Oh, yeah, well, cause you, you make my dreams come true, ooh, ooh ooh well, well, well you, you make my dreams come true listen to this youre simply the best, better than all the rest better than anyone, tell me something baby youre simply the best, better than all the rest, better than anyone i ever met im stuck on your heart, i hang on every word you say, tear us apart, baby, i would rather be dead the best [ cheering ] if you love coldplay, hall and oates, tina turner, you love that fireworks show, as i did. I love that music. You see the extended families of the president elect and the Vice President elect. A true moment in history. The president elect, joe biden, using this, his first speech since his victory to try to unify the country. He is calling for an end to what he called this grim era of demonization. This was truly a historic night as the nation saw its first woman and first woman of color. The Vice President elect Kamala Harris also addressed the country using very, very powerful words. Jake, this was a moving night after a truly, truly historic several days. Thats rite. After a very hard fought ugly election in many ways, started in 2019 with President Trump on a phone call with the president of ukraine, trying to get dirt on joe biden, knowing how tough a competitor joe biden would likely prove to be. And indeed, he proved to be just that. Here he is in his first speech to the country as president elect, talking about the need to give each other a chance, he said. He said hes lost a few elections. He knows what it feels like talking to the 70 million americans who voted for President Trump. He said but lets give each other a chance. And as he noted, wolf, he also said let this grim era of demonization begin to end here and now. He said the American People, they want us to cooperate. And dana, thats going to be a tall order in washington, d. C. Well see if anybody on the other side of the aisle is willing to try to cooperate with him. Yeah, well see. That was the clear headline. If there is a sound bite to take away from this speech that encapsulates this speech, i totally agree. Its let this grim era of demonization begin to end here and now. And it was also so whole speech. If you paid attention for one second to his message during the campaign, its no different now than the last year and a half since he announced he was bog to run again, quoting the bible, ecclesiastes, talking about its a time to heal. And also, the fact that he reached back to history and tried to connect the moment he thinks this country could be in because of the coronavirus, because of all Racial Injustice and all the other crises that are coming together reach back to lincoln, reach back to fdr in 1932, and of course 12 years ago when he was the Vice President or Vice President elect to the historical moment of barack obama becoming president elect. And part of the pump of the speech is to refocus the intention of the American Public. There is a lot of noise right now because of the manner in which he had to wait several days in order to be able to do this, but one of the problems with the vote count taking a little bit longer is that it is a little bit more difficult to assess the scale and the scope of this joe biden victory. But he said tonight that he believes that this is a clear victory, a convincing victory, and a victory for we the people. He also said that he believes that he has a mandate. But its not the mandate that you might have expected him to stay focused. There they are. The first family and the second family, president elect and Vice President elect and their spouses. The future first lady of the United States and the future second gentleman, the future second dude, doug imhof, Vice President elect harris husband. Im sorry, go ahead. You might expect him to say i have a mandate to do this laundry list of policy ideas. But he said the mandate given to us from the American People is that they want us to cooperate. Thats right. Thats such a great observation, because previous president s, what they do is they come out and they say this is what i was elected to do, and this is what im going to do, whether its president obama or President Trump, president george w. Bush. This is the first time weve ever heard a president elect come and say lets compromise. Im going to give some stuff up. You guys give some stuff up. And i think that after four years of the Trump Presidency and the tumult and division led by a president who sought to exacerbate and further divide, this might be the mood that obviously a majority of the country, where they are, where a lot of people are any way. But its certainly interesting. The mandate that he is calling for is a mandate of working together and compromise in treating each other with basic decency. And you know for a lot of people tonight, thats going to sound pretty good. And lets talk about Vice President elect harris and her speech which gave a nod to so many parts of her life and of americas the fabric of america that got her to where she is. To me, one of the most one of the standout lines that she had was when she said joe had the audacity to select a black woman. That was such a subtle, maybe not so subtle nod to i thought president obama, who wrote the audacity of hope. That didnt seem to be an accident to me. And, you know, she gave she gave joe biden the credit for selecting her, in addition to giving black women across the country, across history the credit for getting her to where she is today, not to mention her mother, which i dont care what your political affiliation is, if you dont have one, just if you have a beating heart, that was pretty remarkable. And i think it was a nod also to what she knows. There was a little bit of debate about whether joe biden picking a black woman was the obvious choice, or the easy choice because of how important black people and black women have been to his political life, especially in this election. And she made it very clear that she thought it was not the easy choice. That it was actually a courageous choice on his part. And giving him credit for that i think was part of what she was trying to do. I also thought i was just struck, honestly, by the Biden Campaign giving Kamala Harris, frankly, the speech to give a speech that spoke to the people who are looking at her and seeing themselves in her. And that is not necessarily typical on a night like tonight, which is typically about the president elect, but Kamala Harris is the other half of the ticket. The Vice President doesnt really have a job description, but they know that she represents a lot, and they let her say a lot that was really meaningful to a lot of people. And she talked specifically about this idea that because people havent seen women like her do that job, that they might think that it cant be done. And she often brings up her mother, saying that you have to move forward unburdened by what has been. And i think that thats that was a very strong message for a Vice President to give on a day that a lot of campaigns would say you know what . This is about just joe biden. Yeah. I think it says a lot that they said, you know what . Were going to have Kamala Harris speak to the American People, to the millions of people who see themselves in her. Its smart. For any number of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that joe bidens personal story is powerful, but i mean, my god, geraldine ferraro, sarah palin, hillary clinton, it has taken a long time, a long way too long. Yeah. To have a woman elected on a ticket. And Vice President elect harris, she is not president elect harris, she is Vice President elect harris. But still, it is a big achievement. It is a big moment. Other women paved the way for her, like i said, including geraldine ferraro, sarah palin and hillary clinton, but what a wonderful moment and grace of president elect biden to understand that. And not just give the space to her personally, because i do think that they will have a partnership, as other president s and Vice President s do, but to understand the significance of that to tens of millions if not hundreds of millions of people. No question. And just one of other thing i was thinking about was the president elect now talked so much about the soul of the country. Its one of his favorite phrases. But his personal soul was his son who passed away about five years i guess it is now, four or five years ago. And the fact that coldplay was playing there after they were done, a friend of the family texted me to say that this song was beaus favorite, and that it was played at his funeral. And so there is a lot of symbolism and emotion that goes along with this. Anybody who has lost somebody knows that when there is a big moment of elation, there is always something missing, and joe biden has at times grieved, particularly two children, which is unimaginable. I knew beau. He and i were about the same age, and that was a big loss. That was a big loss. Not just for his family and his friends, but just for the world of politics. He was a good guy. And there are going to be a lot of americans that are now meeting the biden family for the first time. Its going to be tough to get to know them all with those masks on, but eventually people will figure out which ones finnegan and which one is ashley and which one is naomi and all the rest. But they wont get to meet beau. And that will be a shame. And i do think that that is also as Vice President elect harris noted, one of the reasons why she was picked. Yeah, absolutely. Because she was attorney general of california while he was the attorney general of delaware. They were contemporaries. They knew each other. They were friends. Yeah. And she understood what he lost, not just by the sense of loss, but by the person who was lost. Because beau really was he really was a great guy. He really was. That relationship that she had with beau is what helped create her relationship with Vice President biden in some ways. And over the past year, after they were on the debate, joe biden and Kamala Harris on the debate stage together as competitors after that now infamous moment of that little girl was me, a lot of people wondered if that would poison their relationship for a long time. And consistently over the past year or so, talking to people close to her and close to him, the message was pretty clear that this is and i think emblematic a little bit of what joe biden is like as a person, it fell away. He didnt hold the grudge indefinitely. He doesnt hold grudges. He doesnt hold grudges indefinitely in that way. And so just the fact that they are now president elect and Vice President elect is a little bit of the story of what joe biden is like as a person that a former competitor who injured him politically at a critical moment would then become the person that he ran with to victory is part of that story. And they have a real friendship. He genuinely likes her and vice versa. And as you said, jake, i think beau biden, you always hear joe biden talk about how he wanted beau biden to have his senate seat and potentially to do what he just did that is not going to happen. But there is its such a bittersweet moment im sure for that family tonight. Yeah. He does not hold grudges. The future first lady jill biden, she acknowledges shes the one, shes the one. Its usually the spouse. She is the one that remembers who has wronged the president elect. Lets go to Arlette Saenz in wilmingt wilmington, delaware. Arlette, an emotional moment for the bidens and for the delawareans who came to celebrate with their favorite son. Yeah, it certainly was, jake. This was really a hometown crowd coming out to see their native hometown son as he has become president elect. And really everything that you heard from joe biden tonight were really hallmarks of his campaign. He said from the very beginning that people may be opponents, but they shouldnt be treating each other as enemies and calling for an end to the demonization of other people, as youve seen play out over the course of the past few years. But this was really such a personal moment for joe biden and his family. You saw him up there with his grandchildren, his children, hunter and ashley. We really havent seen hunter out on the campaign trail. But tonight he was there, embracing his father. And, you know, before joe biden got into this campaign, he said he knew that the race could be very tough on his family as they were expecting the president to turn to very, very personal attacks. That is something that you saw play out over the course of the campaign, including in that final month. And really, tonight is almost a moment of satisfaction for this family after all that they have endured over the course of the past 18 months. And beau biden certainly loomed large over everything tonight. You heard the democratic nominee, now president elect, im going have to get used to saying that, you heard him talk about his favorite hymn, on eagles wings. As the fireworks played, there was the song sky full of stars by coldplay, beau bidens favorite song. Chris martin performing at beau bidens funeral after hearing that beau biden was a fan of his music. So you saw those personal touches in the event here tonight. And i also want to talk about how joe biden made references to his faith. He is a very, very devout catholic. He will be only the second president who is catholic to be in that white house, and over the course of his speech, he referenced ecclesiastes, saying that this is a time for the country to heal. He also made reference to that hymn, on eagles wings. I grew up catholic. I remember hearing that hymn in mass over and over. And this is just something that joe biden really wears on his sleeve. He is a man of faith. He is likely to go to church tomorrow, as he normally does on sundays, as he really has had faith at the center of his life and his campaign as now he is heading to the white house. All right. Arlette saenz in wilmington, delaware, thanks so much. Put her back on screen if you can. Youve done a great job covering this campaign. Thank you. You really have. Youve been on the road for two years. So congratulations on all the hard work. Youve really done a wonderful job covering the Biden Campaign for cnn. So thank you so much. It is she brings out the fact that President Trump brought up hunter as a line of attack, and he certainly was quite a topic among republican circles. At the end of the day, you have to just assume, you have to just conclude that the American People heard those attacks and said no, that has nothing to do with my life. At least the majority of them did. President trump was impeached because of his interest in attacking hunter biden. That was basically established by the house as part of his impeachment. And once it became real, once joe biden became the nominee and they started to, you know, go head to head in a general election, the president tried, and it didnt work. It worked with the people who were already going to vote for him, not with the people who he needed to persuade for lots and lots of reasons, primarily because who cares for these people . Their thoughts were who cares than right now when there is an economic crisis, there is a pandemic and so many other things that need to be need to be fixed. Yeah, my kid cant go to school. My son cant go to school. I dont know why youre talking about his son. My son cant go to school because of this pandemic youre failing to control. And on top of that, i felt like one of the strongest moments for joe biden in dealing with this came in one of the debates. I think it was the first debate. In one of the inaudible back and forth between the two of them. But you could hear in joe bidens response talking about hunter biden struggling with addiction, and you could hear in that response a fathers love for his son. I mean, at the end of the day, thats where joe biden is coming at this situation. Now, you know, im sure that this will not be the end of this conversation. Nope. That if there is in fact a Republican Senate, we will probably hear more about it. But from bidens perspective, hunter biden is his son. His last surviving son. And i think that a lot of americans actually do identify with loving somebody who deals with addiction, which is not its just a fact of the biden family. Its a fact of joe bidens life, and well see if that comes up again. But i think he confronted it in an effective way in that first debate. Yeah, and i think this is also an example of questions about the Republican Senate that joe biden is going to president elect biden is going to have to deal with and the direction they want to go. The republican chairman of the senate of the Homeland Security committee issued a partisan report with taxpayer dollars about hunter biden and more a month or so before the election. Is that the direction that Mitch Mcconnell wants to go . Is that where he senses the nation is right now . They want the senate to be studying Hunter Bidens business deals . The American People are dealing with the Coronavirus Crisis and economic crisis. He let it happen last time. But despite that, joe biden is here saying i want to compromise the American People, i want us to compromise. What do you think . Well see what Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell has to