Welcome to the beat, I'm Mari Melber. We have a big show tonight.

MS NBC's Jen Saki and actor Sophia Bush are both here fresh off the DNC.

That should be fun.

By the end of the hour, one of Obama's favorite ballerinas,

Misty Copeland herself will debut here on our summit series

by the end of the hour, so get comfortable and stay with us for that. We invite you.

We begin though with Kamala Harris and that barn burner speech in

southeast Georgia she finished just about 20 minutes ago.

There is a full on assault on hard fought hard-won freedoms and rights including the freedom to vote, the freedom to be safe from gun violence.

Now Savannah, the baton is in our hands.

Those calls to freedom, familiar throughout this campaign and that roaring crowd you could hear.

Harris has been continually checking boxes since jumping into this

race, which is of course now the fastest shortest general election campaign for

any nominee ever because of President Biden's late exit. So she has inherited and

rebooted the Biden campaign team. She's been raising money. You've heard

about that. She decided on our own campaign themes and the slogan and

freedom. She picked a running mate. She executed a convention and now

turns to the first press interview she's done as the nominee and you may know there's a

tradition of joint sit-down interviews with your running mate Harris doing

that today with CNN and Savannah.

That full interview is slated to air later tonight.

It has not aired yet.

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