Transcripts For CSPAN Convention Events Coverage 20160726

The he get his money from backs of women . Mail order brides . Hillary clinton doesnt come from the viral abuse of anyone, boys or girls. It is not taken seriously. It was scary when the democrats said that with them control. How will we ever get stronger with Domestic Violence and rape laws . I am a nursing student. I am an older mom with two kids in college. And i am going to school for nursing. Host where are you attending . Caller community college. Host thank you for calling in. Thank you everyone. Washington journal will be back tomorrow from the independent small area in philadelphia. We have been giving away a lot of political trinkets. If you happen to be in the area, if you live here, come down and see us at the cspan bus. Live coverage of the convention, begins as afternoon. You will have a frontrow the to every minute of Democratic National convention on cspan. Org. Watch live streams of the proceedings without commentary or commercials. Tool tovideo flipping create your own clips of your favorite moment and share them on social media. Read twitter feeds from delegates in philadelphia. Our special Convention Pages have everything you need to get the most coverage. Go to cspan. Org for updated Schedule Information to see what is happening during each session. Every speech will be available on demand for viewing when you want. Our special Convention Pages and servicespan. Org is a of your cable provider. If you are a cspan watcher, check it out on the web. Former president bill clinton will take the stage tonight. The former president will provide his wifes lesserknown celebrations. Her policy campaigns as first lady and work as senator from new york. This will be bill clintons 10th consecutive address. Cover starts at 4 00 p. M. Eastern. Yesterday, Donna Brazile issued an apology for the contents of the leaked email, saying on behalf of everyone, we want to offer a deep and sincere apology to Bernie Sanders, his supporters and everyone in the party for the inexcusable remarks made over email. These comments do not reflect the values of the dnc. Onna brazile talk to cspan here is a look at the fiveminute interview. Thank you. I love you all. Get some rest. Tomorrow. My favorite cable television. Thank you for spending a moment with us. Donna brazile, you have a role that you did not anticipate. How did this unfold . Quickly. No sooner had i returned from washington and got some fresh clothes to come to philadelphia after the republican National Convention i came in early because i saw the breaking news. I wanted to respond to it in person. Although i am not a member of the rules committee of the convention, i am a permanent number of the rules committee for the Democratic National committee. I wanted to come here and be withof that and i also met the Bernie Sanders team. We decided we needed to issue an apology. I guess one could say that the apology along with some other issues let us just say this is my second stint, if it happens on friday, i will be the interim chair of the party. I was interim chair in 2011 when senator tim kaine im sorry, when tim kaine ran for senator. I have to get it right, i am tired. Let me ask you about the earliert you issued saying that he will make sure it never happens again. How did this happen . I dont have all of the materials. What i do know is that the fbi determined that the federal officials alerted the dnc that we were being hacked. The dnc responded by changing its protocols. The hackers redid the protocols. This led to a big Security Breach which we are now seeing the results of that. We are taking steps within the party. I dont have all of the materials and evidence, because i am not privy to the information yet, but we are taking very important steps to ensure that our data is never compromised and that the Security System is the very best in the world. Will Debbie Wasserman schultz be on the podium at any time this week . I am not the chair of the party. I respect her wishes. Debbie made the decision to step down. She made the decision today, because everyone is working to unify the party and bring it together to help the next president of the United States, Hillary Clinton and her running mate, tim kaine. Debbie has made all of these decisions. She is a terrific lady. I know her, she is my friend and colleague. I support her wishes. Is this a united party . Everyone thinks you can overcome grief in 12 steps but you can unify in one day. We are working hard to unify a party that is passionate about raising wages of americans. Keeping them safe and secure. We had a very long, contested, and challenging primary. I am proud of my party. That is what people do when you are in a democracy. Imagine, 240 years ago, what did the framers do . How did they resolve their differences . It probably was messy but they came together and guess what . We are still here. Any interest in being the party chair . Oh, no. You know, one of the things i thought about over the last couple of days, i love cnn and abc and i am grateful for the opportunities i have had as a commentator. Im going back to who i really am. I am an organizer. I cant wait to go home and take some time off and rest. , wanted to become someone else and you said no, you are who you are. So i am going back to who i am, an organizer. I will work very hard. I will take a salary of one dollar. If we win i will ask them to give me . 50 back. But i love my party and my country. I want to say on a personal note she is not here. Tonight, we heard from Elizabeth Warren who is a great and wonderful woman. But 40 years ago, i heard from Barbara Jurgensen i heard from Barbara Jordan many years ago. And tonight we heard from cory booker and Michelle Obama and of course Bernie Sanders. I am happy. Somewhere in heaven there is a choir. Those who are fighters for justice and equality and tonight, they heard a joyful noise. It may not have been as harmonic as the noise in heaven, but still a joyful noise. This is my ninth convention. I am 56 years old. 40 years in the democratic process. I am proud of my work. Who knew that in my 40th year i would have to go back to be an organizer . But i am happy. Donna brazile, the interim chair. I love you. I love my students in georgetown. Cnn and abc knows this, but i want to tell my students who signed up for my class i may not be there this semester but i want you to volunteer to be my intern. I will always make your coffee. God bless you. Donna brazile, thank you for your time. The green partys president ial candidate, jill stein, has said she would step aside if Bernie Sanders ran for the third party. Conventionarty its august 47. That will be in houston. Last night, Bernie Sanders reiterated his support for Hillary Clinton. The New York Times reports that he has left a mark beyond this Political Year by bringing the lineal into politics. Here is a look at his halfhour speech from last nights convention. Please welcome senator Bernie Sanders from vermont. [cheering] [applause] Bernie Sanders thank you. [cheering] [applause] Bernie Sanders thank you. Thank you. [cheering] [applause] Bernie Sanders thank you. [cheering] Bernie Sanders thank you all very much. Thank you. [cheering] [applause] sanders thank you. Thank you very much. [cheering] [applause] Bernie Sanders thank you. Thank you. Is it is an honor. [cheering] thank you. Ers [cheering] [applause] sanders thank you very much. [cheering] isnie sanders it is it an honor to be here tonight. [cheering] Bernie Sanders thank you. Thank you very much. [cheering] Bernie Sanders thank you. Thank you. It is an honor to be here tonight and to be following in the footsteps of my good friend , Elizabeth Warren. [cheering] Bernie Sanders and to be here tonight to thank Michelle Obama for her Incredible Service to our country. [applause] Bernie Sanders she has made all of us proud. Theie begin by thanking hundreds of thousands of americans who actively participated in our campaign as volunteers. Thank you. [cheering] [applause] Bernie Sanders let me thank the 2. 5 million americans who helped fund our campaign with an unprecedented 8 million individual campaign contributions. [cheering] [applause] sanders anyone know what that average contribution was . 27. Bernie sanders thats right. 27. Let me thank the 13 million americans who voted for the Political Revolution. [cheering] Bernie Sanders giving us the 1846 pledged delegates here tonight. [cheering] Bernie Sanders and delegates, thank you for being here and thank you for all the work you have done. [cheering] Bernie Sanders i look forward to your votes during the roll call tomorrow night. [cheering] [applause] Bernie Sanders and let me offer a special thanks to the people of my own state of vermont. [cheering] Bernie Sanders who have sustained me and supported me as a mayor, congressman, senator and president ial candidate. [cheering] Bernie Sanders and to my family, my wife jane, four kids and seven grandchildren, thank you very much. [cheering] Bernie Sanders i understand that many people here in this convention hall, and around the country, are disappointed about the final results of the nominating process. I think its fair to say that no one is more disappointed than i am. [cheering] [applause] Bernie Sanders but to all of our supporters here and around the country, i hope you take enormous pride in the historical accomplishments we have achieved. [cheering] Bernie Sanders together, my friends, we have begun a Political Revolution to transform america. Revolution, our revolution, continues. [cheering] Bernie Sanders election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the 1 . [cheering] Bernie Sanders a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial, and environmental justice, that struggle continues. [cheering] Bernie Sanders and i look forward to being part of that struggle with you. [cheering] Bernie Sanders let me be as clear as i can be. This election is not about, and has never been about, Hillary Clinton, or donald trump, or Bernie Sanders or any of the other candidates who sought the presidency. This election is not about political gossip. Its not about polls. Its not about campaign strategy. Its not about fundraising. Its not about all the things that the media spends so much time discussing. [cheering] Bernie Sanders this election is about, and must be about, the needs of the American People and the kind of future we create for our children and grandchildren. [cheering] Bernie Sanders this election is about ending the 40year decline of our middle class. [cheering] Bernie Sanders the reality that 47 million men, women and children live in poverty. It is about understanding that if we do not transform our economy, our Younger Generation will likely have a lower standard of living then their parents. This election is about ending the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality that we have in america today. [cheering] Bernie Sanders it is not moral, not acceptable and it is not sustainable that the top 1 10 of 1 now own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 . [booing] Bernie Sanders or that the top 1 in recent years has earned 85 of all new income. That is unacceptable. That must change. This election is about we were 7. 5where re years ago, when president obama came into office after eight years of republican trickledown economics. [cheering] Bernie Sanders the republicans want us to forget that as a result of the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior on wall street, our economy was in the worst economic downturn since the great depression. That is where we were. That is where we were. Some 800,000 people a month were losing their jobs. 800,000 people. We were running up a recordbreaking deficit of 1. 4 trillion. And by the way, the worlds Financial System was on the verge of collapse. That is where we were when president obama came into office. We have come a long way in the last 7. 5 years, and i thank president obama and Vice President biden. [cheering] Bernie Sanders i thank them for their leadership in pulling us out of that terrible recession. Yes, we have made progress, but i think we can all agree that much, much more needs to be done. [cheering] Bernie Sanders this election is about which candidate understands the real problems facing this country and has offered real solutions. [cheering] Bernie Sanders not just bombast, fearmongering, not just namecalling and divisiveness. We need leadership in this country which will improve the lives of working families, the children, the elderly, the sick and the poor. [cheering] Bernie Sanders we need leadership which brings our people together and makes us stronger. [cheering] Bernie Sanders not leadership which insults latinos, mexicans, insults muslims and women, africanamericans and veterans and seeks to divide us up. [cheering] Bernie Sanders by these measures, any objective observer will conclude that based on her ideas and her leadership, Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States. [cheering] the choice [cheering] this election, this election, this election is about a single mother i saw in nevada who, with tears in her eyes, told me that she was scared to death about the future because she and her daughter were not making it on the 10. 45 an hour she was earning. This election is about that woman and the millions of other workers in this country who are struggling to survive on totally inadequate wages. [cheering] Bernie Sanders Hillary Clinton understands that if someone in this country works 40 hours a week, that person should not be living in poverty. [cheering] Bernie Sanders she understands that we must raise the minimum wage to a living wage. [cheering] Bernie Sanders and she is determined to create millions of new jobs by rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, our roads, bridges, Water Systems and wastewater plants. [cheering] Bernie Sanders but her opponent, donald trump, well, he has a very different view. He does not support raising the federal minimum wage of 7. 25 an hour, a starvation wage. While donald trump believes in yuuuge tax breaks for billionaires, he believes that states should actually have the right to lower the minimum wage below 7. 25. Brothers and sisters, this election is about overturning Citizens United. [cheering] Bernie Sanders Citizens United is one of the Worst Supreme Court decisions in the history of our country. [cheering] Bernie Sanders that decision allows the wealthiest people in america, like the billionaire Koch Brothers [booing] Bernie Sanders to spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying elections and, in the process, undermine american democracy. [booing] Bernie Sanders Hillary Clinton will nominate justices to the Supreme Court who are prepared to overturn Citizens United. [cheering] and end thers Movement Toward oligarchy that we are seeing in this country. Our Supreme Court appointments will also defend a womans right to choose. [cheering] workers rights, the rights of the lgbt community. [cheering] Bernie Sanders the needs of minorities and immigrants, and the governments ability to protect our environment. Believe that this election is important, if you think you can sit it out, take a moment to think about the Supreme Court justices that donald trump would nominate. And what that would mean to civil liberties, equal rights, and the future of our country. This election is about the thousands of young people i have met all over this country. [cheering] Bernie Sanders the thousands that i have met who left college tragically,bt and the many others who cannot afford to go to college. During the primary campaign, secretary clinton and i both focused on this issue but with somewhat different approaches. We have comeever, together on a proposal that will revolutionize Higher Education in america. [applause] [cheering] it willanders guarantee that the children of any family in this ofntry with an annual income 125,000 a year or less, 83 of our population, will be able to go to a Public College or University Tuition free. [applause] [cheering] Bernie Sanders that proposal also substantially reduces student debt. [cheering] this election is about Climate Change, a great Environmental Crisis facing our planet. Worlde need to leave this in a way that is healthy and habitable for our children and future generations. [cheering] clintonanders hillary is listening to the scientists who tell us that unless we act boldly to transform our Energy System in the very near future, there will be more droughts, more floods, more acidification of the oceans, more rising sea levels. She understands that we can create hundreds of thousands of jobs transforming our Energy System. [applause] [cheering] trump,sanders donald like most republicans, he chooses to reject science. [booing] he believes that Climate Change is a hoax, no need to address it. Hillary clinton understands that a president s job is to worry about future generations, not the profits of the fossil fuel industry. [cheering] [applause] this campaign is about moving the United States toward universal health care. [cheering] and reducing the number of people who are uninsured or underinsured. Hillary clinton wants to see that all americans have the right to choose a public option in their health care exchange. [applause] [cheering] Bernie Sanders she believes that anyone 55 or older should be able to opt into medicare. See millions to more americans gain access to primary health care, dental care, Mental Health counseling, prescription drugs. A major expansion of Community Health centers. [cheering] Bernie Sanders what is Donald Trumps position on health care . No surprise there, same old republican content for working families. He wants to abolish the thro 20le care act, Million People off of Health Insurance. [booing] and cut medicaid for lower income americans. Understandston also that millions of seniors, and othersterans, are struggling with the outrageously high cost of prescription drugs. And the fact that americans pay the highest prices in the world for the medicine we use. She knows that medicare must negotiate drug prices with the pharmaceutical industry. [cheering] [applause] Bernie Sanders and that Drug Companies should not be making billions in profit when one out of five americans are unable to afford the medicine they need. The greed of the Drug Companies must end. [cheering] this election is about the leadership we need to pass comprehensive Immigration Reform and repair a broken criminal justice system. [cheering] Bernie Sanders it is about making sure that young people in this country are in good schools and in good jobs, not rotting in jail cells. [cheering] Hillary Clinton understands that we have to jobs for education and our young people, not more jails or incarceration. In these stressful times for our country, this election must be about bringing our people together, not dividing us up. [cheering] Bernie Sanders while donald trump is busy insulting one group after another, Hillary Clinton understands that our diversity is one of our greatest strengths. [cheering] [applause] yes, we haves become stronger we become stronger when black and white, latino, asian american, native american, when we all stand together. Yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay andstraight, nativeborn immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become. [cheering] it is no sees group that Hillary Clinton and i disagree on a number of issues. That is what this campaign has been about. That is what democracy is about. [applause] Bernie Sanders i am happy to tell you that at the democratic platform committee, there was a significant coming together andeen the two campaigns, we produced by far the most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party. [applause] [cheering] among many, many other strong provisions, the Democratic Party now calls for breaking up the major Financial Institutions on wall street. [applause] passageanders and the glasssteagallry act. It also calls for strong opposition to job killing trade agreements like the tpp. [applause] we sanders our job have got to make sure that tpp the not get to the floor of congress in the lameduck session. [cheering] [applause] our job now is to see that strong democratic platform implemented by a democratic controlled senate. [applause] Bernie Sanders by a Democratic House and a Hillary Clinton presidency. [cheering] Bernie Sanders and i am going make all that i can to that happen. [cheering] [applause] Bernie Sanders i have known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. I remember her as you do, as a great first lady who broke president in terms of the role that a first lady was supposed lead theas she helped fight for universal health care. [applause] Bernie Sanders i served with her in the United States senate and know her as a fierce advocate for the rights of children, for women, and for the disabled. [cheering] Bernie Sanders Hillary Clinton will make an outstanding president and i am proud to stand with her tonight. Thank you all very much. [cheering] [applause] republican president ial candidate donald trump tweeted this out during the Democratic Convention Bernie Sanders totally sold out to cricket Hillary Clinton. , andf that work, energy money, and nothing to show for it. Bernie sanders responded, never tweet. Sanders supporters began chanting his name during a low in the program. Al franken and Sarah Sanderson were on the stage. Here is what happened after that speech. Hillary. Y, hillary, say, can the bernie or bust people, you are being ridiculous. [cheering] you made me cut off my speech. I have so much i want to say. , listen, listen what you did. This is a comedian. This is the power of comedy. Thank god we are victims of both. We have been i want to thank you because sarah and i have been asked to stretch because we are about to introduce someone that we are both huge fans of. How are we doing, guys . Are we close . We will see. You know, sarah, what i love about as both being here is that , it is like we are a bridge. How do you figure that we are a bridge . You were for bernie, i am for hillary. We are like a bridge over troubled oh, good lord. The result of those comments last night, Washington Post politics tweeted this out. Former president bill clinton will take the stage tonight at the dnc in philadelphia. The Associated Press reports he will provide what aides are saying hit are his wifes lesserknown achievements as a Child Advocacy lawyer and her work as senator of new york. This will be bill clintons 10th consecutive convention address. That will be at 4 30 p. M. Eastern. You will have a front row seat to the dnc on cspan. Use our video clipping tool to create your own clips of your favorite convention moments and share them on social media. Also, read twitter feeds from delegates in philadelphia. Our Convention Pages have what you need to get the most of the gavel to gavel coverage. Information, to see what is happening in each convention session, and every speech will be available for viewing when you want. Our special Convention Pages and all of cspan. Org are a Public Service of your cable or satellite provider. Watcher,e a cspan check it out on the web at cspan. Org. The New York Times says first lady Michelle Obama delivered one of the most stirring speeches at the Democratic Convention last night. Here is what she said. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome first lady Michelle Obama. [cheering] honestly, i want to see you be brave i want to see you be brave just want to see you i want to see you be brave want to see you i want to see you be brave ms. Obama thank you, all. Thank you so much. You know it is hard to believe that it has been eight years since i first came to this convention to talk with you about why i thought my husband should be president. Remember how i told you about his character and conviction, thedecency and his grace, traits that we have seen every day that he serves our country in the white house . [cheering] ms. Obama i also told you about our daughters, how they are the heart of our hearts, the center of our world, and during our time in the white house we have had the joy of watching them grow from bubbly little girls to poised young women, a journey that started shortly after we arrived in washington when they set off for their first day at their new schools. I will never forget that winter morning as i watched our girls, just seven and 10 years old, heil into those black suvs with all of those big men with guns. I saw their little faces pressed up against the window, and the only thing i could think was, what have we done . [laughter] realized our time in the white house would form the foundation for who they would become and how well we managed the experience could truly make or break them. Thinks what barack and i about every day as we try to guide and protect our girls through the challenges of this unusual life in the spotlight. How we urge them to ignore those who question their fathers citizenship or faith. [cheering] insist thatow we the hateful language they hear from public figures on tv does not represent the true spirit of this country. [cheering] explain thatw we when someone is cruel or acts like a bully you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, we go high. [cheering] ms. Obama with every word we utter, we know our kids are watching us. We are our kids largest role model and we take the job seriously because we know that our words and actions matter not just to our girls, but the children across this country, tvs who tell us i saw you on , i wrote a report on you for school. Boy like the little black who looked up at my husband, his eyes wide with hope and he wondered, is my hair like yours . And make no mistake about it, this november when we go to the polls, that is what we are deciding. Not democrat or republican, not left or right. In this election and every election is about who will have the power to shape our children for the next four or eight years of their lives. [cheering] tonighta and i am here because in this election, there is only one person who i trust with that responsibility. Only one person who i believe is truly qualified to be president of the United States, and that is our friend, Hillary Clinton. [cheering] [applause] ms. Obama that is right. See, i trust hillary to lead this country because i have seen her lifelong devotion to our nations children, not just her own daughter who she has raised to perfection, but every child who needs a champion. Kids who take the long way to school to avoid the gang. Kids who wonder how they will ever afford college. Kids whose parents do not speak a word of english the dream of a better life. Kids who look to us to determine who and what they can be. Hillary has spent decades doing the relentless, thankless work to make a difference in their lives. [cheering] [applause] for kids advocating with disabilities as a young lawyer, fighting for Childrens Health care as first lady, and for Quality Childcare in the senate. When she did not win the nomination eight years ago, she did not get angry or disillusioned. [cheering] [applause] not pack hillary did , because as a true Public Servant, hillary knows that this is so much bigger than her own desires and disappointment. [cheering] [applause] ms. Obama so she proudly stepped up to serve our country once again as secretary of state, traveling the globe to keep our kids safe. Were plenty of moments when hillary could have decided that this work was too hard, that the price of Public Service was too high, that she was tired of being picked apart for how she looked, talked, or laughed. It here is the thing what admire most about hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. [cheering] [applause] and when i think about the kind of president that i want for my girls and all our children, that is what i want. I want someone with the proven persevere, someone who knows this job and takes it seriously, someone who understands that the issues a president faces are not black and white and cannot be boiled down to 140 characters. [cheering] [applause] because when you have the Nuclear Codes at your fingertips and the military in your command, you cannot make snap decisions. You cannot have a thin skin or tendency to lash out. You need to be steady and measured and well informed. [cheering] [applause] ms. Obama i want a president with a record of Public Service, work showsse lifes our children we do not face chase fame and fortune for ourselves but we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed. And we give back, even when we are struggling ourselves because we know that there is always someone worse off. President who will teach our children that everyone a this country matters, president who truly believes in the vision that our founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each part are a part of the beloved american story. When crisis hits, we do not turn against each other. We listen to each other. We lean on each other because we are always stronger together. [cheering] [applause] tonighta and i am here because i know that that is the kind of president that Hillary Clinton will be, and that is why in this election i am with her. [cheering] [applause] ms. Obama you see, hillary understands that the president is about one thing and one thing only. It is about leaving Something Better for our kids. That is how we have always moved this country forward by all of us coming together on behalf of our children. Folks who volunteered to coach that team, teach that sunday school class because they know it takes a village. Creed of every color and who wear the uniform and risk their lives to keep passing down those blessings of liberty. Police officers and protesters in dallas who all desperately want to keep our children safe. People who lined up in orlando to donate blood because it could have been their son, their daughter in that club. [cheering] [applause] leaders like tim kaine. [cheering] who show our kids what decency and devotion look like. Leaders like Hillary Clinton who have the guts and the grace to keep coming back and putting cracks in that hard as Glass Ceiling until she finally breaks through, lifting all of us along with her. That is the story of this country. The story that has brought me to this stage tonight. The story of generations of people who felt the lash of bondage, the shame of servitude, the staying of segregation, but who kept on striving and hoping and doing what needed to be done so that today, i wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves. [cheering] [applause] watched myand i daughters, two beautiful, intelligent black young women playing with their dog on the white house lawn. [cheering] [applause] and because of daughtersinton, my and all our sons and daughters now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States. [cheering] [applause] so do not so look, let anyone ever tell you that this country is not great. That somehow we need to make it great again, he does this right now is the greatest country on earth. [cheering] [applause] and as my daughters prepared to set out in the world, i want a leader that is worthy of that truth, a leader that is worthy of my girls promise, a leader that will be guided every day by the love and hope and impossibly big dreams that we all have for our children. So in this election, we cannot sit back and hope that everything works out for the best. We cannot afford to be tired or frustrated or cynical. Me, the between now and november we need to do what we did eight years ago and four years ago. [cheering] we need to knock on every door. We need to get out every vote. We need to pour every last ounce of our passion and our strength and our love for this country into electing Hillary Clinton as president of the United States of america. So lets get to work. Thank you all, and god bless. [cheering] [applause] at the 2016 Democratic National convention, Hillary Clinton becomes the first woman nominee of a Major Political party for president of the United States. Join cspan at 3 00 p. M. Eastern at a preview of the conventions events and speakers followed by coverage of every event at the convention. Speaker will be bill clinton. President obama and Vice President biden will speak. Chelsea clinton will introduce her mother before she accepts the nomination for president of the United States. The Democratic Convention begins at 3 00 today on cspan, the cspan radio app, and cspan. Org. Another series of protests and rallies as planned today arena. E wells fargo temperatures have been in the 90s in philadelphia but that has not stopped the demonstrations. Live pictures from the Wells Fargo Center. Gabby for is attending a rally for common sense guide legislation. Gone she was shot and a campaign. Ally in tucson john lewis is one of the politicians attending. Bernie sanders supporters gather around city hall. Talked with awe protest organizer about the weather outside the dnc despite the extreme heat. We are at the betsy ross house, just off of independent small joined by philadelphias most famous son, Benjamin Franklin. I want to ask you what you think of the Political Convention going on in this town. I find it very interesting. It is not something i am familiar with. I am familiar with Political Parties in england for my time there. It is an interesting gathering of people and it seems to be democracy at work. This is being covered by over 10,000 members of the media. Can you talk about the media in your day . The media in my day and i am guessing in yours, could change opinions. I will give you an example of the media in my day and tell you about our Constitutional Convention very briefly. In 1787 we met in the state house of pennsylvania to form a constitution and we had people come from all parts of the country with various views and interests. We decided we were going to meet in secret for months. We met in a close up statehouse where no media access was had. That is how we were able to get a constitution. I do believe had we had this analyzed in the press every day, that probably some people would have given up and gone home. Sothese days politicians are worried about their Favorability Ratings and how they are in the polls. Can you talk about the politician of your time and whether you think that anybody would be as worried as they are today about poll numbers and favorability . George washington i do not think would be worried because of who he was. John adams would have been concerned. John adams might be worried about his image but we are not worried about his image. I wonder if we could step away from Benjamin Franklin and talk to the man behind Benjamin Franklin. Bill roebling is my name. How long have you step have you studied to be Benjamin Franklin . 15certainly for the last years or so i have studied it intensely. I consider myself a serious student of history and Benjamin Franklin, and now a more passionate student. I have put in several thousand hours. I want to be able to speak as Benjamin Franklin and not necessarily how i think he would answer something. I want to speak as much as possible as franklin would speak because im trying to bring him to people. What is your favorite part of portraying Benjamin Franklin . First of all the respect he has, but also the respect i have for him. A man who was an innovator, a trying person, not only to invent things but to reinvent himself constantly. Are you portraying Benjamin Franklin for, what is your group . Today i am here representing the historic philadelphia incorporated, a Nonprofit Organization who brings free historical programming to people through storytellers, costume, entertainers and such. Bill roebling or ben franklin on the streets of the Democratic National convention. Thank you. Former president bill clinton will be on the stage tonight at the Democratic National convention in philadelphia, his 10th consecutive convention address. A Preview Program starts at 2 00 p. M. Eastern. Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren spoke to the Democratic National Convention Last night. She endorsed Hillary Clinton and thanked Bernie Sanders for energizing progressives. She also addressed the republican nominee donald trump. [cheering] sen. Warren thank you. I love that. Thank you. And thank you, massachusetts, for the great honor of serving as your senator. Thank you guys. [cheering] sen. Warren what a night. Wow. Michelle obama, cory booker. [cheering] sen. Warren and we still have bernie coming up. [cheering] sen. Warren bernie reminds us what democrats fight for every day. Thank you, bernie. [cheering] sen. Warren we are here tonight because america faces a choice. The choice of a new president. On one side, a man who inherited a fortune from his father and kept it going by teaching cheating people, by skipping out on debt. A man who has never sacrificed anything for anyone. A man who cares only for himself, every minute of every day. On the other side, its one of those smartest, toughest, most tenacious people on this planet, a woman who fights for children women, health care, human , rights. A woman who fights for all of us and who is Strong Enough to win those fights. [cheering] sen. Warren we are here today because our choice is Hillary Clinton. Im with hillary. [cheering] sen. Warren im with hillary. [cheering] sen. Warren for me, this choice is personal. It is about who we are as a people. It is about what kind of a country we want to be. I grew up in oklahoma. My daddy ended up as a maintenance man. My mom worked a minimum wage job at sears. My three brothers served in the military. The oldest was career, 288 combat missions in vietnam. The second, construction. The third started his own small business. I got married at 19, graduated from a commuter college in texas that cost 50 a semester. [cheering] sen. Warren the way i see it, im a janitors daughter became a Public School teacher, a professor and a United States senator. America is truly a country of opportunity. [cheering] sen. Warren im deeply grateful to that america. I believe in that america. But im worried. Im worried that my story is locked in the past. Worried that opportunity is slipping away for people who work hard and play by the rules. Look around. Americans bust their tail, some working two or three jobs. But wages stay flat. Meanwhile, the basic cost of making a monthtomonth keeps going up. Housing, health care, child care. The costs are out of sight. Young people are getting crushed by Student Loans. Working people are in debt. Seniors cant stretch a Social Security check to cover the basics and even families who are ok today worry that it could all fall apart tomorrow. This is not right. [cheering] sen. Warren it is not. Heres the thing, america is not going broke. The stock market is breaking records. Corporate profits are at alltime highs. Ceos make tens of millions of dollars. There is lots of wealth in america but it is not trickling down to hardworking families like yours. [cheering] sen. Warren does anyone here have a problem with that . [cheering] sen. Warren i do too people get it. The system is rigged. [cheering] sen. Warren it is true. Socalled experts claim america is in trouble because both Political Parties in washington refused to compromise. Gridlock. That is just flat wrong. [cheering] sen. Warren washington works great for those at the top. When giant Companies Want more tax loopholes, washington got it done. When huge energy Companies Wanted to tear up our environment, washington got it done. When an enormous wall street regulatoryd new loopholes, washington got it done. No gridlock there. But try to do something, anything for working people, you will have a fight on your hands. Democrats have taken on those fights. That is what we do. [cheering] sen. Warren democrats fought to get Health Insurance for more americans. Democrats fought for a strong consumer agencies so big banks cannot cheat people. We improve the lives of millions of people. Thank you, barack obama. [cheering] yes, we won sen. Warren yes, we won but republicans and lobbyists battled us every step of the way. Five years later, that Consumer Agency has returned 11 billion to families who were cheated. Republicans, they are still trying to kill it. Im not someone who thinks that republicans are always wrong and democrats are always right. There is enough blame to go around. But there is a huge difference between people fighting for a level Playing Field and the people fighting to keep the system rigged. [cheering] sen. Warren look at congress. Since the republicans took over. Democrats propose refinancing Student Loans. And republicans said no. Democrats proposed ending tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs overseas. And republicans, they said no. Democrats opposed raising the minimum wage and republicans, they said no. So to every republican in congress who said no, this november, the American People are coming for you. [cheering] sen. Warren that is right. [cheering] sen. Warren and where was donald trump in all of these fights . Not once did he lift a finger to help working people. And why would he . His whole life has been about taking advantage of that rigged system. Time after time, he preyed on working people people in debt. People that fell on hard times. Rauded them all and he has ripped them off. Look at his history. Donald trump said he was excited for the 2008 housing crash that devastated millions of americans because he thought it would help him scoop up more real estate on the cheap. Donald trump set up a Fake University to make money by teaching people and taking their life savings. Donald trump goes on and on and on about being a successful filedssman, but he business bankruptcy six times always to protect his own money , and stick the investors and contractors with the bills. Donald trump hired construction workers and painters to do hard labor for his businesses and then he told them to take a fraction of what they are owed and fight the lawyers in courts for years. What kind of a man acts like that . What kind of a man roots for an caused rash that cost millions of people their jobs, their homes, their life savings . What kind of a man cheats students and investors and workers . I will tell you what kind of a man. A man who must never be president of the United States. [cheering] sen. Warren never. [cheering] sen. Warren and weve got the leaders to make it happen. Hillary clinton and tim kaine. [cheering] they are going to make it happen. Donald trump knows that the American People are angry. A fact so obvious he can see it from the top of the trump tower. So now, he is insisting that he, and he alone can fix the rigged system. Last week, donald trump spoke for more than an hour on the biggest stage he has ever had, but other than talking about building a stupid wall, which will never get built [laughter] [cheering] sen. Warren other than that wall, did you hear any actual ideas . No sen. Warren did you hear even one solid proposal from trump to increase income or improving your kids education . Or creating even one single good paying job . Lets face it, donald trump has no real plans for jobs or for college kids were seniors. No plans to make anything great for anyone except rich guys like donald trump. Just look at his ideas. Donald trump wants to get rid of the federal and minimum wage federal minimum wage. Donald trump wants to roll back financial regulations and turn wall street loose to wreck our economy again. It donald trump has a tax plan that gives multimillionaires and billionaires like himself an average tax cut of 1. 3 million a year. If you are struggling to put your kids through college and donald trump thinks he needs a milliondollar tax break. His entire campaign is just one more latenight trump infomercial. Hand over your money, your job, your childrens future and that great trump hot air machine will reveal all the answers. [cheering] and for one low, low price he will even throw in a goofy hat. [laughter] sen. Warren and here is the real ugly underside to his pitch. Trump thinks he can win votes by fanning the flames of fear and hatred. By turning neighbor against neighbor. By persuading you that the real problem in america is your fellow americans. People who do not look like you or who do not talk like you or who do not worship like you. He even pick the Vice President famous for trying to make it legal to openly discriminate against gays and lesbians. [booing] that is Donald Trumps america. And america here and hate. An america where we break apart. White against blacks and latinos. Christians against muslims and jews. Straight against gay. Everyone against immigrants. Race, religion, heritage, gender, the more factions the better. But ask yourself this, when white workers in ohio are pitted against black workers in North Carolina or latino workers in florida, who really benefits . Divide and conquer is an old story in america. Dr. Martin luther king knew it. After his march from selma to montgomery, he spoke about how segregation was created to keep people divided. Instead of higher wages for workers, dr. King described how poor whites in the south were fed jim crow which told of poor white worker that no matter how bad off you are, at least he was a white man better than the black man. Racial hatred was part of keeping the powerful on top. [cheering] sen. Warren when we turn on bankers can run our economy from wall street. Oil companies can fight off clean energy. Giant corporations can ship the last good jobs overseas. When we turn on each other, rich guys like trump can push through more tax breaks for themselves and then we will never have enough money to support our schools, or rebuild our highways futures. In our kids when we turn on each other, we cant unite to fight back against a rigged system. [cheering] sen. Warren but ive got news for donald trump, the American People are not falling for it. [cheering] sen. Warren we have seen this ugliness before and we are not going to be Donald Trumps hate filled america, not now, not ever. [cheering] this is about our values. About our shared values with our candidate Hillary Clinton and tim kaine. [cheering] sen. Warren lets talk about those values. We believe that no matter who you are, no matter where you are from, no matter who you love, equal means equal. Hillary will fight to make sure discrimination has no place in america and we are with her. [cheering] sen. Warren we believe that no one, no one who works fulltime should live in poverty. Hillary will fight for raising the minimum wage, fair scheduling paid family and , medical leave and we are with her. [cheering] sen. Warren we believe every kid in america should have a chance for a great education without getting crushed by debt. Hillary will fight for refinancing Student Loans and debt free college. We are with her. [cheering] sen. Warren and we believe that after a lifetime of hard work, seniors should be able to retire with dignity. Hillary will fight to expand Social Security, strengthen medicare, and protect our retirement accounts and we are , with her. [cheering] sen. Warren we believe that Oil Companies should not call the shots in washington. That science matters, that Climate Change is real. [cheering] sen. Warren hillary will fight to preserve this earth for our children and grandchildren and we are with her. [cheering] sen. Warren we believe, and i cant believe i have to say this in 2016, in equal pay for equal work and a womans right to control over her own body. Hillary will fight for women and we are with her. [cheering] sen. Warren we believe we dont need weaker rules on wall street. We need stronger rules and when big banks get too risky, break them up. Hillary will fight to hold big banks accountable and we are with her. [cheering] believe thatand we the United States should never trade deals that help corporations but leave workers in the dirt. Hillary will fight for American Workers and we are with her. [cheering] sen. Warren ok. And just one more, just one more. We believe we must get big money out of politics and root out corruption. [cheering] sen. Warren hillary will fight to overturn Citizens United and return this government to the people. [cheering] sen. Warren if you believe that america must work for all of us,ot just for the rich and power if you believe we must reject the politics of fear and division, if you believe that we are stronger together, then lets work our hearts out to make Hillary Clinton the next president of the United States. Thank you. Thank you. [cheering] we are about an hour and a half away from our pregame for tonights dnc program. Abby philip of the Washington Post is looking ahead and tweets out an update tonight. Clinton, sanders camps and talks to give him a larger role tonight. Sen. Sanders and unexpectedly at remarks at the florida delegation breakfast held at the 20 16th Democratic National convention. He encouraged folks to vote for Hillary Clinton in november. Bernieome, senator sanders, what a fabulous speech last night endorsing Hillary Clinton for president. [cheering] sen. Sanders sorry to interrupt you. Good morning, florida. Well, thank you very much for allowing me to barge in with my wife, jane, and my son. She keeps getting a bigger and better response than i do. We did not do particularly well in florida, but i want to thank all of you who were there with us. Thank you very much. And now, whether you supported me or secretary clinton, we all know what our task is. That is to make sure that donald trump is not elected president of the United States. I know obviously, as the center, lots of republicans and i have friends who are republicans. I want to tell you that donald trump is something very different. Its not that he does not want to raise the minimum wage. Its not that he doesnt believe in Climate Change. Once to that he give hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to the rich. That is what republicans believe. This man has the unique feature that not all republicans share by any means. That is that he is a demagogue, a bully, and somebody who does not believe in the constitution of the United States. [booing] sen. Sanders and i want you all to think about what it means for the future of this country if we were to elect somebody like donald trump as president. ,t would be a very sad divisive, and dismal future for our country. Our job in a difficult moment is to bring people together, not divide us up. [cheering] job is tors our understand that Climate Change is real and to transform our Energy System, not say that Climate Change is a hoax. [cheering] sen. Sanders our job is to expand Social Security. [cheering] job is to moveur this nation toward health care for all as a right. [cheering] joinsanders our job is to it and the rest of the world in passing legislation for paid medical and family leave. With thes to deal immorality of the level of income and wealth inequality that exists in america today. That is what weve got to do. Ideologyw, given the of the Republican Party, which is an ideology that works for the rich and the powerful against the middle class and working families, the truth is that republicans do not win elections. Democrats lose elections. We lose elections when people give up on the political process and do not vote. 2014 when 63 of the American People did not vote and 80 of young people did not vote. It seems to be in the next few months is to do some very obvious things. Number one we have got to elect Hillary Clinton as the next president of the United States. [cheering] weanders number 2 have got to stay focused on the most important issues. It is not just about electing candidates. It is about transforming the country. [cheering] media does nothe like talking about the real issues, but that is what the American People want to hear discussion about. They want us to create millions of jobs rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. Sure thatus to make Public Colleges and universities in this country are tuition free. [cheering] sen. Sanders stay focused on the issues. Get ordinary people and young people involved in the political process. What we are in the process of doing right now is transitioning our campaign into an organization that is going to encourage young people to get involved in politics. [cheering] sen. Sanders to run candidates at the school board level and the city council level. [cheering] the Political Revolution has begun and it will continue. [applause] i want to thank all of you who supported me and those who supported secretary clinton for your doing something that too few americans are now doing, and that is getting involved in a Democratic Political cros process. [applause] sen. Sanders all right, we have made a great start. Lets go forward. Let us select secretary clinton. Let us transform this country. Thank you very much. [cheering] how cool is this . The cspan bus stop in philadelphia, pennsylvania to ask people about this weeks Democratic Convention and issues most important to them in the 2016 presents a race. President ial race. The most important issue to me facing our country today is gun control, because too many people who have access to guns shouldnt have access to guns and that makes me very unsafe. Im a state senator in montgomery and delaware county. I met my eighth convention because im a huge history buff. I love to be a part of history and witness what is going on. Im here representing hillary, which i think is awesome and inspiring. Knowing the stakes in this election, i know it is important to participate in every stage of the game. Looking forward to a great week. We will see all there. Im a 19yearold College Student and im elected as a delegate for Hillary Clinton in the city of brotherly love, filled up. Filled off you. Philadelphia. In six grade, i sat on the sidelines, but now i am ready to elect a true leader and that is hilly clinton. My name is kim weaver and im the congressional canada from iowas fourth congressional district. Some of you may have heard of my opponent, and thats why i am here today. I want to be able to show the rest of the world that iowans are more concerned about finding solutions and then creating division. We want to look at solutions for student debt reform, medicaid for seniors, as well as security for all families. Thank you. Im bob, a delegate representing west valley city, utah. I ran to be a delegate. I believe that government should work for the poor and the common people. I decided to become a delegate this year because i want us to fight for those, the little people, and i want to make sure that utah had a voice in the democratic process. Voices from the road on cspan. And that is a look at the philadelphia skyline from outside the Wells Fargo Center in philadelphia. It is the site of the dnc this week. Getting a look at the sights and sounds from around the facility as attendees prepare to attend the activities tonight. Hillary Clintons Campaign says tonights campaign will make history. Its the first time a Majority Party will nominate a female president ial candidate. The Senior Adviser says the evening will focus on bill clinton story and the fight for her life. Clinton herself will be watching the festivity, including the speech from former president will clinton, and her home in new york. Bernie sanders delegates will be allowed to cast votes for him during a roll call tonight. Bill clinton will be the featured speaker tonight at the dnc. Coverage begins at four clock in eastern and the Preview Program starts at 2 30 p. M. Eastern here on cspan. This morning, we talk with a reporter covering the convention , giving us a sense of what is expected tonight. Host live back on Independence Mall in center city, philadelphia, we are now joined laura olson. Lot of talk and praise for Michelle Obama for her speech last night. Guest they were passing out signs that said michelle and the crowd really loved her. After a really rocky beginning to the afternoon with the Bernie Sanders supporters, who have been shouting bernie every time secretary clintons name had been mentioned at the beginning of the afternoon schedule, and by the time the first lady got up there, things had settled down a little bit. She got a really strong response from the room. Host are we going to see a revival of that today . The conflicts . Guest tonight will have the rollcall vote of the state. They will be going roun around one by one to cast their votes and that is actually why were here. As Bernie Sanders said last night in his speech, he is looking forward to the rollcall votes that he will be getting. He will a number of votes from the delegates here. Be getting quite a number of votes from the delegates here. We will see what the mood is. Pennsylvania Center Supporters we were talking with yesterday, a fair number of them have come around and said, you know what . Were going to look at the options here. If Hillary Clinton is going to be the nominee, im going to go to that direction. I cannot support donald trump. There are some others who are really not ready to make that transition yet. Host as we continue our conversation in philadelphia about the Democratic National convention, the phone numbers are on the screen divided by political affiliation democrats, republicans, independents. We will take your calls for laura olson in just a few minutes. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and all of the pomp around that, is that over as well . Guest it feels like it. It does not seem like it was something delegates were talking about yesterday. To a certain extent, it seemed to be the latest evidence with the concerns that these folks have had in terms of how the primary process played out. Some concerns have gone deeper, but it was the latest evidence of what they had been feeling as the primary process continued. Now that she has announced her resignation and was not on stage last night, we will see if that actually begins to trickle out of the conversations weve had with delegates. Host we learned yesterday that there is a 2 00 p. M. Plan rally protest. Is that still happening . Guest i believe so. We have seen a lot of protests or demonstrations over the last couple days. Theres definitely a feeling of passion and enthusiasm out here on the streets. Wentefore Bernie Sanders on yesterday, there was a lot of activity outside the Convention Center excuse me, the Wells Fargo Center as well yesterday. Even if sen. Sanders not be getting the nomination, there is with some concern what people. Would like to see changed. The superdelegate changes did not go as far as his supporters wanted. There is discussion about how the Party Platform has become more progressive and some of the concerns were included in there. They want to make sure those things are not being forgotten or overlooked. Host laura olson, however pennsylvania democrat feeling about how are pennsylvania democrats feeling about hosting conventions in november . Guest we had to philadelphia congressman come out last night and they said, welcome to my city, and welcome to my district. Brady was very excited and influential in bringing the convention to philadelphia. We also saw democratic senator bob casey take the stage last night. He gave a pretty hearty criticism of donald trump and his business practices, talking about the economic strengths of Hillary Clintons policy proposals. He got in a few philadelphia plugs as well. They are pretty excited to be here. Host senator casey, government for his father was a very strong prolife democrat. Is senator casey also prolife . Is that an issue . Guest he is, but he has also made a transition on several issues as well as ongoing gun control. We definitely saw a policy transition on that where he is more in line with where other parts of the party have become, especially after the sandy hook shooting. We saw him say, you know what . We do need to make some changes, and that was a pretty dramatic shift for him. This is a state that favors gun rights in a lot of ways. He has gone through a transition. Host what was your experience down at wells fargo yesterday . Guest it was a pretty exciting room. I was in cleveland last week and there was a lot of emotion and a lot of anger from the crowd last week. This week, there was some anger as well. Some of the supporters of senator sanders are not happy yet with how things are going. They need to kind of go through the process on their own. Theres also a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of excitement, especially when the first lady came out, and even more so when senator sanders came on an address the crowd. Host do you see any parallels between the trumpcruz situation and the sandersclinton situation . Guest when senator cruz came out last week, there was a lot of there was a welcome for him at first and then once it became clear that he was not going to do and endorsed donald trump, the room took on a very different tone. The was a lot of shouting and chanting that grew there. Was senator sanders, he has come out and very vocally endorsed secretary clinton. He repeated that to his delegates ahead of his speech last night. Host he got some booze for that boos for that. Guest it is a parallel situation, but not exactly the same. He is much more forceful and saying that it is a contrast between the two candidates. There is a clear choice here for you to go and senator cruz is not been willing to do that. Host day two of the Convention Begins at 4 30 p. M. Eastern time. What are you looking forward to tonight . Guest clearly the big speaker tonight is former president bill clinton. He has the potential to be the first first man. It will be fun to see how the cre crowd reacts to him and , how he message is pitches secretary clinton in terms of the evenings overall themes. This want to be a lot of focus on secretary clintons track record when it comes to children and families. A lotl probably hear about her childrens fund. The role probably be appearances from the mothers of the movement , a group of women whose children were killed after interactions with Police Officers. Host including Trayvon Martins mother, right . Guest yes. It is a group that has appeared a number of them have appeared in philadelphia with secretary clinton before during the primaries. They have been fairly involved in her campaign. You have heard a number of emotional stories from them. Host where is allentown, pa . Guest north of philadelphia, just up for 76, halfway between here and sprin scranton. Host how far is that . Guest the pens on traffic, but probably an hour or so. Host laura olson is a washington correspondent with the allentown morning call. The first call comes from jack. Caller thanks for taking my call. I love cspan. I wanted to respond to a previous caller and made a really good point. He said the republican specifically, but Political Parties are starting to value their own power over the general welfare of the country. That is a really good point. Our Founding Fathers predicted that political factions would eventually devolve to the point where they cared more about themselves and maintaining their power instead of the general welfare of the country. I think we are starting to get to that point. I watched the Republican Convention and i watched the Democratic Convention last night and im a little worried because i am seeing a trend start to increase on both sides where people are starting to get their emotions involved and people are reasoning with emotions. Thats not good. Purpose of government is to enact, enforce, and interpret law. Withare supposed be dealt reason and not with emotion. Host lets leave it there. Let us see what laura olson wants to add. Guest a being that we have heard from both sides of the the parties are rate and that the primaries have not gone in a way that was fair and equitable to the voters. We have heard from both democrats and republicans that there are some rule changes that need to happen. Yet inhering about superdelegates here and phil duffy appeared you have inhering about superdelegates here in philadelphia and voters in cleveland that things were not going well on their side of the aisle either. We are seeing some pretty strong showings for third parties this year. There are some folks out there that share that concern this year. Host dalton in daphne, alabama, democrats line. Caller can you hear me ok . Host please go ahead, yes. Caller in my opinion, as far as going for president , im not going for trump. The big reason being that you like theust the guy guy from florida, my neighbor state said. You cannot trust the guy who cannot show his tax returns. If youre going to end up trusting someone for president , you at least have to see where all their money is either going or coming from. I think that hillary is going to be our best choice. Yes, she has made some bad choices, but she is the only right person for the job in my opinion. Host laura olson, anything to add to that . Guest i think trust is a big issue with the candidates this year. Were here and a lot of contrast the between the two of this desk we are clearing a lot of contrast between the two of these candidates. The rehearing whether Hillary Clinton was someone you could we are hearings whether Hillary Clinton with someone you can trust because of her background. That is something that we will typically hear from republicans this year. Host when you talk to delegates, what is their enthusiasm level . We have heard from a lot of lers this morning who have expressed a more antidonald trump you then proHillary Clinton. Have that is where we more democrats become more enthusiastic because of the contrast that they are seeing at the top of the ticket this year. It is not just about Hillary Clinton. Some of them have been Hillary Clinton supporters since 2008 and were pretty devastated when she was not able to make it across the finish line that year. Now theyre looking at the choice and that is definitely driving them. Host jack and providence, rhode island, republican line. Go ahead, jack. Caller good morning. Im calling not about the previous caller, but the one before the previous caller who made valid points about people within the Political Parties valuing their own interest as opposed to the interest of the people, and i will use my words, the strength of the nation. I was a tread cruise a ted cruz supported. Of really guy a brilliant guy, but he can rub people the wrong way because hes a little rigid. Alabamas going to go to trump. Its in the bag for trump. This election is one to be decided by three states pennsylvania, ohio, in florida. I think florida being the key. What trump has got going for him is a lot of people do not talk about and i think its jealousy. The man has unbelievable stamina. Heres a guy who is 70 years old. I am four years older than him. He is 70 years old and the guy is pretty much around the clock. Host jack, thanks for calling. Laura olson, the election is going to be decided according to jack in pennsylvania, ohio, and florida. Lets talk about your state. It seems to really be in play at this point. Guest pennsylvania has gone with the democratic candidate in presence of elections in everyone since 1988. Thats the last time they went for a republican candidate. Thats a pretty strong streak for the democratic side, particularly due to philadelphia where voter turnout and the heavy democratic area goes through the roof in president ial election years. That will be a factor again. At the same time, we are seeing the closest poles in a president ial race that we havent sometime. Have in some time. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton have switched a very narrow lead in the last clinic yet polls quinnipiac polls. This will be a close race. The Truck Campaign and the campaign will spend a lot of time here and a lot of resources. For the democratic side, its less of a must win state because thei there are other avenues where she can pick up let twirl votes due to where states are leaning, but it is a must win on the republican side. Host the next call comes from tony in fort worth on the democrats line. You are on the air. Caller good morning, miss olson. How are you doing . Guest im doing well. Caller i voted in the last 10 president ial primaries and general elections. Im never going to vote again for anybody, because i believe that Hillary Clinton was the presumptive nominee when she resigned her term as secretary of state after president obamas first term. I think at that time she became the presumptive nominee. When she did announce that she was running, the vast majority of the sope superdelegates went to her and never changed hands. No matter how many states Bernie Sanders one, though superdelegates never changed hands. There was never serious competition for misses clinton in the primary race. Where was john kerry . Kerry . As where was the Vice President , biden . We have not had a serious democratic candidate. We had Bernie Sanders, an independent, and he did better than anybody thought he would. That is why im never voting again. Host that is tony in fort worth. Guest thats a pretty representative comment that we have heard from some of the sander supporters here, saying that this is how the primary process was set up and that there was a clear favorite and that the rules were in place for the clear favorite to remain the clear favorite. The superdelegates and elected officials and other Party Figures are not bound to any particular candidate went with clinton and gave her a lead in the delegate race that senator sanders was never able to overcome. , saying to make a pitch some of those folks could change their mind and could of change their mind, but they did end up staying with secretary clinton and that is where we are today. Host michael in little rock, arkansas. Caller good morning. Thank you very much, first of all, for a fantastic neutral show. It is very refreshing with how polarized everything has been to be able to see peoples opinions the way that i can with washington journal. To make ad like before i have my questions, which is very brief. For your running question this morning on why hillary, now i am a bernie supporter. All the polls that ive seen hillary answering why has been essentially not with very much depth. It is been a lot of repetition of the same reasons, which have appeared to be predominantly talking points that ive seen on how they are against lost andthat Bernie Hillary won. All of these things we know. Ive not heard any talk about policy. Ive not heard original reflection. Host i think we got the point, michael. Can you move on to your question for our guest . Do you have a question . Caller absolutely. I wanted to know if she has any knowledge regarding what is going to be happening with minority reports. Are those going to be put in to cover issues that were voted on for the platform and did not make it in, particular for the tpp . And then for the rollcall, apparently that has been moved to this mornings breakfast outside of the convention and will no longer be televised. The results will be announced. I was hoping for some insight on that. Host all right, thank you very much, michael. First of all, the rollcall being moved. Guest that is not something ive heard about at this point. Host that would be kind of a huge guest that is very unusual. Regardless of whether the nomination has been as contested and exciting as this one has been, the rollcall is a traditional part of the convention process. Even when almost all the states are going to go to a clear candidate and theres not another candidate, they still do the ceremonial rollcall. That is a part of the convention process and why the delegates are here to formally cast those votes. Actually in 2008, we saw that rollcall process go through and then saw secretary clinton. Host we had a counter on cspan. Guest as for the minority reports, that is something i have to check on. Ive not heard a lot of discussion about those during last nights proceedings. Host surely is in new castle, pennsylvania, republican line. You are on the air. Caller thank you so much for taking my call. I love to watch cspan. Ok, after yesterday, the whole badd sees how deceitful and the Democratic Party is here in the United States. This is an absolute shame. Z should nott only resigned from being chairman, she should completely resign and go home. After what all happened yesterday, and i give bernie a go alongedit, i dont with him because hes a socialist and thats not going to work with the United States, but at least hes getting behind the party and i give him a lot of credit for that. You know what . This country has had enough of the lying, the sneaking, the conniving, the scheming. We have had enough. We have to do something about it and the only thing we can do is vote for donald trump and at least give him a chance to see if he can turn some of this terrible, terrible mess around. Thank you so much. Host laura olson . Week we heard a lot last in cleveland along those lines of secretary clintons background and that during her andre of secretary of state other periods of her life that she has not proven to be trustworthy. She has some concern aspects and it seems like the email situation with the democratic ofional committee has kind added to some of those concerns for folks. Host what is the situation economically, socially in allentown . Guest allentown has gone through a little bit of a resurgence right now. We just had a minorleague hockey arena open up and getting a little more activity downtown. There is a state tax incentives set up down there that allows for a little more development to come back. You are seeing more people walking downtown streets and restaurants. Its exciting for a region that was hard hit when the steal industry took a dip. Host are there any steal plants left . Guest at the moment, not really. Host whos the biggest employer . Who are some of the largest ones . Guest we have a thriving medical tax device industry. We have a look this make some of those things. You may not think about this when you had to the doctors office. Interstate 78, theres a lot of warehousing activities there. Amazon has a couple of warehouses. Its a good place to be moving things to and through to get to the northeast and back down along the eastern seaboard. Host betty in davenport, florida, independent line. We are listening. Caller how are you today . Im an independent. Think, with a marked on each one of my hips. D and the other was a c. My mother was a democrat and my father was a diehard republican. Im going through something which no one should have to go through. My grandson is 37 years old. His dad died when he was 49 and he ensured his disease. 12 years ago, they put a pacemaker and defibrillator and and him. He has been good for the 12 years, but you can never get insurance. Three months ago, he was able to get on the Affordable Care act in michigan. Two months ago, here nearly died. He turned blue and he was put in the University Hospital in lansing. His disease is so rare that theres only three doctors in the whole world that can do the surgery. One is from egypt. Host we appreciate your story and certainly sympathize. Where are you going with this . What is the question that you want to tie into politics . Caller there are so many reasons there are some of the reasons that i would like to talk about other things. Unless you are involved in Something Like the Affordable Care act and what michigan has had to do because they cannot pay for a doctor and mayo clinic in minnesota, and what my daughter at 64 has had to go through to get her son. Today im waiting because the surgery as tomorrow. All that theye were going to pay for. He was not able to fly. She had to drive from 10 hours. Host thank you for calling in from davenport, florida, and sharing your story with us. When it comes to the democratic platform, when it comes to the speeches, when it comes to some of the themes, is the aca being talked about here or in cleveland . Guest it is not something we heard about, unless im forgetting last night, but we havent heard it mentioned yet. Im sure weing will hear about on president barack obama takes the stage. Is a signature part of his administration, but it has also had some flaws. I think politicians on both sides of the aisle have not been too shy about pointing out. We have heard last week, saying that when donald trump as president , you will be able to pick your doctor again. There have been some pretty strong critiques about how the program has worked. Democrats also have had some concerns about it and mentioned the medical device tax. There are concerns ranging from the accessibility of the Health Care Programs and also to how to pay for it. Even democrats like senator bob casey were saying we need to tweak some things and have a structure for paying for the program. There are some other ways to update the law to try to make it work a little more smoothly, especially as we have seen some of the premiums go up. Host laura olson with the allentown morning call, makes for stopping by and chatting with our viewers. It has been hot in philadelphia, but that has not stopped the various demonstrations outside the dnc. This is where many of the protesters are meeting on the second day of the Democratic Convention. Sandersndred of bernie backers met up at city hall and met up with groups decrying police and justice. Theyre going to move to the Wells Fargo Center where the convention has taken place. Hell no, dnc. We wont vote for hillary. [chanting] hell no, dnc. We wont vote for hillary. Hell no, th dnc. We wont vote for hillary. [indiscernible] some of the early arrivals at the Bernie Sanders rally said they were not swayed by his speech monday night where he said based on her ideas and leadership that Hillary Clinton must become the next president of United States and the choice is not even close. This morning, we spoke with one of the protest organizers. Host we are back live in philadelphia at the Democratic National convention. Someone else here at the dnc is a gentleman named kai newkirk, who is part of democracy spring, which is what . Democracy spring is a nonviolent Grassroots Movement that is fighting to end the corruption of politics and guaranteeing the right of all to vote in fair and free elections. Host what happened to you yesterday . Along withs arrested probably around 53 other people that did a protest. We marched from connie plaza in philadelphia down to the Wells Fargo Center with the dnc is meeting to bring our demand to the Democratic Party that they live up to their name and commit to fight to pass fundamental democracy reform in the first 100 days of a new administration if elected and prove their commitment to democracy by immediately demolishing superdelegates could if the. If they did not do so, we said we would commit civil disobedience. We went and block that area and sat in nonviolently. Police came and surrounded the area. We wanted to ensure that we can bring our message to the party and going to nonviolently and peacefully crawl through the police barrier. After some time and tension there, a few of us were able to do so. More and more were arrested by the police and held for some hours and released last night. Host when you say you were held, where were you taking . En . Guest we were put in a small patty wagon at first. And then a big bus. The bus was taken to a local station and processed. We were held for several hours. A lot of people were dehydrated. My phone is classic personally numb. This is civil disobedience that has made all kinds of progress from women suffrage, to the civil rights movement, told the Labor Movement all across the board. We feel this is a serious question for a country that is democracy going to work for all or plutocracy for the few . You are going to commit to do whatever it takes to make this the last corrupt billionaire dominated, photo suppression that were going to have to go through. Host how would you describe your treatment by the police . Guest by the large, they were kind and respectful. Some of the folks who were really getting hot and really dehydrated and thirsty, they gave a little water and get a raid to. Some are a little rougher and tougher if they are frustrated about what is going on. Our fight is not with them. I was saying to the police that you should join us tomorrow and they should stand on the side of the people for democracy spring, black lives matter, acrosstheboard we need change. Our fight and our message is to the Democratic Party and to the presumptive nominee and to the Party Leadership that they need to publicly pledge that they will fight to pass fundamental democracy reform that is Voting Rights and protections fundingnsions, voting elections, and to overturn Citizens United. We have seen some concessions in recent days and weeks and we welcome that. We think that is progress. We will not accept anything less than leadership to ensure a democracy for all they are elected and what support in this election. We are clear about donald trump. He is a racist, and a racist, neofascist, strong man who does not have solutions to the issues we have in our system. We are pushing the Democratic Party and we are not going to let them off the hook. We need them to step up, especially at this time, and live up to their name and let us know that theyre going to deliver the change that this is the last election that frustrates so many people with the feeling that our voices are not equal. Host what was the solution like . Guest the solutions are on the table. Host what was the process like to have a marching permit and what are the protest areas that have been set aside like . Guest theyve got some freedom cages as we call them, areas and fdr park where there are 75 free speech zones, which we think is an oxymoron. It was a march for Marconi Plaza , which was largely shut off to vehicular traffic as part of the changes they have made for the convention to be happening. We do not go through the process to get a permit. We just exercise the permit of the First Amendment to march down peacefully and nonviolently. We took over that area and then crossed over the barrier. This is something that everyday people can do. I imagine many of your listeners and viewers agree with us that we settle one person and onevote democracy in which the voices of everyday people cant just as much as every billionaire. They should join with us at democracy spring on facebook or twitter. They can come out and be a part of what we are doing at the dnc every evening. We are doing training for people to prepare and participate in nonviolent civil disobedience. It is people power that cannot be taken away and that is how movements when change. Host tell us about yourself. Guest i grew up in west virginia. My parents my dad was a carpenter and my mom worked in childcare. They moved from the d. C. Area in their youth as part of the lander movement and planted some seeds in me some real values of respect for land and community service. They split up when i was young and went through a lot of changes in our family. Organizingiscovered towards late in high school and college. I felt like this was a way that i could step up and Carry Forward and Carry Forward a lot of the dreams that my parents had and respond to people that were hurting and their lives in ways that i felt like we had in my family. The more ive learned about Nonviolent Community action over the course of 16 or so years that i have been part of it, i cannot really show up for people as a brother, as an uncle come in for the people that i love just by being there to them in individual lives, it has to be part of the movement that is fighting and working to change and better our society to make it so people can fulfill their dreams and aspirations. Right now, im based in d. C. And officially still live in l. A. Im devoted to organizing this fulltime because i think the crisis we face as a nation and the planet with Climate Change, deportation, nas mass incarceration, we cannot solve them fully in the timeframe we need with urgency unless we and big money in our politics and ensure we have a democracy for the government. We need tools so that progress and reform are not blocked by people with money to interest who want the status quo. It is an honor to be a part of this movement and dissipate in this change and participate in this change. Host again, mr. Newkirk, when is the next march . How can people get a hold of you . Guest democracy spring. Org. Follow us on facebook and twitter. We are gathering at 2 30 p. M. At Marconi Plaza to rally. Shortly after, we will head down to the Wells Fargo Center. Its a nonviolent carry of our message forward and we will bring our demands to the Democratic Party. You will not settle anything less than leadership and give elections that give us all a free and equal voice. Solutions are on the table and theres Movement Toward them, but we need it to be top priority and fight to get it done. Is here inewkirk philadelphia and explained what he is doing. Thanks for being with us on washington journal. You have a front row seat to every minute of the Democratic National convention on cspan. Org. Watch live streams of the Convention Proceedings without commentary or commercials. Use our video clipping tool to create your own clips of your favorite convention moments and share them on social media. Also, read twitter feeds from delegates and reporters in filled up you. Our special Convention Pages have everything you need to get the most of cspans gaveltogavel coverage. Go to cspan. Org Democratic National convention for updated Schedule Information to see what is happening during each convention session. Every speech will be available on demand for viewing when you want on your desktop, laptop, tablet, and smartphone. Our special Convention Pages and all of cspan. Org our Public Service of your cable or satellite provider. If you are a cspan watcher, check it out on the web at cspan. Org. You want to know that our live coverage of the Convention Today starts at 4 30 p. M. 4 00 p. M. Eastern. Former president bill clinton is the featured speaker tonight. Delegates and attendance are out and about. Denny freeman found Bernie Sanders at lunch with his lamely at Reading Terminal market. Abby phillip with the Washington Post reported that talks are underway to give sanders a larger role at tonights convention event. Possibilities include senator sanders being able to formally nominate secretary clinton after the roll call vote of states. On this morning of day two of the 2016 dnc, senator sanders made a surprise appearance at a breakfast for the florida delegation. This is a 50 minute portion of that event. We are very excited to welcome to the podium one of our wonderful 10 of the congressional delegation who is a woman. Its part of my community that i lived in for many years, congresswoman kathy castor. She is from a family that we have known and loved in florida for a very long time. Thank you. Who serves on the Budget Committee and she is a rockstar from tampa. Thanks so much for being with us. Come up. Castor im congresswoman kathy castor from tampa bay. Love it. Good morning. For democrats coming together, i love it. Allison, thank you so much. Everyone in the florida Democratic Party, all the hardworking people that helped make this possible for us, and then all of our wonderful florida delegates and their families and alternates. Thank you so much for what you do that come to make sure that everyone of our neighbors has an opportunity to succeed. We are the party of the people. And it is going to take people power this november to elect democrats up and down the slate from Hillary Clinton and tim kaine to a new u. S. Senator all the way down to those important local races. Let me tell you last night, it was a privilege to watch first lady Michelle Obama with all of you. I looked around at the florida delegates on the floor and we cannot be more diverse and energized. , were black, we are white are hispanic, we are every color of the rainbow, and then you throw the rainbow and on top of that. Was thinking about what is it that bring so many different kinds of people, whether you are from ime or from the panhandle or tampa or the east coast, what is it that brings us together . Obviously it is our shared values. We believe that this is the party of opportunity and it sure has been in my left. I am from tampa but i was born in miami at a time when my father started legal aid and my mother worked to become University President and a candidate for the u. S. Senate in 2004. Only in america can somewhat achieve those signs of a a competent. Accomplishment. All my parents wanted was for my sister and my brother and i to attend college. Tiny and wasery paintin Student Loans and work studies, we all become the people we wanted to become. Isnt that the American Dream . Isnt that what we are all here for to make sure that every single one of our neighbors has the same opportunity to attend college and become successful . I think so. So heres our challenge. [cheering] castor our challenges that senator sanders has come into the room. Welcome. Welcome, senator Bernie Sanders. What a fabulous, fabulous speech last night endorsing Hillary Clinton for president. Bernie e, sen. Sanders sorry to interrupt you. Good morning, florida. [cheering] well, thank you very much for allowing me to barge in with my vi. E, jane, and my son, leav she keeps getting a bigger response when i do. We do not do particularly well in florida, but i want to thank all of you who were there with us. Thank you very much. [cheering] sen. Sanders and now whether you supported me or you supported secretary clinton, we all know what our task is and that is to make sure that donald trump is not elected president of the United States. [applause] by no obviously, as a senator, a a lot of republicans and i have friends i know obviously, as a senator, a letter republicans and i have friends who are republicans, but donald trump is different. Its not that he doesnt want to raise the middle wage. Its not that he doesnt believe in, change. Climate change. That is what republicans believe. This man has the unique feature that not all republicans share by any means. That is that he is a demagogue, a bully, and somebody who does not believe in the constitution of the United States. [booing] sen. Sanders and i want you all to think about what it means for the future of this country. If we were to elect somebody like donald trump as president. It would be a very sad, divisive, and dismal future for our country. In a difficult moment is to bring people together, not divide us up. [cheering] our job is to understand that Climate Change is real and to transform our Energy System, not say that Climate Change is a hoax. [cheering] sen. Sanders our job is to expand Social Security. [cheering] sen. Sanders our job is to move this nation toward health care for all as a right. [applause] joinsanders our job is to with the rest of the world in passing legislation for paid medical and family our job is to deal with the immorality of the level of income and wealth inequality that exists in america today. That is what we have got to do. View, given the ideology of the Republican Party, which is an ideology that works for the rich and powerful, against the middle class and working families, the truth is that republicans do not win elections, democrats lose elections. We will lose elections when people give up on the political process and do not vote. We lost in 2014 when 63 of the andican people did not vote 80 of young people did not vote. Theur job it seems to me in next few months is to do some very obvious things. Number one, we have got to elect Hillary Clinton as the next president of the United States. Number two, we have got to stay focused on the most important issues. It is not just about electing candidates. It is about transforming the country. The media does not like talking about the real issues, but that is what the American People want to hear discussion about. They want us to create millions rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. Sure thatus to make Public Colleges and universities in this country are tuition free. The issues, yet ordinary people and young people involved in the political process what we are the process of doing right now is transitioning our campaign into an organization that is going to encourage young people to get involved in politics. To run candidates at the school board level and the city council level. The Political Revolution has begun, and it will continue. So i want to thank all of you, those who supported me, those who supported secretary clinton, for youre doing something that too few americans are now doing, and that is getting involved in the Democratic Political process. All right, we have made a great start. Lets go forward. Lets elect secretary clinton. Lets transform this country. Thank you very much. How cool is this whoo fun uch [indiscernible] i love it. I am so happy. This is so cool. Come on back up. Wasnt that also . If everybody could take their seats. Do not leave. If you leave, i will cut your breakfast off. If i could get people to take their seats the surface circus senator sanders is leaving, and you can jason, but he is not going to stop. We have kathy coming back up. As she was saying that was fabulous. I will always remember that. While you are treating that Bernie Sanders came to the delegation breakfast, put in was presently interrupted by senator Bernie Sanders. I just started a new Campaign Twitter account. Thesending pictures from convention all week, but i just started it and it is really sad how a few followers i have on my campaign, philadelphia kathcastor. Witter, after that commercial announcement, democrats, everybody listening heres another reason why this is such an important year. This is the first year that we will have the opportunity to elect democrats under the new Fair Districts constitutional amendments. After those fair district and amendments were adopted, the republicans in tallahassee fought it. They fought it tooth and nail. We finally resulted, and it has resulted in the opportunity of a lifetime for us to elect democrats to the state legislature and to congress. That is why this election begins our march toward greater equity in florida in those seats, and what that means for the people we represent . Means we can make progress on health care, jobs care, everything that we hold dear. Lets face it, democrats, we have made a lot of progress. Pricesyment is down, gas are down, more people have health care than ever before in america. Our uninsured rate is the lowest it has ever been in history of the country. We are fighting for good schools, higher wages, but i need back up in the u. S. Congress. Another, you have heard from others about how important the, and let me give you examples. They adjourned for the longest recess in the history of the Congress Without passing emergency funds to address the to develop vaccines, diagnostics that we need to have on the ground. Helprefuse to provide any to flint, michigan, or the toxic water in their pipes. They refuse to move a Supreme Court justice. Your assertion is outrageous. Pulsefter the orlando cheating, we were completely set up, and under the guidance and leadership of john lewis, we sat in to stand up for gun safety. And we are not going to give up. I will tell you something, for the democrats, we need back up, and this is the. I think we have some of this congressional candidates here. Corridor is going to be from a primary fight, or either one of them here, to the central florida, the heart orlando. Thompson and others we need a democrat that can stand up for orlando for a change. And then we have an opportunity to electh of there another young woman to the United States congress in Stephanie Murphy. Is stephanie here . There is stephanie back there. This is what Fair Districts is going to do. Some of these candidates do not have all the funds in the world, s why it will take Democrat People power. Democratbeen the only from key west to the panhandle and back. Gwen around . It cannot be that lonely. We have an opportunity in the tampa area to elect Charlie Crist to the United States congress. I know some people say, he was former republican governor, but when president obama came to florida as the collapsing, Charlie Crist said, thank you, president obama, our people need your head. Helped to ensure that nonviolent felons can vote and get their civil rights restored. M strongly supporting charlie. I want our congressional didates north of orlando it goes over to the east coast a little bit, st. Johns, and lettor nelson is here to you know. Democrats, we need back up. We need a democratic u. S. Senator to represent the state of florida in addition to our hero, senator bill nelson. Are you ready to elect democrats . The unitedackup in states congress, turn this country into something even greater than it is . I know we are. Are you ready for hillary, ready to elect democrats, ready to see bill clinton tonight . Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you the story. Now we will hear from one of my personal heroes, senator bill nelson. I go back a long time with this man. Floridas senior statesman. He has led on issues with his heart. Alone stood up sometimes for our environment, and we are seeing now how critical that is. As is a man who has championed everything we care about in florida, and it is my privilege to call him friend as well as my leader. Senator nelson thank you. Good morning, florida. About a couple of candidates that i know. I want to tell you about tim kaine. He is one of my best friends in the senate. Tim is this extraordinary person. I hope you had a chance to hear him when he was introduced by hillary in miami. Twoas an exceptional the of them, you could see they just sparkled together. And that is so important for a president that the Vice President , they know will have their back. Tim is that kind of person. He is humble. He is not flashy. But he is exceptionally competent. Off, took a year off of law school, and went as a catholic missionary to honduras. That is where he learned his fluent spanish. And you will see that throughout the campaign as it was evident in miami. Fluentd just rate into spanish in the course of his speech. Person xceptional exceptional person. We will see a contrast of opposites. Tim is humble. Guess what donald trump is exactly the opposite. Now, that tells you something when you compare candidates, because an election is a contrast, and this contrast is really of opposites. So we have donald trump, who says, where do you learn from . I have a very good brain. I know it myself. Timyou have hillary and that reach out to others who have the expertise in order to decisions. Ry best what a contrast. You notase of hillary, only have somebody who is obviously prepared to be commander in chief, but is prepared to be what is so important in our country right unifier inat is a chief, to bring us together. It is going to be a wonderful campaign. Do not be discouraged about that cnn poll that came out. They oversample. This is nationwide. They oversampled republicans in the poll. You will find what happens in thatda after the bump hillary and tim will receive in the polls coming out of this convention. Just give it a couple weeks, three weeks, to settle down, and what you will find is that hillary will lead, but we cannot granted. Hing for that is because it is so nmportant that we have to wi florida. If we win florida with 29 electoral votes, that is more than 10 of the entire electoral 270, there is little other mathematical solution that donald trump could put together if we win florida. And so i want to thank you all for going, putting your forlders to the wheel hillary and tim. Of uss a team that most know personally. I can tell you for the nelson daughters haveur grown up with the clinton family. They have grown up together, they communicate all the time, including this week. This is a solid, solid team for america. Pleasure toy great while hillaryou, will be the first woman president , she will have a speaker of the house, a woman, taking her back, leader nancy pelosi. Representative pelosi good morning, everyone. Fork you, senator nelson, the lovely introduction, and your beautiful statement about the excellence of our clintonkaine ticket. Senator nelson has been a champion of many issues in congress. He represents the great state of florida. In the last few months, has been such a leader in the country on the issue of zika funding. Thank you, senator nelson, for being a voice for people in the senate. He, working with congressman Debbie Wasserman schultz, with tor, congressman deutsch who is here, the entire democratic delegation. We love that delegation. We want more. It is a great delegation. It represents a great diversity of this country and of this state. To your gentlemen, thank you for working so hard to elect democrats. To all of of you, you, i come here to say three things. First of all, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You for so many things, but thank you for leading the way in our country to more representative and fair redistricting. Because of your work, we will majorityeats to gain a in United States house of representatives. Are very excited about our prospects in terms of more member,o will be a Stephanie Murphy will be a Stephanie Murphy, Charlie Crist will join us in the congress of the United States, Randy Perkins will be a member, and we will have a hispanic member, joe garcia, in that district, and florida needs a democratic hispanic member, more than one, but lets get started. Now that we have done some of our politics that we talked about, i come here to thank all of you for the strength that you demonstrated to the orlando tragedy. It was a terrible thing for our country. It was a crime in addition to a gun violence crime. But the way florida rallied was an example of the country of community. I will never forget that that Word Community has the word it is, a very important word for us to be 60. For us to succeed. So tragic, one example of gun violence, children killed, but after this one we have had a sit in in the house of , under theives leadership of john lewis. And because of what happened in orlando and because of this , thisity that rallied will be echoed across the country, and we will never stop we will never stop until the job is done for us to pass. Buy. Annot fly, you cannot and reasonable gunprevention legislation that says you cannot buy a gun on the internet you cannot buy a gun at a gun show if you do not have a background check. What is so unreasonable about that . But when the history is written them in the future looks back, they will look at you, florida, that night is, say that was the Tipping Point in our country, where we set enough, enough. So i thank you for that. I thank you again for the prospects, but i thank you in all the world is looking at florida in this election. Have been joined by lois she will be on the stage with the Democratic Women of the house tonight in a speaking role, and artfully proud of her and are we not proud of her . Soldiers in iraq and afghanistan. The whole world is looking i am from california. We will have a big victory for hillary. There is no mystery there. The difference will be made in florida. The difference will be made in florida. First woman president of the United States that is thrilling. Up thehappy to give title of the highestranking woman in government in america. Have happy to relinquish that title. I have been dying to get rid of that title. It is not because she is a woman. It is because she is the best. Wonderful. Ne is and that senate seat is important as well as the house and a state legislative races. Let me just say this one of the reasons we are going to be successful in this election is not only because of the greatness of Hillary Clinton, but because of Bernie Sanders. Bernie sanders has engaged young people in such a way and more people who had been cynically involved, community oriented, but not really politically engaged. And now because of his appeal and i know you just heard from him his appeal, we will win more house seats, more senate seat, or state legislative seats, and we will elect a democratic president of the United States. Are you ready for a great florida . C victory in is florida taking responsibility . Onward to victory. Thank you, all. Ok, how exciting is that . Our next speaker is here, a man that i support when he ran from minnesota who was in a very tight race. Senator al franken. Franken hello, everybody. I had fun last night. Did you . I got to be funny, finally. Isot of people have asked me being a senator as much fun as working on saturday night live, and the answer of course is no. Why would it be . But it is the best job i have ever had. Dayt to work hard every working for the people of minnesota, working for the people of america, to make this a better country. But we are a great country. Theres no question about that. Michelle obama said that yesterday, and wasnt she great . Am so are you ok . Thanks. Member of the press. Ok. Struck by the differences between the two conventions. I actually was in cleveland for and ist they of theirs, mean, they had some great speakers. O had scott bai [laughter] franken and we had Bernie Sanders and cory booker and Elizabeth Warren and the. Irst lady thank you, thank you, thank you. Tone,e difference in when donald trump spoke last thursday, he painted a picture of an america that i did not recognize. In our country. Theres no question about that. And we as the Democratic Party have been trying to address se and have been blocked elizabeth said this very well last night we have been blocked by the Republican Party in trying to achieve all we want to achieve. If we turn this over to them, we are going to go backwards. We are going to go backwards. We are going to have a president who divides people, not a president who unites people. What he painted last week was a dystopia, and he said it was all Barack Obamas faults, even though when barack obama took toice we were losing 750,000 800,000 jobs a month. That is what he inherited. He basically said all these problems were caused by barack anda and Hillary Clinton that there was only one person in the country that could [laughter] could cure all this, and it was him, and it was going to happen with magical thinking. Because he did not tell us one thing he was going to do. And remember, he said things like we are going to defeat isis and it is going to happen fast. Goodness, what does he take the American People for, really . Hismber, he said during campaign he has a secret plan to beat isis, but he cannot tell us because then isis would know. [laughter] i mean, this is , and i thought bernie gave the case last night, think about the Supreme Court. Now, im going to end with a story from about three weeks ago. I went to a high school minnesota,in wilmer, southcentral minnesota. Minnesota is the number one producer of turkeys in the United States, and wilmer is in the center of a county which is the number one turkey producer in minnesota. And so we have turkey producing there. Packing turkey, meatpacking. And so the graduating class that i spoke to, i would say, is about 60 white, about 25 latino, and 15 somali. And i was there to speak because i was there to introduce the and she had been a page, one of the senate pages for when she was a junior in high school, and now she had been picked by upperclass to be the class speaker. The valedictorian was a latino girl. And i remember when i was told about her, i was in my office in the hart building, and she told me about her, and i went down to the floor and said hi to her, and she was the only one there ijab and, she was somali, and i went up to her and said, you look like a minnesotan. [applause] senator franken and she laughs. Kids love each other. When moona came down during pomp and circumstance, her name a, so she was the first to get her diploma. When they came down, they sat in order. They come down and break off this way. She was Holding Hands with one carlsons. It was the most beautiful three i spent this year. [applause] everythingnic for youre hearing from the trump side, from donald trump. My lesson from that was, we be as servants have to good as the people we serve. So i have the best job in the world. Im going to be out there. You to be working every day. Many ofd last night, you have jobs. Many of you have families. Ignore them. [laughter] let me tell you something about kids. They love it when their parents arent home. They love it. Olet me tell you something else. Knows how to use a microwave oven. Ill tell you something else. Can teach ad 4yearold how to use a microwave oven. Thats scientific fact. Into thehy people go toitics in the first place, get away from their families. You know that, because anytime resigns, they say i need to spend more time with my family. Go out and get them, work for the next several months, get hillary elected, Patrick Murphy elected, take over the senate. Thank you. Thank you very much. Leave theseing to remarks from the florida delegation breakfast this morning to return for a brief period of time to f. D. R. Park in philadelphia. Sanders supporters in protest over the treatment of their candidate. Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute hillary is at the Convention Center to keep you outside. [unintelligible] go bernie Integrity Matters go bernie Integrity Matters go bernie do the right thing Integrity Matters, vote bernie Integrity Matters, vote bernie Integrity Matters, vote bernie Integrity Matters, vote bernie Integrity Matters, vote bernie Integrity Matters, vote bernie Integrity Matters, vote bernie Integrity Matters, vote bernie Integrity Matters, vote bernie Integrity Matters, vote bernie Integrity Matters, vote bernie Integrity Matters, vote bernie Integrity Matters, vote bernie did you go hillary loses against trump by 13 points . By your logic, voting against bernie would guarantee a Trump Presidency. I dont know why you would do that. Maybe you want a corrupt president in the white house. Democrat in the white house, vote for bernie. Okay . Bernie supporters, not gary johnson, right . I guarantee you gary will be there. My mother is not a female dog. My mother died in 1973. It wasnt for jesus, i would have no hope for my mother. The eyes of the lord are upon the righteous alleluia that protest taking place near the site of the Democratic National convention in philadelphia. Park. T f. D. R. We will have live coverage of the convention when it gets away 4 00 p. M. Eastern this afternoon here at cspan. Youll have a front row seat to every minute of the Democratic Convention on without commercials. Create your own clips of your favorite moments and share them on social media. Read feeds from delegates and reporters in philadelphia. Our special Convention Pages have everything you need to get cspansof gaveltogavel coverage. To cspan. Org for updated seedule information to whats happening during each convention session. Each speech will be available for ondemand viewing. Our special Convention Pages and all of cspan. Org are a Public Service of your cable or provider. If youre a cspan watcher, check it out on the web at cspan. Org. And the Democratic National convention in philadelphia gavels in today at 4 00 p. M. Eastern. Live coverage on cspan. Att before that, starting 2 30, well show you a preview of what to expect today in philadelphia. And some news from cnn, representatives for Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are for the vermont senator to formally nominate secretary clinton as the Democratic Partys candidate for president. The effort, according to cnn, is Showcase Party unity after the Convention Roll Call vote today. Among the speakers on the Opening Night of the Convention Last night, first lady Michelle Obama. Her speech is about 15 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome first lady Michelle Obama. [cheers and applause] oh you all. Thank you so much. Know, its hard to believe that it has been eight years since i first came to this with youn to talk about why i thought my husband should be president. Remember how i told you about convictions, and thedecency and his grace, traits that we see every day country inerved our the white house. Told you about our daughters, how they are the heart of our hearts, the center world, and during our time in the white house weve themhe joy of watching grow from bubbly little girls women, aed young journey that started soon after we arrived in washington when they set off for their first day at their new school. Forget that winter morning as i watched our girls, pile7 and 10 years old, into those black s. U. V. s with with guns. Ig men i saw their little faces pressed the window. The only thing i could think was, what have we done . [laughter] see, because at that moment i theized that our time in white house would form the foundation for who they would well we managed this experience could truly make them. Ak that is what barack and i think about every day as we try to girlsand protect our through the challenges of this unusual life in the spotlight. How we urge them to ignore those their fathers citizenship or faith, how we hateful language they hear from public figures on tv does not represent the true this country, how we explain that when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you dont stoop to their level. No. Our motto is when they go low, we go high. With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. Their mostts are Important Role models. Barack and iou, take that same approach to our job as president and first lady that our words and actions matter, not just to children, but the across this country. Kids who tell us, i saw you on tv. I wrote a report on you for school. Black boythe little who looked up at my husband, his hope, and heh wondered is my hair like yours . Mistake about it, this november when we go to the what were is deciding. Not democrat or republican. Not left or right. No. In this election, and every haveion, is about who will the power to shape our children for the next four or eight years their lives. [cheers and applause] tonight, because in this election there is only one person who i trust with that responsibility. Only one person who i believe is to be president of the United States, and that is our friend Hillary Clinton [cheers and applause] thats right. See, i trust hillary to lead seencountry, because ive her lifelong devotion to our nations children. Daughter, whown ,he has raised to perfection but every child who needs a longion, kids to take the way to school to avoid the gangs, kids who wonder how ever afford college, kids whose parents dont speak a word of english, but dream of a better life, kids who look to us what theyne who and can be. You see, hillary has spent the relentless thankless work to actually make in their lives. Advocating for kids with disabilities as a young lawyer, childrensr healthcare as first lady, and for Quality Childcare in the senate. And when she didnt win the nomination eight years ago, she angry or disillusio hillary didd, not hillary did not pack up and go home, because as a true Public Servant hillary knows this is so much bigger than her own desires and disappointments. So shes proudly stepped up to serve our country once again as secretary of hillary did not state, traveling our kids safe. Ep and look, there were plenty of hillary could have decided this this work was too hard, that the price of Public Service was too high, that she picked apartbeing for how she looked, how she talked, or even how she laughed. Heres the thing, what i admire most about hillary is that she buckles under pressure. Takes the easy way out. Neverllary clinton has quit on anything in her life. When i think about the kind of president that i want for my and all our children, thats what i want. Someone with the proven strength to persevere, someone knows this job and takes it seriously, someone who understands that the issues the faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled to 140 characters, because you have the new clear code at your fingertips, the military in your command, you cant make thinskinned, be buyou cant lash out, but you nd to be steady, measured, and well informed. A recordpresident with of Public Service, someone whose life work shows our children chase fame and fortune for ourselves. We fight to give everyone a chance to succeed. Back. Give even when were struggling ourselves, because we know that theres always someone worse off, and there but for the grace i. God go i want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our founders put forth all those years ago, that we are all created equal, each a the greatrt of american story. Hits, we dont turn against each other. No. We listen to each other. On each other, because we are always stronger together. Im here tonight because i know oft that is the kind president that Hillary Clinton will be, and thats why in this im with her. [cheers and applause] see, hillary understands that the president is about one thing and one thing only. Its about leaving something kids. For our thats how weve always moved this country forward, by all of ofcoming together on behalf our children. Folks volunteer to coach that teach that sunday school class, because they know village, heroes of every color and creed who wear their livesand risk to keep passing down those blessings of liberty, Police Officers and the protesters in dallas, who all desperately want our children safe, people who lined up in orlando to donate blood because it could have been their son, their that club. N [cheers and applause] kaine. Like tim our kids what decency and devotion look like. Leaders like Hillary Clinton who the grace toand keep coming back and putting that highest and hardest Glass Ceiling until she liftingbreaks through, all of us along with her. That is the story of this story that has brought me to the stage tonight, the story of generations of people who felt the lash of bondage, the shame of servitude, the sting of segregation, but who kept on striving and hoping be doneg what needed to so that today i wake up every in a house that was by slaves, and i watch my daughters, two beautiful women,gent black young playing with their dogs on the white house lawn. [cheers and applause] and because of Hillary Clinton our sonsers, and all and daughters, now take for bented that a woman can president of the United States. [cheers and applause] so dont let anyone ever tell you that this country isnt great, that somehow we need to make it great again, because this right now is the greatest country on earth. [cheers and applause] as my daughters prepare to set the world, i want a leader who is worthy of that truth, a leader who is worthy of our kidspromise, all promise, a leader who will be anded every day by the love hope and impossibly big dreams that we all have for our children. In this election, we cannot sit back and hope that for theng works out best. We cannot afford to be tired or frustrated or cynical. No. Me, between now and november we need to do what we eight years ago and four years ago. Knock on every door. We need to get out every vote. Pour every last ounce of our passion and our strength for this country into electing Hillary Clinton as the United States of america. [cheers and applause] work. s get to thank you all. God bless. God bless. [cheering] welcome to do number two of the Democratic National convention. We are live in the littlefield. In about two hours, one of those great traditions in american , a chanceill get on for the delegates to show why they live in the great state of the leblanc. You can watch the proceedings here on cspan, listen to it on cspan radio. Tonight focus will be children, families, Hillary Clintons tenure as secretary of state, and a video with remarks by the 39th president , jimmy carter. We should point out that Severe Weather moved through last night during the evening proceedings, but the weather and perhaps the temperature of some of the delegates may be cooling down as the procedures get underway. In addition to the rollcall, we will hear from the incoming chair of the Democratic National committee replacing Debbie Wasserman schultz who is stepping down on friday. Introduce theill video of his grandfather, former president jimmy carter. Nancy pelosi will be on the ofium with Cecile Richard planned parenthood. Shes the daughter of late texas governor, and richards. And husband tot Hillary Clinton, bill clinton will be delivering arcs. Is ang us from the floor veteran journalist and author of more than it does in books and a special correspondent for the pbs news hour. Jeff greenfield, thank you for being with us. A pleasure to be with cspan. Talk about the changing demographics. Delegatesk at the today, its a very Different Party from one will clinton accepted the nomination in 1992. How has the demographics changed question mark the demographics of the United States have changed. Every year, the number of whites dropped 2 . Asians, hispanics and africanamericans have always been part of the coalition. As the parties have become more polarized, you find the movement, particularly of white workingclass voters out of the Democratic Party has been complemented by a great increase in terms of africanamericans, hispanics, and asians. Summary fromd in mars at both conventions, they could tell you which party they were at. What was your reaction to some of the blues from the Bernie Sanders delegates and where does that the party moving ahead . Because amusing to me in the days before the primaries , booze and hisses and big fights were part of what you expect because the combatants came here not knowing who would win, so you can look at the 1952 Republican Convention where the supporter of howard taft is chastising the speaker. In 1964ockefeller food when he wanted to condemn extremists. It is just in the recent decades that we are so unused to anything that looks like disruption that i think it took everybody aback. But the real question is, are the sanders diehards prepared to continue that even after the pleas from Bernie Sanders in a speech from Michelle Obama, is ort going to be we give up are there going to be booze when clinton talks tonight. Bill clinton is the exemplar of party,ist democratic tough on crime, and that is what the democrats are worried about. Four days of disruption does not leave the worlds greatest impression. Lets go back to a piece that you wrote and is a picture worth a thousand words as senator ted kennedy and his campaign in 1980, refusing to have the traditional handshake and hands in the air at the square garden and the other moment that you write about, the failure of the balloons to drop properly. Is that a metaphor for the Democratic Party was back then . In the Political Press look for portends everywhere. In 1980, a microphone went blank and the democratic rally and they said it was a symbol of what was going on with the dukakis campaign. But in the carter campaign, something went wrong with the balloon drop, it dribbled out one by one in a aesthetic display of inadequacy. There is a picture of a guy trying to push the balloons out and everyone in the press said there is the symbol of jimmy carter toss failed campaign. And yes, jimmy carter that very cold handshake from kennedy, not the shot that is expect it of winners and losers. The pressn say about that thats a sign of how superficial we are, but it is taken seriously enough that it really matters. Moments ine craziest the conventions, what do you think was the craziest . Well. It was a little before my time, but in 1912, when Teddy Roosevelt was challenging William Howard taft, the hands was the convention was totally in the hands of the taft people and they were rolling through credentials challenges and they marched around the convention imitating a steamroller with bells and whistles i cant say i remember it, but that was a moment that shows you how much more boisterous contentious conventions were when we had contentious conventions. I dont know if it is the craziest, but in 1980, for the acceptance is free speech except since speech, there were rumors that Ronald Reagan is going to ask gerald ford to be his running mate and the work howkinds of speculation much power is being shared and at the end of the day, Ronald Reagan decided quite wisely this is not a good idea and came to the convention and said he had chosen george h. W. Bush. Oh myas probably the last goodness moment i can think of at a convention. Vice president s, why do you think senator 10 senator tim kaine expected nomination and on the republican side, governor mike pence with donald trump . It is not that unusual to decline the vice presidency. But in contrast to the old vice presidency, which was a nullity. It was a job that meant nothing. Once roosevelts Vice President said its not worth a pitcher of warm spit, but starting with carter and mondale, the vice presidency has meant real powder. Joe biden is like a Senior Adviser. Some people think dick cheney had too much power. That is one reason. And it does raise your visibility. But if you lose as Vice President , the odds against you being president are very high because the only losing nominee that ever got to the white house was franklin roosevelt. Theres also a morbid factor. Nine Vice President s have succeeded to the presidency, eight because of a death and one because of nixons resignation. The idea you and get a Vice President ial nominee to say thats an odd, its out of the question, but it is a historical fact. Senator tim kaine will accept the nomination, but he will be dealing with not one but two president s if Hillary Clinton is elected. I did write a piece that said either of these Vice President s will have an issue because the a very tim kaine, significant voice will be in Hillary Clinton half year first in the morning and last night. In the case of mike pence, the question is does donald trump wasnt to anybody . He himself has said he listens to himself. Perhaps this policy you are proposing is shaky is not real evidence donald trump has said i may be wrong about that. So those were the issues i was raising in that piece. Andets go back to 1998 talk about the art of the clintons career. He delivered the nomination of governor michael to caucus at the 1998 convention in this iconic moment from atlanta, georgia. Mr. Clinton i had a professor in college he told me the sole reason for americas greatness is the believe that the future can be better than the present and we have always done what it took to secure it. And he said if we get to the point where our parents dont make their childrens future than their parents, then we can forget it. Michael dukakis will never, never, never forget it. Losing [cheering] remember as you will men as you well know, in closing is his remembered is what he is rumored for. 1988 tout the art from 2016. That speech was in atlanta and could have marked a me a real liability and what bill clinton did was very smart. He promptly went on Johnny Carson and mocked himself. For president ran so that i could finish the speech i started four years ago. Clintonrs ago, bill for a better argument Barack Obamas reelection than barack obama. What he is doing tonight is tricky. Hes going to talk about not only the nominee, but his spouse. Given the doubts about Hillary Clinton, not just on trustworthiness, can he make a convincing case on that issue, that she is being unfairly judged . Second, because he was a centrist who challenged some liberal orthodoxies, i think the sanders people in particular may not be inclined to give bill clinton a warm reception. That, he is the most effective public speaker of his generation and if anyone can figure out a way to walk that tightrope, its ill clinton. Jeff are talking with revealed, a veteran journalist who covered politics for more than 30 years. Hiscan read them online and column is available at politico. Hes the author of 13 books and a special correspondent for the pbs news hour. Lets go back to the floor. We are at the florida delegation. I want to enter issue to two of the florida delegates, a state senator finishing up a 16 year democraticer and the leader. Thank you for being with us. Its my pleasure. Im lisa king, im a clinton delegate from jacksonville, florida. Florida has had a lot of attention this convention. How are you going to deliver it for Hillary Clinton . Hard work. We have a plan. Our ground game is good and we are going to get the vote out. We have registered thousands of people. Florida delivered the vote for the last three president ial elections, clinton once and obama twice. And it seems to be in the center of controversy this election cycle. How will the senate race affect turnout . It adds excitement for the Democratic Base. A lot of interest for both candidates and that is only going to help with more opportunities for registration and more opportunities for volunteers. Your 16re answering up year career with a female candidate. Can you talk about that . It is a watershed moment for america to finally elect the first woman president and it sends a message to all the little girls in this country that you can be anything you want to be and you can be president. Im excited to have 10 a clinton delegate last election and this one and i know we are going to do it. Im confident. Much ability as anyone else in america to lead this country and im excited knowing that my friend, Hillary Clinton, who i have known for more than 25 years, is going to be the leader of the free world. Thanks to both of you for talking to us. Thank you very much. As the band repairs to warm up inside the wells cargo center, im going to ask you the question you post in your most recent column, has Bernie Sanders ridge the divide among democrats who made not want to lined up behind Hillary Clinton . Can offer if i something new journalist has ever said only time will tell. The more in two shall sanders voters who have been active in Democratic Party politics understand they have to get behind the nominee if they want to defeat donald trump. There are a number of sanders delegates who feel they have been disrespected. The wikileaks tended to confirm their belief that the home was on the scale. Picking tim kaine means Hillary Clinton is not interested in expanding to the progressive policies and so i deciding, are still do they want to find an alternative to tim kaine and put that nomination on the floor . He comesant to do when out . And how many of them are there . We simply do not know the answer to that question. But they very fact we have had so long a recent history of relatively disruptive free conventions means that even a remnant of creating a it of disturbance is not what the democrats want to see coming out of philadelphia. 46 of the delegates inside the Wells Fargo Center are Bernie Sanders delegates. Let me ask you where you think they would go if not Hillary Clinton . Or do afor joel stein song or hands and not vote or will they eventually come along . The more strategic ones are saying if it is a competitive state like florida, ohio, virginia, we should hold our nose and vote for clinton. A state like california, new york and texas where it wont matter, and do what you want. Right in somebody, vote for joel stein, stay home. Whether that gets communicated to potential sanders voters, i dont know. But in florida, ralph nader got votes in a state where george bush won by 537. I think many delegates say youre playing with fire. Other voters say im sorry, enough,t aggressive shes part of the corporate political world and we cant go with it. Each oft know how large those constituencies are. Let me ask you about Senate Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell and paul ryan they really tried to dance around there was i support of donald trump. Obviously they want to keep control of the house and senate, but how do they do it without alienating the Trump Supporters but making sure their supporters go to the polls and reelect republicans . One of the things that surprised me about the changing nature of the party is there might have been a time when the institutional wing of the Republican Party very early on would have said donald trump is not going to be our nominee. He does not stand for what we stand for, hes an apostate on 70 things. We dont trust his temperament, but they did not. Once donald trump showed up with those delegates, they had to find a way to make us with him. So you find rhetorically, i support the nominee but what is the nominees name . You endorse him, i support him others have been more up front because they have a mirror image of some of the disaffected democrats. Some democrats say whatever you think of Hillary Clinton, we cannot accept the idea donald trump. For a lot of republicans, they cannot accept the idea of Hillary Clinton. It depends how well trump will be doing in the polls, october. Putting up ao be fight, is he going to be leaving . We dont know until the Campaign Starts taking shape once labor day shows up. We are inside the Wells Fargo Center in the delegates are beginning to arrive. Bad weather through yesterday. It has feared up it is a lesson afternoon and although temperatures are warm, not quite as hot as yesterday. Lets go back inside with holy can expect on a Fall Campaign with susan swain on the floor. Tonight on the floor, the first order of business is the rollcall. The florida delegation has their web operation laid out here. You have been following the Bernie Sanders delicate issue. Delegate issue. Will there be any issues on the floor mark exodus like there will be a lot of in the floor for there may be protests coming from delegations with a large number of delegates supporting Bernie Sanders. Theuld be looking delegations like minnesota and oklahoma. Delegations that have a lot of sanders supporters that ours when weelegations and get to california i spent most of the night last night with the california delegation in their section of the arena, and there were a large number of people who had antitpp signs against the Transpacific Partnership and likewise. The question will be with those larger delegations, who is the one making the announcements for the state . Minnesota, Amy Klobuchar is going to be the one making some of the announcements, the senator from minnesota. Seeill be interesting to how these announcements are together and for people who watched cleveland, said a similar process or not. One of the differences between cleveland is hearsay parade of congressional members and competitors we saw very few in cleveland. What does an appearance before the Party Faithful do for candidates . For candidates, it is probably more about fundraising and driving home the get out the vote operation and organizing than it is actually about getting notes. One thing that was said by Mitch Mcconnell, the republican majority leader, is that theres in your own votes party you are going to pick up at a convention, but you can pick up money at the ancillary and you can give people more excited your campaign in a way for them to make phone calls and knock on doors for you, particularly if you are in a contested race. You just came back from arizona and senator mccain says its much more competitive than he expected because of the donald trump candidacy. What did you find on the ground there . It was interesting. I said wednesday at the grand canyon with senator mccain. Anything like there were a lot of people who are not yet engaged in the race. Knows and large, everyone who john mccain is in arizona and the will be whether or not that will be able to make up for the fact, the people who are coming out to vote against donald trump, what mccain needs is for people like them to also vote for him and crossover on the ballot. You hate to say election is about turnout but in arizona, it may be where the turnout is. If it is in more hispanic communities, it might he a very different outcome than if the votes are from other parts of the state. An interesting senate race there. Thank you for talking to us. Thank you and we are rejoined with jeff revealed of pbs and what ago. I want to go back to just the last week we had Melania Trump and the plagiarism issue. We had ted cruz, the acceptance speech by donald trump and tim kaine accepting the nomination on the democratic side, the announcement Debbie Wasserman schultz. Down. Last night Michelle Obama and Bernie Sanders. We seem to be moving from one story to the next and thats just in the course of one week. Touch on that for moment. The fact that you now have conventions back to back, which is a relatively new phenomenon means you will have a constant drumbeat of genuinely important news. The important thing is what is the halflife of all the things you mentioned . The two events that may have lasting significance is the acceptance speech of donald trump is the acceptance speeches the one part of the convention that remains always significant because its the first time the country is settling down and thinking this is one of the two people who might be president. The other is Michelle Obamas speech. I think she found a town and a pitch to talk very tough about donald trump without ever mentioning his name. That the democrats are saying the sky is going to fall if hes president , but it when Michelle Obama talks in the tones, dont go low, go high, dont use these terms to denigrate your fellow countrymen, this is the greatest country on earth, that one speech will have some staying power. We have a portion of her remarks and a full speech available on our website. The first lady addressing this Convention Last night. Mrs. Obama i wake up every morning in a house that was told by slaves. [applause] daughters, two beautiful, intelligent, black young women playing with their dog on the white house lawn. [applause] and because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters and all of our sons and daughters now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States. [applause] so, dont let anyone ever tell you that this country is not , we did makeomehow a great again, because this, right now, is the greatest country on her. Lady, last night here in philadelphia. The other interesting part of that is eight or nine years ago, rivals between Hillary Clinton and barack obama came together with her serving as secretary of state and she is speaking here. Trumpont believe donald has tweeted out a single critical remark about Michelle Obamas speech. That i missed one, but tells you about how the democrats might try to figure out a tone that puts donald trump on the defensive, which is a very unusual position he would find himself in. Let me conclude with a personal convention. A personal question. You have attended every Convention Since when . 1968 . 1980. I had been working for Robert Kennedy and he was assassinated in june. Convention ifirst went to as a journalist, analysts, whatever the heck this is. Ask how have they changed . They have gotten more structured, more like an infomercial, more like a product rollout at an amway distributors slot. Look at the floor with the microphones from the days when the state chairs would oppose points of order and objections and its like the disney world smalltown america. Its an imitation, a throwback. Its not the obligation of Political Parties to provide exciting, divisive inventions, but they change in nature, once the primaries became the place where candidates were nominated comedy conventions took on a completely different role. People like me always say this could be the year of the brokered convention or the big ballot crossovers. Im getting up there and i dont have to a more conventioneers left to see this happened to see this happen, but i am dubious. This is what they have become. But they are the super bowl of politics. Jeff greenfield, his work is Available Online. His columns are a politico. Com and we will look for your work on the pbs news hour. Thank you for being with us. Live outside the Wells Fargo Center with about one hour before the gavel comes down. Miss the want to rollcall states. We will have that during underway at about 5 00 time. Big speeches will be former president bill clinton talking on behalf of his wife who will formally accept the nomination on thursday and were back on the floor with my colleague, susan swain. [chanting hell no dnc, we wont go we wont vote for hillary ] bernie or bust. We want Bernie Sanders. We are not having our voices heard. We want bernie. Look at these two walls. That is why we all left. Hillary and trump are the exact same people and this is ridiculous. We are going to end up with a Trump Presidency and that is not on me, that is on the dnc. Shame] ing shame, you cannot avoid us. Spread out. Hell no, dnc, we wont vote ] r hillary chanting bernie beats trump let me explain to you what you are looking at this is near thetest location Wells Fargo Center in philadelphia. Expected. As full as we were having some technical difficulties, not only here but the entire row of skyboxes. Our phone lines and down. Cbs and other news organizations dealing with those issues. Susan glasser is standing by at what ago. We hope to talk to her during our Preview Program. The convention getting underway at 4 00 eastern time. We are covering not only what is going on inside the Wells Fargo Center. This is the place for interns, many coming to the first conventions and getting a lesson in politics. Cart drivinga golf around the Wells Fargo Center where the Democratic National convention will be held. With ben. E what is your official role . Im a runner, but when i am not working, im a creative in turn at abc. How did you get this job . I got this job through abc. Arounderns get to drive in golf carts and help people get around. What are your official duties as a runner . Fax basically pick up any abc talent, the anchors, people like pickingd when im not up anyone, i can pick up anyone who needs a ride to the Wells Fargo Center. We are on the southwest side of the Wells Fargo Center. Where do you go to college . Im studying at media and medications. What do you want to do when you graduate . I want to do something in film. Working on are socially a stuff and creating videos for our facebook they facebook page. I want to get into writing for film and filmmaking. Oflooking ahead, the skyline villanova and the Wells Fargo Center over my right shoulder, you havefront entrance seen from many of the shots of philadelphia. Who have been some of the more interesting people you have picked up along the way . I have not really got anyone that important. A couple of cnn correspondents. I help the president of abc get on one of my friends vehicles. I think that free much it. What are you most excited to see . I hope to see some politicians, but i would be most excited just to meet interesting people like you and talk to them. Its a good time doing this. When do you head back to school . To school at the end of fall in my internship is a then. Are you in . I am an upcoming junior. I appreciate the concentration as you are driving. We will show you some of the media stands up to the right and the philadelphia skyline directly opposite of the Wells Fargo Center. Where are you staying . Closeness to get into town from i70s text, so i just a in new jersey where i live. Im just staying at home. I appreciate the right around the Wells Fargo Center. We will and by showing some of the media satellite trucks here taking up most of the parking lot outside the Wells Fargo Center. Youll see the shot here in just a second. Back live to the floor of the Wells Fargo Arena and day number two of the Democratic National convention. The convention gaveling in and about 45 minutes. Nominating speeches and rollcall votes in the keynote speech from former president bill clinton. More speeches and all of what we cover is Available Online at cspan. Org, including this beach last from last night from new jersey senator, cory booker. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome eva longoria. Eva hello philadelphia i am so honored to be here tonight and i am proud to say i am with her. Cheers and eva like many of you, this election is very personal to me. I am from a small town in south texas. ] heers and applause eva if you know your history, texas used to be part of mexico. Not generation american. My family never crossed the border. The border crossed us. So, when donald trump calls us criminals and rapists he is insulting of families. My father is not a criminal or a rapist, in fact he is a United States veteran. Applause] eva when trump cruelly mocked the disabled reporter he was special needsy sister at and many like her. Wife whoaid that a works is a very dangerous thing, he not only insulted me he insulted my mother who worked as a special Education Teacher for 30 years, raised four children while being a wife. Me know, i believe in candidate who believes in all of us and that candidate is Hillary Clinton. Cheers and applause] the eva hillary has spent her whole life fighting for all americans. From healthcare reform to equal pay for women to gun safety to protecting the economy. She is the most qualified president ial candidate ever. Applause] even she is been fighting for us for decades and now it is time we fight for her. Now, i am very proud to be part of that fight and i am very proud to be heard to introduce my dear friend cory booker. Do i want you to take a look at your convention, philadelphia. A latina from south texas is introducing the first black from new jersey on the week we will nominate to our first female candidate for president of the United States. ] heers and applause in eva pretty great. So guess what donald, it turns out america is pretty great already. Gentlemen, please welcome senator cory booker. [cheers and applause] sen. Booker hello philadelphia thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. ] rowd chanting booker thank you. Think you. Thank you very much. 240 years ago, our forefathers gathered in this very city and they declared to be for the a freehat we would be and independent nation. Again ingather here brewery, in this city of brotherly love to reaffirm our values before the nation and the whole world. My purpose is not like theres tostart a great nation, but ensure that we continue in the best of our tradition. To, with humble homage generations and patriots before. We put forth to great americans. Our nominee for president and Vice President , Hillary Clinton and tim kaine. Applause] now, look at that core history. Looking back to our Founding Fathers. Documentsfounding that were indeed genius. But the founding documents were not genius because they were perfect. They were saddled with the imperfections and even the bigotry of the past. Native americans were referred to as savages. Black americans were fractions beings. And, women were not mentioned at all. Of ourse ugly parts histories do not distract from our nations greatness. And fact, i believe we are in even greater nation not because we started perfect but the cousin every generation has successfully labored to make us a more perfect union. [cheers and that is part of last night class speech from cory booker. We take you now live to outside the Wells Fargo Arena and a number two of the Democratic National convention. We are back live at the Wells Fargo Center. The delegates continued to arrive in the gavel comes down in about 40 minutes. Stations losing telephone lines. That explains the delay in our conversation. We are joined now with the outgoing editor of politico. Thank you for being with us and thank you for being patient. , steve, how are you . Thean bill clinton when bubba vote for hillary . And he has do that been on the beat since the beginning of this campaign and her reporting is that bill clinton has been offended personally that white workingclass vote is no longer available to the democrats and i think he has taken it on as his own mission in his speech tonight to see what he can do about winning that away from trump. We were talking earlier about how the demographics of the Democratic Party has changed and that is evident when you compare it to at the party look like 20 or 30 years ago. Compare it to the demographics last week in cleveland. Theres not a reporter who hasnt noticed the dramatic difference in just how much more diverse the crowd is in philadelphia this week. Both parties have moved toward their bases over the last few years and you have a democratic a Democratic Base that is much more diverse. More africanamerican, more latino last week in cleveland, you saw a Republican Party that is much more southern and midwestern, and very, very white. Clintonoes hillary improve the numbers where they show her ability and trustworthiness are in the low Single Digits or in the 20s or 30s, not enough to gain a majority of those wavering whether to vote for donald trump or Hillary Clinton . In the end, its not a question of how likable Hillary Clinton is, but compared with against one of the most unpopular candidates who has ever run for president , so as you see with the bernie , we are coming to terms with the fact that its not a choice between Hillary Clinton and all possible choices, its a choice between Hillary Clinton and donald trump, so that changes the context through which you look at those likability numbers. The Libertarian Party will have an impact in the debate or in the final results . Im glad you brought that up. Johnson, the gary Libertarian Party candidate is creeping up to that 15 mightold in which you find his way into a debate and that would be a significant change in the general election. There are key states in which disaffected republicans could end up voting for gary johnson rather than voting for donald trump. So the republicans are going very hard against him, trying to make the argument that a vote for johnson might he a vote for clinton, but i would not discount the fact that it could matter. Look how we are talking all leisures later about whether ralph nader swung the outcome of the election in florida, giving it to george w. Bush. Doing a good job dealing with the delays and the rehearsal going on right now on the podium. I want to ask you about another story the Democratic National committee trying to hide some of the money she raise for states and how much she cap for her own campaign. What can you tell us . Thats all part of the big email dump that has been roiling the Democratic Convention over these last two days. One of the things that has turned up is there was a very complicated prohillary fundraising arrangement the dnc had set up. Our reporters were on to the story some months ago and now we have the emails that shows the best not too do its talk in a clearcut manner about how favorable that joint fundraising arrangement was for the Hillary Clinton president ial campaign. Its an interesting example of wikileaks troves are affecting politics and showing the inner makings of the sausage. Want to talk about the next step in your career as you prepare to move to jerusalem, but lets go back to the floor and susan swaney. The globalere directorand outreach at facebook. What are you doing here . We have found facebook is the new town hall. It is the place people are talking about the election. Having 89 Million People 200 million posts about the candidates, so we are working with the delegates and elected officials on how to use things like Facebook Live. Just to help display the conversation that is happening. In the are you seeing traffic so far and can you compare it to the traffic at the republican . The first night in cleveland, about 8. 5 Million People talked about the convention and the candidate. Last night, we had about 10 million. It is a larger number of people talking about what is happening. But it is the first live facebook convention. What are you learning about how people are watching it versus conventional television . I think it is helping to supplement what they are watching on conventional television. They get to go more backstage, so it is an interesting Second Screen experience some people can get a live feel of what is happening in the moment. On tv, you only get to do one or two different kinds of views. How are the campaigns using they campaigns have facebook as a central part of their strategy. Mr. Trumps live video last week was one of the most watched. Clinton campaign has been using Facebook Live and using it to reach out to voters, to educate them about how to vote and where these and on the issues. What are you seeing about International Interest in the u. S. Election . What if theres a lot of interest. What has been interesting for me is how the candidates in the u. S. Are learning from some of the ways in recent elections are learning from recent elections in the united kingdom, the philip kent. Greta you have been very helpful. Thanks for talking to us. Thank you, susan, and Susan Glasser is joining us. What kind of traffic have you seen during the Republican Convention, what do you expect this week, and how have you tried to redefine how people get news and information from politico . Ms. Glasser we are reinventing it all the time. There is an incredible amount of interest. The traffic for the republican Convention Last week was Something Like three times more than it was in the 2012 convention. This week it seems like there is more interest and it is interesting because the tv ratings and the facebook numbers came out or the first night. That is true on politicos website as well. Basically, what we are finding in this overwhelmingly documented new world, what we are choosing to do is focus on original, aggressive reporting that nobody else has, and that has always been in the dna since it was founded, but we have evolved to become even more aggressive and sophisticated in how we do that. In this universe where everything is being live stream, we are not focusing on that, sort of, come on any aspect of the news. We are trying to make sure that wherever possible our reporters are offering really original reporting and analysis. We have done that at the Republican Convention, the Democratic Convention. We aim that every morning you should wake up and read some stuff on our site that you cannot read anywhere else. That is our way of not being replaced by the computer algorithm, at least for now. Lets talk about the next couple of hours what is the story what are the stories you will be looking for this evening . Ms. Glasser this is a big and interesting night. We have the rollcall vote on the floor starting after 4 30 p. M. , and there have been intense negotiations between the clinton topaign and the sanders camp see what more Bernie Sanders can down the last gasp of his very, very avid supporters. We will find how successful he was at doing that when the rollcall vote heavens, and what level of discomfort and happens, and what level of discomfort and dissatisfaction, when Hillary Clinton is the nominee will they register, or will they be content to have course,te then, of the big kahuna, as they say, bill clinton. He has on many a Democratic Convention. This is an incredible, unique moment, where he is occupying the potential first ladys lot of the former president s slot of the convention week. As we reported earlier, we are looking for bill clinton, really, to aim at a demographic that was at the heart of how we captured the presidency in 1992, some of what we used to call reagan democrats, bringing them back into the Democratic Party for the 1990s. Years replay the act 25 later with so much having changed in our politics and the american electorate . It is not clear, but it will be something we are watching closely tonight. One of the questions we were asking, do you call him first president , two president s in the white house, and Vice President , if selected, senator tim kaine. It will be a dizzying title thing. Or have see will be known as the first dude. We will have to see. I am looking forward to his first tour of the White House Christmas the commissions. My guess is that will be wellattended by the press. Do you really think he will do that isnt that a job for chelsea . Ms. Glasser i dont know, but my guess is, knowing bill clinton, at least in his public life, i can imagine him relishing having some aspect of that. I am sure he is not going to pretend to be interested in the white house china, and stuff like that, but i would not be surprised if he enjoys hamming it up for the camera should Hillary Clinton this role in november. I could see bill clinton enjoying it, couldnt you . Whats in a moment, we will hear for more delegates, but you, personally, he will be leaving the United States traveling to euros lump with your husband traveling to jerusalem with your husband. What is next for you, Susan Glasser . To glasser i am excited have a chance to return for a few years to another foreign assignment. My husband and i were bureau chief in moscow for the Washington Post, during 9 11, iraq, and afghanistan, and i am a huge believer in the need for journalists to get some ground truth in this international world. It is an opportunity to doing what i love reporting and writing. I will write an International Affairs column for politico, hopefully writing and doing more big profile pieces for the New York Times. I am excited about that. And your husband working on a book, correct . Ms. Glasser yes, actually, we are working on that together. We are doing a biography of james baker, george h. W. Bushs secretary of state, and the white house chief of staff under president reagan. It is a fun and consuming project as well. I suppose that is another time,iew for another writing a book with your spouse i am sure you could write a book about that, Susan Glasser. Ms. Glasser the good news is we are still married and we have already done one, so i am knocking what. Think you for being with us, the editor of politico, we appreciate it as always. Steve we are about 25 minutes away from the gavel coming down in the roll call of states getting underway in about an hour, maybe an hour and a half your it is something that is iconic a tradition in american politics. You wont want to miss that, but first, susan swain in the virginia delegation. Coveted seat at the virginia delegation, hoping not to anger anyone, a familiar face to longtime cspan viewers, many years a columnist for the houston newspapers and now he is an official delegate for the state of virginia. What is it like being on the other side . Crag heaven. I did not know overnight that tim kaine would get us the best seats in the house. I have been on the floor for over 18 conventions. This is my 19th. You recognize all the parts of thethe arrangements, backstage, and all of that, but a sit here last night, for political groupie like i am, it is the ultimate. ,usan did you capture it right or now that you are inside, were there some nuances that you missed . I was an opinion columnist, so they know i was a liberal democrat. It wasnt a surprise. Susan i am wondering about process did you capture the process correct . Crag i think a lot. I think it is among the most transparent pieces of the president ial campaign because it happened so quickly, so much is jammed in together. You can get drama like the chair business over the weekend with bie, but it is amazingly because, after 30, 40 years, you realize what is going on backstage, how it is being produced you see the teleprompters. And read along it along with them. It is the most transparent of all the pieces that go into a national campaign. What have the delegation meetings been like after senator kaines selection . Craig heaven. It is all heaven. Seriously, it is because i think tim kaine is such a good man. We can talk about policies, what he has done, and everything, but his base republicans they were trying to get Virginia Republicans to say bad things about him, they had a hard time. They said i am not going to go for him, but i cannot think of anything bad to say about him. He is a decent human being. Susan what are you expecting from bill clinton tonight this will be the last question. All thee will pull out stops. He is older. I have seen them several times during the campaign. He is older. He is there. It is not dinner. It is not 1992. It is a long way after 1992, but there will be some clintonesque features of which people that have been watching it as long as. Ou and i will say aha he will offer a defense of the family, what hillary has meant to the family, education, health care all of those issues, but in a very personal way, and i thought it was interesting when he came in last night, just happened to be in the middle of bernies speech. He is still probably the smartest Political Animal i have ever covered. Susan you like you are having a good time. Thank you for talking to sudan. We have known crack for many years. Cspan. We have known craig for many years. Craig the world turns. Steve we are back inside our skybox. You have been hearing alicia keys. She is among the performers. You will only see it on cspan. Here is part of the rehearsal going on right now before the convention gavels in. Oh, baby la what we doing . Right now ands up andhe clouds are puffy lovely. We are so happy to sit out in the sun. I might be getting a tan while i sit in the shade. It is stunning here. The weather is risktaking. We drove past a lake that i breathtaking. We jolt passed they like that i wanted to jump in. It is so lovely. Happy to be here, this historic historic is lovely. I am so happy to be here. We are making history. It feels like that. Steve some of the rehearsals going on, and now we are getting word of a later start than the 4 00 p. M. Eastern time gavel coming down. Now scheduled for 4 30 p. M. That gives us a chance to hear from you our phone lines are open at 202488920. 2027488921 for republicans. All other ones, 2027488922. Today, we covered donald trump in North Carolina for the annual the fw convention. Yesterday, Hillary Clinton was there. Here is what both of the nominees had to say to the convention. Sec. Clinton that means we should lead in setting and enforcing the rules. If we retrieve retreat behind some kind of an imaginary wall, we will have lost our leadership, our purpose, our chance to prevail in the 21st century. Lead, weerica doesnt leave behind a vacuum, and i will either cause chaos or enable others countries to rush in to fill that void. They will be the ones making decisions about american lives, and thed safety, choices make no mistake about it, may well not be to our benefit. That is not an outcome we can live with. I have set forth plans and strategies for dealing with these threats. I know how challenging it will difficulties that we face in the world today, but, you see, i have confidence. I have optimism. I dont understand people who dont track who trash talk about america. Talk about us as being in decline, who act as though we are not yet the greatest country that has ever been created on the face of the earth for all of history. If you want somebody who will scapegoat other people, peddle fear and smear, i am not your candidate. I am interested in bringing everybody together, rolling up our sleeves, and getting to work to solve our problems. Mr. Trump the other candidate in this race, you know her name, andked Hillary Clinton, believe me, folks, she is differentas a much view. She recently said of the the a a. Scandal thatv. It is not as widespread as it has been purported to be. It is like she is trying to sweep it under the rug, which, by the way, politicians have and years and years. It will be four more years of the same if she got in, but that is not again. Again America Great mr. Trump make America Great are right. Ou thank you and we know how she takes care of the veterans. Look at her invasion of libya and her handling of benghazi a disaster. Look at her emails, which put americas entire National Security at risk. To think she was here yesterday. I guess she didnt do very well. [applause] mr. Trump we are going to bring honesty back to government, and that starts with fixing the veterans administration. We will fix it. North donald trump in carolina joined by his running mate, governor mike pence, in the speech he gave at the vfw today, and yesterday by Hillary Clinton on our website can we will be covering donald trump as he travels to scranton, pennsylvania tomorrow. Expect continuing coverage here in philadelphia as the Democratic Convention continues, then on friday, Hillary Clinton with remarks here in philadelphia. Now, the Campaign Train as well. It is on our website, cspan. Org and the Convention Start Time has been pushed back to 4 30 p. M. , and we will have time to hear from you we will also check in with a veteran New York Times reporter about senator Bernie Sanders, but first, debbie. Go ahead. Caller thank you for taking my call. Cspan fore to thank airing different topics that are important to this country. You do it like no other network, and i want to thank you. My comment is basically it is so unfortunate that we have two parties in this country democrats and republicans. For me, that is decisive divisive in itself. It takes one portion of people against another, when we are all fighting for the same thing our children, our families, our schools, our education. I never understood that, and i never will. However, being a democrat, i totally understand we all make mistakes. Am i correct . No one is perfect. No one. The republicans want to beat hillary up about the about emails and about her to and all make mistakes in life, but what i believe, and this is just for me, if, in fact, these things are true, and no one knows because that is between hillary and her god, i believe what she is saying today is sincere. It is coming from her heart. I really believe she wants to reading the mistakes she made in 2012 to date. With that being said, rather than us fighting against one another, whether democrats that were voting for Bernie Sanders, whom i love as a person, as a democrat all he has done all his life, young and old why dont we just build this bridge, bring people together . People on the Democratic Party, stop fighting. People on the Republican Party, stop fighting. Lets unify this party on the whole for the safety. For all of our children. No matter who wins the nomination in november somebody is going to win. I hope it is my candidate, but if she doesnt, you know what, i prayed republicans do what they are supposed to do for the people, because that is why we nominate them into office. If hillary would win, i hope she does for the people. That is why the people will vote her into office. Trulyhat, may god truly, bless america. Thank you. Steve debbie from North Carolina. Thank you for the call. Catherine is joining us from alabama. Good afternoon. Caller thank you so much for taking my call. I am not going to get into everything that has come out, but something happened at the Convention Last night i really want to address. Senator bob casey from pennsylvania had this long speech about American Products and being made here, and then there was a little ad that they rump,d and it was about t whether it was donald or ivanka having their clothing line made overseas. One of the reasons most people are not going to vote for hillary in the south is because her husband and her because we all know she had something to do with it behind the scenes afta. Signed n i have always lived in a small seven we had factories, and two of the largest cotton mills in the state of alabama. I have a ghost town now. No one lives here. No one wants to move your. The people that want to move out cant because there is no industry. That is why a lot of us we cannot get over this. We go to town, and we have to drive to go to the Grocery Store because everybody has left our theut everything other, the email, all of this that is going to be settled. You know, i have nothing to say to that because i dont know what is true and what is not, but i do know from seeing this in person that maybe donald and nka would have liked to have had their clothing made in the south, but there are no factories here anymore. If we had factors, we would be happy to sew. That is all i have to say. I invite hillary to come to the south. Steve catherine, thank you for the call. You have been looking at scenes inside of Wells Fargo Center, and the rim inside the boulware is located. Joining us on the phone is kelly and conway, formerly with the ted cruz campaign, now a Senior Advisor to the Donald Trumpmike pence campaign. Make you for being with us. Conway elly ms. Thank you, steve. How are you question how are you . Steve last week we talked to Debbie Wasserman schultz, and we wanted to the same lets talk about the gap donald trump is facing among minors, millennials how does he bridge those . Ms. Conway thanks for the opportunity. The message donald trump and mike pence are putting forward our for all americans. We do not believe in slicing up the electorate based on their gender, race, or geography, but we do recognize different people have different issues, concerns, and respond to messaging differently. Take for example something that trump and tents did today in charlotte, North Carolina, where they repeated a 10point plan to reform the veterans administration. Committed tois make sure no veteran die waiting for care again and never wait for an inordinate amount of time again. That resonates with veterans, soldiers and their households, but with many people who feel it is a matter of fairness, who we are as a nation, government efficiency, also, that things like this would run effectively, and that the people that would need to care what get it. I think you heard ivanka trump talk about childcare being accessible and affordable for everyone that needs it. Your donald trump talking about school choice, destroying isis, standing with the police last week, talking about terrorism and the threat. It seems like there is an event each week, and people are on edge. People are very on edge. There is a lot of suburban angst. There are unnerved people in this country thinking am i standing in the wrong coffee line, the wrong part, reading a book or playing with my children i can be victim to random violence or terrorism. That is very much a concern. Currently, there is a simple message if you are one of the 70 of americans that believe we are on the wrong track, clintonkaine is more of the same. If you think things are going well, you feel safe and prosperous, perhaps youre on the Hillary Clinton side of the ledger, but trump intends to make us a choice election and change election, not unlike the 2008,rack obama did it in bill clinton did in 1992, george bush did it in 2000. They were all bound for change in leadership. He also talked about rebuilding america, roads, bridges, airports, and of course, barack obama tried to do the same thing. He was resisted by republicans in congress. To do so requires money. Pay for nald trump and what is the difference between him proposing it and the president , 6, 7, 8 years ago . Ms. Conway the difference is donald trump has a contract record outside of the usual political resume, and when politicians make promises you are skeptical and rightfully so because they are not held accountable. Politics is the one industry what you do not have to deliver. You can keep your job, your health benefits, your pension. You can keep everything the same, even though you failed to deliver on your promises and the mandate the public has given you, frankly. In business, there is no such thing. Immediate call when you are, there is no such thing. If you dont deliver, you are not good, you are constantly held accountable, and if you have performed effectively, you are out, or your viewers leave, or somebody replaces you. That is the way the real world works. To have someone that is a true political outsider, but a proven leader as a captain in industry part of thery, is biography that is very attractive to many voters that support donald trump. The other thing they like is part of what he said in a speech last week he is for the forgotten man forgot man, forgotten voice. There are many still struggling, that do not feel the positive effects of the recovery. They are not worried about getting a job, but worried about keeping the job. They also want to know why a job is not enough to afford everyday life when did it happen that you are working each hard and at the end of each month you are worried about the mortgage, the rent, the tuition the basic necessities. Again, that didnt just happen. That happens because of bad policies. It happens because of inattention to areas and individuals that donald trump has promised to help, and promised to help in ways other than your usual government bureaucrat in washington, d. C. Does. If you think things are going well if youre not disturbed by millions and millions of women in poverty if it is fine that children are stuck live,to school where they rather than their basic civil right to get a quality education, you will go with Hillary Clinton. Donald trump is trying to make it a stark choice and also trying to make it a change election. , ave Kellyanne Conway Senior Advisor, formerly with the ted cruz campaign, and now with donald trump, joining us live on the phone. Thank you for being with us on day two of the Democratic National convention. Thank you. Journey of his reporter covering the early one bill flores a reporter covering the Bernie Sanders. I want to read the first paragraph of your story. You said that Bernie Sanders like to boast that he ignited a fire moving. Monday the he had lost control on how it burned. Please elaborate. It was the idea that Bernie Sanders started the revolution, he talked to people about the idea that wanted to transform america. Now he realizes he is getting booed by the same people. At night we spent time talking we atit supporters who the name of Hillary Clinton. What was telling is what he was talking about clinton, it supporters are doing over him. He has