>> Dr. Jill Biden gave a speech tonight, Ben, obviously, as we just saw covering this live,
and we'll be covering every night of DNC and RNC live.
And the first potential First Lady always gives a speech at the end of one of these
nights and she did that here.
And I had mixed feelings about it.
So let me put it this way.
I'll put it- I'll say before the threshold, I liked it.
After the threshold, I thought it went a bit much.
So what's the threshold I'm referring to?
What I'm learning about her and Joe Biden and their family history, look she doesn't
have to tell us policy.
She, you know, if she does great, but that's not necessarily what we're expecting from
the First Lady to come and deliver a speech on.
So the things that I learned about her, I like learning about it.
I don't know how relevant it is, but still I'm happy to know it, right?
Things and I'll give you some examples of that in a sec.
And things above the threshold were like- and then she started talking about the dirty
dishes in the sink and I'm like, I got it.
I love you, but let's okay this is too much, right.
Like there was- it was just personal.
I mean it was just super duper personal, right?
And so they talk about the folks who pass away in their family a lot.
And I've seen this now.
I know haven't covered Joe Biden literally for decades.
I know those stories inside and out, but I gotta say, Ben.
I come close to tearing up and sometimes go above that threshold whenever I hear about
Beau Biden because he died so young and he got the brain cancer.
And when they show us pictures as a kid and these- it's gut wrenching, but the one line
that really got to me was when she said- she was talking about how Joe Biden had not shaved
for four days after Beau Biden passed away.
And then he shaved and he steeled himself to go into a world without our son.
Woof, for anyone who's a parent, that's tough to listen to and it makes you root for them.
>> I'm gonna tell you like, tonight was the night that he won the presidency if he went,
right.
I think Jill did an outstanding job of appealing to even someone as dead on the inside as me.
I actually felt emotion.
I actually felt a connection to Joe Biden who I had been working diligently hard and
avoiding, right?
>> Cuz on policy, like besides I'm not being Donald Trump, I really just- I have no reason
to want to connect with him.
But as a father, as a human being I actually felt like, wait a minute.
I think the democratic strategy on this was actually kind of brilliant because we have
something to juxtapose next to the character that Joe Biden presented.
Now, second of all, she wrote that like she was a seasoned author, whoever wrote that
right- it had a literary effect.
It was really, I hate to talk about it in this category, but it wasn't a political speech.
It was a beautiful speech and it touched me and I think it touched a lot of people.
To think it touched somebody like me, I'd be [INAUDIBLE.
It's touching a lot of people right now.
>> Yeah, and I actually think there was one symbol in there that was really really powerful,
which I'm going to get to in the end here, but I want to do what I usually do which is
give you some fun things in there and and as much substance as we can too.
And as I looked at her speech, I thought, God, what is Donald Trump going to say about
this?
Like I fear anything he ever said like God, please, please don't insult their dead family
members.
Like you never know with Trump.
You just never know and right anyway.
So first of all, this is the most honest the Democrats have been because they admitted
a bunch of things in there and that's what makes them more relatable and likable, ironically,
that you really- I'm not sure they should be admitting in terms of relationship and
this is just fun stuff.
But when Joe Biden- I've heard him say this many times, but he says, I asked her to marry
me five times and then finally at the end, she did.
I'm like, Joe, I'm not sure that's such a story, right?
And, and then they told a story of how she was set to go out with another guy, but she
broke that date to go out with Joe Biden instead.
I was like that's definitely not a good story.
>> I'd be honest with you.
That's the same way I got to tell my wife to cancel her date so it worked- this is the
best part.
I'm telling you, Jake, this was the best night like they could have- I don't know what they
juxtapose last night at progressive with Republican and then they juxtapose tonight war hawks
with somebody who actually has a heart, right.
So I'm not sure what that strategy was, but they could have just left everyone off and
kept Jill Biden's speech.
>> Yeah, I hear you on that.
That'll be an overall summary of the night but- so there was this director that was kept,
you said whoever wrote the script, etc.
And we keep it real on The Young Turks.
So I'm sure that that was- it felt heartfelt and we've seen a lot of non heartfelt speeches,
etc.
And of course, she had a little bit of help and of course it's choreographed to some degree.
And in this case, unfortunately, you heard the director saying, you're up cue before
she started walking.
And I think that he- his mic might have been on the whole time because I thought I heard
laughter in the background in the middle.
And then at the end, he also- the director seemed to be saying something.
So it's unfortunate like- folks got to see the man behind the curtain a little bit.
We tell you about the men behind the curtain all the time.
The rest of the world, the political world, doesn't.
But I don't want you to think that it was just Jill Biden.
No, that's everybody at every convention.
And then the last.
One more thing that I didn't love.
It was a story I loved.
She wakes us up at Christmas Eve at five in the morning for soul.
I'm like, dude, I'm out.
>> I don't care how lovely you are, I'm out.
>> Yeah, that was too much >> Like the snake in the backpack, I was like
okay that was.
>> I was just waiting for Samuel Jackson to come on and say, there's a ma
>> Backpack.
>> Snake in my mf backpack.
Anyway, they should think about that one day.
But- and look, we, apparently Ben and I both like schmaltzy stuff.
But when Joe Biden was talking about how the country, our similarities are infinite, and
we prove that we have a heart of kindness.
That's not the sense I got from the Trump administration.
I mean, the last four years have been very dispiriting, not just because of Trump, but
because I- we've all come to the conclusion and it's been unmistakable that at least 35%
of this country does not think like we do.
And I don't mean about like, hey, we disagree on policy or percentage of taxes or whatever.
No, like, wow, like very, very different and I did not.
And I don't get a sense that they have some sort of horrid goal that I didn't see in these
last four years.
But I'm keeping it too real on that, like I know she's trying to reach out to folks,
etcetera and she's a kind hearted person.
But finally, the part that I thought was important was the symbolism that I just finally got,
as I was, as I was watching Jill Biden speaking.
It's Joe Biden's grieving family as a symbol of the grieving country.
So both in terms of Corona virus and the protests around what happened to George Floyd.
This country is grieving in a lot of ways.
And my God, if you ever want a parent who's been through grief and can help you walk through
it, that is Joe Biden.
And you got to give him credit on that.
>> Yeah, yeah, I think that was the loudest part of that speech was the fact that she
was showing us like she literally took us by the hand and I hate to give so much commentary
on the presentation of it.
The speech took us by the hand, and no matter where you were, if you were actually authentically
listening to her, she led you to that point.
That you just pointed out, Jake, that the country is grieving and the person who knows
how to deal with grief is Joe Biden.
Now setting that aside, obviously is everything else that comes along with the presidency
and policy and everything else.
But when you consider the last five months, the last six months, 170,000 people dead.
There's a significant amount of grief that this country is dealing with.
And Donald Trump just kind of pushes his finger, his thumb into that wound.
And we got a good comparison tonight.
>> Yeah, I mean we've done a medical analogy throughout the night, stop the bleeding, triage,
live to fight another day, but yours was a little gruesome, but totally right.
Trump when he sees a wound, here's the thing, how do I close this up?
He thinks, how do I drive my thumb into it?
So you're in bigger pain and for his flaws and policy, etc.
Here's a guy who who heals wounds.
>> Yeah.
>> That's true, that is what he does.