Announcer ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. The event will begin momentarily. Announcer ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to the chairwoman of the Republican National committee. Hello this convention will come to order [cheers and applause] 2020ates, welcome to the Republican National convention. Offering todays invitation, invocation, please welcome from vermont, j sheppard. Thank you, ronna. My name is jay and i am a republican. I am also a catholic donald trump republican. By the grace of god, i am an american. So let us pray. Thank you, o lord, for all the gifts you provide us, not because we deserve them, but solely through your grace and mercy, let us acknowledge the many gifts that god has bestowed upon us, starting with a president and Vice President that reflect the values of our founding fathers. And are willing to fight for those values, starting with life, knowing that all life is precious, from conception to natural death. There is no choice to f
And all the work that you will continue to do on the days ahead. In the car on the way here after i landed in charlotte i was on the phone with more than 5000 volunteers all across america. Well be getting people together in your state and in every state and territory across this land. We already have the largest Grassroots Campaign in American History and were going to secure two million volunteers before election day. [applause] it israelly about reelecting this president for four more years but it also about an agenda. About an agenda that made america prosperous, more prosperous than ever before, before this great Global Pandemic struck our nation. More americans were working than ever before. We were setting records in this economy left and right. In the midst of this pandemic, when i speak about wenz night the leadership of this president and the compassion of the American People shown forth. [applause] well continue to work every day until we put this coronavirus in the past. Wh
On this stuff. You all remember you are watching this that you had a bunch of folks showing up at the State Capitol with guns because governor was trying to protect people from covid well we are proud of her. Oh yeah, i wish we have so many more voices here but, as you can see, the role of the attorney general, expansive sony things and as soon as you said republicans are trying to entice covid we are seeing a shout outs, we need an attorney general in texas and in florida. We know and we need you to help us with that. I do want to switch gears a little bit. I want to talk about daca and what general becerra has done out in california. You lead the fight to protect the daca program from trump and the chance to illuminate it entirely. Can you share why this fight is so important to you . It is to me. But it also appears that this has been a [inaudible] continuing on their attack on dreamers. What steps come next to preserve the daca program . For me this was a very personal case, being
Announcer its a late show live with Stephen Colbert tonight land of opportunity. Plus, stephen welcomes keanu reeves and alex winter and former congressman trey gowdy. Featuring, live, jon batiste and stay homin. And now live from the ed sullivan Theater Office building in new york city, its Stephen Colbert stephen welcome, welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to a late show im your host, Stephen Colbert. We just walked in this room. We just literally finalized the script. I cant wait to find out what we just wrote. This is going to be really exciting, i havent even had time to prep my eyeballs because theyve had quite a beating tonight. We are live for the second night of the Republican National if you missed last night, congratulations. Despite promises of positive message, it was a dark, angry propaganda with terrible production values. They should have called it triumph of the will this be over soon . One big problem is trump and the g. O. P. Were in covid denial for months. The democrat
Democratic attorneys general speak about Police Reform and Racial Disparities caused by the coronavirus. This session was part of a net roots nation conference. For joining usch today. On the to our Panel Democratic ags. They are the frontline line of our democracy. I am the political director for the democratic attorneys general association. Truthappy to be back at just let us know. There is a q a function. Panel, we of this have left room for questions. If you want to use that function, thats the best place to do it. Because we already asked it or weve moved onto the next question. Im happy to be here. Lets get started. I want to make sure that east of the ags introduced themselves. In the you were there mountains with you. Friend ine my good california would make a bid for company. Colorado is a special place. I am honored to be the attorney general here. Forarted off as a law clerk ruth bader ginsburg. We really work together. Ive been a member of the community at the university of