Morning. I m john berman with sarah seidner in chicago. Kate bolduan is in new york, a huge day two plan to the democratic national convention day one wrapped up just moments ago for reals as the kids say, though, the kids might not have been awake for what was a very very emotional moment. President biden wiping away tears as he took the stage telling the screaming crowd here and the country, i gave my best to you i spent my lifetime to serve as your president i love the job but i love my country more there was a room full of love there as he patched the torch to kamala harris, but there was also a heck of a lot of fire as he repeatedly ripped into donald trump you never build a thing? donald trump calls america failing nation he s the loser. He s dead wrong trump continues to lie about crime in america. Like everything else and crime, okay, keep coming down when we put a prosecutor in the oval office instead of a convicted felon and hail to see think he is who does he think he was on
America i love you president biden gets an ovation, gets his ovation as he marked his departure as the democratic party s leader in this because of louisiana s abortion ban, no one would confirm that i was miscarrying a reproductive rights, a central focus during night. One of the dnc is democrats attack the republicans on abortion and then i don t believe i am a showman. I think i m somebody that has a lot of common sense donald trump rejecting criticism from one of his longtime allies and insists he is not a showman all right, 5:00 a. M. Here in chicago, it is 6:00 a. M. On the east coast. A live look inside the united center, which is of course home of the democratic national convention here in chicago. Good morning, everyone. I m kasie hunt. It s wonderful to have you with us, events wrapped up on that stage just a few hours ago there vacuuming carpets here preparing for night to the opening night was for kamala harris, a grand entrance as the party s nominee and for joe biden ther
Address best the democratic national convention. So that s a thing also a thing tonight will be former president barak obama, someone who will be familiar to many people in the room here, they will have seen him before, also former first lady michelle obama and the current second gentleman, doug emhoff, who is looking to move up or wrong on that land i m second so it was just a few hours ago that president biden delivered his speech, just after he walked up to that microphone. Actually, just before he was actually wiping appear hears this was an emotional moment morocco i spent my lifetime to serve as your president i love the job but i love my country more there was so much support for him, but also they are happy that he has handed the mantle over to kamala harris and you saw that there was also a heated attacks, of course, over and over again on donald trump with the sprinkle of selfdeprecating humor donald trump calls america failing nation no i m sorry think about this think about
It s nice to the democratic national convention, or just a short time from now, one of the party s most powerful leaders will take the stage. The former president barack obama set to make the case why? he, believes vice president harris and governor tim walz are precisely the leaders. The country needs right now. While we re also learning is to speech from the former first lady, michelle obama that the campaign believes could pack the biggest punch of the night welcome to our viewers in the united states and around world. I m wolf blitzer, and this is a special edition of the situation room. We re live from chicago. And i m kaitlan collins and wolf tonight we re also going to be hearing from someone that the harris campaign tonight views as one of the most important speakers of this entire convention, her husband, second gentleman, doug emhoff, who is hoping to become the first gentleman november. Of course, he knows harris better than anyone in the united center does. And sources clos
Democratic national convention. She hit the road today, meeting with voters as she and her running mate Tim Walz make their way across the battleground, State Of Pennsylvania on a bus its tour. Harris is trying to build up the momentum as she takes on trump today, calling him a coward without saying his name this campaign is about a recognition that frankly over the last several years there has been this kind of perversion that has taken place. I think, which is to suggest, which is to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down when what we know is the real and true measure of the strength of a leader is based on lift up. Anybody was about beating down other people is a Coward Harris also visiting a high School Football Practice and she was there with Tim Walz, of course, for football coach, and he leaned into that identity as he has talking about what theyre calling their game time strategy being an old football coach, theres an old saying you d