- And we are joined now byCBN's political correspondent,

David Brody, to discussthe Democrats' night.

David, I wanted to gowith a little bit of a

baseball analogy here.

Were there any home runs last night,

and what kind of hitting doyou see happening tonight?

- Well, here's the goodnews for Democrats, Heather.

The home run was Michelle Obama.

Here's the bad news for Democrats.

She's not running in 2020.

Joe Biden is, and where was he last night?

Look, I watched all two hoursof this, every single minute,

and the only time I really saw Joe Biden

other than in clips of video

was where he was kind of hosting,

like Wolf Blitzer in "TheSituation Room," some sort of,

you know, tell me what you think

we should do in the country.

He's asking mayors and governors

and I'm thinking tomyself, why in the world

is Joe Biden asking themwhat they think when...

Isn't the whole point to...

What does he think, exactly?

So, look, I thought this was kind of

part late night infomercial,

which all conventions are pretty much,

part telethon, and part Academy Awards

that went about an hour ortwo long with Eva Longoria.

Look, I thought the wholething looked a bit contrived.

- It is really hard to keepit exciting when it's virtual.

I wanted to ask you alittle more about Biden

and the fact that we arenot hearing from him,

really not seeing him inunscripted environments.

Fox News host Chris Wallace

has called it the basement strategy.

What is going on?

Is the party trying to confine him?

- Heather, let me just be very clear,

and I've said this on "FaithNation" and a few other places,

but I just wanna be very clear.

I mean, he's lost a step,

and I don't say that in anysort of obvious derogatory way.

I mean, that is the analyticalview, not just from me,

but quite a few others out there.

The Joe Biden of 2016 isnot the Joe Biden of 2020.

He has lost a step mentally.

I don't think there'sany question about it.

And it has raised a whole host of issues.

And so what are they doing?

Well, here's Joe Biden, pretty much there,

they want to keep them inthe basement, sequestered.

It's kind of a preventdefense football strategy,

to use another sports analogy.

In other words, you're upby a couple of touchdowns,

at least that's what theBiden campaign thinks,

and why trot him out theremore than you really have to?

And I think that's what's going on.

Though, when he wants to doa hard-hitting interview,

I guess Chris Wallace isn'this cup of tea, but Cardi B is,

which makes you wonder about,

if Joe Biden can get that job done.

- Right, well, and it'sreally gonna be interesting

when you think aboutthe debates coming up.

Is there any possibility

that he is gonna indeed step aside

and Kamala Harris wouldindeed run for president

after the convention?

There has been some discussion of that.

- Now I understand there'sbeen some discussion of it,

and to be clear, that's fromfolks like Chris Cillizza

over at "The WashingtonPost," a pretty liberal guy,

and there's been other, there'sbeen chatter in the media.

Look, my sources, atleast, on the Democrat side

are telling me there'snot a chance of that.

Now, having said that,you never know exactly

what's gonna happen, butno, I don't see that at all

before the Novemberelection, and even in between

that November and January time period,

if Biden were to win.

So no, I don't think that'sa possibility at this point.

- All right, and just briefly,

the president's got anotherfull schedule today.

It seems that he is more aggressively,

perhaps, than previousincumbent presidents,

really trying to give outhis own message this week

and really create his own events

to counter what the Democrats are doing.

Do you see it that way?

- Yeah. I mean, I think aggressive

and Donald Trump go hand in hand.

I mean, look, BarackObama has done this before

in previous years, in 2012,

when the Republicans had their convention.

But yeah, overall there is typically

a counter-programming aspect to any time

the other party is in convention week.

Having said that, Donald Trump likes to

kind of march to the beat of his own drum

and be his own man and wantsto drive the narrative,

and you can be sure he's gonnabe doing that on steroids

a lot more than manyother previous candidates.

- Absolutely.

All right, David Brody,thanks for your time.

- Thanks, Heather.