Transcripts For KQED PBS NewsHour Convention Coverage 201607

>> i am asking you to joining me out of love of country. >> hillary clinton takes the stage and accepts the nomination, the final day of the democratic convention. >> gwen ifill: good evening and welcome to our special pbs news hour npr coverage of this final night of the democratic convention in philadelphia, i'm gwen ifill. >> judy woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff, joining us as they have all week, npr's rachel martin and here in the anchor booth syndicated columnist mark shields, new york times columnist, david brooks. >> gwen ifill: and also with us tamara keith along with amy walter of the cook political report, politics monday again, and down on the floor we have john yang and susan davis. >> judy woodruff: hillary clinton will take to the national stage tonight and offer americans her vision of the future. she is exported to be introduced by her daughter chelsea. we will get to all of that right after this short break. >> funding for this program has been provided by: >> lincoln financial-- committed to helping you take charge of your financial future. >> and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> judy woodruff: welcome back we are here with our entire political team as the democratic party kicks off its final night of the 2016 nominating convention. >> gwen ifill: as this convention comes to an end and with the republican convention toward an end the campaign will make a turn toward the general election immediately but not before hillary clinton deliveries a keynote speech tonight. i will bring you round to the table here to tamara keith, who is joining us fresh off the campaign trail. what do we expect hillary clinton to do don't? >> she has been working on this speech, refining it throughout today. we have some very limited remarks that have been released, just some limited excerpts in part because in typical hillary clinton fashion and typical clinton fashion she is going to work on that speech up to the last minute. the big theme, which we have heard a lot this convention is stronger together. campaign aids say she is going to talk about that theme and tie it all the way back to her book that came out in 1996 "it takes a village" she sees this stronger together idea as an extension of that and as a rebuke of donald trump and his more divisive rhetoric. >> judy woodruff: david brooks, so much goes into this night, the speech of her life, what does she need to do? >> i think she has been around since 1967, and it is a long and storied career, it is a crucial night of her life so far, the biggest speech she has given and i think she needs to show the human being, unveil, take off the lobster shell, show comic surprise, a little something that drives her beyond am bigs and i think people sometimes have a sense she is running for office because she thinks that's what's next on the career path. she has to show i would do this even if it cost me my career. >> gwen ifill: amy walter, let's go tack to the "it takes a village" idea, that was widely derided at the time, is it because she is a different candidate she can bring that out? >> i think it's a different candidate she is running against which makes that message effective, which is i'm running a cam taken against a person who says i am the one that can fix problems and we're in this alone versus we're all in this together. that's the theme that she is obviously been driving over and over again and believes that as our country continuous to diversify as we become more accepting of all different kinds of people that's a message that's going to resonate much more so than i'm in it for myself and i'm in it just to get by. >> judy woodruff: mark shields, how do you see what she needs to do and how much of that is defined or circumscribed by the person she is running against? >> i think it's defined, judy, i would say the establishment at the outset ambition is a given, for anybody that is running for president, these are not shrinking violets, the only american president i have known or covered who did not want to be president from the time he was in the second grade is gerald ford who wanted to be a speaker of the house, which is a different ambition, but they are driven and it comes down to what difference will she makes in people's lives, if she can show self-deprecating humor, kid about her secretiveness, her mistrust or distrust or whatever tonight just to show that and a certain vulnerability and candor, i think it would be winning as an acknowledgment that she does have these problems. >> gwen ifill: john yang, what have the delegates been telling you about what they're expecting? >> i think they are hopeful for this speech and will be in a lot of ways an introduction, even though this has been a person who has been in the public eye for more than two decades they're looking for a real explanation as mark justed of why she wants to be president, sort of a little more detail, filling in what moves her, what she is all about. campaign officials tell me that will be part of the speech in those words. she will acknowledge that some people may not know, may not understand what she's all about and will try to explain it in this speech tonight. >> judy woodruff: thank you, john, let's move over to the podium where npr's rachel martin has been, rachel basted on the people you are talking to what are they looking for her to get done tonight? >> it's interesting, judy, she still has a lot of work to do the theme of tonight is stronger together so clearly to unify the party and there are still a lot of bernie sanders supporters who aren't yet sold on the idea of a hillary clinton presidency and on monday i spoke with a couple of people who said this was the speech they were waiting for. they need to hear her use words that will make them feel included and talk about the issues that matter to them, getting big money out of government, stopping fracturing -- fracking, climate change and i'm going to see how closely she goes in that direction and she has to electricity phi everybody outside of this building, reach out to people who have found a home with donald trump, many of them, and lastly, something that mark mentioned, i'm going to be listening to how forthright she is about her own vulnerabilities. so much has been made of her trust doubt, people say she is untrustworthy, is she going to use that word? i don't know, but in some way to acknowledge that she has these issues, at lisa perception issues and how does she navigate that and pivot forward and be that moving force >> gwen ifill: so many things to get done tonight, thanks, rachel martin, susan davis is elsewhere on the floor, the party's theme is stronger together, it's a new slogan that hillary people have come up with, instead of "i'm with her" stronger together. is that a theme on the near tonight susan? >> as you look around the hall tonight you can't help but notice people in yellow highlighted tee shirts that glow in the dark that is a last stand of bernie sanders group and their final protest. i would say the room is packed, everyone is holding up their hillary signs and last night we saw a pivot that seemed to be aimed at general election voters, even republicans, who hillary clinton says could vote for her this fall and it will be interesting to see somehow she threads the needle that has fueled and kept the energy in this room happy and also making a general election message, saying, hey, vote for me. >> judy woodruff: it's a needle she has to thread or a thread she has to needle, how many of these can we drudge up? >> i think this is ultimately a campaign with so many different tension points, right? you have two candidates who have stark visions but where they see the country and where they want to take the country and they're incredibly flawed messengers, hillary clinton being part of the status quo, she does not want to be, she is trying to be both, hugging barack obama but not wanting to be a third term of barack obama so all of these things are apparent they're but they're go be to go apparent throughout the next 100 days of the campaign and how she negotiation that tension, how donald trump negotiates that tension will give us the answer of who is going to win. >> gwen ifill: it seems it's been how many days now since hillary clinton gave a news conference? >> 225, some -- somewhere in the 200s, it was before iowa. >> gwen ifill: it's been a while and when you think donald trump gives press conferences every other day, i have to ask you whether this changing in the alterations that amy talks about is even possible. >> well, she is trying to get to the media, trying to get to the public in lots of ways that don't require us. her campaign has its own videographer, staff photographer, just like the obama campaign had and you tube videos, and that's what hillary's campaign is doing. she is circumventing us, doing sit-down interviews but not the availability the press conferences where we could pepper her with questions and someone could build on someone else's question and we could dig in and understand something instead these are short interviews -- some even longer but where there isn't enough time to answer the questions that you really need to get answered. >> judy woodruff: david brooks watching, two figures who date back to bill clinton's administration, ted danson and mary steinburgen, actors, and comparisons might be made with her husband's administration, does they have to worry about that? is she striking out with her own chord? >> the party has changed a lot, the party trying to prove it wasn't left, if you ran into bill clinton at 11 chelsea clinton 30 you were up till 4 so that's a different style. and remember how prosperous the country was we were on the holiday after history it was a different era as amy was talking about the tensions she faces the party faces and if i was advising joel benison in the studio earlier this evening i would say you are only going to lose one, that's fear, economic opportunity you have a decent advantage, people are not going to take a risk on donald trump unless something extremist is going on, i would say they have done an insufficient job of insulating them from that, i'm looking at the schedule, you have a lot of things going on tonight but not a lot of emphasis on national security and i would say that's a failing so far of this convention >> gwen ifill: what do you think about that mark? >> i think david is right about 147% of the time! i understand bill clinton was so much different, the first democratic president elected in 16 years, the democratic had had three wipe outs, 49 states lost, they were just not competitive. so as opposed to hillary clinton who is running to succeed barack obama her fate and fortunate are tied to barack obama. you can talk about change but barack bama's leadership and resoluteness over the next 100 days as president and commander in chief in dealing with these threats is going to affect hillary clinton, whether hillary clinton is seen as a credible commander in chief and sustaining those policies that will control isis and make people safer and lower that fear level. >> judy woodruff: which gets back to amy's point we saw physically the embrace last night but there is a -- she is not identical to him. >> and she doesn't want to be seen as a third term, continuation versus change. the other piece of this is which is the economic anninxiety is r and she does need to tracy that at the top and i think when we talk about anger and fear so much is about that. you have a president right now with a 51% approval rating, people do -- are sort of torn on it, if they see the economy improving or not but she can't tie herself so directly to that 51%. his 51% is really much more about him personally than it is about people feeling good about where things are in the country. >> gwen ifill: let's go down to the floor because john yang is about to have a conversation with frankly someone else who is making history at this convention. john? >> okay, i'm now here with sara mcbride who spoke earlier this evening. she is the first transgender speaker to any major political convention. what did this mean to you to have this opportunity? >> it was an honor to be able to share my story to help educate the country a little bit more about transgender issues and identities. to me i'm thinking about the young person in north carolina or in texas who is struggling with the fact that they think they're transgender and wondering whether this country has a place for them, too, and i'm thinking about how i'm hoping they see at this convention transgender person are seen, respected and valueds and -- valued and i hope they know they can live their identity and still pursue dreams. >> you are the national spokesperson for the human rights campaign a gay rights advocacy group. donald trump is trying to reach out to the lgbtq community. what's your take on that? how successful do you think he will be? >> not successly at all, i think we're long past the point where merely saying the letters lgbtq should be seen as progress, donald trump is committed to appointing antiquality -- antiequality judges, his first profile was built on antilgbtq, i don't think it's fooling anybody. >> there were early criticism of hillary clinton being slow in coming to support same sex marriage. >> i think our country has evolved, president obama and joe biden and hillary clinton were all on a movement with this country and i think we need to be people who have open hearts and minds and secretary clinton has been a supporter of lgbtq rights and she has been steadfast in her support of transgender people helping to achieve progress in the state department for our community. >> sara mcbride at this convention was the first transgender speaker at any main convention, back up to you. >> judy woodruff: thank you, john, and gwen i think it's the case that it wasn't so long ago it was unusual to say there was someone who was gay in attendance at a convention, much less speaking. >> gwen ifill: one of the earlier speakers tonight was chad griffin the head of the human rights campaign fund and his biggest thing about donald trump was he couldn't get the letters lgtb read off a prompter correctly which showed how disconnected he felt donald trump is from that movement so it's history being made on every front. >> judy woodruff: it is. we are going to take a break we have former gov jennifer granholm of michigan, we're going to step away for a moment this is in my opinion, pbs news hour coverage. we'll be back. >> i am democratic leader nancy pelosi from san francisco. i was chair of the host committee at the convention in 1984 in san francisco. we witnessed the nomination of geraldine ferraro, it was tremendous. >> my choosing a woman to run in the second highest office you accepted a powerful signal to all americans, there are no doors we cannot unlock! [cheers & applause] we will place no limits on achievements. if we can do this, we can do anything! [cheers & applause] >> gwen ifill: if you're just joining us, this is live coverage of the democratic convention from npr and the pbs news hour, i'm gwen ifill. >> judy woodruff: and i'm judy woodruffwe're here in our sky booth on this final night for the democrats to tell their story to america and hillary clinton's case for why she should be elected president. a short time ago gwen and i sat down with al franken of minnesota, he addressed the convention earlier this week >> gwen ifill: senator franken, welcome. >> thank you. >> judy woodruff: what did you want to accomplish here and did you do that? >> i wanted to come out of this united and democrats excited and the viewers at home, the tens of millions of viewers to come away understanding who hillary clinton is and what she wants to do to improve people's lives, that's what we are supposed to do. >> judy woodruff: is that happening? >> i think it is, i think it is. i think that you saw the first day, there was a little bit of commotion but i think michelle obama gave a brilliant speech, bernie sanders did what -- did a great job in doing what he had to do. >> gwen ifill: did you have a role in that, you and sarah silverman, that first night when you did that comedy act? >> it was a moment where we had to stretch because they couldn't get one of the keyboard guys plugged in right so i think sarah was the right person to say some of the bernie people, because she had been an is your gait for bernie many, many times and she said you're being ridiculous and i think that was the right -- she was the person to say it. >> gwen ifill: but you've been getting up every morning going from delegation to delegation and this is what people at home don't necessarily see, state delegation breakfasts, and you have been telling them what you hoped they would take home. do you have a sense of an under current of concern that this race still appears to be so close? >> sure, i think that we both look at the up side of hillary clinton and building on what president obama has accomplished in the last eight years, coming in when we were losing about 750 to 800,000 jobs a month, and then looking at the down side of donald trump who many of us consider a con man and someone who really is not up to the task of being president of the united states. yes, we're very concerned. hopefully coming out of this convention those numbers will change. we're going to fight hard for the next 102 days and win this thing. >> judy woodruff: that's what i want to ask you about, because coming out of the republican convention in cleveland we all saw it, there was an anger, a strong dislike of hillary clinton that emerged from that convention. is there the same sort of energy, determination, coming out of this democratic on that'y into november, do you think? >> oh, absolutely, i think very much so. i've known hillary for about 22, 23 years, and she is the hardest working, smartest, most experienced person i know for this job. i think the president, president obama said she is more qualified than either he was when he came or bill clinton was when he came. so i think we are determined to win this race, and i've been doing as much as i can toward that end. >> gwen ifill: assuming that you accomplished what you wanted to this week in philadelphia what do you need to accomplish going forward, you are now launched head first into the general election. >> yep, well, it's the blocking and tackling, the ground game, making sure our people are registered, making sure our people vote and making sure that there isn't a suppression of our people, making sure our people are motivated, making sure that -- bernie says he's going to be going out there to make sure that everybody -- that he can do everything in his power to make sure hillary wins. i think michael bloomberg who came out last night and said we need to elect a sane, responsible person to be president and that was, i think -- that's what i call the comedy of understatement. that's the lisa you can ask of a president is to be sane and responsible. i don't think that donald trump fits either of those particularly. >> judy woodruff: is it more of a positive message you see coming from democrats in november, pro hillary clinton or is it an antidonald trump? >> i think it's both, i really do. i don't think they're necessarily at odds but i think what you saw from hillary is that she has at this day after day after day. michelle obama said something really interesting. she said the president has to have a wealth of knowledge, and when crises happen you can't pick your crises so you have to have been working throughout your entire life to understand this stuff and certainly while you're running and while you're the president and donald trump, she has done this every day, that's why i trust her, i trust her to do the job. donald trump has demonstrated none of that. that's why he's making all these mistakes. that's why when he's asked are you going to seize crimea to russia? he goes, well, we're looking at that. anyone who is a nominee for president of the united states knows the answer to that is no, you don't want to encourage putin! he is not prepared and has no willingness -- has shown no i willingness to make himself prepared. he does not understand the job >> gwen ifill: senator al franken of minnesota, thank you very much. >> thank you, gwen. >> gwen ifill: senator franken is known in some circles as having been a median for "saturday night live" and what i was referring to is when he and comedian sarah silverman took the air out of the room. >> judy woodruff: poked the balloon, took the air out of the people saying "bernie or bust!" i was struck that al franken is pretty confident that hillary clinton will be able to counter the donald trump argument. he said the democrats aren't taken anything for granted and i was struck by that. >> gwen ifill: let's see what's going on on the floor, we're expecting former michigan governor, jennifer granholm, she started out as the democratic governor of michigan between 203 and 27 and is a long-time supporter of hillary clinton. >> i actually want to speak tonight to those americans who feel you have been left behind, the americans who believe you have been cheated, who believe that those at the top don't care about you. now, i know a little something about this because i was governor of michigan, the epicenter of america's manufacturing rise and its painful fall and it's resurgence. michigan built the automobile and the abell built america! but when the manufacturing industry fell on hard times, so did michigan. so did many of your states. we, we were angry about it. about jobs going to low wage countries, about unfair trade, but we were also determined, determined to build the industries of the future! we said we wanted advanced manufacturing, we wanted new jobs. so we started this hard process of moving in that direction, and then, in 2008, we elected a democratic president to work with us. and you know what he did? he saved the american auto industry! right? and then that renewed auto industry paid america back in full! and that is what we can do together. now, i, like many of you, am a fierce democrat! but i know, i know there are democrats and republicans all across this country who want to create jobs in america. liberals and conservatives, public sector and private industry, because we are not in this alone. we are all in this together! one candidate gets that, and one candidate as joe biden said last night, doesn't have a clue! some people are worried, some people are angry, i get that. but the answer is not to tear our country down, it's to build our country up. not to build walls that keep out the rest of the world but to keep building industries and universities that the rest of the world wishes they could get into! hillary clinton gets it and that's why she has huge plans to create good-paying jobs in america! imagine that! imagine that, actual plans! i mivr missed that night at the republican convention. detailed plans, people! written down! plans with numbers that add up! you want to see them? you can actually see them! just text "jobs" to 47246. last week we heard about trump's hopeless vision about our country and he said "i alone can fix it!" imagine donald trump's version of the constitution. i the person in order to form a more perfect union or centuries later, i shall overcome! or ask not what i can do for my country, ask what my country can do for me! [applause] donald! donald! you're so vein! you probably think this speech is about you! [cheers & applause] don't you now? here is what i know we have got to stop donald trump. our great country spans a continent but we are all connected to each other no matter where we live so when a miner in virginia has the dignity of a new job in the advanced steel industry we all have dignity. when an engineering student in the sunshine state builds the solar panels of the future, we all succeed! when the auto worker in detroit builds the electric vehicle that drives us forward, we all win, right? whether you're in michigan or marr marryland or montana! when flint's water poisons its children it hurts all of us. these are our children. we are all flint! right, philadelphia? our next president knows that a nation is a village, that we are one family, and in a family, no one gets left behind! not the steel worker in pennsylvania, not the farmer in iowa, not the dreamer in nevada, not the factory worker in ohio! as our next president says, we are stronger together! we are stronger how? we're gonna keep america great how? together! and we're going to work our hearts out to elect hillary clinton president how? together! let's do this, brothers and sisters, together! [cheers & applause] >> gwen ifill: that was jennifer granholm the governor of michigan and now we're going to go down to the floor to npr's susan davis who is talking to someone who is very close to hillary clinton and bill clinton and chelsea for that matter. >> i'm on the floor with former congresswoman marjorie margolis, extended family member of the clintons, what do you think hillary clinton will do with this speech? >> i think she will knock it out of the park. i think people will see this is a woman who is really ready for this job. i know i sound not terribly objective and i was once one of you guys, but she is so prepared and when you think of what there is out there, her opponent, it's sad and laughable and xenophobic, but she is going to take the high road and she will tell us what she can do and what she brings to the table, but also she is going to talk about the future which she does so well. >> one of the other anticipated speeches tonight is that of chelsea clinton, your daughter-in-law. what should we expect to hear from chelsea and talk about her role in this campaign. >> hillary will tell you that shes the about best of both of them, she really is. she is darling. she is smart, really smart! she is very, very good in her own skin. she has been terrific moving around the country doing speeches. she is very good with the issues. so i think that's what you're going to see, and you will see an incredible pride in her procedure because she has been a terrific daughter but hillary has been a -- hillary and bill have been terrific parents. >> we'll leave it there. >> gwen ifill: we are going -- >> we are going straight to the floor to listen to doug elmets, a firsspeaking at the podium. >> i don't believe he will get that chance. while hillary holds many policy differences, from my own, her qualifications are indisputable, hillary knows that the streets of our nation lies in uniting, not dividing. this year's republican flat form is laced with antigay, antiwomen positions, that do not represent the views of most americans. this is why this year i will vote for a democrat for the first time! [cheers & applause] to my fellow republicans, if you believe like i do, you believe loyalty to our country is more important than loyalty to party, if you want a president with good judgment, a steady hand, and a temperament to represent our nation to the world and our children, i ask that you join me in voting for hillary clinton as president of the united states. [cheers & applause] thank you. >> one of my first memories is standing outside our richmond, virginia polling place with my dad to handout campaign literature in support of our chosen candidate, our chosen republican candidate. when it comes to campaigning, i've done it all, phone banks, knocked on so many doors, i bet a lot of you did the same. one difference though i campaigned exclusively -- >> this is another republican voting for hillary clinton, she is her her she is co-founder of republican women for hillary. >> -- liberty, equality and the belief that there are individual rights that cannot be taken away. these are values to be proud of and because the republican party has abandoned those values this year, this republican is voting for hillary clinton. in donald trump's america, it doesn't matter what i've accomplished as an attorney and policy expert, all that matters is how attractive i am on a scale of 1 to 10. trump's loath some comments about women and our appearances are too many to repeat and to crass to repeat. they are too important to ignore, though. trump can discount our accomplishments, disrespect our abilities but come november he cannot disregard our votes. [cheers & applause] there are some who will say i'm voting for hillary clinton because she is a woman. people who is that dismiss my voice and hillary's long record of public service. and i know there are some who are contemplating staying home this november. your voice can help define the next chapter of american values, american policy, american leadership around the world. for better or for worse. i'm here tonight to ask all of you to join me to not only oppose donald trump but to support hillary clinton. because we're not just democrats and republicans, we're americans! thank you. [cheers & applause] >> gwen ifill: that's jennifer pierotti lim she is director of health policy at the conservative u.s. chamber of commerce and made a very strong statement antidonald trump, voting for hillary. amy walter? >> here is an interesting dilemma for democrats now, we have had outward appeals to come out and vote for hillary clinton but that works against what democrats running for the senate are trying to do. they're trying to make the case they would love for republicans to stay home because it helps their down ballot candidates if those folks don't turn out so we're seeing the white house running a different strategy than the down ballot candidates. already we're seeing that voters are not linking to republicans down the ballot this convention and this strategy from hillary clinton isn't going to make it any easier for the democratic senate candidates. >> judy woodruff: mark shields what's the precedent for this? >> it's there, kennedy against goldwater in 1964, precise example and it worked for the party then. it was a time then of different voting, people had more loyalty certainly more democrats in the country. i think the strategy, if i were defend it go for the clintons, which i'm not, is that if, in fact, they can do this and show enough republicans coming over and that trump becomes just typhoid mary, that will, in fact, help democrats all the way down the ballot in november. i think that's clearly the strategy from this convention. i thought jennifer granholm really did remarkably well with the humor saying that donald trump reminds you of a great moment in american history ask not what your country -- what your country -- what i can do for my country, ask what my country can do for me, i shall overcome, it's playing to that ego, lone ranger should the united states succeed crimea to russia. >> gwen ifill: tell me what you think about that? >> it's not a hail mary it's an important part of their strategic, donald trump has loosened up republicans and the clintons feel they can get some of those, they're going for those voters, i think it's a risk worth taking in terms of the senate and i think some of the most powerful moments at this convention have been michael bloomberg, the republicans you just heard, there wasn't a single democrat standing up unless i'm forgetting one in cleveland asking for that big tent outreach kind of strategy. >> gwen ifill: i think you're right, i don't remember it either. >> judy woodruff: i don't either, david brooks, weigh in on this. >> i think the opportunity is there, especially after the obama speech last night, my email file with the bush staffers and regular gab staffers, saying we used to write those kind of speeches, that was our version of america so a lot of people who have devoted their lives to the republican party are there for the asking if they cannot seem like too much of a bernie sanders party, frankly. so i think the opportunity is there, if they do it and that's for the risking the down ballot races. i'm trying to remember a time in my lifetime a presidential candidate has made a real sacrifice for others in the party, hard to remember. >> of course, again, i think they should absolutely look out for themselves, i'm not suggesting they shouldn't but as you know if you're coming in as a president with as /-* -- as democrat with a republican senate. >> gwen ifill: but they don't want to suppress the republican vote just so we can have republicans stay home, right? >> i'm anxious to tackle the question we have talked around and about all week and that is trump's appeal to noncollege educated americans and maybe there is a more flight way to put it but how should we be thinking about this mark shields? it has aspects of elitism to it. how should we be regarding this? >> well, there is a strong sense, make sure that we understand, there is a strong sense among white blue collar workers in america, those without a college education that there is no longer a realistic path to upward mobility and college has become beyond their expense and beyond -- not a realistic option and that they have been foreclosed and they are afraid for america. they would like to have america be feared when it comes to isis, they don't want to be afraid of isis, they would like to have isis be afraid of the united states' power. i just think that this is there and we have to face one terrible reality is that they're right. in 2009 in this country there were 359 billionaires, today there are 540 and there are 2.5 mr. million children living in poverty than there were then >> judy woodruff: mark i'm going to interrupt and take us down to the floor, because this is what people have been asking about, when are we going to hear from families of the police officers and i believe this is jennifer loudon, the wife of a police officer whose husband was killed -- >> -- philadelphia police officer. every morning for 19 years, moses put on his uniform. one morning on the way home from the third shift he was shot and killed. and moses' wrapped christmas presents i found in august. moses thought ahead, he bought gifts for relatives, single parents, strangers, down on their luck. one of these presents didn't even have a name on it. i still have it. moses didn't live long enough to give all of the gifts he had to give. while we're here we must do the good we can. [applause]oíaj absolutely we have to believe that we're stronger together. thank you. [applause] thank you, john. >> we hear a lot about the problems in big cities. our son derrick owe wednesday -- >> gwen ifill: this is barbara owens and barbara owens owns who's son was killed in 2008. >> -- his wife was mourning so he was the one who combed his daughter's hair. his friends joked and said he made it harder for the other dad's because he did such a good job! after derrick was killed we heard from so many people about his positive influence. one woman said, when she was a troubled teenager, derrick saw in her what she couldn't see in herself and because of him, she is a better mother. [applause] thank you. this was just one of the many stories we heard. derrick has left a legacy of service and integrity and love. and we, we never want the sacrifice of derrick and all of the other fallen officers to every be forgotten. thank you. [applause] >> judy woodruff: these were representatives of three families affected by the loss of a son or a husband who served in law enforcement. >> -- once he got a call about a boy who had stolen a belt. the boy only had a rope to keep his pants up. he negotiated and the charges were dropped. he also paid for the belt p. [applause]. [applause] he did not want that boy to start his life with a record. he knew that every interaction he had mattered, every word he spoke and every arrest he made defined what it meant to serve and protect. he knew effective policing required treating people with kindness and respect especially when he was most often called to their worst moments. when i lost thor, i had no idea it was possible to lose so much in an entire lifetime much less than in a single moment and i know that in light of recent events some of us have lost faith, but i want all americans to know about moses, derrick, thor and all the officers out there who every day risk their lives protecting all of us. [cheers & applause] let us honor all of the fallen officers who weren't named here today, by acting as our officers did, helping others, bridging communities, and building peace. thank you. [applause] >> gwen ifill: the counter point to the black lives matter argument which we have seen on display at this convention, blue lives matter, the family members of people who fell. this is kind of a, just as we were talking earlier there hasn't been that much discussion mara about national security and isis, there also hasn't been much discussion about law enforcement and those who have been putting their lives on the long >> this is a powerful answer to the criticism of the democratic convention that they only care about black lives matter and they don't care about blue lives. there is a common message, that's what is the thread that runs through this entire convention about stronger together and it's possible to bridge these divides, and i think this was something that was missing but i think this was a powerful part. >> judy woodruff: david? >> i've said this before but we must be up to 25 or 30 people who have lost sons, daughters, and both parties have done a ton of it and i don't recall it in past years. there must have been something that they picked up in polling, a sense of loss and i would say covering the trump supporters, a sense of loss is generally the motivating factor. sometimes it's the loss of a job, sometimes the loss of a business, often it's a sense that their adult children are floundering, a loss of faith in the future but that sense of loss and that sense of grief has pervaded both conventions. usually they want them to be upbeat and positive and they're going after the people who have suffered the most grieve i couldn't say loss we can imagine, the loss of a child. it's consistent with the times that i think you've got to -- it changes everybody's mentality when the possibility of losing a loved one is constantly put before you and you want security at that moment and you want safety at that moment and i think it's part of that "moment" we're in >> gwen ifill: this is an interesting point david makes, i wonder, amy, whether it's possible that this could have been tested as horrible -- cynical as that may seem it comes up too frequently not to be a common theme that both parties. >> i think they did do that or maybe this is the one way you can sort of break through in this, you know, hyper instantly connected, constantly distracted world that only the most horrible grief is what will bring you in. but i will tell you just in speaking with focus groups i sat in, sitting down with a lot of women voters and it came up over and over again the sense that the center had fallen out for them, their loss was that they couldn't figure out all these institutions in their lives that had seemed to fail them. their number one concern and they put all of these together in the same box was safety. it was they were worried about their kids being bullied, worried about their kids getting on a school bus, they were worried about how isis was going to impact them and it came back to the sense that they didn't have control over their lives and their children were most at risk and that was something that was clearly pervasive and this goes back the last couple of years, this deep fear and insecurity. >> judy woodruff: and mark, what we just watched i think here at the democratic convention to me was a direct response in some ways to the criticism at the republican convention, i think we heard it from rudy gulliani that the other party doesn't think about the sacrifices that law enforcement makes. >> no question about it and i think it was an effective rebuttal.ñr it impresses me that the democratic party which has been uncomfortable in the talk, any language about religion or even spiritual, african american parents surviving parents, and especially, especially the charleston families, their forgiveness, it was really such a breath of fresh air for the democrats who just avoided it, church and state, got at that keep 'em straight, they built a wall and they breached a wall tonight and earlier in this convention and i think it's for the good of the country, for the good of the national debate and ultimately probably for the good of the party, that should be a tertiary consideration. >> gwen ifill: susan davis our npr reporter on the floor is town there with someone who is going to give up her senate see the soon, let's go to susan. >> i'm on the floor with senator barbara boxer the december cat from california and a long-time friend of hillary clinton. senator what do you think hillary clinton needs to accomplish with this speech? >> not only am a friend of hillaries, and i was her colleague in the united states senate. i think what hillary should do, what she has been doing in every speech, make the point that we are stronger together and the opposite party with donald trump at the head divides us and we become weak when we look at each other with disrespect and envy. so the bottom line is we need to all be together in this boat we call america, we need to stand together, pull together and proceed together. i think this notion of standing together i think is going to be a strong message from her tonight. >> you've been a proud, liberal democrat, there has been protests from the left, how unified is this democratic party leaving philadelphia? >> let me just tell you this, i think that bernie sanders who made the case for why hillary clinton should be supported by his supporters, i supported hillary from the beginning, she and bernie ran tough races, in california we ran for hillaró but the bottom line is they worked together on a really good platform and i think it's something to be proud of and i think having seen some of the demonstrations here it's a tiny little proportion of the bernie sanders people and god bless them and they can do what they want. i mean, i'm not upset about it. i would love to have everybody supporting hillary but if we get 95%, 96%, i think it's going to be okay. how could they possibly help donald trump get elected? if you listen to bern knee he's so strong on the point and he will be out there campaigning for hillary so i think at the end of the day her is your gates will bring them along if they doesn't bring them along >> senator boxer, thank you for talking with us >> gwen ifill: the interesting thing about barbara boxer's comment there is she says she knows bernie will be out there campaigning for hillary which is partly true but there seems to be a disconnect between that fact and the people in the hall tonight who are still wearing their bernie shirts. >> yeah and there is real anger, they like the guy -- they like bernie but it wasn't a personal thing for them it was a movement thing it was a policy thing it was an upsetness at the platform, and a whole set of issues that motivate them. they're not to be led. and that's where they are. >> judy woodruff: i guess we keep being warned that maybe there is something that bernie supporters have in mind tonight, the most a reasonable degrerden. maybe they will walk out during hillary clinton's acceptance speech, we will watch and see. it's 9:00 on the east coast, we are going to take a short break, we will be with our special coverage of the npr and pbs news hour coverage during this democratic convention. >> i'm john lewis, i remit the fifth congressional district of georgia. >> the convention was moving and so consuming for senator barack obama nominated to be president at the democratic convention in 2008. he gave his acceptance speech on the anniversary of the day that martin luther king, junior, delivered his "a&zq speech. you could feel it. you knew in your heart and in your gut that barack obama would become the next president of the united states. i cried. tears of joy. tears of happiness. >> change happens because the american people demand it! because they wise up and insist on new ideas and new leadership a new policy for a new time. erica, this is one of those moments. [music playing] >> woodruff: we are back at the top much the hour of the coverage for the democratic national convention. joining me around the table is ron from npr, and syndicated columnist mark shields and david brooks. down on the stage we're hearing the end of a speech by a pastor in north carolina and the leader of moral mondays which is a very an activist group in north carolina. let's listen to the end of his remarks. >> and a union. and universal health care and public education! and immigrant rights! and lgbt rights! we are reviving the heart of our democracy! when we develop tax and trade policies, that no longer funnel our prosperity to the wealthy few, we are reviving the heart of our democracy. when we hear the legitimate discontent of black lives matter and we come together to renew justice in our criminal justice system, we are embracing our deepest moral values and reviving the heart of our deposition democracy. when we love the jewish child and the palestinian childed, the muslim and the christian and the hindu and the buddhist and those who have no faith but they love this nation. we are reviving the heart of our democracy. when we fight for peace and when we resist the proliferation of military style weapons on our streets -- and when we stand against the antidemocratic stronghold of the nra, we are reviving the heart of our democracy. in times like these, we have to make some addition decisions, and i might normally be here as a preacher and an individual but when i hear hillary's voices and positions, i hear and i know that she is working to embrace our deepest moral values and we should embrace her. but let me be clear, that she nor any person can do it alone. the watch word of this democracy and the watch word of faith is " we," the heart of our democracy is on the line this november and beyond. they tell me when the heart is in danger, somebody has to call an emergency code and somebody with a good heart will bring a defibrillator to work on a bad heart, because it's possible to shock a bad heart and revive the pulse. there in this season, when some want to harden and stop the heart of our deposition, we are being called, like our fore mothers and fathers to be the moral defibrillators of our time! we must shock this nation with the power of love. we must shock this nation with the power of measure yes, she did. we must shock this nation and fight for justice for all. we can't give up on the heart of our deposition -- not now, not ever! [cheering] and so i stopped by tonight to ask, is there a heart in this house? is there a heart in america? is there somebody that has a heart for the poor? and a haibd heart for the vulnerable? then stand up, vote together or deny us together, fight for the heart of this nation and while you're fighting, sing that old hymn, revive us again. fill each heart with our love. may each soul be rekindled with fire from above. halleluiah! find of glory! clear find the glory. >> instructor:! >> ifill: i feel like i'm in church. the reverend william barber, as gwen said earlier is heard -- very involved in the moral monday movement, which was created in 2013 as a response to conservative politicians elected in that state. >> and the state's voter id law. this is kareem abdul-jabbar, the noted basketball player and instantly recognizable, if only for his height and he is the leading scorer in the nba of all time. he is now an activist. >> i'm michael jordan and i'm here -- i said that because i know that there some that couldn't tell the difference! good evening everyone. i'm kareem abdul-jabbar and i'm here to tell ycu about captain m k who is one of the soldiers that decide in combat serving the united states since 9/11. his family immigrated from the united states from the united arab immigrants. the first place they arrived was the jefferson memorial. the words engraved there read i have sworn on the altar of god, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. donald trump's idea to register the folks entering our country is the very tyranny jefferson abhors in 1777, jefferson erected the statue for religious freedom which became a motto for the first amendment. today's so-called religious freedom act like the one signed by mike pence of indiana -- they are the opposite of what jefferson wanted because they allowed discrimination. and that is called discrimination as a result of fear. those who think americans scare easily, enough to exchange for a false sense of security -- to them we say, not here, not ever. thank you. kareem abdul-jabbar being a muslim came out being one of the most famous muslims and pushing back at donald trump. >> and introducing the parents of the american soldier who is muslim who died in service to country in combat, which is, they argue, donald trump never would have been eligible to come into the country. >> for enlisting in the united states army in june 2004, he was serving in iraq. a suspicious vehicle appeared. captain khan told his troops to get back. but he went forward. he took 10 steps toward the car before it exploded. captain kahn was killed but his unit was saved by his courageous act. the captain was posthumously awarded the bronze star and purple heart. he was just 27 years old. we still wonder what made him take those 10 steps, kahn's father said in a recent interview. maybe that's the point, he went on, where all of the values, all of the service to country, all of the things he learned in this country kicked in. it was those values that made him take those 10 steps. those 10 steps told us we did not make a mistake in moving to this country his father finished time to stand up and say, we are americans. we will not turn on each other or turn on our principles. that's what we do here. that's who we are. that's how we will win. that's the america that i know makes us all so proud to be a part of. thank you all, very much. >> please welcome, kaiser kahn from virginia. he is the son of a man who died, serving this country. imentdz he is the father. the father of the man who died serving this country. [ cheers and applause ] khizr khan. >> first, our thoughts and prayers are with our veterans. and those who serve today. tonight, we are honored to stand hereby as parents of captain khan and as patriotic american muslims. [cheering] as patriotic american muz hims, with undivided loyalty to our country. medz like many immigrants, we came to this country empty handed. we believed in american democracy. that, with hard work and good ness of this country, we could share in and contribute to its blessings. we are blessed to raise our three sons in a nation where they were free to be themselves and follow their dreams. [ applause ] our son, in my own head, had dreams, too, of being a military lawyer. but he put those dreams aside the day he sacrificed his life to save the lives of his fellow soldiers. [ applause ] hillary clinton was right when she called my son the best of america. [ applause ] if it was up to donald trump, he never would have been in america donald trump consistently smears the character of muslims. he disrespects other minorities, women, judges, even his own party leadership. he wants to build walls and ban us from this country. (crowd boos). >> donald trump, you're asking americans to trust you with their future. let me ask you, have you even read the united states constitution? [cheering] i will gladly lend you my copy in this document. look for the words -- look for the words "liberty" and "equal protection of law." have you ever been to arlington cemetery? go look at the braves of brave patriots who died defending the united states of america. you will see all faiths, genders , and ethnicities. you have sacrificed nothing! and no one -- we cannot solve our problems by building walls. sewing division. we are stronger together. and we will keep getting stronger when hillary clinton becomes our president. [cheering] in conclusion, i ask every proilt american, all muslim immigrants, and all immigrants to not take this is election lightly. this is a historic election and i request to honor the sacrifice of my son and on election day take the time to get out and vote and work for the healer, vote for the strongest, most- qualified candidate, hillary clinton. god bless you. thank you. thank you. and god bless you. ed. >> khizr khan, the father of a man who was killed fighting for his country. he said -- he pulled out a copy of the u.s. constitution and said to donald trump, i will gladly send you my copy if you haven't read it. he was very emotional and got an outside reaction to the crowd here. >> gwen, sometimes the words that are spoken slowly with great restraint, almost halting ly can be the words carved most deeply on our memories and this was an extraordinary speech. and cream abdul gentleman kareem abdul-jabbar before him very few words but probably the most memorable moments of tonight so far. >> i think so. david brooks? >> beat look at this almost as theater because of how they are performing but it's true theater and there are true things that had happening as they discuss it and this has been a super effective night. this has just been one very strong moment after another, making a real case. and the final thing to be said, if you were a martian and came down and looked at these two conventions and somebody asked you, which of the two parties is the most patriotic, you would say the droik party. which is the most culturally conservative, you would say the drook party. the trump thing has swirled this summer and the democrats are responding by seizing the ground that he has abandoned for the republican party, and that's part of what we're seeing, especially where we were at last night and today. >> amy? >> i just thought really this is going to define so much of this convention. because it hit at every single one of the points that the clinton campaign is trying to make. one, of course, about the muslim ban and exclusioning those who have sacrificed. he said to donald trump "you sacrificed nothing." that was a powerful statement to have a father of a fallen soldier making that statement as opposed to a politician making that. and then he, like so many others emphasizing this is a serious election, you need to get out and vote, saying to those younger voters, that obama coalition, the folks with bernie sanders, young people who say i don't know if i can vote for her , i don't know if i like her, it's about something bigger and more important and you have to get out and vote. >> coming to stage now is a group of people. among that group we're told is general john allen who led u.s. and nato forces in afghanistan for two years, up until just a couple of years ago. i assume these are veterans. 37 veterans i'm told. we're going to be hearing from general john allen, retired four -star general who has advised president obama on countering isis: they're stand ing there behind the lectern with general allen, about to speak. >> i stand with you tonight, a retired four-star general of the united states marine corps. and i am joined by my fellow generals and admirals. and with these magnificent young veterans from iraq and afghanistan, they went there and they risked their lives because they love this country. they are here -- they are here before you because this most convertible election is the greatest one in our memory for the president of the united states. the stakes are enormous. we must not and we could not stand on the sidelines. this election can carry us to a future of unity and hope. or to a dark place of discord and fear. we must choose hope. every american in uniform, in the white house or at home -- >> usa, usa, usa. >> (crowd chanting usa, usa). >> we must about force in america for a vision. that includes all of us -- all of us, every man and bomb, every race, every ethnicity. every faith and creed, including the american whose those muslims and every gender and gender orientation -- >> (crowd chanting usa, usa). >> all of us together, all of us together, purr suiting our common values. my fellow americans from the battlefield to the capitals of our ally competency friends and partners, the free people of the world look to america as the last, best hope for peace and liberty for all of human kind for we are -- we are the greatest croy on this planet. so we stand before you tonight to endorse hillary clinton for the president of the united states of america. we trust in her judgment. we trust in her judgment. we believe in her vision. for a united america. we believe in her vision of an america as a just and strong leader against the forces of hatred, the forces of chaos and darkness. we know that she as no other knows how to use all instruments of american power -- not just the military, to keep us all safe and free. my fellow americans, i tell you, without hesitation or reservation, that hillary clinton will be exactly the kind of commander and chief america needs. i know this. i know this because i served with her. i know this as the former special president presidential envoy to the global coalition to counter isis. with her as our commander in chief america will continue to lead the world. we will oppose and resist tyranny and we will defeat evil. america -- america will defeat isis and protect the homeland. america will honor our treaty obligations. we will lead and strengthen nato and the atlantic alliance and our allies in east asia and around the world whom we have sworn a solemn oath to defend. my mellow americans we will stop the spread much nuclear weapons and keep them from the hands of dangerous states. our arm the forces will be stronger. they will have the strongest weapons, the greatest equipment. they will have the support of the american people. you and the american military will continue to to be -- will continue to be the shining example of america at our very best. our veterans will be thanked by a grateful nation and they will be cared for in the manner they deserve for the sacrifices they have made for all of us, from this great country and for world face and for world peace. but i also know that with her as our commander in chief, our international relations will not be reduced to a businesses transaction. i also know that is that our armed fosheszs will not become an instrument of torture and they will not be engaged in murder or carry out other illegal activities. with hillary clinton as our commander in chief, the united states will continue to be that indispensable transformational power in the world. to our allies, and to our friends and partners, listen closely. we are with you. america will not abandon you. to those acting against peace, acting against civilization in the world order, we will oppose you. and to our enemies, we will purr pursue you as only america can. you will fear us. and to isis and others, we will defeat you. >> ladies and gentlemen, my fellow americans, my fellow veterans, this is is the moment. this is the opportunity for our future and he that of the world. we must seize this moment to elect hillary clinton as president of the united states of america! thank you. and god bless you. and god bless america! and. >> he obviously said he wasn't in the room with hillary clinton when they talked about and when they discussed isis and how to deal with it. red white and blue signs that say usa, some bernie standards folks with signs that say no more war. either way this is quite an electric moment in the hall. down not podium, rachel martin is there. rachel, somewhat happening on the floor? >> it's a pretty incredible scene down here. at one point, near the beginning of general allen's speech we heard competing chants, no wore more and chants of usa. every time some of the bernie sanders supporters would shout there would be more chants of statue and usa and they were anticipating that. i will tell you i talked to general allen earlier today and he was anticipating that and he said he was preparing himself to get those boos and told himself he was just going to keep going and talking through it. you heard that in his message. there was a lot of intensity there. he told me this election is too important for him to sit out. he spent a a lifetime a politically in the military and said the stakes are too high and donald trump is too dangerous and he tide decided to come out and endorse hillary clinton as commander in chief. >> rachel, i wondered, did you talk with general allen about our members of the military feeling the way he does or is he alone in his views. >> we talked in particular about the relationship between the white house and the military, which has been tough at time over the years with the obama administration, members of the military choosing the white house as scoldtating power and he said there are still hurt feelings around that so he didn't go so far as to talk about whether or not there was some grand or kind of movement within military cycles what might come out and say they need to speak against hillary clinton but he didn't go that far but felt very comfortable in his own decision that he believes hillary clinton should be the next president. >> rachel martin at the podium. what we're hearing, gwen, right now speaking, we are hearing retired army captain who was awarded the medal of honor by president obama for his objections during iraq and afghanistan. >> before we return to the floor i want to talk around the table just about the power of that speech that we just heard. it is kind of remarkable, mark fields, as david brooks was say ing, to see a democratic convention in such a spasm of patriotism. >> no question about it and the national security he deficit or the concerns that were expressed and had been expressed about hillary clinton, i think are being answered. and firsthand accounts of having been there with her as the president did last night talking about the situation room. as general allen did and there was no question of his passion. he was an enormously requested four star marine corps general approximate not a political general at all and so this really was a break, with his record in the sense of coming so public in public support. >> i thought it was interesting how they combined to sort of an explosion of patriotism, amy walter with meeting the parents of the muslim american soldier who died in come bad psychiatristing his life for his comrades. they combined that and his rebuke to donald trump. >> we have been talking about this. this is how a convention is supposed to be run. it builds and builds. the first two nights were about uniting the party, getting at the party base and the issues that touch sort of the core issues of the democratic party and especially the more liberal element competency now we're moving as we get closer to hillary clinton to reaching out to who, is not part of track base or wavering in voting for hillary clinton. i always that tbat it was curious in the republican pry mere that no republican candidate pulled out a four star general or other members of the security elite to come out and say, you know what, we don't hike or trust this guy as a commander in chief. i thought that was going to be a powerful argument to use against him in the primary. they never used it and you saw, ted cruz really trying to get him on the social cultural front saying he is not a republican on abortion and some of the other issues, that didn't work obviously but hillary clinton, using it the way that i thought a republican koch more effective ly used anytime a primary. i know as you say, the -- it started out with a little dissension. it has not completely gone away. job is on the floor with part of the reason why? i'm here with norman solomon who is with the bernie delegate network. you have about 1200 of the 1500 bernie delegates. >> i have about 2/3 of the 1900 delegates in the network from all over the country. >> there's been a lot of talk about a walk out by bernie delegates during some point tonight. >> well, first, what is overwhelming coming from so many bernie delegates around the country and it's a view that i share is that we have an imperative to defeat donald trump, and especially in swing states, it's important to use the only mechanism we have to defeat donald trump and that would be to hold our nose, maybe with a very big clothes pin and vote for hillary clinton. we also have another imperative which is to continue on with what bernie calls the political revolution and that requires keepening the heat on hillary clinton, when she continues to site her rhetoric to be so entwined with wall street. when she continues to go along with the war state and perpetual war, and we're still getting flip-flop signals. this isn't a work for her to think that she can skate and we're just going to let it go. we're not. >> we're going to keep the heat on. >> so your presence being felt, the t-shirts, the walkout, perhaps something something else later tonight, it's not that you're not going to vote for hillary clinton, you just want to keep the pressure on her on certain issues. >> i think it's a matter of swing states. i live in california. i don't have a reason to vote for hillary clinton. but if i was in a swing state i would do it as an instrument to prevent the catastrophe of a donald trump presidency. at the same time she should know that she can't just go off and do her usually corporate thing, her usually perpetual war thing that we're going to challenge her. another way to put it is this, hillary clinton is being served notice every day this week that she will not have a nanosecond of a political hiatus not during the campaign or presidency. constituents are going to fight against inequality and wall street power and fight against continual war that she is very much supporting and that too is unacceptable. >> it is really very interesting to see that even after bernie sanders said she endorsing hillary clinton and a lot of the people have put down their signs , they have put on the bright t-shirts and still are hoping for one last gasp of objection. >> we may catch a tblims of that when the hall goes doork and when we get closer to the 10:00 hour and chelsea clinton's introduction. mark shields do you want to say something? >> attention must be paid to kareem abdul-jabbar's introduction which was, i'm michael jordan and i only said that because donald trump couldn't tell me the difference. that was a funny line. >> attention paid. it was very funny. but we need to take a short break right now. this is a special pbs newshour and npr coverage of the democratic convention in philadelphia. stay with us. we will be back in a minute. >> in hari sreenivasan with an update. vice president biden and attorney general loretta lynch joined a village im in baton rouge louisiana. a gunman ambushed them over the tensions of a black suspect. today hundreds payed tribute to the officers and lynch praised the city for showing a common hewn tee. >> the fda is telling blood bank s in south florida to stop taking blood donations for fear of transmitting the zika virus. the action affects mime, dade and broward counties after four zika cases that may be the first spread by mosquitoes on the main land. the f.d.a. is asking anyone that visited south florida to put off gulfing any blood for now. and the syrian government and russian allies offered today to open safe passage corridors to 300,000 people trapped in olepo. government troopses circled the area offer intense fighting. so far, there's no sign of a a mass exodus from the city. now back to philadelphia with gwen and judy. >> and if are you just joining us, this is continuing livecon coverage of the democratic national convention from npr and the "cbs news" hour. i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: and i'm gwen eiffel. we are going to hear a lot about hillary clinton from the people that know her best. how important is that, ron? >> it's important. we need the setup and the human ization. we need the sense this is a likable person, even though she is going to come out and have a much more commanding kind of presence and be of much more in the presidential role than the wife, mother, grandmother, good friend role that we have been hearing about. >> couple of hours ago gwen and i spoke with lisa who worked for hill hillary in the white house whence she was first lady. here is that conversation. >> woodruff: welcome. how long -- you have known hillary clinton since the 1992 campaign. and i want here we are, all these years later, and people are saying what we need to do is reintroduce her. what is there to introduce at this point? >> well, you know, constituents change. populations change. we have a whole new group of millennials and another generation of voters. they don't have a context of her they weren't around when she was first lady of arkansas or first lady of the united states. so the point of tonight is to really try and prevent hillary clinton, you know, the person she is, that's why chelsea clinton is going to introduce her. you're going to hear a personal story of a mother and a grandmother, and you're going to hear about their relationship. and you're also going to hear hillary talk about values. we heard last night from the president about democratic values. i think you're going to hear tonight about her values a as person and how she would approach the job and the importance of uniting and not dividing, the importance of solutions and not slogans and an optimistic tone really. >> even for people who have seen hillary clinton on the world stage for the last several decades, they still see her as a very private person, someone who doesn't share a lot, doesn't reveal a lot. so this is hard for her, isn't it? >> you know, you both have covered her for as long as i have been around and you have followed it, you know. she is a transitional figure had our nation's history, and i think she's a topic at every dinner table. so she has been under a microscope, when you think about it, for over 25 years. what other national political figure of her stature has been on the stage for as long as she has. and you know, i think because she has plowed so much new ground with every new turn, everything she says is parsed and everything kind of comes under scrutiny. she understands it and i think there's a little philosophy of well, you know, i just have to go do it and do the best i can and it will be where it's e. it's going to be. what else can she do at this point? that's the philosophy that she takes. >> you are pacing donald trump, a unique competitor, something like she has never had a run in before. as someone who in a previous life spent a fair amount of time advising her how would you handle her to handle someone that is as unpreaddict and i believe direct as donald trump. >> i would tell her to be direct herself. she's a very directperson. you don't want to killing dig phi outlandish comments if they come. on the flip side you can't let something go unanswered so that's going to have to be a question for her for sure but she has to stick to her anytim ing and agenda and stick to her message and be very disciplined about it. and i think she has to go head-to-head on policy issues and, you know, specifics around her programs versus her opponent s programs. right now there's had a high personal of american whose say they don't trust hillary clinton i think it's over-60%. can she change that without sharing more of who she is, without opening up more and letting people see more of what is inside her? >> i'm an advocate for her opening up more and showing who she is. it's funny, judy. when she was secretary of state, she left the state department with really high approval rat ings and i think in large measure it was because the country for the first time in a very long time, saw who she was? remember her hair was in a ponytail. it was graying. glasses came out and she was flying around the world. and people said you know what, she is actually working for us. we may not agree with her or like her but we respect her for the hard work that sheep does on watch of us of criticizens. >> she can't have that role right now. >> sheep can that have role in terms of how she presents her sthev and how she arrest arctic lailts and -- >> i think thank you so much for joining us. thank you, lisa. a pleasure. >> thank you. >> and that's someone that knew hillary clinton as first lady. john yang is on the floor with someone who knew her before that when she was first lady of arkansas. >> i'm here with lottie shackelford, long time democratic party official and long time party friend of the clintons. the campaign described hillary clinton as of the most famous unknown person in america, that the people don't know a lot about her. what do you know -- the hillary clinton that you know that you think americans should know? >> one of the things they should know. she is warm. she was very compassionate and she's also filled with passion and making things right for all of america's citizens. >> why do you think she would need to reintroduce herself to the american people tonight. >> you know, unpersonally, american premium so bomb badded with so much going on in they were lives until it's almost impossible to think about what day to the next day to the next day. and it's also with all of the influence of meet gra, social media particularly, it's hard for them had to keel one everything: i think the only deal that they have to deal with at the immediate name. nastlesz true anyway just don't know. i mean, you know, you would be amazed. she was secretary of state but she has been out of office for about, what, three years as secretary of state. and folks have forgot and couldn't know. the kinds things they're being told by someone else or hear from someone he else that's not who really, really is. and the die the days of arrange arc when bill clinton was senator and then governor, people were talking about him as potential president. were people thinking of her as a potential president. >> one of the things always said to her is, you should wrote for office. and she would throw it out, not me. she liked working behind the expeensz. she enjoyed a lot of the research and the nitty-gritty work. police ask her -- shener wanted to be -- but i think as a way of being thrust in that goal, she didn't file awayed from her responsibilities. and she became first lady of the united states. and i think she has become more and more comfortable with being this auto ward penalty as as well! lonnie stack kel ford didn't always like the pliem light but she's certainly there now. back to you. >> john yang thank you. she obviously changed a little bit, gwen. i think she has decided that the limelight is something she could live with. but you did get from that interview that hillary clinton also likes the gritty work, you know, behind the scenes -- >> thenity work. >> she likes both. thenity and the gritty. none of her harshest critics have said she is a show horse rather than a workhorse. as a united states senator she had the reputation of working hard, long and across the aisle and she was a good senator. >> everyone that we have asked, david brooks, about hillary clinton, why is it that we don't know her if she has been around so long, they don't come up with an answer. >> because she is closed. no press conferences, little shell, people see somebody and the ref of us don't see that person. i'm. >> we have had two shorts of speakers. the screamers who seem unaware that there is a mike fine in front of them. and then there's conversational. and then there's a quiet passion type and the khan family was just that. there's an intensity to the voice and a quietness to the vote. and it will be interesting, the third type, if she can do that, it's going to be a powerful speech. >> it's about taking possession of yourself and in the act of presenting yourself to the world and that's something she has never been comfortable with, therefore she defined by others. she was defined in a serious number of roalsz that she was given like being a senator and sometimes in the but when she is out there on her own, she does not have a lifetime habit of presenting her with the emotional intensity or some challenge of trying to put it upon. it's a real challenge for her and a challenge for people that didn't have it all of these years. >> they talk about when the message is the messages and it's easy to give one of those when it's clear who you are. and that's what mr.-- the challenge for hillary clinton is that she comes across as a speaker and presenter and somebody just going through whatever the cross tabs and the focus group said and it's every speech and each statement with focus grouped within an it's of it's life and writ plus e. losings it's hard every time. >> there my be hart. katie perry, they're getting somebody -- >> their tellinging them how to do a stunt. they went through a video explaining lieutenant here is how you hold it up and turn it. we could do that rye now. >> i can think of so many inappropriate katie perry songs right now. >> be i wonder what the sanders delegates are going to do with their cards. you know, if you don't co-op the rate -- >> this is when we should acknowledge what a superb convention operation they say has been. >> let's talk about that. >> it has been incredibly disciplined. this is my 24th convention and i have never seen one that equaled discipline, in terms of not simply the cards and the responding to the specific speeches, but when bernie sanders ve his speech, every clinton delegate on the floored cleared bernie sanders, left to their own devices, their own im pulls. >> i took them a couple of days before they figured out how to drown out the bernie sanders people. >> even then, thering forebernie sanders, that was an act, that was organized, that was disciplined. it's been well what happened and i really do think it's the same level of ability, intensity and organizational skills that applied to their voter i.d. and get out the vote effort and it will be a very formidable fall campaign. >> whipped in the parliamentary sense. >> yes. >> what other sense were you thinking. >> here she comes. katie perry. she is going to speak and then i think she is going to sing. >> how are you doing? >> katie perry. >> so both of my parents are pastors. and staunch republicans. i didn't finish high school. unfortunately i don't have a formal education but i do have an open mind. and i have a voice. so i'm asking you to have an open mind and to use your voice. because on november 8th you will be just as powerful as any nra lobbyist. you will have as much say as any billionaire. or you can just cancel out your weird cousin's vote if you like. because remember, it's not where you come from, it's what you grow into. so here is how i'm going to use my voice. i'm going to vote for hillary clinton: that's right. i love hillary too. i have a couple of saved messages on my phone. and i bet you guys have to know i have a closet full of hillary themed dresses right? because i have been on the road with her since iowa! and now, guess what, if you're listening, if you're watching, you can join her on the road, too. if you go to hillaryclinton.comand donate before midnight you can win a chance to join hillary on the road and see for yourself why i know she will be the next president of the united states. maybe i will let you borrow one of my outfits too. god bless! ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ victory is in my veins, i know it, i know it ♪ ♪ and i negotiate, i'll find it, i'll find it ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ this is no mistake, no accident ♪ ♪ when you think the final nail is in ♪ ♪ think again ♪ don't be surprised ♪ i will still rise ♪ i must stay 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[cheers & applause]4d >> thank you! >> judy woodruff: rl0,( katy pe "roar". >> gwen ifill: with4lstim kaine wife, karen? >> anne. and we are about to hear from chelsea clinton who will speak about her mother and that will be followed by a video that will run twelve minutes >> gwen ifill: i'm gwen ifill, and. >> judy woodruff: i'm judy woodruff. >> gwen ifill: and we are joined by the npr team, domenico montanaro, and amy walters, from the cook political report, syndicated columnist merck re who is glaring at me and let's wrap up this big moment, did the democrats do what they had to do tonight, domenico montanaro? >> well, the party set the table for hillary clinton, and the need is for her to hit a double and show she can live up to this moment. it was an emotional moment in that last hour, having the father of a muslim son who had died for the country and pulled up that constitution, it is up to hillary clinton to live up to this moment. >> judy woodruff: how high is the bar, amy? >> i completely agreeñ& where she needs to go has been set up for her, perfectly.v.çñ >> judy woodruff: here comes chelsea clinton to speak about her mom. >> gwen ifill: every time that hillary clinton talks about -- talks anywhere she talks about9 being a grandmother and chelsea now has two children of her own, aiden and charlotte.ç&g2 >> thank you! thank you! oh thank you! thank you, it is such an honor for me to be here tonight. i'm here as a proud american, a proud democrat, a proud ) and tonight in particular, a very, very proud daughter! [cheers & applause]o mark and i can't quite believe it, butéwká%ñ daughter charlott is nearly two years old. she loves elmo, she loves blew berries -- blueberries and above all she loves facetiming with grandma. my mom cat stage for a debate or a speech and it just doesn't matter! she will drop everything for a few minutes of blowing kisses and reading khug-a-chug-a-cho-choo with her granddaughter, oh that got an applause. our son aiden is 5 weeks old and we are happy he is thriving and we are biased but we think he's about the cutest baby in the w1 mom shares. every day i spend askb and aiden's mother i think about my own mother, my wonderful, thoughtful, hilarious mother. [applause] my earliest memory is my mom picking me up after i had fallen down, giving me a big hug and reading me "goodnight moon!" from that moment to thisdó every single memory i have of my mom is that regardless of what was happening in her life, she was always, always there for me. every soccer game, every softball game, every piano recitals, every dance recitals, sundays spent together at church and the local library, countless saturdays spent finding shapes in the clouds, making up stories about what we would do if we ever met a -!z(ñtriceratops in opinion the friendliest looking dinosaur, although my mom would always remind me they were still dinosaurs! [laughter] as a kid i was pretty obsessed with dinosaurs! the day that my parents took me to dinosaur national park, i didn't think life could get any better! whenever my mom was away for work, which thankfully didn't happen very often, she leftb0 she was gone.)b all stacked neatly together in a special drawer, with a date on the front of each@ known which note to open on which day. when she went to france to learn about the childcare system there, i remember one was all about the eifel tower and another was about the ideas that she hoped to bring home to help the kids of arkansas. i treasured each and every one of those notes. they were another reminder that i was always in her thoughts and in her heart. growing up, conversations around the dinner table always started with what i learned in school that day. i remember one week talkingdhfbu incestantly about a book that captured my imagination, "a wrinkle in time" only after my parents had listened to me would they then talk about what they were working on, education, healthcare, what was consuming their days and keeping them up at night. i loved that my parents expected me to have opinions and to be able to back them up with facts. [applause] i never once doubted that my parents cared about my thoughts and my ideas. i always, always they loved me. that feeling of being valued and loved,kf for every child. [applause] it is the calling of her life! my parents raised me to know how lucky i was that i never had to worry about food on the table, that i never had to worry about a good school to go to, that i never had to worry about a safe neighborhood to play in. and they taught me to care about what happens in our world and to do whatever i could to shake what frustrated me, what felt wrong. they taught me that's the responsibility that comes with being smiled on by fate. [applause] and i know my kids are a little young, but i'm already trying to instill them. [applause] there's something else that my mother taught me. public service is about service. [applause] and as her daughter, i've had a special window into how she served. i've seen her holding the hands of mothers worried about how they will feed their kids, worried about how they will get them the healthcare they need. i've seen my motherçó promisingo do everything she could to help. i've seen her right after those conversations getting straight to work, figuring out what she could do, who she could call, how fast she could get results. she always feels like there isn't a moment to lose, because she knows that for that mother, for that family, there isn't.8 [applause] i've also seen her at the low points, like the summerçó of 19, several people this week have talked about her fight for universal healthcare. i saw it up close.[ g- it was bruising, it was exhausting. she fought her heart out and as all of you know, she lost. for me then 14 years old it was pretty tough to watch. but my mom, she was amazing! she took a little time to replenish her movie nights definitely helped, dad, as all of you know now likes "police academy" my mom and i love "pride and prejudice" and then she just got right back to work, because she believed she could still make a difference for kids. [applause] people ask me all the time, how does she do it? how does she keep going amid the sound and the fury of politics. here is how. it's because she never, every forgets who she is fighting for. she has worked to make it easier for foster kids to be adopted. for our nine/11 first responders to get the healthcare they deserve, for women around the world to be safe and to be treated with dignity and to have more opportunities. plights like these, they're what keep my motherndx going. they grab her heart and her conscious and they never, ever let go. [applause] that's who my mom is. she is a listener and a doer. she is a woman driven by compassion, by faitj)lóx by a fierce sense of justice and a heart full of love. so this november, i'm voting for a woman who is my role model as a mother and as an advocate. a woman who has spent her entire life fighting for families and children. i'm voting for thes÷ progressivc climate change and our communities from gun violence. [cheers & applause] who will reform our criminal justice system and who knows that women'szhá rights. and who knowsa are human8$0pcqm9ñ here at home and around the world. i'm voting for a fighter who never, every gives up and who believes thata6 better when we come together and we work together. i hopeo;vd that my children wil someday be as proud of me as i am of my mom.÷k home, i know with all my heart that myn proud as our next president. this is the story of my mother, hillary clinton.ñ [cheers & applause] >> here is a woman. what does she dream of? when does she feel proud? how many times will she leave her mark? how many ways will she light up the world? >> she's got this wonderful, infectious laugh that quite far and sometimes it's surprising because you will be in the middle of something and she ]iml be like, ha! and there is a joy in it. i think sometimes not everyone sees. >> i remember her holding my hand a lot, i remember that a lot and i felt soothe me. >> it wasn't about pictures or a big ]yproduction, she just kind showed up and she had a simple message, thank you and i'll do she would make good on that promise. >> i loved to watch her with people and i can see the affect of her kindness and that it's real. >> hillary parkridge illinois. her father was a naval officer >> my:7 officer in the navy and he had theñ don't complain, do what you're supposed to dov best of her ability. >> her mother dorothy was neglected and on her own by the time she was 13çó working as0a housekeeper. she said that was the first time she saw what a loving family looked like >> she told me one time her young parent left her overnight by herself, she was 3e old and they gave her a set of coupons so she could go to the corner cafe and get food. and just the image of this little girl, all by herself, walking down the stairs of the walk-up tenament out the door up to the corner to the cafe and getting food with coupons haunts me. >> here is a woman making her first marks on the world. she is, we all know, bright and promising and an achiever and yet extraordinarily what isjw striking about the young woman is her heart. >> her commitment to making people's lives better, her abiding belief that the same opportuni had should be euf child, that comes through in everythingdi that she does. >> she could have joined a big law firm, been a corporate big-wig, instead she chose the children's defense fund. there she wentm%3 gathering stories to help children with disabilities who were denied schooling. she challenged a system that kept teen boys in the same cells as grown men, she went undercover as a housewife to prove that alabama was defying the law to keep its schools white. she was successful n all fronts. >> i remember watching her@ class and i thought she was fascinating and i followed her out of the class, and i got lost my guts to speak to her. >> i said to the person i was with "who is that?" and she said "well, that's bill clinton he's from arkansas, that's all he every talks about" and literally at that moment i heard him say "not only that we grow the biggest watermelons in the world," so that's all i knew about him! >> here is a woman entering life as the wife of a politician. she is to say the lisa an untraditional first lady. in arkansas she boldly reforms the state's educational system and in the white house she takes on national♪healthcare, and fo old school washington healthcare reform is not welcoming.íyk/ >> my mother wanted resilient and she wanted me to be brave, and i was, like, 4 and there were lots of kids in the neighborhood and i would come out and i would have añi bow iny hair and the kids would pick on me and it was my first experience of being-r7k i one day i'm running into the house and my mother met me and said to me "there's no room forl cowards in this house." you go back outside and figure out how you're going to deal with what these kids are doing >> she worked withñi democrats and republicans and together they created a plan that to this day provides medical insurance for 8 million american children, 8 million children! >> it is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food or drowned or sufficient faux indicated or their broken simply because they are born girls. >> you and i weren't there but it has been said that the un women's conference in beijing is where hillary woke up the world. >> human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights once and for all! [applause] >> when she said women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights, in 1995 that was a radical statement. >> she had never held public office before. she had been a senator for just nine short months, and then our nation bowed its head in fwreef. >> it appeared as though a black, dark curtain had dropped between lower manhattan and the rest of the city. >> injuriwise both my legs were shattered. they believe that the landing gather of the second plane hit me because it was so hotñi thatt closed my wounds. >> around 9:00 at night one of my staff people, one of chuck's staff people came in and whispered to both of us that the white house had first request for funding and there was not a penny in it for new york. >> we needed a champion. hillary and chuck worked their way across washington not stopá0q until they reachr5n oval offi >> president bush lookedg&]k a and he said "what do you kñnee" and i said "we need $20 billion and chuck said we need $20 billion and he said you got it. >> her mind quickly grasped this is a much bigger issue than replacing buildings, this is replacing the american spirit. >> i remember taking a few pictures and when i got them developed the flash from the camera against the dark sky, reveals all the particles that are in the air, it looks like snow. >> when first responders began to get sick and questioned the quality of the air at ground zero, hillary took on the epa and won them health benefits. >> we told them the air was safe it wasn't safe. >> not only did she say she was going to fight or us, it was not idle chatter. >> at the same time she quietly helped survivors rebuild their lives. >> i remember talking to hillary saying i can't have this wedding unless i can dance. i need to be able to dance at my wedding for it to happen. and she said you're going to do it, i know you are. hearing her say that helped me believe it. >> the osama bin laden is a perfect situation of how valuable hillary's judgment and strength was6 >> i've seen the photograph, so have you. we will never quite know what it felt like to be in that room, but luvz at her. look at her face. she is carrying the hope/@uz ane rage of an entire nation. >> when the opportunity arose for me to be a part of the small group advising the president about whether or not the intelligence we had was strong enough for him to act, i took that responsibility personally andñi on behalf of the 3,000 people who were murdered, the tens of thousands of loved ones who were left)wh" behind, the hr that was inflicted on our country. >> just listening ton( her tal about what that meant, i think we all felt an extraordinary responsibility and the extraordinary privilege in being able to serve the american people. >> i was sitting in a bathroom by myself with my feet up and my sneakers were sticking out of my dress and someone came behind me and hugged me and i had no idea who it was and it was hillary.h >> without press, without fanfare, their only family photos, hillary quietly attended debbie's wedding and debbie danced. she danced. >> there is more than enough of the american dream to go around if we are committed to growing it, nurturing it, passing it on tow grandchildren, i can't think of anything more thrilling than being part of that. >> we all hope for÷$ tomorrow, anyav0?ñ parent knows you're only dreamx beats in the heart of your child, chelsea's heartbeats hillary's dreams, and hillary's beats dorothy's, it's how 7s made, the american dream passed down from generation to generation toãgeneration. >> being a family and going throughçi-@ñ the years of our l she wants to do this because she believes she can make a difference and i do, too. >> i am going to stand up for every american because i think r exactly what you should do every day! >> there arergo show horses an there are work horses, horses that you count on to deliver, and she's a work horse. >> you have to love this country, believe in this country, lift up the people in this country. >> to have decade after decade of being on the front lines of trying to bring about change -- >>p and do everything you can t make sure they believe you're getting up every morning in that big old white house thinking about them, understanding what they're up against and working to make it better. >> she does that because she feels deep in herq heart that here in the greatest country on earth everybody deserves a shot. >> i hope to unify our country, i hope to bring people together i hope to break down every barrier that prevents americans from joining hands and making our country everything it should be. that's what i hope for my grandchildren and that's what m. >> how many times will she leave her mark? how many ways will she light up the world? this is the!!drñ woman. [cheers & applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, my mother, my hero, and our next president, hillary clinton. [cheers & applause] >> gwen ifill: of course the voice in that video was the great morgan freeman! him. hillary clinton coming out to a hug from her daughter, chelsea, mother and daughter after a video that had pictures of the grandmother, and hillary clinton her daughter, chelsea, and a photo of hillary clinton at the end. that's bill clinton and mark, chelsea's @, front!ñ row, center, they are i the family box for the convenienting. the video was running there were hundreds of american flags/ passed out and kareem abdul jabaar holding up a flag. >> judy woodruff: people are holding up signs that are written "hillary" in white. you can hear the reaction as she holds her hands up high to wave. standing in the center of the podium, pointing to friends she sees in the audience, waving. >> gwen ifill: the÷å podium has disappeared she is standing in the center star.ñi entirely in white as she stands out, it's an amazing sight in the hall to see the $n] see the signs, hillaryú in white waving and her campaign fight songñi playing in the background. >> judy woodruff: up from the center of the podium rising a lectern, it just appears in the middle of the stage, hillary clinton walks the center of the stage here in the arena in philadelphia. >> judy woodruff: showing a little girl with tears in her eyes, crying pretty hard and she is looking as hillary clinton. i think it's fair to say,ñi gwe every see the i'm looking at tears allt ceiling. this is the night you wanted to be in the hall and not only every seat is filled but it's standing room only, they closed the floor hours ago so nobody could get access and i couldn't see a patch of rug or carpet because every single space is full.éa% chanting "hillary!" >> thank you all so much. >> judy woodruff: there have been reports of bernie sanders people walking out we don't see any sign of it yet, right now all eyes are on hillary clinton. >> thank you! thank you. thank you all very, very much! thank you for thatu7"wñ amazing welcome. thank you all for the great convention that we've had.ñi and chelsea, thank you.)+4 i am so proud to bezé.íñ your m and so proud of the woman you've become.rim thank you for bringing markg@veo our family and charlotte and aiden into the world. and bill, that conversation we started inhe law library 45 yearsuno ago -- [cheers & appl] it is still going strong! [crowd chanting] you know that conversation has lasted through good times that filled14[ us wi joy and hard times that tested us. and i've even gotten a few words in along the way. on tuesday night i was so happy to see that my explainer in chief is still on the job. i'm also grateful to the rest of my family and to the friends of a lifetime. for all of you whose hard work brought us here tonight and to those of you who joined this campaign this week, thank you. what a remarkable week it's been. [cheers & applause] we heard the man from hope, bill clinton, and the man barack obama! [cheers & applause] america is stronger because of president obama's leadership and i'm better because of his friendship. [cheers & applause]uv we heard from our terrific vice president, the one and only joe biden! [cheers & applause] he told from his heart about our party's commitment to working people as only he can do. and first lady, michelle obama reminded us that our children are watching.x]a and the president we electcf going to be their president, too. and for those of you out there who are just getting to know tim kaine, you will soon understand why the people of virginia keep promoting him from city council and mayor to governor and now senator. and he will make our whole country proud as our vice president. [cheers & applause] and i want to thank bernie sanders. [cheers & applause]l÷&g bernie, your campaign inspired millions of americans, particularly the young people who threw their hearts and souls into our primary! you put economic and social justice issuesp- front and cen where they belong. and here and around the country, i want you. your cause is our cause.h+je [cheers & applause]6 our country needs your ideas, energy, and passion. that is the only way we can turn our progressive platform into real change for america! [cheers & applause]ijc? we wrote it together now let's go out and make it happen together! [cheers & applause]uz" my friends, we've come to philadelphia, the birth place of our nation because what happened in this city 240 years ago still has something to teach us today. we all know the story, but we usually focus on how it turned out, and not enough on how close that story came to never being written at all.wjwñ when representatives from 13 unruly colonies met just down the road from here, some wanted to stick with the king, and some wanted to stick it to the king. the revolution hung in the balance.t then somehow they began listening to each other, compromising, finding common purpose, and left philadelphia, they had begun to see nation. that's what made it possi stand up to a king. that took courage. they had courage. our founders embraced the enduring truth that we are stronger together. [cheers & applause]çó now america isnhcf0÷]v,hptt)z moment of reckoning, powerful forces are threatening to pull us apart, bonds of trust and respect are fraying. and just as with our founders, there are no guarantees.óvvgy it truly is up to us. we have to decide whether we will all work together so we can all rise together! [cheering] our country's motto is "out of many we are one!" will we stay true to that motto? well, we heard donald trump's answer last week at his convention. he wants to divide us from the rest of the world and from each other. he's betting that the perils ofv today's world will blind us to its unlimited promise. he's taken the republican party a long way, from morning in america to midnight in america. he wants us to fear the future and fear each other. well, you know, a great democratic president, franklin delenor roosevelt came up with the rebutte to trump nearly 80 years ago during a much morec"q perilous time "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself!" [applause] now, we are clear eyed about what our country is up against, but we are not afraid. we will rise to the challenge, just as we always2 we will not build a ri instead we will build an economy where everyone who wants a good job can get one! [cheering] and we will build a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants who are already contributing to our economy.ge-é [cheering [cheering] we will not ban a religion, we will work with all americans and our allies to fight and defeat terrorism. [cheering] yet we know there is a lot to do. too many people haven't had a pay raise since@ there's too much inequality, too little sociala paralysis in washington, too many threats at home and abroad, but just look for a minute at the strengths we bring as americans to meet these challenges. we have the most dynamic and diverse people in the world. we have the most tolerant and, again russ young people we've ever had! we have the most powerful fill tear, the most innovative entray pen newers --p1ñ entrepreneurs, freedom, quality, justice, we should be proud those words are associated with us! i have to tell you asñr your secretary of state i went toíu1 countries when people hear those words,ggpç they hear america! so don't let anyone tell you,e5 that our country is weak. we're not! don't let anyone tell you we don't have what it takes, we do! and most of all, don't believe anyone who says "i alone can fix it!"k/ [cheers & applause] yes, those were actually donald trump's words in cleveland. and they should setoff alarm bells for all of us. really? i apony can fix it? loa isn't he forgetting troops on the front lines, police officers and fire fighters who run for danger, doctors and nurses who care for us,ñi teachers who change lives? entrepreneurs who see possibilities in everyi probleme mothers who lost children to violence, and are building a movement to keep other kids safe? he's of us. americans don't say "i alone can fix it" we say "we'll fix it together!" [cheers & applause] and remember, remember, our founders fought a revolution and wrote a constitution, so america would never be a nation where one person had all the power. [cheering] 240 years still put our faith in each other. look at what happened in dallas. after theñi assassinations of fe brave police officers, police chief david brown asked the community to support his force, maybe even join them. and you know how the community responded? nearly 500 people applied in just twelve days.]jr [cheers & applause] that's how americans answer when the call forñi help goes out. 20 years ago i wrote#kñ a book called "it takes agt!#ávtt&dphkñ a lot of people looked at the title and asked, what the heck do you mean by that? this is what i mean. none of us can raise a family, build a business, heal a community or lift a country totally alone! [cheers & applause]d=)!r america needs everyl:f÷ one of o lend our energy, for our campaign, it's a guiding principle for the country we've always been and the future we're going to0)?hbuild. a country where the economy works for everyone not just those at the top. where you can get a good job and send your kids to a good school, no matter what zip code you live in. a country where all our children can dream and those dreams are within reach, where families are strong, communities are safe, and, yes, where love trumps hate! [cheers & applause] that's a country worth fighting for! that's the future we're working toward. so, my friends, it is with humility,c.c boundless confidence in america's promise that i accept your nomination for president of the united states! [cheers & applause]gqy now sometimes people at this podium are new to the national stage. as you know, i'm not one of those people. i've been your first lady, served eight years as a senator from the great state of new york! [cheering] then but my job titles only tell you what i've done, they don't tell you why. the truth is, through all these years of public service, the service part has always come easier to me than the public part. i get it, some people just don't know what to make of me. so let me tell you, the family i'm from, no one had their name on big buildings, my family were builders ofz builders in the way most american families are. they used whatever tools they had, whatever god gave them and whatever life in america provided and built better lives and better futures for their kids. myj/ágñ grandfather worked;moí same scranton lace mill for fifty years.z because he believed that if he gave everything he had, his children would have a better life than he did, and he was right.@ my dad, 2[b hugh, made it to college, he played football at penn state and enlisted in the navy after pearl harbor. when the war was over he started his own small business printing fabric)ò watching him for hours stand over silk screens. he wanted to give me brothers and me opportunities he never had, and he did. my mother, dorothy, was abandoned by her parents as a young girl. she ended working as a house made. she was saved by the kindness of others. her first grade teacher saw she had nothing to eat at brought extra food to share the entire year. the lessons she passed on to me years later stuck with me. no one gets through life alone. we have to look out for each other and lift each other up. and she made sure i learned the words fromisñ/ our method dysf " -- methodist faith, do all you can and all the ways you can for as long as ever you can. so i went to work for the children's defense fund going door-to-door in new bedford, massachusetts on behalfing of children -- behalf of children with disabilities who were denied the chance to go to school. i remember meeting a young girl in a wheelchair on a small back porch of her house. she told me how badly she wanted to go to school. it just didn't seem possible in those days, and i couldn'tpa thinking of my mother, what she had gone through as% it became clear to me that simply caring is not enough. to drive real progress you have to change both hearts and laws. you need both understanding and action. so we gathered facts. we built a coalition, and our work helped convince congress to ensure access to education for all students with disabilities. it's a big idea, isn't it? every kid with a disability has the right to go to school.lsyd [cheers & applause] but how do you make an idea like that real? you do it step-by-step, year-by-year, sometimes even door-by-door. my heart just swelled when i saw anastasia representing millions of young people on this stage. because we changed our law to make sure she got an education. so it's true, i sweat the details of policy whether we're talking about the exact level of lead in the drinking water in flint, michigan, the number of mental health facilities in iowa or the cost of your prescription drugs.j%c-ñ>9j" because it's not just a detail if it's your kid! if it's your family, it's a big deal. it should be a big deal to your president, too. [cheers & applause]í]ot after the four days of this convention, you've seen some of the people who have inspired me, people who let me into their lives and became a part of mine. people like ryan moore and lauren manning. they told their stories tuesday night. i first met ryan as a 7 year old, he was wearing a full body brace that must have weighed 40 pounds because i leaned over to lift him up. children like ryan kept me going when our plan for universal healthcare failed and kept me working with leaders of both parties to help create the children's health insurance program that covers 8 million kids in our country. [cheers & applause] lauren manning who stood her with such grace and power was gravely injured on 9/11 and it was the thought of her and debbie st. john5gñ who you saw the movie and john doe lon and jim sweeney and all the victims and survivors that kept me working as hard as i could in the senate on behalf of our families and the first responders who got sick from their time at ground zero. and all the others ten years later in the white house situation room when president obama made the courageous decision that finally broad osama bin laden to justice. [cheers & applause] and in this campaign i haveúb. many more people who kept me motivated to fight for change and with your help i will carry all of your voices and stories with me to the white house.p'p46 and you heard from those supporting our campaign, i will be a president for the independentses, republic cans, the democrats, for the struggling, thevx hard-working, for all of those who vote for me and for all of those who don't, for all americans together. tonight, we have reached afpe6 milestone in our nation's march toward a more perfect union. the first time that a major party has nominated a woman for president.=: standing here as my mother's daughter and my daughter's mother, i'm so happy this day has come. i'm happy for grandmothers and little girls and everyone in between. i'm happy for boys and men because when any barrier falls for everyone!tc [cheers & applause] after all, when there are no ceilings, the sky is the limit! [cheers & applause] so let's keep going, let's keep going until every one of the 161 million women and girls across america has the opportunity she deserves to have! [cheers & applause]@tsm) but even more important than the history0á+ññi make tonight is t history we will write together in the years ahead. let's begin with what we're going to do to help working people in our country get ahead and stay ahead. now, i don't think president obama and vice president biden get the credit they deserve for saving us from the worst economic crisis of our lifetime! [cheers & applause] our economy is so much stronger than when they took office nearly 15 million new private sector jobs, 20 million more americans with health insurance, and an auto industry that just had its best year every! now that's progress, but none of us can be satisfied with the status quo, not by a long shot! we're still facing deep-seeded problems that developed long before the recession and have stayed9#h) with us through the recovery. i havechs[÷ gone around the cou talking to working families, and i've heard from many who feel like the economy sure isn't working for them. some of you are frustrated, even furious, and you know what? you're right. it's not yet working the way it should. americans are willing to work and work hard but right now an awful lot of people feel there is less and less respect for the work they do. and less respect for them, period. democrats, we are the party of working people. [cheering] but we haven't done a good enough job showing we get what you're going through and we're going to do something to help. so tonight i want toejzñ tell y how we will empower americans to live better lives. my primary mission as president will be to create more opportunity and more good jobs with rising wages right here in the united states!>=j

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