injustice, building on the case she s made when she was announced as biden s vp pick just one week ago. when we look at someone like the current occupant of the white house, again, he has not been lifting folks up. joe and what we are about is about lifting people up, understanding that the strength of a leader is based on not who you beat down, but who you lift up. his empathy, his compassion, his sense of duty to care for others, is why i am so proud to be on this ticket. he knows, and he cares about the fact that we have, as a nation, witnessed 165,000 people who just in the last few months have died in our country. so what real leadership looks like is joe biden. to speak up, sometimes telling us the stuff that we don t necessarily want to hear, but we need to know. harris is the candidate that the trump campaign viewed as the most skilled and in a clear sign of their concerns, or maybe it s just how they roll at this point, the racist and sexist smears against he
trump unprecedented for what he believes are his failures. welcome. i m anderson cooper, this is kamala harris night but she s sharing it including his predecessor. wolf, we re expecting to hear from the biggest names of the democratic party tonight. we certainly are. th we ll speak about her experience from 2016 and they didn t realize how dangerous donald trump was back then, that they must vote this time to avoid what she calls another would have, could have, should have election. we ll also hear from house speaker nancy pelosi. she will tell voters how she has seen firsthand the president s disrespect for facts, working families, and women. we re covering all of it with our political team including my colleagues jake tapper, dana bash and abby phillip. jake, what more are you learning about the big speeches tonight? wolf, if you thought former first lady michelle obama was tough on president trump the other night, get ready for her husband. we re about to witness wha
hawkins dances. whether at hunter high school in salt lake city, utah. or michigan city high school in michigan city, indiana. or raleigh, north carolina. the the young men at these dances will be the invited dates of the young women in attendance. the popular american tradition has evolved some over the decades. the clever and inventive new ways girls ask their dates are documented and shared on pinterest boards. it all started with a comic strip. remember lil abner? he was the naive son of mami and papi in the fictional town of doll patch, usa. the strip is a long running satire also included a character named sidney hawkins. one day in november, 1937, sadie s father rounded up all the bachelors for a foot race. whoever sadie caught had to marry her. soon after the comic was publisheded the tradition took route. college campuses started holding sadie hawkins dances as early as 1939, in which loroles were reversed. girls were able to choose their dates. it would reach a feve
speaker, republicans are saying not so much. they really don t want to do it but can they force a reluctant paul ryan? he s mauling his options now this weekend. let s begin with hillary clinton s meeting with black lives matter activists. joining me now an activist there right there in the room at that meeting, also, kevin jackson, the executive director and cnn contributor, a former member of the south carolina house of representatives. good evening. appreciate you joining me on a friday evening. you and other leaders of black lives matter movement and campaign zero, racial injustice group met with hillary clinton today. tell us about the meeting. yeah, it was a good 90-minute meeting, candidate conversation and she committed to ending private prisons. we talked about a national standard for use of force and also talked about things ranging from mental health to making sure that we understand that the police are not the only component of safety, that there is safety beyon
democracy is messy. every day, my life is messy but if you want everything to be quiet and orderly and want things to proceed without vigorous debate, that s not what democracy is about. for more on the campaigns, let s bring in cnn correspondent phil mattingly, joe johns, our chief analyst, gloria borger and political director. phil, hillary clinton is bringing up donald trump s past bankruptcies, warning that he ll do the same for the u.s. economy if he were president. how does this fit into the campaign strategy? wolf, the idea is to hit donald trump on his perceived strength and it repeats what president obama s team did to mitt romney in 2012. early on in the campaign, the earlier stages of the general election period, attack the republican opponent on the area that he and his team think is his strength. hillary clinton s issue here is trying to make it appear that donald trump does not care about middle class workers. you saw that on the housing crisis and saw the c