That today afflicts our nation will soon, and i mean very soon, come to an end. [cheers] mr. Trump beginning on january 20, 2017, safety will be restored. Amy we will speak to Pulitzer Prize winning journalist david written aon, who is book about donald trump jamil , smith of mtv news, and vince warren of the center for constitutional rights. Plus, we will host a debate on donald trump between a member of the Republican Muslim Coalition and the council on americanislamic relations all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. We are breaking with convention, war, peace, and the presidency. Im amy goodman. Donald trump accepted the Republican Partys nomination for president last night at the quicken loans arena here in cleveland. His hour and 15minute speech portrayed the u. S. As a nation humiliated abroad, and under threat at home. Mr. Trump our convention occurs at a moment of crisis for our nation. The attacks on our police and the terrorism of our cities threaten our very way of life. Youve a message for all of that crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon, and i mean very soon, come to an end. [cheers] mr. Trump beginning on january 20, 2017, safety will be restored. Amy during his speech, trump reiterated both his calls for banning immigration from countries that have had recent terrorist attacks and for building a wall on the u. S. Mexico border. Mr. Trump we Must Immediately suspend immigration from any nation that has been compromised by terrorism until such time as proven vetting mechanisms have been put in place. We are going to build a great border wall to stop illegal immigration. To stop the gangs and the violence, and to stop the drugs from pouring into our communities. Amy Donald Trumps speech included multiple factual inaccuracies. According to the Washington Post, the speech was a compendium of doomsday stats that fall apart upon close scrutiny. Numbers are taken out of con, context data is manipulated, and sometimes the facts are wrong. Many criticized trumps speech, saying it had undertones of fearmongering and demagoguery. In a piece entitled, donald trump the candidate of the apocalypse, the Washington PostEditorial Board said trumps speech embodied a wishful, demagogic brand, writing mr. Trump took real challenges and recast them in terms that were not only exaggerated but also apocalyptic. Cofounder of black lives matter alicia garza tweeted i dont know what im watching right now but i imagine this is the kind of speech hitler would make freedomnow. But trumps speech did receive praise from former head of the ku klux klan david duke, who tweeted great trump speech, America First stop wars defeat t rrelesott borders , fair tde dnt ha said it better in february, trump refused to disavow david dukes support or the support of other White Supremacists during an interview with cnns jake tapper. He later did disavow dukes support. Code pinks Medea Benjamin disrupted trumps speech last night, holding a banner reading build bridges, not walls. Her protest diverted cameras away from trumps speech. Medea benjamin was removed. She says she was later interviewed by the secret service. Democracy now spoke to medea on the street afterwards. Mr. Trump i have no patience for injustice. How great are our police and how great is cleveland . [cheers] amy texas senator ted cruz stood by his refusal to endorse donald trump while speaking at a public breakfast for texas delegates thursday. When i addressed the convention, i addressed the convention because donald trump asked me to. When he asked me to, he did not ask me to endorse. Three days ago, i talked on the phone with them and told him, im not going to endorse you. I am not in the habit of supporting people who attacked my wife and attacked my father. Amy insad of endorsing trump in his speech wednesday night, ted cruz instead said vote your conscience, which prompted boos from the crowd. Ohio Governor John Kasich has also spoken about why he has not set foot inside the quicken loans arena this week, even though hes been all over cleveland. Governor kasich said i can tell you when you stand on principles, sometimes you stand alone. This comes after the New York Times reported donald trump actually wanted kasich to be his running mate and that kasich declined. According to the New York Times, Donald Trumps son, donald jr. , called kasichs adviser asking if the governor wanted to be the most powerful Vice President in history, promising kasich would be in charge of both domestic and foreign policy. Donald jr. Reportedly said that his fathers role as president would be simply making America Great again. Trumps campaign disputes this account and denies it wanted to pick kasich over indiana governor mike pence. Meanwhile, old video footage of mike pence resurfaced thursday of pence testifying on the floor of the house of representatives in 2004 that weapons of mass destruction had been found in iraq. Despite the national medias best efforts to minimize the news, i am here to report as the United States military confirmed in iraq on monday, weapons of mass destruction have been found in iraq. Where are the wmds . We have an asset again and again. They had been hidden in iraq, within the reach of terrorists, a threat to iraqi people, the was soldiers, and the world. Amy those the words of then indiana congressman mike pence. He is now indiana governor and Donald Trumps running mate. The story was first reported by salon on thursday. Fox news chairman roger ailes has resigned amid multiple accusations of sexual harassment. Ailes is one the most powerful people in conservative media and republican politics. Fox has announced Rupert Murdoch will take over as chairman. Many outlets are reporting ailes will receive a 40 million severance package. This comes after former fox news anchor Gretchen Carlson sued ailes for sexual harassment. Fox anchor megyn kelly and a half dozen other women have also accused him of harassment. He has also been a major force in the republican establishment for decades. New york times has compared him to j. Edgar hoover, writing he was unelected but mighty. Ruling by force and fear. On thursday, Gretchen Carlsons lawyer Nancy Erika Smith said in a statement that carlsons extraordinary courage has caused a Seismic Shift in the media world. Black lives matter groups held demonstrations in several cities thursday protesting police brutality. In oakland, hundreds rallied in front of city hall. In durham, North Carolina, demonstrators chained themselves to the railing outside the Durham Police department, demanding a reversal of the citys plan to build a new 70 Million Police headquarters. In pittsburgh, demonstrators blocked a busy street at rush hour and demanded an end to the use of police dogs in arrests. Pennsylvania state representative ed gainey voiced support for the protests. In our communities, we have great people. We have great people that every day get up and go to work, come have thehad should ability to feel safe in their neighborhood. There should be that type of union. Amy meanwhile, the mayor of somerville, massachusetts, is refusing to remove a banner reading black lives matter from city hall, despite a demand to do so from the local police union. The union demanded the banner be replaced with one reading all lives matter. Somerville mayor Joseph Curtatone responded to the demand saying my unwavering support for our Police Officers does not and cannot preempt our commitment to addressing systemic racism in our nation. In france, police raided the refugee camp known as the jungle in the Northern City of calais this week, making arrests and destroying shops. Earlier this year, the camp housed over 6000 refugees many , of whom were seeking entry into britain through the nearby channel tunnel, known as the chunnel. Between march and may, police destroyed buildings in the camp and evicted about half of the residents. The calais City Government says it will soon announce plans to evict the rest of the camp. This comes as the International Organization for migration is warning this year, 2016, may become the deadliest year yet for people fleeing into europe from africa. The Organization Says that 2800 people have drowned attempting the crossing so far this year 1000 more than at this time last year. The National Basketball association has announced it will not play its annual all star game in North Carolina next year. The city of charlotte was slated to host the event in february. But nba commissioner adam silver said yesterday the game would be played elsewhere after North Carolina lawmakers failed to change the state law known as hb2. Nullifyspeople lgbtq people and mandates transgender people use Public Restrooms corresponding to the sex listed on their birth certificates. And Edward Snowden has helped design a mobile phone case he says will alert a user when their phone is potentially being surveilled. Speaking via video link to an event at the Massachusetts Institute of technology, snowden and his codesigner andrew bunnie huang showed how the external device could connects to a phones transmission hardware and automatically shut the phone down if electronic eavesdropping were detected. Snowden said that while most people assume it is impossible for phones to be listened to while in airplane mode, governments possess the technology to eavesdrop even when people think they are safe. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, breaking with convention, war, peace, and the presidency. Im amy goodman. Donald trump has formally accepted the republican president ial nomination. In his hour and 15 minute warned the nation was facing an imminent crisis at at home and abroad. Trunk of the attacks on our police and the terrorism of our cities threaten our very way of life. Any politician who does not grasp this danger is not fit to lead our mike pence and Donald Trumps gospel of corporate welfare. Go through them quickly. Quick mike pence cut off food stems to adults, even other are five times as been people looking for jobs in indiana as Jobs Available yet he promotes his Christian Charity and he has given away more than 800 million to corporations taxing the average family more than 100 a year. That strikes me as corporate socialism and i think he is a true blue corporate socialist as is donald. The main hotel for the convention, the hilton, no, he would invest there so the taxpayers were forced to build this hotel. It is going to fail eventually. Here we have the party of Free Enterprise meeting in hotel that any of them was elsewhere in the world would call state owned if their diplomatic or call it commie hotel is they are trumpian republicans. Im sorry, what was the first one you asked me about . Amy donald trump and gets named in 250 million tax scam. Theyre not defended in this. At the moment they are material witnesses, but donald has been sued over a number of developments for civil fraud. He settled some of the cases. Some are still ongoing. This lawsuit is a private on behalf of the public lawsuit that alleges a 250 million tax scam by a guy donald work very closely with, traveled all over the country with, try to do real estate deals, and who alleged evaded taxes. It has not been settled. It is a state level case in new york, but donald and evocative and donald junior are all clearly material witnesses in with the lawsuit asserts is a scam to evade taxes. Ive written other columns about donald and his taxes, including tax return filed on his behalf, photocopy, were his own tax i said, well, that is my signature but i did not prepare that tax return. Amy final comment, vince warren . I think looking at the trump speech that hes ease americas communities ofg color against each other to further the narrative. He talked about the poor victimized Law Enforcement to strengthen that up. Essentially, looking to strengthen Law Enforcement to protect why the neck of from communities of color and to protect candidates of color from victimizing themselves. This is going to be known as the gotham city speech. It is dark, dire, and were looking at the emergence of a new Security State in the u. S. Because although this has been happening under the obama and bush era, the ratchet here with donald trump is it is going to catch fire very quickly. That is really what this speech was about domestically, from my perspective. Amy jamil smith, are you headed to philadelphia . Yes. I will be there tomorrow. I am looking for hopefully, a hopeful version for america with steps to achieve it. Amy we will leave it there. I want to thank jamil smith of mtv and vince warren of the center for constitutional rights, and the author of the new book, david cay johnston, whose book is coming out next week on the making of donald trump. As we turn right now to codepinks Medea Benjamin who disrupted Donald Trumps speech last night. I way, the speech, the longest in president ial Convention History at an hour and 15 minutes. Media benjamin stood up holding a banner reading, build bridges, not walls. Heprotest diverted cameras away from trumps speech. She was removed by security after the disruption. Medea benjamin says she would later be interviewed by the secret service. Democracy now caught up with her on the streets of cleveland afterwards. I got a pass inside. I went to a press area which i thought was as good as i was going to get. I had a sign tt said build bridges, not walls. I had read the speech so i knew exactly when i wanted to interrupt when he said i am your voice. Say,ted to get up then and youre not my voice. Your voice is one of hatred and antiimmigrant sentiment and homophobia and misogyny and we need someone who will build bridges, not walls. There was a lot of tussling going on with the people next to me who are grabbing my sign and trying to pull me down. There were all kinds of people things. E doing various at one point, i know my legs were in the air. I just cant speaking out that donald trump is dangerous for this country and dangerous for the world. I think it is so important codepink has been in three out of the four nights in the Convention Center interrupting donald trump. I think we speak for millions of people in this country and people all over the world who are horrified with the idea of donald trump for president. Amy who were the people sitting next to you and what do they say and who ended up dragging you out . There were other journalists next me from conservative papers. I know that because i looked at some of their nametags. They were also clapping so much during the speech. If you are an objective journalist, youre not going to get up and clap when donald trump comes in and after every two sentences. They were very enthusiastic press. They were really upset when i got up and immediately started trying to tackle me. [chanting usa] amy you got an early transcript of the speech. Did anything surprise you . I found it interesting that before donald came on, there were republican gay businessmen, people who talked about gay was reallyivanka focusing on womens rights and how great her husband her father was for women. I think donald trump in the beginning of the speech tried to who across as somebody would unite this country. Of course, it is all about how he is a great builder, builder, builder. Then he got, one point, very negative. His talk about how we are besieged by immigrants who are coming across our border and then murdering people is such a horrible thing to be focusing on win95 percent of the immigrants when 99 of the immigrants are people who have worked so hard and contribute to society. I just got back from latin america and im in the middle east a lot, and people are terrified about donald trump as well as our friends here who are muslim and our friends who are latino. When he starts in his rhetoric and people start yelling build that wall, that is a very scary thing. I think it was very appropriate to be there with the build bridges, not walls. Amy that is Medea Benjamin, the founder of codepink, the womens peace group. She disrupted Donald Trumps speech last night, holding a banner reading build bridges, not walls. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Convention,ing with war, peace, and the presidency. Every day, to our expanded broadcast from the Cleveland Republican Convention here in ohio. Next week, we will be in philadelphia at the Democratic National convention. We will be back in a minute. [music break] amy you cant always get what you want by the rolling stones. Donaldse end of speech,