Republican National Convention - Day 4

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>> WITH MORE THAN 1,000 AMERICANS DYING FROM COVID-19 EACH DAY AND PRESIDENT TRUMP TRAILING IN THE POLLS -- JOE BIDEN'S LEAD HAS GROWN NATIONALLY.

>> REPUBLICANS SEEK TO TURN THE PAGE ON THE PANDEMIC.

>> WE'RE ON TRACK TO HAVE THE WORLD'S FIRST SAFE EFFECTIVE CORONAVIRUS VACCINE BY THE END OF THIS YEAR.

>> AND FOCUS ON UNREST OVER POLICE SHOOTINGS AND RACIAL INJUSTICE IN SOME U.S. CITIES.

>> DEMOCRAT-RUN CITIES ACROSS THIS COUNTRY ARE BEING OVERRUN BY VIOLENT MOBS.

>> WE WILL HAVE LAW AND ORDER ON THE STREETS OF THIS COUNTRY FOR EVERY AMERICAN OF EVERY RACE AND CREED AND COLOR.

>> TONIGHT, PRESIDENT TRUMP ACCEPTS HIS PARTY'S NOMINATION FOR FOUR MORE YEARS.

THE FINAL NIGHT OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.

>> WOODRUFF: GOOD EVENING.

WELCOME TO OUR SPECIAL PBS NEWSHOUR LIVE COVERAGE OF THE FINAL NIGHT OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.

WE, ALONG WITH THOUSANDS OF OTHERS, HAD INITIALLY PLANNED TO BE IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA, THIS WEEK, BUT BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC, THE GATHERING WILL BE ALMOST ENTIRELY VIRTUAL, INCLUDING SOME OF OUR REPORTERS, ANALYSTS AND THE SPEAKERS FOR THE REPUBLICANS.

TONIGHT ALSO HAS THE BACKDROP OF A MASSIVE HURRICANE ALONG THE GULF COASTS OF TEXAS AND LOUISIANA.

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

I AM HERE IN OUR STUDIO, SOCIALLY DISTANCED, WITH AMY WALTER.

WE HAVE REPORTERS AND ANALYSTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

AND OUR AMNA ANWAZ IS IN THE STUDIO AROUND THE CORNER TO HELP GUIDE US ON WHAT TO EXPECT, AND KEY MOMENTS TO LOOK OUT FOR.

AMNA?

>> NAWAZ: THIS IS THE REPUBLICANS' LAST CHANCE TO MAKE THEIR PITCH FROM THE CONVENTION STAGE, AND TONIGHT, WE'LL HEAR FROM SOME OF THE CLOSEST ADVISORS TO THE PRESIDENT IN HIS FIRST TERM.

THAT INCLUDES THE SENIOR-MOST MEMBERS OF THE REPUBLICAN CAUCUS, HOUSE MINORITY LEADER KEVIN MCCARTHY AND SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MITCH MCCONNELL.

ONE OF THE PRESIDENT'S FIERCEST DEFENDERS, HIS PERSONAL ATTORNEY RUDY GIULIANI, AND ONE OF HIS MOST INFLUENTIAL ADVISORS, DAUGHTER IVANKA TRUMP.

FINALLY TONIGHT, WE'LL HEAR FROM THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF, IN WHAT'S EXPECTED TO BE A FULL-THROATED DEFENSE OF HIS FIRST FOUR YEARS IN OFFICE.

JUDY, HE'LL BE SPEAKING AMID A GLOBAL PANDEMIC, GROWING CALLS FOR RACIAL JUSTICE, AND AFTER A DEVASTATING STORM IN THE SOUTH.

WE'LL SEE HOW HE ADDRESSES EACH OF THOSE CRISES IN HIS SPEECH TONIGHT.

>> FOR SURE.

WE'LL BE COMING BACK TO YOU THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT.

RIGHT NOW, I'M JOINED BY NEWSHOUR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT YAMICHE ALCINDOR FROM THE SOUTH LAWN OF THE WHITE HOUSE, WHERE THE PRESIDENT WILL SPEAK TONIGHT.

YAMICHE, I SEE THE CROWD BEHIND YOU.

LOOKS LIKE QUITE SOMETHING THE WHITE HOUSE HAS PLANNED.

>> THIS IS QUITE SOMETHING, JUDY.

THE WHITE HOUSE HAS BEEN COMPLETELY TRANSFORMED INTO A CAMPAIGN RALLY MEETS THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.

BEHIND ME, PEOPLE ARE GATHERED SHOULDER TO SHOULDER.

NO SOCIAL DISTANCING AT THE TIME.

PEOPLE HERE ARE NOT REQUIRED TO WEAR MASKS.

THERE'S NO MASK MANDATE.

I'VE TALKED TO WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS.

NOBODY HAS BEEN TESTED FOR COVID-19.

I WAS NOT TESTED AS A REPORTER.

I'M TRYING TO KEEP MY DISTANCE.

THAT BEING SAID, THIS IS LIKE THE PANDEMIC IS NOT HAPPENING, THIS IS THE PRESIDENT WANTING THE OPTICS TO SAY WE'RE MOVING PAST THIS.

THE PRESIDENT IS EXPECTED TO SPEAK BEFORE A CROWD OF 1,000 TO 1,500 PEOPLE, JUDY.

A LARGE CROWD FOR THE WHITE HOUSE.

WE'VE NEVER SEEN THE LINES BETWEEN THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE CAMPAIGN BLURRED LIKE THIS.

ALSO WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE PRESIDENT WILL BE DELIVERING A BITING SPEECH, GOING AFTER JOE BIDEN ON ALL SORTS OF ISSUES, IMMIGRATION, FOREIGN POLICY, RACE.

I WANT TO SHOW YOU A BIT OF HIS SPEECH.

HE IS EXPECTED TO SAY AT NO TIME BEFORE HAVE VOTERS FACED A CLEARER CHOICE.

HE WILL SAY THAT WE HAVE SPENT THE LAST FOUR YEARS REVERSING THE DAMAGE THAT JOE BIDEN INFLICTED OVER THE LAST 47 YEARS.

JOE BIDEN TAKES ISSUE WITH THAT.

THE PRESIDENT IS EXPECTED TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THERE'S A $750 MILLION DEAL TO PRODUCE AND DISTRIBUTE 150 MILLION RAPID COVID-19 TEST.

HE IS HOPING THAT THAT IS GOOD NEWS THAT WILL MAKE THE CASE THAT HE'S TRYING HIS BEST TO PROTECT AMERICANS.

>> THAT'S THE SUBJECT THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS FACED A GREAT DEAL OF CRITICISM ON.

IT'S NOT A SURPRISE THAT HE WOULD WANT TO HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT THAT TONIGHT.

THANKS, YAMICHE.

WE'LL COME BACK TO YOU THROUGHOUT THIS EVENING.

TO HELP UNDERSTAND THIS CONVENTION, WE WILL BE TURNING THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT 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 BROOKS; GARY ABERNATHY IS A CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST FOR THE "WASHINGTON POST," BASED IN OHIO; AND CYNTHIA TUCKER IS A PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING SYNDICATED COLUMNIST NOW BASED IN ALABAMA.

AND AGAIN, HERE AT THE DESK WITH ME, AMY WALTER OF THE COOK POLITICAL REPORT.

WELCOME TO ALL OF YOU.

GREAT TO SEE YOU, AMY.

SO WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR TONIGHT?

WE'VE BEEN HEARING ALL WEEK BIG DIVIDE, BIG DIVISION BETWEEN WHAT JOE BIDEN OFFERS AND WHAT DONALD TRUMP OFFERS.

I GUESS WE'LL HEAR MORE OF THAT TONIGHT.

>> THAT'S RIGHT.

IN 2016, THE QUESTION THE NIGHT THAT TRUMP SPOKE, THEN CANDIDATE TRUMP SPOKE, CAN HE BRING REPUBLICANS TOGETHER.

HAD BEEN A DIVISIVE PRIMARY.

SO MUCH CHAOS AT THE CONVENTION ITSELF.

IT WAS ALL RIGHT, HERE'S -- LET'S SEE IF HE CAN DO THIS AND KEEP THIS PARTY TOGETHER FOR ELECTION DAY IN 2016.

OBVIOUSLY HE DID.

THIS TIME IS IT REALLY TRULY IN THE FIGHT FOR HIS LIFE.

CAN HE MAKE A HISTORIC COMEBACK, NO INCUMBENT PRESIDENT HAS COME INTO HIS CONVENTION BEHIND IN THE POLLS BY THE PERCENTAGE THAT HE'S BEEN BEHIND WITH AN APPROVAL RATING AS LOW AS HE HAS RIGHT NOW AND GONE ON TO WIN.

SO IT'S NOT SURPRISING TO ME AT ALL TO SEE THAT HE IS GOING TO BE SPEAKING IN FRONT OF A BIG CROWD, THAT HE'S GOING TO GO AFTER JOE BIDEN FORCEFULLY AND IN FACT WHAT WE'VE SEEN REALLY FOR THE LAST FOUR DAYS IS PEOPLE SPEAKING FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP.

TONIGHT IS NOT JUST HIM DEFINING HIMSELF, BUT REALLY HAS TO LEAN IN TO DEFINING JOE BIDEN AND MAKING THIS ELECTION A CHOICE RATHER THAN A REFERENDUM ON TRUMP.

>> SO MARK SHIELDS, SEVERAL SHALL WE SAY MISSIONS THE PRESIDENT AND HIS CAMPAIGN HAVE TO TRY TO FULFILL TONIGHT.

>> YES, JUDY.

FOLLOWING UP ON AMY'S POINT.

ONLY IN THE LAST 90 YEARS, ONLY TWO PRESIDENTS HAVE FAILED TO WIN A SECOND TERM.

SO THE WHOLE PREDISPOSITION OF AMERICAN VOTERS IS TO GIVE A PRESIDENT A SECOND TERM.

DONALD TRUMP, OF COURSE, IS UPHILL ON THAT.

BUT HE CAN'T MAKE THE CASE FOR HIMSELF REALLY.

HE HAS TO MAKE THE CASE AGAINST JOE BIDEN.

WHY DO I SAY THAT?

IN FOUR YEARS, HE'S THE ONLY PRESIDENT IN OUR HISTORY WHO HAS NEVER ACHIEVED 50% POPULARITY AMONG THE AMERICAN VOTERS, OR 50% JOB APPROVAL.

SO HE HAS TO MAKE THE CASE THAT JOE BIDEN IS NOT GOING TO -- IS SOMEHOW UNSUITED, SOMETHING THAT THE PRESIDENT DOES NOT DO RELUCTANTLY.

HE'S HAPPY TO DO THAT.

FINALLY, I SAY THAT THE GREAT ADVICE OF LLOYD BRABAZON OF TARA, HE SAID IF YOU CAN'T MAKE YOUR SPEECH IN 20 MINUTES, THEN YOU OUGHT TO GIVE UP AND GO OFF AND WRITE A BOOK.

I THINK IT'S INTERESTING THAT BIDEN AND OBAMA STUCK TO THE 20 MINUTES AND WE'LL SEE HOW LONG THE PRESIDENT GOES TONIGHT.

>> YOU PICKED ON MY FAVORITE BRITISH STATESMAN.

MARK, SO GLAD YOU QUOTED HIM.

DAVID BROOKS, HOW DO YOU SEE WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS DOING AND WHAT HE SHOULD TRY TO BE DOING TONIGHT GIVEN WHERE HE STANDS IN THIS CONTEST.

>> I THINK HIS ARGUMENT IS APT.

I'M KIDDING.

THIS SHOULD NOT BE HAPPENING IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE.

WE MAKE A SHARP DISTINCTION BETWEEN POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICE.

THAT HOUSE IS THE HOUSE OF PUBLIC SERVICE.

IT'S NOT A POLITICAL PROP.

THAT'S AN INSULT TO THE CONSTITUTION.

THE SECOND THING WE UNDERSTAND THAT TRUMP IS GOING TO GO AFTER THE BIDEN AGENDA AS TOO FAR LEFT.

NOT HIT IT HARD ENOUGH.

BIDEN HAS MOVED FROM WHERE THE AGENDA WAS UNDER THE OBAMA-BIDEN YEARS, PROBABLY LEFT OF WHERE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE.

SO TO GO AFTER THAT SEEMS TO MAKE POLITICAL SENSE.

THE THIRD THING IS THIS CONVENTION HAS FOUND THE ISSUE.

IN MY VIEW, THE ONLY ISSUE THAT THEY CAN POSSIBLY WIN ON.

THAT IS LAW AND ORDER.

THE EVENTS IN KENOSHA AND ELSEWHERE HAVE PUT THE DEMOCRATS ON THEIR BACK FEET.

WE HAVE SEEN SOME SHIFT IN WISCONSIN.

THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT WE KNOW MOVES VOTERS.

WHEN PEOPLE HAVE A SENSE OF UNSAFETY.

LIKE IT OR NOT, IT'S PROBABLY AN UGLY ISSUE THAT THE REPUBLICANS CONTINUE ON AFTER THE CONVENTION AND JOE BIDEN REALLY HAS TO GET OUT IN FRONT OF IT AND ADDRESS PUBLIC SAFETY, RISING MURDER RATES IN CITIES.

IT'S SOMETHING THAT HE HAS MADE VERY STATEMENTS CONDEMNING VIOLENCE BUT SO FAR THE EVIDENCE IS NOT ENOUGH.

HE HAS TO GET FURTHER OUT AND SHOW THAT DEMOCRATS HAVE THEIR OWN VERSION, A MORE JUST VERSION OF LAW AND ORDER AND POLICING TO EASE THAT SENSE OF ANXIETY, THAT FEAR IN PUBLIC SAFETY.

>> CYNTHIA TUCKER, HAS THAT BECOME A CHALLENGE FOR JOE BIDEN AND IS IT -- JUST TO TURN TO DAVID'S QUESTION, IS THIS NOW THE MAIN ISSUE ON WHICH DONALD TRUMP SEES AH-HAH, I CAN MAKE HEAD WAY HERE?

>> IT IS CERTAINLY THE MAIN ISSUE THAT DONALD TRUMP SEES.

IT'S PROBABLY THE ONLY ISSUE THAT HE HAS.

THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO DOUBT THAT FEAR IS A MAJOR MOTIVATOR.

IT IS A VERY POWERFUL EMOTION.

HOWEVER, PEOPLE WILL REALLY START TO THINK ABOUT THIS RACE AFTER LABOR DAY.

THE PRESIDENT IS COUNTING ON CIVIL UNREST, VIOLENCE IN THE STREETS TO CONTINUE, BUT KENOSHA WAS QUIET LAST NIGHT.

SO HE MAY HAVE TO FIND OTHER ISSUES.

THE OTHER THING IS, IT SEEMS TO ME THAT IT'S INCUMBENT ON THE PRESIDENT'S MENTIONING THE FACT THAT TWO PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN KENOSHA THE OTHER NIGHT, A RIGHT WING WHITE MAN WHO IS A BIG FAN OF THE PRESIDENT.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS GOING ON IS A LOT OF THE PROTESTS IS MEMBERS OF RIGHT-WING MALITIAS ARE GOING OUT TO WHIP UP VIOLENCE IF THEY CAN.

SEEMS TO ME THAT IT'S INCUMBENT ON THE PRESIDENT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT.

HE WILL, HOWEVER, LEAN IN TO LAW AND ORDER TONIGHT, NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT.

THE ONLY QUESTION IS WHETHER HE WILL SOUND MORE LIKE RICHARD NIXON OR GEORGE WALLACE.

>> WOW.

GARY ABERNATHY, HOW DO YOU SEE THIS ISSUE OF RACIAL INEQUITY?

WE SEE AMERICAN PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES ALL EXPRESSING THEIR VIEWS FROM ONE END OF THE COUNTRY TO THE OTHER.

>> YEAH.

AND YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THAT WITH THE PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES.

I'M NOT SURE BOYCOTTING THE GAMES IS GOING TO BE EFFECTIVE.

YOU KNOW, MOST AMERICANS DON'T LOOK AT ATHLETES AS ESSENTIAL WORKERS.

THIS IS NOT LIKE POLICE OFFICERS REFUSING TO DO THEIR JOB OR FIREMEN.

WE CAN LIVE WITHOUT SPORTS.

I'D LIKE TO SEE THEM FIND ANOTHER WAY TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES.

IT'S HARD FOR PEOPLE TO SYMPATHIZE WITH MULTIMILLION DOLLAR ATHLETES.

JUDY, FIRST OF ALL, LET ME THANK YOU FOR PROVIDING OUR TV STUDIO TONIGHT.

THANKS VERY MUCH.

I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH.

IT'S GOING TO BE TYPICAL TRUMPISM.

DONALD TRUMP, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE -- THE CRITICS AFTERWARDS WILL SAY IT WAS DARK, DIVISIVE.

IT WILL BE PROBABLY BECAUSE THAT'S TRUMP.

HE'S NOT RONALD REAGAN.

HE'S NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE SHINING CITY ON THE HILL.

HE SOUNDS DISINGENUOUS WHEN HE DOES THAT THING.

TRUMP WILL BE TRUMP.

SOMETIMES ANGER IS OKAY.

WE HEARD ANGER LAST WEEK OUT OF THE DEMOCRATS.

SO THERE WILL BE ALL OF THAT, BUT -- SO, YOU KNOW, AFTER THE SPEECH IS OVER, WE'LL GET THE CRITICISM FROM THE LARK THAT IT WAS TOO DARK AND ANGRY AND THE RIGHT WILL SAY IT IS PERFECT, TOLD IT LIKE IT IS.

IT WILL BE LIKE FOUR YEARS AGO.

WELCOME TO GROUNDHOG DAY.

>> AMY, BACK TO YOU HERE.

IF THAT IS INDEED WHAT WE'RE HEARING TONIGHT AT THIS CONVENTION AND THEN WE'LL HEAR FROM RUDY GULIANI AND THE PRESIDENT, DOES THAT PUT MORE PRESSURE ON JOE BIDEN TO TALK ABOUT THIS POLICE-RACE QUESTION IN A CLEARER WAY?

>> YEAH, I GET THE INSTINCT ESPECIALLY AMONG MANY TO THINK THIS IS WHERE JOE BIDEN AND DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO BE VULNERABLE.

THESE ARE DEMOCRATIC CITIES AND BECAUSE THIS IS A CHARGE THAT USUALLY WORKS AGAINST DEMOCRATS.

SOFT ON CRIME.

IT'S BEEN WORKING FOR YEARS AND YEARS.

I THINK WE'RE IN A DIFFERENT MOMENT NOW.

WHEN I LISTEN TO MANY WHITE SUBURBAN WOMEN WHO ARE QUITE FRANKLY WHEN THEY SEE BLACK LIVES MATTER, MEANS SOMETHING VERY DIFFERENT TO THEM THAN IT DID TWO YEARS AGO OR A YEAR AGO WHEN THEY ARE WATCHING SOME OF THESE ATHLETES.

THEY HAVE A DIFFERENT PERCEPTION OF THEM THAN THEY DID BEFORE.

THE OTHER THING ABOUT ANGER AND FEAR, THIS HAS BEEN TRUE SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TRUMP'S PRESIDENCY.

THE PEOPLE THAT SAY THEY STRONGLY DISLIKE PRESIDENT TRUMP HAVE BEEN BIGGER THAN THE PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE THAT LOVE HIM.

IF HE'S GOING TO RUN A CAMPAIGN ON ANGER AND FEAR, THERE'S MORE PEOPLE THAT ARE ANGRY AT DONALD TRUMP THAN ANGRY AT WHAT IS HAPPENING OR THINK HE'S THE ANSWER TO THAT.

>> AND AS WE'RE DISCUSSING THIS, THE QUESTION OF FEAR, THAT WILL BE RAISED AGAIN AT THIS CONVENTION TONIGHT WE EXPECT, GOING TO BE A BIGGER ELEMENT IN THE CAMPAIGN.

THANK YOU ALL.

COMING BACK TO YOU THROUGHOUT THIS EVENING.

>> WOODRUFF: BEFORE PRESIDENT TRUMP FORMALLY ACCEPTS THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT TONIGHT, WE TAKE A LOOK AT DONALD TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PROMISES AND HIS FIRST TERM IN OFFICE.

YAMICHE ALCINDOR HAS THE SECOND IN OUR TWO PART SERIES.

>> WE'RE GOING TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.

>> ALCINDOR: ON THE 2016 CAMPAIGN TRAIL... >> WE'RE GOING TO DRAIN THE SWAMP.

>> ALCINDOR: ...THE REALITY TV PERSONALITY PROMISED CHANGE.

>> REPEALING AND REPLACING THE DISASTER KNOWN AS OBAMACARE.

WE WILL TERMINATE NAFTA.

WE'RE BUILDING A WALL.

>> ALCINDOR: GOVERNING PROVED TO BE ANOTHER MATTER.

THE "WASHINGTON POST'S" ROBERT COSTA.

>> THIS WAS A TOTAL OUTSIDER WHO COMES IN WITHOUT ANY POLITICAL EXPERIENCE, ANY EXPERIENCE IN GOVERNMENT, AND HE TRIES TO BE THE DISRUPTOR.

>> ALCINDOR: IN A HISTORIC MOVE, PRESIDENT TRUMP FILED FOR REELECTION HIS FIRST DAY IN OFFICE.

THE CAMPAIGN NEVER ENDED.

AS PROTESTS FLARED ACROSS THE COUNTRY, HE CONTINUED TO STOKE TENSIONS OVER IMMIGRATION AND RACE AT RALLIES.

>> I'VE TAKEN DECISIVE ACTION TO KEEP RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORIST THE HELL OUT OF OUR COUNTRY.

>> ALCINDOR: USING TWITTER, HE ATTACKED OPPONENTS, FIRED STAFF AND ISSUED NEW ORDERS.

THAT EVENTUALLY INCLUDED DIRECTING THE MILITARY TO BAN TRANSGENDER SERVICE MEMBERS.

AS THE PRESIDENT CLASHED WITH DEMOCRATS AND THE PRESS, HE TIGHTENED HIS CONTROL OVER THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

>> THERE IS PERHAPS NO PRESIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY WHO HAS MADE SURE THAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY'S ALWAYS FOLLOWING HIM AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, IS AT TIMES IN HIS IMAGE.

>> ALCINDOR: REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS CEDED POWER TO THE PRESIDENT AT NEARLY EVERY TURN.

>> IT'S ALWAYS A LOT OF FUN WHEN YOU WIN.

>> ALCINDOR: BUT THEY WERE SECURING CONSERVATIVE GOALS: FROM TAX CUTS TO A COMPLETE REMAKING OF THE COUNTRY'S COURTS, INCLUDING TWO SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS.

>> THERE'S ANOTHER MAJOR PROMISE I HAVE KEPT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

I'VE NOMINATED A FANTASTIC JUSTICE TO REPLACE THE LATE, GREAT JUSTICE SCALIA.

HIS NAME IS JUDGE NEIL GORSUCH.

>> THAT BECAME THE GLUE THAT KEPT THE TRUMP WORLD WITH THE REPUBLICAN WORLD.

THEY MAY NOT LIKE HIM PERSONALLY.

THEY MAY BE APPALLED BY HIS CONDUCT.

BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, HE'S COMING THROUGH WITH POLICY WINS FOR THEM.

>> ALCINDOR: IN FOREIGN POLICY, TRUMP HAD SUCCESS IN PUSHING SOME ALLIES, ESPECIALLY IN EUROPE, TO SHARE MORE DEFENSE COSTS.

HE ALSO PUBLICLY CRITICIZED THEIR LEADERS AND SLAPPED THEM WITH TARIFFS.

CHINA HAS YET TO LIVE UP TO THE PRESIDENT'S MUCH-TOUTED TRADE DEAL.

BUT, HE RE-NEGOTIATED OTHER TRADE DEALS THAT HE RAILED AGAINST ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, LIKE THE NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT.

>> IT WILL BE REPEALED AND REPLACED.

>> ALCINDOR: WHEN IT CAME TO DOMESTIC POLICY, THE PRESIDENT AND HIS REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED CONGRESS NEVER REPEALED AND REPLACED PRESIDENT OBAMA'S SIGNATURE HEALTH CARE LAW, THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT, AS THE PRESIDENT HAD CAMPAIGNED ON.

HIS OWN PARTY BLOCKED THE EFFORT.

>> I WILL HAVE MEXICO PAY FOR THAT WALL.

>> ALCINDOR: AS FOR CANDIDATE TRUMP'S PROMISED BORDER WALL, MEXICO NEVER PAID FOR IT.

LESS THAN FIVE MILES OF NEW WALL HAD BEEN BUILT, THREE MONTHS BEFORE THE 2020 ELECTION.

THE PRESIDENT DID USE HIS EXECUTIVE POWERS TO GRIND LEGAL AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION TO A NEAR HALT.

ALONG THE WAY, HE CONTINUED TO HAMMER HIS MESSAGE.

>> THIS IS A PRESIDENT WHO DOES NOT AIM TO UNITE, WHEN IT COMES TO RACE.

HE WELCOMES, AT TIMES, DIVISION, AND HE SEES DIVISION AS A WAY TO UNDERSCORE HIS OWN POLITICAL STANDING WITH HIS CORE VOTERS.

>> ALCINDOR: IN AUGUST OF 2017, WHITE SUPREMACISTS PROTESTING THE REMOVAL OF A CONFEDERATE STATUE CLASHED WITH COUNTER-PROTESTERS IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA.

>> JEWS WILL NOT REPLACE US.

JEWS WILL NOT REPLACE US.

>> ALCINDOR: KEVIN MCGRUDER STUDIES RACE AND URBAN HISTORY AT ANTIOCH COLLEGE.

>> THERE WAS A NAZI ELEMENT TO THAT.

AND THEY WERE IT WAS AN ANTI-SEMITIC ELEMENT, TOO.

>> ALCINDOR: ONE SELF-DESCRIBED NEO-NAZI DROVE HIS CAR INTO A CROWD, KILLING A 26-YEAR-OLD COUNTER-PROTESTER NAMED HEATHER HEYER.

IN HIS INITIAL RESPONSE, PRESIDENT TRUMP DECLINED TO OUTRIGHT CONDEMN THE NEO-NAZIS.

>> YOU HAD SOME VERY BAD PEOPLE IN THAT GROUP, BUT YOU ALSO HAD PEOPLE THAT WERE VERY FINE PEOPLE, ON BOTH SIDES.

>> TO SUGGEST THAT THOSE ARE GOOD PEOPLE, FROM A PRESIDENT OF A COUNTRY THAT THE CONFEDERACY FOUGHT AGAINST-- IT'S MIND-BOGGLING.

BUT IT'S EQUALLY MIND-BOGGLING THAT HE WAS ABLE TO DO IT, AND WITH NO REAL CONSEQUENCE, POLITICALLY.

>> I KNOW HIS HEART'S IN THE RIGHT PLACE.

>> ALCINDOR: THE PRESIDENT STRUGGLED WITH OTHER CRISES.

A MASS SHOOTER WHO TARGETED LATINOS AT A WAL-MART IN EL PASO, TEXAS ECHOED PRESIDENT TRUMP'S OWN RHETORIC AROUND AN OF IMMIGRANTS.

HE KILLED 23 PEOPLE.

>> MENTAL ILLNESS AND HATRED PULLS THE TRIGGER, NOT THE GUN.

>> ALCINDOR: WHILE THE PRESIDENT ESCALATED HIS RACE-BASED ATTACKS, HE CAMPAIGNED ON INVESTMENTS IN HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND OPPORTUNITY ZONES IN LOW INCOME AREAS.

>> HE HAS FOUND HIMSELF IN HOT WATER OFTEN THROUGHOUT HIS PRESIDENCY.

>> ALCINDOR: THE PRESIDENT ALSO FACED A SERIES OF INVESTIGATIONS, INCLUDING A TWO-YEAR SPECIAL COUNSEL PROBE INTO WHETHER HIS CAMPAIGN WORKED WITH RUSSIA TO INFLUENCE THE 2016 ELECTION.

SEVEN OF THE PRESIDENT'S ASSOCIATES WERE CONVICTED.

>> THIS RIDICULOUS HOAX, THIS WITCH HUNT.

>> ALCINDOR: AS THE 2020 ELECTION NEARED, PRESIDENT TRUMP SOUGHT TO DIG UP DIRT ON HIS POLITICAL OPPONENT, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN.

THAT SPARKED HIS IMPEACHMENT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

>> HIS PHONE CALL WITH VLADIMIR ZELENSKY OF UKRAINE WAS ULTIMATELY WHAT PROMPTED HIS IMPEACHMENT.

>> I'VE DONE THINGS WRONG, THIS IS WHAT THE END RESULT IS.

>> ALCINDOR: WITH ALL BUT ONE SENATE REPUBLICAN BEHIND HIM, TRUMP AVOIDED CONVICTION AND REMOVAL FROM OFFICE.

>> IT'S CALLED "NO COLLUSION, NO OBSTRUCTION."

>> ALCINDOR: AS THE NATION'S DEBT SKYROCKETED, THE STOCK MARKET, ON AN UPWARD TREND SINCE THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, BROKE RECORDS, WITH UNEMPLOYMENT AT A HISTORIC LOW.

>> TRUMP JUST NEEDS TO CONTINUE TO TALK UP THE STRONG U.S. ECONOMY.

>> ALCINDOR: THE PRESIDENT'S SUPPORTERS CELEBRATED.

>> HE'S DONE A PHENOMENAL JOB WITH THE ECONOMY.

MY STOCKS HAVE NEVER BEEN HIGHER.

HE'S JUST, HE'S FOR THE PEOPLE.

>> IT'S JUST BEEN THREE YEARS OF PROMISES MADE AND PROMISES KEPT.

>> ALCINDOR: THEN, THE COUNTRY PLUNGED INTO A CRISIS-- THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC.

AS AMERICA REELED, THE PRESIDENT STRUGGLED TO RESPOND.

>> IT WILL DISAPPEAR.

>> ALCINDOR: UNEMPLOYMENT SKYROCKETED AMID CLOSURES AS AMERICA SUDDENLY FACED AN ECONOMIC AND PUBLIC HEALTH CATASTROPHE.

>> HE'S SEEN HIMSELF AS THE VICTIM OF THE PANDEMIC, POLITICALLY.

>> ALCINDOR: THEN CAME THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD AT THE HANDS OF A WHITE POLICE OFFICER.

>> HE WILL NOT HAVE DIED IN VAIN.

BUT WE CANNOT ALLOW THE RIGHTEOUS CRIES AND PEACEFUL PROTESTERS TO BE DROWNED OUT BY AN ANGRY MOB.

>> ALCINDOR: PEACEFUL PROTESTERS TOOK TO THE STREETS IN ALL 50 STATES, DEMANDING RACIAL EQUALITY.

LOOTING ALSO ROCKED SOME CITIES.

ON A PRIVATE CALL WITH GOVERNORS, THE PRESIDENT DEMANDED A MILITARY-LIKE RESPONSE.

>> YOU HAVE TO DOMINATE.

IF YOU DON'T DOMINATE, YOU'RE WASTING YOUR TIME.

THEY'RE GOING TO RUN OVER YOU.

YOU'RE GOING TO LOOK LIKE A BUNCH OF JERKS.

>> IT DISTORTED WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED, AND IT NEVER ACKNOWLEDGED WHY THEY WERE OUT THERE TO BEGIN WITH.

AT A TIME WHEN THE NATION NEEDED SOMEBODY TO HEAL-- HEAR THOSE COMPLAINTS.

>> ALCINDOR: PROTESTERS TOPPLED AND GRAFFITIED STATUES, INCLUDING CONFEDERATE LEADERS AND AMERICA'S FOUNDING FATHERS WHO OWNED ENSLAVED PEOPLE.

THE PRESIDENT DEFENDED THOSE FIGURES.

>> WE MUST PROTECT AND PRESERVE OUR HISTORY, OUR HERITAGE, AND OUR GREAT HEROES.

>> WHEN YOU SAY "OUR HERITAGE," WHAT HE MEANS IS THE HERITAGE OF WHITE SOUTHERNERS WHO IDENTIFY WITH THE CONFEDERACY AND ITS GOAL TO BREAK AWAY FROM THE UNITED STATES.

>> ALCINDOR: THE EFFORT SEEMINGLY A MEANS TO PLEASE HIS MOST ARDENT SUPPORTERS.

REPUBLICANS LARGELY STOOD BEHIND THE PRESIDENT.

>> THE LEGACY OF PRESIDENT TRUMP'S FIRST TERM IS AN OUTSIDER WHO WANTED TO BUILD A WALL, WHO WANTED TO CONNECT WITH HIS BASE AND FIGHT WITH EVERY CRITIC, BUT ALONG THE WAY, GOT REPUBLICANS MANY THINGS THEY WANTED.

IT WAS FOR MANY OF REPUBLICANS THE BARGAIN OF A LIFETIME, BUT IT WILL HAVE CONSEQUENCES FOR YEARS TO COME.

>> ALCINDOR: WIN OR LOSE IN NOVEMBER, PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS REMADE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN HIS IMAGE.

FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR, I'M YAMICHE ALCINDOR.

>> THANK YOU, YAMICHE, FOR THAT SECOND PART OF A TWO-PART LOOK AT THE LIFE AND THE RECORD OF PRESIDENT TRUMP.

>> WOODRUFF: WE WANT TO BRING IN SOME OTHER VOICES THAT HAVE BEEN WITH US THROUGH THIS WEEK.

CHRIS BUSKIRK IS EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL AMERICAN GREATNESS.

MICHAEL NUTTER, THE FORMER MAYOR OF PHILADELPHIA.

ELIANA JOHNSON IS THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF THE "WASHINGTON FREE BEACON."

AND JONATHAN CAPEHART IS A PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING COLUMNIST FOR THE "WASHINGTON POST."

WELCOME ALL OF YOU BACK TONIGHT ON THIS LAST NIGHT OF THE CONVENTION.

THE VICE PRESIDENT SAYS, CHRIS, PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT.

WE'RE LOOKING AT THE MOST TUMULTUOUS TERM OF A PRESIDENT THAT ANY OF US IS EVEN AWARE OF.

MY QUESTION TO YOU, IS PRESIDENT TRUMP'S RECORD IN OFFICE, IS IT A PLUS FOR HIS RE-ELECTION OR A SET OF OBSTACLES TO BE OVERCOME?

>> I THINK WHEN WE LOOK BACK AT WHAT HE RAN ON BACK IN 2015 AND 16, ALL AND ALL, WE'LL SEE A RECORD OF PROMISES THAT HAVE BEEN KEPT.

THE BIG ONE I THINK IS THAT HE DEPARTMENT START A WAR.

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP RAN ON, A BIG PART OF HIS PLATFORM IN 2016.

IT'S SOMETHING WHERE HE BROKE WITH THE NEOCONSERVATIVES IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND HE HAS GOTTEN THE UNITED STATES OUT OF WARS IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

HE'S KEPT US SAFE IN THAT WAY.

HE'S BEEN ABLE TO BRING TROOPS HOME AND SOMETHING WHERE THE BUSH, CLINTON, BUSH AND OBAMA YEARS ALL STAND IN STARK CONTRAST TO WHAT DONALD TRUMP HAS DONE ON FOREIGN POLICY.

THAT IS SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE INSIDE D.C. AND THE PROFESSIONAL REPUBLICAN AND PROFESSIONAL DEMOCRAT ESTABLISHMENTS DON'T LIKE TO DISAGREE WITH HIM ON BUT RESONATES IN THE HEARTLAND WHERE PEOPLE WERE SENDING THEIR KIDS ACROSS OCEANS TO FIGHT THESE WARS.

HE DID A GOOD JOB ON THE ECONOMY UNTIL CORONAVIRUS HIT IN JANUARY, FEBRUARY.

HE'S GOING TO MAKE THE ARGUMENT TONIGHT AND ON THE CAMPAIGN TRIBAL THE NEXT FEW MONTHS THAT HE'S THE GUY THAT CAN BRING IT BACK.

>> MICHAEL NUTTER, AS YOU LOOK THT RECORD, IS IT A BURDEN FOR THE PRESIDENT OR SOMETHING ELSE?

>> WELL, JUDY, I KIND OF HAVE THE FEELING OF HOW PRESIDENT FORD FELT AT LEAST THIS WEEK THAT THIS LONG NIGHTMARISH WEEK IS ALMOST OVER.

IT'S BEEN REALLY TOUGH LISTENING TO THE DISINFORMATION AND THE PROPAGANDA DURING THE COURSE OF THIS WEEK.

YOU KNOW, DONALD TRUMP RAN ON HE WAS GOING TO MAKE CHANGE, HAVE MEXICO PAY FOR THE WALL.

THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN.

I DON'T KNOW THAT YOU GET A PAT ON THE BACK FOR NOT STARTING A WAR.

EACH PRESIDENT HAS TO DEAL WITH THE WORLD CIRCUMSTANCES AS THEY ARE.

IT'S GOOD FOR US NOT TO BE IN WAR, SURE.

BUT AGAIN, THE RECENT EVENTS OVER THE PAST -- THIS ENTIRE 2020 AND GOING INTO 2020, THE ECONOMY WAS NOT GREAT FOR EVERYONE.

EVERYONE IN AMERICA DOES NOT OWN STOCKS AND THE STOKE MARKET IS NOT THE ULTIMATE ARBITER OF HOW THE ECONOMY IS GOING.

YOU GET JUDGED ON GOVERNING.

DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN CAMPAIGNING AS YAMICHE'S PIECE INDICATED.

HE STARTED RUNNING FOR THIS RE-ELECTION ON DAY ONE.

HE NEVER TRANSLATED CAMPAIGNING INTO GOVERNING.

SEEMINGLY HAS NOT YET FIGURED OUT WHAT GOVERNORING IS ALL ABOUT.

SO I DON'T KNOW THAT THE RECORD IS THAT GREAT FOR THE BROAD SWATH OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC.

>> ELIANA, HOW DO YOU SEE WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP BRINGS TO THE TABLE AS HE ASKS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO RE-ELECT HIM?

>> GOING INTO TONIGHT, THE PRESIDENT HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE HIS CASE UNFILTERED BY THE MEDIA, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT HE HAS PRIORITIZED USING A TWITTER FEED.

HE HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE HIS CASE FOR WHAT HE'S ACCOMPLISHED AND LAY OUT A PATH FOR WHAT HE'S GOING TO DO THE NEXT FOUR YEARS.

I DON'T THINK IT HELPS TO SAY THE ECONOMY WAS GOOD IN FEBRUARY.

HE SHOULD LAY OUT A PATH ON HOW TO GET THE ECONOMY BACK TO WHERE IT WAS.

TRADE AND IMMIGRATION ARE THE TWO ISSUES THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS USED.

HE HAS CHANGED THE REPUBLICAN PARTY'S APPROACH TO THOSE ISSUES AND HE SHOULD TALK ABOUT THAT.

HE SHOULD ALSO SAVAGE THE OTHER SIDE.

THAT'S WHAT THESE CONVENTIONS ARE FOR AND SHOULD POINT TO CONVENTIONS ARE POLITICAL THEATER BUT POINT TO THE REALITY TAKING PLACE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY IN DEMOCRAT-RUN CITIES WHERE VIOLENCE HAS TAKEN HOLD AND DESTROYING THE LIVES OF MANY PEOPLE.

>> JONATHAN CAPEHART, WE ASSUME THAT'S WHAT THE PRESIDENT DOES TONIGHT.

DOES THAT ADD UP TO SOMETHING THAT PUTS HIM IN A STRONG POSITION AS HE GOES INTO THE FALL CAMPAIGN?

>> JUDY, ONE, I HAVE NO EXPECTATIONS FOR THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH TONIGHT.

PRIMARILY BECAUSE I HAVE A SENSE THAT WITH THE EXEMPTION OF A FEW NEW LINES, IT'S EVERYTHING THAT WE HAVE BEEN HEARING FOR THE LAST 3 1/2 YEARS.

I THINK THE PRESIDENT HAS SHOWN ESPECIALLY THROUGH THIS CONVENTION NO COMPUNCTION ABOUT CAMPAIGNING TO THE AMERICAN THAT IS AND INSTEAD HAS BEEN CAMPAIGNING -- FOR THE VOTES OF THE AMERICA THAT HE THINKS IS THERE.

THE AMERICA, THE PEOPLE THAT ARE THERE CROWDED UP ON THE SOUTH LAWN TO HEAR HIM SPEAK.

THE PRESIDENT HAS NOT BEEN INTERESTED IN EXPANDING HIS BASE.

HE'S ONLY BEEN INTERESTED IN TALKING TO HIS BASE.

WHAT HIS BASE THINKS IS THAT HE HAS BEEN DOING AN EXCELLENT JOB.

HE HAS BEEN TERRIFIC.

THAT CORONAVIRUS IS IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR, THAT IF ONLY THE CORONAVIRUS HADN'T HAPPENED, THE ECONOMY WOULD BE DOING WELL AND IT'S NOT HIS FAULT.

UNFORTUNATELY, HIS RELIANCE ON FEAR I THINK IS THE ONE THING THAT HE HAS GOING FOR HIM.

IT'S THE ONE THING AND THE ONE CONSTANT THAT HE HAS DELIVERED SINCE HIS INAUGURATION.

HIS INAUGURATION SPEECH IS ABOUT AMERICAN CARNAGE.

NO ONE I THINK ANTICIPATED THAT IT WOULD BASICALLY COME TRUE NOW.

THE THING FOR ME THAT IS MOST CONCERNING IS THAT WE HAVE SEEN IN AMERICAN HISTORY HOW FEAR WORKS.

ESPECIALLY HOW FEAR WORKS WHEN IT IS DIRECTED AT WHITE PEOPLE AND HAVING THEM BE AFRAID OF PEOPLE OF COLOR, BUT MORE SPECIFICALLY BLACK PEOPLE.

SO WHEN WORD CAME OUT THAT THE PRESIDENT WILL TALK ABOUT JACOB BLAKE, THE UNARMED BLACK MAN THAT WAS SHOT SEVEN TIMES IN THE BACK BY KENOSHA POLICE, A CHILL RUNS THROUGH MY VEINS BECAUSE WHEN SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPENS THAT SCRATCHES AT AMERICA'S ONGOING AND ENDURING PAIN AND TRAUMA, WE WANT TO LOOK TO OUR FEDERAL OR NATIONAL LEADERS FOR HEALING.

SOMEONE WHO WILL BRING US TOGETHER.

INSTEAD, WHAT WE'VE GOTTEN IS THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE.

>> I WANT TO TURN TO CHRIS TO PICK UP ON THAT.

AS I DO, REMIND OUR VIEWERS THAT THE CONVENTION IS GETTING UNDERWAY RIGHT NOW.

THE VISUALS OF WHAT YOU'RE SEEING IS WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS SENDING OUT.

WE CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION FOR THE NEXT FEW MINUTES.

CHRIS, THE USE OF FEAR AS A CAMPAIGN TACTIC IS AN EFFORT TO APPEAL TO VOTERS.

YOU COULD SAY IT'S A TRIED AND TRUE TRADITION AND SOME MOMENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

BUT TODAY IS THAT SOMETHING THAT A CANDIDATE CAN BE PROUD OF?

>> WELL, I THINK IT'S A TRIED AND TRUE IN EVERY ELECTION IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

IT'S A HALLMARK OF DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT.

DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN RUNNING ON THE FEAR CARD OF HEY, THE REPUBLICANS IF YOU ELECT THEM WILL TAKE AWAY YOUR GRANDPARENTS SOCIAL SECURITY.

WE'VE BEEN RUNNING ON THAT FOR 50 YEARS.

THERE'S A REASON FOR IT, A PSYCHOLOGICAL REASON.

PEOPLE RESPOND TO A NEED FOR SECURITY MORE THAN THEY RESPOND TO DESIRES FOR ASPIRATIONAL GOALS.

SO THIS COMES HOME TO ROOST THIS YEAR IN PARTICULAR WHEN YOU SEE ALL OF THESE IMAGES OF RIOTING, LOOTING, PEOPLE GETTING SHOT IN THE STREETS.

SO PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO THINK, WELL, ARE WE ACTUALLY SECURE?

DO I HAVE A RIGHT TO BE AFRAID?

IS THE GOVERNMENT THERE TO PROTECT ME AND MY FAMILY?

>> ALL RIGHT.

WE'RE GOING TURN NOW TO MY COLLEAGUE, AMNA ANWAZ.

THE OPENING CEREMONIES ARE BEING KICKED OFF BY FRANKLIN GRAHAM.

AMNA?

>> PRESIDENT TRUMP DECISIVELY WON KENTUCKY IN 2016.

THIS YEAR, THE BLUEGRASS STATE HAS BEEN GETTING ATTENTION AS SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MITCH MCCONNELL MAKES HIS OWN CASE FOR REELECTION.

LIKE MUCH OF THE COUNTRY, THE STATE HAS ALSO BEEN THE SITE OF RACIAL JUSTICE PROTESTS, AFTER THE DEATH OF BREONNA TAYLOR IN LOUISVILLE.

FOR A CHECK IN, WE TURN TO RYLAND BARTON OF KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO.

RYLAND, THANK YOU FOR MAKING THE TIME.

AS WE SPEAK HERE, THERE'S CALLS FOR RACIAL JUSTICE AND PROTESTS IN WISCONSIN AFTER THE SHOOTING OF JACOB BLAKE AS WE TALKED ABOUT.

WE SHOULD MENTION THE CALLS FOR JUSTICE CONTINUE IN KENTUCKY FIVE MONTHS AFTER BREONNA TAYLOR WAS SHOT.

DO WE EXPECT MITCH McCONNELL IN HIS REMARKS TO ADDRESS THAT?

>> I DON'T KNOW IF HE WILL ADDRESS IT TONIGHT.

CERTAINLY HIS CONGRESSMAN DANIEL TAYLOR HAS MENTIONED IT.

PROTESTS HAVE BEEN GOING ON IN LOUISVILLE SINCE LATE MAY.

BREONNA TAYLOR WAS KILLED BY POLICE IN MID MARCH.

PROTESTS CONTINUE HERE.

PEOPLE ARE WAITING FOR THE INVESTIGATIONS.

THE PROTESTS HAVE ONLY GOTTEN MORE INTENSE.

>> MR. TRUMP WON KENTUCKY BY 30 POINTS.

HE'S VERY POPULAR THERE.

DOWN BALLOT, AS WE MENTIONED, McCONNELL IS A MORE COMPETITIVE RACE THAN MANY PEOPLE EXPECTED AGAINST AMY McGRATH.

WILL McCONNELL SURVIVE?

>> EVERY TIME HE RUNS FOR RE-ELECTION, PEOPLE THINK THIS IS THE YEAR THAT HE'S VULNERABLE.

IN 2014, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WERE LOOKING AT HIM -- HIS POPULARITY AND BEING UNDER WATER.

BUT ONCE AGAIN HE WON BY A SIGNIFICANT MARGIN.

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME HE'S RUNNING AS MAJORITY LEADER.

AMY McGRATH HAS A LOT OF MONEY.

SHE'S RUNNING A BIG RACE AND TRYING TO KIND OF BRING ALL DEMOCRATS BACK UNDER THE SAME TENT ESPECIALLY AFTER A BIG COMPETITIVE PRIMARY ELECTION AGAINST A PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY RIVAL, CHARLES BOOKER THAT MADE A LATE RUN IN THAT RACE.

SO IT'S UP TO AMY McGRATH -- SHE'S TRYING TO UNITE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND PICK-OFF MORE CONSERVATIVE VOTERS THAT HAVE BEEN VOTING FOR TRUMP IN THE PAST ELECTION AS WELL.

>> RYLAND, WE HEARD ABOUT HOW PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THE REPUBLICANS SEEM TO BE MESSAGING TO HIS BASE IN THE RNC.

WHAT ARE PEOPLE ON THE GROUND TELLING YOU ABOUT THE MESSAGE AND HOW THEY'RE RECEIVING IT THERE?

>> I THINK WHAT REPUBLICANS ARE EXCITED FOR IS TRYING TO -- SO MUCH OF IS BASED ON OPPOSITION TO DEMOCRATS AND KEEPING DEMOCRATIC POLICIES FROM BEING ENACTED.

THIS GOES DOWN TO McCONNELL AS WELL.

YOU KNOW, OVER THE LAST COUPLE YEARS, KEEPING DEMOCRATIC POLICIES IN THE HOUSE FROM PASSING OUT OF CONGRESS BECAUSE OF THE REPUBLICAN-LED SENATE.

PEOPLE IN KENTUCKY ARE STILL EXCITED ABOUT THE PRESIDENT AND AT LEAST REPUBLICANS IN KENTUCKY ARE, ABOUT HIS ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT MESSAGE.

GRANTED HIS POLLING IS NOT AS HIGH AS THEY ONCE WERE.

THEY'RE STILL HIGH THOUGH.

THEY'RE STILL -- THE SUBURBAN VOTE THAT REPUBLICANS ARE HAVING TROUBLE IN THE SUBURBS OF KENTUCKY JUST AS MUCH AS THEY WERE AROUND THE COUNTRY.

THAT WILL BE A THING TO WATCH HERE AS WELL.

>> INDEED.

THAT IS RYLAND BARTON FROM KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO.

THANKS TO YOU.

JUDY, BACK TO YOU.

>> THANK YOU.

IMPORTANT TO GET THAT VIEW FROM KENTUCKY ON THE NIGHT THAT WE HEAR FROM THE SENATE MAJORITY LEADER.

THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH IN TWO HOURS.

MEANTIME, WE'RE KEEPING A CLOSE EYE ON THE REPUBLICA NATIONAL CONVENTION.

BUT EARLIER THIS EVENING, I SPOKE WITH WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF MARK MEADOWS.

HERE IS THAT CONVERSATION.

>> WELL, I THINK THAT THE CONVENTION IS GOING OUTSTANDING.

WE'RE TELLING THE STORY OF AMERICAN PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

EACH AND EVERY NIGHT IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT POLITICAL FIGURES AND PERSONALITIES.

IT'S ABOUT PEOPLE THAT ARE INVOLVED IN WHETHER IT'S A LOBSTER FISHERMAN OR A LOGGER OR ANYONE ELSE, SMALL BUSINESS PERSON.

IT'S THEIR STORIES.

THAT'S WHAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE REALLY ARE INTERESTED IN.

>> WE'RE HEARING A LOT OF THE PERSONAL TESTIMONIES AND A LOT ABOUT JOE BIDEN.

I WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT THAT.

HE'S CLEARLY A PROGRESSIVE, A LIBERAL.

HIS VIEWS ARE TO THE LEFT OF THE PRESIDENT'S.

HE'S FOR EXPANDING THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT AND FOR DIVERTING SOME POLICE FUNDING TO SOCIAL SERVICES.

HE'S NOT FOR A GOVERNMENT-RUN MEDICARE FOR ALL.

AND AS WE JUST HEARD, HE'S NOT NOR DEFUNDING THE POLICE.

HE REPEATED IT AGAIN.

SPEAKER AFTER SPEAKER AT THE CONVENTION IS SAYING THAT HE'S FOR THESE THINGS.

HE'S A SOCIALIST AND BRING THE COUNTRY TO RUIN.

WHY NOT SAY THIS IS WHAT HE BELIEVES AND NOT EXAGGERATE?

>> I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY EXAGGERATION.

EVEN IF YOUR LEAD UP WITH THE REPORTER AND THE REPORTING GOING ON, THEY SAID HE WANT TO REALLOCATE.

BY DEFINITION, THAT MEANS THAT YOU CUT FROM ONE PLACE AND YOU AUGMENT IN ANOTHER PLACE.

SO IF HE'S SO CLEAR ON IT, WHY DIDN'T HE CONDEMN ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE OUT THERE SAYING THAT WE NEED TO DEFUND THE POLICE?

WE DIDN'T HE CONDEMN THEM?

NOT JUST STATE A POLICY POSITION BUT CONDEMN THEIR ACTIVITY.

I SERVED ON CAPITOL HILL.

WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT REALLOCATIONS, YOU TAKE FROM ONE BUCKET AND PUT IT IN A DIFFERENT BUCKET.

I'M NOT SURE.

>> REALLOCATING IS DIFFERENT FROM DEFUNDING ALTOGETHER.

>> LET'S SAY WE'RE NOT DEFUNDING ALTOGETHER BUT YOU'RE CUTTING THEIR FUNDING.

LET'S BE HONEST ABOUT IT.

IF YOU'RE TAKING MONEY FROM POLICE LAW ENFORCEMENT, YOU'RE NOT INCREASING THEIR BUDGET.

YOU'RE DECREASING IT.

>> LET ME ASK YOU SOMETHING THAT VICE PRESIDENT PENCE AND OTHERS HAVE SAID.

THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS SAVED LIVES WITH A TOTAL BAN ON TRAVEL FROM CHINA STARTING BACK IN JANUARY.

CLAIMING -- HE CLAIMS, OTHERS CLAIMS THAT JOE BIDEN, THE DEMOCRATS ATTACKED THIS.

HOWEVER, WE LOOKED BACK AT THIS.

IT WAS NOT A TOTAL BAN.

"THE NEW YORK TIMES" ESTIMATES SOMETHING LIKE 40,000 TRAVELERS FROM CHINA ARRIVED IN THE U.S. AFTER THE PRESIDENT IMPOSED THAT ACTION OVER THE COURSE OF TWO MONTHS.

JOE BIDEN AND THE DEMOCRATS DID NOT ATTACK THIS.

WE'VE GONE BACK AND LOOKED.

SO WHERE IS ALL OF THAT COMING FROM?

>> WELL, IF YOU WENT BACK AND LOOKED, THEY DID CONDEMN IT.

SO LET'S GO AHEAD AND DO THAT.

HE DID CALL HIM XENOPHOBIC.

>> BUT HE WASN'T TALKING ABOUT THE BAN.

>> IT WAS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COVID RELIEF AND WHAT THE PRESIDENT DID.

I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU CONTEXTUALIZE IT IN ANY OTHER WAY.

SO WHAT THEY'RE SAYING IS JOE BIDEN TODAY IS APPLAUDING THE PRESIDENT FOR CUTTING DOWN TRAVEL FROM CHINA?

THAT WOULD BE NEWSWORTHY IF THAT'S WHAT HE'S SAYING.

I DON'T SEE ANY ADS OUT THERE WITH JOE BIDEN SAYING WE APPLAUD PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR CUTTING DOWN TRAVEL FROM CHINA.

LISTEN, THIS IS ALL ABOUT TWO DIFFERENT NARRATIVES.

IT'S ONE WHERE THE PRESIDENT INDEED DID SAVE THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS AND PERHAPS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF LIVES.

MAYBE EVEN BY SOME ESTIMATES HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF LIVES BY HIS QUICK ACTION IN TERMS OF TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE WAS A TRAVEL BAN IMPOSED.

MORE IMPORTANTLY THAN THAT, WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE FACTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.

>> SO MANY THINGS TO ASK YOU ABOUT, MARK MEADOWS.

ONE IS THE RACIAL UNREST IN THE COUNTRY.

THE VICE PRESIDENT PAINTED A PICTURE LAST NIGHT OF MANY CITIES OVERRUN WITH VIOLENCE.

THERE HAS BEEN VIOLENCE, BUT WE KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF PEACEFUL PROTESTS AS WELL.

MY QUESTION TO YOU IS DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE ANGUISH, THE ANGER AND THE ANGUISH OF BLACK FAMILIES OVER THE REPEATED INSTANCES OF BLACK MEN SHOT JUST LIKE, YOU KNOW, MR. JACOBS THIS WEEK WHO WAS IN KENOSHA?

>> AS A NON-AFRICAN AMERICAN, I DON'T KNOW THAT I CAN FULLY UNDERSTAND IT THE WAY THAT SOME IN THE COMMUNITY MIGHT.

IN MY CONVERSATIONS WITH A NUMBER OF MY FRIENDS, SENATOR TIM SCOTT AS WE TRIED TO WORK ON MAKING SURE THAT WE MOVED LEGISLATION FORWARD IN CONGRESS, YOU KNOW, HE WAS ABLE TO ARTICULATE THIS PROBABLY BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE.

YET WHAT WE FOUND WAS THAT IT WAS SENATOR DURBIN AND OTHERS LIKE IT THAT SEEMED TO TAKE TIM SCOTT'S EARNEST DESIRE TO FIX THIS PROBLEM AND SUGGEST THAT IT WAS ONLY POLITICAL.

YET WHAT I DO KNOW IS THAT THERE WAS A DEAL THERE TO BE MADE BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT WANTED TO MAKE A DEAL AND WHY IT HERE WE ARE WITH CONGRESS NOT ACTING.

THE ONLY PERSON IN WASHINGTON D.C. WHO HAS ACTED TO TRY TO ADDRESS THIS IN A MEANINGFUL WAY IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WITH AN EXECUTIVE ORDER.

IT'S NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT HE'S ACTED ON THIS.

>> YOU HAD SEVERAL WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS TODAY CRITICIZING PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES THAT HAVE BEEN SITTING OUT SOME GAMES OVER THE LAST DAY.

SOME ARE CONTINUING TONIGHT.

SOME ARE NOT.

JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO, MARK MEADOWS, WE HEARD THE COACH OF THE CLIPPERS, DOC RIVERS SAY WE KEEP LOVING THIS COUNTRY AND THIS COUNTRY DOES NOT LOVE US BACK.

ARE YOU PREPARED ALSO TO CRITICIZE THESE ATHLETES FOR WHAT THEY'RE DOING?

>> LISTEN, HERE'S WHAT I DO KNOW.

PEACEFUL PROTESTS WHERE THEY WANT TO BOYCOTT, NOT BOYCOTT WITH THE NBA, I HAVEN'T BEEN WATCHING THEIR GAMES.

I'M MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT THEY DO IN TERMS OF WINNING TEAM THAN THE BOYCOTT.

HERE'S WHAT WE HAVE DONE.

WE HAVE TAKEN THE WHOLE POLITICAL SIDE OF THAT AND PUT IT IN TO THE SPORTS ARENA, WHICH A LOT OF PEOPLE IT'S MAKING THEM TUNE OUT.

IT'S ONE OF THE FEW TIMES WHERE YOU CAN KIND OF DISENGAGE AND NOT GET INVOLVED IN POLITICS.

THAT BEING SAID, IT IS THEIR RIGHT TO PROTEST.

IF THEY WANT TO BOYCOTT IT AND PROTEST, THAT'S WHY WE HAVE A CONSTITUTION AND THAT'S WHY WE HAVE THOSE FREEDOMS HERE THAT WE ENJOY.

>> THE REASON I'M ASKING YOU ABOUT YOUR VIEW OF THESE ATHLETES IS BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT IN THE PAST HAS CALLED THEM NASTY AND DUMB FOR SITTING OUT THESE GAMES.

BUT I ALSO WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT MASK WEARING, MARK MEADOWS.

YOU WERE OUT TRAVELING IN THE COUNTRY.

YOU WERE IN YOUR FORMER CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA.

YOU WERE NOT WEARING A MASK.

WE'VE SEEN 1,500 SEATS ON THE SAUT LAWN OF THE WHITE HOUSE FOR THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS.

NO MASK MANDATE.

THE CDC HAS STRONGLY SUGGESTED PEOPLE WEAR A MASK.

HOW DO YOU SQUARE THE TWO?

>> I CAN TELL YOU, I'M PROBABLY THE MOST TESTED INDIVIDUAL IN AMERICA EVERY SINGLE DAY BECAUSE OF MY INTERACTIONS WITH THE PRESIDENT.

I GET TESTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I'M SAFE.

SO THAT MASK WEARING IS REALLY, YOU KNOW, A PRECAUTION AGAINST BEING ABLE TO TRANSMIT IT TO OTHER PEOPLE.

SO I KNOW I'M CORONAVIRUS-FREE BECAUSE I HAVE TO BE TO BE ABLE TO WORK WITH THE PRESIDENT.

>> BUT YOU'RE NOT CONCERNED ABOUT THE MESSAGE IT SENDS WHEN PEOPLE SEE NOT JUST YOU BUT AGAIN 1,500 SEATS CLOSE TOGETHER ON THE WHITE HOUSE LAWN?

>> I THINK THE PRESIDENT HAS TALKED ABOUT MASKS.

I HAVE MY MASKS WITH ME.

I WEAR IT OCCASIONALLY.

SO YOU KNOW, FOR ALL OF YOUR VIEWERS THAT ARE WATCHING, LISTEN, IF THERE'S A PLACE WHERE I'M NOT TESTED OR WHERE I'M EXTREMELY CLOSE, I WEAR THE MASK.

YET WHEN WE LOOK AT THAT AND TRY TO MAKE THAT A LITMUS TEST ON WHETHER OR NOT IT'S GOING TO ACTUALLY BE COMMUNICATED IN A CONTAGIOUS WAY, SHARED WITH SOMEONE ELSE, THAT'S REALLY NOT A MESSAGE THAT THIS WHITE HOUSE BELIEVES IS BEING MET.

>> MARK MEADOWS, CHIEF OF STAFF TO PRESIDENT TRUMP.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

>> GREAT TO BE WITH YOU.

>> ONE OF THE SUBJECTS I WAS RAISING THERE WITH CHIEF OF STAFF MARK MEADOWS HAS TO DO WITH GEORGE FLOYD, BREONNA TAYLOR AND NOW, JACOB BLAKE.

THE LATEST SHOOTING OF A BLACK AMERICAN BY POLICE, THIS TIME IN KENOSHA, WISCONSIN, HAS SPARKED A NEW ROUND OF PROTESTS OVER RACIAL INEQUITIES.

IT IS ALSO A CENTRAL AREA OF DEBATE IN THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.

LISA DESJARDINS AND YAMICHE ALCINDOR TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT WHERE PRESIDENT TRUMP AND JOE BIDEN DISAGREE.

>> AMERICANS TOOK TO THE STREETS TO PROTEST THE KILLING OF GEORGE FLOYD AND RACIAL INJUSTICE.

BOTH PRESIDENT TRUMP AND FORMER VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN WEIGHED IN.

PRESIDENT TRUMP FOCUSED ON THE SMALL NUMBER OF VIOLENT INCIDENTS AND CALLED FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO USE MORE FORCE.

>> TODAY I HAVE STRONGLY RECOMMENDED TO EVERY GOVERNOR TO DEPLOY THE NATIONAL GUARD IN SUFFICIENT NUMBERS THAT WE DOMINATE THE STREETS.

MAYORS AND GOVERNORS MUST ESTABLISH AN OVERWHELMING LAW ENFORCEMENT PRESENCE UNTIL THE VIOLENCE HAS BEEN QUELLED.

>> BIDEN WAS SUPPORTIVE OF THE PROTESTS AND SAID PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS SERVING THE PASSIONS OF HIS BASE.

>> THE MOMENT HAS COME FOR OUR NATION TO DEAL WITH SYSTEMIC RACISM.

TO DEAL WITH A GROWING ECONOMIC INEQUITY THAT EXISTS IN OUR NATION.

TO DEAL WITH THE DENIAL OF A PROMISE OF THIS NATION.

>> BIDEN HAS RELEASED A PLACE FOR RACIAL EQUITY.

IT CALLS FOR CHANGES INCLUDING MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING, INVESTMENTS IN SMALL BUSINESSES OWNED BY PEOPLE OF COLOR, BOOSTING RETIREMENT SECURITY AND FINANCIAL WEALTH FOR FAMILIES OF COLOR AND FAIR PAY FOR WORKERS.

PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS MADE RACE A FOCUS.

HE SIGNED A SIGNIFICANT CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM BILL INTO LAW.

BEFORE THE PANDEMIC, HE POINTED OUT THAT THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATES FOR BLACKS AND LATINOS HIT RECORD LOWS.

IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, THE PRESIDENT SAID THIS AFTER A PROTESTER WERE KILLED.

>> YOU ALSO HAD PEOPLE THAT WERE VERY FINE PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES.

>> IN JULY, PRESIDENT TRUMP ROLLED BACK AN OBAMA-ERA FAIR HOUSING RULE MEANT TO COMBAT SEGREGATION.

SOON AFTER HE TWEETED SAYING ALL THE PEOPLE LIVING THEIR SUR BURR BAN LIFESTYLE DREAMS WOULD NO LONGER WITH HURT BY HAVING LOW INCOME HOUSING BUILD IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.

>> THANK YOU TO YAMICHE AND TO LISA FOR THAT REPORT.

THAT CONTRAST AND FOR MORE NOW ON THE ROLE OF RACE IN AMERICANS ELECTION PAST, WE TURN TO HISTORIAN AND NEWS HOUR REGULAR, MICHAEL BESCHLOSS.

SO WELCOME, MICHAEL.

WE DO SEE RACIAL INEQUITY PLAYING A BIG ROLE NOT JUST IN AMERICAN LIFE THIS YEAR BUT IN THIS ELECTION.

HOW DOES IT FIT INTO THE AMERICAN STORY, IF YOU WILL?

>> I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MANY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY THE RACE ISSUE.

1860 WHEN ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS RUNNING ON THE PRECIPICE OF THE CIVIL WAR.

A LOT OF SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS FORMED A NEW PARTY IN 1964.

BARRY GOLDWATER SAID IT WAS.

SO MUCH THAT HE WAS A RACIST BUT HESS AGAINST LYNDON JOHNSON'S CIVIL RIGHTS ACT BECAUSE HE THOUGHT IT WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

IN 1968, NIXON AND WALLACE SAID THE IMPORTANT THING IS NOT JUST JUSTICE IN THIS COUNTRY.

MORE IMPORTANT THAN THAT IS LAW AND ORDER IN KEEPING THE STREETS OF THE CITIES SAFE.

YOU KNOW, JUDY, I'M WRITING THIS BOOK ON MODERN PRESIDENTS AND RACIAL JUSTICE.

THIS IS A THREAD THAT GOES THROUGH OUR HISTORY.

IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE THAT WAY.

>> IT IS TRULY PART OF HOW WE DEFINE OURSELVES AS AMERICANS, ISN'T IT?

IT GOES BACK TO THE BEGINNING AS WE'VE BEEN RELEARNING THIS YEAR.

IT GOES BACK TO THE VERY BEGINNING OF THIS COUNTRY WHEN THE EUROPEANS CAME TO THIS COUNTRY AND UPENDED THE LIVES OF MILLIONS OF NATIVE AMERICANS.

>> ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.

THAT HAS GONE ON FOR CENTURIES.

WHAT WE NOW HAVE IS A SITUATION WHERE THESE DIFFERENCES ARE SOMETIMES EXACERBATED FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES.

1988 AS YOU REMEMBER GEORGE H.W.

BUSH WAS A VERY FINE MAN, BUT THAT WAS A CAMPAIGN THAT MADE USE OF VERY CLEAR RACIAL OVERTONES HAVING TO DO WITH THE FURLOUGH GIVEN IN MASSACHUSETTS TO -- OF AN INMATE NAMED WILLIE HORTON.

AT THE SAME TIME, YOU HAVE PRESIDENTS THAT HAVE LISTENED TO PEACEFUL PROTESTS AS IN BIRMINGHAM, 1963, JOHN KENNEDY.

A CIVIL RIGHTS BILL TO CONGRESS.

SELMA 1965, JOHN LEWIS AND OTHERS MARCHED.

LYNDON JOHNSON SENT A VOTING RIGHTS BILL TO CONGRESS.

THAT IS THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN.

INSTEAD, YOU OFTENTIMES HAVE PEOPLE SENDING NOT JUST DOG WHISTLES BUT LOUD SOUNDS AND APPEALS TO RACIAL DIS-HARMON ANY.

THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SEEING THIS YEAR.

>> THE USE OF FEAR AND APPEALING FRANKLY TO PEOPLE'S MOST BASE INSTINCTS.

>> ABSOLUTELY.

BECAUSE FOR INSTANCE, THIS YEAR DONALD TRUMP WAS VERY IMPRESSED BY 1968.

HE SAW THAT RICHARD NIXON AND GEORGE WALLACE BY USING VARIOUS FORMS OF THAT APPEAL BOTH TOGETHER GOT ABOUT THAT IT'S SK GOT LITTLE NOT.

HOPEFULLY THIS COUNTRY CAN HOPE TOWARD RACIAL HEALING.

>> Woodruff: WE ALL CERTAINLY HOPE SO.

THANK YOU.

WE WILL BE COMING BACK DO YOU THROUGHOUT THIS NILE AS WELL.

AND NOW WE WANT TO TURN TO REPORTERS COVERING THIS PRESIDENTIAL RACE SO CLOSELY THEY ARE WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT YAMICHE ALCINDER.

LISA ON THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN.

AND JOINING THEM IS ERIN HANS WITH THE NEWLY LAUNCHED NEWS WEBSITE, THE 19th.

ERIN, LET'S PICK UP ONE WHERE WE LEFT THE CONVERSATION JUST NOW WITH MICHAEL BESCHLOSS.

AND THE ROLE OF RACE, THE ROLE OF RACIAL JUSTICE.

IN THIS CAMPAIGN, HOW BIG A ROLE DO YOU THINK IT'S PLAYING AND IS IT ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE THE NEGATIVE IS ALWAYS GOING TO PREVAIL OVER THE POSITIVE.

JUST BECAUSE OF, I DON'T KNOW, HUMAN NATURE.

>> YOU KNOW, JUDY AS A REPORTER WHO SPENT MUCH OF MY CAREER COVERING THE INTERSECTION OF RACE AND POLITICS.

RACE IS NOT JUST THE STORY OF OUR TIME THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF OUR DEMOCRACY.

THAT IS WHY THE NATIONAL RECKONING ON RACE IS CONDITIONING HEADED INTO THE 2020 LEKS.

WHETHER THE PRESIDENT OR THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVEX CHOOSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT OR NOT.

WE KNOW THAT JACOB BLAKE WAS SHOT AS THE RNC BEGAN, LITTLE TO NO MENTION OF HIM, OF GEORGE FLOYD, OF BRIONNA OF TAYLOR OR WHAT THE PLAN IS TO STOP THE U UNRELEAPTING SHOOTING AND KILLING OF UNARMED BLACK PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY WHICH IS WHY YOU'VE SEEN PEOPLE IN THE STREETS IN THESE ONGOING NATIONAL PROTESTS.

MARK MEADOWS, THOUGH, IN YOUR INTERVIEW TALKING ABOUT HOW FANS WANT TO USE SPORTS TO CHECK OUT ON THE THING IN THIS COUNTRY THAT ARE DIFFICULT FOR AMERICANS TO SEE AND HEAR AND FEEL BUT REALITY IS THAT THESE ATHLETES ARE ALSO AMERICANS.

AND THEY DON'T GET TO CHECK OUT ON RACISM.

SO I THINK WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE STREETS OF THIS COUNTRY IS PART OF THEIR LIVED EXPERIENCE WHICH IS WHY YOU SEE SO MANY OF THEM IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEACEFUL PROTESTERS WHO ARE CONTINUING TO TRY TO RAISE AWA AWARENESS AROUND THE ISSUE OF RACIAL DISPARATE IN POLICING.

THAT IS ABSOLUTELY POLITICAL AND ON THE BALLOT ON SO MANY OF THE VOTERS I'VE TALKED TO.

>> Woodruff: TO LISA DESJARDINS WHO WAS IN WILMINGTON THROUGH THE BIDEN-HARRIS DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION.

IT WAS A VERY DIFFERENT APPR APPROACH, WAS IT NOT, LISA, TO THE THINGS THAT ERIN IS SPEAKING ABOUT?

>> THAT'S ABSOLUTELY RIGHT IT WAS A VERY DIRECT CONFRONTATION OF THE IDEA OF RACIAL INJUSTICE CALLING OUT THE NAMES OF BLACK MEN AND BLACK WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN KILLED AND NOW SHOT BY POLICE.

I THINK THAT DEMOCRATS SEE IT AS EXISTENTIAL ISSUE BUT ALSO FOR THEIR VOTERS IN THEIR LIVES.

THEY SEE THAT CONTRAST.

BUT OBVIOUSLY THE REPUBLICANS ARE TRYING TO DRAW CONTRAST OVER SAFETY.

TRYING TO SAY, THIS -- DEMOCRATS APPROACH RISKS PEOPLE'S SAFETY.

TO THAT DEMOCRATS HAVE A FULL THROATED ANSWER TODAY WE SAW FORMER VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN TAKE TO CABLE TELEVISION WITH LENGTHY INTERVIEWS SAYING HE DENOUNCES VIOLENCE.

DOES NOT WANT ANYONE TO THINK HE CONFUSES VIOLENCE WITH PEACEFUL PROTESTS.

BUT HE SUPPORTS PEACEFUL PROTESTS.

ALSO A LITTLE BIT OF NEWS FROM THE BIDEN CAMP TODAY, MUCH AS THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT WE HEARD FROM AREAS A VERY RIGOROUS SPEECH ABOUT RACIAL INJUSTICE.

THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN IS THINKING MORE BROADLY WE KNOW THEY JUST ANNOUNCED IN THE LAST HOUR SORE SO THAT VICE PRESIDENT WILL BE TRAVELING AFTER LABOR DAY PLANS FOG TO SWING STATES THAT INCLUDES ARIZONA, WISCONSIN, COUPLE OTHER, PENNSYLVANIA, PLACES WHERE HE KNOWS HE HAS TO WIN IN ORDER TO WIN THE PRESIDENCY.

SOME DEMOCRATS ARE NERVOUS ABOUT THE LEAD THAT BIDEN HAS RIGHT NOW, IT REMINDS THEM OF HILLARY CLINTON'S LEAD THEY DON'T WANT TO TAKE IT FOR GRANTED.

>> Woodruff: YAMICHE, WHICH REMINDS US OF THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN KNOCK ON JOE BIDEN.

THEY KEEP REFERRING TO HIM AS THE CANDIDATE IN THE BASEMENT.

THEY KEEP SAYING HE HASN'T COME OUT OF HIS HOUSE.

FOR A LONG TIME.

USING THAT AS A WAY TO FRANKLY DENIGRATE HIM.

>> THAT'S RIGHT, JUDY.

PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS BEEN TRYING TO MAKE A CONTRAST BETWEEN HOW HE IS TRAVELING AROUND IN THE COUNTRY, HE'S OUT, SOLVING PROBLEMS, DOING THE BUSINESS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, HE'S SAYING THAT JOE BIDEN ISN'T GETTING THINGS DONE BECAUSE HE'S IN HIS BASEMENT OR IN HIS HOUSE.

JOE BIDEN OF COURSE SAYING THAT HE'S STAYING SAFE.

I CAN'T UNDERSCORE ENOUGH WHERE I'M STANDING IS THE SCENE OF THE MOST UNUSUAL THING WHICH IS THAT YOU HAVE 1500 PEOPLE OR SO BEHIND ME SITTING SHOULDER TO SHOULDER, KNOW MASKS ON, WA WATCHING THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVEHICLE AN THESE LARGE SCREENS.

THAT IS THE PRESIDENT WANTING TO USE THE WHITE HOUSE GROUNDS TO SAY WE'RE OPEN FOR BUSINESS, PEOPLE CAN CAN GO BACK THEY CAN BE SAFE BUT GO BACK GATHER WITH PEOPLE.

I'VE BEEN TALKING TO THE WHITE HOUSE TO SAY ARE THESE PEOPLE TESTED?

HOW ARE THEY STAYING SAFE?

WHAT WHAT I CAN REPORT THEY HAVE NOT BEEN TESTED ITCH NOT BEEN TESTED THE WHITE HOUSE THAT THEY'RE HAVING SOME SORT OF HEALTH PROTOCOLS BUT THEY HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO DESCRIBE WHAT THAT IS.

I WANT TO JUST TOUCH QUICKLY ON ERIN'S POINT WHICH IS AFRICAN AMERICANS DON'T GET TO CHECK OU OUT.

THE PRESIDENT IS ESSENTIALLY SAYING WE NEED TO DEAL WITH RACIAL STRIVE BUT NEED OUR COUNTRY TO GO BACK TO NORMAL AND WE SAW LOT OF WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS TALKING ABOUT THE PROTESTS SAYING THEY'RE ABSURD, SILLY, EVEN SOMETIMES IT MIGHT BE A GOOD THING FOR THE WHITE HOUSE TO HAVE POLITICAL CHAOS.

JUST A FEW MOMENTS AGO WE SAW ONE OF THE ONLY HIGH RANKING AFRICAN AMERICAN WHITE HOUSE AIDES SAYING THAT ANY PRIORITY THAT IS PRIORITY FOR BLACK PEOPLE IS PRIORITY FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WITH THAT.

>> Woodruff: SPEAKING OF THAT, ERIN HAYNES, IT SEEMS TO ME THIS REPUBLICAN PARTY THIS WHITE HOUSE HAS GONE OUT OF ITS WAY TO TRY TO PRESENT AS MANY AFRICAN AMERICANS, PEOPLE OF COLOR AS POSSIBLE IN SPEAKING ROLES AT THIS CONVENTION.

WHICH STANDS IN CONTRAST TO THE LEADERSHIP OF THEIR OWN PARTY AND ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OF THEIR PARTY.

>> THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT, JUDY.

WE KNOW THAT AFRICAN AMERICAN VOTERS OVERWHELMINGLY REJECTED THE PRESIDENT FOUR YEARS AGO ALTHOUGH HE DID GET SOMETHING LIKE 13% OF BLACK MEN SOMETHING THAT HE'S AWARE OF, SOMETHING THAT HE HOPES TO BUILD ON WITH HIS TOUTING OF HIS RECORD AROUND CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND JOBS.

BUT LISTEN, I MEAN, AGAIN, RACE AND RACISM IS ON THE BALLOT.

IT IS NOT BEING ADDRESSED HERE AT THIS CONVENTION IN THE PAST THREE NIGHTS.

IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE WHETHER THE PRESIDENT CHOOSES TO ADDRESS THAT OR WHETHER HE CONTINUES TO GO TO THE RACIAL PLAY BOOK THAT HE'S BEEN USING FOR MOST OF THIS COME PAIN.

>> Woodruff: IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO HEAR WHAT HE SAYS.

THANK YOU ALL.

WE'LL BE TALKING TO YOU AGAIN THROUGH THIS NIGHT.

AS WE GET READY FOR THE 9:00 HOUR OF TONIGHT'S CONVENTION WE'LL TAKE A SHORT BREAK FOR SOME OF OUR LOCAL PBS STATIONS, OUR COVERAGE WILL CONTINUE IN JUST ONE MINUTE.

STAY WITH US.

JUDE I'M JUDY WOODRUFF.

WELCOME TO OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THIS YEAR'S REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.

RIGHT NOW TO CONVENTION PROGRAMMING AND REMARKS FROM THE SENATE MAJORITY LEADER, MITCH McCONNELL.

>> -- KEEP QUIET LET THEM DECIDE HOW WE SHOULD LIVE OUR LIVES.

THEY WANT TO TELL YOU WHEN YOU CAN GO TO WORK.

WHEN YOUR KIDS CAN GO TO SCHOOL.

THEY WANT TO TAX YOUR JOB OUT OF EXISTENCE.

THEN SEND YOU A GOVERNMENT CHECK FOR UNEMPLOYMENT.

THEY WANT TO TELL YOU WHAT KIND OF CAR YOU CAN DRIVE.

WHAT SOURCES OF INFORMATION ARE CREDIBLE.

AND EVEN HOW MANY HAMBURGERS YOU CAN EAT.

THEY WANT TO DEFUND THE POLICE AND TAKE AWAY YOUR SECOND AM AMENDMENT RIGHTS.

THEY WANT FREE HEALTH CARE FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

THEY OFFER NO PROTECTION AT ALL FOR UNBORN AMERICANS.

THEY WANT TO PACK THE SUPREME COURT WITH LIBERALS INTENT ON ERODING OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.

AND THEY WANT TO CODIFY ALL THIS BY MAKING THE SWAMP ITSELF, WASHINGTON D.C.'S AMERICA'S 51st STATE WITH P TWO M MR. LIBERAL SENATORS WE CANNOT UNDUE THE DAMAGE THEY HAVE DONE.

NOW YOU UNDERSTAND WHY DEMOCRATS SPENT ENTIRE WEEK TELLING US ABOUT WHO JOE BIDEN IS NOT WHAT HE INTENDS TO DO.

I AM PROUD OF THE WORK THE REPUBLICAN SENATE HAS DONE WE ARE THE FIREWALL AGAINST NANCY PELOSI'S AGENDA.

LIKE PRESIDENT TRUMP WE WON'T BE BULLIED BY LIBERAL MEDIA INTENT ON DESTROYING AMERICA'S INSTITUTIONS.

WE WILL STAND OUR POST ON BEHALF OF THE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS WHOSE STORIES AREN'T TOLD IN TODAY'S NEWSPAPERS.

WHOSE STRUGGLES ARE JUST AS RE REAL.

WE'LL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT AMERICAN FAMILIES AS WE DEFEAT THE CORONAVIRUS AND RETURN OUR ECONOMY TO THE ENVY OF THE WO WORLD.

THE STAKES HAVE NEVER BEEN HIGHER.

WHICH IS WHY I'M ASKING YOU TO SUPPORT REPUBLICAN SENATE CANDIDATES ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND RYE-ELECT MY FRIEND, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.

>> TO ALL OF THESE TITANS OF AMERICANS KNOW THAT MANY OF LIVES MOST VALUABLE LESSONS ARE LEARNED ON THE FIELD OF KEY PARTICULARS THE ABILITY TO OVERCOME ADVERSITY.

>> BUT I HAVE AN AWFUL LOT TO LOCK FOR.

>> YOUR RELEAPTLESS WILL TO WIN, WIN, WIN.

THESE QUALITIES EMBODY THE AMERICAN SPIRIT OF PUSHING BOUNDARIES.

DEFYING LIMITS.

>> IT'S A GAME CAST IN SPORTS IMMORTALITY.

>> AND ALWAYS STRIVING FOR GRE GREATNESS.

YOU FINISHED THE FIGHT.

OFTEN BUMPY ROADS LEAD TO BEAUTIFUL PLACES.

THAT GREAT BUILDING IS CELEBRATING GREAT PEOPLE.

AND YOU'RE WINNERS ALL.

>> WOULD YOU PLEASE RISE FOR THE PLAYING OF OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM.

>> IT'S OUR HONOR TO BE IN THE COMPANY OF GREAT, GREAT CHAMPIONS.

>> TEAM USA WILL EBB DEED TAKE HOME THE GOLD.

>> WE HAVE TO GET OUR SPORTS BACK.

WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHAT'S NEXT.

NEVER GIVE UP.

NEVER LOSE FAITH.

NEVER, EVER QUIT.

JUST KEEP FORGING AHEAD TO GIVE EVERYTHING YOU'VE GOT.

VICTORY IS ALWAYS WITHIN REACH.

>> HEY, EVERYONE, I'M DAN WHITE THE PRESIDENT OF UFC.

MANY OF YOU KNOW WHO I AM, WHAT I DO, THAT I AM FRIENDS WITH THE PRESIDENT.

I SPOKE AT THIS CONVENTION FOUR YEARS AGO AND I'M BACK BECAUSE I BELIEVE WE NEED PRESIDENT TR TRUMP'S LEADERSHIP NOW MORE THAN EVER.

BEFORE THE PANDEMIC, PRESIDENT TRUMP BUILT THE GREATEST ECONOMY IN OUR NATION'S HISTORY AND CREATED OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL AMERICANS LIKE NO ONE BEFORE HIM.

FINANCIAL MARKETS HIT ALL-TIME HIGHS, UNEMPLOYMENT WAS AT AN ALL-TIME LOW.

AND WE WEREN'T FACING THE L LAWLESS DESTRUCTION THAT NOW IS OCCURRING IN A FEW OF OUR GREAT CITIES.

IT BLOWS MY MIND HOW QUICKLY SOME OF THE LEADERSHIP IN THIS COUNTRY HAS FORGOTTEN THE CRITICAL ROLE FIRST RESPONDERS PLAY IN OUR SOCIETY.

POLICE DEPARTMENTS, EVEN SOME FIRE DEPARTMENTS HAVE FACED OPPOSITION FROM MANY IN THIS COUNTRY.

BUT THEY ARE ALWAYS THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ASKED TO STEP UP WHEN THINGS ARE AT THEIR WORST AND PUT THEMSELVES AT RISK.

THAT IS CERTAINLY BEEN THE CASE DURING THIS ONGOING PANDEMIC.

COME ON, AMERICA, DEFUNDING THESE VITAL POSITIONS IS NOT THE ANSWER.

THE FIRST RESPONDERS HAVE ALWAYS TAKEN CARE OF US.

AND NOW, MORE THAN EVER, WE NEED TO TAKE CARE OF THEM.

NOW, LET'S TALK ABOUT COVID.

AND LET'S BE VERY HONEST ABOUT IT.

NO ONE PERSON AND NO ONE PLACE COULD HAVE ANTICIPATED THE CHALLENGES THAT COVID WOULD BRING.

BUT, PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS FACED ALL THESE OBSTACLES HEAD ON.

HE IMMEDIATELY PUT PROTECTIVE MEASURES IN PLACE, HE REACHED OUT TO THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST LEADING AMERICAN BUSINESSES ACROSS ALL INDUSTRIES TO DISCUSS WHAT HE AND HIS ADMINISTRATION COULD DO TO GET THE ECONOMY BACK UP AND RUNNING, SAFELY.

LET ME GIVE YOU MORE DETAIL.

IN EARLY APRIL, PRESIDENT TRUMP ORGANIZED A TASK FORCE OF BUSINESS LEADERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, I WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO SERVE ON THAT TASK FORCE.

FIRSTHAND, THE OPPORTUNITY TO WITNESS HOW HARD WORKING AND DETERMINED PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS TO SOLVE UNPRECEDENTED PROBLEM OUR COUNTRY WAS FACING.

I PERSONALLY OBSERVED HIS ABILITY TO LISTEN AND UNDERSTAND THE ISSUES IMPACTING AMERICANS OF ALL BACKGROUNDS.

IT WAS CLEAR.

HIS HIGHEST PRIORITY WAS ALWAYS THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF EVERYONE IN OUR COUNTRY.

NOT JUST REPUBLICANS, NOT JUST SUPPORTERS.

BUT EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN.

PRESIDENT TRUMP RECOGNIZED THAT ONE OF THE SMALL WAYS TO INSTILL A SENSE EVER NORMALCY IN PE PEOPLE'S LIVES WAS TO BRING BACK ENTERTAINMENT OPTIONS.

THE PRESIDENT WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND TO HELP ALL SPORTS LEA LEAGUES INVOLVED.

FIGURE OUT A WAY TO OVERCOME THE CHALLENGES OF STAGING LIVE PROFESSIONAL SPORTING EVENTS IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC.

AND YOU KNOW WHAT?

WE DID IT.

THE UFC WAS THE FIRST TO DO IT AND WE ARE CONTINUE CONTINUIING TO DO IT NOW OTHER SPORTS HAVE JOINED US.

AND SOME OF THE LESSONS LEARNED ARE BEING USED TO REOPEN OTHER TYPES OF BUSINESSES AND SCHOOLS.

MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT.

WE STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO.

AND THAT IS WHY WE NEED A LEADER WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP UNIQUE ATTRIBUTES AT THIS CRITICAL TI TIME.

I HAVE SAID IT BEFORE I'LL SAY IT AGAIN.

HE IS ONE OF THE MOST LOYAL HUMAN BEINGS I HAVE EVER MET, MAN HAS UNSTOPPABLE ENERGY, NO ONE, I MEAN NO ONE IS GOING TO OUTWORK THIS GUY.

MOST IMPORTANTLY HE TRULY LOVES AND BELIEVES IN OUR COUNTRY.

HE BELIEVES IN THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY.

AMERICA IS A PLACE EVERYONE WANTS A SOLID JOB, THEY WANT TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR FAMILY, THEY WANT TO SUPPORT THEIR COMMUNITY, ASSIST THE LESS FORTUNATE AND JOY THE FREEDOM THIS COUNTRY HAS PROVIDED TO ALL OF US.

WHILE WE HAVE CERTAINLY EXPERIENCED A TON OF NEGATIVITY IN 2020, PRESIDENT TRUMP'S MINDSET IS TO WORK TIRELESSLY.

TO FIND SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS AND HELP RESTORE AMERICA.

HE DID IT ONCE, I'M TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW, HE WILL DO IT AGAIN.

REMEMBER, PRESIDENT TRUMP MAY BE THE ONLY PRESIDENT IN MODERN TIMES WHO IS ACTUALLY DONE EVERYTHING HE SAID HE WOULD DO DURING HIS CAMPAIGN.

THERE'S THIS QUOTE THAT I LOVE FROM RONALD REAGAN WHERE HE SAID "THERE ISN'T ANY PROBLEM WE CAN'T SOLVE IF GOVERNMENT WILL GIVE US THE FACTS, TELL US WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE, THEN GET OUT OF THE WAY AND LET US HAVE AT IT" AND WHAT THAT MEANS TO ME IS, AS AMERICANS, WE WORK HARD TO OVERCOME ADVERSITY.

AND WE FACE THE TOUGH TIMES HEAD ON.

IRRESPECTIVE OF YOUR GENDER, RACE, RELIGION OR SEXUAL ORIENTATION.

WHAT UNITES US AS A NATION IS FREEDOM, EQUALITY AND OPPORTUNITY.

THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN AMERICAN.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, LET'S REELECT PRESIDENT TRUMP.

LET'S FIGURE OUT WHAT THE PROBLEMS ARE AND CONTINUE TO FIND SOLUTIONS TO THOSE PROB PROBLEMS.

THEN LET'S GET TO WORK.

I'D LIKE TO CLOSE WITH THIS.

WHILE IT'S CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO REELECT PRESIDENT TRUMP THIS PANDEMIC IS ALSO TAUGHT US TO BE VERY, VERY CAREFUL WHO YOU SELECT AS YOUR NEXT GOVERNOR, SENATOR, CONGRESS PERSON AND MAYOR.

IT IS SO IMPORTANT TO VOTE.

AND DON'T THINK THIS YOUR VOTE DOESN'T MATTER BECAUSE TO BE HONEST WITH YOU IT HAS NEVER MATTER MORE THAN IT DOES RIGHT NOW.

THANK YOU.

HAVE A GREAT EVENING AMERICA.

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>> GOOD EVENING.

I'M UTAH ATTORNEY GENERAL I'M A PROUD AMERICAN AND PROUD DESCENDANTS OF WARRIOR ANCESTORS FROM MY HAWAIIAN, FILL PEONY, SPANI, JAPANESE HERITAGE.

MY FATHER OVER 50 YEARS AGO.

FIGHTING A DICTATOR IN HIS HOMELAND.

THE PHILIPPINES.

BARELY ESCAPING WITH HIS LIFE HE STARTED ANEW IN AMERICA.

HE ARRIVED WITH NOTHING BUT FAITH, DETERMINATION AND A WILLINGNESS TO WORK HARD.

HE LIVED THE AMERICAN DREAM, BUILDING BUSINESSES, A FAMILY AND SEEING ME BECOME UTAH'S FIRST MINORITY STATEWIDE ELECTED OFFICIAL.

TODAY I CHANNEL MY WARRIOR ROOTS BY BATTLING HUMAN TRAFFICKING.

I'VE BEEN ABLE TO LEAD SOME OF THE LARGEST TRAFFICKING PROSECUTIONS IN AMERICA AND TRAVELED TO FOREIGN COUNTRY WO WORKING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT AND NGOs TO DISMANTLE TRAVEL CAN NETWORKS RESCUE PEOPLE FROM THE MOST BRUTAL CONDITIONS IMAGINABLE.

YOUNG GIRLS AND WOMEN SOLD INTO SEX SLAVERY.

YOUNG BOYS AND MEN FORCED INTO LABOR SERVITUDE.

ILLEGAL ADOPTIONS, ORGAN HAR HARVESTING, HUMAN LIFE, UTTERLY DEBASED.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IS A FIERCE WARRIOR AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING.

HOW DO I KNOW?

EARLY IN 2017 I HAD OCCASION TO VISIT WITH HIM ABOUT OUR RES RESCUES.

HE ASKED INSIGHTFUL QUESTIONS, EXPRESSED DEEP CONCERN FOR VICTIMS.

OVERWHELMED WITH COMPASSION, HE PROMISED TO ATTACK THIS EVIL.

PRESIDENT TRUMP SUMMONED IVANKA AND LEADERS FROM HIS CABINET DIRECTING RESOURCES AND HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR RAISING AWARENESS, LIBERATING VICTIMS, PROSECUTING PREDATORS AND EMPOWERING SURVIVORS.

TOGETHER THEY HAVE DONE MORE TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING THAN ANY ADMINISTRATION IN MODERN HISTORY, THAT'S A PROMISE KEPT.

PRESIDENT TRUMP'S TAKEN SIMILAR AGGRESSIVE ACTION TO BREAK THE CHAINS OF DRUG ADDICTION AND IMPROVE MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH.

HE DECLARED THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC A NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY AND MADE AVAILABLE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO CONFRONT THIS THREAT.

HE ALSO SIGNED A BILL CREATING A PHONE NUMBER LIKE 911, BUT FOR MENTAL HEALTH.

WHEN ACTIVATED, 9878 WILL BE A LIFELINE -- 98 WILL BE A LIFELINE FOR THOSE STRUGGLING OF THOUGHTS TO SUICIDE, DEPRESSION, ADDICTION, SELF HARM OR EVEN HURTING OTHERS.

IT WILL SAVE COUNTLESS AMERICAN LIVES.

A FEW MONTHS AGO, MY FATHER, MY WARRIOR HERO LOST HIS FIGHT WITH CANCER.

WHEN HE PASSED HE HAD BY HIS BEDSIDE HIS SCRIPTURES, FAMILY PHOTOS AND A PEN PRESIDENT TRUMP GAVE ME TO GIVE HIM.

DAD LOVED THAT PEN.

IT REPRESENTED FREEDOM TO HIM.

THE FREEDOM THAT ONLY EXISTS WHEN SOMEONE IS WILLING TO FIGHT FOR IT.

TO MY FATHER, PRESIDENT TRUMP IS THAT ULTIMATE WARRIOR FIGHTING FOR OUR FREEDOM.

IF YOU LISTEN TO DEMOCRATS, THE MEDIA AND LIBERAL ELITE THEY WILL TELL YOU THAT AMERICA'S LIGHT DOESN'T SHINE AS BRIGHTLY AROUND THE WORLD AS IT ONCE DID.

THAT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE.

THE SAME LIGHT THAT BROUGHT MY FATHER TO AMERICA INSPIRES THE DESPERATE AND DOWNTRODDEN EQUALLY TODAY.

BELIEVE ME, I INTERACT WITH SOME OF THE MOST MARGINALIZED VICTIMS ON EARTH AND THEY LOVE AMERICA.

THEY LOVE PRESIDENT TRUMP BECAUSE HE'S FIGHTING FOR THEIR FREEDOM AND AMERICA'S FREEDOM.

THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP, GOD BLESS YOU.

AND GOD BLESS AMERICA.

THIS LAND OF GREATNESS.

>> Woodruff: THAT WAS ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF UTAH, SEAN REYES, SPEAKING AT THE MELON AUDITORIUM.

TURN AGAIN TO YAMICHE OUTSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE.

OUR AMNA THAT WAS IN OUR OTHER STUDIO.

AMNA, TO YOU FIRST.

YOU'VE BEEN EYEING A HARD LOOK AT SOME OF THE MESSAGES THAT ARE COMING THROUGH TONIGHT ON THIS LAST NIGHT OF THE CONVENTION.

>> THAT'S RIGHT, JUDY.

JUST WANT TO POINT OUT IN A SPEECH FROM MR. WHITE THE HEAD OF THE UCF INCLUSION OF VIDEO ABOUT ATHLETES AT THIS TIME WITHOUT AT ALL MENTIONING BOYCOTTS THAT HAVE BEEN HAP HAPPENING AMONG PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES SEEMS DISCONNECTED FROM THE REALITY.

WE SAW PRESIDENT TRUMP SAY THEY WANTED TO BRING BACK NORMALCY BRINGING BACK PROFESSIONAL SOURCE.

MR. WHITE SAYING IT WORKS, THEY MADE IT WORKS R WORK.

IT WORKED BECAUSE PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES ARE REGULARLY TESTED IN THE WAY THAT MANY HEALTH EXP EXPERTS.

THEY ARE LARGELY IN A BUBBLE WITH NO FANS.

EVEN THEN HASN'T ALWAYS WORKED.

THERE ARE OUTBREAKS IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL.

FOR ALL THE CRITICISM THE ATHLETES HAVE BEEN FACING THAT ATHLETES USING THAT PLATFORM TO PROTEST RACIAL JUSTICE IS A STORY AS OLD AS TIME.

IT WAS FOUR YEARSOLOGY.

IT WAS 50 YEARS BILL RUSSELL LED A WALK OUT OF ANOTHER NBA GAME.

THIS IS IN MANY WAYS HISTORY REPEATING WE'RE SEEING.

>> Woodruff: WE HEARD WHAT DANA WHITE HAD 20 SAY ABOUT LAWLESS DESTRUCTION.

IN A FEW OF OUR CITIES MAKING A STRONG POINTED THAT THIS ADMINISTRATION, RATHER THIS CAMPAIGN WANTS TO MAKE YAMICHE, WHAT WOULD YOU ADD ABOUT MESSAGES COMING THROUGH.

>> ONE OF THE MESSAGE THAT'S COMING THROUGH IS THE FACT THAT REPUBLICANS ARE TRYING TO MAKE THE CASE THAT DEMOCRATS WANTED TO RELY ON GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE TO GET BY.

THERE WAS A TESTIMONIAL FROM YOUNG MAN WHO USED TO SUPPORT DEMOCRATS.

SAID THAT HE WAS RENTING 'APARTMENT FROM A WOMAN WHO HAS CHILDREN FROM MULTIPLE MEN THAT SHE CONVINCED HIM THAT DEMO DEMOCRATS, THAT THE LIFE THAT THEY WANTED TO LIVE.

LOT OF CRITICS SOMETHING THAT IS GOING BACK TO THE IDEA OF WELFARE CLAIM THAT FALSE AND AT TIMES RACIALLY INSENSITIVE.

SOME SAME RACIST IDEA THAT BLACK PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR ARE REALLY JUST TRYING TO LIVE WITH GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE.

THAT IS ALSO ABOUT SOCIALISM THAT HAS BEEN A KEY MESSAGE HERE THAT DEMOCRATS ARE REALLY GOING TO CHANGE AMERICA INTO VENE VENEZUELA.

JOE BIDEN, KAMALA HARRIS, SO MANY HAVE BEEN OFFERING DEFENSE OF THAT SAME SIMPLY NOT TRUE.

OTHER THING THAT WAS INTERESTING WE HEARD FROM SENATE MAJORITY LEADER.

TWO THINGS THAT WERE INTER INTERESTING, FIRST CAME OUT COMPLETELY AGAINST D.C. STATEHOOD BUT WE CANNOT AFFORD TWO MORE LIBERAL SENATORS IN THE SENATE.

THEY ARE THINKING ABOUT SUPREME COURT HOW IMPORTANT IT IS THAT THE SENATE IS CONTROLLED LARGELY BY REPUBLICANS HAS BEEN MORE QUITE SOME TIME.

THAT IS A CRITIC, DEMOCRATS GOT OF THE DNC THEY DIDN'T TALK ENOUGH ABOUT SUPREME COURT.

THAT IS MITCH McCONNELL SAYING THIS ISN'T JUST ABOUT DONALD TRUMP ABOUT SENATE AND ULTIMATELY ABOUT SUPREME COURT.

>> Woodruff: FOR SURE.

THOSE ARE SUCH IMPORTANT BACKDROPS IN THIS ELECTION NO MATTER WHICH CANDIDATE.

AMNA JOININGS US, YAMICHE IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND BACKGROUND WHERE YOU SEE YAMICHE A BIG VIDEO SCREEN SHOWING THE PROGRAMMING AT THE CONVENTION.

RIGHT NOW WE WANT TO TURN BACK TO SOME OF OUR IMPORTANT ANALYSTS WHO WE WANT TO HEAR FROM A LITTLE MORE FROM TONIGHT.

MARK SHIELDS, I'M GOING TO START WITH YOU.

IT SEEMS TO ME THIS IS A CAMPAIGN, CONVENTION WHERE THEY ARE GOING OUT OF THEIR WAY TO DRAW SHARP LINES AND DRAW STARK DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE POSITION OF DONALD TRUMP AND THE POSITION OF JOE BIDEN.

>> I THINK THAT'S RIGHT, JUDY.

WHETHER IT COMPORTS WITH THE TRUTH OR NOT, THAT IS SECONDARY THAT SHOULDN'T GET IN THE WAY OF MAKING A GOOD POLITICAL POINT.

THE OTHER ASPECT OF THIS CANDIDACY OF DONALD TRUMP'S HE'S RUNNING AT AN OUTSIDER.

NOT AS SOMEBODY WHO HAS BEEN THERE AS FOUR YEARS HE'S THE SORT OF THE INSU INSURGENT AND E WANTS TO CHANGE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN GOING ON IN AMERICA AND HE'S JUST DYING TO GET IN THERE AND HAVE THE POWER TO DO SO.

THAT IS REMARKABLE TO ME.

I DON'T THINK AFTER YOU'VE BEEN INCUMBENT FOR FOUR YEARS, IT'S ON YOUR WATCH EVERYTHING THAT HAS HAPPENED, GOOD AND BAD.

I THINK IT'S MORE THAN -- IT'S ACROBATICS THAT ARE JUST UNBELIEVABLE THAT YOU COULD NOW CAST YOURSELF AS THE OUTSIDER THAT RAN FOUR YEARS AGO.

IT'S GREAT TEMPTATION TO RUN THE CAMPAIGN THAT WON FOR YOU PREVIOUSLY, THAT IS PART OF THE TRUMP STRATEGY OR NOT EVEN STRATEGY, JUST HIS REFLEX SIEVE ACTION THIS TIME.

TO MAKE JOE BIDEN SOMEHOW THE INCUMBENT.

AND WHATEVER PROBLEMS THE COUNTRY HAS, LORD KNOWS THERE ARE MANY, THAT IF JOE BIDEN'S DOOR AND NOT DONALD TRUMP'S.

>> Woodruff: GARY ABERNATHY, IT'S FAIR TO SAY DONALD TRUMP IS IN A MORE COMFORTABLE POSITION AS OUTSIDER TRYING TO CLIMB OVER THE WALL AND TAKE OVER WHATEVER IT IS THAT HE'S THE ONE WHO IS GOING TO CHANGE THINGS, TEAR IT DOWN, MAKE CHANGES.

THAT'S WHO HE IS, RIGHT.

>> THAT'S WHO HE IS.

THE DISRUPTER, IT IS MAVERICK.

IF I COULD JUST A SECOND GO BACK TO YOUR REALLY INTERESTING INTERVIEW WITH MARK MEADOWS EARLIER.

I THINK I'D LIKE TO EXPOUND ON WHEN MARK TALKED ABOUT LOSING THE UNITY WE HAVE AROUND SPORTS, AROUND ABILITY TO PUT ASIDE POLITICS AND WATCH A BALL GAME.

I THINK THAT IS KIND OF -- THAT'S THE SAD PART OF THIS.

BECAUSE AS DIVIDED AS WE ARE AS A COUNTRY, SPORTS IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE CAN COME TOGETHER ON, RIGHT?

WHETHER LEFT, RIGHT, REPUBLICAN, DEMOCRAT, BLACK, WHITE, RICH, POOR.

WE COULD RALLY AROUND OUR SPORTS TEAMS, YOU LOVE THIS TEAM, YOU HATE THAT TEAM.

AND DO IT IN SUCH A GOOD-NATURED POSITIVE WAY.

BECAUSE IT WAS ESCAPISM, IT DOESN'T MATTER IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THING WHO WINS THE SUPER BOWL, WHO WINS THE WORLD SERIES, WHO WINS THE NBA CHAMPIONSHIP, WHO LEADS THE LEAGUE IN SCORING THESE ARE ESCAPISTS THING.

BY INTERJECTING POLITICS RIGHT INTO THE GAME ITSELF WE ALL SUPPORT ATHLETES' RIGHTS TO CAMPAIGN, SUPPORT WHAT YOU WANT, BACK THE ISSUES THAT YOU WANT.

BUT GIVE US TWO OR THREE HOURS OF POLITICAL FREE PROGRAMMING THROUGH OUR SPORTS AND THE SAD THING IS I'M AFRAID THAT THAT'S MAYBE BEEN LOST FOREVER NOW.

>> Woodruff: AND CYNTHIA TUCKER, IT DOES SEEM TO ME THAT WE ARE IN A MOMENT, HAVE BEEN IN A MOMENT WHERE MANY OF OUR ATHLETES, PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES AND OTHERS FEEL THERE'S TOO MUCH GOING ON OUT THERE THAT THEY CAN'T BE IN A POSITION OF NOT SAYING SOMETHING OR NOT DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

>> WELL BECAUSE THEY ARE BLACK.

THEY ARE BLACK MEN AND WOMEN IN AMERICA.

AND THOUGH MANY OF THEM ARE FABULOUSLY WEALTHY, THAT DOES NOT NOT MEAN THAT THEY ARE PROTECTED FROM THE RACISM THAT MOST BLACK AMERICANS EXPERIENCE.

I THINK IT IS ABSOLUTELY APPROPRIATE FOR THEM TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES THROUGH SITTING OUT GAMES, BOYCOTTING.

I HAVE HEARD SEVERAL SPEAKERS AT THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION SAY THEY SUPPORT PEACEFUL PROTESTS.

WELL THIS IS A VERY PEACEFUL PROTEST.

AND I DO THINK IT'S IRONIC, THOUGH, BECAUSE I REMEMBER WHEN COLIN KAEPERNICK FIRST TOOK A KNEE, PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS EXTREMELY DISPARAGING.

ERS STILL GOING TO PLAY THE GAME BUT HE TOOK A KNEE DURING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AND IN FACT, MIKE PENCE WENT TO A BALL GAME AND THEN WAS APPARENTLY TOLD IF ATHLETES TAKE A KNEE THEN YOU SHOULD ABRUPTLY LEAVE.

SO THIS IDEA THAT THEY ARE WHITE SUPPORTIVE -- QUITE SUPPORTIVE OF PEACEFUL PROTESTS DOESN'T QUITE RING TRUE.

>> Woodruff: DAVID BROOKS, WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THIS MOMENT.

WE'RE COVERING THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION TALKING ABOUT THE SUBJECT THAT IS ON MANY OF OUR MINDS RIGHT NOW, AND AS GARY SAYS, ATHLETES ARE THERE TO ENTERTAIN US, TO GIVE US AN ESCAPE.

BUT THE SUBJECT AT HAND IS SO VITAL AND SO CENTRAL TO OUR LIVES THAT THEY'RE SWEPT UP IN IT AS WELL.

>> THEY'RE HUMAN BEINGS.

FROM MY SENSE I'VE A NEW YORK METS FAN THEY HAVE A VERY YOUNG FIRST BASEMAN.

HE WAS ASKED ABOUT THE RACIAL RECKONING.

JUST AT THE POST GAME PRESS CONFERENCE HE STARTED TALKING ABOUT IT THEN HE WAS OVERWHELMED BY EMOTION.

AND STARTED WEEPING AND I ADVISED PEOPLE TO GAG IT.

IT WAS EXTREMELY STUNNING.

ANYBODY WHO WANTS TO UNDERSTAND JUST RACIAL REALITY IN THIS COUNTRY NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU READ SEE HOW MANY, THAT DISPLAY WAS SEARING AND REAL.

SO TONIGHT THE NEW YORK METS TOOK THE FIELD, THEY PLAYED THE NATIONAL ANTHEM WITH THE MIAMI MARLINS.

THEY STOOD IN SILENCE FOR 42 SECONDS WHICH IS JACKIE ROBI ROBINSON'S NUMBER.

THEY LEFT THE FIELD AND LEFT THE BLACK LIVES MATTER T-SHIRT ON HOME PLATE.

TO ME I WILL MISS THE GAME, WILL MISS LOOKING AT THE BOXSTER.

THAT IS OUR PART OF EDUCATION OF CULTURE DRIVES POLITICS.

SO TO HAVE THESE MOMENTS AT A TIME OF CONVENTION, IT'S PART OF WHAT WE'RE LEARNING AS CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY.

AND SO I THINK WE ALL LEARN FROM EACH OTHER AND ATHLETES HAVE A HIGH PROFILE TO TEACH TEACH US.

>> Woodruff: AIM WALTER, I MEAN, CLEARLY, ONE OF THE QUESTIONS HERE IS, ARE WE GOING TO STAY WHERE WE WERE.

ARE WE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD SAY THAT IT'S OKAY FOR ATHLETES T TO -- AND OTHERS WHO MAY BE IN A DIFFERENT ROLE BUT TO SPEAK OUT ABOUT THESE SUBJECTS THAT ARE TOUCHING SO MANY LIVES.

>> WHEN YOU SPAW HOW QUICKLY SUPPORT FOR BLACK LIVES MATTER AND FOR A LOT OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THE POST, GEORGE FLOYD SITUATION HAPPENED.

YOU CAN SEE THAT IT TAKES A LO LONG, LONG TIME TO GET THERE.

BUT ONCE WE GET THERE WHEN YOU TIP OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE IT'S HARD TO GO BACK.

>> Woodruff: AND YET THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT MANY OF THESE ATHLETES ARE SAYING THAT I CAN'T HELP MYSELF.

>> THAT'S RIGHT.

>> Woodruff: ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU ALL.

WE'RE GOING TO COME BACK TO YOU THROUGHOUT THIS EVENING BUT RIGHT NOW WE'RE GOING TO DIP IN TO THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.

AND THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, BEN CARSON, THE FORMER PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGEON WILL BE SPEAKING NOW FROM THE MELLON AUDITORIUM IN WASHINGTON.

>> GOOD EVENING.

I'M BEN CARSON.

I A HE RETIRED NEUROSURGEON AND PUBLIC SERVANT.

BEFORE I BEGIN, I'D LIKE TO SAY THAT OUR HEARTS GO OUT TO THE BLAKE FAMILY AND THE OTHER FAMILIES WHO HAVE BEEN IMPACTED BY THE TRAGIC EVENTS IN KENOSHA.

AS JACOB'S MOTHER HAS URGED THE COUNTRY, LET'S USE OUR HEARTS, OUR LOVE AND OUR INTELLIGENCE TO WORK TOGETHER TO SHOW THE REST OF THE WORLD HOW HUMANS ARE SUPPOSED TO TREAT EACH OTHER.

AMERICA IS GRATED WHEN WE BEHAVE GREATLY.

WE MUST FIRST COME TOGETHER AND LOVE OF OUR FELLOW CITIZENS.

HISTORY REMINDS US THAT NECESSARY CHANGE COMES THROUGH HOPE AND LOVE.

NOT SENSELESS AND DESTRUCTIVE VIOLENCE.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN ONCE SAID TO AN AMERICA DIVIDED, THAT, QUOTE, YOUR PURPOSE THEN PLAINLY STATED IS THAT YOU WILL DESTROY THE GOVERNMENT UNLESS YOU BE ALLOWED TO CONSTRUE AND ENFORCE THE CONSTITUTION AS YOU PLEASE ON ALL POINTS IN DISPUTE BETWEEN YOU AND US.

YOU WILL RULE OR RUIN IN ALL EVENTS, UNQUOTE.

THESE WORDS OF WARNING ARE RELEVANT TODAY.

WE HAVE A CHOICE THAT WE WANT BIG GOVERNMENT THAT CONTROLS OUR LIVES FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE, OR DO WE BELIEVE IN THE POWER AND WISDOM OF THE PEOPLE.

AND THEIR ABILITY TO SELF GOVERN WITH HELP FROM A LIMITED FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

OUR PRESIDENT, DONALD J. TRUMP BELIEVES IN THE PEOPLE.

HE IS ONE OF US.

HE MAKES PROMISES AND HE KEEPS THEM.

HE IS TRANSPARENT AND WE CERTAINLY KNOW WHAT HE'S T THINKING.

HE DOES NOT SUBMIT TO POLITICAL CORRECTNESS OR TO ITS ENFORCERS THE MEDIA.

HE IS REAL.

RIGHT NOW WE NEED REAL.

WE NEED COURAGE.

BEE CAN'T CHOIR IN THE CORNER AND HOPE THAT ONE ONE CALESAS NAME BELIEVES THAT WILL KEEP US SAFE.

THAT IS NOT COURAGE.

AND THAT WILL NOT LEAD US TO A GOOD AND JUST PLACE.

WE MUST REMEMBER ALL THOSE WHO SACRIFICED EVERYTHING IN ORDER TO GIVE US FREEDOM.

WE MUST GO WILLING TO DO THE SAME FOR THOSE WHO COME AFTER U US.

PRESIDENT TRUMP DOES NOT DABBLE IN IDENTITY POLITICS.

HE WANTS EVERYONE TO SUCCEED.

AND BELIEVES IN THE ADAGE, A RISING TIDE LIFTS ALL BOATS.

MANY ON THE OTHER SIDE LOVE TO INSIGHT DIVISION BY CLAIMING THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A RACIST.

THEY COULD NOT BE MORE WRONG.

YEARS AGO JESSIE JACKSON GAVE DONALD TRUMP AN AWARD FOR THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES HE CREATED FOR BLACK PEOPLE.

IN PALM BEACH FLORIDA, DONALD TRUMP LED THE CRUSADE TO ALLOW BLACKS AND JEWS INTO PRIVATE CLUBS AND RESORTS.

ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS HE DID AS PRESIDENT WAS BRING THE OFFICE OF HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN TO THE WHITE HOUSE SO THAT IT COULD GET PROPER ATTENTION AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT.

BEFORE THE PANDEMIC, AFRICAN AMERICAN UNEMPLOYMENT WAS AT AN ALL-TIME LOW.

PRESIDENT TRUMP ACCOMPLISHED PRISON REFORM.

INCENTIVES TO ENCOURAGE INVESTORS TO BECOME INVOLVE WITH ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED AREAS OF AMERICA.

HE STRONGLY SUPPORTS SCHOOL CHOICE, FULLY RECOGNIZING THAT NO MATTER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES A PERSON IS BORN INTO, THEY CAN ACHIEVE SUCCESS WITH A GOOD EDUCATION.

IT WAS TRUE FOR ME.

WHEN MY MOTHER FORCED ME TO READ BOOKS ABOUT DOCTORS, ENTREPRENEURS AND SCIENTISTS, I BEGAN TO RECOGNIZE THAT THE PERSON WHO HAS THE MOST TO DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU IN LIFE IS YOU.

MY MOTHER ALWAYS TOLD ME, BEN, YOU CAN DO ANYTHING.

BUT I WILL NEVER ALLOW YOU TO BECOME A VICTIM.

IT WAS THEN THAT I STOPPED LISTENING TO THE PEOPLE WHO WERE TRYING TO CONVINCE ME THAT I WAS A VICTIM AND THAT OTHERS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR MY VICTIMHOOD.

WHAT IS RACISTS IS FACT THAT AFRICAN AMERICANS HAVE THE HIGHEST ABORTION RATE.

PRESIDENT TRUMP IS THE MOST PR PRO-LIFE PRESIDENT IN THE COUNTRY'S HISTORY, HE WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT YET SPEAK.

THE VISION OF A SHINING CITY UP ON A HILL CAME FROM GEEZ' SERMON ON THE MOUNT.

AMERICA IS THAT SHINY CITY.

WE ARE THE BEACON OF HOPE FOR THE WORLD.

AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IS THE MAN WITH THE COURAGE, THE VISION AND THE ABILITY TO KEEP IT SHINING BRIGHTLY.

>> EIGHT PAT LYNCH, SPEAKING TO YOU ON BEHALF OF THE 50,000 ACTIVE AND RETIRED NEW YORK CITY POLICE OFFICERS.

WE ARE THE PROUD MEN AND WOMEN WHO WEAR A SHIELD ON OUR CHEST PUT OURSELF IN HARM'S WAY.

WE ARE PROUD TO ENDORSE OUR PRESIDENT, DONALD J. TRUMP FOR REELECTION BECAUSE THE STAKES HAVE NEVER BEEN HIGHER.

LIKE COPS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, WE ARE STARING DOWN THE BARREL OF A PUBLIC SAFETY DISASTER.

MORE THAN 1,000 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SHOT IN NEW YORK CITY SO FAR THIS YEAR.

ALMOST 300456 BEEN KILLED.

THESE ARE NOT JUST NUMBERS.

THESE ARE REAL PEOPLE.

A FATHER GUNNED DOWN WHILE HOLDING HIS 7-YEAR-OLD DAUG DAUGHTER'S HAND.

A PEACE MAKER KILLED BY A STRAY BULLET.

17-YEAR-OLD WHO MADE ALL THE RIGHT CHOICES WHO WORKED HARD TO GO TO COLLEGE MURDERED BEFORE HE CAN TELL HIS MOTHER THE NEWS.

A 1-YEAR-OLD CHILD, SHOT DEAD IN THE STROLLER.

INNOCENT PEOPLE, INNOCENT LIVES LOST.

ONE TRAGEDY IS TOO MANY.

BUT EVERY DAY THE NUMBER KEEPS GROWING.

AND EVERY DAY OUR COMMUNITIES ARE ASKING US, WHY IS THIS HAPPENING.

THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE, THE DEMOCRATS HAVE WALKED AWAY FROM US.

THEY HAVE WALKED AWAY FROM POLICE OFFICERS AND THEY HAVE WALKED AWAY FROM THE INNOCENT PEOPLE WE PROTECT.

DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS HAVE SURRENDERED OUR THE STREETS AND INSTITUTIONS.

THE LOUDEST VOICES HAVE TAKEN CONTROL.

AND OUR SO-CALLED LEADERS ARE SCRAMBLING TO CATCH UP.

IN CITY AFTER CITY, THEY HAVE SLASHED POLICE BUDGETS.

THEY HAVE HIJACKED DISMANTLED THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, THEY PASSED LAWS THAT MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR POLICE OFFICERS TO DO OUR JOB EFFECTIVELY.

HERE IS THE SAD TRUTH THAT EVERY COP IN THIS COUNTRY KNOWS.

THE VIOLENCE AND CHAOS WE'RE SEEING NOW ISN'T A SIDE AFFECT.

IT ISN'T UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE, IT'S ACTUALLY THE GOAL.

THE RADICAL LEFT DOESN'T REALLY WANT BETTER POLICING, THEY DON'T REALLY COMPARE ABOUT MAKING THE JUSTICE SYSTEM COMPARER.

WHAT THEY WANT IS NO POLICING.

WHAT THEY WANT IS A JUSTICE SYSTEM THAT JUST STOPS WORKING ALTOGETHER.

IN PLACES WHERE DEMOCRATS ARE IN POWER THE RADICAL LEFT IS GETTING EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT AND OUR COUNTRY IS SUFFERING FOR IT.

I'VE BEEN IN NEW YORK CITY POLICE OFFICER FOR 36 YEARS.

I'VE SPENT 21 OF THOSE YEARS PROTECTING THE COPS WHO PROTECT KNOCKERS.

I'VE NEVER SEEN OUR STREETS GO THIS BAD SO QUICKLY.

I'VE NEVER HEARD FROM SO MANY COPS, FROM EVERY CORNER OF THE COUNTRY WHO ARE SAYING THE SAME THING.

OUR HANDS ARE TIED.

IF WE'RE GOING TO TURN THE TIDE AND RESTORE LAW AND ORDER WE CANNOT FALL INTO THE LEFT'S TR TRAP.

THERE IS NOBODY WHO HATES BAD COPS MORE THAN GOOD COPS.

BUT THAT DOESN'T MATTER TO THE RADICAL LEFT.

TO THEM YEAR ALL JUST BRAD BECAUSE WE'RE ALL BLUE.

THEY ARE ANTI-LAW ENFORCEMENT CAMPAIGN ISN'T ABOUT A SINGLE INCIDENT.

IT ISN'T RESULT OF ONE BAD LAW OR ONE BAD POLICY IT'S ABOUT A MESSAGE.

THE MESSAGE IS POLICE OFFICERS ARE THE ENEMY.

THE MESSAGE IS CRIMINALS HAVE THE RIGHT TO RESIST ARREST.

THE MESSAGE IS, IF YOU COMMIT A CRIME, IF YOU VICTIMIZE MOST VULNERABLE OF PEOPLE, THE JUSTICE SYSTEM WILL NOT HOLD YOU ACCOUNTABLE.

THAT'S THE MESSAGE ECHOING THROUGH CITY HALLS AND STATE HOUSES ACROSS OUR COUNTRY.

IT'S PLAYING ON LOOP MOOT MEDIA.

CRIMINALS HAVE HEARD THAT AND THEY'RE TAKING FULL ADVANTAGE.

WE MUST STOP THAT MESSAGE.

WE MUST EXPOSE THE LEFT'S LIES ABOUT POLICE OFFICERS AND JOB THAT WE DO.

AND WE WILL DO THAT BECAUSE WE HAVE SOMETHING THAT THEY DON'T.

WE HAVE A REAL LEADER.

WE HAVE A POWERFUL VOICE IN THE MOST POWERFUL OFFICE IN OUR COUNTRY.

WE HAVE PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP.

UNLIKE DEMOCRATS WHO ARE RUNNING IN FEAR, PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS NEVER APOLOGIZED FOR SUPPORTING POLICE OFFICERS AND STANDING UP FOR LAW AND ORDER.

UNLIKE DEMOCRATS WHO FROZE IN THE FACE OF RIOTING AND LOOTING, PRESIDENT TRUMP MATCHES HIS WORDS WITH HIS ACTIONS.

OWE GIVES LAW ENFORCEMENT THE SUPPORT AND TOOLS WE NEED TO GO OUT THERE AND PUT A STOP TO IT, PERIOD.

END OF STORY.

IT HAS NEVER BEEN HARDER TO BE A POLICE OFFICER IN THIS COUNTRY.

BUT THERE ARE TWO THINGS THAT KEEP US GOING.

WE LOOK AT THE VICTIMS, THE VULNERABLE, THE RELL WORKING PEOPLE WHO COUNT ON US.

WE KEEP STRAPPING ON OUR DUTY BELTS AND BULLET RESISTANT VESTS BECAUSE WE KNOW WE CAN'T LET THEM DOWN.

WHILE WE DO THAT WE HEAR THE WORDS OF OUR PRESIDENT WHO SAYS TO POLICE OFFICERS EVERYWHERE, I WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN.

WE KNOW THAT HE HASN'T.

WE KNOW THAT HE WON'T.

WE'VE BEEN FORTUNATE TO HAVE HIM IN OFFICE THESE PAST FOUR YEARS WE KNOW THAT WE CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE HIM.

WHEN IT COMES TO YOUR SAFETY, YOUR FAMILY'S SAFETY, THE SAFETIFUL ALL AMERICANS, THERE'S NO OTHER CHOICE.

YOU WON'T BE SAFE IN JOE BIDEN'S AMERICA.

WE CAN HAVE FOUR MOTHER YEARS OF PRESIDENT TRUMP OR YOU CAN HAVE NO SAFETY, NO JUSTICE AND NO PEACE.

>> GOOD EVENING.

MY NAME IS RUDY GUILIANI I'M THE FORMER MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY.

IN 2013, MY CITY ELECTED A SELF DESCRIBED PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRAT AS MAYOR.

NEW YORK CITY ONCE DESCRIBED AS AMERICA'S CRIME CAPITAL HAD BECOME BY MID IS THE 90s, AMERICA'S SAFEST LARGE CITY.

NOW TODAY, MY CITY IS IN SHOCK.

MURDERS, SHOOTINGS, VIOLENT CRIME ARE INCREASING AT PERCENTAGES UNHEARD OF IN THE PAST.

WE'RE SEEING THE RETURN OF RI RIOTING AND LOOTING.

DURING RIOTS THIS DEMOCRAT MAYOR LIKE OTHERS HAVE OFTEN PREVENTED THE POLICE FROM MAKING ARRESTS AND EVEN WHEN ARRESTS ARE MADE, LIBERAL, PROGRESSIVE DAs RELEASE THE RIOTERS SO AS NOT TO DISRUPT THE RIOTING.

NEW YORKERS WONDER HOW DID WE GET OVERWHELMED BY CRIME SO QUICKLY?

AND TO CLIMB SO FAST.

DON'T LET DEMOCRATS DO TO AMERICA WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO NEW YORK.

AGAIN, THE DEMOCRATS ARE URGING YOU TO VOTE FOR AN OBVIOUSLY DEFECTIVE CANDIDATE, BIDEN HAS CHANGED HIS PRINCIPLES SO OFTEN HE NO LONGER HAS ANY PRINCIPLES.

HE'S A TROJAN HORSE WITH BERNIE, AOC, PELOSI, BLACK LIVES MATTER, HIS PARTY'S ENTIRE LEFT WING JUST WAITING TO EXECUTE THEIR PRO CRIMINAL, ANTI-POLICE SOCIALIST POLICIES.

THE WHOLE UNPRECEDENTED WAVE OF LAWLESSNESS BEGAN WITH TRULY JUST CAUSE.

THE UNFORGIVABLE POLICE KILLING OF GEORGE FLOYD IN MINNEAPOLIS.

PEACEFUL PROTESTS BEGAN ALL OVER THE LAND.

THE CONDEMNATION OF THE KILLING WAS UNIVERSAL FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP TO DEMOCRAT LEADERS.

IT SEEMED FOR A FEW BRIEF SHINING MOMENTS, DEMOCRAT AND REPUBLICAN LEADERS WOULD COME TOGETHER WITH A UNIFIED PROPOSAL TO REDUCE POLICE MISCONDUCT.

THIS POSSIBILITY WAS VERY DANGEROUS TO THE LEFT.

THEY HAD A PRESIDENT TO BEAT AND COUNTRY TO DESTROY AND ALTHOUGH AN AGREEMENT ON ACTION AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY WOULD BE VERY VALUABLE FOR THE COUNTRY.

IT WOULD ALSO MAKE PRESIDENT TRUMP APPEAR TO BE AN EFFECTIVE LEADER.

THEY COULD HAVE NONE OF THAT.

SO BLIMPS AND ANTIFA SPRANG INTO ACTION.

THEY HIJACKED THE PEACEFUL PROTESTS INTO PEACEFUL BRUTAL RIOTS.

SOON PROTESTS TURNED INTO RIOTS IN MANY OTHER AMERICAN CITIES, ALMOST ALL DEMOCRAT.

BUSINESSES WERE BURNED AND CRU CRUSHED, PEOPLE BEAT, SHOT AND KILLED, POLICE OFFICERS ROUTINELY ASSAULTED.

BADLY BEATEN AND OCCASIONALLY MURDERED.

AND THE POLICE HANDCUFFED BY PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRAT MAYORS.

FROM DOING ANYTHING BUT OBSERVE THE CRIMES AND ABSORB THE BLOWS BUT THE WORSE OF IT, WAS THE SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENT YOUNG PEOPLE WITH THEIR WHOLE LIVES AHEAD OF THEM.

THE MURDER OF 4-YEAR-OLD IN KANSAS CITY, SHOCKED THE NATION.

BUT NOT BLACK LIVES MATTER.

OR THEIR MANY DEMOCRAT SUPPORTERS.

17-YEAR-OLD BASKETBALL STAR, BRANDON HENDRIX, WAS KILLED IN THE BRONX JUST DAYS AFTER GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL AND ON HIS WAY TO ST. JOHN'S TO PLAY BASKETBALL.

HE PASSED WITH ONLY A BRIEF MENTION.

1-YEAR-OLD DAVALL GARDNER JUNIOR WAS SHOT AND GUILD IN A STROLLER AT A COOK OUT IN BROOKLYN.

AND IT CAUSED NO OUTRAGE.

FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR US REPUBLICANS, ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER.

AND THE LIVES OF LA GRAND AND BRANDON, DAVALL ALL LIVES MATTER TO US.

THESE CONTINUOUS RIOTS IN DEMOCRATIC CITIES GIVE YOU A GOOD VIEW OF THE FUTURE UNDER BIDEN.

ALL FIVE OF THE TOP CITIES FOR HOMICIDE, LIKE THE TOP CITIES FOR RIOTING AND LOOTING ARE GOVERNED BY PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS USING THE PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATIC APPROACH TO CRIME WHICH IS TO DO NOTHING.

SUBSTANTIVE TO REDUCE IT.

TO RELEASE PRISONERS AS MANY AND AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND TO GO TO WAR WITH THE POLICE, THE ONLY GROUP WITH THE CAPABILITY TO PROTECTED YOUR CITIZENS!

IT IS CLEAR THAT A VOTE FOR BIDEN AND THE DEMOCRATS CREATES THE RISK THAT YOU WILL BRING THIS LAWLESSNESS TO YOUR CITY, TO YOUR TOWN, TO YOUR SUBURB.

THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT THIS AWESOME JOB OF RESTORING SAFETY FOR OUR PEOPLE CANNOT BE DONE FROM YOUR BASEMENT, JOE!

THERE'S ALSO NO QUESTION THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL FIGHT WITH ALL HIS STRENGTH TO PRESERVE THE AMERICAN SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT AND OUR WAY OF LIFE.

IN CRITICAL TIMES IN OUR HIS HISTORY, AMERICA HAS ALWAYS BEEN BLESSED WITH THE RIGHT PERSON TO HANDLE THE CRISIS.

WASHINGTON, LINCOLN, ROOSEVELT, REAGAN, WE'RE PERFECT WERE THE CHALLENGE THEY FACED AND BROUGHT OUR NATION THROUGH GLORIOUSLY.

PRESIDENT TRUMP AND ALL OUR PEOPLE, HIS DISCIPLINED WORK ETHIC, EXCEPTIONAL ABILITY TO INSPIRE HIS DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF OUR SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT AND STRENGTH OF AMERICAN VALUES IS MAN WE CAN TRUST TO PRESERVE AND EVEN IMPROVE OUR WAY OF LIFE, MR. PRESIDENT, MAKE OUR NATION SAFE AGAIN!

>> Woodruff: A FRIGHTENING PICTURE JUST NOW PAINTED BY THE PRESIDENT'S FORMER PERSONAL ATTORNEY, FORMER MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY, RUDY GUILIANI.

YAMICHE, THROUGHOUT COVERING THE WHITE HOUSE FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS YOU'VE BEEN FREQUENTLY IN TOUCH WITH RUDY GUILIANI, TALKED TO HIM ABOUT HIS ROLE AS PRESIDENT'S LAWYER.

FILL US IN A LITTLE ON WHAT HE SAID.

>> WELL THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN RUDY GUILIANI'S DARKEST SPEECH YET.

HE TALKED ABOUT THE FACT THAT IF JOB WAS ELECTED HE BELIEVES THERE WOULD BE LAWLESSLESSNESS BROUGHT TO THE TTS OF AMERICAN CITIES.

TO WHITE WOMEN WHO THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN STRUGGLING.

TALKED ABOUT THE FACT RIOTS BREAKING OUT THAT THE PROTESTS ARE COMPLETELY OUT OF HAND.

TALKED ABOUT CONFLATING THE TWO ISSUES, TALKING ABOUT AFRICAN AMERICANS WHO ARE BEING KILLED BECAUSE OF HOMICIDES WHERE AMERICANS ARE KILLING EACH OTHER AND STATE SANCTIONED VIOLENCE WHICH BLACK LIVES MATTER ACTIVISTS CALL THESE POLICE SHOOTINGS.

THERE'S A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOMEONE WHO IS EMPLOYED BY THE GOVERNMENT IS KILLING AFRICAN AMERICANS TWO AND A HALF THREE TIMES THE RATE.

WHEN AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE KILLING EACH OTHER, OTHER THING IS THAT JUST OUTSIDE WHERE I'M STANDING A FEW HUNDRED PRO PROTESTERS HAVE GATHERED ON WHAT WAS NOW BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTEST.

THAT OF COURSE STREET JUST BLOCK REALLY AWAY FROM THE WHITE HO HOUSE.

SO MANY PEOPLE GATHERING TO PROTEST PRESIDENT TRUMP TONIGHT.

WE'VE SEEN -- THEY WERE ANTICIPATING THESE LARGE CROWDS, PEOPLE ANGRY THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS SPEAKING TONIGHT.

>> Woodruff: YAMICHE ALCINDER FOLLOWING INSIDE THE WALLS OF THE WHITE HOUSE AND OUTSIDE.

FROM RUDY GUILIANI NOW TO SENATOR TOM COTTON OF ARKANSAS.

>> -- CHANGED IN FOUR YEARS.

BACK THEN WE GATHERED IN A ROWDY ARENA, TONIGHT YOU'RE PROBABLY AT HOME WHILE I STAND ALONE.

STANDS ALONE, THAT WAS THE MOTTO OF MY OLD ARMY UNIT, THE 506th INFANTRY, THE ORIGINAL BAND OF BROTHERS.

FROM THE NORMANDY BEACHES TO THE IRAQI DESERT WE FOUGHT ALONGSIDE EACH OTHER.

BUT WE WERE ALWAYS PREPARED TO STAND ALONE.

AND SO IT IS WITH OUR NATION.

WE LEAD THE FREE WORLD.

BUT WE'LL STAND ALONE IF WE MUST TO DEFEND AMERICA.

DONALD TRUMP UNDERSTANDS THIS.

HE PUTS AMERICA FIRST.

THAT'S WHY AMERICA IS SAFER NOW THAN FOUR YEARS AGO.

BUT JOE BIDEN WOULD RETURN US TO A WEAK AND DANGEROUS PAST.

BARACK OWE MAMA'S OWN SECRETARY SAID JOE BIDEN HAS BEEN RON ON NEARLY EVERY MAJOR NATIONAL SECURITY DECISION.

OVER THE PAST FOUR DECADES.

SO, LET'S COMPARE THE RECORDS OF JOE BIDEN AND DONALD TRUMP.

JOE BIDEN SLASHED DEFENSE SP SPENDING AGAIN AND AGAIN.

PRESIDENT TRUMP REBUILT OUR MILITARY AND ADDED THE SPACE FORCE.

JOE BIDEN LET ISIS TERRORISTS RAMPAGE ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST.

PRESIDENT TRUMP ELIMINATED ISIS' LEADER AND DESTROYED CALIPHATE.

JOE BIDEN OPPOSED THE MISSION TO KILL OSAMA BIN LADEN.

PRESIDENT 'JIANGED THE MURDER OF HUNDREDS OF MEMBERS BY KILLING TERRORIST MASTERMIND.

JOE BIDEN SENT PALLETS OF CASH TO THE AYATOLLAHS, PRESIDENT TRUMP RIPPED UP THE DANGEROUS IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL.

JOE BIDEN TREATED ISRAEL LIKE A NUISANCE.

TRUMP MOVED OUR EMBASSY TO INJURE RUSE ALMOST AND BROKERED PEACE DEALS IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

JOE BIDEN CODDLED SOCIAL LIST DICTATORS IN CUBA AND VENEZUELA.

PRESIDENT TRUMP FIGHTS AGAINST COMMUNISM AND AMERICA'S BACK YARD AND AROUND THE WORLD.

AND ON THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA, THERE IS NO COMPARISON.

JOE BIDEN AIDED AND ABETTED CHINA'S RISE FOR 50 YEARS WITH TERRIBLE TRADE DEALS THAT CLOSED OUR FACTORIES AND LAID OFF OUR WORKERS.

PRESIDENT TRUMP STANDS UP TO CHINA'S CHEATING AND STEALING AND LYING.

JOE BIDEN ALLOWED CHINESE FENTANYL TO FLOOD ACROSS OUR SOUTHERN BORDER.

TRUMP SANCTIONED CHINESE DRUG DEALERS FOR POISONING OUR KIDS.

JOE BIDEN SAID CHINESE COMMUNISTS AREN'T REBOUND OUR COMPETITOR, AREN'T BAD FOLKS.

JUST MONTHS BEFORE THEY UNL UNLEASHED THIS PLAGUE ON THE WORLD.

PRESIDENT TRUMP IS CLEAR I'D ABOUT THE CHINESE THREAT AND HE IS MAKING CHINA PAY.

BUT CHINA IS NOT GIVING UP GOES THEY'RE ROOTING FOR JOE BIDEN.

AMERICA'S OTHER ENEMIES WON'T GIVE UP EITHER.

BUT JOE BIDEN WOULD BE AS WRONG AND WEAK OVER THE NEXT FOUR YEARS AS HE HAS BEEN FOR THE LAST 50.

WE NEED A PRESIDENT WHO STANDS UP FOR AMERICA.

NOT ONE WHO TAKES A KNEE.

A STRONG AND PROUD AMERICA IS A SAFE AMERICA.

SAFE FROM OUR ENEMIES AND SAFE FROM WAR.

NO ONE WHO HAS SEEN THE FACE OF WAR DESIRES TO SEE IT AGAIN.

TOO MANY OF OUR FELLOW AMERICANS ARE ALREADY HONORED AT THE HALLOWED GROUNDS OF ARLINGTON.

IF WE WANT PEACE WE MUST BE STRONG.

WEAKNESS IS PROVOCATIVE.

PRESIDENT TRUMP'S STRENGTH HAS KEPT US OUT OF WAR.

JOE BIDEN WON'T STAND UP FOR AMERICA.

DONALD TRUMP WILL.

THIS NOVEMBER, LET'S STAND WITH THE PRESIDENT AND VOTE TO KEEP AMERICA GREAT.

♪ >> MY NAME IS MARCIA MUELLER.

THIS IS MY HUSBAND, CARL.

OUR DAUGHTER, KAYLA WAS TAKEN AS A HOSTAGE MURDERED BY ISIS.

FROM A YOUNG AGE KAYLA WAS AMAZING.

SHE TAUGHT HERSELF LANGUAGES, HOW TO WRITE MUSIC, HOW TO PLAY GUITAR, SHE WORKED WITH TROUBLED YOUTH, MILITARY VETERANS AND NATIVE AMERICANS.

EVERYWHERE KAYLA WENT PEOPLE SMILED.

KAYLA HAD A GIFT TO BE ABLE TO SEE THE WORLD THROUGH SOMEONE ELSE'S EYES.

SHE BECAME A HUMANITARIAN AID WORKER WHEN SHE WAS HELPING CHILDREN AT AN OTHER PHYSICIAN MADGE IN INDIA, KAYLA WROTE, I FIND GOD IN THE SUFFERING EYES REFLECTED IN MINE.

IF THIS IS HOW YOU ARE REVEALED TO ME, THIS IS HOW I WILL FOREVER SEEK YOU.

SHE WENT TO TURKEY TO HELP SYRIAN REFUGEES IN 2012.

IN AUGUST 2013, SHE WAS ASKED BY ANOTHER AID WORK TORE CROSS THE BORDER INTO SYRIA TO HELP AT A HOSPITAL.

ON AUGUST 4th, 2013, ISIS TERRORISTS STOPPED HER VEHICLE AND TOOK HER CAPTIVE.

>> KAYLA WAS MOSTLY HELD IN 12 BY 12 CELL IN SOLITARY CON CONFINEMENT.

IT WAS COLD AND DIRTY.

ISIS TERRORISTS SHINED BRIGHT LIGHTS IN HER FACE.

THEY SHAVED HER HEAD, THEY BEAT HER AND TORTURED HER.

THE LEADER OF ISIS, RAPED HER REPEATEDLY.

FOR 18 MONTHS SHE ENDURED.

AND WE ENDURED AN AGONIZING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN US THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AND ISIS.

WE PUT ALL OUR FAITH IN THE GOVERNMENT.

BUT THE GOVERNMENT LET US DOWN.

PRESIDENT OBAMA REFUSED TO MEET WITH US UNTIL ISIS HAD ALREADY BEHEADED OTHER AMERICANS.

TO THIS DAY WE'VE NEVER HEARD FROM JOE BIDEN.

INSTEAD THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HID BEHIND POLICY SO MUCH THAT WE FELT HOPELESS WHEN THEY KEPT US FROM NEGOTIATING TO SAVE KAYLA'S LIFE.

THE ADMINISTRATION SHOWED MORE CONCERN FOR THE TERRORISTS IN GUANTANAMO BAY THAN THE AMERICAN HOSTAGES EDGE SYRIA.

THE MILITARY PREPARED A RESCUE MISSION BUT THE WHITE HOUSE DELAYED IT BY THE TIME IT WENT FORWARD KAYLA HAD BEEN MOVED TO ANOTHER LOCATION.

AFTER 18 MONTHS OF BRUTAL TORTURE, WE LEARNED FROM ISIS THAT KAYLA HAD BEEN KILLED.

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION KEPT TELLING US THEY WERE DOING EVERYTHING THEY COULD.

BUT THEIR VERSION OF EVERYTHING WASN'T ENOUGH.

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A PRESIDENT MAKES.

UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP, U.S. ARMY SPECIAL OPERATORS CONDUCTED A RAID ON AL BAGDADI'S COMPOUND.

AFTER WE LEARNED HE WAS KILLED WE LEARNED SOMETHING ELSE.

THE OPERATORS NAMED THEMSELVES TASK FORCE 814.

AFTER AUGUST 14th.

KAYLA'S BIRTHDAY.

AND THE MISSION WAS NAMED, OPERATION KAYLA MUELLER TO THOSE SOLDIERS, THANK YOU.

KAYLA WAS LOOKING DOWN ON YOU.

THE TRUMP TEAM GAVE US EMPATHY WE NEVER RECEIVED FROM THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION SAID IT WAS DOING EVERYTHING IT COULD, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS.

LET ME JUST SAY THIS.

KAYLA SHOULD BE HERE.

IF DONALD TRUMP HAD BEEN PRESIDENT WHEN KAYLA WAS CAPTURED SHE WOULD BE HERE TO TODAY.

WHEN KAYLA WAS A HOSTAGE, I'D GO OUTSIDE AT NIGHT AND LOOK AT THE MOON.

I'D LOOK AT THE MOON AND I PROMISED HER I WOULD EVERYTHING I COULD TO GET HER HOME.

NOW WHEN I SEE THE MOON, I'M REMINDED OF MY PROMISE TO HER, I COULDN'T KEEP.

>> ALL KAYLA WAND WAS TO MAKE IT HOME.

WE ARE STILL WORKING TO FIND HER AND GOD WILLING WE WILL BRING HER HOME.

KAYLA WAS BORN A MIRACLE.

WE WERE TOLD WE WOULD NEVER HAVE A SECOND CHILD.

BUT GOD GAVE US KAYLA.

AND SHE GAVE HERSELF TO THE WORLD.

EIGHT MONTHS INTO KAYLA AS CAPTIVITY ANOTHER HOSTAGE WAS ABLE TO SMUGGLE OUT A LETTER KAYLA HAD WRITTEN.

AS WE READ IT WE COULD SEE THAT GOD WAS HOLDING HER IN HIS ARMS.

IN HER WORDS, SHE FELT TENDERLY TRAILINGED IN FREE FALL.

SHE ALSO WROTE, I HAVE BEEN SHOWN IN DARKNESS LIGHT AND HAVE LEARNED THAT EVEN IN PRISON ONE CAN BE FREE.

I AM GRATEFUL.

I HAVE HAD MANY HOURS TO THINK HOW ONLY IN YOUR ABSENCE HAVE I FINALLY AT 25 YEARS OLD, COME TO REALIZE YOUR PLACE IN MY LIFE.

NONE OF US COULD HAVE KNOWN IT WOULD BE THIS LONG.

BUT KNOW I AM ALSO FIGHTING FOR MY SIDE IN THE WAYS I AM ABLE AND I HAVE A LOT OF FIGHT LEFT INSIDE OF ME.

I AM NOT BREAKING DOWN.

AND I WILL NOT GIVE IN NO MATTER HOW LONG IT TAKES.

KAYLA TAUGHT ME SO MANY THINGS AS HER MOM.

SHE IS STILL TEACHING US.

CARL AND I SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP BECAUSE OF HIS COMMITMENT TO MAKE AND KEEP AMERICA GREAT.

NOT WITH THE POWER OF THE GOVERNMENT, BUT WITH THE PASSION OF PEOPLE LIKE KAYLA, AMERICANS WHO EVEN IN THE DARKEST DAYS ALWAYS HAVE MORE FIGHT LEFT INSIDE OF THEM.

AMERICANS WHO DON'T JUST TALK, THEY ACT.

THAT WAS OUR DAUGHTER.

THAT'S PRESIDENT TRUMP.

AS LONG AS WE STAY STRONG LIKE KAYLA, AS LONG AS WE REFUSE TO BREAK, WE WILL BE GREAT.

THANK YOU.

♪ >> I'M FREE TO HUG MY FAMILY.

I'M FREE TO START OVER.

THIS IS GREATEST DAY OF MY LIFE.

MY HEART IS JUST BURSTING.

WITH GRATITUDE.

I WANT TO THANK PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> ALMOST ALL PEOPLE SAID THAT CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM BOO NEVER PASS.

BUT WE CAME TOGETHER AS A GROUP, WE WORKED ACROSS PARTYLINES AND WE GOT IT DONE.

>> I'M AN EXAMPLE OF A WOMAN WHO HAS BEEN GIVEN A SECOND CHANCE IN LIFE.

GOD BLESS YOU.

AND GOD BLESS AMERICA.

[ Cheering and Applause ] ♪ >> GOOD EVENING.

I AM ALICE MARIE JOHNSON.

I WAS ONCE TOLD THAT THE ONLY WAY I WOULD EVER BE REUNITED WITH MY FAMILY WOULD BE AS A CORPSE.

BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD AND COMPASSION OF PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP, I STAND BEFORE YOU TONIGHT AND I ASSURE YOU I AM NOT A GHOST.

I AM ALIVE.

I AM WELL.

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, I AM FREE.

IN 1996, I BEGAN SERVING TIME IN PRISON.

LIFE PLUS 25 YEARS.

I HAD NEVER BEEN IN TROUBLE.

I WAS A FIRST TIME NONVALID OFFENDER.

WHAT I DID WAS WRONG.

I MADE DECISIONS THAT I REGRET.

SOME SAY YOU DO THE CRIME, YOU DO THE TIME.

HOWEVER, THAT TIME SHOULD BE FAIR AND JUST.

WE'VE ALL MADE MISTAKES.

NONE OF US WANT TO BE DEFINED FOREVER BASED ON OUR WORST DECISIONS.

WHILE IN PRISON, I BECAME A PLAYWRIGHTA MENTOR, A CERTIFIED HOSPICE VOLUNTEER AND OTHER TAINTED MINISTER AND RECEIVED THE SPECIAL OLYMPICS EVENT COORDINATOR OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR MY WORK WITH DISABLED WOMEN.

BECAUSE THE ONLY THING WORSE THAN UNJUSTLY IMPRISONING MY BODY IS TRYING TO IMPRISON MY MIND.

MY TRANSFORMATION WAS DESCRIBED AS EXTRAORDINARY.

TRUTH IS, THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE JUST LIKE ME WHO DESERVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME HOME.

I NEVER STOPPED FIGHTING FOR MY FREEDOM.

MY CHRISTIAN FAITH AND THE PRAYERS OF SO MANY KEPT HOPE ALIVE.

WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP HEARD ABOUT ME, ABOUT THE INJUSTICE OF MY STORY, HE SAW ME AS A PERSON.

HE HAD COMPASSION AND HE ACTED.

FREE IN BODY THANKS TO PRESIDENT TRUMP BUT FREE IN MIND THANKS TO THE ALMIGHTYY GOD.

I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT.

I ALWAYS REMEMBERED THAT GOD KNEW MY NAME EVEN IN MY DARKEST HOUR BUT I NEVER THOUGHT A PRESIDENT WOULD.

WHEN I WAS RELEASED ON JUNE 6, 2018, I RAN ACROSS THAT ROAD AND HUGGED MY GRANDCHILDREN FOR THE FIRST TIME.

I'LL NEVER FORGET THAT FEELING.

AND THEN I REMEMBERED THE PROMISE I HAD MADE TO THE MEN AND WOMEN I LEFT BEHIND.

THAT I WOULD NEVER STOP FIGHTING FOR THEM.

AND I HAVEN'T.

I'M USING MY VOICE TO TELL THEIR STORIES AND I PRAY THAT MY FACE REMINDS YOU OF THOSE FORGOTTEN FACES.

SIX MONTHS AFTER PRESIDENT TRUMP GRANTED ME A SECOND CHANCE, HE SIGNED THE FIRST ACT INTO LAW.

IT WAS REAL JUSTICE REFORM.

AND IT BROUGHT JOY, HOPE AND FREEDOM TO THOUSANDS OF WE WELL-DESERVING PEOPLE.

I HOLLEREDDED, HALLELUJAH!

MY FAITH IN JUSTICE AND MERCY WAS REWARDED.

IMAGINE, GETTING TO HUG YOUR LOVED ONES AGAIN.

AND TO THINK THIS FIRST STEP MEANT SO MUCH TO SO MANY, I CAN'T WAIT BECAUSE WE'RE JUST GETTING STARTED.

THE NEARLY 22 YEARS I SPENT IN PRISON WERE NOT WASTED.

GOD HAD A PURPOSE AND A PLAN FOR MY LIFE.

I WAS NOT DELAYED OR DENIED.

I WAS DESTINED FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS.

I PRAY THAT YOU WILL NOT JUST HEAR THIS MESSAGE, BUT THAT YOU WILL BE INSPIRED BY MY STORY AND YOUR COMPASSION WOULD LEAD YOU TO TAKE ACTION FOR THOSE WHO ARE FORGOTTEN.

THAT'S WHAT OUR PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, DID FOR ME.

AND FOR THAT I WILL BE FOREVER GRATEFUL.

GOD BLESS YOU.

GOD BLESS PRESIDENT TRUMP.

AND GOD BLESS AMERICA.

THANK YOU.

♪ >> IT'S ONE OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SUCCESS STORIES.

A BUILDER WHO LEFT HIS MARK ON SKY LINES AROUND THE WORLD.

A BUSINESSMAN WITH AN EXTRAORDINARY ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE DIRECTLY WITH THE AMERICAN.

LEADING OUR COUNTRY DOWN A ROAD TO RUIN.

HE DIDN'T DO IT FOR MONEY OR FAME.

HE HAD ALL THAT.

HE DID IT BECAUSE OFTHAT.

HE DID IT BECAUSE OF HIS LOVE FOR OUR GREAT COUNTRY.

>> WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.

>> DONALD TRUMP BEAT THE ODDS, SMASHED THE ESTABLISHMENT AND WON THE PRESIDENCY FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

DONALD TRUMP DEFEATED HILLARY CLINTON TO BECOME PRESIDENT ELECT.

>> HILLARY CLINTON HAS CALLED DONALD TRUMP TO CONCEDE THE RACE.

>> IT HAS BEEN A STUNNING NIGHT.

IT HAS BEEN A HISTORIC NIGHT.

>> WASHINGTON, D.C., THE ESTABLISHMENT IS TERRIFIED AND THEY SHOULD BE.

THEY WILL ALL, ALL OF THEM WRONG, MAKING THIS ONE OF THE GREATEST UPSETS IN AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY.

>> IMMEDIATELY UPON TAKING OFFICE, PRESIDENT TRUMP CHANGED THINGS, BUT CHANGE THREATENED THE ESTABLISHMENT AND THE ESTABLISHMENT FOUGHT BACK.

DEMOCRAT OBSTRUCTION, PHONY INVESTIGATIONS, THE DISHONEST MEDIA, INCREDIBLE 92% OF STORIES ARE NEGATIVE.

NO PRESIDENT HAS SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT.

DESPITE EVERYTHING THEY THREW AT HIM, PRESIDENT TRUMP THE DELIVERED FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND HE DELIVERED LIKE NEVER BEFORE.

BUILDING THE STRONGEST ECONOMY IN AMERICAN HISTORY, 7 MILLION NEW JOBS, THE LOWEST-EVER UNEMPLOYMENT FOR BLACK AND HISPANIC AMERICANS, ENDING THE BIDEN ERA OF LOP-SIDED TRADE DEALS THAT SEPTEMBER OUR FACTORIES OVERSEAS, PASSING THE HISTORIC USMCA, TAKING ON CHINA, WINNING THE TRADE WAR, PROTECTING AND STRENGTHENING MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY, LOWERING THE COST OF INSULIN, DELIVERING THE FIRST REAL DROP IN DRUG PRICES IN 50 YEARS.

RESTORING OUR MILITARY, FIXING THE VA, BRINGING OUR TROOPS HOME, AND TAKING THE WORLD'S DEADLYIST TERRORISTS OFF THE BATTLEFIELD, BRINGING THEM TO JUSTICE.

MOVING AMERICA'S EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM, A NEW ERA OF STRENGTH AND SOLIDARITY WITH OUR ALLY ISRAEL, NEGOTIATING A HISTORIC PEACE DEAL BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, SECURING OUR BORDER, MILES OF NEW BORDER WALL BEING BUILT, ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION DROPPED TO THE LOWEST POINT IN A DECADE, TACKLING THE CORONAVIRUS HEAD ON, BANNING TRAVEL FROM CHINA, MOBILIZING GOVERNMENT, BUSINESS AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO MANUFACTURE MASKS, VENTILATORS AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES.

AND LAUNCHING OPERATION WARP SPEED, AN UNPRECEDENTED EFFORT TO DEVELOP A VACCINE TO ERADICATE THE CORONAVIRUS FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH IN RECORD TIME.

PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS ACCOMPLISHED MORE FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN FOUR YEARS THAN ANY OTHER PRESIDENT IN HISTORY AND IN HIS SECOND TERM HE WILL LEAD AMERICA TO EVEN GREATER HEIGHTS, DRAINING THE SWAMP, REBUILDING THE ECONOMY, BRINGING BACK MILLIONS OF JOBS, CREATING 10 MILLION NEW JOBS IN 10 MONTHS, NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL AMERICANS, NOT JUST THOSE AT THE TOP.

LOWERING DRUG COSTS, EXPANDING ACCESS TO HIGH QUALITY HEALTH CARE FOR EVERY AMERICAN FAMILY.

DEFENDING AMERICA'S POLICE, RESTORING LAW AND ORDER TO OUR CITIES, STOPPING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND PROTECTING AMERICAN FAMILIES AND ENDING AMERICA'S RELIANCE ON CHINA ONCE AND FOR ALL.

BRINGING BACK JOBS AND FACTORIES, MAKING MEDICINE AND PRODUCTS IN AMERICA AGAIN.

PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL REBUILD AMERICA'S INFRASTRUCTURE, RENEW HOPE AND OUR ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT FOR A NEW GENERATION AND RESTORE THE AMERICAN DREAM.

IT WON'T BE EASY.

NEVER PRETTY.

THE SWAMP WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT HIM EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.

BUT UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP OUR FAMILIES WILL THRIVE, OUR INCOMES WILL RISE, OUR COMMUNITIES WILL BE KEPT SAFE, OUR FACTORIES WILL FLOURISH, OUR FLAG WILL FLY HIGH.

OUR COUNTRY WILL SOAR AND WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.

[APPLAUSE] LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLEASE WELCOME IVANKA TRUMP.

[APPLAUSE] .

>> Woodruff: IVANKA TRUMP IS THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER, OLDER DAUGHTER.

SHE IS THE ONLY OTHER PERSON SPEAKING FROM TONIGHT ON THIS NIGHT THAT HER FATHER ACCEPT S RENOMINATION AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

>> GOOD EVENING.

BEFORE I BEGIN, I WANT TO SEND A SPECIAL MESSAGE TO EVERYONE WHO HAS BEEN EFFECTED BY HURRICANE LAURA.

OUR HEARTS ARE WITH YOU.

THE PRESIDENT WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT YOU EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.

AND JUST LIKE AMERICANS ALWAYS DO, THE NATION WILL COME TOGETHER TO HELP YOU REBUILD YOUR HOMES, BUSINESSES AND COMMUNITIES STRONGER AND MORE RESILIENT THAN EVER BEFORE.

[APPLAUSE] FOUR YEARS AGO I INTRODUCED TO YOU A BUILDER, AN ENTREPRENEUR, AN OUTSIDER, AND A PEOPLE'S NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

TONIGHT I STAND BEFORE YOU AS THE PROUD DAUGHTER OF THE PEOPLE'S PRESIDENT.

[APPLAUSE] HE IS OUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, CHAMPION OF THE AMERICAN WORKER, DEFENDER OF COMMON SENSE AND OUR VOICE FOR THE FORGOTTEN MEN AND WOMEN OF THIS COUNTRY.

HE IS OUR PRESIDENT AND MY FATHER, DONALD J TRUMP.

[APPLAUSE] THIS EVENING I WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE LEADER I KNOW AND THE MOMENTS I WISH EVERY AMERICAN COULD SEE.

I WANT TO TELL YOU THE STORY OF A PRESIDENT WHO IS FIGHTING FOR YOU FROM DAWN TO MIDNIGHT, WHEN THE CAMERAS HAVE LEFT, THE MICROPHONES ARE OFF AND THE DECISIONS REALLY COUNT.

WHEN JARED AND I MOVED WITH OUR THREE YOUNG CHILDREN TO WASHINGTON WE DIDN'T EXACTLY KNOW WHAT WE WERE IN FOR BUT OUR KIDS, OUR KIDS LOVED IT FROM THE START.

MY SON JOSEPH PROMPTLY BUILT GRANDPA A LEGO REPLICA OF THE WHITE HOUSE.

THE PRESIDENT STILL YOU DISPLAYS ON IT THE MANTLE IN THE OVAL OFFICE RIGHT OVER THERE, SO THAT HE CAN SHOW WORLD LEADERS JUST SO THEY KNOW HE HAS THE GREATEST GRANDCHILDREN ON EARTH.

I AGREE.

[APPLAUSE] OVER THE LAST FOUR YEARS WE HAVE LEARNED A LOT.

I HAVE SEEN IN WASHINGTON IT'S EASY FOR POLITICIANS TO SURVIVE IF THEY SILENCE CONVICTIONS AND SKIP THE HARD FIGHTS.

I COULDN'T BELIEVE SO MANY POLITICIANS ACTUALLY PREFER TO COMPLAIN ABOUT A PROBLEM RATHER THAN FIX IT.

I WAS SHOCKED TO SEE PEOPLE LEAVE MAJOR CHALLENGES UNSOLVED SO THEY CAN BLAME THE OTHER SIDE, CAMPAIGN ON THE SAME ISSUE IN THE NEXT ELECTION.

BUT DONALD TRUMP DID NOT COME TO WASHINGTON TO WIN PRAISE FROM THE BELTWAY ELITES.

DONALD TRUMP CAME TO WASHINGTON FOR ONE REASON AND ONE REASON ALONE: TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.

[APPLAUSE] MY FATHER HAS STRONG CONVICTIONS.

HE KNOWS WHAT HE BELIEVES AND HE SAYS WHAT HE THINKS.

WHETHER YOU AGREE WITH HIM OR NOT, YOU ALWAYS KNOW WHERE HE STANDS.

I RECOGNIZE THAT MY DAD'S COMMUNICATION STYLE IS NOT TO EVERYONE'S TASTE.

AND I KNOW THAT HIS TWEETS CAN FEEL A BIT UNFILTERED.

BUT THE RESULTS, THE RESULTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.

[APPLAUSE] HE IS SO UNAPOLOGETIC ABOUT HIS BELIEFS THAT HE HAS CAUSED ME AND COUNTLESS AMERICANS TO TAKE A HARD LOOK AT OUR OWN CONVICTS AND ASK OURSELVES, CONVICTION SEAN -- CONVICTIONS, WHAT DO WE STAND FOR?

WHAT KIND OF AM CAN DO WE WANT TO LEAVE OUR CHILDREN?

WE WANT A FUTURE WHERE OUR KIDS CAN BELIEVE IN AMERICAN GREATNESS.

WE WANT A SOCIETY WHERE EVERY CHILD CAN LIVE IN A SAFE COMMUNITY AND GO TO A GREAT SCHOOL OF THEIR CHOICE.

WE WANT A CULTURE WHERE DIFFERENCES OF OPINION AND DEBATE ARE ENCOURAGED, NOT CANCELED.

WHERE LAW ENFORCEMENT IS RESPECTED, WHERE OUR COUNTRY'S RICH DIVERSITY IS CELEBRATED AND WHERE PEOPLE OF ALL BACKGROUNDS, RACES, GENDERS AND CREEDS HAVE THE CHANCE TO ACHIEVE THEIR GOD-GIVEN POTENTIAL.

THIS IS THE FUTURE MY FATHER IS WORKING TO BUILD EACH AND EVERY DAY.

[APPLAUSE] BUILDING AFTER ALL IS WHAT HE'S DONE HIS WHOLE LIFE.

HE HAS ADMIRED AND BEFRIENDED CONSTRUCTION WORKERS ON COUNTLESS JOB SITES BUT IT HAS BEEN A NEW AND PROFOUND EXPERIENCE FOR HIM AND FOR ME TO SEE THESE STOIC MACHINISTS AND STEELWORKERS COME TO HIM WITH A TEAR IN THEIR EYE AND THANK HIM FOR BEING THE ONLY PERSON WILLING TO GO TO THE MAT FOR THEM, FOR THEIR JOBS, FOR THEIR FAMILIES AND FOR THEIR FUTURES.

TO THE HARD-WORKING MEN AND WOMEN ACROSS AMERICA AND HERE TONIGHT, YOU ARE THE REASON MY FATHER FIGHTS WITH ALL OF HIS HEART AND ALL OF HIS MIGHT.

ARE YOU THE REASON HE RAN FOR PRESIDENT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

AND YOU ARE THE REASON HE IS GOING TO KEEP FIGHTING FOR FOUR MORE YEARS.

[APP >> FOUR MORE YEARS.

>> FOUR MORE YEARS.

>> FOUR MORE YEARS.

>> FOUR MORE YEARS.

I REMEMBER ONE EVENING IN EARLY FEBRUARY OF 2018 WE WERE IN THE OVAL OFFICE WITH MY FATHER'S TOP ECONOMIC ADVISORS AND THE PRESIDENT WAS PUSHING TO KEEP THE PROMISE HE MADE TO RENEGOTIATE THE BAD TRADE DEALS THAT HAD GUTTED MILLIONS MIDDLE CLASS JOBS.

MOST ADVISOR >> ARGUED THE ECONOMY WAS SO STRONG FOLLOWING OUR HISTORIC TAX AND REGULATORY CUTS THAT IT DIDN'T MAKE SENSE TO RISK ROCKING THE BOAT.

AFTER THE MEETING AS I WALKED WITH MY FATHER BACK TO THE RESIDENCE HE SAID, YOU KNOW, THE REASON THIS HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE IS BECAUSE OUR LEADERS HAVEN'T HAD THE GUTS WHEN THE ECONOMY IS GOOD, THEY SETTLE FOR GOOD AND WHEN THINGS ARE BAD, THEY DON'T HAVE THE WILL OR ABILITY, SO THEY KICK THE CAN UNTIL IT'S SOMEONE ELSE'S PROBLEM.

HE WAS RIGHT.

IF MY FATHER DIDN'T TAKE ON THESE FIGHTS, NO ONE WOULD.

IN THE MONTHS THAT FOLLOWED PRESIDENT TRUMP REFUSED TO SETTLE FOR A GOOD DEAL.

HE WANTED A GREAT DEAL AND ULTIMATELY THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE GOT.

[APPLAUSE] I REMEMBER EACH TIME HE WAS UPDATED ON THE PROGRESS OF THE NEW TRADE DEAL WITH MEXICO AND CANADA, HE WOULD SAY, DON'T LET DOWN THOSE DAIRY FARMERS I MET IN WISCONSIN.

I DON'T WANT THEM TO LIKE THIS DEAL.

I WANT THEM TO LOVE IT.

[APPLAUSE] TODAY IN THE MIDST OF THIS UNPRECEDENTED GLOBAL PANDEMIC IT'S MORE CLEAR THAN EVER THAT OUR PRESIDENT WAS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT TO TAKE ON TRADE WHEN HE DID AND BRING OUR JOBS, OUR FACTORIES AND OUR LIFE-SAVING MEDICINES BACK TO THE U.S.A. [APPLAUSE] AS OUR NATION ENDURES THIS GRAVE TRIAL, I PRAY FOR THE FAMILIES WHO ARE MOURNING THE LOSS OF A LOVED ONE FOR THOSE BATTLING COVID-19 AND FOR THE FIRST RESPONDERS AND THE HEALTH CARE HEROES WHO REMAIN ON THE FRONT LINE OF THIS FIGHT, THE GRIEF, SORROW AND ANXIETY DURING THIS TIME IS FELT BY ALL.

I HAVE BEEN WITH MY FATHER AND I'VE SEEN THE PAIN IN HIS EYES WHEN HE RECEIVED UPDATES ON THE LIVES THAT HAVE BEEN STOLEN BY THIS PLAGUE.

I HAVE WITNESSED HIM MAKE SOME OF THE MOST DIFFICULT DECISIONS OF HIS LIFE.

I SAT WITH HIM IN THE OVAL OFFICE AS HE STOPPED TRAVEL TO EUROPE.

I WATCHED HIM TAKE THE STRONGEST, MOST INCLUSIVE ECONOMY IN A LIFETIME, THE LOWEST UNEMPLOYMENT IN A HALF CENTURY AND THE HIGHEST WAGE INCREASE FOR WORKING FAMILIES IN DECADES, AND CLOSE IT DOWN TO SAVE AMERICAN LIVES.

[APPLAUSE] IT IS WHY OUR PRESIDENT RAPIDLY MOBILIZED THE FULL FORCE OF GOVERNMENT AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO PRODUCE VENTILATORS WITHIN WEEKS, TO BUILD THE MOST ROBUST TESTING SYSTEM IN THE WORLD, AND TO DEVELOP SAFE AND EFFECTIVE TREATMENTS AND VERY, VERY SOON A VACCINE.

MY FATHER ISN'T DETERRED BY DEFEATIST THINKERS.

THE WORD IMPOSSIBLE, IT ONLY MOTIVATES HIM.

DONALD TRUMP REJECTS THE CYNICAL NOTION THAT THIS COUNTRY'S GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS ARE BEHIND US.

HE BELIEVES THAT NOTHING IS BEYOND OUR REACH AND THAT THE BEST IS YET TO COME.

[APPLAUSE] I HAVE SEEN ALL OF MY LIFE HOW MY DAD BELIEVES IN POTENTIAL OF EACH INDIVIDUAL.

EARLIER WE WERE INSPIRED BY THE INCREDIBLE TESTIMONY OF ALICE JOHNSON, GREAT GRANDMOTHER SENTENCED FOR FIRST-TIME DRUG OFFENSE MUCH I WAS WITH MY FATHER WHEN HE DECIDED TO COMMUTE THE SENTENCE.

TOGETHER WE WATCHED ALICE LEAVE PRISON AFTER NEARLY 22 YEARS.

AS SHE RAN IN TO THE ARMS OF HER FAMILY AND THEY CELEBRATED A JOYFUL REUNION, MY FATHER GOT VERY QUIET.

I COULD SEE THE EMOTION ON HIS FACE.

HE LOOKED AT ME AND SAID IMAGINE HOW MANY PEOPLE THERE ARE JUST LIKE ALICE.

FROM THAT POINT ON, HE BECAME A VOICE FOR THOSE WHO HAD BEEN UNFAIRLY SILENCED IN OUR PRISON SYSTEM.

PRESIDENT TRUMP RECTIFIED THE DISPARITIES OF THE 1994 BIDEN CRIME BILL THAT DISPROPORTIONATELY HURT AFRICAN-AMERICANS.

[APPLAUSE] AGAINST ALL ODDS, HE BROUGHT TOGETHER REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS AND PASSED THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM OF OUR GENERATION AND WE'RE JUST GETTING STARTED.

[APPLAUSE] MY FATHER DID NOT CAMPAIGN ON THIS ISSUE.

HE TACKLED THIS INJUSTICE BECAUSE HE HAS A DEEP COMPASSION FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN TREATED UNFAIRLY.

MORE THAN RHETORIC AND POLITICAL PROSE, THE ABILITY TO BUILD CONSENSUS AND ACHIEVE BIPARTISAN SUCCESS WILL HELP HEAL OUR COUNTRY'S RACIAL INEQUITIES AND BRING US FORWARD TOGETHER.

PRESIDENT TRUMP IS ADVANCING THE AMERICAN VALUES OF WORK AND FAMILY.

FOUR YEARS AGO IN CLEVELAND I SAID PRESIDENT TRUMP WOULD DELIVER FOR WORKING WOMEN.

LAST YEAR OVER 70% OF ALL NEW JOBS WERE SECURED BY WOMEN.

[APPLAUSE] FOUR YEARS AGO I TOLD YOU MY FATHER WOULD FOCUS ON MAKING CHILD CARE AFFORDABLE AND ACCESSIBLE.

IN PRESIDENT TRUMP'S FIRST TERM WE SECURED THE LARGEST-EVER INCREASE FOR CHILD CARE FUNDING GIVING MORE THAN 800,000 LOW INCOME FAMILIES GREAT CHILD CARE AT A COST THEY CAN AFFORD.

AS PART OF REPUBLICAN TAX CUTS IN 2019 ALONE PUT OVER 2,000 DOLLARS IN THE POCKETS OF 40 MILLION AMERICAN FAMILIES.

[APPLAUSE] DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS INTRODUCED A PLAN TO INCREASE THE CHILD TAX CREDIT, YET WHEN I WAS FIGHTING LESS THAN THREE YEARS AGO AT THE PRESIDENT'S DIRECTION TO GET CONGRESS TO DOUBLE THE CHILD TAX CREDIT, NOT A SINGLE DEMOCRAT VOTED TO PASS THE LAW.

WE GOT IT DONE ANYWAY.

[APPLAUSE] FOUR YEARS AGO I PROMISED THE THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP WOULD SUPPORT MOTHERS IN THE WORKFORCE.

IN HIS FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE HE SIGNED IN TO LAW THE FIRST-EVER NATIONAL PAID LEAVE TAX CREDIT.

TODAY, 8 MILLION MORE AMERICANS HAVE ACCESS TO THIS BENEFIT.

[APPLAUSE] FOUR YEARS AGO I SAID THAT AMERICANS NEEDED AN ECONOMY THAT PERMITS PEOPLE TO RISE AGAIN.

DURING PRESIDENT TRUMP'S FIRST THREE YEARS IN OFFICE, 72% OF ALL NEW JOBS WENT TO AMERICANS WHO CAN BE OUTSIDE OF THE WORKFORCE.

[APPLAUSE] FOUR YEARS AGO I TOLD YOU I WOULD FIGHT ALONGSIDE MY FATHER AND FOUR YEARS LATER HERE I AM.

[APPLAUSE] MANY OF THE ISSUES MY FATHER HAS CHAMPIONED ARE NOT HISTORICALLY REPUBLICAN PRIORITIES.

YET WHERE WASHINGTON CHOOSES SIDE OUR PRESIDENT CHOOSES COMMON SENSE.

WHERE POLITICIANS CHOOSE PARTY, OUR PRESIDENT CHOOSES PEOPLE.

[APPLAUSE] SINCE THE DAY HE TOOK THE OATH OF OFFICE I HAVE WATCHED MY FATHER TAKE ON THE FAILED POLICIES OF THE PAST AND DO WHAT NO LEADER HAS DONE BEFORE.

RECENTLY HE TOOK DRAMATIC ACTION TO CUT THE COST OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS DESPITE FIELDING ANGRY CALLS FROM THE CEOs OF NEARLY EVERY MAJOR PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY.

NOW, WHEN WE SEE ATTACK AD PAID FOR BY BIG PHARMA MY DAD SMILES SAN SAYS TO ME, YOU KNOW, WE'RE DOING SOMETHING REALLY RIGHT IF THEY'RE HITTING US SO HARD.

[APPLAUSE] THIS SPRING OUR PRESIDENT SAW THAT AMERICAN CROPS WERE GOING TO WASTE BECAUSE FOOD SUPPLY CHAINS WERE DISRUPTED BY THE VIRUS.

HE DIRECTED SECRETARY PURDUE AND MEn NUTRITIOUS FOOD, FRESH FRUIT,X HAS CHANGED WASHINGTON.

[APPLAUSE] AMERICA DOESN'T NEED ANOTHER EMPTY VESSEL WHO WILL DO WHATEVER THE MEDIA AND THE FRINGE OF HIS PARTY DEMANDS.

NOW MORE THAN EVER AMERICA NEEDS FOUR MORE YEARS OF A WARRIOR IN THE WHITE HOGsG.

[APPLAUSE] TONIGHT I COULD NOT BE MORE PROUD TO INTRODUCE MY FATHER, A MAN I KNOW WAS MADE FOR THIS MOMENT IN HISTORY.

MY FELLOW AMERICANS, OUR FIRST LADY AND THE 45thÑiñrÑ THE UNITED STATES, DONALD J TRUMP.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ .

>> Woodruff: STEPPING OUT ON THE BALCONY FACING THE SOUTH LAWN OF THE WHITE HOUSE, PRESIDENT TRUMP, HIS WIFE, THE FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP, AFTER A RINGING ENDORSEMENT AND INTRODUCTION BY HIS DAUGHTER, HIS OLDER DAUGHTER IVANKA, WHO INTRODUCED HIM AT THE CONVENTION IN 2016.

SHE HAS RETURNED TO DO THE SAME FOR HIS REELECTION.

WE ARE TOLD THERE IS SOMETHING LIKE 1500 OR MORE GUESTS ON THE LAWN, AS YOU SEE DURING THIS PANDEMIC THEY HAVE COME TOGETHER AT A TIME WHEN PEOPLE ARE NOT GATHERING INDOORS.

THEY CREATED AN ELEGANT SETTING AT THE WHITE HOUSE WITH DOZENS OF FLAGS AND A VERY FRIENDLY AND VERY SUPPORTIVE CROWD OF MEMBERS OF THE CABINET, MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY AND OTHER SUPPORTERS OF THE PRESIDENT.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ I'M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN ♪ WHERE AT LEAST I KNOW I'M FREE ♪ AND I WON'T FORGET ♪ THE MEN WHO DIED ♪ WHO GAVE THAT RIGHT TO ME ♪.

>>.

>> Woodruff: WE ARE TOLD THE PRESIDENT WILL SPEAK FOR ABOUT 45 MINUTES OR PERHAPS LONGER.

♪ THERE AIN'T NO DOUBT I LOVE THIS LAND ♪ GOD BLESS THE U.S.A. [AP [APPLAUSE] >> FOUR MORE YEARS.

>> FOUR MORE YEARS.

>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

THANK YOU.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

FRIENDS, DELEGATES AND DISTINGUISHED GUESTS, PLEASE.

I STAND BEFORE YOU TONIGHT HONORED BY YOUR SUPPORT, PROUD OF THE EXTRAORDINARY PROGRESS WE HAVE MADE TOGETHER OVER THE LAST 4 INCREDIBLE YEARS.

AND BRIMMING WITH CONFIDENCE IN THE BRIGHT FUTURE WE WILL BUILD FOR AMERICA OVER THE NEXT FOUR YEARS.

[APPLAUSE] WE BEGIN THIS EVENING, OUR THOUGHTS ARE WITH THE WONDERFUL PEOPLE WHO HAVE JUST COME THROUGH THE WRATH OF HURRICANE LAURA.

WE ARE WORKING CLOSELY WITH STATE AND LOCAL OFFICIALS IN TEXAS, LOUISIANA, ARKANSAS, MISSISSIPPI, SPARING NO EFFORT TO SAVE LIVES WHILE THE HURRICANE WAS FIERCE, ONE OF THE STRONGEST TO MAKE LANDFALL IN 150 YEARS, THE CASUALTIES AND DAMAGE WERE FAR LESS THAN THOUGHT POSSIBLE, ONLY 24 HOURS AGO.

[APPLAUSE] THIS IS DUE TO THE GREAT WORK OF FEMA, LAW ENFORCEMENT, AND THE INDIVIDUAL STATES.

I WILL BE GOING THIS WEEKEND AND CONGRATULATIONS, THANK YOU, FOR THAT GREAT JOB OUT THERE.

WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT.

WE ARE ONE NATIONAL FAMILY AND WE WILL ALWAYS PROTECT, LOVE AND CARE FOR EACH OTHER.

HERE TONIGHT ARE THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE MADE MY JOURNEY POSSIBLE AND FILLED MY LIFE WITH SO MUCH JOY.

FOR INCREDIBLE SERVICE TO OUR NATION AND ITS CHILDREN, I WANT TO THANK OUR MAGNIFICENT FRFRD.

-- MAGNIFICENT FIRST LADY.

[APPLAUSE] >> THANK YOU.

I ALWAYS WANT TO THANK MY AZING DAUGHTER IVANKA FOR THAT INTRODUCTION AND TO ALL OF MY CHILDREN.

IVANKA, PLEASE STAND UP.

[APPLAUSE] AND TO ALL OF MY CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN, I LOVE YOU MORE THAN WORD COULD EXPRESS.

I KNOW MY BROTHER ROBERT IS LOOKING DOWN ON US RIGHT NOW FROM HEAVEN.

HE WAS A GREAT BROTHER AND WAS VERY PROUD OF THE JOB WE ARE ALL DOING.

THANK YOU.

WE LOVE YOU, ROBERT.

[APPLAUSE] LET US ALSO TAKE A MOMENT TO SHOW OUR PROFOUND APPRECIATION FOR A MAN WHO HAS ALWAYS FOUGHT BY OUR SIDE AND STOOD UP FOR OUR VALUES, A MAN OF DEEP FAITH AND STEADFAST CONVICTION, OUR VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE.

[APPLAUSE] MIKE IS JOINED BY HIS BELOVED WIFE, A TEACHER AND MILITARY MOM, KAREN PENCE.

THANK YOU, KAREN.

[APPLAUSE] MY FELLOW AMERICANS, TONIGHT WITH A HEART FULL OF GRATITUDE AND BOUNDLESS OPTIMISM, I PROFOUNDLY ACCEPT THIS NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

[APP >> U.S.A., U.S.A., U.S.A.!

>> THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, THE PARTY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, GOES FORWARD UNITED, DETERMINED TO WELCOME MANY DEMOCRATS, INDEPENDENTS AND ANYONE WHO BELIEVES IN THE GREATNESS OF AMERICA AND THE RIGHTEOUS HEART OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

[APPLAUSE] IN A NEW TERM AS PRESIDENT WE WILL AGAIN BUILD THE GREATEST ECONOMY IN HISTORY, QUICKLY RETURNING TO FULL EMPLOYMENT, SOARING INCOMES, AND RECORD PROSPERITY.

[APPLAUSE] WE WILL DEFEND AMERICA AGAINST ALL THREATS AND PROTECT AMERICA AGAINST ALL DANGERS.

WE WILL LEAD AMERICA IN TO NEW FRONTIERS OF AMBITION AND DISCOVERY AND WE WILL NEW HEIGHTS OF NATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT.

WE WILL REKINDLE NEW FAITH IN OUR VALUES, NEW PRIDE IN OUR HISTORY, AND A NEW SPIRIT OF UNITY THAT CAN ONLY BE REALIZED THROUGH LOVE FOR OUR GREAT COUNTRY.

[APPLAUSE] BECAUSE WE UNDERSTAND THAT AMERICA IS NOT A LAND CLOAKED IN DARKNESS, AMERICA IS THE TORCH THAT ENLIGHTENS THE ENTIRE WORLD.

[APPLAUSE] GATHERED HERE AT OUR BEAUTIFUL AND MAJESTIC WHITE HOUSE, KNOWN ALL OVER THE WORLD AS THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE, WE CANNOT HELP BUT MARVEL AT THE MIRACLE THAT IS OUR GREAT AMERICAN STORY.

THIS HAS BEEN THE HOME OF LARGER THAN LIFE FIGURES LIKE TEDDY ROOSEVELT AND ANDREW JACKSON, WHO RALLIED AMERICANS THROUGH BOLD VISIONS OF A BIGGER AND BRIGHTER FUTURE.

WITHIN THESE WALLS LIVED TENACIOUS GENERALS, LIKE PRESIDENT GRANT AND EISENHOWER, WHO LED OUR SOLDIERS IN THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM.

FROM THESE GROUNDS THOMAS JEFFERSON SENT LEWIS AND CLARK ON A DARING EXPEDITION TO CROSS A WILD CONTINENT IN THE DEPTHS OF A BLOODY CIVIL WAR PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN LOOKED OUT THESE VERY WINDOWS UPON A HALF COMPLETED WASHINGTON MONUMENT AND ASKED GOD IN HIS PROVIDENCE TO SAVE OUR NATION.

TWO WEEKS AFTER PEARL HARBOR, FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT WELCOMED WINSTON CHURCHILL AND JUST INSIDE THEY SET OUR PEOPLE ON A COURSE TO VICTORY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

IN RECENT MONTHS OUR NATION AND THE ENTIRE PLANET HAS BEEN STRUCK BY A NEW AND POWERFUL INVISIBLE ENEMY.

LIKE THOSE BRAVE AMERICANS BEFORE US, WE ARE MEETING THIS CHALLENGE.

WE ARE DELIVERING LIFE-SAVING THERAPIES AND WILL PRODUCE A VACCINE BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR OR MAYBE EVEN SOONER.

[APPLAUSE] WE WILL DEFEAT THE VIRUS AND THE PANDEMIC AND EMERGE STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE.

[APPLAUSE] WHAT UNITED GENERATIONS PAST WAS AN UNSHAKABLE CONFIDENCE IN AMERICA'S DESTINY AND AN UNBREAKABLE FAITH IN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

THEY KNEW THAT OUR COUNTRY IS BLESSED BY GOD AND HAS A SPECIAL PURPOSE IN THIS WORLD.

IT IS THAT CONVICTION THAT INSPIRED THE FORMATION OF OUR UNION, OUR WESTWARD EXPANSION, THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY, THE PASSAGE OF CIVIL RIGHTS, THE SPACE PROGRAM, AND THE OVERTHROW OF FASCISM, TYRANNY AND COMMUNISM.

THIS TOWERING AMERICAN SPIRIT HAS PREVAILED OVER EVERY CHALLENGE AND LISTED US TO THE SUMMIT OF HUMAN ENDEAVOR.

YET DESPITE EVERYTHING WE HAVE ACHIEVED IS NOW IN DANGER.

THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY.

[APP >> FOUR MORE YEARS, FOUR MORE YEARS.

>> THANK YOU.

AT NO TIME BEFORE HAVE VOTERS FACED A CLEARER CHOICE BETWEEN TWO PARTIES, TWO VISIONS, TWO PHILOSOPHIES OR TWO AGENDAS.

THIS ELECTION WILL DECIDE WHETHER WE SAVE THE AMERICAN DREAM OR WHETHER WE ALLOW A SOCIALIST AGENDA TO DEMOLISH OUR CHERISHED DESTINY.

[APPLAUSE] IT WILL DECIDE WHETHER WE RAPIDLY CREATE MILLIONS OF HIGH-PAYING JOBS OR WHETHER WE CRUSH OUR INDUSTRIES AND SEND MILLIONS OF THESE JOBS OVERSEAS AS HAS FOOLISHLY BEEN DONE FOR MANY DECADES.

YOUR VOTE WILL DECIDE WHETHER WE PROTECT LAW ABIDING AMERICANS OR WHETHER WE GIVE FREE REIGN TO VIOLENT ANARCHISTS AND AGITATORS AND CRIMINALS WHO THREATEN OUR CITIZENS.

THIS ELECTION WILL DECIDE WHETHER WE WILL DEFEND THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE OR WHETHER WE WILL ALLOW A RADICAL MOVEMENT TO COMPLETELY DISMANTLE AND DESTROY IT.

IT WON'T HAPPEN.

[APPLAUSE] AT THE DEMOCRAT NATIONAL CONVENTION JOE BIDEN AND HIS PARTY REPEATEDLY ASAILED AMERICA AS A LAND OF RACIAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE.

SO TONIGHT I ASK YOU A SIMPLE QUESTION: HOW CAN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY ASK TO LEAD OUR COUNTRY WHEN IT SPEND SO MUCH TIME TEARING DOWN OUR COUNTRY?

[APPLAUSE] IN THE LEFT'S BACKWARD VIEW THEY DO NOT SEE AMERICA AS THE MOST FREE, JUST AND EXCEPTIONAL NATION ON EARTH.

INSTEAD THEY SEE A WICKED NATION THAT MUST BE PUNISHED FOR ITS SINS.

OUR OPPONENTS SAY REDEMPTION FOR YOU CAN ONLY COME FROM GIVING POWER TO THEM.

THIS IS A TIRED ANTHEM SPOKEN BY EVERY REPRESSIVE MOVEMENT THROUGHOUT HISTORY.

BUT IN THIS COUNTRY WE DON'T LOOK TO CAREER POLITICIANS FOR SALVATION.

IN AMERICA, WE DON'T TURN TO GOVERNMENT TO RESTORE OUR SOULS.

WE PUT OUR FAITH IN ALMIGHTY GOD.

[AP [APPLAUSE] JOE BIDEN IS NOT A SAVIOR OF AMERICA'S SOUL.

HE IS THE DESTROYER OF AMERICA'S JOBS AND IF BEGIN THE CHANCE HE WILL BE THE DESTROYER OF AMERICAN GREATNESS.

FOR 47 YEARS JOE BIDEN TOOK THE DONATIONS OF BLUE COLLAR WORKERS, GAVE THEM HUGS AND EVEN KI KISSES.

[APPLAUSE] AND TOLD THEM HE FELT THEIR PAIN AND THEN HE FLEW BACK TO WASHINGTON AND VOTED TO SHIP OUR JOBS TO CHINA AND MANY OTHER DISTANT LANDS.

JOE BIDEN SPENT HIS ENTIRE CAREER OUTSOURCING THEIR DREAMS AND THE DREAMS OF AMERICAN WORKERS, OPENING THEIR BORDERS AND SENDING THEIR SONS AND DAUGHTERS TO FIGHT IN ENDLESS FOREIGN WARS, WARS THAT NEVER ENDED.

FOUR YEARS AGO I RAN FOR PRESIDENT BECAUSE I COULD NOT WATCH THIS BETRAYAL OF OUR COUNTRY ANY LONGER.

I COULD NOT SIT BY AS CAREER POLITICIANS LET OTHER COUNTRIES TAKE ADVANTAGE OF US ON TRADE, BORDERS, FOREIGN POLICY AND NATIONAL DEFENSE.

OUR NATO PARTNERS, AS AN EXAMPLE, WERE VERY FAR BEHIND IN THEIR DEFENSE PAYMENTS.

BUT AT MY STRONG URGING THEY AGREED TO PAY $130 BILLION MORE A YEAR THE FIRST TIME IN OVER 20 YEARS THAT THEY UPPED THEIR PAYMENTS.

[APPLAUSE] AND THIS $130 BILLION WILL ULTIMATELY GO TO $400 BILLION A YEAR AND SECRETARY GENERAL, WHO HEAD NATO, WAS AMAZED AFTER WATCHING FOR SO MANY YEARS AND SAID THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP DID WHAT NO ONE ELSE WAS ABLE TO DO.

THANK YOU.

[APPLAUSE] FROM THE MOMENT I LEFT MY FORMER LIFE BEHIND, AND IT WAS A GOOD LIFE, I HAVE DONE NOTHING BUT FIGHT FOR YOU.

I DID WHAT OUR POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT NEVER EXPECTED AND COULD NEVER FORGIVE, BREAKING THE CARDINAL RULE OF WASHINGTON POLITICS.

I KEPT MY PROMISE.

[APPLAUSE] TOGETHER WE HAVE ENDED THE RULE OF THE FAILED POLITICAL CLASS AND THEY ARE DESPERATE TO GET THEIR POWER BACK BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.

YOU'VE SEEN THAT.

THEY ARE ANGRY AT ME BECAUSE INSTEAD OF PUTTING THEM FIRST, I VERY SIMPLY SAID AMERICA FIRST.

[APPLAUSE] THANK YOU.

DAYS AFTER TAKING OFFICE WE SHOCKED THE WASHINGTON ESTABLISHMENT AND WITHDREW FROM THE LAST ADMINISTRATION'S JOB-KILLING TRANSPACIFIC PARTNERSHIP.

I THEN IMMEDIATELY APPROVED THE KEYSTONE EXCEL AND DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINES.

ENDED THE UNFAIR AND VERY COSTLY PARIS CLIMATE ACCORD.

AND SECURED FOR THE FIRST TIME AMERICAN ENERGY INDEPENDENCE.

[APPLAUSE] WE PASSED RECORD-SETTING TAX AND REGULATION CUTS AT A RATE NOBODY HAD EVER SEEN BEFORE.

WITHIN THREE SHORT YEARS WE BUILT THE STRONGEST ECONOMY IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.

WASHINGTON INSIDERS ASKED ME NOT TO STAND UP TO CHINA.

THEY PLEADED WITH ME TO LET CHINA CONTINUE STEALING OUR JOBS, RIPPING US OFF, AND ROBBING OUR COUNTRY BLIND.

BUT I KEPT MY WORD TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

WE TOOK THE TOUGHEST, BOLDEST, STRONGEST AND HARDEST-HITTING ACTION AGAINST CHINA IN AMERICAN HISTORY BY FAR.

[APPLAUSE] THEY SAID THAT IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE TO TERMINATE AND REPLACE NAFTA, BUT AGAIN, THEY WERE WRONG.

EARLIER THIS YEAR I ENDED THE NAFTA NIGHTMARE AND SIGNED THE BRAND NEW US-MEXICO-CANADA AGREEMENT IN TO LAW.

[APPLAUSE] AND RIGHT NOW AUTO COMPANIES WITH AND OTHERS ARE BUILDING THEIR PLANTS AND FACTORIES IN AMERICA, NOT FIRING EMPLOYEES AND NOT DESERTING US FOR OTHER COUNTRIES.

[APPLAUSE] AND PERHAPS NO AREA DID THE WASHINGTON SPECIAL INTERESTS TRY HARDER TO STOP US THAN ON MY POLICY OF PRO AMERICAN IMMIGRATION.

[APPLAUSE] BUT I REFUSED TO BACK DOWN AND TODAY AMERICA'S BORDERS ARE MORE SECURE THAN EVER BEFORE.

[APPLAUSE] THANK YOU.

WE ENDED CATCH AND RELEASE, STOPPED ASYLUM FRAUD, TOOK DOWN HUMAN TRAFFICKERS WHO PREY ON WOMEN AND CHILDREN, AND WE HAVE DEPORTED 20,000 GANG MEMBERS AND 500,000 CRIMINAL ALIENS.

[APPLAUSE] WE HAVE ALREADY BUILT 300 MILES OF BORDER WALL AND WE ARE ADDING 10 NEW MILES EVERY SINGLE WEEK.

THE WALL WILL SOON BE COMPLETE AND IT IS WORKING BEYOND OUR WILDEST EXPECTATIONS.

[APPLAUSE] WE ARE JOINED THIS EVENING BY MEMBERS OF THE BORDER PATROL UNION REPRESENTING OUR COUNTRY'S COURAGEOUS BORDER AGENTS.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING HERE.

THANK YOU, BRAVE, BRAVE PEOPLE.

[APP >> U.S.A., U.S.A., U.S.A.!

>> YOU SEE, THIS COUNTRY LOVES OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT, THEY DO.

THEY REALLY DO.

LOVE AND RESPECT.

WHEN I LEARNED THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY LAID OFF HUNDREDS OF AMERICAN WORKERS AND FORCED THEM TO TRAIN LOWER PAID FOREIGN REPLACEMENTS, I PROMPTLY REMOVED THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD AND NOW THOSE TALENTED AMERICAN WORKERS HAVE BEEN REHIRED AND ARE BACK PROVIDING POWER TO GEORGIA, ALABAMA, TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY, MISSISSIPPI, NORTH CAROLINA, AND VIRGINIA.

[APPLAUSE] THEY HAVE THEIR OLD JOBS BACK AND SOME ARE HERE WITH US THIS EVENING.

PLEASE STAND.

YOU WENT THROUGH A LOT.

PLEASE STAND.

THANK YOU.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

YOU HAVE BEEN THROUGH A LOT.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

LAST MONTH I TOOK ON BIG PHARMA.

YOU THINK THAT'S EASY?

AND SIGNED ORDERS THAT WILL MASSIVELY LOWER THE COST OF YOUR PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AND GIVE CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS ACCESS TO LIFE-SAVING CURES.

WE PASSED THE DECADE'S LONG AWAITED RIGHT TO TRY, RIGHT TO TRY.

WE ALSO PASSED VA ACCOUNTABILITY AND VA CHOICE.

OUR GREAT VETERANS, WE'RE TAKING CARE OF OUR VETERANS.

91% APPROVAL RATING THIS MONTH, THE VA, GIVEN BY OUR VETERANS, FIRST TIME ANYTHING LIKE THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED.

BY THE END OF MY FIRST TERM WE WILL HAVE APPROVED MORE THAN 300 FEDERAL JUDGES, INCLUDING TWO GREAT NEW SUPREME COURT JUSTICES.

[APPLAUSE] TO BRING PROSPERITY TO OUR FORGOTTEN INNER CITIES, WE WORKED HARD TO PASS HISTORIC CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM, PRISON REFORM, OPPORTUNITY ZONES AND LONG-TERM FUNDING OF HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, AND BEFORE THE CHINA VIRUS CAME IN PRODUCED THE BEST UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS, HISPANIC AMERICANS AND ASIAN AMERICANS EVER RECORDED.

[APPLAUSE] I SAY VERY MODESTLY THAT I HAVE DONE MORE FOR THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY THAN ANY PRESIDENT SINCE ABRAHAM LINCOLN, OUR FIRST REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT.

[APPLAUSE] I HAVE DONE MORE IN THREE YEARS FOR THE BLACK COMMUNITY THAN JOE BIDEN HAS DONE IN 47 YEARS.

[APPLAUSE] WHEN I'M RE-ELECTED THE BEST IS YET TO COME.

[APP >> FOUR MORE YEARS.

>> FOUR MORE YEARS.

>> FOUR MORE YEARS.

>> FOUR MORE YEARS.

>> FOUR MORE YEARS.

>> FOUR MORE YEARS.

FOUR MORE YEARS.

FOUR MORE YEARS.

FOUR MORE YEARS.

>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

WHEN I TOOK OFFICE THE MIDDLE EAST WAS IN TOTAL CHAOS.

ISIS WAS RAMPAGING, IRAN WAS ON THE RISE, AND THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN HAD NO END IN SIGHT.

I WITHDREW FROM THE TERRIBLE ONE-SIDED IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL.

UNLIKE MANY PRESIDENTS BEFORE ME, I KEPT MY PROMISE, RECOGNIZED ISRAEL'S TRUE CAPITOL AND MOVED OUR EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM.

[APPLAUSE] BUT NOT ONLY DID WE TALK ABOUT IT AS A FUTURE SITE, WE GOT IT BUILT.

RATHER THAN SPENDING $1 BILLION ON A NEW BUILDING AS PLANNED, WE TOOK AN ALREADY-OWNED EXISTING BUILDING IN A BETTER LOCATION, REAL ESTATE DEAL, RIGHT?

AND OPENED IT AT A COST OF LESS THAN $500,000.

ANYTHING LIKE THAT THAT GOVERNMENT IS DOING RIGHT NOW.

WE RECOGNIZED ISRAELI SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.

THIS MONTH WE ACHIEVED THE FIRST MIDDLE EAST PEACE DEAL IN 25 YEARS.

THANK YOU, UAE, THANK YOU TO ISRAEL.

[APPLAUSE] IN ADDITION, WE OBLITERATED 100% OF THE ISIS CALIPHATE AND KILLED ITS FOUNDER AND LEADER, ABU AL-BAGHDADI.

[APPLAUSE] THEN IN A SEPARATE OPERATION WE ELIMINATED THE WORLD'S NUMBER ONE TERRORIST BY FAR, SULEMANI.

[APPLAUSE] UNLIKE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS I HAVE KEPT AMERICA OUT OF NEW WARS AND OUR TROOPS ARE COMING HOME.

WE HAVE SPENT NEARLY $2.5 TRILLION ON COMPLETELY REBUILDING OUR MILITARY, WHICH WAS VERY BADLY DEPLETED WHEN I TOOK OFFICE, AS YOU KNOW.

THIS INCLUDES THREE SEPARATE PAY RAISES FOR OUR GREAT WARRIORS.

[APPLAUSE] WE ALSO LAUNCHED THE SPACE FORCE, THE FIRST NEW BRANCH OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY SINCE THE AIR FORCE WAS CREATED ALMOST 75 YEARS AGO.

WE HAVE SPENT THE LAST FOUR YEARS REVERSING THE DAMAGE JOE BIDEN INFLICTED OVER THE LAST 47 YEARS.

BIDEN'S RECORD IS A SHAMEFUL ROLL CALL OF THE MOST CATASTROPHIC BETRAYALS AND BLUNDERS IN OUR LIFETIME.

HE HAS SPENT HIS ENTIRE CAREER TO WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY.

BIDEN VOTED FOR THE NAFTA DISASTER, THE SINGLE WORST TRADE DEAL EVER ENACTED.

HE SUPPORTED CHINA'S ENTRY IN TO THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION, ONE OF THE GREATEST ECONOMIC DISASTERS OF ALL TIME.

AFTER THOSE BIDEN CALAMITIES, THE UNITED STATES LOST ONE IN FOUR MANUFACTURING JOBS, WE LAID OFF WORKERS IN MICHIGAN, OHIO, NEW HAMPSHIRE, PENNSYLVANIA, MANY OTHER STATES.

THEY DIDN'T WANT TO HEAR BIDEN'S HOLLOW WORDS OF EMPATHY.

THEY WANTED THEIR JOBS BACK.

AS VICE PRESIDENT HE SUPPORTED THE TRANSPACIFIC PARTNERSHIP, WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN A DEATH SENTENCE FOR THE U.S. AUTO INDUSTRY.

HE BACKED THE HORRENDOUS SOUTH KOREA TRADE DEAL, WHICH TOOK MANY JOBS FROM OUR COUNTRY AND WHICH I REVERSED AND MADE A GREAT DEAL FOR OUR COUNTRY.

HE REPEATEDLY SUPPORTED MASS AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, HE VOTED FOR THE IRAQ WAR, HE OPPOSED THE MISSION TO TAKE OUT OSAMA BIN LADEN, HE OPPOSED KILLING SULEMANI, HE OVERSAW THE RISE OF ISIS, AND CHEERED THE RISE OF CHINA AS A POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT FOR AMERICA AND THE WORLD, SOME POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT.

THAT'S WHY CHINA SUPPORTS JOE BIDEN AND DESPERATELY WANTS HIM TO WIN, I CAN TELL YOU THAT UPON VERY GOOD INFORMATION.

CHINA WOULD OWN OUR COUNTRY IF JOE BIDEN GOT ELECTED.

UNLIKE BIDEN I WILL HOLD THEM FULLY ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE TRAGEDY THAT THEY CAUSED ALL OVER THE WORLD THEY CAUSED.

AND RECENT MONTHS OUR NATION AND THE WORLD HAS BEEN HIT BY THE ONCE IN A CENTURY PANDEMIC, THAT CHINA ALLOWED TO SPREAD AROUND THE GLOBE.

THEY COULD HAVE STOPPED IT, BUT THEY ALLOWED IT TO COME OUT.

WE ARE GRATEFUL TO BE JOINED TONIGHT BY SEVERAL OF OUR INCREDIBLE NURSES AND FIRST RESPONDERS.

PLEASE STAND AND ACCEPT OUR PROFOUND THANKS AND GRATITUDE.

[APPLAUSE] MANY AMERICANS, INCLUDING ME, HAVE SADLY LOST FRIENDS AND CHERISHED LOVED ONES TO THIS HORRIBLE DISEASE.

AS ONE NATION WE MOURN, WE GRIEVE, AND WE HOLD IN OUR HEARTS FOREVER THE MEMORIES OF ALL OF THOSE LIVES THAT HAVE BEEN SO TRAGICALLY TAKEN, SO UNNECESSARY.

IN THEIR HONOR WE WILL UNITE, IN THEIR FAMILY WE WILL OVERCOME.

AND WHEN THE CHINA VIRUS HIT WE LAUNCHED THE LARGEST NATIONAL MOBILIZATION SINCE WORLD WAR II INVOKING THE DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT, WE PRODUCED THE WORLD'S LARGEST SUPPLY OF VENTILATORS, NOT A SINGLE AMERICAN WHO HAS NEEDED A VENTILATOR HAS BEEN DENIED A VENTILATOR, WHICH IS A MIRACLE.

[APPLAUSE] GOOD JOB HEADING THE TASK FORCE BY OUR GREAT VICE PRESIDENT.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MIKE.

PLEASE.

PLEASE STAND UP.

[APPLAUSE] WE SHIPPED HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MASKS, GLOVES, GOWNS, TO OUR FRONT LINE HEALTH CARE WORKERS TO PROTECT OUR NATION'S SENIORS WE RUSHED SUPPLIES, TESTING KITS AND PERSONAL TO NURSING HOMES WE GAVE EVERYTHING YOU CAN POSSIBLY GIVE AND WE'RE STILL GIVING IT BECAUSE WE'RE TAKING CARE OF OUR SENIOR CITIZENS.

[APPLAUSE] THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS BUILT FIELD HOSPITALS AND THE NAVY DEPLOYED OUR GREAT HOSPITAL SHIPS.

WE DEVELOPED FROM SCRATCH THE LARGEST AND MOST ADVANCED TESTING SYSTEM ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.

AMERICA HAS TESTED MORE THAN EVERY COUNTRY IN EUROPE PUT TOGETHER AND MORE THAN EVERY NATION IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE COMBINED.

THINK OF THAT.

WE HAVE CONDUCTED 40 MILLION MORE TESTS THAN THE NEXT CLOSEST NATION, WHICH IS INDIA.

WE DEVELOPED A WIDE ARRAY OF EFFECTIVE TREATMENTS, INCLUDING A POWERFUL ANTIBODY TREATMENT KNOWN AS CONVALESCENT PLASMA.

YOU SAW THAT SUNDAY NIGHT WHEN WE ANNOUNCED IT, THAT WILL SAVE THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF LIVES.

THANKS TO ADVANCEMENTS WE HAVE PIONEERED THE FATALITY RATE AND YOU LOOK AT IT AND YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBERS, IT HAS BEEN REDUCED BY 80% SINCE APRIL, 80%.

[APPLAUSE] UNITED STATES IS AMONG THE LOWEST CASE FATALITY RATES OF ANY MAJOR COUNTRY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.

THE EUROPEAN UNION'S CASE FATALITY RATE IS NEARLY THREE TIMES HIGHER THAN OURS, BUT YOU DON'T HEAR THAT.

THEY DON'T WRITE ABOUT THAT.

THEY DON'T WANT TO WRITE ABOUT THAT.

THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW THOSE THINGS.

ALL TOGETHER THE NATIONS OF EUROPE HAVE EXPERIENCED A 30% GREATER INCREASE IN EXCESS MORTALITY THAN THE UNITED STATES.

THINK OF THAT.

WE ENACTED THE LARGEST PACKAGE OF FINANCIAL RELIEF IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

THANKS TO OUR PAYCHECK PROTECTION PROGRAM, WE HAVE SAVED OR SUPPORTED MORE THAN OUK PROTECTION PROGRAM, WE HAVE SAVED OR SUPPORTED MORE THAN 50 MILLION AMERICAN JOBS.

THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS THAT WE ARE ADVANCING SO RAPIDLY WITH OUR ECONOMY.

GREAT JOB.

AS A RESULT, WE HAVE SCENE THE SMALLEST ECONOMIC CONTRACTION OF ANY MAJOR WESTERN NATION AND WE ARE RECOVERING AT A MUCH FASTER RATE THAN ANYBODY OVER THE PAST THREE MONTHS WE HAVE GAINED OVER 9 MILLION JOBS AND THAT IS A RECORD IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> YOU ARE WATCHING PBS NEWS.

WE ARE LIVE AT THE WHITE HOUSE WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP.

>> -- GIVING OUR OPPONENTS SHOWN CAPABLE OF NOTHING BUT A PARTISAN ABILITY TO CRITICIZE.

WHEN I TOOK BOLD ACTION TO ISSUE A TRAVEL BAN ON CHINA, VERY EARLY INDEED, JOE BIDEN CALLED IT HYSTERICAL AND XENOPHOBIC AND THEN I INTRODUCED A BAN ON EUROPE, VERY EARLY AGAIN.

IF WE HAD LISTENED TO JOE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS MORE AMERICANS WOULD HAVE WOULD HAVE.

INSTEAD OF FOLLOWING THE SCIENCE, JOE BIDEN WANTS TO INFLICT A PAINFUL SHUTDOWN ON THE ENTIRE COUNTRY.

HE SHUT DOWN WOULD INFLICT UNTHINKABLE AND LASTING HARM ON OUR NATION'S CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND CITIZENS OF ALL BACKGROUNDS.

THE COST OF THE BIDEN SHUTDOWN WOULD BE MEASURED IN INCREASED DRUG OVERDOSES, DEPRESSION, ALCOHOL ADDICTION, SUICIDES, HEART ATTACKS, ECONOMIC DEVASTATION, JOB LOSS, AND MUCH MORE.

JOE BIDEN'S PLAN IS NOT A SOLUTION TO THE VIRUS BUT RATHER IT IS A SURRENDER TO THE VIRUS.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> MY ADMINISTRATION HAS A VERY DIFFERENT APPROACH TO SAVE AS MANY LIVES AS POSSIBLE WE ARE FOCUSING ON THE SCIENCE, THE FACTS AND THE DATA.

WE ARE AGGRESSIVELY SHELTERING THOSE AT HIGHEST RISK, ESPECIALLY THE ELDERLY WHILE ALLOWING LOW RISK AMERICANS TO SAFELY RETURN TO WORK AND TO SCHOOL AND WE WANT TO SEE SO MANY OF THOSE GREAT STATES BE OPENED BY DEMOCRATS.

WE WANT THEM TO BE OPEN.

THEY HAVE TO BE OPENED.

THEY HAVE TO GET BACK TO WORK.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> THEY HAVE TO GET BACK TO WORK AND THEY HAVE TO GET BACK TO SCHOOL.

MOST IMPORTANTLY, WE ARE MARSHALING THE AMERICA'S SCIENTIFIC GENIUS TO PRODUCE A VACCINE IN RECORD TIME.

UNDER OPERATION WARP SPEED, WE HAVE THREE DIFFERENT VACCINES IN THE FINAL STAGE OF TRIALS, RIGHT NOW YEARS AHEAD OF WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED BEFORE.

NOBODY THOUGHT IT COULD EVER BE DONE THIS FAST, NORMALLY IT WOULD BE YEARS AND WE DID IT IN A MATTER OF A FEW MONTHS.

WE ARE PRODUCING THEM IN ADVANCE SO THAT HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOSES WILL BE QUICKLY AVAILABLE.

WE WILL HAVE A SAFE AND EFFECTIVE VACCINE THIS YEAR AND TOGETHER WE WILL CRUSH THE VIRUS.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> AT THE DEMOCRAT CONVENTION YOU BARELY HEARD A WORD ABOUT THEIR AGENDA.

THAT IS NOT BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE ONE.

IT IS BECAUSE THEIR AGENDA IS THE MOST EXTREME SET OF PROPOSALS EVER PUT FORWARD BY A MAJOR PARTY NOMINEE.

JOE BIDEN MAY CLAIM HE IS AN ALLY OF THE LIGHT, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO HIS AGENDA, BIDEN WANTS TO KEEP US COMPLETELY IN THE DARK.

HE DOESN'T HAVE A CLUE.

HE HAD PLEDGED A $4 TRILLION TAX HIKE ON ALMOST ALL-AMERICAN FAMILIES WHICH WILL TOTALLY COLLAPSE OUR RAPIDLY IMPROVING ECONOMY AND ONCE AGAIN RECORD STOCK MARKETS THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW WILL ALSO COLLAPSE.

THAT MEANS YOUR 401-KS, THAT MEANS ALL OF THE STOCKS THAT YOU HAVE.

ON THE OTHER HAND, JUST AS I DID IN MY FIRST TERM, I WILL CUT TAXES EVEN FURTHER FOR HARDWORKING MOMS AND DADS.

I WILL NOT RAISE TAXES.

I WILL CUT THEM AND VERY SUBSTANTIALLY.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> WE WILL PROVIDE TAX CREDITS TO BRING JOBS OUT OF CHINA BACK TO AMERICA AND WE WILL IMPOSE TARIFFS ON ANY COMPANY THAT LEAVES AMERICA TO PRODUCE JOBS OVERSEAS.

WE WILL MAKE SURE OUR COMPANIES AND JOBS STAY IN OUR COUNTRY AS I HAVE ALREADY BEEN DOING QUITE SOME TIME.

JOE BIDEN'S AGENDA IS MADE IN CHINA.

MY AGENDA IS, MADE IN THE USA!

[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> BIDEN'S PROMISE TO ABOLISH COAL, SHALE AND NATURAL GAS, LAYING WASTE TO THE ECONOMIES OF PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO, TEXAS, NORTH DAKOTA, OKLAHOMA, COLORADO, AND NEW MEXICO, DESTROYING THOSE STATES, ABSOLUTELY DESTROY THOSE STATES AND OTHERS.

MILLIONS OF JOBS WILL BE LOST AND ENERGY PRICES WILL SOAR.

THESE SAME POLICIES LED TO CRIPPLING POWER OUTAGES IN CALIFORNIA JUST LAST WEEK.

EVERYBODY SAW THAT.

TREMENDOUS POWER OUTAGE.

NOBODY HAS SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT BUT WE SAW THAT LAST WEEK IN CALIFORNIA.

HOW CAN JOE BIDEN CLAIM TO BE AN ALLY OF THE LIGHT WHEN HIS OWN PARTY CAN'T EVEN KEEP THE LIGHTS ON.

JOE BIDEN'S CAMPAIGN HAS EVEN PUBLISHED A 110 PAGE POLICY PLATFORM.

YOU CAN'T GET AWAY FROM THIS.

COAUTHORED WITH FAR LEFT SENATOR CRAZY BERNIE SANDERS.

THE BIDEN BERNIE MANIFESTO CALLS FOR SUSPENDING ALL REMOVALS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS IMPLEMENTING NATIONWIDE CATCH AND RELEASE AND PROVIDING THE ILLEGAL ALIENS WITH FREE TAXPAYER FUNDED LAWYERS.

EVERYBODY GETS A LAWYER.

COME ON OVER TO OUR COUNTRY.

EVERYBODY HAS A LAWYER.

WE HAVE A LAWYER FOR YOU.

THAT'S ALL WE SNEED MORE LAWYERS LAWYERS.

JOE BIDEN RECENTLY RAISED HIS HAND ON THE DEBATE STATE AND PROMISED -- HE WAS GOING TO GIVE IT AWAY YOUR HEALTHCARE DOLLARS TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHICH IS GOING TO BRING MASSIVE NUMBER OF IMMIGRANTS INTO OUR COUNTRY, MASSIVE NUMBERS WILL POUR INTO OUR COUNTRY IN ORDER TO GET ALL OF THE GOODIES THAT THEY WANT TO GIVE, EDUCATION, HEALTHCARE, EVERYTHING.

HE ALSO SUPPORTS DEADLY SANCTUARY CITIES THAT PROTECT CRIMINAL ALIENS.

HE PROMISED TO END NATIONAL SECURITY TRAVEL BANS FROM JIHADIST NATIONS AND HE PLEDGED TO INCREASE REFUGEE ADMISSIONS BY 700 PERCENT.

THIS IS IN THE MANIFESTO.

THE BIDEN PLAN WOULD ELIMINATE AMERICA'S BORDERS IN THE MIDDLE OF A GLOBAL PANDEMIC AND HE IS EVEN TALKING ABOUT TAKING THE WALL DOWN.

HOW ABOUT THAT.

BIDEN ALSO VOWED TO OPPOSE SCHOOL CHOICE AND CLOSE ALL CHARTER SCHOOLS, RIPPING AWAY THE LADDER OF OPPORTUNITY FOR BLACK AND HISPANIC CHILDREN, IN A SECOND TERMLY EXPAND CHARTER SCHOOLS AND PROVIDE SCHOOL CHOICE TO EVERY FAMILY IN AMERICA.

[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> AND WE WILL ALWAYS TREAT OUR TEACHERS WITH THE TREMENDOUS RESPECT THAT THEY DESERVE.

, GREAT, GREAT PEOPLE.

JOE BIDEN CLAIMS HE HAS EMPATHY FOR THE VULNERABLE YET THE PARTY HE LEADS SUPPORTS THE EXTREME LATE TERM ABORTION OF THE DEFENSE LESS BABIES RIGHT UP UNTIL THE MOMENT OF BIRTH.

DEMOCRAT LEADERS TALK ABOUT MORAL DECENCY, BUT THEY HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH STOPPING A BABY'S BEATING HEART IN THE NINTH MONTH OF PREGNANCY.

DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS REFUSE TO PROTECT INNOCENT LIFE AND THEN THEY LECTURE US ABOUT MORALITY AND SAVING AMERICA'S SOUL.

TONIGHT WE PROUDLY DECLARE THAT ALL CHILDREN, BORN AND UNBORN, HAVE A GOD-GIVEN RIGHT-TO-LIFE.

[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> DURING THE DEMOCRAT CONVENTION THE WORDS UNDER GOD WERE REMOVED FROM THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, NOT ONCE BUT TWICE.

WE WILL NEVER DO THAT.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> BUT THE FACT IS, THIS IS WHERE THEY ARE COMING FROM, LIKE IT OR NOT, THIS IS WHERE THEY ARE COMING FROM.

IF THE LEFT GAINS POWER THEY WILL DEMOLISH THE SUBURBS, CONFISCATE YOUR GUNS AND APPOINT JUSTICES WHO WILL WIPE AWAY YOUR SECOND AMENDMENT AND OTHER CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMS.

BIDEN IS A TROJAN HORSE FOR SOCIALISM.

IF JOE BIDEN DOESN'T HAVE THE STRENGTH TO STAND UP TO WILD EYED MARXISTS LIKE BERNIE SANDERS AND HIS FELLOW RADICALS, AND THERE ARE MANY, THERE ARE MANY, MANY, WE SEE THEM ALL THE TIME, INCREDIBLE, ACTUALLY, THEN HOW IS HE EVER GOING TO STAND UP FOR YOU?

HE IS NOT.

THE MOST DANGEROUS ASPECT OF THE BIDEN PLATFORM IS THE ATTACK ON PUBLIC SAFETY.

THE BIDEN BERNIE MANIFESTO CALLS FOR ABOLISHING CASH BAIL, IMMEDIATELY RELEASING 400,000 CRIMINALS ON TO THE STREETS AND INTO YOUR NEIGHBORHOODS.

WHEN ASKED IF HE SUPPORTS CUTTING POLICE FUNDING, JOE BIDEN REPLIED, YES, ABSOLUTELY.

WHEN CONGRESSWOMAN ILHAN OMAR CALLED THE MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT A CANCER THAT IS ROTTEN TO THE ROOT, BIDEN WOULDN'T DISAVOW HER SUPPORT AND REJECT HER ENDORSEMENT.

HE PROUDLY DISPLAYED IT SHORTLY LATER ON HIS WEBSITE.

DISPLAYED IT IN BIG LETTERS.

MAKE NO MISTAKE, IF YOU GIVE POWER TO JOE BIDEN, THE RADICAL LEFT WILL DEFUND POLICE DEPARTMENTS ALL ACROSS AMERICA.

THEY WILL PASS FEDERAL LEGISLATION TO REDUCE LAW ENFORCEMENT NATIONWIDE.

THEY WILL MAKE EVERY CITY LOOK LIKE DEMOCRAT RUN PORTLAND, ORE, OREGON, NO ONE WILL BE SAFE IN BIDEN'S AMERICA.

MY ADMINISTRATION WILL ALWAYS STAND WITH THE MEN AND WOMEN OF LAW ENFORCEMENT.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> EVERY DAY POLICE OFFICERS RISK THEIR LIVES TO KEEP US SAFE AND EVERY YEAR MANY SACRIFICE THEIR LIVES IN THE LINE OF DUTY.

ONE OF THESE INCREDIBLE AMERICANS WAS DETECTIVE FAMILIA, SHE WAS PART OF A TEAM OF AMERICAN HEROES CALLED THE NYPD OR NEW YORK'S FINEST, WHO I WAS VERY, VERY PROUD TO GET THEIR ENDORSEMENT JUST THE OTHER DAY.

GREAT PEOPLE, GREAT, GREAT PEOPLE.

THEY WERE ALLOWED TO DO THEIR JOB, IF THEY WERE ALLOWED TO DO THEIR JOB THERE WOULD BE NO CRIME IN NEW YORK.

NOBODY KNOWS THAT BETTER THAN RUDY GIULIANI.

THANK YOU, RUDY.

THREE YEARS AGO ON THE 4TH OF JULY WEEKEND, DETECTIVE FAMILIA WAS ON DUTY IN HER VEHICLE WHEN SHE WAS AMBUSHED JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT AND MURDERED BY A MONSTER WHO HATED HER PURELY FOR WEARING THE BADGE.

DETECTIVE FAMILIA WAS A SINGLE MOM.

SHE RECENTLY ASKED FOR THE NIGHT SHIFT SO SHE COULD SPEND MORE TIME WITH HER KIDS.

TWO YEARS AGO I STOOD IN FRONT OF THE U.S. CAPITOL ALONGSIDE THOSE BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN AND HELD THEIR GRANDMOTHER'S HAND AS THEY MOURNED THEIR TERRIBLE LOSS, AND WE HONORED DETECTIVE FAMILIA'S EXTRAORDINARY LIFE.

IT WAS EXTRAORDINARY.

DETECTIVE FAMILIA'S THREE CHILDREN ARE WITH US THIS EVENING.

JENNIES, PETER, DELILAH, WE ARE SO GRATEFUL TO HAVE YOU HERE TONIGHT.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

[ APPLAUSE ] THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

>> >> THANK YOU.

>> I PROMISE YOU THAT WE WILL TREASURER YOUR MOM IN OUR MEMORIES FOREVER.

WE MUST REMEMBER THAT THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF POLICE OFFICERS IN THIS COUNTRY, AND THAT'S THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY ARE NOBLE, COURAGEOUS AND HONORABLE.

WE HAVE TO GIVE LAW ENFORCEMENT OUR POLICE BACK THEIR POWER.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> THEY ARE AFRAID TO ACT.

THEY ARE AFRAID TO LOSE THEIR PENSION.

THEY ARE AFRAID TO LOSE THEIR JOBS AND BY BEING AFRAID THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO DO THE JOB THAT THEY SO DESPERATELY WANT TO DO FOR YOU.

AND THOSE WHO SUFFER MOST ARE THE GREAT PEOPLE WHO THEY PROTECT AND WHO THEY WANT TO PROTECT AT AN EVEN HIGHER LEVEL.

WHEN THERE IS POLICE MISCONDUCT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM MUST HOLD WRONG DOIRS FULLY AND COMPLETELY ACCOUNTABLE AND IT WILL, BUT WHEN WE CAN NEVER HAVE A SITUATION WHERE THINGS ARE GOING ON AS THEY ARE TODAY, WE MUST NEVER ALLOW MOB RULE.

WE CAN NEVER ALLOW MOB RULE.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> IN THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE TERMS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY CONDEMNS THE RIOTING, LOOTING, ARSON AND VIOLENCE WE HAVE SEEN IN DEMOCRAT RUN CITIES ALL, LIKE KENOSHA, MINNEAPOLIS, PORTLAND, CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, AND MANY OTHERS, DEMOCRAT RUN.

THERE IS VIOLENCE AND DANGER IN THE STREETS OF MANY DEMOCRAT RUN CITIES THROUGHOUT AMERICA.

THIS PROBLEM COULD EASILY BE FIXED IF THEY WANTED TO.

JUST CALL.

WE ARE READY TO GO IN.

WE WILL TAKE CARE OF 0 YOUR PROBLEM IN A MATTER OF HOURS.

JUST CALL.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> WE HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE CALL.

IT IS TOO BAD WE HAVE TO BUT WE HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE CALL.

WE MUST ALWAYS HAVE LAW AND ORDER.

ALL FEDERAL CRIMES ARE BEING INVESTIGATED, PROSECUTED AND PUNISHED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW.

WHEN THE ANARCHISTS STARTED RIPPING DOWN OUR STATUES AND MONUMENTS RIGHT OUTSIDE, I SIGNED AN ORDER IMMEDIATELY, TEN YEARS IN PRISON AND IT WAS A MIRACLE, IT ALL STOPPED.

NO MORE STATUES.

THEY SAID, THAT'S JUST TOO LONG AS AT THE LOOKED AT A STATUE.

I THINK WE WILL RIP IT DOWN AND THEN THEY SAID TEN YEARS IN PRISON, I THINK THAT IS TOO LONG.

LET'S GO HOME.

DURING THEIR CONVENTION, JOE BIDEN AND HIS SUPPORTERS REMAINED COMPLETELY SILENT ABOUT THE RIOTERS AND CRIMINALS, SPREADING MAYHEM IN DEMOCRAT RUN CITIES.

THEY NEVER EVEN MENTIONED IT DURING THEIR ENTIRE CONVENTION, NEVER ONCE MENTIONED.

NOW THEY ARE STARTING TO MENTION IT BECAUSE THEIR POLL NUMBERS ARE GOING DOWN LIKE A ROCK IN WATER.

IT IS TOO LATE, JOE.

IN THE FACE OF LEFT WING ANARCHY AND MAYHEM IN MINNEAPOLIS, CHICAGO AND OTHER CITIES, JOE BIDEN'S CAMPAIGN DID NOT CONDEMN IT.

THEY DONATED TO IT.

AT LEAST 13 MEMBERS OF JOE BIDEN'S CAMPAIGN STAFF DONATED TO A FUND TO BAIL OUT VANDALS, ARSONISTS, ANARCHISTS, LOOTERS AND RIOTERS &ROM JAIL.

HERE TONIGHT IS THE GRIEVING FAMILY OF RETIRED POLICE CAPTAIN DAVID DORN, 38 YEAR VETERAN OF THE ST. LOUIS POLICE DEPARTMENT, A GREAT MAN AND A HIGHLY RESPECTED MAN BY ALL.

IN JUNE CAPTAIN DORN WAS SHOT AND KILLED AS HE TRIED TO PROTECT A STORE FROM RIOTERS AND LOOTERS OR AS THE DEMOCRATS WOULD CALL THEM, PEACEFUL PROTESTERS.

THEY CALL THEM PEACEFUL PROTESTERS.

WE ARE HONORED TO BE JOINED TONIGHT BY HIS WONDERFUL WIFE ANN AND BELOVED FAMILY MEMBERS, BRIAN AND KAYLIN.

TO EACH OF YOU WE WILL NEVER FORGET THE HEROIC LEGACY OF CAPTAIN DAVID DORN.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING HERE.

THANK YOU.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

GREAT MAN.

GREAT MAN.

AS LONG AS I AM PRESIDENT WE WILL DEFEND THE ABSOLUTE RIGHT OF EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN TO LIVE IN SECURITY, DIGNITY AND PEACE.

IF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WANTS TO STAND WITH ANARCHISTS, AGITATORS, RIOTERS, LOOTERS AND FLAG BURNERS, THAT IS UP TO THEM, BUT I AS YOUR PRESIDENT WILL NOT BE A PART OF IT.

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WILL REMAIN THE VOICE OF THE PATRIOTIC HEROES WHO KEEP AMERICA SAFE AND SALUTE THE AMERICAN FLAG.

[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> LAST YEAR OVER 1,000 AFRICAN AMERICANS WERE MURDERED AS A RESULT OF VIOLENT CRIME IN JUST FOUR DEMOCRAT RUN CITIES.

THE TOP 10 MOST DANGEROUS CITIES IN THE COUNTRY ARE RUN BY DEMOCRATS AND HAVE BEEN FOR MANY DECADES.

THOUSANDS MORE AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE VICTIM AND VICTIMS OF VIOLENT CRIME IN THESE COMMUNITIES.

JOE BIDEN AND THE LEFT IGNORE THESE AMERICAN VICTIMS.

I NEVER WILL.

IF THE RADICAL LEFT TAKES POWER, THEY WILL APPLY THEIR DISASTROUS FOILS EVERY CITY, TOWN AND SUBURB IN AMERICA, JUST IMAGINE IF THE SO-CALLED PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATORS IN THE STREETS WERE IN CHARGE OF EVERY LEVER OF POWER IN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT.

JUST THINK OF THAT.

LIBERAL POLITICIANS CLAIM TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT THE STRENGTH OF AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS, BUT WHO EXACTLY IS ATTACKING THEM?

WHO IS HIRING THE RADICAL PROFESSORS, JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS?

.. WHO IS TRYING TO ABOLISH IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT AND ESTABLISH SPEECH CODES DESIGNED TO MUZZLE DISSENT?

IN EVERY DAYS ATTACKS ON AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS ARE BEING WAGED BY RADICAL LEFT.

ALWAYS REMEMBER THEY ARE COMING AFTER ME BECAUSE I AM FIGHTING FOR YOU.

THAT'S WHAT IS HAPPENING.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> AND IT HAS BEEN GOING ON FROM BEFORE I EVEN GOT ELECTED.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> REMEMBER THIS, THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN AND THEY GOT CAUGHT.

LET'S SEE NOW WHAT HAPPENS.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> WE MUST RECLAIM OUR INDEPENDENCE FROM THE LET'S REPRESSIVE MANDATES.

AMERICANS ARE EXHAUSTED TRYING TO KEEP UP WITH THE LATEST LISTS OF APPROVED WORDS AND PHRASES AND THE EVERMORE RESTRICTIVE POLITICAL DECREES.

MANY THINGS HAVE A DIFFERENT NAME NOW AND THE RULES ARE CONSTANTLY CHANGING.

THE GOAL OF CANCEL CULTURE IS TO MAKE DECENT AMERICANS LIVE IN FEAR OF BEING FIRED, THE EXPELLED, SHAMED, HUMILIATED AND DRIVEN FROM SOCIETY AS WE KNOW IT.

THE FAR LEFT WANTS TO COERCE YOU INTO SAYING WHAT YOU KNOW TO BE FALSE, AND SCARE YOU OUT OF SAYING WHAT YOU KNOW TO BE TRUE, VERY SAD.

BUT ON NOVEMBER 3RD YOU CAN SEND THEM A VERY THUNDERING MESSAGE THEY WILL NEVER FORGET.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> THANK YOU.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

JOE BIDEN IS WEAK.

HE TAKES HIS MARCHING ORDERS FROM LIBERAL HYPOCRITES WHO DRIVE THEIR CITIES INTO THE GROUND WHILE FLEEING FAR FROM THE SCENE OF THE WRECKAGE.

THESE SAME LIBERALS WANT TO ELIMINATE SCHOOL CHOICE WHILE THEY ENROLL THEIR CHILDREN IN THE FINEST PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN THE LAND.

THEY WANT TO OPEN OUR BORDERS WHILE LIVING IN WALLED OFF COMPOUNDS AND COMMUNITIES IN THE BEST NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE WORLD.

THEY WANT TO DEGUNNED THE POLICE WHILE THEY HAVE ARMED GUARDS FOR THEMSELVES.

THIS NOVEMBER WE MUST TURN THE PAGE FOREVER ON THIS FAILED POLITICAL CLASS.

THE FACT IS I AM HERE -- [ APPLAUSE ] >> WHAT IS THE NAME OF THAT BUILDING?

[ APPLAUSE ] >> BUT I WILL SAY IT DIFFERENTLY.

THE FACT IS, WE ARE HERE AND THEY ARE NOT.

[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> TO ME ONE OF THE MOST BUILDINGS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD AND IT IS NOT A BUILDING, IT IS A HOME AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED.

NOT EVEN A HOUSE.

IT IS A HOME.

THIS IS A WONDERFUL PLACE WITH AN INCREDIBLE HISTORY.

BUT IT IS ALL BECAUSE OF YOU.

TOGETHER WE WILL RIGHT THE -- WRITE THE NEXT CHAPTER OF THE GREAT AMERICAN STORY.

OVER TO THE NEXT FOUR YEARS WE WILL MAKE AMERICA INTO THE MANUFACTURING SUPERPOWER OF THE WORLD.

WE WILL EXPAND OPPORTUNITY ZONES, THANK YOU, TIM SCOTT.

BRING HOME OUR MEDICAL SUPPLY CHAINS AND WE WILL END OUR RESILIENCE FOR BAD THINGS.

WE WILL GO RIGHT AFTER CHINA.

WE WILL NOW RELY ON THEM ONE WITH BIT.

WE ARE TAKING OUR BUSINESS OUT OF CHINA.

WE ARE BRINGING IT HOME.

WE WANT OUR BUSINESS TO COME HOME.

WE WILL CONTINUE TO REDUCE TAXES AND REGULATIONS AT LEVELS NOT SEEN BEFORE.

WE WILL CREATE 10 MILLION JOBS IN THE NEXT TEN MONTHS AND IT WILL BE HIGHER THAN THAT.

WE WILL HIGHER MORE POLICE, INCREASE PENALTIES FOR ASSAULTS ON LAW ENFORCEMENT AND SURGE FEDERAL PROSECUTORS INTO HIGH CRIME COMMUNITIES.

WE WILL BAN DEADLY SANCTUARY CITIES AND ENSURE THAT FEDERAL HEALTHCARE IS PROTECTED FOR AMERICAN CITIZENS, NOT FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> WE WILL HAVE STRONG BORDERS, AND I HAVE SAID FOR YEARS WITHOUT BORDERS WE DON'T HAVE A COUNTRY.

WE DON'T HAVE A COUNTRY.

STRIKE DOWN TERRORIST WHOSE THREATEN OUR PEOPLE AND KEEP AMERICA OUT OF ENDLESS AND COSTLY FOREIGN WARS.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> WE WILL APPOINT PROSECUTORS, JUDGES, JUSTICES, WHO BELIEVE IN ENFORCING THE LAW, NOT ENFORCING THEIR OWN POLITICAL AGENDA.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> WHICH IS ILLEGAL.

WE WILL ENSURE EQUAL JUSTICE FOR CITIZENS OF EVERY RACE, RELIGION, COLOR AND CREED, WE WILL UPHOLD YOUR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND DEFEND YOUR SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> AND IF WE DON'T WIN YOUR SECOND AMENDMENT DOESN'T HAVE A CHANCE.

I CAN TELL YOU THAT.

I HAVE TOTALLY PROTECTED IT.

WE WILL PROTECT MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY.

WE WILL ALWAYS AND VERY STRONGLY PROTECT PATIENTS WITH PREEXISTING CONDITIONS AND THAT IS A PLEDGE FROM THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

THANK YOU, KEVIN.

WE WILL END SURPRISE MEDICAL BILLING, REQUIRE PRICE TRANSPARENCY AND FURTHER REDUCE THE COST OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AND HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUMS.

THEY ARE COMING WAY DOWN.

WE WILL GREATLY EXPAND ENERGY DEVELOPMENT, CONTINUING TO REMAIN THE NUMBER ONE IN THE WORLD AND KEEP AMERICA ENERGY INDEPENDENT.

[ APPLAUSE ] AND FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT STILL DRIVE A CAR, LOOK HOW LOW YOUR GASOLINE BILL IS.

YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THAT IN A LONG TIME.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> WE WILL WIN THE RACE TO 5G AND BUILD THE WORLD'S BEST CYBER AND MISSILE DEFENSE, ALREADY UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

WE WILL FULLY RESTORE PATRIOTIC EDUCATION TO OUR SCHOOLS.

WE WILL ALWAYS, ALWAYS PROTECT FREE SPEECH ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES.

[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> AND WE PUT A VERY BIG PENALTY IN, ANYTHING HAVING TO DO WITH YOUR FREE SPEECH, COLLEGES HAVE TO PAY A TREMENDOUS, TREMENDOUS FINANCIAL PENALTY, AND AGAIN IT IS AMAZING HOW OPEN THEY HAVE BEEN LATELY.

WE WILL LAUNCH A NEW AGE OF AMERICAN AMBITION IN SPACE, AMERICA WILL LAND THE FIRST WOMAN ON THE MOON AND THE UNITED STATES WILL BE THE FIRST NATION TO PLANT ITS BEAUTIFUL FLAG ON MARS.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> THIS IS THE UNIFYING NATIONAL AGENDA THAT WILL BRING OUR COUNTRY TOGETHER.

SO TONIGHT I SAY TO ALL AMERICANS, THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY.

THERE HAS NEVER BEEN SUCH A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO PARTIES OR TWO INDIVIDUALS AND IDEOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY OR VISION THAN THERE IS RIGHT NOW.

OUR OPPONENTS BELIEVE THAT AMERICA IS A DEPRAVED NATION.

WE WANT OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS TO KNOW THE TRUTH.

AMERICA IS THE GREATEST AND MOST EXCEPTIONAL NATION IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> OUR COUNTRY WASN'T BUILT BY CANCEL CULTURE, SPEECH CODES AND SOUL CRUSHING CONFORMITY.

WE ARE NOT A NATION OF TIMID SPIRITS.

WE ARE A NATION OF FIERCE, PROUD AND INDEPENDENT AMERICAN PATRIOTS.

WE ARE A NATION OF PILGRIMS, PIONEERS, ADVENTURERS, EXPLORERS AND TRAILBLAZERS WHO REFUSED TO BE TIED DOWN, HELD BACK OR IN ANY WAY REIGNED IN.

THEY HAVE GRITTED THEIR SOULS AND WITH FIRE IN THEIR HEARTS, THERE IS 0 NO ONE LIKE US ON EARTH.

I WANT EVERY CHILD IN AMERICA TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE A PART OF THE MOST EXCITING AND INCREDIBLE ADVENTURE IN HUMAN HISTORY.

NO MATTER WHERE YOUR FAMILY COMES FROM, NO MATTER YOUR BACKGROUND IN AMERICA, ANYONE CAN RISE, WITH HARD WORK, DEVOTION AND DRIVE YOU CAN REACH ANY GOAL AND ACHIEVE EVERY AMBITION.

OUR AMERICAN ANCESTORS SAID ACROSS THE PERILOUS OCEAN TO BUILD A NEW LIFE ON A NEW CONTINENT.

THEY BRAVED THE FREEZING WINTERS CROSSED THE RAGING RIVERS.

SCALED THE ROCKY PEAKS, TREKKED THE DANGEROUS FORESTS AND WORKED FROM DAWN TILL DUSK.

THESE PIONEERS DIDN'T HAVE MONEY.

THEY DIDN'T HAVE FAME/GAME.

BUT THEY HAD EACH OTHER.&3 THEY LOVED THEIR FAMILIES.

THEY LOVED THEIR COUNTRY AND THEY LOVED THEIR GOD.

WHEN OPPORTUNITY BECKONED, THEY PICKED UP THEIR BIBLES, PACKED UP THEIR BELONGINGS .. CLIMBED INTO THEIR COVERED WAGONS AND SET OUT WEST FOR THE NEXT ADVENTURE, RANCHERS AND MINERS, COWBOYS AND SHERIFFS, FARMERS AND SETTLERS, THEY PRESSED ON PAST THE MISSISSIPPI TO STAKE A CLAIM IN THE WILD FRONTIER.

LEGENDS WERE BORN, WYATT EARP, ANNIE OAKLEY, DAVIE CROCKETT, AND BUFFALO BILL.

AMERICANS BUILT THEIR BEAUTIFUL HOMESTEADS ON THE OPEN RANGE.

SOON THEY HAD CHURCHES AND COMMUNITIES, THEN TOWNS, AND WITH TIME GREAT CENTERS OF INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE.

THAT IS WHO THEY WERE.

AMERICANS BUILD THEIR FUTURE.

WE DON'T TEAR DOWN OUR PAST.

WE ARE THE NATION -- [ APPLAUSE ] >> -- THAT WON A REVOLUTION, TOPPLED TYRANNY AND FASCISM AND DELIVERED MILLIONS INTO FREEDOM.

WE LAID DOWN THE RAILROADS, BUILT THE GREAT SHIPS, RAISED UP THE SKYSCRAPERS, REVOLUTIONIZED INDUSTRY AND SPARKED A NEW AGE OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY.

WE SET THE TRENDS IN ART AND MUSIC, RADIO AND FILM, SPORT AND LITERATURE AND WE DID IT ALL WITH STYLE AND CONFIDENCE AND FLARE, BECAUSE THAT IS WHO WE ARE.

WHENEVER OUR WAY OF LIFE WAS THREATENED OUR HEROES ANSWERED THE CALL, FROM WORK TOWN TO GETTYSBURG, FROM NORMANDY TO IWO JIMA, AMERICAN PATRIOTS RACED INTO CANNON BLASTS BULLETS AND BAYONETS TO RESCUE AMERICAN LIBERTY.

THEY HAD NO FEAR, BUT AMERICA DIDN'T STOP THERE.

WE LOOKED INTO THE SKY AND KEPT PRESSING ONWARD.

WE BUILT A 6 MILLION-POUND ROCKET AND LAUNCHED IT THOUSANDS OF MILES INTO SPACE.

WE DID IT SO TWO BRAVE PATRIOTS COULD STAND TALL AND SALUTE OUR WONDROUS AMERICAN FLAG PLANTED ON THE FACE OF THE MOON.

FOR AMERICA, NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE.

OVER THE NEXT FOUR YEARS WE WILL PROVE WORRY WITH THINK OF THIS MAGNIFICENT LEGACY.

WE WILL REACH STUNNING NEW HEIGHTS AND WE WILL SHOW THAT THE WORLD FOR AMERICA, THERE IS A DREAM AND IT IS NOT BEYOND YOUR REACH.

TOGETHER WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE.

TOGETHER WE ARE UNBEATABLE BECAUSE TOGETHER WE ARE THE PROUD CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> AND ON NOVEMBER 3RD, WE WILL MAKE AMERICA SAFER.

WE WILL MAKE AMERICA STRONGER, WE WILL MAKE AMERICA PROUDER.

AND WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE.

I AM VERY, VERY PROUD TO BE THE NOMINEE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

I LOVE YOU ALL.

GOD BLESS YOU AND GOD BLESS AMERICA.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ACCEPTING HIS PARTY'S NOMINATION TO RUN FOR A SECOND TERM OF OFFICE.

HE SPOKE FOR AN HOUR AND 10 MINUTES FROM THE SOUTH LAWN OF THE WHITE HOUSE, HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL LOCATION GIVEN THE POLITICAL OF HIS SPEECH AND FIREWORKS ON THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT, 2020, YOU SEE THAT, AS WELL AS THE NAME, TRUMP.

WELL, WITHIN THE WHITE HOUSE GROUNDS IS OUR AMERICAN CORRESPONDENT JANE O'BRIEN.

I WONDER IF YOU HEAR THE FIREWORKS AND WHAT YOU MAKE OF THE SPEECH.

>> I AM STRUGGLING TO HEAR ANYTHING ELSE ABOVE THE NOISE OF THE FIREWORKS GOING OFF PROCLAIMING TRUMP 2020, USING NOT JUST THE WHITE HOUSE AS A BACKDROP FOR A POLITICAL PARTY RALLY BUT ALSO THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT ON THE NATIONAL MALL.

THE HALLOWED GROUND OF AMERICAN HISTORY.

THIS IS QUITE AN EXTRAORDINARY SCENE, NEVER BEFORE HAS TRADITION BEEN BROKEN IN QUITE SUCH A WAY.

IT IS HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL, THE USE OF THE WHITE HOUSE ITSELF HAS RAISED LEGAL QUESTIONS, BUT PRESIDENT TRUMP IN THAT ALMOST AN HOUR LONG SPEECH HAS SET OUT HIS VISION FOR AMERICA AND A VISION THAT HE SAYS HE CAN CARRY INTO THE NEXT FOUR YEARS SHOULD HE BE RETURNED TO THE WHITE HOUSE.

>> JANE, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU ARE ABLE TO HEAR THE SPEECH, WHAT STOOD OUT TO YOU?

>> I THINK IT WAS REMARKABLE IN THAT HAVING BEEN DELIVERED IN FRONT OF AN AUDIENCE, IT WASN'T THE PRESIDENT TRUMP FIRED UP AND ENERGY JIZZED BY SPEAKING PUBLICLY THAT WE HAVE COME TO KNOW.

IT WAS VERY, VERY STAGED.

IT WAS ALMOST FLAT.

WE DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING NEW.

THERE WERE MANY RHETORICAL FLOURISHES, BUT WE HAVE HEARD THEM ALL BEFORE OVER THE LAST FOUR DAYS, TALKING ABOUT JOE BIDEN AS BEING DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA, CALLING HIM WEAK, TRYING TO RUN HIM DOWN IN THE SAME WAY THAT HE DID WITH HILLARY CLINTON, MAKING HIM UNELECTABLE IN THE THE EYES OF ANYBODY WHO MIGHT WAIVER FROM PRESIDENT PRESIDENT TRUMP'S OWN SUPPORT.

>> JANE O'BRIEN, OUTSIDE THE WEST WING OF THE WHITE HOUSE.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US US.

>> WELL, LET'S GET SOME REACTION TO THE SPEECH FROM EITHER SIDE OF THE POLITICAL DIVIDE, MARYANNE MARSH IS A DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST JOINING US FROM BOSTON, I BELIEVE AND RON CHRIS SKI IS A REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST.

MARY ANN STARTING WITH YOU I WONDER IF THIS WAS MORE ABOUT THE SETTING THAN THE SPEECH.

>> IT ACTUALLY ENDED UP BEING BOTH.

AT THIS BUT THE ISSUE OF QUITE IN HAND IS THE PANDEMIC, HE SAID WE ARE REALLY RELYING ON SCIENCE, HE SAID, AND OF COURSE THAT IS IN SOME WAYS IRONIC ESPECIALLY FOR THE CRITICAL PRESIDENT TRUMP BECAUSE HE DELIVERED THAT LINE AND SAID SHE DOING THE BEST HE CAN TO MAKE AMERICAN SAFE WHERE CROWDS WERE NOT SOCIALLY DISTANCED AND NOT WEARING A MASK, THAT WAS A CONTRADICTION THERE FROM THE PRESIDENT, OF COURSE THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE STANDING SHOULDER TO SHOULDER AND MUCH LIKE A CAMPAIGN RALLY, PRESIDENT TRUMP IN HIS ELEMENT SPEAKING FOR ALMOST MORE THAN, TWICE THE AMOUNT OF TIME BIDEN SPOKE IN HIS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH.

>> THAT'S RIGHT.

AND YAMICHE GETTING SOME COMPETITION FROM THE FIREWORKS WHICH ARE JUST NOT TOO FAR AWAY.

FROM WHERE YOU ARE.

ALL RIGHT.

STICKING WITH OUR OWN GROUP OF REPORTERS,AMNA NAWAZ, LISA DESJARDINS, DANIEL BUSH ARE ALSO JOINING US, THEY HAVE BEEN LISTENING VERY CLOSELY TO WHAT THE PRESIDENT HAD TO SAY.

LISA, THERE WERE SO MANY AT TABS ON FORMER VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN I THINK I COULDN'T KEEP TRACK OF ALL OF THEM.

I TRIED TO TAKE SOME NOTES, BUT ONE THAT CERTAINLY COMES TO MIND IS THAT JOE BIDEN WOULD BE THE TROJAN HORSE FOR SOCIALISM.

>> WELL THAT IS SOMETHING WE KNOW JOE BIDEN CAMPAIGN THE DISA SLOW AND THEY, HE BELIEVES AMERICANS WOULDN'T BELIEVE AND IS A MODERATE AND HAD TO CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE PROGRESSIVES OF HIS PARTY WHO SAID HE WAS TOO MODERATE FOR THEM SO THAT'S SOMETHING I THINK THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN ISN'T WORRIED ABOUT NOW, HOWEVER, I DO THINK THERE IS DOING A LOT OF TEXTBOOK AMERICANS CONCERNED ABOUT THE ACCUSATIONS THAT AMERICA WOULD BE UNSAFE UNDER JOE BIDEN.

THERE IS A LOT OF ANYTHING ABOUT HOW THE DEMOCRATS NEED TO RESPOND, BIDEN HIMSELF SAID, NO, OF COURSE I RENOUNCE ANY VIOLENCE, NO, I DO NOT WANT ANY VIOLENCE, ANY OF THAT, BUT THE DEMOCRATS ARE WONDERING IF THEY NEED TO HAVE A MORE MUSCULAR RESPONSE TO THAT.

A COUPLE OF OTHER THINGS, JUDY, MY IN-BOX HAS BEEN FULL OF FACT CHECKS FROM THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN, I THINK I HAVE OVER A DOZEN IN JUST THE LAST HALF HOUR SO IT IS HARD TO KNOW WHERE TO BEGIN, BUT FOR NOW I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THE ABETTED CAMPAIGN IS HAPPY ABOUT, THEY DON'T THINK, THEY ARE NOT SURE MANY SWING VOTERS ARE WATCHING THIS.

AND SO THEY ARE WAITING TO PROSECUTE THEIR CAMPAIGN AND GET JOE BIDEN OUT ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL THE, ONE LAST NOTE ABOUT THE LENGTH OF HIS SPEECH, JUDY OF COURSE THE GRAPHICS THIS WAS THE LONGEST ACCEPTANCE SPEECH IN MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY GOING BACK TO WALTER MONDALE.

>> Woodruff: AND HOUR AND 10 MINUTES AND I AM TRYING REMEMBER WHAT WALTER MONDALE'S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH WAS.

I DIDN'T REMEMBER IT WAS THAT LONG, BUT SOMEBODY IS KEEPING TRACK.

AMNA NAWAZ, YOU HAVE BEEN PHYSICAL LISTENING VERY CLOSELY TO WHAT THE PRESIDENT HAD TO SAY, AND PARTICULARLY NATIONAL SECURITY AND SOME OTHER ISSUES.

>> YES.

JUDY, AS LISA MENTIONED THERE IS A LOT OF INFORMATION PACKED INTO THAT MORE THAN HOUR LONG SPEECH AND PROVIDE SOME CONTEXT, OF COURSE THIS IS POLITICAL MESSAGING AND EVERY CANDIDATE GETS A CHANCE TO MAKE THEIR CASE.

ON THE NATIONAL SECURITY FRONT IT WAS THE FIRST TIME WE HAVE HEARD IN A LITTLE WHILE PRESIDENT TRUMP REALLY MAKE THE NATIONAL SECURITY CASE, HE WAS HAILING SOME OF THE SUCCESSES BY ENDING THE WAR AND PULLING BACK TROOPS FROM AFGHANISTAN AND THE IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL, AND THE TERRITORIAL HOLD ISIS HAD IN THE MIDDLE EAST TO AN END AND POINT OUT THIS COMES LESS THAN A WEEK AFTER MORE THAN 70 70 REPUBLICAN FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY SENIOR OFFICIALS, HEAD OF THE FBI, CIA AND SERVED UNDER BOTH DEMOCRATIC AND THE REPUBLICAN CAME WITHOUT A LETTER TO SAY THEY WILL BE ENDORSING AND SUPPORTING JOE BIDEN IN THIS ELECTION.

THEY CALL THIS PRESIDENT CORRUPT AND UNFIT TO LEAD AND SAID THE COUNTRY IS ACTUALLY LESS SAFE UNDER A PRESIDENT ANOTHER FOUR YEARS OF PRESIDENT TRUMP, BUT IT IS WORTH POINTING OUT ALSO ANOTHER ISSUE ON TO THE COVID FRONT, A NUMBER, A NUMBER OF NUMBERS THROWN OUT IN SOME OF THE MENING THERE AND IT CAN GET CONFUSING.

THERE WAS A REDUCTION IN FATALITY RATES THAT WAS CITED THERE BY PRESIDENT TRUMP, WE SHOULD REMIND PEOPLE THE FATALITY RATE IS CALCULATION, THE NUMBER OF DEATHS OVER THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CASES KNOWN, SO THE REDUCTION IS A LITTLE MISLEADING BECAUSE BASICALLY AS WE KNOW ABOUT MORE CASES, THE FATALITY RATE COMES TOWN SO THAT IS LARGELY DUE EXPERTS SAY TO AN INCREASE IN TESTING AND EXPERTS MORE IMPORTANTLY WARN IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN THE VIRUS HAS BECOME LESS QUESTIONEDLY, DEADLY AND THE ONLY WAY TO PREVENT THE VIRUS SPREAD BY SOCIALLY DISTANCING AND WEARING MASKS, WHICH AS WAS POINTED OUT EARLIER IS ACTUALLY NOT THE PRACTICE ON DISPLAY AT THE WHITE HOUSE STAFF LAWN TODAY AND ALSO MENTION THE IMPROVE MADE REFERENCE TO ANCESTORS WHO CAME TO THIS COUNTRY SAILING ACROSS OCEANS BRAVELY TO CREATE THIS COUNTRY AS FOUNDING MEMBERS AT THE SAME TIME THIS IS THE PRESIDENT THAT HAS DONE MORE TO REDUCE LEGAL MIGRATION THAN ANY OTHER MODERN PRESIDENT BY SOME ESTIMATES BY HALF WHAT THE NUMBERS PREVIOUSLY WERE BEFORE HIS ADMINISTRATION AND HE WAS DISMISS RECEIVE OF THE EFFORTS THAT JOE BIDEN SAYS THAT HE WOULD MAKE TO PROVIDE DUE PROCESS FOR IMMIGRANTS, THIS PRESIDENT HAS SORT OF GONE AROUND DUE PROCESS, AT THE SAME TIME, RIGHT NOW DURING THE PANDEMIC THE ADMINISTRATION IS DETAINING FAMILIES AND CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS ONE YEARS OLD IN HOTELS AND DEPORTING THEM WITHOUT ANY KIND OF DUE PROCESS THROUGH OUR IMMIGRATION COURT SYSTEM, SO A NUMBER OF THINGS WE ARE STILL KEEPING UP WITH JUDY BUT THESE ARE THINGS THAT STOOD OUT TO ME FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP'S SPEECH TONIGHT.

>> Woodruff: NO QUESTION ALL OF THESE IMPORTANT POINTS TO MAKE A AND YES KEEPING THE BORDER, MAKING THE BORDER MORE SECURE AS WE HEARD THE PRESIDENT SAY OVER AND OVER AGAIN THE HAS BEEN A PRIORITY FOR THE ADMINISTRATION.

NOW I WANT TO TURN TO YOU, DAN BUSH, YOU HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT THE THEMES BROADLY THE THEMES EMERGING FROM BOTH CONVENTIONS, THE REPUBLICANS AND THE DEMOCRATS.

>> THAT'S RIGHT, JUDY AND A COUPLE OF THINGS STAND OUT, NUMBER ONE TONIGHT WE SAW PRESIDENT TRUMP TALKING ABOUT AMERICANS WHO ARE LEFT BEHIND AND FROM OTHER NUMBERS AS WELL.

FOR THE MOST PART THAT HAS BEEN A MESSAGE DIRECTED TO AMERICANS WHO MAY FEEL THEIR OPPORTUNITIES HAVE BEEN TAKEN AWAY OR CANCELED, AS MANY SAID, IN AN INCREASINGLY DIVERSE AMERICA, I GOT JOTTED DOWN THIS LINE FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP, THE GOAL OF CANCEL CULTURE IS TO MAKE DECENT AMERICANS LIVE IN FEAR, TO DRIVE THEM OUT OF SOCIETY AS WE KNOW IT.

THAT WAS -- DEMOCRATS, WHEN THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT AMERICANS UNDER ATTACK FOR THE MOST PART THEY WERE REFERRING TO PEOPLE OF COLOR, TO IMMIGRANTS WHO FACED BARRIERS IN THIS COUNTRY, SO THAT WAS A STARK DIFFERENCE BUT THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN FEELS THEY HAVE HIT ON A POTENTIALLY WINNING THEME HERE, I SPOKE WITH A TRUMP CAMPAIGN OFFICIAL THIS EVENING BEFORE THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH WHO SAID THAT A MONTH AGO THE INTERNAL CAMPAIGN NUMBERS WERE BAD AND THAT TONIGHT AS WE SPEAK HERE, IF THE ELECTION WERE HELD TODAY THEY BELIEVE JOE BIDEN WOULD PROBABLY WIN BUT THIS OFFICIAL SAID THAT COMING OUT OF THIS CONVENTION, THEY ARE MORE OPTIMISTIC, BECAUSE THEY FEEL THAT WHILE DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING TO MAKE THIS A REFERENDUM ABOUT THE ENTIRE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S RESPONSE, HERE, REPUBLICANS ARE MAKING AN ARGUMENT, NO, THIS IS ABOUT THE ECONOMY AND WHO CAN GET THIS COUNTRY BACK ON TRACK AFTER THIS.

>> Woodruff: NO QUESTION IF THEY CAN SHIFT THE FOCUS, SHIFT THE EMPHASIS OF IT, ON JOE BIDEN, AND COMPARE WHAT JOE BIDEN HAS DONE AND WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS DONE, IT BECOMES A VERY DIFFERENT CONTEST, A VERY DIFFERENT SET OF COMPARISONS.

ALL RIGHT.

TO THE FOUR OF YOU, DANIEL BUSH, YAMICHE ALCINDOR, LISA DESJARDINS, AMNA NAWAZ, THE THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND NOW I WANT TO BRING IN OUR HISTORIAN NINE BESCHLOSS, NEWSHOUR REGULAR, MICHAEL, YOU HAVE LISTENED TO MANY PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES, YOU HAVE READ MANY PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES OVER YOUR TIME.

HOW DOES THIS ONE FIT IN?

>> YOU KNOW,, WHETHER YOU LIKE DONALD TRUMP OR NOT, HE IS ON OCCASION CAPABLE OF GIVING A SPEECH THAT WILL KEEP YOUR ATTENTION.

THIS WAS NOT IT.

I WAS ASTOUNDED IT WAS SO LOW ENERGY.

AND THE OTHER THING I HAVE TO SAY, JUDY, IS THAT THIS WHOLE THEME TONIGHT SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED FOR THOSE OF US WHO CARE ABOUT THE RULE OF LAW, THE HATCH ACT IS INTENDED TO KEEP POLITICAL CAMPAIGNING AWAY FROM FEDERAL PROPERTY LIKE THE WHITE HOUSE, AND FEDERAL EMPLOYEES, AND FOR THOSE OF US WHO CARE ABOUT TRADITION, THE WHITE HOUSE THIS YEAR IS 220 YEARS OLD AND IN ALL OF THOSE 220 YEARS, THIS HAS BEEN SACRED SPACE.

OTHER PRESIDENTS HAVE RESPECTED THE FACT THAT YOU DON'T USE THIS FOR DOMESTIC POLITICS.

INSTEAD TONIGHT WE HAD, YOU KNOW, THE NASTY THINGS ABOUT HIS OPPONENT WE HAD DONORS, WE HAD CAMPAIGN SIGNS, THE SOUTH LAWN OF THE WHITE HOUSE WAS TURNED INTO THE FLOOR OF A REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

THAT'S A HOUSE THAT BELONGS TO ALL OF US, THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE TRADITION.

>> Woodruff: RIGHT.

>> AND THE OTHER THING IS WE SAW TONIGHT, THE SYMBOLS OF OUR STATE, THE WHITE HOUSE AND ALL OF THOSE FLAGS MIXED WITH THE SYMBOLS OF A POLITICAL PARTY AND A POLITICAL MOVEMENT.

THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS NOT ONLY NOT IN A DEMOCRACY BUT THAT IS WHAT HAPPENS IN AUTOCRACIES AND FOR ANY OF US WHO HEARD A BARACK OBAMA'S WARNING A WEEK AGO WHEN HE SAID DO NOT LET THEM TAKE AWAY YOUR DEMOCRACY, IT IS NOT VERY REASSURING THAT NEXT YEAR IF DONALD TRUMP IS REELECTED THAT WE CAN BE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN THAT WE WILL BE LIVING IN A DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM.

I HOPE THAT IS -- >> VERY POWERFUL OBSERVATION ON YOUR PART, MICHAEL BESCHLOSS, BECAUSE THIS IS A PRESIDENT WHO, AS YOU SAY, HAS BROKEN WITH VIRTUALLY EVERY NORM OF THE PRESIDENCY IN TERMS OF THE HISTORY OF THE WHITE HOUSE AND ALL OF THE TRADITIONS THAT YOU HAVE DESCRIBED.

FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF THE WHITE HOUSE WHERE WE HAVE SEEN SUCH A POLITICAL EVENT SUCH AS THIS.

THANK YOU.

NOW LET'S BRING IN OUR ANALYSTS, WHO HAVE BEEN WITH US ALL NIGHT AND THROUGH LAST WEEK'S CONVENTION WITH THE DEMOCRATS AND THIS WEEK WITH THE REPUBLICANS, MARK SHIELDS, GHARIB BROOKS, ABERNATHY AND TUCKER AND HERE IN OUR STUDIO AMY WALTER.

AMY I HAVE SEEN YOU TAKING NOTES AND LOOKING AT YOUR COMPUTER.

WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?

>> WHAT AM I THINKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW?

>> I THINK WE CAME INTO THIS EXPECTING A TRUMP RALLY AND INSTEAD WE GOT SORT OF A STATE OF THE UNION WITH A CAMPAIGN THEME UNDERNEATH IT WHICH IS ATTACK JOE BIDEN.

BUT EVEN THE ATTACKS ON JOE BIDEN WERE NOT PARTICULARLY DRAMATIC.

ON ONE HAND THEY SAY HE HAS BEEN HERE 47 YEARS THE PRESIDENT SAID AND HE HAS BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR SOME OF THESE TERRIBLE TRADE DEALS, BASICALLY SAY PER THE STATUS QUO ELITISTS THAT HAVE GOTTEN US INTO ALL OF THE TROUBLE WE ARE IN RIGHT THOUSAND.

BUT THEN SPENT ANOTHER PART OF THE SPEECH SAYING SHE A TROJAN HORSE FOR SOCIALISM.

THAT'S A CHALLENGE THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS HAD OR HE HAS HAD IN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW DO WE ATTACK JOE BIDEN?

YOU REMEMBER IN 2016 THEY HAD THEIR READY ATTACK LINES ON HILLARY CLINTON.

IT WAS CROOKED HILLARY, CROOKED HILLARY, CROOKED HILLARY, OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

THIS IS ALSO A MESSAGE THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS SENDING HERE, HE WAS MUCH MORE DISCIPLINED THAN HE NORMALLY IS, AND IN ONE OF THESE SPEECHES, A TELEPROMPTER BUT WE KNOW THAT IS NOT SOMETHING HE IS VERY GOOD AT DOING CONSISTENTLY, AND THERE ARE MORE THAN 60 SOMETHING DAYS UNTIL THE ELECTION.

LET'S SEE IF HE CAN BE FOCUSED ON A SUCCINCT MESSAGE.

>> IT DID SEEM THAT AT SOME POINT HE WAS BEING HELD BACK.

THE DONALD TRUMP WE ARE USED TO SEEING WHO GIVES US FULL-THROATED SPEECHES OUT ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL.

ALL RIGHT.

JOINING US NOW, MARK SHIELDS, ARE YOU THERE?

I WANT TO HEAR WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT THE PRESIDENT HAD TO SAY.

>> I AM HERE, WITHDREW DIFFICULT, AND I ECHO BOTH MICHAEL AND -- I SAY THIS WAS A SMALL SPEECH.

IT WAS NOT -- THERE WAS NO MUSIC AND NO POETRY TO IT.

AND IF SHE GOING TO RISE TO THE OCCASION, IT WAS SORT OF A DECAF DONALD DONALD TRUMP, WHETHER HE WAS UNDER CONTROL OR WHATEVER, THERE WERE TIMES WHEN HE WAS JUST REALLY GOING THROUGH THE WORDS WITHOUT MUCH PASSION TO THEM.

I WOULD SAY BASICALLY WHAT WE FOUND OUT TONIGHT IS THAT THE HOST COMMITTEE FOR THE 2020 REPUBLICAN CONVENTION WAS 330 MILLION AMERICANS.

I MEAN, MICHAEL IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, IN THE IDEA THAT THE WHITE HOUSE IS TURNED INTO A CAMPAIGN SITE AND IT IS JUST MIND BOGGLING AND I HOPE ONE THAT WON'T GO QUICKLY AWAY.

AND THE FINAL THING I WILL SAY IS THAT WHEN I SAY VERY MODESTLY I HAVE I HAVE DONE MORE FOR THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY THAN ANY OTHER PRESIDENT SINCE ABRAHAM LINCOLN IT WAS PRESIDENT HARI TRUMAN WHO DESEGREGATED THE AMERICAN MILITARY AT THE RISK OF HIS OWN REELECTION.

IT WAS LYNDON JOHNSON TAKING UP JACK KENNEDY'S FALLEN EFFORT TO PASS THE CIVIL RIGHTS, GREAT LEGISLATION, HISTORIC LEGISLATION IN THE 1960S.

VERY MODESTLY DONALD, I DON'T THINK SO.

>> Woodruff: GHARIB GARY ABERNA, YOUR THOUGHTS.

>> WELL, FIRST OF ALL THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR LETTING BE.

ME BE A PART OF THIS THE LAST TWO WEEKS.

I HAVE FELT LINE THE LONE VOICE ON SOME ISSUES.

I APPRECIATE ALL OF THE REMARKS, IT HAS BEEN AN HONOR WITH ALL OF YOU AND ADMIRED YOUR WORK FOR A LONG TIME.

I THOUGHT THE SPEECH WAS TOO LONG.

I THOUGHT IT WAS LOW ENERGY, THERE WAS PLENTY OF RED MEAT FOR THE BASE BUT IF TRUMP WAS TRYING TO SHOW BY CONTRAST THAT GOING FOR AN HOUR MADE HIM SEEM MORE VIGOROUS THAN JOE BIDEN, HIS DELIVERY DIDN'T MAKE THAT HAPPEN HAPPEN.

I THINK THAT HE TRIED SPEAK IN LOFTY TERMS SOMETIMES AS I SAID EARLIER, WHEN HE TRIES GO FOR THE REAGAN EFFECT IMAGERY IT DOESN'T WORK HE IS MUCH BETTER BECAUSE IT IS NATURAL FOR HIM WHEN HE WAS ON THE ATTACK AGAINST TRUMP.

YOU KNOW WHAT, RIGHT NOW, THE CAMPAIGN STARTS.

FORGET POLLS, FORGET ALL OF THE PERCEPTIONS RIGHT NOW.

VOTERS WILL NOW START TO PAY ATTENTION AFTER THESE CONVENTIONS AND AT LABOR DAY IT IS TIME TO GO.

AND IT IS GOING TO BE ANOTHER VERY TIGHT FASCINATING RACE TO WATCH.

>> Woodruff: NO QUESTION IT IS GOING TO BE RIVETTING.

CYNTHIA TUCKER, WHAT HAS CAUGHT YOUR ATTENTION TONIGHT?

>> I WAS REALLY SURPRISED THAT THE SPEECH WAS AS BAD AS IT WAS.

IT WAS DISJOINTED.

HE LACKED A THEME, IT LACKED A THEME YET THERE WERE PLENTY OF RED MEAT ATTACKS ON JOE BIDEN BUT THEY DIDN'T EVEN, THOSE ATTACKS DIDN'T HANG TOGETHER VERY WELL.

I THOUGHT THE PRESIDENT WAS LOW ENERGY.

SOME OF IT WAS A REPRIEVE OF AMERICAN CARNAGE.

WE KNEW THAT THAT WOULD BE A BIG PART OF THE SPEECH, HIS TALKING ABOUT LAW AND ORDER.

SOME OF IT WAS JUST OUT RIGHT RACIST AS WHEN HE BASICALLY SAID JOE BIDEN WOULD DESTROY THE SUBURBS AND LET CRIMINALS ROAM THE STREETS.

SOME OF IT WAS LUDICROUS WHEN HE SAID HE HAD DONE MORE FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS THAN ANY PRESIDENT SINCE LINCOLN.

AND SOME OF IT WAS FRIGHTENING, LIGHT FRANKLY IN THE PART THAT FRIGHTENED ME THE MOST TO GET BACK TO WHAT MICHAEL SAID AND SOME OTHER COMMENTARIES HAVE, COMMENTARIES TEARS HAVE SAID ABOUT THE PRESIDENT'S DECISION TO HOLD THIS ..

ACCEPTANCE SPEECH ON THE LAWN OF THE WHITE HOUSE, AT ONE POINT HE SAID, WE ARE HERE, THEY ARE NOT.

THAT SOUND ADD LITTLE BIT LIKE A THREAT TO ME.

AND THAT CONCERNED ME, QUITE FRANKLY.

I HOPE IF HE LOSES A FAIR AND SQUARE ELECTION THAT HE IS PREPARED TO LEAVE.

>> Woodruff: AND THAT WAS WRITTEN INTO THE PREPARED REMARKS.

DAVID BROOKS I AM GIVING YOU THE LAST WORD HERE.

>> IN SIX MINUTES IT WILL BE MORNING IN AMERICA.

IT WAS THE WORST ACCEPTANCE SPEECH I HAVE EVER HEARD AS EVERYONE SAID, DISJOINTED.

THEY HAVE NO COHERENT THEME, NO INTELLECTUAL 0 COHERENCE, JUST AS A PIECE OF WRITING IT MEANDERED BETWEEN SUBJECTS AND A SIGN OF A CAMPAIGN THAT HASN'T FOUND ANY MESSAGE YET, A COHERENT ANTI-JOE BIDEN MESSAGE OR A COHERENT PRO TRUMP MESSAGE AND IT GROWS OUT OF HIS SELF INDULGENCE HE JUST WANTED TO BRAG ABOUT HIMSELF ENDLESSLY AND IF YOU MAKE 1,000 POINTS YOU REALLY MAKE NO POINTS, SO THAT'S WHERE CAMPAIGN REALLY IS NOW, A PUDDLE OF NOTHING.

>> Woodruff: WELL, ON THAT UPLIFTING NOTE, A AND REMINDING EVERYBODY THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP JUST AGAIN SAID THIS WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY AND IF THAT DOESN'T GET OUR ATTENTION I DON'T KNOW WHAT BUT I HAVE TO SAY ON THIS SOBERING NOTE, THE UNITED STATES TONIGHT PASSED 1,081 DEATHS, ANOTHER 1,081 DEATHS JUST TODAY FROM THE CORONAVIRUS, SO IT IS, IT OVER LAYS SO MUCH OF WHAT WE ARE DISCUSSING.

THANK YOU ALL.

IT JUST HAS BEEN A PLEASURE AND AN HONOR AND TREAT TO WORK WITH EACH ONE OF YOU.

AMY WALTER, MARK SHIELDS, DAVID BROOKS, GARY ABERNATHY, CYNTHIA TUCKER AND TO ALL OF OUR ANALYSTS THANK YOU, TO ALL OF OUR AMAZING REPORTERS, IT HAS BEEN QUITE A TWO WEEKS.

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US FOR OUR LIVE COVERAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.

PLEASE STAY WITH US ONLINE AND ON THE NEWSHOUR TOMORROW.

I AM JUDY WOODRUFF FOR ALL OF US AT THE NEWSHOUR.

PLEASE STAY SAFE AND WE WILL SEE YOU SOON.

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