Welcome to the B, I'm Ari Melber.

I bet you know this because you have your TV on, you're watching the news, it's a busy

Friday after an absolutely unprecedented historic, serious, political, and at times bizarre

week in American life. The RNC concludes with the speech that

should have been the easy one and we have been careful to discuss the

seriousness of the attempted assassination on former President Trump

last weekend.

We've heard from Trump officials, I've had several on the program this week, but we also

call balls and strikes around here and the fact is that as a political matter, the situation

Donald Trump entered last night should have been straightforward.

A lot of sympathy and a lot of support in that room, a lot of interest around the nation,

giving even a standard or average or typical speech would have been enough. But he did not do that. He gave a

very unusual, historically long meandering, winding speech that I can tell you as a political matter not just on the

left or the Trump resistance but really from a lot of different sources today we are

seeing a reaction that has revived excitement, energy, even confidence among Democrats who still see this

individual now nominee Donald Trump as eminently beatable.

So that is part of where we start tonight.

Over ten more congressional Democrats meanwhile are now calling on Joe Biden to step aside.

The split screen on your screen is the story of the week certainly of last night it is

the story tonight and it may be the story for some time to come and just as I

mentioned our coverage of Donald Trump and the fairness there, our coverage of Joe Biden's problems also

will follow reality and the reality is it has not been a good week for him.

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