Will make that decision at some point soon. Okay. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is new day. We are just hours away from watching joe biden formally accept his partys nomination for president of the United States. His running mate Kamala Harris made history last night, accepting her nomination to become the first black and south asian woman ever on a major party ticket. I am here tonight as a testament to the dedication of generations before me. Women and men who believed so fiercely in the promise of equality, liberty and justice for all. I accept your nomination for Vice President of the United States of america. No question that was a moment in history. Another moment in history, president obama, a former president of the United States, giving a stark warning about the safety of our democracy. Any chance of success depends entirely on the outcome of this election. This administration has shown it will tear our democracy down if thats what it takes for them to win. So we have to get busy building it up by pouring all our efforts into these 76 days and by voting like never before. For joe and kamala and candidates up and down the ticket so that we leave no doubt about what this country, that we love, stands for. Today, and for all our days to come. President obamas former adviser is standing by to talk to us in a moment and later well speak to joe bidens former speechwriter about what we could hear when he accepts the democratic nomination tonight. All of this as the u. S. Recorded 1,300 new deaths from coronavirus in a single day. I think thats the 22nd day in the last month with more than 1,000 deaths. Joining us now, senior political commentator, david axelrod. He was obamas Campaign Strategist and also with us, anna nava row. I think you underplayed what what president obama was going to say, because it was historic, but not just because its a former president directly critical of a current president which you dont see, but also because of how he laid out the stakes as it being dependent democracy dependent on what you the voter does right now. What did you see, what drove it and how surprised were you . I wasnt surprised. I had actually talked to his team. I knew where he was going to go, but more than that, i knew what his motivation was. You know, what i was thinking about last night when i heard him speak was a conversation we had when he was president and he said the bushes, both president s bush have taught me a lesson in how to be a former president. What he meant was that they kept their council, they werent critical of his policies. That was what his intent was when he left the white house and what he made clear last night was what motivated him to speak was not his differences with trumps policies, which are obviously deep and profound. But his difference with his conduct in the office, his treatment of democracy. Barack obama as you said last night and almost every president in our history have thought of themselves as a trustee of the democracy. George w. Bush in the transition from administrations could not have been more helpful and supportive of us. Not because he agreed with the policies of barack obama, but because he saw himself as a trustee of the democracy, of the norms, of the rules and donald trump simply does not. And that is frightening to barack obama and those who feel profoundly about the institutions. To me it didnt sound like a Convention Speech. It did not sound like a politician trying to attack another politician. This was a former president who cares deeply about this democracy and is making a fervent plea to americans to come out and vote in november. So lets listen to a moment, president obama laying out of what he sees as the failings of President Trump. I have sat in the oval office with both of the men who are running for president. I never expected that my successor would embrace my vision or continue my policies. I did hope for the sake of our country that donald trump might show some interest in taking the job seriously. But he never did. For close to four years now, he has shown no interest in putting in the work. No interest in finding common ground. No interest in using the awesome power of his office to help anyone but himself and his friends. No interest in treating the presidency as anything but one more reality show that he could use to get the attention he craves. Donald trump hasnt grown into the job. Because he cant. And the consequences of that failure are severe. 170,000 americans dead. Anna, what did you hear in that part of the speech or any part of it . Look, i was struck by the emotion of Barack Obamas speech. There was a moment there where it felt like he was tearing up and he got very emotional talking about john lewis, talking about the shoulders he stood on. So i think it was both a rebuke of donald trump which i think he didnt do lightly. And in what you just heard there, what was you know, ironic and just like it was almost on cue, barack obama is giving this speech and within seconds donald trump is, you know, his twitchy little twitter finger is tweeting away, trying to troll barack obama, basically proving Barack Obamas point the he has not grown into the presidency and that he craves attention. But the part i thought it was a wonderful, eloquent, brilliant call to action. Look, i thought the entire convention yesterday weaved in policy issues with so much emotion and putting faces and names and stories to the issue of immigration, to the issue of gun reform, to the issue of climate change. It was the entire thing felt felt like aloe on the burn that has been happening for the last 3 1 2 years in america. David, i know you noted that for all of the direct criticism of President Trump, president obama made the address about you, made it about the voter, this is what you now do is the moment that you need to stand up and on that line what does joe biden need to do tonight . And what i mean, look, we have heard about President Trump and some extent we have heard a lot about joe bidens biography, but how does joe biden address the voter . How does he say this is about you . What does he need to say . Well, first of all, i think he needs to approach this almost as a person who is going to be president , speaking to an anguished country in the middle of overlapping crises, the pandemic, the economic crisis, the crisis of the the social crisis we have been through relative to race. And to give people a sense that we can get to a better day and i know how to do that. I think that is the most important thing that he can do. How he does it has to be is important as well. You know the attack of trump and the one that i think youll hear next week you know, by the way, parenthetically i agree with ana about last night, which was very, very powerful. Next week everything that we saw last night will be turned on its head and, you mean, pleas for Climate Action will be an assault on your economic wellbeing. And so on. So it and in an underpinning of that will be an attack on bidens mental acuity. They know that biden cant be depicted as a radical left, you know, politician because thats not who he is culturally thats not who he is. But thats how they want so they will depict him as the sort of unwitting dupe of the far left. A trojan horse through which this radical agenda will be passed. Tonight he has to stand up and be you know, forceful, robust and give people confidence that hes the man in charge and give people a sense of what that vision is and draw the largest number of americans into that vision. If he does that, hell take a big step forward and hell create fortification against whats going to be a savage week next week. Ana, youre advising the biden campaign. I cant imagine anybody not doing what youll say, so what are you telling them to do . Look, i kept saying to them that we needed to see representation on the screen that there are so many people that through the Trump Administration have felt trampled on and have felt unseen. I have to say, last night they brought it home. It was all about representation. My little mel anated, civic heart it felt so full. It was Hillary Clinton reminding us on it was on us and winning by 3 million votes is not enough and we have to do more. It was Gabby Gifford playing that french horn. It was little estella giving the story about her mother who was deported. The daughter of the u. S. Marine whose mom got deported. It was story after story. It was prince royce doing stand by me and if you didnt feel last night, i dont know what convention you were watching. Actually, today with david and john is the first time i see a white man like in eight hours. You know . Other than joe biden last night and thats okay. They have had 240 years of representation. Theyre going to be okay. Last night was about telling people who have felt unseen, we see you. You are here. You are part of this table. And i thought it was inclusive. Its given people something that i think many have not felt for a long time, particularly these last few months, when so many of us have been stuck at home making banana bread. Optimism. A plan for the future. Hope. I am hearing a lot of people tell me that. Tell me theyre feeling excited and hopeful and optimistic for the first time in many months. Well, we hear you. Can i say very quickly, a few seconds. I thought it was interesting that the democrats reserved the economic discussion for the second hour because thats the broadest argument and agree with everything that ana said. We are a deeply divided country and those who she talks about people who feel unseen. Donald trump placed the resentment of people who fear change and who, you know, white voters who think theyre going to be pushed out. And that is that is something that democrats have to be aware of because they need some of those voters to win this election. David axelrod, ana navarro can i say one last thing . Miles on before us t former dhs official said that President Trump wanted to sell puerto rico and swap it for green land i say we swap trump for joe biden and send him there because hell be closer to putin. All right. Developing right now, new evacuations in california as wildfires rage across that state and lightning strikes are making it hard to battle this fire. Whats the situation at this hour . Well, hi, alisyn. The fires are continuing to spread out of control, especially in vacaville, california. An unfold number of people have been forced to evacuate. More than 100 homes destroyed, 124,000 acres charred. You can see this home behind me that has been destroyed. This is an unprecedented situation over the course of 72 hours. Theres some 11,000 lightning strikes happening in the state of california and that is literally resulting in hundreds of wildfires. About two dozen of them major including this one. And because there are so many fires resources are stretched thin. We talked to one couple here in vacaville who lost their home and they lost it because there were no fire engines that could respond. Take a look. I just kept thinking after we left, oh, the house will be there, well be fine. We did everything we were supposed to and apparently they had no fire trucks. Theyre all over in yes. We cant so they couldnt do anything. We just had to watch it burn. State of californias asking for more resources to come in to continue battling the blazes. All of this happening in the middle of a pandemic. There are evacuation shelters that have been opened. Red cross workers asking people if they have any covid19 symptoms and taking peoples temperatures as they walk through the door. Thank you for the update. Teachers in at least two major u. S. Cities are threatening to strike over safety concerns. What they want to see before inperson classes resume. Thats next. From prom dresses. To soccer practices. And new adventures. 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Joining us to talk about this and more, we have cnn chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta. We have been talking about this for days and weeks, so many parents are so confused about whats going to happen the first week of september and whether or not their schools can safety open. You have put together your list of how schools can, what you know, what the sort of milestones are that they would have the hit. Explain what they are. Well, you know, i think part of it is you have to see whats going on in the schools in terms of making sure theyre practicing the Public Health practices that we have been talking about. But also, look at the screen here. You know, theres certain phases that, you know, were required for states to go through before reopening and that involves a 14day downward trend in new cases. You see that and you get a good idea that the numbers are headed in the right direction. The state will have a better chance of being able to control what will surely be some intermittent outbreaks. You will see more cases as kids go back to school. The question is can you control them with adequate testing, with adequate tracing, all the things we have been talking about. As you know, a lot of places still dont have the testing. Theres another number as well. We could show in map of Positivity Rates. We have talked a lot about this over the last several months, but basically if you test 100 people what percentage are likely to come back positive . If the numbers higher, that means youre not catching all the cases out there. So on this map youll find your own state, if its dark that means the Positivity Rate is high and you probably are not catching enough cases. Probably a lot more virus circulating out there. So in georgia where i live for example, even though my school which i visited, did the homework on, theyre trying to do all the right things in terms of mask mandate and hand hygiene and trying to create physical distance, but the Positivity Rate is still so high. 11 and the numbers overall are too high. So we decided for example not to send our kids back to school. Sanjay, theres an Important Development yesterday that i think did confuse a lot of people. A lot of people have been looking at convalescent Plasma Treatment as one of the therapies that might very well help soon in terms of battling coronavirus. The fda apparently was going to grant emergency use authorization for it, but then the nih stepped in, dr. Fauci and collins said we dont have enough data. What does this mean . What are they not seeing that they want to see and how soon before this is authorized . Well, you know, the second point that youre making i think is crucial as well and the fda is saying, were an autonomous organization, and we look at data that not everyone else gets a chance to see. Just keep that in the back of mind. I think theres a lot of enthusiasm around this idea of convalescent serum which is taking antibodies from people who have recovered and using them either as a preventive or a treatment in people for covid19. I think what dr. Collins and dr. Fauci were saying were basica y basically, look, theres not enough data here yet in the form of these randomized trials. Some people get the convalescent plasma, some people dont. Are we confident that the convalescent plasma is whats really helping people when they looked at the data they said thats not enough data there yet. And if you grant an emergency use authorization, it basically makes it much more challenging to continue to do the trials because everybody wants the plasma if theyre in the hospital and sick. I think thats the point theyre making. Just having covered this now reporting on it for so many months theres been a little bit of a shift. Getting an emergency use authorization was very easy. I mean, they were giving these out very, very easily and now its more of a challenge to get an eua even for some of the testing so youre seeing more of a clamping down on giving out the emergency use authorizations and the scientists are saying this is good. We need to make sure were dealing with lots of facts and data and science before authorizing these things. Thank you, sanjay gupta, for helping us understand this. No problem. So a bullet unable left her son unable to speak at 13 years old, but now speaking out against gun violence at the convention. On kings hawaiian bread yum kings hawaiian. Where Everybody Knows someyour name ant to go and theyre always glad you came applebees. Now thats eating good in the neighborhood. But what if you could startdo better than that . Like adapt. 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