Transcripts For CSPAN Convention Events Coverage 20160727

Democraticnationalconvention to see was happening during each Convention Session and every speech will be available on demand for viewing when you want on your desktop, laptop, tablet and smartphone. All of cspan. Org or at Public Service of your cable and satellite provider. Check it out on the web at cspan. Org. Were at the corner in downtown philadelphia, Pennsylvania Convention center. Im here with a volunteer. If you like politics and political trivia, this is the place to be. This is political sensors at the Convention Center writer 12 and arts in philadelphia. This is we have seven locations across the city. Is open to delegates and the public. We encourage all philadelphians and visitors to come and visit. We are excited to show this offer people. What will people learn . You learn about philadelphia history, American History, the history of democracy in the United States, american president s, everything that you would want to know if youre a political junkie like me. Lets walk over here. This is the cspan american president s exhibit. Part of a series we did a number of years ago. Lets talk to the Vice President of cspan responsible for this exhibit. Marty, what you think people will take away from this . Is important to put everything into perspective with history. As people are looking at decisions on who to choose for president this year its nice to be able to look at our history and take that into perspective and think of the Bigger Picture over time of what makes a difference in who you choose. You have some information about each of the president s. And the first ladys. Sometimes they had more than one spouse or hostess and some trivia about the presidency. This is an original oil portraits. In addition we have facts about them, photos in partnership with the White House Historical association. They are interactive. You can watch little video clips for each president and some audio recordings of president s. Tremendous feedback from those who have been here. What kind of reaction among children who walk through this . They really like it. Its very visible, tactile. They can touch things and look at things in interact with it and feeling they are getting a better picture of history coming alive for them. The birthplace of the constitution right here in philadelphia. At thet here Pennsylvania Convention center what we are delighted to be partnered with the politicalfest, and their official media partner. Cspan, we are inside the main hall of the Pennsylvania Convention center. Adam hoskins on the wood is in here . The jfk brevet but air force one fuselage. The only original replica of the fuselage we have. Jfks limousine. We have a voting through time exhibit you have voting booths throughout the history of the United States. We have a real replica of an office as well. We are excited for people to come and see it. Is array favorite exhibit inside . The air force one fuselage. That has been a big draw. People get inside and take a picture. This is a cancer people to get excited about politics in a different way . I think it allows people to engage directly with the political scene, learn about the history and get ready for the election. We are now inside the car used by john f. Kennedy in dallas, texas just before he was killed. Jim, tells about this incredible vehicle and the history behind it. You cannot imagine today the white house borrowing a traffic car to take the president around. They had a in texas series of parades with the official limousine. He was to fly into ft. Worth the night of the 21st. They were not going to do a parade so they flew the official car to dallas for the parade next day. They borrowed this car from a ford dealership. This was sam sneads car. They brought him from the airport at Carswell Air Force base on thursday night. He and jackie. The next morning he came out and spoke to about 5000 people in the rain. He went back in and made his last speech at the chamber of commerce in dallas. Pouring rain. He didnt have a jacket or a hat on. The car and all the footage of the car has the top of. The sun came out during the speech so they decided to put the top down. He rode the 12 minutes from the hotel the carswell inside on streets lined with people. He gets on air force one, flies 10 minutes the ballots. Dallas. And within one hour he had passed away. This was the last car he got out of. It traveled four years as a collector car. It has been in storage. I bought it in october 2013 to get back to fort worth for the 50th anniversary. We parked it in the same spot at the same hotel. Congressman jim wright who introduced kennedy that morning was there for the 50th. He came over to the car and he remembered the car and kennedy getting in the car that morning. He sat where we are right now. Exactly where you are sitting. Jackie gets in the car and moves to the middle. Governor connally gets in the sea where i am sitting and president kennedys that were you are sitting. Since it is not a big president ial limousine they were all packed in. She is squeezed in between the president and governor connally. This is really incredible. Nothing has been changed. It has a new paint job and a little work on the engine. The car does run. Nothing has changed. A lot of great photos of them in the car. Anymore whole, it was a picture of jackie looking to the left. Andy warhol did a composite really duplicate is a photograph of her in watercolors. We are adjacent to another exhibit that includes the last telephone the john f. Kennedy used in texas. Yes. The white house always putting telephones for the president that were secure. It was so late when they got in a were exhausted. But they decorated the room with picassos, beautiful paintings, and they didnt notice until the next morning. The president made one last call. Be called the lady at the art society to thank her for all the artwork for the room. It was the last telephone call he made at the time since they do not have portables. He then gets in this car to the airport and then on to dallas. The last two phones, a lot of pictures of the phones sitting on the bed stools in the room. A lot of pictures from november 22, 1963, and a tie used by president kennedy. This was one of the ties he gave dave powers, one of his advisers. It went up for sale in 2013. And the shoes she wore. Im sure she took multiple sets to paris. We have the last invitation to the white house which was november 20, an event the president attended and then flip the morning of the 21st. Adam hawkins says the numberone exhibit is a replica of the fuselage of air force one, which is also yours. What is the story . This airplane was used. It was just a regular airplane, 707 boeing used for hollywood sets. 2000 five the Republican Convention. It was the next an airplane. Nixon. After that i converted the playing to the way it was the day he was flown back to washington, d. C. This is the traveling quarters from jackie kennedy. This is a copy of what she wore that day. Flowers. We have a tv playing inside showing the arrival in dallas. It was the morning of november 22. Do you remember that day . I do. I was in the sixthgrade. I remember the principles wife coming by and telling the teacher something. We could see was very serious. She announced to the class that president kennedy had been shot. We did not know he had passed away. 30 minutes later she came back in and said he was dead. It turned the world upside down. For four days tv was nonstop. We grew up in my family, we love john kennedy. He was our hero. Much ifected me so wanted to be involved in politics. I started collecting campaign buttons. I have 1. 4 Million Campaign buttons now. Two airplanes. I have a Reagan Air Force one also. He went from but neglecting to a traveling show on the presidency. This is one of the iconic photographs of that day is a landed at love field. Mrs. Kennedy, the president. What are your thoughts . Before the end of the innocence of camelot. They were young and beautiful. Everything changed. The innocence of what the world was like, and then we lose Martin Luther king and Robert Kennedy a few years later. We live in a different world than that very moment. 20 minutes later everything is changed. We can hear the recording in the background of Walter Cronkite announcing the assassination and death of resident kennedy as we make our way inside the rep. Bera of the replica ofvember the 707 used november 22, 1963. He had the staff chairs and a sofa. This is where he would have all his meetings with staff. The rust, robert mcnamara. The ru dean rusk. They could talk to anyone in the world from this airplane. You have taken a lot of attention to detail to make sure this is exactly how it was on that day. How did you research it . With a Wonderful Company in kansas. They reoutfit airplanes. They have all the photographs and schematics of the airplane. It took about six months to get this airplane exactly the way it is. We recently loaned the chairs the airplane to hbo. They did a series on lbj. Kennedy movie opens up, johnson is sitting in this chair. Is after the assassination and they are on their way back to washington. This is the most realistic with the world map. Even the clock on the wall at the time president kennedy died, 12 30 central time november 22. The cockpit is how it was 50 something years ago . The command center. There was a typewriter. There was a stenographer stationed behind us with a typewriter. The steno machine is exactly the way it was like it was a day. Why is this your passion . Politics since the date kennedy died. I wanted to be involved in politics and work with campaigns and was kept collecting memorabilia. Might get a chance after 9 11, we lost three children coming to washington because of security. I purchased the airplane. I went out to branson, missouri and built in the simple the american president ial museum. I knew those kids. I knew those kids in the ozarks. If they didnt get to go with a reprisal, they may never get to washington and see what its like. And set of them coming there, i took it to them. I built an oval office. I had Ronald Reagans president ial limousine. We became the main educational history exhibit third or that arkansas, southern missouri and oklahoma. It has turned into more education. I want to turn kids onto political history in president ial history of particular. We are rejoined by adam hawkins inside the oval office. This is really cool. This is a replica of reagans oval office. This is a replica of a photo that is been in his oval office, president Obamas Oval Office and george w. Bushs oval office, and jfk as well. With photos of president reagan. The jellybeans he used to keep on his desk. The experience has taught me more personal side they dont really see in the public percent of the get off. There a few people have a chance to go through. The public is not allowed to tour the oval office when they go to the white house. This is to the diameter an exact replica. An exact replica of reagans oval office. Is a real interesting snapshot into history. This was presented to us by facebook who is been a great sponsor for politicalfest so far. Thank you for the tour. Ahead today on day number three of the Democratic National convention in philadelphia, tim kaine will accept the Vice President ial nomination. We will preview tonights event live from philly at 2 30 eastern at the Convention Begins at four clock. Also taking the stage is president obama and Vice President joe biden, has lost the Vice President ial nominee tim kaine. We will have live coverage every moment here on cspan, the sea sound cspan radio app and cspan. Org. Its been a busy morning for tim kaine. Ke miller is following the nominee as he visits various state delegations. He stopped by the iowa delegation breakfast and then hopped over to the florida delegation to speak this morning. He also talked to the virginia delegation and told on the country has an opportunity to do something magnificent in electing Hillary Clinton is the first woman president. And then to the Wells Fargo Center for a mic check and stage check. Senator kaine doing a walkthrough. Acid concern about 30 supporters, bernie supporters, i love them. Last night the Democratic Convention speaker featured speaker was former president bill clinton who delivered a 42 minute speech on his life with Hillary Clinton. He talked of her career highlights and gave insight into the clintons family life. Gentlemen, please welcome the 42nd president of the United States, bill clinton. [cheers] bill clinton thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You. Thank you. Thank you. In the spring of 1971, i met a girl. [cheers] the first time i saw her, we were, appropriately enough, in a class on political and civil rights. She had thick blond hair, big glasses. [laughter] wore no makeup. And she exuded this strength of selfpossession i found magnetic. After the class i followed her , out, intending to introduce myself. I got close enough to touch her back, but i couldnt do it. Somehow, i knew this would not be just another tap on the shoulder, that i might be starting something i couldnt stop. I saw her several more times the the next few days but i still didnt speak to her. Then one night in the law library talking to a classmate who wanted me to join the yale law journal. He said it would guarantee me a job at a big firm or a clerkship with a federal judge. I really wasnt interested i just wanted to go home to arkansas. [cheers] then i saw the girl again, standing at the opposite end of that long room. Finally, she was staring back at me. So i watched her. She closed her book, put it down, and started walking toward me. She walked the whole length of the library, came up to me, and said, look, if you are going to keep staring at me [laughter] if you are going to keep staring at me, we at least ought to know each others name. Im hillary rodham, who are you . [cheers] i was so impressed and surprised that, whether you believe it or not, momentarily, i was speechless. [laughter] finally, i sort of blurted out my name and we exchanged a few words and she went away. Well, i didnt join the law review, but i did leave that library with a whole new goal in mind. [laughter] a couple days later, i saw her again. She was wearing a long, white, flowery skirt. And i went up to her and she said she was going to register for classes for the next term. I said i would go too. We stood in line and talked you had to do that to register back then. [laughter] i thought i was doing pretty well until we got to the front of the line and the registrar looked up and said, bill, what are you doing here . You registered this morning. [laughter] i turned red and she laughed that big laugh of hers and i thought, well, heck, since my cover has been blown, i asked her to take a walk down to the art museum. We have been walking and talking and laughing together ever since. [applause] and we have done it in good times, through joy and heartbreak. We cried together this morning on the news that our good friend and a lot of your good friend, mark weiner, passed away early this morning. We built up a lifetime of memories. After the first month and that first walk, i actually drove her home to park ridge, illinois, to [cheers] to meet her family and see the town where she grew up, a perfect example of postworld war ii middleclass america. Street after street of nice houses, great schools, good parks, a big public swimming pool. And almost all white. I really liked her family. Her crusty, conservative father, her rambunctious brothers, all extolling the virtue of rooting for the bears and the cubs. [cheers] and for the people of illinois here, they even told me what waiting for next year meant [laughter] could be next year, guys. [laughter] [applause] now, her mother was different. She was more liberal than the boys. She had a childhood that made mine look like a piece of cake. She was easy to underestimate with her soft manner and she reminded me all over again of the truth of that old saying that you should never judge a book by its cover. Knowing her was one of the greatest gifts hillary ever gave me. [applause] i learned that hillary got her introduction to social justice through her methodist youth minister, don jones. He took her downtown to chicago to hear Martin Luther king jr. Speak and he remained her friend for the rest of his life. This will be the only campaign of hers he ever missed. When she got to college, her support for civil rights and opposition to the vietnam war compelled her to change parties and become a democrat. [cheers] and then between college and law school, on a total lark, she went alone to alaska and spent time sliming fish. More to the point, by the time i met her she had already been involved in the law Schools Legal Services project and she had been influenced by Marian Wright edelman. She took a summer internship [applause] interviewing workers in migrant camps for sen. Walter mondales subcommittee. She had also begun working in in the Yale New Haven Hospital to develop procedures to handle suspected child abuse cases. She got so involved in childrens issues that she actually took an extra year in law School Working at the Child Studies Center to learn what more could be done to improve the lives and futures of poor children. [applause] she was already determined to figure out how to make things better. Hillary opened my eyes to a whole new world of Public Service by private citizens. In the summer of 1972, she went to dothan, alabama, to visit one of those segregated academies that enrolled over a half a million white kids in the south. The only way the economics worked was if they claimed federal Tax Exemptions to which they were not legally entitled. She got sent to prove they werent. So she sauntered into one of these academies all by herself, pretending to be a housewife that just moved to town and needed to find a school for her son. And they exchange pleasantries and finally, she said, look, lets get to the bottom line. If i enroll my son in this school, will he be in a segregated school . Yes or no . And the guy said absolutely. She had him. [laughter] ive seen it a thousand times since. [laughter] and she went back and her encounter was part of a report that gave Marian Wright edelman the ammunition she needed to keep working to force the Nixon Administration to take those Tax Exemptions away and give our kids access to an equal education. [cheers] then then she went down to south texas, where she met one [cheers] she met one of the nicest fellows i ever met, the Wonderful Union leader franklin garcia, and he helped her register mexicanamerican voters. I think some of them are still around to vote for her in 2016. [applause] and then, in our last year in law school, hillary kept up this work. She went to South Carolina to see why so many young she went to South Carolina to see why so many young africanamerican boys i mean, young teenagers were being jailed for years with adults in mens prisons. She filed a report on that, which led to some changes too. Always making things better. [cheers] meanwhile, lets get back to business. I was trying to convince her to marry me. [laughter] i first proposed to her on a trip to great britain, the first time shed ever been overseas. We were on the shoreline of this wonderful little lake lake , ennerdale. I asked her to marry me and she said, i cant do it. [laughter] so in 1974, i went home to teach in law school and hillary moved to massachusetts to keep working to keep working on childrens issues. This time, trying to figure out why so many kids counted in the census werent enrolled in school. She found one of them sitting alone on her porch in a wheelchair. Once more, she filed a report about these kids and that helped influence ultimately the congress to adopt the proposition that children with disabilities, physical or otherwise, should have equal access to public education. [cheers] you saw the result of that last night when Anastasia Somoza talked. She never made fun of people with disabilities. She tried to empower them based on their abilities. [cheers] meanwhile meanwhile, i was still trying to get her to marry me. [laughter] the second time i asked, i tried a different tactic. I said i really want you to marry me, but you shouldnt do it. She smiled and looked at me like, what is this boy up to . She said, that is not a very good sales pitch. I said, i know, but its true. I meant it, it was true. I said, i know most of the Young Democrats our age who want to go into politics. They mean well, and they speak well, but none of them is as good as you are at actually doing things to make positive changes in peoples lives. So i suggested she go home to illinois or move to new york and look for a chance to run for office. She just laughed and said, are you out of your mind . Nobody would ever vote for me. So i finally got her to come visit me in arkansas. And when she did, the people at the law school were so impressed, they offered her a teaching position. And she decided to take a huge chance. She moved to a strange place, more rural, more culturally conservative than anyplace she had ever been, where she knew good and well people would wonder what in the world she was like and whether they could or should accept her. It did not take them long to find out what she was like. She loved her teaching, and she got frustrated when one of her students said, well, what do you expect, im just from arkansas . She said dont tell me that, youve just got to believe in yourself and work hard and set high goals. She believed that anybody could make it. [cheers and applause] pplause] she also started the first legal aid clinic in northwest arkansas. [applause] providing Legal Aid Services to poor people who couldnt pay for them. One day, i was driving her to the airport to fly back to chicago when we pass this Little Brick House that had a forsale sign on it and she said thats a pretty house. It had 1100 square feet, and attic fan and no air conditioner , and a screened in porch. Hillary commented on what a uniquely designed and Beautiful House it was. So i took a big chance. I bought the house. [laughter] my mortgage was 175 a month. Picked herme back, i up and said you remember that house you like . I said while you were gone, i thought it and you have to marry me now. [laughter] the third time was the charm. [cheers and applause] in that little house on october 11, 1975. I married my best friend. After more in awe than four years of being around her at how smart and strong and loving and caring she was and i really hope that her choosing me and rejecting my advice to pursue her own career was a decision she would never regret. A little over a year later, we moved to little rock when i became attorney general and she joined the oldest law firm west of the mississippi. She started the arkansas advocate for family and children. Its a group that is still active today. In 1979. [cheers and applause] in 1979, just after i became a health i joined committee to help expand health care to isolated mountain areas. They recommended to do that partly by deploying trained Nurse Practitioners in places with no doctors to provide primary care. , highly big deal then controversial and very important. That whatthe feeling she did for the rest of her life, she was doing there, she went out and figured out what would help people and if it was controversial, she just tried to persuade people it was the right thing to do. [applause] it wasnt the only big thing that happened last spring. We found out we were going to be parents. [applause] and time passed. On february 20 7, 1980, 15 minutes after i got home from the National Governors conference in washington, hillarys water broke and off we went to the hospital. Chelsea was born just before midnight. [cheers and applause] it was the greatest moment of my life. The miracle of a new beginning. My own father died the for i was born. Before i was born. And the absolute conviction that my. Or had the best mother daughter had the best mother in the whole world. Through nursing school, soccer,rten, tball, ballet, and chelseas own ambitious excursions, from halloween ,arties in the neighborhood hillary first and foremost was a mother. She came as a often said our families designated worrier. Born with an extra responsibility gene. We rarely disagreed on parenting although she did believe that i had gone a little over the top when i took a couple days off with chelsea to watch all six Police Academy movies back to back. I was defeated in a reagan landslide and i became overnight the youngest governor in the history of the country. Hillary was great. Immediately she said here is what we are going to do. Ehouse, a job you will get a job, and if you want to run again you have to go talk to people and figure out why you lost and show them you still have good ideas. Within two days we had a house. I soon had a job. We had two fabulous years with chelsea and in 1980 two i became the first governor in the history of our state to become elected again. Experience is, it is a pretty good thing to follow her advice. The rest of the decade flew by it as our lives settled into a rhythm of family and work and friends. In 1983, hillary chaired a committee to recommend new education standards for us in response to a court order to equalize school funding. A report by National Experts said we had willfully underfunded schools, the worst in america. Typical hillary, she held listening towards in all 75 counties with our committee. She came up with really ambitious recommendations. For example, that we be the tost state in america require elementary counselors in every school because im a kids were having trouble at home into they needed it. So, i called the legislature the standards, pass the pay rate for teachers, raise the sales tax to pay for it all. I knew it would be hard to pass but it got easier after hillary headed the Education Committee and the chairman said, it looks to me like we elected the wrong clinton. [applause] mr. Clinton the same expert you said we had the worst schools in and that is because of those standards that hillary recommended. Later, hillary told me about a preschool program developed in israel. Home instruction for preschool youngsters. The idea was to teach parents to be there childrens first teachers. She said she thought it would work in arkansas. I said, that is great what are we going to do. She said, i only called the woman it is real and she will be on todays to help as get started. No, i am being dragged around to all these little preschool regulations. To preschoolagged graduation watching these poor parents with tears in their eyes because they never thought they would be able to help their kids learn. [applause] mr. Clinton 20 years of research has shown how well this Program Works to improve readiness for schools and academic achievement. There are a lot of young adults who have no idea hillary had anything to do with it but they are enjoying better lives because of that program. Did all of this while being a fulltime worker, a mother, and enjoying our life. Why . Well, she is insatiable curious, a natural leader, good organizer, and the best darn change maker i have ever met in my entire life. ] heers and applause mr. Clinton so look, this is a really important point for you to take out of this convention. If you believe it making change from the bottomup, if you believe the measure changes are many evils lives are affected, you know it is hard and some people think it is boring. Speeches like this are fun. Ctually doing the work is hard so people say, well we need to change. A long time. Around she sure has. And she has sure been worth every single year she has put into making peoples lives better. Applause] mr. Clinton i can tell you this were sitting where i am sitting and you heard what i have heard and at every dinner conversation, lunch conversation, on every long walk, you would say, this woman has never been satisfied with the status quo in anything. She always wants to move the ball forward. That is just too she is. Who she is. When i became president with a commitment to Reform Health care, hillary was a Natural Health care task force. About thenow filibuster. Hillary immediately went to work on solving the problems the bill onebyone. Dress the most important goal was to get more children with Health Insurance. The997, Congress Passed treatments Health Insurance program, still an important part of obamas Affordable Care act. It ensures more than 8 million kids. There are a lot of other things and that bill she got going peacebypeas. Pushing the rock up the hill. She also met7, with the House Minority leader who maybe dislikes me more than any of Newt Gingrichs crowd. Worked on a build together to increase adoptions of children out of foster care. She wanted to do it because she knew that tom, for all of our differences, was in adopted parent and she honored him for doing that. Adoptive parent and she honored him for doing that. The bill passed i an bipartisan majority and lead to a big increase of children out of foster care including not infant kids and special needs kids. It made life better, because she is a changemaker. That is what she does. [cheers and applause] mr. Clinton now, when you are doing all of this, life does not stop. 1997 was the year chelsea finished high school and went to college. We were happy for her but sad for us. To see her go. I will never forget moving here her into her dorm room at stanford. It was in a great little reality flick. There i was, in a trance staring out the window trying not to cry and there was hillary on her nice, needs desperately looking for one more drawer to put liner paper in. Andlly, chelsea took charge told us ever so gently that it was time for us to go. Closed a big chapter in the most important work in our lives. As you will see thursday night winchelsea speaks, hillary has done a pretty fine job of being a mother. Cheers and applause] mr. Clinton in, as you saw last night beyond a shadow of a doubt, so has michelle obama. [cheers and applause] clinton in 1999, congressman Charlie Rheingold and other democrats ordered hillary u for the seat of retiring senator pat moran ham. We had always intended to go to new york after the commute to arkansas, but that had never occurred to either one of us. Hillary had never run for office before but she cited to give it a try. She began her campaign the always the way she always does things. I listening and learning. After a tough battle, new york elected her to the seat once outsider, Robert Kennedy. [cheers and applause] clinton and she did not let him down. Her early years were dominated by 9 11. By working to find the recovery. Monitoring the health. Providing compensation to victims and firstresponders. She and senator shuman worked tireless and so were the house members. What werertly by going through she became the first senator in the history of new york ever to serve on the arm to services committee. So, she tried to make sure people on the battlefield had proper equipment. She tried to expand and data expand Health Care Coverage to members of the national guard. She got longer family leave working with senator dodd for people caring for wounded servicemembers and she worked for more extensive care for people with dramatic brain injury. She also served on the special to to gone commission propose changes necessary to meet our new security challenges. On thatingrich was commission. He told me what a good job she had done. ] aughter he and applause mr. Clinton i say that because no one had seriously dealt with this. They are a national treasure. All races, all walks of life. Cheers and applause] mr. Clinton meanwhile, she compiled a really solid record totally progressive on economic and social issues. She voted for him against a proposed trade deal. She became the effect of Economic Development officer for the area of new york outside the ambit of new york city. She worked for farmers, wine makers, Small Businesses and manufacturers. For upstate cities and rural areas that needed more ideas and investment to create new jobs. Do again in have to small town in Rural America in neighborhoods that of been left behind and indian country, and yes in coal country. The contest to president obama, she worked for his election hard. And, she hesitated to say yes when he asked her to join his evident. Being a son loved because shes so loved being a senator from new york. So like me but in a different context, he had to keep asking. But as we all saw, it was worth the effort. [applause] mr. Clinton as secretary of state, she worked hard to get strong sanctions against Irans Nuclear program and what wall street journal called a half shot, she got russia into china to support. Her team negotiated a new treaty with russia. She got enough republican support to get two thirds of the senate to vote necessary to ratify the treaty. Fromat up all night long cambodia to the middle east to get a ceasefire that would avoid a shooting war between gaza and i mean between hamas and gaza. To protect the peace of the region. Backed president obamas decision to go after of, she launched a team this is really important today she launched a team to fight back against terrorists online and built a new global counterterrorism effort. We have got to win this battle. The mind field. In thef Climate Change middle of our policy. She negotiated the first with china and india to reduce their in remission. And as she had been doing since you went to beijing in 1995 and said, womens rights are human rights and human rights are toens rights she worked empower women and girls around the world and to make the same exact declaration on behalf of the Lgbt Community in america and around the world. And, nobody ever talks about this much nobody ever talks about this much but it is important to me, she tripled the number of people in four countries with aids whose lives are being saved with your tax dollars. Most of them african, going from 1. 7 trillion midwives to 5. 1 million lives and it did not cost you any more money. Availableought fdaapproved generic drugs, something we need to do more for the American People. Now, you do not know any of these things. You dont know any of these things about 3 million, 4 million people. And i guarantee, they know you. They know you because they see you as thinking their lives matter. They know you, and that is one reason the approval in the United States was 20 points higher when she left the secretary of States Office the end when she took it. Now, how does this square . How does this square with the you heard at the Republican Convention . What is the difference in what i told you and what they said . How do you squared . You cannot. One is real, the other is made up. Applause] cheers, and and ton you just have to decide which is which, my fellow americans. The real one had done more positive change making before she was 30yearsold than most politicians do with their whole lives in office. The real one, if you saw her friends from childhood in arkansas where she is not lived for more than 20 years who have gone all across america at their own expense to fight for the person they know. One the red one has earned the loyalty and respect of people of worked with her in every stage of her life, including leaders around the world who know her to be able, straightforward, and completely trustworthy. They were one calls you when youre sick, when your kids are in trouble, or when there is a death in the family. Getseal one repeatedly praise from prominent republicans when she was a senator and the secretary of state. Applause] mr. Clinton so, what is up with this . Well, if you win elections, on the theory the government is always bad and will mess up a twoincorporated, a real changemaker represents a real threat. A twocar parade, it real changemaker represents a real threat. So your only alternative is to create a cartoon. Cartoons are twodimensional. Easy to absorb. Life in the world is complicated and real change is hard. A lot of people think it is boring even. Good for you, because earlier today you nominated the real one. Applause] you ton [cheers and applause] mr. Clinton we have to get back look, i have lived a long, full, blessed life. Off when i met and fell in love with that girl in the spring of 1971. When i was president i worked hard to give you peace and shared asperity, to give you an america where nobody is in visible or counted out. Hillary isis time to seize theified opportunities and reduce the risks we face and she is still the best darn changemaker i have ever known. Applause] drop heron you could in any trouble spot. Pick one. Come back in a month and somehow, some way, she will have made it better. That is just who she is. There are clear, achievable, responses to our challenges. But we will not get to them if america makes the wrong choice in this election. Her is why you should elect. In due should elect her because she will never quit when the going gets tough. She will never quit on you. She sent me in this primary to west virginia, where she knew we were going to lose to look those coal miners in the eye and say i am down here because hillary that if youell you really think you can get the economy back that you had 50 years ago, go for it. That if she wins, she is coming back for you to take you on the. E to americas future if you love to you, this country and are working hard, paying taxes, obeying the law, and want to become a citizen you should choose Immigration Reform over somebody who wants to send you back. You lovee a muslim and america and freedom into hate terror, stay here and help us win and make the future together. We want to you. We want to you. Are a young africanamerican disillusioned and afraid, we saw in dallas how our Police Officers can be. Help us build a future where nobody is afraid to walk outside including the people who wear blue to protect our future. Hillary will make us stronger together. You know it because she spent a lot of time doing it. I hope you will do it. Hope you will elect her those of us have more yesterdays than tomorrows tended to care more about our children and are in children reason you should is the greatest country on earth we have always been about tomorrow. Grandchildrenand will bless you forever if you do. God bless you. Thank you. [cheers and applause] former president bill clinton on that number two of the Democratic National convention, a night that made history, Hillary Clinton becoming the first female candidate of a Major Political party. That happened after the rollcall of the state. Putting her over the top eared at that rollcall ended, you heard from her former rival, Bernie Sanders. Sen. Sanders thank you. Madam chair, i move that all votes reflect the official record, and i move that Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Sanders. Senator sanders has moved to suspend the rules, and nominated Hillary Clinton by acclamation president ial nomination of the Democratic Party. Second . A all in favor of the motion, say aye. Opposed no. The ayes have it it might seem crazy what i am about to say sunshine, she is here, you can take a break hot air balloons to outer space because i am happy clap along if you feel like a room without a roof likealong if you feel happiness is the truth cspan, created by americas cable companies, our live coverage of every minute of the republican and Democratic National conventions is brought to you by a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. In addition to our coverage of the Democratic Convention, keeping our eye on the campaign of donald trump, who later today will campaign in scranton, pennsylvania. We will have that on cspan2 we just wrapped a News Conference with donald trump in florida. There is news coming from that News Conference, reported by politico, with the headline trump encourages russia to hack Hillary Clintons email, asking them to find the 30,000 emails that are missing from her time as secretary of state. To it will be interesting see, i tell you this, russia, if you are listening, to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. Reaction on this issue from the trump campaign. There was a press release i mike pence. The statement from governor mike that, which says in part the fbi will get to the bottom of who is behind the hacking. If it is russia, and they are interfering in our elections, i can assure you both parties and the United States government will ensure there are serious consequences. Co. Part of the comps consequences. Part of the comments by mike pence. Our Preview Program starting at 2 30 eastern with the speeches set to start just after 4 00. You can follow it all live here on cspan, listen to it live on the cspan radio app, and it is available ondemand or streamlive at cspan. Org. You will see president obama making his first appearance at the convention. Vice President Biden will also speak, and senator tim kaine, who tonight will be nominated and accepted as the fights president ial nominee. Some of the speakers coming up this evening here on cspan. Again, live coverage at 4 00 eastern. Last night at the convention, of theup called mothers movement, a tweet here from yahoo news, mothers of the dnc say mrs. Clinton knows black lives matter. Here is a portion from former attorney general eric holder. Leadership. Queen we are the champions, my friends and we will keep on fighting until the end we are the champions we are the champions no time for losers cause we are the champions of the world i dont usually say this about donald trump, but that was over the top. I confirmed it just now. I just bought that fog machine on ebay for 30. I dont feel good about it, i dont. Who is pumped up . [cheers] pound a dozen to cheesesteaks with me after this . [cheers] lets try that again. Is ready to elect Hillary Clinton the next president of the United States . [cheers and applause] me too. Im elizabeth banks. Some of you know me from the hunger games in which i play a cruel, out of touch reality tv star who wears insane wakes while living in a violent dystopia. When i went to cleveland last week i was like hey, thats my act. [applause] part of me really likes being a peer and joking around but the other part of me knows this election is too important for when i think about what this election means for america i inc. About my family. My father, the vietnam vet, maybe i can and third shifts in pittsfield, massachusetts. My mother worked at the library and local bank and they worked hard. They struggled because like millions of american parents, they wanted to give their kids, four of us, a good life with boundless opportunities. And it is because of what democrats built, good Public Schools, Affordable Health care, help in the hardest times, that they were able to do that. Their dreams took me here to philadelphia, really. Through scholarships and financial aid, i worked my way to the university of pennsylvania. I got a worldclass education and i met my wonderful husband and partner, max. I will never forget that day in 1992 when we went on a big, romantic date, a rally for bill clinton. And it was there that i learned something really important about show business. The headliner should always watch out for someone stealing the show. Hillary clinton rocked my world. A smart, committed, successful women and not for her own benefit but a fighter for women children, cops and First Responders, health care and girls around the world, that is Hillary Clinton and that is what tonight is all about, the fights of her life. Did you know that when Hillary Clinton graduated law school, she didnt just sell out and work for some fancy law firm, she went to work advocating for. Hildren and families it was one of her first fights and since then, she has never let up. [applause] one of the areas i have been particularly interested in is the area of children. All of us have a responsibility to ourselves, our children, each other. We intend to be sure everybody in this room and every child in this state is somebody. No matter where they are born, no matter to whom they are born, our childrens future is shaped by the values of their parents and the policies of their nation. Its time to protect the next generation, fill the lives of our children with possibility and hope, open up the doors so every child has a chance to live up to his or her potential. Ive spent my life fighting for children, families, and our country and im not stopping now. [applause] in her early 20s, Hillary Clinton spent time at the hospital researching child abuse , she saw children who had been beaten, burned, neglected. The experience turned her into a lifelong champion for kids in need. As a child advocate social worker, i too am a champion for children and i am lucky to work , socialeam of champions workers, case managers, attorneys, other individuals as lifelong work is to ensure all children have a chance at greatness. Child advocacy has made significant strides in the right direction but our work is far from finished. Advocateld deserves an who truly cares for them and they have one in Hillary Clinton. Hillary knows that when you fight for our kids, you are fighting for our future and that is why im with her. [applause] my name is anton, president of unity in the community. In 1972, hillary travel to alabama on a mission. She was there to help shed light on segregated academies, private schools that popped up across the state after the Supreme Court ordered Public Schools to integrate. When these schools apply for federal state exemptions, they claimed they werent trying to promote segregation but hillary helped prove they were. Hillary visited one of these academies posing as a mother looking for a role for her child and yet and the administrators assured they werent accepting black children. Hillary shared her foundlings what the defense fund. I work hard and think about the families in my community. In society today, we must stand up, promote nonviolence, and that is why im with Hillary Clinton come november. After hillary graduated from law school, she could have gotten a job anywhere but she chose to work fulltime for the Childrens Defense Fund. She went doortodoor gathering stories from disabled children who desperately wanted to go to school but were prevented from enrolling by discrimination. Her research contributed to the passage of the historic legislation that required states to write quality education for disabled students. Disabled person, i became a lawyer to advocate that visibility disability is not a problem to be cured but a part of our identity and diversity. [applause] today on thehy 26th anniversary of the americans with disabilities act, im with her. [applause] until the 1970s, young people who got in trouble in South Carolina were housed in the same prison cells as adults. It was a dangerous policy that put kids at serious risk for abuse. Senthildrens defense fund hillary to these prisons to investigate. As a result, the state ended this practice. A child touches the system, its important to not let them fall behind. Became a juvenile justice lawyer. You dont often make headlines fighting for kids but her whole career, hillary has been quietly leading that site anyway. That is why im with her. [applause] as the first lady of arkansas, Hillary Clinton shared that the school she visited to what she called the chelsea test. If it wasnt good enough for her daughter, it wasnt good enough for any child in america. [applause] role ined a major shaping the state education policy and improving standards in schools like the one i went to. , arkansastarted schools were ranked second worst in the nation. By the time she was done, they were among the most improved. As a teacher in those same Public Schools, i know my students continue to benefit from the work hillary started all those years ago and that is why im with her. [applause] hillary began working on adoption and foster care issues as a law student and never stopped. As first lady, she advocated for landmark legislation to make it easier for families to adopt kids in need, especially older kids who were worried they would never have a permanent home. My 17yearold son was once one of those kids. We adopted him four years ago but it feels like hes always been part of our family ever. My three other kids swear he was on Family Vacations we took years before he joined our family. Im not a democrat but hillary cares about kids like heath and making families like mine complete. That is why im with her. [applause] he freemen. And long before she ever held hillary fought for kids in every way she could. Of course she continued that fight once she got to the senate. In the newchildhood york foster care system moving from home to home with a trash bag as my suitcase. Theif you are a kid in system who never finds a permanent home, when you are 18, you are out on your own. After my High School Graduation, my social worker shook my hand and wished me luck. That was it. But hillary has this ridiculous notion that every child deserves to live up to their godgiven potential, so she reserved an internship spot in her Senate Office just for former foster got that in 2003, i spot. [applause] remember our first meeting vividly. She looked me in the eye and you. Julani, im proud of i felt a seen and heard for the first time in my life. Throughout the years, hillary has remained a source of encouragement. She has made me more mindful of my responsibility and purpose. Hillary has taught me that there is a high cost for low expectations of our kids and to receive a blessing to become a blessing. She inspired me to become a lawyer and advocate for children in my community. It is said that love dignifys us, it elevates us to higher plateaus. Hillarys love did that for me. It lifted me to a place i never had the courage to imagine and that is why im with her. Thank you. [applause] please welcome dnc vice chair for Civic Engagement in Voter Participation donna deville. [applause] growing up, i was always told that a lady should never reveal her age. Imll simply say this no spring chicken. Ive seen some things in my time. Lived through, i and survived the segregated south. Atat at the back of the bus a time when america wasnt as great as it could be, as a grown woman, i saw the first black president , reach out a hand, and touch the face of a child like i eyes toward ais Better Future. I have never, ever in all my years seen a leader so committed to delivering that Better Future to americas children as Hillary Clinton. [applause] you when i first met Hillary Clinton, when hillary graduated from law school, she could have gone to work for a corporation or big law firm. Instead, she went to work for the children defense fund. She didnt sit in the office, went undercover going door to door, investigating discrimination. During that same time, donald facing a federal discrimination lawsuit for refusing to rent to minority families. Hillary clinton raised her own seek out the truth and tofort the afflicted and make justice weather was none. It was at the Childrens Defense Fund that i met Hillary Clinton. And ready tosty, fight. I remember thinking here is a woman who doesnt mess around. As a southern girls dont mess around. Hillary didnt want to talk about anything other than how to make childrens lives better. That is the hillary i know, that is who she is. She quietly fought and fought hard. That has never changed. For standing up for women here at home and girls around the world as secretary of state. Hillary has never forgotten what she learned in that very first job. The believe that every child, black or white, nativeborn, immigrant, or undocumented, they deserve to have the opportunity to live up to their godgiven potential. The child when i sat in back of the bus, i was told time and time again that gods potential does not exist and people like me. I spend my life fighting to change that and from the first day i met Hillary Clinton, i have known she is someone who cares just as much and will fight just as hard for children everywhere. You have got a champion. Kids who need hope, youve got a champion. As long as shes in charge, we are never going back and that is why im with her. [cheers and applause] and let me say this, as vice chair of the Democratic National , i promise you my friends, i commit to all americans that we will have a party that you can be proud of. We will celebrate together the inauguration of president january 2017. N in god bless you and god bless america. [cheers and applause] state prison population came from seven neighborhoods in new york city. We saw this as a crisis so we created a school just for young could bring ao we level of hope back into those communities. It doesnt have to be this way. If a young and my believe he may be a senator or president , you dont have to tell him not to do it. My dreams are limitless. They are making it seem like anything is possible, not where you come from, your bank account dictate your life. Fromnator clinton got it day one. She recognized how important it was to try a level of innovation in the Public Schools because were it not for her, the academy would have never gotten off the ground. With her, you get results. People talk about doing stuff and you never get the result. People seem to forget about us. Politicians come through the neighborhood and shake our hands but when it comes down to it, the step they promise, they never come through. Hillary is one of the few who came to our schools and actually came through with what she promised to do. The kind of leader i think the country really needs, somebody who believes in people, cares about people, will fight for people. Clinton is as good as it gets. [applause] please welcome david banks, founding principal of Eagle Academy. Good evening. On the president and ceo of the Eagle Academy in new york. [applause] 2004, the High School Graduation rate was only around 30 . And 75 of new york states entire prison population came from just seven neighborhoods in new york city. If you are one of the young men growing up in these areas, the arts were stacked against you. Together with the organization, 100 black men, we answered the call to do something about this crisis. 2004, the eagle academies have educated nearly 4000 young men. Graduates are accepted to college. [applause] we are making a big difference now but we could not have done it alone. You could see there was one leader who was with us from the very beginning and she was our earliest champion. One leader who understood that addressing the crisis facing young men of color in our country required innovative who pushedne leader to open the first Eagle Academy in the bronx and she made a promise to return four years later to offer the keynote address to our first graduating class. And that is a promise that she kept. You see, im with Hillary Clinton because she has been with us. [applause] men who areve young confident, future leaders who are resilient. Just look at them, america. [applause] they are brilliant. [applause] and full of promise. And we start every day with the poem, the same poem that strengthen the resolve of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela when he recited it each day so young men of the Eagle Academy. Black as the pit from pole to pole, i think with the gods may e from my soul [cheers and applause] thank you. [cheers and applause] thank you. The cspan bus is in philadelphia, pennsylvania this week. I think the convention is great to have in philly, considering we had a new mayor a year ago and the pope came down himself. Having the convention in philadelphia make sense. Im an elected, pledged delegate for hillary. I was chosen because im a community activist. I know that there is no planet b. We have to take care of our planet. Im very concerned about the epa being diminished and about war. I want hillary to take care of us. She has a lot of plans that will be great, so i support her. Thank you, hillary, for running. Form a pledged delegate Hillary Clinton from iowa city, iowa. I was a speaker in 2012. I only got thrown in for the oneday to talk about my family, growing up with two moms in the state of iowa and why samesex marriage is important to me and my family. Im really happy to be back supporting Hillary Clinton and families like mine across the country. The issue that is most important to me as equal pay for equal work and i felix like secretary clinton is the best woman for the job. Worked hard to make sure that every woman get equal pay 40 will work. Im Jessica Justice and im a delegate for bernie and im here to represent the bernie delegates and the people who voted for him. By 72 . Eattle we have a lot of progressives and im here to make sure their voices are heard. Voices from the road on cspan. We are joined by mike dillon, a delegate at large. Work history, including some projects he worked on. One of the most interesting ones was the port authority. This was in your capacity as a construction engineer. Mechanical. Isbestknown specialty contaminant movement within buildings such as smoke during a. Ire and things such as that they wanted to know how they could keep places safe inside the building because it is so impractical to try to get everybody out all at once in a single shot. And then figure out how we can isolate it to limited areas so people would have time to escape. We tried. Anticipate did not what happened in 2000. 1993 was a very different issue. Aboutrybody has a story where they were on 9 11. Can you talk about yours . I was just getting into my office. I always darted early. And i called the chief Fire Department because i knew the building intimately, i knew it was coming down. I told them to get everyone out of there. Buildingiends in that and it is hard for me to talk about that. You also worked on other buildings. The marriott, the customs building, all of those ones around. I did the fit out on behalf of larry silverstein. Six was the customs house, i did World Trade Center seven. How did you become a delegate . Ive been involved in politics since i was dialing phones for jfk in 1960. This time, because i considered it an existential episode in politics, this is really important this year. I decided it would be more important for me to be down here , where i can negotiate with folks from bernies side of the world and make sure that we came together one way or another and went forward as a unified group. Do you think youve accomplished what you set out to i neverlike all . Count my chickens before the eggs are hatched. You cant out guess what people are going to do in politics. All you can do was lay the facts in front of them, be as persuasive as possible, wait for them to make a decision. What are you going to do after thursday . Im going to go back home and work my ass off all over the country to make sure hillary gets it. This country cant live with the kind of thing that donald trump would ring. We cannot be a place of hatred and division. That is not what we are about. Weve got to come together. Thanks so much. Youre welcome. Have a good one. Day number three of the Democratic Convention in philadelphia getting underway at 4 00 p. M. Eastern. Our prebrew Preview Program coming up at about 2 30 eastern. Womany clinton, the first ever to head the president ial ticket for a Major Political party. That nomination happening yesterday afternoon. Not everybody happy about that. Some Bernie Sanders supporters walked out after the vote yesterday and they wound up taking over the media tent for a little while. Here is a tweet about that. Bernie sanders supporters staged a sit in protest yesterday of the Democratic Convention media tent. You see the woman with the tape over her mouth saying silenced by my dnc. We will take you live inside that media tent now. The map that greets you as you come in to let you know where all the media organizations are located. A look inside one of the media as in the wells fargo area arena. Our crew located inside the media tent and our coverage aboutgetting underway in 2. 5 hours. Onwill have live coverage cspan. All of our coverage is available on demand or Live Streaming a sees them. Org. The speakers cspan. Org. The speakers include president obama and the Vice President. We will hear from the Vice President ial nominee, tim kaine. All that getting will underway at 4 00 p. M. Keeping a ride on the donald trump campaign. We will cover his speech in scranton, pennsylvania. He held a News Conference in florida today. In that, here is the headline from politico. To hackges russia clintons email. It would be interesting to see, russia, i hope you are able to find the 30,000 emails missing. Some of the reporting of politico, we will show that trump News Conference later in the networks. The Hillary Clinton campaign has reacted. A tweet from the Clinton Campaign tweeted by cnbc. Clintons campaign responds. Campaign saying this has to be the first time that a major president ial candidate has actively encourages a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent. That is not hyperbole, that is just the facts. This has gone from being a matter of curiosity and politics to being a National Security issue. Numberup next, it is day three. We are going to show you the highlights from last nights speeches from night number two of the convention. That was amazing and im very proud parent of two amazing boys as you just heard, she is winning fight for kids all upr the country, opening opportunities they cannot even imagine. Far from the spotlight and over her entire career, when Hillary Clinton sees a problem, she fights to fix it. Like our Justice System letting down to Many Americans. Hillary clinton believes that no matter where you come from, where you live, or the cover color of your skin, you deserve the full freedoms and protections of our laws. This is the fight of Hillary Clintons life, social justice. She learned to do all the good you can in all the ways you can for all the people you care. Can. That is what has guided Hillary Clintons whole life. She stood up for teenagers thrown in jail was fully grown adults, for Migrant Workers deprived of decent housing and sanitation and four children who were targets of segregation and excluded from schools. She fought toor, end racial profiling and unfair sentencing. Their principles to live by. People are crying out for criminal justice reform. Families are being torn apart by excessive incarceration. They are things you try to change. There is too much violence, too much hate, too much senseless killing, too many people dead who shouldnt be. Pain isnt something you bear , it is something you try to heal. We or children better than this, ourselves better than this. Justice is it something you tolerate, its something you fight. Ending the systemic racism that plagues our country and rebuilding our communities where the police and citizens all see themselves as being on the same side will require contribution from all of us. Looking to find justice, demand a leader who knows what it needs. Lete scripture tells us us not grow weary in doing good, we shall reap if we do not lose heart and may the memory of those we have lost light our way towards a future our children and grandchildren deserve. Please give a warm welcome to the 82nd attorney general of the United States, eric holder. Thank you. Thank you. I have known Hillary Clinton for almost 25 years as a friend, a colleague, and a leader of courage and conviction and today, im proud to say i stand with her. [cheers] she has thethat skills to serve as commander in chief and the strength to lead our already great nation in this hour of challenge. Did you hear what i just said . Already great nation. Donald, did you hear me . Nation. Great at a time when the bonds of lawenforcement and communities of colors have frayed. When peaceful citizens have to question whether black light truly matter, and they do. [applause] a president who understands the reality i saw in my travels across the country as our nations 82nd attorney general, that there should be no tension in protecting those who risk their lives to serve and ensuring everyone is treated fairly by the police. As the brother of a retired Police Officer, i am profoundly aware that an attack on a Police Officer anywhere is an attack on our entire society. [applause] it is not enough, it is not enough for us to praise lawenforcement officers after they are killed. We must protect them, value them, and equip them with the right tools, tactics, training while they are still alive. [applause] must also come to realize that keeping our officers safe is not inconsistent with ensuring those in Law Enforcement treat the people they are sworn to serve with dignity, respect, and fairness. We must commit ourselves to both those. Hillary understands that the goals we share are the same. Safer communities with less crime, where all of our loved ones police and Community Residents get the chance to come home at night. She will continue the work that needs to be done to rebuild west because she knows that are stronger together. [applause] but let us the honest, at a time when our Justice System is out of balance, when one and three black men will be incarcerated in their lifetimes, and when black defendants in the Justice System with sentences 20 longer , we needr white peers a president who will end this policy of over incarceration. [applause] as attorney general, i launched sweeping reforms of our federal criminal Justice System and reduced its reliance on mandatory minimum sentences. As a result, we cut the federal prison population and the crime rate together for the first time in more than 40 years. Thats right. Thats right. [applause] and the feariction mongering you have heard from the other partys nominee, Violent Crime has gone down since president obama took office. As president , hillary will go even further. She fought as a senator against sentencing disparities and racial profiling. First majorce speech as a candidate to roll out a bold vision for criminal justice reform. She has talked about systemic racism in a way no one else has and she will help our nation summoned the courage to confront Racial Injustice and face down the legacies of our darkest past. Time whent a republicans brazenly assault the most fundamental rights of our where, lost to people get the documents they need to vote, we need a president sensitive to the echo of jim crow. [applause] my fellow americans, Hillary Clinton will be that president. She will set a new standard for early voting. She Will Champion universal automatic registration. You turn 18, you are registered to vote. , she knows,knows and everybody in this arena has to know this, the best way to defend the right to vote is by exercising it. [applause] throughout history, too many people have sacrificed too much, wars for, fight this generation to sit on the sidelines. Sever forget that we are heir to a revolution that began just five miles from where we gather this weekend its a choice we face in this pivotal election is about more than politics, it is we are on as a nation, the composition of our character as a people, and the ideals of equality, opportunity, justice that have always made America Great. These are the ideals for which Hillary Clinton has fought her entire life. This is the fight she will continue when we make history by electing her the 45th president of the United States of america. Thank you. [applause] please Welcome Police chief cclay from pittsburgh, pennsylvania. Greetings, greetings. Country, myhis brothers and sisters in blue are doing what i argue is potentially the hardest to job in this nation today. Shift,start of every they go to work never knowing for sure what dangers they might face. And there is a crisis, especially in the eyes of many of the communities we serve, particularly with our communities of color. There is a crisis of trust in the police and the criminal Justice System. Ironically, crime rates have been falling for decades that Research Shows the public trust is eroding and far too many places. Dr. Martin luther king said it beautifully true peace is not the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice. [applause] ironically, our communities are arguably safer than ever before. Less crime in your neighborhood is at best a hollow victory. The controversial officerinvolved shootings that have occurred since ferguson have created a level of tension between police in our communities while at the same time, there has been a great deal of work going on to improve those relationships. In pittsburgh, we are doing this important work. We recognize our interdependency and we are working closely together to reduce the violence and make sure that our residents feel both safe and respected. [applause] but things are fragile. Two Controversial Police shootings in two consecutive days in minnesota and left many outrage. The assassination of eight Police Officers in 10 days have left many of us in the lawenforcement community under siege. Both of these concerns are very, very real. Without question, the criminal an impactstem has had on our communities of color. And yet society is asking at the same time far more of our Police Officers than ever before. Declining Economic Opportunities , disinvestment in mental health, and the absence of effective drug Treatment Options for those addicted. A Police Officer who has served more than 30 years, let we can respect and support our Police Officers while at the same time pushing for these important criminal justice reforms. [applause] we can do both and we will do both. I promise you there are many, many more Police Leaders just like me who are fully convinced and fully committed that we need but we cannot succeed unless we come together with the communities we serve. We must each as human beings fight our natural tendency to hide inside our own narrow work of you. Instead, we must seek Common Ground with the objective of creating an america that truly is and truly provides a source of liberty and justice for all. I thank you. [applause] delegates and guests, please give a warm welcome to tony goldman. Hillary clinton has spoken of watching Nelson Mandela and embrace his former jailers because he didnt want to be imprisoned twice, once by stealing concrete, once by anger and bitterness. With therked for years innocence project, the extraordinary organization that fights to exonerate the wrongfully convicted and i have exonerate, a single many of home has spent decades in prison for crimes they did not commit, i have never heard them speak of anger or outrage, only of their desire to reform the system so that others might be spared their suffering. [applause] i am proud tonight to introduce a group of women profoundly impacted by injustice and violence who have turned their pain into power and their outrage into action. They are the mothers of the movement. [applause] understand that we must reach out to each other because of our diversity, because we are stronger together. Says we cant hide from these hard truths about race and justice in america. We have to name them and own them and then change them. That is what she will do as president and the mothers of the Movement Crew take one life at a time, one mother at a time, we can change the world. Thank you. We were informed you only had half an hour but once she got there, hillary sat there and listened to each and every one of us. Empathy. D respect, we have seen the loving mother part of her. It wasnt about politics. To 30 minute meeting turned into two hours because she listened to us. It seems like people are just getting away with it. What can we do . Think you can continue to speak out, but you will be more effective if you do somehow band together so that it is a constant drumbeat as to say we are citizens, we are mothers, we lost children, this is not only wrong, it is unacceptable and here are the things that need to happen to try to prevent this from ever happening again. It is all of us. We have tried to keep our kids memory alive, their name alive and i need to speak so her voice can remain. Thiscannot help trayvon at time but there are others i can help. That heieve in my heart was the seed planted so me and these different mothers could be our loved ones voices, to give real change. Our ancestors fought and fought and wehas been 400 years just want to love one another. I want people to stop hating one another, sat taking from each other , stop taking from each other. Would you mind giving us a prayer before we go out . I would so appreciate it. These are among some of the people i treasure and admire so much. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] hello. Hello. Hello. [cheers and applause] i need you all to hear me tonight. Me too moments to tell you how good god is. Hallelujah. Mmm. Give me a moment to say thank you. We are not standing here because hes not good, we are standing here because hes great. [applause] ago yesterday, i lived the Worst Nightmare anyone could imagine. Or as my my. Daughter, sandra bland, was lowered into the ground in a coffin. She was my fourth of five daughters and she was gone. No, not on administrative leave but on permanent leave from this earth. Found hanging in a jail cell after an unlawful traffic stop and an unlawful arrest. Six of the women have died in custody that same month. Kendra chatman, alexis mcgovern, sera lee. Jones, joyce kernell. So many of our children are gone but they are not forgotten. I am here with Hillary Clinton tonight. [applause] she is a leader and a mother who will say our childrens names. [applause] she knows that when a young, black life is cut short, its not just a loss, its a personal loss, a national loss, its a loss that diminishes all of us. What a blessing tonight to be standing here so that sandy can ama. L speak through her m [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] and what a blessing it is for all of us that we have the , if we see it, we have got to seize it, to cast our votes. [applause] president for a president who will help lead us down the path toward restoration and change. [applause] whenont stop being a mom your child dies, you dont stop being a parent. I am still jordan daviss mother. [applause] his life ended the day he was shot and killed for playing loud music, but my job as his mother didnt. I still wake up every day thinking about how to parent him , how to protect him and his legacy, how to ensure his death doesnt overshadow his life. Here is what you dont know about my son. When jordan was little, he would eat a popsicle unless he had enough to bring out to his friends. Jokes, heractical liked having these conversations with me about our love for god and how god could allow such pain and suffering. I lived in fear that my son would die like this. I even warned him that because he was a young, black man, he would meet people who didnt value him or his life. That is a conversation that no parent should ever have with their child. [applause] isnt afraid to say that black lives matter. [applause] she isnt afraid to sit at a table with grieving mothers and their the full force of our english. Anguish. She doesnt build walls around her heart. Not only did to listen to our problems, she invited us to become a part of the solutions. And that is what we are going to do. [applause] we are going to keep telling our childrens stories and we are urging you to say their names. We are going to keep building a future where Police Officers and communities of color Work Together in Mutual Respect to keep children like jordan safe. The majority of Police Officers are good people doing a good job. And we are asking and we are also going to keep using our to supportour votes leaders like Hillary Clinton, who will help us protect one another so that this club of heartbroken mothers stops growing. [applause] first of all, i would like to say that its an honor to be here and stand with these and be with you. I am an unwilling participant in this movement. Up for not have signed this or any other mother standing with me today, but i am here today for my son, trayvon , who is in heaven. And also for his brother, who is still here on earth. I did not want the spotlight. Cani will do everything i to focus some of this light on of a path out of the darkness. Hillary clinton has the compassion and understanding to mothers. Rieving she has the courage to lead the fight for common sense gun legislation. [applause] tos a plan to devise address the divide that so often Law Enforcement in the community they serve. This isnt about being politically correct. This is about saving our children. That is why we are here tonight with Hillary Clinton, and that is why, in memory of our children, we are imploring you, all of you, to vote this election day. Hillary is one mother who can ensure our movement will succeed. I want to thank you for standing , andus and supporting us we would like to leave with you what god has given us, strength, love, and peace. Thank you. Please give a warm welcome to andrew day, accompanied by united percussion. Living life on the merrygoround, you can find a say to you, that we can work it out. We can work it out i know, our eyes are not , and i know when it feels like its getting hard to breathe, and you feel like dying, i promise, we , mountains,e world mountains , we will rise i will rise a thousand times again , rise likell rise up , and we willse up do it a thousand times again the Democratic National convention is live from philadelphia this week. Watch it on cspan radio app. Get audio coverage of every minute of the convention, as well as scheduling information about important speeches and events. It is easy to download from the apple store or google play. Onch the Convention Live your desktop, tablet, or smartphone at cspan. Org. Follow us on twitter and like us on facebook to see video of newsworthy moments. The Democratic National convention, live from philadelphia all this week on cspan, the cspan radio app, and cspan. Org. Currently in a golf cart driving around the Wells Fargo Center where the Democratic National convention will be held. What is your official role at the dnc . Im a runner. When im not working this, im a creative and stern intern at 6 abc. Abc. This job through 6 any of the interns get to drive around golf carts and help people get around the dnc easier. What are your official duties as a runner . My official duties are to pick up any 6 abc talent, any anchors, any of the people like that, and when im not picking up anyone, i can pick up someone who needs a ride to the Wells Fargo Center or any of the media tents. You picked us up this afternoon. We are on the southwest side of the Wells Fargo Center. Where do you go to college . What are you studying . Media and communications. What do you want to do when you graduate . I want to do something in film, most likely. Ive been working a lot on her social media stuff, creating videos for our facebook page. I want to get in something more with writing for film or filming, directing, any of that stuff. Looking ahead of the golf cart is the skyline of philadelphia and the Wells Fargo Center. Over my right shoulder, you will see the main front entrance you have likely seen from many of the shots of philadelphia. Who are some of the more interesting people youve picked up along the way . I have not really gotten anyone that important. A couple of cnn correspondents. I saw the president of 6 abc get on one of my friends vehicles. That was cool. I saw a couple governors passed by. One dude was wearing cowboy boots. Basically, that is pretty much it. What are you most excited to see at the dnc . I hope to see some politicians, but i would be most excited to meet interesting people and talk to people like you. This is fun and him having a good time doing this. When do you head back to school . At the end of august. My internship will be up then. What your are you at school . I am a junior. Im an upcoming junior. We appreciate the concentration as you are driving here. We will show you some of the media standups to the right and the philadelphia skyline over there. That is directly opposite the Wells Fargo Center. Where are you staying in town . Right now, im close enough to get into town from i76, so i can stay in new jersey where i live. It is pretty easy. Nothing too bad. Im just staying at home. We appreciate the ride around the Wells Fargo Center. We will end by showing some of the media satellite trucks here on the right taking up most of the parking lot outside the Wells Fargo Center. You will see the shot here in just a second. The location of the Democratic National convention. Happening all week long. We will get a live look from south philadelphia. You are looking at the skyline of philadelphia. Of the majorl sports teams play in one area, there is this large parking lot you are seeing. Rightdeographer will look and will see the Citizens Bank park, where the phillies play. That is lincoln financial field where the eagles play. Then you come back to Wells Fargo Center, where the convention is going on and the 76ers and the flyers play and all of the tents, the media and. Ther related tents this is a number of tv networks, national and international. As joe makes his way, the old spectrum, where the phillies and the 76ers, was right about this spot to the right, but all of that has been replaced over the years with the new sports stadiums. A clearer and cooler day, somewhat, in philadelphia. Still pretty warm on the east coast. Back in washington, the president this morning getting ready to leave the white house and heads to philadelphia for his speech tonight, night number three of the Democratic National convention. Here is a look. Good morning, everybody. How do you feel about tonight . Im excited. I feel great. All right, guys. President obama late this morning at the white house. We believe he has since departed for philadelphia. He will be the keynote speaker at night number three of the convention. Joe biden will speak as well, as will the anticipated Vice President ial nominee senator kaine, his name will be put into nomination tonight. All of our coverage getting underway in about an hour with our Preview Program here on cspan at 2 30 eastern. The convention gaveling in shortly after 4 00 eastern. You can see it all here live on cspan, follow it on the cspan radio lab, and also streamed at cspan. Org. News out of washington today. A judge announcing that John Hinckley, after 35 more years, the attempted would be reagan assassin would be allowed to free to be freed from Saint Elizabeths hospital. It came up during Donald Trumps speech or News Conference. I think John Hinckley should not have been freed. One of a number of topics touched on in his 45minute News Conference this morning. Mr. Trump thank you. So it has been 235 days since crooked Hillary Clinton has had a press conference and eu, as reporters, will give her all of these glowing reports. You should ask yourselves why. I will tell you why. Because, despite the nice platitudes, she has been a mess. You look at what has happened with isis, which is not even mentioned, you look at what is happening with law and order. They dont even mention our police. They mention everybody but our police. They dont have an American Flag on the dais until we started complaining and then they ran up with two small flags, one that we saw. You know, i put myself through your News Conferences often, not that it is fun. , no News Conference for Hillary Clinton. You want to check it out. Because there is a lot going on. Her great disloyalty to the person that rigged the system for her, Debbie Wasserman schultz she totally rigged it. Bernie sanders never had a chance. Total disloyalty. It is like, you are fired, get out, fast. The email situation. I call it the double email situation. Both very serious. Oneswas said in the last to the dnc was horrible, absolutely horrible. If i would have used language like they used about religion, about race, about Everything Else that they discuss in those emails, i would have had to run and hide and probably drop out of the race. With her, everything is just fine. Why she yourself doesnt have News Conferences. Honestly, the reason is because there is no way she can answer questions because the job she. As done is so bad when they talk about change, i noticed they have change she has been there for 30 years. Its going to be the same, its going to be an extension of obama. In my opinion, worse. She lied about tpp. She was for tpp, she saw me on television knocking the hell out of it because its a horror show, its going to kill all our jobs, its going to be almost as bad as nafta, maybe worse which her husband signed, by the way, which destroyed this country, destroyed manufacturing in the United States. And ill do something about it, thatll be so renegotiated. And by the way, yesterday for the first time she said she wants to renegotiate trade agreements. First time, yesterday. All because of me. She also saw me talking about tpp and currency manipulation and currency devaluation. And she heard it and she said wow, she cant win that subject in a debate. So, all of a sudden she goes and she goes against tpp, her Vice President is one of the biggest proponents of tpp and now hes going against it. And Bernie Sanders was right, he was against it. They will go for tpp and vote it in very shortly after the election if she wins, which for the sake of our country we all hope and i hope that she doesnt. They will vote it in just mark my words, hopefully we dont have to worry about it but she will vote. Shell change a comma, shell change a paragraph of the 6,000 page document that nobodys even read on our side. Just so you understand, the other countries know every word, every paragraph, every sentence, every single comma and period. We dont even read it, our country. Because were led by stupid people. So she saw me talking about tpp, she realized that she couldnt defend it, her special interests are pushing her hard because shes bought and sold by the special interests. Theyre pushing her very hard and so she said shes against it. The day she gets in which hopefully will never happen she will approve or shortly thereafter tpp. And that will be another disaster for job in our country, ok . So, why dont we start off any questions . Yes, sir . [indiscernible] [indiscernible] [indiscernible] mr. Trump its just a total deflection, this whole thing with russia. In fact, i saw her Campaign Manager i dont know his title, mook . I saw him on television and they asked him about russia and the hacking. By the way, they hacked they probably have her 33,000 emails. I hope they do. They probably have her 33,000 emails that she lost and deleted because youd see some beauties there. So, lets see. But i watched this guy mook and he talked about we think it was russia that hacked. Now, first of all was what was said on those thats so bad but he said i watched it. I think he was live. But he said we think it was russia that hacked. And then he said and this is in person sitting and watching television, as ive been doing and then he said could be trump, yeah, yeah. Trump, trump, oh yeah, trump. He reminded me of john lovitz for saturday night live in the liar where hed go yes, yes, i went to harvard, harvard, yes, yes. This is the guy, you have to see it. Yes, it could be trump, yes, yes. So, it is so farfetched. Its so ridiculous. Honestly, i wish i had that power. Id love to have that power but russia has no respect for our country. And thats why if it is russia, nobody even knows this, its probably china, or it could be somebody sitting in his bed. But it shows how weak we are, it shows how disrespected we are. Total assuming its russia or china or one of the major countries and competitors, its a total sign of disrespect for our country. Putin and the leaders throughout the world have no respect for our country anymore and they certainly have no respect for our leader. So, i know nothing about it. Its one of the most farfetched ive ever heard. Yes, jon . The strategies is to try to tie you to Vladimir Putin. Mr. Trump i never met putin, i dont know who putin is. He said one nice thing about me. He said im a genius. I said thank you very much to the newspaper and that was the end of it. I never met putin. Jon would you treat Vladimir Putin as an adversary or an ally . Mr. Trump i would treat Vladimir Putin firmly but theres nothing that i can think of that id rather do than have russia friendly as opposed to the way they are right now so that we can go and knock out isis together with other people and with other countries. Wouldnt it be nice if we actually got along with people, wouldnt it be nice if we actually got along, as an example, with russia . Im all for it and lets go get isis because we have to get isis and we have to get them fast. You saw what happened with the priest, its only going to get worse. And Hillary Clinton wants to allow 550 more people from that region into our country and we have no idea who they are, where they come from, where their documentation is, its only going to get worse and its going to start getting bad in our country. Were letting people come in by the tens of thousands. You see what happened to the french priest. A friend of mine, he said he was going to france, like three, four months ago. I saw him yesterday. I said howd you like france. He said i wouldnt go to france. I wouldnt go to france. Because france is no longer france. France is no longer france. They wont like me for saying that, but you see what happened in nice, you see what happened yesterday with the priest who was supposed to be a spectacular man. France is no longer france and this world better be very careful and they better get very tough and very smart and theyll never do it with Hillary Clinton. And by the way, in terms of change, shes been there for 30 years. Shes been doing this for 30 years. What shes going to go all of sudden things are going to change . Shes bought and sold 100 percent by special interests and lobbyists. Yes, tom. Tom [indiscernible] russia mr. Trump none, none. Tom then why not release your taxes . Mr. Trump because its under order. And ill release them when the audits completed. Nobody would release when its under ive had audits for 15 or 16 years. Every year i have a routine audit. Im under audit, when the audits complete ill release them. But zero, i mean i will tell you right now, zero, i have nothing to do with russia. Yes . [indiscernible] mr. Trump i dont know, i dont know. It depends on the audit. It depends on the audit, not a big deal. By the way, just so you understand, ive released my papers, 104 pages of documents. I built an Unbelievable Company, tremendous cash, tremendous company with some of the great assets of the world. Youve seen it. You were all very disappointed when you saw it actually but thats ok. Far, far great than anybody ever thought. I have a great company. I built an Unbelievable Company but if you look there youll see theres nothing in russia. As far as the tax returns, as soon as the audits complete, like any lawyer would tell you, Greta Van Susteren she was going over it a while ago, shes a lawyer. She said, well no lawyer would , let somebody release a tax return when theyre under audit. Its a routine audit. Ive gone through audits, which i think is very unfair, for 15 years. I have friends that are very rich and never get audited. Im audited every year. Maybe thats because of politics, who knows. Will you call on putin to stay out of the way . Mr. Trump im not going to tell putin what to do. Why should i tell putin what to do . He already did something today where he said dont blame them, essentially, for your incompetence. Let me tell you, its not even about russia or china or whoever it is thats doing the hacking. It was about the things that were said in those emails. They were terrible things, talking about jewish, talking about race, talking about atheist, trying to pin labels on people what was said was a disgrace, and it was Debbie Wasserman schultz, and believe me, as sure as youre sitting there, Hillary Clinton knew about it. She knew everything. Debbie Wasserman Schultz could not breathe without speaking and getting approval from Hillary Clinton. Couldnt breathe. And you saw that. It also showed that it was a fixed race, but ive been saying that long before i saw the emails. It was a rigged race. It was totally rigged. And Debbie Wasserman schultz rigged it for Hillary Clinton, and the sad part is, Bernie Sanders has, to use an old word that i use on occasion, hes lost his energy. He wants to go home and go to sleep. But hes got a lot of people that walked out last night. Now, hundreds of people walked out of the Democrat Convention last night. I didnt even hear about it. Nobody showed it. I didnt see it on television. You people dont talk about it. The Republican Convention was incredible. I hear i had one of the biggest bounces in decades. Like, some people are saying nine points. In fact, a poll just came out ten minutes ago, los angeles trump 47, clinton 40. And the reason is that people are sick and tired of Hillary Clinton. You say lets get tough why not get tough on putin stay. Mr. Trump what do i have to get involved with putin for . I have nothing to do with putin. Ive never spoken to him. I dont know anything about him other than he will respect me. He doesnt respect our president. And if it is russia which its probably not, nobody knows who it is but if it is russia, its really bad for a different reason, because it shows how little respect they have for our country, when they would hack into a major party and get everything. But it would be interesting to see i will tell you this russia, if youre listening, i hope youre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Lets see if that happens. Thatll be next. Yes, sir. Will you define for this audience and the campaign what exactly do you believe should happen to minimum wage in this country, and what is your approach to banning immigration mr. Trump ok. sure. Two big questions. The minimum wage has to go up. People are at least 10, but it has to go up. But i think that states federal i think that states should really call the shot. As an example, i live in new york. Its very expensive in new york. You cant buy a hot dog for the money youre talking about. You go to other states and its not expensive at all. Now what it does is puts new york at a disadvantage if the minimum wage is up, Companies Move out and things, bad things happen. At the same time, people have to be taken care of. But what im really going to do on the minimum wage but it has to go up. Now, Bernie Sanders lied. Bernie sanders said in his speech the other day that donald trump wants the minimum wage to go below 7. I said, where did he come up with that one . That one is just like joe biden lied today. He said that donald trump wants to carpet bomb he was on television he said, donald trump wants to carpet bomb the enemy in the middle east. Now, that was ted cruz that said that. That was not donald trump. I mean, hes not a very bright guy, but that was ted cruz that said it. And he said it with such surety donald trump wants to carpet bomb i never said i wanted to carpet bomb. That was ted cruz. You remember ted cruz said it . You will confirm that, i think. Go ahead. The minimum wage . Mr. Trump so i would like to , raise it to at least 10, and what im going to do is im going to bring jobs back to this country so that people can start working again so that the 10 and the 15 and the numbers youre talking about are going to literally, theyre going to be peanuts compared to what people can make in the country, because im going to bring jobs back from mexico, which is booming, booming. I have a friend who builds plants and hes a great builder of plants and i was with him the other day great guy. He builds massive plants, for automobiles, for computers, for anything. Thats what he does. I think hes the biggest, but certainly one of the biggest. And i said, hows it going . He said, unbelievable. Oh, good, thats good news. The countrys doing well. No, the countrys not doing well, but mexico is unbelievable. The plants im building in mexico, ive never seen anything its the eighth wonder of the world. And hes not happy. Hes an american guy. Hed rather build them here. But he said its unbelievable. Thats whats happened to our country. Because we have leadership that doesnt know what theyre doing. On thesecond question territory you want to assign special extreme vetting . Mr. Trump yes were going to be listing yeah were going to , be giving a list of those territories. And if you come from those territories we have extreme vetting. And were going to have extreme vetting anyway. Look we have people coming into , this country who have very evil intentions. And we have people whether in San Bernardino or whether its the World Trade Center or whether its a lot of other things, and you look all over the world and you see whats happening. You look at orlando, how bad was that . And that was horrible. That was going after the Gay Community it looks like. We cant let this happen. We cannot let this happen. We cannot let people come in. Now Hillary Clinton likes to up , it. Her running mate tim kaine, who by the way did a terrible job in new jersey. First act he did in new jersey was ask for a 4 billion tax increase and hes not very popular in new jersey. And he still isnt. What . I mean virginia. , the first thing he did, the first thing that tim kaine did, he asked for a 4 billion tax increase. And hes not very popular. So let me just tell you, and i , went all over virginia and i was there the other day. And i thought hed be popular. Hes not popular because he asked for tax increases. Big tax increases in virginia. Big. And also the unemployment went up, i think it doubled or close to doubled during his tenure. But what he wanted to do is very strongly and hes on record, he wanted to have even more of the people from that region of the world come in than Hillary Clinton wants. And its unacceptable. Ok. Yes . Go ahead, david. David shortly ago prosecutors in baltimore announced they were dropping all the charges in the Police Involved in the freddie gray case. Do you have a reaction. Mr. Trump i do have a reaction prosecutor whoe prosecuted she ought to prosecute herself. Thats my reaction. I think it was disgraceful what she did and the way she did it. And the News Conference that she had where they were guilty before anybody even knew the facts. And i give a lot of respect and a lot of credit to those Police Officers who probably could have made a deal. I give a lot of respect, a lot of credit that they stuck it out. And you had victory after victory after victory. And she had no chance, dont forget she prosecuted the best case, what she thought was her best cases first. She should prosecute herself. She should be held accountable. What do you say to African Americans who feel this is a railroad case . Trump freddie gray is now a cause celebre. Mr. Trump well, that was a bad case to prove it. That was a bad case. I mean if youre going to do that, its ok because you have to, you know, there are times when Police Officers behave very badly. But you have to get the right time. This was not one of those times. And i think that she is a disgrace to the world of prosecutors for what she did. Yes, maam. Reporter so as youve gotten to know governor pence what surprises you the most about him . Mr. Trump yeah. I have a great relationship with governor pence. We spent the last three days together. He was absolutely my first choice and i never wavered despite the press. The press was saying, and it was interesting, i spoke to him at 11 05, him and his wife, and i told him that i was going to be choosing them if id be lucky enough for him to accept. And he accepted. And that was it. For me that was it. But right around that time you had the attack in nice. And i was going to have a News Conference either the following morning or the next day. And of course i had to delay the News Conference because there was attack, a horrible attack, horrible. In france. And i delayed the News Conference and everyone said hes having Second Thoughts. Oh, i never had a Second Thought in my life. It was such a lie. I mean so many lies in the , press. But it was such a lie. And he has been so great. Honestly hes been even better than i thought ok . , better. Reporter do you think the Geneva Convention are out of date . Mr. Trump i think everythings is out of date. We have a whole new world. When i said that nato, to wolf blitzer, is obsolete, i got attacked. Three days later people that study nato said you know trump is right. You know what . We have a lot of things that are out date because theyre 20 and 30 and 40 years old. Nato, you know this isnt a country from 40 years ago. Today we have a different threat. We have a terror threat. And we have an isis threat. And by the way, isis isnt even mentioned. Its not even mentioned during the Democratic Convention. And everyones talking about it. The reason they cant mention it is because they grew it. Go ahead. Reporter what would you renegotiate the enhanced interrogation aspect of it . Mr. Trump i would katy, i would renegotiate so much of everything. Im going to renegotiate our trade deals where were losing with everybody, katy. Im going to renegotiate our military deals where were protecting countries and theyre not living up to the bargain. Theyre not living up to the bargain. And everyone agrees with me, except for the media. And the media never says that. I like nato, just so you understand. I like nato. I like the concept of nato. It is somewhat outdated because it doesnt cover terror the way it should. Ive been saying this for six months now. A couple of months ago, front page, wall street journal, we are going to cover terror, they announced somebody. Somebody. I think natos great. But its got to be modernized. And and countries that were protecting have to pay what theyre supposed to be paying. Reporter on the geneva [indiscernible] mr. Trump yes . Reporter do you think that they should allow for that, given the [indiscernible] mr. Trump i am a person that believes in enhanced interrogation, yes. And by the way, it works. Will you defend the Baltic States if theyre invaded by russia . Mr. Trump ill tell you what. Let me say it once again. Let me say it once again. Ok . Many countries, including the nato countries, some of which i think you have five that are current that have paid what they owe. And they can afford to pay this. Its not like they cant afford it. They just see us as a soft touch. You know, in business we say somebodys a soft touch. I dont know if ive been called a soft touch, but maybe i have sometimes. But in business, they call them a soft touch. They havent paid us. Ok . I want them to pay. Excuse me. Im not saying anything. I dont talk. Im not like obama where he tells you everything hes going to do were going to go and do were going to go and do this were going to go and do that. , i dont talk. But theyre going to pay. No, no yeah, it sends a signal. You know what signal it says . It says were going to pay. You know, somebody said, but we have treaties. I said thats right. And in the treaties, theyre supposed to pay. Theyre going to pay. And they will pay. They will pay. Mr. Trump yes . [indiscernible] mr. Trump were going to have a whole policy on that over the next three weeks. Im going to be doing a big thing on that. Well, ive been doing very well with the hispanic community. I mean, really well. I mean, the the poll numbers are going up very high. Think we had won recently, 35 , or 36 but im going to have a , whole were going to have a News Conference on that over the next three weeks. So, and i want to just tell you because these polls cover it, so l. A. Times, cnn, way up. 4740, theyre all way up. Biggest they say the biggest bounce in memory. Because today i heard a dishonest guy on television say, well, trump didnt get much of a bounce. So, you know, i have to at least say. Jeremy, go ahead. Do you believe that Vladimir Putin would rather deal with President Trump or president clinton . Mr. Trump i dont think he respects clinton. I dont think putin has any respect whatsoever for clinton. I think he does respect me. And i hope i get along great with him. Its possible that we wont, jeremy. I hope that we get along great with putin because it would be great to have russia with a good relationship. Right now, we dont have a good relationship. Putin has said things over the last year that are really bad things. Ok . He mentioned the n word one time. I was shocked to hear him mention the n word. You know what the n word is, right . He mentioned it. I was shocked. He has a total lack of respect for president obama. Number one, he doesnt like him. And number two, he doesnt respect him. I think hes going to respect your president if im elected. And i hope he likes me. Yes . Yes, sir . Relations . Mr. Trump yes, sir. Mr. Trump but let me finish with jeremy. Go ahead. Reporter would a President Trump be better for u. S. Russia relations . Mr. Trump President Trump would be so much better for u. S. Russian relations. You cant be worse. Hey look, when i was a young men studying history and studying all of these things that ive always found fascinating, one thing that ive always heard is you never want to do anything to unite russia and china. Well, theyre united now, in a true sense. Theyve never been closer. Theyre selling oil to china. We forced them into this position. Mr. Trump no, wait a minute. No, im not going to be an adversary. No, not at all. I have tenants from china. I have the biggest bank in the world from china paying me rent. I mean, i have great relationships with china. Im not blaming china for getting away with murder. Im blaming our leadership is incompetent. We dont know what were doing. I dont blame i respect china. Hey, if china can get away with trade deficits every year of hundreds of billions of dollars if they can get away with that, my hats off to them. I have no problem with china. I have a problem with our incompetent leadership allowing that to happen. And i believe that Hillary Clinton is even more bought and paid for than barack obama. I think it will get worse. Its going to be four more years of obama which is unacceptable to a lot of people, you see that. But i believe that Hillary Clinton will be worse, than obama. Yes . Reporter [indiscernible] you mentioned that you wanted to make College Education more affordable. Mr. Trump thats right. Thats right, im going to be doing something over the next four weeks, very much so. Reporter are you prepared to give us any sort of mr. Trump no, im prepared to say were gonna have a great plan. One of the things i think because ive traveled all over the country and im going you know where im going, i guess you all know, i dont have to say. But im going to toledo, and im going to different places today and ive met so many people. This is such a great country, these are such great people. One of the saddest things i see are College Students that work so hard, that go to colleges, good colleges, theyre good students, they do a great job. Number one, they get out, they have no jobs. Because our jobs are going to mexico, theyre going to china, theyre going to japan, theyre going all over the place. Theyre not coming here. Just like my friend who builds the plants but he doesnt build , them here, much. And the saddest thing i see is these students are leveraged debt up to their up to their neck. They cant breathe, theyre scared, theyre so scared they have leveraged their entire life. They have leveraged their entire life. They have loans. And i have to tell you, the colleges are viewing the students as just a con to it. Because the students get government money, passes through but the number gets higher and higher. Because College Costs are out of control, because the colleges say what difference does it make . If you take a look at the salaries being paid, you take a look at whats going on with the colleges. Because all of this is a pass through and the students are a conduit. So the colleges are costing so much money. We are going to help the students. Maybe that doesnt fit beautifully within the republican framework. But i told this during various times to lots of different people and nobody has a problem with it. We have to help our students. Our students are under tremendous pressure to a point where its making them sick. Our students are under tremendous pressure, we have to help our students. And im going to have a plan over the next four weeks. [indiscernible] mr. Trump excuse me . [indiscernible] mr. Trump everythings on the table, youll see. Everything its a very important its a very important subject. Yes, maam . [indiscernible] mr. Trump i think my message is resonating because they have confidence on me at the border, if they dont want people pouring into our country. Likewise, they have confidence with me on isis, not only in terms of getting rid of them but also in terms of keeping them out of our country because i will not have people come into our country who want to do damage to our people. I think they have a lot of confidence in terms of my bringing back jobs because i see carrier and i see ford and i see all of these companies leaving and going to mexico like theres nothing to it. And then they make their product, they sell it back to the United States, no tax, no nothing, we get nothing except unemployment. And i think people see that. I can tell you i mean im like a pollster myself when im in front of these massive audiences, one of the things that gets constantly you people know because youre there the biggest applause is a repeal and replacement of obamacare. Because obamacare is a disaster. In texas, going through Bluecross Blueshield they Just Announced a 60 percent increase. On november 1, youre going to have new numbers come out for obamacare, having to do with increases. President obama is trying to get it moved to december. Because it is electiondefying. It is going to be a massive number, the biggest number ever in our countrys history for health care. Its going to be announced on november 1. I just asked the press, dont let him do that. Obamacare is a disaster, people are dying with it. Its a disaster and Everybody Knows and its going to fold, anyway. In 17 unfortunately if im president i mean ive got to take over this mess. Its going to fold, anyway. But repeal and replace obamacare, people like it. They like the fact that im going to protect the second amendment, they like the fact that im going to rebuild our military which is very depleted. Those are the things that are resonating. And they dont feel Hillary Clinton can do it. John, go ahead, john. Unequivocallysay that russia has no business mr. Trump no, i have nothing to two how many times do i have say do with russia. How many times do i have say that . Are you a smart man . Jon kylare you a smart man . John are you a smart man . , i have nothing to with russia, i have nothing to do with russia. And even for anything. What do i have to do with russia . You know the closest i came to russia, i bought a house a number of years ago in palm beach, florida. Palm beach is a very expensive place. There was a man who went bankrupt and i bought the house for 40 million and i sold it to a russian for 100 million including brokerage commissions. So i sold it. For 40ought it million, i sold it for 100 million to a russian. That was a number of years ago. I guess probably i sell condos to russians, ok . [indiscernible] mr. Trump of course i can. I told you, other than normal stuff i buy a house if i sold it to a russian. I have nothing to do with russia. I said that putin has much better Leadership Qualities than obama, but who doesnt know that . Now investments mr. Trump of course not. I own the trump organization. Zero, zero. Go ahead. One of the things said at your convention was you are a champion for women. Mr. Trump i am. Did you reflect at all mr. Trump i did. I did. Because i would love to see a woman become president of the United States. But she would be so wrong. And even women say that. Women dont like her. She would be so wrong. Look, Hillary Clinton is a disaster. Shes been a disaster. And even the story told by her husband last night, he left out the most interesting chapter. I wont get into that. The chapter that i really waited for, because it was pretty boring, the chapter that i waited for, i never heard. And he left it out. Look, Hillary Clintons a disaster. Id love to see a woman become president and itll happen, absolutely. But i think it would be bad for women if it were Hillary Clinton. Yes maam . He spoke in defense of Police Officers. Mr. Trump yes, i do. But i have spoken to about many times and i speak about it all the time and the police have to be very careful, they have to be very, very well trained. I speak about it all the time, in fact i mentioned the most recent death, excuse me, i mentioned the most recent deaths in louisiana and in minnesota. I speak about it all the time. Its a real problem because if the police do 100,000 great jobs and they have one, either a rogue policeman or a cop who was poorly trained or did a bad job, you see that incident on television for weeks. Its a real problem. You dont see the good work that they do but if they make one mistake out of 100,000, out of more than that, its on Television Night after night after night. The police in this country do an amazing job but likewise i agree and i do mention that all the time. Yes, maam, go ahead. Oh, go ahead, go ahead. Reporter [indiscernible] mr. Trump no, but they seem to be, if its russians. I have no idea. Its probably not russia. Nobody knows if its russia. You know the sad thing is . That with the technology and the genius we have in this country, not in government unfortunately, but with the genius we have in government, we dont even know who took the Democratic National committee emails. We dont even know who it is. I heard this morning, one report said they dont think its russia, they think it might be china. Another report said it might be just a hacker, some guy with a 200 i. Q. That cant get up in the morning, ok . Nobody knows. Honestly they have no idea if its russia. Might be russia. But if its any foreign country, it shows how little respect they have for the United States. Yes, maam. Reporter [indiscernible] mr. Trump the biggest thing is number one we have to stop by keeping people out because these people, theyve got something bad going on up there. Thats something really bad going on. And then people in terms of islam and radical islamic terrorism, a term that our president refuses to use, i cant hes still not using it. Hes still not using it. And she doesnt want to use it other than i forced her into maybe using it. She said she will use it but so far she didnt. Shell probably use it tonight. Like the American Flags, as soon as we put out a thing they ran a couple of American Flags up in the stage, it was a disgrace. You had a room with a massive stage without flags. I think this i think that the people in the Community Know whats going on. Whether its in a mosque or whether its in the community and they have to report these people. When you look at San Bernardino, people knew many people knew what was going on. They had bombs lying all over the floor. They had bombs on the floor. I mean, this isnt you walk into somebodys house, there are bombs lying on the floor i think theres a problem there. You got to report it. And by the way, David Hinckley should not have been freed, ok . David hinckley was just released John Hinckley i think that John Hinckley excuse me, John Hinckley, should not have been freed. I just heard about it. In my opinion. Reporter do you have any qualms about asking a Foreign Government to interfere, to hack into a system of anybody in this country . Mr. Trump thats up to the president. Let the president talk to them. Look, heres the problem. Heres the problem, katy. Katy, heres the problem, very simple. He has no respect well, they probably have them. Id like to have them released. No, it gives me no pause. If they have them, they have them. We might as well hey, you know what gives me more pause . That a person in our government, crooked Hillary Clinton heres what gives me pause. Be quiet. I know you want to save her. That a person in our government, katy, would delete or get rid of 33,000 emails. That gives me a big problem. After she gets a subpoena. She gets subpoenaed, and she gets rid of 33,000 emails . That gives me a problem. Now, if russia or china or any other country has those emails, i mean, to be honest with you, id love to see them. Reporter a question about mike pence, because the New York Times reported that in a conversation with john kasich campaign, they say you can be the most powerful mr. Trump thats the most ridiculous conversation. He never had the don jr. Told me let me just tell you. Let me save you a lot of boredom. Reporter mike pences role as Vice President if you are elected . Mr. Trump mike pence will play a big role, but i just want to tell you about john kasich. I never spoke to him about being Vice President. We dont have Good Chemistry together. I have never spoken to him about being Vice President. I would never pick him to be Vice President. There was never a conversation, and he has a habit of doing things like this where he says things that may be a little bit shaky. He never spoke don jr. Would never and that was so long ago, i didnt even know i was going to get the nomination at that point. Just so you understand, i would not have picked john kasich, wouldnt be the right guy. I mean, for that to have gotten out, that was so ridiculous. And then, i was going to put him in charge of national and worldwide policy. So whats left for the president . I think you know me better than that. That was put out by him. Hes a nice man, john kasich, hes fine. Hes fine. I would never have chosen him. Now, i did speak to various people and i actually got acceptances from many people. There are some people that called me that very much wanted to be Vice President , but i picked a man that i have a lot of respect for and mike pence is doing a great job. Let me just explain i neverje president , nor would i. And by the way, im leading in ohio by three points. Reporter how confident are you that [indiscernible] mr. Trump it probably has. It probably has. Our government is so weak on this stuff. It probably has. Possible. I mean, i have a lot of checks and balance. I have a good system, i guess. Im not an email person, myself. I dont believe in it, because i think it can be hacked for one thing. But when i send an email, i mean, if i send one, i send one almost never. Im just not a believer in email. A lot of people have taught me that, including hillary. But honestly, it could be, maybe its hacked. Who knows . You have broken the rules of traditional american politics many times. [indiscernible] mr. Trump yes, but my message wasnt dark. My message was optimistic, because were going to fix the problems. Go ahead. Reporter you have broken the tradition. Youve run a very Aggressive Campaign this week ph . What was the basis for wanting to do it this way as opposed to staying quiet . Mr. Trump no basis. No basis. Look, john, i didnt have to do this. When i did this, believe me you see this incredible resort. Its one of the great in the world. When i did this, i could be here enjoying myself. I dont have to be with you guys. I didnt need this. I have places that are the best in the world, ok. I could be doing other things. Im doing this because were going to make America Great again. Im doing this because when i looked at the iran deal, which was incompetent when i looked at whats going on with jobs being torn out of our country and going to mexico and china, whats happening with china. And with all of this, with isis, with our military being so badly depleted where we have old fighter jets. We have to take parts from museums and from graveyards. When i look at all this i say i sort of have to do it. You know this countrys been great to me. Im giving back. Thats all. Now as far as running a campaign, i guess its probably not typical. But they said that against, you know when i ran there was 17 people, a total of 17. Governors, senators, ben carson whos a fantastic guy, capable people. Wait a minute. Everybody said, oh he can never win because look what hes doing. Hes giving a talk to 5,000 people in New Hampshire instead of going to everybodys house and having dinner. And then i won New Hampshire. And then i won you know 38 or 39 states. And won by the way, not by a little bit. Won with the highest vote in the history of the Republican Party. So just reporter i was there for the whole thing. Mr. Trump ok but john but the point is this, so its a different kind of a campaign. But its what i think is good. I think its good. I think its working here too. Reporter but this aggressive counterprogramming the Democratic Convention is different than what weve seen in previous campaigns. And im wondering why you felt the need to make sure that everything that was said was responded to immediately with personal appearances, with Campaign Appearances while they were inaudible mr. Trump well, when joe biden says that i want to firebomb the enemy, which was on television this morning, or carpet bomb. He used the term carpet bomb. When he makes the statement that donald trump wants to carpet bomb, i never said that. That was ted cruz that said that ok . That was ted cruz, wasnt me. When sanders, and i think a lot of his people are going to come to me because of trade. But when Bernie Sanders makes a statement that i wanted to go lower than the minimum wage, lower, its a lie. So i have a choice. All my people say dont respond to it, it doesnt matter. I say to me it does matter. It matters. When people tell lies, politicians who tell lies very well, thats what they do, thats why theyre politicians. But when politicians tell lies, and im lucky in a sense because i have a big microphone. In other words i can say that biden lied when he said that. Or i can say that i didnt say that, Bernie Sanders. And you guys know that i didnt. In fact he was criticized by people that fact check for saying it because i never said it. So its nice to be able to, president obama said a yearanda half ago, donald trump will never be president. Today on the today show he said, this is democracy. A little bit different. Little bit different. David, go ahead dave. Reporter last night at the Democratic Convention largely women and gay advocates made strong cases that you and the Republican Party are kind of on the wrong side of history regarding abortion rights and gay marriage. Can you clarify your position on those . Mr. Trump youll have to see it in the polls, david. You know what my positions are. Youll have to see it at the polls. David my positions are down. You ask the question every single time. I give you an answer. My positions are down. Take a look. Go ahead. Reporter didnt you hold a Miss Universe pageant mr. Trump yes i did. Reporter did don jr. Say back in 2008 that there was russian money pouring into the trump organization. Trump we wanted to, yeah, i dont know what he said. Excuse me, listen. We wanted to. We were doing Miss Universe 4 or 5 years ago in russia. It was a tremendous success. Very, very successful. And there were developers in russia that wanted to put a lot of money into developments in russia. And they wanted us to do it. But it never worked out. Frankly i didnt want to do it for a couple of different reasons. But we had a major developer, particular, but numerous developers that wanted to develop property in moscow and other places. But we decided not to do it. Yes maam go ahead. Reporter inaudible president obama has said that you would never win the presidency. Last night he said that anything is possible. Mr. Trump he did say that. Reporter what is your reaction to that . Mr. Trump well, i just said sort of said that. He just said that. He said it this morning, anythings possible. I think im going to win. I think people are sick and tired of incompetence. Theyre sick and tired of having politicians leading them down the tubes. Whether its taxes, whether its debt, whether its any one of 15 different things. And thats why. I mean i think ill win the election. I think youll see that in the polls. All right a few more questions. Go ahead john. I hope your arms ok. Reporter its all right. Back in december sir you had said that you were probably going to be going to israel to go and meet the leadership. Now that you are the republican nominee, it is a tradition once you secure the partys nomination, to do a trip. Mr. Trump well, its a tradition but i dont do things that are traditional. But i have great support from israel. I will back israel 100 . I would like to go there. But i have great relationships as you know, to the people in israel. And by the way, obama in my opinion is the single worst thing politically speaking thats ever happened to israel. He has been a disaster for israel. I dont know. I dont know. I havent set my schedule yet. It could happen. Reporter inaudible you are the nominee. Has you or your campaign had any conversations with foreign leaders trying to build up a relationship should you win in november, that you dont have to hit the ground running trump no, i think we its possible we have. But im not im only interested in winning. Once i win, ill get along great with foreign leaders, but they wont be taking advantage. I mean, the problem we have with foreign leaders, whether its china, russia, or anybody, they dont respect our leadership. And certainly in the case of china, they take tremendous economic advantage of us tremendous, to a point that is hard to believe. Ill get along great with the leadership. And well do well. Yes, maam, in the back . No, no. Excuse me. In the back . Reporter [indiscernible] mr. Trump well be looking at that. Yeah, well be looking. Go ahead. Reporter first, a quick one on the minimum wage. You said we need to raise it to 10. Are you talking about the federal minimum wage . Mr. Trump federal. Reporter ok. Second question about would religion be a part of the trump im not making it a part. But at some point, maybe people will change their minds, but as of right now, im not making it a part. Ok. Yes, maam . Go ahead. Reporter [indiscernible] trump who said that . Who . I think president obama has been the most ignorant president in our history. His views of the world, as he says, dont jive. And the world is a mess. You look at whats happening with the migration, with syria, with libya, with iraq, with everything hes touched. He has been a disaster as a president. He will go down as one of the worst president s in the history of our country. It is a mess. And i believe that Hillary Clinton will be even worse. Go ahead. Reporter [indiscernible] many polls show that you are winning . I cant believe it. Its a disguise. Go ahead. President obama said he feels that you are not prepared to be president. Can you lay out for us and for him what you do on a daily basis . Mr. Trump sure. Well, youve been asking me a lot of questions for a lot of times. Ive turned out to be right. I turned out to be right on nato. After i said that on nato, nato changed their whole program because of me. Excuse me, katy, Hillary Clinton said yesterday shes going to start renegotiating trade deals. She never said that in her life. She said it yesterday only because of me. Im the one thats prepared. President obama when he became president , he didnt know anything. This guy didnt know a thing. And honestly, today he knows less. Today, he knows less. Hes done a terrible job. I think im very prepared. Now, with that being said, ive been a businessman all my life, but ive been watching it. Ive been seeing it. Ive been feeling. And as you know, ive been very much involved in politics from the other side. I understand politics or i guess i wouldnt be here. I mean, i beat a lot of very talented people. Reporter [indiscernible] mr. Trump i do. I have great foreign advisers. And you have a list. And i gave you a list. And the other day, as an example, general quinn and general flynn, and we have so many we have so many. As an example, i had a meeting three or four days ago, and im going to do a report on it, with seven or eight very, very talented advisers. Now, with all of that being said, a lot of people want the people that are doing it now, people that have certain names. Look at the mess theyve gotten us into. They said, have you spoken to so and so . Well, i said, but he was in favor of the war in iraq many years ago, which i was not in favor of. Have you spoken to this one or that one . I said, they were all look at the job theyve done. So a lot of the people that you think are good because you know their name or because you see them on television, i dont think are good. Because look at the end result. The end result is our country is a mess. The middle east has never been worse. Had we done nothing with the middle east, had our president s, with an s, gone to the beach and relaxed, wed be in better shape than we are right now. All right, tom. A couple more. Go ahead, tom. Reporter do you expect your opinion mr. Trump well, well have to see. I mean, thats my opinion. Thats my opinion. Well have to see. I have a real problem when Hillary Clinton, who gives open access to a phony server, is allowed to get these briefings. How does Hillary Clinton get a National Security briefing when shes been probably hacked, when so much of her information, the director of the fbi said it was essentially negligent. It was negligent. Now why are they giving her briefings, why are these people with great knowledge of the inner workings of our country and our security, why are they giving Hillary Clinton briefings . Because its going to get revealed. I mean her number one person, huma abedin, is married to Anthony Weiner, whos a sleazeball and a pervert. And im not saying that, i mean thats recorded history, right . I dont like huma going home at night and telling Anthony Weiner all of these secrets, ok . So how can Hillary Clinton be briefed on this unbelievably delicate information when it was just proven that she lied and that her server shouldnt have had it and that theyre missing 33,000 emails and thats just the beginning. So i dont think that i know at some point, theyre going to be calling, theyre going to want to brief me, but im not a talker about this stuff. I dont think that its safe to have Hillary Clinton, in light of what just happened, and in light of what we just found out, i dont think its safe to have Hillary Clinton be briefed on National Security because the word will get out. Runrter should your son for mayor of new york city next year . Mr. Trump no. Hes not going to run for mayor. Hes not going to run for mayor. Don has no attention of running for mayor. But he did a great job the other night with his speech. Because he made a good speech, everyone says he should run for mayor. You know why . Because we have a democratic mayor whos horrible, hes doing a horrible job, de blasio. Don is not going to run for he has no interest in running for mayor. Reporter [indiscernible] mr. Trump unbelievable what he said. I think its disgraceful. Hillary clinton, because of me, said that tpp is not going to happen. But we all know it is going to happen if she won. Terry mcauliffe said with a wink to a group of people that if hillary gets in, shes lying and it will happen. And there is nobody closer, i know this for a fact, there is nobody, including her own husband, closer to Hillary Clinton than terry mcauliffe, ok . Go ahead. Reporter [indiscernible] Anthony Weiner said that he ran against her son mr. Trump look, look. Anthony weiner is a proven loser. I mean the poor guy, hes locked up in a room. They lock him up in a room, they dont let him out. I dont know what anthony my son doesnt want to run for mayor. He has no intention of running for mayor. And besides that, as a republican, you have a very tiny sliver in manhattan, as you know, and in that area. Its almost impossible for a republican to win. So and my son likes to win, but my son has no intention of running for mayor so lets just put that to bed. Go ahead. Reporter [indiscernible] mr. Trump yes, palm beach county. Its all over. Yeah im looking at it. , i actually want to find out what causes it. Its a problem in many areas, ok . Yes, go ahead. Reporter [indiscernible] mr. Trump well, they shouted you know what was interesting. Yesterday i made a speech in front of the great veterans as you saw, and it was very well received, she was there the day before. And when i started talking about Hillary Clinton, the veterans who saw her 24 hours before, started screaming, lock her up lock her up. Lock her up. They also screamed that, as you know, during the speech i made. The big speech. And i said, dont do that. Now, i didnt do that for any reason. I really i didnt like it. And they stopped. Not one reporter said that i said that. They all said they started screaming lock her up lock her up i said, dont do that. Nobody reported that i said that, because its dishonest reporting. You do agree i said that, right . Reporter you did say that. Mr. Trump ok. Well, why didnt somebody report that . Reporter thats what i want to ask you about. Mr. Trump no, i think its i think its a shame that they said it, but a lot of people would say that should happen. Ok, one more question, yes yes, maam, go ahead. Reporter yes, three weeks is a long time to wait for that immigration. This is doral, it was built mr. Trump well, doral is great. And doral i think i have over 1,000 hispanics working at doral, and theyre doing a great job. Yes, maam, in the yellow, go ahead. Yellow. Who . Reporter [indiscernible] no, i dont think it has any impact. Hes been very bad her running mate has been very, very bad on employment. And all you have to do is go to virginia and speak to the people of virginia, he has been so bad. I figured when she chose him, he was very popular in virginia. They dont like him. They dont like him. It has been very close races, and his polling is very bad. Ladies and gentlemen thank you , very much. 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We are at the midpoint of the Democratic National convention and now that the party has essentially named Hillary Clinton as a nominee, the president , Vice President , and Hillary Clinton running mate all trying to close the deal tonight both inside the Wells Fargo Center with some of those wavering Bernie Sanders delegates as well as the larger audience of undecided voters watching at home. We will have live coverage in that event on cspan2. We will talk about his comments regarding the dnc email hacking and russia. In philadelphia, tonight speakers has been checking at the podium, getting a feeling for the venue. This is a basketball and hockey facility. The primetime lineup includes joe biden, tim kaine, Hillary Clinton running mate, and a senator from virginia, one of the key battleground states, and in the 10 00 hour, president obama. We want to set up what to expect and also talk about the politics, state of the race. Joining us is michael memorial, who has been following this for the l. A. Times thanks for being with us. What does Hillary Clinton need to do when she leaves his convention on thursday . Michael what has been interesting about this entire convention is it has been an unusual political campaign, experiencing a campaign in the air of donald trump. What we would hear from the Clinton Campaign often in this process is that some frustration with the fact that every single utterance of donald trump makes, every tweet he sends, every is live onlds television, talked about endlessly, and the same is not necessarily the case for secretary clinton. Often when there is coverage of her it is reaction to trump, or negative coverage, email issues, the fbi director and his strong statement. They tend to be negative stories. Is about isnvention essentially a fourday infomercial for her. President billth clinton and the number of speakers who have offered testimony about secretary clintons life work, the things that she did as a senator from new york, as secretary of state. We will hear a lot more about the letter tonight. President obama will be the featured speaker. He will talk a lot about the situation room and what he saw a close and personal in terms of her ability to be a part of these tough decisions that are made in the crucible of the presidency. Her temperament. That is the word of the day, and it was planned long before we heard from donald trump this morning, but president obama feels deeply, to the extent he is talked about the campaign publicly, it is that secretary clinton has the temperament to do the job to be president on day one, and that was going to be the focus of his remark today, and it is interesting given what we heard from donald trump this morning at his News Conference, encouraging the russians to hack into Hillary Clintons emails and get more of those missing emails that were deleted from her private server when it came to light that she had a private server. The president is obviously the biggest they are in the party, his Approval Ratings have been year. 0 for most of this the white house acknowledges that may have something to do with the tenor of the campaign. Speakerbe a powerful tonight. Of course, tomorrow night, secretary clinton herself will have a chance to address the country. It will be the biggest stage she has had throughout the campaign. We just air the full News Conference from the row, florida. Our radio welcome audience. All the speeches are available on our website. I want to talk about your piece available on the l. A. Times website and the star power, as you call it, the wattage helping Hillary Clinton. Two different parties, two different conventions. The primetime lineup this week compared to what you saw last week in cleveland, your thoughts . Michael it has been striking throughout the campaign and especially in the fall it has been on display in these conventions. Donald trump does not have any former republican president speaking at his conventions. Nomineenly one former and bob dole that attended but did not speak. Tonight is a showcase for the embarrassment of riches that john podesta was talking about this week. How do you fit in the sitting Vice President , potential president in tim kaine, president obama, you already heard from president clinton and the first lady, elizabeth warren, cory booker, those were some of this feature speakers on night one. It is something that in four nights, they are working hard to make sure that some of their best messengers have the highest visibility for the public watching, especially those in primetime. , like anyn campaign president of campaign, has a surrogate campaign. That includes not just elected officials who support the nominee but also celebrities, we have seen some here at this convention, and we have seen trumpsdonald convention. The situation is so unique for Hillary Clinton, they have developed their own term for what they call the uber principles, ubers for short. Hillary clinton, from now until election day, with potential battleground states, she could have herself, tim kaine, president obama, Vice President bill clinton, chelsea clinton, elizabeth warren, Bernie Sanders, any number of them could be in one of those battleground states every day. It is not just about drawing 1000 2005000 10,000 people is all about thean organizing. The Clinton Campaign is working hard with digital to get out the vote effort, Voter Registration drive. Use the number of resources they have other disposal, the number of luminaries they have in the servewho could go out and whatever purpose the campaign thinks they need to serve at that time, whether it is Voter Registration, turning out a crowd, getting headlines in a media market, it is a unique situation, one that we have not seen before. It is something that we are going to see especially tonight. It is interesting when the sitting Vice President is actually at 9 00 p. M. , well before most of the network will tune in. Thats an example of the challenge they have. Of course, tim kaine, the virginia senator just introduced as Hillary Clintons running mate last weekend in miami, this will be his introduction to the country at the 10 00 hour, followed by the president of the United States, who is flying from washington today. We understand he has been working on his speech for several weeks and revising it right up until the last minute, as he tends to do, with a heavy hand himself. Steve we will be talking with your white house reporting colleague about the president s preparations for the speech coming up. If you watched in cleveland and this week in philadelphia, when you are seeing in our preview show is also whats happening inside the venue, the wells fargo. Sound check, people going to the podium, people were her sing songs. Alicia keys was here yesterday. We give you a sense of how everything is coming together. The gavel is expected to come down around 4 12 eastern time. Every minute of the convention will be covered here on the cspan networks, strained on our website, and we welcome our listeners on cspan radio. Michael memoli is with us today. Donald trump spoke earlier in florida and this is what he said about the dnc hacking issue and Vladimir Putin. I would treat Vladimir Putin firmly, but there is nothing i can think of that i would rather , friendly,e russia as opposed to the way they are right now, so that we can go in and knock out isis together with other people in other countries. Wouldnt it be nice if we got along with other people . Would it be nice if we got along with russia . I am all for it. We have to get isis, and we have to get them fast. It is only going to get worse. Hillary clinton wants to allow 550 more people from that , and wento our country have no idea who they are, where they come from, where their documentation is. It is only going to get worse, and it will start to get that in our country. We are letting people come in by the tens of thousands. Host Michael Memoli, a couple of issues. Claiming that russia may have been involved in the hacking of the dnc. This is a statement from jake sullivan, a spokesperson for the Hillary Clinton campaign. B ads in part, this has to what is going on here . What is interesting about what donald trump said were, to the extent there some negative storylines heading into the Democratic Convention, the most obvious one was over the weekend with this release of tens of thousands of emails from within the Democratic National committee. The work of, experts are telling us, perhaps russian operatives. It led to the ousting of the chairwoman of the Democratic National committee, issues of this with Bernie Sanders supporters on night one. What happened today is officially not turning the page on what was a negative story, one that the Clinton Campaign and the democrats were nervous about, to a potential positive story, one that feeds exactly into the narrative they had planned for this evening in terms of talking about the temperament of the next commanderinchief. Who do you trust to be sitting in the situation room . Jake sullivan did not mince words. We had been hearing in the last few days increasingly from Clinton Campaign officials, stepping up their own rhetoric in terms of suggesting not only is this perhaps russian interference trying to play a role in american elections, which is somewhat unprecedented, but donald trump himself laying a willing and able role in that. To have him say today, perhaps willst, jest we were hear people say that a president should not be making those comments, even if in jest. These emails have been deleted from her server, among those not turned over to the public, to investigators investigating that issue. I wonder if some of the speakers, especially Vice President biden, president obama , we will also hear from leon panetta, the former cia director they may not need to redraft many of their remarks because a lot of what they were going to talk about that they may want to say in response to what trump said today was already on their mind. As i was walking into this arena, we see these panels from some of the social media websites come including twitter. Mptreason was one of the trending topics. We have not heard bill clinton or the first lady mentioned donald trump by name in their speeches, and i dont think that is an accident. We can probably expect the same tonight. We certainly heard from president obama in an interview this morning with nbc raising his concerns about trumps capacity to hold the nuclear codes, whether he could sit behind a desk in the situation room on day one. This is feeding into that narrative that they were already planning. Host Michael Memoli, stay with us. We want to take you outside to give you a sense of what this facility looks like. We are south west of philadelphia in a Sports Complex that houses not only wells fargo but the Philadelphia Phillies and the eagles. Those are the media tends that have been built, they are temporary, for those of us in the media to cover this convention. An estimated 15,000 media credentials. Susan swain is inside the Wells Fargo Center. Susan thank you. I am in the wisconsin delegation and to who thought early seats. Introduce yourself. Ann jacobs. My name is michael. Susan why are you here so early . It is lovely and cool inside and it is the only place to be. It is fascinating to see the other delegates, talking about our home states, trying to explain why we are here. How many conventions is this for you . My second. Everyone is important, but this im particularly concerned about the contrast between secretary clinton and mr. Trump. Susan how did you become a delegate . I was appointed by the state. Susan superdelegate . How many conventions have you been to in the past, comparisons . This is my second convention. I was in charlotte in 2012. It is about 20 degrees hotter. But the electricity in this room is astonishing, the recognition of the historic action we took last night by nominating the first woman to be president for i will always be able to say i was here. Would like governor to carry the state for mr. Trump. How would you like to make it a win for secretary clinton . It is important that we get everyone out to vote. Wisconsin recently had a voter id law reinstated. There are changes coming from that, so people need to get registered, get to the polls. Susan talk about the discussion within your party about the rules changes, superdelegates. You support revisiting the rules, Going Forward . Notionways support the of the party looking at his structure, trying to evaluate what works and what doesnt work. If the party, in its collective wisdom, comes to a new decision on superdelegates, im in support of that idea. Susan where do you think sanders voters will go . Pleased view, i am so with senator sanders campaign. Find a way toll integrate into the party in the long term and bring that enthusiasm and those ideas forward. I am so pleased the platform of the party this year incorporates many of those progressive ideas. Wisconsin is, in history, a very progressive state. I am optimistic. Susan ive noticed that the wisconsin delegation was not wearing as many as its traditional cheese hats. A different spirit this year . I would not say that, and i will say stay tuned. Susan looks like you are about to reveal something. Come back tomorrow. Susan thanks for talking to us. Steve susan, thank you. Lets go to the floor to listen into some of the rehearsals going on before the Convention Gets Underway in about one hour and a half. A sneak preview of what you will see later tonight in philadelphia inside the Wells Fargo Center, the same venue where, 16 years ago, george w. Bush accepted his partys nomination. Last time the democrats met here, 1948. Three conventions held here in 1948, the democrats, republicans, and the progressives. In of the greatest upsets American History with harry truman winning the presidency for a full four years after succeeding fdr back in 1945. Michael memoli can talk about conventions today. Lets talk about what we can expect after thursday. Hillary clinton is taking a page from bill clinton in 1992, hopping on the bus, as they did in 1992, after he got the nomination, traveling through as a vague and ohio. Thats right, they will hold a rally, secretary clinton and governor kaine. Big will be touring through cities and smaller cities through pennsylvania, ohio, important swing states. I was in miami on saturday when secretary clinton announced officially that tim kaine was her running mate. One of the main takeaways from everybody there was how much personal chemistry there was between the two. What is interesting, they do not actually know each other as well as one might think. ,e was a Lieutenant Governor governor from virginia, but he endorsed president obama in the 2008 primaries, worked actively on his campaign, was vetted to be the Vice President in 2008 to be senator obama at the time. President obama appointed him in 2009 to the dnc, Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. By the nature of that role, they were not going to be in close contact. The little bit of overlap there was, came when he was elected. He had a chance to question secretary clinton at a hearing about the benghazi attacks. They have had the chance over the last two years, since secretary clinton left the state department, to build a relationship. They campaigned together in annandale, virginia, north of virginia a few weeks ago, which was sort of a tryout for senator kaine as a potential running mate. He obviously passed. Himetary clinton invited back to her home for an interview, they had lunch the next day with either their families. You often hear about senator kaine is that he will be something of a happy warrior in , ascampaign, that he will secretary clinton said, that smile is a backbone of steel. He will balance those roles of somebody who will testify to secretary clintons character and fitness for office, but also make an aggressive case against donald trump and using his own family. He talks about his son, was just deployed this week to Eastern Europe come as part of the United States military commitments with nato, a deployment that is meant as a counter to some of the russian aggression we have seen in Eastern Europe. He was able to talk about the importance of that nato alliance, one that donald trump has questioned. The Clinton Campaign has said they are going to show that they are not taking any vote for granted, even in communities that donald trump has had some political appeal. Dion them campaigning together on this bus tour, you will also see Vice President Biden Campaign aggressively in those states. Communitiesto those. He will appear with secretary clinton in a few weeks in scranton, pennsylvania, his hometown. Donald trump will be appearing there today. Vice President Biden did an interview this morning where he talked about some of the appeal that donald trump has seen in these white workingclass voters. The Vice President said i will be living in ohio and pennsylvania and michigan for the next three or four months to help his political appeal in that community to help secretary clinton in her campaign. This, if you love all of all politics, we are your place to watch these events unfiltered. We will be covering donald trump in the next hour in scranton, pennsylvania. And be sure to follow us on n, as well as following us on twitter. Reminder, all of these speeches are categorized, and you can watch them anytime at www. Cspan. Org. The delegates are beginning to arrive here inside the Wells Fargo Center, southwest of philadelphia, right off of i95. Michael memoli, let me ask you about what we expected to see from tim kaine. He was here earlier today, tweeted out, taking it all in. What does he need to do tonight . Michael its interesting, i think he has several responsibilities. One is that of introduction. Im sure many cspan viewers may have seen the event he did with secretary clinton that i mentioned earlier. He is not a wellknown figure and he will use his speech tonight to introduce himself and talk about his background, talk about his life experiences, both in political office, of course he served in almost level of almost every level of government from city council to mayor, governor, now senator. Also what he did before elected office. He was a civil rights lawyer working in richmond mainly on housing cases. He also worked with the jesuit missionaries in honduras during a break from law school. A little bit of overlap, the Clinton Campaign says in tim kaine and secretary in their view of how they are helping others. You will see him blend his own biography into secretary clintons tonight. I think we will also hear more of what he said in terms of a contrast with the donald trump. Known as the happy warrior, he has shown great political being able to deliver an attack but with a smile on his face. As part of that lineup of heavy hitting speakers tonight, speaking after Vice President biden and before president obama, as i said, he will introduce himself to the country but also make that contrast with donald trump were. Clear. Steve last month, we sat down with tim kaine. That interview is on www. Cspan. Org. A new poll showing that donald trump has a fivepoint lead. We will see what happens after this convention in philadelphia. His work is available on latimes. Com. Thanks for being with us, we appreciate it. Let me turn back to susan swain, who is on the floor of the Wells Fargo Center. Susan steve, i am with the and susan. Press you have written recently on the proposed changes, revisiting the rules. This is all being predicated by the sanders folks, correct . Pretty much. Of the big games was a role of superdelegates in this race. Superdelegates and other delegates can cast how they want in the convention. Gaveanders folks felt they clinton undue advantage because they overwhelmingly supported her. She did win every form of delicate, so you can discuss that argument. But the result of this meeting over the weekend was that they would form a Unity Commission to discuss how to work on superdelegates and other aspects of the nominating process in the future. One thing theyre looking at his ways to limit superdelegates in future elections. So this is a victory for the sanders supporters who want to see less of that. Susan will it be enough for them . Theyere are some who think did not get enough with superdelegates and policies, but they did get a lot of what they were looking for, in the nominating process, and party platform. What is the concept behind the superdelegates, that democrats have them and republicans dont . It dates back, originally meant to make sure that they have a majority in the process. [inaudible] there is a perception that they have an oversized role in the nominating process. Susan something of a compromise from the old Party Leaders [inaudible] they are trying to work toward some way to make sure Party Leaders have some say, but perhaps not as much as they currently do. Susan senator sanders has made an effort to communicate party unity. We still saw protests last night after the roll call vote. What is ahead for these people in the election . Peoplember of things, are still frustrated, there could be more protests at the convention. Senators anderson self is setting up a Nonprofit Organization looking to advance the issues he has talked about in this race and also to promote liberal candidates [inaudible] bigger national roles. Susan where will the progressives go in november . I think a lot of them will go with Hillary Clinton. A lot of them i talked to say they will end up there, but certainly there will be some people who may choose not to vote, may look at a thirdparty option. But i think she will win the vast majority. The trump Campaign Manager reaching out to them. Do you see that as a home . He is talking about that on twitter but i have not heard that from any sanders folks i have talked to at the various delegates breakfasts, protests in the streets. I have not heard that from folks. It sounds more like people that are really frustrated may not thirdparty,to a but i have not heard a lot of them say that they will go over to trump. Susan [inaudible] how are they leaving here, what is the mood . Overall, the mood is positive. From monday to tuesday, we saw a real shift in the mood. Tense, sometle unhappiness, but i thought the rollcall was a positive process. Clinton and sanders people could say their piece, make their vote. We saw a lot of enthusiasm for bill clinton later in the evening and for the rest of the program. By and large, we will continue to see that this week. Susan [inaudible] press. Associated thank you for talking to us. Steve thank you. A lot going on here. Rehearsals continue, the gavel is expected to come down at around 4 12. The floor of the Wells Fargo Center is the outgoing president of the White House Correspondents Association for the wall street journal. How is barack obama preparing for tonights speech, karoly . He has been working on the speech for about a week, according to the white house. What you will hear from the president tonight is a description of the art of this interesting and unusual relationship between him and Hillary Clinton. He will talk about how they went from being rivals, what it was like to campaign against her in 2008, how tough she is, what through what it was like to work try to validate some of her Foreign Policy and National Security credentials. I think you will hear him talk would be like as a leader, why he believes she is the right person to succeed him. Some of it will be familiar. We heard from the president on this a number of times. Not in this setting. I dont know if you know this, but this is the 12 years ago whenis exact date is senator obama gave his convention speech. Will be a little bit of a moment for him, obviously, the last one that he will do of his political career. Steve we have an excerpt of that speech that we will show in a moment. The president this morning was on nbc, and interview by savannah guthrie. If you read between the lines, it is clear that this is personal for him, that he has some real angst and frustration and even anger toward donald trump, not only because he is the republican nominee, but going back to the whole birther movement. Few things that he retained the president more, that bother him more than the birther movement, the questioning of his citizenship, where he was born. Obviously, donald trump did that. To the extent of where the white house release the president s longform birth certificate. This obviously goes back several years. You talk toard, if people around the president , they will say the one thing that he really that really does not sit well with him is this idea that in 2017, donald trump, every day will be holding some sort of media that showing how is how he is undoing Barack Obamas policies. That was the white house message of the day when president obama was elected. For the almost as much president at stake in this election as there is for Hillary Clinton from his perspective. Everything that he has done, you there requires somebody to move it forward, if you look at Something Like health care legislation, or require someone to not undo it by executive order. If you look at the president s second term, he relied heavily on executive orders to push through his policies because he was unable to get anything done with congress. Steve we were talking with Michael Memoli before, a new poll showing donald trump has a fivepoint lead nationally. Cnn has him up three or four points. An nbc poll has the race that even. Why is this such a close race right now and donald trump get the buggy needed after the convention . Carol the polling shows he got somewhat of a bond after the convention. Democrats will tell you that they also hope to get a bump coming out of the convention. If you look at where secretary clinton is going on her bus tour out of the convention, youll see you can see where they are worried, about where donald trump can gain votes and potentially flip states like pennsylvania and ohio. Going straight through pennsylvania, ohio, the rust belt, trying to target those voters who are leaning toward donald trump because what they see in him is somebody who represents change, which people obviously want. Somebody who is just different. Tapping into the angst, particularly about the economy, that is still there, even eight years after the recession. Steve i want to ask about the store you posted on the wall street journal website, the Democratic Convention tackling the issues of violence and police, adding to that race relations. What did you see last night, and what was your take away . Carol it was an interesting way the democrats handled this. There is a lot going on, in terms of the National Debate about the relationship between Law Enforcement and minority communities, and it is not something that anyone could ignore. What you saw last night was the democrats trying to walk in his balance of giving acknowledgment. F both sides of this debate you heard from a police chief, First Responders of 9 11, and then you heard from mothers of children who were killed by gun violence or excessive use of force by police. They had a video, they showed secretary clinton having met with them. They created this movement to draw attention to their issues. I think what you are seeing is that all politicians are trying to including donald trump. Enforcement, last week, he described himself as the law and order candidate, but also mentioned some of the africanamerican men who died by shootings by police in recent months. To figureis trying out how to walk this fine line. You want to support Law Enforcement but also have to acknowledge that there are some Racial Disparities in the criminal Justice System. That is basically what you saw last night here in the convention. Steve donald trump talks about how he thought going to los ,ngeles, Racial Disparities even try to rent a car in los angeles in 2000 for the Democratic Convention. He did not even have credentials. He had to leave l. A. Four years later he is the keynote speaker. Four years after that he is the democratic candidate for president. Talk about the career arc of barack obama. His keynote address in boston. Even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters, the negative ad peddlers, who embrace the politics of anything goes. Say to them tonight, there is not a liberal america and a conservative america, there is the United States of america. There is not a black america and a White America and Latino America and asian america. There is the United States of america. Pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states, red states for republicans, blue states for democrats. But i have news for them, too. We worship an awesome god in the blue states and we dont like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the red states. We Coach Little League in the blue states, and yes, we have some gay friends in the red states. There are patriots who opposed the war in iraq in their approach who supported the war in iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes. All of us defending the United States of america. [applause] steve state senator barack obama at the 2004 Democratic Convention in boston. We are live in philadelphia. Lee, if you had to bet, will the echo of what he said in 2004 come back here . Carol i think so, only specifically because he has had to remake the same argument because of what we were just talking about. We haveof the violence seen, the protests, shooting of Police Officers, shooting of africanamerican men by Police Officers. That has really challenged the president to have to say again, we are not as divided as we seem , and has repeated that frequently in the past few weeks. You will hear some echoes from 2004 tonight as well. Steve bill clinton last night trying to repackage, sell the image of Hillary Clinton, talking about their early years together in arkansas at law school. How did he do . Carol i was in the arena last night when president clinton spoke. The crowd was very well received by the ground. He went quite long, as you know, which is no surprise. A picture of secretary clinton that some folks probably have not heard before. I could also see the teleprompter as he was speaking, and he was definitely add living quite a bit. Adlibbing quite a bit. She is one of the most public figures that exists and yet people feel like they do not know her, so she tried to get he tried to give folks a window into what she is actually like. Steve what about hillary on thursday, what does she need to do . Have seenry night you there is a different theme or focus. Was describing why voters should trust her, what her experience is like, that she has worked for them over a number of years. You will hear about National Security, the economy. In the end, she will have to try to tie it together and really lay out the case for why people should support her in the fall. We have seen a lot of her leaning on being the first woman to become a nominee. They money to add on that, meaning she will need to really expand to people beyond that what she would specifically do, why she is the best person for the job. We talked with representative Sheila Jackson lee and i asked her about one of the signs that we saw from the hall last night, change maker. It is what bill clinton said as well. Let me get your reaction to what he said. Ok, were coming back to that in a second, but that was the sign, change maker. They say Hillary Clinton the one that can make the change. How does this campaign thread the needle . Carol its an interesting spin on change. Change is what people want, there is a yearning for change, change is why donald trump is as successful as he has been. Nobody thought he would get this far. They are tried to spin it a little bit because Hillary Clinton has been around for three decades, she has been in the white house as first lady, served in the senate, in the secretary as secretary of state. Appeal torying to people desire for change, describing her as a change maker. By that, meaning she has done a lot of things policy was over the decades that show she can facilitate change. It is an interesting spin on what has been voters have shown what they want this year, which is change. Speech, 42ngthy minutes. Bill clinton has been at every Convention Since 1984. His longest speech was in 1996, when he exit accepted his partys nomination for a second term. You can check it out on our social media page. Follow us on twitter as well. Here is more from former president bill clinton last night. Curious, ansatiably natural leader, a good organizer, and she is the best darn change maker i ever met in my entire life. [applause] this is a really important point. For you to take out of this convention. Changebelieve in making from the bottomup, if you believe a measure of changes how many lives are best, you know it is hard and some people think it is boring. Speeches like this are fun. Actually doing the work is hard. Some people say, well, we need to change. She has been around a long time. She sure has, and she sure has been worth every single year she has put into making peoples lives better. Steve former president bill clinton last night talking about his wife Hillary Clinton. One of the headlines i saw it the wall street journal first dude. If Hillary Clinton is elected, what do they call him . Carol that is one of the interesting things, having a man in the first lady role. Administration would get to decide. Officially now it is called the office of the first lady. Obviously, it would have to change. Some of his friends joked that they should change it to first laddy. Maybe they will go genderneutral and you first spouse, Something Like that. Either way, that is another change that is going to occur, and it will be something the country has not seen, a man in that office. Terry mcauliffe, governor of virginia, making some news on the issue of tpp. Re timssues on wher kaine falls on that. Did he stepped on an issue that may embarrass the Clinton Campaign . Carol the Clinton Campaign is trying to clean up what he said, saying there are number of things at play here. Hillary clinton is already struggling with the trust issue, people being able to believe what she says, that she will do what she says. This issue plays into that because she was obviously supportive of tpp, the trade pact the president was supporting. She has come out since saying she was against it. The president was upset for that. Now the question is what she would do if she wins. John podesta said yesterday at an event that they do not support going in and they will not support coming up for a vote in the lameduck and would not support going in to make some tweaks to the pact. They would want to do something different. Terry mcauliffe said something else, so the Clinton Campaign is reiterating their official policy line, which is they dont support this and she would not want to come up for a vote, and that they want something entirely different. Steve that just beat into the narrative by many Bernie Sanders supporters, about 100 who walked out and went to the media center last night. Carol they did, and they were blocking the way from where the press is in our various tents outside of the Wells Fargo Center. Hat is the problem this is an issue people are already struggling with, the campaign is struggling with. How to describe to people that Hillary Clinton is trustworthy. When you hear the different back one persons is one thing and another says something else, it feeds into that there is an makes it harder for people to trust what she says. This is something that voters are tired of. Polling shows that. They feel that idea of saying you are going to do something and then getting to washington and not doing it or doing something else, that is worth all of the voter anger comes from. That is not what they want to see from politicians. It is certainly not a good thing to be happening for any candidate this year, definitely not for secretary clinton, who already has issues on trust. How quickly have the republicans been able to respond . We know there is a war room a few blocks from where we are at in philadelphia, and they are sending out tweets and emails. How effective have they been this week . Carol they are on pretty much everything. As soon as something comes out last night, after every speaker they were sending out things to contradict or counter what was being said. They are very active on twitter. They are also very present. I have seen a number of the republicans around town in philadelphia doing their own events and they have this whole other counterprogramming going on here. Steve carol lee, White House Reporter for the wall street journal. Her work is available online. Thank you for being with us, we appreciate it. Coverage, about one hour before the convention gambles in. The delegates continued to arrive just outside. It remains warm today, temperatures in the low to mid 90s. Hopefully the storms from monday have moved through. Susan swain is on the floor of the Wells Fargo Center. Introduce theto cspan audience to the former journalist who wrote for essence magazine now with the Clinton Campaign and the role of the progressive Media Outreach director. What is your job . To reach out to progressive writers. I was formally a feminist writer. In a lot of ways, reaching out to people that i used to work alongside in covering politics. It is progressive leaning writers, talking points memo, just trying to give them the policy nuggets they would be adjusted in in terms of our progressive platform. As you have heard all week, this is the most progressive platform we have had in the Democratic Party, so it is really exciting. Want to get the message out to those writers so they can tell their audiences how progressive this audience is. Susan what kind of reception are you getting . I have a lot of credibility in that space as a former feminist writer. When the message is coming from somebody who is in the click of progressives, i think it has a lot of value. I think the reception has been very good because, for example, i always like to cite in terms of Reproductive Health care, Hillary Clinton came out early in the primary talking about repealing the height amendment. That is a courageous position to take. That is something progressives like to hear. Not pivoting to the center in his general election. She is speaking to church or her conservative values, and they love those things. This constituency will be important, that they do not stay home. How will these writers play a role in that . The progressive base of the Democratic Party is important because in a lot of ways it is our values, course principles. It is health care, Affordable Health care for everyone. If hillary and tim kaine are elected, we hope to improve on obamacare, trying to make peoples lives a little better. We are talking about paid leave, childcare, which is something that does not usually come up in president ial elections. Getting those folks out is really about giving them the policy details they want to hear that will make their lives better. Heard a bunker trump talk about family issues at the Republican Convention. What do you think . It sounded a lot like the values that we talk about weird i thought she was reading off of our website. Certainly, i agree with her that we need affordable childcare, pay,family leave, equal but those are not things that donald trump supports. And mike pence definitely does not support that. Here in this convention, we actually have ideas and plans and solutions to solve those problems. You will hear more about tonight. Susan as a former feminist writer, what was your reaction when a glass broke last night . Zerlina that was my favorite thing last night. My mom texted me. She had such an emotional reaction to that, because in a lot of ways, it really is so amazing to see little girls look at Hillary Clinton and say, i can be president of the united dates. I have met so many girls around the country and when they find out i work for Hillary Clinton, they think that is so cool. President , too. Seeing somebody who looks like you in a position of authority and power leading the country, it tells you what a can do that, too. You tweeted recently about the importance of black women voting in november. Why are they so important to success . Zerlina there is so Much Research that goes on behind us in terms of research. In virginia, with terry mcauliffe, they found that white women voted for the republican in that race. Was women of color that made a difference in terms of the gender get, when it was broken down. Black women turnout in high numbers. They helped barack obama get elected two times. Without the black women vote, you cannot win an election. That is all the way down from president to the local elections. It is an important constituency because they are loyal voters. They frequently turn out, and they turn on everyone in their household. Over women have influence everyone who lives with them as well. It is not just i going to vote, i will you take my whole house, maybe my Apartment Building in church. They will continue to do that. I hope to see more black women running for office as well. Zerlina maxwell, thank you for speaking with cspan. Susan, thank you. There are souls go on, so it may be allowed from time to time, but we want to welcome former senator bob graham whose resume includes former governor of florida. 9 11chaired the commission. He is also that with a new book called america the Owners Manual. Thank you for being with us. Thank you for the invitation. Steve let me talk about National Security issues and then the comments from donald trump. How big of an issue will it be in this general election . Foreign policy and National Security will be increasingly important issues in this election. What we have seen in the last few weeks has been almost weekly acts of extreme violence which have been traced to terrorist and the nons indication that it will slow down. In fact, i think it could become see more as the terrorists this as something they can do which will influence the outcome of american politics. The comments of donald trump we will hear in a moment, what he said about the dnc email and russias involvement. Awant to share with you statement from jake sullivan, a spokesperson for the Hillary Clinton campaign. Theeads this has to be first time a major president ial candidate has actually encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent. That is not hyperbole, those are just the facts. This is gone from being a matter of curiosity and a matter of politics to being a National Security issue. Senator graham, your thoughts . Senator graham i would agree with those statements. It is amazing that a Major Political candidate for a Major Political party in america can make a statement that encourages people to engage in illegal whichty, hacking, and would be a felony, an act of espionage against the United States government, with the principal beneficiary being a country with which we have had very unstable, troubled relations in recent years. It is almost incredible that a president ial candidate would show that level of immaturity. Donald trump is speaking in scranton, pennsylvania. He has not begun speaking yet. If you are interested, you can watch on cspan2. Do you think donald trump is ready to become commanderinchief . Nottor graham no, i do believe he is ready to become commanderinchief, or any other titles that flow from the ultimate title of president of the united eights of america. I cannot think of a candidate that has been nominated in modern political history with as few credentials to occupy the office. Steve let me ask you about your new book america the Owners Manual. What is this all about . Believe one of i the things this election has demonstrated is there are an awful lot of americans who feel disengaged. They feel as if government is the enemy. In my opinion, one of the reasons for that is that we have not taught much civics since the 1970s, so Many Americans do not know the basics of their havenment, and even less we taught what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. America thetled Owners Manual is a guide to effective citizenship. It is based around the howamental skills such as do you state the problem, research the problem, how do you determine who has the power to solve your problem, how do you approach a person . Each one of those, and several other chapters, begin with a case study of how a citizen used that skill in order to accomplish an important outcome that made their community, their school, their nation a better place. I think this is part of providing americans with the ammunition they need to prepare themselves to be effective citizens, and i think as an effective citizen, you are lord more likely to be a voting citizen, and a citizen who appreciates the role of government, including the limitations of government. As you well know, senator graham, there is a lot of disillusionment toward government, institutions in general. People in this campaign and one of the reasons why donald trump is doing so well, they are frustrated with Political Parties and congress. Senator graham absolutely. I think this is an election that goes back to that movie where that frustrated angry frustrated, angry man, flew open the window and shouted out, im mad as hell and im not going to take it anymore. Thatieve many of the votes particularly, mr. Trump got during the primaries were essentially protest vote against the status quo rather than votes for him personally or policies that he had projected. It is critical in a democracy that we have citizens that understand what their rights and responsibilities are as citizens and to exercise those rights. We cannot have an american democracy and people think that they can do it as spectators sitting in the stands and criticizing the people in the field. What would you tell the people watching at home not really interested in getting involved in politi . How do you motivate them and get them involved to vote in november regardless of who they vote for . Important to it is vote because that is the way individual citizens helps that the direction of their government. There has not been a president ial election in recent years where that choice is stronger than it is going to be in november of 2016. In many ways, more important, that people get personally involved. And they do it by generally identifying a problem in their neighborhood. Maybe they have changed the boundaries of the way you think is inappropriate or advantageous to your child. Maybe it is that the library shut down at 8 00 at night and you think it should stay open later. Those kind of fundamental acts of government that affect your everyday life. Those of the kind of things that people need to have an understanding of how you go in anmaking change appropriate, nonviolent way. Using skills to enhance your opportunities for participation in our democracy. The book inu have your hand, america, the Owners Manual. You can fight ideology and win. You can fight city hall and win. How important will it be in 2016 and what we will see in the sunshines date . Sunshine state . Largest swingthe state in the country in terms of the electoral vote. One the last two and george w. Bush before that. There are several things that are affecting florida. The demographics of the state are becoming more hispanic. And more hispanic from puerto in partich is important because Puerto Ricans are u. S. Citizens and they are immediately eligible to participate in the vote. They will be influencing the outcome. A Key Senate Race marco rubio saying he will stay one term and is now running for a second term. Any cap race for somebody who knows a lot about lauren up all it takes. About florida politics. He is the favorite for attaining his seat. He is a charismatic and popular figure. He received a great deal of attention during the president ial primaries. Marco has some issues relative to his reelection. The issue of immigration will be a big one in florida. Theill have to explain variations of position he has taken and what he would do should he be reelected to the senate. Democrats are going to have a contested primary. Candidate at this point is , a young andy exciting democratic candidate. Be a very good contest for the u. S. Senate in florida. Do you miss all of this now that you are retired . My wife says i have failed at retirement. I think she is right and i hope she is always right because i couch. Ant to sit on the my timeeen spending recently trying to get the information from 9 11 that has been withheld for more than a available to the American People so that they can form their own opinion as to whether the hijackers acted alone or if they had the support of a network that made it possible for them to carry out such a sophisticated attack. Some of that information was released in the last couple of weeks. There are thousands of more pages of documents which have yet to be made available to the American People. Senator graham, former governor and chair of the Senate Select committee and cochair of the 9 11 commission. Thank you for stopping by. We appreciate it. And we are both outside and inside the Wells Fargo Center. The gavel expected to come down about 4 00. We will turn back to susan swain. I am here with amy walter. You have written a column that i would encourage people to read, six things to watch. The first point, the establishment is dead, long live the establishment. And the Party Managed to put down insurgency. What happens . Amy that is the question. The insurgency is more significant on the republican side. Maybe not an insurgency so much as factions. The Republican Party has been splintered for years. He helped expose it in a way that i think has been papered over the last few years. Bushemember when george w. Was president , there were a lot of fiscal conservatives frustrated with spending too much money on big programs like the medicare prescription program. Surveillance, wiretapping, the tea party. Donald trump being the latest to stir up another faction. Happens to this party post election will be fascinating to watch. On the democratic side, its much more a generational divide that a policy divide. It is almost more style than substance. It is clear that the party of bill clinton is dead. The party he built on a centrist message that was trying to of suburban sort swing voter that had been voting overwhelmingly for republicans is not or the Democratic Party is anymore. And so, where does that party go . What kind of people does it attract to bring in younger voters. Is, i loveissue coming in and covering these conventions. Interviewingt by people here and we have to remember that they are a tiny of aion of a fraction fraction of people that are going to vote and are going to be involved in campaigns. The question in my mind is, whether were talking about trump voters or Bernie Sanders thats, are these people are Party Loyalists . Will they come in and out of the process paste on the kind of personality that comes in and votes . The people that are protesting outside today, as Bernie Sanders supporters, i dont think those are voters that are traditional democrats to begin with. Its hard to say they represent a schism. Andle came into the party with Bernie Sanders, they may never come back. If Hillary Clinton remains very unpopular and can donald trump appeal beyond his base . The biggest challenge for Hillary Clinton, and we will watch the next few days. Surrogates and Hillary Clinton tries to show a different side of Hillary Clinton. Beont know that they will able to. I doubt highly that they will be able to suddenly turn her very high negatives into very high positives. Clinton came to his convention in 1992 with the highest negatives we had ever seen. The convention was over, he was up 18 points. I dont think that will happen here but i think its a question of degree. Favorably. S not seen but if you are the Clinton Campaign, if she can just be a little bit less unfavorable than donald trump, that is successful. Day, there arehe still a lot of voters out there that i think are going to come saying the end of august that im not crazy about either one of my choices. And the other piece, what are we talking about . Sometimes, covering elections is hard to know what the Campaign Strategies are. We spent a lot of time in the campaign areas, going around the edges, having a slight advantage. That is not what is happening here. Donald trump and his campaign made it very clear that they ares eking to and running a campaign that is focused almost entirely on the kinds of people that turned out and voted for the primaries. It white, male, workingclass voters that they think is enough to win an election. That they can turn them out at a level that has not turned out in recent memory. That he can win by a margin we havent seen since ronald reagan. Thathey will maximize rather than trying to broaden it. Hillary clinton is running on countrytegy that as the diversifies and a percentage of white, workingclass voters, it is not as important as getting a bigger, broader electorate. The question for her, can she motivate those same voters . She is benefiting from the fact that she is winning over because hes decided to focus on just one group. Or putting uped for grabs, the kind of voters that mitt romney was winning. She may not have to get the exact obama coalition. She can pick up people obama couldnt in 2008 or 2012. So were running out of time, but a quick question for you, the two Democratic Leaders of congress, they made their appeal here, which of them has the better chance of reaching in the dark . Chuck schumer has a better shot than nancy pelosi. It is really tough to move big numbers. Voters are making a distinction the state turns blue annual vote blue all the way down. Because donald trump is such a unique candidate, because hes not a traditional republican, voters are not making the link to between there Senate Candidate and donald trump in betweenthat you would it george w. Bush and a republican member of the senate. The to link those two. Thanks for speaking with me. Any walter is a source that we use as we keep track of the house and senate races. Aswill cover those debates we move to the fall campaign. We are inside the Wells Fargo Center, home to the flyers and 70 xers and home of the Democratic National convention. The gavel comes down in a 15 minute. In the former budget director and former chief of staff leon panetta. Vice president will be speaking. He mayor of Atlanta Michael bloomberg will be formally endorsing Hillary Clinton. The 10 00 hour, senator tim kaine will introduce himself to a national audience. And president barack obama, his ears as Lieutenant Governor, and now Hillary Clintons running mate. Thank you for being with us. Thank you for having me. I enjoyed your story on the job that tim kaine really wanted was to be president of virginia commonwealth university. That did not work out. Why . Was a situation where they appoint Public People to the university. It might have seemed a tad distasteful that a governing audie a governing body of a Higher Education stick with his political appointees. Was the vast growing at richmond university. It was a job that interested governor came for several reasons. A man with a considerable number of contacts that work to the benefit of the university. In love with his adopted hometown. It drives for and a half miles every day. Supervising a university that is not only large, but diversity has been an element of tim kaines political ascent beginning with his first run for elected office in 1994 when he stood for Richmond City council. His wife and hold and as he pointed out in our conversation, the only person to live in the Governors Mansion both as a daughter and a spouse. She stepped down as the virginia secretary of education. Have you had it chance to talk to senator kaine . I have not. I have seen him in action most recently, this morning he visited with the virginia delegation. It was an enthusiastic if not emotional welcome. This is really kind of a defining moment for this evolving virginia. Am kaine is very much reflection of temporary virginia. Liveajority of people that in virginia now, about 51 moved there from elsewhere in the country. It is a suburban dominated state. Voting strength, economic located in the eastern half of virginia. It extends from the washington suburbs down interstate 95. And swinging south at virginia beach. A state where the intentions were very much black and white but it is a fastgrowing asian and latino population in virginia. This is something to which tim kaine has tapped, given his bilingualism. Not only fellow democrats but the Larger National audience. Something in miami. It is a nice guy. They appeared before the virginia delegation. Sort of the happy warrior going after donald trump using some very tough language. With a smilealways and a note of warmth in his voice. What is your name . Im from fairfax, virginia. Im from harrisonburg. Who are you a delegate for . Bernie sanders. Feel about your governor selected as Hillary Clintons running mate . We think it was great that tim kaine has been selected for Vice President. Reversed hisly position on tpp and we are very thankful about that. How important is trade for you . It affects employment in this country and we need a better economy, more jobs for people. It is important to moderate trade better. What kind of job did he do here . Storybasically gave the and one of the staff has passed away on monday. It was part of it. The significance of having a woman nominee and how hes glad to be part of history. I think people are going to be terrified of donald trump and people that wouldnt normally voter going to get out and vote. Even if they might have a distaste for Hillary Clinton, i think the fear involved with a donald Trump Presidency will drive people to the polls. Since you are a sander supporter, do you plan to get people to work to get out and vote . I will urge people to vote against donald trump. Rather than for in your mind . I believe that this ticket, the clintonkaine ticket will for help facilitate progressive values. Delegates in the last row waiting to get underway and the first order of business will be the nomination of tim kaine. Thank you for talking to cspan. Thank you very much. Jeff schapiro has been covering politics in virginia, a columnist. Let me pick up on a couple of things, talking to those sanders delegates about the trade issue. He made some news overnight. Tell the audience what he said. Did he try to back some of his comments . The governor is a forceful advocate for economic expansion in virginia. It would include tapping into overseas markets. The pacific trade deal. This means there is a difference of opinion between him and his good friend Hillary Clinton that has stepped act from her initial support. Senator have as a supported fast track consideration of the trade package. He is now expressing some reluctance on this deal. His concerns are numerous. One of which is avenues of corporations that may not like trade terms and are not open to workers that may not like the terms. There is an attempt here to really push kane and Clinton Kaine and clinton in sync. Morning, evens somewhat blearyeyed at the breakfast to which senator kaine appeared. Another issue has been getting a lot of attention. They would allow 200,000 convicted felons that serve their time. Thats not fair. It this is with an eye on Hillary Clinton. What going on in the commonwealth . It is probably closer to bush , settled by the virginia Supreme Court which ruled that the governor had exceeded his authority, issuing a blanket order. The voting and civil rights of they have indicated that the order is restoring rights. Himselfl be signed by. R the office of electronic they said there was no politics involved. T was this all about . There were a lot of politics at many levels. Boxxsomehow, the pilot would be flooded with newly reenfranchised felons. The record really doesnt support that. Estaterth carolina, similar to virginia, that it was looked at by a couple of lawyers. Indicated that 2012 cycle in08 only one inna, three actually was bothered to register and only one in five actually exercised the franchise. I dont know that theres a lot of evidence in the neighboring state similar to virginia that somehow there would be a flood of felons to the polls. Virginia, the older people tend to be more conservative. That the strength of that base is magnified. For the congressional elections. There are certain structural advantages that presumably the republicans would like to preserve. Carried under lease out by republicans as well as democrats. The delegates are coming in and this place is going to be packed. 20 thousand or so in attendance including president barack obama, Vice President joe biden, senator tim kaine. Jeff schapiro, talk about tim kaines inlaws in just a moment. The first republican governor of virginia since reconstruction. His agenda for the most part very progressive, including a level of racial peace in virginia. Theysly escorted segregated Public Schools in richmond. They put all of their children through Public Schools, at minimum a finally, what do you think we will hear from senator kaine tonight . Will that be part of his life story . Absolutely. As was pointed out earlier, were the things the democrats clearly hope to achieve with this ticket mppence is to somehow harvest Republican Voters who may be more moderate, the mitt romney type moderate Republican Voters. Underscoring the long skin longstanding tie that governor kane has to the historic moment of history, the election of her republican governor in 1969 who was synonymous with social programs would be a very compelling talking point. We will be talking to you a lot in the coming months. A politics columnist here in philadelphia, covering the tim kaine. Of we always appreciate insights very much. Thank you very much. So the gavin long originally was going to come down at 4 30 and then they moved it to 4 12, and now we are told it will come down momentarily. We will give you a sense of what is happening. If there is a delay, we will open our phone lines to hear your calls and comments. You will have complete coverage during the evening and will be three of this Convention Live from philadelphia. [crowd murmurs] [crowd murmurs] we are inside the Wells Fargo Center. We welcome our listeners on cspan radio. We will use his opportunity to hear from you. Give us a call. The Wells Fargo Center was built back in 1996. It housed the Republican Convention in 2000 and were celebrate its 20th anniversary next month. Its part of a larger sports ,omplex for the phillies Citizens Bank park and for lincoln financial where the eagles play as well. The republicans also gathered in philadelphia, the first time there were television cameras. We have come a long way with all of our Digital Technology that allows you to see every moment of the convention through so many different platforms. We have a cspan radio app you can check out as well and all our programs stream online at www. Cspan. Org. Tonight will include senator tim kaine as he formally accepts his partys nomination. The president will alsos will also be speaking. He will return to washington dc tonight and his speech is scheduled for the 10 00 hour. Former mayor Michael Bloomberg of new york city and Vice President joe biden, whose speech will be in the 9 00 eastern time our. And joining us from killeen, texas, go ahead, please. I am so proud to be a amocrat, and american and veteran and serve my country. Im so sick of the republicans trying to make it be such a demagogue. People have to understand that our country is at a serious place and we need serious people who know what they are doing. I dont care what senator ratedn has done, if you all politicians by what she has done, all of them would be in pointso they cannot fingers because all of them have done things at different times. You have to have somebody that knows what they are doing. Donald trump doesnt know anything about running the government and everything out of his mouth is so divisive. Right now so thats why i sound a little bit upset. I see the democrats pulling together, even with the things debbieppened with Wasserman Schultz, the Bernie Sanders thing, the democrats are still pulling together. The republicans were against each other and all they do is blame the other party. I love that we have people showing the love in this country and yes, the police are overbearing and there are people that are rogue in different parts of the country, but all of it has to be addressed and it cannot be addressed unless you have people with clear heads. Thank you. We will move on, we only have a few minutes. Us, go ahead. Ing thank you for the awesome coverage. I have enjoyed watching it with no commentary and seeing what people are putting forth. I did watch the republican National Convention and now im watching the Democratic National committee. I just want to make a few points , i was surprised to see last littlethere was very energy. The speakers were talking, there was all this chatter in the arena and it didnt really seem like anyone was listening. Every now and then it the speakers would get a couple of collapse if it was a keynote speaker but when there was speaking they would get a couple of claps. I thought it was different than the Republican Convention where it seemed like everyone was focused, on point, listening to what was going on. That was just one thing i noted. Hillarys platform seems to be that she is a woman. I think it is amazing, but i that can be the only selling point to becoming president of the United States. There has been no mention of how she is going to combat terrorism. There has been no discussion on about radical islam and the terrorism we are facing all over the world, and it is a real problem and it needs to be addressed. The final point i want to make is, it just seems that with hillary and with a lot of the end doesc party, the not justify the means. Just because you come out with something you can be proud of, how you get there, you have to have respect and do it honestly. I feel like a lot of democrats are willing to look he other way just so they can reach their goals. The ends does not justify the means. Thanks for adding your voice to the conversation. We are seeing what its like on the floor of the Wells Fargo Center. The facility is now almost 20 years old. Is joining us from sacramento. Go ahead, please. Ofler i do a lot campaigning for the candidates. People, this is a very important election. Is getting away with a lot of things. The lady earlier say there was no energy. There is not a lot of hate and depression, which is what i heard on the republican side. Nobody talks about policy. Hasntsomething trump and even republican and birds are blown away with some of the stuff he says. Republican experts are blown away. Be sure to like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. A reminder, we are covering donald trump, he is in scranton, pennsylvania, where Hillary Clinton was born. That is live right now on cspan2. On a bus tour reminiscent of what her husband bill clinton did after the Democratic Convention in new york city. The Clinton Campaign traveling to pittsburgh and then onto ohio with stops in youngstown and columbus, ohio. We will also cover donald trump and governor mike pence. From hialeah, florida, democrats line. Go ahead, please. I was calling in reference to the Democratic Convention. I saw the republican one and i just want to say its a breath of fresh air to see the diversity in the Democratic Convention. Much policy that was spoken there compared to the Republican Convention which had a bunch of hate and empty rhetoric and no policy proposals at all. Im very proud to be a democrat after watching the Democratic Convention and i look forward to what is going to happen tonight with president barack obama. Im sure they will address the issue of isis and they will propose more policies to move the country forward, which is what we need. We dont need more hate and divisiveness. , trumpnority voter celebrates his rhetoric. What scares me is the lack of understanding and the lack of policy proposals on his part. Divided we will fall in this country. Thank you very much for the call. We want to thank you and our cablesrtner, cspans gift to america, created by the industry as a way to show you have Government Works and during this political season during the conventions in cleveland and here in philadelphia, we are here with uninterrupted, commercial free coverage, so we thank you for that. Stephanie in pennsylvania, republican line. I am a republican factory worker and hairdresser who loves god. I believe donald trump has the American Peoples back. He is for children, jobs, and safety. Talking about diversity, my best friend is black and puerto rican. I have a friend from vietnam, and i mean, its diversity. We love all people. Donald trump does believe in america. As for me and my friends, we support donald trump. Hank you. Stephanie, thank you. Independent line, good afternoon. Independent,an formerly democrat. Everyone is really upset with the Bernie Sanders campaign, but as it is, Bernie Sanders lost. We all need to come together and focus on one objective, and that is to stop this mussolini from getting into the white house. As far as diversity, it has always been an issue. I believe we can come together and rectify the issue by talking about it more. If you have to constantly say my best friend is black, my best friend is puerto rican, something is already a problem when you have to identify your best friend as a color. My best friends believe and understand ideology of peace and love. Is, we must come together and rectify the situation. The republicans built this monster and now they want to backtrack. They want to put the responsibility of everybody else on themselves. We all need to come together and stop this debacle of a donald trump world because this world will be destroyed. We also need a thirdparty. We should have a thirdparty. This will solve everything. You wont get backed into a corner to have to vote for one. Hillary is the lesser of the evils, but people will be more comfortable if they had a third suggestion. Thank you very much for the call. You can see michael steele, and msnbc contributor, former the tenant governor of maryland and former chair of the Republican National committee. Many of the analysts are here inside the arena and that is just outside the main area. The gavel is expected to come down momentarily. Comcast is based here in philadelphia, one of the many Cable Partners that allow us to do what we do every day, so we want to say thank you to the cable industry. On theis joining us democrats line from cincinnati, ohio. Caller a quick comment. I had a Family Member who was shot and we had an election while we ran it where there was a minimum wage increase and i had a few friends who were employees there. We sat them down and had to have aem understand, when you have minimum wage increase, you need to understand that the money doesnt come from anywhere. When you have a minimum wage increase, the cost of living goes up. Big macs are going to go up. The cost of living is going to go up. So when you talk about your 15,um wage going up to Everything Else is going to go up, too. Its not inflation, its the flesh and. Everything else is going to go up, too. You have to understand that. And everybody else needs to understand this. I understand that a mother should 40 hours a week not be in poverty. I understand that and i completely agree, but increasing the minimum wage to 15 is not going to do it. They have to understand that because its not going to fix the problem by any means. Ashley, thank you. Twice as many delegates from the , alongcan convention with the superdelegates, one of the issues we talked about earlier, something the Democratic Party will be addressing not only this year but in the coming years in advance of the 2020 election. Donna brazil is the new interim chairman of the dnc as Debbie Wasserman schultz formally stepped down friday. We are waiting for the gavel to come down. Joining us from utah on the republican line. Good afternoon. Caller thank you for taking my call and thank you for cspan. I do appreciate and honest and unbiased portrayal of what is really going on. I am in favor of trump. , we feel like he was the best conservative on the him, butd we supported donald trump is so much better than hillary or any of the democrats that have governed us for the last eight years. I am 78 years old and on social security. Apart,ur nation falling i see our police being disgraced and injured, and i see the Democratic Party supporting this type of america. , and know its just wrong we need to get back on even footing. Be a clean outld of washington dc. Its like a dirty aquarium. And scrub clean it the size of the aquarium, put in freshwater, get rid of all the dead fish that have been living there for so long and make a clean sweep. I think donald trump being a businessman, not a politician, he knows how to do that. Robert, thank you very much. We will take you now live to the Democratic Convention, day three, in philadelphia. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the 2016 Democratic National convention chair, representative marcia fudge from ohio. [applause] the Third Session of the 42nd quadrennial convention of the Democratic Party will now come to order. Alternates, committee members, special guests, and other friends, members of the news media, guests from around the world, and our fellow americans, welcome to our deliberations. Please rise for the invitation offered by reverend William Byron from st. Joseph university. Friends all, recent weeks have brought violence and senseless killings to this , and im thinking in particular of baton rouge and dallas. It just intrigues me that the names assassin more than mica and xavier. So im going to borrow from the ands of the prophet micah the great st. Francis xavier in making this invocation. Lets be mindful that we are in gods presence as we pray. Creator and ruler of the universe, we invoke your blessing on this assembly, mindful that you hold our destiny in your hands. Itself is your gift to us. What we do with our lives is our gift to you. Pray, as we look to the future of this nation. Keep us free from hatred and violence. Andect us from confusion, make the words of Francis Xavier said, inxavier who you, lord, have i put my hope. Let me ever be confounded. And we turn to your great youit, micah, to listen to speak the words that he passed on to us. Man, ae been told, old woman, what is good, and what the lord requires a few, only to do justice, to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your god. So help us, lord, to work unceasingly for justice, to know what is good, and to seek it without fail, and to be truly humble as we walk with you into an unknown but hope filled future. Amen. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the presentation of colors, presented today by the Pennsylvania National guard honor guard. Colors, halt. Handyase welcome monroe from philadelphia. [applause] present arms. Allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please s and welcomeap Sebastian Delacruz from san antonio. [applause] starspangled banner] [applause] color, turn, march. Pursuant to our convention rules, the secretary obtained the nominating document from one democratic candidate for the office of Vice President for the United States. Senator tim kaine. [cheers] [applause] [chanting] representative bobby scott from virginia has placed senator kaines name in nomination. Isond thing the nomination president ofmay, the the Community Leader and advocate from arlington, virginia