Book, the next pandemic,. Emails, will take your tweets and phone calls. Americans, tonight with a heart full of gratitude and boundless optimism, i profoundly accept this nomination for president of the United States. The president accepting the nomination before the white house and supporters. He spoke for about 70 minutes. We are opening the phone lines to get your reaction to what you heard from the president last night. If you are supporting the trumppence ticket, dial 202 7488000. If youre supporting the bidenharris ticket, call 202 7488001. If you are unsure, 202 7488002. Text us with your thoughts with your first name at 202 7488003. Or go to twitter and facebook. Here is more from the president last night at the white house on what he said is at stake in november. [video clip] President Trump everything we have achieved is now in danger. This is the most important election in the history of our country. [applause] President Trump years. More four more years. President trump at
Ourif you missed any of coverage, watch anytime on rnc. D at cspan. Org joining us this morning is elie mystal. Thoughtsgin with your on the president s speech last night. The thing that struck me most over the hour and 11 minutes, the longest acceptance speech ever where the lies were the lies. Fact checkers and experts counted somewhere upwards of 22, 23 lies. I heard one as high as 125. There was a barrage of lying as high as 25. There was a barrage of lying. When you stood back and looked at it and got out of the weeds of the things that he said that were demonstrably not true, or merely misleading, and you stepped back, what you saw was an hours long violation of federal law. I know there that a lot of people do not care about the hatch act, the corruption by this president and his family, but you ivanka trump ivanka trump, president ial advisor, has no right to make a speech on federal property. It is just wrong. Every official that was in the crowd, at that Campaign Event at the
In the head. It was not even frontpage news. There was nobody demonstrating like this. Children in black six months killed on our streets. No one is demonstrating about that. No one is having discussions about what we can do to combat it. Officerwhite police shoots one black person and we know the name of that person, memorials are developed for them, and they become the cause of a movement to solve the problem. I am just asking for some proportionality. Lets put our time and energy focused on the largest problem we have, and that is those deaths internally. There is nothing white people can do externally to help us. It is a problem internal to us. We must address it. But in order to address that, we have to acknowledge the importance of it. Right now, it does not seem to be important. The only time we get upset is when a white person takes a black persons life. Host we will hear from doreen. Shes in massachusetts. Caller when i watched the video of george floyd, i was totally disguste
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Berry, very much. Let me begin by thanking all of you for taking a little time out of your lives to come here and help us enhance the life of this great country. Thank you. I want to thank some of our colleagues over here. Elma adams from north carolina. Malloy and simpson that have been up and down with me. My daughters, jennifer covert angela, thank you also much. As emotionaln about this last week experience as any two people i know and i thank them so much. As many of you know, i have studied history and used to teach history. And i have said often to those whoents are used to teach would question, why do we spend so much time reading and discussing those things that happened way back yonder. And i would often say to them, we study history in order to and toand the present prepare for the future. Because anything that happened before can happen again. Tonight, as i stand here i , am thinking about some of that history. And im recalling something tha
Super tuesday voting begins in about 48 hours. Welcome to this sunday edition of washington journal. Joeill get your take on bidens victory in that democratic primary. We want to get your reaction to it. If you are a democrat, call 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001 is your number. Isependents, 202 7488002 your number. We have a separate line just for South Carolina. Voters, tell us about your experience and react to the victory of joe biden. Here is your number, 202 7488002. You can also send us a text, 202 7488003. With that, please add your name and the town you are calling from. You can also weigh in on social media. Http twitter. Com cspanwj you can post a comment on twitter were on cspan. First 2020d courier, ahead of super tuesday, joe biden wins the rise of Bernie Sanders. Here are the figures from the voting yesterday. Joe biden, 48 point 4 in the primary, translating to 200 and 55,000 votes. Bernie sanders, 19 point 9 . Almost a 30 point difference. Tom steyer, 11. 3 . He