Out of the meticulous factchecking that went into covering the first night of a Republican Convention. And say what you will about Republican Conventions of the past, and i was a part of a lot of them, they sought to hugh to the facts and make their case from there. This was a totally different undertaking. Thats right. There may be some exaggeration that comes with every Political Convention but what we saw last night was a real list of misleading statements. Everything from the fact that joe biden wants to abolish the police to the fact that president obama wants to abolish the suburbs to the fact that President Trump was quickly responding to the coronavirus and did all that he could in the very beginning to try to thwart the virus. We know the president downplayed the virus. He talked about the fact it was going to disappear miraculously. The president in his first speech at the Republican National convention said he was dealing with the virus and it was going away that it is happening. We know thats not true. The u. S. Is continuing to lead when it comes to the coronavirus cases around the country and the world. Its really in some ways a picture into what well continue to see this week. But these speakers we saw talk about not only in misleading tones but also about the culture of america, talking about the fact that President Trump at one time someone said was a bodyguard of western civilization, something a lot of critics found to be really culturally insensitive at best, racist at worst, these are the type of things well continue to see all week long because the speakers are echoing what the president has been doing in the past three years when he was in office and has continued to say, while he continues to be in office. David jolly, this is some of whats happening on planet earth, in real america. From the washington post, they report as permanent economic damage piles up, the covid crisis is looking more like a great recession. The New York Times writes, a projected worsening of the coronavirus testing delays that have emerged on trumps watch is colliding with colleges like the university of alabama and unc chapel hill opening up and reporting huge, huge spikes in positive cases. And the days after reopening their doors. And on the racial unrest thats been growing across this country since the murder of george floyd in kenosha, wisconsin, they awoke there to an outcry reignited by the Police Shooting of jacob blake who his father reports today is paralyzed, at least for now. I want to tell our viewers were keeping an eye on kenosha where blakes family is expected to hold a press conference. Well be covering that this hour as well. But the effort, david jolly, at creating a new reality is almost in itself a tacit admission that reality in this country is not something donald trump can run on. Yeah, nicolle, the message is always great when you control the air waves but it doesnt mean its honest. Thats what we saw last night and well probably see the next few nights as well. This is a Political Party trying to frame the election in the only terms it can possibly save Donald Trumps reelection. But the tension and you listed, you itemize the reality that the country is facing compared to what we heard last night. But where republicans are having so much trouble is this. It goes back to that fundamental question we see every week when voters are asked, is the nation heading in the right direction or wrong direction, and around 70 continue to say the wrong direction. So if you strip away all of the content that was said last night and put it in the context of real lives, what donald trump and the republicans are asking the American People to do is continue with four more years of this. Repeat the last three years for another four more years. Thats essentially what theyre asking. And the American People, a vast majority are saying we cant take anymore. We dont want to keep going in this direction. Whatever glimpses of conservative policy we may get from tim scott and others, whatever doses of what the party might look like outside of a trumpism world, it just falls flat because what dominates the what dominated last night and will continue to dominate the rest of this convention is this alternative reality that is disconnected from what the voters have already said they are experiencing. Which is were going in the wrong direction and need change. A. B. Stoddard, it also reveals that they dont have their own base locked up. Yamiche alluded to it. I think weve gathered some of our technical capabilities back and can throw to some of the sound yamiche referenced, but it wasnt anything that david jolly is talking about. No one was pointing to trump policies that have worked. They were reupping, putting the band together for this antielite, white grievance effort that is very unbecoming of an incumbent president at the hour of a national crisis. Heres some of the low lights, if you will. Its a horror film, really. Theyll disarm you, empty the prisons, lock you in your home and invite ms13 to live next door. Democrats refuse to denounce the mob and their response to the chaos, defund the police, defund Border Patrol and defund our military. And while theyre doing all this, theyre also trying to take away your guns. They want to destroy this country. And everything that we have fought for and hold dear. They want to steal your liberty, your freedom. They want to control what you see and think, and believe so that they can control how you live. Joe biden and the radical left are now coming for our freedom of speech. They want to bully us into submission. If they get their way, it will no longer be the silent majority. It will be the silenced majority. Speaking of technical difficulties, we never heard why Kimberly Guilfoyle delivered her speech at that volume but we did learn from dan balz that im not the only one that thinks these are the signs of a campaign very worried about its base turning out again. He writes, those are not the words are a confident incumbent, and for good reason. Trump and his campaign have been struggling for months, no matter what they have tried. Their efforts have moved polls only marginally with biden still in the lead. Trump trails nationally and in battleground states by margins wide enough that if the election were held now, he would probably lose, a. B. Right. I think that this is his last opportunity to use a lot of fear in a cohesive way that he might not be able to in the debates to energize his base with. So in the debates, hes going to bark, scream, be on offense the whole time putting on a big show. This was planned by other people to really highlight the best of his accomplishments, and i think they did so pretty effectively actually. It was not a whole night of Kimberly Guilfoyle screaming and don junior talking about trying to brainwash you. But i think fear has always worked for him. Its the caravan in the midterm elections, the muslim ban in 2016, its the rapists, and so he is seeing erosion from his base. Hes seeing erosion from seniors first. That happened right in the deep in the spring as because of his response to the pandemic. They started moving to biden once they felt the federal government considered them expendible. But now hes seeing erosion with some veterans and some white noncollege women. And enough of those numbers really add up since he won in 2016 by, you know, sort of a strike of lightning. 77,000 votes in three states. One of which two of which jill steins spoiler margin was material to his win. So they cant lose any base. So i do think this convention will juice the base. They used a lot of fear, which worked with them in the past. It can work with seniors particularly. And i do think, as i said, that they were able to put on this kind of wonderful incumbent show, parade of his accomplishments, whether it was trying experimental cancer treatments, free hostages, find a way to get people to come out and talk to him in a positive way. His two videos, with the frontline workers, show that they recognize theres a huge empathy gap. Empathy was a theme of joe bidens Convention Last week. It was resnanonant with people t didnt know joe biden a lot. And they are worried about that. Theyre going to try to show him in an empathetic way. But they make the case that they dont think donald trump is a racist is a way to tell voters who may have left donald trump, who voted for him in 2016 to say, its okay to come back. We dont think hes a racist. Ill be curious if he gets a polling boost from some of those sectors of the coalition. Complicating that is the mixed message on the Confederate Flag from nikki haley and from the president s son. Heres nikki well, this is nikki haley with some smears against obama and biden, but nikki haley touting her own biography which stands in stark contrast to Donald Trumps record on the Confederate Flag. And moments after she touted removing a symbol of hate, donald trump jr. , his staccato delivery of protecting our heritage. Obama and biden let north korea threaten america. President trump rejected that weakness and we passed the toughest sanctions on north korea in history. Obama and biden let iran get away with murder and literally sent them a plane full of cash. President trump did the right thing and ripped up the iran nuclear deal. Yamiche, that was actually one of the places where Rachel Maddow pulled out of the Convention Coverage and we did a factcheck on that. It is donald trump whose projecting weakness on the world stage to north korea by constantly touting the love letters the two of them write back and forth, but it was a different remark that haley made about the Confederate Flag coming down and then junior came up ten minutes later and all but pounded his chest in sort of pride at his fathers effort to protect confederate symbols. Thats right. It was a sort of mixed messaging and nikki haley never said the word Confederate Flag which was interesting on her behalf given that she had this powerful story to talk about this shooting that took place at mother emmanuel killing nine people. She could have talked about the fact that this Confederate Flag is not something thats palpable anymore. She talked movingly about her own background and the discrimination that she faced but she also said america isnt a racist country while in some ways describing what she saw as the racist the racist experiences that her and her family experienced. I think what donald trump and the Republican Party were trying to do were two things. They were trying to embrace the idea of diversity while also saying we shouldnt focus on diversity too much. I think about that when i think about the fact the chairwoman of the Republican Party said i am here. Im one of the only second women to run the Republican Party. But i wasnt chosen because i was a woman, suggesting that joe biden chose senator harris only because she was a woman when joe biden said, yes, he wanted to choose a woman, but she was a qualified africanamerican woman who deserved the job, who earned the job. You saw that mixed messaging over and over again. And you see that with President Trump. He wants to talk about the criminal Justice Reform hes passed. The first step act. But also doesnt want to talk about systemic racism, the fact africanamericans are more likely to be killed by the police. So that same mixed messaging everyone was echoing last night. David jolly, let me show you what former fbi director jim comey said about the threats facing this country from this president as we head into an election almost four years to the day or to the week after crossfire hurricane that counterintelligence investigation was opened into his last campaign. For all that we learned, are you more or less worried today than you were july 31st, 2016, about the influence that trumps affinity for putin plays on u. S. Politics . Oh, more worried. Both because we have a clearer picture of how deep and wide the russian tentacles were in the Trump Campaign and second, weve seen over four years a president who wont acknowledge the threat. How could our government possibly stop putin from getting into this election if the commander in chief doesnt acknowledge it exists . And so the accumulation of facts and the experience in watching this president deepen my worry. David . Look, even coming off the democratic convention, there were some independent swing voters, even with the naming of Kamala Harris and former republicans saying, im okay with biden. Im not sure about harris. And its the comments from comey where we need to stop and reflect on exactly what this moment means. Often in politics we say, and obama said this. Vote for something, not against it. I think it was michelle obama. But in this election, it may be that what binds the nation together is voting against something because regardless of the politics we hear, last week or this week, the policies you agree with or not, we have a president who has been impeached for trying to cheat in this election. Cheat the American People. A president who invited russia to interfere in the 2016 election. One who refuses to respond to the russian bounties on the heads of american soldiers. One who has been named in a criminal indictment. Thats whats on the ballot in november and its important the American People decide were going to put a stop to this, regardless of what we hear at the conventions over these two weeks. We are going to dip into a press conference that is under way. This is ben crump speaking. He represents jacob blake and his family. Theyre going to update us on his condition and what happens next. Lets listen in. But mostly, devastating to his three little boys who were seated in the car when the police literally shot him at least seven times at pointblank range. Before we begin, because this is a very faithful family, were going to begin with prayer. And then the attorneys will give you the updates on his medical condition and the action that we are demanding legally, and then you will hear from his parents, his sisters, both leticia, megan and daitha. And then well take some of your questions. But first, we will start with pastor james boyd jr. To lead us in prayer. Thank you, attorney crump. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is james e. Ward jr. Along with my wife, pastor sharon, weve been highly privileged to be the family pastor for more than 30 years to ms. Julia jackson, the mother of jacob blake and also her mother Janey Johnson for more than 30 years. And at julias request and at attorney crumps request, i want to set the tone for our press Conference Today by briefly representing julias faith in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and offer a brief ward of prayer. There are three types of law that govern a nation. Spiritual law, moral law and civil law. But were only familiar with civil law, and were often ignorant of the ramifications of violating spiritual and moral law which civil law alone cannot remedy. When the spiritual and moral foundations are destroyed, societies implode. People hurt each other and what can the righteous do . So were calling our nation back to faith in god. Despite our differences, every citizen of america can agree that we indeed have a monumental problem in our nation. A problem that people created, but people are incapable of solving. And often as we tell our church, we have a sin problem. And not just a skin problem. So i invite you to join me in a brief moment of prayer as we ask our gracious god for his help during these very perilous times. Lets pray. Our father in heaven, we come to you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and ask you to forgive us all from straying from our ways and from your ways and from our word, which invites the curse and results in repeated harming and the destruction of each other. I declare the mercy of god, the grace of god, the peace of god, the goodness of god and most importantly, the love of god over kenosha, over black people and white people, over citizens and police. And over these United States of america. Father, unify us by your holy spirit. We pray for jacob blake even now and ask you to heal his spirit, soul, mind and body as well as the entire family. We ask you to give us wisdom on how to navigate our way forward as we deliberate to seek justice and to seek to bring healing to a hurting nation in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ we pray. Amen. Amen. And now you will hear from his father, Jacob Blake Sr. Who will pray also. Our family is very diverse, and we dont represent just one thing. So if you all could give me one second, please, this is for my son jacob. [ speaking Foreign Language ] i would like to thank everyone for coming out in support of my son with this senseless attempted murder that was committed on him. They shot my son seven times. Seven times. Like he didnt matter. But my son matters. Hes a human being, and he matters. Were going to now hear from his mother, ms. Julia jackson. This is her only biological son, jacob blake jr. My son has been fighting for his life. We really just need prayers. As i drove through the city, i noticed a lot of damage. It doesnt reflect my son or my family. If jacob knew what was going on, as far as that goes, the violence and the destruction, he would be very unpleased. So i really am asking and encouraging everyone in wisconsin and abroad to take a moment and examine your hearts. Citizens, Police Officers, firemen, clergy, politicians, d