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town where she grew up, a perfect example of post-world war ii middle-class america. street after street of nice houses, great schools, big perks. -- parks. and almost all white. family, hered her crusty, conservative father, her rambunctious brothers, all of stealing the virtue of rooting for the theirs and the cubs. -- bears and the cubs. they even told me what wedding for next year meant. [laughter] different.her was a she was more liberal. she had a childhood that made mine look like a piece of cake. underestimateo with her soft manner and she reminded me all over again that you should never judge a book by its cover. killing her was one of the greatest gifts a hillary ever gave me -- knowing her was one of the greatest gifts hillary ever gave me. don jones took her downtown to chicago to hear martin luther king speak and he remained her friend for the rest of his life. this will be the only campaign of hers he ever missed. it compelled her to change parties and become a democrat. [applause] and laween college school, she went to alaska. more to the point, by the time i met her she had already been in the law school's legal services project and have been influenced by mary right angle men -- angle men interviewing workers in migrant camps. she had also begun working in the yell new haven hospital to suspectedocedures for child abuse cases. she got so involved in children's issues that she actually took the next year in law school working at the child studies of center to learn what more could be done to improve the lives and futures of poor children. [applause] she was are determined to figure out how to make things better. hillary opened my eyes to a whole new world of public .ervice by private citizens in the summer of 1972, she went to alabama to visit one of those segregated academies. -- n't they claim federal tax exemptions to which they were not legally entitled. she was sent to prove they weren't. she soldered into one of these academies by hearst will pretending to be a housewife .hat just moved to town they exchange pleasantries and finally, she said let's get to the bottom line. son in thismy school, will he be in a segregated school? the guy said "absolutely." she had him. her encounterand was part of a report that gave mary enright the force they needed to take those tax exemptions away and give our kids the chance at an equal education. [cheers and applause] texas,e went down south where she met -- [cheers] she met one of the nicest fellows i ever met, franklin garcia, and he helped her register mexican-american voters. i think some of them are still around to vote for her in 2016. [applause] in lawour last year school, hillary kept up this work. she went to south carolina to see why so many young african-american boys -- i mean young teenagers -- were being jailed for years with adults in men's prisons. she filed a report on that, which led to some changes too. always making things better. [applause] meanwhile, let's 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 she'd ever been overseas. we were on the shoreline of this wonderful lake. i asked her to marry me and she said "i can't do it." [laughter] in 1974, i went home to teach in law school and hillary moved to onsachusetts to keep working children's issues. this time, trying to figure out why so many kids counted in the census weren't 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 and applause] the result of that last night when anastasia talked. [applause] she never made fun of people with disabilities. she tried to empower them based on their ability. [applause] i was still trying to get her to marry me. [laughter] the second time i ask, i tried differently. i said "i really want you to marry me but you shouldn't do it." she smiled and looked at me like what is he up to. she said that is not a good sales pitch. i said i know but it's true. and i meant it. i said "i know most of the young our age whoe age -- want to go into politics, they mean well and they speak well but none of them is as good as you are and actually doing things to make positive changes in people's lives." [applause] suggested she go home to illinois or moved to new york and look for a chance to run for office. are youghed and said " out of your mind, no one would vote for me." i finally got her to come visit me in arkansas. , the people at the law school were so impressed, they offered her a teaching position. she decided to take a huge chance. ,he moved to a strange place more rural, costly conservative than anywhere she had been. she knew good and well people were wondering what in the world she was like and whether they could or should accept her. didn't take them long to find out what she was like. she loved her teaching. she got frustrated when one of her students said "what do you expect, i'm just from arkansas." she said "you just have to believe in your self and work for it and set high goals." she believed anyone could make it. [applause] she also started the first legal aid clinic in northwest arkansas. [applause] providing legal aid services to poor people who couldn't 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 for-sale sign on it and she said "that's 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. it's 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 wasn't 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, hillary's 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, t-ball, ballet, and chelsea's 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. -- e-house, 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 i'm 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 children's 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 today's 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 full-time 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 bottom-up, 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 people's 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 one-by-one.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 peace-by-peas. pushing the rock up the hill. she also met7, with the house minority leader who maybe dislikes me more than any of newt gingrich's 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 change-maker. 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 runary -- urged hillary to 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 first-responders. she and senator shuman worked tireless and so were the house members. what we'rertly 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 she's 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 iran's 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 cease-fire that would avoid a shooting war between gaza and -- i mean between hamas and gaza. to protect the peace of the region. backed president obama's 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, women's rights are human rights and human rights are toen's 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 fda-approved generic drugs, something we need to do more for the american people. now, you do not know any of these things. you don't 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 state's 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 30-years-old 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 you're 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 two-incorporated, a real changemaker represents a real threat. -- a two-car parade, it real changemaker represents a real threat. so your only alternative is to create a cartoon. cartoons are two-dimensional. 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 america's 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 african-american 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 tomorrow's 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] ♪ old, the7 years youngest member of the california delegation. a delicateved in process because i am inspired by my grandfather who was an organizer with united farmworkers. for theme to fight voices of those who are not voiced and that is what i am doing at the convention and i'm hoping to represent their youth, the voting block of this party. >> it is my first convention. i have been working for hillary for eight years. to it ishy i am here my passion. ohio.m from i'm a delicate for bernie sanders and i am 21. i am the state director of college students for bernie and i and excited to be here. generation, we are now about the same size as the baby boomers and it is important for us to show out. we are looking forward to the rest of the convention. >> voices from the road, on c-span. now, a look at day three of the democratic national convention which featured vice president biden, michael bloomberg, tim kaine, and president obama. we begin with the vice president who spoke for 20 minutes. life. [cheers] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the vice president of the united states, joe biden. [cheers] >> thank you. thank you, thank you, thank you. i love you. [cheers] ladies and gentlemen, thank you, thank you. [cheers] i love you. gentlemen, eight years ago, i stood on the stage in denver. [cheers] nominationted your to be vice president of the united states. [cheers] then,ery single day since it has been the honor of our lives for joe and me, every day we have been grateful for brock and michelle -- barack and michelle joining them on the incredible journey. [cheers] a journey that can only happen in america. [cheers] we not only have worked together, as it has become obvious, we have become friends. we are now family. [cheers] where family. -- we are family. [cheers] you have all seen over the last eight years what president obama means to this country. [cheers] honor,he embodiment of resolve and character. one of the finest presidents we have ever had. [cheers] that is right. [cheers] this is a man of character. [cheers] he has become a brother to jill and me. and michelle, you are incredible. [cheers] you are incredible! [cheers] i was talking to brock today, it is no longer he will give the best speech, we know who did that. you are incredible monday night. night. incredible monday [cheers] the delaware delegation, as they barack and i married way up. [cheers] tonight, i see so many friends and colleagues like my buddy chris dodd from the connecticut delegation. so many people here. those whofaces of have placed their belief in barack and me. so many faces. but one, this is kind of a better sweet moment for jail and me and our family. 2008, when he was about to do play to a again in 2012, our son though -- bo introduced me to the country and place my name and nomination. glimpse of what an incredibly fine young man beau was. [cheers] thank you. [cheers] thank you. [cheers] his wife and his two kids are here tonight. [cheers] as ernest hemingway once wrote, the world breaks everyone, and afterwards, many are strong at the broken places. i've been made strong at the broken places by my love with jill, but my heart and son hunter and the love of my life, my ashley. by all of you, and i mean this sincerely, those who have been through this, you know i mean byt i say, i all of you, -- all of you, your love and prayers and support, you know what, we talk about, we think about the countless thousands of other people who suffered so much more than we have, with so much less support. so much less reason to go on. morning,get up every every day. [cheers] they put one foot in front of the other, they keep going. that is the unbreakable spirit of the people of america. [cheers] that is who we are. [cheers] that is who we are. don't forget it. like the people of the neighborhood that joe and i grew up, -- jill and i grew up, the kurds claymont, the most always jumped and when you are double teamed or your back was against the wall. became a cop because he always wanted to help people. the middle daughter of three daughters, who always made her mother smile, who is a hero to her sisters. now i major in the united states marine corps because i wanted to serve my country. [cheers] jill knows whoo take money out of their own pockets to buy pencils and notebooks for their students who can't afford them. [cheers] why? because being a teacher is not what they do, it is who they are . [cheers] you know what i know, for real. that the the people heart and soul of this country. it is the america that i know. the america that hillary knows and tim kaine knows. [cheers] i've known hillary for well over 30 years, before she was first lady of the united states, when she became first lady, we served together in the united states asate and during her years secretary of state, once a week we had breakfast in my home, the vice president's residence. everybody knows she is smart. everyone knows she is tough. but i know what she is passionate about. [cheers] i know hillary. [cheers] hillary understands, hillary gets it. she understands the college loans are about a lot more than getting a qualified student education. it is about saving the mom and dad from the indignity of having to look at the child and say i'm sorry, the bank would not let us the money. i can help you get to school. i know that about hillary. hillary understood that for years, millions of people went to bed staring at the scaling -- ceiling thinking what if i get breast cancer or he has a heart attack? i will lose everything. what will we do then? i know about hillary clinton. [cheers] we alland gentlemen, understand what it will mean for our daughters and granddaughters when hillary clinton walks into the oval office as president of the united states of america. [cheers] it will change their lives. [cheers] granddaughters can do anything any son or grandson can do and she will prove it, mr. mayor. [cheers] let me say this as clearly as i can, if you live in the neighborhoods like the ones jill and i grew up in, if you worry about your job and getting a decent pay, if you worry about your children's education, if you are taking care of an elderly parent, then there is only one person in the selection will help you, only one person in this race who will be there, who has always been there for you and that is hillary clinton's life story. not just who she is, it is her life story. [cheers] she is always there. she has always been there. [cheers] and so has tim kaine. [cheers] ladies and gentlemen, let's say meant,ious, i really that is not donald trump story. just listen to me a second without doing or cheering. booing or cheering, his cynicism is undoubtedly his lack of empathy and compassion can be summed up in that phrase he is most proud of making famous, you're fired. i'm not joking. think about that. think about that. think about everything you learned as a child. no matter where you were raised, how can there be pleasure in saying you're fired? he is trying to tell us he cares about the middle class. give me a break. that is a bunch of malarkey. [cheers] whatever he thinks, whatever he thinks, and i mean is from the bottom of my heart, i know i'm called middle-class joe and in washington, that is not meant as a compliment. it means you are not sophisticated. i know why we are strong, i know why we are held together, i know why we are united, it is because there has always been a growing middle class. this guy does not have a clue about the middle class. not a clue. [cheers] folks, when the hill middle class does well, the rich do very well and the poor have hope. they have a way out. he has no clue about what makes america great. period., he has no clue [cheers] >> not a clue! not a clue! not a clue! say, let me say something that has nothing to do with politics. thate talk about something i'm deadly serious about. complicated and uncertain world we live in. great -- toore two great, the times are too uncertain to elect donald trump as resident of the united states. party,finish, no major no major party nominee in the history of the station has ever known less or been less prepared to do with our national security -- deal with our national security. we cannot elect a man who exploits our fears of isis and other terrorists, who has no plan whatsoever to make a safer. a man who embraces the tactics of our enemies, torture, religious intolerance, you all know. other republicans no, that is not who we are. it betrays our values. it alienates those who we need in the fight against isis. donald trump, with all his rhetoric would literally make us less safe. we cannot elect a man who belittles our closest allies while embracing dictators like vladimir putin. i mean it. [cheers] a man who seeks to go -- sow division in america for his own gain and disorder around the world. a man who confuses bluster with strength. happenly cannot let that as americans. [cheers] period. [cheers] folks -- [cheers] have, whatever doubts i mean what i say. but sometimes i say all that i mean. let me tell you what i literally tell everyone leader i've met with. ,nd i met them all, it is never never, never been a good bet against america. [cheers] we have the finest fighting force in the world. -- only [cheers] not only do we have the largest economy in the world, we have the strongest economy in the world. [cheers] we have the most productive workers in the world. and give it a fair shot. given a fair chance. americans have never, ever, ever, ever, ever let the country down. [cheers] never! [cheers] ordinary people like us, who do , we hadinary things candidates before attempting get elected by appealing to our fears, but they've never succeeded because we do not scare easily. break,r bow, we never when confronted with crisis. we endure! we overcome and we always move forward. [cheers] that is why. [cheers] that is why i can say, without absolute conviction that i am more optimistic about our chances today than when i was elected as a 29-year-old kid to the senate. the 21st century is going to be the american century. [cheers] we lead not only by example of our power, but by the power of our example. [cheers] of the the history journey of americans. and god willing, hillary clinton will write the next chapter in that journey. we are america, second to none, and we owned the finish line -- own the finish line! don't forget it! [cheers] god bless you all and[cheers] god protect our troops! [cheers] ♪ ♪ thank you.rg: thank you. asim, thank you for the kind introduction. and let me hang all of you for welcoming an outsider here, to deliver -- [applause] an outsider, to deliver what will be an unconventional convention speech. here as a member of any party. or to endorse any party platform. i am here for one reason. to explain why i believe it is imperative that we elect hillary clinton as the next president of the united states. [applause] mr. bloomberg: and to ask you to join with me in supporting her this november. you know, when the founding fathers arrived here in philadelphia to forge a new nation, they didn't come as , or tots or republicans nominate a presidential candidate. they came as patriots who feared party politics, and i know how they felt. i have been a democrat, i have been a republican, and i have ann -- i eventually became independent, because i don't believe that either party has a monopoly on good ideas or strong leadership. [applause] thebloomberg: when i enter voting booth each time, i look at the candidates, not the party label. --ave supported electorate elected officials from both side of the aisle, and probably, not many people in this room can say that. but i know there are many watching at home who can. and now, they are carefully weighing their choices. i understand their dilemma. i know what it is like to have neither party fully represent my views or values. too many republicans, blame immigrants for the problems. they stand in the way of action on climate change and gun violence. meanwhile, many democrats, i think wrongly, blame the private sector for our problems and they stand in the way of action on education and deficit reduction. there are times when i disagree with hillary clinton. but let me tell you, whatever our disagreements may be, i have come here to say, we must put them aside for the good of our country. [applause] and we must unite around the candidate who can defeat a dangerous demagogue. [applause] mr. bloomberg: i believe it is the duty of all american citizens to make our voices heard by voting in this election. are not yet registered to vote, go online and do it now. this is too important to sit out. [applause] now, we have: heard a lot of talk in this campaign about needing a leader who understands business. i couldn't agree more. i built a business, and i didn't start it with a million-dollar check from my father. [applause] mr. bloomberg: because of my success in the private sector, i had the chance to run america's or 12 years, governing in the wake of its greatest tragedy. today, as an independent and an entrepreneur and a former mayor, i believe we have it -- need a president who is a problem solver, not a bomb thrower. [applause] mr. bloomberg: someone who can bring members of congress together to get big things done, and i know hillary can do that, because i saw it first hand. i was elected mayor two months , as a republican. and i saw how hillary worked with republicans in washington to ensure new york got the help they needed to recover and rebuild. throughout her time in the her timees, throughout in the senate, we didn't always agree, but hillary clinton always listened. and that is the kind of approach we need in washington today, and it just has to start in the white house. [applause] given myberg: background, i will often encourage business leaders to run for office, because many of them share the same pragmatic approach to building consensus. but not all. most of us who have created a business know there -- we are only as good as how our employees, clients, and customers view was. most of us don't pretend we are smart enough to make every decision by ourselves, and most of us who have our names on the door know we are only as good as our word. but not donald trump. [applause] mr. bloomberg: through his career, the donald trump has left behind has left behind a record ofented or -- bankruptcies, lawsuits, angry stockholders, and congress mergers -- contractors who feel they have been tricked -- they have been cheated. trump wants to run the nation like he runs his business? god help us. [applause] i am a newrg: yorker, and i know a con when i see one. [applause] mr. bloomberg: trump says he will punish manufacturers that moved to mexico or china. cells areothes he made overseas at low-wage factories. he says he wants to put americans back to work, but he games the visa-- system so he can hire low-wage workers. he says he wanted a port -- wants to deport undocumented people, but he seems to have no problem hiring them. what did i miss here? truth be told, the richest thing about donald trump is his hypocrisy. [applause] mr. bloomberg: he wants you to believe that we can solve our biggest problems by deporting mexicans and shutting out muslims. he wants you to believe that erecting trade barriers will bring back good jobs. he is wrong on both counts. we can only solve our biggest problems if we come together and embrace the freedoms that our founding fathers established right here in philadelphia. which permitted our ancestors to create the great american exceptionalism that all of us now enjoy. donald trump doesn't understand that. hillary clinton does. [applause] and we can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure, and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them. donald trump doesn't understand that. hillary clinton does. [applause] i understand the appeal of a businessman president. but trumps business plan is a disaster in the making. he would make it harder for small businesses to compete, do great damage to the economy, threaten the retirement savings of millions of americans, lead to greater debt and more employment, erode our influence around the world and make our communities less safe. the bottom line is, donald trump is a risky, reckless and radical choice, and we can't afford to make that choice. [applause] now, i knowg: hillary clinton is not flawless. no candidate is. but she is the right choice, and the responsible choice in this election. [applause] mr. bloomberg: and no matter you may think about her politics or her record, hillary clinton understands that this is not reality television. this is reality. [applause] she understands the job of president. it involves finding solutions, not pointing fingers. offering hope, not stoking fear. country'sourse of our proud history, we have faced our share of grave challenges. but we have never retreated in fear. never. in here in philadelphia 1863,not at gettysburg in not through two world wars and the great depression, not at wall, not after 9/11. we must not start now. [applause] america, america is the greatest country on earth. -- people come here. the presidency of the united states is the most powerful office in the world. i say to my fellow independence, your votes matter now. your vote will determine the future of your job, your business, and our future together as a country. this election is not a choice between a democrat and a republican. it is a choice between who is better to lead our country right now. [applause] ourbloomberg: better for economy, better for our security, better for our freedom, and better for our future. there is no doubt in my mind that hillary clinton is the right choice this november. [applause] so tonight, as an independent, i am asking you to of party me, not out loyalty, but out of love of country. together,er, and let's select a sane, confident person with international experience. [applause] unifier who isa mature enough to reach out for advice, to build consensus and to recognize that we all have something to contribute. hillary clinton as the next president of the greatest country in the world, the united states of america. thank you. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the next as president of the united states, senator tim kaine. [cheers] [cheers] ♪ senator kaine: thank you everybody. hello, philadelphia! hello democratic families. i want to start off by thanking my beautiful wife and my three wonderful children. they are sitting right up there. [cheers] my son deployed with his marine battalion just two days ago. [cheers] deployed overseas to protect and defend the very nato allies that donald trump says he now wants to abandon. >> boo! >> semper fi, matt! [cheers] my parents and my in-laws are here. our siblings and spouses. our nieces and nephews and hundreds of friends from virginia and beyond. [cheers] i love seeing you front and center. including my friend of 37 years, senior senator mark warner. [cheers] migrate governor terry mcauliffe. [cheers] in my great friend and congressman obvious god. [cheers] -- bobby scott. [cheers] we love you all. today, for my wife anne and every strong woman in this my children, and every young person starting out their life to make your dreams real, for every man and woman serving our country in the military at home or abroad, for every working family working hard to get ahead and stay ahead , for my parents and in-laws in every senior citizen who hopes for a dignified retirement with health care and research to end diseases like alzheimer's. [cheers] for every american who wants our country to be a beloved community where people are not demeaned because of who they are but rather respected further andributions to the nation for all of us who know that the brightest future for our country is the one that we build together and my friend, hillary clinton, i humbly accept my party's nomination to be vice president of the united states. [cheers] thank you. [cheers] can i be honest with you about something? can i be honest with you about something? i never expected to be here. let me type how it happened, i was born in minnesota and groping kansas city. up in kansas city. [cheers] intolks were not much politics. my dad ran a union iron working shot -- shop. [cheers] was his best salesman. my two brothers and i pitched summers and,ing you know, that is how small businesses do it. my parents, here tonight and going strong, they taught me andt hard work and kindness most especially, about faith. i went to a desolate noise high school. -- jesuit boys high school. [cheers] that's a big line for the jesuits. we had a motto in our school, meant for others. others.itr was there that my faith became vital. my north star for oriented my life. when i left high school, i knew that i wanted to battle for social justice. [cheers] like so many of you. [cheers] that is why i took a year off from moscow to volunteer with desolate missionaries in honduras. i talk its how to welders and carpenters. pueblo:los valores del fe, familia, y trabajo. faith, family and work. los queos valores del aqui. americanos todos. you what really struck me there, i got a look at a different system. a dictatorship. where a few people at the top had all the power and everybody else got left out. we havevinced me that got to advance opportunity for everybody, no matter where you come from, how much money you have, what you look like, how you worship or who you love. [cheers] back in 1970, in virginia, a republican governor believed absolutely the same thing. he integrated virginia's public schools so that black-and-white kids could finally learn together and then the family enrolled their own kids, theuding his daughter, into integrated schools with many leaders -- years later she went college about those lessons with her. sheday, in a study group met this good begotten who had been off teaching kids in honduras. and i have now been married, 32 years and i'm the luckiest husband in the world. [cheers] let me tell you something, and 90 plusare here today and going strong. [cheers] holton, he is still a republican but he is voting for an awful lot of democrats these days. [cheers] why, he is voting for democrats because any party that would nominate donald trump for president has moved too far away from his party of lincoln. [cheers] you, if any of you are looking for that party of lincoln, we have a home for you right here in the democratic party. [cheers] his example helped inspire me as a civil rights lawyer. over 17 years i took on banks, landlords, real estate firms, local governments, anyone who treated anybody unfairly. i had a six-year case against an insurance company that was discriminating against minority neighborhoods all across the united states and issuing homeowner insurance. democratic friends, these are the battles that i have thought my entire life. fought my might -- entire life. [cheers] that is the story. that is the story of how i decided to run for office. my city of richmond was divided and discouraged in the early 1990's. we had an epidemic of violence overwhelming the neighborhood. we people were pointing fingers and casting blame. i cannot stand it. iran for city council and i won the first race for the 20 years by a landslide margin of 94 votes. [cheers] sense, it is ever because i started at the local level listing two people learning about their lives and try to get results. i see america are who knows what he's talking about. later i became mayor of richmond. 70th governor of virginia. [cheers] now, i was a hard times governor. stage of ther my deepest recession since the 1930's. tough times don't last and how people do. -- tough people do. can i tell you that virginians are tough people? [cheers] we are tough people. .nd we are smart, too we achieve national recognition for our work, best date for business, best date for a child to be raised. low unemployment. high median income. we shed tears along the way. we shed tears especially together in the days after that horrible mass shooting at virginia tech that killed 32 people from beautiful 19 euros students to 70 plus-year-old romanian born holocaust tears butand we shed afterwards we rolled up our sleeves and we fixed the back on record system so we could make our commonwealth safer and we have to do that in the nation. [cheers] we invested in our people expanding free trade in higher education. we know that education is the key to only want to be. [cheers] now have the honor of representing my commonwealth and the senate. i work on the armed services and foreign relations committee to keep us safe at home and strong in the world. [cheers] committeethe budget with our great democratic leaders, a spectacular senator who used to be a manner -- a mayor from vermont, bernie sanders. [cheers] and, everybody, we all should bern and we should all not want to get burned by the other guy. [cheers] on that budget committee, we fight for investments, education, health care, research and transportation. i also serve on the committee to make sure that seniors have a secure retirement and don't get targeted by ripoff artists who was scammed out of their savings or overcharge them for prescription drugs. [cheers] can i tell you a funny thing about the senate? [cheers] that sounds like a yes. time withlot of republican senators who once they have made sure that nobody is listening, will tell you how fantastic a senator that hillary clinton was. [cheers] look, this journey that i've told you about has convinced me, has convinced me over and over again that god has created in our country a beautiful and rich tapestry, an incredible cultural diversity that succeeds when we embrace everybody and battle back, the dark forces of division. we are all neighbors. we must love neighbors as ourselves. hillary clinton and i son com paneros de alma. [cheers] we share this is simply. -- simple belief. do all the good you can and serve one another. [cheers] that is what i'm about. that is what you are about. that is what bernie sanders is about. bidens what joe and jill are about. that is what barack and michelle obama are about and that is what hillary clinton is about. [cheers] si se puede! [cheers] yes we can. yes we can. [cheers] last week, last week in cleveland we heard a lot about trump. let's talk about trust. i want to tell you why i trust hillary clinton. [cheers] first, she's consistent. she has battled to put kids and families first since she was a teenager. in good times and bad. in victory and defeat. in and out of office through hell or high water fighting for underprivileged kids working at the children's defense fund. biting to get health insurance for 8 million low income children. fighting for the well-being of women and children around the world. [cheers] can offer you a little tip? when you want to know something about the character of somebody in public life, look to see if beganave a passion that long before they were in office. and that they have consistently held it since their career. [cheers] do they have a passion, did it start before they were in office, have a help onto it consistently? hillary has a passion for kids and families. [cheers] passion, it has a is himself. [cheers] hillary, it is not just words and a competence. she delivers as a senator. she battled after 9/11. he went to the towers, went to the pentagon and save the victims of the terrorist attacks. as secretary of state, she implemented tough sanctions against iran to pay the way for a diplomatic rate through to curtail -- breakthrough to curtail a nuclear weapons program. she was not afraid, she was not afraid. to stand upafraid to dictators. they decided to go to the end of the earth to wipe out osama bin laden is. -- osama bin laden. [cheers] did y'all remember the little girl we heard from on monday night was worried that her parents would be deported? trusts hillary to keep them together. [cheers] member -- do you remember the mothers of the movement last night? [cheers] they said they trust hillary to sons and mothers' daughters safe. and on a personal level, as he is serving our nation abroad, i ourt hillary clinton with sons life. [cheers] you know who i don't trust? i wonder. donald trump. guy who promises a lot but, you may have noticed, he has a way of saying the same two words every time he makes his biggest, he just promises. believe me. it is going to be great, believe me. we are to build a wall and make mexico pay for, believe me. [laughter] we are going to destroy issa so fast, believe me. [laughter] there is nothing suspicious and my tax returns, believe me. [laughter] [cheers] by the way, does anybody in this massive auditorium believe that donald trump's been paying his fair share of taxes? >> nooo! >> does anybody here believe that donald trump ought to release his tax returns is like every other presidential candidate in modern history? [cheers] of course he should. donald, what are you hiding? , donald still says believe me. believe me. [laughter] believe me. believe me. peoplethe thing, most when they run for president, they don't just say believe me, they respect you enough to tell you how they will get things done. [cheers] that is what most people who run for president to. -- do. in fact, he can go on hillary clinton.com right now and find out exactly how she will make the biggest investment in new jobs in a generation. how she will defend and build on wall street reforms, how she will reform our immigration system to create a path to citizenship how she will make it possible to graduate from college debt-free. you will see how she will protect roe be weighed, or to equal pay for women and make paid family a reality. [cheers] -- family leave a reality. [cheers] all it takes is one click and we can see how she will do it, how she will pay with -- for it and how we will benefit by it. not donald trump. not donald trump. he never tells you how he is going to do any of the things he says he will do. he just says, believe me. [laughter] question, here's the question, do you really believe him? >> no! donald trump's whole career says he better not. small contractors, companies just like my dad's believe him, leave him cut when he said -- believed him when they said he would pay the casino. they do the work, hung the drywall, for the concrete, but a year after opening, donald trump up bankruptcy, he walked away with millions and they got pennies on the dollar. some of them went out of business. believed donald trump. >> boo! retirees and families in florida, they believed donald trump when he said he would build up some condos. thousands of them. they paid their deposits but the condos, they were never built. he just pocketed their money and walked away. they lost tens of thousands of dollars all because they believed donald trump. believedfter charity donald trump when he said they would contribute to that. thousands of trump university students leave -- believed donald trump when he said he would help them succeed. they got stiffed. >> boo! >> he says believe me, his creditors, his contractors, his laid off employees, and his ripped off students did just that and they all got hurt. folks, you cannot believe one word that comes out of donald trump's mouth [cheers] . [cheers] not one word. not one word. [cheers] not one word. >> not one word. not one word. >> i will tell you. me, it seems like our nation is too great to put in the hands of a slip talking, empty promising self-promoting one-man wrecking crew. [cheers] but don't take it from me, don't take it from me. take it from former first lady barbara bush. barbara bush says she does not know how any woman could vote for him after his offensive comments to women. [cheers] any woman. or john mccain's chief economic adviser during the 2008 race who estimates that donald trump's promises would cost america to jobs..5 million or the independent analysts who found that donald trump tax plan given to the wealthy and biggest $30orations would rack up trillion in debt. or how about this? , the republican governor o who had the honor of hosting the republican convention in cleveland, but would not attend because he thinks donald trump is such a moral disaster. [cheers] or take it from the guy who cowrote donald trump's autobiography, here is what he said about donald trump. lying is second nature to him. so do you believe him? >> no! >> how about the side, do you believe him? >> no!! >> is there anyone in this old and who believes them?! -- him? >> no! the next president will face many challenges, we better elect a candidate who has proven she can be trusted with the job. [cheers] who has proven that she is ready for the job and when i say ready, i use ready for a specific reason. when i lived in honduras, i learned something. the best complement you could pay to somebody was to say that they were listo. ready. gente, amable, rico. listo because in spanish prepared, up for anything, never backing down. friends, hillary clinton is lista! [cheers] she is ready. [cheers] she's ready because of her faith, because of her heart, she is ready because of her experience and she is ready because she knows that in america, we are stronger when we are together. [cheers] my fellow democrats, this week we start the next chapter in our great and proud story. thomas disclaimed all men were equal and abigail remember the women. woodrow brokered the peace and eleanor broke down the barrier. jack told us what to ask and lyndon answer the call. martin had a dream and dolores said si se puede. the built a bridge into 21st century and brca buzz hope and now -- barack gave us hope and hillary is ready to fight and win. god was all the and onto victory. [cheers] thank you, philadelphia! [cheers] ♪ president obama: thank you so much everybody. thank you. i love you back. applause] america!ma: hello democrats! so, 12 years ago tonight i addressed this convention for the very first time. met my two little girls. now to amazing young women who just fill me with pride. brilliantor my partner michelle. who has made me a better father .nd a better man who has gone on to inspire our nation as first lady. not aged amehow has day. i know, the same cannot he said for me. my girls remind me all the time. well, you changed so much, daddy. and then they tried to clean it up, but not bad. you're just more mature. and it is true. i was so young that first time. [cheers and applause] hit, mayma: and i will maybe a little nervous addressing such a big crowd will stop but i was filled with faith. faith in america. hopeenerous, big-hearted, will country that made my story. that made all of our stories possible. a lot has happened. and while this nation has been tested, i stand before you tonight almost after two terms as your president to tell you i am more optimistic about the future of america they can ever before. [cheers and applause] pres. obama: how can i not he? we have seen deficits come down. 401k's recover. auto industry set new records. unemployment reach new lows. 15 million new jobs created. a century of trying, we declared that health care in america is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. applause] pres. obama: after decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. we doubled our production of clean energy. we brought more of our troops home to their families and we delivered justice to osama bin laden. through diplomacy, we shut down iran's nuclear weapons program. we opened up a new chapter with the people of cuba. 200 nationsly together around a climate agreement that could save this planet for our children. put policies in place to help students with loans, protect consumers from fraud. veteran homelessness almost in half. and, through countless acts of quiet courage, america learned that to has no limits in marriage equality is now throughout the land. applause] somebodyma: by measures, our country stronger and more prosperous than it was when we started. and, through every victory in every set, i have insisted that change is never easy and never quick. all of our been challenges in one term or one presidency or even one lifetime. but tonight i am here to tell you that to guess, we still have more work to do. more work to do for every american still in need of a good job our ways, paid leave or a descent of, for every child who needs a sturdier letter out of poverty or a world-class education for everyone who is not yet help the progress of the last 7.5 years. we need to keep making our streets safer in our criminal justice system fair, our homeland more secure. our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation. we are not done perfecting our union. or living up to our founding creed. -- ourl of us our created equal. all of us our -- our free. -- all of us are free and that thisinvolves a big choice november. it is fair to say this is not your typical election. [laughter] aes. obama: it is not just choice between parties or policies, the usual debates between left and right. this is a more fundamental choice. about who we are as a people. in, whether we stay true to this great american experiment in self-government. look, we democrats have always had plenty of differences with the republican party. with is nothing wrong that. it is precisely this contest of ideas that pushes our country forward. [applause] pres. obama: but, what we heard in cleveland last week was not particularly republican. and it sure was not conservative. what we heard was a deeply pessimistic vision of a country where we turn against each other and turn away from the rest of the world. there were no serious solutions to present problems. just the fanning of resentment .nd blame and anger and hate and that is not the america i know. the america i know is full of courage. and optimism. and ingenuity. the america i know is decent and generous. sure, we have real anxieties about paying the bills, protecting our kids, caring for sick parents. we get frustrated with political deadlock and worry about racial divisions. we are shocked and saddened by the madness of orlando and nice. there are pockets of america that never recovered from factory closures. men who took friday in hard work and for their families who now feel forgotten. parents who wonder whether it their kids will have the same opportunities we had. all of that israel. -- all of that is real. we are challenged to do better, to be better. but as i have traveled this country, through all 50 states, as i have rejoiced with you and mourned with you, what i have also seen more than anything is what is right with america. [cheers and applause] peoplebama: i have seen working hard starting businesses. people teaching kids to serve our country. engineers,. is coming up with new cures. i see a young generation full of energy and new ideas not constrained by what is. ready to see what to be. and most of all i see americans of the every background, every faith who believe we are stronger together. white, latino, asian, native american coming young, women,y, straight, men, folks with disabilities all pledging allegiance to the same flag of this big, bold country we love. that is what i see. that is the america i know. and there is only one candidate in this race who believes than that future. devoted to that future. a mother in and grandmother who would do anything to help our children thrive. a leader with the ability to ceilings and class widen the circle of opportunity to every single american. the next president of the united states, every clinton! -- hillary clinton! [cheers and applause] pres. obama: eight years ago, you might remember hillary and i were rivals for the democratic nomination. we battled for a year and a half. let me tell you it was staff. tough. hillary -- it was he goes hillary was tough. i was worn out. she was doing everything i was doing but just like ginger rogers it was backwards and in heels. [cheers and applied -- cheers and applause] president obama: and she just kept moving. and after was all over, i asked hillary to join my team. and she was a little surprised. some of my staff was surprised. but ultimately, she said yes. because she knew that to what was at stake was bigger then either of us. years, for four years i had a front-row seat to her intelligence, her judgment, and her discipline. herme to realize that unbelievable work ethic was not for praise or attention, she was in this for everyone who needs it a champion. applause] pres. obama: after all these years she has never forgotten just to she is fighting for. hillary has still got the tenacity she had as a young woman working for the children's defense fund, going door to door to make sure kids with disabilities can get a quality education. she still has got the heart she showed as our first lady working with congress to help push through a children's health insurance program to this day that protects millions of kids. she is still filled with the memory of all those who lost loved ones on 911 she worked ash first respondents, secretary of state she sat with me in the situation room and argued in favor of the mission that took out been lauded. -- that took out bin laden. nothing truly prepares you for the demands of the oval office. upn read about it, you can study at. sit at that desk you do not know what it is like to manage a crisis or send it young people to war. but hillary has been in the room. she has been part of those decisions. she knows what is at stake. is at stake for the working family, for the senior citizens, for the small business owners, for the soldiers. the veterans. midst of crisis, she listens to people and she keeps from coal and she treats everybody with respect and no matter how daunting the odds, no matter how much people tried to knock her down, she never ever quit. [cheers and applause] that is the hillary i know. that is the hillary i have come to admire and that is why i can say with confidence, there has never been a man or a woman, not me, not bill, nobody more qualified and hillary clinton to serve as president of the united states of america. [cheers and applause] president obama: i hope you don't mind, bill, but i was just telling the truth man. a case you're wondering about her judgment, take a look at her choice of running mate. , askaine is as good a man humble and committed a public servant as anybody i know. , i love hisamily wife, i love his kids. he will be a great vice president, he will make hillary a better president just like my different and brother joe biden has made me a better president. ] heers and applause , hillary hasnow real plans to address the concerns she has heard from you on the campaign trail. she has specific ideas to invest in new jobs. employees share in company profits, to put kids in preschool and puts students in college without a ton of debt. that is what leaders do. and then there is donald trump. s]aughter and boo boo,dent obama: don't vote. donald is not really a plan guy. --is not really affect guy, guy, not really a fact either. guy,lls himself a business but i know plenty of people who are business people without leaving a trail of people who feel like they got cheated. does anyone really believe that a guy who spent his seven years -- 70 years on this earth showing no regard for working people will suddenly be your champion? your voice? if so, you should vote for him. but if you e someone who is truly concerned about paying reallylls, if you are concerned about pocketbook issues and seeing the economy grow and grading more opportunity for everybody, then the choice is not even close. if you want someone with a lifelong track record of fighting for higher wages and better benefits and a fair tax code and a bigger voice for a stronger voice on wall street, then you should vote for hillary clinton. applause] are. obama: and, if you concerned about who is going to keep you a end your family safe in a dangerous world, the choices even clearer. hillary clinton is respected around the world. not just by leaders but by the people they serve. say people outside of the united states do not understand what is going on in this election. they really do not. applause] nd president obama: because they have seen hillary, they have seen her work, she has worked with our diplomats, our military. she has the judgment and experience and temperament to meet the threats of terrorism. it is not new to her. our troops have pounded a so taking thecy, leaders, taking back their territory, and i know hillary will not relent until isil is destroyed. she will finish the job and she will do it without going to torture or banning entire religions from entering our country. and she is ready to be our next commander-in-chief. [cheers and applause] meanwhile,bama: donald trump calls for military aid disaster. calls our military a disaster. apparently, he does not know the men and women who make up the strongest fighting force the world has ever known. he suggests america is weak. billions ofhear the men and women and children of the baltics to burma who still look to america to be the light of freedom and dignity and human rights. he cozies up to vladimir putin. praises saddam hussein. allies thattive stood by our side after 9/11 that they have to pay up if they want our protection. well, america's promises do not come with a price tag. we meet our commitments. we bear our burdens. that is one of the reasons why almost every country on a sees america as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when i took office. applause]d pres. obama: america is already great. america is already strong. and, i promise you it does not depend on donald trump. in fact, it does not depend on any one person. and that may be the biggest difference in this election. the meaning of our democracy. ronald reagan called a america "a shining city on a hill." donald trump calls it a divided crime scene that only he can pick. -- fix. it does not matter to him that immigration and the crime rate are as low as they have been in decade because he is not actually offering any real solutions to those issues, he is just offering slogans and he is offering they are. he is adding if -- and he was offering beer. he is -- he is offering fear. if he scares enough people, he just might win this election. and that is a bed he is going to lose and the reason he will lose it is because he is selling the american people short. we're not a fragile people. we're not a freight evil. our power does not come from some self-declaration that he restore. we do not look to be ruled. , our power comes from first withrations the paper right here in philadelphia all those years ago. be selfthese truths to evident, that all men are created equal that we the people can form a more perfect union. that is to we are. that is our birthright. to shape our own destiny. that is what drove patriots to choose revolution over to tierney. and -- over tyranny. women theat gave courage to reach for the ballot. and marchers to cross the bridge and selma. and workers to organize and fight for collect of bargaining and better wages. bargaining and better wages. abouta has never been what one person says he will do for us, it is about what can be achieved by s. together. through the hard it slow and sometimes frustrating but ultimately and during work of self-government. and that is what hillary clinton understands. a, knows that this is diverse country. she has seen it. she has traveled. she is talk to folks. and she understands that most are rarely black and white. she understands that even when you are 100% right, everything requires compromise. democracy does not work if we constantly human eyes each other. -- if we constantly demonize each other. she knows we have to listen to each other. ourselves and each other and fight for our principles but also by to find common ground no matter how elusive that might sometimes. hillary knows we can work through racial divides in this waytry when we realize the parents feel when their son leaves the house is not so different than when a brave cops family feels when he puts on the blue and goes to work. we can honor police and treat every community fairly. we can do that. [cheers and applause] president obama: and she knows that at knowledge and problems race relations worse, it is creating the possibility for people of goodwill to join and make things better. knows we can't exist on a lawful and orderly immigration system while still seeing and parents ists loving families. rapists.iminals or families that came here for the same reason our forebears came, to work and study and make a better life in a place where we can talk and worship and love as we please. she knows their dreams is quintessentially american and the american dream is something no while will ever contain. [cheers and applause] pres. obama: these are the things hillary knows. frustrating, this business of democracy. trust me i know. hillary knows, too. when the other side refuses to compromise progress can stall. action.re hurt i the in supporters can grow impatient. and worry that you're not trying hard enough, that you have may be sold out. but i promise you, when we keep change enough minds, when we deliver enough votes, progress does happen. just ask thethat, 20 million more people who have health care today. just ask the marine who proudly with thes country husband he loves. democracy works. but we have got to want it. not just during an election year, but all of the days in between. that there's too much inequality and our economy and to much money and our politics, we all need to be as vocal and organized and persistent as bernie sanders's supporters have been during this election. we all need to get out and vote for democrats up and down the ticket and then hold them accountable until they get the job done. applause] mr. bonner: -- pres. obama: that is right, feel the burn. more justice in the justice system, then we all have got to vote not just for a president but for mayors and sheriffs and attorneys and state legislatures. criminal law the is made a hand we have got to work with police and protesters until laws and practices are changed. that is how democracy works. if you want to fight climate change, we have got to engage not only young people on college campuses but we have got to reach out to the coal miner who is worried about taking care of his family, the single mom if you about gas prices, want to protect our kids from gun violence, we have got to go for the vast majority of americans including gun owners who agree on things like that ground checks to be just as vocal and just as determined as the gun lobbyist who blocked change through every funeral that we hold. that is how change happens. look, hillary has got her share of critics. she has been caricatured as the right hand- by the by some on the left. she has been accused of everything you can imagine and some things that you cannot. [laughter] obama: but she knows that is what happens when you are under a microscope for 40 years. she knows sometimes during those 40 years she has made mistakes just like i have, just like we all do. that is what happens when we try. that is what happens when you are the kind of citizen teddy roosevelt once described, not the timid soul criticizing from the sidelines with someone who is actually in the arena errs butvaliantly, who who in the end knows the triumph of high achievement. hillary clinton is that woman in the arena. she has been there for us. even if we have not always noticed. interview are serious about our democracy, you cannot afford to stay home just because she might not align with you on every issue. the arenaot to get in with her because democracy is not a spectator sport, america will," itut "yes he can" and thatwe is what this is about. yes, we can. not yes, she can. not yes, i can. can." we there has been a lot of talk in this campaign about what america has lost. who tell us that our way of life is being undermined by pernicious changes and dark forces beyond our control. they tell voters there is a railamerica of their that must be restored. not an idea that started with donald trump, it has been peddled by politicians for a long time. probably from the start of our republic. and it got me thinking of the story i told you 12 years ago tonight about my kansas grandparents and the things they .aught me when i was growing up you see, my grandparents came from the heartland. began settling there about 200 years ago. i do not know if they had their birth certificates -- [laughter] pres. obama: but they were there. irish, mostly.h farmers, teachers, ranch hands, pharmacists, workers on the railroad. hearty fall. hearty folk. lincoln. explainedndparents people in these parts did not like show ups. they did not admire braggarts or bullies. did not respect mean-spiritedness or folks who were always looking for shortcuts in life. valued moret they traits like honesty and hard work. kindness. courtesy. humility. responsibility. helping each other out. that is what they believed in. true things. things that last. the things we try to teach our kids and what my grandparents understood was that these values were not limited to kansas. they were not limited to small towns. these values can travel to hawaii. could travel even to the other side of the world where my mother would end up working to help for women get a better life. trying to apply those values to live. my grandparents knew these values were not reserved for one race, they could be passed down to a grandson. half-asian granddaughter. and fact, they were the same values michelle's parents, the descendents of slaves, taught their own kids living in a bundle on the south side of chicago. low on then a on the south side of chicago. they knew this is what drew immigrants here. that the believed children of those immigrants were just as american as their own. whether they wore a cowboy hat or yarmulke, a baseball cap or a hijab. -- or a america has changed over the years. that to myalues grandparents taught me, they have not gone anywhere. they are as strong as ever. still cherished by people of every party. every race. every faith. they live on in each of us. what makes us american, what makes us patriots is what is in here. that is what matters. [applause] pres. obama: and that is why we can take the music and styles and holidays of other countries and blended into something uniquely ours. attractwhy we can strivers and entrepreneurs from around the world to build factories and create new industries here. our military can look the way it does. every shade of humanity forged in the common service. that is why anyone who threatens werealues whether fascists communist or jihadists or homegrown demagogues will always fail in the end. applause] a pres. obama: that is america. america, those bonds of affection. that common creed. we do not fear the future, we shape it. we embrace it as one people. stronger together then we are on our own. that is what hillary clinton understands. this states woman, this mother and grandmother. this public servant. this patriot. that is the americas she is fighting for. "] anting "hillary pres. obama: and if that is why i have confidence that the emigrant party is in good hands. -- and that is why i have confidence that the democratic party is in good hands. my office has not asked everything. as much as i have done, there is still stuff i want to do. but for all of the tough lessons i've had to learn, for all of the places where i have fallen short, i told hillary and i will tell you what has picked me back up every single time. it has been you. the american people. keep on myetter i wall from a survivor in ohio who twice almost lost everything to cancer but urged me to keep fighting for health care reform even when the battle seemed lost. .o not quit it is the painting i keep in my private office. the big-i'd green i will with blue wings made by a seven-year-old girl who was taken from us in newtown. even to me by her parents i would not forget. a reminder of all of the parents who have turned their grief into action. ownerthe small business in colorado who cut most of his own salary so he would not have to layoff any workers in the recession. because he said that would not have been in the spirit of america. it is the conservative in texas who said he disagreed with me on everything, but he appreciated likelike cam, i tried -- dad.i tried to be a good it is the courage of the young soldier from arizona who nearly died on the battlefield in afghanistan but who has learned to speak again and walk again and earlier this year step to the door of the oval office on his own power to salute a handshake my hand. it is every american who believes we could change this country for the better. so many of you. who have never been involved in politics who picked up phones and hit the streets and used the internet and amazing new ways i did not really understand but made change happen. you are the best organizers on the planet and i am so proud of all the changing you made possible. applause] president obama: time and again, you picked me up. and i hope sometimes i picked you up, too. tonight i ask you to do for hillary clinton what you did for me. i ask you to carry her the same way you carried me. because you are who i was talking about 12 years ago when i talked about hope. it has been you who fueled my and eighth and eighth in our fe even when the odds were great. even when the road is long, hope in the face of difficulty. hope in the face of uncertainty. the audacity of hope. america, you have vindicated last eight years and now i am ready to pass the baton and do my part as a private citizen. so this year and this election i am asking you to join me. reject cynicism, reject fear, some in what is best and us to elect hillary clinton as the next resident of the united states and show the world we still believe in the promise of this great nation. thank you for this incredible journey. let us keep it going. god bless you. god bless the united states of america. applause]d on ♪ [cheers and applause] announcer: c-span's washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up sunday morning, senior co-author of the 2016 almanac of american politics will join us to discuss where the presidential race stands after the national party conventions. theinstitute director at wilson center will join us about these suppose it hacking up dnc e-mails by russia and he will also discuss what the russians could of been looking for as well as what the election means for the future of u.s.-russia relations. be sure to watch c-span paz washington journal beginning at 7:00 a.m. sunday morning. join me discussion. announcer: the c-span radio app makes it easy to follow the 2016 election wherever you are. free to download from the apple app store or google play. read up-to-the-minute schedule information for c-span radio and television plus podcast time for our popular programs. stay up-to-date on election coverage. c-span radio app means you always have c-span on-the-go. announcer: on the final night of the democratic national election, hillary clinton formally accepted the party's nomination after being introduced by her daughter chelsea. before we show you that, here is another speech that same night i the father of a muslim american soldier who died from a suicide bomb 12 years ago while serving in iraq. [applause] announcer: please welcome kaiser khan from charlottesville, virginia. khizr khan from charlottesville, virginia. [cheers and applause]] [cheers and applause] khan: our thoughts and prayers are with our veterans and those who serve today. tonight we are honored to to of captainas parents and as patriotic american muslims. [cheers and applause] khan: and with -- "usa"] g mr. khan: as genetic americans with undivided loyalty to our country. patriotic americans with undivided loyalty to our country. like many, we came to this country anti-handed. we believed in american democracy and that with hard work and goodness of this in and we could share contribute to its blessings. to raise ourd wheresons in a nation they were free to be themselves and follow their dreams. had dreams of being a military lawyer, but he put hese dreams aside the day sacrificed his life to save the lives of his fellow soldiers. [applause] khan: hillary clinton was right when she called my son "the best of america." up to donald trump, he never would have been in america. trump consistently smears the character of muslims. minorities,ts other women, judges, even his own party leadership. he wants to build walls and banas from this country -- and ban us from this country. donald trump, you are asking americans to trust you with their future. you, have you even read the united states constitution? applause] khan: i will gladly lend you my copy. [cheers and applause]] -- mr. khan: in this document, equalfor the words " ." ortunity of law have you ever been to arlington cemetery? of prepaidthe graves patriots who died defending the united states of america. you will see all faiths, genders, and ethnicities. nothing andrificed no one! not solve our problems by building walls. selling division. division. we are stronger together in and we will keep getting stronger when hillary clinton becomes our president. applause] han: in conclusion, i ask every patriot american and muslim immigrant and all immigrants to not take this election lightly. applause] historic this is an election and i request to honor the sacrifice of my son and on election day, take the time to get out and vote and vote for the healer. vote for the strongest, most qualified candidate hillary clinton. not the divider. god bless you. thank you. applause] ♪ announcer: please welcome chelsea clinton. ♪ >> thank you. chelsea clinton: thank you. thank you. an honor, it is such for me to be here tonight. i am here as a proud american. a proud democrat. a proud mother. and, tonight in particular, a very very proud daughter. mark and i cannot quite believe it but our daughter charlotte's nearly two-years-old. she loves elmo. she loves blueberries. and above all she loves face timing with grandma. about to walk on stage for a debate or speech, it just does not matter. she will drop everything for a few minutes of blowing kisses and reading chugga chugga cho0-choo with her grandmother. our son is 5.5 weeks old. and we are so thankful that he is healthy and thriving and well -- we are little biased but we think he is just about the cutest baby in the world. a few i am pretty sure my mom shares. i spend asay that their mother i think about my own mother. my wonderful, thoughtful, hilarious mother. my earliest memory is my mom picking me up after i had fallen down, giving me a big had and reading me "good night known." moon.od night my memorymoment on, is regardless of what was happening in her life, she was always, always there for me. every soccer game. game.softball every piano recital. every dance recital. together at church and the local library. countless saturday spent finding shapes in the clouds, making up stories about what we would do if we ever met a triceratops. in my opinion, the friendliest-looking dinosaur although my mom would always remind me they were still dinosaurs. as a kid, i was pretty upset withdinosaurs -- obsessed dinosaurs and the day my parents took me to dinosaur national park i did not think life could get any better. whenever my mom was away for work which thankfully did not happen very often, she left notes for me to open every day she was gone. all stacked neatly together in a special drawer with a date on the front of each one so i would know which note to open on which day. when she went to france to learn about their child care system, i remember one was all about the eiffel tower. another was about the ideas she hoped to bring home to help the kids of arkansas. every oned each and of those notes. thatwere another reminder i was always in her thoughts and in her heart. growing up, conversations around the dinner table always started with what i learned in school that day. i remember one week talking incessantly about a book that , "aured my imagination wrinkle time." -- "a time," and only after then would they talk about what was consuming their days and keeping them up at night. education and health care. i love that my parents expected me to have opinions and be able to back them up with fact. doubted that my parents cared about my thoughts and my ideas. and i always, always knew how deeply they loved me. that feeling of the valued and oved. that is what my mom once for every child. it is the calling of her life. my parents raised me to know how lucky i was that i never had to worry about food on the table. that i never had to worry about a good school to go to. that i never had to worry about a safe neighborhood to play in. and they taught me to care about what happens in our world and to do whatever i could to change what frustrated me. what felt wrong. that is at me responsibility that comes with being smiled on by fate. are a little kids young, but i am already trying to instill the same values and them. there is something else that my mother taught me. public service is about service. as her daughter i have had a special window into how she served. i have seen her holding the hands of mothers worried about how they will feed their kids. worried about how they will get them the health care they need. i have seen my mother promising to do everything she could to help. i have seen her right after those conversations getting straight to work figuring out what she could do, who she could call, how fast she could get results. she always feels like there is not a moment to lose. because she knows that for that mother, for that family, there isn't. and -- lowve also seen her at the point like the summer of 1994. several people this work have talked about her fight for universal health care. i saw it up close. it was bruising. it was exhausting. she fought her heart out and as all of you know, she lost. for me, then 14-years-old, it was pretty tough to watch. amazing.m, she was she took a little time to replenish her spirits, family movie night definitely help. dad, as all of you now know, ikes "police academy." my mom and i love "pride and rejudice." and then she got right back to work because she believed she could still make a difference for kids. applause] mail thelinton: p plus time, how does she do it? i did she keep going a mid the sound and the theory of politics? how does she keep going a amid the sound and fury of politics russia mark curacao. because she never ever forgets who she is fighting for. worked to make it easier for foster kids to be adopted. 9/11 first responders to get the health care they deserve to. for women around the world to be safe, to be treated with dignity, and to have more opportunities. these, they are what ts like these,gh they are what keep my mother going. they grabbed her heart and her conscience and they never let go. that is who my mom's. she is a listener and a doer. is driven by compassion, faith, by a fierce sense of justice and a heart full of love. november, i am voting for a woman who is my role model as a mother and as an advocate. a woman who has spent her entire life fighting for families and children. i am voting for the progressive that will protect our climate our country -- our world from climate change and our community from gun violence. who will reform our criminal justice system and who knows that to women's rights are human and who knows that lgbt rights are human rights. here at home and around the world. i am voting for a fighter who never ever gives up and to believes that we can always do better when we come together and we work together. my children will someday be as proud of me as i am of my mom. i am so grateful to be her daughter. she is grateful that aidan'se and grandmother. she makes me proud every single mom, grandma would be so, so proud of you tonight. applause]d to everyone watching here and at home, i know with all my heart that my mother will make us president.r next this is the story of my mother hillary clinton. ♪ announcer: here is a woman. but dishy dream of? when does she feel proud? how many times will she leave her mark? up many ways will she lied the world? crack she is a wonderful infectious laugh that -- a wonderful, infectious laugh, that travels quite far. sometimes we will be surprised. a murtha that and sometimes the public does not see. i felt like she tried to soothe me. >> it was not about pictures or a big production, she just kind of showed up and she had a very simple message. do whateverd i will i can. and she would make good on that promise. >> i love to watch her. i can see the effect of her kindness and that it is real. >> hillary rodham grew up in park ridge, illinois. was a navyher father officer. >> my father was a chief petty officer at home as well as in the navy and he had the attitude that, don't whine, don't complain, do what you're supposed to do to your best ability. >> her mother dorothy was terribly neglected. she was on her own working as a housekeeper by the time she was >> she told me one time her parents left her overnight by herself. she was three or four years old. a set of coupons so she could go to the corner foodand gets food -- gets -- get food. this image of a little girl walking down the stairs of a walk-up tenement, out the door alone, to the corner, to the cafe, and getting food with coupons just haunts me. woman making her marks on the world. promising.ht and yet, extraordinarily, what is most striking about the young woman, is her heart.

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