Republican National Convention - Day 2

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Captioning sponsored by NEWSHOUR PRODUCTIONS, LLC >> Woodruff: FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY, REPUBLICANS CELEBRATE PRESIDENT TRUMP.

>> FOUR MORE YEARS.

>> FOUR MORE YEARS.

>> Woodruff: AND SPEAKERS WARN OF CHANGING COURSE IN NOVEMBER.

>> JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS WANT A CULTURAL REVLATION.

>> THEY WANT TO DESTROY THIS COUNTRY.

>> JOE BIDEN AND THE SOCIALIST LEFT WOULD BE A DISASTER FOR OUR ECONOMY.

>> THIS ELECTION IS SHAPING UP TO BE CHURCH, WORK AND SCHOOL VERSUS RIOTING, LOOTING AND VANDALISM.

>> Woodruff: TONIGHT FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP AND BREAKING PRECEDENT, SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO SPEAKS FROM ISRAEL WHILE ON OFFICIAL BUSINESS.

DAY TWO OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CON VENGS.

>> Woodruff: GOOD EKE, I'M JUDY WOODRUFF, WELCOME TO OUR PBS LIVE COVERAGE OF NIGHT TA OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.

WE ALONG WITH THOUSANDS OF OTHERS HAVE PLANNED TO BE IN CHARLOTTE NORTH CAROLINA THIS WEEK.

BUT BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC, THIS GATHERING WILL BE ALMOST ENTIRELY VIRTUAL AS THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION WAS.

APP WE'LL BE INCLUDING SOME OF OUR REPORTERS, ANALYSTS AND OF COURSE THE SPEAKERS FOR THE REPUBLICANS.

WE PLAN TO BRING YOU THE SAME DEPTH OF COVERAGE AND ANALYSIS DURING THIS CRITICAL TIME IN AN HISTORIC ELECTION AREA.

I'M HERE IN OUR STUDIOS SOCIALLY DISTANT WITH AMY WALTER.

HELLO AMY.

WE HAVE REPORTERS AND ANALYSTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND OUR AMNA NAWAZ IS IN THE STUDIO RIGHT AROUND THE CORN TORE HELP GUIDE US ON WHAT TO EXPECT AND KEY MOMENTS TO LOOK OUT FOR, AMNA.

>> HI JUDY.

THE SPEAKERS TONIGHT ARE EXPECTED TO TOUCH ON EVERYTHING FROM IMMIGRATION, TO ABORTION, TO THE ECONOMY.

ONE OF THE SPEAK ARES TONIGHT ON THE ISSUE OF FOREIGN POLICY IS ALREADY SPARKING CONTROVERSY.

AND THAT IS SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POM AO.

IS BREAKING WITH LONG-STANDING TRADITION OF AMERICA'S TOP DIPLOMAT STAYING OUT OF DOMESTIC POLITICS TO DELIVER A PRERECORDED MESSAGE TO INJURES LEM WHERE HE IS TRAVELING FOR OBSERVATION BUSINESS, RAND PAUL OF KENTUCKY WILL BE MAKING THE LIBERTARIAN CASE FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP, THE DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNSEL LARRY KUDLOW AND OFFICIALS CURRENT AND FORMER FROM A MUST-WIN STATE FOR THE PRESIDENT, FOR DA'S FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL PAM BONDI AND CURRENTLY LT.

GOVERNOR JEANETTE NUNEZ, AND THREE MEMBERS OF THE TRUMP FAMILY, SON ERIC, A RARE PUBLIC APPEARANCE FROM DAUGHTER TIFFANY AND THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS DELIVERED FROM THE WHITE HOUSE ROSE GARDEN BY FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP THAT IS ANOTHER BREAK FROM TRADITION USING THE OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE RESIDENCE FOR A SPECIFICALLILY PARTISAN EVENT LAKE A CONVENTION SPEECH.

THE PRESIDENT BROKE THAT TRADITION LAST NIGHT WITH HIS RECORDED CONVERSATIONS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.

BUT JUDY, WE WILL HEAR IF ALL OF THOSE SPEAKERS AN MANY MORE, TONIGHT, THE SECOND NIGHT OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.

>> Woodruff: THANK YOU.

AND NOW I'M JOINED BY OUR NEWSHOUR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT YAMICHE ALCINDOR ON THE NORTH LAWN OF THE WHITE HOUSE, YAMICHE, HOW ARE THEY FEELING ABOUT HOW THINGS WENT LAST NEWT AND WHAT ARE THEY LOOKING FORWARD TO TONIGHT?

>> WELL, REPUBLICANS AS WELLS PRESIDENT TRUMP ARE FEELING PRETTY CONFIDENT THAT THEY ARE MAKING A GOOD CASE FOR WHY PRESIDENT TRUMP SHOULD BE RE-ELECTED.

WE SHOULD EXPECT THAT REPUBLICANS ARE AGAIN GOING TO BE ATTACKING DEM CATS SAYING THAT IF JOE BIDEN IS ELECTED THAT HE WILL SHOW USHER IN A SOCIALIST DYSTOPIA MACKING THE CASE THAT HE WILL TURN AMERICA INTO VENEZUELA.

THAT OF COURSE IS THE CLAIM THAT JOE BIDEN VEHEMENTLY SAYS IS WRONG.

HE SAY STS FALSE.

THAT SAID WE'RE GOING TO ALSO HEAR ON A NUMBER OF TOPICS INCLUDING LAST, IMMIGRATION, POLICING.

ONE THING TO EXPECT THOUGH IS TO ALSO SEE PRESIDENT TRUMP THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT.

WE'RE NOT GOING TO, I'M TOLD, HEAR HIM GIVE A SPEECH LIKE HE DID LAST NIGHT BUT WE ARE GOING TO HEAR HIM IN A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT SURPRISE MOMENTS INCLUDING ONE MOMENT WHERE HE IS WILL BE PRESIDING OVER A NATURALIZATION CEREMONY, ANDS WITH ALL PARDONING A MAN CONDITION VICED OF ROBBING A BANK AND TURNED HIS LIFE AROUND AND OVERSEEING A PRISONER REENTRY PROGRAM.

THE OTHER THING I WANT TO NOTE IS PRESIDENT TRUMP IS ALREADY WEIGHING IN IN REALTIME, JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO HE TWEETED AND I WANT TO READ PART OF THAT.

IT SAYS 80 MILLION UNSOLICITED BALANCE ODD-- BALLOTS ARE IMPOSSIBLE FOR ELECTION CENTER TO STAB LATE ACCURATELY.

THE FRAUD AND ABUSE WILL BE AN EMBARRASSMENT TO OUR COUNTRY.

HOPEFULLY THE COURTS WILL STOP THIS.

SO THAT IS PRESIDENT TRUMP AGAIN COMING AFTER, GOING AFTER MAIL-IN VOTING, DEMOCRATS HAVE SAID THIS IS REALLY THE PRESIDENT TRYING TO SUPPRESS THE VOTE.

THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT MAIL-IN VOTING IS THE PROBLEM THE PRESIDENT SAYS, THIS IS EARLY, THE PRESIDENT HAS ALREADY TAKEN TO TWITTER.

HE DID THAT FROM THE DNC.

ALSO THE ACTION IS AT THE WHITE HOUSE WHERE I AM STANDING SO I WILL TELL YOU ALL ABOUT WHAT OFFICIALS ARE SAYING THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT.

>> THAT IS ONE OF HIS FAVORITE TOPICS AS YOU PIPT OUT TO TALK ABOUT MAIL-IN VOTING.

THE INTEGRITY OF THE ELECTION SYSTEM IN THIS COUNTRY, AND YOU'RE RIGHT, HE IS NOT A PRESIDENT TO TURN THE CONVENTION OVER TO OTHERS.

HE WILL BE FRONT AND CENTER THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THIS WEEK.

YAMICHE AL SIPPEDDER, WE WILL BE COMING BACK TO YOU TAUGHT THIS NIGHT AS WELL, EVEN WITH THE FORECAST OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS.

SO PLEASE STAY SAFE.

TO HELP MAKE SENSE OF THIS CONVENTION WE WILL BE TURNING THROUGHOUT THIS NIGHT AND ALL THIS WEEK TO A WIDE RANGE OF ANALYSTS AND SPECIAL GUESTS BUT LET'S START WITH OUR CORE GROUP.

THAT IS SYNDICATED COLUMNIST MARK SHIELDS, NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNIST DAVID BROOK, GARY ABERNATHY, A CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST FOR "THE WASHINGTON POST" BASED IN OHIO, CYNTHIA TUCKER IS A PULITZER PRIZE WINNING COLUMNIST BASED IN ALABAMA AND HERE AT THE DESK WITH ME AMY WALTER OF THE COOK POLITICAL REPORT.

SO AMY, THE PRESIDENT HAS ALREADY AS WE HEARD FROM YAMICHE TALKING ABOUT THE INTEGRITY OF THE ELECTION, MAIL-IN BALLOTS.

BUT AGAINST THE BACK DROP OF A CONVENTION WHERE THE CONTRAST THAT THEY ARE TRAYING TO SET FORTH COULDN'T BE MORE STARK.

>> YOU KNOW, IT'S FUNNY, JUDY, IT IS ALMOST LIKE THIS CONVENTION IS TAKING PLACE IN AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE, OR MAYBE IT IS A UNIVERSE THAT EXISTED BEFORE JOE BIDEN GOT THE NUMBER NATION AND BEFORE THE PANDEMIC HIT.

REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN CLEAR FOR THE LAST YEAR REALLY AS WE GOT INTO 2020 THAT THEY REALLY WANTED TO FACE UP AGAINST BERNIE SANDERS AND ELIZABETH WARREN BUT TO MAKE THE CHOICE THAT THE CHOICE WAS BETWEEN TRADITIONAL AMERICAN VALUES OR SOCIALISM.

THEY ARE STILL MAKING THAT CASE TODAY EVEN THOUGH THE PERSON, THE DEMOCRATS NOMINATED IS SNOT A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST LIKE BERNIE SANDERS.

AND THAT WHAT HAS HAPPENED BETWEEN FEBRUARY AND NOW WITH THE PANDEMIC AND ECONOMIC COLLAPSE, OBVIOUSLY TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF HEALTH ISSUES AND RACIAL RECKONING GOING ON, JUST KIND OF HASN'T HAPPENED OR DIDN'T HAPPEN OR IS IN THE PAST.

AND JUST SORT OF SKIPPING OVER THAT AND GOING BACK TO THE POINT THAT THINGS WERE REALLY GREAT, IN JANUARY AND LET'S JUST TALK ABOUT LIFE AGAIN LIKE IT WAS IN JANUARY.

>> AND DAVID BROOKS, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT CAN WORK?

CAN THEY BASICALLY NOT TALK ABOUT THIS PANDEMIC THAT HAS TOUCHED EVERY SINGLE ONE OF OUR LIVES?

>> I DON'T THINK SO.

THEY HAVE TRIED TO DO THAT.

WHAT TRUCK ME IS THAT THEY HAVEN'T PICKED A THEME.

THERE HAS BEEN NO THEM ATTIC UNIT.

IF I GO TO A PLAY I WANT TO SEE THEM ATTIC UNIT.

THEY TALKED A LITTLE OF THE PANDEMIC, THEY GAVE THEIR VERSION OF WHAT THEY THINK HAPPENED.

THEY TALKED A LITTLE OF THE ECONOMY.

BUT EVERY TIME THEY ARE CALLED UPON TO OUT-- UTTER COMPLICATED QUESTION THEY GO BACK TO CULTURE REV LUGS IT IS A BATTLE ABOUT LOOTING, RIOTING AND VANDALISM.

AND THIS COMES UP BEGUN AND AGAIN.

AND THIS IS REMEMBER A CONVENTION WITHOUT A POLICY PLATFORM.

RELATIVELY LITTLE IN POLICY.

AND SO THEY KEEP COMING BACK TO THE IDEA THAT OUR VERY CIVILIZATION IS UNDER THREAT IN A BIG WAY.

I WONDER IF THAT IS THE REAL ISSUE FOR A LOT OF TRUMP VOTERS.

A LOT OF TRUMP VOTERS I KNOW, THEY DON'T LIKE THE GUY, THEY ARE NOT IN THE MIDDLE OF A CULTURE WAR.

THEY LIKE THE FACT THAT HE CLUFERRED IN THEIR VIEW SOME GOODS, SOME ECONOMIC GOODS, SOME IMMIGRATION GOODS, OTHER THINGS.

IT IS PRETTY TRANSACTION ALL FOR THEM AND IF THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN THINKS THEY WILL LEAD A CULTURAL CRUSADE, I DON'T THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE SIGNED UP FOR THAT.

BUT THAT IS SO FAR WHAT THEY ARE MESSAGING.

>> MARK, WHAT IS COMING THROUGH FOR YOU AND I MEAN HOW IMPORTANT IS IT THAT THE REPUBLICANS DE FINE THIS IN A WAY THAT THIS ELECTION IN A WAY THAT GRABS PEOPLE'S ATTENTION?

>> WELL, THAT IS CERTAINLY WHAT YOU HOPE FOR FOR A CONVENTION, THAT YOU FRAME THE ELECTION COMING OUT OF THE CONVENTION.

I JUST REMIND FOLKS, JUDY, THAT IN THE LAST SEVEN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT HAS WON THE POPULAR VOTE EXACTLY ONCE.

THAT WAS GEORGE W. BUSH IN 2004.

THE REST OF THE TIME THEY'VE LOST.

AND DONALD TRUMP GOT LESS OF IT WINNING THAN ANYBODY EVER HAS.

AND YET THE MOST POPULAR REPUBLICAN CERTAINLY IN THE LAST 60 YEARS RAN AND WON, CRUSHING THE ELECTION, VICTORY ON A THEME OF IT'S MORNING IN AMERICA.

CELEBRATING OPTIMISM AND CONFIDENCE THE FORWARD-LOOKING ATTITUDES, AND IDENTIFYING THAT VERY MUCH WITH AMERICA.

THAT WAS ON RONALD REAGAN.

LAST NIGHT WAS THE ANTI-REAGAN, IN EVERY SINGLE RESPECT.

IT IS MIDNIGHT IN AMERICA.

AMERICA IS NOT A PLACE OF GREAT HOPE AND POSSIBILITY.

IT WAS DARK AND SINNISTER FORCES LURKING, RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER, RIGHT NEXT DOOR, TRYING TO GET AHOLD.

TAKE AWAY YOUR PROPERTY.

AND IT IS JUST, TO ME THAT WAS WHAT CAME THROUGH, WITH EXCEPTIONS, WITH TIM SCOTT'S SPEECH.

BUT WITH RARE EXCEPTION AND CERTAINLY IN THE SPEECH BY THE PRESIDENT'S SON AND KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE, THAT SENT SOME-- IT'S REALLY MID NIGHT IN A DARK AND DREARY AND SCARY MIDNIGHT IN AMERICA.

>> Woodruff: GARY ABERNATHY, IS THAT WHAT STAYED WITH YOU ABOUT ALL OF LAST NIGHT?

>> NO, I DIDN'T FIND IT ALL THAT DARK.

THERE WERE A COUPLE OF MISSTEPS REALLY I THOUGHT WITH THE SPEECHES.

BUT OVERALL IT WAS A HOPEFUL MESSAGE.

WHEN YOU ARE CELEBRATING FIRST RESPONDERS AND YOU ARE CELEBRATING NURSES.

WHEN ARE YOU CELEBRATING HOSTAGES THAT FROM FRIED.

THERE WAS A LOT OF UPLIFTING THINGS BUT I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A POINT ABOUT THE SOCIALISM THING, AMY MENTIONED ACCUSING THE OTHER PARTY OF SOCIALISM.

YOU KNOW I WROTE A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO WHEN THEY PASSED THE $2 TRILLION BAILOUT FOR THE GOVERNMENT SHUT DOWN TO SEND FAMILIES, MANY OF WHOM, MILLIONS OF WHOM DIDN'T NEED THE MONEY, WHEN TRUMP SIGNED ON TO THAT AND REPUBLICANS SIGNED ON TO THAT.

THEY LOST THE ABILITY TO MAKE THE SOCIALISM ARGUMENT TO MAKE THE ACCUSATION, THATS WITH ONE BIG STEP INTO SOCIALISM RIGHT THERE.

IT WAS TO THE BUSINESSES, LIKE DON'T WORRY, NO ONE IS GOING TO SUFFER FROM THIS BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO PRINT MONEY WE DON'T HAVE TO BAIL YOU ALL OUT.

TO BAIL THE WOL COUNTRY OUT.

SO THE SOCIALISM ARGUMENT TO ME, IF THEY DON'T HAVE A LEGITIMATE LEG TO STAND ON TO MAKE THAT ANY MORE BECAUSE THEY WENT THAT DIRECTION.

BERN YEA SANDERS HAS ALREADY WON THAT SOO ISSUE EVEN THOUGH HE IS NOT GOING TO BE PRESIDENT, THAT IS OFF THE TABLE TO ME.

>> CYNTHIA TUCKER, YOU WANT TO PICK UP ON THAT, ON WHETHER THAT REPRESENTS SOCIALISM, THAT THE CONGRESS OF BOTH PARTIES CAME TOGETHER TO SAY TO THE COUNTRY WE'RE GOING TO CREATE THIS SAFETY NET FOR YOU BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THIS PANDEMIC.

>> I CERTAINLY AM SURPRISED TO HEAR THAT MILLIONS OF AMERICANS DID NOT NEED THE LITTLE BIT OF EXTRA MONEY THAT THEY RECEIVED.

MANY OF THEM ARE DESPERATELY TRYING TO PAY THE RENT, KEEP GROCERIES THE TABLE, TRYING TO MAKE CAR NOTES, TRYING TO PAY THEIR MORTGAGES, WHEN THEY HAVE LOST THEIR JOBS BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC.

AND THE MONEY THEY GOT HAS ALREADY RUN OUT.

SO NO, I DON'T THINK OF IT AS SOCIALISM AT ALL.

AND I DON'T THINK MILLIONS OF AMERICAN VOTERS THINK OF THAT AS SOCIALISM EITHER.

I THINK THEY THINK OF THAT AS GOVERNMENT COMING TO THEIR ASSISTANCE IN DESPERATE TIMES AND THAT IS WHAT THEY EXPECT THEIR GOVERNMENT TO DO.

AS FAR AS THE TONE THAT WAS SET TONIGHT, AMY TALKED ABOUT THE REPUBLICANS RUNNING A CONVENTION BASED ON CIRCUMSTANCES BACK IN JANUARY.

IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THEY TOOK US BACK TO 1968, THE McCARTHY REMINDED ME OF GEORGE WALLACE'S RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY.

AND THEIR TALK ABOUT RIOTING AND ANARCHY IN THE STREETS REMINDED ME ABOUT ALL THE CIVIL UNREST THAT WAS TAKING PLACE IN 196.

BUT I THINK IT IS DIFFICULT TO CONNECT THAT TO VOTERS REAL EXPERIENCES WHEN THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE VOTERS HAVE NOT EXPERIENCED THAT.

WHAT THEY HAVE INSTEAD EXPERIENCED IS THE TRAUMA AND DISLOCATION OF COVID WHICH IS THE SPEAKERS HAVE BARELY MENTIONED.

>> Woodruff: AND AMY, WE JUST TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS LAST NIGHT BUT THE PANDEMIC, THE SUFFERING AS A RESULT OF THE PANDEMIC, THE PEOPLE WHO PASSED AWAY, THE PEOPLE WHO ARE STILL SICK, THAT REALLY WAS NOT A MAJOR TOPIC.

>> AS GARY POINTED OUT, THE PRESIDENT DID TALK TO FIRST RESPONDERS OR, AND PEOPLE WHO ARE SORT OF ON THE FRONT LINES WHERE THEY ARE WORKING IN THE POST OFFICE OR AS NURSES.

AND SO THERE WAS A FOCUS ON THAT BUT YOU ARE RIGHT, NOT TO THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUFFERED AND DIED AND TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE WORRIED THAT THEY ARE GOING TO GET IT, THIS IS TO MARK'S POINT ABOUT MORNING IN AMERICA, WE'RE STILL IN THE MIDDLE OF A CRISIS AND THE LEADER NOW CAN ALSO SAY LOOK, ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE ARE IN THIS COUNTRIES IS AND HERE'S HOW WE'RE GOING TO PULL THROUGH BECAUSE WE'RE NOT THROUGH IT YET.

HERE ARE THE THINGS I DID.

HERE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT HELP BUT NOW HERE IS WHERE WE HAVE TO GO.

THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF WILL HAVE TO ADDRESS THAT WHEN HE GIVES HIS SPEECH ON THURSDAY BUT YOU WOULD THINK IN TERMS OF BUILDING THE CASE, THAT IS WHAT WE WOULD BE SEEING HERE.

>> ALL RIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO BE COMING BACK TO YOU, EACH OF YOU THROUGHOUT THIS NIGHT.

BUT IN THE MEAN TIME AS WE HEARD ONE OF THE CLOSING SPEAKERS OF THIS SECOND NIGHT OF THE CONVENTION WILL BE SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO.

HE WILL BE SPEAKING FROM JERUSALEM.

FOREIGN POLICY AND AMERICA'S ROLE IN THE WORLD IS ANOTHER AREA WHERE PRESIDENT TRUMP AND JOE BIDEN DISIS AGREE.

YAMICHE ALCINDOR AND LISA DES JARS INNS HAVE PUT TOGETHER THIS REPORT.

>> PRESIDENT TRUMP AND FORMER VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN HAVE TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT VIEWS OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY.

>> IT IS GOING TO BE ONLY AMERICA FIRST.

>> AS A CANDIDATE DONALD TRUMP RAN ON AN AMERICA FIRST MESSAGE.

HE ARGUED THAT THE NATION'S STANDING IN THE WORLD HAD FALLEN DURING THE OBAMA BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, AS PRESIDENT HE WORKED TO REVERSE MANY OF O OBAA INTERNATIONAL POLICY INCLUDING FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS.

PRESIDENT TRUMP ARGUED THAT OTHER NATIONS HAVE NOT PAID AS MUCH AS THE U.S. FOR SOME PARTNERSHIPS LIKE NATO.

AS A RESULT, HE HAS TESTED AND STRAINED SOME LONG TIME ALLIANCES INCLUDING TERROR THREAT, THE HE HAS ALSO SCALED BACK U.S.

FORCES IN GERMANY AND SYRIA, PROTECTING ALLIES FROM RUSSIAN AGGRESSION.

>> LET THEM FIGHT THEIR OWN WARS.

>> BIDEN HAS PLEDGED TO RETURN TO MORE OF AN OBAMA-BIDEN APPROACH THAT WITHIN LESS CONFRONTATIONAL WITH ALLIES IN ORDER TO COUNTERRERRING A REVAITERS LIKE RUSSIA.

>> THE UNDERLYING, EMBRACING DICTATORS WHO APPEAL TO HIS VANITY.

>> IN A 2018 SUMMIT PRESIDENT TRUMP FAMOUSLY TOOK RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN AT HIS WORD THAT RUSSIA DID NOT INTERFERE IN THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

BIDEN CALLED IT ONE OF THE DWOAT MOST SHAMEFUL PERFORMANCES BY A U.S. PRESIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY.

THE TWO HAVE ALSO CLASHED OVER CHINA.

TRUMP HAS HAD A GET TOUGH POLICY WITH BEIJING IN HOPES OF ATTRACTING MORE FAIR TRADE POLICIES FOR THE U.S.

THIS LEAD TO SOME AMERICANS LIKE FARMERS SEEING DEEP BUSINESS DECLINES FOR WHICH THE PRESIDENT HAS PROVIDED RELIEF PAYMENTS.

TRUMP STRUCK AN INITIAL DEAL WITH CHINA IN MAY.

BUT CRITICS INCLUDING JOE BIDEN HAVE SAID THE DEAL IS WORTHLESS.

THAT CHINA HAD NOT LIVED UP TO ITS PART OF THE BARGAIN.

>> THE PRESIDENT ARGUED THAT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ALLOWED U.S. COMPANIES TO OUTSOURCE U.S. JOBS TO CHINA WHILE BEIJING TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE U.S. ON TRADE.

>> Woodruff: ONE EVER A NUMBER OF LOOKS WE TAKE THIS WEEK AT THE DIFFERENCES ON ISSUES BETWEEN THESE TWO NOMINEES.

SO ALL THIS WEEK WE ARE GOING TO BE TALKING TO SOME PROMINENT REPUBLICANS INCLUDING, I WAS GOING TO SAY SENATOR JOHN BERATTO OF WYOMING, BUT WE LOST HIM, WE WILL KM BACK TO SENATOR BARASSO IN A MOMENT.

BUT AS WE WAIT TO GET THAT PICTURE, TO GET THAT CONNECTION, AMY, I WILL TALK TO YOU.

BECAUSE ARE YOU LEER AND HE IS NOT.

AND IF HE POPS UP I WILL INTERRUPT.

>> GREAT.

>> BUT IT IS INTERESTING.

I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY ABOUT FOREIGN POLICY BECAUSE IT DOESN'T GET THE ATTENTION OF OTHERS, SO OVERWHELMED WITH THE PANDEMIC, OF COURSE WITH THE ECONOMY, AND YET IT IS ONE WAY OF LOOKING AT THE DIFFERENCES IN APPROACH BETWEEN THESE TWO LEADERS.

>> I LIKE HOW THEY SET IT UP TOO ABOUT THE REALLY STARK CONTRAST THAT THE TWO CANDIDATES ARE OFFERING.

JOE BIDEN HAS BEEN SAYING FROM DAY ONE, ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS I'M GOING TO DO IS REINSTATE US INTO THE PARIS CLIMATE ACCORD, TO GO OVER AND ASSURE NATO WE ARE NEVER LEAVING THEIR SIDE.

AND THE PRESIDENT SAYING YOU KNOW WHAT, AMERICA WILL ALWAYS CHOOSE COMING FIRST, AND I THINK WE HAVE OUR GUESTS.

>> ARE YOU RIGHT, WE NOW HAVE SENATOR BARASSO.

I WAS JUST ABOUT TO INTRODUCE YOU AND WE LOST YOU, I'M SO GLAD YOU ARE BACK JOINING US FROM KASPER, WYOMING, THANK YOU ON THIS TUESDAY NIGHT, SECOND NIGHT OF THE CONVENTION.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

SO WHAT ARE YOU THINKING AND WHAT ARE YOUR CONSTITUENTS THINKING ABOUT LAST NIGHT, HOW DID IT GO?

>> WELL, IT WAS A REALLY GOOD NIGHT, I THOUGHT, FOR REPUBLICANS LAST NIGHT.

THE OPENING WAS SO PATRIOTIC, INSPIRATIONAL.

ENERGETIC, AND OPTIMISM.

AN WHEN ANYBODY THAT HAD A CHANCE LISTENED CLOSELY TO TIM SCOTT, WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN AS A REMARKABLE MAN WHO TELLS THE STORY OF OPPORTUNITY IN AMERICA.

YOU KNOW, THE CLASSIC LINE OF FROM COTTON TO CONGRESS IN ONE LIFETIME, THAT'S TIM SCOTT HE ALIVE.

AND I WOULD HOPE THAT WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT OBAMA'S SPEECH IN 2004 IN MASSACHUSETTS.

I WOULD HOPE THAT THIS SPEECH BY TIM SCOTT LAST NIGHT PROPELS HIM IN THE SAME WAY THAT OBAMA'S CONVENTION SPEECH 16 YEARS AGO PROPESSED HIM.

>> Woodruff: SOUNDS LIKE YOU ARE TOUTING HIM FOR A FUTURE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION.

BUT NO QUESTION THAT WAS AN INOPERATIONAL SPEECH.

SENATOR, ONE OF THE THINGS PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, IN YOUR POSITION, I WANT TO RAISE THIS, IS OF COURSE THE PANDEMIC AND HOW THIS, HOW THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN, HOW THIS CONVENTION IS TALKING ABOUT WHAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE GOING THROUGH RIGHT NOW.

I DON'T HAVE TO TELL YOU MORE THAN 177,000 AMERICANS HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES.

MILLIONS OF AMERICANS HAVE COME DOWN WITH THIS.

THE PRESIDENT BLAMES IT ALL ON CHINA.

AND IT IS THE CASE THAT CAUSES IN THE U.S.

RIGHT NOW AS WE COME TO THE END OF AUGUST ARE STABILIZING BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE RECORD IN THIS CLI SINCE MARCH, THE U.S. HAS DONE WORSE THAN MOST INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS.

>> YOU COMPARE THE U.S. TO GERMANY FOR EXAMPLE, ALMOST FIVE TIMES AS MANY DEATHSK ALMOST FIVE TIMES AS MANY CASES OR MORE THAN THAT.

WHERE DOES THE PRESIDENT'S RESPONSIBILITY BEGIN AND END WHEN IT COMES TO THIS VIRUS?

WELL NUMBER ONE, IT DID ORIGINATE IN CHINA.

I THINK THE PRESIDENT WAS ACTING BOLDLY WHEN HE SHUT DOWN TRAVEL FROM CHINA TO THE UNITED STATES, AT THE SAME TIME THAT JOE BIDEN WAS CRITICIZING HIM AS WAS NANCY PELOSI, AS WAS THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY.

I THINK THAT THE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL, FAILED WITH THE TESTING EARLY ON, BUT NOW WE HAVE CERTAINLY CAUGHT UP AND GONE BEYOND THAT, HAVING DONE OVER 72 MILLION TESTS.

WE'RE DOING ABOUT 700,000 A DAY.

WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE STATE WE HAD THE MOST DEATHS, IT IS NEW YORK STATE WHERE WE KNOW THAT THE GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK HAD PEOPLE GO WITH THE DISEASE FROM THE HOSPITAL BACK TO NURSING HOMES AND THE DEATHS IN THE NURSING HOMES RESULTED FROM THAT.

SO WE CAN ALWAYS DO BETTER.

WE ARE STILL AS A DOCTOR I WILL TELL YOU WE ARE STILL LEARNING A LOT ABOUT THE DISEASE.

BUT WHAT I HEAR FROM REPUBLICANS AND HEAR FROM PEOPLE IN WYOMING IS WE WANT A PATH FORWARD.

WE WANT TO GET BACK TO WORK.

WE WANT TO GET OUR KIDS BACK TO SCHOOL AND WE WANT TO GET THE DISEASE IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR.

AND WE CAN DO THAT WITH BETTER TREATMENT AND WE'RE GETTING THERE.

WE CAN DO THAT WITH A VACCINE AND WE'RE GETTING THERE IN RECORD-BREAKING TIME.

AND THE TESTING IS HELPING A LOT.

>> AND IN FACT IN THAT CONNECTION, I MEAN JUST THIS WEEK THE PRESIDENT ON SUNDAY CALLED A SPECIAL NEWS CONFERENCE TO TOUT THE AFFECTS OF SO CALLED CON VA LESS ENT PLASMA AS A TREATMENT FOR COVID BUT WE LEARN THAT THE SCIENTISTS IN THE ADMINISTRATION WERE URGING THE WHITE HOUSE NOT TO DO THAT.

THEY ARE SAYING THERE ISN'T THE EVIDENCE YET THAT IT SHOULD BE USED, JUST TODAY THE HEAD OF THE FDA SAID HE SPOKE TOO SOON.

HE REGRETTED GIVING IT A GREEN LIGHT, IN SO MANY WORDS.

IS SCIENCE BEING LISTENED TO IN THIS ADMINISTRATION.

>> WELL, SCIENCE IS BEING LISTENED TO, MOST CERTAINLY.

AND SCIENCE IS BEING FOCUSED ON, WHICH IS WHY SO MUCH EFFORT IS BEING DONE IN COMING UP WITH A VACCINE.

FROM THE BEGINNING WE SAID UNTIL WE GET A VACCINE THAT WORKS, THAT WE CAN DISSEMINATE WIDELY AND PEOPLE TAKE NOT JUST IN THE UNITED STATES BUT AROUND THE WORLD, WE'LL CONTINUE TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH CORONAVIRUS.

AND THIS WILL BE THE FASTEST VACCINE DEVELOPMENT IN THE HISTORY OF MAN KIND.

BUT I MUST POINT OUT THAT JUST THIS PAST SATURDAY NANCY PELOSI'S BROUGHT THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BACK TO CONGRESS TO PASS A BILL, UNRELATED TO JOBS, THE NEEDS OF AMERICAN PEOPLE TRYING TO GET KIDS BACK TO SCHOOL OR THE VACCINE OR TREATING THE DISEASE.

AND ALL SHE WANTED TO DO WAS FOCUS ON THE POST OFFICE AT A TIME WHEN 68 OF HER MEMBERS DIDN'T EVEN COME BACK TO VOTE AND 137 OF THEM WROTE TO HER AND SAY WE OUGHT TO BE DOING MORE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE SUFFERING RIGHT NOW.

SHE IGNORED ALL OF US AND THOSE WERE THE KIND OF ROADBLOCKS THAT REPUBLICANS AND PRESIDENT TRUMP ARE RUNNING INTO ON CAPITOL HILL WITH NANCY PELOSI.

>> WELL, WE KNOW THERE IS CONCERN ABOUT ELECTION INNING AT THE RESULT BUT WHAT I WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT, ST ALSO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE WHO AT THE END OF THE MONTH OF MAY THEY PASSED LEGISLATION TO PROVIDE ECONOMICS, FINANCIAL RELIEF TO AMERICANS WHO WERE SUFFERING.

BECAUSE OF THIS PANDEMIC.

TO THIS DATE THE SENATE HAS NOT ACTED Z.

WE KNOW THERE HAVE BEEN NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE HOUSE AND THE WHITE HOUSE.

BUT IF THIS RECOVERY DOESN'T TAKE OFF ON MAIN STREET AMERICA, THEN HOW DOES THE SENATE EXPLAIN ITS INAK-- INACTION.

>> LET'S LOOK AT WHAT NANCY PELOSI PASSED.

ST OVER $3 TRILLION, WHAT I CALL A VISIT TO FANTASY ISLAND, OVER A TRILLION DOLLARS OF IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CORONAVIRUS, EVEN NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO Z SAID THAT THIS WAS NEVER INTENDED TO PASS.

IT WAS JUST A LIBERAL WISH LIST BECAUSE IT INCLUDES MONEY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES.

>> Woodruff: AND THEY DID AGREE TO BRING THE AMOUNT DOWN TO 2 TRILLION, YOU ARE RIGHT, AS COMPROMISE.

>> BUT THEY DIDN'T REALLY WANT TO FOCUS ON THE ISSUES WE WANT TO FOCUS ON WHICH IS A TARGETED RELIEF BILL FOR PEOPLE SUFFERING, FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO GET BACK TO WORK, FOR OUR SCHOOLS AND FOR THE VACCINE.

ON SUNDAY, ON SATURDAY SHE REJECTED AN AMENDMENT ON THE VACCINE.

SHE REJECTED AMENDMENTS ON TRYING TO HELP PEOPLE WHO ARE OUT OF WORK BECAUSE SHE'S PLAYING POLITICS AT A TIME THAT THE AMERICAN PUBLIC WANT A SOLUTION, A SAFE RETURN TO LIFE, A PATH FORWARD, AND SOME COMMON SENSE.

WE'RE NOT SEEING THAT COMING OUT OF PELOSI.

AND OF COURSE CHUCK SCHUMER IN THE SENATE, IS HE IS HER DEPUTY, HE WILL DO WHATEVER SHE TELLS HIM TO DO.

AND WE'RE FOCUSED ON A TARGETED RELIEF TO GET PEOPLE BACK TO WORK, KIDS BACK TO SCHOOL, AND THE DISEASE IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR.

>> SENATOR, JUST IN THE TIME WE HAVE LEFT, WE KNOW THERE IS NO PLATFORM, FORMAL PLATFORM BEING PUT FORWARD AT THIS REPUBLICAN CONVENTION T IS VERY UNUSUAL, I THINK ALL OF THE CONVENTIONS I EVER COVERED IN MY CAREER, THERE HAS BEEN A PLATFORM.

DOES THAT SAY THAT THIS IS THE PARTY OF DONALD TRUMP AND WHATEVER PRESIDENT TRUMP BELIEVES IS THE PARTY.

>> WELL, JUDY, A COUPLE OF THINGS.

AS YOU KNOW I CHAIRED THE PLATFORM COMMITTEE AT 2016.

YOU AND I HAD A CHANCE TO SIT DOWN WITH DAVID BROOKS AND MARK SHIELDS, SO I REGRETTED I WASN'T ABLE TO BE THERE.

BUT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SHOW, TONIGHT, I THINK WOULD YOU HAVE TO SWRUJ A PRESIDENT ON PROMISES MADE AND PROMISES KEPT.

AND WE HAVE SEEN THAT.

AND WE'RE ALSO GOING TO SEE THE PRESIDENT TALK ABOUT THE PATH TO THE FUTURE.

AND IF THIS IS AN ELECTION THE DEMOCRATS SAID IS GOING TO BE ABOUT CHARACTER T IS ALSO GOING TO BE ABOUT TAXES WHERE THE DEMOCRATS WANT TO RAISE TAXES BY $4 TRILLION, IT IS GOING TO BE ABOUT THE ECONOMY AND GETTING PEOPLE BACK TO WORK AND JOE BIDEN IS TALKING ABOUT SHUTTING DOWN THE COUNTRY AGAIN IN SPITE OF THE-- BAD IMPACTS ON PEOPLE'S OVERALL HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH, AS WELL AS ON THE ECONOMIC HEALTH OF THE COUNTRY.

IT'S GOING TO BE ABOUT LAW ENFORCEMENT.

IT IS GOING TO BE ABOUT LIBERTY.

THERE ARE LOTS OF THINGS ON THE BALLOT AND I THINK IT IS GOING TO BE A VERY CLEAR CONTRAST WHEN PEOPLE GO TO VOTE IN NOAFER.

>> WE ARE GOING TO LEAVE IT WILL, SENATOR JOHN BARASSO JOINING US FROM WYOMING.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

>> THANKS, JUDY.

>> Woodruff: AND NOW WE WANT TO BRING IN SOME OTHER VOICES WITH US THROUGHOUT THIS WEEK.

OF COURSE THEY ARE MICHAEL NUTTER, FORMER MAYOR OF PHILADELPHIA.

CHRIS BUSKIRK IS THE EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL AMERICAN GREATNESS.

JONATHAN CAPEHART IS A PILTSER PRIZE WINNING COLUMNIST FOR "THE WASHINGTON POST" AND ELLEANA JOHNSON IS THE ED ET IRIN CHIEF OF THE WASHINGTON FREEBIE CON.

WE WELCOME YOU TO THE PROGRAM.

MICHAEL NUTTER, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WERE ABLE TO HEAR SENATOR BARASSO DEFENDING THE PRESIDENT AND HIS RECORD, BUT IS THAT RECORD ONE THAT WHETHER YOU SEE IT COMING THROUGH FROM THE CONVENTION OR NOT, THAT CAN PUSH THIS PRESIDENT OVER THE FINISH LINE AN BRING HIM TO VICTORY OVER JOE BIDEN?

>> NO, JUDY.

BECAUSE AND YOU PRESSED HIM AND CERTAINLY I MEAN I COMMEND THE SENATOR FOR HIS ABILITY TO STAY COMPLETELY ON MESSAGE FROM WHATEVER NOTES HE IS GETTING IN TERMS OF HIS TALKING POINTS BUT THE ONE BIG THING THAT YOU POINTED OUT EARLIER, THEY CAN'T GET AROUND COVID-19.

THEY CAN'T GET AROUND FISCAL DISTRESS BY CITIES AN STATES.

THEY CAN'T GET AROUND RACIAL JUSTICE ISSUES AND CIVIL UNREST.

THEY DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THOSE THINGS BECAUSE THAT WASN'T, THAT'S NOT THE JANUARY 2020 NARRATIVE STVMENT NOT JANUARY.

IT'S AUGUST.

AND NO ONE IS GOING TO BE THINK BEING JANUARY COME ON ELECTION DAY.

SO CORONAVIRUS IS ON THE BALLOT.

LEADERSHIP SON THE BALLOT, CHARACTER SON THE BALLOT, CIVIL UNREST SON THE BALLOT AND FISCAL DISTRESS AND PEOPLE NOT HAVING WORK, THAT IS WHAT IS ON THE BALLOT.

NOT ALL THIS OTHER HAPPY STORY THAT THEY WANT TO TRY TO PAINT IT IS NOT MORNING IN AMERICA.

I'M NOT SAIING IT IS TOTAL DARKNESS BUT THE REAL IS WE HAVE SOME SERIOUS CHALLENGES WHICH DONALD TRUMP HAS FAILED ON TIME AND TIME AND TIME AGAIN.

ELIANA JOHNSON, CAN THE REPUBLICANS RUN THIS THOUGH AS AN ELECTION WHERE THEY CAN ESSENTIALLY SAY LOOK, PANDEMIC NOT OUR FAULT, THIS PRESIDENT HAS DONE EVERYTHING HE COULD TO KEEP THE ECONOMY STRONG AND THAT'S WHAT WE WANT TO FOCUS ON.

>> I DO THINK THEY CAN DO THAT, YOU KNOW, IT WOULD BE HELPFUL IF THE PRESIDENT WOULD SAY LOOK, WE WERE ALL CAUGHT FLAT FOOTED BY THIS PANDEMIC.

NOBODY QUAIT KNEW HOW TO HANDLE IT BUT I ALSO THINK THAT SOMETHING POWERFUL AND OUTSIDE OF THE CONTROL OF THE REPUBLICANS IS HAPPENING TO HELP THEM.

AND THAT IS HAPPENING AS RIDERS TAKE TO STREETS IN PORTLAND AND CHICAGO AND MINNEAPOLIS AND KENOSHA, WISCONSIN.

AND YOU KNOW, THAT'S MORE POWERFUL I THINK AND THE DEMOCRATS SILENCE ON IT IS MORE POWERFUL THAN ANY PROGRAMMING THE REPUBLICANS PUT FORWARD OR ANYTHING A REPUBLICAN COULD SAY IN A SPEECH AT THIS CONVENTION.

>> JONATHAN CAPEHART WHAT ABOUT THAT, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS HAPPENING IN AMERICAN CITIES THROUGHOUT THIS SUMMER, EVER SINCE THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD, MOST PARTICULARLY IN PORTLAND, OREGON.

BUT IT HAS CERTAINLY HAPPENED IN OTHER CITIES AND JUST NOW THIS LATEST INCIDENT OF A SHOOTING OF A BLACK MAN BY POLICE IN KEN OPENNA WISCONSIN.

>> SURE.

RIOTING AND DESTRUCTION ARE BAD THINGS.

AND SHOULD NOT HAPPEN.

BUT WE SHOULD NOT LAWS SIGHT OF THE FACT THAT A MAN WAS SHOT IN THE BACK BY LAW ENFORCEMENT SEVEN TIMES.

THAT GEORGE FLOYD LOST HIS LIFE UNDER THE KNEE OF A POLICE OFFICER IN THE MINNEAPOLIS.

YOU KNOW THESE THINGS ARE NOT HAPPENING IN A VACCINE-- VACUUM.

AND I DON'T WANT ANYONE TO THINK THAT I AM EXCUSING THE DESTRUCTION AND THE VIOLENCE THAT IS HAPPENING.

BUT REPUBLICANS AND SERGE THE ONES WHO HAVE BEEN ON STAGE SO FAR SPEND MORE TIME TALKING ABOUT THAT AND AVOIDING COMPLETELY THE HURT AND THE PAIN AND THE SERIOUS ISSUES THAT NEED TO BE RESOLVED THAT SPARK THOSE THINGS IN THE FIRST PLACE.

ALSO THEY DON'T SPEND A WHOLE LOT OF TIME FOCUSING ON THE MYRIAD PEACEFUL PROTESTS THAT HAVE BEEN HAPPENING ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

FOLKS ARE NOT TAKING TO THE STREETS WILLY-NILLY AND THEY ARE NOT TAKING TO THE STREETS BECAUSE THEIR WHOLE GOAL IS TO BURN UP A STORE OR CAUSE DESTRUCTION.

NO, THEY ARE TAKING TO THE STREETS BECAUSE THEY HAVE SEEN THEIR FELLOW AMERICANS LOOSE THEIR LIVES WITH THEIR OWN EYES AT THE HANDS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT, GEORGE FLOYD, AT THE HANDS OF VIGILANTES A AR BURRY, THEY HAVE SEEN THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS KILLED IN THRAIR OWN HOMES, BREONNA TAYLOR, THEY HAVE SEEN THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS, 12 YEAR OLD PLAYING IN A PARK LIKE EVERY RED BLOODED AMERICAN KID HAS DONE FOR DECADES, TAMIR RICE, THESE THINGS HAVE BEEN BUILDING NOT JUST WITHIN OUR RECENT MEMORY, BUT SINCE THE FOUNDING OF THE REPUBLIC.

AND UNTIL WE DEAL WITH THE ORIGINAL SIN AND EVERYTHING THAT HAS COME AFTER THAT, WE'RE STILL GOING TO BE HAVING THESE KRVETIONS WHERE REPUBLICANS ARE TRAYING TO PUT DEMOCRATS ON THE DEFENSIVE BECAUSE A FEW PEOPLE GO AND DO WRONG THINGS, DO BAD THINGS WHILE COMPLETELY IGNORING WHY PEOPLE TAKE TO THE STREETS TO PEACEFULLY PROTEST IN THE FIRST PLACE.

>> CHRIS BUSKIRK, IT IS THE CASE WE HEARD LAST NIGHT, REPUBLICANS SAYING THIS IS AN ELECTION OF CHOICE BETWEEN A NRM ARLT LIFE AND CHAOS.

NOMPLEAL LIFE AND VIOLENCE IN THE STREET.

AND AS JONATHAN POINTS OUT THERE HAVE BEEN PROTESTS, MOST OF THEM HAVE BEEN PEACEFUL.

THERE CLEARLY ARE SOMEWHERE THERE HAVE BEEN VIOLENCE.

HOW DOES THAT LAND AS A MESSAGE FOR THE REPUBLICANS RIGHT NOW.

>> I THINK IT IS VERY LOCALIZED.

AS TO HOW IT LANDS.

I MEAN THIS IS, WE HAVE A SITUATION WHERE YOU LOOK AT SOME PLACE LIKE PORTLAND OR YOU SAW UP IN SEATTLE, THE RIOTS IN KEN OPENA OR-- KENOSHA OR MINNEAPOLIS, YOU THINK ABOUT THE FUNDAMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF GOVERNMENT TO DO ONE THING BEFORE IT DOES ANYTHING ELSE.

WHICH IS TO SECURE THE LIVES AND PROPERTY OF ITS CITIZENS.

IF THEY CAN'T DO THOSE THINGS THEN EVERYTHING ELSE IS ALREADY OFF THE TABLE.

AND SO IF YOU ARE KIND OF A SWING VOTER, NOT SURE WHERE TO COME DOWN ON THIS, AND YOU LIVE IN MINNEAPOLIS OR YOU LIVE IN PORTLAND OR ILLINOIS, YOU SEE WHAT IS GOING ON IN CHICAGO, YOU ARE THINKING I NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT I AND MY FAMILY AND MY BUSINESS, MY HOUSE THAT WE ARE SAFE.

AND I WANT SOMEBODY WHO IS GOING TO MAKE SURE WE ARE SAFE.

SO I THINK THIS ISSUE IS SOMETHING THAT IS VERY MUCH IN FAVOR OF REPUBLICANS.

BECAUSE JUST AS JONATHAN WAS MAKING THE POINT, THE REPUBLICANS COULD BE MAKING, COULD BE MAKING SOME GOOD POINTS ABOUT SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES, REACHING OUT TO COMMUNITIES LIKE THE BLACK COMMUNITY THAT IS TRADITIONALLY NOT VETTED FOR REPUBLICANS.

DEMOCRATS COULD BE DOING THE SAME ON THE FLIP SIDE WHICH IS TO SAY LOOK, WE ARE IN FAVOR OF PROTEST.

WE HOPE TO SUPPORT PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO DO THAT BUT AT THE SAME TIME WE NEED TO TAKE FIRM POLICE ACTION IN ORDER TO QUELL THE RIOTS.

AND YOU KNOW, THESE ARE THE PLACES WHERE IT SEEMS LIKE MOST HAVE SORT OF A BLIND SPOT BUT I THINK AS IT STANDS RIGHT NOW ELECTORALLY IN FAVOR OF PRESIDENT TRUMP.

>> MICHAEL NUTTER, WHAT ABOUT, WE HAVE ONLY GOT LESS HAN A MINUTE.

>> JUDY, UNFORTUNATELY, A LITTLE BIT OF CODED LANGUAGE GOING ON FROM THE REPUBLICANS AS THIS ONLY BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE ARE OUT IN THE STREET.

AND AGAIN AS JONATHAN POINTED OUT, A COMPLETE IGNORING OF THE BASE REASONS THAT THESE THINGS ARE TAKING PLACE AND IN THE FIRST PLACE.

BECAUSE THERE IS VIOLENCE AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE.

AND BROWN PEOPLE AND OTHER PEOPLE.

AND WE'RE SICK AND TIRED OF IT.

AND SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE REPUBLICANS WOULD SAY, GIVEN THE BEHAVIOR OF DONALD TRUMP, PRAISING GOOD PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES AND FOLKS ARE MARCHING DOWN THE STREETS WITH TIKI TORCHES IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, THAT IS NOT EXACTLY LENDING A HAND-OF-UNDERSTANDING AND SUPPORT, HAVING FOLKS WHO WERE ON LAST NIGHT BRANDISHING A RIFLE AND A LAND GUN WHEN NO ONE TOUCHED THEM, NO ONE WAS NEAR THEM, AND WHAT THE PERNT HAD WAS A MEGA PHONE.

SO I MEAN THAT'S JUST A BUNCH OF NONSENSE.

LET'S DEAL WITH THE REAL ISSUES AT HAND.

THERE IS CIVIL UNREST BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF BEING SHOT.

>> Woodruff: A LOT TO CONSIDER HERE, WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO TALK ABOUT IT TONIGHT AND THROUGH THE REST OF THIS WEEK AND FOR A LONG TIME TO COME.

THANK YOU ALL, WE'RE GOING TO COME BACK TO YOU TONIGHT, AND AGAIN IT THROUGH THIS NIGHT AND THROUGH THIS WEEK.

BUT RIGHT NOW LET'S TURN TO ANOTHER PROMINENT REPUBLICAN, ONE OF THE PRESIDENT'S STRONGEST DEFENDERS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, CONGRESSMAN DOUG COLLINS OF GEORGIA, ALSO CHALLENGING A FORMER REPUBLICAN KELLEY LOVELER WHO JOINS US FROM DUBLIN, CONGRESSMAN COLLINS THANK YOU T IS VERY GOOD TO SEE YOU, YOU ARE PAYING ATTENTION TO THE CONVENTION, WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE, THE MESSAGES COMING OUT OF THIS CONVENTION TO YOU?

>> WELL, THE MESSAGE COMING OUT IS VERY CLEAR.

LAST WEEK WE SAW WHAT I WOULD SAY IS SUNSET IN AMERICA, THIS WEEK SUN RISE IN AMERICA.

WE ARE TALKING ABOUT LAST WEAK WHERE JOE BIDEN WAS TALKING ABOUT ALL THE THINGS WRONG AND THAT WERE PROBLEMATIC AND THUNKINGS GOVERNMENT CAN FIX.

THIS TIME WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A FUTURE, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT WHAT WE HAVE DONE HELPING EACH AND EVERY PERSON MOVE FORWARD, HOW WE CAN GO BACK.

HAVE I BEEN LISTENING TO YOUR PANEL T IS AMAZING THAT THE PANEL IS ABOUT THE FACT THAT THIS PRESIDENT SIGNED A BILL, WHICH DEALT WITH THE CYCLE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM BEING IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND OUT OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND HOW WE CAN HELP THOSE COMMUNITIES.

TO WORK TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY HAS JOBS AND TO MAKE SAWR THAT OUR INNER CITIES IN THOSE PLACES THAT HAVE BEEN FORGOTTEN ARE NO LONGER FORGOTTEN.

WHEN HE LOOK AT IT IT IS A CONTRAST OF TWO VISIONS FOR AMERICA.

ONE IS WITH NO WE HAVE OUR GREATNESS OF OUR COUNTRY THAT CAN SOLVE THE PROBLEMS WE FACE.

>> BUT I THINK PART OF THAT CONVERSATION WE WERE JUST HAVING ABOUT IS THE FACT THAT THERE IS A PLACE, IN THIS COUNTRY FOR PEACEFUL PROTESTS, THERE ARE MANY AMERICANS WHO FEEL THEY HAVE BEEN SHUT OUT OF THE CONVERSATION AND SHUT OUT OF EQUAL TREATMENT AND FAIR TREATMENT AND IN SO MANY REGARDS, AND THAT IS WHAT THESE MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS ARE ABOUT.

>> WELL, AGAIN LET'S DISCUSS THESE PEACEFUL PROTESTS.

NO ONE IS DISCUSSING STOPPING PEACEFUL PROTESTS.

I KEEP HEARING THE DISCUSSION THAT THE PEACEFUL PROTESTS ARE THE ONES BEING TARGETED, NOTHING FURTHER THAT FROM THE TRUTH.

PEACEFUL PROTESTS HAPPEN EVERY DAY TRK IS THE FIRST AMENDMENT OF OUR CONSTITUTION, WHICH GIVES US THE RIGHT TO TALK ABOUT THINGS.

EVEN IF I DISAGREE, THE FIRST AMENDMENT GIVES US THAT RIGHT, SOMEONE WHO SERVES IN THE MILITARY, I DON'T FIGHT TO DE FEBD THAT RATE FOR-- I FIGHT TO DE-- WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT PEACEFUL PROTESTS.

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE ELEMENTS INSIDE THESE PEACEFUL PROTESTS THAT ARE CREATING CRIMINAL ACTIVITY AND PEOPLE LAKE THE PORTLAND DA AND OTHERS WHO WILL NOT PROSECUTE THOSE WHO DO THE CRIMINAL ACT.

IT IS NOT ABOUT PEACEFUL PROTEST, ABOUT T IS ABOUT CRIMINAL ACT.

>> THERE WAS THE COUPLE McCLOSKEYS FEATURED, EACH OF THEM HAD A GUN AS PEOPLE WERE PEACEFULLY PROTESTING IN FRONT OF THEIR HOUSE.

>> WELL, DISTS SECOND AMENDMENT GET TAKEN A WHAT WHEN PEOPLE WERE DOWN ON FRIDAY DRIVE ON A PLACE THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN.

LET'S BE HONEST ABOUT THIS WHEN WE HAVE THESE CONVERSATIONS.

I MEAN THIS IS THE PART, WE MAY NOT LIKE BUT PEOPLE ARE FEARFUL AN FEARFUL FOR WHAT THEY ARE SEEING.

WE CAN'T BALANCE WHAT WE LIKE AND DON'T LIKE, IT IS A BALANCE OF THOSE PEACEFUL PROTESTS ARE SOMETHING THAT CAN HAPPEN BUT THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED ON PRIVATE PROPERTY OR STREETS.

THEY ARE ALLOWED IN AREAS WHERE THEY CAN PROTEST.

>> LET MAY QUICKLY ASK YOU IN THE TIME WE HAVE ABOUT YOUR OWN RACE FOR THE SENATEMENT YOU ARE A CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN, ARE YOU CHALLENGING ANOTHER CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN, IN SENATOR KELLY LEVLER WHO IS THE TRUER CONSERVATIVE OF THE TROO OF YOU.

>> LET ME ASK A QUESTION, I'M THE CONSERVATIVE THAT HAS A PROVEN, TRUSTED RECORD.

I'M A CONSERVATIVE WHO NEVER GAVE MONEY THROUGH HER BASKETBALL TEAM TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD.

MI A CONSERVATIVE WHO NEVER HIRED STACY ABRAMS TO BE MY TEAM'S ATTORNEY, THERE IS A DIFFERENCE WHY THERE ARE CONSERVATIVES WHO HAD DIFFERENT VIEWS AND NOW IS SAYING SOMETHING ELSE TO PLEASE A CONSERVATIVE VOTERSHIP IN GEORGIA, WHOSE DUTY IS NOT MINE.

>> Woodruff: LET MAY ASK YOU ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP, SHE HAS BEEN ENDORSED AS YOU KNOW PRESIDENT TRUMP.

WERE YOU VERY LOYAL, YOU HAVE BEEN VERY LOYAL.

>> WHEN, WHOA, WHOA, SINCE WHEN, SHE HAS NOT BEEN ENDORSED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP AT ALL THRARKS IS A MISTAKE, THAT NEEDS TO BE CORRECTED RIGHT NOW.

PRESIDENT TRUMP TOLD THE GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA ON THREE DIFFERENT OCCASIONS THAT HE WANTED ME IN THIS SEAT.

SHE HAS NOT BEEN ENDORSED BY THE PRESIDENT AT ALL.

AND THAT IS JUST NOT TRUE.

AND SHOULD NOT BE SAID.

>> Woodruff: ALL RIGHT, LET ME PUT IT THIS WAY.

THE PARTY STRUCTURE HAS BEEN BEHIND HER BUT YOU HAVE BEEN SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN LOYAL TO PRESIDENT TRUMP IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

SO I MEAN WHAT KIND OF KRVETIONS ARE YOU HAVING RIGHT NOW WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP ABOUT THIS?

>> PRESIDENT TRUMP AS I SAID HE TOLD THE GOVERNOR IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA TO TAKE NAMES AND WE HAD CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE RACE, HE'S PROUD OF ME.

NOW LOOK, SHE IS AN INCUMBENT SENATOR SO YES, MISS McCONNELL AND THE REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT, THEY HAVE PART OF THEIR REPUBLICAN SENATOR YAL COMMITTEE-- WHAT IS HAPPENING IN GORGE GASHING THE PEOPLE ARE NOT BACKING THE INCUMBENT, THEY ARE BACKING SOMEONE THAT THEY KNOW IS A FIGHTER, THEY KNOW HE HAS BEEN FIGHTING FOR THEM AND FOUGHT FOR THIS PRESIDENT.

EF RADIO HE WHERE I GO PEOPLE SAY THANK YOU FOR FIGHTING FOR THIS PRESIDENT.

THANK YOU FOR FIGHTING FOR OUR COUNTRY BECAUSE YOU ARE THE ONE WHO IS ACTUALLY OUT THERE ON THE TIP OF THE SPEER.

LET'S GET IT CLEAR.

HER RESPONSES FROM SENATOR YAL LEADERSHIP WHICH IS NOT THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA.

>> Woodruff: VERY QUICKLY, YOU HAVE CONGRATULATED THE WINNER OF ANOTHER CONGRESSIONAL PRIMARY, A REPUBLICAN PRIMARY IF GEORGIA, MARGERY TAYLOR GREEN WHO HAS COMPLIMENTED AND ESPOUSED THE SO CALLED Q-ANON CONSPIRACY THEORY, AMONG OTHER THINGS.

SHE HAS TALKED ABOUT, SHE HAS MADE RACIST REMARKS, ANTI-SEMMITYIC, ISLAMOPHOBIC REMARKS, ABOUT BACK PEOPLE BEING HELD SLAVES TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

SHE LIKENED THE ELECTION OF THE FIRST TWO MUSLIM WOMEN TO CONGRESS AS AN ISLAMIC INVASION S THIS SOMEONE YOU WELCOME INTO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND INTO THE CONGRESS?

>> THIS IS SOMEONE THAT WON A REPUBLICAN PRIMARY IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA AND PROBABLY WILL BE THE NEXT CONGRESSWOMAN IN THE DISTRICT.

WHO ALSO WENT ON THE OTHER DAY AND DID AN INTERVIEW IN WHICH SHE HAS TALKED ABOUT HER PAST COMMENTS AND HOW THEY WERE PLACED SHE HAS TO ANSWER FOR THOSE COMMENTS BUT SHE WILL BE THE NEXT CONGRESSWOMAN FROM THAT DISTRICT AND SHE HAS TO ANSWER, WE SUPPORT OUR REPUBLICANS TO WIN THAT DISTRICT.

>> Woodruff: CONGRESSMAN DOUG COLLINS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, WE'RE NOW GOING TO THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION AND PRESIDENT TRUMP.

>> THE STORY OF TRANSFORMATION IN THE ROSE GARDEN ON THE NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER.

TODAY I'M THRILLED TO WELCOME HIM BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE.

JOHN'S LIFE IS A BEAUTIFUL TESTAMENT TO THE POWER OF REDEMPTION.

JOHN GREW UP WITHOUT HIS FATHER.

ACETALS IT, MAY MOTHER WAS STRONG.

BUT SHE WASN'T ABLE TO KEEP US OUT OF THE GANGS AND OFF OF THE STREETS.

AND THEY WERE VIOLENT STREETS.

AT THE AGE OF 38 HE WAS ARRESTED FOR BANK ROBBERY, WHILE JOHN WAS IN PRISON HE BEGAN READING THE BIBLE AND LISTENING TO CHRISTIAN RADIO.

ONE DAY HE HEARD REVEREND BILLY GRAHAM ON THE RADIO PLAYING "JESUS WANTS TO BE LORD OF YOUR LIFE."

ON THAT DAY JOHN DEDICATED HIS LIFE TO CHRIST.

HE SPENT THE REST OF HIS TIME IN PRISON STUDYING THE BIBLE.

WHEN HE WAS RELEASED HE HEARD A KNOCK AT HIS DOOR.

IT WAS THE OFFICER WHO PUT HIM IN JAIL, FBI SPECIAL AGENT RICHARD BEESLY WHO SAID, I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT I HAVE BEEN PRAYING FOR YOU, NOW RICHARD AND JOHN ARE BEST FRIENDS AND WE ARE GRATEFUL THAT RICHARD IS HERE WITH US TODAY.

AND THE LAST TEN YEARS SINCE JOHN WAS RELEASED, HE HAS CREATED ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL REENTRY PROGRAMS, HOPE FOR PRISONERS IN LAS VEGAS.

I WAS GLAD TO SPEAK THERE EARLIER THIS YEAR.

AS JOHN SAYS, HOPE FOR PRISONERS IS A MOVEMENT THAT BEGAN AS A DREAM, IN A TINY PRISON CELL AND IS NOW MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF THOUSANDS TRULY BRINGING HOPE THAT THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY AND A COMMUNITY THAT IS WAITING AND WILLING TO OFFER THEM A SECOND CHANCE.

JOHN, WE HONOR YOUR DEVOTION TO SHOWING RETURNING CITIZENS THAT THEY ARE NOT FORGOTTEN.

WE BELIEVE THAT EACH PERSON IS MADE BY GOD FOR A PURPOSE.

I WILL CONTINUE TO GIVE ALL AMERICANS INCLUDING FORMER INMATES THE BEST CHANCE TO BUILD A NEW LIFE AND ACHIEVE THEIR OWN AMERICAN DREAM.

AND A GREAT AMERICAN DREAM IT IS.

NOW I WOULD LIKE TO ASK JOHN AND RICHARD TO SAY A FEW WORDS.

>> I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW GRATEFUL I AM TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO YOU TODAY.

NOT SO LONG AGO MY LIFE WAS RUNNING FROM THE POLICE, FEARING THE POLICE AND AVOIDING THE POLICE.

NOT BECAUSE OF ANYTHING THAT THE POLICE HAD DONE TO MAY PERSONALLY, BUT DUE TO THE ANIMOSITY I HAD ALLOWED TO GROW INSIDE OF ME, MAKING MAY BELIEVE THAT THEY WERE MY ENEMY.

BUT TODAY PRAISE GOD I AM FILLED WITH HOPE, A PROUD AMERICAN CITIZEN WHO HAS BEEN GIVEN A SECOND CHANCE.

MY TRANSFORMATION BEGAN IN A PRISON CELL WHERE I FOUND MYSELF A THREE TIME CONVICTED FELON FACING YET ANOTHER SENTENCE.

I GAVE MY LIFE TO JESUS AND MADE HIM A PROMISE THAT I WOULD SPEND THE REST OF MY DAYS HELPING OTHERS LIKE ME.

MY FIRST HELP AND SUPPORT CAME FROM THE UNLIKELIEST OF PLACES, THE FBI AGENT WHO ARRESTED ME RICHARD BEESLY.

HE IS NOW A DEAR FRIEND AND HAS BEEN A FORCE OF ENCOURAGEMENT TO ME THROUGHOUT MY ENTIRE JOURNEY.

I AM GRATEFUL FOR THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE LAS VEGAS METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT WHO VOLUNTEER THEIR TIME TO PEOPLE WHO RETURN TO OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY AFTER INCARCERATION.

THESE ARE THE REAL-LIFE HEROES WHO PUT THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE EVERY DAY ARMED WITH THE PROMISE THAT THEY MADE TO PROTECT AND TO SERVE, HAVE MADE A TREMENDOUS IMPACT ON THE LIVES OF MEN AND WOMEN WE INTROA GRATE BACK INTO OUR SOCIETY.

WE HOPE FOR AMERICA IS THAT FORMALLY INCARCERATED PEOPLE WILL BE AFFORDED THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE FACT THAT WE LIVE IN A NATION OF SECOND CHANCES AM MY HOPE FOR AMERICA IS THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT AND PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY, ACROSS OUR COUNTRY CAN COME TOGETHER AND REALIZE THAT AS AMERICANS WE HAVE MORE IN COMMON THAN WE HAVE DIFFERENCES.

MY HOPE FOR OUR GREAT NATION IS TO CONTINUE ON THIS PATH WE ARE ON OF BEING THE MOST PROSPEROUS COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.

I'M WITH.

>> I'M SO PROUD OF JOHN WITH HIS LIFE TURNED AROUND AND ALL THE LIVES HE HELPED TO CHANGE.

IT MAY BE HARD TO BELIEVE THAT AS A RETIRED FBISH AGENT ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS IS A PERSON I ARRESTED FOR BANK ROBBERY.

WHEN I MET JOHN 15 YEARS AGO HE WAS ANGRY, SCARED, FRUSTRATED AND ANXIOUS ABOUT HIS FUTURE.

ON THE DRIVE TO PRISON I STOPPED AT THE CONVENIENCE STORE AND BOUGHT JOHN A COFFEE AND DONUT.

AFTER HE WAS SENTENCED HE SENT ME A NECKTIE AND NOTE THANKING MAY FOR TREATING ME LIKE A GENTLEMAN.

FIVE YEARS LATE EARN WHEN HE GOT OUT OF PRISON HE CALLED ME AND WANTED TO MEET FOR LUNCH.

HE WAS A DIFFERENT MAN.

HE TALKED ABOUT STARTS A REENTRY PROGRAM FOR MEN AND WOMEN COMING OUT OF PRISON.

OVER TIME JOHN EARNED THE TRUST AND RESPECT OF THE LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMUNITY, MANY OF WHOM VOLUNTEER AT JOHN'S HOPE FOR PRISONERS PROGRAM.

I'M GRATEFUL FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP'S COMMITMENT TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM.

ON FEBRUARY 20th OF THIS YEAR HE WAS THE GUEST SPEAKER AT THE HOPE FOR PRISONERS GRADUATION.

HE STAYED MUCH LONGER THAN SCHEDULED TO HAND OUT DIP PLOMAS TO THE 29 MEN AND WOMEN WITHOUT GRADUATED THAT DAY.

WHAT A SIGHT.

THE MOST IMPORTANT MAN IN THE FREE WORLD-SHAKING HANDS AND PLEDGING HIS ADMINISTRATION'S SUPPORT TO EXOFFENDERS.

THEIR FAMILIES WERE THERE, THE COMMUNITY WAS THERE, WHAT A GREAT SECOND CHANGES.

I ALSO APPRECIATE PRESIDENT TRUMP'S SUPPORT FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT.

I ALWAYS FELT LIKE I HAD STRONG SUPPORT AS AN FBI AGENT BUT THERE IS NOTHING WORSE THAN KNOWING YOU ARE BEING SECOND GUESSED WHEN THEY ARE DOING THEIR JOB.

IN CERTAIN PARTS OF THE COUNTRY RIGHT NOW LAW ENFORCEMENT DOESN'T FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE THE SUPPORT FROM THEIR LOCAL LEADERS.

THEY'RE BEING PAINTED WITH A BROAD BRUSH, UNFAIRLY WITH CALLS FOR DE FUNDING.

FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP KNOWS THE OVERWHELMING PERCENT ANG OF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS ARE GOOD AND SMART PEOPLE, DOING THEIR JOBS VERY WELL.

AND THEY CAN CHANGE THE WORLD WORKING WITH PEOPLE LIKE JOHN.

THANK YOU.

>> SO NOW I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE JOHN'S WIFE JAMIE TO JOIN US AS I GRANT JOHN OOM I'M NOT SURE YOU KNOW THIS, A FULL PARDON.

SO I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THAT, JAMIE.

COME ON OVER HERE.

ST AN HONOR.

AND YOU HAVE DONE INCREDIBLE WORK.

>> THANK YOU, SIR.

>> AND FOR ALL OF LAS VEGAS AND ALL OF NEVADA AND ALL OF EVERY PLACE IN THIS COUNTRY IS VERY PROUD OF YOU, THE JOB YOU HAVE DONE, BRINGING PEOPLE BACK.

AND YOU ARE RIGHT, I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THERE FOR FIVE MINUTES, I STAYED FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF BECAUSE YOU WERE SO INTERESTING TO ME.

CONGRATULATIONS TO BOTH.

>> THANK YOU, SIR.

>> RICHARD, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE JOB YOU DO.

>> THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT.

>> FANTASTIC.

>> THANK YOU.

(APPLAUSE) (APPLAUSE).

>> Woodruff: AND IN WHAT IS PROBABLY A FRIRS AT A REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HAS PARDONED SOMEONE WHO IN THIS CASE HAD BEEN CONVICTED AN SERVED TIME IN PRISON FOR ROBBING A BANK.

YOU JUST HEARD THE MOVING STORY OF JOHN AND THE FBI AGENT RICHARD BEESLY WHO HAD ARRESTED HIM, NOW AMNA NAWAZ IS BACK TALKING WITH A LOCAL PUBLIC MEDIA REPORTER.

AM THAT.

>> THAT'S RIGHT, JUDY.

AS FOLKS WILL REMEMBER THE HEADLINERS AT LAST NIGHT'S CONVENTION WERE BOTH FROM SOUTH COR LANELY, TIM SCOTT AND FORMER GOVERNOR NIKKI HALEY.

THE GOP CONVENTION FOR HOW IT IS ES NATURING IN THE THAT STATE.

WELCOME TO YOU, IT IS GOOD TO TALK TO YOU, WE SHOULD MENTION YOU HAVE BEEN TALKING BOTH THE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS IN SOUTH CAROLINA AFTER THE DNC AND REPUBLICAN VOTERS WHO ARE WATCHING THIS RNC.

AS YOU TALK TO THEM, WHAT ARE YOU FEUNING THAT PEOPLE ARE TAKING AWAY FROM THE CONVENTION RIGHT NOW?

>> YOU KNOW, IN A SHORT TERM OR SHORT PHRASE I'M GETTING A MIXED BAG FROM VOTERS HERE.

SO AFTER THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION LAST WEEK AND WHAT WAS SO FAR FROM REPUBLICANS, VOTERS THAT I AM TALKING TO ARE EXPRESSING REACTS OF SHOCK, DISAPPOINTMENT TO EXCITEMENT AND ENGAGEMENT.

I TALKED WITH AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN ENTREPRENEUR FROM THE CAPITOL CITY AND HE SAID THAT HE WAS DISAPPOINTED IN WATCHING THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION LAST WEEK FOR WHAT HE CALLED A LACK OF DIVERSITY IN TERMS OF THOUGHT.

AND THAT KIND OF PRIKED MY EARS BECAUSE I THOUGHT WE SAW A FAIR AMOUNT OF DIVERSITY, ETHNIC DIVERSITY, RACIAL, CULTURE DIVERSITY, BUT HE SAYS HE WAS LOOKING TO SEE A BROAD COALITION OF PEOPLE IN THE BLACK LIVES MAT ARE, SO HE SAID HE WANTED TO GET-- I ALSO HAD A CHANCE TO TALK WITH TWO VERY DIFFERENT VOTERS WHO HAVE A SIMILAR POLITICAL BACKGROUND.

ONE AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN MAN FROM CHARLESTON, THE OTHER AN ENTREPRENEUR FROTHE CAPITOL CITY AND THEY BOTH SAID THEY ARE JOINED-- BUT THEY ALSO SAID THAT THEY ARE, THEY RECENTLY CHANGED THEIR PARTY AFFILIATION.

HE USED TO VOTE FOR DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE BUT HE SAYS THIS TIME AROUND HE IS THROWING SUPPORT BEHIND BIDEN AND HARP IS, BECAUSE WHEN THEY HONES IN ON WHAT REPUBLICANS ARE SAYING HE SAYS IT FEELS MORE LIKE RHETORIC OR A RALLY.

OUR ENTREPRENEUR FROM THE CAPITOL CITY TOLD ME THAT SHE USED TO VOTE FOR REPUBLICANS BUT THIS TIME AROUND SHE IS VOTING FOR BIDEN BECAUSE SHE WAS VERY APPRECIATIVE OF THE DIVERSITY THAT SHE SAW DURING THEIR CONVENTION.

BUT ALSO SHE BELIEVES THAT SHE SAID SHE IS VERY SHOCKED IN TUNING TOO THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION LAST NIGHT, SPECIFICALLY SHE WAS SHOCKED AT SEEING HER GOVERNOR GOVERNOR NIKKI HALEY ON THE STAGE.

SHE SAID THINKING BACK TO EVERYTHING THAT SOUTH CAROLINA, EVERYTHING THAT THEY DESPAIRED IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE AME CHURCH SHOOTING, SHE REALLY HAD A HARD TIME UNDERSTANDING WHY HALEY WAS ON THAT STAGE.

AND I THINK THAT IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE I THINK IT SPEAKS TO THE INABILITY OF THE MANY IN THE NATION'S FASTEST GROWING DEMOGRAPHIC AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S MOST SIGNIFICANT BLOC OF VOTERS, THEIR INABILITY TO PUT ANY OTHER ISSUE ABOVE RACE.

>> THAT IS A FASCINATING PERSPECTIVE FROM ON THE GROUND IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR GIVING US SOME INCITE FROM THERE ON THE GROUND THRARKS IS FELL ISEE EDES FROM JOINING US TONIGHT.

>> Woodruff: THANK YOU, AMNA, SO IMPORTANT TO HEAR THESE PERSPECTIVES LIKE THE ONE THAT FELICIA IS BRINGING US, FROM PEOPLE SHE IS TALKING TO.

NOW WE WANT TO TURN TO SOME REPORTERS COVERING THIS PRESIDENTIAL RACE CLOSELY.

THAT IS OUR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT YAMICHE ALCINDOR, OUR CAPITOL HILL CORRESPONDENT LISA DESJARDINS REPORTING ON THE BIDEN CAM PAPER, ROBERT KOSTA OF "THE WASHINGTON POST" AND HOST OF WASHINGTON WEEK ANDERRIN HAHNES.

GOOD TOO SEE ALL OF YOU, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, I WILL START WITH YOU, LISA.

THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN, THEY HAD THEIR CHANCE LAST WEEK.

THEY'VE GOT TO BE WATCHING WHAT THE REPUBLICANS ARE DOING THIS WEEK.

WHAT ARE THEY SAYING?

>> THEY'RE WATCHING SAYING A FEW THINGS.

THE FIRST RESPONSE WAS LAST NIGHT WAS ABOUT WHAT THEY THOUGHT WAS A COMPLETE LACK OF ADDRESSING OF THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS.

THEY PLAN ON RAISING THAT AND SAYING THAT THIS IS REALLY ALMOST THEIR NUMBER ONE ARGUMENT AGAINST THIS PRESIDENT, THAT HE IS NOT ADDRESSING THE PANDEMIC AND THAT HE IS IGNORING THE PROBLEMS THAT THEY FACE, BUT IT GOES DEEPER THAN THAT, JUDY.

DEMOCRATS ALSO BELIEVE THIS IDEA OF CONTRAST WHICH IS CLEARLY SOMETHING THE REPUBLICANS ARE TRYING TO DO, RIGHT.

THEY ARE TRAYING TO CONTRAST THEMSELVES WITH JOE BIDEN AND DEMOCRATS, DEMOCRATS SAY THAT WORKS FOR THEM.

THEY BELIEVE THAT THAT CONTRAST IS ACTUALLY SHOWING A REPUBLICAN PARTY THAT IS OUT OF SYNC WITH MOST OF THE COUNTRY, AND THAT IS KIND OF CLOSED TO AN INNERCIRCLE AS ONE DEMOCRAT, AN INNERCIRCLE AROUND ONE MAN, DONALD TRUMP.

THAT THEY ARE NOT RELATING TO MOST AMERICANS, AND THAT THAT CONTRAST THEY THINK HELPS JOE BIDEN BETTER.

THEY ALSO THINK THAT SOME OF THE ACCUSATIONS MADE AGAINST JOE BIDEN AND DEMOCRATS INCLUDING THAT JOE BIDEN IS A COMMUNIST OR THAT DEMOCRATS WANT TO ABOLISH THE SUBURBS ARE SO HE GREEJOUS THAT THEY MAY ACTUALLY INSULT SOME.

VOTERS THAT REPUBLICANS WANT TO BRING ON.

THAT THEY ARE BEING CONDESCENDING.

THEY ARE SAYING VOTERS ARE SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT JOE BIDEN IS NOT A COMMUNIST.

DEMOCRATS FEELING CONFIDENT AFTER THIS FIRST NIGHT.

>> Woodruff: SO ERRIN HAINES, WHAT ARE YOU HEARING ABOUT HOW THIS CONVENTION IS GOING?

>> WELL, I THINK THE VOTERS I'M TALKING TO AND ORGANIZERS AND OTHER DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVES ARE SAYING THAT WHILE THE OPTICS OF LAST NIGHT AND POSSIBLY TONIGHT WHICH IS THE LAND OF TEUNLT MAY LOOK GOOD.

WE JUST SAW PRESIDENT TRUMP PARDONING A MAN ON LIVE TELEVISION, THIS IS A BLACK MALE VOTER, HIS CRIMINAL RECORD HAS BASICALLY BEEN ERASED SHOWING HIM LACKING LIKE, TRYING TO REACH OUT TO MAIN OR THESK TRYING TO REACH OUT TO WOMEN.

BUT CONTRASTING IN MESSAGE WITH A VERY DARK SERIES OF THEMES WHERE HE IS DOUBLING DOWN ON THIS RACIAL PLAY BOOK TALKING ABOUT LAW AND ORDER, TALKING ABOUT THE THREAT TO THE SUBURB, IN A WEEK WHERE YET ANOTHER BLACK MAN HAS BEEN SHOT BY POLICE, AND IS FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE.

SO WHAT I THINK IS ON DISPLAY IS AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT MESSAGE WHICH THE DEMOCRATS WERE SAYING IS I THINK WHAT THAT EXISTENTIAL THREAT IS VARIES BASED ON WHO IT IS YOU ARE TALKING TO.

>> ROBERT KOSTA, YOU HAVE GOT SOURCES ACROSS THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE, WHAT ARE THEY SAYING ABOUT WHAT THIS CONVENTION LOOKS LIKE SO FAR?

>> WELL, THEY ARE PAYING ATTENTION TONIGHT TO FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP.

CAN SHE HELP THE PRESIDENT WITH WOMEN, YOU CAN SEE ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM AS ERRIN WAS SAYING THAT THE PRESIDENT IS TRYING TO REACH OUT TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY IN SOME WAY DESPITE HAVING THE MESSAGES FROM THAT ST. LOUIS COUPLE AND OTHERS ON THE PREVIOUS EVENING BUT THEY ALSO KNOW THAT THE WOMEN VOTERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE SO CRITICAL IN SUBURBAN AREAS AND THE SUN BELT AND CRIMINAL MIDWEST AND LOOKING TO THE FIRST LADY TONIGHT TO PERHAPS HELP BUT AT THIS POINT IT IS STILL VERY MUCH TBD ABOUT HER EFFECT.

>> AND TO YOU YAMICHE, YOU TALKED TO THE TRUMP FOLKS, TO PEOPLE OUTSIDE THE CAMPAIGN, WHAT DO THEY HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH TONIGHT?

>> THEY REALLY ARE WALKING A FINE LINE HERE.

THE PRESIDENT RAN AND CONTINUES TO RUN ON THE IDEA OF LAW AND ORDER BUT IS HE ALSO TRYING TO MAKE THE CASE THAT HE IS SOMEONE WHO EMBRACES THE IDEA THAT YOU CAN HAVE A SECOND CHANCE AND EVEN A THIRD CHANCE IN THE CASE OF THE MAN HE JUST PARDONED TONIGHT.

NEVER BEFORE HAVE WE SEEN A PRESIDENT PARDON SOMEONE DURING A POLITICAL CONVENTION SO THIS WAS THE PRESIDENT REALLY TRYING TO REACH OUT.

BUT THERE ARE CRITICS OF THE PRESIDENT WHO SAY ALL THESE OVERTURESK HIM TALKING ABOUT THE FIRST STEP ACT WHICH WAS A BIG CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM, WHICH ISN'T ABOUT GAINING POR AFRICAN-AMERICAN VOTERS BECAUSE POLLS SHOW THEY ARE OVERWHELMINGLY ABOUT SWROA BIDEN BUT CONVINCING WHITE VOTERS IN SUBURBAN, TIMLY WHITE WOMEN LIVING IN THE SU BAWSHES THAT HE IS NOT A RACIST, HE IS SOMEONE WHO EMBRACES DIVERSITY.

THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN PUSHING FOR THE IDEA THAT HE WANTS TO SEE MORE POLICE AND HE HASN'T AT ALL WANTED TO TALK ABOUT SYSTEMIC RACISM INSIDE LAW ENFORCEMENT BUT THE REALLY INTERESTING THING HE IS TRYING TO DO WHICH IS SAYING I WANT TO REFORM THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM BUT I ALSO DON'T WANT TO FOCUS TOO MUCH ON RACE.

>> Woodruff: WHICH IS A TRICKY ROAD TO WALK, IS IT NOT.

>> IT IS A VERY TRICKY ROAD TO WALK.

>> Woodruff: OKAY, THANK YOU ALL FOR.

WE WHERE GOING TO CONTINUE TO AM COULD BACK TO YOU THROUGHOUT, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

WE ARE KEEPING AN EYE ON THE CLOCK AND AS WE GET READY FOR THE 9:00 HOUR OF TONIGHT'S CONVENTION, WE ARE GOING TO TAKE A SHORT BREAK FOR SOME OF OUR LOCAL PBS STATIONS, OUR COVERAGE WILL CONTINUE IN JUST ONE MINUTE, PLEASE STAY WITH US.

I'M JUDY WOODRUFF AND WELCOME BACK TO OUR SPECIAL NEWSHOUR COVERAGE OF THIS YEAR'S REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.

THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC AS WE KNOW HAS DISRUPTED PLANS FOR THE TRADITIONAL IN-PERSON CONVENTION.

INSTEAD THIS YEAR MANY OTHER REPUBLICANS ARE ADDRESSING A NEAR EMPTY ROOM IN THE MELLON AUDITORIUM IN DOWNTOWN WASHINGTON D.C. LET'S LISTEN TO THE PROGRAMMING.

WE'RE DIPPING IN RIGHT NOW.

>> ONE PERSON DESERVES THE CREDIT AND OUR VOTE.

PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP.

>> WHAT'S HAPPENING IS THAT YOU HAD BUSINESSES OVERREGULATED.

NOT A FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT AT ALL TO START A COMPANY.

>> MY FAMILY STOPPED RANCHING ABOUT SEVEN YEARS AGO.

THE REGULATIONS BECAME SO OVERBEARING THAT THE RANCH WAS SLOWLY SOLD OFF.

>> I LOST BUSINESSES BECAUSE OF THESE REGULATIONS.

>> THE FACTORIES IN OUR TOWNS CLOSED.

THE BUSINESSES IN OUR TOWNS HAVE SHUT.

IT GOT TO THE POINT FINALLY THAT MIDDLE AMERICA NEEDED HELP PRESIDENT TRUMP CAME IN AND AS ABLE TO SHED LIGHT IN AN AREA THAT HAD BEEN SO LONG LEFT BEHIND.

>> IT WAS HUGE, ESPECIALLY FOR A COMMUNITY LIKE OURS THAT HAS A LOT OF SMALL BUSINESSES, MANUFACTURING, DID HE REGULATION, REAL LIFE POLICY CHANGES THAT AFFECTED REAL AMERICANS.

>> AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY TO GET AHEAD TO HAVE OUR BUSINESSES, TO HAVE OUR CHILDREN EDUCATED.

A CHOICE.

>> THAT IS SOMETHING THAT'S HUGE FOR PARENTS RIGHT NOW ESPECIALLY BLACK MOMS.

>> KIDS ARE FAILING SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

>> THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE WAS AT THE LOWEST EVER.

>> I'VE SEEN THE NUMBERS OF EMPLOYEES GO UP AND THEY ARE EARNING A LOT MORE FOR THEIR FAMILY THAN WHAT THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY.

>> WHAT THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS DONE SIMPLIFYING THE GOVERNMENT HAS REALLY CUT THE HANDCUFFS OFF OF AMERICA AGAIN AND ALLOWED US TO GROW AND MOVE FORWARD IN A WAY I NEVER SEEN IN INDEMNIFY LIFETIME.

>> YOU PULL REGULATION AND ALLOW SMALL COMPANIES TO GO OUT THERE AND BE ABLE TO PLAY IN THE GAME.

THAT IS THE AMERICAN DREAM.

>> PEOPLE FEEL THAT THEY CAN SUPPORT AND HAVE A FAMILY AND THEY CAN BUILD AND MAKE US STRONGER AS AMERICANS.

WHAT COULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF HE DOESN'T WIN AGAIN.

>> JOE BIDEN SAYS THE FIRST THING HE'S GOING TO DO IS INCREASE TAXES ORIGINAL.

ON AFTERNOON.

ON -- EVERYONE.

>> THAT'S TAKING AWAY THE AMERICAN DREAM.

>> WITH THE UPCOMING SELECTION PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW WHAT'S BETTER FOR THEM AND THEIR FAMILY.

>> THE BEST OF A JOB IS THE CEO OF OUR COUNTRY.

AND HE'S DOING HIS JOB.

>> HE'S IMPROVED JOBS, HE'S IMPROVED HEALTH, HE'S IMPROVED WAGES, HE'S CUT TAXES.

I COULD GO ON FOR AN HARD AND-A-HALF.

>> EVER HAD A JOB, BOOM BANK.

>> MY KIDS ARE GOING TO LOOK UP TO SEE ME AND SAYING YOU ARE THE BEST MOM LOOKING FOR US.

IT'S THE TREMENDOUS I CAN DO I GUESS.

THIS IS SOMEONE TO LOVES HIS COUNTRY AND IS TRULY FIGHTING FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

>> HELLO FOLKS, YOU KNEE ME FROM TV AND RADIO I'M LARRY KUDLOW.

YEARS AGO I WORKED FOR RONALD REAGAN.

MORE RECENTLY I HENT DONALD TRUMP DURING THE CAMPAIGN.

IT WAS A RECORDING SUCCESS -- ROARING SUCCESS.

HE AT THE FRONT OF RECESSION THE HISTORIC ROLL BACK OF OWNERS' REGULATIONS THAT CRIPPLED SMALL BUSINESSES.

UNLEASHING ENERGY TO BECOME THE WORLD'S NUMBER ONE PRODUCER FAIR AND RECIPROCAL TRADE DEALS ALSO MANUFACTURING, AGRICULTURE, TECHNOLOGY AND OTHER SECTORS.

THE ECONOMY WAS REBUILT IN THREE YEARS.

UNEMPLOYMENT FELL TO THE LOWEST RATE OF 3.5%.

BLUE COLLAR, AFRICAN AMERICANS, HISPANICS, WOMEN, ALL GROUPS BENEFITED ENORMOUSLY.

EVERYONE WAS BETTER OFF, A RISING TIDE LEFT ALL BOATS.

THEN CAME A ONCE IN A HUNDRED EASIEST PANDEMIC, ECONOMIC IMPACT WERE TRAGIC, HARDSHIP AND HEART BREAK WERE EVERYWHERE.

BUT PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP CAME SWIFTLY AND EFFECTIVELY WITH AN EXTRAORDINARY RESCUE FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY TO SUCCESSFULLY FIGHT THE COVID VIRUS.

GREAT BIPARTISAN RESCUE ALSO SAVED THE ECONOMY.

RIGHT NOW OUR ECONOMIC HEALTH IS COMING BACK WITH EMERGENCY SPENDING AND TAX CUTS AMERICANS ARE GOING BACK TO WORK.

THERE'S THE HOUSING BOOM, THERE'S AN AUTO BOOM, A MANUFACTURING BOOM, A CONSUMER SPENDING BOOM.

STOCKS ARE IN RECORD TERRITORY.

A V-SHAPED RECOVERY IS POINTING TO BETTER THAN 20% GROWTH IN THE SECOND HALF OF THIS YEAR.

NOW LOOKING AHEAD, MORE TAX CUTS AND REGULATORY ROLLBACK WILL BE IN STORE.

PAYROLL TAX CUTS FOR HIGHER WAGES, INCOME TAX CUTS FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS, CAPITAL GAINS TAX CUTS FOR INVESTMENTS, PRODUCTIVELY AND JOBS.

MUCH MORE REGULATORY RELIEF FOR SMALL BUSINESSES.

IN ECONOMIC TERMS, FOLKS, THIS IS NO TIME FOR A $4 TRILLION TAX HIKE.

COMING OUT OF THE DEEP PANDEMIC, WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD PICK THE POCKETS OF TAXPAYERS AND DRAIN MONEY FROM THEIR WALLETS AND PURSES.

LOOK, OUR ECONOMIC CHOICE IS VERY CLEAR.

DO YOU WANT ECONOMIC HEALTH, PRPROSPERITY OPPORTUNITY AND OPTIMISM OR DO YOU WANT TO TURN BACK TO THE DARK DAYS OF STAGNATION, RECESSION AND PESSIMISM.

I BELIEVE THERE CAN'T BE BETTER ECONOMIC POLICIES THAN WE'VE HAD IN RECENT YEARS.

SO I SAY, STAY WITH IT.

THANK YOU.

>> Woodruff: WE'RE LISTENING TO LARRY KUDLOW WHO OF COURSE IS PRESIDENT TRUMP'S CHIEF ECONOMIC ADVISOR IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

LET'S TURN AGAIN TO OUR OWN YAMICHE ALCINDOR.

SHE'S STANDING OUTSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE.

YAMICHE, NO SURPRISE THAT THE MAN WHO ADVICES THE PRESIDENT EVERY DAY AND AGREES HIM ON MOST OF HIS ECONOMIC PHILOSOPHY IS SAYING THE PRESIDENT'S DOING A GREAT JOB AND THE ECONOMY'S LOOKING NOTHING BUT ROSY.

>> THAT'S RIGHT.

AND THIS IS AGAIN THE PRESIDENT AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY USING THE FULL FORCE OF THE WHITE HOUSE TO MAKE THE CASE THAT PRESIDENT WOULD BE BETTER ON THE ECONOMY.

SO LARRY KUDLOW TALKS ECONOMIC ADVISER MAKING THE CASE THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP OVERSAW GREAT ECONOMIC SUCCESS IN THAT IF HE CONTINUES TO BE IN OFFICE HE WILL BE ABLE THEN TO TURN AROUND THE ECONOMIC DEVASTATION THAT'S COME FROM THE PANDEMIC.

BUT I WANT TO PUT INTO CONTEXT SOME OF THE ECONOMIC THINGS LARRY KUDLOW WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT.

COME WITH ME ON THIS.

THERE ARE 6.9 MILLION JOBS CREATED IN THE TWO AND-A-HALF YEARS UNDER PRESIDENT OBAMA.

5.8 MILLION CREATED IN THE FIRST TWO AND-A-HALF YEARS OF PRESIDENT TROUBLE.

THERE ARE MORE THAN 55 MILLION AMERICANS THAT HAVE FILED FOR UNEMPLOYMENT SINCE THE PANDEMIC BEGAN AND THE U.S. HAS 257,000 FEWER MANUFACTURING JOBS NOW THAN WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP TOOK OFFICE.

THAT'S JUST SOME OF THE FACTS THAT LARRY SAID THAT REALLY INTERTWINE AND PUT INTO CONTEXT WHAT LARRY KUDLOW WAS TALKING ABOUT.

>> Woodruff: THE THING THIS NATION IS FACING IS YES THE UNEMPLOYMENT RACE WAS LOW, YES, 3.4% BEFORE THE PANDEMIC HIT.

MOST AMERICANS WERE EMPLOYED.

MOST AMERICANS WERE MAKING A GOOD LIVING.

OF COURSE THERE WERE CLEARLY POCKETS WHERE THAT WAS NOT THE CASE BUT THE PANDEMIC CAME AWE LAWMG.

LAWMG -- ALONG.

TENS OF MILLIONS AMERICANS HAVE LOST THEIR JOBS AND THE ADMINISTRATION IS HAVING TO LIVE WITH THAT PART OF THE RECORD AS WELL AS WHAT WAS GOING ON UP UNTIL FEBRUARY.

>> THAT'S RIGHT.

AMERICA IS REELING FROM THIS PANDEMIC.

SO PEOPLE ARE REALLY SCARED ABOUT WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WITH THIS VIRUS.

THIS REALLY HAS BECOME A HEALTHCARE ELECTION.

I WILL SAY THE PRESIDENT HAD BEEN GEARING UP FOR AN ECONOMY ELECTION APART FROM TALKING ABOUT IMMIGRATION AND RACE WHICH ARE CULTURALLY DIVISIVE ISSUES THAT THE PRESIDENT HAD SUCCESS IN TALKING ABOUT BUT THIS IS GOING TO BE AN ELECTION WHERE THE PRESIDENT WAS GOING TO TALK ABOUT HOW GREAT THE ECONOMY WAS DOING, HOW GREAT THE STOCK MARKET WAS DOING AND THEN CAME THE PANDEMIC AND THAT REALLY UPENDED ALL OF THAT.

THE PRESIDENT IS BEGGING THE CASE BECAUSE THERE WAS ECONOMIC SUCCESS BEFORE THIS PANDEMIC YOU CAN SEE IT AGAIN.

THERE ARE CREDITTICS OF THE PRESIDENT SAYING EVEN UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP WHEN LACK UNEMPLOYMENT AND LATINO UNEMPLOYMENT AT RECORD LOW BLACK PEOPLE WERE STILL MAKING FAR LESS THAN WHITE AMERICANS.

THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP THAT REALLY ECONOMIC GAP IS SOMETHING THAT DEMOCRATS HAVE FOCUSED IN ON SAYING THAT BLACK PEOPLE JUST ARE NOT REAPING THE SAME BENEFITS EVEN IN GOOD TIMES AS WHITE.

>> Woodruff: JUST VERY QUICKLY, YAMICHE.

THE CONTRAST BETWEEN WHAT WALL STREET IS DOING YOU KEEP SEEING RECORDS BOEINGEN THE S&P OR NASDAQ OR DOW JONES ST INDUSTRIS AND AS YOU POINT OUT MAIN STREET AMERICA IT'S A DIFFERENT STORY.

>> THAT'S RIGHT.

THERE ARE AMERICANS ALL OVER THIS COUNTRY WHO ARE OUT OF WORK AND FEARFUL ABOUT THE FUTURE.

THEY'RE LOOKING TO SEE WHICH PRESIDENT, WHICH CANDIDATE IS GOING TO BE THE PERSON TO BE ABLE TO PUT THEM BACK TO WORK.

I TALKED TO SO MANY PEOPLE WORRIED ABOUT THEIR LIVELY HOODS.

THERE ARE BUSINESS LEADERS WHO CAN'T BE PRESIDENT TROUBLE COMING INTO OFFICE SAYING HE WAS GOOD FOR BUSINESSES.

INCLUDING DEMOCRATS I SHOULD SAY.

THIS IS INTERESTING AND WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO KEEP OUR EYE ON.

>> Woodruff: FOR SURE.

YAMICHE ALCINDOR AT THE WHITE HOUSE.

WE'LL BE COMING TO YOU ALL NIGHT LONG.

YAMICHE, THANK YOU.

LET'S GET BACK TO OUR LIVE COVERAGE ON THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.

WE ARE GOING TO HEAR FROM THE NEXT SPEAKER, LET'S LISTEN GRANDDAUGHTER OF BILLY GRAHAM.

>> -- ABOUT SOMETHING THAT IS SO IMPORTANT TO ALL OF US.

OUR FAITH.

AS AMERICANS, WE KNOW THE FIRST LINE OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTS OUR FREEDOM OF RELIGION.

BUT WHAT WE OFTEN FORGET, THE ACTUAL WORDS ARE FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION.

THAT MEANS LIVING OUT OUR FAITH AND OUR DAILY LIVES AND OUR SCHOOLS AND OUR JOBS.

AND YES, EVEN IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE.

OUR FOUNDERS DID NOT ENVISION A QUIET HIDDEN FACE.

THEY FOUGHT TO ENSURE THAT THE VOICE OF THE FAITH WERE ALWAYS WELCOMED, NOT SILENCED, NOT BULLIED.

DURING THE OBAMA BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, THESE FREEDOMS WERE UNDER ATTACK.

DEMOCRATS TRADE TO MAKE FAITH ORANGESORANGESSIONS ORGANIZATIOY FOR AWE NEGOTIATE-INDUCE CANNING DRUGS.

DEMOCRATS TRIES TO FORCE ADOPTION AGENCIES TO VIOLATE THEIR DEEPLY HELD BELIEFS.

DEMOCRATS PRESSURED SCHOOLS TO ALLOW BOYS TO COMPETE IN GIRL SPORTS AND USE GIRLS' LOCKERROOMS.

THOSE ARE THE FACTS.

BUT THEN WE THE PEOPLE ELECTED DONALD TRUMP.

PEOPLE'S FAITH SUDDENLY HAD HAD A FIERCE ADVOCATE IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

HE APPOINTED JUDGES WHO RESPECT THE FIRST AMENDMENT.

HE SUPPORTED RELIGIOUS BELIEFS IN COURT.

HE ENSURED RELIGIOUS MINISTRIES WOULD NOT FORCED TO VIOLATE THERE BELIEFS.

HE WITHDREW THE POLICIES THAT PLACED OUR LITTLE GIRLS AT RISK.

AND ON THE WORLD STAGE, PRESIDENT TRUMP BECAME THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO TALK ABOUT THE IPORCHLSOF RE-- IMPORTANCE OF RS FREEDOM GIVING PEOPLE FAITH AROUND THE WORLD.

IN AMERICA WE HAVE NOT YET EXPERIENCED PHYSICAL PERSECUTION EVEN THOUGH THE LEFT HAS TRIED TO SILENCE US.

EVEN DURING THE PANDEMIC WE SAW HOW QUICKLY LIFE CAN CHANGE.

SOME DEMOCRAT LEADERS TRIED TO BAN CHURCH SERVICES WHILE MARIJUANA SHOPS AND ABORTION CLINICS WERE DECLARED ESSENTIAL.

BUT DO YOU KNOW WHAT TRULY IS ESSENTIAL?

OUR RIGHT TO WORSHIP FREELY AND LIVE OUR FAITH IN A EVERY ASPECT OF LIFE.

THE BIDEN/HARRIS VISION OF AMERICA LEAVES NO ROOM FOR PEOPLE OF FAITH.

WHETHER YOU'RE A BAKER, A FLORIST OR FOOTBALL COACH, THEY WILL FORCE THE CHOICE BEING OWE BEADIENT TO GOD OR TO CESAR BECAUSE THE RADICAL LEFT GOD IS GOVERNMENT POWER.

IN THE IN OTHER WORDS OF MY GRANDFATHER BILLY GRAHAM, LET US STAND FOR POLITICAL FREEDOM, MORAL FREEDOM, RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND THE RIGHTS OF ALL AMERICANS AND MUST NEVER GIVE IN TO THOS WHO WOULD ATTEMPT TO TAKE IT FROM US.

TONIGHT, I'M PROUDLY STANDING IN THAT PUBLIC SQUARE AND I HOPE AND PRAY YOU WILL JOIN ME IN VOTING TO RE-ELECT PRESIDENT TRUMP.

>> I AM ROBERT VLAISAVLJEVICH FROM A SMALL TOWN IN MINNESOTA.

MY FATHER AND GRANDFATHER EARNED A LIVING OF THE RAW MATERIALS THAT MADE THE STEEL TO BUILD AMERICA.

THIS ELECTION IS A MAKE OR BREAK FOR WORKERS CARRYING ON THE LEGACY OF MEN LIKE THEM.

SINCE IRON RANGE ECONOMY TO ECONOMIC TRENDS AND FOREIGN TRADE WE ALWAYS NEEDED A STRONG VOICE IN WASHINGTON.

WE LOOK TO DEMOCRATS TO FILL THAT VOID FOR MANY YEARS BECAUSE WE ACTUALLY THOUGHT THEY CARED ABOUT OUR WELFARE.

NOT ANYMORE.

THE RADICAL ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT HAS DRAGGED THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SO FAR TO THE LEFT THEY CAN NO LONGER CLAIM TO BE ADD CAN YOU TELL US OF THE WORKING MAN -- ADVOCATES OF THE WORKING MAN.

THIS IS HARD FOR ME TO SAY BECAUSE I H I AM A LIFE LONG DEMOCRAT BUT FAR TOO LONG THEY'VE ALLOWED US TO BE RIPPED OFF BY TRADING PARTNERS ESPECIALLY CHINA.

THEY SLAPPED TARIFFS ON OUR PRODUCTS.

WHAT DID SO-CALLED LEADERS LIKE JOE BIDEN DO?

NOTHING.

THE HUMAN COST HAS BEEN DEVASTATING.

WE LOST THOUSANDS OF JOBS, WE LOST A GENERATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAD TO LEAVE THE IRON RANGE TO FIND A LIVELIHOOD.

AND WORST OF ALL WE LOST HOPE.

AND SOMETHING UNEXPECTED HAPPENED.

THE STRAIGHT TALKING NEW YORKER BURST ON THE SCENE PROMISING TO STAND UP TO CHINA AND THE REST OF THE WORLD ON BEHALF OF THE AMERICAN WORKER.

FOUR YEARS LATER THE IRON RANGER IS ROARING BACK TO LIFE AND WE HAVE ONE MAN TO THANK.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.

HE MADE GOOD ON HIS PROMISES BY CUTTING OUR TAXES, ROLLING BACK SENSELESS REGULATIO AND DELIVERING TRADE DEALS THAT PUT AMERICA'S INTERESTS FIRST.

BUT THE FIGHT IS NOT OVER.

JOE BIDEN HAS ALLOWED RADICALS LIKE AOC TO CRAFT HIS ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES.

SO-CALLED GREEN NEW DEAL IS A JOB-COMING DISGRACE DREAMT UP BY PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIVE IN THE REAL WORLD.

BUT BIDEN IS TOO WEAK, TOO SARED AND TOO SLEEPY TO STAND UP TO THE RADICAL LEFT.

HE'S BEEN DOING NOTHING IN WASHINGTON FOR -47 YEARS.

WHY WOULD 48 BE ANY DIFFERENT.

TRUMP WILL NOT BACK DOWN.

HE DID IT FOR OUR ECONOMY AND WILL DO IT AGAIN FOR ALL OF US.

OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE AND SURVIVAL IS AT STAKE AND SO IS AMERICA'S.

WE KNOW WE CAN COUNT ON PRESIDENT TRUMP TO FIGHT IMPOFOR USAND WINS.

LET'S MAKE SURE ON NOVEMBER 3RD HE WINS.

GOD BLESS AMERICA.

>> MY NAME IS ABBY JOHNSON AND I SPENT EIGHT YEARS WORKING FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD BUT TODAY I'M A PRO-LIFE ACTIVIST.

WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE PLANNED PARENTHOOD APPROACHED ME AT A VOLUNTEER FAIR.

THEY TALKED ABOUT HELPING WOMEN IN CRISES AND THEIR COMMITMENT TO KEEP ABORTION SAFE, LEGAL AND RARE.

I WAS CONVINCED TO VOLUNTEER AND LATER OFFERED A FULL TIME JOB AS A MEDICAL ASSISTANCE BEFORE MY PROMOTION TO DIRECTOR OF THE CLINIC.

I TRULY BELIEVED I WAS HELPING WOMEN BUT THINGS DRASTICALLY CHANGED IN 2009.

IN APRIL, I WAS AWARDED PLANNED PARENTHOOD'S EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR AWARD AND INVITED TO THEIR ANNUAL GALA WHERE THEY PRESENT THE MARGARET SANGER AWARD NAMED FOR THEIR FOUNDER.

AND MARGARET SANGER WAS A RACIST WHO BELIEVED IN EUGENICS.

HER GOAL WHEN FOUNDING PLANNED PARENT HOOD, IT WAS TO ERADICATE THE MINORITY POPULATION.

TODAY, ALMOST 80% OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD ABORTION FACILITIES ARE STRATEGICALLY LOCATED IN MINORITY NEIGHBORHOODS.

AND EVERY YEAR PLANNED PARENTHOOD CELEBRATES ITS RACIST ROOTS BY PRESENTING THE MARGARET SANGER AWARD.

LATER IN AUGUST, MY SUPERVISOR ASSIGNED ME A NEW QUOTA TO MEET, AN AW ABORTION QUOTA.

I WAS EXPECTED TO SELL DONE THEE THE ABORTIONS THE PREVIOUS YEAR.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD PUBLIC FACING GOAL OF DECREASING ABORTIONS I WAS REP MAPPEDDED AND TOLD ABORTION IS HOW WE MAKE OUR MONEY.

BUT THE CONTINUING POINT CAME A MONTH LATER WHEN A PHYSICIAN ASKED ME TO ASSIST WITH AN ULTRASOUND-GUIDED ABORTION.

NOTHING PREPARED ME FOR WHAT I SAW ON THE SCREEN.

AN UNBORN BABY FIGHTING BACK DESPERATE TO MOVE AWAY FROM THE SECTION.

I'LL NEVER FORGET WHAT THE DOCTOR SAID NEXT.

BEAM ME UP SCOTTIE.

THE LAST THING I SAW WAS A SPINE TWIRLING AROUND IN THE MOTHER'S WOMB BEFORE S AWE COMING TO THE FORCE OF THE SECTION.

I LOOK BACK ONLY TO REMEMBER WHY I NOW ADVOCATE SO FASHION UTLY FOR LIFE.

I FOUNDED AND CURRENTLY RUN AND THEN THERE WERE NONE, A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT HELPED NEARLY 600 ABORTION WORKERS TRANSITION OUT OF THE TREMENDOUS.

FOR MOST PEOPLE WHO CONSIDER THEMSELVES PRO-LIFE ABORTION IS ABSTRACT.

THEY CAN'T EVEN CONCEIVE OF THE BAR BEARITY.

THEY DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE PRODUCTS OF CONCEPTION ROOM AND ABORTION CLINICS WHERE IN FANT PIECES ARE PUT BACK TOGETHER TO MAKE SURE NOTHING REMAINS IN THE NUT'S ROOM OR WE JOKED AND CALLED IT THE PIECES OF CHILDREN ROOM.

FOR ME ABORTION IS REAL.

I KNOW WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE.

I KNOW WHAT ABORTION SMELLS LIKE.

DID YOU KNOW ABORTION EVEN HAD A SMELL?

I'VE BEEN THE PERPETRATOR TO THESE BABIES, TO THESE WOMEN.

AND I NOW SUPPORT PRESIDENT TRUMP BECAUSE HE HAS DONE MORE FOR THE UNBORN THAN ANY OTHER PRESIDENT.

APPEARING HIS FIRST MONTH IN OFFICE HE BANNED FEDERAL FUNDS FOR GLOBAL HEALTH GROUPS THAT PROMOTE ABORTION.

THAT SAME YEAR, HE OVERTURNED AN OBAMA/BIDEN RULE THAT ALLOWED GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY OF ABORTION.

HE APPOINTED A RECORD NUMBER OF PRO-LIFE JUDGES INCLUDING TWO SUPREME COURT JUSTICES AND IMPORTANTLY HE ANNOUNCED A NEW RULE, PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF HEALTHCARE WORKERS OBJECTING TO ABORTION, MANY OF WHOM I WORK WITH EVERY DAY.

LIFE IS A POOR TENANT OF WHO WE ARE AS AMERICANS.

THIS ELECTION IS A CHOICE BETWEEN TWO RADICAL ANTI-LIFE ACTIVISTS AND THE MOST PRO-LIFE PRESIDENT WE HAVE EVER HAD.

THAT'S SOMETHING THAT SHOULD COMPEL YOU TO ACTION.

GO DOOR TO DOOR, MAKE CALLS, TALK TO YOUR NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS AND VOTE ON NOVEMBER 3RD.

TAKE ACTION THAT REELECTS OUR PRESIDENT AND DO IT WITH OUR VERY MOST VULNERABLE AMERICANS IN MIND.

THE ONES WHO HAVEN'T BEEN BORN YET.

>> IT BEGAN AS A CLASS TRIP TO JOIN THOUSANDS FOR THE ANNUAL MARCH FOR LIFE.

THESE CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN TRAVELED FROM KENTUCKY TO STAND UP FOR WHAT THEY BELIEVED IN.

BUT WHAT HAPPENED IS SOMETHING VERY DIFFERENT.

>> -- WOULD MAKE AMERICA GREAT.

>> -- DIRTY -- >> MAKE THE MARKET GREAT AGAIN, HEY.

>> SOCIAL MEDIA AND NEWS AND EVEN CELEBRITIES LAUNCHED A CAMPAIGN OF PERSECUTION THAT WAS COMPLETELY FOUGHT AGAINST A BOY IN MAKE AMERICA GREAT MEN HAT.

>> THE HAT PROVOKED A CONDITIONED REACTION.

>> I BLAME THAT BLEEP KID.

>> HE RECEIVED DEATH THREATS AND HIS SCHOOL WAS FORCED TO CLOSE.

TONIGHT NICHOLAS TELLS HIS STORY.

>> GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE.

MY NAME IS ANYTHING S SANDMANN AFTER A GROUP OF PROTESTERS IN THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL LAST YEAR.

BEFORE I BEGIN I WOULD LIKE TO THANK PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE SOME OF MY STORY AND WHY IT SMARTS SO MUCH TO THIS NOVEMBER'S ELECTION.

IN 2019 I ATTENDED THE MARCH FOR LIFE IN WASHINGTON D.C. WHERE I DEMONSTRATED IN DEFENSE OF THE UNBORN.

LATER THAT DAY, I BOUGHT A MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN HAT BECAUSE OUR PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAS DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF AS ONE OF THE MOST PRO-LIFE PRESIDENTS IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY AND I WANT TO EXPRESS MY SUPPORT FOR HIM TOO.

LOOKING BACK NOW, HOW COULD I POSSIBLY IMAGINE THAT A SIMPLE ACT OF PUTTING ON THAT RED HAT WOULD GET SHADE FROM THE LEFT AND MAKE MYSELF THE TARGET OF CABLE NEWS NETWORK NATION WIDE.

BEING FROM KENTUCKY, THE BIRTH PLACE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, MY CLASSMATES AND I VISITED THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL.

I FOUND MYSELF FACE TO FACE WITH NATHAN FLUS AND OTHER-ANYWAY THG PHILLIPS AND OTHER PROTESTERS.

THE MEDIA CHASED ME WITH AN RELENGTHLESS SMIRK ON MY FACE.

IN REALITY THE VIDEO CONFIRMS I WAS STANDING WITH MY HANDS BEHIND MY BACK AND UPWARD SMILE ON MY FACE THAT HAD TWO THOUGHTS.

ONE, DON'T DO ANYTHING THAT MIGHT FI FURTHER AGITATE THE MAN BANGING A DRUM IN MY FACE.

TWO I WAS TRYING TO FOLLOW A FRIENDLY MAN'S ADVICE NEVER DO ANYTHING TO EMBARRAS YOUR FAMILY, YOUR SCHOOL OR YOUR COMMUNITY.

BEFORE I KNEW WHAT WAS HAPPENING, IT WAS OVER.

ONE OF MR. PHILLIPS FELLOW AGITATORS YELLED OUT WE GOT HIM.

IT'S ALL RIGHT HERE ON VIDEO AND WE WON GRANDPA.

WHAT I THOUGHT WAS A CHANGE ENCOUNTER QUICKLY DEVELOPED INTO A MAJOR NEWS STORY COMPLETE WITH VIDEO FOOTAGE.

MY LIFE CHANGED FOREVER IN THAT ONE MOMENT.

THE FULL WARM MACHINE OF THE MEAN STREAM MEDIA REVVED UP INTO MODE.

THEY NEVER ASKED ME FOR MY SIDE OF THE STORY.

DO YOU KNOW WHY?

BECAUSE THE TRUTH WAS NOT IMPORTANT.

ADVANCING THEIR ANTI-CHRISTIAN, ANTI-CONSERVATIVE, ANTI-DONALD TRUMP NARRATIVE WAS ALL THAT MATTERED.

AND IF ADVANCING THEIR NARRATIVE RUINED THE REPUTATION AND FUTURE OF A TEENAGER FROM COVINGTON, KENTUCKY, WELL SO BE IT.

THAT WILL TEACH HIM NOT TO WEAR A MAGA HAT.

I KNOW WHAT WAS HAS NOTING TO ME HAD A NAME.

IT WAS CALLED BEING CANCELED AS IN ANNULLED, AS IN REVOKED AS IN MADE VOID.

CANCELING IS WHAT'S HAPPENING TO PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO BE SILENCED BY THE FAR LEFT.

MANY ARE BEING FIRED, HUMILIATED AND EVEN THREATENED AND OFTEN THE MEDIA IS A ILL WITHING PARTICIPANT.

BUT I WOULD NOT BE CANCELED.

I FOUGHT BACK HARD TO EXPOSE THE MEDIA FOR WHAT THEY DID TO ME AND I WON A PERSONAL VICTORY.

WELL MUCH MORE MUST BE DONE.

I LOOK FORWARD TO THE DAY THAT THE MEDIA RETURNS TO PROVIDING BALANCED, RESPONSIBLE AND ACCOUNTABLE NEWS COVERAGE.

I KNOW PRESIDENT TRUMP HOPES FOR THAT TOO.

AND I KNOW YOU'LL AGREE WITH ME WHEN WE SAY THAT NO ONE IN THIS COUNTRY HAS BEEN A VICTIM OF UNFAIR MEDIA COVERAGE MORE THAN PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.

IN NOVEMBER, I BELIEVE THIS COUNTRY MUST UNITE AROUND A PRESIDENT WHO CALLS THE MEDIA OUT AND REFUSES TO ALLOW THEM TO CREATE A NARRATIVE INSTEAD OF REPORTING THE FACTS.

I BELIEVE WE MUST JOIN A PRESIDENT WHO WILL CHALLENGE THE MEDIA TO RETURN TO OBJECTIVE JOURNALISM.

AND TOGETHER, I BELIEVE WE MUST ALL EMBRACE OUR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS AND NOT HIDE IN FEAR OF THE MEDIA OR FROM THE TECH COMPANIES OR FROM THE OUTRAGED MOBS EITHER.

THIS IS WORTH FIGHTING FOR.

THIS IS WORTH VOTING FOR.

THIS IS WHAT DONALD TRUMP STANDS FOR.

THANK YOU ALL FOR LISTENING TO ME TONIGHT.

AND ONE MORE THING.

LET'S MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.

>> TEENAGER NICHOLAS SANDMAN.

N. YOU HEARD THE STORY WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM A LITTLE OVER A YEAR AGO WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM IN WASHINGTON, A TEENAGER FROM COVINGTON, KENTUCKY ILLUSTRATING ONE OF THE BIG CULTURAL DIVIDES IN THIS COUNTRY TODAY.

TO MY COLLEAGUE AMNA NAWAZ.

AMNA.

>> WE WANT TO PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT WHY WE'RE HEARING FROM SOME OF THESE SPECIFIC SPEAKERS TONIGHT.

WE SAW IN THE LAST FEW MINUTES CISIONY GRAHAM WHO COMES FROM EVANGELICAL LEADERS, AND ABBY JOHNSON AN ABORTION RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND NICHOLAS SANDMANN.

THE ISSUE OF ABORTION HAS LONG BEEN ONE OF THOSE SOCIAL WRIT MUST TESTS FOR CONSEVEN -- LITMUS TESTS FOR CONSERVATIVE AND CORE GROUP OF SUPPORTS FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP.

THOSE ARE EVANGELICALS.

IF YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBERS WE HAVE RIGHT HERE.

YOU SEE THAT SUPPORT FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP ACTUALLY GROWING AMONG THIS CORE GROUP OF HIS BASE.

80% OF WHITE EVANGELICALS VOTED FOR MR. TRUMP IN 2016.

THAT IS NOW UP TO AN 82% SUPPORT AMONG THIS ONE GROUP AND THAT IS WHY YOU'RE HEARING ABOUT SOME OF THESE KEY ISSUES ABOUT ABORTION WHICH STILL VERY MUCH RESONATES IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT ABORTIONS AMONG CONSERVATIVES HAS MOVED DOWN THE LIST OF PRIORITIES AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT'S CONSIDERED NOW A TOP ISSUE FOR TRUMP SUPPORTS LOOKS A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN A FEW YEARS AGO.

THE ECONOMY CONTINUES TO RATE VERY VERY HIGH LEVLILY .VIOLENTD MOVES DOWN TO ACE ON THAT HIS.

THE REASON THIS IS IMPORTANT IN THE MEANTIME AS WE MOVE TO A MORE DEVICIVE TIME OTHERS ISSUES HAVE RISEN AS NEW SOCIAL LITMUS TEST.

WHEN YOU HEAR NICK SANDMAN TALKING ABOUT THIS ISSUE OF CANCER CULTURE THIS IS ONE OF THE CORE MESSAGES WE'RE HEARING FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP AND AT THE RNC THIS WEEK.

ONE OF THE THINGS WE WANT TO NOTE OF COURSE IS THAT OTHER ISSUES INCLUDED ON THIS, THINGS LIKE WHETHER OR NOT DURING THE ANTHEM WEATHER OR NOT DO YOU BELIEVE THE SCIENCE BEHIND CLIMATE CHANGE OR MASKING.

THESE ARE THE KIND OF THINGS WE'RE HEARING MORE AND MORE ABOUT BUT DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE POLICY BEHIND THEM.

JUDY, WE HAVE NOTED DURING THIS CONVENTION COVERAGE, THIS POLICY, THIS POLICY PLATFORM FOR THE REPUBLICANS THIS YEAR IS ACTUALLY THE SAME ONE AS IT WAS IN 2016.

SO WE'RE HEARING LESS ABOUT POLICY AND POLICY PROPOSALS, MORE ABOUT THESE KIND OF CULTURAL SOCIAL LITMUS TESTS THAT ARE REALLY ATTRACTIVE TO THE PRESIDENT'S BASE RIGHT NOW.

JUDY?

>> Woodruff: WHAT WE USED TO CALL HOT BUTTON ISSUES.

BUT THERE'S DEFINITELY AN INTEREST ON THE PART OF THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN IN STRESSING.

THE KINDS OF THINGS YOU'VE JUST BEEN DISCUSSING.

AMNA, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

NOW I WANT TO BRING BACK SOME OF OUR ANALYSTS WE'VE BEEN LISTENING TO TONIGHT TALKING TO, TO GET THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IS COMING ACROSS IN THIS CONVENTION.

GARY ABERNATHY, CYNTHIA TUCKER, AMY WALTER HERE AT THE TABLE WITH ME.

GARY ABERNATHY, TO YOU.

THE ANYTHING SANDMANNN STORY, THE CISSIE -- NICK SANDMANN STORY AND CISSIE GRAHAM AND WE JUST HEARD IT FROM AMNA THIS IS AIMED STRAIGHT AT THE PRESIDENT'S BASE, IS IT NOT?

>> YES.

THERE'S NO AMBIGUITY HERE LIKE WE TALKED ABOUT LAST NIGHT, JUDY.

PRESIDENT TRUMP'S OPERATING A FASCINATING EXPERIMENT.

WHETHER YOU AGREE WITH IT OR NOT, IT'S JUST FASCINATING TO ME TO WATCH TO SEE IF IT CAN WORK WHICH IS TO PLAY STRICTLY TO YOUR BASE AND DOUBLE DOWN ON THAT.

SO TONIGHT IT'S ALL ABOUT WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT RELIGION IN KIND OF A GENERIC WAY DESIGNED TO APPEAL TO A LOT OF PEOPLE WITH A LOT OF DIFFERENT FAITHS, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CHRISTIANITY, VERY CLEARLY, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT JESUS.

THIS IS THE CONVERSATION THAT'S BEING HAD.

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE PRO-LIFE ISSUE.

REPUBLICANS FOR YEARS HAVE BEEN THE PRO-LIFE PARTY AND THEY KIND OF IN A WAY SOMETIMES PATRONIZINGLY RELATED TO THE PRO-LIFE GROUPS.

PRESIDENT TRUMP GIVES ALL THESE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS, THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT, HE GIVES THEM A BIG HAI BEAR HUG AND THEY HUGM RIGHT BACK.

THAT'S WHY THEY'RE IN HIS CORNER BECAUSE HE'S SO BLATANT ABOUT WHERE HE'S AT ON THESE ISSUES.

>> Woodruff: AND HE APPOINTMENTS JUDGES TO THE FEDERAL COURTS, CERTAINLY JUSTICES CYNTHIA TUCKER TO THE SUPREME COURT WHO ARE WHOLEHEARTEDLY IN FAVOR OF HIS POSITION OF THE PRO-LIFE POSITION AMONG OTHERS.

BUT THAT IS CENTRAL.

THAT IS CLEARLY CENTRAL TO THE MESSAGE THE PRESIDENT'S SENDING TO HIS BASE.

AND I GUESS THE QUESTION WE KEEP COMING BACK TO AND I'LL PUT IT TO YOU CYNTHIA, IS THAT A MESSAGE THAT CAN WIN HIM AN ELECTION.

DOES IT BRING OUT ENOUGH OF THE BASE, DOES IT BRING OUT, DOES IT BRING OUT ENOUGH VOTERS TO PUSH HIM OVER THE FINISH LINE.

>> WELL GARY IS RIGHT.

IT'S AN INTERESTING EXMATERIAL AND I JUST DON'T SEE HOW IT -- EXMEAMPLET AND I JUST DON'T SEE HOW IT WORKS.

IT'S NOT A BROADER APPEAL SO FAR NOT LAST NIGHT OR NOT TONIGHT.

NOT ONLY WAS THE RELIGIOUS MESSAGE NARROWLY FOCUSED ON CHRISTIANS, IT WAS NARROW LOW FOCUSED ON THE CERTAIN KINDS OF CHRISTIANS.

IT WASN'T INTENDED FOR E PISS PALIANS LIKE ME.

IT WAS INTENDED FOR CONSERVATIVES, CHRISTIANS, LATER O I BELIEVE SECRETARY POMPEO WILL APPROPRIATELY IN MY VIEW FROM ISRAEL.

THAT'S ALSO A BIG POINT FOR CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS ALWAYS SUPPORTING ISRAEL.

AND I KEEP WONDERING WHY SPEAKERS DON'T HAMMER ON THE ECONOMIC MESSAGE MORE.

THERE HAS BEEN ONLY PASSING ATTENTION TO THE COVID PRICES AND NOT -- CRISES AND NOT AS MUCH ATTENTION TO THE ECONOMIC CRISES.

THEY COULD SOME VOTERS BACK BY FOCUSING ON THE ECONOMY BUT THEY HAVE CHOSEN NOT TO DO THAT.

>> Woodruff: WE DID HEAR THAT AMY WALTER FROM LARRY KUDLOW EARLIER IN THE HOUR THE PRESIDENT'S CHIEF ECONOMIC ADVISOR JUST SPOUTING STATISTICS AFTER STATISTIC ABOUT HOW THE STOCK MARKET'S DOING AND JOBS.

OF COURSE A LOT OF THAT CAME TO A SCREECHING HALT WITH THE PANDEMIC AND IT'S STILL VERY VERY HALTING.

BUT WALL STREET LOOKS TERRIFIC.

>> WELL YES, THAT IS TRUE.

BUT I DO WANT TO GET BACK TO SORT OF THIS IDEA OF BOTH PARTIES ARE SPEAKING REALLY TO THEIR BASE SO TONIGHT IT IS TRUE WE HAD THE ISSUE OF ABORTION, SO-CALLED CANCEL CULTURE.

FOR DEMOCRATS, CLIMATE, GUN CONTROL, RIGHT, REALLY SPEAKING TO VERY SPECIFIC ELEMENTS.

AND YOU KNOW, JUDY YOU BROUGHT THIS UP LAST NIGHT TOO AND CYNTHIA DID AS WELL, THE SORT OF DISSONANCE AND PEOPLE TALKING PAST EACH OTHER.

AND PEW RESEARCH HAS BEEN AFTER THIS ALL THIS TIME HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT DEMOCRATS.

THAT'S KIND OF WHERE WE ARE AND THAT'S WHY THESE FEEL SO DIFFERENT FROM ONE PERSON WATCHING IT TO ANOTHER PERSON.

7 5% SAY DEMOCRATS ARE MORE CLOSE MINDED THAN REGULAR AMERICANS.

64% OF REPUBLICANS SAY DEMOCRATS ARE MORE CLOSE MINDED THAN OTHER AMERICANS.

REPUBLICANS MORE THAN HALF OF THEM THINK DEMOCRATS ARE MORE IMMORAL THAN OTHER AMERICANS.

ALMOST HALF OF DEMOCRATS FEEL THAT WAY ABOUT REPUBLICANS.

SO IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ONE PARTY TO WATCH ANOTHER PARTY'S CONVENTION AND FEEL AS IF THEY CAN FIND SOMETHING IN THERE.

IF WE HAVE A CHANCE, ONE MORE POINT TO MAKE WHERE THE PRESIDENT'S GOING.

A LOT OF THIS STUFF ABOUT LAW AND ORDER AND CANCEL CULTURE.

IN TALKING TO FOLKS WHO ARE DOING A LOT OF WORK IN THE SUBURBS, ESPECIALLY THE NEXT WAY OF SUBURBS LIKE THE EXURBS WHERE REPUBLICANS DO STEEL.

WHEN THEY TALK TO THOSE VOTERS OUT DO DOING QUANTITY FIFTH AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCHES SOME OF THE STUFF IS RESONATING.

SOME OF THE REPUBLICAN MESSAGING, THE VIOLENCE THEY ARE SEEING IN THE CITIES ESPECIALLY WITH LOOTING AND RIOTINGS AND SO-CALLED CANCEL CULTURE.

THEY ARE TELLING ME THE REAL PROBLEM IS TRUMP AS THE MESSENGER.

HE'S NOT SEEN AS AN EFFECTIVE MESSENGER JUST BECAUSE OF THE WAY HE HAS BEHAVED AS PRESIDENT FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS.

>> Woodruff: GARY ABERNATHY LESS THAN A MINUTE.

WHAT ABOUT THAT.

THERE'S LESS OF A RECEPTIVITY OUT THERE BUT IS PRESIDENT TRUMP THE RIGHT MESSENGER?

>> YES.

THAT'S A CHALLENGE, NO DOUBT ABOUT IT BECAUSE HE GETS IN A HIS OWN WAY MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE IMPEDES HIM, TRUMP CAN IMPEDE HIMSELF.

BUT I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, THIS APPEAL TO HIS BASE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT EVANGELICALS AND PRO LIFEO FAR TONIGHT AND PEOPLE WHO THINK MEDIA IS THE ENEMY.

WE CAN'T UNDER ESTIMATE THAT BECAUSE THAT'S A REAL BELIEF TOO.

THEY VOTE, JUDY, THEY VOTE AND THEY VOTE IN HUGE NUMBERS.

SO MOTIVATING THEM TO VOTE THAT'S PART OF THE STRATEGY THROUGH THIS WHOLE PROGRAMMING.

>> Woodruff: NO QUESTION.

CYNTHIA TUCKER JUST TEN SECONDS.

I MEAN THE MEDIA IS PART OF THIS BUT IT IS CLEARLY AIMED AT FIRING UP THAT BASE.

THE BASE MAY NOT BE 50 PLUS PERCENT BUT IT'S AIMED AT THEM AND GETTING THEM TO VOTE.

I'M O OR, WE WANT TO GO BACKER O LIVE COVERAGE LEADING TO THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER TIFFANY.

THERE SHE IS AT THE MELLON AUDITORIUM IN WASHINGTON.

>> I'M TIFFANY TRUMP SPEAKING AT THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION FOUR YEARS AGO.

SO MUCH HAS CHANGED FOR THE WORLD FOR OUR COUNTRY AND MY FAMILY.

LIKE SO MANY STUDENTS ACROSS THE WORLD I GRADUATED FROM LAW SCHOOL DURING THE PANDEMIC.

OUR GENERATION IS UNIFIED IN THE FACING THE FUTURE IN UNCERTAIN TIMES.

AND MANY OF US ARE CONSIDERING WHAT KIND OF COUNTRY WE WANT TO LIVE IN.

AS A RECENT GRADUATE, I CAN RELATE TO SO MANY OF YOU WHO MIGHT BE LOOKING FOR A JOB.

MY FATHER BUILT A THRIVING ECONOMY ONCE AND BELIEVE ME, HE WILL DO IT AGAIN.

THIS ELECTION, I URGE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU TO TRAN SCEND POLITICAL BOUNDARIES.

THIS IS A FIGHT FOR FREEDOM VERSUS OPPRESSION, FOR OPPORTUNITY VERSUS STAGNATION.

A FIGHT TO KEEP AMERICA TRUE TO AMERICA.

I URGE YOU TO MAKE JUDGMENT BASED ON RESULTS AND NOT RHETORIC.

IF YOU BELIEVE IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM, THERE IS ONLY ONE PRESIDENT THAT PASSED THE FIRST STEP ACT GIVING PEOPLE A SECOND CHANCE, A CHANCE AT A LIFE ONCE AGAIN.

AND IF YOU BELIEVE IN EXPANDING QUALITY AND AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE, ONLY PRESIDENT TRUMP, MY FATHER, SIGNED THE RIGHT TO TRY INTO LAW THE FAVORED NATIONS CLAUSE AND OTHER ACTIONS TO LOWER DRUG PRICES AND KEEP AMERICANS FROM GETTING RIPPED OFF.

PEOPLE MUST RECOGNIZE THAT OUR THOUGHTS, OUR OPINIONS AND EVEN THE CHOICE OF WHO WE ARE VOTING FOR MAY BE MANIPULATED AND COERCED BY THE MEDIA AND TECH GIANTS.

IF YOU TUNE INTO THE MEDIA YOU GET ONE GUY'S OPINION OR ANOTHER AND IF THEY DO NOT FIT INTO THE NARRATIVE THEY SPEAK TO PROMOTE.

THEN IT IS IGNORED OR A LIE REGARDLESS OF THE TRUTH.

THIS MANIPULATION OF WHAT INFORMATION WE RECEIVE IMPEDES OUR FREEDOM RATHER THAN ALLOWING AMERICANS THE RIGHT TO FORM OUR OWN BELIEFS.

THIS MISINFORMATION SYSTEM KEEPS PEOPLE MENTALLY ENSLAVED TO THE IDEAS THEY DEEMED THREAT.

THIS IS FOSTERED UNNECESSARY NEAR AND DIVISIVENESS AMONGST US.

WHY ARE SO MANY IN MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY AND EVEN IN OUR OWN GOVERNMENT SO INVESTED IN PROMOTING A BIASED AND FABRICATED VIEW.

ASK YOURSELVES WHY ARE WE PREVENTED FROM SEEING CERTAIN INFORMATION.

WHY IS ONE VIEWPOINT PROMOTED WHILE OTHERS ARE HIDDEN.

THE ANSWER IS CONTROL.

BECAUSE DIVISION AND CONTROVERSY BREED A PROFIT.

THUS, WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES WHEN ONLY ONE SIDE OF THE STORY GETS OUT OR WHEN ONLY ONE VIEW POINT IS ACCEPTABLE.

FOR OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM SACRIFICING SIMPLE DEBATE BY CREATING ATMOSPHERE FOR STUDENTS WITH CONTEMPORARY OPINIONS ARE AFRAID TO SPEAK.

SO MANY ARE SUPPRESSED INTO THEIR BELIEFS.

IN SHORT OUR NATION SUFFERS BY OUR DIVERSITY OF THOUGHT AND INCLUSION OF IDEAS.

WORKING TOGETHER, OUTSIDE OF OUR POLITICAL COMFORT ZONE WILL ACCOMPLISH SO MUCH MORE.

SOME POLITICIANS DID NOT SEEM TO BELIEVE IN THE MIRACLE OF AMERICA.

WELL, I DO.

AS MAXIMUM ALVAREZ SAYS IF FREEDOM IS LOST IN THIS COUNTRY THERE IS NO WHERE ELSE TO GO.

HAVING HOPE IS NOT WEAKNESS AND BELIEVING IN MERE COMES IS A GIFT FROM GOD.

FOR TONIGHT, I WANT TO TELL YOU THE UNSENT SURED TRUTH CENSORED TRUTH.

WE BELIEVE IN HE CAN THOUGHT AND EXPRESSION.

THINK WHAT YOU WANT LEARN FROM THOSE WITH DIFFERENT OPINIONS AND THEN FREELY MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD TO THE WORLD.

WE BELIEVE IN SCHOOL CHOICE BECAUSE A CHILD'S ZIP CODE IN AMERICA SHOULD NOT DETERMINE THEIR FUTURE.

WE BELIEVE IN FREEDOM OF RELIGION FOR ALL FAITHS AND WE BELIEVE IN THE AMERICAN SPIRIT, A COUNTRY FOUNDED ON IDEAS, NOT IDENTITY.

A COUNTRY WHERE OUR DIFFERENCES ARE EMBRACED AND THE ONLY COUNTRY WHERE THE WORD DREAM HAS BEEN ATTACHED TO US.

BECAUSE IN AMERICA, YOUR LIFE IS YOURS TO CHART.

SO IF YOU'RE HEARING THESE THINGS AND THINKING TO YOURSELF THAT IS THE KIND OF COUNTRY I WANT TO LIVE IN.

WELL, WHETHER YOU REALIZE IT OR NOT, YOU ARE A TRUMP SUPPORTER.

I ENCOURAGE YOU TO SEE BEYOND THE FACADE OF SO MANY OTHER POLITICIANS EMPLOY.

THEY MASK THEMSELVES IN DISGUISES OF DECENCY AS THEY TRY TO PRECIOUS TO MASK OUR OWN IDENTIFY THESE AND BELIEFS.

MY FATHER IS THE ONLY PERSON TO CHALLENGE THE ESTABLISHMENT, THE BUREAUCRACY, BIG PHARMA AND MEDIA MONOPOLIES.

THAT AMERICANS CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMS ARE UPHELD AND JUSTICE AND TRUTH PREVAIL.

MY FATHER DOES NOT RUN AWAY FROM CHALLENGES, EVEN IN THE FACE OF OUTRIGHT LAY TRUM HATRED BECAUSG FOR AMERICA IS SOMETHING HE WILL SACRIFICE ANYTHING FOR.

HE DREAMS BIG DREAMS FOR OUR COUNTRY AND HE'S RELENTLESS AT ACHIEVING THEM.

YOU SEE, MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN IS NOT A SLOGAN FOR MY FATHER.

IT IS WHAT DRIVES HIM TO KEEP HIS PROMISE DOING WHAT IS RIGHT FOR AMERICAN CITIZENS.

THE ENERGY OF CHANGE AND OPPORTUNITY IS WITH US.

GOD HAS BLESSED US WITH SPIRIT, HIS SPIRIT, THE AMERICAN SPIRIT.

MY DAD HAS PROVEN TO BE DRIVEN BY THAT SPIRIT.

HE'S BEEN THROUGH HIS FAITH WITH UNCOMPROMISING HEART AND ACTIONS.

MY FATHER HAS MADE ME BELIEVE THAT AMERICA CAN TRULY BE GREAT AGAIN.

IF YOU CARE ABOUT LIVING YOUR LIFE WITHOUT THE STRENGTH THAT REBELLING AGAINST THOSE WHO SUPPRESS YOUR VOICE AND BUILDING YOUR AMERICAN DREAM THEN THE CHOICE IN THIS ELECTION IS CLEAR.

A VOTE FOR MY FATHER, DONALD J. TRUMP IS A VOTE TO UPHOLD OUR AMERICAN IDEALS.

BE TRUE TO YOURSELF AND SAY TRUE TO THE DREAM OF AMERICA.

THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

>> Woodruff: THAT WAS TIFFANY TRUMP, ONE OF DONALD TRUMP'S CHILDREN GIVING A RINGING ENDORSEMENT OF HER FATHER'S APPROACH TO GOVERNING THE COUNTRY, ESSENTIALLY SAYING THAT ALLOWING HIM TO CONTINUE TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT WILL LEAD TO A CONTINUATION OF ALL GOOD THINGS IN THIS COUNTRY, TO TRUTH AND THE AMERICAN WAY.

I'M BRINGING IN YAMICHE ALCINDOR AND LISA DESJARDINS RIGHT NOW OUR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT AND OUR CAPITOL HILL CORRESPONDENT LISA OF COURSE COVERING THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN.

YAMICHE THIS IS NOT THE PERSON WE'VE HEARD FROM EVERY MEMBER WE KNOW THE BOOK BEEN WRITTEN BY HIS NIECE AND QUOTES COME OUT IN RECENT DAYS BY HIS OWN SISTER, BUT FROM THE FAMILY MEMBERS WHO ARE SPEAKING, AND THERE ARE A NUMBER OF THEM.

IT IS, IT'S AN UNBLEMISHED AND PERFECT IMAGE THEY'RE PAINTING OF PRESIDENT TRUMP.

>> THAT'S RIGHT.

THAT'S AN IMAGE THAT IS IN CONTRAST OVER THE LAST COUPLE DAYS AND WEEKS AND SOME FAMILY MEMBERS MOTION NOTABLY SAYING HE USED RACIALLY DERROGATORY LANGUAGE.

WHAT WE HEARD FROM TIFFANY TRUMP IS INTERESTING BECAUSE IT'S A POLITICAL SPEECH PITCHING HER FATHER SAYING HE'S THE BEST PERSON FOR THE JOB.

WE DIDN'T REALLY HEAR ANY SPECIFIC ANECDOTES ABOUT THEIR RELATIONSHIP PERSONALLY.

THE SAME THING HAPPENED WITH DONALD TRUMP, JR.

THE OTHER THING THAT WE HAPPENED IS SEVERAL WOMEN MADE THE CASE THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS THE BEST PERSON FOR THE JOB.

THE FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL OF IN A, SOMEONE WHO SERVED ON THE DEFENSE TEAM WITH THE PRESIDENT DURING THE IMPEACHMENT.

SHE MADE SEVERAL ALLEGATIONS THAT ARE NOT TRUE ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN THAT HAVEN'T BEEN PROVEN THAT HE WAS ENGAGED IN UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR.

WE HEARD FROM ABBY JOHNSON, AN ANTANANTI-ABORTION ACTIVIST.

THIS WOULD MEAN IN MOST CASES WOMEN AND PEOPLE OF COLOR ARE CUT OUT.

IT'S A CAST THEY ARE PUTTING UP BUT REPUBLICANS NEAL GOOD ABOUT THE PEOPLE THEY ARE PUTTING UP AND THEY ALSO FEEL THIS IS A CASE THEY WANT TO MAKE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

>> Woodruff: IT IS AN INTERESTING APPROACH, LISA DESJARDINS, WHEN YOU COMPARE WHAT THE FAMILY MEMBERS OF JOE BIDEN.

WE HEARD OF COURSE FROM HIS WIFE DR. JILL BIDEN.

WE SAW THE GRAND DAUGHTERS, WE HEARD BRIEFLY FROM HIS DAUGHTER ASHLEY AND SON HUNTER.

BUT THE INTERESTING CONTRAST HOW THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN IS USING EACH FAMILY MEMBER TO GET ACROSS A CERTAIN MESSAGE.

>> THAT'S RIGHT.

YAMICHE BROUGHT UP A GREAT POINT.

JOE BIDEN DURING THAT CONVENTION, WE HEARD STORIES ABOUT HIM SNEAKING IN THE FREEZER TO GET ICE KEEP FROM HIS GRAND DAUGHTERS.

WE HEARD STORIES OF COURSE OF THE TRAGEDY WENT THROUGH LOSING HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER AND STANDING BY THE BEDSIDE OF HIS TWO SONS ONE OF THEM IN THE HOSPITAL.

MORE PERSONAL STORIES.

IT'S INTERESTING TO ME TIFFANY TRUMP'S SPEECH WAS AN IDEOLOGICAL SPEECH.

SHE'S THE SECOND YOUNGEST TRUMP CHILD.

SHE'S IN HER MID 20'S AND SHE PRENLTSES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP TO REACH OUT TO A GROUP HE DOESN'T LARGELY WIN WITH, YOUNG PEOPLE IN THEIR EARLY 20'S AND 30'S.

OTHER THAN MENTIONING SHE WAS A STUDENT, A FEW LINE ABOUT STUDENTS AND THEIR PROBLEMS, THIS REALLY WAS NOT A SPEECH FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

IT SEEMED LIKE AN IDEOLOGICAL SPEECH COULD OVERLAP WITH SOME YOUNG PEOPLE BUT IT WAS BROADER IN THOSE.

THAT STRIKES ME TOO AS CONTRAST, JUDY.

JOE BIDEN HAS WRITTEN HIMSELF AND HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHIES THAT HE DOESN'T SEE HIMSELF AS AN IDEAL, I'D LOG.

LOG -- IDEALOGUE.

HE DOESN'T SEE HIMSELF THAT WAY BUT AS SOMEONE WHO IS A PRACTICAL POLITICIAN AND CARES ABOUT REAL PEOPLE ON THE GROUND.

THEY ARE PRESENTING HIM AS A MAN OF VALUE PRESENTING AN IDEOLOGY.

LET'S TALK ABOUT THE RATINGS WE'VE GOTTEN JUST IN IN THE LAST HALF OF THE DAY OVER THESE TWO FIRST NIGHTS.

DEMOCRATS THE FIRST NIGHT OF THEIR CONVENTION LAST WEEK SAW 19.7 MILLION PEOPLE TUNING IN.

THAT'S THE NIELSON RATING IT DOES NOT INCLUDE STREAMING, DOES NOT INCLUDE MAJOR DIGITAL PLATFORMS WHICH OF COURSE MANY PEOPLE ARE USING.

LET'S LOOK AT REPUBLICANS.

LAST NIGHT 17 MILLION.

SO FEWER AMERICANS TUNED IN LAST NIGHT OVER TELEVISION FOR REPUBLICANS THAN FOR DEMOCRATS.

NOW IT'S JUDY, BOTH OF THOSE CONVENTION NIGHTS WERE DOWN ABOUT A QUARTER FROM 2016.

NOW MAYBE PEOPLE ARE SWITCHING TO DIGITAL MODES, IT'S UNCLEAR WHAT THAT'S ABOUT BUT THE BOTTOM LINE FROM DEMOCRATS THEY ARE HAPPEN TO.

THEY WANT MORE VIEWERS.

THEY THINK THEIR CONVENTION WAS MORE TELEVISION FRIENDLY, MORE INTIMATE.

LET'S SEE, WE'RE ONLY ON NIGHT THEE BUT THOSE NUMBERS OUT OF NIGHT ONE ARE WHAT DEMOCRATS ARE HAPPY WITH.

>> Woodruff: YOU'RE RIGHT, SOME PEOPLE ARE CLEARLIES CHEWING TO WATCH THE CONVENTIONS THROUGH DIGITAL PLATFORMS THAT WEREN'T SO READILY AVAILABLE FOUR YEARS AGO.

YAMICHE BACK TO YOU BECAUSE MEDIA WAS PART OF TIFFANY TRUMP'S MESSAGE.

SHE SAID THE CHOICE OF WHO WE VOTE FOR BEING MANIPULATED AND VISIBLY COERCED BY THE MEDIA AND TECH GIANTS.

THIS IS THE THE BELIEF THAT THE PRESIDENT AND PEOPLE AROUND HIM WANT TO PERPETRATE.

>> THE PRE HAS MADE MEDIA ATTACKING REPORTERS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF HIS PRESIDENCY, A CENTRAL PART OF HIS CAMPAIGN.

THE PRESIDENT HAS ALLEGED WITH REALLY NO EVIDENCE THAT THE MEDIA IS BIASED AGAINST HIM, THAT WE ARE ALL TRYING TO REALLY THWART HIM GETTING A SECOND TERM WHEN IN FACT A LOT OF TIME HE DOES GETS ANGRY AT THE MEDIA FOR FACT CHECKING HIM AND PUTTING HIS COMMENTS INTO CONTEXT ESPECIALLY WHEN HE'S SPREADING MISINFORMATION OR FALSEHOOD.

IT IS ALSO BACKED UP BY BRINGING A COVINGTON STUDENT HERE NICHOLAS SANDMAN AND WAS TALKING ABOUT IN THAT CASE WHERE HE FELT HE WAS A VICTIM OF A MEDIA BEING BIASED AGAINST HIM AND REACHED A SETTLEMENT WITH THE MEDIA.

THERE IS SOME MERIT TO THE IDEA HERE IS SOMEONE WHO CAN COME AND SAY THIS ISN'T JUST ME THIS IS ALSO HOW THE MEDIA TREATS SOMEONE ELSE.

BY AND LARGE THOUGH OF COURSE REPORTERS HAVE BEEN TRYING TO REPORT FAIRLY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP.

>> YAMICHE AND LISA, WE'RE GOING TO DIFFICULT BACK INTO THE LIVE FEED OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.

THIS IS THE VOICE OF VICE PRESIDENT PENCE EXPULTS.

L AND OTHERS.

LET'S LISTEN.

>> LORA MCLYNN IS THE MOTHER OF ANOTHER INPIRING BOY.

HE HS MUSCULAR DISTROPHY A FATAL MUSCULAR DISREGARD.

AS GOVERNOR I SIGNED A LAW ALLOWING TERMINALLY ILL PATIENTS TO ACCESS DRUGS NOT YET APPROVED BY THE FDA.

IN 2018 PRESIDENT TRUMP SIGNED THE LANDMARK FEDERAL RIGHT TO TRY DEAL INTO LAW.

THANKS TO THE PRESIDENT'S LEADERSHIP, CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS HAVE THE RIGHT TO ACCESS LIFE SAVING EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENTS.

>> WE STARTED FIGHTING FOR RIGHT TO TRY WHICH BASICALLY SAYS IF YOU HAVE A TERMINAL ILLNESS AND THERE'S A DRUG THAT EXISTS AND YOU DON'T QUALIFY FOR THE CLINICAL TRIAL, THERE'S NO OTHER WAY TO RECEIVE IT, THIS IS A UNIQUE PATHWAY THAT ALLOWS YOU TO HAVE ACCESS.

HE MADE US A PROMISE BACK IN INDIANA THAT HE WOULD DO WHATEVER IT TOOK TO HELP JORDAN AND WE'RE SO GRATEFUL YOU JOINED US ON THIS JOURNEY AND HE STUCK IT ALL UNTIL IT BECAME LAW.

>> IF PRESIDENT TRUMP WERE STANDING RIGHT THERE WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO HIM ABOUT RIGHT TO TRY.

>> THANK YOU FOR BEING HERO TO EVERYBODY IN THE COUNTRY.

>> JUDGE SHARYL ALAN MADE HISTORY IN 2007 WHEN SHE BECAME THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN TO BE ELECTED TO SERVE ON PENNSYLVANIA SUPERIOR COURT.

IT'S BECAUSE OF LEADERS LIKE JUDGE WHAT A ALAN THAT OUR NATIS OVERCOME OUR GREATEST CHALLENGES.

IN THIS TIME OF RACIAL DIVISION IN THE COUNTRY, DO YOU SEE FAITH AND VALUES AND A STRONG STAND THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS TAKEN FOR EQUALITY AND OPPORTUNITY AS A PATHWAY TOWARD BRINGING THE COUNTRY TOGETHER.

>> AS A SENIOR CITIZEN, I'LL LEAVE IT AT THAT, I KNOW WHAT RACISM FEELS LIKE BUT I ALSO KNOW THAT BUT FOR MY BEING IN THIS COUNTRY, I WOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO ACHIEVE THE THINGS I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ACHIEVE.

THERE ARE INJUSTICES BUT THE WAY TO TELEWITH THOSE INJUSTICES IS FOR PEOPLE TO SIT DOWN ACROSS THE TABLE AND TALK AND COME UP WITH SOLUTIONS.

I DO BELIEVE THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS COMMITTED TO THAT.

IN 2016, I HAVE TO CONFESS THAT I REALLY DID NOT KNOW CANDIDATE TRUMP AT THE TIME BUT I HAVE TO SAY THAT HE REALLY WON ME OVER.

>> GENIO IS A TRUCK DRIVER FROM OHIO WHO HEARD MANY PEOPLE DEFENDING AMERICAN JOBS ONLY TO SEE THOSE PROMISES BROKEN AGAIN AND AGAIN.

IN 2019, WHEN GENERAL MOTORS CLOSED ITS PLANT IN LORDSTOWN, OHIO, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP REFUSED TO STAND BY AND WATCH IT HAPPEN.

AND AS GENO OBSERVED, THIS PRESIDENT REACHED OUT TO GENERAL MOTORS TO FIND A WAY TO BRING JOBS BACK TO LORDSTOWN.

AND PLANS WERE SOON SET INTO MOTION TO CREATE LORDSTOWN MOTORS.

PRESIDENT TROUBLE SAID THIS IS HOW WE FIX IT.

THAT'S A SIMPLE SOLUTION.

PRESIDENT TRUMP'S A DOER.

HE APPRECIATES EVERY ONE OF US AND I KNOW HE DOES, I'VE SEEN IT.

WHEN HE SAID MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, THAT WAS HIS TASK THAT WASN'T HIS SLOGAN, THAT WAS HIS TASK.

EVERY HAT YOU SEE THAT SAYS MAGA ON IT, THAT'S WHAT YOUR PRESIDENT DOES FOR YOU FOR KEEPING PROMISES THAT YOU MAKE.

>> AND THERE'S PARCEL ERRIN JOHNSON.

TODAY HE'S -- PASTOR ERRIN.

JOHN IDON'T KNOW.

YOU'VE GOT A GREAT STORY WHEN YOU SEE THIS PRESIDENT, THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN LEANING IN TO CREATE OPPORTUNITIES, INVESTMENTS IN COMMUNITIES AROUND THE COUNTRY TO CREATE JOBS, EXPANDING EDUCATION.

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO FAMILIES THAT YOU SEVEN WITH.

>> IT MEANS SO MUCH TO OUR FAMILIES.

I GREW UP IN A SINGLE PARENT HOME.

WE SERVE 600 BOYS AND GIRLS RIGHT NOW EVEN DURING COVID.

FOR US TO GIVE THESE MOMS AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE MORE MONEY ON THEIR CHECK, ON THEIR PAYCHECK, TO HAVE THEIR CHILDREN BE ABLE TO GO TO A SCHOOL THEY MAY NOT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO OTHERWISE HAVE.

IT MEANS SO MUCH TO US.

THERE'S BEEN SO MUCH GREATER OPPORTUNITY FOR INDIVIDUALS TO COME TOGETHER IN THINK WALK OF LIFE, PEOPLE HAVE REALLY BEEN ABLE TO SEE SUCH A POSITIVE CHANGE AND HAVE BEEN FILLED WITH HOPE ESPECIALLY THROUGHOUT THIS TIME.

>> LYDIA LEFT HEARTH AND HOME FRIENDS AND FAMILY IN HONDURAS TO PURSUE A BETTER LIFE HERE IN AMERICA.

WHILE RAISING THEIR NOW DAUGHTERS, LYDIA AND HER HUSBAND RUN A SMALL BUSINESS THAT KRAIFLTSCREATES SECURITY SYSTEM.

JUST MONTHS AFTER THEY WERE UP AND RUNNING OUR NATION WAS STRUCK BY A GLOBAL PAN DEMONSTRATING.

THAT'S WHEN PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP STEPPED IN AND ENACTED THE LARGEST FINANCIAL RELIEF PACKAGE IN AMERICAN HISTORY FOR SMALL BUSINESS STAYED IN BUSINESS.

HER AMERICAN DREAM KEPT RUNNING STRONG.

WHAT DID THE PAYCHECK PROTECTION PROGRAM MEAN TO YOUR COMPANY AS THE CORONAVIRUS STRUCK.

>> IT WAS A HUGE TREMENDOUS HELP.

WE'RE SO GRATEFUL YOU CAN'T BELIEVE THE RELIEF.

WE CONTINUE TO SELF OUR CLIENTS AND CONTINUE GROWING THE ECONOMY.

WE WANT TO MOVE TO CONTINUE TO MOVE FORWARD.

AND WE WERE ABLE TO MAKE IT.

BECAUSE OF AND FRIENDS, THE GOVERNMENT.

I TELL MY CHILDREN, YOU KNOW, THEY ARE HERE IN THE U.S.

I TELL THEM YOU ARE SO BLESSED TO LIVE IN AMERICA.

>> HERE AT ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S BOYHOOD HOME, A YOUNG MAN WOULD GROW UP TO BECOME THE FIRST REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

ANOTHER REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT IS FIGHTING TO PRESERVE THAT SAME NOBLE LEGACY OF FREEDOM.

PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL MAKE CERTAIN THAT THE TORCH OF AMERICAN OPPORTUNITY ILLUMINATES EVERY CITY, EVERY TOWN AND EVERY COMMUNITY IN THIS BLESSED LAND.

>> HI, I'M RYAN, I'M A POLICE OFFICER FROM NEW MEXICO.

IN 2017 I HAD AN ENCOUNTER THAT CHANGED MY LIFE FOREVER.

I HAD JUST STARTED MY SHIFT AND RESPONDED TO A CALL FOR SERVICE AT A GAS STATION.

WHEN I ARRIVED I SAW A MAN AND A WOMAN SITTING ON A GRASSY SLOPE.

I RECOGNIZED THE TELLTALE SIGNS, NEEDLE, A SPOON.

I KNEW IMMEDIATELY THAT THEY WERE PREPARING TO INJECT THEMSELVES WITH HEROIN.

SADLY THIS IS A COMMON SIGHT FOR ME, I ENCOUNTER THE RAVAGES OF ADDITION EVERY DAY.

BUT NOTHING COULD PREPARE ME FOR WHAT I DISCOVERED AS I APPROACHED THEM.

THE WOMAN WAS VERY PREGNANT.

IN MY SHOCK, I ASKED HER IF SHE KNEW THAT SHE WAS HARMING HER BABY BY DOING DRUGS.

SHE CRUMBLED AND BURST INTO TEARS.

TWO WORLDS COLLIDED AS I KNELT DOWN BESIDE HER, A POLICE OFFICER AND A HOMELESS DRUG ADDICT.

BROUGHT TOGETHER BY FORCES OUTSIDE OF OUR CONTROL.

AS WE TALKED, OUR HUMANITY DISTINCT FROM OUR STATION'S IN LIFE WAS MADE ABUNDANTLY CLEAR.

HER NAME WAS CRYSTAL AND IN THE MIDST OF HER SUFFERING, SHE CONFIDED THAT SHE LOVED HER U UNBORN BABY.

SHE WANTED THE BEST FOR HER CHILD.

IN THAT MOMENT, I SAW HER THE WAY THAT ALL OF YOU WHO KNOW AND LOVE AN ADDICT SEE THEM.

AS FATHERS, MOTHERS, BROTHERS, SISTERS, CHILDREN, COUSINS AND FRIENDS.

AS HUMAN BEINGS.

FULL OF VALUE AND DIGNITY.

BUT ROBBED OF THEIR POTENTIAL BY THIS DISEASE.

WHEN CRYSTAL SAID THAT SHE WAS LOOKING FOR A FAMILY TO ADOPT HER BABY.

GOD SHOWED ME EXACTLY WHAT I HAD TO DO.

WITHOUT HESITATION I TOLD HER THAT MY FAMILY WOULD WELCOME HER BABY THROUGH ADOPTION.

TODAY, OUR BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER, HOPE, IS A THRIVING 2-YEAR-OLD.

CRYSTAL IS FAST APPROACHING THREE YEARS OF RECOVERY.

SHE'S A DEAR FRIEND AND CONSTANT INSPIRATION TO ME AND MOTHERS.

I HOLD A SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART FOR THOSE FACING OPIOID ADDICTION AND THAT'S WHY I AM ENORMOUSLY GRATEFUL TO THE PRESIDENT FOR HIS LEADERSHIP IN FIGHTING THIS DEADLY ENEMY.

THROUGH HIS EFFORTS, WE'RE TURNING THE TIDE ON THE CRISIS OF ADDICTION.

PRESIDENT TRUMP DECLARED THE OPIOID CRISIS TO BE A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY AND THEN SECURED $6 BILLION IN NEW FEDERAL FUNDING TO HELP AMERICANS FIGHT OPIOID ABUSE.

HE INVESTED IN ADDITIONAL $100 MILLION TO STOP THE OPIOID CRISIS IN RURAL AMERICA.

AND IN A MOVE THAT STRIKES AT THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM, HE IMPLEMENTED A SAFER PRESCRIBING PLAN AIMED AT REDUCING OPIOID PRESCRIPTIONS BY OVER A THIRD WITHIN THREE YEARS.

THIS IS AN EFFORT THAT STOPS ADDICTION BEFORE IT EVER GAINS A HOLD IN SOMEONE'S LIFE.

AND IT'S HAVING AN IMPACT.

DRUG OVERDOSE DEATHS DECREASED IN 2018 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 30 YEARS.

MANY OF THE STATES HARDEST HIT BY THE OPIOID CRISIS ARE SEEING THE LARGEST DROP IN DEATHS.

WE'RE SEEING THAT DOCTORS ARE WRITING FEWER PRESCRIPTIONS FOR OPIOID PAIN DRUGS.

THESE ARE SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS.

THAT HAVE A MEANINGFUL IMPACT.

I THINK WE ARE FORTUNATE, AMERICA, TO HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO CARES DEEPLY FOR THE DOWNTRODDEN AND WHO WORKS TIRELESSLY TO FIND SOLUTIONS.

A PRESIDENT WHO DOESN'T JUST TALK ABOUT PROBLEMS, BUT STOPS AND HELPS.

PRESIDENT TRUMP IS THE LEADER WE'VE NEEDED THE LAST FOUR YEARS AND HE IS THE LEADER WE NEED FOR THE NEXT FOUR.

YOU SEE, DONALD TRUMP IS THE RIGHT PRESIDENT AT THE RIGHT TIME.

LET'S MAKE SURE HE'S REELECTED ON NOVEMBER 3rd.

I PRAY GOD'S BLESSINGS ON YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA.

>> GOOD EVENING.

MY NAME IS JEANETTE NUNEZ I'M PROUD TO SERVE AS LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF THE GREAT STATE OF FLORIDA.

TONIGHT I'M HONORED TO SHARE MY STORY OF FAITH, FAMILY AND AMERICAN FREEDOM.

AS THE DAUGHTER OF CUBAN IMMIGRANTS, MY STORY BEGAN IN 1 1959.

BEFORE I WAS BORN.

WHEN MY PARENTS' DREAMS OF A PROSPEROUS LIFE BECAME A NIGHTMARE.

CHAOS STARTED QUICKLY WHEN FIDEL CASTRO TOOK CONTROL.

THE GOVERNMENT CONFISCATED PRIVATE PROPERTY, SEALING PEOPLE'S HOMES, FARMS AND BUSINESSES.

FOR MY PARENTS, THE DIFFICULT DECISION TO FLEE COMMUNIST CUBA CAME WHEN THE CASTRO REGIME ABOLISHED RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.

FELLOW AMERICANS, THE FABRIC OF OUR NATION IS IN PERIL.

DAILY THE RADICAL LEFT SYSTEMATICALLY CHISELS AWAY AT THE FREEDOMS WE CHERISH.

THEY COWER TO GLOBAL PROGRESSIVE AND NORMALIZE SOCIALISM.

LET ME ASSURE YOU, SOCIALISM DOESN'T OFFER OPPORTUNITY.

SOCIALISM DEPRIVES.

IT IS A FALSEHOOD THAT FEIGNS PROMISES FOR MASSES AND CONSISTENTLY YIELDS ONLY MISERY.

PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN WARPED IF WE LOSE FREEDOM HERE, THERE'S NO PLACE TO ESCAPE TO.

TRUER WORDS HAVE NEVER BEEN SPOKEN.

AMERICANS HAVE A CHOICE.

WE CAN GO DOWN A DARK ROAD OF CHAOS AND GOVERNMENT CONTROL.

OR WE CAN CHOOSE A PATH OF FREEDOM AND OPPORTUNITY THAT WAS PAVED BY THOSE WHO SACRIFICED EVERYTHING TO PRESERVE THE AMERICAN DREAM FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.

I HAVE FAITH THAT AMERICANS WILL CHOOSE THE RIGHT PATH.

IN 2016, OUR COUNTRY YEARNED FOR A LEADER WHO WOULD WORK TI TIRELESSLY TO JUMPSTART OUR ECONOMY AND FIGHT FOR HARD WO WORKING AMERICANS.

SINCE DAY ONE, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAS PUT AMERICA FIRST.

HIS PRO GROWTH, PRO JOB AGENDA HAS USHERED IN HISTORICALLY LOW UNEMPLOYMENT.

RECORD JOB CREATION, HIGHER WAGES AND RISING HOME OWNERSHIP.

THE PRESIDENT IS FIGHTING TO RESCUE AMERICAN JOBS AND INDUSTRIES FOR PLACES LIKE OHIO, PENNSYLVANIA AND PUERTO RICO.

JOBS THAT WERE NEEDLESSLY SHIPPED OVERSEAS.

HE'S DEFENDED OUR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, STOOD WITH DEMOCRATIC ALLIES LIKE COLUMBIA AND SHOWN UNWAVERING RESOLVE WHILE CONFROM THE KNOWLEDGE TYRANTS IN COUNTRIES LIKE VENEZUELA, CUBA, CHINA, NICARAGUA.

LET US JOIN OUR PRESIDENT THAT AMERICA WILL NEVER BE A SOC SOCIALIST COUNTRY.

SUPPORTING OUR PRESIDENT REQUIRES ACTION.

JOIN ME TONIGHT AND TEXT VOTE TO 88022.

WE MUST CONTINUE TO SUPPORT OUR COMMANDER IN CHIEF WHO HAS A BOLD AGENDA THAT SAFEGUARDS THE RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS PROTECTED UNDER OUR CONSTITUTION.

TODAY MORE THAN EVER, THAT MEANS SUPPORTING OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND OUR HEROES IN UNIFORM.

IT MEANS FIGHTING TO PROVIDE THE BEST QUALITY EDUCATION BY EMPOWERING PARENTS AND PRESERVING SCHOOL CHOICE.

AND IT MEANS REJECTING THE SOCIAL LIST TAKE OVER OF OUR NATION THAT WILL DESTROY THE INNOVATION, ECONOMIC VITALITY AND FREEDOMS WE HOLD SO DEAR.

AS A DAUGHTER OF IMMIGRANTS, A WIFE, A MOTHER OF THREE AND THE FIRST LATINA LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR IN THE HISTORY OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA IT IS MY DISTINCT PRIVILEGE TO SHARE MY STORY, WHICH IS REALLY YOUR STORY AND THE STORY OF A NATION THAT HAS OPENED ITS DOORS, LIFTED ITS PEOPLE AND YIELDED SUCCESS IN A WAY ONLY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CAN.

TOGETHER, LET'S ENSURE FOUR MORE YEARS FOR PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP SO THAT HE CAN CONTINUE PROTECTING OUR REPUBLIC SO ONE DAY OUR CHILDREN CAN PROUDLY TELL THE STORY OF WHAT OUR GENERATION DID TO DEFEND THE VALUES OF FAITH, FAMILY AND FREEDOM.

THANK YOU.

MAY GOD BLESS EACH ONE OF YOU.

AND MAY GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

♪ >> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

♪ >> ACTING SECRETARY WOLFE I PRESENT TO YOU FIVE CANDIDATES FOR NATURALIZATION REPRESENTING FIVE COUNTRIES.

>> ON BEHALF OF EVERYONE HERE TODAY I'D LIKE TO EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE TO YOU, MR. PRESIDENT FOR HOSTING THIS NATURALIZATION CEREMONY HERE AT THE WHITE HOUSE.

TO OUR CANDIDATES, I IT IS MY HONOR TO ADMINISTER THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE AND WELCOME YOU AS OUR FELLOW CITIZENS.

CAPTAIN DADE PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAPPENED AND REPEAT AFTER ME.

I HEAR BY DECLARE AN OATH THAT I ABSOLUTELY AND ENTIRELY RENOUNCE ALL ALLEGIANCE AND FIDELITY TO ANY FOREIGN PRINCE, POTENTATE, STATE OR OFFER TEE OF WHOM OR WHICH I HAVE HERETOFORE BEEN A SUBJECT OR CITIZEN.

THAT I WILL SUPPORT AND DEFEND, THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.

THAT I WILL BEAR TRUE FAITH AND ALLEGIANCE TO THE SAME, THAT I WILL BEAR ARMS ON BEHALF OF THE UNITED STATES WHEN REQUIRED BY LAW.

THAT I WILL PERFORM NONCOMBATIVE SERVICE IN THE ARMED FORCES OF THE U.S., WHEN REQUIRED BY LAW.

THAT I WILL PERFORM WORK OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE, UNDER CIVILIAN DIRECTION WHEN REQUIRED BY LAW.

AND THAT I TAKE THIS OBLIGATION FREELY WITHOUT ANY MENTAL RESERVATION OR PURPOSES OF EVASION.

SO HELP ME GOD.

CONGRATULATIONS, YOU'RE NOW CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> ON BEHALF OF DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY IT'S MY HONOR TO CALL YOU MY FELLOW AMERICANS.

COMMEND YOU FOR YOUR DEDICATION TO THE RULE OF LAW AND FOR R RESTORING INTEGRITY TO OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM.

THANK YOU FOR LOWING SUCH A PATRIOTIC CELEBRATION AT THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY.

>> CONGRATULATIONS, THAT'S FANTASTIC.

IT'S REALLY GREAT.

THANK YOU.

AND I WANT TO THANK ACTING SECRETARY WOLF DOING PHENOMENAL JOB IN SO MANY WAYS.

TODAY MERCURY JOYCE AS WE WELCOME FIVE ABSOLUTELY ENGREAT AMERICAN FAMILY YOU'RE NOW FELLOW CITIZENS OF THE GREATEST NATION ON THE FACE OF GOD'S EARTH.

CONGRATULATIONS.

GREAT GOING.

YOU FOLLOWED THE RULES, YOU OBEYED THE LAWS, YOU LEARNED YOUR HISTORY, EMBRACED OUR VALUES AND PROVED YOU'RE SELVES TO BE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE HIGHEST INTEGRITY.

IT'S NOT SO EASY YOU WENT THROUGH A LOT AND WE APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE WITH US TODAY.

YOU'VE EARNED THE MOST PRIZED TREASURERRED, CHERISHED AND PRICELESS POSITION ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD IT'S CALLED, AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP.

THERE'S NO HIGHER HONOR AND NO GREATER PRIVILEGE AND IT'S AN HONOR FOR ME TO BE YOUR PRESIDENT.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

AT THIS TIME I'D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE THE FIVE NEW SIT SENSE WHO JOIN US TODAY.

EAST ROBERT MARTIN RAMIREZ IS FROM BOLIVIA.

AND HAS BEEN A LAWFUL PERMANENT RESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES SINCE 2013.

ROBERT.

HI, ROBERT.

HE AND HIS WIFE ARE RAISING THREE BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN.

IN 2017 ROBERT ACHIEVED THE DREAM OF STARTING HIS OWN BUSINESS.

A CONSTRUCTION COMPANY THAT NOW EMPLOYS FIVE WORKERS.

ROBERT SAYS I LOVE THIS COUNTRY, I WANT TO RESPECT THE LAW.

AMERICA HAS HELPED ME SO MUCH IN LIFE.

ROBERT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR DEVOTION.

>> THANK YOU FOR THE PRIVILEGE.

>> THANK YOU.

GOOD LUCK WITH THAT COMPANY.

SOON YOU'LL HAVE HUNDREDS OF EMPLOYEES, I THINK, RIGHT?

COULD HAPPEN.

IT WILL.

RAMIGIDIAN IS THE PROUD MOTHER OF THREE CHILDREN.

SHE SPEAKS ENGLISH, ARABIC AND FRENCH EARNED A DEGREE IN PSYCHOLOGY.

IN OTHER WORDS, SHE CAN FIGURE ME OUT.

SHE NOW WORKS AS A DAYCARE TEACHER IN VIRGINIA.

I FEEL BLESSED TO BE A LOYAL CITIZEN OF THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.

A COUNTRY THAT HAS GIVEN ME THE OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME TO REALIZE MY POTENTIAL AND MY DREAMS.

RIMA, CONGRATULATIONS, IT'S REALLY GREAT.

THANK YOU.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

I APPRECIATE IT.

SUDA SANDARI NANIYON IS A PHENOMENAL SUCCESS, BORN IN INDIA, CAME TO THE UNITED STATES 13 YEARS AGO.

A TALENTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPER, SHE AND HER HUSBAND ARE RAISING TWO BEAUTIFUL, WONDERFUL CHILDREN.

THE APPLES OF YOUR LIFE, RIGHT?

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, CONGRATULATIONS.

FANTASTIC JOB.

THANK YOU.

NAMET ABDELZAR IS FROM SUDAN.

THAT'S A BEAUTIFUL NAME.

IT'S BEEN A LAWFUL PERMANENT RESIDENT SINCE 2012.

THE MARRIED MOTHER OF THREE BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN, EARNED A MASTER'S DEGREE AND PhD IN ANIMAL NUTRITION FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING, GREAT PLACE, GREAT STATE.

AND SHE IS A TRAINED VETERINARIAN.

SHE'S ALSO WORKED AS A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER FOR THE ALAN TREE I CAN'T PUBLIC SCHOOL SINCE 2004.

THAT'S FANTASTIC.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

CONGRATULATIONS.

IT'S MY HONOR TO BE WITH YOU.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

SALA ABDUL SAMAD HAS BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS DAY SINCE HE ARRIVED FROM GHANA IN 2015.

HE SPEAKS FIVE LANGUAGES AND WORKS THE MEDICAL FIELD.

SAYS THAT THE AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP MEANS EVERYTHING TO ME IN MY LIFE.

IT CANNOT BE MEASURED OR QUANTIFIED.

I HAVE THE CHANCE TO WORK HARD AND SUCCEED IN LIFE.

TO KNOW THAT I AM IN THE SAFE COUNTRY LIKE AMERICA, THAT REALLY IS SOMETHING BECAUSE I KNOW THEY HAVE MY BACK.

SALAD THANK YOU VERY MUCH, CONGRATULATIONS.

FANTASTIC JOB.

CONGRATULATIONS.

TO EVERYBODY.

WITH THE RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS EACH OF YOU NOW ENJOYS AS CITIZENS THERE IS NO DREAM BEYOND YOUR WILDEST REACH.

BECAUSE AMERICANS CAN DO ANYTHING.

TODAY YOU HAVE ALSO ACCEPTED THE PROFOUND DUE THE TEASE AND RESPONSIBILITIES THAT COME WITH AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP.

BY SWEARING THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE, EACH OF YOU HAS ENTERED A SACRED AND UNBREAKABLE COVENANT WITH OUR NATION.

YOU HAVE PLEDGED YOUR UNDYING LOYALTY TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION AND THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE.

THE HISTORY AND HERITAGE OF THE UNITED STATES ARE NOW YOURS TO PRESERVE AND PASS DOWN TO THE NEXT GENERATION.

OUR CULTURE, OUR TRADITIONS AND OUR VALUES ARE NOW YOURS TO UPHOLD AND LIVE BY.

THE RIGHTS SO DEAR TO EVERY AMERICAN GRANTED BY US AND GRANTED BY GOD.

ENSHRINED IN OUR GLORIOUS BILL OF RIGHTS ARE NOW YOURS TO SUPPORT, PROTECT AND DEFEND.

AS CITIZENS YOU'RE NOW STEWARDS OF THIS MAGNIFICENT NATION, A FAMILY COMPRISED OF EVERY RACE, COLOR, RELIGION AND CREED.

UNITED BY THE BONDS OF LOVE WE'RE ONE PEOPLE SHARING ONE HOME, SALUTING ONE GREAT AMERICAN FLAG.

CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN TO ALL OF YOU, MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND MAY GOD BLESS OUR GREAT COUNSEL TRY, AMERICA.

[ Applause ] >> GOD EVENING, AMERICA.

WHEN I STOOD ON THIS CONVENTION STAGE FOUR YEARS AGO, NO ONE FULLY UNDERSTOOD THE HISTORIC CHANGE THAT WAS ABOUT TO TAKE PLACE.

WE CAN ALL FEEL IT.

SOMETHING WAS HOPPING.

A MOVEMENT WAS FORMEING JUST BELOW THE SURFACE.

THE FORGOTTEN MAN AND WOMAN IN WASHINGTON D.C.

WERE PREPARING TO RISE UP.

OUR MOVEMENT FOLLOWED THE PATTERN MUCH SO MANY THAT CAME BEFORE US.

FIRST WE WERE IGNORED.

THEN WE WERE LAUGHED AT.

THEN THEY FOUGHT US AND THEN TOGETHER WE WON.

FROM THAT MOMENT FORWARD AMERICA CAME FIRST.

AMERICA STARTED WINNING AGAIN.

AMERICA BECAME RESPECTED AGAIN.

THERE'S A COUNTER MOVEMENT.

THIS VIEW OF THE RADICAL DEMOCRATS, AMERICA IS A SOURCE OF THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS.

AS A RESULT THEY BELIEVE THE ONLY PATH FORWARD IS TO ERASE HISTORY AND FORGET THE PAST.

THEY WANTED TO DESTROY THE MONUMENTS OF OUR FOREFATHERS, THEY WANT TO DISRESPECT OUR FL FLAG.

BURN THE STARS AND STRIPES THAT REPRESENT PATRIOTISM AND THE AMERICAN DREAM.

THEY WANT TO DISRESPECT OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM BY TAKING KNEE WHILE POUR ARMED FORCES LAY DOWN THEIR LIVES EVERY DAY TO PROTECT OUR FREEDOM.

THEY DO NOT WANT THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE IN OUR SCHOOLS.

MANY DON'T WANT ONE NATION UNDER GOD.

THE DEMOCRATS WANT TO DEFUND AND DISRESPECT OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT.

THE DEMOCRATS WANT AMERICA WHERE YOUR THOUGHTS AND OPINIONS ARE CENSORED WHEN THEY DO NOT ALIGN WITH THEIR OWN.

PRESIDENT REAGAN SAID, FREEDOM IS NEVER MORE THAN ONE GENERATION AWAY FROM EXTINCTION.

IT MUST BE FOUGHT FOR AND PROTECTED.

THIS IS A FIGHT THAT WE ARE IN RIGHT NOW.

AND IT IS A FIGHT THAT ONLY MY FATHER CAN WIN.

MY FATHER RAN NOT BECAUSE HE NEEDED THE JOB.

BUT BECAUSE HE KNEW HARD WORKING PEOPLE ACROSS THIS GREAT COUNTRY WERE BEING LEFT BEHIND.

MEDIA MOCKED THESE PATRIOTS IN FLY OVER STATES IN WHICH THEY LIVED.

THEY IGNORED THE TRUMP FLAGS, IGNORED THE MILLIONS OF MAGA BANNERS.

THE SILENT MAJORITY HAD NO ONE FIGHTING FOR THEM IN EITHER PARTY.

THEIR SO-CALLED LEADERS WERE BO BOYING TO CHINA, SPEND MORE TIME WORRYING HOW THEY WOULD BE RECEIVED BY THE ELITES IN PARIS THAN HOW AMERICANS WOULD PROVIDE FOR THEIR FAMILIES.

OUR FAMILY LOST FRIENDS BUT ONLY PUSHED US TO FIGHT HARDER.

PLEDGED TO EVERY AMERICAN AND EVERY CITY, STATE AND TOWN THAT HE WAS GOING TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.

SO BEGAN THE GREAT AMERICAN COME BACK.

ALMOST IMMEDIATELY TAXES WERE SLASHED, REGULATIONS WERE CUT, AND ECONOMY SOARED TO NEW HEIGHTS, HEIGHTS NEVER SEEN BEFORE.

WAGES WENT THROUGH THE ROOF, UNEMPLOYMENT REACHED HISTORIC LOWS ESPECIALLY FOR BLACK AMERICANS.

HISPANIC AMERICANS AND WOMEN.

TRADE DEALS WERE RIPPED UP AND RENEGOTIATED.

LIGHTS WERE TURNED BACK ON AND ABANDONED FACTORIES ACROSS OUR COUNTRY.

TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS WERE REPATRIATED BACK TO THE UNITED STATES.

ONCE AGAIN, AMERICA BECAME THE ENVY OF THE WORLD.

AND WITH THAT RENEWED STRENGTH CAME LEVERAGE.

THE PRESIDENT DEMANDED THAT OUR ALLIES PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE FOR THE DEFENSE OF THE WESTERN WO WORLD.

MY FATHER REBUILT THE MIGHTY AMERICAN MILITARY ADDING NEW JETS, AIRCRAFT CARRIERS, INCREASED WAGES FOR INCREDIBLE MEN AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM.

HE EXPANDED OUR MILITARY DEFENSE BUDGET TO $721 BILLION PER YEAR.

AMERICA WAS NO LONGER WEAK IN THE EYE OF THE ENEMY.

THE MOMENT PRESIDENT TRUMP ORD ORDERED SPECIAL FORCES TO KILL SOME OF THE DEADLIEST TERRORISTS ON THE PLANET.

IS THE DAY AMERICA TOOK A STANCE NEVER BE DEFEATED BY THE ENEMY.

AL BAGDADI, SOLIMONI, DEAD.

THE ECONOMY, THE WALL, THE MILITARY, TRADE DEALS, TAX CUTS, SUPREME COURT JUSTICES.

V.A.

HOSPITALS, PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, SCHOOL CHOICE, RIGHT TO TRY.

MOVING THE EMBASSY TOE JERU JERUSALEM, PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

NEVER ENDING WARS WERE FINALLY ENDED, PROMISES MADE AND PROMISES FOR THE FIRST TIME WERE KEPT.

MOST POLITICIANS SPEND THEIR ENTIRE CAREERS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. AND GET ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ACCOMPLISHED.

FOR EXAMPLE, JOE BIDEN.

JOE BIDEN IS A POLITICIAN WHO HAS BEEN IN GOVERNMENT FOR 47 YEARS.

HE'S A CAREER POLITICS, NEVER SIGNED THE FRONT OF A CHECK, DOESN'T KNOW THE SLIGHTEST THING ABOUT THE AMERICAN WORKER AND THE BUSINESS.

THE ENGINE WHO FUELS THE GREATEST ECONOMY THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN.

SAME POLITICS HAS BEEN A TOTAL PUSH OVER FOR COMMUNIST CHINA AND SOMEONE WHO WOULD AB GIANT RELIEF FOR TERRORISTS WHO NOW SPENT YEARS RUNNING, HIDING AND BEING TAKEN OUT BY THE MOST TALENTED MILITARY KNOWN TO MAN.

JOE BIDEN HAS PLEDGED TO RAISE YOUR TAXES BY $4 TRILLION.

82% OF AMERICANS WILL SEE THEIR TAXES GO UP SIGNIFICANTLY.

BIDEN HAS PLEDGED TO STOP BORDER WALL CONSTRUCTION AND GIVE AMNESTY AND HEALTH CARE TO ALL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

BIDEN HAS PLEDGED TO DEFUND THE POLICE AND TAKE AWAY YOUR CHERISHED SECOND AMENDMENT.

MY FATHER ON THE OTHER HAND DELIVERED LARGEST TAX CUTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY, KNOWS IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A BORDER YOU DO NOT HAVE A COUNTRY.

AND WILL ALWAYS SUPPORT LAW ENFORCEMENT AND YOUR RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS.

EVERY DAY MY FATHER FIGHTS FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

THE FORGOTTEN MAN AND WOMAN OF THIS COUNTRY.

THE ONES WHO EMBODY THE AMERICAN SPIRIT WHICH IS UNLIKE ANYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD.

IT BUILT THE NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE.

IT BUILT THE HOOVER DAM.

AND SOON, UNDER MY FATHER'S LEADERSHIP IT WILL SEND AMERICANS TO MARS.

THE AMERICAN SPIRIT CAN BE FELT IN THE MAJESTY OF THE GRAND CANYON, THE SHADOWS OF MOUNT RUSHMORE AND STILLNESS OF THE GETTYSBURG.

SEEN IN THE BIDE-I'D WONDER OF EVERY AMERICAN CHILD AS THEY TAKE THEIR FIRST BREATH IN THE GREATEST COUNTRY THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN.

IT DEFEATED FASCISM, IT DEFEATED COMMUNISM AND IN 68 DAYS IT WILL DEFEAT THE EMPTY OPPRESSIVE AND RADICAL VIEWS OF THE EXTREME LEFT.

RONALD REAGAN'S QUOTE ENDS WITH THIS SIMPLE WARNING, ONE DAY WE CAN SPEND OUR SUNSET YEARS TELLING OUR CHILDREN WHO IT WAS ONCE LIKE IN THE UNITED STATES WHERE MEN AND WOMEN WERE FREE.

UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP FREEDOM WILL NEVER BE A THING OF THE PAST.

THAT'S WHAT SPA VOTE FOR DONALD TRUMP REPRESENTS.

IT'S A VOTE FOR THE AMERICAN SPIRIT.

THE AMERICAN DREAM AND FOR THE AMERICAN FLAG.

TO THE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, WHO IS BEING ATTACKED, BETRAYED AND WHOSE JOB THEY ARE TRYING TO MAKE EXTINCTION, MY FATHER WILL FIGHT FOR YOU.

TO ALL HOUSES OF WORSHIP AND TO ALL PEOPLE OF FAITH, STRIPPED OF OUR RELIGIOUS FREEDOMS AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTIES, MY FATHER WILL FIGHT FOR YOU.

TO THE VOICELESS, SHAMED, CEN CENSORED, CANCELLED, MY FATHER WILL FIGHT FOR YOU.

TO OUR FARMERS WHO WORK DAWN TO DUSK TO KEEP OUR PLATES FULL, MY FATHER WILL FIGHT FOR YOU.

TO EVERY SINGLE MOTHER AND FATHER, TO OUR VETERANS, OUR COAL MINERS, TO THE AMERICAN WORKER, MY FATHER WILL FIGHT FOR YOU.

AND TO EVERY PROUD AMERICAN WHO BELIEVES RED, WHITE AND BLUE, MY FATHER WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT FOR YOU.

IN CLOSING I'D LIKE TO SPEAK DIRECTLY TO MY FATHER.

I MISS WORKING ALONG SIDE YOU EVERY SINGLE DAY.

BUT I'M DAMN PROUD TO BE ON THE FRONT LINES OF THIS FIGHT.

I'M PROUD OF WHAT YOU'RE DOING FOR THIS COUNTRY.

I'M PROUD TO SHOW MY CHILDREN WHAT THEIR GRANDFATHER IS FI FIGHTING FOR.

I'M PROUD TO WATCH YOU GIVE THEM HELL, NEVER STOP.

CONTINUE TO BE UNAPOLOGETIC.

KEEP FIGHTING FOR WHAT IS RIGHT.

YOU ARE MAKING AMERICA STRONG AGAIN.

YOU ARE MAKING AMERICA SAFE AGAIN.

YOU ARE MAKING AMERICA PROUD AGAIN.

AND, YES, TOGETHER WITH FORGOTTEN MAN AND WOMAN WHO ARE FINALLY FORGOTTEN NO MORE, YOU ARE MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.

DAD, LET'S MAKE UNCLE ROBERT VERY PROUD THIS WEEK.

LET'S GO GET ANOTHER FOUR YEARS.

I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH.

GOD BLESS YOU.

AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

>> Woodruff: ERIC TRUMP, SECOND OLDEST SON SPEAKING AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION SPEAKING AT THE AUDITORIUM IN DOWNTOWN WASHINGTON.

TWO MINUTES NOW WE'RE GOING TO SPEAK TO HISTORIAN, MICHAEL BESCHLOSS BEFORE WE COME BACK TO THE CONVENTION.

MICHAEL, WHAT WE'RE HEARING OVER LAST SEVERAL MINUTES THAT AGAIN THAT STARK CONTRAST BETWEEN WHAT DONALD TRUMP CAN DO FOR YOU AND THE DARK, UGLY, FRIGHTENING FUTURE THAT AMERICA WOULD FACE IF JOE BIDEN IS ELECTED IN NOVEMBER S. THIS THE KIND OF STARK CHOICE AMERICANS HAVE FACED OVER HISTORY AS THEY HAVE CHOSEN THEIR PRESIDENT?

>> NO, I THINK NOT.

RICHARD NIXON IN 1972 SAID THAT HIS CONFLICT WITH GEORGE McGOVERN, THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE WAS THE CLEAREST CHOICE IN A CENTURY.

THAT IS TRIVIAL COMPARED TO THE DIFFERENCES THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT NOW.

AND I THINK IF YOU HEAR MORE LANGUAGE LIKE THIS, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE VERY SCARED.

NOT SURE WHAT IS GOING TO DRIVE THEM TO DO IN NOVEMBER.

>> Woodruff: IT IS -- I WROTE DOWN SOME OF WHAT ERIC TRUMP WAS SAYING.

HE SAID BEE HAVE A CHOICE.

THE FABRIC OF THE NATION IS IN PERIL, THERE'S THE DARK ROAD OF CHAOS AND GOVERNMENT CONTROL IN ONE DIRECTION.

OR A PATH OF FREEDOM AND OPPORTUNITY IN THE OTHER.

WE ARE HEARING SOME UPLIFTING STORIES FROM AMERICANS.

WE SAW THE PRESIDENT NATURALIZATION CEREMONY AT THE WHITE HOUSE USING THE POMP AND PAGEANTRY OF THE WHITE HOUSE FOR THAT.

BUT THE MESSAGE THE REPUBLICANS KEEP RETURNING TO IS THE DARKNESS OF THE DEMOCRATS.

>> REPUBLICANS FOR OPPORTUNITY.

CHARGING THAT THE DEMOCRATS WILL ALLOW THERE TO BE CHAOS AND LACK OF LAW AND ORDER BUT THIS YEAR THE DECIBEL LEVEL IS BEING TURNED UP ABOUT FIVE TIMES.

>> AND MICHAEL, IN TERMS OF THE WAY THE PRESIDENT IS USED THE PRESIDENCY, HE'S USED THE WHITE HOUSE, WE'VE SEEN THEM THREE TIMES, FOUR TIMES NOW AT THE CONVENTION FROM THE WHITE HOUSE ITSELF.

WE HEARD HAIL TO THE CHIEF.

TO WHAT EXTENT IS THIS IN THE TRADITION OF OUT PRESIDENTS RUN FOR RE-ELECTION?

>> TOTALLY DIFFERENT FROM AMERICAN HISTORY.

PRESIDENTS DO NOT USE THE WHITE HOUSE THIS WAY.

DON'T HAVE PARDON CEREMONIES.

DON'T HAVE NATURALIZATION CEREMONIES IN THE MIDDLE OF A CONVENTION.

AND WE'RE ABOUT TO TONIGHT HEAR A SECRETARY OF STATE, MIKE POMPEO, SPEAKING FROM FOREIGN SOIL ON DOMESTIC POLITICS APPEARING AT A REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

THAT VIOLATES A TRADITION THAT'S GONE ON AT LEAST SINCE WORLD WAR II.

>> Woodruff: WE WILL CONTINUE TO WATCH.

MICHAEL BESCHLOSS, HISTORIAN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

RIGHT NOW WE'RE GETTING READY TO GO BACK TO THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION SHORTLY WE WILL HEAR FROM THE ATTORNEY OF THE STATE OF CONTRACT KENTUCKY, DANIEL CAMERON.

HERE HE IS.

>> GOOD EVENING.

MY NAME IS DANIEL CAMERON I'M 34 YEARS OLD AND FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL IN KENTUCKY HISTORY.

IT IS AN HONOR TO BE WITH YOU AS A PROUD REPUBLICAN AND SUPPORT OF OF DONALD J. TRUMP.

I WAS RAISED IN KENTUCKY JUST A FEW MILES FROM ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S BURST DAYS.

OUR FIRST REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT BELIEVED IN FREEDOM, EQUALITY AND JUSTICE.

SADLY, THERE SOME ARE WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN THIS WISDOM OR IN THE BETTER ANGELS OF OUR SHARED AMERICAN HISTORY.

AS THEY TEAR DOWN THE STATUES OF PEOPLE LIKE ULYSSES S. GRANT, FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND EVEN MR MR. LINCOLN HIMSELF.

LINCOLN SAID, ANY NATION THAT DOES NOT HONOR ITS HEROES WILL NOT LONG ENDURE.

AND FOR REPUBLICANS, OUR HEROES ARE THOSE WHO PROPELLED AN IMPERFECT NATION EVER FORWARD ALWAYS STRIVING TO MAKE LIFE BETTER FOR EVERYONE.

EVEN AS ANARCHISTS, MINDLESSLY TEAR OF AMERICAN CITIES WHILE ATTACKING POLICE AND INNOCENT BYSTANDERS, WE REPUBLICANS DO RECOGNIZE THOSE WHO WORK IN GOOD FAITH TOWARDS PEACE, JUSTICE AND EQUALITY.

IN FACT, IT WAS GENERAL DWIGHT EISENHOWER A FUTURE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT WHO SAID, DEMOCRACY IS A SYSTEM THAT RECOGNIZES THE EQUALITY OF HUMANS BEFORE THE LAW.

WHETHER YOU ARE THE FAMILY OF B BRIONNA TAYLOR OR DAVID DORN THESE ARE THE IDEALS THAT WILL HEAL OUR NATION'S WOUNDS.

REPUBLICANS WILL NEVER TURN A BLIND EYE TO UNJUST ACTS.

BUT NEITHER WILL WE ACCEPT AN ALL-OUT ASSAULT ON WESTERN CIVILIZATION.

MY VALUES WERE SHAPED BY MY FAITH AND BY MY PARENTS.

I WORKED AT THEIR SMALL COFFEE SH MEETING PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE.

I REALIZED SOMETHING.

NO MATTER WHO WE ARE, EVERYONE NEEDS A CUP OF COFFEE.

THAT LESSON WITH ME BECAUSE DESPITE OUR DIFFERENCES WE ALL WANTED THE SAME THINGS FOR OUR CHILDREN TO HAVE MORE OPPORTUNITIES THAN WE DID.

TO FILL THE DIGNITY OF WORK AND TO BELIEVE THAT IF YOU PLAY BY THE RULES, YOU CAN MAKE A GOOD LIFE FOR YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY.

SO THE QUESTION IS, WILL WE CHOOSE THE PATH THAT GIVES US THE BEST CHANCE TO MEET THOSE UNIVERSAL DESIRES.

OR WILL WE GO BACKWARD TO A TIME WHEN PEOPLE WERE TREATED LIKE POLITICAL COMMODITIES WHO CAN'T BE TRUSTED TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES.

I THINK OFTEN ABOUT MY ANCESTORS WHO STRUGGLED FOR FREEDOM.

AND AS I THINK OF THOSE GIANTS AND THEIR BROAD SHOULDERS I ALSO THINK ABOUT JOE BIDEN WHO SAYS, IF YOU AREN'T VOTING FOR ME, YOU AIN'T BLACK.

WHO ARGUED THAT REPUBLICANS WILL PUT US BACK IN CHAINS.

WHO SAYS THERE IS NO DIVERSITY OF THOUGHT IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY.

MR. VICE PRESIDENT, LOOK AT ME.

I AM BLACK.

WE ARE NOT ALL THE SAME, SIR.

I AM NOT IN CHAINS.

MY MIND IS MY OWN.

AND YOU CAN'T TELL ME HOW TO VOTE BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF MY SKIN.

JOE BIDEN IS A BACKWARDS THINKER IN A WORLD THAT IS CRAVING FORWARD-LOOKING LEADERSHIP.

THERE'S NO WISDOM IN HIS RECORD OR PLAN.

JUST A TRAIL OF DISCREDITED IDEAS AND OFFENSIVE STATEMENTS.

JOE BIDEN WOULD DESTROY JOBS, RAISE OUR TAXES AND THROW AWAY THE LIVES OF COUNTLESS UNBORN CHILDREN.

AND HE IS CAPTIVE TO THE RADICAL LEFT A MOVEMENT TO COMMITTED TO CANCEL CULTURE AND DESTRUCTION OF PUBLIC DISCOURSE.

THEY BELIEVE THEIR SKIN COLOR MUST DICTATE YOUR POLITICS.

AND IF YOU FAIL TO CONFORM WHILE EXERCISING YOUR GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO THINK AND FEEL FREELY THEY WILL CUT YOU DOWN.

THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY, CAN LAKES AND MOB RULE ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE TO ME.

REPUBLICANS TRUST YOU TO THINK FOR YOURSELF AND PURSUE YOUR AMERICAN DREAM HOWEVER YOU SEE FIT.

MR. LINCOLN SAID THE DOGMAS OF THE QUIET PAST ARE INADEQUATE TO THE STORMY PRESENT.

THE OCCASION IS PILED HIGH WITH DIFFICULTY AND WE MUST RISE TO THE OCCASION.

I BELIEVE DONALD TRUMP CAN MEET LINCOLN'S MANDATE, EVEN AS JOE BIDEN REMAINS TRAPPED BY HIS OWN FAILED RECORD AND BY THE RADICALS WHO DOMINATE HIS PARTY.

LET'S BE HONEST, NO ONE IS EXCITED ABOUT JOE BIDEN.

SO I ASK YOU TO JUDGE THE RECORD.

ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM, JOE BIDEN COULDN'T DO IT.

BUT PRESIDENT TRUMP DID.

ON THE ECONOMY, JOE BIDEN COULDN'T DO IT.

BUT PRESIDENT TRUMP DID BUILD AN ECONOMY THAT WORKED FOR EVER EVERYONE, ESPECIALLY MINORITIES AND HE WILL DO IT AGAIN.

ON IMMIGRATION, JOE BIDEN PROMISES MORE TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS THAN HE DOES TO YOU.

BUT PRESIDENT TRUMP BELIEVES HIS HIGHEST DUTY IS TO THE AMERICAN WORKER.

THE CHOICE IS CLEAR.

LET ME CLOSE WITH SOMETHING MY MOM TOLD ME.

THIS COUNTRY'S MANY FACES COMPRISE A FAMILY.

NOT SEPARATE PARTS TO BE DIVIDED AGAINST EACH OTHER.

AND LIKE ANY FAMILY, WE CARE FOR ONE ANOTHER.

WE GRIEVE TOGETHER.

WE SHARE OUR BURDENS AND OUR STRUGGLES AND WE CELEBRATE OUR SUCCESSES.

AND THOUGH WE FUSS AND FIGHT, WE ARE NOT ENEMIES.

WE ARE AMERICANS.

UNITED BY A COLLECTIVE FAITH IN OUR CONSTITUTION AND LAWS AND FUNDAMENTAL FAIRNESS THEY REPRESENT.

WE ARE DEFENDERS OF LIFE AND OF INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY AND WE CARRY THE MANTLE OF EISENHOWER AND OF REAGAN TO BE A FORCE FOR GOOD IN THIS WORLD.

AND ONE THAT MUST ALWAYS BE RECKONED WITH.

THAT'S MY REPUBLICAN PARTY.

THE PARTY OF LINCOLN.

THAT BELIEVES AMERICA IS AN INDISPENSABLE NATION, AN EVERGREEN TREE STANDING TALL IN A TURBULENT WORLD.

AND THAT'S WHY I AM VOTING FOR DONALD TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT.

THANK YOU.

AND GOD BLESS.

>> HI, I'M MIKE POMPEO.

I'M SPEAKING TO YOU FROM BEAUTIFUL JERUSALEM LOOKING OUT OVER THE OLD CITY.

I HAVE A BIG JOB.

AS SUSAN'S HUSBAND AND NICK'S DAD.

SUSAN AND NICK ARE MORE SAFE AND THEIR FREEDOMS MORE SECURE BECAUSE PUMP PUT HIS AMERICA FIRST VISION INTO ACTION.

AND MAY NOT HAVE MADE POPULAR IN EVERY FOREIGN CAPITAL BUT IT WORKED.

PRESIDENT TRUMP UNDERSTANDS WHAT MIGRATE FELLOW -- FOR ALL THAT WE CHERISH AND JUSTLY DESIRE FOR OURSELVES, OR FOR OUR CHILDREN THE SECURING OF PEACE IS FIRST REQUISITE.

INDEED THE PRIMARY CONSTITUTIONAL FUNCTION OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT TO ENSURE THAT YOUR FAMILY AND MINE ARE SAFE.

AND ENJOY THE FREEDOM TO LIVE, TO WORK, TO LEARN AND TO WORSHIP AS THEY CHOOSE.

DELIVERING ON THIS DUTY TO KEEP US SAFE AND OUR FREEDOMS INTACT THIS PRESIDENT HAS LED BOLD INITIATIVES IN NEARLY EVERY CORNER OF THE WORLD.

IN CHINA, HE'S PULLED BACK THE CURTAIN ON PREDATORY AGGRESSION OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY.

HELD CHINA ACCOUNTABLE FOR CO COVERING UP THE CHINA VIRUS, TO ALLOW DESTRUCTION AROUND THE WORLD.

AND HE WILL NOT REST UNTIL JUSTICE IS DONE.

HE HAS ENSURE THAT THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY SPICE ARE JAILED OR SENT BACK TO CHINA.

AND HE HAS ENDED TRADE AR ARRANGEMENT THAT PUNCHED A WHOLE IN OUR ECONOMY.

CHOSE JOBS ARE COMING BACK HOME.

IN NORTH KOREA THE PRESIDENT LOWERED THE TEMPERATURE, AGAINST ALL ODDS GOT NORTH KOREAN LEADERSHIP TO THE TABLE, NO NUCLEAR TESTS, NO LONG RANGE MISSILE TESTS AND AMERICANS HELD CAPTIVE IN NORTH KOREA CAME HOME TO THEIR FAMILIES.

THE PRECIOUS REMAINS OF SCORES OF HEROES WHO FOUGHT IN KOREA.

TODAY, TODAY BECAUSE OF PRESIDENT TRUMP NATO IS STRO STRONGER, UKRAINE HAS DEFENSIVE WEAPON SYSTEMS AND AMERICA LEFT A HARMFUL TREEY SO OUR NATION CAN BUILD MISSILES.

AND IN THE MIDDLE EAST, WHEN IRAN THREATENED THE PRESIDENT APPROVED A STRIKE THAT KILLED THE IRANIAN TERRORIST.

THAT IS THE MAN MOST RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MURDER AND MAIMING OF HUNDREDS OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS AND THOUSANDS OF CHRISTIANS ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST.

AND YOU'LL RECALL, TOO, THAT WHEN THE PRESIDENT TOOK OFFICE, RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISTS HAD BEHEADED AMERICANS AND ISIS CONTROLLED THE MATERIAL.

TODAY, TODAY BECAUSE OF THE PRESIDENT'S DETERMINATION AND LEADERSHIP THE ISIS CALIPHATE IS WIPED OUT, IT'S GONE.

IT'S EVIL LEADER IS DEAD.

AND OUR BRAVE SOLDIERS THEY'RE ON THEIR WAY HOME.

THE PRESIDENT EXITED THE U.S. FROM THE DISASTROUS NUCLEAR DEAL WITH IRAN AND SQUEEZED THE AYATOLLAH, HEZICHIA, AND HAMAS.

THE PRESIDENTS, TOO, MOVED U.S. EMBASSY TO THIS VERY CITY JERUSALEM.

AND JUST TWO WEEKS AGO, THE PRESIDENT BROKERED HISTORIC PEACE DEAL BETWEEN ISRAEL AND UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.

THAT IS A DEAL THAT OUR GRANDCHILDREN WILL READ ABOUT IN THEIR HISTORY BOOKS.

AS SPA SOLDIER, I SAW FIRSTHAND PEOPLE DESPERATE TO FLEE TO FREEDOM.

THE WAY EACH OF US CAN BEST ENSURE OUR FREEDOMS AS BY EL ELECTING LEADERS WHO DON'T JUST TALK BUT WHO DELIVER.

AN AMERICAN HOSTAGE, IMPRISONED IN TURKEY FOR TWO YEARS, SAID UPON HIS RELEASE THAT HE SURVIVED HIS ORDEAL WITH THESE WORDS OF SCRIPTURE.

BE FAITHFUL.

ENDURE AND FINISH WELL.

IF WE STAY THE COURSE, WE WILL.

MAY GOD RICHLY BLESS YOU AND BLESS OUR GREAT NATION, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

[ Applause ] >> Woodruff: WE'RE WATCHING THE ROSE GARDEN AT THE WHITE HOUSE.

PRESIDENT TRUMP FOLLOWING VICE PRESIDENT PENCE AND HIS WIFE KAREN PENCE OUT.

THAT IS THE NEWLY REDONE, REDESIGNED ROSE GARDEN THE PRESIDENT JUST CROSSED THERE YOU'LL SEE HIM MOVING FORWARD IN A MOMENT.

WE EXPECT TO HEAR FROM THE FIRST LADY.

>> IT IS MY GREAT HONOR TO PRESENT FIRST LADY, MELAN I CAN'T TRUMP.

>> FIRST LADY MELAN I CAN'T TRUMP.

OFFICIALLY TICKING OFF HER BE BEST INITIATIVES.

>> SHE'S TAKING ON A TOUGH TO TOPIC.

>> FOCUSED ON SOCIAL MEDIA USE.

>> JOIN TOGETHER TO HELP CHILDREN THINK BIG AND DO ALL THEY CAN TO BE BEST IN EVERYTHING THEY DO.

>> THIS IS HER SHOWCASING WHAT SHE BRINGS TO THE POSITION OF FIRST LADY.

>> SHE IS SMART, INDEPENDENT, PEOPLE UNDERESTIMATED HER.

>> FIRST LADY WAS AMAZING.

SHE WAS GRACIOUS.

EMPATHETIC AND SHOWED TRUE COMPASSION.

>> FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP STEPPING OUT TO THE WORLD CAMPAIGN.

>> NOW GOING TO NATIONAL.

SHE HAS ADVANTAGE OF SPEAKING SEVERAL LANGUAGES.

SHE CAN BE A DIPLOMAT FOR OUR COUNTRY.

>> SUN WAS SHINING, SHE WAS GREETED BY CHILDREN.

THIS OF COURSE IS HER CONTINUING TO BE ON BE BEST CAMPAIGN BY SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON SUCCSUCCESSFUL PROGRAMS THAT TE.

>> SHE REPRESENTS OUR COUNTRY IN ELEGANCE AND GRACE.

>> THROUGHOUT HISTORY WE HAVE MADE LASTING IMPACTS ON SOCIETY.

AND REPRESENT THE STRENGTH OF THE FEMALE SPIRIT.

AS FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES, I'M PROUD OF OUR COUNTRY TO DO FOR WOMEN.

WE AS WOMEN MUST CONTINUE USING OUR GREAT TOOL OF EMPOWERMENT, OUR VOICES.

>> IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT POINT MOMENT.

THIS WAS A LEAP FOR HER.

>> THE ICONIC WHITE HOUSE ROSE GARDEN HAS BEEN RENOVATED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 60 YEARS.

>> WHEN HISTORY BOOKS ARE WRITTEN THERE SHOULD BE SPECIAL CHAPTER RESERVED OUR OUR FIRST LADY.

>> SHE'S INCREDIBLE FIRST LADY.

>> AN AMAZING MOTHER.

INCREDIBLE WOMAN.

FIRST LADY, MELANIA TRUMP.

[ Applause ] >> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLEASE WELCOME THE FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES, MRS. MELANIA TRUMP.

>> GOOD EVENING.

IT SEEMS LIKE JUST YESTERDAY THAT WE WERE AT OUR FIRST CONVENTION WHERE MY HUSBAND ACCEPTED THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION AND THEN BECAME OUR 45th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

YET THE ENERGY AND ENTHUSIASM FOR WHO SHOULD LEAD THIS NATION, IT IS REAL TODAY AS IT WAS FOUR YEARS AGO.

I KNOW I SPEAK FOR MY HUSBAND AND THE ENTIRE FAMILY WHEN I SAY WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN THE INCREDIBLE PEOPLE WHO ARE WILLING TO TAKE A CHANCE ON THE BUSINESSMAN WHO HAVE NEVER WORKED IN POLITICS.

WE KNOW IT WAS YOU WHO ELECTED HIM TO BE COMMANDER IN CHIEF.

AND WE KNOW IT IS YOU WHO WILL CARRY US THROUGH AGAIN.

WE WERE HUMBLED BY INCREDIBLE SUPPORT THEN AND WE ARE STILL GRATEFUL TODAY.

I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE FACT THAT SINCE MARCH OUR LIVES HAVE CHANGED DRASTICALLY.

THE INVISIBLE ENEMY, COVID-19, SWEPT ACROSS OUR BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY AND IMPACTED ALL OF US.

MY DEEPEST SYMPATHY GOES OUT TO EVERYONE WHO HAS LOST A LOVED ONE.

AND MY PRAYERS ARE WITH THOSE WHO ARE ILL OR SUFFERING.

I KNOW MANY PEOPLE ARE ANXIOUS AND SOME FEEL HELPLESS.

I WANTED TO KNOW YOU'RE NOT ALONE.

MY HUSBAND'S ADMINISTRATION WILL NOT STOP FIGHTING UNTIL THERE IS AN EFFECTIVE TREATMENT OR VACCINE AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE.

DONALD WILL NOT REST UNTIL HE HAS DONE ALL HE CAN TO TAKE CARE OF EVERYONE IMPACTED BY THIS TERRIBLE PANDEMIC.

I WANT TO EXTEND MY GRATITUDE TO ALL OF THE HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS, FRONT LINE WORKERS AND TEACHERS WHO STEPPED UP IN THIS DIFFICULT TIMES.

DESPITE THE RISK TO YOURSELVES, AND YOUR OWN FAMILIES, YOU PUT OUR COUNTRY FIRST AND MY HUSBAND AND I ARE GRATEFUL.

I HAVE BEEN MOVED BY THE WAY AMERICANS HAVE COME TOGETHER IN SUCH AN UNFAMILIAR AND OFTEN FRIGHTENING SITUATION.

IT IS IN TIMES LIKE THIS THAT WE WILL LOOK BACK AND TELL OUR GRANDCHILDREN THAT THROUGH KI KINDNESS AND COMPASSION, STRENGTH AND DETERMINATION, WE WERE ABLE TO RESTORE THE PROMISE OF OUR FUTURE.

BUSINESSES STEPPED UP AND VOLUNTEERS STEPPED IN.

PEOPLE WERE EAGER TO SHARE ID IDEAS, RESOURCES AND SUPPORT OF ALL KINDS WITH NEIGHBORS AND STRANGERS ALIKE.

IT HAS BEEN INSPIRING TO SEE WHAT THE PEOPLE OF OUR GREAT NATION WILL DO FOR ONE ANOTHER.

ESPECIALLY WHEN WE ARE AT OUR MOST FRAGILE.

SPEAKING OF STRENGTH AND DETERMINATION, WE RECENTLY CELEBRATED THE 100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE PASSAGE OF THE 19th AMENDMENT.

YESTERDAY ON THE NORTH LAWN OF THE WHITE HOUSE, WE UNVAIL AN EXHIBIT DEDICATED TO WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.

THE EXHIBIT CALLED ON CHILDREN FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO SEND ART HONORING THE MEANING OF THIS IMPORTANT TIME IN WOMEN'S HISTORY.

WHEN I WAS JUDGING THE ENTRIES I REFLECTED ON THE IMPACT OF WO WOMEN'S VOICES IN OUR NATION'S STORY.

AND HOW PROUD I WILL BE TO CAST MY VOTE AGAIN FOR DONALD THIS NOVEMBER.

WE MUST MAKE SURE THAT WOMEN ARE HEARD AND THAT AMERICAN DREAM CONTINUES TO THRIVE.

GROWING UP AS A YOUNG CHILD IN SLOVENIA, WHICH WAS UNDER COMMUNIST RULE AT THE TIME, I ALWAYS HEARD ABOUT AN AMAZING PLACE CALLED AMERICA, A LAND THAT STOOD FOR FREEDOM AND OPPORTUNITY.

AS I GREW OLDER IT BECAME MY GOAL TO MOVE TO THE UNITED STATES AND FOLLOW MY DREAM OF WORKING IN THE FASHION INDUSTRY.

MY PARENTS WORKED VERY HARD TO ENSURE OUR FAMILY COULD NOT ONLY LEAVE AND PROSPER IN AMERICA, BUT ALSO CONTRIBUTE TO A NATION THAT ALLOWS FOR PEOPLE TO ARRIVE WITH A DREAM AND MAKE IT REA REALITY.

I WANT TO TAKE THE MOMENT TO THANK MY MOTHER AND FATHER FOR ALL THEY HAVE DONE FOR OUR FAMILY.

IT IS BECAUSE OF YOU THAT I'M STANDING HERE TODAY.

[ Applause ] PLUS [ Applause ] I ARRIVED IN THE UNITED STATES WHEN I WAS 26 YEARS OLD LIVING AND WORKING IN THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY.

WAS A DREAM COME TRUE.

BUT I WANTED MORE.

I WANTED TO BE A CITIZEN.

AFTER TEN YEARS OF PAPERWORK AND PATIENCE, I STUDIED FOR THE TEST IN 2006 AND BECAME AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.

[ Applause ] IT IS STILL ONE OF THE PROUDEST MOMENTS IN MY LIFE BECAUSE WITH HARD WORK AND DETERMINATION I WAS ABLE TO ACHIEVE MY OWN AMERICAN DREAM.

AS AN IMMIGRANT AND VERY INDEPENDENT WOMAN, I UNDERSTAND WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS TO LIVE HERE AND TO ENJOY THE FREEDOMS AND OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE HAVE.

AS FIRST LADY, I HAVE BEEN FORTUNATE TO SEE THE AMERICAN DREAM COME TRUE OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

I HAVE MET MANY INSPIRING WOMEN, CHILDREN, PARENTS AND FAMILIES WHO HAVE OVERCOME LIFE-CHANGING ISSUES THAT INCLUDE ADDICTION, HOMELESSNESS, FAMILY MEMBERS WHO ARE ILL OR HAVE PASSED AWAY, ABUSE OF ALL KINDS.

AND MANY OTHER CHALLENGES THAT WOULD MAKE MOST PEOPLE GIVE UP.

THE PAST THREE AND A HALF YEARS HAVE BEEN UNFORGETTABLE.

THERE ARE NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE HOW HONORED, HUMBLED AND FORTUNATE I AM TO SERVE OUR NATION AS YOUR FIRST LADY.

AFTER MANY OF THE EXPERIENCES I'VE HAD, I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN FULLY EXPLAIN HOW MANY PEOPLE I TAKE HOME WITH ME IN MY HEART EACH DAY.

FROM BRAVE SOLDIERS WHO GIVE UP SO MUCH SO THAT WE CAN BE FREE, TO CHILDREN OF ALL CIRCUMSTANCES WHO I HAVE MET AROUND THE WORLD.

THANK YOU FOR INSPIRING ME.

IT IS MY GREATEST HONOR TO SERVE YOU.

WHEN I SPEAK TO MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY, DESPITE SACRIFICING TIME WITH THEIR FAMILIES, EXPERIENCE THE FEAR OF WAR OR SUFFERING LOSS, THEY HAVE NO REGRETS ABOUT SERVING OUR COUNTRY.

THE SAME GOES FOR THEIR FAMILIES AND THE FAMILIES OF FIRST RESPONDERS WHO OFTEN WATCH THEIR LOVED ONES WALK OUT THE DOOR NOT SURE IF OR WHEN THEY WILL COME HOME.

WHEN I SPEAK TO FAMILIES WHO HAVE LOST SOMEONE, THE PAIN -- I HEAR IN THEIR VOICES SOMETHING I THINK ABOUT OFTEN.

SO THANK YOU TO ALL WHO SERVE OUR COUNTRY IN THE MILITARY AND AS FIRST RESPONDERS.

AND THANK YOU TO THE FAMILIES WHO WAIT FOR THEM.

YOU ARE OUR HEROES IN YOUR OWN RIGHT.

I HAVE ALSO BEEN MOVED BY THE MANY CHILDREN AND FAMILIES I'VE SPENT TIME WITH AT HOSPITALS, SCHOOLS AND OTHER LOCATIONS AROUND THE WORLD.

CHILDREN WHO ARE DEALING WITH PAIN OR ILLNESS THAT WOULD BREAK EVEN THE STRONGEST ADULT.

PARENTS WHO ARE GRATEFUL TO WAKE UP EVERY DAY AND SEE THEIR DEAR CHILD IS STILL ALIVE.

FAMILIES A TESTAMENT TO WHAT FAITH IN MEDICINE, STRENGTH AND SCIENCE CAN DO.

ON MY FIRST INTERNATIONAL TRIP AS FIRST LADY, MY HUSBAND AND I VISITED PLACES OF GREAT SIGNIFICANCE TO THE THREE MANGE OR RELIGIONS, ISLAM, CHRISTIANITY AND JUDAISM.

ONE SPECIAL MEMORY FROM THAT TRIP IS OF A YOUNG BOY, I HAD PRIVILEGE OF VISITING AT THE HOSPITAL IN ROME, ITALY.

WHILE THERE, I READ THE LITTLE BOY A STORY AND LEARNED THAT HE AND HIS FAMILY HAD BEEN WAITING FOR A HEART FOR A VERY LONG TI TIME.

AND HE HAD A GRIM PROGNOSIS.

IT BROUGHT MY STAFF AND ME TO TEARS.

THIS SPOKE AS WE FLEW TO BELGIUM FOR THE NEXT PART OF OUR TRIP.

UPON LANDING JUST A FEW HOURS LATER, WE LEARNED THAT A HEART HAD BEEN DONATED AND WOULD BE GOING TO THE LITTLE ONE.

I THINK ABOUT HIM OFTEN, ALONG WITH SO MANY AMAZING AND STRONG YOUNG PATIENTS ACROSS OUR OWN COUNTRY.

MORE PROFOUND AND SADLY U UNAVOIDABLE EXAMPLES OF OUR COUNTRY'S STRENGTH AND CHARACTER HAVE OCCURRED IN THE COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE BEEN IMPACTED BY NATURAL DISASTERS.

HURRICANES, TORNADOES AND FLOODING SHOW THE YOU GOLY SIDE OF MOTHER NATURE.

BUT IN THE AFTERMATH THEY CAN SHOW US A BEAUTIFUL SIDE OF HUMANITY.

MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE VISITED MANY PLACES THAT HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY NATURAL DISA DISASTD WE ARE DEEPLY MOVED BY THE STRENGTH OF THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST EVERYTHING.

AND THE KINDNESS OF NEIGHBORS AND COMMUNITIES.

THE COMMON THREAD IN ALL OF THESE CHALLENGING SITUATIONS IS THE UNWAVERING RESOLVE TO HELP ONE ANOTHER.

I RECOGNIZE THE STORIES I JUST TOLD ABOUT PEOPLE WHO SURVIVE EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES.

BUT DONALD AND I ARE ALSO INSPIRED BY THE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS WHO WAKE UP EACH DAY WITH THE SIMPLE YET COURAGEOUS GOAL OF PROVIDING FOR THEIR FAMILIES AND KEEPING THEM SAFE.

YOU ARE THE BACKBONE OF THIS COUNTRY.

YOU ARE THE PEOPLE WHO CONTINUE TO MAKE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WHAT IT IS.

AND WHO HAVE THE INCREDIBLE RESPONSIBILITY OF PREPARING OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS TO LEAVE EVERYTHING EVEN BETTER THAN THEY FOUND IT.

JUST AS YOU ARE FIGHTING FOR YOUR FAMILIES, MY HUSBAND, OUR FAMILY AND THE PEOPLE IN THIS ADMINISTRATION ARE HERE FIGHTING FOR YOU.

NO MATTER THE AMOUNT OF NEGATIVE OR FALSE MEDIA HEADLINES OR ATTACKS FROM THE OTHER SIDE, DONALD TRUMP HAS NOT AND WILL NOT LOSE FOCUS ON YOU.

HE LOVES THIS COUNTRY.

AND HE KNOWS HOW TO GET THINGS DONE.

AS YOU HAVE LEARNED OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS, HE'S NOT A TRADITIONAL POLITICIAN.

HE DOESN'T JUST SPEAK WORDS.

HE DEMANDS ACTION AND HE GETS RESULTS.

THE FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY IMPORTANT TO HIM.

AND IT IS SOMETHING THAT I HAVE ALWAYS ADMIRED.

IN FACT, IT IS THE HELP ENSURE A BETTER FUTURE FOR OUR NEXT GENERATION THAT I LAUNCH "BE BEST" MY INITIATIVE TO HELP CHILDREN ACHIEVE THEIR FULLEST POTENTIAL.

"BE BEST" HAS ONE SIMPLE GOAL.

TEACHING YOUTH ABOUT IMPORTANCE OF THEIR WELL BEING BOTH MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY.

THIS ALSO INCLUDES UNDERSTANDING ONLINE SAFETY AND THE DANGERS OF OPIOID AND DRUG ABUSE.

THROUGH "BE BEST" MY OFFICE AND I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO HIGH HEIGHT PEOPLE, PROGRAMS AND ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE DOING EXTRAORDINARY THINGS IN OUR COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD.

I CONTINUE TO BELIEVE THAT BY SHINING A LIGHT ON THIS POSITIVE EXAMPLES OTHERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND GLOBE WILL BECOME INSPIRED TO BE A PART FOR OUR NEXT GENERATION.

HELPING CHILDREN IS NOT A POLITICAL GOAL.

IT IS OUR MORAL IMPERATIVE.

WHEN I THINK BACK TO A DEFINING MOMENT OF "BE BEST" MY MIND GOES TO A TRIP I TOOK TO AFRICA.

ON THAT VAST AND BEAUTIFUL CONTINENT I WAS ABLE TO VISIT THE COUNTRIES OF GHANA, MALAWI, KENYA AND EGYPT.

ONE OF THOSE VISITS IN PARTICULAR HAD A PROFOUND IMPACT ON ME.

GHANA, ON THE COAST OF WEST AFRICA, WAS THE FIRST STOP ON MY TRIP AND I EXPERIENCED FIRSTHAND ITS WARM PEOPLE AND DEAR TRADITIONS.

WHILE THERE, I VISITED THE CAPE COAST CASTLE AND LEARNED MORE ABOUT THE BEGINNING OF A CRUEL AND OFTEN DEADLY JOURNEY IN THE ERA OF THE SLAVE TRADE.

I WAS HORRIFIED WHEN I LISTENED TO THE GUIDE TELL ME SO MANY INHUMANE STORIES AND I GAINED NEW PERSPECTIVES.

IT IS TIME IN OUR HISTORY WE MUST NEVER FORGET SO THAT WE CAN ENSURE THAT IT NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN.

LIKE ALL OF YOU I HAVE REFLECTED ON THE RACIAL UNREST IN OUR COUNTRY.

IT IS A HARSH REALITY THAT WE ARE NOT PROUD OF PARTS OF OUR HISTORY.

I ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO FOCUS ON OUR FUTURE WHILE STILL LEARNING FROM OUR PAST.

WE MUST REMEMBER THAT TODAY WE ARE ALL ONE COMMUNITY, COMPRISED OF MANY RACES, RELIGIOUS AND ETHNICITIES.

OUR DIVERSE AND STORIED HISTORY IS WHAT MAKES OUR COUNTRY STRONG AND YET WE STILL HAVE SO MUCH TO LEARN FROM ONE ANOTHER.

WITH THAT IN MIND, I'D LIKE TO CALL ON ARE THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY TO TAKE A MOMENT, PAUSE, AND LOOK AT THINGS FROM ALL PERSPECTIVES.

OF I URGE PEOPLE TO COME TOGETHER IN A CIVIL MANNER SO WE CAN WORK AND LIVE UP TO OUR STANDARD AMERICAN IDEALS.

I ALSO ASK PEOPLE TO STOP THE VIOLENCE AND LOOTING BEING DONE IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE.

AND NEVER MAKE ASSUMPTIONS BASED ON THE COLOR OF A PERSON'S SKIN.

INSTEAD OF TEARING THINGS DOWN, LET'S REFLECT ON OUR MISTAKES.

BE PROUD OF OUR EVOLUTION.

AND LOOK TO OUR WAY FORWARD.

LET US REMEMBER THAT WE ARE ONE NATION UNDER GOD AND WE NEED TO CHERISH ONE ANOTHER.

MY HUSBAND'S ADMINISTRATION HAS WORKED TO TRY AND AFFECT CHANGE WHEN IT COMES TO ISSUES AROUND RACE AND RELIGION IN THIS COUNTRY.

HE'S THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO ADDRESS A SPECIAL SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO CALL UPON COUNTRIES ACROSS THE WORLD TO END RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION AND HONOR THE RIGHT OF EVERY PERSON TO WORSHIP AS THEY CHOOSE.

HE HAS MADE SUBSTANTIAL INVESTMENTS IN OUR HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES.

THIS PRESIDENT ALSO CONTINUES TO FIGHT FOR SCHOOL CHOICE GIVING PARENTS MORE OPTIONS TO HELP THEIR CHILDREN FLOURISH.

MY HUSBAND KNOWS HOW TO MAKE A REAL CHANGE.

FROM THE DAY THAT I MET HIM, HE HAS ONLY WANTED TO MAKE THIS COUNTRY THE BEST IT CAN BE.

FOR MANY YEARS, I WATCHED HIM GROW CONCERNED AND FRUSTRATED AND I'M SO PROUD TO SEE THE MANY THINGS HE HAS DONE IN SUCH A SHORT TIME.

AMERICA IS IN HIS HEART.

SO WHILE AT TIMES WE ONLY SEE THE WORST OF PEOPLE AND POLITICS ON THE EVENING NEWS, LET'S REMEMBER HOW WE COME TOGETHER IN THE MOST DIFFICULT TIMES.

AND WHILE DEBATE RAGE ON ABOUT ISSUES OF RACE, LET'S FOCUS ON THE STRIDES WE HAVE MADE AND WORKED TOGETHER FOR A BETTER TOMORROW FOR EVERYONE.

OUR ADMINISTRATION HAS ALSO DEVOTED HISTORIC RESOURCES AND PRODUCED LIFE SAVINGS RESULTS BY RAISING AWARENESS AROUND OPIOID ABUSE.

WHEN SO OFTEN THE HEADLINES ARE FILLED WITH GOSSIP, I WANT TO TAKE THIS MOMENT TO EN ARE GUILD GOSSIP, I WANT TO TAKE THIS MOMENT TO ENCOURAGE THE MEDIA TO FOCUS EVEN MORE ON THE NATION'S DRUG CRISIS.

THE DISEASE IS ONE THAT AFFECTS EVERYBODY.

IT PAYS NO ATTENTION TO RACE, AGE OR SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS.

ADDICTION HAS TOUCHED EVERY PART OF OUR SOCIETY IN SOME WAY AND NOW MORE THAN EVER WE HAVE PROGRAMS TO COMBAT IT.

WE JUST NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT OPENLY AND YOU, THE MEDIA, HAVE THE PLATFORM TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN HAPPEN.

TO THE MEDIA INDUSTRY AND AS A COUNTRY, I ASK THAT WE ALL COMMIT TO HELPING IN OUR FIGHT AGAINST DRUG ADDICTION BY TALKING ABOUT IT EVEN MORE, ESPECIALLY AS WE BATTLE THE COVID PANDEMIC WE NEED TO REMEMBER THE SUICIDES ARE ON THE RISE AS PEOPLE WHO ARE STRUGGLING WITH LONELINESS AND ADDICTION FEEL THEY HAVE NOWHERE TO TURN.

PARENTS, PLEASE TALK TO YOUR CHILDREN, TEACHERS AND CAREGIVERS, PAY ATTENTION TO SIGNS OF ADDICTION, LAWMAKERS, PASS LEGISLATION THAT ALLOWS THOSE WHO ASK FOR HELP TO TO DOO SAFELY AND WITHOUT FEAR AND TO PROVIDE RESOURCES FOR ORGANIZATIONS THAT HELP PEOPLE IMPACTED BY ADDICTION.

WHEN THE STIGMA IS REMOVED, PEOPLE WILL NO LONGER BE ASHAMED TO ASK FOR HELP AND MANY LIVES WILL BE SAVED.

AND IF YOU STRUGGLING WITH ADDICTION, THERE IS NO SHAME IN YOUR ILLNESS.

PLEASE SEEK HELP, YOU ARE WORTH IT.

IN MY NEXT FOUR YEARS AS FIRST LADILY CONTINUE TO BUILD UPON THE BEST AND WORK WITH INDIVIDUAL STATES TO PASS LEGISLATION TO TAKE CARE OF OUR MOST VULNERABLE.

I PLAN TO CONTINUE THE WORK I HAVE STARTED WITH CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE AS WELL AS THE MINORITY COMMUNITIES AND TRIBAL NATIONS.

I WANT TO ENSURE CHILDREN ARE BEING PROTECTED AND COMMUNITIES HAVE THE RESOURCES NEEDED TO COMBAT DRUG ADDICTION AND CHILD NEGLECT OR ABUSE.

LIKE MY HUSBAND AND THE ADMINISTRATION, I WILL CONTINUE TO ENCOURAGE EDUCATION, TO SUPPORT A CHILD'S INDIVIDUAL NEEDS.

IT IS VITAL THAT CHILDREN ARE GIVEN THE BUILDING BLOCKS TO SUCCEED.

I ALSO LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING MY WORK TO RESTORE THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE, WHICH IS A LASTING SYMBOL OF PRIDE FOR OUR NATION.

I BELIEVE THIS ICONIC HOME NEEDS TO BE CARED FOR AND PRESERVED SO IT CAN BE ENJOYED BY THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY AND VISITORS FROM AROUND THE WORLD FOR YEARS TO COME.

I AM PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS BEAUTIFUL HOUSE, THE GROUNDS AND ALL THEY REPRESENT.

AND NOW I HAVE A SPECIAL MESSAGE FOR THE MOTHERS OF THIS COUNTRY.

THIS MODERN WORLD IS MOVING SO FAST AND OUR CHILDREN FACE CHALLENGES THAT SEEM TO CHANGE EVERY FEW MONTHS.

JUST LIKE ME I KNOW MANY OF YOU KNOW HOW MEAN SOCIAL MEDIA CAN BE AND JUST LIKE ME I AM SURE MANY OF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR ANSWERS HOW TO TALK TO YOUR CHILDREN ABOUT THE DOWN SIDE OF TECHNOLOGY AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEIR PEERS.

LIKE EVERY PARENT IN THIS COUNTRY, I FEEL THERE ARE SO MANY LESSONS TO TEACH OUR SONS AND THE RESPONSIBILITIES AS THE MOTHER BUT THERE ARE JUST NOT ENOUGH HOURS IN THE DAY TO DO IT ALL.

I REMIND MYSELF THAT I AM MORE FORTUNATE THAN MOST AND STILL HAVE DAYS THAT I LOOK FOR WISDOM AND STRENGTH TO TO 2K0 THE VERY BEST TO DO THE VERY BEST I CAN.

TO MOTHERS AND PARENTS EVERYWHERE, YOU ARE WARRIORS.

IN MY HUSBAND YOU HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO WILL NOT STOP FIGHTING FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES.

I SEE HOW HARD YOU WORK EACH DAY AND NIGHT AND DESPITE THE UNPRECEDENTED ATTACKS FROM THE MEDIA AND OPPOSITION HE WILL NOT GIVE UP.

IN FACT, YOU SHOULD TELL HIM IT CANNOT BE DONE.

HE WILL JUST WORK HARDER.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> DONNED IS A HUSBAND WHO SUPPORTS ME IN ALL THAT I DO.

HE HAS BUILT AN ADMINISTRATION WITH UNPRECEDENTED NUMBER OF WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP ROLES AND HAS FOSTERED AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS THE PRIORITY.

HE WELCOMES DIFFERENT POINTS OF EW AND ENCOURAGES THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX.

I KNOW I SPEAK FOR MY HUSBAND AND THE FAMILY WHEN I SAY WE ARE SO GRATEFUL THAT YOU HAVE TRUSTED HIM TO BE YOUR PRESIDENT AND WE WILL BE HONORED TO SERVE THIS INCREDIBLE COUNTRY FOR FOUR MORE YEARS.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> >> AS YOU HAVE HEARD THIS EVENING, I DON'T WANT TO USE THIS PRECIOUS TIME ATTACKING THE OTHER SIDE, BECAUSE AS WE SAW LAST WEEK THAT KIND OF TALK ONLY SERVES TO DIVIDE THE COUNTRY FURTHER.

I AM HERE BECAUSE WE NEED MY HUSBAND TO BE OUR PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF FOR FOUR MORE YEARS.

HE IS WHAT IS BEST FOR OUR COUNTRY.

WE ALL KNOW DONALD TRUMP MAKES NO SECRET ABOUT HOW HE FEELS ABOUT THINGS.

TOTAL HONESTY IS WHAT CITIZENS DESERVE FROM OUR PRESIDENT WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT,, YOU ALWAYS KNOW WHAT HE IS THINKING.

AND THAT IS BECAUSE HE IS AN AUTHENTIC PERSON WHO LOVES THIS COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE AND WANTS TO CONTINUE TO MAKE IT BETTER.

DONALD WANTS TO KEEP YOUR FAMILY SAFE.

HE WANTS TO HELP YOUR FAMILY SUCCEED.

HE WANTS NOTHING MORE THAN FOR THIS COUNTRY TO PROSPER AND HE DOESN'T WASTE TIME PLAYING POLITICS.

ALMOST FOUR YEARS AGO WE WENT INTO ELECTION DAY COMPLETELY UNDERESTIMATED DESPITE WHAT IS BEING SAID AGAIN THIS YEAR, I KNOW JUST AS YOU DO THAT AMERICANS WILL GO TO THE POLLS AND VOTE ON BEHALF OF THEIR FAMILIES, OUR ECONOMY, OUR NATIONAL SECURITY AND OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE.

TO VOTE FOR THOSE IDEALS IS NOT A PARTISAN VOTE.

IT IS A COMMON SENSE VOTE BECAUSE THOSE ARE GOALS AND HOPES THAT WE ALL BELIEVE IN.

I BELIEVE THAT WE NEED MY HUSBAND'S LEADERSHIP NOW MORE THAN EVER IN ORDER TO BRING US BACK ONCE AGAIN TO THE GREATEST ECONOMY AND THE STRONGEST COUNTRY EVER KNOWN.

GOD BLESS YOU ALL, YOUR FAMILIES AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> PRESIDENT TRUMP AND FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP AFTER HER 28 MINUTE SPEECH IN THE ROSE GARDEN OF THE WHITE HOUSE.

TESTIFYING TO THE REASON WHY HER HUSBAND SHOULD BE REELECTED IN A WAY THAT PROBABLY NO ONE ELSE COULD, BECAUSE SHE IS HIS WIFE, BECAUSE SHE IS THE MOTHER OF HIS SON AND OF COURSE STEPMOTHER OF HIS OTHER CHILDREN.

SHE HAS BEEN MARRIED TO DONALD TRUMP SINCE 2005, FOR 15 YEARS AND SHE BROUGHT UP SUBJECTS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN RAISED AT THIS CONVENTION.

SHE BROUGHT UP PEOPLE WHO WHO WE WATCHING AND WALK ALONG THE COLONNADE AS THEY MAKE THEIR WAY BACK TO THE RESIDENCE OF THE WHITE HOUSE, THE ALONGSIDE THE ROSE GARDEN WE HAVE BEEN READING THAT MELANIA TRUMP ORDERED OVER SAW THE REDESIGN AND THE REFURBISHING OF THE ROSE GARDEN.

BUT SHE WAS ABLE TO TALK OR SHE DID CHOOSE TO TALK ABOUT SUBJECTS THAT WE HAVE NOT HEARD AT THIS CONVENTION FROM OTHER REPUBLICANS, ABOUT THE RACIAL DIVISION, THE SOCIAL JUSTICE OF THE RACIAL JUSTICE FIGHT THAT HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO LIGHT SINCE THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD IN MINNEAPOLIS, AND SHE DID SPEAK AS I MENTIONED ABOUT THE PANDEMIC AND ABOUT THE NUMBER OF AMERICANS WHO HAVE SUFFERED, THE NUMBER WHO HAVE DIED, THE NUMBER WHO HAVE LOST LOVED ONES.

I WANT TO BRING IN OUR THE CORRESPONDENT YAMICHE ALCINDOR WHO COVERS THE WHITE HOUSE FOR US, NICK SCHIFRIN, OUR FOREIGN AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT.

JUST TO CONSIDER FOR A FEW MINUTES WHAT WE HEARD FROM MELANIA TRUMP AND PERHAPS EARLIER FROM SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO.

YAMICHE, TO YOU FIRST, IN MY VIEW, AND AS I JUST SAID, SHE MADE, MELANIA TRUMP WAS ABLE TO SAY SOME OF THE THINGS THAT, CHOSE TO SAY SOME OF THE THINGS WE DID NOT HEAR, WE HAVE NOT HEARD AT THIS CONVENTION ABOUT THE PRESIDENT, AND ABOUT HIS RECORD.

>> THAT'S RIGHT, MELANIA TRUMP SPEECH FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP SPEECH BECAUSE BIG DEPARTURE FROM THE TONE THAT WE HAVE HEARD FROM THE REPUBLICAN UH NATIONAL CONVENTION, TONIGHT SHE REALLY CHOSE TO GET PERSONAL AND TALKED ABOUT HER OWN STORY AS AN IMMIGRANT, SHE A PROUD INDEPENDENT WOMAN, THAT SHE WAITED SOME TEN YEARS TO BECOME AN AMERICAN CITIZEN AND ALSO TALKED ABOUT THE FACT THAT SHE, THAT SHE REALLY HAS BEEN THINKING ABOUT RACIAL STRIFE IN THIS COUNTRY AND AS PART OF IT SHE HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE IDEA THAT AMERICA HAS PARTS OF ITS HISTORY THAT ARE NOT PARTS OF THE HISTORY THAT THEY FEEL COMFORTABLE AND ARE PROUD TO TALK ABOUT.

THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS A BIG DEPARTURE FROM WHAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT SAYING THAT AMERICA HAD THIS GREAT HISTORY.

SHE WAS ABLE TO SAY, LOOK, YES, WE ARE A GREAT COUNTRY BUT WE ALSO HAVE SOME FLAWS, I IN AT THIS OTHER THING TO NOTE SHE TALKED ABOUT THE PRESIDENT SAYING LOOK HE IS NOT TRADITIONAL AND THE KIND OF POLITICIAN WE HAVE SEEN IN THE PAST BUT ALSO SAID HE IS SOMEONE WHO GETS THINGS DONE.

HE IS SOMEONE WHO IS REALLY THINKING ABOUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SO THIS IS A VERY PERSONAL APPEAL FROM THE FIRST LADY AND OF COURSE WE ALSO SAW A CROWD OF PEOPLE TALKING AND CLAPPING FOR HER IS SOMETHING WE HAVE NOT SEEN IN RECENT DAYS, BOTH AT THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION OR DURING THIS CONVENTION.

>> CONVENTION.

>> AND OF COURSE THE ULTIMATE USE OF THE WHITE HOUSE AS A BACKDROP WE HAVE SEEN THAT THROUGHOUT THIS CONVENTION, UNLIKE ANY PRESIDENT IN MEMORY, WHO WAS RUNNING FOR REELECTION, THIS PRESIDENT HAS BASED VIRTUALLY HIS ENTIRE PRESENTATION ONE AFTER ANOTHER HAS BEEN AT THE WHITE HOUSE.

HE HAS PARDONED A MAN WHO HAS BEEN A BANK ROBBER, HE OVER SAW A CEREMONY, AS YOU SAID OF NATURALIZATION AND NOW JUST NOW THE FIRST LADY'S REMARKS IN THE ROSE GARDEN.

AND JUST QUICKLY, YAMICHE, I NOTICE SHE SAID AT THE ENDLY NOT USE MY PRECIOUS TIME ATTACKING THE OTHER SIDE AS THE DEMOCRATS DID.

BUT OTHER REPUBLICANS OF THIS CONVENTION HAVE VERY MUCH ATTACKED THE DEMOCRATS.

>> THAT'S RIGHT, FOR SURE, AND WE SAW SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO BEING THE FIRST SITTING SECRETARY OF STATE IN SOME 75 YEARS TO ADDRESS A NATIONAL POLITICAL PARTY CONVENTION.

BUT WE SAW OTHER PEOPLE LIKE SENATOR RAND PAUL ON THE PRESIDENT'S KIDS REALLY FOCUSED IN ON WHAT THEY SEE AS THE FLAWS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, I THINK WHAT IS INTERESTING IS WHAT SHE SAID, WE SAW THE WHITE HOUSE PLAY A CENTRAL ROLE HERE, THE PRESIDENT OVERSEEING THE NATURALIZATION CEREMONY WITH THE ACTING SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY.

ONE WITH THING THAT WASN'T SAI WAS THE FACT THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS BROUGHT LEGAL AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION TO AN ALMOST STAND STILL, HE ALSO OF COURSE SEPARATED HUNDREDS OF IMMIGRANT FAMILIES, HE HAS HAD A STAUNCH STANCE ON IMMIGRATION AND THE WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS TONIGHT WERE REALLY TALKING ABOUT WHAT THE PRESIDENT DID RIGHT, BUT NOT REALLY PUTTING INTO CONTEXT ALL OF THE THINGS HE HAS DONE.

>> NICK SCHIFRIN I WANT TO BRING YOU IN BECAUSE A LITTLE BIT EARLIER BEFORE THE FIRST LADY SPOKE WE DID HEAR IN A MOST UNUSUAL PRESENTATION THE SECRETARY OF STATE ON AN OFFICIAL TRIP TO JERUSALEM SPEAKING FOR SEVERAL MINUTES ABOUT WHAT THIS PRESIDENT HAS DONE, HIS FOREIGN POLICY RECORD.

>> YES.

SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO DID NOT ATTACK BIDEN BUT CERTAINLY ENDORSED PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HE JOKED THE BIG JOB AS FATHER AND HUSBAND HE DIDN'T NEGLIGENCE HIS DAY JOB AND TOOK A TOUR AROUND THE WORLD FOR WHAT HE SAW AS THE ADMINISTRATION'S SUCCESS STORIES WHEN IT CAME TO FOREIGN POLICY, RECENT NORMALIZATION BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE UAE WITH A BACKDROP LITERALLY OF THE CITY WHERE THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS MOVED THE EMBASSY TO IRAN, THE KILLING OF I CAN'T SAM SOLOMON ANY, THE ONLY PLACE THE BIPARTISAN SUPPORT ESPECIALLY FOR WHAT POMPEO BROUGHT UP WHICH IS QUOTE PULLING THE CURTAIN BACK ON CHINESE BEHAVIOR INCLUDING ESPIONAGE IN THE U.S., ALL OF THAT IS WHAT WE HEAR FROM HIM OFTEN, JUDY, BUT USUALLY AS OFFICIALLY SECRETARY OF STATE OR EVEN IN THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE BUT THIS WAS BLURRING THE LINES, BETWEEN THE ENDORSING THE POLICIES HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR, AS SECRETARY OF STATE AND ENDORSING HIS PARTY'S LEADERS, BLURRING THE LINE BETWEEN REPRESENTING THE COUNTRY AS THE TOP DIPLOMAT AND REPRESENTING HIS PARTY AS ONE OF ITS PROMINENT MEMBERS AND THAT'S WHY THIS JUST HASN'T BEEN DONE.

YAMICHE SAID AS WAS SAID EARLIER, SINCE WORLD WAR II AND PROBABLY WELL BEYOND THAT, WE JUST HAVE NOT SEEN A SITTING SECRETARY OF STATE DO THIS KIND OF MESSAGE TO A CONVENTION, THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE WILL ONLY SAY ON THE RECORD, THIS, THAT HE ONLY WITH ADDRESSED THE CONVENTION IN HIS PERSONAL CAPACITY, NO STATE DEPARTMENT RESOURCES WILL BE USED.

THEY SAID THIS BEFORE HIS SPEECH AND STAFF WERE NOT INVOLVED IN PREPARING THE REMARKS OR IN THE ARRANGEMENT FOR SECRETARY POMPEO'S APPEARANCE.

>> BUT, OF COURSE, THE SYMBOLISM, NICK, OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE STANDING THERE IN JERUSALEM, SO IMPORTANT TO THE PRESIDENT'S -- WE HAVE SPOKEN OF IT BEFORE, THE CHRISTIAN EVANGELICAL COMMUNITY FOR THEM, MOVING THE EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM, ALL OF THIS SPEAKS TO A VERY IMPORTANT POLITICAL BASE THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS.

>> PRESIDENT TRUMP HIMSELF ABOUT A WEEK AGO SAID HE MOVED THE EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM IN ORDER TO APPEAL TO EVANGELICAL VOTERS, ABSOLUTELY AN IMPORTANT PART OF HIS BASE AND I WILL MENTION AN IMPORTANT PART OF SECRETARY OF STATE POMPEO'S BASE AND OF COURSE THERE IS TALK OF POMPEO RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT ONE DAY AND JUST A REMINDER, JUDY, T GOES AGAINST THE STATE DEPARTMENT'S OWN GUIDANCE TO ITS PEOPLE, SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO THIS SUMMER SIGNED A CABLE SAYING THAT NOBODY COULD PARTICIPATE IN ANY PARTISAN AFFAIRS, EVEN ON PERSONAL TIME, AND THAT OF COURSE IS THE REASON THAT STATE DEPARTMENT SAYS HE IS ALLOWED TO DO THIS TONIGHT, AND LATE LAST YEAR THE LEGAL ADVISOR SAYING THAT ANY SENATE CONFIRMED PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTEE CANNOT ATTEND A CONVENTION BY A PARTY, SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO CLEARLY DID NOT BELIEVE THAT THAT APPLIED TO HIM.

>> WELL, THAT WAS THEN AND THIS IS NOW.

NICK SCHIFRIN, REPORTING FOR US AND ALSO YAMICHE ALCINDOR AT THE WHITE HOUSE.

SO STICKING WITH OUR OWN GROUP OF REPORTERS, ON THE -- LISA DESJARDINS AND DANIEL BUSHNELL, AM NAAH, YOU HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO ALL OF THESE SPEAKERS, NOT JUST THE FIRST LADY, THE SECRETARY OF STATE, THE PRESIDENT'S SON, IT IS POWERFUL MESSAGE COMING ACROSS WHAT THE CAMPAIGN HOPES IS A POWERFUL MESSAGE THAT ADDS UP TO SOMETHING THAT WILL HELP THIS PRESIDENT.

>> YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, JUDY, A COUPLE OF POINTS THAT STOOD OUT TO ME OVER THE COURSE OF THE EVENING, HASHING BACK TO THE NATURAL STATION CEREMONY, IT IS WORTH UNDERSCORING THAT THE EXPERIENCE OF THOSE FIVE PEOPLE WHO WERE FEATURED TONIGHT STANDS IN STARK CONTRAST TO A NUMBER OF STEPS THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS TAKEN TO DRAMATICALLY REDUCE LEGAL MIGRATION, MOST RECENTLY IN EXECUTIVE ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT SIGNED JUST WEEKS AGO THAT WOULD STOP THE ISSUING OF GREEN CARDS AND OTHER WORK VISAS THAT WOULD ALLOW THOSE KIND OF PEOPLE TO SEEK LEGAL CITIZENSHIP HERE.

ALSO WORTH MENTIONING CHAD WOLF WHO IS ACTING HOMELAND SECURITY DIRECTOR THERE APPEARING IN THE NATURALIZATION CEREMONY IS STANDING NEXT TO THE PRESIDENT WHILE HIS FORMER DEPUTY IS OUT URGING PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR JOE BIDEN, WHICH IS A DRAMATIC CONTRAST, AND THE LAST THING I WILL SAY IS THAT UP UNTIL THIS POINT YOU WOULD BE FORGIVEN IF YOU FORGOT THERE WAS A PANDEMIC UNFOLDING, WE HAVE SEEN VERY FEW MASKS, VERY LITTLE SOCIAL DISTANCING ON THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION WITH STAGE, EVEN AMONG THE SPEAKERS, AND MELANIA TRUMP'S ACKNOWLEDGMENT TONIGHT OF THE 178,000 PEOPLE WHO HAVE DIED SO FAR WAS THE FIRST ACKNOWLEDGMENT WE HAVE HEARD OF THE LIVES LOST IN THE PANDEMIC THAT COMES ON THE SECOND NIGHT OF THE RNC, JUDY.

>> ALL RIGHT.

AM NAAH NARVAEZ, WHAT ARE YOU HEARING TONIGHT?

>> WELL I THINK WE ARE WAITING FOR OFFICIAL REACTION FROM THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN ITSELF TO TONIGHT'S PROGRAM BUT I WILL TELL YOU ALREADY, DEMOCRATIC SOURCES ARE LIGHTING UP MY PHONE WITH REACTION, TO MELANIA TRUMP'S SPEECH IN PARTICULAR AND SOME ACKNOWLEDGING THIS WAS A DIFFERENT SPEECH THAN WE HEARD IN THE REST OF THE CONVENTION, I NOTICED SHE TALKED ABOUT GRATITUDE, SHE TALKED ABOUT COMPASSION, KINDNESS, A VERY DIFFERENT TONE, AND SOME DEMOCRATS ARE NOTICING THAT, HOWEVER, THEY ARE ALSO NOTICING THAT ASSORT OF AMNA ALLUDED TO THERE WERE ALMOST NO MASKS IN THAT CROWD AND SOCIAL DISTANCING CERTAINLY LOOKS LESS THAN SINCE FEET.

THE REASON, OF COURSE IS BECAUSE WE ARE IN A PANDEMIC AND THEY ARE SAYING THIS IS A MATTER OF HYPOCRISY AS THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND MELANIA TRUMP HERSELF TALKED ABOUT AMERICANS TRYING TO WORK THROUGH THIS PANDEMIC, HERE SHE WAS IN A CROWD OF ABOUT 100 PEOPLE THAT DIDN'T SEEM TO BE FOLLOWING SAFE HEALTH PRECAUTIONS.

YOU KNOW, ONE OTHER THING I WANT TO MENTION ABOUT ALL A OF THIS CONVENTION IS THAT I THINK AMNA DEMOCRATS BELIEVE ME PLAN I CAN'T TRUMP WHILE SHE MAY HAVE THE APPEAL IS NOT THE MAIN MESSAGE, SHE DIDN'T TELL MANY PERSONAL STORIES ABOUT DONALD TRUMP SO THE IDEA ONE PERSON WAS REMARKING THIS IS DONALD TRUMP MAYBE A MAN WITH A FAMILY RATHER THAN A FAMILY MAN.

>> AND TO DANIEL BUSH, YOU HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THIS CAMPAIGN, OUR POLITICAL REPORTER, YOU HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THIS CAMPAIGN FROM BOTH SIDES.

WHAT ARE YOU SEEING AND HEARING TONIGHT THAT HELPS YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THE REPUBLICAN MESSAGE IS SUPPOSED TO BE?

>> WELL, JUDY, WE ARE ALL HERE TALKING ABOUT MELANIA TRUMP'S SPEECH AND I COULDN'T AGREE MORE, IT WAS STRIKING THAT SHE DID TOUCH ON COVID, SHE SAID IT WAS AN UNFAMILIAR AND FRIGHTENING SITUATION THAT MANY AMERICANS ARE ANXIOUS, OF COURSE THAT IS NOT A MESSAGE THAT AMNA NAWAZ SAID TOUCHED ON, OTHER REPUBLICANS AT THIS CONVENTION ARE FOCUSING ON, AND SOME REPUBLICAN SOURCES HAVE BEEN TEXTING ME TONIGHT SAYING THAT WAS A GOOD SPEECH FROM MELANIA TRUMP, ONE WITH SOURCE WHO IS IN TOUCH WITH THE CAMPAIGN SAID THAT THE CAMPAIGN NEEDS TO ADDRESS THIS, JUDY, THEY NEED TO FOCUS ON COVID IN A MORE CONCRETE WAY SO WE DID SEE THAT FROM MELANIA TRUMP AND REPUBLICANS ARE EXPECTING MIKE PENCE TO ADDRESS THAT TOMORROW, OF COURSE HE WAS TAPPED TO LEAD THE WHITE HOUSE TASK FORCE ON THIS, THE VICE PRESIDENT DID HAVE AN APPEARANCE EARLIER IN THIS PROGRAM TONIGHT, IT WAS A BRIEF APPEARANCE TALKING TO DIFFERENT AMERICANS ABOUT OPPORTUNITY, OF COURSE HE WAS THERE WITHOUT A MASK AS WE HAVE ALREADY NOTED SPEAKING WITH THEM THERE, SO IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO SEE, JUDY, HOW VICE PRESIDENT PENCE TACKLES THIS ISSUE TOMORROW NIGHT IN HIS SPEECH.

>> INTERESTING FOR SURE.

DANIEL BUSH, THANK YOU, I THANKA DESJARDINS, AMNA NAWAZ, LET'S TURN QUICKLY TO OUR OTHER ANALYST WHOSE HAVE BEEN WITH US ALL NIGHT.

AMY WALTER, THE HOW IS THIS SECOND NIGHT COMING TO A CLOSE?

>> IT IS A MUCH MORE SUBDUED NIGHT IT FELT LIKE ESPECIALLY IN THE PRIME TIME HOUR, THE 10:00 AND 11:00 O'CLOCK HOUR.

WHAT I HAVE BEEN STRUCK BY, WE HAVE TALKED A LOT ABOUT THIS IS FOCUSED ON THE BASE AND THE COMBATIVE LANGUAGE BY MANY OF THE SPEAKERS, BUT EACH NIGHT HAS ENDED WITH A SPEAKER WHO IS TRYING TO SET A MORE OPTIMISTIC TONE.

OBVIOUSLY WITH MELANIA TRUMP TONIGHT, LAST NIGHT, IT WAS SENATOR TIM SCOTT.

BUT MARK SHIELDS, SHALL WE SAY A SPECTRUM OF MESSAGES, BECAUSE WE ARE STILL HEARING THE ANGRY VOICES, MAYBE NOT QUITE AS ANGRY AS DONALD TRUMP, JR. AND KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE LAST NIGHT BUT SOME STARK CONTRAST BEING DRAWN AT THE SAME TIME WE ARE HEARING THIS MUCH MORE GENTLER MESSAGE FROM THE FIRST LADY.

MARK.

>> ABSOLUTELY, JUDY.

I THINK WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THIS IS NOT A RUSH TOO THE MIDDLE, TOOTH IS NOT TRYING TO GET TO THE FILLED, IN AT THE TRYING TO BASICALLY ENERGIZE TRUMP LEANING VOTERS ON THE SIDELINES TO GET ENGAGED, TO COME AND SUPPORT HIM AND TO DISSUADE SOME BIDEN LEADING VOTERS THAT THE DEMOCRATS AND JOE BIDEN ARE NOT THEIR CUP OF TEA AND DON'T HAVE THEIR BEST INTERESTS.

IT WAS KIND OF FASCINATING IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS TO HEAR THE KINDER, GENTLER DONALD TRUMP THAT FIRST LADY SPOKE ABOUT AND ALSO TO WATCH IT IN THE FORM OF THE NATURALIZATION CEREMONY AT THE WHITE HOUSE, AND PARTICULARLY THE FBI DIRECTOR BEASLEY AND JOHN PONDER.

THIS WAS NOT A CENTRAL THEME OF THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY, THE TRUMP CANDIDACY AND I AM JUST REMINDED THAT FOUR YEARS AGO AT THIS TIME IN CLEVELAND, DONALD TRUMP PROMISED AMERICA THAT THE CRIME IN THE STREETS, ALL OF THE DISORDER WOULD END WITH HIS ELECTION, AND IRONICALLY HE WANTS TO RUN FOR REELECTION NOW ON DISORDER IN THE CITIES OF THE COUNTRY.

>> DAVID BROOKS, WHAT ARE YOU HEARING TONIGHT?

>> WELL, IT IS A QUESTION OF WHETHER WE ARE IN A CIVIL WAR OR NOT.

A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK WE ARE JUST IN AN IDEOLOGICAL EXISTENTIAL CIVIL WAR AND THIS IS WHAT THE ELECTION IS ABOUT AND OTHER PEOPLE DON'T THINK THAT.

I DO NOT THINK MELANIA TRUMP THINKS ABOUT THAT, SHE, I DON'T THINK TIFFANY TRUMP THOUGHT THATS AND CAMERON, ON THE OTHER SIDE WE HAVE DONALD TRUMP, JR. AND ERIC TRUMP GIVING A PURE CIVIL WAR SPEECH, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE WANT THE WAR, AND THE WAR WEIRDLY IS AGAINST THE MEDIA, IT IS AGAINST US AND THAT IS A NORMAL CONSERVATIVE TROPE WITH WE ARE WITH NOT VERY POPULAR, WE ARE A PRETTY DISTRUSTED INSTITUTION, THE PROBLEM FOR THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS WE ARE NOT ON THE BALLOT, JOE BIDEN IS, AND WAGING THE WAR AGAINST THE MEDIA IS PROBABLY NOT WHERE THE COUNTRY IS, THEY DON'T REALLY CARE THAT MUCH, AND THEY ARE NOT REALLY HITTING THEIR TARGET WHICH IS JOE BIDEN, SO I WOULD THINK THIS NIGHT IS REALLY NO STRIKES STRUCK AGAINST THE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN.

>> WHAT DO YOU HEAR, GARY ABERNATHY?

>> I HEARD SHARP LINES BEING DRAWN THROUGHOUT, EVEN IN SOME OF THE MORE GENTLE SPEECHES, REMARKS.

>> WELL, I REALLY FELT TONIGHT WAS MUCH, MUCH BETTER THAN LAST NIGHT.

AT THIS ET THERE WAS A MUCH GREATER FOCUS ON CERTAIN, TWO OR THREE MESSAGES, YOU MAY NOT LIKE THE MESSAGES, SOME PEOPLE MAY NOT LIKE IN LIKE IN ANY OF THE S BUT THEY WERE VERY, VERY CLEARLY DEFINED TONIGHT.

THERE WAS JUST SOME GOOD OLD-FASHIONED UNABASHED RED, WHITE AND BLUE PATRIOTISM, SOME RED MEAT AND WE WILL SEE IN 2020 IF THAT STILL WORKS.

I DO FEEL LIKE IT SHOULD BE POINTED OUT CAMPAIGNING FROM THE OVAL OFFICE IS NOT A NEW THING, KAREN TUMULTY POINTED OUT JIMMY CARTER ANNOUNCED HIS REELECTION FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, FILMED THE CAMPAIGN AD THERE, RONALD REAGAN FILMED CAMPAIGN ADS IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

FINALLY ON THE MASKS, THAT WAS VERY NOTICEABLE, NO MASKS IN THE ROSE GARDEN WHERE MELANIA WAS SPEAKING, THAT'S ANOTHER CONTRAST WITH THE DEMOCRATS AND FRANKLY THAT IS ANOTHER APPEAL TO THE BASE.

TRUMP'S BASE, MANY OF THEM FEEL LIKE THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND THEIR FREEDOM HAVE BEEN ATTACKED BY THE MASK MANDATE SO DEMOCRATS SAY WE ARE FOLLOWING THE SCIENCE NO MATTER WHAT, THE TRUMP BASE SAYS LET'S ALSO BALANCE THAT WITH OUR CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMS.

THAT IS KIND OF THE ARGUMENT GOING ON.

>> I AM GIVING YOU THE LAST WORD.

>> WELL, I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE CONSTITUTION DICTATES THAT PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE REQUIRED TO WEAR MASKS DURING A PANDEMIC.

LET ME SAY THAT I WAS DELIGHTED THAT FIRST LADY DID FINALLY ACKNOWLEDGE THE TRAUMA AND LOSS OF THE PANDEMIC.

I HOPE THAT THERE IS MORE OF THAT IN THE NIGHT TO COME, BECAUSE I THINK THAT IS THE ISSUE THAT MOST AMERICANS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT.

IF THEIR LIVED EXPERIENCE, NOT ALL OF THE ANGRY THINGS THAT ERIC TRUMP HAS TO SAY ABOUT PEOPLE NOT KNEELING DURING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.

I DON'T THINK THAT THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT MOST VOTERS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT AT THE MOMENT.

>> CYNTHIA TUCKER, GARY ABERNATHY, DAVID BROOKS, MARK SHIELDS, AIM A MY WALTERS, THANKS ALL AND WE WILL BE BACK AT IT TOMORROW NIGHT AND WE WANT TO THANK THANK ALL OF YOU FOR JG US FOR THIS LIVE COVERAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.

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