great! o donnell: good evening. we are 71 days from election day and tonight the republicans begin presenting their case for giving donald trump four more years as president. i m norah o donnell in the nation s cop toll and welcome to cbs news coverage. republican national convention. this convention will look different than years before. president trump will not have the packed arena nor the boisterous crowds he enjoys. many of the speeches will be from an auditorium here in washington. but earlier today a few hundred delegates gathered in charlotte, in the carolina, where the roll call vote was held and president trump was officially renominated. this is the most important election in the history of our country. don t let them take it away from you. o donnell: tonight we ll hear from former u.n. ambassador nikki haley, the president s oldest son donald trump, jr. and tim scott. throughout the week i will be joined by our contribute ares and analysts, cbs news senior p
positivity that is up lifting some far much of what we herd are sustained attacks on the democratic party and joe bride in. but i will say this, we have seen a number of every day americans, just like democrats did last week, we herd from a nurse, we lettered from front line workers, we herd from a small business owner, really answering the question, is your life better than four years ago. and all of them had said yes. and the way they are addressing it are special education services particular to the coronavirus, economic downfall. so we also have herd from a number of president trump s staunchest supporters, we will see some of this speak later, former un ambassador nikki haley, tim scott the only black republican senator at that level. so there are a number of things we are going to hear, but the theme has really been to characterize joe biden, the democrats as socialists, and that has been the theme last week and counter programming that we saw. but also trying to defend
ago now i taught international relations. of the imperialism study that was published in 1902. hobson just to give you a brief bio was a left wing economist. and a member of the independent labour party. he was probably not a soundman. nonetheless on page 11. in my addition. they write nationalism as a plain highway to internationalism. and if it manifests the virgin s we make while expect a diversion. i m not sure if i guess today would agree with that sentiment or not. i quote it quoted not to agree or disagree with that. there is a world that we lost. a respectable and constructive belief. not only had we lost that world he put it on page 11. and expected that his readers would understand what he was seen without saying without a whole lot of preliminary introduction. i can type in my ears of teaching only one student who i gave this quotation to was ever able to make any sense of it at all. we really had lost the ability to understand the idea. it was constructive. and as
we are going to ask them a short question but then to our panel we will have to get grief responses. would you ask your question please? governor ehrlich the social democracies of europe by many metrics are providing better quality of life for their people. not the freedom metric. not the freedom dimension. we pride a market approach to the american people and that seemed to have succeeded in providing a better light to the american people on top of the pyramid. what freedom is a measure of quality of life and is at the perception that you think of european democracies? is it s fascinating to see this equally as income inequality becomes a great mantra. you go to class warfare every time because you go to the person making $40,000 a year but what is fascinating about this whole thing despite all the tremendous tax increases and the progressive new taxes and obamacare is stimulus and all that sort of stuff income inequality has increased during the obamacare is so i wo
you re government is still not doing anything about it. so these wise finally start organizing all across the country before the enough, before they had cell phones. they would spend hours and days on the telephone talking with one another. virginia beach, in san diego, in jacksonville, organizing and starting to put pressure on the politicians honor government, on the press to talk about this issue to bring their husbands home. they created an obsolete extraordinarily that we still recognize today, and i expect a bunch of you all wore pow/mia bracelets at one point. there were over 5 million of these things printed or amended. and people from all sides of the political spectrum or them. remember, vietnam was a tremendously divisive or. but because of these women and this pow/mia movement, the country came together around the pow. and around the men that were fighting. for the first time our nation was in a position where we had to differentiate between the political goals of