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Watch DNC live with Kamala Harris set to accept 2024 presidential nomination
Final night of the convention kicks off
Democrats convened for the last night of their convention in Chicago. Harris is set to address delegates, elected officials and other attendees and officially accept the party’s presidential nomination later in the night.
Harris putting “finishing touches” on her speech, aide says
Top Harris campaign aide Quentin Fulks told CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes Harris is still putting the “finishing touches” on her speech.
But she still knows “exactly” what she wants to say, Fulks said.
Fulks said Harris isn’t completely revamping her speech, in the way former President Bill Clinton did earlier this week, when he rewrote his address after seeing the enthusiasm of the convention crowd.
Who’s speaking at the DNC tonight?
Here’s the full list of DNC speakers, as released by the Democratic National Committee:
- Minyon Moore, chair of the 2024 Democratic National Convention Committee
- Invocation by Everett Kelly, national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, and Imam Muhammad Abdul-Aleem of Masjidullah Mosque of West Oak Lane, Pennsylvania
- Presentation of Colors by the Illinois State Police Honor Guard
- Pledge of Allegiance by Luna Maring, a 6th grader from Oakland, California
- Rep. Veronica Escobar of Texas
- Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association
- Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers
- Remarks
- Sen. Alex Padilla of California
- Marcia Fudge, former secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- Rep. Ted W. Lieu of California
- Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin
- Rep. Katherine Clark of Massachusetts, House Democratic Whip
- Rep. Joe Neguse of Colorado
- Mayor
Leonardo Williams of Durham, North Carolina - Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois
- Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
- Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado
- Rep. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan
- Rep. Pat Ryan of New York
- Rev. Al Sharpton
- Members of the “Central Park Five”: Dr. Yusef Salaam, member of the New York City Council, and activists Korey Wise, Raymond Santana and Kevin Richardson
- Amy Resner, former prosecutor and friend of Harris
- Karrie Delaney, director of Federal Affairs at the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network
- Lisa Madigan, former attorney general of Illinois
- Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League
- Nathan Hornes, former student at Corinthian Colleges
- Tristan Snell, former New York State assistant attorney general
- Gov. Maura Healey of Massachusetts
- Courtney Baldwin, youth organizer and human trafficking survivor
- Deb Haaland, secretary of the interior
- John Russell, content creator
- Rep. Maxwell Frost of Florida
- Rep. Colin Allred of Texas
- Joint Remarks on “A New American Chapter”: Anya Cook, Craig Sicknick, Gail DeVore, Juanny Romero and Eric, Christian, and Carter Fitts
- National anthem by The Chicks
- Kerry Washington
- Joint remarks by
Meena Harris, Ella Emhoff and Helena Hudlin - D.L. Hughley
- Sheriff Chris Swanson of Genesee County, Michigan
- Rep. Lucy McBath of Georgia, joined by Abbey Clements of Newton, Connecticut; Kim Rubio of Uvalde, Texas; Melody McFadden of Charleston, South Carolina; and Edgar Vilchez of Chicago.
- Gabrielle Giffords, former member of the House
- Performance by P!NK
- Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona
- Leon Panetta, former secretary of defense
- Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona
- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan
- Eva Longoria, actress and film producer
- Adam Kinzinger, former member of the House
- Maya Harris
- Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina
- Vice President Kamala Harris
How to watch the DNC tonight
CBS News 24/7 has coverage of the convention throughout the night and is streaming the major keynote speeches. Watch live on your mobile or streaming device.
A live feed of all of the speeches can be found here and in the player at the top of this page.
CBS television stations will have coverage beginning at 10 p.m. ET. Find your local CBS station here.
The House Ethics Committee, which has been conducting an investigation into sexual misconduct and obstruction allegations against Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, scheduled a vote for Friday on whether to release its report, according to three sources with knowledge of the committee’s work.
Hours after President-elect Donald Trump said he planned to nominate Gaetz to be attorney general, Gaetz resigned his congressional seat, effective immediately.
“I do not intend to take the oath of office for the same office in the 119th Congress, to pursue the position of Attorney General in the Trump Administration,” Gaetz said in his resignation letter obtained by CBS News
House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters that there was about an eight-week period during which Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis could fill his seat by setting the date for a special election.
Now that Gaetz has resigned, it is unclear whether the panel will vote on releasing the report, since Gaetz is no longer in Congress.
There is precedent in Congress on the Senate side for an ethics committee report to become public after a member resigns from Congress, however. In 2011, this happened when Sen. John Ensign of Nevada resigned amid allegations that he tried to hide an extramarital affair.
But it’s not clear that that would apply to the House, leaving open the possibility that the report on Gaetz would not be released.
In June, the House Ethics Committee released a statement saying it was investigating a range of allegations against Gaetz, including sexual misconduct, illicit drug use, and bribery.
Multiple sources at the time told CBS News that four women had informed the House Ethics Committee that they had been paid to go to parties that included sex and drugs, and that Gaetz had also attended. The committee has Gaetz’s Venmo transactions that allegedly show payments for the women.
Gaetz has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and has called the committee’s investigation a “frivolous” smear campaign.
Some of the allegations of sexual misconduct under review by the committee were also the subject of a previous Department of Justice probe into Gaetz. Federal investigators sought to determine if Gaetz violated sex trafficking and obstruction of justice laws, but no charges were filed.
The House Ethics Committee resumed its investigation into Gaetz in 2023, following the Justice Department’s decision not to pursue charges against him.
Gaetz has long blamed then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, also a Republican, for the probe. And Gaetz later led the movement to sack McCarthy as speaker.
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