Worthy of you. Thats joe. Odonnell history is about to be made in wilmington, delaware, as the first woman of color accepts her partys nomination for Vice President of the United States. Good evening, im Norah Odonnell in our nations capitol. Welcome to cbs News Coverage of the starstudded night. Three of the Democratic National convention, in this hour senator Kamala Harris will tell americans why she thinks they should elect. An open mind and the chance to lead an open mind and the chance to lead, i meant st. Every president deserves that. And trump came in with so much set up for him. A strong economy, planned for managing crises including a pandemic. Yes, we democrats would have disagreed with him on many things, but if he had put his own interests and ego aside, seen the humanity in a child ripped from her parents at the border or a protester calling for justice or a family wiped out by natural disaster, that would have been a good thing for america and the world. I wish donald tr
Barack obama, embracing the man he calls a brother. And in one more sign of what a battle this campaign will be, President Trump has already fired back from the white house. Declaring he ran for president simply because obama failed. The democrats are also shining a light on some of their most prominent women, nancy pelosi, Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton and the senator breaking a new barrier, Kamala Harris, who will formally accept the nomination tonight. And broke the tradition by kicking the evening off herself. I know many of you plan to vote this year, but youve also heard about obstacles and misinformation and folks making it harder for you to cast your ballot. So i think we need to ask ourselves, why dont they want us to vote . Why is there so much effort to silence our voices . And the answer is because when we vote, things change. Kamala harris right there from wilmington, delaware. Mary bruce is there, too. This is her night. This is a huge moment of significance for women
Right now. Committed to our constitution, brilliant in defending it and a witness that the womens voices of our nation will be heard. Our hopes for our and the sacrifices of our veterans, our brave men and women in uniform and their families. We will increase our majority in the house. We will one a democratic majority in the senate. We will elect Kamala Harris Vice President and we will elect joe biden president of the United States of america. God bless you and god bless america. Thank you speaker. The house is the peoples house and to insure it stays that we we need everyone to help fund or work to elect joe biden and democrats up and down the ballot. If you are able please go to joe biden. Com and chip in what you can to support the campaign. The house reauthorized the violence against women act. Joe biden wrote that landmark law 30 years ago. Since then he and others built on it but through all of this work, women are still not entirely safe so the work must continue. Joe biden kn
Barack obama. Hell be speaking tonight from the eye and say we organized, we the museum of the American Revolution in philadelphia, not persisted and we changed america. Far from Independence Hall in senator Elizabeth Warren speaking tonight from what were told will be an intense, impassioned speech on springfield, massachusetts. Lets bring in Senior Business behalf of joe biden and against correspondent Stephanie Ruhle in donald trump. To talk about what weve heard Peter Alexander is in from senator warren. Philadelphia right now with some she leads an important constituency, stephanie. New reporting just in on what we will be hearing from obama tonight. Without a doubt, lester. Peter, what do you know . Reporter lester, good evening to you. Every year we know that people vote with their wallets in any we are outside the museum of the American Revolution here in election, but right now senator philadelphia. Warren just laid it out for you. The enormous changes we have in many ways, th
Unshakeable. Woodruff and to denounce President Trump. Today we are a country divided and we have a president doing everything in his power to make it that way. At the time like this the oval office should be a command center. Woodruff tonight former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, former president barack obama and this years Vice President ial nominee Kamala Harris. Day three of the Democratic National convention. Woodruff again, im Judy Woodruff and welcome to our special pbs newshour live coverage of the Democratic National convention. Were now on night three of this virtual event. Tonight, we will hear from Hillary Clinton, the partys nominee four years ago. Well hear from former president barack obama and then we will hear from Kamala Harris, a historymaking Vice President ial nominee. Im here in our studio with political analyst amy walter and right around the corner our senior correspondence amna nawaz. Both socially distanced. And we have reported and guests across the coun