This is not a conventional convention. And as much as we would have loved to host you in person, i am proud the Democratic Party in the city of milwaukee have made the health of our residents our number one priority. Unlike the president , we have covid19 ar hoax. Unlike the president , we have never made fun of face masks. And unlike the president , we have never belittled her Public Health experts. We understand that our Public Health experts. We understand why we cant be together, and we hope you do too, and as our party comes together virtually to nominate joe biden as our next president , we are showing the country we are nominating a leader who isnt afraid to make tough choices or to work with Health Experts come and not against them, to address this pandemic experts, and not against them, to address his pandemic. Milwaukee is special. I look forward to the day when you are all able to come expense are beautiful lakefront, our historic neighborhoods, and above all, our diverse, h
That you find in materials you have taught a million times. When i taught english year at brandywine high school, i would spend my summer preparing for the school year about to start filled with anticipation. But this client is heavy. You could hear the anxiety that echoes down empty hallways. Newe is no smell of notebooks or freshly wa floors. That bright faces of that should fill the rooms are confined to boxes on the computer screen. From so many of you, the frustration of parents juggling work well the support their childrens learning. Afraid that their kids might get sick from school. The concern of every person working without enough protection. The despair in the lines that stretch out before food banks. S. And the indescribable sorrow that follows every lonely last breath when the ventilators turn off. As a mother and a grandmother, as an american, i am heartbroken by the magnitude of this loss, by the failure to protect our , but every precious and irreplaceable life gone. Lik
Mr. Chairman, coming to you live from the wisconsin center, it is time to begin our virtual. Rip around america our journey begins at the sight of a major step forward in our National Journey towards justice. Lets go to alabama. John lewis marched across this bridge in 1965 to demand the right to vote. A lifetime later, civil rights and Voting Rights remain americas great unfinished business. For those who walked this path before us, they showed us the way forward. If we want to honor john lewis incredible life, lets restore the Voting Rights act and ensure our democracy belongs to all americans. Alabama casts eight votes for Bernie Sanders and the great state of alabama casts 52 votes for our next president of these United States, joe biden. Alaska. On to feedgs we rely our families are threatened by Climate Change. Joe biden and president obama made sure alaskas tribes had a say on how the waters were managed. Donald trump took it away. We need a president who will respect our voices
[ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] im jamie colby, and today im in rolling meadows, illinois. Its a suburb of chicago. Some weather, huh . Im here to meet two brothers whose strange inheritance had some serious strings attached. My name is justin snyder. And in 2006, our friend and mentor bill fosser passed away, leaving my brother and me a sort of Chicago Institution his puppet opera. Hi, justin. Im jamie. Jamie, nice to meet you. Im told that you have something that i may never see again. Here, follow me. I will. Justin leads me behind the scenes of a most unusual opera house. All these boxes here contain costumes for various, different productions. Wow this is my kind of wardrobe. If only it came in my size. The costumes are so small because the players taking the stage arent the supersized tenors and sopranos you expect to see at the opera. Theyre 16inch puppets. The maestro behind this pintsize production, justins boss, the late bill fosser. Who was bill fosser . Bill fosser taught
Linsey, what a night. I think the most important thing i take away from it was the backdrop, the use of the white house as a political prop in a way no president could have imagined. Donald trump doing it boldly and defiantly and it looked great. The speech itself he gave went on a long time, and he is an excellent communicator, extemporaneously when hes riffing and kind of lacerating his opponents, reading the crowd, throwing out the red meat, reading a 75 minute kind of meandering speech off a teleprompter is not his strong suit, but his image reminded me of other countries at the president ial palace, not the white house, but walking down the balcony to receive the plaudits of his people. Thats one of the things we havent done before. It was new. And i think the white house was the fault line tonight in the country. There on the south lawn, President Trump and his supporters and outside, the north lawn, on pennsylvania avenue and beyond, protesters, stirred by the demands for Racial