>> michelle. she is cold. >> okay. >> as she spoke, meredith was cradling her 2 1/2-year-old niece cassidy, who had crawled out from under the bed clothes on her parents' bed just feet from where hered mother lay. cassidy's voice,ot chattering t her aunt, was caught on the recorded call. >> she got booboo everywhere. >> had cassidy witnessed the murder? awakened, alone, to find this? >> you just picture a small child walking around in this blood and tracking it across the hallway over into the bathroom. >> by now wake county investigators were descending on the house and having secured the crime scene, earp's job was p' done. but on his way out he saw cassidy again. she was still in her pink er pajamas, still in meredith's me arms. he asked meredith a question. >> i looked over the child, and i didn't see any blood, so i asked her did you clean the child? and her response was no. i thought it was kind of odd because i was expecting her to say yes, i guess. >> somebody did. e >> yeah. somebody did.

. >> michelle and jason married in october 2003. the day after the wedding they a shared their big secret, michelle was pregnant. their daughter cassidy was born early the next year. >> i love you, mommy. >> i love you, too, cassidy.

michelle obama was talking so they were too thrilled to think clearly. >> michelle obama is riveting, was riveting, one of the best speeches i've heard her give it i've heard her give many speeches. >> not only that she was emotional and a mother and seemed to be a truth teller. >> she is clearly one of the most talented political minds of our time right now. >> she's also kind of a pop culture figure who also kind of comes across as your favorite extra neighbor. >> she doesn't come across as a politician. she comes across as a mother and patriot. >> she wasn't just putting the president down. she was trying to pick the country up. >> it was all tied together in a beautiful bow by michelle obama. >> she delivered epic shade. >> is nicole just said, it was epic shade but it was elegant shade. >> this extraordinary speech. she's beautiful. >> tucker: a mother, a patriot, a truth teller, beautiful. adjective after adjective piling up like tailings out tiny mind. it was sad to see someone like andrew yang trapped on one of those panels. young is actually a smart guy and a good guy. his fr

for many democrats tonight belonged to michelle obama. and michelle obama, warning that a second trump term would be even more intense than the first. >> a president's words have the power to move markets, they can start wars or broker peace. they can summon our better angels, or awaken our worst instincts. you can't fake your way through this job. if you think things cannot possibly get worse, trust me, they can, and they will, if we don't make a change in this election. if we have any hope of ending this chaos, we have got to vote for joe biden like our lives depend on it. >> like our lives depend on it. that was the direct argument, and democrats are not shy about fortifying that dire case with actual americans who see the trump era as a life or death issue. a woman saying her father listened to donald trump's misinformation before he died of covid. >> my dad was a healthy 65-year-old. his only pre-existing condition was trusting donald trump, and he paid for his life. the coronavirus has made it clear there are to americas, the americ

that michelle obama is the michelle obama that showed up tonight. talk about the role you think she will play after tonight, perhaps live and not on video as this -- whatever this campaign is going to look like -- continues. >> well, brian, no, i actually think that you saw a little bit of michelle yvonne robinson tonight. yes, she stim reiterated that 2016 catch phrase that caught on of when they go low, we go high. but tonight she went in and without calling the president by name at all, she made the case for why he was not as good as his predecessor and why she thinks, you know, that the person she hopes is going to be his successor should be in the white house in november. she spoke as a black woman who has said things that i hear black women saying when they are rallying and organizing the vote in their community, in their families. the plan that she laid out to people, telling them, you know, get your ballot early. if you have to stand in line, take a snack. be prepared to wait in line. i mean this is what black women do headed into an electio

he don't want to mess with michelle. so that just gives you a sense of what she is bringing to the table as communicator. >> i was curious to see what this thing would actually look like. and clearly, there was more emphasis, i think, on the producing of the latter part of the second hour. the first hour. i mean, are -- do we know, are they going to continue with that sort of a format, throughout the rest of the week? because there were, clearly, some things that, you know, did not work, from a television standpoint. >> well, from a tv standpoint, obviously, when you are mixing up pre-recorded things with live things, it's -- there were a little bit of jumps, et cetera. i think people can forgive that. the first part, i think, you know, if you have bruce springsteen recording the rising of a montage to real people, that was the first for me. the second was -- >> well, they didn't have bruce springsteen. they just had bruce springsteen's song. >> he was in there for ten seconds. >> oh, okay. i missed that part. >> yeah. y

, what did michelle obama say? if you don't think things can get worse, you're wrong. they can. and that, especially for black voters but for senior citizens and small business owners and americans who have been devastated by this pandemic that donald trump has been playing down from the very beginning, those words likely resonated last night. >> yeah. >> they really did. you're absolutely right. the answer to the question trump posed four years ago, we learned what he -- he actually said what the hell do you have to lose? we learned the answer is your livelihood, your jobs, your health care and potentially your life. certainly now your ability to vote or be able to get your prescription drugs through the mail. michelle obama did a very good job of underscoring the urgency. look, we've been hearing for months now about not just within the democratic party all the factions and can they get energized and will joe biden be the right person? what you saw last night was from republicans, from progressives, from michelle

>> caller: i thought michelle obama obviously. i thought everybody that was one was important and poignant. speaking to america. we need jobs, we need more family. we need the racism to go away and we also need to grow. we are also the pandemic or they think they touched on it. >> host: caller, go ahead. >> caller: i think we have the stop art narcissistic ways and learn to love each other no matter what our differences are. >> host: besides michelle obama what other speakers are most effective? >> caller: bernie sanders did a good job and you know who else i liked? the young lady whose father had passed away from the virus three she touched my heart and i'm sure she touched a lot of other people's. >> host: that's jane in brooklyn, new york or the caller referenced the woman whose father died of covid-19 and one of its one of the speakers at the democratic national convention on the convention that first night. here's a portion of what she had to say. >> i'm one of the many who have lost a loved one to covid. my dad marc anthony

but when you have michelle obama as your anchor speaker. as somebody who is going to bring it home, she did that tonight for the democrats on what was a very difficult night. and she did it, in a way that was very encompassing of all. but also, was also very motherly and also very plainspoken, right? there was a level of sincerity this, john, that you don't often hear from professional politicians. not that she is a professional politician. but she, clearly, is about as close to a professional politician as you can be, without building one. >> well, speaking of professional politicians or lack thereof. i mean, it's uncharted territory but the whole thing kind of felt like public-access tv. everyone gets a tote bag or something. it just kind of lacks something. >> yeah. well, it's hard to compare what we saw tonight, and what we are going to see over the next couple days. as well as, what we're going to see from the republicans next week as well. and try to compare to what we have a seen in the past. these conventions are not necessarily abo

there was not a fatality on board on the louise michel but on the rubber boat before the louise michel could intervene and could arrive on scene. but people on board told us there were probably two more fatalities, who already went overboard during theirjourney because none of the european institutions, none of the european authorities was intervening to rescue this rubber boat. ok, so, just tell us what the situation is at the moment. these people are safe for the time being but nowhere is offering to allow you and them to dock, is that right? so far, that‘s right. so, maltese and italian authorities, multi is especially but also the italians have as usual... denied assistance during the rescue operation, have denied assistance so far to give us a port of safety, which would be their duty by the law of the sea. the situation on board is so far is stable. the people have been treated by the msf team on board, for fuel burns, for seasickness, for dehydration, and for many other injuries. and the decks are stuffed now, so this is definitely not a situation we can keep on going for a lo

and michelle obama made that very plain tonight. >> victoria? >> michelle obama held up a mirror to the nation, and she said, look, look at the division that has been sowed in this country. for me, one of the most graphic images was how we're fighting each other in grocery stores. over the past couple of years, we've seen that, most recently because people aren't wearing masks, and people are getting angry and fighting with each other. but we've been seeing it in stores and restaurants when people are speaking spanish, they're told to go back to where they're from. so michelle obama was saying stop and look at what we've become as a nation. and we cannot continue to spiral in this direction. in terms of what it will take to stop that spiral, it's that hard work, packing the lunch, getting ready, being prepared. she's letting us noknow, it's going to the extremely hard. that's the mother in her talking, to the previous guest's point. if we want to stop what we've been seeing, it's on us to do it. it's the hard work, and it's not -- it's going to

that is what michelle obama was going for there. joining us now, cnn political correspondent mj lee and cnn political commentator and democratic strategist paul-degree la, author of "you're fired: the perfect guide to beating donald trump." you both watched this with clinician's eyes, right? alisyn said that michelle obama dissected president trump there. paul, first to you. who exactly was the target of her speech, and how would you assess how it landed? >> well, a convention should do two things. it should excite the base and it should reassure swing voters. so, usually that takes two speakers, right? bernie sanders excited the base last night. john kasich reached out to swing voters. mrs. obama did both. it was absolutely masterful. and keep this in mind, i've covered a million of these conventions -- well, i've participated in nine of them and written hundreds of speeches for these conventions. you have an audience in that hall -- you have 17,000 people screaming and cheering your name and lifting you, giving you that emotion. m

you know michelle obama well, obviously. i'm wondering what you are expecting from her tonight based on what we know from early, you know, releases of some of her comments but also from prior speeches that she's given before at these conventions. >> yeah, well, first of all, the thing that makes michelle obama the figure that she is that she's authentic. she's honest and she's passionate. i think back, anderson, to inauguration day of 2017 and the coldness that you could sense between her and donald trump, and she expressed herself in her book on this subject. i expect a very powerful emotional and edgy speech. i don't think she's going to, you know, as jeff said, i think she's going to demonstrate what going high means against someone she believes has gone relentl s relentlessly low, and i think this is going to be a different kind of speech than we've seen from her before. she's go g ing to make very cle what she thinks the stakes are and create the contrast of the character of joe biden and donald trump which is going to

—— michelle 0bama there, of course. this convention is officially in milwaukee, wisconsin, but effectively it is online, it is virtual. michelle 0bama explicitly referencing her big speech at the party's 2016 convention, but also with much more to say. laura trevelyan is at the moment in wilmington, delaware, where joe moment in wilmington, delaware, wherejoe biden will give his a cce pta nce wherejoe biden will give his acceptance speech. that is his home state, of course. laura among many other things, michelle 0bama speaking, as she says, not many other people can, as someone who says, not many other people can, as someone who has occupied the white house and seen occupied the white house and seen thejob of occupied the white house and seen the job of president, the pressures of it, firsthand? exactly. a deeply personal speech, speaking from her experience as the wife of barack 0bama, who was eight yea rs barack 0bama, who was eight years in the white house. she said, speaking as very few americans can, she has seen

michelle obama is unbelievable. she is, clearly, one of the most talented, political minds of our time right now. the ability to deliver a message, like she was able to do tonight, is really remarkable. and also, bernie sanders as well. really gave an argument in a way that showed that he had sincerity about what he was saying about trying to get his supporters to back joe biden. and look, john kasich as well. i think when you add him into the mix. what all three brought to tonight was sincerity. and i think sincerity is what's going to shine through, no matter who's on stage speaking for the rest of the week or next week, don. >> all right. i'm glad you said that because, listen. my -- my friend and co-anchor here, chris, i think he's under -- chris is not under the impression because he feels the way he feels about it. and he thinks that you've got to do more than just say how bad president trump is. and wondering if, tonight, they were able to go beyond that. so i want to talk more about the people who spoke. and

you mentioned michelle obama. president trump firing right back at michelle obama after she blessed him and her dnc speech last night. the former first lady telling democrats to vote like their lives depend on it, and reminding them how narrow the president's margin of victory was in some precincts in 2016. >> whenever we look to this white house force in leadership or consolation, or any semblance of steadiness, what we get instead is chaos, division, and a total and utter lack of empathy. donald trump is the wrong president for our country. he has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job, but he is clearly in over his head. he cannot meet this moment. he simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. it is what it is. >> melissa: president trump today tweeting, "somebody please explain to michelle obama that donald j. trump would not be here in the beautiful white house if it weren't for the job done by your husband, barack obama. biden was merely an afterthought. a good reason for that very lat

michelle, let me start with you. tell us about your dad.i mean, t five or six times through our mutual friend abel sanchez. every time was just a spiritual experience with your dad. >> yeah. i don't know what i can really say other than he was just amazing. i'm getting a little emotional. he was just always kind and gentle and always trying to help people all the time and i know for me personally he was my best fr time together. we had lunch probably three times a week and sunday dinners together, every sunday. with family. he was an impeccable amazing wonderful human being. and it's so sad that he's not here with us because the world needs more people like him here. he just touched everybody. everybody there's not one negative comment, bad thing that has ever been said about my father. everybody loved him and respected him. whether it was just him as a normal person or whether it was in music. he was always so highly regarded. loved and respected by so many people. i really look up to him and hope one day i can be j

wow, michelle obama. and wow, a pretty quick capitulation from trump's mega donor running the post office. two big headlines this hour. >> two big headlines. michelle obama's speech, i thought, was quite a terrific speech and great start to the democratic convention. and, in fact, obviously it got under president trump's skin because he was in a sort of tweeting frenzy and he had remarks earlier in the day that just showed they really got to him which was interesting. he really hates being challenged by a strong woman. and as for the postal service, you know, americans really like getting their mail. they really like the postal service, and this just turned out to be a bridge way too far. if that was the president's plan, and the postmaster general's plan to wreck the post office as a way of disrupting the election or weighing it for trump, that was the wrong plan. that doesn't go over well with endangered republican senators with republicans at all because their constituents like the post office, too, an

until michelle obama. put on this red lip for her to tell everybody, means so many things, and donald trump's lack of regard for human life and decency as it regards the coronavirus. telling trump supporters, you might be watching this too, don't believe your guy is capable of anything more than he's showed us. i think she was super effective tonight. >> am i right we're too close to it, people at home -- i thought it was different, little bit boring but people saying i got to listen to people and thought the serious fits the moment. what did you think? >> i love them, even the republican conventions, those people are unbelievably nice to me, really are. this is not a time to stand up and scream. even donald trump, terrific at drawing a crowd can't draw flies trying to have rallies. this was intimate and personal. when you have combination of left and right, conservative republican like kasich and then bernie, with the other folks, farmer from pennsylvania who talked about his farm destroyed by trump, i ju

of course michelle obama was also o. i do not know how this changes us. there is not much of a middle to capture in terms of people undecided. i do not know that a lot of the people on either side need to be coaxed more. host: when it comes to bernie sanders, do you think he did an effective job in supporting joe biden enough to bring over those supporters who supported him initially and might be hesitant about joe biden? caller: i think he was as effective as he could be. -- i am a center supporter myself, -- i am a bernie sanders supporter myself, but i do not understand the whotant sanders supporters do not vote and walk away from all this. i think he tried to center them. his communication was effective. host: jessica in maryland. a supporter of joe biden. you're up next. caller: something that most affected me was listening to michelle obama's speech. have not been extremely involved in politics, but i have seeingry disheartened the division in our country and i want anything to happen to bring everybody back together and see more positive things in

among them, michelle obama. if you support joe biden, collis that -- call us at (202) 748-8000, if you support ,resident trump, (202) 748-8001 and if you support -- if you are undecided, (202) 748-8002. our facebook page if you want to post there, facebook.com/c-span. coverage tonight is the speech from bill clinton. there also be a roll call from america as part of the nomination process for joe biden. representative alexandria ocasio-cortez, and rounding out the night, the former second lady, dr. jill biden. there will be others within that timeframe. 9:00 is when it will start. those are the platforms you can follow along as well. when it comes to last night's coverage in the speakers, the washington post highlights some of the speakers. senator bernie sanders of vermont, also the former ohio republican governor john kasich, but it was michelle obama getting a lot of attention. a washington post story saying that in "the centerpiece speech of the night, a searing indictment of her husband successor, michelle

they review the first night, which included speeches by former first lady michelle obama and senator bernie sanders and discuss the conventions virtual format, maine political themes and they will look ahead to the second night of the convention that kicks off at 9:00 p.m. eastern. columnist --ost" moderates this discussion from earlier today. >> there is still so many unknowns around this virus. mr. biden: not only will america dig itself out of the whole menu put us in, we will build back better. jonathan: good morning. i am an opinion writer for "washington post," and welcome look," the one-stop shop for news and analysis about the democratic national convention. each morning join us for updates from a top washington post reporter and updates from colonists and contributor's. i am pleased to kick off our conversation and our coverage with chief national correspondent and veteran political reporter and editor dan ball. thank you for being with us. we have analysis from you are the first night of the democratic convention. what was the key standout moment because you give a great sy

former first lady michelle obama and what she said about president trump. tonight, the president responding, and here's abc's mary bruce again tonight. >> reporter: tonight, democrats will argue joe biden is the leader america needs, after michelle obama set the tone with a fierce takedown of president trump. >> let me be as honest and clear as i possibly can. donald trump is the wrong president for our country. he has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job, but he is clearly in over his head. he cannot meet this moment. he simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. it is what it is. >> reporter: the former first lady reinventing her famous motto, when they go low, we go high. >> but let's be clear, going high does not mean putting on a smile and saying nice things when confronted by viciousness and cruelty. >> reporter: and she had a blunt warning for voters -- >> if you think things cannot possibly get worse, trust me, they can and they will if we don't make a change in this election. if we have any hope of ending this chaos, we hav

that's what michelle obama was just talking about. and what we're going to see is a stark contrast between someone who absolutely clearly cares about the american people, is experienced, but where policy comes from his caring about people, that in fact he is someone who is experienced and can lead us out of this crisis. but more than that, he'll do that with his heart up front. and that's a dramatic change from what we've seen in the united states over the last four years. >> hmm. and we're also going to hear from bernie sanders. that's a big part of the political argument. sanders, like many top democrats, has been quite assertive in taking on what they have argued is, in effect, kneecapping the election by going after the postal service. since you have all the campaigning experience, take a listen to sanders on this. take a listen. >> this is a deliberate effort to defund and destroy the u.s. postal service so that people cannot engage in mail-in ballots. that's not bernie sanders talking, that's what president trump is telling the

i think for michelle obama obviously quite emotional towards the end of her keynote speech. for someone who famously does not like politics and even mentioned that during her speech this is perhaps one of the most searing indictments of the trump presidency that we've heard she talked about how there not been just a failure of policy but a failure of character and she said that doesn't just make me upset it's infuriating and then the point that she was making is that donald trump. had not met the moment and was not fit to be president and therefore that is why in her opinion the country should vote for joe biden she made the point and it's a very good point that people will listen to her because michelle obama what will still popular in the country and particularly popular with democrats she does divide opinion and a lot of republicans simply do not like her so they are not going to listen to what she has to say but clearly what the democrats are hoping is that she can reach it to some republicans and we've heard from plenty over the last 2 hours who are changing their vote

convention: michelle 0bama blasts trumpet. most of her speech was basically an attack on character —— blasts trump. she said you simply cannot fake your way through thisjob. being a president doesn't change who you are, it reveals who you are. that was michelle obama, among speakers. it is the democratic national convention. as i mentioned, it is quite an interesting event, and it's the first time ever it has not been in a huge convention centre with masses of balloons and confetti and everything else that is required to rally the crowd. i've been hearing from some viewers with your thoughts and opinions on this. natalie woodhouse, a regular, good to hear from you. woodhouse, a regular, good to hearfrom you. she woodhouse, a regular, good to hear from you. she says, such weird times. virtual politics in america. it is so bizarre. also hearing from another view were, peter stevenson, says i've just been listening to the pre—recorded message from michelle obama. she will have to do better if she is considering running next

but it's reflective of michelle obama just being so incredibly frustrating. i have been listening to her on her podcast talking about her feelings over this summer, about her feelings about how president trump has responded to this coronavirus crisis. she is angry and she is frustrated. you saw it and heard it in that speech. i don't think she's surprised to see the president hitting back. but she knew this was coming and she was willing to go into that fray for a former first lady who, as she said, hates politics. that is a critical decision that she made last night to really get into the arena with president trump on this issue. >> as we just heard president trump said that it was clear that she prerecorded her speech and she, quote, had the wrong deaths. if you could just talk about this, how does president trump pointing out that actually it's 170,000 americans who have died on his watch of covid-19, not 150,000, as she said when she recorded it obviously a week or two ago. how does he not even remotely understand, a, it's inappropriate to be settling sco

kicking off the first ever virtual dnc, first lady michelle obama. >> i know joe, he was a terrific vice president. he will tell the truth. >> and senator bernie sanders. an opponent turned ally. rallying behind their party as presidential ticket. >> we need joe biden as our next president. >> and spotlighting three national crisis, the pandemic, the economic fall-out and the renewed racial reckoning. >> george should be alive today. breonna taylor should be alive today, ahmad arbery should be alive today. >> our political power house team standing by to break it all down. >> this special edition of "nightline," your voice, your vote, starts right now. good evening and thanks for joining us. tonight the unprecedented move by the democratic party, launching the political tradition held every four years and going virtual in the pandemic. the coronavirus and other tough issues taking center stage on the first night of the dnc, wrapping up moments ago and for the latest we go straight to mary bruce reporting from our nation's capitol. mary? >> juju, the democrats kicked off a convention like

michelle obama giving a dissection of trump. she talked about his lack of empathy and she used his own words against him. >> going high means standing fierce against hatred while remembering that we are one nation under god and if we want to survive we've got to find a way to live together and work together across our differences. and going high means unlocking the shackles of lies and mistrust with the only thing that can truly set us free. the cold, hard truth. so let me be as honest and clear as i possibly can. donald trump is the wrong president for our country. he has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job, but he is clearly in over his head. he cannot meet this moment. he simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. it is what it is. >> so that line, it is what it is is what president trump said about the 1,000 plus americans dying every day from coronavirus. >> a thousand americans are dying a day. >> they are dying, that's true, and it is what it is. >> it is what it is. also this morning, a huge tur

the president of the united states is taking on michelle obama, after the former first lady's scathing democratic convention speech when she turned his own dismissive words about the coronavirus against him. >> so let me be as honest and clear as i possibly can. donald trump is the wrong president for our country. he has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job. but he is clearly in over his head. he cannot meet this moment. he simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. it is what it is. >> the president trying to compete with the country's most popular democrat, belittling a speech widely heralded by democrats and even republicans as a groundbreaking keynote address. >> she was over her head. and frankly she should have made the speech live which she didn't do, she taped it, it was not only taped, it was taped a long time ago. she gets fawning reviewing. if you gave a real review, it wouldn't be so phony. i thought it was a divisive speech, extremely divisive. >> tonight jill biden speaks from a school in wilmington. today we'll have an all-woman show on "andrea m

there was not a fatality on board the louise michel but on the rubber boat before the louise michel arrived on scene. we were told there we re arrived on scene. we were told there were probably two more fatalities who went overboard during their journey. none of the european institutions or authorities were helping with the weather boat rescue. so these people are safe for the time being but nowhere is offering to allow you and them too dark, is that right? so far that is right. maltese and the italian authorities have, as usual, denied as assistance during the rescue operations. they have denied assistance in giving us a port of safety, which is their duty according to the laws of the sea. the people have been treated here on board fulfil burns, seasickness, dehydration and many injuries. —— forfuel burns. this is not a situation we can keep going for a long amount of time. the italians and critics of what you are doing would say you are encouraging people to make these dangerous crossings because they know they will be picked up by you. the problem is, if you are full now and more bed

michelle obama is riveting, was riveting. one of the best speeches i've heard her give, and i've heard her give many speeches. it was brilliant in that it wasn't really personal about donald trump. it was simply saying this is a really difficult job being president. it's hard, and he's just not capable of doing it. he's just not up to the job. it is what it is, right? i mean she literally said this

esto es michelle obama hablando. dice que el presidente donald trump es el presidente equivocado para nuestro paÍs. un discurso impactante. como ven despÓtico contra el presidente donald trump que se defendiÓ. por eso la ex primera dama estÁ en titulares. [habla en inglÉs] [habla en inglÉs] [habla en inglÉs] [habla en inglÉs] carlos: ahÍ la tienen a michelle obama. definitivamente, un discurso muy fuerte. hablando del caos de la casa blanca sobre todo, atacando a quiÉn ahora ocupa el puesto de presidente. la verdad que solamente de ver el formato que la pandemia lo obligo a tener, el mensaje no sÓlo fue fuerte, no sólo fue muy contundente, sino que ese mensaje en su casa lo hizo muy Íntimo. parecía que estaba hablando en la sala de tu casa. >> efectivamente. eso hace que creo que la respuesta de la gente fuera la que estÁ moviendo. hoy en dÍa estÁn todos los titulares de todo el paÍs y creo que de todo el mundo. fue con nombre y apellido. ella se refiriÓ a donald trump. justo dice esto que acabamos

it when you about michelle oba michelle obama, you've also got to think about american women. she's not just popular with minorities, she's popular with white suburban women who i think are the target of much of this convention from day one until thursday night when we hear from joe biden. >> bret: two headliners coming up, bernie sanders and michelle obama. we will have special coverage of the democratic national convention continuing here on fox news channel. ♪ speak on my fellow citizens, i proudly accept your nomination for vice president of the united states. ♪ (vo) verizon knows how to build unlimited right. start with america's most awarded network. give people more plans to mix and match at a price built for everyone. with $700 off our best phones when you switch. because everyone deserves the best. this is unlimited built right. i wanted more from my copd medicine that's why i've got the power of 1, 2, 3 medicines with trelegy. the only fda-approved once-daily 3-in-1 copd treatment. ♪ trelegy ♪ the power of 1,2,3 ♪ trelegy ♪ 1,2,3 ♪ trelegy woman: with t

michelle obama hitting the white house for chaos, lack of empathy, as michelle obama ended her speech at one point saying it is what it is, quoting the president. is this messaging that is going to work for the democrats as we head into november? >> well, it certainly not the democrats need a lot of push or argument to oppose donald trump. we see in the polls that there is more enthusiasm to vote against trump than on the part of democrats than to vote for joe biden. i thought -- i'm glad you put that sound bite up of that woman. it was the most single powerful moment from last night. the daughter of someone who voted for donald trump saying her argument that because of her trust in him he ended up -- starting today with joe biden's wife and then tomorrow with barack obama and then finally on thursday with joe biden, you are going to hear much more of the affirmative case for joe biden. in the end i was thinking about it this morning. it seems to me that we can do everything -- they can do everything they want, the democrats can, to make the arguments. but in the end the most importan

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high profile democrats at the dnc tonight. >> who wants to to michelle obama? you have to get up there. we are doing a real speech on thursday, next thursday. shannon: john roberts wraps up a busy day, good evening. >> it has long been an unwritten courtesy of that rivals state park during the other convention, that went out the window in 2016 and again this year, donald trump counterprogramming the democrats virtual convention within person campaign events. donald trump with three campaign stops, but don't call them rallies. >> i grant you a pardon. we will call it a peaceful protest, we can to what you want. shannon: the president accepting the endorsement of 3 dozen county sheriff's comparing and contrasting his law and order policies with democrats. to the from the police. >> the socialists will not stop until they have ransacked america and laid waste to our cities. look at portland. it has been turned into a war zone. >> reporter: also going after joe biden on the economy accusing him of wanting to raise taxes by $4 trillion. the president insisting he is

here's news for michelle. the biggest cities in the biggest counties in the country are all run by democrats. they are in charge of where the polling places are and purging the voting rolls. so if anybody is closing down minority polling places in minority neighborhoods and purging roles in our big urban areas, the democrats are doing and i don't think they're doing that. if that was the biggest whopper of the night. >> shannon: all right, very quick, jessica, quick final word from you. >> quick final word, absolutely not, lieutenant governor. you should talk to brian kemp if you want to talk about voter suppression and i'm sure stacy abrams would welcome a conversation with you as well. in georgia and other states across the country with a large minority population. also, for those of you saying bernie sanders was the only one with energy, take a look at michelle obama's speech at the end there, looks like plenty of energy and that she is the heart and soul of this party, so i don't know why -- two hours. >>

any time michelle obama speaks she gets the audience revved up. she was sitting in a chair i was wondering how the energy would go, but instead it's sort of portrayed that the somber mode that she's in you know she tweeted earlier earlier this month, the cheese and low great depression and because of what's going on with this country. i think you sort of saw that come out in this in a very serious somber and sometimes scary side of michelle obama when she talked about you know that this is this is the future of our country when she talked about you know the number of deaths and and the fact that this trump just simply doesn't have what it takes to be president and reflecting the line he had said about the number of coronavirus deaths it is what it is that was sort of a masterful rhetorical stroke. this was something where. someone has admired as her and she's a very admired in this country is. so serious about something. so passionate about something. i think it made a big big kid out there certainly among the democratic party. i think also out th

but i can't leave michelle with no notice and four kids. two of them are having other kids over for sleepovers. ben: two. damn, noah's is a girl. it's right there on that weird line. yeah, no, i totally understand. you're good men. dost sorry, man. you sure you're gonna be all right? yeah. yeah. you know what i'm gonna do? i'm gonna do what the ancients did, the pioneers. i am gonna go out and i am going to meet people in the real world. y ony back, i'm gonna pick up my picture frame. 'cause i worked really hard on it. hi. hi. i'll take a... kentucky rooster, neat. you got it. you want the password for the wi-fi? don't need it. uh, tonight, i'm just gonna do the real world. cool. cool. is this seat taken? thank you. uh... wi-fi password's wildwood19, all caps. thank you. i like big jeans. itty-bitty jeans. ♪ ♪ feelin' trendy y'all, with the straight jeans ♪ showin' off those curves, 'cause you the queen ♪ ♪ everyone go slay in your old navy jeans ♪ welcome to denim america. with fits for the whole fam. only at old navy and oldna

tonight, formerim first lady, michelle obama. all hoping that they can virtually visit. >> bret: bringing your expert analysis from the all-star panel. chris wallace, brit hume, dana perino, juan williams, karl rove, donna brazile, and katie pavlich all standing by. starting with theo, what we have seen so far, diversity is clearly a message but so unity is what they want to portray. >> you know, i've got to say i watch the first half-hour of the convention tonight and i come in with more questions than answers and first of all is this going to work? the first half-hour sounded like more like a telethon did it did the national convention that we are used to seeing. will people watch, will it energize them that the way they have been in the past?t? traditionally, recent years, about 35 million viewers and utpeople stick with this for for hours prime time hours over the next four nights? we get the early answer because the democrats are leading with one of the best, michelle obama, when they the most popular political figures in th

wolf, my understanding in talking to sources is that is just part of michelle obama's speech. she is supposed to be incredibly tough on president trump, pointed and sharp on the contrast between joe biden and president trump. and you remember four years ago she famously talked about the notion that when they go low we go high and that she is going to fill that out in 2020 terms and talking about the imperative of what that means and the imperative of yes, being high but that not mean you just take it on the chin. >> the former first lady has a enormous amount of way in the democratic party. what will you be watching for? >> one of the big tasks they have in front of them is bringing the party together. there are people in different wings of the party who are not quite behind the ticky and the behind joe biden and behind kamala harris. they are younger, blacker, browner and more progressive. it will be interesting to see the ways in which michelle obama who connects with such a broad part of the country. by drawing the contrast between donald trump and between joe biden. and sa

after taking on board those from the louise michel, the sea—watch crew tweeted: the louise michel added: the louise michel had only recently gone into service asa only recently gone into service as a rescue ship, complete with its own banksy artwork. the artist has accused the eu authorities of ignoring distress calls from non— europeans. the un refugee agency says a solution must be found and saving lives is a humanitarian imperative. simon jones, bbc news. new zealand's prime minister jacinda ardern has announced the partial easing of coronavirus restrictions in auckland. the country's largest city was put back into lockdown two weeks ago after a cluster of cases. under the new guidelines, social gatherings will be allowed, but limited to ten people, and across the whole country, face masks will be compulsory on public transport. new zealand has registered just two new coronavirus cases in the last 2a hours. here's some of what the prime minister had to say. no gathering can be larger than ten. i cannot stress how important this is. much of this cluster has stemmed from social gathe

i really ruminated on michelle obama like for the rest of the night. i'm surprised i didn't have a dream about her. that speech impacted me personally a lot, because to have just the fact that we had a black first lady is still something that kind of makes me a bit misty eyed to think that america accomplished that thing, you know? it was a good thing we accomplished. but she has emerged as this moral voice on her own, apart from barack obama. between her podcast and becoming the movie that i cried all the way through, i'm not embarrassed to admit it, i cried through it. it's like the idea that she has this voice and this power and that she doesn't have to use it with barack obama. she can just use it. and she used the hell out of it last night. she spoke fire at president trump. and there's nothing he can do, all the whining he did in response can't touch what she did. >> i think that's a really important point how distinct her role as a public intellectual, as a political force, and as a moral voice, it is quite -- i mean, her husband is and aspires

i'm michelle griego. >> and i'm len kiese. let's get right to meteorologist mary lee and mary, a warm-up on the way. >>> and good wednesday to you len and michelle. we're going to warm things up as we look ahead to our afternoon. and especially into the end of the week with those temperatures soaring into the triple digits in some spots inland. here's a live look. taking you out to the south bay in san jose. and you can see those clouds in the sky this morning. san jose right now coming in at 63. san francisco 58 and 60 in oakland and livermore and for concord this morning. as we head through our afternoon, fairfield coming in at 92 this afternoon. 90 in concord and livermore and 84 for san jose and 73 in oakland and 67 for san francisco with that sunshine. we're going to see those temperatures soar later this week. details on that coming up. but now let's check in with gianna for a look at traffic for the latest on a crash along 680. >>> yeah, this is 680 through the sunol grade. a lot of brake lights there. that's because of

>> michelle obama is actually a great communicator in her own right. and she really has an ability to speak from the heart but to throw some subtle jabs. i think at the heart of her speech was about character. she said it's the most important thing in a presidency and it's what is most thoroughly lack about this president. she tried to tie aspects of the obama legacy to a broader bipartisan legacy of presidents shoring up international organizations, mentioning reagan and eisenhower, two republicans and saying look, donald trump has been a stark departure from that and he has an inability to empathize with other people, and that's what the presidency is about. you know, a great convention speech. and there have been many of them. ultimately is about trying to put forward a positive vision of the nation and project it forward. some democrats sometimes have a hard time embracing patriotism in a full sense. some want to keep it at arm's length. but successful progressives in particular know how to tie their vision to something that's fundamentally patriot

michelle and sanford had never seen their home in such a state. as the movement wound down, michelle returned to hong kong for the first time in a while. but she recalls feeling an indescribable discomfort. >> this is the city of taipei, taiwan's most important city. many immigrants from hong kong are now living in suburbs around the city. although some elderly people in rural areas only speak taiwanese, mandarin is also spoken the city, making it easy for immigrants to live here. taipei also has many shops run by hongkongers. >> the memorial hall has a statue of the former leader on display. after a conflict, the party retreated to t taiwan. for decades the nationalist party led by chiang kai-shek governed with a one-party rule. taiwan's first direct election was held in 1996, realizing the democracy that citizens had long hoped for. one hour's drive from taipei is a small restaurant run by a family from hong kong. the family had believed that beijing would maintain the one-country two-systems policy that it had promised to keep for 50 years when

i want to start with what michelle obama said. i heard of other people in my life, i have felt the way she described, i've heard other public figures describing this. i never heard it said out loud for others to grab on to it. she continues to lead, not just as sort of a public official and role model, but as someone we can plug into, donna edwards. >> i think that michelle obama saying out loud what so many of us have felt which is this convergence of this horrific mention, this president, the pandemic, the racial unrest, all of it weighing down on us and i've heard friends and family members express the same thing, that it really is a weight that is hard to describe and she did. it's real. every time you see a video like the one you played earlier it's another weight bearing down on all of us. i thought it was really an important thing for her to be able to express out loud what so many of us are feeling and so cheers to her for doing that. it's something that's really difficult to talk about, to feel weak about and to feel like