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that states vote for hillary clinton. this is day three of the democratic national convention. for our opening segment we want to get your reaction to hillary clinton be nominated as the democratic party's standardbearer. women only for this first hour. 202-748-8000 for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. 202-748-8002 for independents. you can join the conversation on facebook.com/c-span. women only for this first hour as we talk about hillary clinton's nomination for president. let's check in with greta bronner in washington. -- greta brawner in washington. >> her husband tweeting out -- chelsea clinton saying -- hillary clinton had this to say be a twittevia twitter -- "wall street journal" front page this morning. hillary clinton will make history this week. women seem to be divided generations of women seem to be divided about whether it matters or not. women only this morning. what do you think? host: 202-748-8000 for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. 202-748-8002 for independents. let's begin with a call from right here in philadelphia. barbara, good morning. democrat. caller: i was really impressed with how they showed all the work that hillary has done. to me, it is not so much important that it is a woman being elected as it is a person of integrity. on my friends supported bernie. -- all my friends supported bernie. i stuck with her because i cap saying come i don't believe knowing what i know about her from watching c-span, reading the newspapers, just knowing that she wasn't what they kept saying, saying she is crooked -- she did a wrong thing with the e-mails, that is true. but it was proven she had no vicious reason to do it. it was just a stupid. host: did you learn some things about secretary clinton last night that you did not know? caller: absolutely. i thought that was the greatest show they did to show all these people, real people, explaining what she accomplished in her lifetime and wrapping it up with bill to go down the line and say this is who this woman really is . she is not a showman, she is not a what to doop-dee-do person. host: pat in dallas calling in on the republican line. caller: good morning, c-span. i really enjoy your programming every morning. no, i'm not impressed with hillary clinton. i'm old enough to know all the scandals. i feel like she got is in trouble while she was secretary of state. the clintons have taken millions of dollars and we don't know where they got it, exactly. nor am i impressed with donald trump, either did i don't even think -- donald trump, either. i don't think i'm even going to vote this time around. host: a woman got the nomination. is that significant to you? caller: no, because she doesn't have any integrity. i'm old enough i followed her from the time they went in the white house, back to arkansas. it doesn't change my opinion of her. host: betty in massachusetts. democrats line. caller: i loved it. i loved c-span, every single minute. -campaigning for persons 2008. -- i have been campaigning for her since 2008. even i heard things i did not know last night. it was wonderful. i stayed up and watched every minute last night. i watched bill's speech again this morning. she is our own homegrown mother teresa. i love her to pieces. she is so warm and so wonderful. i'm so proud of her and i'm so proud of the work i've done for her. i can hardly wait -- i love her to pieces. host: how did you get the opportunity to meet mrs. clinton? caller: i was lucky enough to be right in front and talk to her and shake her hand. i've been going all over. this woman who just called and said she has no integrity, when you hear these scandals, check it out, google it. they are nothing. they are just republican bull. she reminds me of joan of arc. she does all this good and the people just malign her. it breaks my heart. we are so lucky to have her. the garbage spewed about her breaks my heart heard it really does. host: margie in indianapolis. another democrat. caller: i just wanted to say that unfortunately as a lifelong democrat, over 30 years, i am not and cannot celebrate this. as a lifelong democrat, i'm embarrassed to say that i'm thinking about leaving the party. the way bernie sanders supporters have been treated and disrespected, the way through progressives have been treated is despicable, disgusting. -- the way true progressives have been treated is despicable and was disgusting. i will be throwing 100% support behind dr. jill stein of the green party. host: senator sanders played a role in saying let's go ahead and officially pass this nomination. what did you think of his role? >> bernie is a man of integrity. if he had to agree to what he had to agree to in order to run with democrats, if you are on the team, you have to play ball. it doesn't matter what he says. he has to do what he has to do. i am an individual i was a lifelong democrat. i will most likely be leaving the party after the dnc scandal. there is no way i can support this person or this party. they've lost me and they've lost thousands and millions of other democrats. host: linda in williamsburg virginia on our republican line. caller: good morning. i think her being selected as the democratic nominee for president shows just how much our values and our ability to discern what is going on in this country reveals. hillary -- it was on one of the stations, how much money she took from so many entities or speechefor speeches. she went to india and they gave her a huge amount of money for saying things that made them feel as though they could participate in our economy without any problems. she is a serial liar. to think that she did not know how to use her computer just defies rationality. its not the sex of someone you want to be president. it is the competence, the integrity and the transparency we want. people say, oh the first woman -- if you watch people at the convention, you can see that bernie was the all-around favorite and yet come at the last minute, they put pressure on those candidates to revoke their feelings and stand behind hillary and they held their nose and got her as the nominee. it is a sad day for this country. host: when you hear the term "breaking the glass ceiling," do you think that happened last night? caller: that is just a cliche. if you want to break the glass ceiling, have someone that does not lie who is a role model for our children and who stands up for what is right. and doesn't enable her husband to have numerous affairs. what kind of role model is that? he is so sexually improper. the glass ceiling is a cliche. i would vote for a woman that had integrity. host: stephanie in milwaukee on our independent line. hillary clinton, first woman nominated for president by a major party. caller: what was most impressive to me, not only that that historic moment happened but when the mothers who originally started the black lives matter movement took the stage and we saw the video of the original meeting -- that means it's something to me because one of those mothers is from my town. one of those shootings happened in my town. they did not do it in a way -- this is something i did not know about her in terms of the fact that she did not make it a campaign ad or use it as a letter to get people to give her money -- lord knows we get enough people asking us to support this, that. people spoke about how she talked to them as one mother to another. this is what is really frustrating when they keep talking about her integrity -- when i happen to be a lesbian at a time when we separate a very severe blow to our -- we suffered a very severe blow to our community she paid a visit that was not publicized in the media. she did not make it public. she chose to let the people in the meeting make it public if theyas they saw fit. the part that really made the whole breaking the glass ceiling and her -- i knew all the policy stuff. i know the stuff we hear about all the negative stuff. what i wanted to see was a genuine person and that's what i got. host: stephanie in milwaukee. joanne is a democrat in pittsburgh. want to show you the front page of "the post-gazette." what do you think about that? caller: i'm tickled with hillary clinton. i've loved her for years. she's the recipient of countless humanitarian awards. she is still standing, thriving and popular after two decades of relentless attacks from the media and conservatives. she is great. as a private lawyer, she chaired the american bar group -- the only senator to advise the defense department would you elected twice by the new york safety book -- she made arkansas one of the first dates to embrace early childhood education. she got congress to triple the budget of legal services to aid the poor. she was named multiple times as one of the most influential lawyers. she is great. host: have you been involved on a volunteer basis in the campaign? caller: no, i have not. except spread the news in my hometown. host: next up is alexis in wilmington, north carolina. independent. caller: good morning. i think we might see some change when hillary gets in. as an african-american, as a retired woman, as a mother of a gay woman married to a woman in the coast guard, which also needs to be upgraded socially -- my daughter in law cannot cover her hair but so much or she has crossed the line. rules that are meant to suppress rather than enhance. i'm hoping that she will change it. i'm glad bernie sanders stayed in the race. i voted for him. he and all his supporters will hold her feet to the fire as no one else can do because there is so much support theere. we have a chance to further women's rights -- this woman that was in her 30th week of pregnancy and found out her child was gravely abnormal can have an abortion and not be assaulted with accusations of murder. it is her life, her body. she's the one that has to make those decisions for herself. that is really important to me. she is not the lesser of two evils. these "females" they are talking about -- nobody's perfect. she could have been more up on her computer skills, but i'm sure she was focusing on the issues at hand. it was less than 1%. host: we are live on "washington journal." we will be in philadelphia all week. let's go back to washington. >> a follow up on yesterday's conversation with our viewers -- we mentioned gallup was out with new data showing hillary clinton unfavorables were at 58%. the numbers are equal to donald trump. they are both at 58% unfavorable. you can go through the weeks and see how those numbers have not changed that much going all the way through july for both of them. twitter has been putting together data on both the have not changed that much going all the wayrepublican convention in cleveland and now, this week in philadelphia. they said yesterday the most retweeted tweets was donald trumps when he put this out -- they also said the top speaker the most mentioned dnc speaker on tuesday was bill clinton. mothers of the movement came in number two, meryl streep and lena dunham as well. the top three moments, bill clinton concludes his speech the former president says you nominated the real one and meryl streep's comments as well. bernie supporters decided to walk out of the convention yesterday when the final votes were cast when bernie sanders did away with the rollcall vote. they held a sit in at the medium center. "the wall street journal" had this tweet with video -- ♪ >> there is also this from a cnn politics reporter. police in riot gear just inside the convention perimeter. this was about 7:00 30 last night. -- 7:30 last night. it bernie sanders supporter tweeted this out -- host: want to show you this tweet by wendy walker. next call is morgan in alabama on our republican line. good morning. hillary clinton got dominated last night. what do you think? caller: i think it's exciting that we finally have a woman but i have to say, i'm not a huge fan of her. i always considered myself a republican until bernie sanders came along. he does have republican supporters. i'm disappointed in the dnc. you can look at every single primary where she won, look at the exit polls that do not match the results. a margin of 2% of error -- the corporate media stop showing it. that is not ok. that is why i'm bernie or bust. the people who say we will cause donald trump to be elected is ridiculous because they know bernie was the only person polling higher than donald trump. if they were really concerned about donald trump being in office they would have not worked to fight against the one person who can save us. i think the dnc is corrupt i think hillary clinton is corrupt and she is not a good role model for millions of little girls and women. host: history was made last night, the democratic party nominated hillary clinton to be their standardbearer. judy in new york on our democrats line. caller: i'm very excited about hillary clinton. i was at my poll in the primary -- i love bernie. i cannot believe you continue to believe lies about hillary clinton. she is not crooked. there was a report about whitewater and all this nonsense, clearing the clintons. she made $625,000 making speeches -- who cares? this is not important. what is important as the supreme court, women's issues, civil rights issues. are you going to take us back to the caveman days? i'm more angry than the bernie -- with the bernie supporters. do some research. i had a girlfriend who told me she got fired from a job for unethical reasons -- it is all a bogus lie. do some research. you have the internet, people. don't believe articles written by people who have an agenda. read more than just one article. seriously. this is a woman who fought for women's rights and children's rights by whole life. i had the convention on all day. i'm impressed, even more so -- i'm from new york. she was my senator for eight years. i'm excited about a woman president. we need a different perspective and leadership. because the men have had the reins for thousands of years and look where it got us. the financial crash, war after war after war. do the right thing. go to the polls in november and vote for hillary clinton. host: there was a delegate from arizona last night on the floor that we want to show you. [video clip] >> i'm proud to be joined by -- age 102. arizona casts 34 votes for senator sanders. >> and 51 votes for the next president of the united states of america, hillary clinton. [laughter] [applause] host: she was born before women have the right to vote. independent line. what do you think, diane? caller: thank you for putting me on. am an ethical vegan. i'm registered as a republican. i go with whatever party -- i think it is great, what donald trump is saying, just wedding things out there, mixing things up. that's just putting things out there, mixing things up. but i cannot stand him. every day, he was in "the new york post" having to get himself out there. as far as hillary, i think it is great to have a woman president. i'm a big fan of the world peace guy -- veganism is of the feminine. i think it is wonderful that hillary has made it this far. but i'm voting for clinton roberts. he is a begin of the humane party. -- vegan of the humane party. i'm all for rights for everybody. but the animals are the key. what we do to the animals boomerangs back into the human arena. we castrate the cows, we can find theconfine them, we give them drugs. host: barbara in eastpoint michigan. democrat. caller: thank you. i don't know where to begin -- i never thought i convention could be exciting, but i could not turn it off. it's usually very boring speeches by very boring people but this has been real and real fun to watch. i really admire hillary clinton. i've been watching persons she first hit the stage with her husband back in 1992. -- i've been watching her since she first hit the stage. i can't believe what she is accused of -- she will do real well for the female population. the fact that i've been able to live long enough to see it -- i remember as a girl, you would go to the school counselor and you'd be told you could be a nurse or secretary or schoolteacher. they were never told that they could take power like she has done now. until last night, i did not know that she was as compassionate as she is. i've really enjoyed the convention. host: did you take those counselors' advise? caller: i got married. -- advice when you were a little girl? caller: i got married. girls were not told to be smart or ambitious. i'm 76. host: sharon in south carolina. republican. you have to turn down the volume on your phone. otherwise, we get a bit of a delay. let's talk to greta in washington. >> last night at the convention, terry mcauliffe spoke to the crowd. after his speech, he was interviewed by "politico." he was asked if she would change her mind. the clinton campaign quickly moved to negate that saying "love governor mcauliffe, but he got this wrong." "wall street journal" this morning -- the editorial this morning focuses on that. clinton's trade opportunism. she gets no benefit from trying to be "me too trump." donald trump seized on what happened yesterday with a picture of terry mcauliffe from that politico story. here is the front page of the "philadelphia inquirer" this morning. denise in texas. democrat. -- bernice in texas. democrat. caller: i'm happy hillary was nominated this time. i support her efforts. i've always been impressed with her from when she was in arkansas. i'm just across the border. the texas-arkansas border. we heard a lot in the news about the clintons. i remember hearing in the news as bill mentioned in his speech last night, one of the chairman had commented that it seemed they had elected the wrong clinton when she worked on the education program. i'm happy to see her win. i hope everyone will come out and vote for her as president. i don't expect miracles from a president. they have limited power, as evidenced by the way the republicans have fought obamas programs. they are still fighting it. i'm still happy she was nominated. host: peggy in california. independent line. caller: good morning to you. i think it is a sad day for the united states when both major parties have selected candidates with no integrity. i don't know how we got here. it is just a pity. it doesn't matter if you are a woman or man. what matters is if you have leadership skills, character and integrity. that is completely missing from this election. i've been following hillary for many years since 1992. i have not believed persons back then. the one thing that really bothers me is when she says she turned $1000 into $100,000 by reading "the wall street journal." to me, it has been scandal after scandal after scandal with the clintons and it just gets worse. we have to rethink her whole election process. what happened? these people are not for us, therefore corporate america. -- they are for corporate america. people respected bernie because he had integrity. you knew that bernie sanders was bernie sanders from the beginning. he's been talking about the same things since the 1960's. today, we are at this point -- ok, we are glorifying women crossing the glass ceiling, but to me, that is also diminishing other people too. host: jean in louisiana. good morning. caller: good morning, peter. please give me time to express my opinion because i'm pretty upset. this woman that just called speaking about bernie sanders -- you do not wait until your are 74 years old to start a revolution. you don't just talk, you act. i believe hillary has plenty of integrity. hillary has not lost me. i'm 72 years old, i am a black female, i love hillary just like a sister. she has worked tirelessly for over her lifetime for all americans. it is time for a woman to be president and hillary has earned this right to be president. cheney, rice and colin powell used a private e-mail server. i think cheney probably deleted 22,000 e-mails. it's nothing like women to doubt another woman -- i'm so disgusted. please come all these lies they've told on hillary over the years, it's just sad. women, you are just sad if you do not support this lady. host: tell us a bit about yourself. you self identified as 72 years old. jean? all right. pam in texas. republican. caller: i will try to make just brief -- her convention last night made her sound wonderful made her sound real, made her sound like she has a good drive, but we can all go through life and do good things and then slip and do one bad thing and then are no longer trusted. i'm a little disappointed that someone with her power would do anything to become president. it's disappointing to me -- i don't vote race and gender, i vote what is best for the country. i am a trump supporter. nobody's perfect. when her e-mails were deleted -- she just lies she will say one thing to someone and something else -- she is a million. -- she is a chameleon. host: here is a story that played out in philly but off the convention floor yesterday. politico reported about the alleged domestic abuse by alan grayson. here is the follow-up story to the original one. grayson implodes. the fallout from that story on domestic violence allegations was immediate and severe. the senate campaign began disintegrating tuesday. the fallout could have the effect of drying up hard to come by cash for the struggling campaign. he lost endorsements yesterday from democracy for america and the progressive change campaign committee. this moment captured by politico when alan grayson confronts one of their reporters at the democratic national convention. [video clip] >> hey congressman -- >> you are blocking me from leaving -- you are getting in my way. you are pushing me. i'm leaving. do you seriously think -- >> you showed up to a political event. >> i'm sick of people thinking that gives you a right to invade my personal space that she pushed me -- my personal space. you pushed me. >> why do you think your ex-wife is making these allegations? are they not true? host: that was alan grayson in philadelphia. "washington journal" is life from philadelphia -- live from philadelphia. we are hearing from women only for this first hour asking how they feel about hillary clinton being nominated for president. the knees in -- denise in durham , north carolina. caller: i believe your question was actually what i feel about hillary being nominated as president. i've heard a lot of answers that are absolutely not on course with the question that you asked. i have worked in the public sector over 48 years, i'm 69 years old. i'm registered as an independent. it has been difficult and close to impossible for me during my tenure in public service to rise to the top in the male-dominated society, so i applaud hillary no matter what has come her way no matter the accusations, no matter the personal drops she has had. she has stood the test of time. and devoted her life and her life's work to the service of the people. the accusations being lodged against her are so trivial and irrelevant. this woman has the ability to transform our nation and to move us forward like never before. if we are serious about maintaining the integrity of the united states, maintaining the safety of the united states keep in mind that hillary come as a contestant for the highest office in the country, in the world, hillary clinton has already proven that she is the professional that can and will do it and she is a woman breaking the glass ceiling commission it even better for my nieces and grandchildren -- glass ceiling making it even better for my nieces and grandchildren. it was hard for me to reach the top. to know that she has done that i know what a hard job that was. i hear things about myself and i thought people were talking about a different person. i'm proud of hillary's work, i'm proud of her accomplishments. based on the things michelle obama said the other night about this woman, i'm absolutely going to vote for hillary. i will maintain my independent status. however, i will be voting for hillary and supporting her in any way that i can. host: what are some of the issues that women face that perhaps men don't? caller: equity in jobs is the main thing women face. when i've gone out to apply for positions, i've always been one of the ones in the 300 applicant pool, maybe 20 women. it's always been a problem trying to stand up for your self and to have the ability to compete because men have dominated the playing field. one of the biggest things would be pay equity and equity in the workplace and also health care that affects people, affects women in business quite a lot when you don't have adequate health care for your children and your family it causes women to have to back down from progressive jobs and have to stay at home and take care of sick people or not be able to rise to the top as they could if they had the support of an effective health care system. host: barbara in rochester, new york. democrat. what do you think of our conversation this morning? caller: rochester is the hometown of susan b anthony and mr. frederick douglass as well. both of them stood for civil rights being women's rights and women's rights being civil rights. of course, it is a huge dramatic, wonderful moment that this woman has come this far. if the folks who are busy accusing this particular woman would do their history homework, they would discover that it took 72 years for women to get the vote and it was hundreds and thousands of -- hundreds of thousands of women working for all those years against the biggest odds and even today there are issues with women being able to vote comfortably. so, of course, it is a huge deal. susan b anthony, i'm sure, is thrilled and proud to see a woman finally nominated and it has taken all these years -- we cannot even get the vote until 1920. as far as hillary is concerned i think part of what is going on out there is the issue she is dealing with is so complex and politics being what it is, people will say anything to attack the other side. some of the things people are complaining about, they just don't fully understand. they are accepting the zippy things that idiot mr. trump has been putting out. i encourage everyone to do their homework about women's history and do their homework about hillary. host: that is barbara in rochester, new york. raleigh, north carolina. republican line. caller: i don't think it's the best thing in the world. it's been proven that she is a liar by the fbi director and of the people did -- and other people. both the clintons have lied. for someone who supports abortion -- that is wrong. it is the killing of innocent children. that is my opinion. we need to pray more and vote for the right candidate. we don't have much of a choice this year, but i have to vote for who is against abortion. thank you. host: audrey in philadelphia. independent line. caller: thank you for taking my call. i've been watching c-span for decades and i'm so grateful for you. this is my 10th presidential election. i'm absolutely ashamed that this woman is going to represent women in the 2016 election. the first time i heard of her was in 1992, i felt very sorry for her. the gop as hector unfairly. but by the time the clintons left in 2000, i was glad to see them go. they look picture-perfect, but every once in a while, the mask slips. -- i thought the gop attacked her unfairly. the black lives matter people the way they have been treated is terrible. they treated the burning people bernie people terribly. there's election fraud of the ya zoo and everyone ignores it. magically, two weeks before the end of the process, the exit polls, we quit doing that. the ap announces before the california vote that hillary already won it? i'm a librarian with a background in history. i know how to look into things. anyone who thinks this is all smoke and mirrors is wrong. the gop have done a disservice to this country because they have been so knee-jerk against the clintons and everything obama that when they have substantive evidence, no one believes them anymore. our system is messed up in so many ways and bernie sanders showed us the way out of it and he got cheated out of it. he should have been the nominee yesterday. host: have you participated in the protests? caller: it is so hot. but i will. host: thank you for watching c-span. cynthia in new mexico. democrats line. caller: thank you. good morning. i just wanted to comment -- standards for men and women have always been different. i'm 66 years old. the lady who talked about women try to get jobs that men have traditionally held and having to be a secretary -- i could never accelerate my career like a man. i hear these standards being applied to hillary from the very beginning of time and she is a female. if you really listen to the things of corruption, she is a liar, she is a cheap -- they are very personal attacks. you talk to me about policy and tell me where she messed up. what she has done as a senator and secretary of state that shows that she lied and cheated and everything else. let's talk about the lack of funding the republican congress would not even give her to do her job. they talk about people being hurt -- blame the republicans. i'm sick of these lies and sick of the fact that just because she is a woman, she is held to a different standard than men who have been cheaters and liars. i like bernie sanders, i followed him for a long time but i disagree that he believes the same lies that republicans have used to counter her from the very beginning. we have to stop listening to the propaganda and lies that have been thrown at the clintons and subsequently president obama. i hope women understand that men have to realize this woman is important. can we just stand together? i would really appreciate that. host: what did you think of bill clinton's speech last night? caller: i thought it was fantastic and i was hoping he would talk about all the things she has accomplished. when we continue this double standard, women judged differently than men. when men have done the same thing as hillary, different secretary of state -- secretaries of state have done the same things. stop this. host: catherine in new hampshire. independent line. what do you think about hillary clinton being nominated for president? caller: good morning. i will not be voting for her. i was a senator sanders person. since he did not get nominated for president, i will vote for another who happens to be a woman, jill stein. it is not male-female. it is issues. jill stein is more in line with sanders on the issues. thank you. host: that was catherine in north conway, new hampshire. "washington journal the washington journal is four hours long, we will be talking with delegates and radio post -- hosts, taking your phone call throughout the morning, and we will be getting news up dates from greta bronner in washington. >> that last caller just said she is voting for dr. jill stein because she is more in line with bernie sanders. that is the message that jill stein is taking to bernie sanders supporters and those protesters part of the black lives matter movement. here is a tweet. she addressed the crowd right outside the convention, listen to what she had to say. >> thank you jill. [inaudible] >> let me say thank you. >> then there is this from last night as well, at the democratic national convention, hunter walker saying i met this exceedingly polite program and he protester outside the barricade -- pro bernie protester outside the barricade. [inaudible] >> fusion together this data about the republican convention in cleveland versus the democrats gathering in philadelphia. the number of black delegates to speak in philadelphia, 1182. at the republican national convention, 18. a look back at hillary clinton over the years, bill clinton went year by year's -- went year-by-year in heat -- in knowing her. looking back over their years together, kind of amazing. bill clinton once looked like this and there is also this from when the two were younger. other clinton and bill clinton and brendan walls tweeting this out, a photo of hillary clinton and ryan moore speaking last night at the convention, and then there is this from the democrats 1997, hillary helps found the children health insurance program covering more than 8 million kids. then there is this from the elite daily.com website, the little girl letters to hillary clinton are inspiring and hilarious. >> some of donald trump's most vocal supporters might be changing their tune. >> there needs to be a force of freedom, and it -- it has to be these cute girls, then so be it. >> you might remember these girls from a truck rally in pensacola -- trump rally in pensacola. >> the data one of the members is thinking about suing donald trump. meditated -- were not reimbursed for travel costs to an event in iowa, but talk of a lawsuit is surprising giving the group's support for trump. >> he makes us feel safe and i think he would be a good president. >> he told the washington post what he has done to my group or what he has not done for my group does not necessarily making the worst candidate. . we still have to mull that over. before he was plotting a lawsuit, he was raising money to help anti-trump celebrities follow through with their promises to leave the country if trump were elected. he is not announcing the candidates entirely and says considering legal action is about showing the girls right from wrong by holding the campaign accountable. host: the washington journal is back live from philadelphia at the national constitution center. we are right across from independence hall. chris potter is a reporter with the pittsburgh post-gazette. if you were to write a headline about the last two days of this convention, what would it be? >> democrats struggling to breach the divide -- bridge the divide. there is a divide between hillary clinton and bernie sanders in terms of how much this party moves itself to the left. we have seen a running dispute going on between hillary delegates and sanders delegates. there is also a divide that the campaign has to bridge with the american people. there are still questions about hillary clinton on people's minds. host: what was the feeling in the arena last night? guest: it was a healthier feeling, less divisive than the day before on a lot of this sanders stuff. there was a walkout of about 200 delegates after ms. clinton officially won the party nomination. if you like they are trying to put this behind them, and that may be happening. host: as we continue our conversation on them at on the democratic national convention, the numbers on the screen divided by political affiliation. we will get to those right away. is the trajectory of this campaign similar to the trajectory of the cleveland republican campaign? -- the republican convention? guest: it feels different. i don't think going into cleveland, a lot of the concern that donald trump has had with his own base has been coming from more conservative voters and a big a lot of those folks were happy with this election and with vice president mike pence. on the other hand, mike pence's speech was overshadowed by ted cruz's like of endorsement. a lot of party leaders sat back convention out, including the bush family. hillary clinton is not in that position, the party leaders are right behind her. she is facing a different dynamic that donald trump was and we have seen tension in both of these conventions but they are coming from different places within the party. obviously the town is very different in cleveland, there was a lot of leaders betraying us and we are going to die kind of feeling, and here, i think we are seen with the democrats are putting out a more hopeful message. host: it has been rather optimistic. guest: the first night in cleveland, there were five speakers who had lost relatives in either benghazi or because of illegal immigrants which are a great concern for the donald trump campaign. on that first night of the democratic convention, we heard from immigrants themselves. the message in cleveland was these immigrants are coming to kill us and only first night of the democratic convention, the message was these immigrants are coming here to make a life. a big motive here in philadelphia has been trying to humanize not just hillary clinton herself, but some of these folks who have been a target of so much of the rhetoric in this campaign and putting them on stage and tell their stories and diffuse these attacks. host: the choice of tim kaine to be vice president. what does that project? guest: it projects something about hillary clinton, but she was to be seen as a steady and able hand. i don't think anyone was surprised. a lot of political leaders and folks in our world kind of knew him as a steady hand, maybe not the most exciting choice, but one that sort of shapes up or firms up the idea that you can be trusted with the white house. host: what was the reaction from the bernie sanders campaign? guest: less than enthusiastic. this is a guy who was just a week ago speaking warmly about the transpacific partnership. i think a lot of them saw this as an opportunity lost. and what to see a mike pence candidate -- candidate for the left, somebody who can shore up her progressive credentials and they did not get that. people seemed to think he was a decent person, personally, this election was more worrisome than this whole e-mail -- dnc e-mails, a lot of were disheartened by his selection so he has his work cut out for him. host: chris potter is with the pittsburgh post-gazette. liz in texas on the democrat line. caller: i am all right. host: go ahead and talk. caller: i have been listening to both sides, and i think it is time for women to be able to do the same thing as men because it is not been for a woman, they would not be a man so why would they all think that women are not able to do the same job? host: thank you. was there a lot of talk about the history making aspect of this convention? not just the speakers, but offstage? guest: you certainly heard that. part of what needed that was everybody knew. hillary clinton campaigned on your sort of -- on her sort of inevitability. a kind of sent in. the virginia governor spoke and said whatever else happens, this is the moment we did this and for a lot of folks, a kind of sunk in. it was affecting, even though we knew this day would come. the trump campaign would say donald trump has put women in positions of leadership within his companies, his daughter is a very close advisor, has a very high-profile spot, but this was a big moment for democrats and a big moment for democratic women. my mother-in-law was very excited last night by these developments, something she and a lot of other people have been waiting for. host: a bit of a side issue, but why did south dakota give the honor of putting hillary clinton over the number of delegates -- get the honor of putting hillary clinton over the number of delegates? guest: i am not aware of any south carolina conspiracy, but obviously brought past so it can be the last one to announce and bernie sanders could have this honor and take a step toward healing the party much as hillary clinton did in 2008. host: john in pennsylvania, republican. caller: i appreciate c-span. i thought it was rather ludicrous to have bill clinton who did not have sex with that woman, a liar promoting a liar, and people i felt bad for were senator sanders and his backers. it was already in the bag, no doubt about it. i really feel sorry for those people. if they could have done the same thing to donald trump, they would have, but they could not because they did not have superdelegates and they did not have the whole stand going on with people that are supposed to be neutral on the committee pushing more than their finger, door -- their whole hand on the scale toward hillary clinton. host: that is john in pennsylvania. chris potter, bernie sanders made the rounds at all the delegate breakfasts. he spoke on the floor. what to his supporters think about this? -- do his supporters think about this? guest: scores of his supporters walked out after the nomination. one of them was 18 years old and this was her first campaign. there were tears in her eyes and she said bernie sanders cannot say this publicly, but he knows why they are out here. it's not about him, it's about me and my children. i was struck that 18 for already thinking about the effect on their kids. -- that an 18-year-old was already thinking about the effect on their kids. they were hurting in the bernie sanders camp and there were some reasons that the caller alluded to, the feeling that the thumb was on the scale. one reason they were not more upset about the e-mail scandal was it not tell us anything we didn't already know. we always kind of suspected this was going on. against that, it is not clear what these e-mails really do tell us. it is not as if the stratagems that word bandied about between the staffers were actually deployed as far as i can tell. i don't know how surprising it is that bernie sanders, although he caucuses with democrats has been an independent democratic socialist throughout his political career. doesn't surprise me that people who work in the democratic party are little hospitable -- hostile to somebody who runs of the democrat but has not paid his dues, per se? the superdelegates, there is a lot to talk about with them. i think the case has to be made that clinton did have more votes in these primaries. bernie sanders did the best and caucus states which are themselves somewhat undemocratic and a small sense of the word. there was a chance on monday night outside the arena -- chants from bernie sanders supporters on monday night saying show me what democracy looks like. a clinton backer walked by and said it looks like 70 million votes. host: what is the legacy of the bernie sanders voters? guest: -- this may be different. one of the things you have to say is that bernie sanders always said this was a movement bigger than him, and it turned out to be true, even to his peril or regret. he is talking about, let's get together and get a mechanism together for really endorsing good, strong progressive candidates and it will be very interesting to see where that goes because one thing we can see is in this party, there is a strong move to the left. host: jimmy is in alabama independent. caller: hillary is number one in my book and i hope she wins and i hope and pray that everybody in the united states gets up and votes because if we don't, the way the other man is talking, he is saying take the country back, take it back from who? host: anything you want to add? guest: that is the tension and that is what we have seen at this convention is, this is the face of the america to come. it is more diverse, a lot of them speak spanish, there is been a lot of bilingualism on the floor, and this is the america that we hope to be a part of as democrats and we hope to lead as democrats. polling suggests pretty broadly that donald trump's biggest supporters are among working-class whites and certainly where i live in southwestern pennsylvania. in hillary clinton, they are clearly trying to put people forward on who are immigrants, like the nine-year-old girl that first night. here are the people you republicans have been talking about, here are the people that are the face of this rapidly increasing america. host: the clinton came campaign -- kaine campaign will be making a stop in your area. guest: that is right, i intend not to be there because i need a nap. they will be speaking. she has an address on friday after this convention wraps up. i think your moving on to scranton and then they will head out to western pennsylvania and we will see a lot of attention from both of these candidates, because that is considered a key battleground. host: donald trump and mike pence are both in scranton today and that will be live. they will be live on c-span two and 3:00 is afternoon. judith, democrat line. caller: thank you for giving me the opportunity. i just want to say, i am for hillary. i watched hillary with all her campaigns, donald trump, can't people see what he is about? he does not have one bone of love in him and i am almost 70, i am african-american in i am a democrat, and i will vote for hillary because i believes -- i believe she stand with this country and she will make a wonderful president of the united states. guest: i certainly understand why people came away like that. mr. trump tried to address some of those concerns and he did try to go out of his way as a president, i will think about every move i make and how it will affect the prospects of young men in ferguson and baltimore and places where there have been tensions between the police and the community. he also makes outreach to the lgbt community he was trying to take some of the edge off of that image is the sort of constantly belligerent bellicose guy and i guess it did not work, but that is something i expect you to hear more of in the days ahead. host: is it easy to get into a bubble in philadelphia? forget there is larger world out there? guest: for sure. absolutely, one of the things one of the perils of doing this job is precisely that. i talked to a lot of people after donald trump gave that speech and a lot of them were just oh my gosh, this constant negativism. you want to offer people hope and this will appeal to his base, but not the broader electorate. . polling within a days after that, he did make some inroads so it is very difficult to tell the way something feels in a room is different than the way it translates on television, and i did think it is something you really have to watch out for. this is only my second convention, the first one having been last week, so -- i think that is definitely a peril we tried to be mindful of. host: republican line, laura, go ahead. caller: i feel that it is shameful after all the lying that hillary and bill have both been caught in, that they can obviously -- honestly even be elected. i feel like maybe some she pulled -- some sheeple are involved. i feel like a caller earlier consultant mother teresa by comparing her to hillary. i feel like bernie's sold out -- bernie sold out. i'm going to pull in old donald here and say that watching and seeing hillary's outfits and i think she looks like dr. evil. guest: i would not be qualified to make judgments on other people's fashion choices there was a good question which is what was bernie sanders thinking when he endorsed her and make it is very clear that -- none of these folks want them on trump to be the president, none of them, and you get into a conversation about well, if you vote for jill stein, doesn't that count as if oprah donald trump? there is an argument about that, but none of these folks want that to happen, and senator sanders has taken pains to kind of try to channel some of the feelings of his supporters. they could've done something on the floor that would have been much more disruptive of the proceedings, but they walked out, and some of them have told me, we are mindful of how this gets perceived. this is a very media savvy bunch of folks, some of these younger sanders supporters, so they are very mindful of not wanting to do anything that hurts that helps donald trump and that is one of the things a lot of these folks are thinking about. host: have you covered any of the rallies or protests? guest: i was inside the convention center yesterday and generally speaking, this is not chicago 68 and cleveland even less so. i am not surprised there has been more activity here. pittsburgh posted in 2009 and -- you sort of need an indigenous population of activist to really host something like that, and pittsburgh just is not have that many people in that category and cleveland is not either. philadelphia may be a bit more of a situation. i'm not surprised that there is more of that going on, but so far, -- i can only go on what i have seen and i think the police have done a good job and i have heard the police say some nice things about how well the whole thing has been. host: susanna in massachusetts, democrat caller: -- democrat. caller: mr. sanders explicitly stated to -- in favor of maybe even this clinton's candidacy is a bit odd. all the attempts and complaining seem out of place. mr. sanders did vote for the iraq liberation act of 1998. it was passed by an act of congress and signed by mr. clinton. it was unanimously consented to in the senate. it goes into detail on why iraq needed liberating. when mr. bush and the executing on this, all this about it was terrible and how mr. sanders did not vote for it, it is disingenuous. i have been bugged by this for quite some time, so i'm glad i can bring this up. mr. sanders did vote for the iraq liberation act of 1998. guest: that caller knows more than i do. host: next call, steve in new orleans, independent. caller: good morning. what i want to say and talk about -- republicans keep proclaiming they have emily values. -- have family values. [inaudible] the news does not talk about it you keep covering up all of these things. how can we stand in the world and tell the world we are number one? host: chris potter. guest: i cover the caucuses in iowa and that was the kind of thing you heard from a lot of folks. how can this guy be the champion of the party of values? on the other hand, even in iowa one of the few states where donald trump kind of underperformed, there were even difficult votes going for him and i ran that -- i crossed paths with a very prominent fate leader and i asked how do you explain this? he said he thinks a lot of faith-based voters at this point just feel from the past two administrations and the past two terms of barack obama, they are just so aggravated that they want to blow things up, and i think there is a posture here that people are responding to, more than anything about the candidate's biography. -- all these issues and maybe he is not the best position person to talk about this marriage per se but there is a posture here that i think a lot of people are kind of responding to and that may speak to as much as anything else. host: is there anything we don't as an american public know about hillary clinton or donald trump at this point? guest: i think the fear is that there might be. one of the things that has been going on in philadelphia has been running these quotes from donald trump in the past few months. here is him mocking a new york times reporter with a disability. here is him mocking john mccain as a pow. here is an saying terrible things about women. they are doing that a lot and i understand, it makes for great commercial. the question is, is that they can, do people know that about him? a lot of supporters say that is just donald e and donald -- being donald. similarly with color clinton both of them have high negatives at this point and that is the dynamic you are seeing, both of them are spending their conventions just kind of talking trash on each other. host: raymond in california democrat, go ahead. caller: thank you for taking my call. i have a statement about the rnc. i want to know why mr. trump has taken donations from the rnc and putting them in his pocket. he is supposed to be creating jobs. this is the perfect situation where he could create jobs. he takes the rnc money and puts it back in his pocket by using his own planes and his own hotels. he could contract that money out to create jobs to put in other people's pockets, but rather he would -- but no, he would rather put it in his own pocket. ms. clinton is creating jobs, lying wherever she has to fly by putting the dnc money from her donations and giving it to people to create jobs. that is total hip chrism -- that is being a total hypocrite on donald trump's part. he could be giving up money to other people, but he is putting it in his pocket. guest: there were some reporting a month or two ago about just how much money is being spent by the trump campaign was going to his club -- club down in florida or the trump tower. he has employees too. certainly some people have noticed that the trump properties are getting a lot of business from the campaign. host: tom in ohio, independent. caller: thanks for taking my call. as a republican right now and a donald trump supporter, we are so happy that hillary showed her poor judgment again by selecting tim kaine as a running mate, who will do absolutely nothing for the progressives in that party. i think those trump is going to get the white house because she is so vindictive about bernie telling the truth about herich she had all well hit -- hidden. all he has to do is run ads for the state department and the fbi found out that she was a liar. i think we're looking at a donald trump presidency and thanks again hillary for being mad at burning. -- matt at bernie. host: why are you a donald trump supporter? caller: the systems are rick and we need to make a statement that we cannot go on with the same politics as usual. he will make mistakes, but i don't think four years of donald trump is going to destroy the country and our party is going to be so much better for it. i am pretty upset with the way the party is running. the party of no just does not work for me, even though i am a republican. you have to work with people and i think he is going to work better than the congress we currently have in the people in power right now are absolutely obstructing some pretty good things this country needs. guest: four years of donald trump want to destroy the country ought to be a bumper sticker -- won't destroy the country ought to be a bumper sticker. i don't pretend to have any special access to the class -- clinton campaign deliberations. in 2008, she was able to put aside what were by all accounts some serious reservations about barack obama and really support his candidacy, so i don't know how much personal animosity is motivating this. let's remember there are other factors. you pick a vice president for a variety of reasons. tim kaine from virginia, which is a swing state in a way that vermont is not. it has a democratic governor, so if you got elected, you have another democrat appointing a democrat. there are a lot of factors that go into a decision like this. i do think that while she has created some opportunities, she has created some problems with the bernie sanders base. she has a big job tonight in reassuring these disaffected progressives. host: has he been making the rounds at all? guest: after this, i'm going back to my big delegation where he is speaking to the pennsylvania delegate -- delegation for its breakfast. you asked about tim kaine -- he will be -- bernie sanders will be speaking to our delegation, but tim kaine will be making the rounds. i suspect we will be seeing a lot of him in pittsburgh and pennsylvania as well. host: have we heard when hillary clinton is coming to town? guest: i have not personally, but i am running around. host: after you cover the breakfast with senator sanders what is next? guest: i might take inept. part of my consciousness -- we will be paying attention to the senate race. a very high-profile senate race here in pennsylvania. a serious challenge from the democrat, so we will be paying attention to that, and tonight's speech is, barack obama will be huge, also vice president joe biden. host: the convention starts at 4:00 today. what time will you try to get down there? guest: probably earlier than i have before, just to get a decent seat. i have been getting in around 6:00 or 7:00 because i have been doing other stories, but the day i hope to get in there, early. host: what is the process getting in like? guest: i found it easier than cleveland, although i guess mileage may vary. i have been taking the subway, which is very handy. you jump off the subway, you get one of those barcode scanners that gets u.n. and they walk you through security. it has not been a difficult process. -- that gets you in and they walk you through security, it has not been a difficult process. they are still using tokens, which blows my mind. host: the wells fargo center is four miles south of where we are. chris potter's with the pittsburgh post-gazette, thank you for being here. coming up next is a roundtable of delegates and activists. two people you want to introduce you to, one is with the nurses union -- that is later, we will be talking to the union people. these are activists who both spoke on the convention floor, yesterday and we will talk with them in just a minute. first, john mcardle, with a california delicate -- caught up with a california delicate -- delegate. >> uninteresting work history including some projects that you worked on that our viewers would know about. >> from the design side or from the fix it afterward side? probably one of the most interesting was the port authority of new york and new jersey. after the 1993 bombing, they asked me to come in and study and find out what could be done to make the facilities safer if some idiot came up with an idea like that again. >> this was in your capacity as a construction engineer? >> my best-known specialty is contaminant movement within buildings such as smoke during a fire. they want to know -- they wanted to know how to keep holding safe and get everybody out all at once. we looked at it to see how with the smoke move throughout the building, where the fire were -- fire was an temperature conditions, wind conditions, and find out how we could isolate it to limited areas, so people would have time to escape. we tried, but we did not anticipate what happened in 2000. >> everyone has a story about where they were on 9/11, but can you talk about yours? >> i was just getting into my office because i always started early. i heard about it and i turned it on and i saw was going on and immediately called the chief of the fire department in manhattan and said get your people out of there because i knew the building intimately enough, i knew that it was coming down. i lost friends in that building and it is hard for me to talk about it. >> it was not just the twin towers you worked on, you also work another buildings -- worked on other buildings. >> the marriott, i did the fit out on behalf of larry silverstein. also world trade center six might have been seven. six was the customs house. >> how do you become a delegate? -- did you become a delegate? >> i was dialing phones for jfk. i always sat in the bleachers and watched what went down on the floor. this time because i considered it and it -- and existential episode in politics, i decided it would be more important for me to be down here where i could negotiate with folks from bernie's side of the world and make sure we came together one way or the other as a unified group. >> do you think what you -- do you think you have accomplished what you set out to do this cycle? >> i never cap my chickens before the eggs have hatched. you cannot out guess what people are going to do, all you can do is lay the facts in front of them, be as persuasive as -- persuasive as possible and wait for them to make the decision. >> water you're going to do after thursday? >> i'm going to go home and work my ass off to make sure hillary gets elected. this country cannot live with the kind of thing that donald trump would bring. this cannot be a place of hatred and division. that is not what we are about. we have to come together. >> thank you so much. host: preamble to the constitution is written on the outside of the national constitution center, which is where our studio in philadelphia , and we are back with two activists and convention speakers. how do you get invited to speak at the convention? guest: there is still an air of mystery to it all, so i don't pretend to know every detail about how i got this incredible honor. as i understand it, someone from the campaign reached out to the deputy director and chief counsel at juvenile law center's , a national nonprofit where i work, and asked for her help in getting names of young people who were doing good work in philadelphia, specifically young people doing work on behalf of kids, and i said of course, i am a hillary supporter and i would be happy to help, so i gave my name and someone from the campaign called me and we had a lovely conversation. i never in a million years what have thought it would lead to actually speaking at the convention. that was not on my radar at the time. i thought they were putting some kind of display together of philadelphians doing work at the constitution center. someone called me two weeks ago to say i had been given this amazing opportunity. my jaw literally dropped. it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, very exciting. host: walk us through what it was like yesterday. guest: it started off stressful because my driver who was supposed to take me to the rehearsal, there must have been some kind of miscommunication because the driver never arrived and i missed the rehearsal. there was an incredible team working behind the scenes to get me there on time. i did eventually arrive, obviously. it was surreal, being with so many humbling people, from celebrities to trayvon martin's mother. i saw her and meryl streep meet, and that was absolutely awe-inspiring. to be two feet away from that was really pretty amazing. of course, to be chosen to represent children's issues, i am just so proud that our democratic nominee for president has worked her entire career on these issues, it is one that i have been focused on, that juvenile law center has been working on with many colleagues in the field to improve access to quality opportunities and fair treatment for young people in the child welfare and juvenile justice system. host: anton moore, how did you get involved? guest: i received a phone call from the campaign and they said we want to use you for a newspaper article. i said no problem and they said tell us about what you do and send us your bio. i volunteered at my church, i received a phone call saying we have some good news for you. they said we want you to speak at the democratic national convention. they said they were vetting me for the event. i was speechless. the last two weeks have been crazy, because we have been doing interview after interview. host: what is that work you have been doing that caught their eye? guest: we deal with gun violence prevention. we set up different clinics invest in education. we have different people in the community doing mediation mentoring, all of those different things. they said when you bring a large group of people together, out on the ground doing the work. host: how did you get involved? guest: i come from radio and tv and eight years working at other networks. it was funny because i was working five days a week and it was like living my neighborhood and i would always come back and hear about somebody who got shot and killed and it weighed on me and i said i have to start something. host: we are in center city, lovely touristy, is your neighborhood like this? guest: no. we have some areas that are good, some that are bad. there is a disconnect between neighborhoods and center city. what is going on in center city, people within the neighborhood do not understand. it is tough getting down here, even the resources said, but they never reach the community and that is something we need to deal with as a city to help with the poverty rate. host: kate, same question, is your group -- do you feel disconnected from the establishment? guest: from the establishment, meaning who? host: anything, the government, the elite, what is called the elite. guest: i am in a really fortunate position. as a lawyer, to be all to tap into the system is a little more, i think that is part of the training -- to be able to tap into the system a little more, i think that is part of the training. -- to make change that we then hope will come down and actually have a meaningful impact on the ground with the communities we are trying to help. we also need to make sure that all of our policy work is informed by actual experiences of people who are affected by our work. one of the ways we do that is we have two youth engagement programs. that is a group of young people either currently or formerly in the foster care system or juvenile justice system who want to learn to make a change in those systems and we work with them to gain advocacy skills and a campaign of their choosing, so we can help connect them with policymakers and bridge that gap to communities and government institutions that can seem distant. host: what is a change you would like to see occur? guest:. there are so many one of the things that juvenile law center is working hard to do is eradicate solidarity -- solitary confinement of juveniles. essentially, this is something that is bad enough that we do to adults where we hold adult prisoners in a cell by themselves, but we are doing it to children and it essentially amounts to torture. these are kids, many of whom have mental health issues already and there is research that shows keeping kids in solitary confinement is not helpful or productive or rehabilitative. it is psychologically damaging to them. host: anton, what is a changeable like to see affected in philadelphia? guest: -- a change you would like to see affected in philadelphia? guest: the mayor proposed is unity schools and if you deal with the substance abuse problem, somebody doing with mental health, you can have that growing community. if somebody needs services, you can have it right in the community. philadelphia is rated number one in large cities that the poverty, but a large problem is the resources said in center city and city hall and not -- and does not reach the communities. host: are the gun laws in philadelphia strict, morse strict -- more strict than the state? guest: no. -- is the problem we are facing, and i was able to do some research. you have a lot of people who travel outside the state and make purchases and then come back into the city, and then sell them to young men and that is a hot -- how a lot of guns get into the hands of 16 and 17-year-olds. host: we have two activists and convention speakers with us. let's take some calls. let's see what marie in florida has to say. caller: hello. host: we are listening. caller: i wanted to call people's attention to what article in the new yorker that was written by that'll trumps ghostwriter -- donald trumps ghostwriter -- trump's ghostwriter. it said that he has a short attention span and had to set up an interview so that he could follow donald trump around host: -- thank you -- around -- host: thank you. what is your opinion of donald trump, anton? guest: he is arrogant. he is willing to say anything to get past an interview and he is very dismissive. host: let's talk to eric in new york. caller: thank you for taking my call. it is a great program as usual. i am in the first congressional district, and the convention itself, behold thrust of it is only president and the president alone. i can understand -- i don't understand why more time could be dedicated -- there is a movement from turning red to blue and having the democrats become the majority party, and i think the democrats would be better to spell it out and talk about the congressional power. i wonder if your guests could support that or if that is going on behind the scenes. i have an interesting scenario that i think could help sustain the bernie sanders movement. simply, let's suppose bernie sanders resign from the senate. the single candidate from vermont became appointed to the senate by the governor and ran for congress with nationwide support and would dictate red to blue. i wonder if that is going on, and if you're just the delegates was part and like that idea. host: are you a political activist on top of your work, kate? guest: i prefer to stick to the issues as opposed to trying to pick a party, necessarily, to follow. i support hillary because i think she will do a better job on the issues that i think are important for our country. to the caller's point, there is a need for having some kind of ability to get things done in washington. whoever becomes the president cannot do it alone, but there is a lot the president is able to do through executive actions. regardless of what happens within the senate and the house it is important that we have the right person in the white house. president obama has been able to do what i think are great policies through executive actions. he put through guidance packages to make schools -- to make school discipline more fair, to ensure that young people who are incarcerated get access to quality education. even without having all democrats across the board in the legislature as well as the white house, i think that the president will be able to get a lot done. host: how is the juvenile law center funded? guest: we are nonprofit. i am speaking on behalf of myself as a private sin -- private citizen. we are funded through private donors and foundations. host: do you get government money? guest: not that i know of, though i do not think we would be opposed if the right grant came through. we are funded through individual generous people who think it is important to make a change for young people in foster care. host: what is a typical day? guest: for me, it involves a lot of talking with our partners. both the young people we are trying to work with and serve that also other advocates, policymakers meetings to explain to them why they should care about our issues. we have been doing a lot of drafting. i have been doing a lot of work around implementation of the every suit -- every student succeeds act, which replaced no child left behind and makes sure the act does its job of serving youth who have been disadvantaged in their education. lots of meeting, lots of calls then every once in a while, you get an unusual day like the ones we have been having over the past few weeks, where i have had the opportunity to meet with people like you and speak at a convention. host: anton, how is unity in the community funded? guest: we have private donors and volunteers. host: no government money? guest: no. host: what is a typical day for you? guest: freelance reviews and stuff like that. i go to schools and speak, i may make some phone calls and write some letters, engaging in community and feeding the homeless, mentoring young kids. it can be a pretty crazy day. host: you have received the president's volunteer service reward. guest: the commission advises the governors -- the governor on issues affecting the african-american community, so we make recommendations to the governor and his team. one recommendation that i have given the governor, and i think that the pardon process in philadelphia takes way too long. there are a lot of ex offenders who have felonies that have been doing the right thing for 10 or 15 years, and they want to change. they still have felonies on their records and i think we need to be able to speed up the process. host: what is your biggest frustration? guest: my biggest frustration is government not working for the people. you have grants, resources, but they are not reaching the communities they are supposed to reach. you do not see a lot of the community there because they are not hosting within the community. they do a horrible job in marketing in the city of philadelphia, and i am hoping mayor kenny can get approval. host: mary, republican line. please go ahead. caller: i was trying to think of what is missing in schools where most kids spent most of their lives is religion. even just even knowing the 10 commandments, that that is a possibility to have that instituted in a public school. that is one thing money cannot do. i think if they live it and they hear it every day they might institute that in their lives and in their children's lives. host: kate burdick, you mentioned that you work in the education field. what about her specific thought but also her remark about it is the mind, not the money. guest: you know, i think our constitution requires separation of church and state, so i do not believe that religion should be taught in school, but of course respect every family's right and child's right to practice their religion in their own way, so i think you raised a good point that that can be really meaningful for some people. in terms of it is not the mind it is a money -- i think we need to put our money where our mouth is a little bit. we are funding prisons at a much higher rate than we are funding our education, and so i think that starting in pennsylvania, we need more funding and we need that across the country to make sure our young people are getting the access to education they need. education is the lifeline to improving opportunities. host: anton moor, you mentioned that you volunteer at your church. what about mary's suggestion about the 10 commandments? guest: i agree. i think you should separate the two a lot of times. when i was a young kid growing up and i would go to church, i would ask some of my muslim friends, and some people would tease my muslim friends. host: where did you grow up? guest: south philadelphia. host: what is south philadelphia like? guest: it is a diverse area now. back in my time, it was heavily african americans who lived host: in the area. is it a success -- who lived in the area. host: is it a successful area? guest: like anywhere, there were problems. lack of resources, job training, a lot of people are struggling. host: kate burdick, you graduated from brown, magna cum laude. you worked for a u.s. district court. guest: right over there. host: you volunteered at an orphanage, taught at a school in guatemala. could you today be a corporate lawyer? could you come to the national constitution center, teach the constitution? guest: i think those are two pretty different things. i do enjoy teaching, so perhaps the latter. i think there are many wonderful corporate lawyers who are pro bono partners who are able to continue making a difference in the community. for me, i need to do this as my full-time job. my passion is improving outcomes for people, for young people. i think our society has really failed them, and we have a moral obligation to make a difference for them. for me, that is what i have chosen to do as my full-time profession. but i do not disparage other people who made different choices. host: where did you grow up? guest: outside boston. host: what did your parents do? guest: my father is a legal aid lawyer. it is a huge factor in my going into public interest law understanding that it is a satisfactory career but a career where you can truly help people. my mother is absolutely amazing. i/o her everything. she is a journalist -- i owe her everything. she is a journalist and educator on top of being the best mom. host: anton moor, your parents? guest: my mom works for the department of environmental services. host: hi, just in. caller: thank you for taking my call. i think a good woman president is what is needed in this country because the men have been messing it up for so long. hillary clinton is not the right one, and people need to stop voting with the heart because it is a woman president. we need a strong leader in this country. this country is not safe. this country has not been safe since obama and the clintons have been in charge. i would love to know who is protecting the clintons, between bill clinton who cheated on his wife and nafta, and now hillary with all the mess she is doing with the e-mails. it is ridiculous who is protecting these two people. host: any comments for that caller? guest: are you saying that donald trump is the right guy for the job? host: he is gone. guest: you know what, it comes down to credibility and experience. and i think hillary clinton has the experience to lead the united states of america. and donald trump is incredible. host: last comments? guest: i think donald trump is full of hate and is not the person to move our country forward. host: k kate burdick with the juvenile law center. anton moor. both speakers, you can go to c-span.org, type in the names, and you can watch them speak on line if you did not see it live yesterday. thanks for coming by. two hours to go in this morning's "washington journal." we will turn our attention. we want to talk about the e-mails and all the reports coming out, including "the hill" newspaper, "the new york times," president obama being asked about her come about the e-mails and the potential connection to the russians. we want to get your reaction to that. we will do some other things during this next hour, but that is where we are going to start. we are going to begin by talking with greta broader in washington. greta: the delegates are up this morning, gathering for their breakfast. these conventions, they get unannounced visits by high-profile democrats. vp nominee tim kaine, listen to what he told them. mr. kauiine: i have a feeling i will be talking to them at a theater near you, all across florida. and to elect our great president, hillary clinton. greta: the senator from virginia also swung by the iowa delegation breakfast a tweet from zach, a delegate in that state. tim kaine is in the house. bernie sanders also making the rounds this morning. he gave a surprise visit to the massachusetts delegates. listen to their reaction. [cheers and applause] greta: he also swung by the washington state delegate breakfast this morning. just tweeted out by a washington delegate this morning, bernie sanders at the podium talking to the delegates. then there is also this from a des moines register reporter about the iowa breakfast. iowa gets two castro brothers for the price of one. joaquin was scheduled but his brother was not. there was also a tweeted picture of the vice chair, who apologize on behalf of the dnc to the iowa delegates about those e-mails. and here is this from c-span, a look at bill clinton's speeches over the years. he has spoken at 10 conventions. you can take a look at the length of time. his speech last night was 42 minutes. this is how it compares to his past speeches. "the washington post" has a piece about bill clinton's speaking over the years, and they say that the results over the years have shown him at his best and worst. he was humiliated while delivering the keynote speech for michael to coccus in atlanta in 19 -- for michael dukakis in atlanta in 1988 he droned on so that -- his own acceptance speeches had only a few memorable lines. "believing in a place called hope" in 1992, "building a bridge to the 21st century" in 1996. the power and simple clarity that president obama could not summon. if you want to watch bill clinton's convention speeches over the years, you can find them all on c-span.org, along with other speeches we have covered. for our next conversation with all of you, there is this story in "the new york times" with the headline "why security experts think russia was behind the dnc breach." let me read the first couple of paragraphs. greta: back to peter in philly for our questions and conversation with our viewers about dnc e-mail leaks. host: we are going to put the numbers on the screen and we want to get your view of what you have read, what you have heard. 202-7 48-8000. 748-8001 for republicans. 748-8002 for independents. mr. tucker, what do we know so far and why do we know it? guest: pieces of evidence have emerged that point to introduce in the dnc system affiliated with the russian government. crowd strike analysis found two different groups that had breached a system. this is back in april. they made an announcement on june 14. two groups by a couple of different names. apt28 and apt29. apt29 is sometimes called cozy bear apt28 is sometimes called fancy bear. crowd strike came out with their announcement, and the next day a shadowy figure emerged claiming that he was the hacker operating completely by himself. he calls himself guccifer 2.0, and prepared some documents. that day wikileaks published a tweet, saying this person claimed they have stolen 20,000 e-mails from the dnc and they are uploading it to wikipedia -- excuse me, wikileaks. the next day can a variety of different forensic analysis firms around washington, d.c. -- friends connect is one. this is a competing firm to the other firms. they couched for them and said that everything we have seen -- they vouched for them and said everything we have seen fits with the signature we understand to be from apt29 and apt28. apt29 has been known to side with security at least since 2014, based on the work of another company. the new york times talked about all of these different firms. these are firms that are normally in competition with one another. they have the motivation to undermine one another pot findings from and they came to unanimity on this quickly, which is unprecedented. that is in line with what officials have been privately telling the dnc. that is the preponderance of evidence right there. host: patrick tucker, where does the investigation go from here? guest: the fbi has enough -- the fbi has opened an official investigation and will probably take another look at crowd strike's findings and which i published an online. you can go to the original june 14 crowd strike post on it, by the -- by one of the founders of the company. there is strike connect, that metadata's -- it was found that guccifer 2.0 was using a link back to russia. that is another link on this. it is interesting that edward snowden pointed out that there is a means to better examine this particular dump using a program that was disclosed through his revelations, called fixed key score. he did not speculate what the findings of that analysis would be. but all of these are really pointing in the same direction. we are kind of waiting at this point, for the fbi and the authorities to make it official. host: patrick tucker, technology editor at "defense one." sandra in sofia, west virginia, on our democrats line. what do you think about this conversation? caller: well, it is amazing that all this could be found out over the dnc e-mails. but one question that has not been asked is, how was secretary clinton supposed to get any top classified information on her e-mail, and how was that ever protected? this just does not make sense to me, that the fbi director said that she was carelessly -- careless. it is unbelievable. i am waiting because i am sure wikileaks will come out with all this classified information that secretary clinton supposedly had on her unprotected server that values our security of our nation. it is mind-boggling to me. host: ramona is in our go florida, another democrat. ramona, go ahead. caller: i am a lifelong democrat. i do not believe that debbie was at fault, and i do not believe that hillary was at fault. i do not like the way debbie is being treated, even by democrats. host: have you read some of the e-mail report? caller: yes. the hackers -- i fully expect a lot of them had met people that had met putin. he endorsed trump. host: what do you think about the e-mail link? caller: i think the russians are little more intelligent than you folks give them credit for it if they wanted to hurt donald trump, they would release some negative information on the democrats to make sure it was tied to them so that -- the american people are very suspicious of anything the russians do it if they wanted to hurt trump, they would do exactly what they have done. bill clinton went to moscow and got $500,000 for one speech. not too long after that, the canadians urinaanium company took the russians for a nice little profit. i believe that the russians are very favorable to the clintons very unfavorable to the trumps because they know that trump will be much harder to deal with than a weak sister like hillary clinton. host: sally, spirit lake, iowa. please go ahead. sally, we are going to turn down the volume of your tv. when you get on the line, otherwise we have a delay. you have to listen to your telephone and just talked to us. let's move on to lucas in kansas. luca, good morning. we listening. go ahead. caller: good morning. this news is pretty painful. we have a system which is -- the messenger i hope that this will improve. sooner or later, we will celebrate. it is a big question for the people who are making the system for their advantages. we have a constitution and a justice system. we have a government that is supposed to work for the people. and it is just not right. host: next call is sally in spirit lake, iowa. we are listening. go ahead. you know what, we gave sally two tries. we have to hang up on sally, unfortunately. from arkansas, dennis, a democrat. we are listening. what do you think about russia being behind the democratic national committee's e-mail hack ? caller: yes, sir. my name is dennis, and i work as a career for the national labs and handle quite a few thousand documents, and also the radio telescopes to pick up almost any radio signal and file them out in order to hear things. they can hear anybody. as far as anyone hacking some individual piece, top secret or otherwise, i just want to say this. hillary and bill and that entire democratic group that is working right now can handle more top-secret information than anybody in office today. if you think that anyone thinks that they would jeopardize the united states of america by a dumb mistake like they are being accused of, we have so much information right now that it is hard to know what to believe. everybody seems to think hillary is a liar, but she has not lied any time or anywhere. it is just hearsay or innuendo especially with the classification of the documents and the information that she supposedly shared over a non-cleared line. it is just not true. some of those things that she got, just like i have a favorite general of hours -- a favorite general of ours, that are not classified and were not classified at that time. it has been confirmed nine times for good old hillary, and she did not lead it shake her that she did not let it shake her third we have got to get along with republicans. i wish we had a new group of republicans to get along with. this is just silly. she is telling the truth and there are just a bunch of lies going on. that is from somebody who has a pretty high security clearance. host: next call comes from paul in ottawa, illinois, and independent. -- an independent. caller: i wanted to say that considering all the comments made by mr. trump concerning the dismantling of nato and his supposedly close ties with vladimir putin, i do not think it should come as any surprise that russia has made an attempt to dirty the name of clinton and the dnc. the ties are fairly obvious. whether or not trump was actually involved in this, that remains to be seen. but i think the connections are pretty clear. that is all i really wanted to say. thank you so much. host: jane, buffalo, kentucky. republican line. jane, buffalo, kentucky, republican line. caller: thank you for taking my call. one thing i have to say, i used to have a security clearance and i am no longer in the military. hillary first of all should lose her security clearance. anybody else would have. i believe russia had those e-mails that she deleted. they will have them as she gets deeper in this election. it is so easy to retrieve those e-mails. the ones that she sent, they have to be on somebody's server. and the ones that somebody sent her has to be on a server. all they have to do is go back to the source where the females came from. i am hoping that -- for me, i would never vote for her because she is a liar and her husband -- he messes around with women. that is all i got to say. host: greta bronner in d.c. what have you got? greta: "the washington post" reports this morning that john hinckley will be freed after 35 years. he will be released from a government psychiatric hospital more than 35 years after he attempted to assassinate president ronald reagan and shot three others outside the washington hilton on march 30 1981. hinckley, 61 years old, no longer poses a danger to himself or others and will be freed to live full time with his mother in williamsburg, virginia, effective as soon as artist fifth -- as soon as august 5. if he adheres to restrictions, he will be phased out after 18 to 20 -- 12 to 18 months, removing him from court control for the first time since he was confined to see elizabeth after the shooting. host: from falls church virginia, hi. caller: first of all, any time you have a hack of significance by a foreign government, it should be a wake-up call especially if it is the russians. it really focuses the need to continuously strengthen our cyber security. the second point is that it would be unfortunate if the involvement of the russians as the hackers take away from the significance of the information that was hacked. i think that it is very significant that you have basically what was alleged to be a conspiracy by bernie sanders against his campaign that was denied, but at the time people in the democratic party -- and here it is in black and white -- that that in fact did take place. so i think the significance of that should not be overshadowed by the fact that it was the russians who did the hacking. what is going on at home, fixing them, taking people into account and looking at the character of the people who are engaging in that kind of activity, rather than focusing on who it was that brought the information to light. you do not want to second-guess too much. let's clean up our own act at home. host: keith in palm bay florida, what do you think? caller: good morning, peter. two points -- if it is true that russia did this, i think vladimir putin more interested in causing chaos than in getting somebody elected. they also could have farmed it out to wikileaks for money. we will never really know as it was ordered. the second point is, as a constitutional conservative, i think we should do everything in our power to shut down wikileaks because this is free speech on a private server robbed by somebody and put out in public. who will be next? republicans might like the democrats being the ones on the end of this, but they might not like it when republicans are. this is free speech that should be protected, and wikileaks has got to go. this is ridiculous. i am caught between two worlds. i liked the conversation of the stuff that they found, but i find this just appalling that we are reveling in this. free speech should be protected. it is in the constitution in our laws, and the media should not be using it either. host: we have about another hour and a half to go on "washingon journal," and coming up we will talk to two union officials who are also delegates. one a sanders delegate, one a clinton delegate. they will be out here in a minute to take your calls and to have a discussion. also coming up, we are going to be visiting what they call radio row at wells fargo center. it is where a lot of radio programs are broadcasting from. we will give you a sense of what that looks like, and talk with some of the radio talk show hosts as well. we visited yesterday around the different state delegations to find out what their experiences were and what was making their states -- what makes their states unique when it comes to political conventions. >> the united states and arctic nations have six votes for hillary clinton and 14 votes for the inspiring, progressive bernie sanders. [cheers and applause] >> we vote according to the committee rules on pledged delegates -- three for bernie sanders, and eight -- and if you would give us more we would cast those, too -- for the next president of the united states hillary clinton! [cheers and applause] >> i rise from arkansas where we first learned to believe in a place called hope. where we are equally as proud to be the home of american poor it -- american poet laureate maya angelou. where hillary clinton led the fight for access to education. before it was popular. when she led the effort to establish a children's hospital it was popular. and when she fought for our mothers, sisters, and daughters before it was popular. arkansas, where we are again filled with hope for our children and grandchildren including my five granddaughters . because we know that this is truly a nation that should all be equal. madame secretary, arkansas casts 10 votes for bernie sanders, who campaigned from his heart and his now in unity joins us in supporting hillary clinton because he understands what is at stake. and now arkansas is casting 27 votes for the next president of the united states, hillary clinton. >> california, the state with lots of energy, lots of enthusiasm, and the state that defies donald trump on climate change, immigration reform, and the $15 minimum wage, casts for bernie sanders 221 votes. and for hillary clinton, the next president of the united states, 330 votes. [cheers and applause] >> my friends, madam secretary my name is senator sarah carter peterson, and i come from the louisiana democratic party. we will not be defined by any natural disaster, nor will we be defined by any act of senseless violence. because we are one louisiana! louisiana knows that -- we are a melting pot of beautiful cultures -- cajuns, creoles. we fish, we hunt, we like mardi gras, and we probably cast our vote, 14 votes for senator bernie sanders and 45 votes for the first woman president of the united states, hillary rodham clinton! host: of course, that was part of the roll call last night of states during the nominating process. people got a chance to talk about themselves and share fun fact about what they do. back live from philadelphia, and you can see independence hall there. we are joined by two guests. arthur cole, what do you do for a -- martha kuhl, what do you do? guest: i am a registered nurse and i take care of kids in california. host: why do you do that? guest: because nursing is a fabless profession that combines science with care. it is a social useful thing to do to help people get healthy. host: what does it say on your shirt? guest: i am a member of a large union of nurses, national nurses united. host: why are you here in philadelphia? guest: i am here as an elected delegate from california. i am a first delegate. host: we are also joined by ryan boyer. what do you do? guest: i am in business man -- a businessman, public sector private sector workforce. that is what i do. a lot of my guys -- host: how did you get started in that work? guest: i am a second-generation labor. my father was in labor. i started out in corporate mid-america, and i did not like it, and i wanted to help workers have a voice. as martha said, the socially conscious. i think the workers movement in america should be full throated and we should have the good guys on my side because we built america. host: you are also a delegate. supporting? guest: i am an uncommitted delegate, otherwise known as one of those superdelegates. but we are supporting hillary rodham clinton. host: how did you become a superdelegate? guest: the governor of the great state of pennsylvania, tom wolfe, appointed me and my name into the dnc. host: does the superdelegate system work? guest: i thinkwolfe, appointed me and my the rules need to be changed a little bit because it can be seen as undemocratic. if you look at bernie sanders he brought us some great points. we will look at it and i think some superdelegates are necessary because if not we will probably -- it prevents the rise of what happens in the republican party with the nominee that they have now. host: martha kuhl, are you satisfied with the rules changes? guest: my understanding is that in future elections 2/3 of the superdelegates will need to vote in their states, how the results turn out. that will lead presidents and commerce people -- that will leave president and congress people as unpledged. there are other aspects of voting rights that are going to a committee or commission, and they may or may not be enacted. we will look to the future and continue to push on the issue. host: we have two delegates and two union activists on the set with us. the numbers are on the screen. we set aside our fourth line for labor union members per 202-748-8003 is the number for you to dial in. why are you supporting bernie sanders, martha kuhl? guest: when he announced his run for presidency and started talking about the issues he was running on, his issues looked remarkably like all of the issues that national nurses united has pushed over the years. number one for nurses is the right to guarantee health care, medicare for all. he talked about that. he talked about income inequality. we see in our patients people who delay care, who cannot get care, who cannot afford care. the climate crisis also affects people's health. we all breathe air, and toxic emissions affect our health. he has talked about ending racism, which we recognize especially with the black lives matter movement, doing a fabulous job in making all of us aware and self reflective, i hope. we supported bernie because his platform is essentially our platform. host: why are you supporting hillary clinton? guest: the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. hillary has proven that she was a vocal supporter of workers rights, and i think she is a pragmatic allocation. senator sanders had a great platform but he was unable to pass any bills, unable to get anything done. secretary clinton took all the bows and arrows from the republicans, from the right wing very early to bring us where we are now. we know that we have to make this health care system better, but what barack obama passed is a start of the right direction. the foundation of secretary clinton -- the foundation that secretary clinton laid, we believe in her resin and her spirit -- in her resume. i like the positions that bernie sanders brought up, but i do not know if the country is ready to take that leftward a turn in senator sanders. i am glad that he ran in this primary, so i am glad that he was able to bring that energy and enthusiasm. the excitement is something that we have to capture and put it all together and unite and elect hillary clinton. host: when you hear the term "right to work" state, what does that mean, and what is your reaction? guest: we like to say "right to work for less." right to work means that you get the guarantees and the protection of unionism, but you do not have to pay for union dues. you look at all the right to work states, they are all -- the wages are low income inequality is more. it does not work. it is a concept that i hate -- because they use the term, and who will be against the term "right to work"? it gives employers tremendous power and strips power from the worker. we will oppose vehemently any right to work legislation that comes into pennsylvania. host: what percentage of pennsylvania is unionized? guest: in the private sector, pennsylvania is about 22% union. but we have to in the united states have another revolution of unionism. when the united states was thriving, when they talk about make america great again they talked about it when union density was at its highest. when labor had a seat at the table. so you went to have a national conversation about the economy without having a labor guy there. no week -- now we look to interject ourselves like we have in philadelphia and other big cities. we think we can be the economic engine to bring america back to prosperity. host: martha kuhl, have you gotten on board with the clinton campaign? guest: i think that clinton needs to earn the sanders get delegates -- to earn the sanders delegates. the anybody but trump campaign does not speak to the issues that were raised and that many people coalesced the bernie movement around. i want to correct the record -- sanders has passed many the senate. i think his record stands very high in that regard. i would also like to say national nurses united does see that the aca was an advance, but it still has not guarantee health care for everyone. there are still millions of people who are uninsured. what we want is that health care is a right, and that it is not all the health care you can afford. we want you to have the care you need when you need it, and that you do not have to think about going out and purchasing individual plans. host: how has your experience been at the convention? guest: it has been really exciting. there has been a lot of boisterous back and forth. i have to say that delegates -- we have been having fun from both camps at the convention. and -- but we have been disturbed a little bit about how it, from the very start of the convention, was more of a coronation than a process. host: in your experience, mr. boyer? guest: i think philadelphia is the perfect host city for a lot of events. and we are doing a great job. it is a very jovial atmosphere. i look at the bernie and hillary supporters, and there is almost like a family fight that is done with a high level, but it has a lot of -- it is always in a fun way, and we go back on the bus and we are talking because we should take some of the things that bernie has and some of the things that secretary clinton has. sometimes we address them in a very buttoned-up way, and it does not come through. you saw cory booker and other people speak at the convention and bring that juice to our party. i think the issues of earning -- secretary linton has talked about income inequality, the right to health care. -- secretary clinton has talked about income inequality, the right to health care. i agree that the perfect system is not how much health care you can buy. economic issues are affecting a spirit we have serious social and structural issues in the big cities in america that we have to address as well. i think she is prioritizing the right things and i think she will get the delegates. the first lady had a fall the speech, and she said it is bigger than all of us. unfortunately, the guy on the other side -- we have to mention him. we cannot have a pro-hillary with people noticing mistakes on the other side. you have donald trump, a narcissist, a mela go -- a megalomaniac. host: martha kuhl, what is the biggest issue facing in your workaday life at the hospital and also as a member, an official member of the national nurses united? guest: as a nurse daily on the job, for me obviously our calling is to provide care. our duty is to act as a patient advocate. the biggest issue often is getting patients the care that they need. because the system is often -- it is very difficult to navigate for patients, and it is often difficult because of the current health insurance system. it can delay care because you cannot afford it. pharmaceuticals cost too much. a family member will tell me they cannot afford their prescription drugs what do they do, should they cut the pills in half? we are always running interference around the lack of right to health care instead of focusing. i want to focus on what that patient needs at that time. i do not want them to have to stop and worry, are the bills going to be paid? can i afford to pay my rent if i get my health care? that is one of the biggest issues. as national nurses united, we agree that there needs to be more unionization. we think nurses can provide the best patient care when they are speaking collectively and acting on behalf of their patients out in the community. host: let's see what our viewers want to talk to them about. john from manchester township new jersey. you are on the air. tell you what, we are going to move on to elma in lancaster, california. hi. caller: i would like to give thanks to the union workers there, for all the help that they do for women's rights helping workers, disabled people. i have been a member of the unions ever since my entire working life. i started working in 19 -- local 660. i am currently a member of local 1083. i like to say that all of that hard work came from people dedicated to other people in caring for other people. my husband is from philly, and i know that it's a great place where a live the unit work started. i would like to call in and give thanks and appreciation for all the hard work and dedication that the union has done. host: anything you want to say to elma? i would like -- guest: i would like to thank her. host: let's go to ted. caller: the day i turned 57, i was able to retire and walk away. i did a lot of hospital work -- measures oxygen, medical oxide a vacuum. the basic license during the plumber upon scarred, and all that training came out of local 290, portland, oregon. i just have to say that the nonunion did realize that their wages are driven by the union side. there are lots of guys that have come from the nonunion side and have organized, and it is very heartening when you see the younger generation embrace the union. i have got to say that i certainly hope hillary makes it, but because there are lots of trump knuckleheads out there for sure. host: retiring at 57, what other benefits have you experienced being a member of the union during your working life? caller: i never had to talk to a contractor about a wage for it i came home and a journeyman union electrician's wish is diapers. i always understood this. i was able to raise him in a mill-working town in oregon that is now long gone. everybody in that town was union, and it is a shame or there are lots of guys that i graduated with that left high school, the next day they went to work for crohn's it would back, not gone -- now gone. it is amazing that if you look it up in the record under mr. obama's time -- and it is unfortunate that unionism has declined a little bit. in the 2000's, the greatest gain was under w's watch, which is kind of ironic. i guess it takes a bad seed to make the garden grow. host: ryan boyer? guest: that is the type of story that unionism brings. it brings communities, it builds the middle class and it is the union workers of america that allow the children to go to college, and also consumers in this economy. it takes a decent wage for people to buy goods and services so the economy can grow. also he retired with dignity and did not have to worry about health care because most union workers have great unit benefits -- great union benefits. i think we are looking at it wrong. "you have a pension, that is a cadillac pension." we have a crisis come, and they are looming. most people, in retirement, are in adequately funded. the states will have to deal with that. we subsidize walmart because they pay lower wages, so it p keeps people from having to go into the system. so we subsidize multinational corporations. it is amazing for me and we have to tell that story. we have to do better without the message. guest: i agree. one of the major benefits of unionism that the caller mentioned was that i do not have to think about my wages and benefits while providing care. i do not have to worry that somehow if i offend the wrong player in management structure or the medical structure, when i am caring for a patient, that something is going to change for me in terms of instruments of my livelihood. and i do not have to think about it when i go into that facility each day. all i have to think about is adding the base -- is giving the best patient care. host: the next call comes from harvey in north olmsted ohio -- in north olmsted, ohio. caller: hello? host: please go ahead, sir. caller: i work for the city of cleveland, and i was under their program as a meager rear. i had an opportunity to get out of the union and was able to see exactly how the unions work for the benefit of the executive board. they really did very little for the workers. they always came at the workers with take it or leave it. and i heard the last caller getting into the subject of companies moving out of town. this is because of all the restrictions that are placed on the businesses, especially the small businesses who are unable to afford to continue to hire people and pay them a decent wage. you know, even unions serve their purpose back at the turn of the 19th, 20th century. my grandfather was a coal miner. my father worked at a glass company. unions were strong and helpful but they were corrupt. that is about all i have to say on that. host: martha kuhl, we will start with you this time. guest: i think that statistics all the statistics are witness to the fact that union workplaces are healthy workplaces, and that when you have -- when you do not have to worry about being fired at will, which is a nonunion workplace, that you cannot do a better job and that you get better wages and working conditions. for nurses, working conditions are the ability to provide health care. in relation to the campaign, clinton's decision on a vice president came, i understand, and has been very pro-right to work in his state. that is very concerning to me. guest: if that is true, that is concerning to me as well. as far as the caller's assertion that unions have their place but we do not need them anymore, may i direct them to -- american companies right now use sweatshops in other companies in other countries. if you do not have a detection the regulations people profits over people all the time. i think we need unions now. if you look at the great disparity, it is growing. it is almost like they are a robber baron because people are taking profit, green is not good -- greed is not good. we have a seat at the table and i believe more than ever we need to re-visualize it and actually -- we need to be vigilant and actually grow. bernie talked about it with the other party, but their solutions are wrong. host: none of you addressed harvey's concern about union executive boards and its connections to the democratic party. guest: the union executive boards are voted every three years by the people. it is a democratic election. if you do not like that, leave them. we have a rich history of being bipartisan. we will support it. right here in pennsylvania we support it a lot of republicans. we supported one, senator rafferty, just coming up to the top of my mind. we supported -- we support a lot of republicans. we are not anti-republican by any means, but we will not support an agenda that is intent on -- how can i support someone? i will say that the national republican party cannot be supported -- you have some good local republicans, but the national party in the values of unionism are inconsistent. host: has an donald trump worked closely with unions as a builder in new york city? guest: in new york city, but in other places where -- he worked closely with unions in new york city because they gave him the best quality. but if you look at his behavior when he goes to florida, he uses anyone. he chooses people that may not have a consensus beyond the united states constitution between them. it is amazing. when his companies go bankrupt, there is a price to pay. people lose their pensions, the health care. things that he has done in atlantic city forward, was not pro-worker, and he is not pro-worker. guest: i would address the fact that i am on our executive board, i am an executive nurse and i was voted into office and the nurses were dissent -- if the nurses were dissatisfied, i would be voted out of office. unions are democratic institutions. we are voted in and be can be voted out in a workplace. if people are dissatisfied with their union representation, they should get involved. just the way they should get involved in the elections. host: what about the connections to the democratic party? guest: i would say right now that -- not as connected as others and we have been pushed back hard for the democratic party, rather officially, but we will hold our ground and stand our ground for our patients. host: we have marked in florida. -- mark in florida. caller: i was raised by a nurse whose father was the director of the national league of umpires union and a strong democrat. to ryan, my best friends on the job are always my favorite -- fellow union laborers, so god bless you both. at 18, i joined the marines because i had so much respect for the unions. i saw my city between st. louis and chicago and everybody was pretty much organized labor. i came home at age 30, after having been a platoon sergeant in desert storm and strong a civilian and i got the heck beaten out of me. i survived by various methods hard work primarily and i realized that my dignity had been being back out of me and god bless her, then -- my business agent who -- at harkins with the boilermakers, and if you see him, tell him i said hi. i got my dignity back, and that was 17 years ago and i've got nothing against people that are not -- that are not a part of organized labor, but if we are eliminated the standards for the rest of the country will continue to diminish. we push back against privatization, we stand up for librarians nurses, cafeteria workers. we are just americans that love our country. have a good day. guest: the way our veterans get treated when they come back, that is an issue that we have to talk about. there is no way they should have the v.a. system in the shambles that it is. they should have the same benefits as members of congress should get. you pick up a gun to defend this country and our freedom, you should have that freedom when you come home. i think that unions have done a poor job, being an ad campaign. we do the right thing but do not tell about it. my general president is a visionary and he just now said we will start telling our story we will brand ourselves, tell people what we do and tell people what the history of the labor movement, how we treated the weekend. corporate america did not want to give us a weekend. it took a lot of marching to get the weekend, to get the 40 hour work day. people used to work 12 hours a day. we are creeping back up on that old hour workday is corporate america once productivity, but they will give you anything. that unions have to do a better job of telling our story, we have to make people not feel bad to come home and relax. americans need to relax. we need vacations. we do not take time off. we leave vacation time on the table because we are so insecure with our jobs. if you take too many vacations they will fire you with no recourse. host: that caller mentioned a union business agent. what do they do? is that what you are? guest: i used to be a business agent. they handle the job on the ground level, they talk to the front line forum, and they sort of make sure the members are ok. a liaison between management and work is what a business agent is an i appoint all of my business agents and they go out and do that stuff. guest: i would think the caller for his service and think all the veterans for their service and i think the v.a. health system has actually been under attack in the attempts to privatize it. the nurses in the v.a. system, some of whom we represent, are doing their very best to make sure the veterans get good care. it is a national health service where both the employees and the providers are funded by all of us, and that is the system we think can actually guarantee health care, like medicare, where we pull our money together -- pool our money together. i think that the a system actually can do a good job and will do a good job and one of the reasons we supported sanders is because sanders has been out in front and making sure that the v.a. gets the funding it needs. host: will you be on the floor when the president speaks, when tim kaine speaks? guest: i'm going to attend. last night, some of us walked out. host: were you one of them? guest: i was. i have not been able to be with my delegation this morning since i am here, so i will have to go check in to see how it will go. california is a pretty wild bunch right now. we have quite a few delegates. guest: the state of california takes up half the arena. host: you have some pretty good seats, being pennsylvania. thank you both for coming in. guest: thank you, and think all the callers. -- thank all the callers. host: a little less than an hour to go. as we mentioned, tim kaine president obama, joe biden, all speak tonight as we move the story forward from today and what do you want to hear from them? is he a good advocate for heather clinton? is tim kaine a good appointee that type of thing. if you want to talk about those speeches, the democratic party we will get to your calls in just a few minutes. over at the wells fargo center is a place called media row and a lot of radio stations, broadcast from their during conventions. they did this in cleveland. we want to show you some sights and sounds from the wells fargo media room. [chattering] host: a quick look at radio row in the wells fargo center. you can see a lot of shows are already live, and they will be live throughout the day and into the evening. let's hear from you. president obama, vice president biden, tim kaine all speak today at democratic -- at the democratic national convention day three. you have heard some of the issues we have talked about. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. (202) 748-8001 for republicans. (202) 748-8002 for independents. let's hear from shirley. caller: i did get a chance to watch the program for yesterday with the rollcall, and i was so excited to see mr. sanders. he gave it up as a gentleman. he tried to encourage all of his backers, which i was a supporter of senator sanders. for the first time, in all the years, i was excited about being a part of this particular election, because he made me have hope. i am one that believes that the democrats have kind of lost their touch, meaning once upon a time they thought, and here you have a man who was 74 years old and he said i could retire, i've got wife -- a wife, kids grandkids, but i will try my best to see if i can do something to impact the people of the country, because the people in the help. unfortunately, he did not get what he needed, but i am wrestling with the fact that in november, i am going to vote because i am going to vote for her. deep down inside, i'm praying that she will deliver what she has said because it took so many people to get her to go to the left, and that is probably why a lot of people were coming toward senator sanders because they could not understand, all the problems that our country is facing and people are struggling and a lot of people are tired of people wanting to get into these positions and they get you to vote, and then once they get there, nobody hears the people anymore. host: what do you do in detroit? caller: i am medically retired. i gave my company 27 years. my doctor said i had to come out. host: we will have to leave it there so we can get some more voices. jim in florida, republican. caller: thank you for c-span for all you do. i am a white male 56-year-old republican, single father with daughters. i am a gun industry employee and i am voting for hillary clinton. the reason i am voting for hillary clinton is because so far, the democratic party is willing to take on the gun problem. i'm telling you as an employee, there are too many guns in the united states. i'm probably one of the only ones willing to admit it, but it is true. donald trump just cannot be president. for my children, there is no way i would ever vote for a man of that character. i'm also from west virginia, and to the people from the unions, i want to let them know, as long as they are willing to take other portions of people in the unions that are taking advantage or stand against those that work , then everything would go better for the unions. i have seen people take advantage of unions were they connected fired. i have seen them do bad things in the coal industry. host: what do you do for the gun industry? guest: i was afraid caller: -- -- caller: i was afraid you're going to ask that question. i work with gun shop owners, government agents, i work with all aspects. i work with manufacturers and distributors in all aspects of the gun industry. i talked to them on a daily basis. host: that is jim in florida sharing his experience and his views. guest: more breaking news out of baltimore, all charges being dropped against officers in the freddie gray case. go a word with the charges against the remaining officers facing trial in connection with the death of freddie gray, the 25-year-old black man who died after sustaining a net injury while in police custody -- no injury -- neck injury while in police custody. -- west wing reports, tweaking out a picture of the senator getting used to the podium. catherine scott for abc six news clinton running mate senator tim kaine on stage for the walk-through. the back story on how tim kaine became hillary clinton's running mate. usa today has a little more detail about how it all came about. she reports that there was a covert operation within the clinton campaign dubbed the prize patrol after the publishers clearing house sweepstakes and it shows the links to which the nominee's campaign went to keep her running mate a secret until the last moment. we told you that tim kaine got the call from hillary clinton on friday at 7:30 p.m. she then tweeted out her choice a half hour later and he was on a plane to miami for the event the next day. -- the woman behind the man behind hillary clinton. a longtime democratic fixer who was summoned in 1996 to help choreograph bill clinton's reelection and in 2008 when he sneaked president obama's cabinet prospects in for secret interviews. -- a week before clinton made her announcement in miami, 10 people in the campaign knew who the finalists were. 15 separate law fact -- law firms were contracted to v candidateset -- vet candidates. clinton's right-hand aid was particularly concerned reporters were going to break the story. the night before the big announcement, -- left his office in a free element -- elevator and was afraid it the airport tarmac in an suv. 2:00 a.m. eastern time, kane landed in miami with his wife with a speech drafted and new staff members. we learned the day before, that senator kaine likes to play the harmonica and he did so on that trip down to miami, playing a beatles song and he carries three harmonicas in his case. we will see if he will play that tonight. washington times as -- virginia campaign ads touted him as a conservative. when he ran into thousand five he declared himself conservative on certain social issues. take a listen. >> i am tim kaine i'm running for governor, and i'm not afraid to tell you where i stand. my opponent has just come out with even more negative ads. once again, he is hiding behind a slick radio announcer. i am conservative on issues of personal responsibility. as a former missionary, faith is central to my life. i oppose gay marriage, i support restrictions on abortion. no public funding and parental consent and i worked to pass a state law banning partial boards -- partial-birth abortions. the attorney general promoted a law that he knew was unconstitutional. a play politics with abortion and as a result, virginia still has no man. as governor, i will always put principle over politics and you will always know where i stand. that is who i am and what i believe. >> again, that was a tim kaine add back in 2005 when he was running for governor. 's position on issues. the washington times notes that most surprising was the reaction of pro-choice groups this year to the choice of mr. kane being hillary clinton's running mate. they said they look beyond his words and studied his actions as a senator or his voting record was established as pro-choice. gay-rights groups pressed him a solid pick despite opposition in those 2005 adds to same-sex marriage. host: you will hear him tonight. the convention opens at 4:00 eastern time. president obama, vice president biden, a lot of speakers and a lot of activity all live on c-span. you can see the c-span bus parked right outside the national constitution center on independence mall. in center city, philadelphia where we have been, all week. next call comes from jim in georgia, what is on your mind? caller: i have been watching the campaigns and it struck me funny that both the democratic and behold -- republican campaigns were at financially named centers, like the quicken loans center and the wells fargo center. that spurs the idea that either wall street does really control everything. we look at a country $19 trillion in debt. who is property -- who is profiting from this? the federal reserve? they are a private corporation that handles our cash, unlike the constitution says. the treasury department is supposed to set the value. it really bothers me. i was a union member in wisconsin. over the last 30 years, i have watched the unions get sold out time and time again by representatives. host: i think we got the point. dave in virginia. republican. caller: good morning and thank you so much for taking my call. you guys are the greatest. i really appreciate what you do, because you give everyone the chance to say what is on their mind. the reason i called was i have not heard much about this, except i just happened to see on the tv that mr. napolitano was being interviewed and he brought up the fact that the american people have not been told the truth about the investigation into the use of a private e-mail server while ms. clinton was a secretary of state. he brought up the point that the american people have been told that this was a crime of specific intent, and he said not true, which i agree with because i know a little bit about the laws. that crime is a violation of a national security act. it does not require a specific intent to commit the crime. that crime of distributing classified material knowingly on an unsecured line or unsecured means is, in itself, a violation of the national security act. host: we got your point. what do you want to conclude with? caller: that's fine. host: that was dave in fort belfour, virginia. sandra on the democrat line. who are you looking forward to hearing from? caller: i really have no opinion because nobody is speaking to me in this campaign, and i want to know why the dnc does not have this issue on their platform. i am a disabled united states marine corps veteran and i have always been proud of that accomplishment. the v.a. over the last couple of years, with the witchhunt of the opiates for pain patients has really been handled very badly by the united states government. i have been lied to, to my face. i have been like to over the phone. i have been lied to through the charts doctors, all in it -- all in an attempt to get me off pain medicine what i am in chronic pain and it is hard for me to move through each day. host: what would you like to see addressed? caller: i just want them to address what is going on with the hysteria over the pain medications. nobody will speak to our part. there are hundreds of millions of americans in chronic pain who are being denied medical care. i have had my doctor -- tell me to stop holding her. i have no support and no one has spoken to what is going on. i'm not trying to get my pain pills back, i just want the american government to be honest about what they are doing and stop trying to get us all to commit suicide so they can get the disability money into the treasury. host: that was sandra in oregon. carol in west virginia independent line. caller: thank you for c-span. i look forward to hearing mr. obama speak. i think he is going to be a great endorsement for hillary and also tim kaine. i think he will be a great speaker, tonight, and i'm looking forward to it and i thank you for the coverage. host: coverage begins at 4:00 p.m. eastern time, all live on c-span. you can watch it on c-span. you can also listen to it on c-span radio. get the c-span radio app. you don't have to be in the washington area to listen. hit the c-span radio app. you can listen to it anywhere in the world and the conventions will all be live. on our facebook page facebook.com/c-span, we will be streaming the convention live. in d.c. >> we know that senator sanders is going to try to grow his movement outside of washington, but what is his future inside washington? he told the wall street journal that he will serve out his term as an independent. he was elected as an independent and he says he will stay two years more as independent. this from the washington post, saying that when he returns to the senate, he has been angling to become the chairman of the committee on health education labor and pensions, on which he is the second ranking member behind senator patty murray. we want to show our viewers a moment on the convention floor in case you missed it, of bernie sanders' brother who was there to cast his vote for his brother. listen to what he had to say as a reaction. >> i want to read the names of our parents. they did not have easy lives and they died young. i am proud to become -- to be their son, and they love you. [applause] they loved the new deal of franklin roosevelt and would be proud that bernie is renewing that mission, so i cast my vote for bernie sanders. host: back live in philadelphia, and we are downtown at our studio, but for miles south of here is a -- is the wells fargo center and at the wells fargo center is radio row. what is your show about? what kind of issues do you talk about? >> we tried to cover whatever my basketball buddies, my wife and i, like girls and i talk about. politics, pop culture, whatever is going on. we are trying to reflect what everybody else is talking about. we try to give people a taste of what the buzz is. host: we don't get much basketball talk on c-span, but when it comes to politics -- what are your -- what do your viewers want to talk about? guest: the reason we are in philadelphia and cleveland is because this election -- i have been to four conventions before these two, and i have never seen a level of interest like this. donald trump brought in a lot of people who did not care about politics, bernie sanders did the same thing. that is all people have been talking about for the last months or so. this is the greatest interest election, certainly of my lifetime and that has been the buzz, and that is why we were in cleveland last week and in philly, this week. host: why do you think people are so much more interested? guest: there is just this town of outsiders. i think the world of politics is so insular and closed and frankly, remote to people. they look at politicians as unbelievable people. like it is this own -- it's own little microcosm that is inaccessible. donald trump talks like a sheet -- normal human being and bernie sanders came around with a populist method. that is why hillary had -- has an uphill battle. she had people on either side that are more relatable than her. we have seen accessibility to these candidates, candidates that people feel they can relate to, more so than any politicians that i can remember. host: how is the technology for broadcasting from a remote location -- how has the technology for broadcasting from a remote location changed over the past 12 years for you? guest: it is amazing, especially seeing the impact of social media on election. we have thousands of people here on radio row, and some are major networks, and some are one-person band internet operations, but they could have an equal impact. if they have a message and they get it out on twitter or facebook or instagram, they can get that message out immediately and it spreads like wildfire and especially after this e-mail issue last week where the perception was that she had networks colluding with the party. that is not as important anymore, because you do have a lot of individuals who can make an impact every bit as great as the networks. the technology from -- it was pretty bulky to cover and set up the equipment. everything is streamlined and digitized, and it is really interesting to watch because we are in the midst of a information revolution. you were just talking about your app. we are all in the middle of this revolution and we are delivering news in ways that we would have never dreamed possible 15 years ago. it is fantastic. it is populist and that is why populist candidates are doing very well right now. host: from one area of the country do you come from, and do you have a political point of view? guest: i am not a democrat or republican. i tried to evaluate every candidate and every issue on its individual merit. i come from seattle. i grew up in seattle. i went to the university of washington and worked my way up to where i got this talk show i had for 21 years and i mentioned basketball. i am a girl's basketball coach. that kind of informs everything i do. my wife and i have three daughters. they are all in their 20's, but i think it is important as we talk about this revolution, to stay on top of what younger people are talking about, so between my daughters in their 20's, the kids i coach in their teens, i try to have this broad array of input, to inform everything i am talking about. host: you can find him at -- mynorthwest.com. there he is in radio row at the wells fargo center. guest: great talking with you. host: up next is renee in mississippi. calling in. what is on your mind? caller: about the nomination of hillary clinton, this is no victory for women. -- unsecured server in her basement, and multiple unsecured devices. [inaudible] anybody else who did what hillary clinton did would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. additionally, hillary clinton and the dnc are saying that the russians hack the computers and this is not the first time the dnc has said that. we know for sure that when secretary of state hillary clinton was dealing with foreign nations, but her servers were being hacked, and they were unsecured. who knows whether the russians -- what the russians or anybody else have on the united states now. host: charlene calling in from milwaukee, democrats line. caller: i have listened to maybe three of your callers, including the journalist who claims that donald trump is a normal. that is a whistleblower right there. donald trump is not normal. my first vote was in 1968. i did the marching, and that is not some old game. this is the same revolution with newer faces. what i saw last night on the dnc was a total coming together of different groups and different ideologies but under one roof. even those that walked out, i walked out when they did kennedy wrong. i was not at the convention, but i was mad. i did not want anything to do with that. the alternative is, if you go to a green party, that is ralph nader, that is susan sarandon and all those other things, that is a distraction to the true issue of who was going to regain the power will remain in power and what are they going to do for you and the rest of the americans? people are so focused on what have you done for me lately, you better look back at the history. they sense -- said george wallace was a normal kind of guy. he came out of alabama shouting bigotry and hatred and he had a massive following because there are unfortunately people in this country that find that acceptable, and the rally and they show themselves, the median -- the media eats it up and before you know it, they are in the mainstream. i am glad because i want to know how he looks. i have been trying to identify him all my life, and i have not missed because the bottom line is, this is a racist country and if -- host: what do you do up in milwaukee? caller: if we don't -- host: what do you do in milwaukee? caller: i am a retired student. i am back in college, studying political science and criminal justice. host: did you have a career in criminal justice? caller: no. i have a heartfelt interest in what is going on, so i can remain on top of the demagoguery. i can remain on top of the discourse that is being put in, in this time and age. host: thank you. annamaria in miami independent. caller: good morning. i am a human rights advocate and i am upset with all this mocking and how come this is not as clear as clean water. how come a public servant charges millions of dollars on our time, on the time that she is supposed to be representing the people, of this country, and then engages in all sorts of immoral banking and creating and diverting whatever money she earns to place them in her private foundation. the money goes by, i see on the television, all the beautiful and wonderful products that have been left unfunded by this administration, and she has been robbing the african-american population and the latinos of all his money -- could be placed in a much better project then her own pockets. host: that is an area. i take it you are referring to hillary clinton. is that correct? we will never know. regina in kansas city republican line. have you been watching and what do you think about it? caller: hello. i was watching, and i could not believe that the democrats had the shirt purchased this another to allow cecile richards to get up on the stage and speak for planned parenthood of america. that morning, i was celebrating -- all the charges dropped against him for filming them selling baby body parts for money and for a ferrari, and then wanting to go out and have a glass of wine after they took these babies apart and plundered their organs for thousands upon thousands of dollars and i was just shocked. i was celebrating in the morning, and then ashes in the afternoon. host: -- appeared on this program a year or so back, so you can go to c-span.org and you can type in his name and watch him interact with viewers as well. everything that we have covered at these conventions and past conventions is available on our website at c-span.org. simply go to c-span.org, you will see a search function right there front and center on the website. you can go in and type in whatever you want. you can type in tim kaine hillary clinton, donald trump and you might get exactly what you want because if you type in tim kaine or hillary clinton or donald trump, you will get thousands of videos. type in donald trump, republican national convention speech, that will narrow it down. we have everything on our website and it is all available. you can want anything that has been covered in the last 37 years of c-span. next call comes from less in indianapolis. caller: i was surprised to find out that bernie sanders did not know the rules of getting delegates, which i think he did but you have to have something to gripe about, and then the fact that the states that did not allow someone to get votes as an independent because they were supposed to vote for an independent candidate, which did not run, so i guess for him not to be more aware of the rules going in and then later complaining about the rules just surprised me. i like bernie, but i think hillary is going to do a better job. host: next call is jeff in michigan city indiana. go ahead. caller: thanks for taking my call. i would like to back up the claim the lady made about 20 minutes ago about the veterans administration and her quest to get narcotics. out of the hands -- and their quest to get narcotic free think teller's out of the hands of veterans. they offer no alternative as to the withdrawal symptoms. i have a friend and they all of a sudden said you cannot get them anymore, and he went out and got arrested and now he is in jail with a monkey on his back and i think it is disgraceful. you have these wonderful medicines, and they can't help the veterans. i don't mean individual doctors who are under the gun to do this. host: what would you like to see happen? caller: they could legalize marijuana on a federal level and that would be helpful, and they would not have to -- a lot of them would not have to go to the root -- tuna kartik's as well -- at all. host: that was jeff in michigan city. guest: washington post reports that senator jon tester of montana who is chairman of the democratic senatorial campaign committee says the party recruits combined with voter aversion to the gop potential ticket will mean the democrats will regain the majority in the senate. note that tester is not want to make brash cocky statements like this. -- there is the nevada seat open by retiring senator harry reid, and you also have these -- most of these republicans or democrats -- across the going to pick up. washington post says it in net gain of four seeds if hillary clinton wins the white house which would make tim kaine tie-breaking vote in their favor as vice president. they need to gain five seats if republican donald trump wins the presidency. that is this morning in the washington post and then finally, i want to show our viewers this museum that people can go to in philadelphia was put together by rock the vote, and it focuses on drug crime gun violence, police brutality and what this is, rape culture in this country, they're are calling it a truth to power our exhibit. -- truth to power art exhibit. >> the artwork that i have in this exhibition is image transfers onto the federal prison -- i made the piece when i was incarcerated in a federal prison. a lot of people in prison are there for nonviolent drug offenses. [inaudible] host: we are back in philadelphia, and back at the wells fargo center on radio row. we are joined by rj, from a radio talk show. what is the zero hour? guest: -- we are -- we are called the zero hour because of our belief that we are at a critical point on a number of issues, including global warming, climate change, wealth inequality, that we are reaching a point of critical mass, a point of no return and i sent a memo saying we need to come up with a name, this is the zero hour and then we said that is the name. host: how long have you been doing the show? guest: in its present form, about two years. i also spent a year writing for bernie sanders and working for bernie sanders. host: what are your politics? guest: i would call them left. you could call me progressive, whatever term you prefer. host: is this your first time on radio row? guest: it is my first time at a convention on radio row. despite my advanced age, this is the first national convention i have ever attended. i am not a big one for spectacles and i get a little claustrophobic in crowds. this was one from the ages, given the involvement i have had with the bernie campaign. host: give us a quick snapshot of your career leading up to the zero hour. guest: life can only be understood backwards when it is meant to be lived forwards. i was a writer as a young man than i had a family and he did a real job, i got into risk management and health insurance and benefits worked for aig among other corporations for about 20 years. when i saw the country in my opinion going to hell under the presidency of george w. bush, i got involved in political activism and that led to some media appearances that led to the suggestion that i might want to do a radio show in addition to my writing and here we are, i am an adult prodigy, the opposite -- opposite of a child prodigy when it comes to radio. host: my guess is that you have had a lot to discuss the last couple of days with everything going on at the dnc. what is your topic for today? guest: we don't do each day by topic, but obviously one of the big issues is coming together or the project of bringing together the left progressive wing of the democratic party with the more mainstream, some people say centrist, wing of the party. bringing together the sanders and clinton can -- weighing and obviously, 90% of that has gone right nationalist away smoothly and if there is one thing most people can agree on, it is the need to defeat donald trump. there are some conspicuous pulls out, a lot of demonstrations and my attitude is treat the demonstrators and the concerns with respect, and recognize that people have legitimate grievances and see what we can do to bring more people together to build not only a good outcome in 2016, but a solid movement for change, now and in the future. host: what was the process like to get a permit to move into radio row? guest: i had people to help me with that, you have to get a secret service clearance well in advance. clearly little listen to my cross -- my brother -- my broadcast because they let me in. that is a joke. you take your picture, you're not supposed to smile, you apply for credentials, and there are all sorts of levels of admittance in that sort of thing, but it is a big deal just getting through the perimeter everyday. it is over -- it is worth it for the fascinating things you see once you get in here. host: did it cost you any money? guest: it cost the team money because of travel expenses. there may have been filing fees. it is only appropriate that media should be free, they did not charge us the way they were charged to see an eagles concert -- they would charge to see an eagles concert. so far, they have been successful, sometimes perhaps to their dismay but most times very effectively. host: where can people here the zero hour? guest: we are based in washington, d.c.. they can hear it on wc pt and chicago and other cities also thezerohour.com. host: live from radio row at wells fargo, thank you for joining us. back to your phone calls, let's hear from gwen in cincinnati, thank you for hanging on. caller: kudos to bernie sanders and the great campaign that he ran. i think hillary clinton deserves to be our leader. she has put in so much for this country, all the wonderful things that she has done, i can just not imagine can be overlooked at this critical time of politics. the appeal and the acceptance by so many people of the hateful, careless speaking boldly like donald trump is just fantastic to me. it is overwhelming and i would just want to leave the audience and i do want to a knowledge the sister that called in from milwaukee, she really -- . host: let's hear from susan in california, democrat line. caller: i want to thank c-span. i've ever really listen to it before, -- listened to it before it to hear people's comments without commentary, where you are trying to spin their remarks , it is really refreshing to hear real people. that thing that i wanted to point out was, i actually watched the whole republican -- democratic convention last night , and i was struck by the color -- we had every color imaginable represented in that crowd. there were native americans speaking their native tongue, and idle think i have seen a multicultural crowd -- i don't think i have seen a to -- multicultural crowd like that, and it gives me so much hope for the future and i just had to point it out because maybe for some kids who have never seen this before, this is what it had -- this is not what it has looked like the past 50 years. host: the convention kicks off today at 4:00 p.m. >> what will people hear from president obama? according to a new york station this is -- tonight, his fourth convention address, he will work to ensure those earlier efforts were not for nothing. he plans to argue not only for democratic nominee hillary clinton, but for the progressive policies that he spent the last years enacting -- last eight years enacting. his message will be don't flush everything away with donald trump. host: inside the wells fargo center, we see a few people in there, that bipolar clock, it will be all -- full -- but by 4:00, it will be full. might in new jersey -- mike in new jersey, last word. caller: i would like to comment on the transpacific partnership. it is a very bad plan. i noticed that obama was pushing it, and the democrats now are saying no. i am just wondering how he will address that at the convention. host: that is mike. the president, tim kaine, vice president biden, the whole gang will be there, tonight and it will be live on c-span. thank you for joining us. we will be live throughout the day with lots of political events. ♪ >> you will have a front row seat to every minute of democratic national convention on c-span.org. watch live streams of proceedings without commentary or commercials. use our video clipping tool to create euro clips of your favorite convention moments and share them on social media. also read twitter feed him delegates and reporters in philadelphia. our special convention pages have everything you need to get the most of c-span's gavel to gavel coverage. c-span.org/

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