Keynote speech last night for the Democratic National convention. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, august 18th, along with joe, willie welcome back and me, we have white house reported for the associated press, Jonathan Lemire. Politics and journalism professor and msnbc political contributor jason johnson. And senior opinion writer at the boston globe, Kimberly Atkins is with us. Good to have you all. Its good to have willie back. It is. Youre not going to be talking ability ttal talking about the red sox. Willie has been on assignment, we cant talk about where that was but hes been on assignment. The Convention Last night, judging from the reviews across the political spectrum was quite a success. You had a couple of fox news anchors talking about dana prino talking about how Michelle Obama stuck the landing and Chris Wallace talking about what a great contribution she gave to the Biden Campaign. That she splayed donald trump. Its great to be back. Id rather be
Has accepted the democratic nomination for president. He capped off a Political Convention that looked like none before it. It was reinvented because of the deadly Global Pandemic that is now a major election issue. In his haccept is answe accep speech talked on many topics. This is our moment to make hope and history rhyme. With passion, and purpose. Let us begin, you and i, together. One nation, under god, united in our love for america and each other. For love is more powerful than hate. Hope is more powerful than fear. And light is more powerful than dark. This is our moment, this is our mission. History may be able to say, that the end of this chapter of american darkness began here tonight. As love and hope and light join in the battle for the souls of the nation. And this is about a battle we will win and we will do it together. Biden and his wife jill and along with kamala harris, walked outside the chase center for a post speech fireworks show, and waved to the cars parked out
Lets begin with lucas. Hi, my friend. Reporter good morning, david both florida and nevada have shifted to the right which explains why the president is heading to reno and las vegas for the weekend. Now according to the recent poll s, nevada is in play and thats why the president is heading out there. Now before pausing to observe the 9 11 attacks, the president attacked joe biden. President trump joe biden surrendered your jobs to china, and now he wants to surrender our country to the violent left wing mob and youre seeing that every night. Booooo. President trump if biden wins, china wins. If biden wins, the mob wins. If biden wins, the rioters, anarchists, arsonists and flag burners win. Booooooo. President trump but i wouldnt worry about it because hes not winning. Reporter before leaving foreground zero in shanksville, pennsylvania joe biden told reporters he didnt plan on making news he said he was talking about nothing except for 9 11 on friday. The Biden Campaign took down it
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A powerful shiite cleric leads office neighboring iran closes its borders and urges its citizens to avoid ah manuscripts, mccann and thanks so much for being with us. The United Nations is issuing an emergency appeal for funding to help pakistan recover from devastating monsoon floods. The rains have stopped for now, but more than one 3rd of the country has been left under water. At least a 1000 people are dead. Millions have been displaced or had their livelihoods destroyed. The Climate Change minister has compared to the catastrophe to a dystopian disaster movie, saying that she has never seen anything like it. A village underwater in pakistan, sind province, one of several key agricultural regions that now resemble small oceans. Many people here were poor before the floods came. Now theyve lost almost everything in those areas that are dry, make shift camps. Hows those displaced by the water . And farmers salvage what they can from their fields. Pakistans climate minister says the f