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Democrats in iran who are fighting for their freedom feel supported. >> small d democrats supporting democracy democrats. you understand the fear that comes with iran's morality police. you had a run-in with them when you were just 12 years old. tell us about that. >> i was born in iran. 20 days after the revolution my parents had to escape. they were political refugees, opposed the islamic republic. i grew up in london. when i was 12, my mother took me to iran to visit family. i was walking down the street with my mother walking two or three steps behind myself and my uncle, walking side by s...

Distinctions -- i think that's one of the biggest problems. you need to be able to make distinctions very clearly, but he struggled with his speech, he struggled all week with. and if you can't do that to turn and let that semi-fascist record, as john harwood said on cnn, say that that's important and journalists should be able to say that's the right thing, that's ridiculous to me. howard: laura fink p i'm guessing you liked the speech, but what about media conservatives who say he's abandoning his campaign theme and presidential theme of unifying the country? >> i think that's a great questi...

>> and framed the whole speech around that. eva, you hear this talk about this being a political speech, and i don't think you could ignore any of the references to maga republicans there. but for supporters of joe biden, for some of the voters that you've been speaking to out on the trail there, if you do believe that democracy, small d, democracy is at stake, is this the type of defense that they have been wanting to hear? >> absolutely without a doubt. and something else that really stuck out to me is that he almost seemed to be reclaiming patriotism. often you hear republicans argue that t...

Our duty, in 2022 and beyond, then ages still to come will say we, all of us here, we kept the faith. we preserved democracy. we heeded our words. we heeded not our worst instincts but our better angels. we proved that for all its imperfections, america is still the beacon to the world, an ideal to be realized, a promise to be kept. there's nothing more important. nothing more sacred. nothing more american. that's our soul. that's who we truly are. and that's who we must always be. i have no doubt, none, that this is who we will be and that we'll come together as a nation that will secure our ...

>> and framed the whole speech around that. eva, you hear this talk about this being a political speech, and i don't think you could ignore any of the references to maga republicans there. but for supporters of joe biden, for some of the voters that you've been speaking to out on the trail there, if you do believe that democracy, small d, democracy is at stake, is this the type of defense that they have been wanting to hear? >> absolutely without a doubt. and something else that really stuck out to me is that he almost seemed to be reclaiming patriotism. often you hear republicans argue that t...