ONCE AGAIN IS OUR SPOTLIGHT.

POLITICS TEAM.

AMANDA VICKI, HEATHER, SHARON AND NICK BLUMBERG.

ALSO BACK IN THE STUDIO.

OUR GUESTS FOR TONIGHT'S ANTI TO JACKSON AND STATE REPRESENTATIVE TRAVIS WEAVER.

SO WANT TO START WITH YOU.

LOTS TO TALK ABOUT, OF COURSE.

BUT HOW ARE YOU FEELING IN?

YOU KNOW, THIS HISTORIC MOMENT, AS WE MENTIONED, YOU ATTENDED COLLEGE WITH KAMALA HARRIS.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO YOU TO SEE TO SEE HER NOMINATED A MEMBER OF THE DIVINE 9?

OKAY.

SHE CAN'T GET A COMPLETE SHE'S ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA DELTA SIGMA THETA.

YOU KNOW, YOU OKAY.

BUT YOU KNOW, BUT REALLY IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, WELL, VERY, VERY EXCITED.

WEATHER.

WINTER ORTIZ ARE NOT WHERE WE'VE BEEN TO COLLEGE OR NOT.

IT'S AN EXCITING MOMENT FOR EVERYBODY.

ALL THE BOATS WHO'VE BEEN STUCK AT THE BOTTOM.

IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO SEE WOMAN ON THE TICKET TO SEE A PERSON OF COLOR ON THE TICKET TO SEE SOMEONE WHO CAME FROM NO DIDN'T COME FROM PRIVILEGE.

NO ONE GAVE THINGS SOMEONE WHO AND BECAUSE OF THAT, SHE'S DECIDED TO GO PREDATORS.

SHE SAID, LOOK, WELL, THERE'S A PERSONAL PREDATOR, INSTITUTIONAL ONE BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN THE VULNERABLE PERSON BECAUSE I HAVE LIVED ON THE DOWNSIDE ADVANTAGE.

I'VE HAD TO FIGHT FOR MY MOTHER'S LIFE.

WHAT I WANT TO DO IS USE MY CAREER TO STAND FOR THOSE WHO ARE LIVING IN THE CAPITAL FALLING IN THE CRACKS.

IT WAS JUST EXCITING TO HEAR SOMEONE WHO IT SAYS BOTTOM A PERSPECTIVE TO LOOK, SHE IS BLACK.

SHE IS ASIAN.

THAT IS OBVIOUS.

WHAT SHE'S GIVING IS A PERSPECTIVE OF PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING ON THE DOWNSIDE OF ADVANTAGE.

AND THEN FROM THESE EXCITING.

ALL RIGHT.

SO HERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE KAMALA HARRIS, A SPEECH TONIGHT WHERE SHE SHE PAID TRIBUTE TO HER MOTHER.

SHE TAUGHT US TO NEVER COMPLAIN ABOUT INJUSTICE, BUT DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

SHE ALSO TAUGHT US.

SHE ALSO TAUGHT US AND NEVER DO ANYTHING HALF-ASSED.

THAT MIGHT BE THE FIRST TIME THAT LINE HAS BEEN USED IN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE.

ACCEPTANCE REPRESEN REPRESENTATIVE WEAVER.

YOU KNOW, SHE TOLD US A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT WHO SHE IS TONIGHT.

WHAT WAS MISSING?

WHAT DIDN'T YOU HEAR?

WELL, I JUST WOULD SAY IT SOUNDS LIKE MY MY OWN MOTHER GOING TO DO IT, DO IT ALL THE WAY YOU KNOW, I THINK BACK TO MY COMMENTS EARLIER, YOU KNOW, I WOULD STILL LIKE TO HEAR MORE ABOUT ECONOMIC POLICY, YOU KNOW, HAVING A SITTING VICE PRESIDENT WHO IS NOW THE DEMOCRAT NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT FOR THE LAST.

I THINK 35 DAYS STILL NO INTERVIEWS.

YOU KNOW, YOU CAN GLEAN SOME THINGS OUT OF A SPEECH.

BUT AT SOME POINT SHE'S GONNA NEED TO FACE.

THE CAMERAS IS GOING NEED TO FACE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND HAVE THE ANSWERS TOUGH QUESTIONS ABOUT ECONOMY, IMMIGRATION, THE WORLD.

THAT'S WHAT WE'RE RIGHT NOW.

I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT WE LEFT TO BE UNDERSTOOD.

HEATHER, AMONG THE ISSUES TONIGHT WAS CELEBRATING THE MILITARY BACKING LAW ENFORCEMENT.

THERE ARE SOME OTHER ISSUES AS WELL.

BUT THIS ONE IN PARTICULAR WAS SUCH AN EMPHASIS ON THAT.

WELL, YOU KNOW, SHE DIDN'T MENTION IT DURING HER SPEECH, BUT OF COURSE, SHE WOULD BE THE FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT AND JUST LIKE WITH HILLARY CLINTON, IT WAS CLEAR THAT SHE WANTED TO TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HOW SHE WOULD SERVE AS OUR COMMANDER IN CHIEF, WHICH IS WHY WE HEARD SO MUCH ABOUT HER WORK AS A PROSECUTOR, WE HEARD HER AGAIN SAY THAT HER ONLY CLIENT HAS THE PEOPLE.

SHE IS KAMALA HARRIS FOR THE PEOPLE, ONE OF HER CAMPAIGN SLOGANS.

BUT WE ALSO HEARD FROM PEOPLE LIKE LEON PANETTA, A FORMER DEFENSE SECRETARY WHO HAS BEEN PART OF SORT THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX OF THIS COUNTRY FOR DECADES.

HE HELPED LEAD THE RAID THAT ENDED WITH THE KILLING OF OSAMA BIN LADEN.

AND HE'S VOUCHING FOR HARRIS IS A WAY TO SORT ADDRESS CONCERNS THAT PERHAPS OLDER PEOPLE, PERHAPS MALE PEOPLE HAVE ABOUT ELECTING A WOMAN AND PUTTING HER IN CHARGE OF THE ARMED SERVICES.

IT'S SOMETHING THAT AMERICA HAS NEVER DONE.

AND WHILE SHE DIDN'T ADDRESS IT DIRECTLY, IT'S CLEAR THAT SHE SEES THIS IS SORT OF A PLACE TO SHORE UP AND SHE LEANED INTO THAT TONIGHT KNOWING THAT SHE HAD THE BIGGEST AUDIENCE THAT SHE WOULD HAS EVER HAD TO THIS POINT WATCHING.

AMANDA, THERE WAS, OF COURSE, CONCERN AHEAD OF THE DNC THAT THIS ONE WOULD BE A BLACK EYE FOR THE CITY OF THINGS DID NOT GO WELL.

A LOT OF PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, REMEMBERING 1968.

I THINK OUR SUPERINTENDENT GETTING KIND OF SICK OF PEOPLE RECOUNTING THOSE MEMORIES.

BUT, YOU KNOW, HAS THIS CONVENTION SORT OF EXCISED OR EXERCISE THOSE GHOSTS?

YOU KNOW, I THINK IT CERTAINLY HAS.

YOU HEARD A LOT OF PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT HOW WONDERFUL CHICAGO HAS AN IMPACT THIS MORNING.

YOU KNOW, THE ILLINOIS DELEGATION HAS ITS BREAKFAST.

AND SO I TRIED TO ASK MANY OF MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL OTHER CHICAGO RESIDENTS WERE ELECTED LEADERS.

WHAT THEY THOUGHT ABOUT IT AND THEY SAID YES, SOME SAID THEY DON'T BELIEVE THAT THIS IS A REPUTATION THAT IS DESERVED, THAT THIS IS A REPUTATION CHICAGO HAS RECEIVED UNFAIRLY.

IT'S BECAUSE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

OTHERS SAID, YEAH, YOU KNOW, THERE THERE ARE SOME THINGS AT THE CONVENTION SHOW COULD BE DONE DIFFERENTLY.

AND IT'S NOT JUST GRANDEST THE PROTEST.

THAT'S THINGS LIKE MORE CTA TRAINS WHEN THERE WERE LONG LINES ON THE BLUE LINE.

THAT WE I HEARD THAT TO SEE TATE BROUGHT IN MORE.

AND SO ONE ALDERMAN SAID THIS IS DEMONSTRATED THAT CHICAGO CAN REALLY DO IT.

THE CITY IS ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL.

IT'S GENERALLY VERY CLEAN CITY.

THE CITY STEPPED UP ITS GAME.

AND SO THESE ARE THE SORT OF THINGS THAT WANT TO CONTINUE.

AND THEY SAID THAT NOW THAT THEY'VE CHICAGO HE'S SHOWN IT CAN BE DONE, SHOULD BE KEPT IT UP, SHOULD BE KEPT IT'S BEEN A LONG 4 NICK, YOU WERE AT A MEETING OF THE WOMEN'S CAUCUS EARLIER THIS MORNING WHERE YOU HEARD FROM FORMER ILLINOIS DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIR AS WELL AS A COUPLE OF BIG 2 STARTS.

THAT'S RIGHT.

WE HEARD FROM CONGRESSWOMAN ROBIN KELLY WHO APOLOGIZED FOR THE HOARSENESS OF HER VOICE.

SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN HEARING FROM A LOT OF POLITICIANS THROUGHOUT THE WEEK.

BUT TO THAT END OF WELCOMING PEOPLE TO CHICAGO, SHE SAID, HEY, WE ORDERED UP SOME GREAT WEATHER FOR SHE WAS REALLY HAPPY TO SEE ALL THE FOLKS IN TOWN ENJOYING WHAT CHICAGO HAS TO OFFER.

BUT SHE ALSO HAD A MESSAGE THAT, YOU KNOW, DEMOCRATS HAVE TO STAY FOCUSED.

THEY HAVE TO, AS MICHELLE OBAMA SAID, DO SOMETHING ALSO HEARD FROM SPEAKER AMERICA.

NANCY PELOSI HAS BEEN MAKING THE ROUNDS AND GETTING A PRETTY GREAT RECEPTION FROM DEMOCRATS ALL WEEK AT OFFICIAL EVENTS, BUT PROBABLY THE YOU KNOW, STANDING OVATION AND EXCITEMENT IN THE ROOM WITH ONE ABBOTT ELEMENTARY STAR, SHERYL LEE.

RALPH SHOWED SHE LEFT THE ROOM AND A SING-ALONG OF WE ARE NOT GOING BACK.

HAD A VERY STRONG MESSAGE OF ACTIVISM FOR THOSE IN THE ROOM.

AND IF YOU HAVE NOTICED ON THE SHOW THAT HER CHARACTER HAS A DELIBERATE MANNER OF SPEAKING, THAT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE IT'S ACTING THAT JUST KIND OF SEEMS LIKE THAT'S HOW SHE TALKS TO US.

FIRED UP AND SHE HAD A MESSAGE FOR EVERYBODY AND SHE WANTED TO MAKE IT CRYSTAL CLEAR.

THEY NEED TO GET OUT THERE AND WORK FOR THE NEXT COUPLE MONTHS.

PRETTY GOOD, NICK.

ACTUALLY, I THINK YOU THIS IN.

I'M HEATHER, A SURPRISE SPEAKER TONIGHT WAS A FORMER ILLINOIS ATTORNEY GENERAL LISA MADIGAN.

SHE'S BEEN OUT OF OFFICE AROUND SINCE SHE LEFT OFFICE BACK IN 2019.

WHY DID SHE SPEAK?

WELL, WHILE SHE WAS ATTORNEY GENERAL KAMALA HARRIS WAS ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CALIFORNIA AND THEY WERE BOTH FORCED TO TRAVEL WITH THE AFTERMATH OF THE 2008 GREAT RECESSION.

WHEN THE HOUSING MARKET COLLAPSED, THAT THREATENED TO TURN THOUSANDS OF FAMILIES OUT OF THEIR HOMES BECAUSE OF FORECLOSURES.

THEY'VE JOINED FORCES TO FORCE WHAT THEY CALL BIG BANKS TO ALLOW THOSE FAMILIES TO RENEGOTIATE THOSE MORTGAGE.

AND LISA MADIGAN DELIVERED A FULL-THROATED ENDORSEMENT OF KAMALA HARRIS'S WILLINGNESS AND ABILITY TO TAKE ON THOSE MONEYED INTEREST, WHICH DOVETAILS EXACTLY WITH HER SORT OF CASE AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.

WE HEARD HIM.

WE HEARD HER SAY THAT HE WOULD NOT CARE FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BUT ONLY FOR HIS BILLIONAIRE FRIENDS.

AND THAT'S WHY LISA MADIGAN AND A LITTLE BIT OF A SURPRISE APPEARANCE WAS AT TONIGHT'S CONVENTION.

YEP, THAT WAS ALL RIGHT.

IT'S BEEN A FUN WEEK, EVERYBODY THAT SPOTLIGHT.