Town where she grew up, a perfect example of postworld war ii middleclass america. Street after street of nice houses, great schools, big perks. Parks. And almost all white. Family, hered her crusty, conservative father, her rambunctious brothers, all of stealing the virtue of rooting for the theirs and the cubs. Bears and the cubs. They even told me what wedding for next year meant. [laughter] different. Her was a she was more liberal. She had a childhood that made mine look like a piece of cake. Underestimateo with her soft manner and she reminded me all over again that you should never judge a book by its cover. Killing her was one of the greatest gifts a hillary ever gave me knowing her was one of the greatest gifts hillary ever gave me. Don jones took her downtown to chicago to hear Martin Luther king speak and he remained her friend for the rest of his life. This will be the only campaign of hers he ever missed. It compelled her to change parties and become a democrat. [applause]
Will write the next chapter in that journey. We are america, second to none, and we owned the finish line own the finish line dont forget it [cheers] god bless you all and[cheers] god protect our troops [cheers] one of the most interesting ones was the Port Authority of new york and new jersey, after the 1993 bombing, asking to come in and study the facility and ask what things could be done to make the facility safer if some idiot came up with an idea like that again. This is in your capacity as a construction engineer . A mechanical design engineer yeah. My particular best known specialty is contaminant movement in buildings, such as smoke in a fire and things of that sort. They wanted to know how could they keep places safe inside the building, because its so impractical to try to get everybody out all at once in a single shot. So we looked at it to see how would the smoke move through the the building, what the fire was what the temperatures were outside and the wind conditions. An
And i married way up. Way up. Folks, as i stand here tonight i see so many friends and colleagues like my buddy chris dodd in the connecticut delegation, so many people here. I see the faces of those who have placed their beliefs in barack and me, so many faces but one, this is kind of a bittersweet moment for jill and me and our family. In 2008, when he was about to deploy to iraq and again in 2012 , our son beau introduced me to the country and place my name in nomination. [applause] i know i sound like a dad but you got a glimpse of what an incredibly fine young man bo was. [applause] thank you. [applause] thank you. His wife hallie and his two kids are here tonight. [applause] as Ernest Hemingway once wrote, the world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places. I have been made strong at the broken places by my love jill, my son hunter in the love of my life my ashley and by all of you and i mean this sincerely. You have been through this and you know i mea
Here. And a powerful tribute to the fallen on this memorial day weekend. From abc news, its this week here now, chief white house correspondent, jonathan karl. Good morning, and thank you for joining us on this memorial day weekend. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton started the week off by making history. Setting a new low as the two most unpopular president ial front runners since the dawn of political polling. Actually made it worse, now facing real questions that cut to the core of their campaigns, and whether they can unite their parties and the country this fall. We got the nomination yesterday, right . So we have the nomination. Were number one. It was the week donald trump went over the top. Hitting the magic number of 1,237 delegates to clinch the republican nomination. Weve won the nomination. Big. By numbers that you cant believe. We were supposed to be in july, in cleveland fighting for our lives. But it didnt exactly look like a victory lap. First trump continued to wage war
Mr. Trump aside from abolishing the second amendment, hillary your taxes. Raise secretary clinton trump, as obsessed with name calling. From my perspective, it matters wet we do, not just what say. Gwen we examine the options as well as more republican worry the durability of their candidate. Joining me to sort through week, robertex costa, National Political reporter for the washington parsons, White House Correspondent for tribune newspapers, pete williams, justice correspondent for nbc news and jeff zeleny, senior washington correspondent for cnn. Awardwinning reporting and analysis, covering history as it happens. Nations capitol, this is Washington Week with ifill. Corporate funding for byshington week is provided xq institute. Thousands of people came out today to run the race for retirement. Asked them, are you completely prepared for retirement . Ok, mostly prepared . Save 1 more of your income . It doesnt sound like much but an additional 1 now could make a big difference over