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For mountain and specific. Pacific. Retta bronner is going to the news. Wall street journal reports that 35,000 to 50,000 protesters are expected in philadelphia. Yesterday on the evil the convention about 1000 protesters supporting Bernie Sanders went to the streets. Take a look at what they were chanting. Dnc, we wont vote for hillary. , dnc, we wont vote for hillary. Sanders also took over the official welcoming party by the Democratic National convention. This is what they were shouting at that gathering last night. Center supporters took this over. Sanders supporters took this over. Vote for bernie. Delegates of the dnc by the way. Roll call vote is with the protesters what the Bernie Sanders supporters had to say. They want a rollcall of the states to happen at the convention, all because of the fallout from those wikileaks emails. Complaints throughout the what they believe was favoritism. The chair of best Debbie Wasserman schultz is stepping down but she took the stage around. Y, walked it is unclear what role she is going to play at the convention this week. Will she do housekeeping are not . Washington post reports that according to one member of congress that was on a Congress Call a Conference Call between the white house and the Clinton Campaign says Debbie Wasserman schultz strongly resisted giving up her position amid discussions Staff Members should shoulder some of the blame. Amy dacey, the chief executive. Fficer put out a statement that serve to exasperate other frustration with Debbie Wasserman schultz who will be presiding over the convention this week. Epresentative marcia fudge she is the permanent chair now of the 2016 Democratic National convention. Donna brazil, vicechairman of the dnc, will take on the interim chair position but presiding over the convention this week will be marcia fudge. With number five. Fudge is a former mayor who started her career in the prosecutors office. They also say, number four on heavy. Coms list, she is local on campaignfinance reform which she calls a civil rights issue and has polarized ratings from issue groups. She has called her mother her biggest supporter and confidant and has remained single her whole life. , couple things you need to know but marcia fudge. Her only sibling was shot and killed and she has a law degree. A big advocate for gun control. Number five, fudge endorsed Hillary Clinton back in february and questioned whether Bernie Sanders was a real democrat. Host the first day of the National Convention kicks off at 4 00 p. M. Today. Live on cspan. Bernie sanders supporters only for this first segment. Will you support secretary clinton for president . Lets hear from edward in jersey city, new jersey. Caller im not really interested in supporting Hillary Clinton. I dont think im going to support her at all. I live in new jersey and the primary has passed. Hillary won by a landslide. Vote for jill stein. I cannot vote for Hillary Clinton because she is not aggressive enough not progressive enough. Not as progressive as she should be. I think the Democratic Party needs to be more progressive. Host what do you mean by progressive . Caller what i mean by being more about social programs like welfare, not compromising in the senate and the house to cut welfare, to cut food stamp benefits. When i mean progressive i mean do better at serving our veterans. The first lady m joe bidens , theyre Vice President s do so much for military families. Thanks for calling in this morning. Anthony is in east hampton, new york. As a Bernie Sanders supporter will you support secretary clinton . Caller i will not. I did support her way back in the beginning as bills wife. I did think they were a great couple, wanting to make a change in the country. Ill for the most part has shown that. Bill for the most part has shown that. For the warsd power act to go to iraq, i knew she was just an opportunist. She just wanted to become president and she does not care how many lives will be killed in any war so long as she showed she was not a wimp and that she was capable of being president. Her wanting to be president is more important than anything else. Of course, what happened with the banks after the fall of iraq and the whole Housing Department and the oil that was rigged up to be expensive. People could not own their own homes because they could not afford the oil to heat the house or pay the gas. They were good working people. I helped them get their house in the first place. I would give them alone for the down payment. Give them a loan for the down payment. The iraqi war was terrible. As the main character in their. David, as a Bernie Sanders supporter, where we go in november . Caller i think i will write bernie and. I voted for him in the mississippi primary. W dont know where the sa Hillary Clinton on 60 minutes last night. They brought up the subject of the whole dnc thing and Debbie Wasserman schultz and hillary claimed she knew nothing about it. Of was the prime beneficiary it. If she did not know about it it was just another one of her big lies. I think she did it in the first democratic debate omalley was in that one. They asked her about the banks and she said we mustnt break up the banks. She claimed we had to learn how to use them. Shes not going to break up the big banks and that is part of her lack of progressivism. Host thank you for calling. Another david. This one in brecksville, ohio. Caller i could not vote for Hillary Clinton for a few reasons. One of the main reasons is we systemtwo system justice. If an average person did what , theyy to on the emails would at minimum lose their security clearance. If they had a government job if you lose your security clearance you lose your job. How can you lower the expectations for the highest office in this country and have a person go in there that should not have a top seat for clearance . On Bernie Sanders, i love and respect the man but he is not a revolutionary. Host so where are you going in november . Im afraid david has gone so we will hear from john in sacramento, california. Are your Bernie Sanders supporter and if so will you be supporting Hillary Clinton in november . Caller 100 Bernie Sanders supporter. Im not going to support Hillary Clinton. Her and her husband have betrayed the Democratic Party starting in the 1990s. The Democratic Party starting with frequent Delano Roosevelt was a party to uplift the American People and help the American People and she her and her husband have been bought and paid for. I would never vote for her. Kathy, Grand Junction ohio. Caller thank you for taking my call. The clintons, i voted for bill. I thought he was a good president. We do not have a deficit when he left office. I did not care what his private life was like. He with hillary, i was going to vote for her and then i saw bernie and i have followed that man for about 15 years. Charlie rose in different things. He got up one time and told everybody what he stood for and what he was about. So impressed i thought, i wish he wasnt sold. I would vote for him 20 times i could. Here comes bernie trying to be president now and i was so jazzed about it. Volunteered like a lot of disappointed Bernie Sanders polymers i was disappointed by what happened. , maybeoped in my heart he would not really give up and people have to see those tiny donations represented a person and a vote. Them. S a bunch of they underestimated and ignored him hoping he would go away and he did not. I have nothing but the highest respect for the man. Person, irevious think a heard him say he would write bernies name in. That is what i plan to do. Host a swing state in colorado and you are ready Bernie Sanders name in could help donald trump. What about that . I dont think it will. I just watched the convention they had and it was like watching saturday night live. I thought maybe they switched over and said this convention look at this clip. I thought, these people cant be real. How can they stand up in front of the world and act like this. They were nothing but bitterness and anger. It represented us as a nation as bitter, angry bigots. I hated that because im anything but. Bernie was talking about the issues. Everyone is talking about how much they didnt like this guy and hated that guy. One guy got up and said he was going to unite all of america and then he turns around and says we have to fight the enemy and he called the democrats. How are you going to unite anybody when you put them have the people who are going to vote . Host thank you for calling in, kathy. We will leave it there so we can hear from marla in sacramento, california. Caller thank you very much. Im a bernie supporter but i will be voting for hillary. Here,e two choices hillary or donald trump. Right now, the Republican Party is playing us like a fine tuned fiddle. This thing that came out about debut wasserman schultz, she needs Debbie Wasserman schultz, she needs to go today. She has got to go now. This must be about the Democratic Party and it must be about hillary and tim kaine. It cant be about Debbie Wasserman. She allowed the dnc to be hacked by either the Republican Party or Russian Hackers and now they are playing us like a fine tune instrument. The Republican Party from and his henchmen, they will trump in his henchmen will win at any cost. The 2000 election with ralph nader and what did we get . We got george w. Bush. Think. Need to stop and we cannot allow the republican use us like this. They are controlling this thing now. Earlier,greta reported Debbie Wasserman schultz will resign after the convention and she will have a role at the convention. Next up is jim in edison, new jersey. As a Bernie Sanders supporter, will you be supporting Hillary Clinton in november . Caller thank you for taking my call. I am probably not ever going to do this. I do not think she is fit. Most of the callers are right. She is not the representative of the Democratic Party. She is completely against all the values of the Democratic Party. Probably against all the values the american society. She is corrupt, a liar. She has had a lot of scandals. I wonder why she has been allowed to run for president in the first place. As a Bernie Sander supporter i think there is one thing we need to remember. The Republican Party is they have one thing very good and that is donald trump. Compare Bernie Sanders to donald trump, they both fight this rigged system. They know people like Hillary Clinton and this corrupt family, corrupt cash, has made our country the disgrace. A lot of mistakes. All of these years. He iran deal lots of terrible mistakes that cannot be forgotten. We will never ever support her. Jim, heavy thought about coming down to philadelphia to join the protest . Caller if the protest was going on, i would definitely go. I would never back down from being a Bernie Sanders supporter. I would go fight this corruption. If people are really going to do this im with them. Host that is jim in edison, new jersey. Michigan. Monica in caller good morning, peter. I am a Bernie Sander supporter and i will not be voting for secretary clinton. Host tell us why. Caller a lot of reasons. The first of the comes to mind is that she has opposed most of the policies that i find most important for me. She is for fracking. She is for big money finance of the campaigns and the political system. She was against the 15 minimum wage until new york people made it happen and then she jumped on this stage and took credit for it. The whole primary system has been tilted and her surrogates have had a hand in. Since one of them resigned, she put one on her staff. The woman does not stand for anything i find important. Host where will you go in november . Caller i will write in the bernie or i will vote for jill stein. Day one of the National Convention gets underway at 4 00 p. M. Eastern time. Tune in to cspan ahead of that for more of your phone calls and commentary about what is happening in philadelphia. Democratic National Convention. Times, democrats outnumbering the 18 senators, governors and how senators to address republicans. Clinical bigwigs will be joined by top names from labor unions, prochoice groups, gay rights and environmental movements, civil rights leaders, immigrant dreamers and more. From the wall street journal, they are reporting on today as kickoff as well as the rest of the week. Tonight, you will be hearing from Michelle Obama, the first lady, emphasizing Hillary Clinton has the character and temperament for a position that is important in the lives of children. Ofators Bernie Sanders vermont and Elizabeth Warren of massachusetts and in immigration speaking onl be tuesday. Roll call vote for Hillary Clinton for democratic president ial nomination and among the evening speakers the former president bill clinton and socalled mothers of the movement. Those mothers who sons or daughters part of the black. Ives Matter Movement sons and daughters who have been killed by police. Wednesday youll hear from the president and Vice President as well as the Vice President ial choice for Hillary Clinton, virginia senator tim kaine. Chelsea clinton will be introducing her mother that evening. If you want to find out whats happening in philadelphia, the dnc has put together an app. Here is a story from philadelphia about it. Robust convention content. Materials for them. The casual observer scrolling through headlines. Degreet will include 360 live stream in addition to a standard main camera feed. The dnc cf will feature 360 degree live screens from vantage points. Who is behind this app . If you go to geek wired. Com you can look into the company that made it. Also, one of the earlier callers mentioned who hacked the dnc and how are they able to get a hold of these emails. Wikileaks released tens and tens of thousands of them. Washington post and the New York Times have frontpage stories. Some cyber experts say russia is behind the email release. The Washington Post reports that the struggle to charge from the as national came Security Officials have been growing concerned about possible efforts by russia to meddle in the election. Late last week, hours before records released by the website wikileaks the white house convened a highlevel security meeting to discuss reports that russia had hacked the dnc. Other experts remain skeptical over russias role in the hacking. From the New York Times front page this morning, this is what they say. Proving the source of a cyber attack is notoriously difficult but researchers have concluded that the National Committee was briefed by two russian intelligence agencies which were the same tax as previous attacks last year and metadata from the emails email suggest pass through russian computers. Host trump is going to visit pennsylvania in the middle of the Democratic National convention. He will be at Lackawanna College in scranton on wednesday. Back to your calls for this first segment. Senator sanders supporters only. Will you be supporting Hillary Clinton for president . Deborah is in houston, texas. What are your thoughts . Caller im very disappointed. I really thought bernie was going to go all the way. m a democrat im a hospice patient. I think i live to vote. I think that is all that is keeping me alive. I think that hillary should have should have picked bernie answer second. She should have reached out to him and unify the party. I think these people i heard the lady comment earlier about ralph nader and that is exactly whats going to happen. Jillhese people writing in stein in bernie, we will end up with eight years of donald trump. Less and less food stamps. My food stamps have been cut. Can really get my medicine im just so disappointed. Bernie is al socialist and people freak on the. I dont believe hillary is a crook. I dont believe she did anything and the benghazi. I think trump is a crook. I think he is the antichrist. I think if we can unify this party at this convention and i think it hillary would come down off her high horse and reach out to bernie and reach out to his supporters and they could Work Together on a platform and get position in the administrationhe i think it would work. Cut off your nose to spite your face, my grandparents always said that. Host deborah, thank you for calling in. We appreciate your time. , the convention will be live on cspan beginning at 4 00 p. M. Eastern time. Bernie sanders will have a prime spot this evening. If youre not around your tv and want to hear it or watch it online you can go to cspan and we will be streaming alive this evening. We will also have it on radio. You can get the cspan radio app and download that and listen to it on radio as well. Tedla is in flushing, new york. Caller good morning. Thesituation reminds me of british negotiations to stay in or stay out. Most of the britons say they would be better off without europe. When we have now is to choose between trump and clinton. What people are saying now is that the political process, especially the democratic process at the dnc, what we see, toos us there is a much arrogance in the Democratic Party. Picking Hillary Clinton at this time is not good for the country. The country is polarized. The country is divided. If she becomes president shes not going to accomplish anything she promised because congress will be polarized. This country is in a danger zone. We are not going to be respected out of United States. Whatever we promise, it did not work out. Terror is going on. Putting hillary what is going to change . Nothing. Int up next is patricia manchester, New Hampshire. As a Bernie Sanders supporter what will you be supporting Hillary Clinton in november . Caller definitely not. My soul would weep if i voted for Hillary Clinton. Working for Bernie Sanders the day after he announced he was going to run. I had already read the book by Martin Liebowitz about this town which disclosed the power that the clintons had in washington. And with the media. I have followed this primary dishonesty,ing the the tactics, the spin that the clintons have put on everything that has happened and how they ignored they started by ignoring bernie then they started discounting him. At a rally where he signed up for the primary in New Hampshire there were over 1000 people there. The media came out and just reported there were about 250. Eople at the rally this happened throughout the whole primary season. Hillary and bill are very corrupt. What is going to happen is shes going to get into the office, shes not going to do anything that she has promised bernie and all of a sudden two used on the thinghis whole email about the ties between the Clinton Foundation and tenniel is going to europe. Going to erupt. They are not going to show the money laundering. Shes going to claim president ial privilege. The movement of money into canadian charity. Its just going to be more of the same with bill clinton. Host next up is judy in out the cookie. Going in albuquerque. Go ahead. Caller i want to speak to the people who have called in and the people listening to remind them what bernie stands for. Progressive views. This is not a campaign about individuals. He stated that. I contributed to his campaign so i get his emails and in his recent email he is giving a list of progressive candidates who need our help. This is where i am asking all of my progressive friends who were in on cspan to shift focus. If we want these progressive views, support these progressives who are running for races, house local put our energy there. I agree what everyone has said about clinton that is questionable that i dont like. Like the previous caller said, this is about who is going to be our president. Who is going to leave this country. There is two choices. This is why im asking everybody to take a shift, step back, and think about what we really want, and what we really want is our views known. We have a much better chance of our views being known if we hang onto our views and put our energy and money into views that are going to make a difference. Just a clarify, judy, who will you be voting for in november . Caller i will be voting for hillary for all of those reasons, but i will be sending money to Bernies Campaign every month and all the people on his emails. He is saying that need our help in all of these local races all over the United States. Host judy in albuquerque, new mexico. Gloria is in indianapolis. Go ahead. Caller good morning. I am calling because of all of the people calling and bashing Hillary Clinton. We have two choices for president. We have hillary or donald trump. Which one do you want . We should not be voting on emotions. Even bernie said it is not about him and it is not about hillary. It is about who is going to be an office as president. And a lot of the people who are calling in, i dont even think they are democrats. I think they are calling in, this is a chance to call in and bash and turn people against hillary. Even bernie said that he was going to vote for hillary. Are truly bernie supporters, why arent you doing what hes doing . He knows the situation and he knows how serious it is. And to let the republicans get in because of our emotions is just ridiculous to me. And Bernie Sanders will be speaking at the convention tonight. Carolina, ituth Bernie Sanders gives a big endorsement at the convention tonight, will that affect how you feel . Caller yes it will. I am just proud of bernie and what bernie has done. Just like thes, lady who just got through talking, dont cut off our noses despite our face. We are met now, but we will be much matter in november when donald trump get in there. Clintontrump hillary is the one. If we work for hillary, we can win in november. The democrats, you better think about the supreme court, too. [indiscernible] you better think about the country and the supreme court. Donald trump is a crook. And he calls her crooked hillary. He is con man trump. He has cant people that he has conned people out of everything and is nothing but an antichrist. If we elect him, we will be in trouble. Host that is jail and South Carolina for this first segment of the washington journal asking Bernie Sanders supporters if they will be supporting Hillary Clinton in november with their vote. Eugene in new jersey. Caller good morning and thank you for taking my call. I really had to call in this morning because i cannot believe that these people calling in saying they are not going to support Hillary Clinton. They must be undercover trump fan supporters. Do not support Hillary Clinton the Republican Party to not support Hillary Clinton 75 of the Republican Party dont want to vote for donald trump. He is everything they say he is. They are getting behind him to stop hillary. That is what every democrat in america should be doing regardless of how you feel about hillary. K at what the other truck look at what the other choice is, donald trump. , am really close to new york really close to atlantic city. He is everything he says he is, a crook. Both for Hillary Clinton. Host eugene, why are you supporting Bernie Sanders in the primary . Caller i support a lot of his views, peter. I support free college. And a lot of other of his views. Host thank you, sir. Dy is then california sandy is an california. You are on washington journal. Caller i just want to say that i have been green for 15, 16 years, you know . A long time, and i had to change to democrat in order to vote for bernie. Here in california. And so, i did. And here we are. We have hillary and donald. Say, i am so to proud, and so thankful to bernie issues for bringing up that needed to be talked about. And i really appreciate that. I dont know what the next four days are going to be like with the dnc and everything. But, i am certainly not comfortable being a democrat. I have only been a democrat for like three months. Ready to go back to green. [laughter] host that is sandy and california that is sandy in california. What kind of work do you do . Caller i am retired. Host from . Caller retired medical assistant. Host where is Mckinley Ville . Caller seven miles north of eureka, california. Host northern part of california, are there a lot of greens of their . Re . 87 greens, we are here. Yet. P. Host thank you. Terry, where are you going in november . Caller i will either be voting for jill stein or writing and burning. In bernie. Host why . Caller i have been a democrat for 35 years, and watching the election has absolutely made me physically ill to see the Democratic Party, who has fought for voters writes, do the things they do to make sure hillary wins. I am appalled by what is happened to my party. As much as i despise trump and do not want to see him in office, i would rather see both the democratic and Republican Party go down by people switching to alternative parties than to see someone who has a 68 negative rating with the American Public be our nominee. I cannot support that. I believe that the entrenchedtes are so in what they want to do, that they refuse to see that by putting hillary up, they will be costing the democrats the, and they had been so disrespectful to bernie supporters of all ages that, literally, after 30 five years, i can no longer consider 35elf a democrat after years, i can no longer consider myself a democrat. Host would you think of Debbie Wasserman schultzs resignation . We wont know. She has gone. In apopka,from joan florida. Caller i just have one thing to say. Are e who [indiscernible] thats it. Us a little interpretation of what that means. Joan hung up. We will not be able to find out what that meant either. Lets hear from greta. Host we want to give our viewers an idea if they were attending the convention, the Democratic National convention in philadelphia, what they might see and hear if they were Walking Around town. Here is a tweet from gavin newsom, the former buyer of deference disco that tweeted, we are not in the rnc in cleveland anymore. Welcome to the Democratic Convention with a picture of genderneutral bathrooms. If you are about town, you will see the cspan bus. We will be in this area in philadelphia around the convention site. Yesterday, the cspan folks talked with a North Carolina delegate, who was there supporting Hillary Clinton. Take a listen. My name is john. Im from North Carolina. Im a 19 euros college student. And i am so happy to be here. In 2008, i sat on the sidelines as a young six greater and rule as a sixth grader in rural North Carolina. Ready to elect Hillary Clinton. Host cspan also spoke to a delegate, Jessica Justice. It i am Jessica Justice representing the seattle area. Ima delegate for bernie i am a delegate for bernie. Progressives and i am making sure they will be heard. Host if you are around you want to see the cspan bus, you can go to www. Cspan. Org to find our schedule of offense and where we are going to be. Here is another tweet from another delegate, even williams that says Performance Art is amazing at the Democratic Convention. A welcome distraction. You can take a look at that therefrom or. Christina who is another delegate, we can feel the energy at the dnc because we know that america is stronger together. Showing a little video of the concert that they had last night. And then amanda who is a reporter for the Huffington Post this picture of a big bernie you might see around town if you are in philadelphia. And then also luke, who is the mayor of chillicothe, ohio tweeted out a selfie of him on the convention stage. Today is the big day. I will be on the state between 8 00 and 9 00 tonight. According to a news report on the chillicothe, gazette, the campaign he trump former president bill clinton made a stop and chillicothe. Mayors, Michael Bloomberg is set to endorse Hillary Clinton in philadelphia when he speaks on wednesday night. Host greta, you mentioned the cspan bus. Right in, it was part front of a National Constitution center in city center philadelphia, and will be out there again later today. That is where we are located, where our set is. You can see Independence Hall in the back down in the liberty bell is there as. A four hour washington journal. s we will be live. After thecoverage convention. We have 50 more minutes. Sanderssking bernie supporters if they will support Hillary Clinton. Dave, what are your thoughts . Caller good morning. It is a complex issue. Party was caught stealing democracy very, very serious stuff, maybe criminal. Should be. I think what the russians are doing, maybe not so much to support trump, but it is a slap in the face to america. Here is your great democracy to engage in wars on behalf of democracy. , one of at the very top our political parties, you have this unfairness. It is really something. And i was a great bernie supporter. And at the end of the day, the stop trump movement, it is the most important thing. We can make our corrections, but we cannot let that happen. Host mohammed, alexandria, virginia. What are your thoughts . Caller thank you. Thanks for taking my call and stuff. I might support hillary because i was looking to see if Bernie Sanders would be the Vice President. Previously, i support as much as i could. Familyto my friends and and those i know around me. Bernie sanders was a good choice for us, especially for muslims. I am hoping he will be involved somehow. Especially with minimum wage and Health Issues and also with college, with free college or way sort of very affordable so muslim people to participate in college. I support Bernie Sanders. And i would like to see if he l be on some sort of or like host mohammed, two questions. Will you be supporting Hillary Clinton in november without knowing that information about sanders . What did you think of the pick of your center pick of your senator . I talk a lot with my friends and family, especially on someplace to see my friends and family. He is doing a lot for education. He is taking good things to happen. Like education and those kinds of things. They persuade me to go vote for Hillary Clinton. Will behat mr. Sanders in her cabinet somehow involved, especially with education. Host that is mohammed in alexandria, virginia. Caller will i vote for Hillary Clinton. That is an oversimplified question. I would like to encourage people from both parties to do something that i have done in the past. I researched the minor Party Candidates. Libertarian. I researched them in advance i watched the polls. If the person i consider the lesser of two evils is in my state, where they will get my , andoral College Votes , and theto the end person is not closing in on them, i vote for that minor Party Candidate that closely represents my beliefs. That i hope that if enough people do what i do, the major party will go and research. Who did we lose voters to . And i am a member of the Democratic Party. Me, yes, donald trump is in the polls ahead of hillary on winning new jerseys electoral College Votes, i will look for her. Only to keep him out. But she is his head, i do not want to vote for her. That is my suggestion to everybody else and how i feel. Host cant, you are just kent you are just up the road. Are you planning to attend some of the protests . Itler well, i think about and it is an appealing thought. Me, i have disability issues which make it such that i am very, very uncomfortable going into big cities and very, very uncomfortable going into unfamiliar territory. Spirit, buthere and not something i am really going to consider doing. Host thank you, sir. Rod in california. On washington journal this morning. Caller good, i am a real fan of cspan. Ime 92yearold supporter of Bernie Sanders i am a 92yearold supporter of Bernie Sanders, but i will vote for hillary. I cannot believe what i have heard of some of these people say. Many of the first callers said they wouldnt support hillary and it sounded like they were bitter. Victims of the republican character assassination machine all the way back from whitewater. And i just dont understand that. A overall support of climate change, and the wage gap. Those other two main problems that need to be solved. And i like bernie. Voted for him because of his grassroots efforts. , that is pretty much all i have to say. We cant let those republicans back in. , what work did you do, or what kind of work did you do in california . Caller i was a consulting engineer, airconditioning layout and it plans and specifications, and worked with the architects. Host did you always consider yourself a liberal democrat . Caller oh yeah. Been a piano player and a musician doing traditional jazz. That is what i do now. Host all right. Cheryl, los angeles, good morning. Go ahead. Caller good morning, how is everyone this morning . I am a Bernie Sanders supporter, echo the sentiments of others with cooler heads. If we just cool down and relax, and allow ourselves to think commonly that hillary was not our choice but bernie was, but because of the lesser of two evils, and i dont want to use the word evil, but my views are different from hillarys. I would rather have hillary in before i would ever, ever have donald trump. He does not have any views that i can say i agree on based on he doesnt care for many people of other ethnicities. Therefore, i would just rather vote for hillary, and hope that others will consider the same, and dont act out of their emotions. Host that is cheryl in the los angeles. Andy is in annapolis. Caller think you for taking my call. I was a bernie supporter. I would vote for hillary. Host explain why. Caller the u. S. Suffers from these lawyer politicians. Hillary behaved like a lawyer. [indiscernible] the country need either a businessman or a real socialist person. She is not authentic. Host so, it sounds like you may support donald trump instead of Hillary Clinton . For donaldill night trump i will not vote for donald trump. He at least can do something with the economy, and he is not as racist as she comes across in the primaries. Host thank you for calling in this morning. Lets go back to washington. Host Bernie Sanders and his supporters wanted Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman schultz of florida to step down. She is going to do so after the convention, but she is running for reelection. Usa today says when sanders canova, thetim florida sanders expects that she will campaign for tim canoga. Va. Herald, the law professor who outraised Debbie Wasserman schultz collected more than 1. 7 million from april 1 to june 30 compared to Debbie Wasserman schultzs 1 million. Asked if sheultz would debate tim canova, political novice. After thequote, convention, i will work with the Clinton Campaign to be a surrogate for them and will come home and make sure my constituents know the work i have done on their behalf for the last 12 years as a member of congress. One race to watch going into november. Host we are going to be talking to delegates this morning, as well as a political reporter, and taking your phone calls. In iowa,call is sherry a Bernie Sanders supporter. Do you support Hillary Clinton for president now . Caller i will not support Hillary Clinton for president. I believe that is simply putting the establishment back into office. And i was involved in a conversation last week with a whom of women, some of where Bernie Sanders supporters. Ceiling was pretty it across the board that there is just this feeling of distrust. And what is going on at the dnc right now, that is continuing. And, the question we are asking wassermant level did go to to ensure Bernie Sanders did not get the nomination and that clinton did get the nomination . And do we need to look at, maybe, going back and saying, what can be done to review this, and to ensure that the correct person is currently getting the democratic nomination . Host sherry, two things Debbie Wasserman schultz has agreed to resign. Without affect your vote . Number two, and Bernie Sanders gives a strong speech tonight at the convention endorsing Hillary Clinton, with that affect your vote . Caller know it would not. No it would not. Host Bernie Sanders will be in a prime speaking spot. Of the day one Democratic National Convention Kicks off this afternoon. , and youthe cspan app want to hear the convention unfiltered, untethered, unfettered, get the cspan radio cap and you can listen to the whole thing through your phone. Next call is john in chapel hill, North Carolina. John, where you going to go . Am going to, i hillary. I will tell you why, peter. And i am a bernie supporter and sent bernie a lot of money, even after he sort of conceded. Peter, this is a longterm battle for civil rights, for ,ignity of a lot of people africanamericans, latinos, asians, muslims. Anybody understand why cant see what is happening. Old and went to jail three times. Cant give up for my grandson, who will be two years old this week, this saturday, i cannot chance another clarence people on the supreme court. I cannot tolerate that. This is a crucial time for this country, and i can only i am africanamerican. I will just say this and i dont want to offend anybody. Can havewhite people the comfort, who have never had to fight for anything of supporting a racist. If youjust say this, are going to support trump, you are a coracist. I dont mean that in a mean way, but i am putting that out there. This is a critical time in this country. I am a vietnam veteran. When i took my oath of office to going to go into the marine corps, i said i would defend of enemies of this country, foreign or domestic. Donald trump and the people who support them and people who support him, are against this country. Host john, if somebody told you they were supporting donald trump, be it a friend or stranger, would you presume them to be racist . Caller yes i would, to be honest, peter. I am at the end of my life. And i cannot, in good conscience , not say what my experience has been. So, yes, i would not treat them terribly. I would challenge them. You just cannot make a case for donald trump. You just cant do it. Host john in chapel hill. David in claremont, california. Word ofou get the last this segment of the washington journal. Will you support Hillary Clinton is a Bernie Sanders supporter . Caller yeah, but i was ambivalent about both Bernie Sanders. Was for what Bernie Sanders stood for, but i thought Hillary Clinton was a much more effective politician. And so i think your preinterview misunderstood that a little bit. Bernie sanders really lost me first of all, years ago, the Democratic Central Committee in nevada and i know how fair they are. What happened in nevada turned me off. Out virginia, he healed hope for minors. Donald trump says he will open the coal mines. And Hillary Clinton told the done, andsaid coal is she lost West Virginia because of telling the truth. She has been a truth teller all her life. The was the head of he was the overseas director of American Baptist churches. When you have a lot of friends overseas, we have a lot of friends overseas and they are mystified on how americans are supporting donald trump. It is inconceivable that the leader of the world would consider someone like that. Vet,l mention that i am a supporter of the veterans administration. The problem with the va, veterans come to the va, and ask for their. Records. And they dont have their ducks in a row. Host that was david in claremont, california. Were going to do more phone segments. We are one to talk with a political reporter in just a few minutes. Hotelg us from the loews , is a member of the board of supervisors and the delicate. Who are you delegating for . Guest i am a proud bernie delegate. How are you doing today . Host we are good. As a Bernie Sanders delegate, the questioner go the question we have been asking our viewers is, will you be supporting hillary in november . Guest if Hillary Clinton is our democratic nominee and candidate, yes, i will be supporting Hillary Clinton defeat donald trump in november. Host why are you supporting Bernie Sanders . That right nowt he is what our country needs to keep moving us forward with the progressive ideas we need to pass forward. College in 2003 and still paying my college off and have a ways to go. It is time for us to correct those issues. Another thing is our health care system. We have canada and a whole bunch of other countries in europe that are far exceeding what we are doing, and it is time to see what they are doing. Not saying to do exactly what they are doing, but to the best parts of what they are doing and make the system better for everybody. That is seniors all the way down to millennials down to the newborns been born these days. These are some of the reasons i ended up choosing sanders. Also the 15 minimum wage. Host virginia is a Hillary Clinton. State. What have been the conversations at the delegate breakfast this morning . Everyone is in a good mood and we are enjoying ourselves, interacting and learning. Virginia is a very diverse commonwealth. It is my home and i plan on living here all my days. Just getting to learn about each other, why we are here. This is my first time being at a National Convention, so it is exciting seeing the sights and the sounds and getting to meet other folks. Host what time are you heading down to the Wells Fargo Center . And how are you getting there . Guest they have shuttle buses. They did a great job of organizing shuttle buses. They are running 20 47 to get us to different venues they have lined up for us. I plan on leaving the hotel right around 3 00 to give ourselves enough time to get through security, if there is any traffic, and getting a good spot down on the convention floor. Member of the county board of supervisors and a Bernie Sanders delegate. Thanks for being with us on the washington journal on the loews hotel. Zito with the Pittsburgh Tribune review, National Political reporter. What has the city been like for the last couple of days . Guest philadelphia has been a great host city. Staying right by city hall. That is where all the protests are going on. You see a wide variety of burning supporters with the different kinds of things that drive them to support them, like climate change, or they mad at the dnc, or they are mad at Debbie Wasserman schultz, or matted wall street. There is a whole rainbow of interesting ways that people are not supporting mrs. Clinton right now. I dont know if that changes. In my drive across the state, i vans dressed up from different states. Host all right. You live in pittsburgh. How long is the drive . Guest four to five hours. I decided to take route 30, which is original highway, the lincoln highway that goes across the country built in 1913. I took that way the whole way. Signs. Ed 192 trump zero hillary signs. None. I talked to a lot of people across the state. I am not surprised i this. Surprised by this. Pennsylvania,t of are democrats in the part of the state are the more moderate. If they dont work in koehler steel even if they dont work in coal or steel, there has been a problem for her in a disconnect. They have not seen the benefits trickle down. There are a lot of Trump Supporters along the way. Host we got the phone lines up. Are continuing our conversation and bringing in democrats, republicans, and independents in the segment. Numbers on the screen. 202 is the area code for all of them. Our guest is salena zito who has been with the Pittsburgh Tribune review for eight years now. Guest yes. , on how is the economy your drive, how is the economy here in philadelphia, and what is it like in pittsburgh . Guest pittsburgh used to be a steel town. It was based off the backs of bluecollar workers. Pittsburgh we built itself. The universities and the hospitals that is where a lot of people make their money, make their living, but also shale. That has been a huge boom in southwestern pennsylvania. There is going to be a huge trickle effect. Attractker plant will plastic businesses to move into those areas. You has been very good, but get out of pittsburgh, and you get along the highways, these old river towns have never found a way to recover. They did not have the resources or the Foundation Money that pittsburgh had to rebuild itself. Conversely, if you look at philadelphia, it is a big inking down. Philadelphia is a very big banking town. Every plug you put in is controlled by the union. Economy in philadelphia is doing well, too. And in between that, sort of tells the story. In 1990 six, bill clinton won 28 of those 67. Or state has become. 4 republican, even though it has only voted for democrats statewide since 1996. And in 2012, barack obama only got 11 of those counties. Host and still won. But there still won, are 10 counties i am looking at across the state that could change. Just a little tweak of turnout. Further,ore we go any when you say cracker plant, do you mean the crackers you eat . [laughter] plant s and even all it is a ethanol plant. Herb. Cks the host your most recent story in the Pittsburgh Tribune review clinton needssays to reconnect with frustrated voters. Guest i talked to him and the Campaign Manager for mrs. Clinton yesterday. Plan to see no ground. State andosis understands it better, no disrespect to robbie. He sees the frustration to voters. It is not just republican voters. We are talking about traditional democrats, who are a little more , a little less progressive than a washington democrat would be. That is what you see in the statehouse in this state, that it has gone republican in the stored numbers down ballot. 13 of the 18 congressional seats are republican. The state house and the state senate, they have not had republican numbers like this since the 1920s. He understands there is a problem. And that she needs to connect with them and she also needs to connect with the sanders people to make sure that they do show up. Pennsylvania does not have that big emerging electorate you see and other battleground states. So, we dont have a large hispanic population. Connect withally africanamerican voters, especially in philadelphia to win the state. Trump has a unique appeal to workingclass democrats. Switchedmocrats t to republicans to vote in a primary. That is a number that is not a number to laugh at. Host salena zito is our guest. You are a caller, go ahead. Caller that is perfect. What i have to, is what you wrote about. I have been a democrat forever. I voted for obama the very first time and did not vote for him the second time. I voted for ron paul the second time just because i could not cannot in good conscience, vote for obama the second time. I was a bernie supported throughout this primary season, and i continue to be a burning supporter bernie supporter. And i will not vote for Hillary Clinton to piggyback what you just said about. There has been many times iwatch cspan i watch cspan in the morning. I wish that Chris Higgins was still alive to be a guest today. I encourage anyone to want to chrisut more about henson, it would blow your mind. The comments i have is about the disconnect between the Democratic Party and its nominee now. The Democratic Party, in my view, left democrats a long time ago. I am frustrated because every four years, i am forced to decide, you dont vote for our party nominee, then you are just going to give the vote to donald trump, or it was mitt romney four years ago, or bush back whenever we were supposed to kerry. Or that politics does not work for me are the true democrat. This idea we have to vote for the better of two evils does not align with what we say we believe in. And i think that is where the frustration truly comes from. As an example, i was a hardcore president ial hardcore president obama supporter. Anyway, host lets wrap this up stephen. Thing i hadsame with him was the same with Hillary Clinton. As soon as she is elected, Goldman Sachs and the big thanks banksl her cabinet big will fill her cabinet. I dont see a big difference between the two parties. Host we got the point. Stephen in gainesville, florida. Guest he is right. This is the heart of what the problem is right now on both sides of the aisle. People are frustrated. They are frustrated by being told that they have to vote the party or they are going to give it to someone else. It is been years of that. It began in 2004 when bush started to lose the house in 2006 when the house swung away. Big wavead these cycles because people keep sending a message to washington, and washington keeps misreading it. This year, i just want to get in there and blow it all up. And start all over again. That is why you see someone like donald trump Bernie Sanders, someone who is a little more unconventional, a little different, someone who has not told either partys line, bernie has not. Throughout his career, he has been an dependent. An independent. Why they may not be personally appealing, they like the idea of true change, not hope and change, but to change. Host salena zito, we have talked to Bernie Sanders supporters to see if they would support Hillary Clinton. It came up to about 5050. But a lot of them say, no they are not. Good that swing be affected . Guest absolutely. Look at 2012 you saw a lot of voters not showing up. Even in pennsylvania, the turnout was completely down among independent, or conservative, or republican voters. Up insame voters showed the 2010 and 2014 midterms. But they did not turn up in the president ial. They looked at the guys and said, no, im not doing this. Calling writer from philadelphia on the republican line. Justin, tell us about your experience being in a convention city. Justin in philadelphia . Tell you what, for some reason, my screen is not updating. I dont know if justin is there are not. Justin, is that you . Tell us your spirits about being in a convention city. Caller i just went to the airport yesterday, and it was pretty uncomfortable seeing the amount of police presence. Militarized looks to me and i dont like it. The scened me of after the september 11, guards with assault rifles in front of buildings representing freedom and liberty. That was not fun for me. Host all right. Go ahead and talk about what you wanted to talk about. Caller i want to just make the point that democracy is not about majority rules. Democracy is about all the voices been brought to the table and being heard. And, i am registered republican, not because i have the Democratic Party was basically, completely committed to Hillary Clinton before any voting ever really opened. I would in a heartbeat vote for sanders if he were a candidate, because he actually represents change and progress, and making things better for the average citizen. Host does donald trump represent change and progress to you . Caller he represents change. A lot of republicans are fighting him tooth and nail. A lot of people that want normal Republican Party elites came out to support him. I cannot personally support trump, but i was really glad to see him forced the Republican Party to reexamine itself, and to shake up a lot of their assumptions. Theto kind of play out rhetoric they use. A lot of republicans have been using rhetoric that they never really thought through, and then Trump Realizes a lot of it. Host so all that said, right now, where are you going to go in november . A primethis is opportunity for a thirdparty to get a voice. Now, have a, right prowork, they are not about a diversity of voices in any way. At this point, the Libertarian Party is pretty close to getting enough percentage that they had to be represented. So i am probably going to support the libertarian candidate just to try host what kind of work you do in philadelphia, justin . Caller i dont know right now. Seeking. I have been when occupy washing was happening in philadelphia, i spent a lot of time in the crowd there. Host thank you so much. Letsfrom salena zito hear from salena zito. What do you what did you hear from justin . Guest a lot of frustration. When you become a republican or democrat, some of us just become it by birth. Who we areally form until we are 19 years old or 21 years old. But you are joining a club and you have to go by the rules of the club in the words of the club and the Mission Statement of the club. Wear the teamt to jerseys anymore. They are exhausted by it and exhausted by having to defend things they dont always agree with. They are tired to have to suit up every day. Politics have always been a contact sport, but we are so much more this time. Host emanuel is calling from washington d. C. Go ahead. Caller good morning. I am calling in regards to the convention. Thank you for letting me in. My feeling is that about the chairman of the Democratic Party. Her, i they are treating did not appreciate. She has worked so hard to bring this party together. Far,what i have seen so none of the emails are written by her. She is not an independent. [indiscernible] it is not a crime. Host lets hear from salena zito. Thank you. Guest eight party chairmans a party chairmans job is to remain neutral. They are to make sure that the process works. During the contest, they are not supposed to work against one or the other party. 2000, the chairman was a former mayor and governor of the state. When he signed on, he also wrote a check for al gore for 1000. Him, bill bradley called and says, are you going to give me a check, too . And he says, i guess i have to. He never did anything like that again. They have to remain neutral and cannot favor one candidate over the other. That is the problem here. Even if she did not i have not seen if she personally wrote any of the emails, but there is this thing called reverend power. Whether it is business or politics, the people who work for you understand how you want things done. They understand what your biggest motive is, or what you prefer. That is probably what happened here. That is probably why she is under fire, although president obama and his wife michelle, and Hillary Clinton, have also have also sent out a emails and testimonials about Debbie Wasserman schultz in the florida representative who is now being as chairwoman as the dnc. Marcia fudge, the representative from ohio who will chair the convention are both africanamerican women. Guest sure. It is important, but more than or of their skin, they are both brilliant women. Large degree of working in the party. They were picked because of their ability to nimbly work within the party for both sanders and quentin supporters. Clinton supporters. Guest al gore is not coming to the convention this year. Guest we make a big deal about that in our profession. They dont come to these things. George w. Bush and george age george h. W. Bush has not come. The guy lost. He did not have the greatest relationship with the clintons. Why would you subject yourself to that whole line of stories that would come out about it. You make itng one story saying this is wonderful and brings all these components of the party together, but the bigger stories will be, how much gore and clinton did not get along, how he lost. Host salena zito, be from pittsburgh, was a perfect year a center of the election, if you look along the spine between ohio and pennsylvania, that is where the election is going to be decided. Host how does philadelphia feels versus how cleveland was . Guest we really have not gotten into the Convention Hall. Both cities have been great host cities. Both cities have been great host cities. Cleveland was wonderful. It was efficient. I loved the market half they had outside of the building for delegates. That was new. The democrats are doing the same thing they have food trucks. You do not just come out to a gate, you are actually able to mingle outside and enjoy the summer weather. In terms of hosting, cleveland did an amazing job. I expect the same thing from philadelphia. Mrs. Clinton and senator kaine are going to take a bus trip from philadelphia. Guest yes, they are leaving here friday now, this may change, but their plans are townast i heard the where she was baptized and where she spent every summer, her father was from scranton, her grandfather was a coal miner there, and theyre going down toward harrisburg, possibly johnstown, which is a great, iconic old steel town. Ohio. P to pittsburgh and pennsylvania and ohio, if you want to know what will happen, just basically move into pittsburgh. Everything within a halfhour in either direction is going to tell you be story of the election. Host richard in massachusetts, good morning, richard. Caller good morning. Thank you. Under no circumstances can i vote for Hillary Clinton. Im voting for jill stein. I just love her. She is the only one talking about militarism, perpetual war. 60 of ourer discretionary budget on the military. Things we have to do domestically, and we cannot have an empire and do everything what we should be doing inside. Also, we have got another new cold war going on. Barack obama is sending troops, weapons into poland, lazio, if latvia, estonia. How would we like it if we were surrounded by troops in mexico or canada . We would not like it at all. Diplomacy is what we should be doing, and we are not doing it at all. The Democratic Party has become such a corrupt party under clinton and barack obama. They have gotten so much money from wall street. They neglected the working class and the shrinking middle class. Salena was saying hey, lets get with it. Trump is talking a more populist message than Hillary Clinton is. Host corporatist, populist. Guest populist year. Look, since 2001, we have been under posttraumatic stress disorder, then we have the economic recession, and while some of it has recovered for some people, for a lot of people it has not. A lot of people are not either making what they made before, or they have to take on a parttime job to make that happen. The wages are stagnant, and we have now seen more terrorist attacks on our own soil as well as social unrest. Been an easy time of it for the past 16 years. This is a direct result populism is a direct result of building frustrations. Very similar to what happened between 1892 and 1896 with William Jennings bryan. You had the farmers that were upset, and the world was changing. We were becoming an industrial nation. We were moving away from the farms and Rural America and into the cities. Within those cities, there needed to be reforms. That was the whole part of the Progressive Movement in the early 20th century. We are going through a very similar time. The Global Economy has had a very big impact on main street america, and so, you know, people that is what leads to populism. It has been building and building, and we are at a peak right now. We will see what happens. Host mark is an independent in newcastle, pennsylvania. Go ahead, mark. Salena,good morning, peter, and all the viewers. I was listening to your first statement. I am only involved in politics. I originally lived in ohio, but anyway, there are no and noase hear me there are Hillary Clinton signs out yet for the president ial election. The trumpster signs have been out for almost a year. Dont lead off the program saying you did not see one hillary sign. There are no hillary signs out from the Democratic National committee, ok . That is number one. Number two, in 2012, the reason was stalled was because barack obama, the polling showed that a lot of the democrats did not vote, and a lot of republicans did not vote because barack obama had the election shored up. I wanted to clarify those two points. That is all i wanted to say. Guest there are plenty of Hillary Clinton signs throughout especially the city of pittsburgh and if you went through philadelphia as well. Host final call for salena zito of the Pittsburgh Tribune. Caller how are you doing, peter . I hope that you will streamline the email sometime. Ok, we are not a democracy. We are a representative republic. These wall street people, you know, these companies are coops like the left always wanted because you could buy stock in them. Join in. If you think they are oning too much money, get the bandwagon. Banks would not be so powerful if people were not mortgaging even their lunch. Now, i am a combat vet also. Peopleo longer, we the , it is some of the people who pay taxes. The world is all capitalists, china, vietnam, and we are trying to move into socialist because the people with the checks vote democrat to protect their money. Stereotyping against whites on cspan has got to go. You cannot say anything about blacks. You will hang up on them. I think there will be a riot that will erupt between the sanders and the hillary people. That is the end up my statement. Of my statement. Guest i think he reflects very much that frustration that we have been talking about. There is a big protest scheduled on tuesday at 2 00. It will be interesting. It goes down broad street do not completely quote me on that, but im relatively sure it is owing down brought treat to city hall. Host toward city hall from the Wells Fargo Center. It is essentially for miles down broad street. Guest right. I am not sure it will go the whole four miles. It is, what, 94 degrees here . But it will go down broad street and end at city hall for it im not sure where the beginning of it is. Host and that is the major rally. Guest that is the major rally, at least when i left my room this morning. That could change. There was a huge protest yesterday. It was bernie people, but the message was all over the place. It was hard to tell what they were focusing on. This is the one focusing on supporting bernie. Host so what we be covering today . Guest today, the clinton team is having a campaign a press conference this morning, so i will be covering that. Our delegation from pennsylvania has a wide variety of speakers coming to speak to the delegation. You know, national people, john podesta, so i will be covering all of those to see what they are telling delegates in order to i mean, there are a lot of delegates in the pennsylvania delegation, to see how they are going to bring them together. Also, governor tom wolfe will be there as well. Host will you be down at the Wells Fargo Center today . Guest i will. I will be there when they gavel in at 4 00 unless they change the time again. Then i will be at the Convention Hall all evening. Host salena zito of the Pittsburgh Tribunereview, please come back. Guest thank you for having me. Host as a lot of the last callers have said, especially the last one, this is for democrats only, can be Democratic Party unite and unify . And 7488000 for the east central time zone folks, and if you live out west, 202 7488001. We will begin taking those calls after we get a catch up on a news. Rncashington examiner the villainousnd history. The rnc has expanded two philadelphia. We are here to give a voice to americans who have had enough of the clintons cronyism. Take a look at the video that they have put together. [video clip] welcome to Philadelphia International airport. You will find your baggage carousel number 2. Local time is 7 31 p. M. Enjoy your stay in philadelphia. Paul sec. Johnson sec. Johnson metaphor greta research near the Delaware River waterfront in philadelphia, and then there is another tweet, the reporter covering the convention, some not very nice Hillary Clinton things being sold on the streets of philadelphia, and also gop offers loaded hillary dice, she wins every time. And a conservative columnist for the daily beast has a picture of the boxing ring that the rnc has set up, so there are literally wrestling matches here, a metaphor for 2016. The fusionso website, fusion. Net, they have put together advice from cartoonists for hillary. Let me show you this one, rebecca cohen, Hillary Rodham first of her name, break or a glass ceilings, the unberned. Be merciful to the men, though they are pitiful and undeserving. List for hillary do response to criticism of your age and appearance. Do not be secretive. Former president and husband bill clinton in a box that says do not open until 2024, but do not be a hypocrite. On the to do list, support dorsal health care appeared on the dont list, start another unjustified war. Live inre back philadelphia. This is day one of the Democratic National convention. We are at the National Constitution center, center city, philadelphia. Very close to Independence Hall, very close to the liberty bell. This center, the National Constitution center, was enacted, was part of an enactment by congress to dedicate a facility to the study and longevity of the constitution. And that is what the National Constitution center is. If you want to call in, we are asking if the Democratic Party can be united. Can it be unified . 202 7488000 if you are a Hillary Clinton supporter, 202 7488001 if you are supporting Bernie Sanders. Jamesin with a call from and chattanooga, tennessee. Go ahead, james. What is your answer to that question . Caller thank you, cspan. I will be supporting secretary Hillary Clinton. I feel that the democrats can and will come together. Old, i can67 years see the hatred and the venom on feel thatside, and i there will be rnc interruptions that will call, like the last caller said, a riot in philadelphia. I think it will be initiated through the rnc. To distract and throw the democrats off key, off the narrative of how ms. Clinton have been a diligent worker all of her life, all of her young life, and the fact that she host james, as a Hillary Clinton supporter, what do you think of the Bernie Sanders supporters . Caller i love senator sanders. He is right on key. And if the people that are for realize that we are for the same goals, the same purposes and get over it as far ways,ting our own when you to come together as a group, not as individuals and nitpicking over small issues that could have nothing to do with i mean, lets come together, people. And all of this venom and hatred please. And you call yourself a christian nation. This is so ironic. We are all people of god. Thank you. Host that is james and chattanooga, tennessee. This is roger in navajo county, arizona. Roger, who are you supporting, and can the Democratic Party be unified . Caller you now, unfortunately i am 72, and i voted in 13 president ial elections, and this is going to be the first time in my life that im going to have to vote against a democrat, but not for donald trump. I view donald trump and Hillary Clinton as both republicans. She is one click less of a republican than donald trump. But either jill stein or gary johnson, i am going to go with them. There is no way there is nothing that the Democrat Party after 72 years of life could do to get me to vote for Hillary Clinton. Host brady is in fayetteville, North Carolina. Who are you supporting, and can your party be unified . Caller yes it can. I am supporting senator Hillary Clinton. The reason i am supporting her is for the time that she was the secretary of state, she did an excellent job. You heard no complaints about Hillary Clinton until she decided to run for the president , and all the sudden, everything went wrong. They calltand jesus christ himself the devil. Now, when you have got people within your party that are not true democrats, that are scaling the fence, that normally vote republican most independents vote republican. They do not vote democrat. We need to stop being divided. If we got some true independents that are going to Bernie Sanders, they need to do that. He is going to be loyal to hillary. If you are going to be a bernie supporter, you need to be loyal to bernie, and you need to do what bernie wants to do, support Hillary Clinton. Bernie sanders can be more effective as a leader in the senate, to be able to pass some 9 those agendas that the professional rating performance that are congress has right now can be improved. We can put people in congress that can help past Bernie Sanders agenda, so they need to hillaryther, get behind clinton, they need to unite and stop fighting. Call all right, our next comes from johnstown, pennsylvania. This is john. Who is your candidate, and can you be a unified party . Caller yes, we can be a unified party, and i believe Hillary Clinton will win. I will vote for her. Supporterrnie sanders in the primary, but i will vote for hillary. I cannot vote for donald trump. There is no way. The man is not qualified to be president of the United States. That is my comment. Host the next call is sandra in oregon. Tell us your view. Thank you, maam. Caller i am a bernie supporter of your dow will not be supporting hillary, and not because she is evil or anything but because she and the same,icans are one in the they support the same people, and the policies that have been over the last several decades is that they run on one platform, but when they get into the office, all of the policies clinto business, and it becomes reagan, trickle down, and if that is what is going to become a Bernie Sanders is absolutely right. You have to look and make a decision if youre going to make a difference. Then you have to start gearing up for a third party, and that third party is jill stein, so i am jill stein 2016 and 2020. Thank you. Host are you going to be watching Bernie Sanders speech tonight . Caller absolutely. I door bernie. For the mere fact that he laid a platform for people to use their brains. If you are going to follow what he said, then you have to take that into account. He did not tell you that you have to follow him to hillary. He gave you an avenue because they tried to clearly bait him yesterday in an interview to ask if he was going to tell his people to not support jill stein , and he would not do that because he understands that jill stein is the only candidate that has policy that is near his almost 100 . She is actually a little bit more left than he is. So if true bernie supporters were really interested in a platform that will not be warmongering, that was more about get fracking out of our system, to put money into education and health care, then jill stein would be that thirdparty that you want to start bringing into the mainstream. We will try our best to get her sidebyside on the stage with Hillary Clinton donald trump, and even the libertarian so she can put that platform forward. Because if we dont host sandra, was it a tense clinton andeen sanders supporters . Bernie invoted for the primary, and i will be voting for jill stein. That. Right, ok, we got thank you, sandra. Lets hear from larry in tuscaloosa, alabama. Hillary clinton supporter. Are you going to be a united party going into november, larry . Caller yes, sir. That is the only way to be. A house divided will fall. I want to let the lady who just called, a vote for an independent party is a waste of a vote. You might as well stay at home. I also want to say that the former secretary of state mrs. Illary clinton is a leader she has got a plan, she has got a vision, and also she shows good tact. She is not here cutting down folks with her tongue. She is not here speaking smooth like hot butter on crisp toast and then turning around and yes warld trumps heart is in and in hatred here to she is for the 13 commitment, abolishing slavery, she is for the 19th amendment, womens rights to vote. That is what she is for, the working people and the class people and the working poor curate i want to say, peter, you brought up a statement a long time ago, and you asked a person from tuscaloosa, alabama, you asked him how do you know that the in the policeot force, so i went back and i did research, and i found out that alabama city suspend Police Officers for being in the wis white supremacists, you will find out that they had a li lieutenant who was in the kkk, so you have policeman in the kkk who are out here spewing out hatred among black peoples, and Hillary Clinton stands for all people. Not only just for black people who have been shot and killed, but also for policeman as well p or we have some good policeman, yet, but we also have some better in the white supremacists. That is why im voting for hillary. I would like to annotate one thing, pete host we have to leave it there, larry, in tuscolas alabama, a Hillary Clinton supporter. Alabama, aloosa, Hillary Clinton supporter. Here is greta bronner. Awner. It is long days for them, and it begins with delegate breakfasts. A reporter for the long beach tweeting out, suit of lights for florida Bernie Sanders delegate sanjay patel of satellite beach. Another tweet different party, very different button. A look at what delegates and convention goers can purchase when they are at the convention. Trevor elkins, who is mayor in ohio, tweeting a picture of todays credentials. Take a look at day one. If you want to get into the Wells Fargo Center, you have to have this credential that you will show security. Take a look at whose name is at the top of that credential Debbie Wasserman schultz, dnc chair who says she will step down after this weeks convention. Earlier, we spoke with a delegate here, and he tweeted out this picture, virginia delegation breakfast. You can take a look at the virginia delegates gathering in philadelphia ahead of the first day when the delegates gavel in at 4 00 p. M. Eastern time. In newack to your call, york city, a Bernie Sanders the democrats going to be a united party . Caller i will not vote for hillary. Hillary clinton cannot be trusted in the 1990s. She supported nafta, which took away from new york apparel and textile industries. She sat on the board of directors of walmart. Walmart benefited from it, she benefited from it, but new york did not. We lost our textile and apparel industry because of nafta. What about her speech for Goldman Sachs. . She has not revealed it yet. Also her support of the war. She voted for the war with iraq. We lost 4500 americans and hundreds of thousands of iraqis, and of course we never had isis before the war. She is responsible for isis. She should really step down host all right, that is stella in new york city. Jane is in florida, Bernie Sanders supporter. Jay . Caller yes, good morning. I see that you are asking about the Democratic Party unifying. I think that what we are seeing is a breakup of the Democratic Party. I think things have gone totally. Aywire they are not listening to anybody out in the middle class for sure. The recent emails and of course with Debbie Wasserman schultz withnd thenre Debbie Wasserman schultz here, and then she goes back i and hires her into her campaign, i am extremely disappointed that nobody is going to jail. We have got bankers that we have taken all the money from, and of course nobody is what you get prosecuted. So im still going to vote for sanders. Host do you see parallels between the Bernie Sanders Hillary Clinton situation and the ted cruzdonald trump situation . Caller are you talking about bernie going against hillary . Host just in general. Bernie, youink that know, with ted cruz and donald trump, i think cruz made the right move by doing the voting your conscience. I think bernie made the wrong move and not leveraging more the controversy all around hillary. Host lets go to the second point, which is party unity. Do you think the republicans are in the same position as the democrats when it comes to a party unity . They arees, i think very much there is a split right down the middle also. Host thank you for your time this morning. Lets hear from washington, iowa. Hi. Caller hi. How are you doing . My thing is that i am a hillary supporter, and the people that dont vote for and vote for Jill Stein Jill Stein wont win, you know, so i vote for jill stein is a vote for donald trump. Thank you, sir. Coming up, we will be talking with a couple of delegates. Jesse lewis is a Bernie Sanders delegate, and we will be talking with her onset in just a minute. First, lets note to the loews hotel and innercity, philadelphia in center city, philadelphia. Here is the first lady lady of virginia and also a Hillary Clinton delegate. This is dorothy mccullough. Mrs. Mccullough, this is a big week for virginia, isnt it . Guest good morning. A very big week for virginia, a very big week for the country, but virginia having senator kaine on the ticket is so exciting. This virginia delegation is fired up. So as someone who has a semiofficial role and is the first lady of virginia, what are your duties . Guest so i was on the rules committee, actually, and we came up saturday, and we had a long meeting, but a successful meeting, and the Sanders Campaign and the Clinton Campaign came together and were unified on rules, which were then pointed out. Far,s been a great week so as i said, i have been here since saturday, so my official duties are officially over, but now being here with the delegation, they are fired up, they are in the room behind me, and we are going to enjoy the convention, the speeches. The governor will give the first speech after the roll call vote, and i will be there with the rest of the delegation, cheering him on, and we are going to have a great time this week. We have got great candidates, we are excited about the Energy Around our constituents, and it will be a great week. Mcauliffe bevernor speaking tonight at the convention . Guest he will speak after the roll call, which we believe as of now is tuesday afternoon. Or early evening. Mcauliffe, who is speaking guest can you hear the cheers . The governor is addressing the delegation right now, and they are fired up. They all got in yesterday. All of our delegations came in, and we have been with them at a couple of events, and this was the First Official breakfast where we collect their credentials, and then we had over to the floor for the gaveling in of the 2016 Democratic Convention this afternoon, so everyone is fired up and ready to go. And the governor is getting them even further fired up. [laughter] host he is an and is the essex bigger. Mrs. Mcauliffe he is an and is the essex in louisiana stick he is an enthusiastic speaker. What he think about Debbie Wasserman schultz . Guest listen, she is a hard worker, but, you know, i think she has on the right thing, and i think they will move forward from here. It is our last night. Know, i will still continue to do what i have done to build the party, to bring people together, and she really is a committed democrat. She is a great leader, and she will continue to work and help those parties. Host what do you say to the sanders delegates who are not on board yet with Hillary Clinton . Well, i have seen and met a lot of sanders delegates who are on board and are focused on we see the most member in history. What they have brought to the party, what they have brought to the table is positive energy, that we need to continue to Work Together, continue to build and improve the party, listen to from theces, hear young people that they brought into the democratic process, and to make sure that we work forward together. So i would say to those that are not on board, continue to listen and Work Together with us to make sure that we elect the most qualified person for president of the United States and that their vote matters in that election. Host virginia governors can only serve one term. Your husbands term is up in 2017. What is next . Guest yes. Oh, you know, my husband you never know what is next. He is focused on the job he is doing as governor, and he has still got a lot of time left to do as much as he can for the people of the commonwealth, and he will continue to do that. We are loved and honored and positiond to have the we do right now in the commonwealth to improve and make sure that all people in the commonwealth have a shot at the American Dream and have the best education possible, developing economy, that is what he is focused on 100 every day in this job. That is really where his focus is. We have been married over 27 years now, and the one thing about my husband, if he is talking about young people are mentoring others in terms of he is focused, keep your options open, and i have no doubt that he will finish this role and there will be something whetherorizon for him or not it is politics. He is not one who have a hard time keeping busy. Host what about you . What about Political Office for you . Know about, i do not that. I do know that i am committed to on child focused nutrition and the commonwealth, and i know we have seen great progress. We have more to do for her we have over 300,000 children in the commonwealth, and i know that while we have made Great Strides for children to have healthy food in the commonwealth, we will continue to work on that issue even after this. It is something my husband and i have been committed to as parents for a long, long time, and we will continue to work on that after his time in office is over. It is great to have that opportunity to tackle that challenge from a statewide perspective. I do not know exactly what form it will take next, but we will continue on those efforts to make sure that all children have access to healthy and nutritious food, which gives them which improves their educational outcomes and opportunities. So that is what we are focused on, and we will continue to focus on that. Is theorothy mcauliffe first lady of virginia. Mrs. Mcauliffe, if you could ask your husband not to speak while we are talking to you, we would appreciate it. Guest [laughs] that is ok. I do not know if i will have a chance to tell him that, but i will mention that. It is great to hear the energy in that room, and our virginia delegation is so proud, so excited. We have front row seats. We are just so proud of tim anne, whoproud of has served in the governors cabinet as our secretary of education, and there cannot be too better people to add energy, intelligence, and the right to the national ticket, and we are so proud of hillarys choice and her campaign and all that we are accomplishing here this week. Host thank you for joining us, mrs. Mcauliffe. We appreciate it. Her husband, governor mcauliffe, Terry Mcauliffe of virginia, is on cspan3 right now. We are covering that breakfast. If you want to watch governor mcauliffe talk instead of talking with us, you can turn to cspan3. Jeff lewis is a delegate from the state of washington, a Bernie Sanders delegate. You were listening to mrs. Mcauliffe. What did you hear from her . Will i definitely heard an inspired delegation. To us, it signifies that there will be a focus on more than the or the corporate wing of the party and not the progressive wing, which is what people of us are. Host what does that mean . Means progressive to me caring for your fellow man. It means a striking down tpp. Is about creating an economy that works for all americans, and bank deregulation. Host this morning, we have asked our callers a couple of different questions. A line for senator sanders supporters only, and will you be supporting Hillary Clinton, and will the Democratic Party be unified . How do you answer those questions . Guest the Democratic Party is one where we can have open and honest discussion and disagreement each other and still at the end of the day have respect for one another. That is something i definitely appreciate. But i know that there is some frustration for sure on both sides. Host will you be supporting Hillary Clinton in november . Guest we will see. Host [laughs] tell us your story, miss lewis. How did you end up in philadelphia . Guest i showed up in my and i set up in 2008 for the caucus, and i spoke with the legislative caucus, was thed their, and i can to Congressional District caucus where they voted me to represent them and their views and take them to philadelphia. Host where in washington do you live . Guest i live in seattle, washington, and i do Brand Marketing and development in the emerging cannabis industry. Host the emerging cannabis industry. Do you sell marijuana . Guest i merchandise it and make it more attractive. We are focused on more of a boomer demographic, so more of your retirees, your professionals. Sort of crafts that you would see at whole foods, that is our demographic focus. Host what is the legal status of marijuana in Washington State . Guest it is a legal recreational products. Host anyone 18 or older can go in and purchase some marijuana . Guest 21 and older. Host just like alcohol. Guest exactly. It is run by the same board, the liquor and cannabis board instead of the liquor control board. Host has it been profitable for industry . Guest actually, we are overly taxed. Host on all your profits . Guest that is the enduser who pays that tax. When we are competing with the black market or the gray market, that tax hurts our ability to have decent margins. We also, because of 280e, cannot take tax writeoffs from other companies. Host what is 280e . Guest if you are working with a schedule one drug, that will prevent you from claiming any sort of right off. So marketing, facilities, anything that will cost, you are forbidden from taking a normal tax write off for it. Have you been wer in the industry, and what were you doing prior . Guest i have been in the industry for two years both on the general manager side and the retail side. Messagingt, sustainability to the troops as a contractor. Host disappointing that i read in your bio that you were living in your car. Guest that was early on in my education. I found myself raising my daughter on my own, and working waitress jobs was not enough for me to cover my bills, so i took an education because i Love Learning and i wanted to fully contribute as a functioning member of society and do more. Host what was that like . Guest that was tough. Seople at the time, um i wa caught in a social safety net, so i had support, but my benefits were cut because i chose to go to school. It made it harder. There were times where i would have to pick am i going to spend money on my books or am i going to spend money on food . Host what does it cost to be a delegate . What does it cost to you personally . Is it paid for . Guest it is not paid for. I had a crowd Funding Campaign week off ofunpaid work, and a lot of that was spent in preparation for this. We were given the estimate, anywhere from 3000 to 6,000 for the cost of the hotel, airfare host so how much outofpocket so far . Probably has been 3500. Host did you have to make your own arrangements . Guest yeah. Host was the hotel already booked for you . Guest our party is wonderful. The washington delegation got us a spot in the center of town. We are spending less than other delegations, maybe even half. Others are paying more than 700 per night from what i hear. Anytime you have a group of people, it basically affects free market. Tois difficult for people absorb, especially when you have people attracted to the process that are not usually involved. Host lets take some calls for jessa lewis, Washington State delegate, Bernie Sanders supporter. Gail is first from new york. Good morning. Caller good morning. I was just listening to the young ladys story, and it is an impressive one. I am glad that she has a professional job that she likes and is doing well at, and i am she has to spend so much money to go to the convention, and i thank her for being a delegate. I am a hillary supporter. Aboutason i called was party unity, and i see that she is a bernie delegate, and once hillary is the nominee, i hope that she does vote for her because i think probably hillary and bernie are closer together definitely than donald trump. Ad i cannot picture us having president that makes fun of disabilities. That is the least of it, but i hope she supports hillary in the end. Host what is your response to that caller . Guest i am going to promise personally to do everything in my power to keep donald trump from being elected that means being fully engaged in the process. That includes having a conversation about what it means as a party to keep us together. Host who is your speaker . Guest i actually missed it in order to be here. , therom what i saw governor just spoke. Host so your own governor just spoke, and who will speak tomorrow . Guest i had to run out before i saw the schedule. Host governor mcauliffe was speaking, Debbie Wasserman schultz is scheduled to speak at the floor of the delegation, and we have cameras there. If that happens, and we are able to, we will bring you that live, at least a portion of it, during this washington journal program. Mary is in potomac. Think we miss out terribly by not supporting sanders. Candidatee the better with experience and intellect, not working for the war. And i think, to be fair to him, at this point, he should have a , and givee floor people a chance who has been , you know, bythis am sorry, in i do not know her name. To be fair to sanders, it should be an so the delegates can change their mind to give him a fair chance. Host jessa lewis, what is your response to that caller . Guest as i understand, we are having a rollcall vote on the floor, so we will have a chance to vote. When you heard that Debbie Wasserman schultz was going to resign as chair, what was your reaction . Guest this is a tough season, and i think with wiki leaks and everything else, the democratic to hold being asked itself to what its potential is, feel debbie was just one member, and to have her scapegoated it is a whole institution, it is a whole organization, and there are certain things that went on at a local level. But having it be a situation where, reading the emails, it was so many people it was not just one person orchestrating everything. Say as a sanders delegate we are here, i am volunteering with the party, i am engaged. We want to be a part of things, and we want to win congress, and we are here to give our energy and our passion and hours of. Worke and our support. The being where you are in upper northwest, do you feel a does the next east coast and washington, d. C. . Guest of course. We are the wild west up there. Yeah. Host if you brought the product that you sell with us to philadelphia cell with you to philadelphia, would that be illegal . Guest yes, it would be if a felony. Host tom, you are on the air. Hi. Caller good morning. Thatld like to say watching this process, it seems very clear to me that it is the will of the party that matters, not the will of the people, and that both parties had preselected their nominees and did Everything Possible to wasre that their nominee the one that received the support, and the media is pretty much implicit in this in the way that they allowed the party to dictate the narrative and to tell the American People who it is they are supposed to vote for. I do not agree with her, but thank you for being a delegate, for being involved in the process, and for being an american. Host any response for that caller . Guest um, it is an honor to get to be a part of the process, as frustrating as it is sometimes, the fact that we are still fighting for our democracy and pushing for it. Thank you. Host debbie, gainesville, florida. Democrat. Hi, debbie. Caller hi. Lifelong democrat. 54 in a couple of months. 2008. D for hillary in i did not have a problem going for obama. It is just not the same now. I love Bernie Sanders. A lot of republicans i know want Bernie Sanders. Oncenow, nobody i know hillary. I cannot vote for her. The onlyrced argument anybody seems to have for her, you know, why we should have this unity, is to beat trunk. Beat trump. Well, hillary obviously cannot even within her own party, a little collusion in the dnc, it is about more than Debbie Wasserman schultz. It is systemic. Why do they think she is the better candidate and she is going to win being in a general election . I do not know, by cheating . It boggles my mind to think that she is the candidate. Obviously senator sanders thata lot of support, and should be carried to november for the down ticket and beyond. I mean, he is such a leader, and it is about trust. Trust, honesty, and he is straight with people. The tpp, that thing is awful. Host all right, debbie, a lot of issues there. Jessa lewis . Guest i heard from somebody who agrees with me that Bernie Sanders is a stronger candidate who could beat trump. Host buchanan tweets and, i still think sanders would do very well running as an independent. Guest the system is set up to where if you are not one of the two big parties, you do not have equal access. I mean, people did not know who he was he has been around for 40 years and politics. It is because he was able to be on a democratic stage that people were able to research and find out about him and realize what he had to offer. That is why i am engaged as a , that is why il participate, in order to be in the process. Host is marijuana in the democratic platform . Platform weere is a ae voting on where it will be schedule one drug. My concern, especially with the view on the presumptive nominee ticket, is either to be continued as a gateway drug or schedule two. A schedule two classification all theseroy independent businesses, momandpop shops. It would become a pure pharmaceutical drugs, and that is not how the plant works and how the businesses around it to our stimulating the economy and paying living wages host danny, South Carolina, independent line. Danny, jessa lewis is a delegate from Washington State. Caller hello. I am wanting to get an answer on something that just dawned on me this morning. I was a lifelong republican until i found the importance of impotence of republicans in congress, and i decided im going a different direction. I see the attempts to switch vote donald trump by Reince Priebus, and i see the attempts by Debbie Wasserman schultz to switch vote sanders. All of a sudden, the democrats have a level of moral character schultz, butf Reince Priebus is still in power. Can anybody explain that to me . Host do you have any thoughts you would like to share on that . Guest i have not been following that process as much because i have absolutely been buried in my own for this convention. I sorry, i cannot answer that question. Host terry in california, and minute line. Caller hi. Is that Bernie Sanders lost, fair and square. Get over it. The problem i see voting for jill stein or the republican or Libertarian Party, stay home sucking your thumb or writing in somebody else, you are only going to give the election to donald trump. And when you talk about trust and honesty and she is crooked, she is this i mean, it is unbelievable that his supporters wont stop. He was not a democrat. I am 80 years old. I know his history. He was a lackluster senator. Oficare in his home state vermont failed. If he was so great, then in the senate, he should be pushing these values he has and getting these bills across long ago. For example, Hillary Clinton could not get health care peopler, and by the way, on the staff, when nafta was discussed with her, she said she that was what they were in the white house for, she was all about health care. And it was a bill that was created by george bush, but he could not quite get it through before he left office. It wound up on clintons desk. Added some components to help the American Worker because it was a bipartisan bill that congress wanted to pass, and you do not ever see a first lady standing up in arguing against what her husband is doing. Host that is terry in a simi valley, california. Guest i definitely hear the passion there. This is a passionate election this year. The health care that was brought that sanders is pushing for when he was standing behind clinton during the whole Health Care Efforts when that was started while she was first lady is that all we are trying to do is accomplish what the rest of the developed world has. 75 of pharmaceutical profits come from the United States pure when we pay at least twice what any other developed nation has an have lesser outcomes, and when this is a first generation that has a Life Expectancy lower than their parents we can do better than that, we are the richest country in the world. The Affordable Care act does not go far enough. 15 to 18 of her income to health care. She is in remission from Breast Cancer, and when she went to go get a mammogram, she was still charged for it it was not covered. I had the public option for my daughter under the Affordable Care act. No one would take our insurance. And if anybody did, it was a monthlong wait. That does not do it for me. And we can do better. I would love to see the party become bolder. I love seeing the sitins forgone reform. People actually engaged. The people are hungry for a third that is why we flocked to sanders. He is someone who continues to push boldly, even when he was the only one pushing, because that is what we want to see. We are hungry to see the government work for us. Host jessa lewis, im going to read this tweet to you because you have not said yes, yes, im going to support Hillary Clinton in november. I want to thank those people for writing in jails or jills or bernies name when they vote. We Trump Supporters thank you for your votes. Honoring the constituents who sent me here. That is all i can speak to. Host are you surprised that you have not been released . Guest no. Host by Democratic Party rules, if you are not released, your obligate to vote for Bernie Sanders, is that correct . Host people can still change their vote, but it is a position of honor. I am going to honor my candidates, im going to honor my platform, and im going to honor the people who chose me to represent them. Host if Bernie Sanders says tonight, i release you guest i will still represent the people who sent me because ive gotten so many phone calls, emails, for the people who voted for me, asking me to stand firm. What i do in november is a completely other story, but for right now, it is the people, and they trusted me. Host have you gotten phone calls from the other side asking you to change your vote . Guest not as much change the other vote, but host our next caller is in maine, you are on with Washington State tha delegate jessa lewis. Caller yes, i have a comment on bernie and hillarys situation. I just think hillary is pandering to bernie and agreeing pandering to bernie in in agreeing to take some of his , and when she gets elected, shes not going to do any of what he wants anyway. Im just hoping his followers can see this. I am a person thats going to vote for trump, but i feel bad for bernie, because i think hes being suckered in, hearing what he wants to hear, but its not going to be followed through. Host before we let you go, do you see any parallels between the Bernie Sanders Hillary Clinton situation and the Ted Cruz Donald trump situation . Caller no, i dont compare them the same at all. Ted cruz and trump was a personal issue, and i think the democratic side is totally different. Host thank you, maam. Guest yeah, its been an adventure so far. I would say that to our different the two are different because its an antiestablishment year, which is why you are saying seeing tens of thousands show up on the streets of philadelphia. Host were you out on the streets . Guest yes, i was. It were multiple groups, multiple protests. Just the energy that was there as cheesy as it sounds, hearing this is what democracy looks like, feels good. The Philadelphia Police have been phenomenal. Yelling attentive and wehere are chants of love you to police. Having that kind of positivity and love, we care, we are here, we are engaging i love that kind of energy, that kind of passion. Thats how we win elections up and down the ticket is when you have that kind of energy. Our guest call from comes from peter in asheville, North Carolina, independent line. Go ahead. Caller good morning. I hope im able to make a comment about whether the Democratic Party is going to be able to unify. Campaignhat hillarys has made a big mistake by not right tobernie the first refusal, if you will thats not a negative term but offering him the vice presidency for him to either accept or decide he doesnt want it. Im reminded of doris current goodwins doris kearn book. If bernie had been offered the vice presidency, and i would be a bernie supporter, a lot of bernie supporters would then choose to vote for hillary, whether he accepted that position are not. Colorany comment for that caller . Personally, i think if bernie is not the president , he is more valuable to us in the senate. I hope they give him the health committee. There are many other potential Vice President ial candidates that i know the progressive wing would have loved to see, but this is where we are right now. I look forward to seeing what comes out of this convention and what unity is actually being offered. We are here and we are willing to participate in the process in good faith. Host are you getting any tens by wearingnse looks that bernie button . Guest a couple. Most of it is just hugs. The city workers, the Service Staff say thank you. The drivers, the cab driver, the working people of this country, when they see the bernie button, smile and just say thank you for fighting. To me, thats what its really about, representing people. Host whats the rest of your day . Guest ive got a couple of meetings and some work to get done at the hotel. At 12 30, we are going to go see bernie. The schedule has been moving around. Its been making it hard to plan exactly what we are going to go to, when. Host where is he speaking . Guest i believe that the convention center. I need to double check my email. Its a bit like drinking from the fire hose being at this convention. So much is happening all at once. Theres no way you can be at everything. Host when will you head to the Wells Fargo Center . Guest right after seeing bernie. We need to get there early to make sure we are on the floor. Host jessa lewis, thank you for your time this morning on washington journal. The democratic Convention Kicks off today. This will be day one. We have an open phone segment coming up. We want to hear your views and voices. Democrats, 202 7488000. For republicans. For independents, 202 7488002. And if you live in philadelphia, we would love to hear what you think about having this convention in your city. One thing you dont do is come to philadelphia and not know go to genos. In the italian market section of philadelphia, we are here with a professor. The food photo op when did it become a staple of little campaigns of political campaigns . It coincided with the more media campaigns. President s want a personal right to their campaign light to their campaign. When did this really catch on . I think this has been going on since both were campaigns, since we started introducing madison ads. Candidates come in, they stop at the right bar, drink the right here, shake everyones hand. It really builds community. Food is a language among the community. We refer to food in terms of geographic region, italian, indian. It really connect to the Community Connects to the community. What are some examples of memorable food ops . In philadelphia, 2004, john kerry came in and ordered swiss cheese on his cheesesteak. He got a lot of flack for that. 2012, john mccain walked in and ordered fried chicken, but he picked off the skin. And there is some risk involved in the food photo op. As a professor of strategic communication, what advice do you give to candidates . Make sure you know the community. Is not just the food. Its anything that is community time. Paack obama announced in a rolling a gutter ball. R when he referenced a whole foods and the prices of arugula. So, you have to be careful. You have to know the community and the values. Thats really what we do. These campaigns are always the opposition is always out to make the candidate look like they are out of touch. Oswhen you get the gen cheesesteak, whats the right way to order . Means get it with, which with onions, then you get it or americanne cheese. When its hot and greasy, eat it with your hands. Heating it with fork and knife would not look so good. We are right across from another wellknown cheesesteak spot in philadelphia. How would a candidate choose from one or the other . I would tell the candidate to go to both. Which candidates have been to one or both in the cycle . I dont think the front runners have been here yet. Maybe hillary will come through this week while she is here at the dnc. Scott walker was here during the primary, but some protesters were behind him with some signs, so his photo op got ruined. We will see if hillary stops by. Enjoy your cheesesteak this morning. Thank you for your time. [end video clip] host were back live in philadelphia. On your screen, the Wells Fargo Center, where the Democratic Convention will be held. The Wells Fargo Center became the first union center, then dashing then later it became the Wells Fargo Center. It is all down in one complex about four miles south of center city, philadelphia. We are in center city, philadelphia, at the constitution center, here on washington journal. The liberty bell is in the background. Before we takes and calls and get some more news, i want to share this tweet. Pats cheesesteak over ginos. South philly is fun. Outgoing Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman schultz appeared at the florida delegations breakfast this morning. She was greeted by both protesters and cheers from her supporters. Cspan cameras are there. If you want to see what happened, you can go to our website later, www. Cspan. Org, and watch it. Cspan producer on the ground captured some video of the protesting. Take a look. [video clip] [shouts and jeers] here is a tweet from a woman who was in the room. She says that the florida bernie delegates were the ones that just drowned out Debbie Wasserman schultz by chanting shame. You could see some of the signs they were holding up with the words emails. If you want tog watch that entire event this morning. Yesterday, head of day one of the Democratic National convention, there were bernie fororters, black men bernie, who held a local event. Here is a reportedly captured what they were chanting yesterday. [video clip] it down shut it down [indiscernible] shut it down the police dont get it shut it down [end video clip] that was yesterday from black men for bernie. Elizabeth warren will be in town. First stop from the airport, pats for cheesesteak. Amy klobuchar from minnesota tweeted out, practicing podium andspeech at pointing to minnesota sign. Theyre in first row above floor. Good seats. Another tweet, this is just on two massive 300ton cooling stations they brought in for the dnc. Dog day monday at the Democratic National convention. Six lotion explosive detection canine and handler. A dogs work is never done also, just want to share this, some International Coverage of whats happening in philadelphia this week. On the china daily website, their american version of it with the headline americans feeling forced to choose the lesser of two evils. [end video clip] host as Greta Brawner said, cspan covered the florida delegation breakfast. You will be able to watch that on our website. It will be on the air today at some point. Then you will be able to watch it on our website, cspan. Org. The convention tonight will be live. It will also be live on facebook. Facebook. Com\cspan. We are streaming it live on our facebook page. There if youre not near your tv. You can also listen to it on the 90. 1. Washington, d c, you can listen to cspan radio anywhere in the world. Just unload the cspan jt download the cspan app. Now to your calls on day one of the Democratic National convention. Dave, michigan, independent line good morning. Good morning. What would you like to talk about . Caller i would like to say this conspiratorial gobbledygook about the russians breaking in to the dnc files and creating all of this gobbledygook that we are seeing here you are blaming the wrong people, my friends. Its my its my folks, the israelis. Theyve given mr. Obama a piece of his own medicine because he netanyahust up bb chances when he was running in israel. The israelis just turned around and gave obama a piece of his own medicine. The russians they got nothing to do with it. That is really do gobbledygook that is really gobbledygook. They just want to create some conspiracy to hurt donald trump. Host dean, you are on the washington journal. Tell you what, we are going to lose dean and move onto riverhead, new york, republican line. Good morning. Whats on your mind today . My knowledge,9 the constitution states that we the people run this country here. All we need to do is to take 50 as a jurym each state and call it we the people. We want to find out whether hillary is lying, so we give her a lie detector and truth serum in front of the jury we the people. Sodium penta phone sodium pentathol. About her emails. Also, germany is our First Defense before terrorists hit the United States, so lets go help them. Host this is robert in eerie, pennsylvania, independent. Good morning. I keep up with this stuff pretty good. I guess one of the things that i ask, particularly with the email controversy that just came up im a voter. I voted all my life. Given that the Democratic National Committee Staff didnt like bernie i could understand better if you put it in some kind of context. He is an independent who is running with the Democratic Party, which is his right. People haveimagine a preference for hillary that have been democrats or have been part of the democratic staff for years and years, and that was just a preference. My question to anybody, did they do anything proactive they want to sabotage bernie. I didnt see anything about not voting for hillary. I vote for her based on her record. Its more of a distraction. They are trying to make it seem like the Democratic National committee actually had a role in dissuading people for voting for bernie. She got the most votes. She won the most caucuses. People have to look at this for some kind of clarity. Thats my comment. Host thats robert. What would you like to hear from robert is gone. We will try with patrick in shawnee, oklahoma, republican. Hi, patrick. Caller good morning. Two things. I respect cspan. They come from all sides. Im a republican, but heres the problem i have. When barack obama got in there, he said there would be no red or blue america. He had years to get immigration done. Here we are eight years later, and what is everybody still having problems with because people are still coming to the country, immigration. He had both houses. He could have got it done. The Health Care Policy they will have to change because no one can afford the necessary payment on the offset of how much you have to pay outofpocket. Thats my two biggest problems of what happened over the last eight years. Can you comment on that, please . Host i wont comment on anything. What did you think of your convention in cleveland last week . Caller i thought it could have been a little bit better, but ail im seen as another em as im seeing another email scandal people people see getting killed all over the United States. The police arent respected anymore. We need to bring the country back together again. The world is looking at us right now, and they dont have no respect for us. I really do believe that. Host patrick, what do you do in shawnee, oklahoma . Caller im now retired. I sometimes vote republican, sometimes independent, but this time i dont know what im going to do. Ithink out of the two, might have to be trumped. My main problem is be trump. My main problem is we should have done immigration. Joe bock barack obama had two years. Host that patrick in shawnee. Gladys is calling in from chicago, democrats line. Hi, gladys. You looking forward to your convention this week . Caller i dont know. You know whats going on that you have shown already this morning is that its over with. Hillary won. Lets get on with it. How can you tell your kids about good sportsmanship when youre up there going and everything . She won. You say you are a democrat. Lets go. Lets have this convention and get out there and do what youve got to do and well see what happens in november. Host what would you like to hear when Bernie Sanders and Michelle Obama speak tonight at the convention . Caller well, i would like to afrom sanders on war more a meaningful, a conversation that he will have about hillary. I get very asnd sanders is straddling the fence. You dont really want to vote for hillary. I think he wished he had one, but he didnt had won, but he didnt. Get over it. Vote for the person who did. She didnt do no wrong. Host gladys, how long have you lived in chicago . Caller oh, my god, about 30 30 years. Host where are you from originally . Caller stepford, illinois. Host what do you do . Caller im retired from the state. Host thanks for calling in this morning. Greg in illinois, independent line. Greg, you are on the washington journal. Caller i was a Bernie Sanders supporter. In just really disappointed the way that this is being made out with the emails. They didnt do nothing wrong. For somebody to have an opinion and now thats a crime . Its just ridiculous. And bernie needs to come out and say that hes fully endorsing hillary. Hat if you were truly a Bernie Sanders supporter and believed anything he was saying, there is no way that you would not vote for hillary, because thats the only way we are going to get anything done, any changes at all, is through the Democratic Party. If you vote jill stein, you are doing nothing. If you vote for gary johnson, you are voting for trump. Its just a straight fact. Host thats greg. Up next is jerry, calling from. C. ,washington, d suburbs. He is in hyattsville. Caller good morning. Im looking forward to the convention, just to tune in, like last week, for the spectacle of the whole thing, which i think is just of seen. For a democracy just obscene. For a democracy where it is just one person, one vote, to have these delegates, super delegates, what an obfuscation, what a way to do business, really, for a democracy. Host we learned yesterday that the city and the Host Committee nearlyreed and raised 64 million to put this convention on in the city and to pay for some of the parties and the amenities, etc. What do you think . Caller now, the added burden of the security costs. They used to not have to worry about that as much. All these balloons and silly hats you know there is so much partying. What a farce. I dont know why there couldnt be despite Voter Registration and all the upset there is about that, i think there needs to be a good way of knowing who the voters are, people having some kind of identification to know who is who, and an electronic voting system, where the primaries and the main elections could just be run electronically. Lets get rid of a lot of these frills and additional foolish expenses. Host do you think the silly hats and balloons are outdated . We will never know. Larry, pennsylvania, republican line. Go ahead. Whats on your mind this morning . Caller with this whole corruption from the Democratic Party, starting all the way back to Andrew Jackson and going all the way up to Lyndon Baines now the dncfdr and the demonstration out in san francisco. That was brought to light in the emails. They were one of the initial organizers of that demonstration out there. And the fact that any democrat that really thinks they are a true democrat should go see that movie, hillarys america, and they will change their minds. Host what do you think of your nominee . Hes not my number one choice, but hes better than what the democrats have to offer. Host and larry was referencing the new movie and book, hillarys america. Peter is in new jersey. Independent line. Caller i was a republican up until the primary. Then after kasich lost, i switched to independent because i will not vote for donald trump under any circumstances. I will campaign against him. If gary johnson could have stopped him, i would support him. I like some of the things he says, particularly on marijuana reform. If hillary is i say this reluctantly, having been a republican for 40 years. If hillary is the only one who can stop trump, i think we are going to have to support her. Tim kaine, even though he is white, male, catholic, and a southerner, thats about it. I dont see why sanders people are not going to give him grace and blessings. I thought the Deval Patrick that Deval Patrick might have been a wiser choice for her. Nobody mentioned his name. Kaine, there is nothing to disqualify him. I think the democrats and sanders would be wise to rally behind him. Otherwise, its going to be trump and that scares i know republicans that say it is just scaring the hell out of them. Host peter, what do you do . Caller im active artist and a one of the independent film maker a wanna be independent filmmaker. Im also very religious. Im a minister in the Catholic Church and a happily married man. Host what do you think of your governor, Chris Christie . Caller i actually voted for him the first two contests because of taxes and things like that. He has been pretty strict about that. Once he came out for trump, i felt like betrayed. Especially having defended him with bridge gate, and im from where the scandal originated from. His heavyhanded this, now supporting trump, i think he should resign and let kevin ride out his term. Hink he has to qualified has disqualified himself supporting trump. Trump is a fraud and a fake. He babbles on something. You never addresses it. He speaks in they terms and never goes deep. I think there is still something very fraudulent. Its a surreality show that has just gone completely haywire, and it scares me to death. Host our next call comes from michigan,estland, republican line. Good morning. Caller yes, sir. How are you doing . Host how are you . Caller im doing great. Thank you. You know, i just its an unbelievable thing to watch the Republican Party pretty much go against trump an entire election. Now you see the dnc. Obviously it seems like the democrats have lots of email issues scattered across the party. To go throughyone. He wikileaks stuff you can see that the Democratic Party is putting on protests, organizing protests. I dont think well see any republicans protesting at the dnc convention. The Republican Convention was a mixed bag of tricks. Even though senator cruz gave himself a rope and committed somewhat of suicide for his ,omination attempt to run again at least he stood up on his moral ground, unlike Bernie Sanders. How could you possibly support Hillary Clinton at this point . Like watching the decline of western civilization as we know it. The parties are both corrupt. The parties are out of control. 95 Million People arent working. OnMillion People are government assistance. 50 Million People are living in poverty, unfunded, liabilities , with theillion National Debt and two president s of two parties bringing on almost 17 trillion of debt into the United States. Im an american person before, voter. I just dont understand. Social media has surely put a wrench in the twoparty system to expose the horrors of the system. I really got to look at voting at a thirdparty at this point. It is comedy. Marty in westland, michigan, thanks for calling in. Usually, washington journal eastern time,a. M. But were going to 11 00 a. M. Eastern time since were in philadelphia for the Democratic National convention. In just a minute, we will introduce you to alicia reece, a state representative and elected delegate for Hillary Clinton. We will be talking to her about her position and her issues after we get this news update from greta bronner. From greta. Philadelphia daily news, party pooper is the headline. Dnc chair stepping down. Bernie supporters flood philly, and were just getting started. Ttsburgh postgazette democrats off to rough start. Instructions for a conventional oven. Triple digits temperatures is what they are expecting. Inside the New York Times, let me show you this piece about the clinton team celebrating women without alienating men. There are going to be several highprofile womens baking women speaking this week, jones, theafter star lineup is an implicit contrast to last weeks republican National Convention in cleveland. Other than ivanka trump and her testimony about her father is awareon campaign that she is not running as strongly with men. A poll shows her trailing mr. Trump among men by 13 percentage points, while she leads among women by the same margin. Mrs. R the convention, clinton and her running mate will focus on jobs and the economy during a threeday bus tour through the rust belt. They are scheduled to visit areas the republican nominee mitt romney won in 2012, places like Cambria County am a pennsylvania, which is 94 white and has a medium income a Median Household Income of about 42,000. Indiana governor mike pence will ,oin the nominee at stops today florida on tuesday, pennsylvania on wednesday. Other gop allies will hover around pennsylvania for counterprogramming during the Democratic Convention. The two men will split up on the campaign trail. As mrs. Clinton takes the stage thursday, mr. Pence will campaign with his wife, karen. And there is a piece in the wall street journal about the homeless. Given day, philadelphia has more than 7000 homeless people, nearly twice the number of delegates who will fill seats at the Wells Fargo Center on monday. Philadelphia is known for its cradle of liberty tourist attractions, toptier universities, and teaching hospitals, but the democraticcontrolled city also has a staggering poverty rate of 26 , ranking it worst among the 10 largest cities in the u. S. In two thousand seven, philadelphias poverty rate was 23. 8 . The first congressional this district was cited as one of the poorest in the country. Back to you. Host in center city, philadelphia, life. You can see Independence Hall there. The liberty bell is on the building is in the building on the right. The cspan buses parked right down there on the street. We are in the National Constitution center. We are joined by alicia reece, also a civil a Hillary Clinton superdelegate. How did you get to philadelphia . Also president of the ohio legislative black caucus and a state representative of my district, known as the fighting 33rd. Ive been to several conventions. I was here with president obama at the convention. I was there with keery kerry at the convention. I was first at the bill clinton tovention as i was elected city council. Host youngest in history. Part i got a chance to be of nominating the first africanamerican president of the United States. Now i get a chance to nominate for our nominee, who we will believe who we believe will be the first female nominee first female president of the United States. Host why hillary . Guest we interviewed members of the black caucus. While interviewing them on issues that are important, the issues of everything from where do we go from here on criminal Justice Reform we have several bills that cant get a hearing because we have a republican legislature. We were looking at who we could connect with that could connect the white house to the steakhouse, what i call the peoples house the steakhou e statehouse, what i call the peoples house. President obama has been a great coach, saved our country critical time. As a state legislator as a set how do we connect the white house to the stateh ouse . She needs a team in congress. She needs a team in the senate and at the state legislatures. We talked about connecting that. As a young woman, i got a chance to see her when she was first lady fighting for health care. She was on the front lines. I saw how she was beat up to she kept fighting and kept standing. We need someone who is going to continue the legacy of president obama, be able to fight for so many people who feel like their voices feel like theyve been left behind. And its a critical time for our country. We are at a crossroads. Where do we go from here . Do we move forward on the dr. King legacy, or do we move croward to the days of jim divisiveness our country has had to fight and continues to fight overcome as we move forward . I believe that Hillary Clinton is one who can actually get the. Ob done she can do the work. She knows how to deal with the system. Based on the work she has done over the years for children, relationships shes had with the. Ivil Rights Community we are going to need a fighter for america. I believe that Hillary Clinton. Host what are the rules about being a superdelegate . Guest im what they call a public elected official delegate. Host thats not a superdelegate . Guest superdelegates are usually congressional folks, statewide officeholders. Are in ohio. We dont have governor, secretary of state, any statewide. Thats what makes our position of delegate somewhat on the level of a superdelegate, because we dont have, besides sherrod brown, we dont have a congressperson. So, with that, im also the dnc vice chair of the division. I think its great. Ive been on the platform drafting committee. For me, its great. Growing up, trying to get people out to vote, cant wait to get a chance to vote. Down at graceland state black university college, getting people registered to vote, getting them out to vote. Now getting a chance to be here as a delegate, be here as an elected official, be here for my battleground state of ohio and now as one of the vice chairs of the Democratic Convention, we are full circle. Im excited to be here. I know we are going to have a great convention. For me, its for us to come together, unite, and leave the walls of the convention and get people motivated and out to vote. Host any special privileges being a nonelected delegate . Guest i think a couple things. They ask for all of our backgrounds. I know that i will have some access when i leave here today. There will be a private walkthrough of the convention chairs of thevice Democratic Convention, which will be special. I get to see all the behindthescenes, before the people arrive. Im looking forward to that. This morning was with congressman john lewis. Host spoke at your delegation breakfast. Guest it was incredible. To come full circle from bloody sunday to the fight we have now to the modern day sitting sitin. Rights a voters bill of in ohio. O talk to him about that 100,000 voters from ohio who have signed that it was incredible for him to say, keep going, keep working. I see that as the next phase of the Voting Rights movement. Host you mentioned your background, your social security, etc. You get to meet the president and the first lady. You are already on speaking terms with the president and the first lady. Guest i had a chance to sit down with former president bill clinton to talk about our voting bill of rights. We had a 15 minute conversation. When he sat down, he ended up going through the voters bill of rights, how it was written. He had questions. We went back and forth. He asked hillary has endorsed that. To have them take that kind of time to go through a grassroots initiative. This was started by grassroots folks, ministers, local board naacps ward leaders, to the National Action network, all going out and getting signatures. To have them sit down and look through it and said this is a great idea, i think it says a lot for them to have that kind of time to look through it and say we support these efforts of grassroots individuals who are standing up in ohio for Voting Rights. , we areay have read getting all kinds of bills to attack Voting Rights. 2 Million People have already been purged erased from the voters rolls. These are people who voted in the last two president ial elections who may not know they have been erased because our republican senator have urged that asked purged that 2 million. Haveighting to salve folks at the top acknowledge what grassroots folks are doing. Keep fighting. We are going to continue. Think the Bernie Sanders people have legitimate concerns about the superdelegate system . You know, the system before had a chance to come to ,hese conventions, my father who is, in my mind, one of the best political strategists in our state and probably in the country i learned a lot from him growing up. I was selling tshirts and buttons. My father went all over the country with reverend jackson. When it came to the convention, there were thousands of folks, the Jackson Movement of progress, progressiveness, and change. Rulesaid this system, the system has to change. They came in and they changed the system to the system that we have now. This system that is in place led to a minority having an opportunity to be the nominee, our first africanamerican president , barack obama, through the system they changed and got in place. This is the same system that will nominate the first female nominee, another minority, Hillary Clinton. I think that the system that was put in place of proportional representation, the system that reverend jackson and thousands from all over the country, a rainbow of folks who came to the convention under my dads generation, etc. , opened the door and the process for a minority, president obama, to be our nominee. Hillary clinton to be our nominee. So, for me, looking at that as a young person and understanding that history, i think that was what led to people having the opportunity to not only participate, but be the nominee. I dont know where they are going to go. I think its important to know we dont want to go back to the old system, where only caucasian males could come out in that process. The process we have now opened it up for everybody to have a fair chance. Im not on the rules committee, but i hope they will keep that historical moment in our platform. There were so many people that participated. That was a movement of change. Host lets take some calls. Lets hear from viewers. Alicia reece is our guest, a state representative in ohio. We are calling you a superdelegate. Youve got some other terms. Public official public elected official delegates. Hillary clinton delegate from ohio. The first caller is from princeton, new jersey, on the republican line. Good morning. Caller good morning. I have a question for deletion alicia. I dont understand why the Democratic Party has to continually isolate 75 of the population. Youre talking a lot about race. Notnd at this late date, only do you have your facts and history completely wrong, but whether you are talking about jim crow, which was enforced by democrats, whether you are talking about women being a minority when they are actually the majority all over the map. I wish there was a fact check for democrats, because they certainly love to fact check republicans. The question is, being that x gave hiso, malcolm speech that, if a democrat if a black person was still in the Democratic Party, that theyre not only theyre not only ignorant ist tell you what, tom, think we got the gist of what youre talking about. Representative reece. Guest the facts that im talking about are the facts i see in ohio and in our district. He says women are the majority. When you look at, in our country, the amount of women that are on boards, and we are still fighting for equal pay, and a double standards that are happening i think people have this notion that everything, the fight is over. The fight is not over. Women are still fighting for equal pay. The facts are there. Were not talking about majority in numbers. We are talking about having access. The ceiling is still there. We have not broken the ceiling. We have made some progress, but we have to keep fighting. I think people think that when dr. King got the Voting Rights we gotme might say, oh, the Voting Rights act. Everything is fine. Im in ohio. 2 Million People have been erased, gone off the rolls. Ive seen the lines around the buildings. I would hope that my generation did not have to deal with these issues. Thousands are marching in the streets saying black lives matter. We have Police Officers who are concerned and afraid. We have strained relationships. These things are real and we a leader thats going to come into the white house after president obama who is going to continue to bring us together, not terrorists apart, not lead by hatred and division, and i think thats a fact. We are seeing so much hatred. We need leadership from the top down to bring us together. Thoughts. Not just my its a fact that women arent getting equal pay for equal days work. Host dorothy is in arkansas, democrat. Please go ahead with your question or comment. Caller hi, alisha. Im a writ hi, alicia. Im a retired teacher from cincinnati public schools, and im happy to see you still. I remember you from a child starting out. I was a jackson delegate. I worked with your father. I want to encourage you to keep fighting for Voting Rights. We are going to have to do it all of our lives. Im almost 70 years old. 22. Arted when i was we are going to have to keep fighting for womens rights and equal pay. Continue to support hillary. Lets encourage everybody to get out and vote strong and together, not divided. We dont need division. We need to stick together. Guest thank you. Thank you so much. Im a proud graduate of the cincinnati public schools. I appreciate teachers. There has been such an attack on teachers, on the entire profession. She is right. This convention has to be about unity. Weve got to come out of this united. Its great that we are all here as delegates. Thats a wonderful thing. What im concerned about is the people outside these walls that we must connect with. The people that are at home right now, concerned about how they are going to make ends meet. Where do we go from here . We have to give a message that goes outside the walls of this convention, and Voting Rights is key. Ive seen it firsthand. I would love to say that, after the Voting Rights act i remember someone telling me, why do i have to worry about it every seven years . In college, an elderly woman told me, dont worry about that, honey. They will never be crazy enough to touch the Voting Rights act. I kind of forgot about it. Right before the 50th anniversary of the march on washington, i got a call to speak. They said, weve got bad news. The Voting Rights act has been attacked. We want you to speak about it. So, i prayed about it, prayed about it. I had this idea a long time ago of trying to get a constitutional amendment. Its tough to get a federal one. Everybody has to agree. But we can do as other movements have done, going statebystate. Ohio allows you to petitioner government to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot petition your government to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot. Areont have to worry about they going to do the right thing in the supreme court. We the people will be empowered. I came back to ohio and got that movement started. 1200 people across the state with only 3000. We got 100,000 signatures. Were on our way to get this done. She is absolutely right. We cannot be divided. We cannot afford to be divided, because theres too many fights beginning with our right to vote. And you take that away, you take away our voice, then we have no power in this election. Host whats your relationship with governor kasich . My relationship with governor kasich is pretty good. As the president of the black caucus, weve been able to Work Together on some issues pretty good. We started out on minority business. In the budget, it was zero dollars. Im on finance. We went to him as the black caucus. It started out a little rough. Now the governor and i and others are working together. Have 228. 5 million with minority businesses and growing. We are able i think Hillary Clinton understands this. Youre going to have to work across the lines to get things done. We can do that, but we have to make sure we dont give up our core values and things we believe in. There is another issue, criminal Justice Reform. We went to the governor after tenure right, John Crawford crawford,r rice, john and said we have to do something in our state. We started of a partisan task force started a high partisan task force. We have recommendations from use of force to grand jury reform to training, Mental Health training, Mental Health we got all those things, weve got the executive order to get it, but now we have to get a law. We are pushing the governor, not just him, the president the speaker of the house. We have to get the General Assembly to move forward. Weve been able to Work Together. We talk on the phone. There are some things we dont agree with, but there are some things weve been able to Work Together on. Host the next call for alicia reece comes from brighton, michigan, independent line. Caller got bless america. Thats my thing. I think we ought to recognize that we have a gender war in this country. , anda takes care of men america takes care of women and children, and we cannot fight about that. Host what do you mean, we take care of women and children . What does that mean . Caller we take care of women and children in america. Russia takes care of men in america men. Host why dont we leave it there. We are going to move on to lynn in columbus, ohio. Republican line. Caller hi. Republican. D mentally ill, black people, women the word progressive is bothering me. Ive talked to at least 200 people in the last two weeks. This is a fact that progressive is the movement to socialize medicine, starting with obamacare. And valuebased system,its ne xt. Thats where they wont pay the doctors if the government doesnt approve of the treatment. Ive already seen the rules the doctors are supposed to go by. When the doctors drop patients ,nd the government provides its like a v. A. Clinic, where everybody goes, so they follow the rules that the government says and they get the treatment they do. Black people, traditionally, to, does ive talked not understand progressive. They think it means. Ringing people together it means more than that. Its the whole medical system. Schizophrenics host i think we got the idea. Socialized medicine, Affordable Care act, and africanamericans. Where do you want to take that . Guest thats a loaded question. First of all, in ohio, we work with the governor. The governor is republican. Im a democrat. The governor pushed this Affordable Care act in our face. He knows and i know so many people who, like she said, mentally ill and others, who need the Affordable Care act. For me, personally, my mother, who has passed away now from Breast Cancer and she had ms, was an entrepreneur. What got me was, she was an entrepreneur, owned her own business, her and my father, for 40 years, had their own insurance, but when it came to ms, could not get insured. She is paying taxes, contributing to society, and she cannot get care because she had ms, multiple sclerosis. She was in these support groups that i knew, who now have coverage that did not have coverage. She passed right before the inauguration of president obama, so she did not get to see him go in office and put this in place. We know that millions have Health Insurance that didnt. I think the way to make it really playing, plain, when you go to the doctor, they want a medical card. You cant get care. I think what donald trump is talking about, you may or may not have a card. If you dont have a card, you cannot get the care you need. Even john kasichso i think thath realized that. It amazes me with a college obamacare. Always talkeda about this. This is about our care. ,o while it is not perfect because it is the beginning, we have never had it before, we have millions more with Health Insurance that never had it before. You have got to have this card to get the care. People get the card, get the care, and i think Hillary Clinton is saying, listen, we will build on it, improve it, and move forward. That is how it is. You need to have a foundation to improve on. President obama obama laid that foundation. The people i talked to, when i go over to the hospital there sitting there and need help, the people that i talk to who have parents getting older and they need help taking care of their parents, they appreciate having care. Can we improve on it . Absolutely. Millions off it, folks go back to the days of my mother, who was an entrepreneur and paid her taxes and cannot get care because she has multiple sclerosis . We cannot go back to those days. Hillary clinton as saying, lets build on it, strengthen it. It has bugs in it, lets improve it. We will not go back to the days and so many people dont have care and only those with money can have care. Host superdelegate, are you still paying for your own tab out here . Alicia actually, i am. [speaking simultaneously] end, wewe know by the would dont know what that will be. Ut it is getting expensive we are in philadelphia. I love it. The east coast is a little ensive, but we have to be it is too critical for us not to be here and have a voice. You can i get to the white house without coming to ohio. So we have to be here from ohio to help shape the discussion, and also to let our nominee no, this is what it will take for us to win ohio. Comes, when the election people from all over want to help out. A hit the doors, do everything, so we should be a here the table to take discussion on this is what it will take for those folks that i represent at home to get out and vote, energized. Superdelegates, ohio state representative, alisa reeves, please come back and join us here at cspan. One more half hour left in the washington journal this morning. We will continue to take your phone calls. The Democratic National Convention Kicks off today. The numbers are on the screen. They are divided by democrats, republicans, and independence. We begin taking those calls right after we hear from our reporter. You cannot win the white house without winning ohio. That is what georgia congressman don lewis delivered to the ohio congregation as they get got for breakfast. Ohio,gate from progressive advocate, pointing out this message that john lewis delivered. Lewis [indiscernible] it does not matter [indiscernible] one people, one family, one vote. [applause] not yet to philly, but on his way, Martin Omalley tweeting out this to his supporters. Take a look. Martin omalley heading up to philadelphia, got my dry cleaning, ready to stand up for Hillary Clinton and be donald trump like a drum. Also in philadelphia, the head of the aflcio richard trumka. Pennsylvaniathe delegation, thanks for posting me and thousands of our closest friends. And the National Nurses united Union Holding a policy. Iscussion in philadelphia unfounded fear stands in the way of democrats in philadelphia supporting medicare for all was there message this morning. Ais is another tweet from local reporter. Hts and drum the guide brigade. Lets take a look. And from another delegation breakfast, this one with the california members, bernie chance erupted. Chance interrupted. They just close down the street. This is what im talking about, the protest right now. Right in front of the city hall right here in philadelphia. Amht downtown, and i basically kind of stuck here on my way to work. Fun. Videot was a traffic jam that was tweeted out in downtown philly after the closing of market and 16th street, due to protests that are happening in the city. Thousands of them, thousands gathered to kick off the protest which will be going on this whole week. Lets talk about food at the philadelphia convention, this from philly voice. Com with the headline that a startup Ice Cream Company among the official philly vendors hoping to bask in the dnc stoplight spotlight. Various e skew at scoop at various events, including a local business benefiting from the convention. Voice, theom philly food trucks that will be around the convention. Foodys aramark is a provider for the Wells Fargo Center were the most of the dnc events are being held. They asked for a daily rotation of food trucks outside the venue. Mobileording to this Association President , the fee is 500 per day, and 92 of drink sales go back to aramark, leaving only a percent of the revenue on drinks for the truck. Philadelphia is home to at least 136 food trucks and food carts listed with roaming hunger, the catering business of 9003 trucks across the country. Back live in philadelphia were will be 100 degrees. It is quite cool inside the Wells Fargo Center. You can see some media roaming about, officials doing an official sweep. They will shut that down, dogs will come in, secret service will come in. Tonight,obama speaking Bernie Sanders is speaking tonight. Full schedule is available at cspan. Org and full coverage on cspan, the facebook page, and on radio, cspan radio. You can get the radio out online from your phone radio app online for your phone. You can listen anywhere in the world. 20 minutes left, we want to hear from you. Hubbard is in blue island, illinois, democrats line. We talked about a lot of issues, the delegates this morning. What have you heard, what do you want to talk about odor caller good morning. Thank you for cspan and washington journal. I really want to talk about Bernie Sanders. I feel Bernie Sanders is independent, and i dont think he can come to the dnc and demand so much. He has been independent for quite a while now. Now all of a sudden he wants to be a democrat, and he holed out against Hillary Clinton . It seems like donald trump. ,his guy, he has got some ideas but dont try to force all of your ideas on the rest of the world. And i lost a too, lot of respect for him over this campaign deal. I am just not a Bernie Sanders fan, the bank period. Host next is eddie in blueberry, massachusetts. Republicans line, you are on the washington journal. What is on your mind . Limbaughm afraid rush elected democrats had it. I cant wait for this email thing to blossom. She is supposed to be impartial. It will reflect on hillary, with her emails. How dubious she was, using emails. Confidentially, emails to the to do spiders to the two subscribers. Thank you. Next call is a me in california, sebastopol, california. Caller yes it is. Host where is that . Caller 60 miles north of san francisco. Host go ahead. Caller i appreciate your guests grassrootsto start a movement to restore the Voting Rights act. Along with restoring the Voting Rights act, i think it is very important for voters in this country to realize the bigger gerrymanderingom districts. Republicans have been so good at this and the last 10 years. Datais where the use mega based on who voted for who in the last election, and legislatures, given the power by districts based on the census population. Draw districts based on who voted republican before. This is the real reason so many voters vote, whether you are republican or democrat, do not count. The districts have been drawn to favor the reelection of the people that are drawing the districts. I think this very much perverts the attention of the restitution and the intention of the constitution. By a is a quote on this gentleman named david daily. Host heft is how we say it here at cspan. We covered that book by david daily. Did i get that name right . Caller david daily. Host before i go down the rat wrong,d get everything that book has been covered on book tv. You can go to book tv and type partial name, and you can watch it online. Call, tobias in georgia. You are on the air. Caller thank you. How are you, sir . Host how are you . Caller got a few compliments and maybe an apology. Go down that rathole. Get into it with your callers. My bone to pick. A couple of months ago, called 30 or 40 times, i could not do on the line. That is not important, because i am on the line. You did a great job with rnc, i imagine you will do a great job with dnc. You are one of the favorite hosts. Lambi asked where is brian , i try to get in touch with him. Maybe an apology, but maybe not. Maybe it is a compliment. Peter you know, brian still a, he to a day q and just had the new author of a book on george w. Bush. Caller i did not see that, but i will see it today. That is not a callin show the. Though. Peter maybe we can have brian do a 24hour callin show. Caller all right. You look the callers know, you do a great job. , i am appear in georgia, but maybe you guys ought to have a citizens roundtable with me and judgment close in. Judge mccutchen. Peter what are you doing and bogart, georgia . Caller i am an operator for a truck. I listen to cspan at home. Tv,ways have 24hour cspan American History tv. Daddy, this is what we are watching. We will get educated. Cspan does. When you let the colors go, here is another lament, that first hour, how many collars did you run to because you set up next, you let them get 30 or 40 seconds, go to the next caller. That is what we need. Dont give out too much information. Keep it short and three. Callers can get in. Smith tells we did may we did 28 calls. He is the producer. That is at washington journal is about. Reading the newspaper headlines, letting the callers voice their opinions. If you get joe on the phone, let me know. I will call back. You guys do a great job. God bless cspan. Great work. All right, thank you for calling in. We appreciate your very kind words. I guarantee haley did not hang up on you on purpose. D is in tallahassee, florida. Hello. Dee is in tallahassee, florida. In right, lets try donna chrome, texas. She is a republican. You were on the washington journal. All right, we are having a bit of an issue with the phones. 202 is the. Code. Coedde. Rea greta has been in washington all morning, and she will be in washington all week, looking at the news, finding some of the delegate videos, finding unique as we go through the Democratic Convention here in philadelphia. Greta, icu pops up on my screen. Are you ready odor morningtar tribune this for the history buff, hubert humphrey, 1948, he changed the course on civil rights. He conversed on philadelphia to nominate Hillary Clinton. We look back at the last time the party held a National Convention in the city of brotherly love. Huberts 1948 when humphrey delivered a fiery this was a major turning point for the national Democratic Party on issues of racial and social injustice. If you want to take a look at in 1948, of his speech you can find it on the star tribune website. The they have been kept in the the Minnesota History center. You can find them today online at the minneapolis star tribune. And the tennessean has this one about Hillary Clinton and his her fact checker. If i can get technology to , he is a partac of this small army of Fact Checkers who have already been blasting out realtime rebuttals for the Clinton Campaign. Speech in the tennessean. Tv, wet together by talked about the thousands of Bernie Sanders supporters yesterday that descended on philadelphia. We interviewed many of them yesterday. Heres what they have to say about why they were protesting. Never trump, never hillary. I cant support Hillary Clinton after the way the elections have gone. I will never be for hillary. I wont vote for her. Have a hard time coming up with a clinton vote. I tried the whole year to convince myself. It comes down to no and no collection day, and im exhausted every other option i could probably go, and none of the thirdParty Candidates impress me, i will hold my breath, and i will vote for her. Protesting is expected today. If you go to facebook, philadelphia 2016 dnc curtains for capitalism, they have a list of what they are expecting today for events. It begins this morning with equality protesting. 10 00 a. M. , socialist at 100. Rounding out todays protesting at 5 00 p. M. , power to the people rally with dr. Jill stein from the green party. That happening at fdr park in philadelphia. It. Dont see Independence Hall is on your screen. A live picture in center city, philadelphia. Cspan buseshe parked in front of the national , which ison center the building we are located in. Come on down and say hi, pick up a political trinket. There was also a test open up to everyone not just delegates. Political trivia, artifacts, etc. John is calling in from dry creek, West Virginia. Republican line. What is on your love mind . On your mind . Im a retired coal miner and Elementary School teacher here in southern West Virginia. The attack by the Current Administration on hold coal and Hillary Clinton saying shutting the coal mines down is not ringing very well here in southern West Virginia. The citizens here really cant control that we are not diversified that we would like to be in our economy. And she will lose West Virginia so badly. The other thing that is ironic trumka,flcio richard who used to be president of the audited mineworkers is acting hillary. Workers, isne backing hillary. It is hard for anyone down here to vote for her. From next call comes nicolas. Another republican. On the air for four hours. What is on your mind vote on caller no one seems to mention the fact that the republicans complain about the bad state of the country, but when obama took it over in 2008, it was we had a toression that was close 1929. And when george bush inherited the reins from clinton in 2000, that was aboutke to occur. He was concerned, there were concerns about planning the iraqi war and other things. The condition of the country was created by bush that obama. Nherited in 2008 bush was of the republican. A democrat made the wellbalanced economy that took us out of debt in 2010. Peter looking back at the last couple of years in the economic history. Fairp next is johnny in patient, virginia. What is on your mind this morning . Caller good morning. Hope theyo say, i will try to build peter bad connection, sorry about that. Lets try jim in glencoe, new york. Hello. I am in glencoe, new york. I used to be from pompano beach. I used to be a diehard democrat. Years, i the last 20 am a 60yearold man, i watched the debate. I cant stay with the party that everybody is talking about the russians. All i know is these people were despicable, despicable emails. And for whatever reason, they still have their jobs. Peter are you going to watch the Convention Today . Tape takecan some peptobismol and my stomach can handle it, because it is outrageous. I dont understand. Medias coconspirators. Peter to do watch the Republican Convention . Caller every bit of it. I am now a trump supporter. I think a lot of americans can understand. Jim in glencoe, new york. I apologize for butchering that name. Anthony in new haven, connecticut. Caller i just have to say you got the best ties on cspan. I told your screen i have a republican. I voted on april 26 for jim gilmore, and i will be voting for donald trump in november. I was following trump. The things he said about america, it is great, peter. Look at philadelphia right behind you, and in front of you. The people of america are the best. You can go by somebodys policy if they dont have policy. I believe donald trump makes a lot of policies up. No way is mexico going to pay for a wall. Common sense to everybody. Built the walled around russia, and it was knocked down. I am not try to be cocky or be a macho man, but some of the callers earlier just not common sense. Just say anything they want. I agree everybody should have their say, but i have been froming cspan every day 4 00 to enter it is over. God bless you, thank you. Day, we are on 24 hours a three channels. We have a radio station, website and greta. Greta dnc boss talks on may the leaks scandal. And from the Richmond Times , apatch, out of virginia brief return to normalcy for the Vice President ial choice for Hillary Clinton. The senator tim kaine. He attended church yesterday were he sang a solo. The Richmond Times dispatch for this video together of the senator and his wife leaving the church. [background chatter] greta senator tim kaine saying goodbye to his wife as a gift in the suv waiting for him, taking him to philadelphia. E will be speaking the result debrief noting that senator kaine can speak spanish but most latinos do not care. Say itwhelming majority is important for future generations to speak spanish, but seven in 10 think it is not necessary to speak the language to be considered latino. Hispanic millennials are poised to make up nearly half of the nearly 28 million eligible hispanic voters to cast a ballot in november. Younger voters do not just watch univision, listen to spanish music or playing soccer. They dominate School Systems in arizona, california, and texas and increasingly dominate pockets of georgia, massachusetts, North Carolina, and rhode island. Peter tricia in ohio. You are the last voice for this washington journal. Caller oh i am happy, thank you. I just want to call in. I am a hillary supporter. I do like bernie, but we have chosen hillary. To all those millennials out there, i am a social worker. I work in a medical field. I want you to just think about your grandmothers, your grandfathers, your parents. When he comes to medical situations and children, hillary has been there for us, and someday you may become of age. I believe if republicans get in there, it will be all over. If you dont have the money, you will not get the health care. Thank you peter, and thank you ceased and. Thank you cspan. Peter washington journal will be live again tomorrow at 7 00 from philadelphia. All sorts of other events, go to cspan. Org to get the schedule of updates. Thank you for being with us. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org]