and affordable childcare and affordable leave is playing the woman card, then deal me in. [chanting "hillary"] ms. clinton: and you know, most of all, though, we are going to build on the vision for america that president obama has always championed. a vision for a future where we do great things together. not as red states and blue states but as the united states. [applause] ms. clinton: when i look at president obama, i see a leader with heart, depth, and humility. someone who, despite the obstruction he's faced, still reaches for common ground and common purpose. now, some of you might remember that he and i competed against each other as hard as we could back in 2008, but when it was over i was drawn to an dorsum and proud to endorse him and campaign for him. and when he called me asking to come to chicago, he wanted me to be secretary of state. and i don't think anyone saw that coming, especially me. and as i traveled, a lot of people would ask me how president obama and i could work together so well after being such fierce competitors. in some places, you know, the person who loses an election gets executed or exiled, not ask be secretary of state. but president obama asked me to serve and i accepted. do you want to know why? we both love our country. that is how democracy is supposed to work. we just celebrated 240 years of our independence. in america we put common interests before self interests. we stand together because we know we are stronger together. that is the kind of president barack obama has been. he has faced difficult, even unpopular decisions for the good of our country. i have sat with him in the situation room in seen him make the hardest choices a president faces. he does it with steady, principled leadership. he is a statesman leading not just our country but the entire world. it was his vision and diplomacy that secured a historic global agreement on climate change. put a lid on iran's nuclear program. opened up cuba. rallied the world to curb the threat of nuclear weapons. i saw him go toe-to-toe with the toughest foreign leaders and to get the order to go after of osama bin laden. this, my friends, is a president who knows how to keep us safe and strong. compare that to donald trump. [crowd booing] ms. clinton: can you imagine him sitting in the oval office the next time america faces a crisis? the world hangs on every word our president says and donald trump is simply unqualified and temperamentally unfit to be our president and commander-in-chief. so here to north carolina, this election is our chance to say, this.untry is better than in america, we do not tear each other down. we lift each other up. we build bridges not walls. we do not call the country we love a disaster or a laughing stock. we know america already is the greatest country on earth. just think about those early patriots who met in philadelphia that hot summer of 1776. they knew we would all rise or fall together. now, nobody who looked like barack obama or me would have been included back then, but we are here today because the story of america is the story of hard-fought, hard-won progress. [cheers and applause] [crowd chanting "hillary"] ms. clinton: so i want you to ourmber that for 240 years, thatry has moved in direction slowly at times but unmistakably. as the president has reminded us, the arc of the whole universe is long. it bends to our justice. so if you believe along with me and the president to that our best days as a nation are still ahead of us, please join this campaign. take out your phone right now, take out your phone and text join or go to hillaryclinton.com and we are hiring right now in north carolina. we are going to fight for every vote in this state. end with your help, we are going to win it. so i do not know about you, but we are fired up and ready to go. ready to win this election! please join me and welcoming the president of the united states, barack obama! [cheers and applause] pres. obama: hillary! hillary! hillary! are you fired up? are you ready to go? fired up? i am fired up. hillary got me fired up. she got me ready to do some work. so, i hope everybody had a great fourth of july. >> we love you! president obama: i love you back. first of all, let me just say i like any excuse to come to north carolina. i just like north carolina. i love the people in north carolina. when we used to campaign here, i used to say, even the people who are not voting for me are nice. you know, that is not true everywhere. you have great people here. and then you that great food. north carolina has got some food. in fact, i will find someplace to stop in and get some food before i head back to washington, d.c. i know you all have recommendations. and no, i can't go to your house to get food, although i am sure you are an excellent cook. and then, you have great basketball. you've got great basketball. we'll know that. we all know that. but i am not going to get in between all of the tar heels and so on, you know. the blue devils. deacons. i am not going to get into all of that. you just have great basketball in north carolina. so, i love an excuse to come to north carolina. but, i am here for a simple reason. i am glad to see our outstanding congressional delegation. you are lucky to have them. i am glad you have got an outstanding candidate for the senate and an outstanding candidate for the governor. and i am going to be working for them, too, but i am here today because i believe in hillary clinton. and, i want you to help elect her to be the next president of the united states of america. that is why it i am here. now, -- [chanting "hillary"] pres. obama: as hillary mentioned, this is not the first time we campaigned together. we went up to new hampshire after our primary in 2008. we went to unity, new hampshire, just in case people missed the point. that was the name of the town. unity, new hampshire. and we had gone through what was one of the longest day ends toughest primaries in history. and, primaries are always tough because you are arguing with your friends and set of the folks you disagree with. sometimes you have to find stuff to disagree about even if you don't disagree. so we were criss-crossing paths from new hampshire to nevada in as much as i have admired her when we served together in the senate, i came away from that primary admiring her even more. because during that year and a half, i had a chance to see up close just how smart she was and just how prepared she was. especially since i had debated her a couple of dozen times. let's be clear. she'd been being like -- in the first -- you do not have to rub it in. you don't have to rub it in common out. she being me, you know, at least the first half. and then i systematically played her to a draw. i always had to be on my game because she knew every fact and detail. and then, during those 18 months, i saw the passion she feels for anybody who has faced in justice or discrimination. anybody who does everything right and still does not seem to get a fair shot. whether it was workers who lost their jobs or kids unable to afford college. and you could tell it was personal to her because she had seen struggles in her own life. she had known challenges in her own life and she could identify and empathize with people who were doing the right thing and she wanted to make sure they got a fair shake. and then, during the primaries again and again i saw how even when things did not go her own way, she would just stand up straight and come back stronger. she did not give up. she did not power. -- she did not pout. she just kept on going. she was the energizer bunny. she just kept on. the bottom-line is, she had to do everything i had to do but she was like ginger rogers, she had to do it backwards and in heels. and, at the end of our contest, i saw the grace and the energy with which she threw herself into my campaign. not because she was not disappointed about the outcome of the primaries but because she knew it was something that was at stake that was bigger than us and that was the direction of our country and how are we going to make sure all of the people counting on us would see a better life. we may have gone toe-to-10 oh -- coast-to-coast but we stood shoulder-to-shoulder for the ideals that we share. so maybe hillary was surprised but i was not surprised when i asked hillary to represent our interests and values around the world. i knew she would do a great job as american secretary of state. i knew she would perform. i knew the regard in which she was held all around the world. i knew the minute she took the job there was a seriousness that some ofmediately demand the challenges we had had around the world during that time. let me tell you, north carolina, hillary clinton, my faith in her, has always been rewarded. i have had a front row seat to her toughness and judgment and commitment to diplomacy. and i witnessed it in this situation room where she argued in the favor of going to get bin laden. i saw how, as a former senator from new york, she knew, she understood, because she had seen and witnessed what this would mean to the thousands who lost loved ones when the twin towers fell. i benefited from her savvy and her skill in foreign capitals where her diplomacy led to new partnerships. "nations to democracy. opened up nations to democracy. helped to reduce the nuclear threat. we have all been there. we have all witnessed the work she has done to advance the lives of women and girls around the globe. she has been working on this since she was a young woman working on the children's defense fund. she is not late to the game. she has been going door to door to make sure kids got a fair share. making sure kids with disabilities could get a quality education. she has been fighting those fights and she has the scars to prove it. hillary and i shared a big head -- big hug the first time we saw -- we finallyer, realized as one of the greatest causes of her career. finally gaining access to all of the affordable care health insurance for all of america because that is something she got started and we picked up at the time and were able to get across the finish line. the bottom line is, she was a great secretary of state. and, by the way, that is not just my opinion. that was the view of the american people throughout the time she was serving as secretary of state. before the whole political machinery got moving. you remember that? it was not so long ago. it's funny how that happens. everybody thought she was doing a great job. that is because she did do a good job. but, it is funny how the filter changes a little bit. same person. she has done the same work. but, you know, that filter is a powerful thing. but you know, it was not just what happened in the limelight that made me grow to respect hillary more and more, it was how she acted when the cameras were not on. it was knowing how she did her homework. it was knowing how many miles she put in traveling to make sure america was effectively represented in corners of the globe that people do not even know about. there were not any political points to be had. i saw how she treated people with respect. even the people who are not quote unquote important. that is how you judge somebody. it is how do they treat somebody and the cameras are off they can't do anything for you. do you still treat them right? do you still treat them with respect? do you still listen to them? are you still fighting for them? i saw how deeply she believes in the things she fights for. and i saw how you can count on her. and how she will not waiver or , back down or quit no matter how difficult the challenge and no matter how fears the opposition. if there is one thing i can tell you, charlotte, it is those things matter. those things matter. i am here to tell you that the truth is, nobody fully understands the challenges of the job until you actually have set at that desk. everybody has got an opinion. but nobody actually knows the job until you are sitting behind the desk. everybody can tweet. but nobody actually knows what it takes to do the job until you have sat behind the desk. i mean, my daughter tweets, but she does not think she thereby should be sitting behind the desk. so you cannot fully understand what it means to make life and death decisions until you have done it. that is the truth. but i can tell you this, hillary clinton has been tested, she has seen up close what is involved in making those decisions. she has participated in the meetings in which those decisions have been made. she has seen the consequences of things working well and things not working well. and, there has never been any man or woman more qualified for this office than hillary clinton. never. [cheers and applause] pres. obama: and that is the truth. that is the truth. [chanting "hillary"] so, bottombama: line, hillary can do the job. and that is why i am so proud, north carolina, to endorse hillary clinton for president of the united states. now, i recognize to some degree i am preaching to the choir. i know i probably don't need to tell anybody here why we need hillary's steadiness and levelheadedness and brilliance and temperament right now. right now. been throughve some tumultuous times in this new century. and, we continue to face all kinds of challenges and change in the years ahead. and, this november, in this election, you are going to have a very clear choice to make the -- between two fundamentally different visions of where america should go. and, this is not even really a choice between left and right or democrat or republican. this is a choice between whether we are going to cling to some imaginary past or reach for the future. this is about whether we have the and america that works for everybody or just a few people. and, hillary is not somebody who fears the future. she believes that it is ours to shape. the same way it has always been. hillary understands that we make our own destiny as long as we are together. as long as we think of ourselves not as just a collection of individuals or interest groups or states, but as the united states of america. she knows that. she knows that when it comes to our economy. because she knows our economy works best not when it only benefits the few at the top, but when everybody has a fair shot. as hillary mentioned, when i came into office things were not in very good shape as you will recall. we were losing 800,000 jobs a month. pursuing, by the way, the same proposals that republicans are still peddling. and over the past six years, we have cut the employment rate in half. manufacturing jobs have grown for the first time since another president clinton was in office. [cheers and applause] pres. obama: by the way, and because they are only talking about us as being these democrats, i want to point out we cut our deficit by nearly 75%. they did not. wages for families are finally starting to rise again. but we've got so much more work to do. because in the 21st century we are not going to help families. we're not going to create jobs just by pretending we can turn back the clock and women are going to somehow not be in the workforce anymore. and, you know, people of color suddenly are not going to be not wanting a better career and future for their kids. we are not going to suddenly ignore all the progress we made over the last 30 years. we're not going to build walls around america or put technology back in the box. we're not going to reverse heart-one rights. hard-won rights. for women or minorities. we are not going to do that. if we are going to give working families and all families a chance to succeed, we have to make sure they can afford childcare. and they have got sick leave and paid leave. and we have got to make sure women get equal pay for equal work. and we should make it easier not harder for workers to organize for better wages and working conditions and we should not eliminate the minimum wage, we should raise it higher so that if you work full-time you do not live in poverty. each of these policies, the policies hillary mentioned, would help working families feel more secure in today's economy. she has actually got a plan. it is actually paid for. you can actually look at it. now, the fact that we have not gotten all of these ideas done is not the fault of immigrants or unions or some liberal socialist scheme. it is very simple. republicans in congress and republican governors have been blocking these ideas for the last eight years. it is that simple. to beok, i just want clear. i understand. there are other issues. but if your concern is, who is going to look out for working families, if you are voting your pocketbook, if you are asking who is actually going to stand up for the guy on the construction site or the guy in istory or the woman who cleaning a hotel room or somebody who is really working -- ifthe working family that is your concern, this is not even a choice. because the other side has nothing to offer you. the other side has nothing to offer you. [crowd chanting "hillary"] pres. obama: i am going off script here but i want to repeat this. if your concern is working people, then this is not a choice. i do not care whether you're white, black, hispanic, native polka-dot, male, female. if all you cares who is going to be fighting for ordinary folks or a better life for themselves and their children, then i do not know how you vote for the guy who is against the minimum wage, against unions, against making sure that everybody gets a fair shot, against legislation for equal pay, against sick leave and family leave and against all this other stuff that working families care about. so, if you are voting for the other team, it is not because of the economy. it is not because of the economy. you got to be clear about that. i mean, even the republicans on the other side do not really know with this guy is talking about. [laughter] pres. obama: they really don't. they really don't. you ask them. they are all like, "i don't know. i don't know." and they look the other way. am i joking? no. so you can choose a path the devices with harsh rhetoric and pitting people against each other, all the while pushing policies that will just help folks at the top do even better. at that is not helping working families. or we can transform our politics so that all people of all races and all backgrounds get a higher wage and they all get quality health care and a decent retirement and all the children in this country get a better education that lets them rise above circumstances. that is what hillary clinton believes and that is why i am supporting her for president of the united states and that is why you should, too. [cheers and applause] obama: now, to me, that in itself would be enough to make the choice. but we have some other choices. you can go the path that denies time a change is real, or you can choose a path where american jobs and businesses lead the world to come back it. you know, in the last seven years we have doubled renewable energy in this country in the last seven years. remember when we were all concerned about our dependence on foreign oil? we have cut the amount of oil we buy from other countries in half. remember when the other team was promising they would get gas prices down in like 10 years? we did it. we did it. so, we have been able to shape -- an energy policy that is good for families, good for the pocketbook and with secretary help, america ultimately lead nearly 200 other nations to an agreement to save this planet for future generations. now, maybe you do not care about this. maybe you think 99% of scientists are wrong. or, -- you're welcome. but the point is, we are not done with this. where we go from here is up to you. you can vote with the climate deniers who want to tear up the agreements we created in dumas our kids to a more dangerous world. or you can put people back to work building a cleaner energy future for all of us. that is what is at stake in this election and that is one of the reasons i am supporting hillary clinton for president. you know, hillary mentioned how we operate on the world stage. let me just say, i know the other guy is talking about making america great again. america is really great. and, just the other day somebody was writing about, when you look at the surveys in the world it turns out that when obama came into office, the world did not think we were that great. but now they think we are the greatest. they think we are the strongest, they think we are in the best position. we were in a hole before i came into office, but right now the rest of the world thinks we are pretty darn great. and by the way, you can look that up. that is a fact. that is not something i just made up and tweeted. poll, theym a actually talk to people, they actually know. they do not just make it up. and part of the reason is our outstanding secretary of state. part of the reason is hillary understood and continues to understand this is not just a bunch of policies that replaces the work of diplomacy. a bunch of phony bluster does not keep us safe. she understands we cannot retreat from a world that needs american leadership. that is why she offers a smarter platform that uses of american power to protect our people and our allies. she is and she will be a states woman who makes us proud around the world. she will deploy diplomacy whenever possible, but she also knows what it take to be a commander-in-chief and i know she will never hesitate to use force when it is necessary to protect us. and, she will know how to mobilize the world around the causes we believe in that we know are right and make sure other countries pull their own weight. that is strength. that is leadership. and that is why hillary clinton has to be the next president of the united states of america. [cheers and applause] [chanting] pres. obama: i'm with her! i'm with her! you know, part of the reason we're here is because we all share the believe that this country only lives up to this potential when every single one of us gets a chance to succeed. black, latino, native american, rich, poor, turkish american, gay, straight, male, female, all of us matter. all of us share the same creed. all of us pledge allegiance to the same flag. that does not mean we have to agree on everything, we'll have different ideas and that is part of what makes america great. but i agree with hillary that our democracy works best when there are basic bonds of trust between us. when we recognize that every voice matters. and the people who disagree with us most strongly love this country just as much as we do. you have never heard hillary clinton demonize other people. you have never heard her not be willing to engage with folks, even when nate is agree with her. you ask folks in the senate working on the other side how they liked working with her. liked working with her. that brand of leadership is how we're going to get these done. that is how we can protect more of our kids from gun violence. that is the new challenge. after new town, the other side blocked any new safety gun reforms. after orlando, they blocked any new gun safety reforms. they're not listening to 90% of the american people. democrats and republicans who support background checks and want to make sure nobody on a no-fly list can actually go out and bridges and automatic rifle. hillary knows how to build coalitions! and she knows we can take smart steps to protect both our rights and our kids so they can go to movies or to church or to school. and, if you believe that, too, then there is no choice there. you have got to vote for hillary clinton. [cheers and applause] pres. obama: her brand of leadership can fix a broken immigration system so it lives up to our laws in this nation of immigrants. unless you are a native american, somebody brought you here. somebody came here. you came from someplace else now. so i just want to be clear about that, not everybody had their papers straight when they came here. i am just saying. and, you know, there are millions of striving young people whose lives hang in the balance. they want to give something back to this country that they love. they want to serve in our military. they want to go to college. they want to the doctors. they want to cure diseases. and for years, the republicans talked a good game about immigration reform and then they do not do anything. and now, they picked that nominee who has only a plan to build a higher wall. that is not a plan. no, no, no -- hold on a second. i was waiting for this opportunity. don't boo. vote. don't boo! vote. booing does not help. you need to vote. but if you care about a smart then this isolicy your candidate. you have got to vote in this election. not think your vote matters, if you do not the the stakes are high enough, just last month, the supreme court could not reach a decision involving immigration because republicans in the senate have refused to just do their job and just have the courtesy to meet with a nominee that even they admit is one of the most qualified ever to be nominated for a seat on the supreme court. will not even give him a hearing. will not even give him an up or down vote. they would rather have their nominee for president choose his own justice to fill that seat. don't boo. you've got to vote. he wants a justice who views the world as he does. that is not a good thing. that is not what you want on the highest court in the land. the supreme court is no joke. benchople who sit on that make monumental decision that affect all of your rights. our responsibilities and duties as citizens. it affects every area of our daily lives. this is not a reality show. this is not entertainment. this is real. this is not a reality show, this is reality. and, being president of the united states means you have to deal with reality. when a crisis hits, you cannot just walk off the set. you can't fire the script writer. you cannot be reckless. you don't have the luxury of saying whatever pops into your head. you have got to know when you are talking about. you have to do your homework. you cannot just take out reporters. you can't go to another country and if you do not like a question they ask, just kick them out. because, you are in another country. you have to apply steady judgment, it even when things don't go your way. you have to make the tough call even when they're not popular. and even when they will not pay youright away or increase poll numbers. you have got to be able to handle criticism without taking it personally. you have to brush up and get the job done. that is some of what i have learned. while serving as your president. that is some of what hillary has learned as a senator and as the secretary of state. and that is why i am voting for hillary clinton. [cheers and applause] mr. obama: i know i have gone on too long. that's what happens. haven't campaigned in a while, you start enjoying it too much. so let me simplify this and let me be blunt. i want to be blunt. can i be blunt? i'll be blunt. you know, hillary has her share of critics. that is what happens when you are somebody who is actually in the arena. that is what happens when you have fought for what you believe in. that is what happens when you dedicate yourself to public service over the course of a lifetime. and what sets hillary apart from some of the others is, she never stopped caring. she never stopped trying. what separates us is we are a young country, and we like new things. and i benefited from that culture, let's reason. when i came on the scene in 2008, everybody said, well he's new! they don't say that now, because i am not. but sometimes we take somebody who has been in the trenches and fought the good fight and then -- and has been steady for granted. sometimes we think never being there and not knowing what you are doing is a virtue. we don't do that for airline pilots. we don't do that for surgeons. but somehow, we think president of the united states -- and i'll oh, i don't know. let's get that guy. who does that? come on. the consequences, that means sometimes hillary does not get the credit she deserves. but the fact is, hillary is steady. and hillary is true. and she has been in politics for the same reason i have, because we can improve other people's lives by doing this and we do not care about the slings and arrows thrown at us because we we know that is how real change and real progress happens and that we, if we are willing to work hard, can finish, can bring about changes that make life better for some kid out there. for some senior at there. unemployeddy who is out there. and, it may take more than one year. in sometimes it takes more than one term. in sometimes it takes more than one presidency or even one generation. and that is ok. i think she will fess up to that. we want people to believe their government can work in their president cares. and every child in this country should have the same chances this country gave us. because we were not born with a silver spoon. and we know that behind all of the division and sometimes angry rhetoric of this election year and the petty bickering and point-scoring and punditry, the ordinary american -- americans are good. they are generous. hard-working. and they have common sense. and we share a certain sense of common values and helps and dreams. in 2008.hy i ran and i believe in those ideals and values more than ever and i believe in the american people more then ever and i am more optimistic about our future than ever. and that is why my faith, my faith is stronger about the old asamerican ideal as our founding of the country. people can change the country for the better. i have seen it happen. an my last campaign and i cannot be happier or prouder. but i am ready to pass the baton and i know that hillary clinton is going to take it and i know she can run that race. for better jobs, better schools, safer streets, a better world. and that is why i'm fired up and that is why i am ready to go and that is why i am with her and that is why i need you to work just as hard to make sure that hillary rodham clinton is the next president of the united states of america. god bless you, north carolina. god bless you. god bless the united states of america. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ will ♪ ♪ announcer: our road to the white house coverage continues with platformratic committee taking place live in orlando july 8 starting at 3:00 p.m. eastern in and continue continuing saturday. live coverage on c-span, c-span radio, and c-span.org. today, house democrats gather outside the u.s. capitol to call for comprehensive gun violence legislation. later, the house rules committee defense discuss 2017 legislation which may include a bill to halt gun sales for up to three days. two weeks,e and c-span will have coverage of every minute of the 2016 byublican convention allowed the democratic convention, and every saturday night at 8:00 eastern, we will take a look at past candidates who went on to win their party's nomination. dwight eisenhower in san francisco. the 1954 democratic convention with lyndon johnson. richard nixon in miami beach. 1980 democratic convention with jimmy carter in new york city. the 1984 convention in dallas with ronald reagan. at the 1992bush republican convention in houston. bill clinton in chicago. the 2000 four republican convention in new york city with george w. bush. ast republican and them credit national conventions. saturday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span. >> at life today on c-span, washington journal is next. at 10:00 a.m., the house returns for general speeches. noon, the u.s. house financial services. hour, ap in one congressman is here to discuss the fbi went to a nation of no charges following the investigation into hillary clinton's e-mails. 8:45 a.m., brenda lawrence of michigan on the latest on the flint water rises, the presidential campaign, the orlando shooting response, in gun legislation. >> although the department of ontice makes final decisions matters such as this come it is our view that no charges are appropriate in this case. is fbi director james comey yesterday announcing his findings from his agency's investigation of hillary clinton's e-mail practices during her time at secretary of state. while the fbi is not recommending criminal charges, the statement yesterday did include a stern review of hillary clinton's careless e-mail practices. we will

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