Week, ivanka. And accept the democratic apartments nomination. Reporter Hillary Clinton has been a political figure for decades and needs to convince voters if she needs to win the election shell move the country forward in a way voters are demanding. Weve heard the convention addressed some themes aimed at donald trump, security, freedom, safety, patriotism, but what does Hillary Clinton need to say tonight . Carl, this is the biggest audience shes going to have between now and the debates so even though shes been a public figure for 25 years, voters have a wealth of knowledge about her. She does have a chance to move people a little bit and a little bit may be just what she needs, give voters who are wavering an understanding of her values of who shes fighting for, what her message is and maybe what shes learned from her mistakes. You know whats interesting is both of them have such high negatives, Hillary Clinton and donald trump. One week ago we were asking, can donald trump stick to the tell prompter, stick to the script . Can he act president ial enough . Tonight were asking can she be less messaged, less focused and more programmed and more natural and more likeable, thats the hurdle that she faces tonight. And maybe thats a role Chelsea Clinton can play her. What do you expect from this speech, john . I think chelsea, in a somewhat different way than bill clinton did the other night is going to try to give people a little bit more texture, a little bit more dimension to Hillary Clinton as a mother. The prob plem peoplem people ha Hillary Clinton is see her as a work machine, not a three dimensional person with other interests in life and Chelsea Clinton is uniquely sit waited to make that case. Were heard from the required marine general from a diseased solder, going after themes that have been traditionally gop stall worths. And well see Chelsea Clinton take the stage. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It is such an honor for me to be here tonight. Im here as a proud american, a proud democrat, a proud mother, and tonight in particular, a very, very proud daughter. Mark and i cant quite believe it, but our daughter charlotte is nearly two years old. She loves elmo. She loves blueberries, and above all, she loves face timing with grandma. My mom can be about to walk on stage for a debate or a speech and it just doesnt matter, shell drop everything for a few minutes of blowing kisses and reading chug a chug a choochoo with her granddaughter. Chug a chug a got an applause. Our son, aiden, is five yaand a half weeks old and we are so thankful that hes healthy and thriving and, well, were a little biased but we think hes just about the cutest baby in the world. A view im pretty sure my mom shares. And every day that i spend as charlotte and aidens mother, i think about my own mother. My wonderful, thoughtful, hilarious mother. [ applause ] my earliest memory is my mom picking me up after i had fallen down, give down, giving me a big hug and reading good night moon. From that until this memory, every single memory i have is that regardless of what was happening in her life, she was always, always there for me. [ applause ] every soccer game, every softball game, every piano recital, every dance recital. Sundays spent together at church in the local library, countless saturdays spent finding shapes in the clouds, making up story business what we would do if we ever met a trier ceretops, in m opinion, the friendliest dinosaur, and my mom would always remind her they were dinosaurs. As a kid, i was pretty obsessed with dinosaurs and the day my parents took me to Dinosaur National park i didnt think life could get any better. Whenever my mom was away for work, which thankfully didnt happen very often, she left notes for me to open every day she was gone. All stacked neatly together in a special drawer with the date on the front of each one so i would know which note to open on which day. When she went to france to learn about their childcare system, i remember one was all about the eiffel tower. Another was about the ideas she hoped to bring home to help the kids of arkansas. I treasured each and every one of those notes. They were another reminder that i was always in her thoughts and in her heart. Growing up, conversations around the dinner table always started with what i learned in school that day. I remember one week, talking incecently about a book, a wrinkle in time that captured my imagination, only after my parents had listened to me would they then talk about what they were working on, education, healthcare, what was consuming their days and keeping them up at night. I loved that my parents expected me to have opinions and to be able to back them up with facts. [ applause ] i never once doubted that my parents cared about my thoughts and my ideas and i always, always knew how deeply they loved me. That feeling of being valued and loved, thats what my mom wants for every child. [ applause ] it is the calling of her life. My parents raised me to know how lucky i was, that i never had to worry about food on the table, that i never had to worry about a good school to go to, that i never had to worry about a safe neighborhood to play in, and they taught me to cape abore ab what happens in our world and do whatever i could to change what frustrated me, what felt wrong. They taught me thats the responsibility that comes with being smiled on by fate. [ applause ] and i know my kids are a little young, but im already trying to instill those same values in them. Theres Something Else that my mother taught me, Public Service is about service. [ applause ] and as her daughter, ive had a special window into how she serves. Ive seen her holding the hands of mothers worried about how theyll feed their kids, worried about how theyll get them the healthcare they need. Ive seen my mother promising to do everything she could to help. Ive seen her right after those conversations getting straight to work, figuring out what she could do, who she could call, how fast she could get results. She always feels like there isnt a moment to lose, because she knows that for that mother, for that family, there isnt, and ive also seen her at the low points, like the summer of 1994. Several people this week have talked about her fight for universal healthcare. I saw it up close. It was bruising. It was exhausting. She fought her heart out, and as all of you know, she lost. For me, then 14 years old, it was pretty tough to watch, but my mom, she was amazing she took a little time to replenish her spirits, family movie nights definitely helped. Dad, as all of you now know, liked police academy. My mom and i loved pride and prejudice, and then she just got right back to work because she believed she could still make a difference for kids. People ask me all the time, how does she do it . How does she keep going amid the sound and the fury of politics . Heres how. Its because she never, ever forgets who shes fighting for. [ applause ] shes worked to make it easier for foster kids to be adopted, for our 9 11 First Responders to get the healthcare they deserve. For women around the world to be safe, to be treated with dignity, and to have more opportunities. [ applause ] fights like these, theyre what keep my mother going. They grab her heart and her conscious and they never, ever let go. [ applause ] thats thats who my mom is. Shes a listener and a doer. Shes a woman driven by compassion, by faith, by a fierce sense of justice and a heart full of love. So, this november im voting for a woman who is my role model as a mother and as advocate. A woman who has spent her entire life fighting for families and children. Im voting for the progressive who will protect our planet from Climate Change and our communities from gun violence. [ applause ] who will reform our criminal justice system, and who knows that womens rights are human rights. [ applause ] and who knows that lgbt rights are human rights. [ applause ] here at home, and around the world. Im voting for a fighter who never, ever gives up. And who believes that we can always do better when we come together and we Work Together. I i hope that my children will some day be as proud of me as i am of my mom. I am so grateful to be her daughter. Im so grateful that she is charlotte and aidens grandmother. She makes me proud every single day. [ applause ] and and mom, grandma would be so, so proud of you tonight. [ applause ] to everyone watching here and at home, i know with all my heart that my mother will make us proud as our next president. This is the story of my mother, Hillary Clinton. [ applause ] here is a woman. What does she dream of . When does she feel proud . How many times will she leave her mark . How many ways will she light up the world . Shes got this wonderful, infectious laugh that carries quite far and sometimes will be surprising because youll be in the middle of something and shell go, ah and theres joy and a merth that sometimes the public doesnt always see. I just remember her holding my hand a lot. I remember that a lot. And like i felt like she tried to south me. It wasnt about pictures or a big production. He just kind of showed up, and she had a very simple message, thank you, and ill do whatever i can for you. And she would make good on that promise. I loved to watch her with people and i can see the effect of her kindness and that its really. Hillary rodram grew up in parkridge, illinois. Her father was a navy man. My father was a chief petty officer at home, as well as in the navy, and he really had the attitude that, you know, dont wine, don whine, dont complain, do what youre supposed to, to the best of your ability. Her mother, dorothy, was terribli terribly neglected, working as a housekeepere housekeeper. She said that was the first time she knew what i a loved family looked like. She was like three or four old, and they gave her a set of coupons so she could go to the corner cafe and get food. And i mean just the image of this little girl, all by herself, walking down the stairs of the walkup tenament. Out the door alone, to the corner, to the cafe, getting food with coupons just haunts me. Here is a woman making her first marks on the world. She is, we all know bright and promising, an achiever, and yet extraordinarily what is most striking about the young woman is her heart. Her commitment to making peoples lives better, her abiding belief that the same opportunities that chelsea has had should be extended to every child. That comes through in everything that she does. She could have joined a big law firm, been a corporate bigwig. Instead, she chose the childrens defense fund. There, she went door to door, gathering stories to help children with disabilities who were denied schooling. She challenged a system that kept teen boys in the same tales as grown men. She went undercover as a house wife to prove that alabama was defying the law to keep its schools all white. She was successful at all three. I remember watchings her he class and i thought she was fascinating. I followed her out of the class and i got as close as i am to you and i lost my guts and didnt speak to her. I said to the person i was with, who is that, and she said, well, thats bill clinton, hes from arkansas, thats all he ever talks about. And literally at that moment, and not only that, we grow the biggest watermelons in the world, so thats all i knew about him. Here is a woman entering life as the wife of a politician. She is, to say the least, an untraditional first lady n. Arkansas, she bodily ebodely ree education system, and in the white house, takes on old school healthcare. In washington, healthcare reform is not welcome. My mother wanted me to be resilient and wanted me to be brave. I was, like, four and there were lots of kids in the neighborhood and i would come out and i would have like a bow in my hair and the kids would all pick on me. It was my First Experience of being bullied and i was terrified. I was running in the house and my mother met me and she said to me, theres no room for cowards in this house. You go back outside and figure out how youre going to deal with what these kids were doing. Hillary worked with both democrats and republicans and together they create a plan that to this day provides medical insurance for eight million american children. 8 million children. It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food or drowned or suffocated or their spines broken simply because they are born girls. Now you and i werent there, but it has been said that u. N. Fourth womens conference in beijing is where hillary woke up the world. Humans rights are womens rights, and womens rights are human rights once and for all. [ applause ] when she said womens rights are human rights, and human rights are womens rights, in 1995, that was a radical statement. She had never Held Public Office before. Shed been a senator for just nine short months. And then our nation bowed its head in grief. It appeared as though a dark blackishgray curtain had dropped between Lower Manhattan and the rest of the city. Injurywise, both of my legs were shattered. They believe that the landing gear of the second plane hit me because it was so hot that it closed my wounds. Around 9 00 at night, one of my staff people, one of chucks staff people came in and whispered to both of us that white house had just sent up its first request for funding and there was not a penny in it for new york. New york needed a champion. Hillary and chuck tirelessly worked their way across washington, not stopping until they reached the oval office. President bush looked at me and he said, what do you need . And i said we need 20 billion, and Chuck Schumer said we need 20 billion, and he said you got it. Her mind just quickly grasped, this is a much bigger issue than replacing these buildings. This is replacing the american spirit. I remember just taking a few pictures. And when i got them developed, the flash from this camera against the dark sky, reveals all the particles that are in the air. It looks like snow. When our First Responders began to get sick and questioned the quality of the air at ground zero, hillary loudly took on the epa and won them health benefits. It wasnt safe. Not only did she say she was going to fight for us, it was annidan idle chatter. He same time, she helped some survivors rebuild their lives. I remember talking to hillary saying, i cant i cant have this wedding unless i can dance. I need to be able to dance at my wedding for it to happen, and she said, youre going to do it, i know you are. Hearing her say that helped me believe it. The bin laden situation is a perfect example how available hills judgment and strength was to me in every decision i made. Ive seen the photograph, so have you. Well never know what it felt like to be in that room. But look at her face, shes carrying the face and the rage of an entire nation. When the opportunity arose for me to be part of the small Group Advising the president about whether or not the intelligence we had was Strong Enough for him to act, i took that responsibility personally and on behalf of the 3,000 people who were murdered, the tens of thousands of loved ones who were left behind, the horror that was inflicted on our country. Just listening to her talk about what that meant, i think we all felt both the extraordinary responsibilities but also the extraordinary privilege of being able to serve the american people. I was sitting in a back room by myself with my feet up and my sneakers were sticking out of my dress and someone came behind me and hugged me and i had no idea who it was and it was hillary. Without press, without fanfare, their own family photos, hillary quietly attended debbies wedding, and debbie danced. She danced. There is more than enough of the American Dream to go around. If we are committed to growing t nurtureri nurturing it, passing it on to our grandchildren, i cant think of anything more thrilling than being a part of that. We all hope for a better tomorrow, any parent knows your every dream for the future beats in the heart of your child. Chelseas heart, beats hills hillarys, and hills beats dorothys. The American Dream is passed down from generation, to generation, to generation. In lots of ways we could spend these golden years of our lives, she wants to do this because she believes she can make a difference now and i do, too. Im going to stand up and fight for every american because i think if you are the president , thats exactly what you should do every day. There are show horses, and there are work horses, horses that you count on, to deliver and shes a work horse. You have to love this country, believe in this country, lift up the people in this country. To have a decade, after decade of being in the front lines of trying to bring about change. And do everything you can to make sure they believe youre getting up every morning in that big old white house thinking about them, understanding what theyre up against and working to make it better. She does that because she feels deep in her heart that here in the greatest country on earth, everybody deserves a shot. I hope to unify our country. I hope to bring people together. I hope to break down every barrier that prevents americans from joining hands and making our country everything it should be. Thats what i hope for my grandchildren and thats what my mother would hope for me. How many times will she leave her mark . How many ways will she light up the world . This is the woman. Ladies and gentlemen, my mother, my hero, and our next president , Hillary Clinton. [ applause ] this is might fight song this is my fight song [ cheers and applause ] thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank youall so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank youall very, very much. Thank you for that amazing welcome. Thank youall for the Great Convention that weve had. And, chelsea, thank you. I am so proud to be your mother, and so proud of the woman youve become. Thank you for bringing mark into our family. And charlotte and aiden into the world. And, bill, that conversation we started in the law library 45 years ago, it is still going strong. [ crowd chanting hillary ] you know that conversation has lasted through good times that filled us with joy and hard times that