but the president will be our big highlight. >> michelle obama never mentioned donald trump's name. >> bill clinton did not. there is a part to do what michelle obama said. when they go low, we go high. not engage personally with him it about ideas. that is what they say they want to do. not about the mudslinging we have seen so far in the primary, early stages of the general election. exley will look for your work online. thank you for your time. >> time for a few more calls as we wrap up night two. a republican, you are on the air. >> thank you for taking my call. i am a registered republican, although in 2008, i caucused for ron paul. 2012, it is random. -- rand. these candidates do not hold up to my values although these have uff pieces. to see how the democrats are sites wiping the e-mail leak and how hillary clinton is taking in shwartz is a chairman, the level of -- i don't understand it. i don't know how anyone could vote for her. donald trump, it is not the lesser of two evils. it is the lesser of two bank corruptions. taking anyust her sort of supreme court justice. that is all i have a say. >> before you go, might you vote for the libertarian candidate? >> absolutely not. the only part i do not agree is the borders. gary johnson is open borders. i guess that is the one thing trump has going for him that i can almost stomach. >> victoria is in colorado and an independent. with you have? >> i watched with my daughters. my oldest just turned 18, she is going to be voting for the first time. i wanted the opportunity for them to see what the conventions look like it would we had a hard time watching the republican because it was kind of negative. tonight was a perfect night for them to watch. she did a great job posting to . a lot of the issues came up. childhood education. because i have two daughters, to hear the glass ceiling shattered was exciting. i don't know my children are convinced hillary is the right candidate but they heard positive messages. >> did you watch the republicans with your daughters, too? >> we did. week, aed a little last couple of different times. it was not as easy to watch. we heard more negative overall. they were surprised about that. we talked a little about conventions. it is a pep rally for your party. they envisioned have rally, everything being positive. not hearing everybody say, hillary and the democrats are bad for the world. tonight, they did not hear a lot of that. there was not a lot of mention of donald trump. people spoke about bernie sanders any supporters. there was a positive note in the air, the democrats coming together. everybody uniting. i thought it was a more positive message. >> how will your 18-year-old daughter vote? >> i don't know she has to set yet. -- decided yet. she heard a lot of positive messages and i think she connected with some of the younger performers. she connected with the idea should be able to accomplish anything. but she is going to school in indiana. i think she is going to hear a lot of republican campaigning while she is there. it will be interesting to see in the next hundred days where she comes out. and which messages she picks up on more strongly. i'm not sure she knows yet. >> thank you very much, victoria. nice to hear your story of watching the convention with your daughters. is in baltimore. i think you are going to be our last voice on the air. >> thank you for allowing us to see democracy. hear peopleinted to discredit her gender. the rollcall is what did it for me. that had me in tears for 1.5 hours. to see women delegates literally casting their vote by raising their voice. to be a part of every aspect of the system that governed us. just tears. i have worked for women candidates before. they are under twice the mailscope as their counterpoints. this matters, the idea of a woman being in the highest office of the land. this changed the game for girls across the country. i have been crying for like five hours. women guide for this and there is history. wells.ce of ida b all the women that really suffered for this. it is here tonight i'm going to tear up now. it matters. we are half the population. thank you again for helping us cut the cord. >> we appreciate your call. of ourg our live stream, content from the convention as well as our television networks and radio app. a public service of your cable or satellite provider. since has been around 1979. all of the programming brought to you as a service of private industry. let me tell you about tomorrow. a theme called, working together. here are some of the speakers. the congressional black and asian pacific american caucuses. ilyse hogue. jesse jackson, as well. leon panetta. and as you heard, vice president joe biden and the president, both here to talk about hillary clinton's candidacy. ourill be here with coverage.ion thank you for being with us. >> c-span, created by america's cable television coverage. it is brought to you by your teliteor sat provider. >> coming up wednesday morning, chris potter, the staff writer, will preview the third day of the convention. and then a member of the juvenile law center will join us to talk about their experience as philadelphia residents working on youth issues. also, the california delegate and secretary will discuss hillary clinton and bernie sanders's record. with a pennsylvania delegate and number. -- member. be sure to watch beginning at some :00 eastern -- 7:00 eastern. >> road to the white house news continues. we have a news conference live for you at 10:30 eastern. at ae afternoon, they are rally in scranton, pennsylvania. live at 3:00 eastern. at the end of rollcall of states, vermont senator bernie sanders called for the party to nominate hillary clinton. let's watch. >> thank you, madam chair. i moved the convention suspend procedural rules. i vote that hillary clinton be selected as the nominee of the democratic party for president of the united states. [applause] [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you, senator sanders. senator sanders has moved in the spirit of unity to suspend the rules. [applause] to suspend the rules and nominate hillary clinton as the presidential candidate of the democratic party. is there a second? all in favor of the motion say aye. the ayes have it. ♪ >> a number of the delegates supporting bernie sanders walked out in protest. several gathered in the media tent. here is a look. hillary clinton received the formal nomination of the democratic party today. she responded in a facebook post that said, history. >> the c-span bus stopped in philadelphia, pennsylvania, to ask able about this week's convention. >> the most important issue to me that is facing our country is gun control because too many people that should not have access to guns have access to guns and that makes me and many other people feel unsafe. >> i am a state senator. convention.ighth i love to be part of history. or representing my district hillary clinton who i think is awesome and inspiring. knowing the stakes in this election, i am looking forward to a great week. we will see you all there. >> i am from north carolina. i am a 19-year-old college student to read i am a delegate for hillary clinton. i am happy to be here to be a delegate. on 2008, i sat on the sidelines. this year, i get to be on the front lines and see history take place. am the congressional candidate from iowa's fourth congressional district. some may have heard of my opponent thomas steve king, and he is part of the reason i am here. i want to show the rest of the world islands are more concerned about finding aleutians than -- solutions than divisions. medicaid for seniors and security for all families. >> i am a delegate representing west valley city, utah. i believe government should work for the poor, the common people. i decided to become a delegate this year because i want us to fight for those little people. i wanted to make sure utah had a voice in the democratic ss. -- process. >> voices from the road, on c-span. now we will recap some of the two ofhts from davy the convention. presidentom former bill clinton, danna brazil. planned parenthood cecile richards. and madeleine albright. please welcome representative -- from hawaii. please welcome representative -- from hawaii. >> my fellow democrats -- my fellow democrats, my fellow --ricans, although half oha.people have asked me could70-year-old guy become the voice for millions. with --ng seamlessly from the rust belt and environmentalists from the west, in answer lies in his aloha, his deep love for others and our mother earth. as bernie has said, the truth is when you hurt, when your children hurt, i heard. when my kids -- i hurt. hurt, i hurt. this is a movement of love, love which calls upon us to care, to care for families torn apart by , tocriminal justice system care for folks whose jobs have vanished as a destructive trade care for those barely -- atng by at women them minimum wage and those crippled to care aboutt, our environment and future about lives to care lost, lives ruined, and countries destroyed by counterproductive regime change wars. to care for our veterans who have put their lives on the line for our country, who now face unacceptable delays and inadequate care. this movement of love and compassion is bigger than any one of us. it speaks to our nation's conscience and our hearts. this loss opens each of our eyes to the truth, that every hungry child, that every worker seeking the dignity of a job is my neighbor, every senior citizen in need of care is my , but an attack on anyone because of their race, religion, or sexual orientation is an .ttack on all of us it is when we truly care for each other, choosing inclusion and love over divisions and hatred that this great country is truly at its greatest. inspiration from the -- a of mahatma gandhi small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. now, my friends, because this is a movement fueled by love, it can never be stopped or defeated. now on behalf of millions inspired by aloha, determined to seek a future rooted in love, compassion, and justice for all, and dedicated to a government ir the people, by the people, am truly honored to nominate bernie sanders for president of the united states. applause]d >> please welcome, paul feeney, legislative director idw 2222. mr. feeney: wow. good afternoon fellow democrats. i am a proud member of the international brotherhood of electrical workers 2222 in austin, massachusetts. -- boston massachusetts. i comment from the labor movement, so can i call you my brothers and sisters? [applause] in that case, we are at a crossroads. even just a matter of moments, we will enter a new phase in our party, and chart a new course for the future of our country. page, we must be reflective of this past year when working people across this country join with senator bernie sanders to reignite a political revolution in the united states of america. applause]d brothers and sisters, bernie not only fought for people, he empowered people. to my brothers and sisters that have been a part of this historic campaign, i urge you to stay engaged, stay active, stay fired up. because we have shown this country that people powered politics can never be defeated. [cheers and applause] they say that movements are made up of the they series of movements. it'sothers and sisters, ones like the one we find ourselves in in philadelphia, as we stand on the verge of nominating our candidates for president. it's moments like the ones we ignslast night when bernie s filled this whole and were held up -- filled this hall and were held up not by it only bernie supporters, but by hillary supporters too. we should be proud to share this moment together, but to fill this movement together. [cheers and applause] bernie's campaign came together around a shared set of values and ideals. values and ideals like the fight for $15. like the fight for unions, against economic inequality. [cheers and applause] those are central tenets of who we are as a party. but all of those things are nothing more than words on paper unless we decide, as bernie asked us to last night, to join together and support hillary clinton in november for president of the united states. [cheers and applause] my brothers and sisters, my fellow democrats, now is the up and stand up, to rise it sends a message to the rest of america that our party is united. our movement is a life and our revolution has just begun. [cheers and applause] probably rise to second the nomination to second democratic bernie sanders for president of the united states. thank you, god bless you. [cheers and applause] please welcome delegate from vermont. i comeson: my friends, from the great state of vermont. [applause] the berne never felt more than i do in this moment. [cheers and applause] together we have worked to take our country back from the millionaires and billionaires. endther we have worked to citizens united and restore democracy to the people. together we have worked for eight $15 minimum wage. for debt-free college. for breaking up big banks. justice.te and for the man who launched this revolution, senator bernie sanders. [cheers and applause] tonight my friends, we celebrate the progress we have made in this campaign. and we set a course for progress that we will make when we win in november. i am so proud of us. [cheers and applause] friends, to millions of you who have volunteered, the millions who have donated, the millions who have stood at rallies across this great land and demanded change. [cheers] bernie.proud of [cheers and applause] our movement continues. our revolution continues. [cheers and applause] we will never stop working for a future we believe in. [cheers and applause] we will never stop fighting for the change we need. and we will never forget the men an who leads us. so with pride, gratitude, optimism for the future we all build together, i stand before you for the purposes of seconding the nomination of our friend and hero, senator bernie sanders. [cheers and applause] theill continue presidential nominating process for nominating and seconding speeches on the path of secretary clinton. [cheers and applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the podium senator barbara mikulski from maryland. [cheers and applause] sen. mikulski: fellow democrats a special hello to the state of maryland! our nation was born here in philadelphia 240 years ago. our founding fathers gave us a great start, but it was the founding mothers that said "do not forget the ladies, for we will foment our own revolution." theyers and applause] started the job, but we are going to keep it going. no yes, we do break barriers. i broken barrier when i became the first democratic woman elected in the senate in her own right. [cheers and applause] in the first to share the powerful appropriations with it. so it is with a full heart that i am here today as we nominate hillary clinton to be the first woman president. [cheers and applause] many of you have broken barriers. you were the first to go to college, the first to start a business, maybe the first to be a citizen. but when you broke a barrier, you did not do it for yourself, you did it for others who would not have the opportunity. that is what hillary wants to do. she wants to break the barrier to opportunity so you won't have barrier's. you can count on her. she will work for you. hillary wants to get results. she will fight for your day-to-day needs. and the long-range needs of the country. she will fight for the macro issues and the macaroni and cheese issues. so you will have national security and economic security. so you will have an opportunity for good jobs and a good neighborhood with a good school, and your kids will have a really good future. so you will have equal pay for equal work, minimum wages-- [cheers and applause] for health care when you need it. yes, it's about new jobs, and the solar energy. she wants that job to light up your home, light up your community, light up your life. she wants that little life in you to shine. the hillary i work with is duty driven and unflinching. she is a leader. so on behalf of all the women who have broken down barriers for others, and with eyes toward the barriers ahead, i probably praise hillary clinton the nominate for president. [cheers and applause] praise hillary clinton at the nominee for president. [cheers and applause] please welcome representative john lewis from georgia. [cheers and applause] rep. lewis: my beloved the democrats, there are forces and america that want to take us backwards. they want to undo 50 years of progress this nation has made under democratic leadership. we havecome too far, made too much progress, and we are not going back, we are going forward! [cheers and applause] that is why we all must go to the polls in november and vote like we never, ever voted before. [applause] party, the ago our democratic party nominated and elected the first person of color to ever serve in the white house. [cheers and applause] but two for one term, terms. on this night, we will shatter that glass ceiling again. [cheers and applause] we are the party of tomorrow, and we will build a true democracy in america. you, i have known hillary clinton for many years. she is one of the most qualified candidates to ever run for president. [cheers and applause] she is a leader. sometimes standing against the wind to break down barriers that divide us. she could have done anything with her life, but she decided long ago she didn't want to do just well, she wanted to do good. [cheers and applause] so she has dedicated her life to public service and building us build our america for all of her people where no one will be left out or left behind. so tonight on behalf of our mothers trying to make ends meet , and our fathers who have not onn a pay increase in years, behalf of the students drowning debt, on behalf of those that suffer the injustice of discrimination because of the color of their skin, for protesting for immigrant rights, gay rights, and removing barriers in america. on behalf of the victims of gun violence, i give you a great leader who can unite us as a nation and as a people. a leader that can break down the barriers and build a better future for every american. [cheers and applause] she will fight for us all. with her heart, her soul, and her mind. my fellow democrats, i am pleased to second the nomination for hillary clinton as the party candidate for president of the united states. [cheers and applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome tomorrow from new york-- >> i was born on a dirt floor, to a woman whose name i will never know. what i do know is that she left loved me enough to give me up so that i could live the life she wanted for me. a life without hunger or despair, filled with hope and opportunity. as a baby bundled up in the hopes and dreams of my mother, i began a new life in a faraway land called america. women anded my two learned early on about intolerance and hatred. but i also learned about the power of love faith, and hope. the first time i saw hillary, she was on tv addressing the panel of men with such confidence and owners up of self . her poise and presence fundamentally changed how i would claim my own space in the world. i was 11 years old. [cheers and applause] amaru: seven years later, my belief in america inspired me to raise my hands and solemnly swear to defend her ideals with my life. i joined the army as an ammunition specialist and gave the best of myself to a country that had given me so much. [cheers and applause] i returned from iraq deeply committed to restoring the faith of america's promise for everyone. in the birthplace of our nation, we renew our commitment to democracy with an historic step towards gender equality. [cheers and applause] reflected in broken shards of glass and hillary herself, we can see the dream of our daughters. this is america's promise. along my journey, i have called california, texas, georgia, and new york home. konw that what connects us runs for deeper than what divides us. if you can hear my voice tonight, join the and everyone in this whole by texting hillary to 47246 as we move forward together. i believe in america's promise where a child born into poverty can stand to nominate the woman she is myers is a little girl -- she admires as a little girl. as the next president of the united states, as my commander-in-chief. [cheers and applause] an immigrant, a combat veteran, a woman of color, and my mother's daughter, i am american. my story is our story. the story of america. thank you. clinton: she exuded this sense of strength and self possession i found magnetic. i got close enough to touch her back. i couldn't do it. somehow, i knew this would not be another tap on the shoulder. i might he starting something i could not stop. i saw her several more times, but i still do not speak to her. and then, one night, i was in talking to ary classmate wanted me to join the yield law journal. -- yale law journal. i wasn't interested, i want to go home to arkansas. 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 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 and now ing at me - -- am staring back. rodham.lary who are you? was speechless. finally we exchange a few words and then she went away. i did not join the long review join the library with a whole new goal in mind. i saw her again. she was wearing a long, white flowery skirt. 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. in line and talked. you had to do to register back then. i thought i was doing well until he got to the front of the line. the registrar said, you registered this morning. [laughter] [applause] mr. clinton: i turned red. she laughed that big laugh of hers, i said, since my cover has been blown, i went her to take a walk down to the art museum. we have been walking and talking and laughing together ever sense. [applause] mr. clinton: we have done it in good times and bad. joy and heartbreak. we cried together this morning on the news that mark weiner passed away this morning. we built up a lifetime of memories. after the first month and that first of walk, i drove her home to park ridge, illinois to meet her family. see the town where she grew up. of post-worldple war ii middle-class america. street after street of nice houses. good parks.s, almost all white. really liked her family. her crusty, conservative father. her rambunctious rather, all virtues of the bears and the cubs. for people from illinois here, they even told me what waiting for next year meant. could be next year, guys. [applause] mr. clinton: her mother was different. she was more liberal. she had a she was easy to underestimate with her soft manner, and she reminded me all over again at the truth to that old saying, you should never judge a book by its cover. knowing her was one of the greatest gifts hillary ever gave me. [applause] hillary got her introduction to social justice through her methodist youth minister, don jones. her to hear dr. martin luther king speak and he remained friends with her the rest of her life. this will be the only campaign of hers he ever missed. in support for civil rights opposition to the vietnam war compelled her to change parties and become a democrat. between college and law school, on a total lark, she went alone to alaska and spent some time fishing. hadhe time i met her she already been involved in a legal services project and had been influenced by marian wright edelman. she took the summer internship interviewing workers in migrant camp's for senator walter mondale's subcommittee. working ino begun the yale new haven hospital to develop procedures to handle suspected child abuse cases. she got so involved in children's missions that she actually took a next her year in the child working at study center to learn what more can be done to improve the lives and the futures of poor children. [applause] she was already determined to figure out how to make rings better. hillary opened by eyes to a whole new world of public service by private citizens. in the summer of 1972, she went , to visit onebama of those segregated academies. the only way the economics work is if they claimed federal tax exemptions to which they were not legally entitled. to prove they worked, so she sauntered into one of these academies all by herself, pretending to be a housewife that he just moved to town and needed to find a school for her son. pleasantriesanged and finally she said, let's get to the bottom line here. son in school year, will he be in a segregated school, yes or no? and the guy said, absolutely. she had him. encounterack and her 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 incentives away. [applause] then she went down to south , where she met one of the nicest fellows i ever met, the wonderful union leader, franklin garcia, and he helped her register mexican-american voters. i think some of them are still around to vote for her in 2016. in our last year in law school, hillary kept up his work. she went to south carolina to youngy so many african-american boys, i mean young teenagers, were being in men'sr years prisons. she filed a report on that for changes, also making -- always making things better. get back toet's business. i was trying to convince her to marry me. i first proposed to her on a trip to great britain. the first time she had ever been overseas. we were on the shoreline of this wonderful little lake. i asked her to marry me, and she said, i can't do it. teach1974, i went on to in law school and hillary moved to keep working on children's issues. this time, trying to figure out why so many kids counted in the senses were not 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. [applause] you saw the result of that last talked.en anastasia she never made fun of people with disabilities. she tried to empower them, based on their abilities. meanwhile, i was still trying to get her to marry me. asked, icond time i try to different tact. i said i really want you to marry me, but you shouldn't do it. likemiled and looked at me , what is this boy up to? she said, that is not a very good sales pitch. but it'said, i know, true. and i'm it 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 people's lives. i suggested she go home to illinois or moved to new york and look for a chance to run for office. she just laughed and said, are you out of your mind? no one would ever vote for me. comefinally got her to with me to arkansas. people athe did, the the law school were so impressed, they offered her a teaching position. and she decided to take a huge chance. ,he moved to a strange place more rural, more culturally conservative than in place she had ever been, where she knew -- 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, what do you expect, i'm just from arkansas? that,id don't tell me you've just got to believe in yourself and work hard and set high goals. she believed that anybody could make it. aidstarted the first legal clinic in northwest arkansas. providing legal aid services to poor people who couldn't pay for it. , i was driving her to the airport to fly back to chicago. bricksed this little house that had a for-sale sign on it, and she said, boy, that's a pretty house. it had 1100 square feet, and attic fan, and no air conditioner in hot arkansas, and a screened in porch. commented on what he uniquely designed house it was. so i took a big chance, i bought the house. my mortgage was $175 a month. picked herme back, i up and said, remember that house you like? i bought were gone, it. you have to marry me now. [laughter] the third time was the charm. we were married in that little house on october 11, 1975. i married my best friend. awe after more than four years of being around her at how smart and strong and loving and caring she was, and i really hoped 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, and i became attorney general, and she joined the oldest law firm west of the mississippi. soon after, she started a group called the arkansas advocates for families and children. that as you can hear is still active today. [applause] in 1979, just after i became governor, i asked hillary to chair a rural health committee to help expand health care to isolated farm and mountain areas. they recommended to do that by deploying trained nurse practitioners in places with no doctors to provide primary care. it was a big deal then. highly controversial, and very important. feeling that what she did for the rest of her life , she was doing there. she just went out and figured out what needed to be done and what made the most sense and what would help the most people. was controversial, she just tried to persuade people that it was the right thing to do. only thing that my firstthat spring, year as governor. we found out we were going to be parents. time passed. on february 27, 1980, 15 minutes after i got home on the national governors conference in washington, hillary's water broke, and off we went to the hospital. chelsea was born just before midnight. and it was the greatest moment of my life, the miracle of a new beginning. my own father died before i was born, and the absolute conviction that my daughter had the best mother in the whole world. for the next 17 years, through nursing school, montessori, kindergarten, through t-ball, softball, soccer, volleyball, and her passion for ballet, through sleepover, summer camp, and chelsea's very own excursions from halloween parties in the neighborhood to a viennese waltz gala in the white house, hillary first and foremost was a mother. she became as she often said our family's designated worrier. born with an extra responsibility gene. the truth is, we rarely disagreed on parenting, although she did believe that i had gone a little over the top when i took a couple of days off with chelsea to watch all six police academy movies back to back. [laughter] when chelsea was nine months old, i was defeated for reelection in the reagan landslide. think, theernight, i youngest former governor in the history of the country. three year terms back in. hillary was great. immediately she said ok, here's what we're going to do. being going to enjoy chelsea's parents. and if you really want to run again, and got to go out and talk to people, figure out why you lost, and show them you've still got good ideas. i followed heard by. within two days, we had a house. i soon had a job. years withfabulous chelsea, and a 1982, i became the first governor in the history of our state to be elected, defeated, and elected again. my experience has been it is a pretty good thing to follow her device. the rest of the decade flew by as our lives settled into a rhythm of family and work and friends. in 1983, hillary chaired a committee to recommend new education anders for us as a response to a court order to , and ae school funding report by national experts etc. woefully underfunded schools were the worst in america. hillary, she held listening tours in all 75 counties with our committee. she came up with really ambitious recommendations. for example, that we be the first in america to require elementary counselors in every school because so many kids were having trouble at home. so i called the legislature into session, hoping to pass the standards and raise the sales tax to pay for it all. i knew it would be hard to pass, but it got easier after hillary testified before the education committee and the chairman said, looks to me like we elected the wrong clinton. [applause] by the time i ran for president nine years later, the same expert who said we had the worst schools in america said that our state was one of the two most improved states in america, and that's because of those standards that hillary developed. , hillary told me about a preschool program developed in israel called home instruction program for preschool youngsters. thought it would work in arkansas. said i called the woman who started the program in israel and she will be here in about 10 days to help us get started. next thing you know i'm being dragged around to all these preschool graduations. this is before any state even had universal kindergarten and i'm being dragged to preschool thesetions, watching parents with tears in their eyes because they never thought they would be able to help her kids learn. 20 years of research has shown how well this program works to schools and academic achievement. there are a lot of young adults in america who have no idea hillary had anything to do with it who are enjoying better lives because they were in that program. she did all this while being a full-time worker, a mother, and enjoying our lives. she is insatiably curious. she is a natural leader and 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 bottom-up, if you believe the measure changes how are people's lives boring,, it is hard and but speeches like this are fun. actually doing the work is hard. evil say we need change. she has been around a long time. and she has been worth every single year she has put into making people's lives better. i can tell you this. if you were sitting where i'm sitting and you heard what i , at every dinner conversation, every 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 who she is. president, with a commitment to reform health care, hillary was a natural to head the health care task force. workry immediately went to the billg the problems sought to address one by one. the most important goal was to get more children with health insurance. passed thengress children's health insurance program. still an important part of president obama's affordable care act. than 8 million kids. there are a lot of other things in that bill that she got done these by piece, pushing that rock up the hill. 1997, with tom- delay, who maybe dislikes me any -- more than any of newt gingrich's crowd, they worked on a bill together to increase adoption of children out of foster care. she wanted to do it because she knew that tom delay, for all of our differences, was an adoptive parent, and she honored him for doing that. the bill they worked on, which passed in an overwhelming bipartisan majority, led to a big increase in the adoption of children out of foster care including non-infant kids and special needs kids. it made life better because she is a change maker. that's what she does. when you are doing all this, realize 1997 was the year chelsea finish high school and went to college. we were happy for her, but sad for us to see her go. i will never forget moving her into her dorm room at stanford. it would have been a great little reality flick. trance, justn a airing out the window, trying not to cry, and there was hillary on her hands and knees, desperately looking for one more door to put that liner paper in. finally, chelsea took charge and told us ever so gently that it was time for us to go. [laughter] so would close to big chapter in the most important work of our lives. as you will see thursday night when chelsea speak, hillary has done a pretty fine job of being a mother. and as you saw last night, beyond a shadow of a doubt, so has michelle obama. in 1999, congressman charlie rangel and other new york to runts urged hillary for the state -- the seat of retiring senator pat moynihan. we had always intended to go to new york after i left office and commute to arkansas, but this had never occurred to either one of us. hillary had never run for office for, but she decided to give it a try. she began her campaign the way she does everything by listening and learning. after new york elected her to by anotherce held outsider, robert kennedy. and she did let him down. her early years were dominated by 9/11, by working to find the recovery and monitoring the health and providing compensations and victims of first and second responders. 2003, partly spurred on by what we were going through, she became the first senator in history of new york ever to serve on the armed services committee. on tried to make sure people the battlefield had proper equipment. she tried to expand and did expand health care coverage to reservists and members of the national guard. got family working with senator dodd and she worked for more extensive care for people with traumatic brain injuries. she also served on a special pentagon commission to promote changes necessary to meet our new security challenges. newt gingrich was on that commission. he tell me what a good job she had done. whoy that because nobody has seriously dealt with the men and women in today's military know they are a national treasure of all races, all religions, all walks of life. meanwhile, she compiled a really solid record, totally progressive on economic and social issues. facto economicde development officer for the area of new york outside the ambit of new york city. she worked for warmers, winemakers, for small businesses and manufacturers. something we have to do again in small town and rural america, in neighborhoods that have been left behind, in indian country and yes, in coal country. hard-core contest to president obama, she worked for his election hard. agreed to say yes when he asked her to join his cabinet because she so loved being a senator from new york. context,n a different she had to keep asking. saw and heard from madeleine albright, it was worth the effort and work the way. state, shey of worked hard to get strong sanctions against iran's nuclear program and in what the wall street journal no less called a half-court shot at the buzzer, she got russia and china to support it. her team negotiated a new start treaty and she got enough republican support to get two thirds of the senate to vote necessary to ratify the treaty. she flew all night long from cambodia to the middle east to get a cease-fire that would avoid a full out shooting war gazaen hamas and israel in , to protect the peace of the region. she backed president obama's decision to go after osama bin laden. -- this isd a team really important today. she launched a team to fight back against terrorist online and built a new global counterterrorism effort. inve got to win this battle the mine fields. she put climate change at the policy.f our she negotiated the first agreement ever for china and india officially committed to reduce their emissions. since she has been doing she went to beijing in 1995 and said women's rights are human rights and human rights are , she worked to empower women and girls around the world and to make the same exact declarations on behalf of the lgbt community in america and around the world. nobody ever talks about this much, but it's important to me. she tripled the number of people with aids in poor countries saved with are being your tax dollars. most of them in africa. point -- 5.1 million lives and it didn't cost you any money. she just saw available generic drugs. you don't know any of these , but i will guarantee you, they know you. they see you because you as thinking their lives matter. that's oneou, and reason the approval in the united states was 20 points higher when she left the secretary of state's office that when she took it. how does this square with the things that you heard at the republican convention? what is the difference in what i told you and what they said? it?do you square one is real, the other is made up. [applause] -- yout have to decide just have to decide which is which, my fellow americans. one had done more positive change making before she was 30 than many public officials do in a lifetime in office. one had used -- has friends from childhood in arkansas where she has not lived in more than 20 years who have gone all across america at their own expense to fight for the person they know. armed thene has loyalty, respect of people who worked with her in every stage of her life, including leaders around the world who know her to the able, straightforward, and completely trustworthy. the real one cause you when you are sick, when your kid is in there is a when death in the family. the real one repeatedly drew praise from chronic republicans when she was a senator and secretary of eight. -- secretary of state. so what is up with this? well, if you win elections on -- a real change maker represents a real threat. option is to create alternative. cartoons are two dimensional. they are easy to absorb. life in the real world is complicated, and real change is hard. and a lot of people even think it is boring. good for you. because today you nominated the real one. [applause] we've got to get back on schedule. look, i have lived a long, full, blessed life. meteally took off when i and fell in love with that girl in the spring of 1971. when i was president, i worked hard to get to world peace and to an prosperity, to get america where no one is invisible or counted out. hillary iss time, uniquely qualified to see the opportunities and reduce the risk we take, and she is still the best darn change maker i have ever known. you could drop her into any trouble spot. higuain. come back in a month, and somehow, someway, she will have made it better. that is just too she is. who she is.ust there are clear, achievable, affordable responses to our challenges. but we won't get to them if america makes the wrong choice in this election. her.s why you should elect she will never quit when the going gets tough. she will never quit on you. she went to west virginia to look those coal miners in the eye and say i'm down here to tellhillary sent me you that if you really think you , if shethe economy back wins, she is coming back for you, to take you along on the ride to america's huger. -- if youay to you love this country and you're working hard and paying taxes and obeying the law and you would like to become a citizen, you should choose immigration reform over somebody who wants to send you back. and you lovemuslim america and freedom and you hate terror, stay here and help us win and make the future together. if you are a young african-american, disillusioned and afraid, we saw in dallas how great 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. spent a it, because you lifetime doing it. i hope you will do it. i hope you will elect her. those of us who have more yesterdays than tomorrow's tend to care more about our children and grandchildren. the reason you should elect her is that in the greatest country on earth, we have always been about tomorrow. your children and grandchildren will bless you for ever if you do. god bless you. thank you. [applause] ♪ >> ill clinton spoke for 42 minutes tonight, making this his fourth longest beach at a democratic convention since 1988. his longest speech ran 65 minutes when he was up for reelection in 1996. we will hear from a number of speakers on children's advocacy, social justice, and global leadership. ♪ [applause] you know, i don't usually say this about donald trump, but that was over the top. i confirmed it just now. the trunk campaign is so hard up thatoney, i just bought fog machine on ebay for $30. i don't feel good about it. i don't. o, who is pumped up ? let's try that again. hillaryeady to elect clinton the next president of the united states? [applause] i'm 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 weeks while delivering insane speeches. when i went to cleveland last week, i was like, that is my act. really likes being up your joking around, but the other part of me knows that this election is too important for jokes. because when i think about what this election means for america, i think about my family area a father, a vietnam vet, worked second and third shifts on the factory floor in my hometown of pittsfield, massachusetts. my mother worked at the library and the local bank. and they worked hard. because liked, millions of american parents, they wanted to give their kids, four of us, a good life with dow list opportunities. and it is because of what democrat bill, good public schools, affordable health care, help in the hardest times, that they were able to do that. and their dreams and mine took me here to philadelphia. , through scholarships and financial aid, i worked my way through the university of pennsylvania. i got a world-class education, and i met my wonderful husband and partner, max. i will never forget that day in 1992 when he went on a big, romantic date, a rally for bill clinton. that i learnede 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 woman, and not for her own benefit, but a fighter for women , and firstn, cops responders. health care and girls around the world. that is hillary clinton. and that is what tonight is all about. the fight of her life. that when hillary clinton graduated law school, she didn't just sell out and go work for some fans he law firm. she went to work advocating for children and families. it was one of her first fights, and since then, she has never let up. >> one of the areas i have been particularly interested in is the area of children. all of us have a responsibility to ourselves, to our children, to each other. be sure that everybody in this room and every child in the state is somebody. born,ter where they are no matter to whom they are born, our children's future is shaped both by the values of their parents and the policies of their nation. it's time to protect the next generation. fill the lives of our children with possibility and hope. open up the doors so that every child has a chance to live up to his or her god-given potential. i've spent my life fighting for children, families, and our country, and i'm not stopping now. [applause] >> in her early 20's, hillary clinton spent time at the yale new haven hospital reached -- researching child abuse. she saw children who had been beaten, earned and neglected. the experience turned her into a lifelong champion for kids in need. advocate social worker, i am also a champion for children. i am lucky to work with a team of champions, social workers, case managers, attorneys and other individuals whose lifelong work is to ensure that all children have a chance at greatness. child advocacy has made significant strides in the right direction, but i'll work is far from finished. every child deserves an advocate who truly cares for them and they have one in hillary clinton. when younows that fight for our kids, you are fighting for our future. it's why i am with her. i am president and founder of unity in the community. 1972, hillary travel to alabama on a mission. she was there to help shed light , schoolsated academies that cropped up across the state after the supreme court ordered public schools to integrate. when these schools applied for federal state exemptions, they explained that they were not trying to promote segregation, but hillary helped prove they were. visited one of these academies posing as a mother looking to enroll her child, and sure enough, the administration assured her they were accepting like children. she shared her findings with the children's defense fund. hard in teaching the families in my community about gun violence. we must stand up and promote nonviolence, and that is why am come hillary clinton november. >> after hillary graduated from law school, she could have gotten a job anywhere, but she chose to work full-time for the children's defense fund. she went door to door in massachusetts, 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 historic legislation that requires states to provide quality education for disabled students. as a disabled person, i became a lawyer to advocate that disability is not a problem to a part of our identity and diversity. today, on the 26th anniversary of the americans with disabilities act, i am with her. [applause] quick through the 1970's, young people who got in trouble in south carolina were often housed in the same reason cells as adult. policy thatgerous put kids at serious risk for abuse. the children's defense fund dispatched hillary to these prisons to investigate. as result of work she contributed to come after three years of litigation, the state ended this practice. childm the moment a touches the system, it's important society lives them up instead of letting them fall behind. a juvenilei became justice longer. you don't often make headlines fighting for kids, but her whole career, hillary has been quietly leading that fight anyway. that's why i'm with her. >> as the first lady of arkansas, hillary clinton chaired the state educational standards division. visitedthe school she to what you call the chelsea test. if it wasn't good enough for her daughter, it wasn't good enough for any child in america. role ined a major saving the state education policy and improving standards i wentols like the one to. when she started arkansas schools, we were ranked second worst in the nation. by the time she was done, they were among the most improved. now 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 i am with her. >> 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 they wouldre worried never have a permanent home. my 17-year-old son was one of those kids. four years ago, but it feels like he has been part of our family forever. swear he wasr kids on family vacations we took years before he joined our family. i'm not a democrat, but hillary cares about families like heath and about making families like mine complete, and that's why i'm with her. >> long before she ever held elected office, hillary clinton fought for kids in every way she could. so of course she continued that fight once she got to the senate. i have spent my childhood in the new york foster care system, moving from home to home with a trash bag as my suitcase. systemare a kid in the who never finds a permanent home, when you are 18, you are out on your own. graduation,h school my social workers shook my hand and wished me luck. that was it. but hillary had this ridiculous notion that every child deserves to live up to their god-given , so she reserved an internship spot in her senate office just for former foster youth, and in 2003, i got that spot. [applause] i remember our first meeting vividly. she looked me in the eye and ni, i am proud of you. i felt seen and heard her 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 that to receive a blessing, to become a blessing. she inspired me to become a longer and an advocate for children in my community. that love dignify the , it elevates us to higher plateaus. hillary's love did that for me. place i nevero a had the kurds to imagine, and that's why i'm with her. thank you, everyone. -- i never had the courage to imagine. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome dnc vice chair for civic engagement and voter l.rticipation, donna brazil ♪ [applause] >> growing up, i was always told that a lady should never reveal her age. -- i'mll simply say this no spring chicken. i've 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 wasn't 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 america's 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 didn't 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 children's defense fund that i met hillary clinton. and ready tosty, fight. i remember thinking here is a woman who doesn't mess around. as a southern girls don't mess around. hillary didn't want to talk about anything other than how to make children's 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 god-given potential. the child when i sat in back of the bus, i was told time and time again that god's 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, you've got a champion. as long as she's in charge, we are never going back and that is why i'm 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 doesn't have to be this way. if a young and my believe he may be a senator or president, you don't 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 state's 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 countrqu