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Speaker 1: It is day one of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Today.

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Speaker 1: Biden is going to be speaking later on our time.

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Speaker 1: We've got Obama speaking Tuesday. Hillary Clinton is speaking as well.

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Speaker 1: You've got Waltz on Thursday, and then you've got Harris

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Speaker 1: the main event on Friday, our time. Simon Marx is

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Speaker 1: with Feature Story News is a correspondent. He's at the

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Speaker 1: convention in Chicago and he's with us. Now, good morning.

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Speaker 1: We'll get there in a second. It's a long way

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Speaker 1: from here to Chicago. Good morning, Simon, Good morning, Ryan.

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Speaker 2: Can you hear me?

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Speaker 1: I got you just fine. Thank you for being with us.

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Speaker 1: What's the main event. What's happening today?

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Speaker 2: Well, they're getting the awkward stuff out of the way

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Speaker 2: here today. We're beginning to see some delegates arriving here

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Speaker 2: at the United Center where this ninety six hour made

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Speaker 2: for TV spectacular will be playing out over the next

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Speaker 2: four days. And of course it's all about swooning over

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Speaker 2: Kamala Harris and propelling her on the her less than

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Speaker 2: eighty day journey to election Day, but to night about

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Speaker 2: swooning over President Joe Biden and paying fulsome tribute to him,

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Speaker 2: not least for his decision to drop out of his

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Speaker 2: re election campaign, so President Biden will be the main

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Speaker 2: speaker on the first night here, alongside First Lady Jill

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Speaker 2: Biden and former First Lady Hillary Clinton. In many ways,

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Speaker 2: the Democrats consigning some of the more uncomfortable moments of

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Speaker 2: this convention to the first night in order to get

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Speaker 2: them out of the way, to clear the decks, so

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Speaker 2: that Kamala Harris can then pivot away from her ongoing

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Speaker 2: need at the moment to pay tribute to Joe Biden

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Speaker 2: and to focus instead on the direction that she wants

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Speaker 2: to take this party, not just between now an election day,

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Speaker 2: but of course over the next four years. If she wins.

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Speaker 1: Four weeks since Spiden pulled out of the right, two

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Speaker 1: weeks since Harris officially won the nomination through that role,

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Speaker 1: call does is she going to given in? Has she?

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Speaker 2: Do?

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Speaker 1: You know? Have you heard whether she's doing a one

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Speaker 1: on one with anybody around the convention or is there

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Speaker 1: a press conference.

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Speaker 2: There's no indication of an interview or a press conference.

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Speaker 2: They certainly haven't announced that yet. And as you know,

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Speaker 2: she's been heavily criticized by former President Donald Trump for

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Speaker 2: her failure to give interviews. But I think that the

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Speaker 2: Harris team, you know, they've been thrust into this unexpectedly.

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Speaker 2: Behind the scenes, they're trying to figure out what all

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Speaker 2: of this means in terms of the party's platform. It's manifesto,

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Speaker 2: which will be officially adopted here, because they've basically inherited

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Speaker 2: Joe Biden's manifesto. And you've got tens of thousands of

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Speaker 2: protesters bearing down or threatening to bear down on the

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Speaker 2: convention site saying they want the platform to be rewritten

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Speaker 2: certainly as far as the Middle East is concerned and

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Speaker 2: the crisis in Gaza, and she wants this to go

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Speaker 2: absolutely flawlessly over the next four days. There is a

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Speaker 2: margin for error for her. She's had a huge fillip

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Speaker 2: here in the last couple of hours. A fresh Fox

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Speaker 2: News poll suggests that she has a six point lead

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Speaker 2: over Donald Trump among likely voters, and she'll be hoping

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Speaker 2: to get a big bump out of this convention when

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Speaker 2: it is over cementing that lead in place, and then

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Speaker 2: perhaps they will get to interviews, a forum in which

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Speaker 2: she has not always excelled in the past.

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Speaker 1: Interesting, isn't it, Simon? Thanks for that, Simon Marx. If

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Speaker 1: it's in correspondent at the DNC in Chicago, which kicks

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