Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: It's nine two of the Democratic National Convention. And you
Speaker 2: may remember last night both producer Twela Sharp and I
Speaker 2: were comment seeing about how far over as an overtime
Speaker 2: Night one went.
Speaker 3: He said, that is really really strange.
Speaker 2: That probably messed up a lot of plans, and they
Speaker 2: President Biden didn't hit the stage until eleven thirty East
Speaker 2: Coast time. Now, if you're the keynote speaker for the evening,
Speaker 2: especially if you're the sitting president, hitting the stage at
Speaker 2: eleven thirty East Coast time was not the plan, especially
Speaker 2: when this is supposed to be like a goodbye moment
Speaker 2: for the president. As far as his public addressing of
Speaker 2: the Democratic Party, he hit the stage at eleven thirty pm.
Speaker 3: Depending on what report you read.
Speaker 2: Biden's staffers were angry that the President wasn't given more
Speaker 2: prime time during the time because most of these events
Speaker 2: are our schedule with respect to pleasing the East Coast,
Speaker 2: So you don't want him on stage after ten pm
Speaker 2: because you start losing audience. And if he doesn't hit
Speaker 2: the stage until eleven thirty pm, you've already lost audience
Speaker 2: no matter what, you just have, so you didn't get
Speaker 2: to maximize the moment, at least for whatever designs Joe
Speaker 2: Biden had. And I was watching the rundown with Towala
Speaker 2: because we were trying to schedule. Okay, we know we're
Speaker 2: going to take the address, so it's a function of
Speaker 2: we have to plan. All right, are we going to
Speaker 2: take this break or nine? I'm talking to Mark, I'm
Speaker 2: talking to Stephanside. Are we going to go to commercial? No,
Speaker 2: I think it's coming to the stage. Well, what happened
Speaker 2: was the DNC didn't follow its own schedule because they
Speaker 2: were so far behind. They were at least an hour
Speaker 2: and a half behind, and they took people off the schedule.
Speaker 3: Singer James Taylor, you know Fire and Rain.
Speaker 2: James Taylor was supposed to perform last night right after
Speaker 2: I believe the First Lady, kind of bridging the gap
Speaker 2: between the First Lady and the President.
Speaker 3: James Taylor was actually rehearsing.
Speaker 4: In the hall.
Speaker 2: He was ready to go, and they gave him the
Speaker 2: acts because they were more than an hour and a
Speaker 2: half behind time. But here's the funny part. The DNC
Speaker 2: press people didn't tell the truth they said quote. Because
Speaker 2: of the raucous applause, interrupting speaker after speaker, we ultimately
Speaker 2: skipped elements of our program to ensure we could get
Speaker 2: to President Biden as quickly as possible, so that he
Speaker 2: could speak directly to the American people. We are proud
Speaker 2: of the electric atmosphere in our convention hall and proud
Speaker 2: that our convention is showcasing the broad and diverse coalition
Speaker 2: behind the Harris Walls ticket throughout the week, on and
Speaker 2: off the stage. That was a statement that was released
Speaker 2: to the Hollywood Reporter. And again Twaya and I were
Speaker 2: watching the events in Sudi was and we both said, wow,
Speaker 2: they gave Hillary click a lot of time or or
Speaker 2: she took extra time, because usually when you're speaking earlier
Speaker 2: in the evening, you're not allotted that much time. I
Speaker 2: know she's a name in the party, but given where
Speaker 2: she was placed in a program, you don't take like
Speaker 2: because we were thinking, like, she got on stage maybe
Speaker 2: ten minutes before we got we started the show last night,
Speaker 2: and we were wondering, like, well, are we going to
Speaker 2: take anything from her speech?
Speaker 3: And I said, nah, because she's not gonna be on.
Speaker 2: Stage fifteen minutes from then, and she was on twenty
Speaker 2: minutes from then.
Speaker 3: She was speaking a good twenty minutes, and I was thinking, like.
Speaker 2: That's odd, but it set in motion how the rest
Speaker 2: of the night got further and further behind, and so
Speaker 2: you ended up with the Joe Biden hitting the stage
Speaker 2: at eleven thirty pm East Coast time. Because I remember
Speaker 2: we were taking the lead up right before the break
Speaker 2: and I'll say to Steph and A, were going to
Speaker 2: go to this commercial breakord not and It's like, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: this is actually Biden. So that means getting ready to
Speaker 2: go to the president, and so we took it all
Speaker 2: the way and he spoke for like another fifty minutes,
Speaker 2: which put him well into Tuesday morning, East Coast time.
Speaker 2: So you know, these are the things which are going
Speaker 2: on behind the scenes that sometimes people don't realize, and
Speaker 2: I knew when they were behind It's like that that
Speaker 2: could not have been the plan, not for the president,
Speaker 2: not for the money that they were spending, and not
Speaker 2: for the overall look, because you want your keynote to
Speaker 2: hit during the middle of prime time because they're supposed
Speaker 2: to be out by ten pm local time.
Speaker 3: They're in Chicago so that's eight pm our time. Chicago's
Speaker 3: two hours ahead. People assume Madonna for that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: No, to Walt, I.
Speaker 3: Were just talking about that.
Speaker 2: For concerts and you know, union houses, you can't go
Speaker 2: an hour and a half overever that.
Speaker 5: Much money or for an event like that. The bill
Speaker 5: that the union workers sent out was massive.
Speaker 2: Well no, no, it was times ten because the Chicago Union,
Speaker 2: you know how Chicago gets.
Speaker 5: They get down so that I mean and again, and
Speaker 5: they have when everyone is out, there can't be a
Speaker 5: single security person in the building. Nothing, They can't touch
Speaker 5: a light until everything is clear.
Speaker 2: Man, I suspect that this night will go a lot quicker.
Speaker 2: Of course they will have the Obama is both former
Speaker 2: President Obama and also former First Lady Michelle Obama who
Speaker 2: will be speaking, and they'll close out the night. So
Speaker 2: I expect probably former President Obama to hit the stage
Speaker 2: in the next fifteen to twenty minutes.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, because I'm from looking at the schedule, I believe that, oh,
Speaker 5: they were supposed to come on after a second gentleman,
Speaker 5: second gentleman.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so that's probably they're much more on schedule tonight.
Speaker 3: Because someone got their hands lapped.
Speaker 2: Someone probably got fired after last night, but we'll continue
Speaker 2: to follow that will bring you some of the remarks
Speaker 2: of former President Obama if it hits not during a
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Speaker 2: And last night I was talking to producer Twilla Sharp
Speaker 2: and he was asking the like, how do we know
Speaker 2: if the convention I'm paraphrasing, how do we know that
Speaker 2: you know how well the convention is going? Because I
Speaker 2: was making the point talking about the DNC that the
Speaker 2: DNC is a pep rally. It's about uniting the party
Speaker 2: and having the swell of support. You want to turn
Speaker 2: a moment into momentum and turn that momentum into a movement,
Speaker 2: which is which would in theory propel you through the tape.
Speaker 2: It's like running to the finish line, which would be
Speaker 2: election day. Well, there's certain metrics along the way. It
Speaker 2: could be polling over the course of the week, it
Speaker 2: could be fundraising over the course of the week, and
Speaker 2: as that information comes in, you get a better sense
Speaker 2: of whether the DNC is being received, whether it's resonating
Speaker 2: with voters or just Americans more generally, because I think
Speaker 2: people sometimes overestimate how much average Americans do not pay
Speaker 2: close attention to all of the politics. Now, we sometimes
Speaker 2: get in our bubbles, we think because we watch MSNBC
Speaker 2: or Fox News every single day, that everyone cares about
Speaker 2: these things as much as we do, and that's really
Speaker 2: not the truth. People don't really start tuning in literally
Speaker 2: until the conventions, and that's when it starts to become
Speaker 2: more and more top of mind for people. But as
Speaker 2: far as metrics go, Deadline Hollywood throughout these numbers that
Speaker 2: the DNC drew twenty million viewers last night, Well, mo,
Speaker 2: what does that mean?
Speaker 3: Give us some context?
Speaker 2: Okay, twenty million for the first night was more viewers
Speaker 2: than the first three nights of the RNC, more viewers
Speaker 2: for DMC Night one than either night one, two or
Speaker 2: three for the RNC. The R and C fourth night,
Speaker 2: in which former President Trump was speaking, drew twenty five million.
Speaker 3: You can use that as a comparison point.
Speaker 2: Now, that doesn't mean that more people are going to
Speaker 2: vote Democrat, but it does mean that people are tuned
Speaker 2: in and interested to see what is happening in Chicago.
Speaker 2: That is a data point, and if it grows, then
Speaker 2: you will see that there is increasing interest. And I
Speaker 2: would think that pattern would be more significant. For example,
Speaker 2: if they had twenty million last night and it drops
Speaker 2: off to fourteen million, that's more like, oh, we're just
Speaker 2: tuning in to see what this is all about. We
Speaker 2: don't want to see more, and then it's not really significant.
Speaker 2: But if it goes from twenty million to twenty two
Speaker 2: or twenty three million, then you have to start looking
Speaker 2: at the fact that people are enjoying the DNC or
Speaker 2: gravitating to it. You're not going to grow your audience.
Speaker 2: If the products not then something that you want to see.
Speaker 2: So that is what I'm looking for. That data point
Speaker 2: will tell us which way it's headed, and there's something
Speaker 2: else up to I also talked about fundraising, don't I
Speaker 2: don't know how much Democrats fundraise in the last twenty
Speaker 2: four hours, but I can tell you about how much
Speaker 2: they've managed to raise in the past thirty days. And
Speaker 2: if you combine that with the viewership, in other words,
Speaker 2: if there's going to be escalating viewership, then it's reasonable
Speaker 2: to assume that there would be escalating fundraising the Harris
Speaker 2: ticket since she became the presumptive nominee.
Speaker 3: She's still the presumptive nominee. She's not the actual nominee.
Speaker 2: Not until Thursday, or actually tonight with the roll call,
Speaker 2: she becomes the actual nominee. But since then and now,
Speaker 2: the Harris election effort has raised about one half of
Speaker 2: billion dollars five hundred million dollars in about thirty days.
Speaker 2: No matter how you cut it, that's pretty significant. Again,
Speaker 2: that doesn't mean votes, but it does pay for an election.
Speaker 2: It pays for ads, it pays for social media, it
Speaker 2: pays for campaigning on the ground, visiting the different states,
Speaker 2: and the retail politics. It makes sure that there are
Speaker 2: no financial limitations to whatever a campaign wants it to be.
Speaker 2: It doesn't mean that they won't mess it up. It
Speaker 2: just means that money won't be an issue. And that's
Speaker 2: about a good two three hundred I'm sorry, that's not
Speaker 2: even counting the four or five hundred million that Joe
Speaker 2: Biden had brought in and also the inherited money, so
Speaker 2: she's close to a billion dollars because remember the fundraising
Speaker 2: under Biden, Harris made money that's separate from this. Remember
Speaker 2: they had like a two hundred million they think fundraised
Speaker 2: in July ish leading up to July, and there was
Speaker 2: a question of who would get that money. Well it
Speaker 2: had to be Kamala Harris or not at all because
Speaker 2: of FEC rules. So just letting you know, first, Lady
Speaker 2: Michelle Obama is speaking right now. We may drop in
Speaker 2: for that. As a matter of fact, let's drop in
Speaker 2: that and see what she has to say.
Speaker 3: It's for a moment. You got a big night a head.
Speaker 3: Thank you all so much, Thank you so much.
Speaker 6: Okay, hey, Hellne Chicago. Yeah, all right, something something wonderfully magical.
Speaker 3: Is in the air, isn't it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know we're feeling it here in this arena,
Speaker 6: but it's spreading all across this country. We love a
Speaker 6: familiar feeling that's been buried too deep for far too long.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm talking about. It's the contagious power
Speaker 6: of hope, the anticipation, the energy, the exhilaration of once
Speaker 6: again being on the cusp of a brighter day, the
Speaker 6: chance to vanquish the demons of fear, division and hate
Speaker 6: that have consumed us and continue pursuing the unfinished promise
Speaker 6: of this great nation, the dream that our parents and
Speaker 6: grandparents fought and died and sacrificed for America. Hope is
Speaker 6: making a comeback. But to be honest, I am realizing
Speaker 6: that until recently I have mourned the dimming of that hope,
Speaker 6: and maybe you've experienced the same feelings. Is that deep
Speaker 6: pit in my stomach, a palpable sense of dread about
Speaker 6: the future, And for me, that mourning has also been
Speaker 6: mixed with.
Speaker 3: My own personal grief.
Speaker 6: The last time I was here in my hometown was
Speaker 6: to memorialize my mother, the woman who showed me the
Speaker 6: meaning of hard work and humility and decency, the woman
Speaker 6: who set my moral compass high and showed me the
Speaker 6: power of my own voice. Folks, I still feel her
Speaker 6: loss so profoundly. I wasn't even sure if I'd be
Speaker 6: steady enough to stand before you tonight. But my heart
Speaker 6: compelled me to be here because of the sense of
Speaker 6: duty that I feel to honor her memory and to
Speaker 6: remind us all not to squander the sacrifices are elders
Speaker 6: made to give us a better future.
Speaker 2: This later with mo Kelly, we'll continue to follow the
Speaker 2: events at the DNC. First Lady Michelle Obama, former First
Speaker 2: Lady Michelle Obama speaking right now.
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Speaker 2: And as we continue to talk about what's going on
Speaker 2: at the DNC and give some perspective and analysis about
Speaker 2: what is significant, what is insignificant. Something I think which
Speaker 2: is significant. There were a number of Republicans, not former Republicans,
Speaker 2: but Republicans who spoke today at the DNC and you think, well,
Speaker 2: they're just sellouts, they're just rhinos, they are Republicans in
Speaker 2: name only, when that's not actually the case. There are
Speaker 2: a number of people and this goes back to the
Speaker 2: whole purpose of a convention. It's about unity and what
Speaker 2: I thought was a missed opportunity during the RNC for
Speaker 2: whatever reasons. You know, the Republicans can run their conviction
Speaker 2: however they want. I thought it was a missed opportunity
Speaker 2: to not have anytime you have a living former president,
Speaker 2: you want that person at your convention. They didn't have
Speaker 2: former President George W.
Speaker 3: Bush.
Speaker 2: And there are a lot of president day senators and
Speaker 2: powerful leaders in the Republican Party which weren't at the RNC.
Speaker 2: Because you want to demonstrate unity, and a lot of
Speaker 2: those people who, for whatever reasons may not support Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: Some are more vocal than others, and some now are
Speaker 2: showing up at the DNC and they are former Georgia
Speaker 2: Lieutenant Governor Jeff Duncan.
Speaker 3: He was elected to the state House in twenty twelve.
Speaker 2: He was later elected at the state lieutenant governor in
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen and did not seek re election after that.
Speaker 2: There's mesa. Arizona Mayor John Giles saw some of the
Speaker 2: speech earlier today and he was someone who I guess
Speaker 2: came up under former Senator, the late Senator John McCain.
Speaker 2: And we all know former Illinois Congressman Adam former Congressman
Speaker 2: Adam Kingseinger. He was on the January sixth House Committee.
Speaker 2: The last two I think are most significant. Former Trump
Speaker 2: White House National Security Official Olivia Troy was speaking this evening.
Speaker 2: Earlier this evening, and also Trump White House Press Secretary
Speaker 2: Stephanie Grisham. That's significant, if only because someone from the
Speaker 2: previous Republican administration not showing well, not only not showing
Speaker 2: public support, but also showing up at the opposing parti's convention.
Speaker 2: So those are the different layers that you have at
Speaker 2: these events, but a lot of it is about perception.
Speaker 2: You're trying to present a picture, you're trying to paint
Speaker 2: a mosaic. You're trying to reach as many people as
Speaker 2: you can. And during the convention, this is about the
Speaker 2: only time where you get i'll say a main line
Speaker 2: of a party that it's leadership, it's platform, its ideas.
Speaker 2: And they have most of the networks, like you turn
Speaker 2: on most of the networks NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC.
Speaker 2: For the most part, they're carrying and covering the DNC
Speaker 2: as they did the RNC just a month ago.
Speaker 3: You don't get this type of screen time. Oh but
Speaker 3: also this towall.
Speaker 2: Remember we were watching the roll Call of States, and
Speaker 2: the role call of States is the process where the
Speaker 2: state delegates officially pledged their delegates for the nomination and
Speaker 2: how the presumptive nominee becomes the actual nominee. The Democrats
Speaker 2: today obviously did it state by state, but they also
Speaker 2: had a DJ playing music from that state from an
Speaker 2: art like Michigan. They had eminem music they're playing. They
Speaker 2: played Beyonce from Texas. But you brought something even more
Speaker 2: I would say unusual to my attention.
Speaker 5: The fact that they were using DJ Cassidy. DJ Cassidy
Speaker 5: right now is not just nationally known. He is internationally
Speaker 5: known for bringing together musical artists young and old for
Speaker 5: this event, which he calls Past the Mic, and he
Speaker 5: brought past the Mic to the DNC floor and by
Speaker 5: doing that, he literally captivated all of the younger generation
Speaker 5: that the DNC is going for. Why because this band
Speaker 5: has a demnar kajillion followers on all social media outlets,
Speaker 5: meaning that the role call was going out across all
Speaker 5: social media platforms.
Speaker 2: And I noticed that each state has no more than
Speaker 2: sixty seconds, And if you haven't figured it out, that's
Speaker 2: about the length of a TikTok.
Speaker 3: Yes, with music that has.
Speaker 2: Already been cleared, they don't have to worry about being
Speaker 2: sued for it. They have the rights to use it
Speaker 2: and also use it on social media. So what happens
Speaker 2: is that whole role call the different states will be
Speaker 2: going out to millions and millions of people just on
Speaker 2: TikTok and I'm quite sure Instagram and everything where they
Speaker 2: can forward the message all around the world. I know
Speaker 2: it's just United States and voters, but I'm saying, you
Speaker 2: want to reach as many people as you can because
Speaker 2: people now, like I said last segment, are just for
Speaker 2: the most part, starting to really tune in to the
Speaker 2: presidential race.
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about you, I'm not talking about me.
Speaker 3: We've been following it since the last election.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about the average everyday America and has not
Speaker 2: been tuning in and has not been going at each
Speaker 2: other on social media day in and day out. But
Speaker 2: this for someone who's maybe eighteen to twenty eight, maybe
Speaker 2: their first or second election in which they'll be actually voting,
Speaker 2: they may be seeing this process for the very first time,
Speaker 2: and the first point of contact may not be TV.
Speaker 3: It may be TikTok.
Speaker 5: Like my son, this is his first year being able
Speaker 5: to vote, and he is probably seeing the roll call
Speaker 5: on social media because.
Speaker 3: He's not watching TV.
Speaker 5: He's not watching TV, but he is watching what's happening
Speaker 5: on TikTok and things like that are discussed among him
Speaker 5: and his friends group. That is how he finds. Most
Speaker 5: of his politics is on social media. So something like
Speaker 5: that going out to this generation that you need to
Speaker 5: vote more than ever, Now, Yeah, that wins.
Speaker 3: See, that's how the.
Speaker 2: Whole process has changed where you and me we grew up.
Speaker 3: We see this on TV.
Speaker 2: We're used to the customary way of how politicians and
Speaker 2: elected officials reach voters. But I can tell you my
Speaker 2: blended sons, they're not watching this on TV. I guarantee
Speaker 2: you they're not watching this. They have no intentions of
Speaker 2: watching this, and whatever opinions that they may form about
Speaker 2: the presidential election will be from TikTok. I guarantee you that.
Speaker 4: Whatever happened to the good old days when a dad
Speaker 4: would beat your political opinions right India when you're a kid, I.
Speaker 3: Think that went out in the nineteen eighties. But I
Speaker 3: know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: A lot of times we got our political opinions from
Speaker 2: our parents, either directly or indirectly, but we got them
Speaker 2: from our friends and family right around us, because let's
Speaker 2: call it indoctrination or whatever. But you know, you were
Speaker 2: given your political views as a child, and then hopefully
Speaker 2: as you got older, you started to form your own
Speaker 2: views and come to your own conclusions.
Speaker 3: But now that dynamic I don't think is the same.
Speaker 2: And maybe it is on some level, but not the same,
Speaker 2: if only because children have access to far more information.
Speaker 3: Than you or I did, then Twalla or me or.
Speaker 2: Even stephan because they got this little computer in their
Speaker 2: hands and access to the Internet, and they can find
Speaker 2: out a whole lot of stuff, a lot.
Speaker 4: Of it we don't even necessarily condone. Oh, and they
Speaker 4: don't just use it to look up naked people. By
Speaker 4: the way, one quick bit of information before we get
Speaker 4: a break here, you were talking about Republicans who switch
Speaker 4: teams and are supporting the DNC. Here, I keep running
Speaker 4: across this figure that forty out of Trump's forty four
Speaker 4: hands selected cabinet members do not support him. I'm just
Speaker 4: reporting that number and making note of the fact that
Speaker 4: that's extraordinary. We've never seen that before. It is extraordinary.
Speaker 4: But there's a difference, and I would make one subtle distinction.
Speaker 4: There's the forty who are not supporting him and remaining
Speaker 4: in the background, and there are those few like Adam
Speaker 4: Kingsinger and Olivia Troy and Stephanie Grisham who are taking
Speaker 4: the affirmiest step to step forward and say, hey, we
Speaker 4: are still Republicans, but we're not supporting Donald Trump.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 4: And also, remember we didn't see Mike Pence anywhere. Is
Speaker 4: he still alive?
Speaker 8: Time.
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Speaker 2: As we watch what is happening at the DNC, former
Speaker 2: President Barack Obama has now taken the stage.
Speaker 3: Let's listen to a little bit of what he's saying.
Speaker 8: At a time when our economy was reeling, we needed
Speaker 8: a leader with the determination to drive what would become
Speaker 8: the world's strongest recovery, fifteen million jobs, higher wages, lower
Speaker 8: healthcare costs. At a time when the other party had
Speaker 8: turned into a cult of personality, we needed.
Speaker 7: A leader who was steady and brought people together, and
Speaker 7: was selfless.
Speaker 8: Enough to do the rarest thing there is in politics,
Speaker 8: putting his own ambition aside for the sake of the country.
Speaker 8: History will remember Joe Biden as an outstanding president who
Speaker 8: defended democracy at a moment of great danger. And I
Speaker 8: am proud to call him my president, but I am
Speaker 8: even prouder to call him my friend. Now the torch
Speaker 8: has been passed. Now it is up to all of
Speaker 8: us to fight for the American we believe in, And
Speaker 8: make no mistake.
Speaker 7: It will be a fight.
Speaker 8: For all the incredible energy we've been able to generate
Speaker 8: over the last few weeks.
Speaker 7: For all the rallies and the memes, this.
Speaker 8: Will still be a tight race in a closely divided country,
Speaker 8: a country where too many Americans are still struggling, where
Speaker 8: a lot of Americans don't believe government can help. And
Speaker 8: as we gather here tonight, the people who will decide
Speaker 8: this election.
Speaker 7: Are asking a very simple question. Who will fight for me?
Speaker 8: Who's thinking about my future, about my children's future, about
Speaker 8: our future together. One thing is for certain, Donald Trump
Speaker 8: is not losing sleep over that question. Here's a seventy
Speaker 8: eight year old billionaire who has not stopped whining about
Speaker 8: his problems since he wrote down his Golden Escalator nine
Speaker 8: years ago. It has been a constant stream of gripes
Speaker 8: and grievances that's actually been getting worse now that he's
Speaker 8: afraid of losing the cobblin. There's the childish nicknames, the
Speaker 8: crazy conspiracy theories, this weird.
Speaker 7: Obsession with crowd sizes. It just goes on and on
Speaker 7: and on.
Speaker 8: The other day, I heard someone compare Trump to the
Speaker 8: neighbor who keeps running his leaf blower outside your window
Speaker 8: every minute of every day. Now from a neighbor, that's exhausting.
Speaker 8: From a president, it's just dangerous. The truth is Donald
Speaker 8: Trump sees power as nothing more than it means to
Speaker 8: his ends. He wants the middle class to pay the
Speaker 8: price for another huge tax cut that would mostly help
Speaker 8: him and his rich friends. He killed a bipartisan immigration
Speaker 8: deal written in part by one of the most conservative
Speaker 8: Republicans in Congress.
Speaker 7: That would have helped secure our southern border.
Speaker 8: Because he thought trying to actually solve the problem would
Speaker 8: hurt his campaign.
Speaker 7: He doesn't do not boom hope. He doesn't seem.
Speaker 8: To care if more women lose their reproductive freedom since
Speaker 8: it won't affect his life. And most of all, Donald
Speaker 8: Trump wants us to think that this country is hopelessly
Speaker 8: divided between us and them, between the real Americans who
Speaker 8: of course support him, and the outsiders who don't. And
Speaker 8: he wants you to think that you'll be richer and
Speaker 8: safer if you will just give him the power to
Speaker 8: put those other people back in their place. It is
Speaker 8: one of the oldest tricks in politics from a guy
Speaker 8: who's act has let's face a gutten pretty stale. We
Speaker 8: do not need four more years a bluster and bumbling
Speaker 8: and chaos. We have seen that movie before, and we
Speaker 8: all know that.
Speaker 7: The sequel is usually worse.
Speaker 2: KFIM six forty played with Mill Kelly. We're listening to
Speaker 2: some of the moments at the DNC. Former President Barack
Speaker 2: Obama speaking right now.
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Speaker 2: pick up Gary and Shannon as they're broadcasting live all
Speaker 2: week from the Democratic National Convention. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 2: right now President Barack Obama is speaking, we'll take a
Speaker 2: little bit more of his audio.
Speaker 8: Kamalin knows that if we want to help people get ahead,
Speaker 8: we need to put a college degree within reach of
Speaker 8: more Americans. But she also knows college shouldn't be the
Speaker 8: only ticket to the middle class. We need to follow
Speaker 8: the lead of governors like Tim Wallas, who said, if
Speaker 8: you've got the skills and the drive, you shouldn't need
Speaker 8: a degree to work for state government.
Speaker 7: And in this new.
Speaker 8: Economy, we need a president who actually cares about the
Speaker 8: millions of people all across this country who wake up
Speaker 8: every single day to do the essential, often thankless work,
Speaker 8: to care for our sick, to clean our streets, to
Speaker 8: deliver our packages.
Speaker 9: We need a president who will stand up for they're
Speaker 9: right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, and
Speaker 9: Promula will be that president.
Speaker 7: Yes she can't, Yes she can't. Yes, Harris Walt's administration.
Speaker 8: Can help us move past some of the tired old
Speaker 8: debates that keeps stifling progress. Because of their core Kamala
Speaker 8: and Tim understand that when everybody gets a fair shot, we.
Speaker 7: Are all better off. They understand that.
Speaker 8: When every child gets a good education, the whole economy
Speaker 8: gets stronger. When women are paid the same as men
Speaker 8: for doing the same job, all families benefit. They understand
Speaker 8: that we can secure our borders without tearing kids away from.
Speaker 7: Their parents, just like we can.
Speaker 8: Keep our streets safe while also building trust between law
Speaker 8: enforcement and the communities they serve and eliminating bias that
Speaker 8: will make it better for everybody. Donald Trump and his
Speaker 8: well heeled donors, they don't see the.
Speaker 7: World that way. For them, one.
Speaker 8: Group's gains is necessarily another group's loss.
Speaker 7: For them.
Speaker 8: Freedom means that the powerful can do pretty much what
Speaker 8: they please, whether it's fireworkers trying to organize a union,
Speaker 8: or put poison in our rivers, or avoid paying taxes
Speaker 8: like everybody else has to do.
Speaker 7: Well. We have a broader idea of freedom.
Speaker 8: We believe in the freedom to provide for your family
Speaker 8: if you're willing to work hard, the freedom to breathe
Speaker 8: clean air and drink clean water, and send your kids
Speaker 8: to school without worrying if they'll come home. We believe
Speaker 8: that true freedom gives each of us the right to
Speaker 8: make decisions about our own life, how we worship, what
Speaker 8: our family looks like, how.
Speaker 7: Many kids we have, who we marry.
Speaker 8: And we believe that freedom requires us to recognize that
Speaker 8: other people have the freedom to make choices that are
Speaker 8: different than ours. That's okay, That's the America.
Speaker 7: Kamala Harrison Tim Walls believe in.
Speaker 8: An America where we the people includes everyone, because that's
Speaker 8: the only way this American experiment works. And despite what
Speaker 8: our politics might suggest, I think most Americans understand that
Speaker 8: democracy isn't just a bunch of abstract principles and dusty
Speaker 8: laws in some book somewhere.
Speaker 7: It's the values we live by.
Speaker 8: It's the way we treat each other, including those who
Speaker 8: don't look like us, or pray like us, or.
Speaker 7: See the world exactly like we do.
Speaker 8: That sense of mutual respect has to be part of
Speaker 8: our message. Our politics have become so polarized these days
Speaker 8: that all of us across the political spectrum seem so
Speaker 8: quick to assume the worst in others unless they agree
Speaker 8: with us on every single issue. We start thinking that
Speaker 8: the only way to win is to scold and shame
Speaker 8: and out yell the other side, and after a while,
Speaker 8: regular folks just.
Speaker 7: Tune out or they don't bother to vote.
Speaker 8: Now, that approach may work for the politicians who just
Speaker 8: want attention and thrive on division, but it won't work
Speaker 8: for us. To make progress on the things we care about,
Speaker 8: things that really affect people's lives.
Speaker 7: We need to remember that we've all got.
Speaker 8: Our blind spots and contradictions and prejudices, and that if
Speaker 8: we want to win over those who aren't yet ready
Speaker 8: to support our candidates, we need to listen to their
Speaker 8: concerns and maybe learn something in the process.
Speaker 7: After all, if a.
Speaker 8: Parent or grandparent occasionally says something that makes us cringe,
Speaker 8: we don't automatically assume they're bad people. We recognize that
Speaker 8: the world is moving fast, that they need time and
Speaker 8: maybe a.
Speaker 7: Little encouragement to catch up.
Speaker 8: Our fellow citizens deserve the same grace we hope they'll
Speaker 8: extend to us. That's how we can build a true
Speaker 8: democratic majority, one that can get things done. And by
Speaker 8: the way, that does not just matter to the people
Speaker 8: in this country.
Speaker 7: The rest of the world is.
Speaker 8: Watching to see if we can actually pull this off.
Speaker 7: No nation, no.
Speaker 8: Society, has ever tried to build a democracy as big
Speaker 8: and as diverse as ours before, one that includes people that,
Speaker 8: over decades, have come from every corner of the globe.
Speaker 7: One where our.
Speaker 8: Allegiances in our community are defined not by race or blood,
Speaker 8: but by a common creed. And that's why when we
Speaker 8: uphold our value, the world's a little brighter, well we don't.
Speaker 8: The world's a little dimmer, and dictators and autocrats feel emboldened,
Speaker 8: and over time we become less safe. We shouldn't be
Speaker 8: the world's policeman, and we can't eradicate every cruelty and
Speaker 8: injustice in the world, but America can be and must
Speaker 8: be a force for good.
Speaker 2: This is Later with Mo Kelly. Can if I am
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Speaker 2: Former President Obama is still speaking. And it's interesting because
Speaker 2: even though the DNC went long.
Speaker 3: Last night, they're going to go long again tonight.
Speaker 2: Former President Obama, he obviously is just warming up in
Speaker 2: the sense of he's in the heart of his speech
Speaker 2: and he's a good look. I will say thirty five
Speaker 2: thirty six menu it's in and which is eleven thirty
Speaker 2: again on the East Coast. Although President Biden was starting
Speaker 2: about ten minutes earlier than this last night. You know,
Speaker 2: they're still gonna end up with pretty much the same
Speaker 2: problem if you will running late and you have your
Speaker 2: keynote speaker not necessarily hitting I'll say the sweet spot
Speaker 2: of the primetime audience. But you know, I guess I
Speaker 2: just wonder who who gets fired over this?
Speaker 3: To wallet, Doesn't someone.
Speaker 2: Get fired because you would think, let me back up,
Speaker 2: you may not know all the speakers are given a
Speaker 2: certain amount of time in advance they're told, let's say
Speaker 2: you have two minutes, Let's say you have ninety seconds.
Speaker 2: Let's say if you have three minutes, or you're only
Speaker 2: supposed to introduce the next person, you're not supposed to
Speaker 2: add lip what have you. And yes, they do figure
Speaker 2: in crowd response to the overall timing, but to again
Speaker 2: be it, at this point, they'll probably be at least
Speaker 2: an hour over It's strange.
Speaker 5: Well, I've also raised so much money. They're possibly just saying,
Speaker 5: you know what, spend it. There's no other time to
Speaker 5: spend it than on the DNC. Well let's spend it now.
Speaker 5: Let's go big and get all this good press.
Speaker 2: Well, then there's that, because if you weren't listening earlier,
Speaker 2: I indicated how Kamala Harris had raised a half a
Speaker 2: billion dollars in the past month, and I was positing
Speaker 2: if if the ratings excuse me, the viewership for night
Speaker 2: one was an indication of where things were going, and
Speaker 2: it goes in an upward direction. It was twenty million
Speaker 2: the first night former President Obama was just finished speaking,
Speaker 2: and we find out tomorrow that the viewership is even
Speaker 2: more than twenty million. That probably means that the fundraising
Speaker 2: will increase as well. Absolutely absolutely, you're having increasing interest,
Speaker 2: not lacking or waning interest. And if you didn't hear,
Speaker 2: the first night of the DNC was more than the
Speaker 2: first three nights of the RNC. If you want to
Speaker 2: make a direct comparison, twenty million for the first night
Speaker 2: of the DNC. The RNC never eclipsed twenty million until
Speaker 2: the last night in which former President Trump spoke, and
Speaker 2: that was twenty five million. So I think tomorrow will
Speaker 2: get a better sense of whether the DNC is on
Speaker 2: an upward or downward trajectory, and whether the first night
Speaker 2: was about lookielo and see what's going on generally, or
Speaker 2: is it something which is captured America's imagination.
Speaker 3: And more and more people are tuning in.
Speaker 2: And I say that because if they're increasing in viewership,
Speaker 2: that means people are also hearing about it from other
Speaker 2: people or they're seeing it on social media and they
Speaker 2: didn't see the first night and so they want to
Speaker 2: catch the second night. That's what Also, I go back
Speaker 2: to the fact that regardless of party, you always want
Speaker 2: to have former president speaking because the former president brings
Speaker 2: a built in audience. Always it's nice to hear from
Speaker 2: Congress person so and so or governor so and so.
Speaker 2: But if you have a two term president that can speak,
Speaker 2: that always carries weight, that's heft. You want that as
Speaker 2: a party, and the Democrats do have I will say
Speaker 2: the benefit in that regard. They have three presidents who
Speaker 2: are speaking, one one term president who's the sitting president,
Speaker 2: and Joe Biden. They have two former two term presidents
Speaker 2: in Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
Speaker 3: All of them are speaking.
Speaker 2: So tomorrow, I think will give us a better sense
Speaker 2: of where the DNC is going. And also you can
Speaker 2: always listen the KFI from nine am to one pm
Speaker 2: as Gary and Shannon will be covering these events live
Speaker 2: and giving their perspective of what they're seeing on the ground.
Speaker 2: I said this before, I've only been to one DNC
Speaker 2: and the same year went to one RNC. It was
Speaker 2: two thousand and eight in a work capacity, and they're
Speaker 2: very very different conventions. Not only are they trying to
Speaker 2: speak to different groups of people, the thought and approach
Speaker 2: are very different. For the R and C, which was
Speaker 2: in Minneapolis, and let me tell you, Mark Ronner, nice
Speaker 2: place to visit.
Speaker 3: Don't ever want to go back. There's just nothing to
Speaker 3: do in Minneapolis. Nothing.
Speaker 4: I don't think I've ever been there. I thought I
Speaker 4: thought you'd been just about everywhere in the Midwest. Minneapolis. Know,
Speaker 4: isn't that where the mystery science theater guys come from
Speaker 4: and they always make fun of them. All of America, Yes,
Speaker 4: mall of America has never had any reason to go
Speaker 4: there whatsoever.
Speaker 2: Either did I. But since it was for work, why not.
Speaker 2: And it was It was in the dead of summer,
Speaker 2: so it was hot and humid. But the way that
Speaker 2: the Republicans put their convention together, and from what I'm told,
Speaker 2: is very similar, is there. It's about people where they
Speaker 2: feel that anyone could this is just my take on it,
Speaker 2: where anyone would walk into that place, anyone like you
Speaker 2: could just be walking by outside. It's like, hey, come
Speaker 2: on in, you know, come on, come on. That's how
Speaker 2: they try to position it. Where the DNC is like, hey,
Speaker 2: we have this hot performance in here, come on here,
Speaker 2: we have this party jumping off. And that's how they
Speaker 2: market the DNC. And you can see it's it's kind
Speaker 2: of consistent with that, where the DNC has all sorts
Speaker 2: of performances, music, guests, music woven into even the roll
Speaker 2: call and the RNC is just not built that way.
Speaker 2: They're not trying to be built that way, and it's
Speaker 2: just two different methods and strategies of trying to reach
Speaker 2: their core demographics. So tomorrow, to answer your question against Waller,
Speaker 2: I think we'll have some updated fundraising numbers, will definitely
Speaker 2: have some updated viewership numbers, and we'll see whether the
Speaker 2: DNC is landing with people and picking up.
Speaker 3: Momentum or losing momentum.
Speaker 2: Because tomorrow night is Governor Walls is going to formally
Speaker 2: accept the vice presidential nomination, and usually usually there's a
Speaker 2: crescendo throughout the week.
Speaker 5: Now isn't tomorrow? It also former President Bill Clinton.
Speaker 7: Yep.
Speaker 3: So that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Like the way they've stacked this deck, they you would
Speaker 5: have thought they played their best card on night one,
Speaker 5: but it's like noble. We have both Michelle and Barack
Speaker 5: on night two, we have Bill and Walls all night three,
Speaker 5: and we've got Harris on on night four. We're pretty
Speaker 5: much ramping up.
Speaker 2: That's the way it's supposed to go, and they have
Speaker 2: there's always like a voyeuristic factors, like we haven't heard
Speaker 2: from Bill Clinton, and I don't know when yep. You
Speaker 2: always want to know what's his health, like, how's he sounding,
Speaker 2: what type of remarks he's going to make, because you
Speaker 2: got to think this might be the last DNC for
Speaker 2: Bill Clinton. Honestly, I'm not. You know, he's getting up
Speaker 2: there in the age and you don't know what the
Speaker 2: next DNC will need, you know, what they'll want or
Speaker 2: whether he'll want to be a part of it in
Speaker 2: the same way. So there's a there's a voyeur aspect
Speaker 2: to this, and you know, this is a moment in
Speaker 2: politics which that you don't see all that often, the
Speaker 2: type of fervor and excitement for one party, This type
Speaker 2: of unity you haven't seen in the Democrats since two
Speaker 2: thousand and eight. But I will see if they can
Speaker 2: sustain it. One thing I have noticed, and this goes
Speaker 2: back to my conversation with Mark Ronner, no mention of
Speaker 2: the protests.
Speaker 3: The protests have not played any role.
Speaker 4: No, And I think the media was trying to build
Speaker 4: them up into more than they were in the first place.
Speaker 3: As we had discussed I guess it was yesterday.
Speaker 4: It seems like a lot of people in news media
Speaker 4: are really trying to gin something up, and they're getting
Speaker 4: kind of pissy that it's not happening. Well, I've been
Speaker 4: following this really closely on all sorts of different venues.
Speaker 2: All you can do is tell the truth, and the
Speaker 2: protests have not materialized at all. Are there people protesting
Speaker 2: out there?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 3: Is it a thing?
Speaker 2: Is it something that merits the attention that it's been receiving.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 4: And by the way, I can tell you having been
Speaker 4: in the middle of the wto riots, massive clan rally,
Speaker 4: all that kind of stuff, you think you want to
Speaker 4: be in the middle of that covering it?
Speaker 8: You do not?
Speaker 3: No, No, absolutely no. They want to cover it from
Speaker 3: a distance. Of course.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you don't want to be in the middle of that.
Speaker 4: I've been teargast and shot with rubber bullets more times
Speaker 4: than any journalist.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 4: It's not fun.
Speaker 3: No, they want to talk about it from the anchor desk.
Speaker 2: Oh, well, we got so do I Now. It's Later
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