August 23, 2024 • 64 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Live coverage of the Democratic Nomination Convention finale with the formal acceptance speech from current Vice President, and Democratic Presidential Nominee Kamala Harris - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Of course, tonight's the last night of the Democratic National Convention,
which is going on in Chicago. Hopefully you've been following
the coverage of Gary and Shannon each day this week
from Chicago's been very entertaining. Tonight, of course, Kamala Harris
will officially accept the Democratic nomination for president. There's supposed
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to be a mystery guest tonight. I don't know if
it's a big mystery guest or it's just a mystery
and it will you know, it's not a big deal guest.
I don't know which it's supposed to be. No, no, no,
be serious. There have been rumors of it being Beyonce.
There have been rumors of it possibly being Taylor Swift.
I was having a conversation earlier. It's like, look, if
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the Democrats were to handle this the correct way, they
would have Beyonce and Taylor Swift to come out holding
hands and then you know, singing the praises of Kamala Harris.
You have to look, if the Democrats could do anything, well,
it's put on an entertainment show. If you think about
the musical productions. You think about the artists who've been
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associated with the DNC and inaugurations in previous years. In
recent decade or so, they've got that on lock. If
they had Beyonce and Taylor Swift, who that would be something.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I don't know if it's going to be that.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I'm saying that's what I would do if I were
in charge of entertainment for the DNC. But there's supposed
to be some mystery guest. Last night it was Oprah.
They didn't keep that under wraps. That got out even
before the night's proceedings began. But tonight, no real leak
has come as in regard to who's supposed to be
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the mystery guest.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Maybe it's the Hawk to a girl. Oh that would
be great, That would be great. Man, they got it
locked up. If they get hurt, you get out there
and vote. You got a Oh, thank you. Elmar's off
to a good start. Yes he's I think he's finally
getting the show.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I think he's finally figuring out what this show is
all about.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Learning on the job. Well done.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yes, it's only taken them five or six times doing
the show to figure it out. No, but honestly, there
is a mystery guest. It has not been revealed yet.
I don't know whether the mystery guests mean anything. Right now,
former Congressman Adam Kinsinger is coming to the podium.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
We won't need to listen to him right now.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
But you wonder whether these mystery guests have made a difference.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Well, let me just tell you about this. As far
as viewership.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Remember the first night I told you that the Democrats,
I should say the DNC garnered more than twenty million people,
and that first night viewership was higher than the first
three nights of the RNC. Well, it went up to
twenty point six million in the second night, and the
third night, as in last night was just twenty point
one million. So it's hovered around twenty million the whole week,
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and those three days have been higher than the RNC.
The real question is whether Kamala Harris will be able
to eclipse the twenty five million that former President Trump
pulled when former President Trump did his nomination acceptance speech.
If you're into the viewership and the ratings and that
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kind of thing, but I will say this earlier, I said,
if you look at the pattern, if historically you have
the decent first night. Everyone tunes in for the first
night and then it drops off. That's what happened with
the Republicans, which was true to form. So there's nothing
negative about that. But what's notable here is the DNC
has had no drop off, which says that people are
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tuning in because they want to see what it is
and they're continuing to keep that audience. Comparatively speaking, for
the third night, Democrats had twenty one excuse me, twenty
point one million people and the R and C third
night had seventeen point nine million viewers. So the Democrats
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are winning the first three days. We'll see if they
win the most important day, which is tonight. Twenty five million.
That's a high number. That's a real high number. And
I don't know if Kamala Harris can get that. We
haven't seen the fundraising, but that's definitely a high number.
And also I wonder if she's going to speak.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
A long time.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Last night, Governor Waltz didn't spend a lot of time
at the mic. He kind of told his story and
got out. He said, Hi, I'm Tim good night.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I think it's going to if only because we have
Adam Kinzinger on now and then the only other people
that they have on the lineup is Maya Harris and
Honorable Roy Cooper. And then it's straight to Kamala Harris.
Who is Roy Cooper? I couldn't tell you. Oh I'm sorry,
Governor of North Carolina. Oh okay, yeah, so yeah, so
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I'm not sure who my Harris is.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Maybe.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Oh no, that's that's her sister. That's Kinda Harris's sister.
Oh well, perfect, she's probably going to introduce her sister.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Yeah, okay, So those the last two people after uh
after where we're at right now? I got it, okay,
so before before eight o'clock, So that's probably to give
for more time.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah well yeah, yeah, because if they start earlier, then
she can work later into the evening, could evening?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Mark Ronner, how you doing, sir?
Speaker 7 (05:36):
Oh lovely? If only these conventions could last two weeks each?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You know? Are you serious? I?
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Okay, as you know, I got stuck in my car
for two or three hours a couple of days ago,
and I had to listen to all I had to
listen to is the convention just about ran it into
a brick wall.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah, they're basically boring, and it's boring when you think
about they have speeches for about four hours for our
I'm not talking about the televised portion.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
There is a pre TV version.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
If you've ever actually gone to one, they have speakers
most of the day. Yeah, and then you only get
to see maybe two or three hours on TV. But
if you actually go to a convention, it's all day long.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
And if you pay attention to this stuff, the differences
in the celebrities that each convention books is just hilarious.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Well, not only are the celebrities different.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
The whole oration, the whole sophistication, the whole direction is
completely different. You can tell some speakers are ready for
the literal prime time and some have never given a
speech in front of an audience more than twenty people.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Oh yeah, I almost like those. As a fan of
bad movies, I almost like those awkward speeches more. They're
very entertaining. Oh they're very entertaining, but you know that's why.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
And they're all auditioning for an evening spot at a
later convention.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
And a lot of these guys don't understand that you
don't have to shout. You have a microphone, and you
can modulate your voice.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
They don't get that, and I'm not sure why, because
if you're a practiced politician elected official, you should know better. Now,
they don't have earpieces, and I understand from a logistical standpoint,
I don't think they're monitors up on the stage, so
they don't get to hear themselves.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
So it's like beals at Shay Stadium.
Speaker 8 (07:23):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yeah, they're not hearing themselves and they're waiting to hear
themselves from their sound bouncing off the sides of the pavilion,
and so they feel as if they need to yell
when obviously they don't. That's the only thing I can
think of, because I understand as someone who's done enough venues.
Any singer, they need to be able to hear themselves
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for that reason, so they can hear their relative intonations.
So they're singing on key off key, but speakers don't
need to hear it for that reason. So they probably
don't have any earpiece. They don't have an IFB, so
they're just trying to wing it out there and they
probably have no idea how loud they are or are not.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Well.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Who doesn't appreciate sitting at home and being shouted at,
especially by a coach. I'm hardwired for that from school,
aren't you.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Oh yeah, No, it's weird because yes, I expected from
the coach when I was playing ball, they would yell
at us, they would cuss at us, they would call
us all types of names that they they couldn't get
away with.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Now.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I remember my rugby coach once
shouting run your bastards. That was expecting something like that
from Walls, and he didn't really deliver.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
No.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
No, he didn't go beyond his personal story. He didn't
get into a lot of personal coaching anecdotes. I thought
he was going to go further down that road.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Very restrained.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
He did not, And I'm quite sure that was by
design for whatever reason. Because every single speech is cleared
in advance. You're not going to get up there and
just wing it. You're not just going to write whatever
you want and say whatever you want. All of this
is carefully orchestrated.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
Well, it's kind of one of those speeches, like we're
off at a wrestling meet. Okaybody's had three matches, it's darkout.
Let's just get in the bus and get home. Maybe
that's it. Yeah, we'll see what happens tonight. It's Later
with mo Kelly caf I AM six forty. We're live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Let's drop into the DNC.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Maya Harris right now is speaking or actually just finished
speaking of talking about obviously her sister.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Lists hear what's going on?
Speaker 9 (09:27):
A leader who cares for all of us, a leader
who fights for every one of us.
Speaker 10 (09:35):
Our Democratic nominee, my big.
Speaker 11 (09:37):
Sister, the next president of the United States, Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Okay, I'm thinking that she introduced Kamala Harris and someone
not named Kamala Harris just came to the DAIS. So
I have no idea what is going on? Mark, do
you know who this is? It certainly doesn't look Harris.
Speaker 10 (10:01):
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Okay, that was a big switch because in the rundown
I'm expecting her to introduce her sister.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
That was confusing.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
We'll listen to just a little bit of Governor Cooper.
See what he has to say.
Speaker 12 (10:19):
Hello, America, I'm Roy Cooper, the last guy standing between
you and the moment we're all waiting for.
Speaker 10 (10:31):
So I'm going to get right to it.
Speaker 13 (10:34):
All week, you've heard stories about my friend Kamala. I'm
want to take you behind the scenes of one of them.
Twenty eleven was a rough time.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
For American homeowners.
Speaker 12 (10:46):
Hundreds of thousand was losing their homes to illegal foreclosure.
I was Attorney General in North Carolina while Kamala had
just become Californias. All the ags were close to settlement with.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
The big banks, and it was a pretty good deal.
Would have meant four billion dollars.
Speaker 12 (11:06):
For California families who'd been ripped off.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I know that sounds like a.
Speaker 13 (11:11):
Lot, but Kamala said, hang on a minute. I've met
these families, I know what they've been through, and they
deserve more.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
She went toe to toad with some of.
Speaker 13 (11:28):
The world's most powerful executives and she refused to give in.
Let me tell you, this was a huge risk, but
she knew it was a risk worth taking. That's Kamala,
and we all know what happened. The banks caved. That
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four billion for California families became twenty billion.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
That was the first.
Speaker 13 (11:57):
Time I witnessed Kamala an action, and what I saw was.
Speaker 12 (12:03):
A leader who does exactly.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Okay, let's phase down Governor Cooper.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I'm kind of surprised that they used Roy Cooper as
the lead up to Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
That's not the introduction that you would want. At least
he's got healthy self esteem. Oh he does. He's just
not a real engaging speaker.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
You want a hype man, as they say, you want
someone to really get the crowd ready for if you
ever been to like a black church, especially, you know,
and the next voice you hear is the right reverend
d D. You're going to hype up the crowd and
then the speaker will come out and you know, impress
the crowd whatever.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
But this is just mm well I've seen the Blues Brothers.
Is that how it works?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (12:48):
I'm waiting for you and Tawala to take me to
you know, as part of my ongoing education.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna take you the first day
of me or maybe what church should we take him
to first of Maybe first and me would be good,
Maybe faithful, Central, Faithful Central, yeah, Central, yeah, yeah, can
you clap on two and four?
Speaker 7 (13:07):
I could do whatever is required of me. But the
day will not include chitlins, just so you know. No, no, no,
we won't be eating hit lombs. Okay, do you know
do you know when to say a man and preach preacher?
You're just gonna have to elbow me at the appropriate time.
Oh yeah, it's just it's called hooping, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Okay, So if we can get you to learn the basics,
then you'll be okay, you won't stand out too much.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Now?
Speaker 7 (13:28):
Should I wear a sweater and khakis? What should I wear?
Speaker 13 (13:33):
Dude?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Dude, you better not. Do you love that?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Or going to the black church? They dress up, they
dress up. Okay, you might have to put on an
actual suit. Should I wear my best black T shirt?
Speaker 7 (13:48):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Well, there may be some people in there like that,
but you're gonna call more attention to yourself.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I see. Okay, Yeah, we're trying to help you. No,
I'm grateful, can't you tell? Yes? The gratitude? All right?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
All right, now we see that North Carolina Governor Roy
Cooper has left the stage. So at this point, let's
go ahead and go back to the DNC. We know
that Kamala Harris is supposed to be speaking. I guess
we're gonna have an intro video like last night for
Tim Wallace.
Speaker 14 (14:15):
She grew up an excite knit neighborhood. It's the kind
of place where your neighbor would look after you need
school like I we're your first grade teacher, would show
up at your law school graduation. It's where Kamala Harris
learned what it means to be in the middle class,
making every paycheck count. She was raised by a working mom.
We taught her about standing up for what's right and
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protecting the.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
People you love.
Speaker 9 (14:39):
Kamala carries the lessons of our mother, the fighting spirit
of our mother, the compassion.
Speaker 10 (14:47):
She was all of five feet tall.
Speaker 8 (14:49):
If you met her, you would have thought she was
seven feet tall, and our mother. If I'd ever come
home complaining about anything, she wouldn't have it. The first
thing she'd say is, well, just stop the complaining, Just
tell me what you're going to do about it.
Speaker 14 (15:00):
And since she was a young girl, Kamala Harris has
been fighting for families like the ones she grew up with.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
That is Kamala.
Speaker 9 (15:08):
She can't help herself from standing up for people and
standing up for what she thinks is right.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
She has been that way.
Speaker 9 (15:17):
Our whole lives. Being a protector is what led her
to become a prosecutor. Looking back now, I could say
it was her calling as.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
A courtroom prosecutor.
Speaker 14 (15:29):
She went after predators who targeted women and children, and
fraudsters who ripped off work in families, and she put
dangerous gang members and human traffickers behind bars.
Speaker 11 (15:40):
We didn't have partnerships with DOJ or FBI or DEA
or any of those law enforcement agencies.
Speaker 10 (15:47):
Now we all work collaboratively.
Speaker 11 (15:50):
She was the person who built the foundation and how
we do criminal justice in America.
Speaker 14 (15:59):
As it's Herny General of California, she held the big
Wall Street banks accountable for fraud, winning twenty billion dollars
for California families. She took on one of the largest
for profit colleges that were scamming students. And in the Senate,
she fought for her constituents with the determination of the prosecutor,
standing up for reproductive freedom.
Speaker 8 (16:19):
Can you think of any laws that give the government
the power to make decisions about the male body.
Speaker 13 (16:26):
I'm not thinking of any right now, Senta.
Speaker 14 (16:29):
She fought to keep our children safe from the terror
of gun violence.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
How many of you guys had to have a drill
where you learned about how you need to hide in
a closet or crouch in a corner in the event
that there was a mass shooter.
Speaker 10 (16:42):
Look at that. Look at that.
Speaker 14 (16:44):
From the Intelligence Committee, she defended our nation against foreign adversaries,
and in twenty twenty she made history is the first
woman to be elected Vice President of the United States.
She cast a tie breaking vote to deliver urgent relief
Tomerican people during the pandemic. She beat Big pharma the
lower prescription drug costs and cap the cost of insulent,
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and led the fight to restore reproductive rights after Roe v.
Wade was overturned.
Speaker 8 (17:13):
We have worked too hard and thought too long to
see hour.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
You're listening to kf I AM six forty. We're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We're going to keep it
right here. As a Democratic nominee for president, Kamala Harris
is getting ready to come to the stage, and as promised,
we would bring her address live and uninterrupted, which should
be beginning in the next minute or so.
Speaker 15 (17:45):
Please welcome the Democratic nominee for president Vice President of
the United States of America, Kamala Harris.
Speaker 16 (18:33):
Harris was waving to the crowd.
Speaker 17 (19:21):
My god, good evening everyone, good evening. Good oh my goodness,
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good evening, good evening, good evening.
Speaker 10 (19:49):
Thank you, thank you. What do you think?
Speaker 18 (20:10):
Thank you, thank you, thank thank you, thank you, thank
you everyone, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you all.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Thank you all.
Speaker 10 (20:32):
Okay, we got to get to some business. We got
to get to some business. Okay, thank you all.
Speaker 18 (20:39):
Okay, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you,
thank you, thank you, please, thank you, please, thank you.
Speaker 10 (20:47):
So very much.
Speaker 18 (20:49):
Thank you everyone, thank you everyone, thank you.
Speaker 10 (20:53):
Okay, let's get your business. Let's get your business, all right.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
So let me start by thanking my most incredible husband,
Doug for being an incredible partner to me, an incredible
father to colon Ella. And happy anniversary, Dougie, I love.
Speaker 10 (21:21):
You so very much. To our President Joe Biden.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
When I think about the path that we have traveled together, Joe.
Speaker 10 (21:36):
I am filled with gratitude.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
Your record is extraordinary, as history will show, and your
character is inspiring. And Doug and I love you and
Jill and are forever thankful to you both.
Speaker 10 (21:58):
And to coach Tim.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
All you are going to be an incredible vice president
and to the delegates and everyone who has put your
faith in our campaign. Your support is humbling. So America,
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the path that led me here in recent weeks was
no doubt unexpected. But I'm no stranger to unlikely journeys.
So my mother, our mother, Shamla Harris, had one of
her own. And I miss her every day and especially
right now. And I know she's looking down smiling.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
I know that.
Speaker 10 (22:53):
So.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
My mother was nineteen when she crossed the world alone,
traveling from India to California with an unshakable dream to
be the scientists who would cure breast cancer. When she
finished school, she was supposed to return home to a
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traditional arranged marriage, but as fate would have it, she
met my father, Donald Harris, a student from Jamaica. They
fell in love and got married, and that act of
self determination made my sister Maya and me.
Speaker 10 (23:39):
Growing up, we moved a lot. I will always.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
Remember that big Mayflower truck, packed with all our belongings,
ready to go to Illinois, to Wisconsin and wherever our
parents' jobs took us. My early memories of our parents
together are very joyful ones. A home filled with laughter
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and music, Aretha coal.
Speaker 10 (24:09):
Train and miles at the park.
Speaker 8 (24:14):
My mother would say, stay close, but my father would say,
as he.
Speaker 10 (24:20):
Smiled, run Kamala, run.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
Don't be afraid, don't let anything stop you. From my
earliest years he taught me to be fearless. But the
harmony between my parents did not last. When I was
in elementary school, they split up and it was mostly
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my mother who raised us. Before she could finally afford
to buy a home, she rented a small apartment.
Speaker 10 (24:51):
In the East Bay. In the Bay. In the Bay,
you either live in.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
The hill or the flatlands. We lived in the flats,
a beautiful working class neighborhood of firefighters, nurses, and construction workers,
all who tended their lawns with pride. My mother she
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worked long hours, and like many working parents, she leaned
on a trusted circle to help raise us, Missus Shelton,
who ran the daycare below us and became a second mother,
Uncle Sherman, aunt Mary, uncle Freddie, Auntie Chris, none of
them family by blood, and all of them family by love.
Speaker 10 (25:51):
Family who taught us how to make.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
Gumbo, how to play chess, and sometimes even.
Speaker 10 (25:59):
Let us us when.
Speaker 8 (26:02):
Family who loved us believed in us and told us
we could be anything. And do anything.
Speaker 10 (26:16):
They instilled in us.
Speaker 8 (26:17):
The values they personified community, faith, and the importance of
treating others as you would want to be treated, with kindness, respect,
and compassion. My mother was a brilliant, five foot tall
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brown woman with an accent, and.
Speaker 10 (26:43):
As the eldest child. As the eldest.
Speaker 8 (26:46):
Child, I saw how the world would sometimes treat her.
But my mother never lost her cool. She was tough, courageous,
a trailblazer in the fight for women's health. And she
taught Maya and me a lesson that Michelle mentioned.
Speaker 10 (27:05):
The other night.
Speaker 8 (27:06):
She taught us to never complain about injustice, but do
something about it.
Speaker 10 (27:14):
Do something about it.
Speaker 8 (27:19):
That was my mother, and she taught us, and she
always she also taught us. And she also taught us
and never do anything half asked. And that is a
direct quote, a direct quote. I grew up immersed in
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the ideals of the civil rights movement. My parents had
met at a civil rights gathering, and they made sure
that we learned about civil rights leaders, including the lawyers
like Thurgood Marshall and Constance Baker Motley, those who in
the courtroom to make real the promise of America. So
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at a young age, I decided.
Speaker 10 (28:08):
I wanted to do that work.
Speaker 8 (28:09):
I wanted to be a lawyer, and when it came
time to choose the type of law I would pursue,
I reflected on a pivotal moment in my life. You see,
when I was in high school, I started to notice
something about my best friend, Wanda. She was sad at
school and there were times she didn't want to go home.
Speaker 10 (28:33):
So one day I.
Speaker 8 (28:34):
Asked if everything was all right, and she confided in
me that she was being sexually abused by her stepfather.
And I immediately told her she had to come stay
with us, and she did. This is one of the
reasons I became a prosecutor to protect people like Wanda, because.
Speaker 10 (28:55):
I believe everyone has a.
Speaker 8 (28:58):
Right to safety, to dignity, and to justice.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
You listen, you can if I am six forty.
Speaker 8 (29:08):
As a prosecutor, when I had a case, I charged
it not in the name of.
Speaker 10 (29:15):
The victim, but in the name of the people.
Speaker 8 (29:20):
For a simple reason, in our system of justice, a
harm against any one of us is a harm against
all of us. And I would often explain this to
console survivors of crime, to remind them no one should
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be made to fight alone. We are all in this together.
And every day in the courtroom, I stood proudly before
I judge, and I said five words, Kamala Harris for
the people, and to be clear, and to be clear,
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my entire career, I've only had one client, the people.
Speaker 10 (30:24):
And so on.
Speaker 8 (30:26):
Behalf of the people. On, behalf of every American, regardless
of party, race, gender, or the language of grandmother speaks.
Speaker 10 (30:42):
On. Behalf of my mother.
Speaker 8 (30:45):
And everyone who has ever set out on their own
unlikely journey.
Speaker 10 (30:53):
On, behalf of Americans, like.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
The people I grew up with, people who work hard,
chase their.
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Dreams, and look out for one another.
Speaker 8 (31:05):
On behalf of everyone whose story could only be written
in the greatest nation on earth.
Speaker 10 (31:16):
I accept your nomination to.
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Be President of the United States of America.
Speaker 10 (31:34):
And with this election, and.
Speaker 8 (31:44):
With this election, our nation, our nation, with this election,
has a precious, fleeting opportunity to move past the bitterness
and divisive battles of the past, a chance to chart
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a new way forward, not not as members of any
one party or faction, but as Americans.
Speaker 10 (32:20):
And let me say, I know there are people of various.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
Political views watching tonight, and I want you to know
I promise to be a president for all Americans.
Speaker 10 (32:33):
You can always trust me to.
Speaker 8 (32:35):
Put country above party and self, to hold sacred America's
fundamental principles, from the rule of law, to free and
fair elections to the peaceful transfer of power. I will
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be a president who unites us around our highest aspirations,
A president who leads and listens, who is realistic, practical,
and has common sense, and always fights for the American
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people from the courthouse to the White House. That has
been my life's work. As a young courtroom prosecutor in Oakland, California,
I stood up for women and children against predators who
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abuse them. As Attorney General of California, I took on
the big banks, delivered twenty billion dollars for middle class
families who faced foreclosure, and helped pass a howner Bill
of Rights, one of the first.
Speaker 10 (34:02):
Of its kind in the nation.
Speaker 8 (34:08):
I stood up for veterans and students being scammed by
big for profit colleges, for workers who were being cheated
out of their wages the wages they were do for
seniors facing elder abuse. I fought against the cartels who
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traffic in guns and drugs, and human beings who threatened
the security of our border and the safety of our communities.
And I will tell you these fights were not easy,
and neither were the elections that put me in those offices.
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We were underestimated at practically every turn, but we never
gave up because the future is always worth fighting for.
Speaker 10 (35:08):
And that's the fight we are in right now, a
fight for America's future.
Speaker 8 (35:20):
The Americans, this election is not only the most important
of our lives, it is one of the most important
in the life of our nation.
Speaker 10 (35:38):
In many ways, Donald Trump is.
Speaker 8 (35:41):
An unserious man, but the consequences, but the consequences of
putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious.
Consider consider not only the chaos and calamity when he
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was in office, but also the gravity of what has
happened since he lost the last election. Donald Trump tried
to throw away your votes.
Speaker 10 (36:18):
When he failed, he sent an armed.
Speaker 8 (36:21):
Mob to the United States Capital, where they assaulted law
enforcement officers. When politicians in his own party begged him
to call off the mob and send help, he did
the opposite. He fanned the flames. And now for an
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entirely different set of crimes. He was found guilty of
fraud by a jury of everyday Americans and separately.
Speaker 10 (36:57):
And separately found liable for committing sexual abuse. And consider.
Speaker 8 (37:06):
Consider what he intends to do if we give him
power again. Consider his explicit intent to set free violent extremists.
Speaker 10 (37:19):
Who assaulted those law.
Speaker 8 (37:21):
Enforcement officers at the Capitol, His explicit intent to jail journalists,
political opponents, and anyone he sees as the enemy. His
explicit intent to deploy our active duty military against our
own citizens. Consider consider the power he will have, especially
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after the United States Supreme Court just ruled that he
would be immune from criminal prosecution. Just imagine Donald Trump
with no guardrails, and how he would use the immense
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powers of the presidency of the United States, not to
improve your life, not to strengthen our national security, but
to serve the only client he has ever had himself.
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And we know, and we know what a second Trump
term would look like. It's all laid out in Project
twenty twenty five, written by his closest advisors, and its
sum total is to pull our country back to the past.
But America, we are not going back. We are not
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going back. We are not going back. We are not
going back to When Donald Trump tried to cut social
security and Medicare.
Speaker 10 (39:17):
We are not.
Speaker 8 (39:17):
Going back to when he tried to get rid of
the Affordable Care Act, when insurance companies could deny people
with pre existing conditions. We are not going to let
him eliminate the Department of Education that funds our public schools.
We are not going to let him end programs like
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head Start that provide preschool and childcare for our children. America,
we are not going back, and we are charting, and
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we are charting a new way forward, forward to a
future with a strong and growing middle class, because we
know a strong middle class has always been critical to
America's success, and building that middle class will be a
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defining goal of my presidency. And I'll tell you this
is personal for me. The middle class is where I
come from. My mother kept a strict budget. We lived
within our means, yet we wanted for little, and she
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expected us to make the most of the opportunities that
were available to us and to be grateful for them, because,
as she taught us, opportunity is not available to everyone.
That's why we will create what I call an opportunity economy,
and opportunity economy where everyone has the chance to compete.
Speaker 5 (41:11):
And a chance to succeed, whether you live in a
rural area, small town, or big city.
Speaker 8 (41:23):
And as president, I will bring together labor and workers,
and small business owners and entrepreneurs and American companies to
create jobs, to grow our economy, and to lower the
cost of everyday needs like healthcare.
Speaker 10 (41:42):
And housing and groceries.
Speaker 8 (41:44):
We will provide access to capital for small business owners
and entrepreneurs and founders.
Speaker 10 (41:52):
And we will.
Speaker 8 (41:53):
End America's housing shortage.
Speaker 10 (41:58):
And protect so social Security and Medicare.
Speaker 8 (42:06):
Now, compare that to Donald Trump, because I think everyone
here knows he doesn't actually fight for the middle class.
He doesn't actually fight for the middle class. Instead, he
fights for himself and his billionaire friends. And he will
give them another round of tax breaks that will add
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up to five trillion dollars to the national debt, and
all the while he intends to enact what in effect
is a national sales tax, call it a Trump tax,
that would raise prices on middle class families by almost
four thousand.
Speaker 10 (42:44):
Dollars a year. Well, instead of a.
Speaker 8 (42:49):
Trump tax hike, we will pass a middle class tax
cut that will benefit more than one hundred million Americans. Friends,
I believe America cannot truly be prosperous unless Americans are
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fully able to make their own decisions about their own lives,
especially on matters of heart and home. But tonight, in America,
too many women are not able to make those decisions.
Speaker 10 (43:36):
And let's be clear about how we got here.
Speaker 8 (43:40):
Donald Trump hand picked members of the United States Supreme
Court to take away reproductive freedom, and now he brags
about it in his words, quote I did it, and
I'm proud to have done it.
Speaker 10 (43:56):
End quote.
Speaker 8 (43:58):
Well, I'll tell you, over the past two years, I've
traveled across our country and women have told me their stories.
Husbands and fathers has shared theirs. Stories of women miscarrying
in a parking lot, developing sepsis, losing the ability to
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ever again have children, all because doctors are afraid they
may go to jail for caring for their patients. Couples
just trying to grow their family cut off in the
middle of IVF treatments, children who have survived sexual assault,
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potentially being forced to carry a pregnancy to term.
Speaker 10 (44:46):
This is what's happening in.
Speaker 8 (44:48):
Our country because of Donald Trump, and understand.
Speaker 10 (44:53):
He is not done.
Speaker 8 (44:56):
As a part of his agenda, he and his ally
would limit access to birth control, ban medication abortion, and
enact a nationwide abortion ban with or without Congress.
Speaker 10 (45:12):
And get this, get this.
Speaker 8 (45:16):
He plans to create a national anti abortion Coordinator and
force states to report on women's miscarriages and abortions. Simply put,
they are out of their minds.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
This is six forty Los Angeles and Orange County.
Speaker 20 (45:43):
And one must ask, One must ask, why exactly.
Speaker 8 (45:50):
Is it that they don't trust women? Well, we trust women.
We trust women. And when Congress passes a bill to
restore reproductive freedom, as President of the United States, I will.
Speaker 10 (46:12):
Proudly sign it into law.
Speaker 8 (46:24):
In this election, many other fundamental freedoms are at stake.
The freedom to live safe from gun violence in our schools, communities,
and places of worship. The freedom to love who you
love openly and with pride, The freedom to breathe clean
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air and drink clean water and live free from the
pollution that fuels the climate crisis.
Speaker 10 (46:56):
And the freedom that.
Speaker 8 (46:57):
Unlocks all the others, the free them to vote.
Speaker 10 (47:04):
With this election, we finally have.
Speaker 8 (47:08):
The opportunity to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights.
Speaker 10 (47:12):
Act, and the freedom to go at and let me be.
Speaker 8 (47:22):
Clear, and let me be clear, After decades in law enforcement,
I know the importance of safety and security, especially at
our border. Last year, Joe and I brought together Democrats
and conservative Republicans to write the strongest border bill in decades.
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The Border Patrol endorsed it, but Donald Trump believes a
border deal would hurt his campaign, so he ordered his
allies in Congress to kill the deal.
Speaker 10 (48:00):
Refuse to play.
Speaker 8 (48:00):
Politics with our security.
Speaker 10 (48:03):
And here is my pledge to you.
Speaker 8 (48:07):
As President, I will bring back the bipartisan border security
bill that he killed, and I will sign it into law.
I know, I know we can live up to our
proud heritage as a nation of immigrants and reform our
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broken immigration system. We can create an earned pathway to
citizenship and secure our border.
Speaker 10 (48:44):
And America.
Speaker 8 (48:46):
We must also be steadfast in advancing our security and
values abroad. As Vice President, I have confronted threats to
our security, negotiated with foreign leaders, strengthened our alliances, and
engaged with our brave troops overseas. As Commander in Chief,
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I will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal
fighting force.
Speaker 10 (49:17):
In the world, and I will fulfill.
Speaker 8 (49:24):
Our sacred obligation to care for our troops and their families,
and I will always honor and never disparage their service
and their sacrifice.
Speaker 10 (49:48):
I will make sure.
Speaker 8 (49:51):
That we leave the world into the future on space
and artificial intelligence, that America, not chime, wins the competition
for the twenty first century, and that we strengthen, not
abdicate our global leadership. Trump, on the other hand, threatened
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to abandon NATO. He encouraged Putin to invade our allies,
said Russia could quote do whatever the hell they want.
Five days before Russia attacked Ukraine, I met with President
Zelensky to warn him about Russia's plan to invade. I
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helped mobilize a global response over fifty countries to defend
against Putin's aggression. And as president, I will stand strong
with Ukraine.
Speaker 10 (50:48):
And our NATO allies.
Speaker 8 (51:00):
With respect to the war in Gaza. President Biden and
I are working around the clock because now is the
time to get a hostage deal and a cease fire
deal done. And let me be clear, and let me
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be clear, I will always stand up for Israel's right
to defend itself, and.
Speaker 10 (51:31):
I will always ensure Israel has the.
Speaker 8 (51:34):
Ability to defend itself because the people of Israel must
never again face the horror that a terrorist organization called
Hamas calls on October seventh, including unspeakable sexual violence and
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the massacre of young people at a music festival. At
the same time, what has happened in Gaza over the
past ten months is devastating. So many innocent lives lost, desperate,
hungry people fleeing for safety over.
Speaker 10 (52:17):
And over again.
Speaker 8 (52:19):
The scale of suffering is heartbreaking. President Biden and I
are working to end this war such that Israel is secure,
the hostages are released, the suffering in Gaza ends, and
the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, security.
Speaker 10 (52:41):
Freedom, and self determination.
Speaker 8 (52:52):
And know this, I will never hesitate to take whatever
action is necessary to defend our forces and our interests
against Iran and Iran backed terrorists. I will not closey
up to tyrants and dictators like Kim Jong un who
are rooting for Trump, who are rooting for Trump.
Speaker 10 (53:18):
Because you know, they know, they know he.
Speaker 8 (53:23):
Is easy to manipulate with flattery and favors. They know
Trump won't hold autocrats accountable because he wants to be
an autocrat himself. And as president, I will never waver
in defense of America's security and ideals because in the
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enduring struggle between democracy and.
Speaker 10 (53:49):
Tyranny, I know where I stand and I.
Speaker 8 (53:53):
Know where the United States belongs. So, fellow Americans, fellow Americans,
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I love our country with all my heart.
Speaker 10 (54:21):
Everywhere I go.
Speaker 8 (54:24):
Everywhere I go, in everyone I meet, I see a
nation that is ready to move forward, ready for the
next step in the incredible journey that is America. I
see an America where we hold fast to the fearless
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belief that built our nation and inspired the world that
here in this country, anything is possible, that nothing is
out of reach.
Speaker 10 (55:03):
And America where we care.
Speaker 8 (55:06):
For one another, look out for one another, and recognize
that we have so much more in common than what separates.
Speaker 10 (55:16):
Us, that none of us, none of.
Speaker 8 (55:24):
Us, has to fail, for all of us to succeed.
Speaker 10 (55:32):
And that immunity there is strength.
Speaker 8 (55:36):
You know, our opponents in this race are out there
every day denigrating America, talking about how terrible everything is. Well,
my mother had another lesson. She used to teach, never
let anyone tell you who you are.
Speaker 10 (55:57):
You show them who you are.
Speaker 21 (56:05):
America, let us show each other and the world who
we are and what we stand for.
Speaker 8 (56:18):
Freedom, opportunity, compassion, dignity, fairness, and endless possibilities.
Speaker 10 (56:34):
We are the heirs.
Speaker 20 (56:37):
To the greatest democracy in the history of the world,
and on behalf of our children and our grandchildren and
all those who sacrificed so dearly for our freedom and liberty.
Speaker 10 (56:56):
We must be worthy of this moment.
Speaker 8 (57:02):
It is now our turn to do what generations before
us have done, guided by optimism and faith, to fight
for this country we love, to fight for the ideals
we cherish, and to uphold the awesome responsibility that comes
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with the greatest privilege on earth, the privilege and pride
of being an American.
Speaker 10 (57:49):
So let's get out there. Let's fight for it.
Speaker 22 (57:53):
Let's get out there, let's vote for it, and together
us right the next great chapter in the most extraordinary
story ever told.
Speaker 10 (58:09):
Thank you, bless you, and may God bless the United
States of America. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (58:17):
You're listening to kfi am six forty and vice president
president ly and also presidential candidate for the Democrats. Kamala
Harris just finished her nomination acceptance speech. She's wearing a
deep navy blue suit. She is now embracing her husband.
It was about as long as I personally expected. She
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didn't spend a lot of time on foreign policy. I expect.
Speaker 3 (58:45):
News media to key in on that.
Speaker 2 (58:48):
She addressed Israel and Gaza, she addressed China, she mentioned
North Korea, but did not spend a lot of time
on those subjects. And I'm quite sure there will be
questions about that. And if you wonder, I know she
has scheduled or said to have scheduled a sit down
interview with ABC News. We don't know the date on that,
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but we do know that September tenth will be the
upcoming ABC debate, and that's she within three weeks away.
It'll be really really interesting to see if that date
still holds, if both parties, both former President Trump and
Vice President Harris maintained the agreement to show up that
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night and have a debate on these issues, both domestic
policy and foreign policy. She spent some time talking about
the border place blamed with former President Trump about the
bipartisan deal which fell apart in Congress. That has been
a consistent theme with the Democrats pointing the finger at
former President Trump as to why that deal did not
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get done. And you'll hear that time and time again.
That's going to be the response to what President Trump
had to say say when he was at the border
earlier today and what he's been saying consistently about the
issues at the border. The fact checkers will go through
Kamala Harris's speech and will give us some So, you
know what, I don't think the facts even matter anymore.
Speaker 7 (01:00:14):
I mean, what am I talking about? Well, you know,
since you bring this up, it's been really funny. I've
been watching and really monitoring the press coverage of this,
and like Daniel Dale, the CNN fact checker, he's like
the maytag repair man. He's been complaining that there's not
enough for him to do.
Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
Yeah, And you know what, And I think part of
that is intentional.
Speaker 3 (01:00:35):
Where the speech is.
Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
If you were to look at this comparatively speaking in
previous years and previous conventions, this year, I would say
they've been more general than.
Speaker 3 (01:00:50):
In previous conventions.
Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
Part of that is very intentional, because you don't want
to be locked into policy that you can't answer to
prior to the election, and you find yourself defending policy
which doesn't even exist. Part of that is just being
on defense so you don't have to worry about creating
problems for yourself and campaign which don't exist. But eventually
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you're going to have to get down to the specifics
in at least in a debate forum.
Speaker 7 (01:01:18):
If that happens. That's a perfectly plausible explanation. But you
might also just resort to Okham's razor. Maybe there are
fewer things to fact check in terms of falsehoods. I mean,
that's what I gathered from that. Oh no, no, no, there
are two things. There are two things. Well, you know,
it depends on whose speech you're.
Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
Talking about as far as the checking and number of falsehoods.
But I'm talking about the strategy going into this because
I know in previous years when we had conventional presidential candidacies,
and we're in extraordinary times and unconventional times, so the
approach is remarkably different.
Speaker 3 (01:01:56):
It was a very combative speech as well.
Speaker 7 (01:01:58):
We haven't really heard a lot like that, and they
broke new She Harris broke new ground by saying, don't
half asset her father told her not to havel asket.
Can you imagine any other time, Oh, like, imagine Richard Nixon. Well,
you know, when I was growing up in your Belinda
and my Quaker family in the twenties, My father took
me aside one day and said, Dicky, Dicky, He said
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two things, never date a flapper and never half fascted. Well,
you're talking about norms, yea. And it used to be
and I know you're old enough to remember it. Well,
it used to be that. Well you can put this
a way.
Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
You're older than fifteen, okay, so you probably remember the
good old days of the early two thousands.
Speaker 3 (01:02:39):
Right, all right.
Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
It used to be when one party was holding their convention,
the other party stood down. They did not actively campaign,
they didn't try to take up space in the news.
You weren't having competing counter programming, you didn't have campaign events.
It used to be when the so and sos were
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having their convention, the other so and sos stood down.
Speaker 7 (01:03:07):
More convivial, more sporting. And now it's just all out
war there. Look, there are no rules.
Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
It's almost like if I could make a war analogy,
since you mentioned that, it's almost like when the United
States went to Vietnam and we weren't used to the
to the gorilla warfare, we had to adjust, Or when
the British came here during the Revolutionary War and they
were marching up straightforward, and the Americans were hiding behind
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trees and shooting people. It's a different type of political
warfare now where the original rules no longer apply. From
the speeches to the style of campaigning, to the pointed attacks,
to the insults, all of those things. It's completely different.
And the only way you recognize how different it is
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is if you were paying attention to the previous conventions
of previous decks gates. It's Later with Mo Kelly CAFI
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Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Of course, tonight's the last night of the Democratic National Convention,
which is going on in Chicago. Hopefully you've been following
the coverage of Gary and Shannon each day this week
from Chicago's been very entertaining. Tonight, of course, Kamala Harris
will officially accept the Democratic nomination for president. There's supposed
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to be a mystery guest tonight. I don't know if
it's a big mystery guest or it's just a mystery
and it will you know, it's not a big deal guest.
I don't know which it's supposed to be. No, no, no,
be serious. There have been rumors of it being Beyonce.
There have been rumors of it possibly being Taylor Swift.
I was having a conversation earlier. It's like, look, if
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the Democrats were to handle this the correct way, they
would have Beyonce and Taylor Swift to come out holding
hands and then you know, singing the praises of Kamala Harris.
You have to look, if the Democrats could do anything, well,
it's put on an entertainment show. If you think about
the musical productions. You think about the artists who've been
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associated with the DNC and inaugurations in previous years. In
recent decade or so, they've got that on lock. If
they had Beyonce and Taylor Swift, who that would be something.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I don't know if it's going to be that.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I'm saying that's what I would do if I were
in charge of entertainment for the DNC. But there's supposed
to be some mystery guest. Last night it was Oprah.
They didn't keep that under wraps. That got out even
before the night's proceedings began. But tonight, no real leak
has come as in regard to who's supposed to be
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the mystery guest.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Maybe it's the Hawk to a girl. Oh that would
be great, That would be great. Man, they got it
locked up. If they get hurt, you get out there
and vote. You got a Oh, thank you. Elmar's off
to a good start. Yes he's I think he's finally
getting the show.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I think he's finally figuring out what this show is
all about.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Learning on the job. Well done.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yes, it's only taken them five or six times doing
the show to figure it out. No, but honestly, there
is a mystery guest. It has not been revealed yet.
I don't know whether the mystery guests mean anything. Right now,
former Congressman Adam Kinsinger is coming to the podium.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
We won't need to listen to him right now.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
But you wonder whether these mystery guests have made a difference.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Well, let me just tell you about this. As far
as viewership.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Remember the first night I told you that the Democrats,
I should say the DNC garnered more than twenty million people,
and that first night viewership was higher than the first
three nights of the RNC. Well, it went up to
twenty point six million in the second night, and the
third night, as in last night was just twenty point
one million. So it's hovered around twenty million the whole week,
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and those three days have been higher than the RNC.
The real question is whether Kamala Harris will be able
to eclipse the twenty five million that former President Trump
pulled when former President Trump did his nomination acceptance speech.
If you're into the viewership and the ratings and that
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kind of thing, but I will say this earlier, I said,
if you look at the pattern, if historically you have
the decent first night. Everyone tunes in for the first
night and then it drops off. That's what happened with
the Republicans, which was true to form. So there's nothing
negative about that. But what's notable here is the DNC
has had no drop off, which says that people are
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tuning in because they want to see what it is
and they're continuing to keep that audience. Comparatively speaking, for
the third night, Democrats had twenty one excuse me, twenty
point one million people and the R and C third
night had seventeen point nine million viewers. So the Democrats
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are winning the first three days. We'll see if they
win the most important day, which is tonight. Twenty five million.
That's a high number. That's a real high number. And
I don't know if Kamala Harris can get that. We
haven't seen the fundraising, but that's definitely a high number.
And also I wonder if she's going to speak.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
A long time.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Last night, Governor Waltz didn't spend a lot of time
at the mic. He kind of told his story and
got out. He said, Hi, I'm Tim good night.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I think it's going to if only because we have
Adam Kinzinger on now and then the only other people
that they have on the lineup is Maya Harris and
Honorable Roy Cooper. And then it's straight to Kamala Harris.
Who is Roy Cooper? I couldn't tell you. Oh I'm sorry,
Governor of North Carolina. Oh okay, yeah, so yeah, so
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I'm not sure who my Harris is.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Maybe.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Oh no, that's that's her sister. That's Kinda Harris's sister.
Oh well, perfect, she's probably going to introduce her sister.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Yeah, okay, So those the last two people after uh
after where we're at right now? I got it, okay,
so before before eight o'clock, So that's probably to give
for more time.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah well yeah, yeah, because if they start earlier, then
she can work later into the evening, could evening?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Mark Ronner, how you doing, sir?
Speaker 7 (05:36):
Oh lovely? If only these conventions could last two weeks each?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You know? Are you serious? I?
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Okay, as you know, I got stuck in my car
for two or three hours a couple of days ago,
and I had to listen to all I had to
listen to is the convention just about ran it into
a brick wall.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah, they're basically boring, and it's boring when you think
about they have speeches for about four hours for our
I'm not talking about the televised portion.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
There is a pre TV version.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
If you've ever actually gone to one, they have speakers
most of the day. Yeah, and then you only get
to see maybe two or three hours on TV. But
if you actually go to a convention, it's all day long.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
And if you pay attention to this stuff, the differences
in the celebrities that each convention books is just hilarious.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Well, not only are the celebrities different.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
The whole oration, the whole sophistication, the whole direction is
completely different. You can tell some speakers are ready for
the literal prime time and some have never given a
speech in front of an audience more than twenty people.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Oh yeah, I almost like those. As a fan of
bad movies, I almost like those awkward speeches more. They're
very entertaining. Oh they're very entertaining, but you know that's why.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
And they're all auditioning for an evening spot at a
later convention.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
And a lot of these guys don't understand that you
don't have to shout. You have a microphone, and you
can modulate your voice.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
They don't get that, and I'm not sure why, because
if you're a practiced politician elected official, you should know better. Now,
they don't have earpieces, and I understand from a logistical standpoint,
I don't think they're monitors up on the stage, so
they don't get to hear themselves.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
So it's like beals at Shay Stadium.
Speaker 8 (07:23):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yeah, they're not hearing themselves and they're waiting to hear
themselves from their sound bouncing off the sides of the pavilion,
and so they feel as if they need to yell
when obviously they don't. That's the only thing I can
think of, because I understand as someone who's done enough venues.
Any singer, they need to be able to hear themselves
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for that reason, so they can hear their relative intonations.
So they're singing on key off key, but speakers don't
need to hear it for that reason. So they probably
don't have any earpiece. They don't have an IFB, so
they're just trying to wing it out there and they
probably have no idea how loud they are or are not.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Well.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Who doesn't appreciate sitting at home and being shouted at,
especially by a coach. I'm hardwired for that from school,
aren't you.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Oh yeah, No, it's weird because yes, I expected from
the coach when I was playing ball, they would yell
at us, they would cuss at us, they would call
us all types of names that they they couldn't get
away with.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Now.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I remember my rugby coach once
shouting run your bastards. That was expecting something like that
from Walls, and he didn't really deliver.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
No.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
No, he didn't go beyond his personal story. He didn't
get into a lot of personal coaching anecdotes. I thought
he was going to go further down that road.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Very restrained.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
He did not, And I'm quite sure that was by
design for whatever reason. Because every single speech is cleared
in advance. You're not going to get up there and
just wing it. You're not just going to write whatever
you want and say whatever you want. All of this
is carefully orchestrated.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
Well, it's kind of one of those speeches, like we're
off at a wrestling meet. Okaybody's had three matches, it's darkout.
Let's just get in the bus and get home. Maybe
that's it. Yeah, we'll see what happens tonight. It's Later
with mo Kelly caf I AM six forty. We're live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Let's drop into the DNC.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Maya Harris right now is speaking or actually just finished
speaking of talking about obviously her sister.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Lists hear what's going on?
Speaker 9 (09:27):
A leader who cares for all of us, a leader
who fights for every one of us.
Speaker 10 (09:35):
Our Democratic nominee, my big.
Speaker 11 (09:37):
Sister, the next president of the United States, Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Okay, I'm thinking that she introduced Kamala Harris and someone
not named Kamala Harris just came to the DAIS. So
I have no idea what is going on? Mark, do
you know who this is? It certainly doesn't look Harris.
Speaker 10 (10:01):
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Okay, that was a big switch because in the rundown
I'm expecting her to introduce her sister.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
That was confusing.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
We'll listen to just a little bit of Governor Cooper.
See what he has to say.
Speaker 12 (10:19):
Hello, America, I'm Roy Cooper, the last guy standing between
you and the moment we're all waiting for.
Speaker 10 (10:31):
So I'm going to get right to it.
Speaker 13 (10:34):
All week, you've heard stories about my friend Kamala. I'm
want to take you behind the scenes of one of them.
Twenty eleven was a rough time.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
For American homeowners.
Speaker 12 (10:46):
Hundreds of thousand was losing their homes to illegal foreclosure.
I was Attorney General in North Carolina while Kamala had
just become Californias. All the ags were close to settlement with.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
The big banks, and it was a pretty good deal.
Would have meant four billion dollars.
Speaker 12 (11:06):
For California families who'd been ripped off.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I know that sounds like a.
Speaker 13 (11:11):
Lot, but Kamala said, hang on a minute. I've met
these families, I know what they've been through, and they
deserve more.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
She went toe to toad with some of.
Speaker 13 (11:28):
The world's most powerful executives and she refused to give in.
Let me tell you, this was a huge risk, but
she knew it was a risk worth taking. That's Kamala,
and we all know what happened. The banks caved. That
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four billion for California families became twenty billion.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
That was the first.
Speaker 13 (11:57):
Time I witnessed Kamala an action, and what I saw was.
Speaker 12 (12:03):
A leader who does exactly.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Okay, let's phase down Governor Cooper.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I'm kind of surprised that they used Roy Cooper as
the lead up to Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
That's not the introduction that you would want. At least
he's got healthy self esteem. Oh he does. He's just
not a real engaging speaker.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
You want a hype man, as they say, you want
someone to really get the crowd ready for if you
ever been to like a black church, especially, you know,
and the next voice you hear is the right reverend
d D. You're going to hype up the crowd and
then the speaker will come out and you know, impress
the crowd whatever.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
But this is just mm well I've seen the Blues Brothers.
Is that how it works?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (12:48):
I'm waiting for you and Tawala to take me to
you know, as part of my ongoing education.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna take you the first day
of me or maybe what church should we take him
to first of Maybe first and me would be good,
Maybe faithful, Central, Faithful Central, yeah, Central, yeah, yeah, can
you clap on two and four?
Speaker 7 (13:07):
I could do whatever is required of me. But the
day will not include chitlins, just so you know. No, no, no,
we won't be eating hit lombs. Okay, do you know
do you know when to say a man and preach preacher?
You're just gonna have to elbow me at the appropriate time.
Oh yeah, it's just it's called hooping, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Okay, So if we can get you to learn the basics,
then you'll be okay, you won't stand out too much.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Now?
Speaker 7 (13:28):
Should I wear a sweater and khakis? What should I wear?
Speaker 13 (13:33):
Dude?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Dude, you better not. Do you love that?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Or going to the black church? They dress up, they
dress up. Okay, you might have to put on an
actual suit. Should I wear my best black T shirt?
Speaker 7 (13:48):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Well, there may be some people in there like that,
but you're gonna call more attention to yourself.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I see. Okay, Yeah, we're trying to help you. No,
I'm grateful, can't you tell? Yes? The gratitude? All right?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
All right, now we see that North Carolina Governor Roy
Cooper has left the stage. So at this point, let's
go ahead and go back to the DNC. We know
that Kamala Harris is supposed to be speaking. I guess
we're gonna have an intro video like last night for
Tim Wallace.
Speaker 14 (14:15):
She grew up an excite knit neighborhood. It's the kind
of place where your neighbor would look after you need
school like I we're your first grade teacher, would show
up at your law school graduation. It's where Kamala Harris
learned what it means to be in the middle class,
making every paycheck count. She was raised by a working mom.
We taught her about standing up for what's right and
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protecting the.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
People you love.
Speaker 9 (14:39):
Kamala carries the lessons of our mother, the fighting spirit
of our mother, the compassion.
Speaker 10 (14:47):
She was all of five feet tall.
Speaker 8 (14:49):
If you met her, you would have thought she was
seven feet tall, and our mother. If I'd ever come
home complaining about anything, she wouldn't have it. The first
thing she'd say is, well, just stop the complaining, Just
tell me what you're going to do about it.
Speaker 14 (15:00):
And since she was a young girl, Kamala Harris has
been fighting for families like the ones she grew up with.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
That is Kamala.
Speaker 9 (15:08):
She can't help herself from standing up for people and
standing up for what she thinks is right.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
She has been that way.
Speaker 9 (15:17):
Our whole lives. Being a protector is what led her
to become a prosecutor. Looking back now, I could say
it was her calling as.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
A courtroom prosecutor.
Speaker 14 (15:29):
She went after predators who targeted women and children, and
fraudsters who ripped off work in families, and she put
dangerous gang members and human traffickers behind bars.
Speaker 11 (15:40):
We didn't have partnerships with DOJ or FBI or DEA
or any of those law enforcement agencies.
Speaker 10 (15:47):
Now we all work collaboratively.
Speaker 11 (15:50):
She was the person who built the foundation and how
we do criminal justice in America.
Speaker 14 (15:59):
As it's Herny General of California, she held the big
Wall Street banks accountable for fraud, winning twenty billion dollars
for California families. She took on one of the largest
for profit colleges that were scamming students. And in the Senate,
she fought for her constituents with the determination of the prosecutor,
standing up for reproductive freedom.
Speaker 8 (16:19):
Can you think of any laws that give the government
the power to make decisions about the male body.
Speaker 13 (16:26):
I'm not thinking of any right now, Senta.
Speaker 14 (16:29):
She fought to keep our children safe from the terror
of gun violence.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
How many of you guys had to have a drill
where you learned about how you need to hide in
a closet or crouch in a corner in the event
that there was a mass shooter.
Speaker 10 (16:42):
Look at that. Look at that.
Speaker 14 (16:44):
From the Intelligence Committee, she defended our nation against foreign adversaries,
and in twenty twenty she made history is the first
woman to be elected Vice President of the United States.
She cast a tie breaking vote to deliver urgent relief
Tomerican people during the pandemic. She beat Big pharma the
lower prescription drug costs and cap the cost of insulent,
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and led the fight to restore reproductive rights after Roe v.
Wade was overturned.
Speaker 8 (17:13):
We have worked too hard and thought too long to
see hour.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
You're listening to kf I AM six forty. We're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We're going to keep it
right here. As a Democratic nominee for president, Kamala Harris
is getting ready to come to the stage, and as promised,
we would bring her address live and uninterrupted, which should
be beginning in the next minute or so.
Speaker 15 (17:45):
Please welcome the Democratic nominee for president Vice President of
the United States of America, Kamala Harris.
Speaker 16 (18:33):
Harris was waving to the crowd.
Speaker 17 (19:21):
My god, good evening everyone, good evening. Good oh my goodness,
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good evening, good evening, good evening.
Speaker 10 (19:49):
Thank you, thank you. What do you think?
Speaker 18 (20:10):
Thank you, thank you, thank thank you, thank you, thank
you everyone, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you all.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Thank you all.
Speaker 10 (20:32):
Okay, we got to get to some business. We got
to get to some business. Okay, thank you all.
Speaker 18 (20:39):
Okay, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you,
thank you, thank you, please, thank you, please, thank you.
Speaker 10 (20:47):
So very much.
Speaker 18 (20:49):
Thank you everyone, thank you everyone, thank you.
Speaker 10 (20:53):
Okay, let's get your business. Let's get your business, all right.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
So let me start by thanking my most incredible husband,
Doug for being an incredible partner to me, an incredible
father to colon Ella. And happy anniversary, Dougie, I love.
Speaker 10 (21:21):
You so very much. To our President Joe Biden.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
When I think about the path that we have traveled together, Joe.
Speaker 10 (21:36):
I am filled with gratitude.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
Your record is extraordinary, as history will show, and your
character is inspiring. And Doug and I love you and
Jill and are forever thankful to you both.
Speaker 10 (21:58):
And to coach Tim.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
All you are going to be an incredible vice president
and to the delegates and everyone who has put your
faith in our campaign. Your support is humbling. So America,
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the path that led me here in recent weeks was
no doubt unexpected. But I'm no stranger to unlikely journeys.
So my mother, our mother, Shamla Harris, had one of
her own. And I miss her every day and especially
right now. And I know she's looking down smiling.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
I know that.
Speaker 10 (22:53):
So.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
My mother was nineteen when she crossed the world alone,
traveling from India to California with an unshakable dream to
be the scientists who would cure breast cancer. When she
finished school, she was supposed to return home to a
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traditional arranged marriage, but as fate would have it, she
met my father, Donald Harris, a student from Jamaica. They
fell in love and got married, and that act of
self determination made my sister Maya and me.
Speaker 10 (23:39):
Growing up, we moved a lot. I will always.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
Remember that big Mayflower truck, packed with all our belongings,
ready to go to Illinois, to Wisconsin and wherever our
parents' jobs took us. My early memories of our parents
together are very joyful ones. A home filled with laughter
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and music, Aretha coal.
Speaker 10 (24:09):
Train and miles at the park.
Speaker 8 (24:14):
My mother would say, stay close, but my father would say,
as he.
Speaker 10 (24:20):
Smiled, run Kamala, run.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
Don't be afraid, don't let anything stop you. From my
earliest years he taught me to be fearless. But the
harmony between my parents did not last. When I was
in elementary school, they split up and it was mostly
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my mother who raised us. Before she could finally afford
to buy a home, she rented a small apartment.
Speaker 10 (24:51):
In the East Bay. In the Bay. In the Bay,
you either live in.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
The hill or the flatlands. We lived in the flats,
a beautiful working class neighborhood of firefighters, nurses, and construction workers,
all who tended their lawns with pride. My mother she
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worked long hours, and like many working parents, she leaned
on a trusted circle to help raise us, Missus Shelton,
who ran the daycare below us and became a second mother,
Uncle Sherman, aunt Mary, uncle Freddie, Auntie Chris, none of
them family by blood, and all of them family by love.
Speaker 10 (25:51):
Family who taught us how to make.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
Gumbo, how to play chess, and sometimes even.
Speaker 10 (25:59):
Let us us when.
Speaker 8 (26:02):
Family who loved us believed in us and told us
we could be anything. And do anything.
Speaker 10 (26:16):
They instilled in us.
Speaker 8 (26:17):
The values they personified community, faith, and the importance of
treating others as you would want to be treated, with kindness, respect,
and compassion. My mother was a brilliant, five foot tall
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brown woman with an accent, and.
Speaker 10 (26:43):
As the eldest child. As the eldest.
Speaker 8 (26:46):
Child, I saw how the world would sometimes treat her.
But my mother never lost her cool. She was tough, courageous,
a trailblazer in the fight for women's health. And she
taught Maya and me a lesson that Michelle mentioned.
Speaker 10 (27:05):
The other night.
Speaker 8 (27:06):
She taught us to never complain about injustice, but do
something about it.
Speaker 10 (27:14):
Do something about it.
Speaker 8 (27:19):
That was my mother, and she taught us, and she
always she also taught us. And she also taught us
and never do anything half asked. And that is a
direct quote, a direct quote. I grew up immersed in
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the ideals of the civil rights movement. My parents had
met at a civil rights gathering, and they made sure
that we learned about civil rights leaders, including the lawyers
like Thurgood Marshall and Constance Baker Motley, those who in
the courtroom to make real the promise of America. So
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at a young age, I decided.
Speaker 10 (28:08):
I wanted to do that work.
Speaker 8 (28:09):
I wanted to be a lawyer, and when it came
time to choose the type of law I would pursue,
I reflected on a pivotal moment in my life. You see,
when I was in high school, I started to notice
something about my best friend, Wanda. She was sad at
school and there were times she didn't want to go home.
Speaker 10 (28:33):
So one day I.
Speaker 8 (28:34):
Asked if everything was all right, and she confided in
me that she was being sexually abused by her stepfather.
And I immediately told her she had to come stay
with us, and she did. This is one of the
reasons I became a prosecutor to protect people like Wanda, because.
Speaker 10 (28:55):
I believe everyone has a.
Speaker 8 (28:58):
Right to safety, to dignity, and to justice.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
You listen, you can if I am six forty.
Speaker 8 (29:08):
As a prosecutor, when I had a case, I charged
it not in the name of.
Speaker 10 (29:15):
The victim, but in the name of the people.
Speaker 8 (29:20):
For a simple reason, in our system of justice, a
harm against any one of us is a harm against
all of us. And I would often explain this to
console survivors of crime, to remind them no one should
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be made to fight alone. We are all in this together.
And every day in the courtroom, I stood proudly before
I judge, and I said five words, Kamala Harris for
the people, and to be clear, and to be clear,
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my entire career, I've only had one client, the people.
Speaker 10 (30:24):
And so on.
Speaker 8 (30:26):
Behalf of the people. On, behalf of every American, regardless
of party, race, gender, or the language of grandmother speaks.
Speaker 10 (30:42):
On. Behalf of my mother.
Speaker 8 (30:45):
And everyone who has ever set out on their own
unlikely journey.
Speaker 10 (30:53):
On, behalf of Americans, like.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
The people I grew up with, people who work hard,
chase their.
Speaker 10 (31:01):
Dreams, and look out for one another.
Speaker 8 (31:05):
On behalf of everyone whose story could only be written
in the greatest nation on earth.
Speaker 10 (31:16):
I accept your nomination to.
Speaker 19 (31:19):
Be President of the United States of America.
Speaker 10 (31:34):
And with this election, and.
Speaker 8 (31:44):
With this election, our nation, our nation, with this election,
has a precious, fleeting opportunity to move past the bitterness
and divisive battles of the past, a chance to chart
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a new way forward, not not as members of any
one party or faction, but as Americans.
Speaker 10 (32:20):
And let me say, I know there are people of various.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
Political views watching tonight, and I want you to know
I promise to be a president for all Americans.
Speaker 10 (32:33):
You can always trust me to.
Speaker 8 (32:35):
Put country above party and self, to hold sacred America's
fundamental principles, from the rule of law, to free and
fair elections to the peaceful transfer of power. I will
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be a president who unites us around our highest aspirations,
A president who leads and listens, who is realistic, practical,
and has common sense, and always fights for the American
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people from the courthouse to the White House. That has
been my life's work. As a young courtroom prosecutor in Oakland, California,
I stood up for women and children against predators who
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abuse them. As Attorney General of California, I took on
the big banks, delivered twenty billion dollars for middle class
families who faced foreclosure, and helped pass a howner Bill
of Rights, one of the first.
Speaker 10 (34:02):
Of its kind in the nation.
Speaker 8 (34:08):
I stood up for veterans and students being scammed by
big for profit colleges, for workers who were being cheated
out of their wages the wages they were do for
seniors facing elder abuse. I fought against the cartels who
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traffic in guns and drugs, and human beings who threatened
the security of our border and the safety of our communities.
And I will tell you these fights were not easy,
and neither were the elections that put me in those offices.
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We were underestimated at practically every turn, but we never
gave up because the future is always worth fighting for.
Speaker 10 (35:08):
And that's the fight we are in right now, a
fight for America's future.
Speaker 8 (35:20):
The Americans, this election is not only the most important
of our lives, it is one of the most important
in the life of our nation.
Speaker 10 (35:38):
In many ways, Donald Trump is.
Speaker 8 (35:41):
An unserious man, but the consequences, but the consequences of
putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious.
Consider consider not only the chaos and calamity when he
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was in office, but also the gravity of what has
happened since he lost the last election. Donald Trump tried
to throw away your votes.
Speaker 10 (36:18):
When he failed, he sent an armed.
Speaker 8 (36:21):
Mob to the United States Capital, where they assaulted law
enforcement officers. When politicians in his own party begged him
to call off the mob and send help, he did
the opposite. He fanned the flames. And now for an
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entirely different set of crimes. He was found guilty of
fraud by a jury of everyday Americans and separately.
Speaker 10 (36:57):
And separately found liable for committing sexual abuse. And consider.
Speaker 8 (37:06):
Consider what he intends to do if we give him
power again. Consider his explicit intent to set free violent extremists.
Speaker 10 (37:19):
Who assaulted those law.
Speaker 8 (37:21):
Enforcement officers at the Capitol, His explicit intent to jail journalists,
political opponents, and anyone he sees as the enemy. His
explicit intent to deploy our active duty military against our
own citizens. Consider consider the power he will have, especially
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after the United States Supreme Court just ruled that he
would be immune from criminal prosecution. Just imagine Donald Trump
with no guardrails, and how he would use the immense
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powers of the presidency of the United States, not to
improve your life, not to strengthen our national security, but
to serve the only client he has ever had himself.
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And we know, and we know what a second Trump
term would look like. It's all laid out in Project
twenty twenty five, written by his closest advisors, and its
sum total is to pull our country back to the past.
But America, we are not going back. We are not
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going back. We are not going back. We are not
going back to When Donald Trump tried to cut social
security and Medicare.
Speaker 10 (39:17):
We are not.
Speaker 8 (39:17):
Going back to when he tried to get rid of
the Affordable Care Act, when insurance companies could deny people
with pre existing conditions. We are not going to let
him eliminate the Department of Education that funds our public schools.
We are not going to let him end programs like
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head Start that provide preschool and childcare for our children. America,
we are not going back, and we are charting, and
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we are charting a new way forward, forward to a
future with a strong and growing middle class, because we
know a strong middle class has always been critical to
America's success, and building that middle class will be a
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defining goal of my presidency. And I'll tell you this
is personal for me. The middle class is where I
come from. My mother kept a strict budget. We lived
within our means, yet we wanted for little, and she
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expected us to make the most of the opportunities that
were available to us and to be grateful for them, because,
as she taught us, opportunity is not available to everyone.
That's why we will create what I call an opportunity economy,
and opportunity economy where everyone has the chance to compete.
Speaker 5 (41:11):
And a chance to succeed, whether you live in a
rural area, small town, or big city.
Speaker 8 (41:23):
And as president, I will bring together labor and workers,
and small business owners and entrepreneurs and American companies to
create jobs, to grow our economy, and to lower the
cost of everyday needs like healthcare.
Speaker 10 (41:42):
And housing and groceries.
Speaker 8 (41:44):
We will provide access to capital for small business owners
and entrepreneurs and founders.
Speaker 10 (41:52):
And we will.
Speaker 8 (41:53):
End America's housing shortage.
Speaker 10 (41:58):
And protect so social Security and Medicare.
Speaker 8 (42:06):
Now, compare that to Donald Trump, because I think everyone
here knows he doesn't actually fight for the middle class.
He doesn't actually fight for the middle class. Instead, he
fights for himself and his billionaire friends. And he will
give them another round of tax breaks that will add
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up to five trillion dollars to the national debt, and
all the while he intends to enact what in effect
is a national sales tax, call it a Trump tax,
that would raise prices on middle class families by almost
four thousand.
Speaker 10 (42:44):
Dollars a year. Well, instead of a.
Speaker 8 (42:49):
Trump tax hike, we will pass a middle class tax
cut that will benefit more than one hundred million Americans. Friends,
I believe America cannot truly be prosperous unless Americans are
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fully able to make their own decisions about their own lives,
especially on matters of heart and home. But tonight, in America,
too many women are not able to make those decisions.
Speaker 10 (43:36):
And let's be clear about how we got here.
Speaker 8 (43:40):
Donald Trump hand picked members of the United States Supreme
Court to take away reproductive freedom, and now he brags
about it in his words, quote I did it, and
I'm proud to have done it.
Speaker 10 (43:56):
End quote.
Speaker 8 (43:58):
Well, I'll tell you, over the past two years, I've
traveled across our country and women have told me their stories.
Husbands and fathers has shared theirs. Stories of women miscarrying
in a parking lot, developing sepsis, losing the ability to
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ever again have children, all because doctors are afraid they
may go to jail for caring for their patients. Couples
just trying to grow their family cut off in the
middle of IVF treatments, children who have survived sexual assault,
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potentially being forced to carry a pregnancy to term.
Speaker 10 (44:46):
This is what's happening in.
Speaker 8 (44:48):
Our country because of Donald Trump, and understand.
Speaker 10 (44:53):
He is not done.
Speaker 8 (44:56):
As a part of his agenda, he and his ally
would limit access to birth control, ban medication abortion, and
enact a nationwide abortion ban with or without Congress.
Speaker 10 (45:12):
And get this, get this.
Speaker 8 (45:16):
He plans to create a national anti abortion Coordinator and
force states to report on women's miscarriages and abortions. Simply put,
they are out of their minds.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
This is six forty Los Angeles and Orange County.
Speaker 20 (45:43):
And one must ask, One must ask, why exactly.
Speaker 8 (45:50):
Is it that they don't trust women? Well, we trust women.
We trust women. And when Congress passes a bill to
restore reproductive freedom, as President of the United States, I will.
Speaker 10 (46:12):
Proudly sign it into law.
Speaker 8 (46:24):
In this election, many other fundamental freedoms are at stake.
The freedom to live safe from gun violence in our schools, communities,
and places of worship. The freedom to love who you
love openly and with pride, The freedom to breathe clean
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air and drink clean water and live free from the
pollution that fuels the climate crisis.
Speaker 10 (46:56):
And the freedom that.
Speaker 8 (46:57):
Unlocks all the others, the free them to vote.
Speaker 10 (47:04):
With this election, we finally have.
Speaker 8 (47:08):
The opportunity to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights.
Speaker 10 (47:12):
Act, and the freedom to go at and let me be.
Speaker 8 (47:22):
Clear, and let me be clear, After decades in law enforcement,
I know the importance of safety and security, especially at
our border. Last year, Joe and I brought together Democrats
and conservative Republicans to write the strongest border bill in decades.
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The Border Patrol endorsed it, but Donald Trump believes a
border deal would hurt his campaign, so he ordered his
allies in Congress to kill the deal.
Speaker 10 (48:00):
Refuse to play.
Speaker 8 (48:00):
Politics with our security.
Speaker 10 (48:03):
And here is my pledge to you.
Speaker 8 (48:07):
As President, I will bring back the bipartisan border security
bill that he killed, and I will sign it into law.
I know, I know we can live up to our
proud heritage as a nation of immigrants and reform our
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broken immigration system. We can create an earned pathway to
citizenship and secure our border.
Speaker 10 (48:44):
And America.
Speaker 8 (48:46):
We must also be steadfast in advancing our security and
values abroad. As Vice President, I have confronted threats to
our security, negotiated with foreign leaders, strengthened our alliances, and
engaged with our brave troops overseas. As Commander in Chief,
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I will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal
fighting force.
Speaker 10 (49:17):
In the world, and I will fulfill.
Speaker 8 (49:24):
Our sacred obligation to care for our troops and their families,
and I will always honor and never disparage their service
and their sacrifice.
Speaker 10 (49:48):
I will make sure.
Speaker 8 (49:51):
That we leave the world into the future on space
and artificial intelligence, that America, not chime, wins the competition
for the twenty first century, and that we strengthen, not
abdicate our global leadership. Trump, on the other hand, threatened
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to abandon NATO. He encouraged Putin to invade our allies,
said Russia could quote do whatever the hell they want.
Five days before Russia attacked Ukraine, I met with President
Zelensky to warn him about Russia's plan to invade. I
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helped mobilize a global response over fifty countries to defend
against Putin's aggression. And as president, I will stand strong
with Ukraine.
Speaker 10 (50:48):
And our NATO allies.
Speaker 8 (51:00):
With respect to the war in Gaza. President Biden and
I are working around the clock because now is the
time to get a hostage deal and a cease fire
deal done. And let me be clear, and let me
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be clear, I will always stand up for Israel's right
to defend itself, and.
Speaker 10 (51:31):
I will always ensure Israel has the.
Speaker 8 (51:34):
Ability to defend itself because the people of Israel must
never again face the horror that a terrorist organization called
Hamas calls on October seventh, including unspeakable sexual violence and
(51:54):
the massacre of young people at a music festival. At
the same time, what has happened in Gaza over the
past ten months is devastating. So many innocent lives lost, desperate,
hungry people fleeing for safety over.
Speaker 10 (52:17):
And over again.
Speaker 8 (52:19):
The scale of suffering is heartbreaking. President Biden and I
are working to end this war such that Israel is secure,
the hostages are released, the suffering in Gaza ends, and
the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, security.
Speaker 10 (52:41):
Freedom, and self determination.
Speaker 8 (52:52):
And know this, I will never hesitate to take whatever
action is necessary to defend our forces and our interests
against Iran and Iran backed terrorists. I will not closey
up to tyrants and dictators like Kim Jong un who
are rooting for Trump, who are rooting for Trump.
Speaker 10 (53:18):
Because you know, they know, they know he.
Speaker 8 (53:23):
Is easy to manipulate with flattery and favors. They know
Trump won't hold autocrats accountable because he wants to be
an autocrat himself. And as president, I will never waver
in defense of America's security and ideals because in the
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enduring struggle between democracy and.
Speaker 10 (53:49):
Tyranny, I know where I stand and I.
Speaker 8 (53:53):
Know where the United States belongs. So, fellow Americans, fellow Americans,
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I love our country with all my heart.
Speaker 10 (54:21):
Everywhere I go.
Speaker 8 (54:24):
Everywhere I go, in everyone I meet, I see a
nation that is ready to move forward, ready for the
next step in the incredible journey that is America. I
see an America where we hold fast to the fearless
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belief that built our nation and inspired the world that
here in this country, anything is possible, that nothing is
out of reach.
Speaker 10 (55:03):
And America where we care.
Speaker 8 (55:06):
For one another, look out for one another, and recognize
that we have so much more in common than what separates.
Speaker 10 (55:16):
Us, that none of us, none of.
Speaker 8 (55:24):
Us, has to fail, for all of us to succeed.
Speaker 10 (55:32):
And that immunity there is strength.
Speaker 8 (55:36):
You know, our opponents in this race are out there
every day denigrating America, talking about how terrible everything is. Well,
my mother had another lesson. She used to teach, never
let anyone tell you who you are.
Speaker 10 (55:57):
You show them who you are.
Speaker 21 (56:05):
America, let us show each other and the world who
we are and what we stand for.
Speaker 8 (56:18):
Freedom, opportunity, compassion, dignity, fairness, and endless possibilities.
Speaker 10 (56:34):
We are the heirs.
Speaker 20 (56:37):
To the greatest democracy in the history of the world,
and on behalf of our children and our grandchildren and
all those who sacrificed so dearly for our freedom and liberty.
Speaker 10 (56:56):
We must be worthy of this moment.
Speaker 8 (57:02):
It is now our turn to do what generations before
us have done, guided by optimism and faith, to fight
for this country we love, to fight for the ideals
we cherish, and to uphold the awesome responsibility that comes
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with the greatest privilege on earth, the privilege and pride
of being an American.
Speaker 10 (57:49):
So let's get out there. Let's fight for it.
Speaker 22 (57:53):
Let's get out there, let's vote for it, and together
us right the next great chapter in the most extraordinary
story ever told.
Speaker 10 (58:09):
Thank you, bless you, and may God bless the United
States of America. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (58:17):
You're listening to kfi am six forty and vice president
president ly and also presidential candidate for the Democrats. Kamala
Harris just finished her nomination acceptance speech. She's wearing a
deep navy blue suit. She is now embracing her husband.
It was about as long as I personally expected. She
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didn't spend a lot of time on foreign policy. I expect.
Speaker 3 (58:45):
News media to key in on that.
Speaker 2 (58:48):
She addressed Israel and Gaza, she addressed China, she mentioned
North Korea, but did not spend a lot of time
on those subjects. And I'm quite sure there will be
questions about that. And if you wonder, I know she
has scheduled or said to have scheduled a sit down
interview with ABC News. We don't know the date on that,
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but we do know that September tenth will be the
upcoming ABC debate, and that's she within three weeks away.
It'll be really really interesting to see if that date
still holds, if both parties, both former President Trump and
Vice President Harris maintained the agreement to show up that
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night and have a debate on these issues, both domestic
policy and foreign policy. She spent some time talking about
the border place blamed with former President Trump about the
bipartisan deal which fell apart in Congress. That has been
a consistent theme with the Democrats pointing the finger at
former President Trump as to why that deal did not
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get done. And you'll hear that time and time again.
That's going to be the response to what President Trump
had to say say when he was at the border
earlier today and what he's been saying consistently about the
issues at the border. The fact checkers will go through
Kamala Harris's speech and will give us some So, you
know what, I don't think the facts even matter anymore.
Speaker 7 (01:00:14):
I mean, what am I talking about? Well, you know,
since you bring this up, it's been really funny. I've
been watching and really monitoring the press coverage of this,
and like Daniel Dale, the CNN fact checker, he's like
the maytag repair man. He's been complaining that there's not
enough for him to do.
Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
Yeah, And you know what, And I think part of
that is intentional.
Speaker 3 (01:00:35):
Where the speech is.
Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
If you were to look at this comparatively speaking in
previous years and previous conventions, this year, I would say
they've been more general than.
Speaker 3 (01:00:50):
In previous conventions.
Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
Part of that is very intentional, because you don't want
to be locked into policy that you can't answer to
prior to the election, and you find yourself defending policy
which doesn't even exist. Part of that is just being
on defense so you don't have to worry about creating
problems for yourself and campaign which don't exist. But eventually
(01:01:14):
you're going to have to get down to the specifics
in at least in a debate forum.
Speaker 7 (01:01:18):
If that happens. That's a perfectly plausible explanation. But you
might also just resort to Okham's razor. Maybe there are
fewer things to fact check in terms of falsehoods. I mean,
that's what I gathered from that. Oh no, no, no, there
are two things. There are two things. Well, you know,
it depends on whose speech you're.
Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
Talking about as far as the checking and number of falsehoods.
But I'm talking about the strategy going into this because
I know in previous years when we had conventional presidential candidacies,
and we're in extraordinary times and unconventional times, so the
approach is remarkably different.
Speaker 3 (01:01:56):
It was a very combative speech as well.
Speaker 7 (01:01:58):
We haven't really heard a lot like that, and they
broke new She Harris broke new ground by saying, don't
half asset her father told her not to havel asket.
Can you imagine any other time, Oh, like, imagine Richard Nixon. Well,
you know, when I was growing up in your Belinda
and my Quaker family in the twenties, My father took
me aside one day and said, Dicky, Dicky, He said
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two things, never date a flapper and never half fascted. Well,
you're talking about norms, yea. And it used to be
and I know you're old enough to remember it. Well,
it used to be that. Well you can put this
a way.
Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
You're older than fifteen, okay, so you probably remember the
good old days of the early two thousands.
Speaker 3 (01:02:39):
Right, all right.
Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
It used to be when one party was holding their convention,
the other party stood down. They did not actively campaign,
they didn't try to take up space in the news.
You weren't having competing counter programming, you didn't have campaign events.
It used to be when the so and sos were
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having their convention, the other so and sos stood down.
Speaker 7 (01:03:07):
More convivial, more sporting. And now it's just all out
war there. Look, there are no rules.
Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
It's almost like if I could make a war analogy,
since you mentioned that, it's almost like when the United
States went to Vietnam and we weren't used to the
to the gorilla warfare, we had to adjust, Or when
the British came here during the Revolutionary War and they
were marching up straightforward, and the Americans were hiding behind
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trees and shooting people. It's a different type of political
warfare now where the original rules no longer apply. From
the speeches to the style of campaigning, to the pointed attacks,
to the insults, all of those things. It's completely different.
And the only way you recognize how different it is
(01:03:55):
is if you were paying attention to the previous conventions
of previous decks gates. It's Later with Mo Kelly CAFI
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