Service. Daughter, i had a special window into how she served. I have seen her holding the hands of mothers worried about how they will get their children the health care it they need. I saw my mother promising to do everything she could to help. I have seen her right after those conversations heading straight to work figuring out what she could do, who she could call, how fast she could get results. She always feels like there is not a moment to lose. Thatse she knows that for mother, for that to family, there isnt. Time, how me all the do she do it . How do she keep going amid the sound and the fury of politics . Heres how. Ever because she never forgets who she is fighting for. [applause] Chelsea Clinton she has worked to make it easier for foster kids to get adopted. Responders torst get the health care they deserve. For women around the world to be safe, to be treated with dignity, and into have more opportunities. These, they are what keep my mother going. They grab her heart and conscience and never ever let go. Charlie last night, president obama gave a speech which signified the passing of the torch. Is here. Er welcome. Eric it is good to be here. Michelle speech, the president s speech, mine was about five minutes. I spoke about Voting Rights and criminal Justice Reform. Charlie how much will that be part of your life now . The idea for being an advocate for criminal Justice Reform and race . I left, and my going away ceremony, i said while i was leaving the department of justice i would never leave the work. I want to stay involved in the fight for equality to make sure we protect the right to vote. All the things connected to race which have so be doubled us as a nation for so long. Come to i think and i this from people like Brian Johnson and others, a hard look. Have we considered all of the impact of what is flavoring this country. Eric i dont think we have. When one looks at slavery and the time after slavery think they had slavery by another name of segregation. Helicesies, government put in place of the 1930s. There are a whole lot of things that still resonate here in the 20th century that still find their roots in the slavery experience and those things that follow. Thelie we are all asking same things. Make sure we understand the constitution. Every speaker. Do somethingto about violence against young people and old people in terms of police committing acts of violence in the middle of whatever. We also have to make sure week and youre set this to come up have to make sure we understand and appreciate and make sure no againstws violence police. We want to go once of further than the next up a next up. Eric it is interesting. I think we have done that first step, to raise the issue. To make sure Law Enforcement treats people they are supposed to serve with dignity and respect and theres not a tension between those two. The question becomes, how to we get the next level. I think theres got to be some hardheaded conversation. A few recommendations from the 20th century task force. There are specific steps. 23 or 24 steps, if you follow those we could really move the ball in a significant way but we have to understand that whole relationship, the Law Enforcement and Community Relationship cannot be viewed and a microcosm. It is part of a Larger Society and larger societal issues around race that we continue not to address. We are adept at avoiding racial issues because it makes us feel uneasy. It brings up a bad past. Charlie and then there is the huge part new officials cannot look at someone and make an assumption and act on that basis. That is something we have to attack. Charlie where do you think you succeeded and failed in terms of your tenure . Air i think we raise the ball when he came to civil rights enforcement. It had been decimated in the department i came to. I look at we protect the right to vote. Lgbt equality. I think we did a good job at moving terrorism cases into the article three court. I do not think we did a good job when it came to getting done control. Then safety regulations in place. The one area i think i wish i couldve made more process. I suspect the president would say the same thing. It are i thought after newtown, after the 20 Little Angels were murdered, mo down, i thought that would be the tunnel is. The Vice President and i met with a wide variety of gun roots. I think we could have at least. Ad a consensus charlie is that what has to happen . A consensus with the nra . Air i do not think so. I do not think theyre ever going to come along. I think we need a spine injection to the people in washington to do the things their constituents want them to do. Charlie will this be a primary issue for Hillary Clinton . it is a primary part of her candidacy that i am most product when i associate myself with her. Unlike others, was a concern you might alienate others, she has said she is for gun safety regulation. She is talked about what she thinks needs to be regulated and tot is a start contrast donald trump. It gives her mandate should she be elected. A mandate, ands expectation. Charlie we saw 12 years ago history made in 2008. Is history inn itself. In the general election, the remarkable history. We have watched in eight years the possibility. Was born in 1951 and i lived through the civil rights movement. If you had told me in college, in lawschool under that i would serve in africanamerican and after that a woman would be president of the United States, i mightve asked you to take a drug test. Charlie and they would vote through the lawyers. Work and here we are. We could never forget this is a nation that has made great progress. We have things to do. Despite what donald trump says, we have made great progress and if we do not acknowledge that we eightt doing disservice to people who have put their lives on the line to make nice like this possible. Charlie i have had people tell me donald trump is dangerous for the future. Air dentistry. He is temperamentally unsuited to be president. There are a number of disqualifiers to his candidacy, the latest of which is his apparent invitation to the russians to somehow get involved in the hacking of private citizen email. The fact that he does not instinctually know charlie and mightve been deleted from a server, private server. Eric the fact that he does not know there are collateral consequences to a request like that is to me, frightening. I think he would be a dangerous president. Charlie is what he suggested treason . Air i am not sure about that. I would have to know what it is about what he said. Charlie i can remind your you were the attorney general. Eric i would need a lot more stuff than simply that statement to make a determination. Charlie is an illegal . To potentially say to another country, i want you to engage in an illegal act. Eric in this illegal to hack. Charlie i want you to engage in an illegal hack to my opponent with a political advantage to me. Air i am not sure he used those words and that way. That is why his flow bench would eric im not sure to use those exact words. That is why his exact verbiage would be important. Note is a reason it is disclosed. Charlie for what reason . Eric National Security concerns, it would reveal sources and methods and the tactics we have two prevent hacking by a variety of entities. Charlie we know they hacked John Brennans phone. We know they hacked the personnel. We know they hacked sony. We know they hacked other private companies. We know they hacked the dnc. Do you believe it was the russians who hacked the dnc . Eric i do not know. Im mentoring to avoid the question. I really do not know. Charlie what about your opinion . Eric i think it is entirely involved. Hey were i think was entirely possible the russians were involved. I would not the past them. Their experience. That they would do Something Like that. Not print. N trump seems to have a bromance with them. Charlie wide you say bromance . Has discussed admiration. Talked about a willingness to work with them in areas where we are in stark contrast. Charlie would it strengthen Vladimir Putin of donald trump or elected . absolutely. Donald trump has questioned the validity of the very things that of kept russia and the ussr at bay for half a century. Nato. Charlie we think china has been engaged in hacking. North korea. The president said he thought north korea was involved. Air there were five North Koreans indicted for hacking eric five koreans North Koreans were indicted for attorneyhen i was general. Charlie doing it on behalf of commercial entities. The chinese. Are saying we dont do that, but we do it for National Security reasons. Eric we have capacity we make the use of and i will leave it at that. I am not going to get in trouble with the justice department. Charlie [chuckling] you are not going to risk that are you . You question Donald Trumps great matter. Do you think is not smart enough to be president . Eric i sometimes think he hides behind a certain votto just to hide a lack of substance. Therson this for a lot of process, i think we would know little bit more about what his plans are. Hisould know more about who mentors mightve been. Who his intellectual guides might be. I dont think that is any of that to him. He seems to be a very shallow man. Charlie no intellectual interest other than a businessman. Whose value sent is primarily, and he said that to a degree, winning. That is what he said America Needs to do. America needs to win. Win against the chinese. What charlie . We are winning. We have the best economy in the world. The envy of every other in economy and the world. One of the other things that makes me doubt his intellectual half is he sees everything in black and white. That is the realm of people who are not very smart. Because the world really, the tough stuff is in the gray area. That is where you have to try to figure things out and he has shown no interest and i think no capacity to delvin and operate in those gray areas. Charlie yet in the swing states that are crucial he is even. He is even. Despite everything you just said , dangerous, not smart enough, onedimensional. Even. Eric i think it is too early to look at polls and make a determination. I showed one that showed them a points behind in pennsylvania. Another said he was even in pennsylvania. As always, i would be looking at florida. If he cannot win florida than it does not work. Even if he wins pennsylvania. If we win florida it is pretty much over. Do you think for sec. Clinton to win she has to win ohio and florida . Eric notrs. Necessarily. There are a number of states where she could lose and still be above 270. Charlie Loretta Lynch was general when fbi director james comey released his judgment about the email investigation into Hillary Clinton. He said she was careless. Said he clarified that. Did he clarify that as far as you know . Eric i think in the hearing they made the next day, some of the things he made the day before charlie what was the clarity . Information ithe been clearly marked and in response he said there were a couple things, not headliners. It was not a strong as was the date before. Charlie but carelessness is not a president ial holiday we want to see is it . Air people make mistakes. Abraham lincoln suspended habeas corpus. Charlie that was not careless. He knew what he was doing. Eric he apologize. Charlie what she did was a mistake and wrong. Knowledged what she did was wrong. Mistakes as attorney general. Charlie i would like to get a list of them. Eric were talking about this election. Mistakes. E huge mistakes in areas that are consequential. You can look at them and see how were handled. Charlie the russians for example. Lets assume it may have been the russians and everybody seems to think that it is a possibility. As you suggested, they hacked have cases that they could hacked here. That is one question. The other question, and did they do it with the influence to influence with the reason to influence the election . Is it unreasonable to expect that someone might have hacked . Er server in her house is that unreasonable . Isc i do not think it something one should suspect. It was not an official government server. Charlie they know who she is. Eric there are protections that can be built in. You can build secure systems. Charlie hacking expert . Not that. In a private setting, you can put up secure systems. I cannot vouch for that system. Charlie nobody has any evidence it was . It is possible. The cause we dont know because we see no evidence. Eric right. And no evidence as advanced by the trump camp either. Although they would like to have it. It aboutwhat is president obama that most runs a sense of pride to you . Because you are close to him. Dignity. A sense that everybody admires. What she said resonated. She spoke as a mother. Spoke about protection of children. Spoke in a way that you want to be able to trust children to a place and eight leadership where they are safe. In t, interesting enough, said he had to wear dark glasses to sashas graduation because he was crying. what i admire the most and why i will miss him is he is in honorable guy. The person you see is who he is. He is a little fun here then he is in public. He is a person that although a politician, ultimately always says, what is the right thing to do. He always does. I remember during the campaign he was told he had to do something to hillary. Run for the presidency, and he said, i remember, he said, if i have to do that i will not be resident. And i thought might myself, this is why am attracted to this guy. Charlie in terms of value standards. Eric there is a line it will not cross. Those right, those run. There are consequences for doing the right thing and i will do it nevertheless. Why is charlie interesting thing in america today. A thirdher running for term running for her own and making her case later. And it is interesting to me and i do not understand this, the polls say this country is on the wrong track. But he is pulling above 50 . Dont understand that. By all of the normal, traditional measures people should be saying we are in a pretty good face especially if you consider this country as opposed to other nations around the world and yes, a track record for exactly what you say. I think a part of that has to do with the campaign and the drum beat that people are fed on a constant basis by republicans about how bad things are when in fact there are pockets of problems. There are issues. Charlie when you say that, obviously this commissions this sense of believing in america. When i wanted to ask him, what could make your belief, strongest military, economy, military, sophistication. He said our politics could stop it. Yes. We have a dysfunctional system and washington, d. C. , right now and that drums up so much. Education, acture, whole variety. A hole right if things you need the government to be involved in. Is still saying the year of the Big Government is over. I would say, Good Government still and doors. Evil thing. S not an Charlie Ronald reagan was wrong when he said government is not the solution, it is the problem. Air i think he was completely wrong. 100 wrong. Charlie the era of the government is over is what he said. Those kinds of things. Air eric i think because of demographic reasons, because of the failure of certain policies were seeing a shift in the nation and the nation as a whole is moving to the left. Charlie what does that mean . In the sense of the role of governing . In terms of the sense of government, what it wants government to do, policies it wants to see in place. Conservative things that of Reigns Supreme for 30 years are being questioned. Charlie we dont want to be open or closed, do we . And openness to the rest of the world. Do we want to close down . Eric that is a fundamental question that has always been openred as we want to be to the world. That is how we renew ourselves. A comparative advantage to being the best nation. Charlie but some people are hurting, worried about their economic security. Worried about not having the life for their children. Eric were going through a time of transition. We are going from an Industrial Society of people who would be on a factory line and make, refrigerators. Now robots are doing them. Doing things that could not be done before. This is a wrenching economic time for us. Charlie a time for leadership. Optimism. A time for charlie a five more questions can i call you . absolutely. Previouseric holder, attorney general for the United States. Back in a moment. We continue with a top democratic donor and friend of the Clinton Family. A supporter of barack obama and a successful wall street hedge fund man. Involved in politics and he comes this evening i assume to watch Hillary Clintons acceptance of the nomination. What does it mean to you . Look, i think it is great. I have three girls. My youngest is pregnant, she is due any day and decided to come here. A big deal for women and i think many. Something phenomenal. Charlie when jew first meet the Clinton Family . You are very close to the former president as well. I met them when he was in the white house. After he left office, we became much closer. Charlie take someone like you, you are a friend of mine as well. You support political candidates. You bundle money for them. Why . I believe in it. I was born outside the usa, morocco. For me, the ability to and of being involved in politics. The ability to help democratic , i think you have an obligation. You should beginning back and it is something i want to do. Charlie donald trump says people like you give money because they want something. I heard that. Andso think donald trump people like me should not be allowed to. I mean, i am from morocco. By the end of the day, the reason i am doing it is at the end of the day i do believe in the cause. I believe hillary would be a great president s i want to do everything i ca