August 20, 2024 • 65 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty And as she's been listening, told
you we were monitoring the DNC convention and we would
bring the president's remarks. Right now, the President's daughter, Ashley Biden,
is delivering her remarks, and then the President will be
speaking after her. So we're going to go right now
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to Ashley Biden.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
We don't tell you enough that you are the love
of our lives and the life of our love. I
had my wedding reception in my parents' backyard.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
At the time.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
My dad was vice president, but he was also that
dad who literally set up the entire reception. He was
riding around and is John Deere for Willer, fixing the
place settings, arranging the plants, and by the way, he
was very emotional. I thought that I would be a mess,
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but he was the one crying and I was the
one who had to comfort him. Before he walked me
down the aisle, he turned to me and said that
he would always be my best friend. All these years later, Dad,
you are still my best friend. His example in service
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inspired my career. I'm a social worker in Philadelphia. I
support formerly incarcerated women as they heal from past trauma
and they reclaim their lives. Dad always told me that
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I was no better than anybody else, and nobody was
better than me. He taught me that everyone deserves a
fair shot and that we shouldn't leave anyone behind. That's
what you learn from a fighter who has been underestimated
his entire life. When I look at Dad, I see grace, strength,
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and humility. I see one of the most consequential leaders
ever in history. And I also know that he never
stops thinking about you, about your dreams, about your dignity,
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about your opportunities, about your family. Dad knows that family
is everything. When Hunter and I lost our brother Bo
to cancer in twenty fifteen, the grief and the pain
felt like it might never end. Dad had the capacity
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to step out of his own pain and absorb ours.
And I know that Bo is here with us tonight,
as he is always with us. After Bau passed, I
got this tattoo on my wrist. It says courage dear heart,
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A reminder to myself to keep going, to get back
up like my Dad has always done. He has taught
me that a courageous heart is a miraculous thing. A
courageous heart can heal a family. A courageous heart can
heal a nation and maybe even the world. And now
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this election requires the courageous hearts of all of us.
In twenty twenty, my dad selected Kamala Harris to beat
Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
And he knows in twenty.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Twenty four she will beat Donald Trump again. So tonight
I am asking you, if you stood with us in
twenty twenty, call upon your courageous heart, stand with us today.
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Work harder than you have ever worked before in your life.
This is the fight of our lifetime. Our freedom, our democracy,
our reproductive rights, all of this.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
All of it is on the ballot.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
And I know together we can do this because my
dad help show us the way. And now I would
like to introduce my father. You're forty sixth President of
the United States, Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you
for so much. I'll tell you what to my dearest daughter, Ashley,
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God love you. You're incredible. Thank you for introduction and
for me in my courageous heart.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Oh, I would Hunter and our entire family and especially
our rock Jill, who as those of you who know
us she still leaves me both breathless and speechless.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Everybody knows her. I love her more than she loves me.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
She walks down the stairs, and I still get that going.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Boom boom, boom boom. We all will know me. No,
and I'm kidding.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Let's get a special round of applause, our first lady,
joe Biden, my dad. My dad used to have an
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expression for real. He'd say, Joey family is the beginning,
the middle, and the end.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
And I love you all books in America. I love
you books. Let me ask you. Let me ask you.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Are you ready to vote for freedom?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Are you ready to.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Vote for democracy and for America?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Let me ask you.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Are you ready to elect Kamala Harris and sim Waltz.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I haven't been right from the United.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
States, my fellow Democrats, my fellow Americans. Nearly four years ago,
in winter, on the step to the Capitol on a
cold January day, I raised my right hand and I
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swore an oath to you and to God to preserve, protect,
and defend the Constitution and the faithfully execute the office
of the President of the United States. In front of me,
in front of me was the city surrounded by the
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National Guard behind me, a capital just two weeks before, and.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Another run by a violent mob.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
But I knew then, from the bottom of my heart
that I knew now there is no place in America
for political violence.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
None.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
You cannot say you love your country only when you win.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
In that moment, I wasn't looking to the past. I
was looking at the future.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I spoke of the work at hand, the moment we
had to meet. It was, as I told you then,
a winter of peril and possibility, A peril and possibility
where the grip of a once in a century pandemic,
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historic joblessness, a call for racial justice long overdue, Claire,
and present threats to our very democracy. Thank you, And
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yet yeah, I believe then and I believe now. The
progress was, it is possible, Justice is achievable, and our
best days are not behind us, They're ever before us.
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Now it's summer, the winter has passed. Of a grateful heart,
I stand before you now on this August night to
report that democracy has prevailed democracy democras had the litters,
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and now democracy must be preserved.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
You've heard me say it before.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
We're facing inflection point, one of those rare moments in
history one of the decisions we make now will determine
the fate of our nation and the world for decades
to come.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
That's not hyperble I mean it literally.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
We're in a battle for the very soul America.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I ran for.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
President of twenty twenty because of what I saw at
Charlotte's in August of twenty seventeen. Extremists coming out of
the woods carrying torches, their veins bulging from their necks,
carrying Nazi swastikas, and changing the same exact anti Semitic
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bile that was hurting Germany in the early thirties. Neo Nazis,
white supremacists, the kukus Klan, so emboldened by a president
then in the White House that they saw as an ally,
they didn't even bother to wear their hoods.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Kate was on the march.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
In America, old ghosts and new garments, stirring up the
oldest divisions, stoking the oldest fears, giving oxygen to the
old horses that they long sought to tear part of America.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
And the process, a young woman was killed.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
When I contacted her mother asked about what happened, she
told me, when the president was asked what he thought
had happened. Donald Trump said, my quote, there are very
fine people on both sides.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
My god, that's what he said. That is what he.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Said and what he meant. That's what I realized. Had
listened to the admonition of my dead son. I could
not stay in the sidelines.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
So I ran.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Because I had no intention of running again. I just
lost part of my soul. But I ran with a
deep conviction. In America, I know, and in America where honesty, dignity,
decency still matter, And America where everyone has a fair
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shot and hate has no safe harbor.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
And America where the fundamental.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Created this nation that all of us are created equal.
It's still very much alive, and a broad coalition of Americas.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Joined with me.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Eighty one million voters voted for us, more than any
time in all of history because of all of you
in this room and others. We came together in twenty
twenty to save democracy. As your president, I've been determined
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to keep America moving forward, not going back, to stand
against hate and violence in all its forms, to be
a nation where we not only live with, but thrive
on diversity. Demonize you, no one leave you. No one
behind and becoming a nation, and we profess to be.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I also ran.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
To rebuild the backbone of America, the middle class.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I made a.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Commitment to you that I be a president of all Americans,
whether you vote for me or not.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
We have done that study show the major bills.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
We have passed actually delivered more or the red stage
than blue because the job of the president is the
litter to all of America. Because of you, and I'm
not exaggerating. Because of you, we've had around those extraordinary
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four years of progress ever period.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
When I say we, I mean common Land me. Just
think about it.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
COVID no longer controls our lives, but God, from economic
crisis to the strongest economy in the entire world, record
sixty million new jobs, record small business growth, record high, stock.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Market record high four.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
One ks, wages up and inflation down way down and
continuing to go down. The smallest racial wealth gap in
twenty years. And yes, we both know we have more
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to do, but we're moving in the right direction. More
Americans that peace of mind that comes from having health insurance.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
More Americans have.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Health insurance today than ever before in American history.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
And after as a young senator beginning to fight. We're
goting to fight.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
For fifty years to give Medicare the power to negotiate
locals to give you the drug prices. We finally beat
big Pharma and guests who cast the tide breaking vote
president seemed to be President Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
And now it's the law of the land.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Instead of paying four hundred dollars a month or insulentce
senior to diabetes will pay thirty five a month. The
while we passed already he closes started in January.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Every senior's total.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Prescription costs can be capped at two thousand dollars, no matter.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
How expensive the drugs they have.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
And what we don't focus on and our republic events
don't seem to understand. All right for him, don't just
save seniors' money. They saved the American taxpayer's money. You know,
when we just passed saved is saved one hundred and
sixty billion dollars over the next decade. That's not hyperbolet
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is because Medicare no longer has to pay those exorbitant
prices to the big farm. Look, look, thank you Kamala too.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Look, coach, how can we.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Have the strongest economy in the world without the best
infrastructure in the world. Donald Trump promised infrastructure week.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Every week for four years, and he never built a
damn thing.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
But now because of Kama I've done. Remember we're told
we couldn't get it done. Remember when we came in office,
we couldn't get anything past. But right now we're giving
the America an infrastructure decade, not week.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
We're modernizing our roads.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Our bridges, our ports, our airports, our trains, our buses,
removing every pipe from schools and homes so every child
can drink clean water, Providing affordable high speed internet for
every America no matter where they live, unlike not unlike
but Roosevelt did with electricity and so much more. We
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are united the country. We're growing our economy, we're improving.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Our quality of life.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
And we're building a better America because that's who we are.
How can we meet the strongest nation in the world
without leading the world in science and technology? After years
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on of our semiconductor chips from abroad, which American invented
that those chips, our Chips and Science Act meant the
private coming from around the world are now investing moly
tens of billions of dollars to build new chip factories
right here in America. And over that period they'll create
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tens of thousands of jobs, and many of those jobs
and the so called fabs the building to make the
chips that's being constructed now. And guess what the average
salary of those fabs size of the football field will
be over one hundred thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
And you don't need a college.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Degree because of you and so many electeds out there.
American manufacturers back where they will say we would lead
the world of manufacturing a hundred thousand new manufacturing jobs.
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All Republican friends and others made sure they'd go abroad
to get the cheapest laver. We used to import products
and export jobs. Now we export America products and create
American jobs.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
And listening can't find AM six forty where jobs belong.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
For every new job, with every new.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Factory, pride and hope is being brought back to communities
throughout the country that were left behind. You know you're
from many of you. You know what it's like when
that factory closed, or your mother, your father, your grandmother,
grandfather worked and now you're back providing once again. Proving
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the Wall Street didn't build America. The middle class build
America and unions. Unions built the middle class. It's been
my view since I came to the Senate, and that's
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why I'm proud that when the first president the walk
a picket line and be leveled, the most pro union
president history, and I accept it.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
That's a fact.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Because the unions do well. We all do well. You
got it, man, you got it.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
I brave. I'm proud.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Look, remember it told we couldn't get anything done because
we couldn't get anything done in the Congress.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Or your support. We passed the most.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Significant climate law in the history of mankind.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
For three hundred and.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Seventy billion dollars, cutting carbon emissions in half by twenty thirty,
launching a Climate Corps similar to America Corps Prese Corps,
treading tens of thousands of jobs for young people in
the future who are going to make sure this continues,
Trading hundreds of thousands of jobs and clean energy for
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American workers including the IBW, installing five hundred thousand, five
hundred thousand charging stations all across Americans, and in the
process reducing carbon emissions.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
And we're seeing it. We're seeing to.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
It that the first beneficiary's environmental inlitiatives are those fence
line communities that have been smothered by the legacy of pollution.
Louisiana and Delaware wrote nine. All the factors, all those
chemical factors, are right next to the poorest neighborhoods.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
They're the ones we're going to bring back. And how
how can we be.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
The greatest nation in the world without the best education
system in the world. Donald trouble to Republican friends, and
not only can't think, they can't read very well. Seriously
think about it, look at their project.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Twenty twenty five. Want to do away with the part
of education well. During the pandemic, Kamahai.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Helped states and cities get back their schools back open,
and we gave public.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
School teachers a raise.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
We created apprenticeships with business in the communities, putting students
on a path a good playing job whether.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Or not they go to college.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
And by the way, we're making college a hell of
a lot more affordable, increasing pilgrams by nine hundred dollars.
Over fifteen billion dollars face PCUS. Minority servants I including
Hispanic institutions and travel colleges. We kept our commitment provide
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more student relief than ever by lifting the burden of
helping millions of families so they could get married, start
a family by home, and begin to build family wealth
and contributed to the community and grow our economy. It's
not costing us, it's creating more wealth. We fundamentally transferred
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how our transformed how our economy grows from the middle
out and the bottom up instead of the top down.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
You know, my dad, you.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Said there wasn't a whole hell of a lot to
drop down on my kitchen table at the end of
the month. I come from basic middle class family, three
bedroom house, four kids, and grandpapa lived with us, decent neighborhood,
but never a penny to spare. And look, that top
down notion never worked. A lot of Democrats didn't think it.
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Both thought it worked but a dozen And when we
did all that done, everybody can do well. Everybody. Donald
Trump calls America a failing nation.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Nod I'm saying thing, but think about this. Think about this,
He publicly.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Says to the whole world, I'm gonna say something outragious.
I know more foreign leaders by their first names and
know them well than anybody live just because I'm so
damn old.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
But I'm not joking.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Speak of the message he sends around the world. When
he talks about America being a faily nation, he says
we're losing. He's the loser. He's dead wrong. Many of
you are very successful people who travel the world. Name
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me a country in the world that doesn't think for
the leading nation of the world without America. Not a joke,
think about it, I mean literal, who could lead the
world other than the United States of America.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Well, guess what.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
America is winning and the world's better off for it.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
America is more prosperous.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
And America are safety today than runner Donald Trump. Trump
continues to lie about crime in America like everything else.
Guess what, On his watch, the murder rate went up
thirty percent, the biggest increase in history. Meanwhile, we made
the largest investment common line in public safety ever.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Now the murder rate is.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Falling faster than any time in history. Violent crime has
dropped to the lowest level of more than fifty years,
and crime will keep coming down.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
When we put a prosecutor in.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
The oval office instead of a convicted fel when folks,
the singlish Senator from the Sea, Senator from California and
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I passed the first ban on assault weapons.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
And guess what it worked.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
If we care about public safety, we need to prevent
gun violence.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
And it makes me a shame when I travel the world,
which I do.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
More children in America are killed by a gunshot than
any other cause in the United States. More die from
a bullet than cancer accidents or anything else in the
United States of America. My god, that's why KAMAI are
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proud we beat the end of right when we passed
the first major bipartis in contact you.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
On thirty years.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
I'm serious. That comes from here. And now it's time
to ban the sole weapons again and demand universal background checks.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
It's hard.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
I never thought I'd stand before a crowd of Democrats
and refer to a president as a liar.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
So many times now. I'm not trying to be funny.
It's sad.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Trump continues to lie about the border. Here's what he
won't tell you. Trump killed the strongest bipart of some
border deal in.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
The history of the United States that we negotiated with.
A Senate Republican took four weeks. Once it passed and
I acknowledged.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Those expansive border change in American history. He called Senators
to say, don't support the bipatters and bill. He said
it would help me politically and hurt him politically.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
My god, now I'm serious. Think about it, not a joke.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
Ask even the press who doesn't like me, they'll tell
you that's true. Typically Trump, once again putting himself first
in America. Last then I had to take executive action.
The result of the executive action I took, border encounters
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have dropped over fifty percent. In fact, there are fewer
border crosses the day.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
That when Donald Trump left office.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
And unlike Trump, we will not demonize immigrants saying they're
the poison of blood of America, poison the blood.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Of our country.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Common Arch committed to strengthening of legal immigration, including protecting
Dreamers and more.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
This is camfi am sext's forty Los Angeles in Orange County.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
And here's what else I believe in protecting your freedom.
You're freedom to vote, you're freedom of love who you love,
and your freedom to choose its decision over turning Robie
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Wade that you heard earlier tonight, the United States Supreme
Court majority wrote the following quote, women or not without
electrical without not allowed.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
There's not without electoral, electoral or political power. No kidding, Maga.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Republicans found out the power women in twenty twenty two,
and Donald Trump is going to find out the power
women in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
All right, now we're Trump, there's MegaR.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Republican right wingers seek your race history. We Democrats continue
to write history and make more history. I'm proud. I'm
proud I've kept my commitment to appoint the first black
women in the United State Supreme Court, the Tanji Brown Jackson,
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the symbol for every young woman in America that you
can do anything. I'm proud I've kept my commitment to
have an administration looks like America and the taps in
the full talent of our nation, the most diverse cabinet
in history, including the first black women in South Asian
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descent to serve as Vice President and will soon to
serve as the forty seventh President of.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
The United States. She is good. Look, thank you, Kamalo books.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
I've long said we have many obligations as the nation,
but I got in trouble years ago for saying I'd
make no apologies. We have only one truly sacred obligation
to prepare and to crypt those we send to war
and care for them and their families when they come
home and when they don't.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
I'm so proud they've written and signed the Pack Act,
almost significant laws ever, helping veteran to their families exposed
of toxic materials like burn pits in Asian orange.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
I was around during the Vietnam War. It's hard.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Nobody's able to prove that there's illness is the consequence
of agent orange. And no one was able to prove
initial that because they lived in burn pitsh like my
son lived next to in Iraq for a.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Year, that is the cause of the illness.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
But because of the Pack Act, a surviving spouse to
two children is now eligible for a stipend about three
thousand dollars a month, and those children who lost us
a parent are eligible for tuition benefits to go to
college and to get job training.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
It's already helping over one million.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Vetterors to their families just so far. Well, I love them,
and I so proud of my son's service. We get it,
but guess who doesn't get it and doesn't respect our veterans.
We know from his own chief of staff, a four
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star General John Delly, that Trump went in Europe would
not go to the grave sites in one of those France,
the brave service members who gave their lives of this country.
He called them suckers and losers. Who in the hell
does he think he is? Who does he think he is?
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There's no words for a person.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
They're not the words of a person not worthy of being commander.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
In chief period, not then, not now, and not ever.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
I mean that. I mean that in the bottom of
my heart, just as no commander.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
In chief should ever bow down the dictator the way
Trump bows down to putin. I never have and I
promise you, Kamala Harris will never do it, will never
bow dollars. When Trump left office, Europe and NATO was
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in tatters, not a joke.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
America First Doctrine changed our whole image in the world.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Well, I spent they gave the hours about one hundred
and ninety hours some total, been in my counterparts or
heads of state in Europe to strengthen NATO.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
We did.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Well, You're not in Europe like it had been nine
for years, adding Fiddling and Sweden to NATO. Ten days
before he died, Henry Kissinger called and said, not since,
not since Napoleon, as Europe not looked over the shoulder
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a Russia with dread.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Until now until now. Well, guess what Punin thought he'd.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
Take key in three days, three years later, Ukraine is
still free. When I came to office, the conventional wisdom
was that China would anotherly surpass the United States.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
They haven't noticed. No one's saying that now.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
Now, don't keep working to bring hostages home and end
the war in Gaza and bring pieces of curtain to
the least.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
As you know, I wrote.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
A peace treaty for Gaza two days ago.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
I put forward a proposal that has.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
Brought us closer to doing that than we've done since
October seventh. We're working around the clock, my Secretary of State,
prevent a wider war, and reunite hostages to their families,
and surge humanitarian health and food assistance into Gaza.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
Now ten.
Speaker 4 (41:20):
The civilian suffering of the palaest Indian people, and finally, finally,
finally deliver a cease firing in this war. Those protesters
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out in the Street.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
They have a point.
Speaker 4 (41:46):
A lot of innocent people are being killed on both sides.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
Jessa.
Speaker 4 (41:53):
We worked around the clock to bring home wrongfully detained.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
Americans and others from.
Speaker 4 (41:57):
Russia, one of the most complicated.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
Swaps in history. But they're home. Come am I going
to keep working.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
I mean all.
Speaker 4 (42:10):
Americans wrong we defined around the world home.
Speaker 3 (42:15):
I mean it, folks.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
I've got five months left in my presidency.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
I've got a lot to do. I intend to get
it done.
Speaker 4 (42:32):
I see spend the honor of my lifetime the server
as your president.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
I love the job, but I love my country more.
I love my country more. And all this talk about
how I am anger.
Speaker 4 (42:53):
All those people said I should step down, That's not true.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
I love my country more.
Speaker 4 (43:11):
And we need to preserve our democracy in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
We need you to vote.
Speaker 4 (43:20):
We need you to keep the Senate, we need you
to win back the House of Representatives, and above all,
we need you to beat Donald Trump. All what com land,
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Tim President and Vice President of the United States of America. Look,
They'll continue to lead America forward, creating more jobs, standing
there for workers, growing the economy, lower the cost the
American family. So they just have a little more breathing room.
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We made incredible process in progress. We have more work
to do, and Common and TIM will continue to take
on corporate grade and bring down.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
Cost of food.
Speaker 4 (44:19):
They'll keep taking out big farm or making an insulin
thirty five dollars a month, not just for seniors but
for everyone in America, and cappy for script and drug
costs a total of two thousand dollars, not just for
seniors but for everyone.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
And folks, that's going to.
Speaker 4 (44:38):
Save America again, tens of billions of dollars, folks.
Speaker 3 (44:47):
They'll make housing more affordable, building three.
Speaker 4 (44:52):
Million new homes, providing twenty five thousand dollars down payment
assistant for the first time home.
Speaker 3 (44:58):
Buyer, more than the ten reapproved.
Speaker 4 (45:04):
Donald Trump wants a new tax on imported goods, food, gas, clothing, more,
you know, without costs the average family cording the experts
three thousand.
Speaker 3 (45:15):
Nine hundred dollars a year in a tax. No, that's
a fact. Common and ten.
Speaker 4 (45:24):
Will make the childcare attax for the permanent, lifting millions
of children out of poverty and helping millions of families
get ahead.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
And you know what Trump.
Speaker 4 (45:39):
Hass He put the car, He created the largest debt.
And he president had in four years with his two
trillion dollar tax cut for the wealthy.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
Well, Trump has a new plan.
Speaker 4 (45:53):
He wants to pride a five billion dollar tax cut
for corporations that the very wealthy put a rate.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
It put us further in debt.
Speaker 4 (46:04):
And folks, you know we have a thousand trillion We
have a thousand billionaires in America. You know what the
average tax rate they pay eight point two percent.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
If we just increase their.
Speaker 4 (46:23):
Taxes we proposed to twenty five percent, which isn't the
highest tax rate, even it would raise five hundred billion
new dollars over ten years. May still be very wealthy. Look,
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Kamala and Tim, you're going to make them pay.
Speaker 3 (46:48):
Their fair share.
Speaker 4 (46:50):
They'll protect so security medicare. Trump wants to cut those
security medicare common Tim will protect your freedom, the protector
vote to write, your right to vote, the protector civil rights.
And you know Trump will do everything to ban abortion nationwide.
Speaker 3 (47:14):
Oh he will.
Speaker 4 (47:16):
You know, Comlin, Tim will do everything they possibly can.
That's why you have to elect to Senate in the House.
Speaker 3 (47:23):
To restore Roe V. Wade.
Speaker 4 (47:34):
The Angie Greeks taught us the character is destiny character
is destiny for me and Jill. We know Comlin Doug
are people of character. It's been our honor to serve
alongside them, and we know that Tim and Gwyn.
Speaker 3 (47:55):
Waltz are also people of great character. Selecting Kamala was.
Speaker 4 (48:03):
The very first decision I made before I became when
I became our nominee, and it was the best decision
I made my whole career.
Speaker 3 (48:18):
We've not only got to.
Speaker 4 (48:19):
Know each other, we've become close friends. She's tough, she's experienced,
and she has enormous integrity, enormous integrity. Her story represents
the best American story, and like many of our best presidents,
she was also vice president.
Speaker 1 (48:41):
If we listen to caf AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (48:48):
But she'll be a president our children could look up to.
Speaker 3 (48:53):
She'll be a president.
Speaker 4 (48:54):
Respected by world leaders because she already is.
Speaker 3 (48:58):
She'll be a president we can all be proud of.
And she will be an.
Speaker 4 (49:02):
Historic president who puts her stamp on America's future because
will be the first presidential election since January sixth. On
that day, we almost lost everything about who we are
as the country. And that threat, this is not high, purblely,
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that threat is still very much alive. Donald Trump says
he will refuse to accept the election result if he
loses again. Think about that, he means to think about that.
He's probably seen a bloodbath.
Speaker 3 (49:46):
If he loses, in his words.
Speaker 4 (49:49):
And that he'll be a dictator on day one in
his own words. By the way, this sucker means it. No,
I'm not joking, think about it. Anybody else said that
in the passage that he was crazy. He is crazy,
but you'd think it was an exaggeration.
Speaker 3 (50:07):
But he means it. We can't let that happen.
Speaker 4 (50:12):
Folks, all of us carry a special obligation Independence, Republicans, Democrats.
We save democracy in twenty twenty and now we must
save it again in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (50:34):
You love to be us cast This year will.
Speaker 4 (50:35):
Determine whether democracy and freedom will prevail.
Speaker 3 (50:39):
It's that simple, it's that serious, and the power is
literally in your hands.
Speaker 4 (50:46):
History is in your hands, not hyproblely, it's in your hands.
America's future is in your hands.
Speaker 3 (50:56):
And because of this, nowhere else in the world world.
Speaker 4 (51:02):
Could a kid with a stutter and modest beginnings in
scrand Pennsylvania, Claimont Delaware grow up to sit behind the
resolute desk in the Oval Office. That that's because America
is and always has been a nation of possibilities. Possibilities
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you must never lose that never.
Speaker 3 (51:34):
Come. And Tim understand that this nation.
Speaker 4 (51:37):
Must continue to be a place of possibilities, not just
for the few of us, but for all of us.
To join me and promising your whole heart to this effort,
and where my heart will be, I promise I'll be
the best volunteer Harris and Wallis as.
Speaker 3 (51:57):
Cam I've ever seen. Each of us.
Speaker 4 (52:08):
Has a part in the American story. For me and
my family, there's a song that means.
Speaker 3 (52:15):
A lot to us.
Speaker 4 (52:16):
It captures the best of who we are as a nation.
The song is called American Anthem. There's one verse that
stands out and I can't sing with the damn, so
I'm not gonna try.
Speaker 3 (52:30):
I'll just quote it. The work in prayers of centuries
have brought us to this day. What shall our legacy
or legacy be? We will our children say?
Speaker 4 (52:44):
Let me know in my heart, well my days are
through America, America.
Speaker 6 (52:51):
I gave my best to you.
Speaker 4 (53:17):
I've made I've made a lot of mistakes in my career,
but I gave my best to you.
Speaker 3 (53:25):
For fifty years. Like many of you, I've given my.
Speaker 4 (53:31):
Heart and souled or nation, and I've been blessed a
million times in return to the support of the American people.
I've really been too young to be in the Senate
because I wasn't thirty yet and too old to stay
as president. But I hope you know how grateful I
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am to all of you. I can honestly say, and.
Speaker 3 (53:57):
I mean this in the bottle, give you my word.
Speaker 4 (53:58):
As a Biden I can honestly say I'm more optimistic
about the future than I was when I was elected
as a twenty nine year old United States Senator. I
mean it, folks, we just have to remember who we are.
We're the United States of America, and there's nothing we
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cannot do when we.
Speaker 3 (54:25):
Do it together.
Speaker 4 (54:29):
God bless you all, and may God protect our troops.
Speaker 1 (54:37):
Camp I am six forty as she's listened to the
DNC address of President Biden, which is probably probably his
last public address in a non presidential capacity. This is
obviously for the benefit of the party, not the country.
He spoke for about fifty three minutes, if I'm not mistaken,
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which was a lot longer than I think anyone expected
now this was going to be this last time he
was going to have that bully pulpit in this way
where he could say anything he wanted and get everything
off his chest. And he got a lot off his chest.
Whether it's enough to launch the candidacy the ticket, that
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remains to be seen. But I thought it was. It
was full of honesty and sincerity in the sense that
he was trying to let everyone know that he didn't
necessarily like being pushed aside, but he understood it was
for a greater good, as far as what he perceived
was the best interests of the country. You can decide
whether that's true or not, but you can tell it
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was mixed emotions for him up there. He obviously felt
he had more to do. He obviously felt that there
was more that he could do, but this was no
longer his time. He talked about being too young to
originally be a senator when he needed to be thirty.
He was campaigning at the age of twenty nine, and
now he was self aware. He said he was too
old to remain as president. I was sitting watching with
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Wallace Sharp, and he and I have a similar eye
for certain events. When they're obviously in these convention centers
or any type of performance venue. The DNC, just like
the RNC, was supposed to finish because they're both in
the Central time zone. They were supposed to finish at
eight pm Pacific time, ten pm Central time. Well, it's
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nine to twenty one, an hour and twenty one minutes over.
And I'm thinking like, oh, that's a union house. I
know that they paid goog gobs of money to go
an hour and a half over. And I say that
to say Joe Biden was not going to give up
that microphone tonight. Yeah, for anyone or any reason, goog.
Speaker 7 (56:47):
Gobs of money and I have produced some of the
biggest shows in Southern California, have had some of the
biggest acts on stage. And when you are producing that
show at a union house, and you got to get that,
you're that guy's stamp on the side of the day
with a flashlight trying to get the attention of the
arts or someone to say wrap this up.
Speaker 1 (57:04):
And it's still they're still on the clock because the
night is not over until they've cleared the hall. Yeah,
oh yeah, it'll be another hour before you get all
those people out of there. They have the spin room,
they have the other interviews. I'm quite sure Gary and
Shannon are probably still talking to people setting up interviews
for tomorrow. Be sure to tune into them tomorrow from
nine am to one PMS. They are at the DNC
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all week long. But just to give you some of
the behind the scenes. When I was at the dncn RNC,
they ended on time for that reason because you're talking
about hundreds of thousands of dollars, no exaggeration.
Speaker 7 (57:39):
Easily easily, And I will say it is tough because
when you have a headliner on stage killing it the
way that he was for the party, you sometimes you
gotta let it ride. But I at a certain point
in time, you know, I'm even talking to Mark, I'm like, oh,
oh right, getty, Grandpa.
Speaker 1 (58:01):
You're talking about the wobbly moments, moments.
Speaker 7 (58:05):
Look, but but look, I at least respect and can
can give props due to him getting every single thing
off his chest that he's been holding on to. He
held nothing back, left no stone unturned, and let it
be known exactly how he feels. And I think this
was that moment for him to do that, because there
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wasn't going to be another opportunity to capture the nation
and say everything he had to say like this.
Speaker 1 (58:32):
The whole point of any political convention DNC, R and C.
You're supposed to, at its best unify the party. The
problem or obstacle confronting the Democrats was was Joe Biden
going to be willing and was he going to be
able to bring the party together in the way that
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it needed to be brought together. Because there are a
lot of people in that convention hall who were pretty
pissed at the party for what they did to Joe
Biden in such a very public way, pushing him aside.
Would he have lost the election? I think he probably
would have lost the election, But there is still a
conversation to be had about how Democrats went about pushing
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him aside. I personally thought it was disrespectful. It may
have saved the election for him, But two things can
be true. At the same time, it possibly could have
saved the election for the party, And yes, it was
utterly disrespectful what they did to Joe Biden as far
as trying to make the change. But as I was
saying earlier, the party is always about the party. The
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party does not care about any individual politician. The party
cares about power, and you think, well, not the Republican Party. Yes,
the Republican Party too. The Democrats are not worried about
Joe Biden personally. They're worried about the Oval Office. They're
worried about the House. They're worried about the Senate. And
if that seems insensitive, well that's just politics, and that's
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the underside and cd nature of politics, where power is
the most important thing. And there was a real fear
and concern that if they continued with Joe Biden at
the top of the ticket, that not only would the
Democrats lose the Oval Office, but they would also have
no chance of regaining control of the House and would
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lose the Senate. Without going into all the math of
the Senate, it just looked very bleak when we were
coming out of the RNC and the Republicans had all
that momentum and all that goodwill coming behind the assassination
attempt of former President Trump. Everything was moving in their
direction at least coming out of the RNC. And then
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when the Democrats made the change, at least in a
perception sense, the Democrats started coming together. Now, going back
to what I was saying about the whole importance of
the DNC, and the whole purpose of the DNC or
any political convention is to unite the party. It is
not to recruit the other side. There's not a Republican
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or I should say, there's no one who's voting for
Donald Trump who was watching tonight or listening tonight, who
was somehow swayed to change their vote. The convention is
not about that. And at the same time, when former
President Trump was speaking, it was not an appeal to Democrats.
It was not even an appeal to moderates and independence.
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The convention is about unifying the base, it's about coalescing
behind the ticket. And then it's almost like sending a
high school graduate out into the world. You know, it's
a it's a pep rally. You're trying to say, rah
rah ros sis bomba. Send them out with all these
good feelings. You hopefully get a bump in your polling,
and you hopefully get a bump in your fundraising. And
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if you get a bump in both, in other words,
if you can rake in some money and you gain
two or three percentage point point, then the convention has
worked as designed. You need both you need money and
you need the polling, and it's not unusual for a
ticket to get a bump, a political bump coming out
of the convention. If you don't, that means the party's
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not unified, and it has failed in that regard.
Speaker 7 (01:02:19):
With such a strong opening night, I mean, because they
really brought out a lot of the big guns, most
all of the big guns opening night. Do you think
you'll see or we will see the bump as far
as donations earlier instead of towards the end as it
was with the R and C. How we saw a
lot of donations go up towards the end where they
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brought in some of the bigger it's a great question.
We'll find out tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1 (01:02:45):
You will find reports tomorrow about whether there's any move
in the polling numbers, whether there was an influx of
cash coming off tonight. This is one advantage that the
Democrats do have, and I don't think anyone can argue this.
Whenever you have three presidents speaking, that's powerful within the
party sense. You don't have to like any of them,
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but from in a party sense, that says across generations
within the party, they are embracing this ticket. Again, the
whole goal, the whole point is unifying the party. How
better than having the president two term president from the nineties,
the two term president from the two thousand and eight
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to sixteen to now Joe Biden one term president. But
you have three presidents and the grandson of a fourth president.
That signifies party unity. And to answer your question, we'll
know tomorrow morning whether there was a bump financially, whether
there was a bump in a polling sense, and that
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can generate even more momentum going into the subsequent nights.
Tomorrow night there is former President Barack Obama, former First
Lady Michelle Obama, and Second Gentleman m Hoff. I don't
know the order. Most likely Barack Obama will be last.
For Tuesday Wednesday, they have former President Bill Clinton, a
former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Transportation Secretary of Pete
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Buddha Judge. Basically, anybody who is anybody within the party
is speaking at this convention. And if you want to
compare it and contrast the RNC and I think it's
a misopportunity. It's just me. I think it's a misopportunity
when you don't have that same type of embrace like
the I'll say, I don't want to call it the Oldmission,
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but the absence of former President George W. Bush that matters.
That matters as far as unifying a party, that matters,
as far as what signal it sends to the moderates
within the party. The I would say that the people
who aren't MAGA, but who are Republicans and they're unsure
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of which way they're going to go. That's why you
always bring your out your old president. You always do it.
And you know the Republicans chose not to, that's their choice.
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You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty And as she's been listening, told
you we were monitoring the DNC convention and we would
bring the president's remarks. Right now, the President's daughter, Ashley Biden,
is delivering her remarks, and then the President will be
speaking after her. So we're going to go right now
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to Ashley Biden.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
We don't tell you enough that you are the love
of our lives and the life of our love. I
had my wedding reception in my parents' backyard.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
At the time.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
My dad was vice president, but he was also that
dad who literally set up the entire reception. He was
riding around and is John Deere for Willer, fixing the
place settings, arranging the plants, and by the way, he
was very emotional. I thought that I would be a mess,
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but he was the one crying and I was the
one who had to comfort him. Before he walked me
down the aisle, he turned to me and said that
he would always be my best friend. All these years later, Dad,
you are still my best friend. His example in service
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inspired my career. I'm a social worker in Philadelphia. I
support formerly incarcerated women as they heal from past trauma
and they reclaim their lives. Dad always told me that
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I was no better than anybody else, and nobody was
better than me. He taught me that everyone deserves a
fair shot and that we shouldn't leave anyone behind. That's
what you learn from a fighter who has been underestimated
his entire life. When I look at Dad, I see grace, strength,
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and humility. I see one of the most consequential leaders
ever in history. And I also know that he never
stops thinking about you, about your dreams, about your dignity,
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about your opportunities, about your family. Dad knows that family
is everything. When Hunter and I lost our brother Bo
to cancer in twenty fifteen, the grief and the pain
felt like it might never end. Dad had the capacity
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to step out of his own pain and absorb ours.
And I know that Bo is here with us tonight,
as he is always with us. After Bau passed, I
got this tattoo on my wrist. It says courage dear heart,
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A reminder to myself to keep going, to get back
up like my Dad has always done. He has taught
me that a courageous heart is a miraculous thing. A
courageous heart can heal a family. A courageous heart can
heal a nation and maybe even the world. And now
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this election requires the courageous hearts of all of us.
In twenty twenty, my dad selected Kamala Harris to beat
Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
And he knows in twenty.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Twenty four she will beat Donald Trump again. So tonight
I am asking you, if you stood with us in
twenty twenty, call upon your courageous heart, stand with us today.
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Work harder than you have ever worked before in your life.
This is the fight of our lifetime. Our freedom, our democracy,
our reproductive rights, all of this.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
All of it is on the ballot.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
And I know together we can do this because my
dad help show us the way. And now I would
like to introduce my father. You're forty sixth President of
the United States, Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you
for so much. I'll tell you what to my dearest daughter, Ashley,
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God love you. You're incredible. Thank you for introduction and
for me in my courageous heart.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Oh, I would Hunter and our entire family and especially
our rock Jill, who as those of you who know
us she still leaves me both breathless and speechless.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Everybody knows her. I love her more than she loves me.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
She walks down the stairs, and I still get that going.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Boom boom, boom boom. We all will know me. No,
and I'm kidding.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Let's get a special round of applause, our first lady,
joe Biden, my dad. My dad used to have an
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expression for real. He'd say, Joey family is the beginning,
the middle, and the end.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
And I love you all books in America. I love
you books. Let me ask you. Let me ask you.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Are you ready to vote for freedom?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Are you ready to.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Vote for democracy and for America?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Let me ask you.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Are you ready to elect Kamala Harris and sim Waltz.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I haven't been right from the United.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
States, my fellow Democrats, my fellow Americans. Nearly four years ago,
in winter, on the step to the Capitol on a
cold January day, I raised my right hand and I
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swore an oath to you and to God to preserve, protect,
and defend the Constitution and the faithfully execute the office
of the President of the United States. In front of me,
in front of me was the city surrounded by the
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National Guard behind me, a capital just two weeks before, and.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Another run by a violent mob.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
But I knew then, from the bottom of my heart
that I knew now there is no place in America
for political violence.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
None.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
You cannot say you love your country only when you win.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
In that moment, I wasn't looking to the past. I
was looking at the future.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I spoke of the work at hand, the moment we
had to meet. It was, as I told you then,
a winter of peril and possibility, A peril and possibility
where the grip of a once in a century pandemic,
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historic joblessness, a call for racial justice long overdue, Claire,
and present threats to our very democracy. Thank you, And
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yet yeah, I believe then and I believe now. The
progress was, it is possible, Justice is achievable, and our
best days are not behind us, They're ever before us.
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Now it's summer, the winter has passed. Of a grateful heart,
I stand before you now on this August night to
report that democracy has prevailed democracy democras had the litters,
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and now democracy must be preserved.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
You've heard me say it before.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
We're facing inflection point, one of those rare moments in
history one of the decisions we make now will determine
the fate of our nation and the world for decades
to come.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
That's not hyperble I mean it literally.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
We're in a battle for the very soul America.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I ran for.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
President of twenty twenty because of what I saw at
Charlotte's in August of twenty seventeen. Extremists coming out of
the woods carrying torches, their veins bulging from their necks,
carrying Nazi swastikas, and changing the same exact anti Semitic
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bile that was hurting Germany in the early thirties. Neo Nazis,
white supremacists, the kukus Klan, so emboldened by a president
then in the White House that they saw as an ally,
they didn't even bother to wear their hoods.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Kate was on the march.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
In America, old ghosts and new garments, stirring up the
oldest divisions, stoking the oldest fears, giving oxygen to the
old horses that they long sought to tear part of America.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
And the process, a young woman was killed.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
When I contacted her mother asked about what happened, she
told me, when the president was asked what he thought
had happened. Donald Trump said, my quote, there are very
fine people on both sides.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
My god, that's what he said. That is what he.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Said and what he meant. That's what I realized. Had
listened to the admonition of my dead son. I could
not stay in the sidelines.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
So I ran.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Because I had no intention of running again. I just
lost part of my soul. But I ran with a
deep conviction. In America, I know, and in America where honesty, dignity,
decency still matter, And America where everyone has a fair
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shot and hate has no safe harbor.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
And America where the fundamental.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Created this nation that all of us are created equal.
It's still very much alive, and a broad coalition of Americas.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Joined with me.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Eighty one million voters voted for us, more than any
time in all of history because of all of you
in this room and others. We came together in twenty
twenty to save democracy. As your president, I've been determined
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to keep America moving forward, not going back, to stand
against hate and violence in all its forms, to be
a nation where we not only live with, but thrive
on diversity. Demonize you, no one leave you. No one
behind and becoming a nation, and we profess to be.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I also ran.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
To rebuild the backbone of America, the middle class.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I made a.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Commitment to you that I be a president of all Americans,
whether you vote for me or not.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
We have done that study show the major bills.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
We have passed actually delivered more or the red stage
than blue because the job of the president is the
litter to all of America. Because of you, and I'm
not exaggerating. Because of you, we've had around those extraordinary
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four years of progress ever period.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
When I say we, I mean common Land me. Just
think about it.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
COVID no longer controls our lives, but God, from economic
crisis to the strongest economy in the entire world, record
sixty million new jobs, record small business growth, record high, stock.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Market record high four.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
One ks, wages up and inflation down way down and
continuing to go down. The smallest racial wealth gap in
twenty years. And yes, we both know we have more
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to do, but we're moving in the right direction. More
Americans that peace of mind that comes from having health insurance.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
More Americans have.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Health insurance today than ever before in American history.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
And after as a young senator beginning to fight. We're
goting to fight.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
For fifty years to give Medicare the power to negotiate
locals to give you the drug prices. We finally beat
big Pharma and guests who cast the tide breaking vote
president seemed to be President Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
And now it's the law of the land.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Instead of paying four hundred dollars a month or insulentce
senior to diabetes will pay thirty five a month. The
while we passed already he closes started in January.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Every senior's total.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Prescription costs can be capped at two thousand dollars, no matter.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
How expensive the drugs they have.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
And what we don't focus on and our republic events
don't seem to understand. All right for him, don't just
save seniors' money. They saved the American taxpayer's money. You know,
when we just passed saved is saved one hundred and
sixty billion dollars over the next decade. That's not hyperbolet
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is because Medicare no longer has to pay those exorbitant
prices to the big farm. Look, look, thank you Kamala too.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Look, coach, how can we.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Have the strongest economy in the world without the best
infrastructure in the world. Donald Trump promised infrastructure week.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Every week for four years, and he never built a
damn thing.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
But now because of Kama I've done. Remember we're told
we couldn't get it done. Remember when we came in office,
we couldn't get anything past. But right now we're giving
the America an infrastructure decade, not week.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
We're modernizing our roads.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Our bridges, our ports, our airports, our trains, our buses,
removing every pipe from schools and homes so every child
can drink clean water, Providing affordable high speed internet for
every America no matter where they live, unlike not unlike
but Roosevelt did with electricity and so much more. We
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are united the country. We're growing our economy, we're improving.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Our quality of life.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
And we're building a better America because that's who we are.
How can we meet the strongest nation in the world
without leading the world in science and technology? After years
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on of our semiconductor chips from abroad, which American invented
that those chips, our Chips and Science Act meant the
private coming from around the world are now investing moly
tens of billions of dollars to build new chip factories
right here in America. And over that period they'll create
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tens of thousands of jobs, and many of those jobs
and the so called fabs the building to make the
chips that's being constructed now. And guess what the average
salary of those fabs size of the football field will
be over one hundred thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
And you don't need a college.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Degree because of you and so many electeds out there.
American manufacturers back where they will say we would lead
the world of manufacturing a hundred thousand new manufacturing jobs.
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All Republican friends and others made sure they'd go abroad
to get the cheapest laver. We used to import products
and export jobs. Now we export America products and create
American jobs.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
And listening can't find AM six forty where jobs belong.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
For every new job, with every new.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Factory, pride and hope is being brought back to communities
throughout the country that were left behind. You know you're
from many of you. You know what it's like when
that factory closed, or your mother, your father, your grandmother,
grandfather worked and now you're back providing once again. Proving
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the Wall Street didn't build America. The middle class build
America and unions. Unions built the middle class. It's been
my view since I came to the Senate, and that's
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why I'm proud that when the first president the walk
a picket line and be leveled, the most pro union
president history, and I accept it.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
That's a fact.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Because the unions do well. We all do well. You
got it, man, you got it.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
I brave. I'm proud.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Look, remember it told we couldn't get anything done because
we couldn't get anything done in the Congress.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Or your support. We passed the most.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Significant climate law in the history of mankind.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
For three hundred and.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Seventy billion dollars, cutting carbon emissions in half by twenty thirty,
launching a Climate Corps similar to America Corps Prese Corps,
treading tens of thousands of jobs for young people in
the future who are going to make sure this continues,
Trading hundreds of thousands of jobs and clean energy for
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American workers including the IBW, installing five hundred thousand, five
hundred thousand charging stations all across Americans, and in the
process reducing carbon emissions.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
And we're seeing it. We're seeing to.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
It that the first beneficiary's environmental inlitiatives are those fence
line communities that have been smothered by the legacy of pollution.
Louisiana and Delaware wrote nine. All the factors, all those
chemical factors, are right next to the poorest neighborhoods.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
They're the ones we're going to bring back. And how
how can we be.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
The greatest nation in the world without the best education
system in the world. Donald trouble to Republican friends, and
not only can't think, they can't read very well. Seriously
think about it, look at their project.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Twenty twenty five. Want to do away with the part
of education well. During the pandemic, Kamahai.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Helped states and cities get back their schools back open,
and we gave public.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
School teachers a raise.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
We created apprenticeships with business in the communities, putting students
on a path a good playing job whether.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Or not they go to college.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
And by the way, we're making college a hell of
a lot more affordable, increasing pilgrams by nine hundred dollars.
Over fifteen billion dollars face PCUS. Minority servants I including
Hispanic institutions and travel colleges. We kept our commitment provide
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more student relief than ever by lifting the burden of
helping millions of families so they could get married, start
a family by home, and begin to build family wealth
and contributed to the community and grow our economy. It's
not costing us, it's creating more wealth. We fundamentally transferred
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how our transformed how our economy grows from the middle
out and the bottom up instead of the top down.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
You know, my dad, you.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Said there wasn't a whole hell of a lot to
drop down on my kitchen table at the end of
the month. I come from basic middle class family, three
bedroom house, four kids, and grandpapa lived with us, decent neighborhood,
but never a penny to spare. And look, that top
down notion never worked. A lot of Democrats didn't think it.
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Both thought it worked but a dozen And when we
did all that done, everybody can do well. Everybody. Donald
Trump calls America a failing nation.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Nod I'm saying thing, but think about this. Think about this,
He publicly.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Says to the whole world, I'm gonna say something outragious.
I know more foreign leaders by their first names and
know them well than anybody live just because I'm so
damn old.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
But I'm not joking.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Speak of the message he sends around the world. When
he talks about America being a faily nation, he says
we're losing. He's the loser. He's dead wrong. Many of
you are very successful people who travel the world. Name
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me a country in the world that doesn't think for
the leading nation of the world without America. Not a joke,
think about it, I mean literal, who could lead the
world other than the United States of America.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Well, guess what.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
America is winning and the world's better off for it.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
America is more prosperous.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
And America are safety today than runner Donald Trump. Trump
continues to lie about crime in America like everything else.
Guess what, On his watch, the murder rate went up
thirty percent, the biggest increase in history. Meanwhile, we made
the largest investment common line in public safety ever.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Now the murder rate is.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Falling faster than any time in history. Violent crime has
dropped to the lowest level of more than fifty years,
and crime will keep coming down.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
When we put a prosecutor in.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
The oval office instead of a convicted fel when folks,
the singlish Senator from the Sea, Senator from California and
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I passed the first ban on assault weapons.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
And guess what it worked.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
If we care about public safety, we need to prevent
gun violence.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
And it makes me a shame when I travel the world,
which I do.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
More children in America are killed by a gunshot than
any other cause in the United States. More die from
a bullet than cancer accidents or anything else in the
United States of America. My god, that's why KAMAI are
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proud we beat the end of right when we passed
the first major bipartis in contact you.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
On thirty years.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
I'm serious. That comes from here. And now it's time
to ban the sole weapons again and demand universal background checks.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
It's hard.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
I never thought I'd stand before a crowd of Democrats
and refer to a president as a liar.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
So many times now. I'm not trying to be funny.
It's sad.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Trump continues to lie about the border. Here's what he
won't tell you. Trump killed the strongest bipart of some
border deal in.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
The history of the United States that we negotiated with.
A Senate Republican took four weeks. Once it passed and
I acknowledged.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Those expansive border change in American history. He called Senators
to say, don't support the bipatters and bill. He said
it would help me politically and hurt him politically.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
My god, now I'm serious. Think about it, not a joke.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
Ask even the press who doesn't like me, they'll tell
you that's true. Typically Trump, once again putting himself first
in America. Last then I had to take executive action.
The result of the executive action I took, border encounters
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have dropped over fifty percent. In fact, there are fewer
border crosses the day.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
That when Donald Trump left office.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
And unlike Trump, we will not demonize immigrants saying they're
the poison of blood of America, poison the blood.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Of our country.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Common Arch committed to strengthening of legal immigration, including protecting
Dreamers and more.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
This is camfi am sext's forty Los Angeles in Orange County.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
And here's what else I believe in protecting your freedom.
You're freedom to vote, you're freedom of love who you love,
and your freedom to choose its decision over turning Robie
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Wade that you heard earlier tonight, the United States Supreme
Court majority wrote the following quote, women or not without
electrical without not allowed.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
There's not without electoral, electoral or political power. No kidding, Maga.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Republicans found out the power women in twenty twenty two,
and Donald Trump is going to find out the power
women in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
All right, now we're Trump, there's MegaR.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Republican right wingers seek your race history. We Democrats continue
to write history and make more history. I'm proud. I'm
proud I've kept my commitment to appoint the first black
women in the United State Supreme Court, the Tanji Brown Jackson,
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the symbol for every young woman in America that you
can do anything. I'm proud I've kept my commitment to
have an administration looks like America and the taps in
the full talent of our nation, the most diverse cabinet
in history, including the first black women in South Asian
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descent to serve as Vice President and will soon to
serve as the forty seventh President of.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
The United States. She is good. Look, thank you, Kamalo books.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
I've long said we have many obligations as the nation,
but I got in trouble years ago for saying I'd
make no apologies. We have only one truly sacred obligation
to prepare and to crypt those we send to war
and care for them and their families when they come
home and when they don't.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
I'm so proud they've written and signed the Pack Act,
almost significant laws ever, helping veteran to their families exposed
of toxic materials like burn pits in Asian orange.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
I was around during the Vietnam War. It's hard.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Nobody's able to prove that there's illness is the consequence
of agent orange. And no one was able to prove
initial that because they lived in burn pitsh like my
son lived next to in Iraq for a.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Year, that is the cause of the illness.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
But because of the Pack Act, a surviving spouse to
two children is now eligible for a stipend about three
thousand dollars a month, and those children who lost us
a parent are eligible for tuition benefits to go to
college and to get job training.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
It's already helping over one million.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Vetterors to their families just so far. Well, I love them,
and I so proud of my son's service. We get it,
but guess who doesn't get it and doesn't respect our veterans.
We know from his own chief of staff, a four
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star General John Delly, that Trump went in Europe would
not go to the grave sites in one of those France,
the brave service members who gave their lives of this country.
He called them suckers and losers. Who in the hell
does he think he is? Who does he think he is?
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There's no words for a person.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
They're not the words of a person not worthy of being commander.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
In chief period, not then, not now, and not ever.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
I mean that. I mean that in the bottom of
my heart, just as no commander.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
In chief should ever bow down the dictator the way
Trump bows down to putin. I never have and I
promise you, Kamala Harris will never do it, will never
bow dollars. When Trump left office, Europe and NATO was
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in tatters, not a joke.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
America First Doctrine changed our whole image in the world.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Well, I spent they gave the hours about one hundred
and ninety hours some total, been in my counterparts or
heads of state in Europe to strengthen NATO.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
We did.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Well, You're not in Europe like it had been nine
for years, adding Fiddling and Sweden to NATO. Ten days
before he died, Henry Kissinger called and said, not since,
not since Napoleon, as Europe not looked over the shoulder
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a Russia with dread.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Until now until now. Well, guess what Punin thought he'd.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
Take key in three days, three years later, Ukraine is
still free. When I came to office, the conventional wisdom
was that China would anotherly surpass the United States.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
They haven't noticed. No one's saying that now.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
Now, don't keep working to bring hostages home and end
the war in Gaza and bring pieces of curtain to
the least.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
As you know, I wrote.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
A peace treaty for Gaza two days ago.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
I put forward a proposal that has.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
Brought us closer to doing that than we've done since
October seventh. We're working around the clock, my Secretary of State,
prevent a wider war, and reunite hostages to their families,
and surge humanitarian health and food assistance into Gaza.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
Now ten.
Speaker 4 (41:20):
The civilian suffering of the palaest Indian people, and finally, finally,
finally deliver a cease firing in this war. Those protesters
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out in the Street.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
They have a point.
Speaker 4 (41:46):
A lot of innocent people are being killed on both sides.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
Jessa.
Speaker 4 (41:53):
We worked around the clock to bring home wrongfully detained.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
Americans and others from.
Speaker 4 (41:57):
Russia, one of the most complicated.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
Swaps in history. But they're home. Come am I going
to keep working.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
I mean all.
Speaker 4 (42:10):
Americans wrong we defined around the world home.
Speaker 3 (42:15):
I mean it, folks.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
I've got five months left in my presidency.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
I've got a lot to do. I intend to get
it done.
Speaker 4 (42:32):
I see spend the honor of my lifetime the server
as your president.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
I love the job, but I love my country more.
I love my country more. And all this talk about
how I am anger.
Speaker 4 (42:53):
All those people said I should step down, That's not true.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
I love my country more.
Speaker 4 (43:11):
And we need to preserve our democracy in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
We need you to vote.
Speaker 4 (43:20):
We need you to keep the Senate, we need you
to win back the House of Representatives, and above all,
we need you to beat Donald Trump. All what com land,
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Tim President and Vice President of the United States of America. Look,
They'll continue to lead America forward, creating more jobs, standing
there for workers, growing the economy, lower the cost the
American family. So they just have a little more breathing room.
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We made incredible process in progress. We have more work
to do, and Common and TIM will continue to take
on corporate grade and bring down.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
Cost of food.
Speaker 4 (44:19):
They'll keep taking out big farm or making an insulin
thirty five dollars a month, not just for seniors but
for everyone in America, and cappy for script and drug
costs a total of two thousand dollars, not just for
seniors but for everyone.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
And folks, that's going to.
Speaker 4 (44:38):
Save America again, tens of billions of dollars, folks.
Speaker 3 (44:47):
They'll make housing more affordable, building three.
Speaker 4 (44:52):
Million new homes, providing twenty five thousand dollars down payment
assistant for the first time home.
Speaker 3 (44:58):
Buyer, more than the ten reapproved.
Speaker 4 (45:04):
Donald Trump wants a new tax on imported goods, food, gas, clothing, more,
you know, without costs the average family cording the experts
three thousand.
Speaker 3 (45:15):
Nine hundred dollars a year in a tax. No, that's
a fact. Common and ten.
Speaker 4 (45:24):
Will make the childcare attax for the permanent, lifting millions
of children out of poverty and helping millions of families
get ahead.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
And you know what Trump.
Speaker 4 (45:39):
Hass He put the car, He created the largest debt.
And he president had in four years with his two
trillion dollar tax cut for the wealthy.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
Well, Trump has a new plan.
Speaker 4 (45:53):
He wants to pride a five billion dollar tax cut
for corporations that the very wealthy put a rate.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
It put us further in debt.
Speaker 4 (46:04):
And folks, you know we have a thousand trillion We
have a thousand billionaires in America. You know what the
average tax rate they pay eight point two percent.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
If we just increase their.
Speaker 4 (46:23):
Taxes we proposed to twenty five percent, which isn't the
highest tax rate, even it would raise five hundred billion
new dollars over ten years. May still be very wealthy. Look,
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Kamala and Tim, you're going to make them pay.
Speaker 3 (46:48):
Their fair share.
Speaker 4 (46:50):
They'll protect so security medicare. Trump wants to cut those
security medicare common Tim will protect your freedom, the protector
vote to write, your right to vote, the protector civil rights.
And you know Trump will do everything to ban abortion nationwide.
Speaker 3 (47:14):
Oh he will.
Speaker 4 (47:16):
You know, Comlin, Tim will do everything they possibly can.
That's why you have to elect to Senate in the House.
Speaker 3 (47:23):
To restore Roe V. Wade.
Speaker 4 (47:34):
The Angie Greeks taught us the character is destiny character
is destiny for me and Jill. We know Comlin Doug
are people of character. It's been our honor to serve
alongside them, and we know that Tim and Gwyn.
Speaker 3 (47:55):
Waltz are also people of great character. Selecting Kamala was.
Speaker 4 (48:03):
The very first decision I made before I became when
I became our nominee, and it was the best decision
I made my whole career.
Speaker 3 (48:18):
We've not only got to.
Speaker 4 (48:19):
Know each other, we've become close friends. She's tough, she's experienced,
and she has enormous integrity, enormous integrity. Her story represents
the best American story, and like many of our best presidents,
she was also vice president.
Speaker 1 (48:41):
If we listen to caf AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (48:48):
But she'll be a president our children could look up to.
Speaker 3 (48:53):
She'll be a president.
Speaker 4 (48:54):
Respected by world leaders because she already is.
Speaker 3 (48:58):
She'll be a president we can all be proud of.
And she will be an.
Speaker 4 (49:02):
Historic president who puts her stamp on America's future because
will be the first presidential election since January sixth. On
that day, we almost lost everything about who we are
as the country. And that threat, this is not high, purblely,
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that threat is still very much alive. Donald Trump says
he will refuse to accept the election result if he
loses again. Think about that, he means to think about that.
He's probably seen a bloodbath.
Speaker 3 (49:46):
If he loses, in his words.
Speaker 4 (49:49):
And that he'll be a dictator on day one in
his own words. By the way, this sucker means it. No,
I'm not joking, think about it. Anybody else said that
in the passage that he was crazy. He is crazy,
but you'd think it was an exaggeration.
Speaker 3 (50:07):
But he means it. We can't let that happen.
Speaker 4 (50:12):
Folks, all of us carry a special obligation Independence, Republicans, Democrats.
We save democracy in twenty twenty and now we must
save it again in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (50:34):
You love to be us cast This year will.
Speaker 4 (50:35):
Determine whether democracy and freedom will prevail.
Speaker 3 (50:39):
It's that simple, it's that serious, and the power is
literally in your hands.
Speaker 4 (50:46):
History is in your hands, not hyproblely, it's in your hands.
America's future is in your hands.
Speaker 3 (50:56):
And because of this, nowhere else in the world world.
Speaker 4 (51:02):
Could a kid with a stutter and modest beginnings in
scrand Pennsylvania, Claimont Delaware grow up to sit behind the
resolute desk in the Oval Office. That that's because America
is and always has been a nation of possibilities. Possibilities
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you must never lose that never.
Speaker 3 (51:34):
Come. And Tim understand that this nation.
Speaker 4 (51:37):
Must continue to be a place of possibilities, not just
for the few of us, but for all of us.
To join me and promising your whole heart to this effort,
and where my heart will be, I promise I'll be
the best volunteer Harris and Wallis as.
Speaker 3 (51:57):
Cam I've ever seen. Each of us.
Speaker 4 (52:08):
Has a part in the American story. For me and
my family, there's a song that means.
Speaker 3 (52:15):
A lot to us.
Speaker 4 (52:16):
It captures the best of who we are as a nation.
The song is called American Anthem. There's one verse that
stands out and I can't sing with the damn, so
I'm not gonna try.
Speaker 3 (52:30):
I'll just quote it. The work in prayers of centuries
have brought us to this day. What shall our legacy
or legacy be? We will our children say?
Speaker 4 (52:44):
Let me know in my heart, well my days are
through America, America.
Speaker 6 (52:51):
I gave my best to you.
Speaker 4 (53:17):
I've made I've made a lot of mistakes in my career,
but I gave my best to you.
Speaker 3 (53:25):
For fifty years. Like many of you, I've given my.
Speaker 4 (53:31):
Heart and souled or nation, and I've been blessed a
million times in return to the support of the American people.
I've really been too young to be in the Senate
because I wasn't thirty yet and too old to stay
as president. But I hope you know how grateful I
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am to all of you. I can honestly say, and.
Speaker 3 (53:57):
I mean this in the bottle, give you my word.
Speaker 4 (53:58):
As a Biden I can honestly say I'm more optimistic
about the future than I was when I was elected
as a twenty nine year old United States Senator. I
mean it, folks, we just have to remember who we are.
We're the United States of America, and there's nothing we
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cannot do when we.
Speaker 3 (54:25):
Do it together.
Speaker 4 (54:29):
God bless you all, and may God protect our troops.
Speaker 1 (54:37):
Camp I am six forty as she's listened to the
DNC address of President Biden, which is probably probably his
last public address in a non presidential capacity. This is
obviously for the benefit of the party, not the country.
He spoke for about fifty three minutes, if I'm not mistaken,
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which was a lot longer than I think anyone expected
now this was going to be this last time he
was going to have that bully pulpit in this way
where he could say anything he wanted and get everything
off his chest. And he got a lot off his chest.
Whether it's enough to launch the candidacy the ticket, that
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remains to be seen. But I thought it was. It
was full of honesty and sincerity in the sense that
he was trying to let everyone know that he didn't
necessarily like being pushed aside, but he understood it was
for a greater good, as far as what he perceived
was the best interests of the country. You can decide
whether that's true or not, but you can tell it
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was mixed emotions for him up there. He obviously felt
he had more to do. He obviously felt that there
was more that he could do, but this was no
longer his time. He talked about being too young to
originally be a senator when he needed to be thirty.
He was campaigning at the age of twenty nine, and
now he was self aware. He said he was too
old to remain as president. I was sitting watching with
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Wallace Sharp, and he and I have a similar eye
for certain events. When they're obviously in these convention centers
or any type of performance venue. The DNC, just like
the RNC, was supposed to finish because they're both in
the Central time zone. They were supposed to finish at
eight pm Pacific time, ten pm Central time. Well, it's
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nine to twenty one, an hour and twenty one minutes over.
And I'm thinking like, oh, that's a union house. I
know that they paid goog gobs of money to go
an hour and a half over. And I say that
to say Joe Biden was not going to give up
that microphone tonight. Yeah, for anyone or any reason, goog.
Speaker 7 (56:47):
Gobs of money and I have produced some of the
biggest shows in Southern California, have had some of the
biggest acts on stage. And when you are producing that
show at a union house, and you got to get that,
you're that guy's stamp on the side of the day
with a flashlight trying to get the attention of the
arts or someone to say wrap this up.
Speaker 1 (57:04):
And it's still they're still on the clock because the
night is not over until they've cleared the hall. Yeah,
oh yeah, it'll be another hour before you get all
those people out of there. They have the spin room,
they have the other interviews. I'm quite sure Gary and
Shannon are probably still talking to people setting up interviews
for tomorrow. Be sure to tune into them tomorrow from
nine am to one PMS. They are at the DNC
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all week long. But just to give you some of
the behind the scenes. When I was at the dncn RNC,
they ended on time for that reason because you're talking
about hundreds of thousands of dollars, no exaggeration.
Speaker 7 (57:39):
Easily easily, And I will say it is tough because
when you have a headliner on stage killing it the
way that he was for the party, you sometimes you
gotta let it ride. But I at a certain point
in time, you know, I'm even talking to Mark, I'm like, oh,
oh right, getty, Grandpa.
Speaker 1 (58:01):
You're talking about the wobbly moments, moments.
Speaker 7 (58:05):
Look, but but look, I at least respect and can
can give props due to him getting every single thing
off his chest that he's been holding on to. He
held nothing back, left no stone unturned, and let it
be known exactly how he feels. And I think this
was that moment for him to do that, because there
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wasn't going to be another opportunity to capture the nation
and say everything he had to say like this.
Speaker 1 (58:32):
The whole point of any political convention DNC, R and C.
You're supposed to, at its best unify the party. The
problem or obstacle confronting the Democrats was was Joe Biden
going to be willing and was he going to be
able to bring the party together in the way that
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it needed to be brought together. Because there are a
lot of people in that convention hall who were pretty
pissed at the party for what they did to Joe
Biden in such a very public way, pushing him aside.
Would he have lost the election? I think he probably
would have lost the election, But there is still a
conversation to be had about how Democrats went about pushing
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him aside. I personally thought it was disrespectful. It may
have saved the election for him, But two things can
be true. At the same time, it possibly could have
saved the election for the party, And yes, it was
utterly disrespectful what they did to Joe Biden as far
as trying to make the change. But as I was
saying earlier, the party is always about the party. The
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party does not care about any individual politician. The party
cares about power, and you think, well, not the Republican Party. Yes,
the Republican Party too. The Democrats are not worried about
Joe Biden personally. They're worried about the Oval Office. They're
worried about the House. They're worried about the Senate. And
if that seems insensitive, well that's just politics, and that's
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the underside and cd nature of politics, where power is
the most important thing. And there was a real fear
and concern that if they continued with Joe Biden at
the top of the ticket, that not only would the
Democrats lose the Oval Office, but they would also have
no chance of regaining control of the House and would
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lose the Senate. Without going into all the math of
the Senate, it just looked very bleak when we were
coming out of the RNC and the Republicans had all
that momentum and all that goodwill coming behind the assassination
attempt of former President Trump. Everything was moving in their
direction at least coming out of the RNC. And then
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when the Democrats made the change, at least in a
perception sense, the Democrats started coming together. Now, going back
to what I was saying about the whole importance of
the DNC, and the whole purpose of the DNC or
any political convention is to unite the party. It is
not to recruit the other side. There's not a Republican
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or I should say, there's no one who's voting for
Donald Trump who was watching tonight or listening tonight, who
was somehow swayed to change their vote. The convention is
not about that. And at the same time, when former
President Trump was speaking, it was not an appeal to Democrats.
It was not even an appeal to moderates and independence.
(01:01:31):
The convention is about unifying the base, it's about coalescing
behind the ticket. And then it's almost like sending a
high school graduate out into the world. You know, it's
a it's a pep rally. You're trying to say, rah
rah ros sis bomba. Send them out with all these
good feelings. You hopefully get a bump in your polling,
and you hopefully get a bump in your fundraising. And
(01:01:54):
if you get a bump in both, in other words,
if you can rake in some money and you gain
two or three percentage point point, then the convention has
worked as designed. You need both you need money and
you need the polling, and it's not unusual for a
ticket to get a bump, a political bump coming out
of the convention. If you don't, that means the party's
(01:02:16):
not unified, and it has failed in that regard.
Speaker 7 (01:02:19):
With such a strong opening night, I mean, because they
really brought out a lot of the big guns, most
all of the big guns opening night. Do you think
you'll see or we will see the bump as far
as donations earlier instead of towards the end as it
was with the R and C. How we saw a
lot of donations go up towards the end where they
(01:02:41):
brought in some of the bigger it's a great question.
We'll find out tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1 (01:02:45):
You will find reports tomorrow about whether there's any move
in the polling numbers, whether there was an influx of
cash coming off tonight. This is one advantage that the
Democrats do have, and I don't think anyone can argue this.
Whenever you have three presidents speaking, that's powerful within the
party sense. You don't have to like any of them,
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but from in a party sense, that says across generations
within the party, they are embracing this ticket. Again, the
whole goal, the whole point is unifying the party. How
better than having the president two term president from the nineties,
the two term president from the two thousand and eight
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to sixteen to now Joe Biden one term president. But
you have three presidents and the grandson of a fourth president.
That signifies party unity. And to answer your question, we'll
know tomorrow morning whether there was a bump financially, whether
there was a bump in a polling sense, and that
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can generate even more momentum going into the subsequent nights.
Tomorrow night there is former President Barack Obama, former First
Lady Michelle Obama, and Second Gentleman m Hoff. I don't
know the order. Most likely Barack Obama will be last.
For Tuesday Wednesday, they have former President Bill Clinton, a
former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Transportation Secretary of Pete
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Buddha Judge. Basically, anybody who is anybody within the party
is speaking at this convention. And if you want to
compare it and contrast the RNC and I think it's
a misopportunity. It's just me. I think it's a misopportunity
when you don't have that same type of embrace like
the I'll say, I don't want to call it the Oldmission,
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but the absence of former President George W. Bush that matters.
That matters as far as unifying a party, that matters,
as far as what signal it sends to the moderates
within the party. The I would say that the people
who aren't MAGA, but who are Republicans and they're unsure
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of which way they're going to go. That's why you
always bring your out your old president. You always do it.
And you know the Republicans chose not to, that's their choice.
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