we've got a you're hired president. a you're hired president. let's do debt free college so people can have skills and build bridges and roads and airports and ports so people can have jobs. let's go for equal pay and raise the minimum wage and bring back the dignity and respect of work. a you're hired president. all right. you're 1-1. question two. do you want a trash talking president or bridge building president? of course you do. donald trump trash talks folks with disabilities and trash talks mexican-americans and latinos where they are new immigrants or governors or federal judges, trash talks women, trash talks our allies and calls the military a disaster. you're right, he doesn't trash talk everybody, he likes vladimir putin, you're right. let's get that straight. this is a bridge builder president. as -- as a member of the armed services committee, built great ties with our military and military family as secretary of state made history building relationships around the world and putting central to u.s. foreign policy the treatment of women and children around the world. she's a bridge builder. that's what we need. last, all right, florida international, 2-2. here's number three. do you want a me first president or kids and families first president? of course. with donald trump it's me first. i'm not showing you my tax returns. i'm going to run a university that will take people's money and rip them off. donald trump was in britain when they cast the brexit vote to leave the eu and as the british pound their unit of currency was getting pummeled, he said, this could be good news for my golf course. me first. but we've got a -- we've got a kids and family first president. who from her earliest days has been -- i'll tell you something, i'm going to give you a secret about those of us in politics. if you want to try to judge the character of somebody in politics, i'll tell you how to do it. it's really simple. look at their life and see if they have a passion in their life that they have long before they got into politics, a passion that's not about themselves and passion that's about somebody else and then see if they have held on to that passion for thick or thin in good times or bad, whether winning elections or losing elections, come hell or high water. look to see if they have a passion that's about somebody else and look to see whether they've held onto it all the time and that is character and that is our kids and families first, hillary clinton. [ applause ] >> all right. when i was a kid growing up, my favorite president was another kansas city guy, harry truman. great democratic president. great democratic president. let me tell you something that harry truman said that could have been written five minutes ago. he said it in the late 1940s and it's so well put. america was not built on fear. america was built on courage on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. let me tell you that one again. america was not built on fear. america was not built on fear. it was built on courage on imagination and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. friends, hillary clinton -- hillary clinton is filled with that courage, that imagination and that unbeatable determination and that's why we trust her to fight for all americans. that's why i'm with her. that's why i'm with her. are you with her? that's why we're with her. that's why we're with her. these are tough times for many in our country but we're tough people. that's something else i learned from my folks, tough times don't last but tough people do. and they don't come any tougher or any more compassionate than hillary clinton. so let's go make history and elect hillary clinton the 45th president of the united states! [ applause ] ♪ >> now we all know why hillary clinton picked tim kaine to be her vice presidential running mate. he just delivered a very powerful presentation. the first time most americans saw him, heard him and now they appreciate his personal story. spoke with a lot of passion and conversational, and strong defense of hillary clinton and strong attack on donald trump, mixed with humor and sarcasm and under scoring what this campaign is going to be about. very sharp differences between the democrats and the republicans. i don't know if he could do any better in his acceptance speech wednesday night at the democratic convention in philadelphia. this was a speech also that show cased his fluent spanish, something that really will be helpful out there on the campaign trail. we've got a team of correspondents and an lifts standing by to assess everything. let's go to miami right now. jeff, you're there on the scene. the crowd loved it and certainly loved his spanish. >> reporter: no question, wolf. i think you said it right. he actually raised the bar for his own acceptance speech on wednesday night. tim kaine introducing himself today is really showing what a lot of democrats know that he is a good communicator. he's likely one of the best communicators in the u.s. senate and i think we saw him go from his own biography though, sorts of seamlessly to his real job here, his real job in this campaign, not to introduce himself but to defend and introduce and build up hillary clinton. i think the ending part of his speech, the powerful part of his speech, he'll be the biggest cheerleader and her defender and val dater. it's so interesting geographically, his midwestern roots so important to this. we heard him talking about his upbringing in overland park, kansas and key time he spent in the mission in honduras that gave him his values he said. we also heard his spanish. wolf, he said i learned the values of my town, faith, family and work. the same values of lat monnos i this community, this makes clear that immigration will be central to this campaign. tim kaine will do a lot of it in espanol and here to defend hillary clinton. >> he went through so many issues supporting hillary clinton, brianna keilar is in miami as well. brianna, he got emotional when he spoke about gun violence in the united states, the deaths that have occurred and especially at virginia tech university. it was the low point in his life. you and i were there covering that story and we remember how awful it was. >> reporter: it was so awful, wolf, to be there in the midst of it, it was just being amid this giant loom, not just for the school but for the state and country overall. that was really the first time i ever heard tim kaine speak or really paid attention to him. he spoke at a memorial service there at the university, george w. bush then the president came and spoke. he was someone who was a pretty tremendous soother in chief, but he spoke and while he was a good speech governor tim kaine who rushed back from a trip to japan doing official business, he gave a speech and it was a speech that was tremendously healing. and reaching out to the community there, it was something that really made your eyebrows go up. it was a really amazing speech. while we heard the knock on tim kaine being that he is someone who may be boring or he's a quote/unquote old white guy, i think what you saw today was that even though maybe attack dog isn't the most comfortable position for him, he was still able to do it with humor. what he really is is a very well spoken cheer leader and this is why hillary clinton has capped him. he has vulnerabilities, we talked about that. he is more moderate and has favor eed restrictions on abortion, late portion abortion ban with the exception of health of the mother. he has supported offshore drilling. liberal democrats may not like those things. but he spoke in spanish, very fluently and told the crowd here that guiding principles are faith and familia and work. and peppered the entire speech, talked about his roots as jeff noted working in his father's metal working shop in kansas city. and he also talked to hillary clinton's african-american supporters and talked about his home church, saint elizabeth catholic church in richmond where he was married almost three decades ago to his wife ann. this is a predominantly black church in richmond he has gone to over the years and promised he's going to show up tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. he showed himself with even certainly every vice presidential running mate will have some vulnerabilities but he showed a very effective cheerleader for hillary clinton. >> he certainly did. gloria, i don't know if he can do any better wednesday night. that speech was really impressive, especially to people who were watching and never heard of him or heard him speak. >> especially the one very important person, hillary clinton sitting behind him. >> she was beaming. >> all remarking as we were watching this she seemed so happy and in a way relieved that she has somebody out there to do things that in a way she can't do. i mean, i have never heard a politician talk about his resume, recite his resume in a more personal way, talking about his family, talking about his career, talking about his wife and her life growing up in the governor's mansion in virginia and being among the first to attend integrated schools in that state. when i looked at this, we can say he's a career politician because he is but he's also a public servant. spent his entire life doing these things and i think he's a joyful politician. however, one other thing i would also add, who raised the tax returns? he raised the tax returns -- >> donald trump's tax returns. he is going to start talking about why hasn't donald trump released his tax returns. i think he's the secret weapon on that issue and a lot of others because he can do it. >> he got a lot of applause. donald trump says great america great again and tim kaine said isn't it great already and got alet of applause. >> he did. now we know -- something that we were saying and i was saying last night, knowing tim kaine, he's not boring. and but we also know he's an astute politician because he set expectations on himself really low calling himself boring, knowing he can deliver the message he did today. not everybody, even if they have been in politics a long time can deliver a speech without sounding like a delivery of speech. just talking. that's what he did. and i just want to continue focusing on the performance and stage craft of this. we were right here in the seats doing the same kind of analysis of the republican rollout last week, where forget about the fact that donald trump spoke about himself before he got to mike pence and hillary clinton did the opposite. the optics of having tim kaine sitting there with hillary clinton behind him and vice verse is a. you saw them in the shot. you got a sense of the team visually which cannot be underestimated when you're trying to decide whether or not this is somebody and this is a team you feel comfortable with in your house and living room for four years. >> she was so happy. >> in those optics, most people get a lot of their news from local papers and i think we know what the images on local papers across country will be tomorrow, the hand raise of the two of them with the giant american flag in the back. what we do know, part of the reason there was sort of a delay in terms of this rollout is because they wanted to make it perfect. they wanted to be the opposite of what we saw from trump and pence last saturday. they wanted to have those optics and wanted everything to go smoothly. i think it did. we have been talking about his appeal to african-american voters and civil rights record and latino voters, his ability to speak spanish and background in honduras, but he's also going to appeal to suburban white women. i think he'll appeal to working class white voters as well. it feels like this is a candidate or a vice presidential pick of that can go anywhere in the country. they can go to florida, he can go to ohio or to north carolina. he can go to virginia, obviously. and it's still not quite clear what the plan for pence is and if this team trusts him enough to go out on his own. this guy feels he's ready to go tomorrow. he with jazz up the crowd in a way that i think a lot of others on this ticket, hillary clinton and others can't -- >> what was really significant was the fact he is so fluent in spanish, anna novarro, was tweeting me, his accent is nearly flawless. [ speaking spanish ] >> i'm grateful to you hillary for the trust you've placed in me. and we're going to be -- [ speaking spanish ] >> how significant is the fact he's fluent in spanish? >> it's very significant but also the way he's lived his life is significant, the story that he went to honduras, the story of his church and how important it is in his life, the story of his faith is also important to lots of voters out there. one thing i want to say, usually in politics, we have women softening men, right? i mean, that's usually the way it is. in this particular case, i think he softens the edges of hillary clinton. because of the way he tells stories about his life and his family. and you could see her so relieved by that and you could -- you could see why she chose her. >> her body language was much more relaxed and she was beaming. going back to your question about him speaking spanish, it's not just about him being able to communicate to latino voters in their native tongue but also like we talked about way back then with jeb bush, he's cultural fluent in spanish and spanish community. living in honduras and coming back and staying in touch with the latino community, it isn't just being able to talk the talk. it's that he talked about the fact that as brianna talked about, it's life and family and work. those are -- it's not just language. it's the values and understanding. >> advertiit's his way too of b anti-trump. trump criticized jeb bush for speaking spanish on the trail, he said something like jeb bush should set an example and speak english in the u.s. you sort of wonder what trump might do with those -- with his ability to speak spanish and fact he's going to speak it often. >> it was very conversational speech, even though it was scripted, there was a teleprompter but delivered in a very conversational way. there's a lot more to assess. we'll get in reaction from the trump pence campaign as well. our special coverage continues right after this. ♪ is depression more than sadness? ♪ it's a tangle of multiple symptoms. ♪ ♪ trintellix (vortioxetine) is a prescription medicine for depression. trintellix may start to untangle or help improve the multiple symptoms of depression. for me, trintellix made a difference. tell your healthcare professional right away if your depression worsens, or you have unusual changes in mood, behavior or thoughts of suicide. antidepressants can increase these in children, teens, and young adults. trintellix has not been studied in children. do not take with maois. tell your healthcare professional about your medications, including migraine, psychiatric and depression medications to avoid a potentially life-threatening condition. increased risk of bleeding or bruising may occur especially if taken with nsaid pain relievers, aspirin, or blood thinners. manic episodes or vision problems may occur in some people. may cause low sodium levels. the most common side effects are nausea, constipation and vomiting. trintellix did not have significant impact on weight. ask your healthcare professional if trintellix could make a difference for you. you recommend synthetic and can yover cedar?to me why "super food"? is that a real thing? it's a great school, but is it the right the one for her? is this really any better than the one you got last year? if we consolidate suppliers what's the savings there? so should we go with the 467 horsepower? or is a 423 enough? good question. you ask a lot of good questions... i think we should move you into our new fund. ok. sure. but are you asking enough about how your wealth is managed? wealth management, at charles schwab. welcome back to our special coverage of the vice presidential announcement, the virginia senator tim kaine agreeing to be hillary clinton's running mate on the democratic ticket. he spoke about several important issues and comprehensive immigration reform gun reform, the economy, experience in all of those areas. let's continue to get reaction and analysis. mark preston is already in philadelphia getting ready for the democratic convention there. let me play a clip, mark. this is tim kaine, the vice presidential presumptive nominee speaking about immigration to america. >> put feared a comprehensive immigration reform package that includes a path to citizenship. [ speaking spanish ] >> i think it's fair to say the spanish he's speaking will be a focus on immigration reform, talking about immigrants becoming u.s. citizens and mark contrast to some of the themes that have come out from donald trump, let's build a wall along the border for example, between the u.s. and mexico. this is going to be a huge, huge area of disagreement in the coming weeks and months. >> huge area. certainly we see tim kaine there trying to drive that final wedge behind latino voters and republicans in telling them there's no question, you have to support us. tim kaine multidimensional in many ways, his spanish is flawless. he can go now. he campaigned in florida. he also can appeal to hispanic voters in colorado, two key states that will be important this this election. you know, wolf, i think as we were waiting to see tim kaine speak, we had very low expectations of how he was going to deliver. as jeff said right out of that speech, it's going to be hard for him to top what he did today. >> our cnn senior political analyst is with us as well, already in philadelphia as well. what was also moving, ron, he spoke about his son who's a marine. we know mike pence, the republican vice presidential nominee who's a son a marine, you have a son in the military, this always a powerful theme to bring forward to the american people. >> thanks for mentioning that. i think -- look, it was one of many ways in which tim kaine kind of grounded and humanized himself. the most striking aspect of the speech was the way he braided his personal story into the diversity of the modern democratic party, not only the fluent speaking of spanish but his connection to the civil rights era with his wife, a young girl being part of the first generation of white students enteg grated in schools. he went beyond that, talking about blue collar roots and midwestern roots and it reminded me that tim kaine is a candidate that can go in a lot of different places, to win in virginia, you have to be able to speak to the pan ram ma what america has become. we're thinking of ohio as the tipping point state but virginia may be more the microcosm with the mix of urban and rural and college and noncollege and the fact he's been able to succeed so well in virginia, does set him up to speak against a diverse palate of battle ground communities. >> he noted his son is about to be deployed to europe and referred to the commitments the united states has to the nato allies, clearly suggesting that donald trump doesn't have that capability to speak about the nato allies and at one point also suggesting donald trump said the u.s. military is in bad shape right now. that's going to be an important theme going forward as well. >> yeah, i think absolutely. the national security republicans are the ones who have expressed the most discontent over donald trump, you have the former national security adviser for first president bush endorse hillary clinton and richard armitage, secretary of state under the second president bush endorse hillary clinton and mark salter, the long time chief aide and kind of alter ego for john mccain endorse hillary clinton and hank paulson, i would not surprised to see them represented on the stage this week. where trump i think most clearly departs from traditional republican orthodoxy, this interaction with the world when he said americanism, not globalism and the nato question role of free trade. that is where you see the most direct collision between him and the kind of the post eisenhower consensus in the republican party. that's where you may see the most con speck uous formal defections from hillary clinton in the republican ranks. >> we'll get reaction coming up from a key donald trump supporter, our cnn contributor is with us. i want to hear what she has to say about what we just heard and saw. let's take a quick break. our special coverage continues right after this. ♪ if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, isn't it time to let the real you shine through? 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>> i think he actually did great. he had a great energy and definitely was as casual as his wardrobe, made everybody feel at ease. that's the first time i've seen hillary clinton relax and enjoy her own event. what was great from the republican side, this is really once again dividing what the difference in the platforms are between the republicans and the democrats. and if you take all of the kind of mud slinging across, you're looking at the principles between the two, you have got one side that actually says that i'm with her and like mr. trump said, going to put america first. you talk about immigration, that you all americans as the proposals of republicans and this is about sitting there and continuing to divide us. i appreciate him having multicultural and speaking spanish, that's a great idea and we can bring out language, melania can speak her five different languages as well. but mr. trump spoke in a language all americans can understand, that is english. i didn't have to get a translator for anything going on at the rnc this week. i'm hoping i won't have to start brushing back on my dora the explorer to understand the speeches given this week. i think that right there, that was probably one of the things that stuck out for me. once you start comparing records to records and who wants a pathway to a.m. necessarity and to secure our borders and protect our citizens, you know, wolf, illegal cost our country $113 billion per year. that's money we don't have and that could go back into urban areas and revitalize our schools and put folks back to work. we're spending it on illegal coming across the border right now. we want to open up. we did more than any other country in the world. let's take care of our citizens first and make sure they are going back to work before they support others who might not be contributing to the system. >> this is tim kaine speaking moments ago and then we'll discuss. listen to this. >> from atlantic city to his so-called university, he receives a trail of broken promises and wrecked lives wherever he goes. we can't afford to let him do the same thing to our country and folks we don't have to because hillary clinton is the direct opposite of donald trump. >> as you know, scottie, we'll be hearing a lot more of those attack lines in philadelphia in the coming days. it's going -- it's going to be very, very intense. so the trump campaign and the republican party ready for this? >> i think they are. last week there was a lot of definitely those same things from the republicans aimed at hillary going back and forth. you want to look at the numbers, trump university, they'll continue the case, the judge will continue his case until november and you also look at the fact of wrecked businesses, four of out 500, probably less than 1% of businesses he started. he built something and that's the message you'll see, created more than 30,000 jobs and built things. you want to talk about things left behind, at least it's not body bags and lies to mothers, many have not gotten an apology from hillary clinton after she told a lie about what happened to their children. >> i want to get reaction from bakari sellers, a supporter of hillary clinton. there was another important line he delivered in his remarks. let me play this clip for you. >> that was the worst day -- of my life. hillary and i will not rest. will not rest. we will not rest until -- [ applause ] we will not rest. we won't rest until we get universal background checks and close loopholes that put guns in the hands of criminals, terrorists and dangerous people who should not have them. >> bakari, the issue of guns will be a stark difference between the democratic ticket and republican ticket. and we've got a lot taste of that right there. >> yes, whether or not you're talking about virginia tech when senator kaine was then governor or talking about charleston, when i lost my good friend or orlando where we just had an attack on homosexual hispanics, this is an issue near and dear to the heart of many. more importantly tim kaine stood up to the nra. when you put it in the entire context, he stood up to the nra in a southern state. that type of courage is remarkable. not only that, i was speaking with mayor nutter off air, talking about the fact that he actually had to lead through one of these conversations and it's a glaring contrast to a mike pence on donald trump. one of the others was not just an organizational difference but a chemistry difference. mike pence and donald trump, i don't know if they necessarily care or like each other, you could see there was a natural admiration between tim kaine and hillary clinton. last week in donald trump's speech when he batterized people of color and muslims, what you saw today was something totally different, someone who could speak a different language but not just patronize but talk about immigration reform. my phone has been blowing up. i got a call from a good friend of mine after the speech, we're both democrats. the bar was set low for tim raen. that was my first time actually hearing him give a speech on this platform. to quote "coming to america" with eddie murphy, that boy was good. >> you mentioned michael nutter, former mayor of philadelphia and cnn political contributor and there were a lot of doubters among fellow democrats and bernie sanders supporters and liberals and progressives who had questions about this selection of hillary clinton of tim kaine as a running mate. you think he went a little bit further today in trying to ease their concerns? >> absolutely, wolf. you know, i've had the opportunity to interact with at the time then chairman tim kaine and have watched him over the years. i did no have low expectations but i've been watching and listening to what folks are say. clearly today he hit it out of the park, a spectacular presentation of himself. very comfortable with himself, as bakari said, clear dhem industry between senator kaine and secretary clinton. they'll be a dynamic team across the united states of america. i do want to make one point especially in philadelphia, something said earlier. many people do speak english and speak other languages here in the united states of america. but everyone does not speak english. right here in philadelphia, there are many philadelphians who don't. they should not be disrespected or criticized about whether or not they speak english or not. it's very, very important here in philadelphia but all across the united states of america. people speak whatever language they speak. they are here in the country and want to be americans if they are not already we should be providing that opportunity for them not demonizing them or trying to kick them out. >> mayor, listen to hillary clinton speaking in introducing tim kaine before he actually went to the microphone. listen to this. >> donald trump may think america is in decline but he's wrong. america's best days are still ahead of us, my friends. and when he says as he did say, i alone can fix it, he's not only wrong, he's dangerously wrong. we americans, we solve problems together. >> right. and if donald doesn't understand that, he doesn't understand america. >> so mayor, when i heard her going after donald trump like that, you know what it reminded me to a certain degree, 16 other republican presidential candidates, most of them similarly went after donald trump for months and he captured that republican presidential nomination. he thinkds he's got a winning streak and he thinks he's doing it right. why do you think this -- that hillary clinton will succeed against him where all of these other republicans failed? >> well, one, trump is wrong about that. he doesn't know hillary clinton. he does not know how tough she is. she's a very different kind of candidate. i was frightened quite honestly when i heard him make the pronouncement that declared i am the great i am. only here he can do certain things. that is very frightening. and it is mess yanic in its tone and tenner, i don't know what he's talking about, other than running his mouth. secretary clinton is a very seasoned candidate. she knows what she's doing, a candidate of substance and giving details on what she's talking about and details actually matter. donald trump is just running his mouth about himself. >> everyone stand by. our special coverage will continue and there's more right after this. foand millions moremericans lwho feel its effects.s, let's walk together to make an even bigger impact and end alzheimer's for good. find your walk near you at alz.org/walk. ♪ ♪ if legalzoom has your back.s, over the last 10 years we've helped one million business owners get started. visit legalzoom today for the legal help you need to start and run your business. legalzoom. legal help is here. you made with your airline credit card.these purchases hold on...you only got double miles on stuff you bought from that airline? 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>> exactly right. he also is somebody who if you are a purist when it comes to abortion issues on the left will not be entirely thrilled with him but big picture again, the question is whether it's those voters that the clinton campaign is worried about, clearly not as much as reaching out beyond their base to try to get a coalition to win. >> he's going to try to underscore his national security kru d credentials. listen to this. >> our oldest son nat is here today with his fiancee. he is a proud marine. [ applause ] and in just a few days, he's deploying to europe to uphold america's commitment to our nato allies. >> significant because donald trump has been critical of nato, that the allies are not stepping up and paying enough of their share. >> for that reason, the fact that he mentioned nato was no accident because as you said, it's not a subtle way of suggesting that donald trump doesn't get it when it comes to being commander in chief. i think even more important than that, he was presenting himself as part of a military family. >> right. >> which he can do and frankly no one else on the ticket on either side -- i'm saying this because i think -- >> first time since john mccain that none of the presidential or vice presidential candidates themselves served in the military. >> correct, at least he can say he understands the culture and the sacrifice and what it means -- >> mike pence has a son who is a u.s. marine as well. >> which he mentioned as well during his acceptance speech. i thought it was great about this and clever, was it was him as you said presenting his personal life but also digging at donald trump. he's going to be very effective. it's an attack they want to make. it didn't seem mean and let me tell you about myself. it was a cleverly written line. >> and hillary clinton, let me tell you how she devoted her whole life helping others get ahead. republicans would argue against that, but he was a very good character witness for hillary clinton. >> very quickly, mark preston, in philadelphia getting ready for the start of the convention, which is on monday. as i said earlier, he's going to have a tough time doing better wednesday night than he did today. this was a pretty powerful impressive presentation. >> quite a rollout for tim kaine. i was laughing beforehand thinking about the vice presidential debate, mike pence and tim kaine, not considered very dynamic but they are also very smart and understand policy. when those two face-off this fall, it will be interesting to hear how each of them tries to sell to the voters how the republican or the democratic party is the best part to leetd the nation. i do think the expectation is going to be very, very interesting. >> scottie nell hughes, what do you think of the upcoming debate, those are going to be pretty lively? >> i think whatever it doesn't make for in entertainment value, we'll see a lot of policy discussed and people on both sides of the aisle want more policy and get to know the candidates better, their positioning. there's no two better surrogates than these candidates. >> both impressive, mike pence spent many years in the u.s. house of representatives and now governor of indiana and tim kaine, served as governor of virginia and now in the senate and also former mayor of richmond, virginia. ba back k bakari sellers what's your biggest fear. you're in pennsylvania, you're in philadelphia. that's a battleground state. it's going to be close there. >> i think it's going to be close but i think what we saw today is that the battle lines have been drawn. in politico on april 30th i came out and said there shouldn't be two white people at the top of the ticket. i felt like diversity was the key in the path to 2070. i think that today tim kaine soothed all fears i may have and proved me wrong. i can admit i was wrong with that sentiment. what we saw today and learning he's a champion for civil rights and immigration reform all weaved into one, it's going on an interesting discussion we have. last week we saw the deem onization of certain cultures in this community, comparing spanish to dora the explorer, well today we're seeing that we're one country trying to bring people together and it's going to be an exciting time from this point further. >> the former mayor of philadelphia, you believe it's possible hillary clinton would lose dopennsylvania and donald trump would carry your state? >> no, there's no possibility that donald trump will win pennsylvania. hillary clinton is very well known in pennsylvania, loved in pennsylvania. and certainly again, with bakari said, when tim kaine comes to philadelphia, pittsburgh, to pennsylvania, there's going to be that much more excitement. pennsylvania, you know, increasingly purple during the course of an election and then becomes blue at the end. it will close and hillary clint will win. >> we'll see what happens in those key philadelphia suburbs as they say, a lot of people will be watching all of that. i want to thank everyone for all of the special coverage around this vice presidential announcement. that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. poppy harlow will pick up our special coverage. she's there. she's at the democratic national convention in philadelphia. she'll pick up our coverage right after this. there's no such thing as adverse discoverconditions.lexus suv ♪ ♪ for a limited time get some of our best offers of the year at the lexus golden opportunity sales event. this is the pursuit of perfection. mary buys a little lamb. one of millions of orders on this company's servers. accessible by thousands of suppliers and employees globally. but with cyber threats on the rise, mary's data could be under attack. with the help of at&t, and security that senses and mitigates cyber threats, their critical data is safer than ever. giving them the agility to be open & secure. because no one knows & like at&t. hi, everyone, welcome to our special live coverage, live here in philadelphia. what a day it has been. you are watching cnn special live coverage of hillary clinton's march towards history at the democratic national convention here in philadelphia. her newly minted running mate virginia senator tim kaine now officially by her side. ♪ >> i think being the first woman president would be quite a change from the presidents we've had up

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