Boos fueled in part by a hacking scandal that brought down the head of the democratic party. Leaked emails appearing to show the dnc favoring Hillary Clinton. Tonight Bernie Sanders is trying to prevent disruptions as he is about to take the stage here. Sanders messaging delegates late today, i would ask you as a personal courtesy to me to not engage in any kind of protest or demonstration on the Convention Floor. Michelle obama is set to speak in moments, but first along with chuck todd, Savannah Guthrie and tom brokaw, were joined by jane sanders. Good to be here. Anyone who watched your husband being booed by supporters and watch his supporters boo on this Convention Floor has to wonder if the revolution has gotten out of hand. Does he have control over his supporters . I dont think weve ever had control over our supporters nor have we ever tried. But they werent booing him from a standpoint of anything but passion. They were booing what he said. They said were with you, please run.
When i look at out at all of you, i see americas future. In america we put common interests before self interest. We need a president who can help pull us together, not split us apart. We need a doer. She knows what i takes to be a changer. Hillary is ready ready to make history. Judgment remember applause and good evening. It is Opening Night of the Democratic National convention at the Wells Fargo Center here in philadelphia pa. The last time the democrats met in philadelphia was the first time cbs news televised their convention, 1948 so its something of a homecoming for us , too. Its good to be here and more history coming as the democrats nominate a woman to be president , Hillary Clinton. But but first they have to get past the presented. Theres a rift between the sanders and clinton camps over emails that suggests leaders tried to undermine sanders campaign. Gayle has more on both sides of this. Bernie sanders science are in the house and his people are demanding to be heard. Is
Would ask that question of everybody running. Because i think every one of us should be held to the same standard. I often feel like there is the hillary standard. Then there is the standard for everybody else. What is the hillary standard . Well it is, a lot you saw at the Republican Convention, unfounded, inaccurate, meanspirited, attacks with no basis in truth, reality. Which take on a life of their own. Why do you put yourself through it . Because i really believe in this country. Boy do i believe in it now more than ever after seeing what was presented last week. I truly believe that given the chance americans will vote for people who are not promising fear and bigotry and smears. But promising opportunity and the kind of change that will empower people to make the most out of their own lives. Now we are going to turn to john dickerson, our cbs news political director and anchor of face the nation. Clinton spoke of a show of unity at the convention. Not happening. Conventions are
Join with us,r happen together and win the [music playing]nr good evening and welcome to our special npbs news hournprc coverage of the Democratic National conventioncoth inxdnr philadelphia im judy woruff. And im gwen ifill, joining us as . ; they did t last week i leave land across the0l arena . Podium nprs rachel re, and in the anchor booth with us is mark shields andw3 new york re columnist, davidnihtxd brooks. And me havep, along with amyq havei]ni john yangnir congressional reporter, susan davis. Thee1 democrats roled intoe1 p1 but not without some controversy. We will get to all that tonight along with speakers after this break. H q thats quite frankly, many of them would have liked to have seen her on the vicepresident doorbell stage instead of tim caine. An Bernie Sanders will give us a sense of how this is going but i bumped into david and he said it takes a long time to get over this, this campaign has gone a long time, he went all the way through california, there are a
Listen to what she had to say. But we have changed a lot. And so that was in 1972, the first one. But i think history is remarkable. This achievement by hillary. Reporter Barbara Boxer is right now addressing the delegation. Out here she is a trailblazer herself, one of the first women elected to congress back in 1992, elected to the senate where she has been. She will be retiring at the end of her term coming up this year. Now today we thought there would be more disruptions with Bernie Sanders and his delegates. California has had a lot of problems with how rowdy they have been booing throughout the very first day. But all that changed today primarily because Bernie Sanders himself met with the california delegation at breakfast. I understand that many people here in this Convention Hall and around the country are disappointed. We are absolutely scare today have our voices be heard. Reporter hearing their calls, seeing some cry and some stand in silence. Hillary clinton must become t