million. was in terms of the polls, she had a narrow lead at this same time and yet is not president. >> sure, that was a tough night for democrats. last time when she did not win. it was interesting, i wanted to make sure that the room she spoke from tonight is the same room where she gave her initial video in 2008 that announced she was running for president. a ascertain sim dree-- sim tree to that hillary clinton started that and became the first woman no nominee, too

barack obama should have left his nose out of it, let her go first and obama go last. i thought obama was compelling, and i thought harris was okay. and it shouldn't be that way. it should be the other way around. let her go and then let the night finish with the president, because of who he is. >> sarah, you said it depends on which kamala harris showed up. which one showed up? >> the one that showed up was the moderate harris, she wasn't talking about decriminalizing the border. she wasn't talking about medicare for all. she wasn't talking about a green new deal which she co-authored. she focussed mostly on herself and her story, which is appropriate in the speech. she did take it to donald trump i thought pretty hard. i agree with yvette. that was a very hard-line. >> what does kamala bring to the ticket that biden doesn't have on his own? >> well, i think that package, you have to look at them together. she has an energy, vivaciousness and lust of life that is there. she did a great job for the ticket. i don't want to quibble here. i would have, she was left with t

barack obama was running for re-election. and kamala harris all in white, she had become a big name in her own right that year for one thing she had done that made a lot of national news. she fought for and won a bigger, better settlement for homeowners in the foreclosure crisis that had grown out of the financial disaster. not even a year into her first term at california's attorney general, she did this dramatic thing. she pulled out of settlement talks between the big banks and all 50 states. she says, i'm california ag. i am not doing this. she walked away from their settlement talks saying what the banks were offering was not good enough and she wouldn't take it. and people freaked out. people accused her of blowing up a possible nationwide deal. maybe homeowners would get nothing. but she stood her ground. she said you've got to give me more than you are offering. she got the banks to come back to the table with basically quadruple their original offer because of her toughness. and that fight and that win when there wer

with his leadership we did what barack obama andjoe leadership we did what barack obama and joe biden refused to do, we stood up for america and we stood against our enemies. barack obama and joe biden let north korea threaten america. president trump rejected that wea kness president trump rejected that weakness and we passed the toughest sanctions on north korea in history. barack obama joe biden led you run get away with murder and literally sent them a plateful of cash. —— you run. president trump ripped up the iran nuclear deal. president trump moved out embassy to jerusalem and, president trump moved out embassy tojerusalem and, when the un try to condemn us, i was proud to cast the american veto. this president has a record of strength and success. the former vice president has a record of weakness and failure. joe biden is good for iran and isis and a godsend for anyone who wants america to apologise, abstain and abandon our values. donald trump takes a different approach. he is tough on china and took on isis and one. he tells the world what it needs to hear. —— won.

barack obama, the biggest obvious hit of the night. the guy is the best public speaker in american public life. so i don't think we should be that surprised that his speech was good. what is important about his speech is, that is as aggressive as you will see a former president go after a current president, maybe ever. obama has been begged by lots of democrats to be more aggressive about trump over these last 3 1/2 years. he did it tonight, and last night, and i think a lot of people will be happy about that. and again, really good speaker, delivers what i think is a really good speech that will probably be right now my two best speeches of the convention are barack and michelle obama. i don't think joe biden will give a better speech than those two. but it was solid. >> and harris' speech? >> i agree with angela and karen. i think she was nervous when she started, which is understandable. >> you thought she was nervous? >> just at the start. >> okay. >> i thought she was a little nervous going through her bio. but once she got to i k

still to come, senator elizabeth warren and former president barack obama. the big event is the address from the candidate for vice president kamala harris. we will bring you all of that during this hour. with us throughout our coverage, contributors. let's start with a quick thought or two. it strikes me as we watch nancy pelosi, the first woman in speaker ofserve as the house, now we are going to nominate the first african-american and south a remake -- south asian american. >> yesterday was the anniversary of the the hitting the women the right to vote. if joe was to win, you would have the second to the line a woman. david: you have been there, you ran john mccain's campaign and others. tell us what joe biden needs from this vice president? thehe needs to connect with american public. this is her first introduction at scale. the key thing is she develops a relationship with the public who views her tonight and follows -- forms a level of personality. this is her last chance not interrupted by any means to make her pitch to the people who will vote in nov

brag about how they sealed the nomination faster than barack obama did in 2008 whereas barack obama during the race had a lot of anonymously-sourced quotes about joe biden saying that he thought he didn't really have a connection with voters anymore. you aren't going to hear any of that tonight but the relationship is a lot more tense. >> tucker: i know that obama 's aides patronize joe biden. i didn't realize how personal it was between the two of them. the piece implies, anyway, that president obama believes that biden was incapable, kind of almost a ne'er-do-well, that was my read of it. >> my reporting does not go that far but does show that obama did have an intellectual kinship with hillary clinton that he didn't feel he had with joe biden. joe biden graduated, 75th out of 86th in his class at syracuse law school, 76 out of 85. so that lack of intellectual kinship led obama to sometimes be a little bit dismissive but biden to be a little bit proud and feel that he wanted to prove himself and honestly sometimes made him a better deal maker on capitol hill according to republicans adul

i think that barack obama is very close to joe biden. i don't think the staffers on both sides for obama and biden necessarily got along all the time. i do think that you'll see a little bit of criticism from there. what was moving last night, john, you know how many of these you and i have covered together, it's always about a moment when we have these live political conventions. always about a moment. it's very hard when these moments are just speeches and in large part have been taped. a couple of them have been live. the big ones. it was a moment though that we saw last night when we saw barack obama, the tape of him giving joe biden the congressional medal of honor. by doing that, joe biden had no idea. the reaction on joe biden's face when he was told that this was happening in front of everybody was just very timeless. i do think these men are very, very close. the fact of the matter is, it is a little bit complicated, john. >> the current president, he tweeted out, why did he, as in barack obama, agree to endorse slow joe. why di

usually, you use your elder statesman, your beloved two-term president, barack obama. last night, your beloved, two-term president, bill clinton. you use them to validate. this year, the democrats are using them to eviscerate and that is unprecedented. i think it's great because it allows, then, kamala, tonight, to take the high road. which usually, the job of the vp is to stick the knife in. but barack did that. >> i never thought of that. >> so, i think this is a really important shift in the way these conventions are managed. i -- what -- i know what president obama said, he meant it. it wasn't simply strategic but that was not a speech. it was a 911 call and i think we got to take it seriously. >> yeah. >> angela, i favor kamala harris's ability to throw straight punches. joe biden needs the help, with that. he can challenge people to pushup contests but he should really, like, never say that again. and they're going to need a foil because you saw what trump's -- i believe he helped obama, tonight, with what he was tweeting in real time because he was showing himse

very somber in the tone from th former president, barack obama. he said these are not normal times, and what we do will echo four generations. let's bring in chris wallace with his thoughts on what we heard this evening from president trumps predecessor president obama. >> ever got to say i thought it was a really curious speech. you say he talked for 15 minutes , somebody tell me if you was right or wrong, i bet he didn't talk about joe biden for five of those 15 minutes and basically said he was my brothe in the white house he made me a bread or president he will make it a better country. talked about how he will get control of the pandemic and rebuild the economy. it wasn't even all that much about donald trump although he made clear i think you could only call it contempt for donal trump, but most of it was about almost like the community organizer from chicago about ho people have to go out and organize and as he said, our democracy is at stake, but as a full throated endorsement of jo biden, not saying he wasn't for him, it was a curious spe

and backing biden his running mate come to harris and former boss president barack obama head up the 3rd night of the democratic national convention. so u.s. president donald trump is to demand all united nations sanctions be reimposed against iran it follows america's defeat over plans to extend an arms embargo trump says his secretary on pay will travel to the u.n. in the coming days to start the process of restoring sanctions a proposal which will face strong political and legal challenges. iran will never have market down market in iran will never have a nuclear weapon when the united states entered into the iran deal it was clear that the united states would always have the right to restore the un sanctions that will prevent iran from developing a nuclear weapon we paid a fortune for a failed concept and a failed policy a policy that would have made it impossible to have peace in the middle east his mike hanna in washington d.c. following the story for us mike when we talk about war donald trump talks about this process of restoring sanctions. how i think is the basic question.

they paved the way for the trailblazing leadership of barack obama and hillary clinton er. in these women inspired us to pick up the torch and fight on. women like mary church terrel, and diane nash, constance baker watley and the great shirley chisholm. we are not often taught their stories, but as americans, we all stand on their shoulders. there is another woman, whose name isn't known, whose story isn't shared, another woman,wh whose shoulders i stand on, and that is my mother, she came her from india at age 19 to pursue her dream of curing cancer, at the university of california berkeley, she met my father donald harris who had come from jamaica to study economics. they fell in love and that most american way while marching together for justice in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. in the streets of oakland and berkeley, i got a stroller's ey view of people getting into wha the great john lewis called goo trouble. when i was five, my parents split and my mother raised us mostly on her own. like so many mothers, she worke around-the-clock to make it work , packing

john kerry picked john edwards barack obama -- picked john edwards. barack obama picked joe biden. it's about polical pragmatism more than what happened in the past. i think the calculation that joe biden made was that kamala harris, first of all, reflects the diversity of the democratic party, balances the ticket asr age goes. she has a feists that think would be useful on the campaign trail. are supposed to be attack dogs. she has shown she has a sharp claws. they will be going against jane: we've seen history made today, but we are also living in a moment of history, because this is a campaign taking place in the middle of a global pandemic. how do you think kamala harris's selection might change the way this camign goes? >> ishink what you might see that kamala harris is the one who gets out on the stump more than joe biden does. for health concerns, first. in the same way that mike pence the country, a lot more than donald trump has, trying to be that on the ground campaign. while a joe biden may pick and chse what sort of in perso campaign stops he makes, kamala harris could

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obama riveting to see someone like ba rack obama who riveting to see someone like barack obama who we typically expect calm and cool and collected, to be so visceral in his indictment of the current president. is clearly they have got their ducks in a row, speaking with one voice and well choreographed in terms of what different people were speaking about and yet there must be lurking, in the background, this abject fear of what happened four years ago, being in with a shout, thinking they will win and hey presto! losing it. i think you are right and that's why so much of this convention is being shaped around the narrative of the regular american or the black lives matter or for instance tonight, the night of the woman, a night for women because we saw so woman, a night for women because we saw so many women on the virtual stage speaking so, clearly, what we are seeing are a democratic party leaving no stone unturned, trying to rally and get out there base, their base of women, their base of african—americans, their base of latinos, their base of young, progressive democrats. thank

but the notoriously prolix president, whose 2012 speech for barack obama ran nearly 50 minutes, was kept to five minutes during the tight, all online convention, and he wasted no time scorching the man who defeated his wife in the 2016 election. you can see the whole speech still at c-span.org, but here's a portion from president bill clinton last night. >> with the covid-19 outbreak on a path to killing 200,00 people and destroying millions of jobs and small businesses, how did donald trump respond? at first, he said the virus was under control and would soon disappear. when it didn't, he was on tv every day bragging on what a great job he was doing while our scientists waited to give us vital information. when he didn't like the expert advice he was given, he ignored it. only when covid exploded in even more states did he encourage people to wear masks. by then, many more were dying. when asked about the surge in deaths, he shrugged and said, it is what it is. did it have to be this way? no. covid hit us much harder than it had to. we have just 4% of the world's population but 25% of t

moments ago we saw texts of former president barack obama tough takedown. mayor of atlanta, keisha lance bottoms, joins us now. thank you. appreciate it. i want to talk to you about what former president barack obama is said to say about president trump. he has shown no interest in putting in the work, no interest in finding common ground, no interest in using the awesome power of his office to help anyone but himself and his friends, not interest in treating the presidency as anything but one more reality show that he can use to get the attention he craves. donald trump hasn't grown into the job because he can't, direct quote from former president barack obama. what's your reaction to those extraordinarily strong words? >> i'm here for all of it. i absolutely love it. it is most appropriate. and it really speaks to the moment that we are facing as this nation. and i do believe that president obama said that any date sooner perhaps it wouldn't have been received in a way that it will be received in the middle of this convention and the midst of this pandemi

under joe biden and barack obama, america lost 200,000 manufacturing jobs. i will never forget the summer of that campaign in 2016, president obama said those jobs will never be coming back. he said, "what magic wand do you have?" well, we didn't need a magic wand to knock the rust off the rust belt, we just needed president donald trump in the white house. jobs00 manufacturing created in just three years. good 39,000 manufacturing jobs right here in the badger state. american manufacturing has come roaring back. it's because we have a president that knows when you let people keep more of what they earn and you create relief for businesses from taxes and redtape and you fight for free and fair trade and you fight for low-cost energy, america comes roaring back. the american people get it, they understand. i am here to tell all of you, for america's strength, for our security, for jobs, for law and order, for life and our liberties -- we've got to decide right here and right now that joe biden will never be president of the united states. we are going to reel

this is far, far more important than anything that says barack obama. it is about the direction of our country, and our ability to governor ourselves, to have as you talked about in the previous segment a rule of law that doesn't treat the president's friends different than anybody else, and i think that's really going to be what's at stake tonight. tonight is the single most important moment of joe biden's almost 50-year political life. this convention has done a remarkably good job of showing him as a compassionate, decent, everyone hit itt everyone empathetic person. joe biden has to step into the breach and say here is what i'm going to do. here is what i'm going to do with the decency, with that compassion and empathy. here is what i'm going to do to strengthen the economy, to protect our health care, to seek out and change the injustice that we've seen in this country, and to reestablish our leadership on the global stage. he's got to put some real meat on the bones. a majority of americans have decided they do not want to rehire donald trump. ton

former president barack obama and hillary clinton are also speaking tonight. and we're just getting a first look at what they plan to say. let's get some more on the breaking news right now on the pandemic. cnn's nick watt is joining us from los angeles. more than 5.5 million confirmed cases in the united states. >> reporter: and, wolf, that is a massive number. but we do have a reason for optimism. because right now the rate of new infections is slowing down. but as admiral brett giroir just warned, things could turn around very quickly unless we are careful. and getting kids and students back into schools and colleges is the biggest issue perhaps right now. we just heard from governor cuomo in new york who said that k-12 is going to be harder than colleges because you've got kids going home at night potentially spreading the virus. he wants schools to learn from the likes of notre dame. >> we have seen a dramatic increase in the number of positive cases of covid-19 in our first weeks back on campus. >> reporter: 155 cases confirmed in just the past two days.

barack obama took him months, years before he released his birth certificate. not because he wasn't born in honolulu but because he knew it was a trap that they were simply trying to steal the election away from healthcare and jobs and issues he's running on and he explained that very well. he would hold up that attack. this is the kryptonite you hold it up and say, why is trump saying this? in joe's case easy to come after his son we know that. why is he attacking my family? because he hasn't done anything for your family. believe me about win or lose my families to be just fine. the question is will your family be fine? if he allows you to be diverted is about my sense is a finance, don't fall for it. keep the focus on your son, your daughter, your granddaughter. i say this only because i failed to do it the last time he reminded me that was his first flaw of politics, politics is always about people not about us. in 2018 you write that the democrats were able to flip 41 house seats that trump won in 2016. how do democrats do that? >> if there is a hero of th

a lot of times people say barack obama gave us donald trump. he could have apologized to the democratic party for delivering that. he knows this will be a tough race. >> god love you, jesse. [laughing]. you make me laugh. next hillary clinton makes her return to the democratic convention with serious accusations about president trump. we will tell you about them next. >> ♪ find your keys. find your get-up-and-go. find pants that aren't sweats. find your friends. find your sense of wander. find the world is new, again. at chevy we'd like to take you there. now during the chevy open road sales event, get up to 15% of msrp cash back on select 2020 models. that's over fifty-seven hundred dollars cash back on this equinox. it's time to find new roads, again. ♪ where everybody knows ♪ someyour name ♪ant to go ♪ and they're always glad you came ♪ applebee's. now that's eating good in the neighborhood. (announcer) improve your health, and strengthen your immunity., starvation dieting, processed foods, shakes, and diet gimmicks have made us

backing by the running mate come the house and former president barack obama will head up the 3rd night of the democratic national convention. so u.s. president donald trump is to demand that all united nations sanctions be reimposed against iran it follows america's defeat over plans to extend an arms embargo against tehran trump says the secretaries that might on paper will travel to the u.n. in the coming days to start the process of restoring sanctions mike hanna following this one from washington d.c. for us. i mean donald trump can say these things and demand these things but in reality how will it play out how can it play out. well it's a very good question indeed it's very unclear to see how such a thing could play out given that president withdrew the united states from the iranian nuclear deal back in 2018 now the un security council resolution in terms of which the deal was placed makes very clear that any member state has got to be a participant to that deal if it is going to ask for snap backs in terms of the sanctions that were lifted well this is not the case the u.s. is

castro's life for us now from marianne so obviously some strong remarks from president barack obama tell us about his warning that from the postal service. sure in recent days the u.s. postal service delivered warnings to $46.00 states and the district of columbia that it sensually said that if these states go ahead with plans to expand mail in voting that there is a large chance that the post office won't have enough time to get those ballots delivered and counted in time in essence millions of votes could be disenfranchised now the post service is telling the states to move up the deadline to have voters request these ballots early or however that may be impossible with election looming just 80 days away people are also looking at the man that president trump chose to leave the postal service louis to joy who was a former republican fundraiser now leading that service and cutting workers hours slowing mail delivery some are saying that's still leverage in order to bolster president trump's claims that mail in ballots can cost a massive voting fraud there is no evidence of that having t

just ask barack obama that question. he catapulted to national fame by using the 2004 convention address. tonight he goes back on that stage. these addresses matter. here on every channel, speaking to the whole nation. he is now the former president live from philadelphia. a place that he picked because of its place in history. the birth place of american democracy. we're learning more about what obama will do. a preview of tonight's address, obama also, this is a preview we got will say, trump has shown no interest in putting in the work no, interest in finding common ground no, interest in using the awesome power of his office to help anyone but himself and his friends. obama in these new remarks will say that the president has no interest in treating the presidency as anything but one more reality show he can use to get the attention he craves. as they say in politics, snap. now, when obama did leave the white house, he did emphasize the special role he saw for a former president. instead, he was not going to speak ou

particularly since barack obama was elected. and those who allow someone for donald trump or president will still be present when he leaves. we have to beat them we have to take a very aggressive effort to fix the problems in our politic politics. to hunt and ban you talk about the difference between voters to put focus on ideology and those who focus on. [inaudible] >> guest: i am watching the 700 democratic debates with ed. [laughter] and every one of them i think has been submitted sensitive about medicare for all, medicare for some, or green new deal was we need to get 50%? and i feel that's great because substance is important and it's making progress for political conversations were having, substantive debate. wednesday night debate was a little different. [laughter] i think that conversation went a little past the graveyard. because i think our politics both the institution of politics that have been around for long time plus a very strategy put in place by republicans has politics rigged against the progressive use of ma

finger is tweeting away, trying to troll barack obama, basically proving barack obama's point the he has not grown into the presidency and that he craves attention. but the part i thought it was a wonderful, eloquent, brilliant call to action. look, i thought the entire convention yesterday weaved in policy issues with so much emotion and putting faces and names and stories to the issue of immigration, to the issue of gun reform, to the issue of climate change. it was the entire thing felt -- felt like aloe on the burn that has been happening for the last 3 1/2 years in america. >> david, i know you noted that for all of the direct criticism of president trump, president obama made the address about you, made it about the voter, this is what you now do is the moment that you need to stand up and on that line what does joe biden need to do tonight? and what i mean, look, we have heard about president trump and some extent we have heard a lot about joe biden's biography, but how does joe biden address the voter? how does he say this is about you? what does he need to say? >> well, firs

obama will be making the case for voters to rally around his former v.p. joe biden on november 3rd. for more let's bring in washington bureau chief for amos good to have you with us joe biden is now officially the nominee for the democratic party but tonight the focus will be on his running mate come on harris. right tonight is this is really history in the making she's the 1st black american who will be the v.p. so this is her chance tonight nicolle to help really bridge the gap between the new and the old and. in through the with the voters because biden is seen as a transitional president and so many hope and he sees senator harry is as the future of the party. harris won't be the only democratic heavyweight speaking tonight we are already heard obama is in the lineup as well what other big speeches are coming out on this very evening. we'll also hear hillary clinton nancy pelosi the speaker of the house but i think all eyes really are on barack obama why because it's really not so common that a president coalmines on the other presidents and we know th