>> it is standing room only at the wells fargo center. that's katy perry singing "you're going to hear me roar." that's the question, what are we going to hear from hillary clinton? so many people have come to witness history >> and they are roaring now. they've come to witness history. good evening. i'm norah o'donnell. >> and i'm scott pelley. >> tonight, hillary clinton will make the most important speech of her life, telling the nation why she should be the next president of the united states. >> the former first-lady is a lady of firsts. the first, first-lady to run for office. the first to serve in a cabinet. >> and tonight, she makes her debut as the first woman nominated for president by a major party. >> the first, at last. hillary clinton will be introduced by her daughter, chelsea. john dickerson is at his listening post near the podium. john? >> scott, i'm looking down on bill clinton, who is in the orchestra pit here right below where the first lady will speak. politician. she will finally get a chance to do the talking herself. all the three speakers have defined the presidency in shoes only hillary clinton can fill. she will be optimistic in contrast to donald trump, but she's well aware and the campaign is well aware that there's frustration and anger. she's going to try to strike the balance and answer for the woman that wrote "it take a village" will be this together as a nation. >> and we're expecting chelsea clinton, the 36-year-old daughter of bill and hillary clinton to be coming out at any moment. you can hear, she's coming around the corner. ? >> 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 mother and tonight in particular a very, very proud daughter. [cheers & applause] mark and i can't quite believe it, but our daughter, charlotte, is nearly two years old. she loves elmo. she loves blueberries. and above all, she loves stage for a speech and it just doesn't matter. she will drop everything for a few minutes of blowing kisses and reading "chugga chugg a choo-choo." chugga chugga got a our son, aiden is doing well. we're biased but we think he's about the cutest baby in the world. a view i'm pretty sure my mom shares. every day that i spend as charlotte and aiden's mother, i think about my own mother. my wonderful, thoughtful, hilarious mother. picking me up after i had fallen down, giving me a big hug and reading me "good night moon." from that moment to this one, 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. [applause] every soccer game, softball game, every piano recital, every dance recital, sundays spent together at church, in the local library, countless saturdays finding shapes in the clouds, making up stories what we would do if we ever met a triceratops. in my opinion, the friendliest looking dinosaurs. although my mom would remind me they were still dinosaurs. with dinosaurs and 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 left notes for me to open every day she was gone. all stacked neatly together in a special drawer with a date on the on know which note to open on which day. when she went to france to learn about their child care system, i remember one was all about the eiffel tower. another was about the ideas she hopes to bring home to help the kids of arkansas. i treasured each and everyone of those notes. in her heart. growing up, conversations around the dinner table always started with what i learned in school that day. i remember one week talking incessantly about a book that had 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. educio 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, and i always, loved me. that feeling of being valued and loved, that's what my mom wants 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 that i never had to worry about a safe neighborhood to play in. they taught me to care about what happens in our world and to do whatever i could to change what frustrated me, what felt wrong. they taught me that is the responsibility that comes with being smiled on by fate. [applause] young, but i'm already trying to instill those same values in them. there's something else that my mother taught me. public service is about service. as her daughter, i've had a special window served. i've seen her holding the hands of mothers worried about how they'll feed their kids, worried about how they'll get them the healthcare they need. my mother promising to 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, she always feels like there isn't a moment to lose. because she knows that for that mother, for that family, there isn't. [applause] and i've also seen her at the low points. like the summer of 1994. several people this week have talked about her fight for i saw it up close. it was bruising. it was exhausting. she fought her heart out. 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. movie night definitely happened. dad, as all of you now know, liked "police academy." my mom and i loved "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's how. because she never, ever forgets who she's fighting for. [cheers & applause] for foster kids to be adopted, for our 9-11 first responders to get the healthcare they deserve. for woman around the world to be safe, to be treated with dignity and to have more opportunities. fights like these, they're what keep my mother going. they grab her heart conscious and they never ever let go. that's what my mom is. she's a listener a doer, a woman driven by compassion, by faith, by a fierce sense of justice and a heart full of love. a mother and as an advocate. a woman who has spent her entire life fighting for families and children. i'm voting for the progressive that will protect our planet from climate change and our communities from fun violence. who will reform our criminal that women's rights are human rights. [cheers & applause] and who knows that lgbt rights are human rights. here at home and around the world. i'm voting for a fighter who never ever gives up and who believes that we can always do we work together. i hope that my children will some day be as proud of me as i am of my mom. i am so grateful to be her daughter. i'm so grateful that she's charlotte and aidan's grandmother. she makes me proud day. and mom, grandma would be so, so proud of you tonight. [applause] to everyone watching here and at home, i know with all my heart that my mother will make us this is the story of my mother, hillary clinton. >> here is a woman. what does she dream of? when does she feel -- >> chelsea clinton spent her teenage years in the white house. there was a tweet that came out just a moment ago from hillary clinton. >> that's right. watching her daughter, chelsea clinton, as she made this emotional speech before this crowd here. i see that chelsea clinton is the first person in the world to have both parents nominated to be president of the united states. gayle king is among the delegates on the convention floor. gayle? >> not just with the delegates but the delegates of arkansas. lady of their state. many tonight are wearing head bands in their honor the way hillary used to do in the day, this is johnny and linda. johnny, this is a very emotional moment for you because -- >> we worked so hard. hillary is our friend. we know her. she's going to make a great president. it's an emotional moment for me because we worked so hard for so many years as her friend. >> linda, you said you heard people say she can't be >> i think sometimes she builds up things around her. she receives criticism through the years. those of us that know her, know what she can do and know what she has done, we trust her completely. >> you said she's ahead of her time. >> absolutely. when i worked for progressive company, technology company in arkansas, we did a technology conference. hillary was our keynote speaker. she did an eight-point speech education. this was in 1990. >> you said she did work and bill clinton got the credit. >> yeah. a lot of people think bill clinton did a lot of the work. i was there. i remember. hillary looked at her researchers. she said we need schools. i looked at north carolina. we wanted arkansas to have one. >> are you surprised that we'r standing here today about to hear from your friend, hillary clinton? >> i'm not surprised. in 1990 when i was sitting at that table watching her write that speech, i wrote on my legal pad "hillary for president". i knew she would be here. >> and she is here. scott and norah back to you two. >> the audience is watching a 12-minute film, a bio pick after which hillary clinton will be walking out. >> scott, i'm standing with the colorado delegation. there's about two dozen people behind me wearing glow in the dark t-shirts. it's no accident they're bright. these are bernie sanders t-shirts. they read "enough is enough." we expect that some of them will walk out in protest. others may stand up and disrupt the proceedings. across the arena in the california delegation, we're told they might unfurl a banner. there's a few hundred of them here in the arena. i talked to one gentleman that said he understands the importance of this moment. he wants to sit silently but wants to be a remindser that they don't feel that sander supports were treated fairly and they expect her to work hard for their vote. they expect her to talk about the issues that they care about. so democratic officials are this is going to happen. they just hope it's not too disruptive. >> all right. it will be interested to hear hillary clinton make a gracious note towards bernie sanders. still ahead, we'll hear from her. cbs' news coverage of the democratic national convention continues in just a moment. >> i'm michael jordan and i'm here with hillary. i said that because i knowha difference. >> i know with all my heart that my mother will make us proud as our next president. before it be, it was an idea. a wild "what-if." so scientists went to work. they examined 87 different protein structures and worked for 12 long years. and so after it became a medicine, someone who couldn't be cured, could be. me. ? will give the largest nondebate audience she'll have this campaign season to give a speech will say? >> one thing about the constant mention of children, which raises questions of trust. hillary clinton knows the challenges she faces. she knows that lots of people have said how wonderful she is. now she has to say this is who i am. i want you to see me. talk about trust and also talk about change and talk about her vision. not a past vision, but a future vision. >> she will provide a contrast we're told. she will donald trump, bob. >> you know, she has one mission and one mission only. the vote we take for president is different from any other vote than americans can. we generally vote for the person we feel most comfortable with in a time of crisis. she has to convince america that she is the person they would be most comfortable with under those circumstances or at least more comfortable than they would podium for us. >> the emotional level here has opinion prepared for hillary clinton. conventions are pep rally and relations with the outside world. she's had the pep rally underway. and then of course barack obama's speech and now chelsea clinton. inside the hall they're ready for her. the question is what her message will be. she's running in a very cold environment, a very tough election. so really this speech will be judged by how the rest of the world sears it, now the applause that she will get when she walks out. >> john dickerson, thank you. >> the delegates have been watching a bio graphical movie of hillary clinton. here's a clip of that film. >> here is a woman making her first marks on the world. promises and an achiever. yet extraordinarily what is most striking about the young woman is her heart. >> her abiding belief that the same opportunities that chelsea has had should be extended to every child. that comes through in everything she does. >> she could have joined a big law firm, been a corporate big wig. she chose the fund. she went door-to-door helping those that were denied with schooling. she went on to cover as a housewife to prove that alabama would define the law to keep schools all white. she was successful at all three. in arkansas she boldly reforms the state's educational system and in the white house she eagerly takes on national healthcare. for old school washington, resilient and wanted me to be brave. she said to me, there's no room for cowards in this house. >> hillary worked with democrats and republicans and together they created a plan that to this day provide medical insurance for eight million american children. 8 million children. >> simply because they're born girls. >> you and i weren't there, but it's been said that the u.n. women's confe where hillary woke up the world. >> human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights once and for all. >> in 1995, that was a radical statement. >> i'm going to stand up and fight for every american because i think if you are the president, that's exactly what >> a video produced by the award-winning director, shonda rimes who has done "scandal" and other television shows. nancy? >> one thing that hillary clinton says on the campaign trail to people that don't support her, you may not be for me, but i will always be there for you. typically she's referring to bernie sanders supporters. tonight. in this case, she's referring to the spectrum, republicans, independence and democrats. her campaign believes that trump's speech last week at the republican convention was narrowly focused at republican voters. they want to reach out to a wider audience. >> all right, nancy. thank you so much. charlie rose is here with us. it's a big moment. >> it is. family is at the center of this. family and the relationship and what her daughter mean to her and her grandchildren mean to her as a means of harmonizing and showing her sense of humanity. chelsea said we're a real family and you'll see that more and more as hillary talks. but she also has to be strong and lay it out, how she sees the future. >> bob, she's been in the american consciousness for 25 year. this is the biggest speech she's ever made. >> yes, a been passed on by others here. she's gotten a great send-off from the obamas. she could have asked more from president obama. after all, he said she's the most qualified person to ever seek the office of presidency. maybe some historians might quibble with that a little bit, but that is what he said. now it's up to hillary clinton. >> john dickerson? >> you know, scott, hillary great speech maker. the president even said that as well in our discussion with him. this is her first chance to give a big speech in the country, in the city where the country was founded to connect her historic campaign to america. >> her daughter, chelsea, is bringing her on the stage now. ? ( cheers and applause ) ? ? [cheers & applause] ? ? ? ? >> thank you. [cheers & applause] thank you so much. thank you all so much. [cheers & applause] thank you. thank you. [cheers & applause] thank you all thank you for that amazing welcome. thank you all for the great convention that we've had. and chelsea, thank you. i am so proud to be your mother become. thank you for bringing marc into our family and charlotte and aidan into the world. and bill, that conversation we started in the law library 45 years ago, it strong. [chanting]. you know that conversation has lasted through good times that filled us with joy and hard times that tested us. and i've even gotten in a few words along the way. to see that my explai 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 that joined this campaign this week, thank y been. [cheers & applause] we heard the man from hope, bill clinton and the man of hope, barack obama. [cheers & applause] america is stronger because of president obama's leadership. friendship. we heard from our terrific vice president, the one and only joe biden. [cheers & applause] he spoke from his big heart about our party's commitment to working people, as only he can do. first lady reminded us that our children are watching. and the president we elect is going to be their president, too. for those of you out there who are just getting to know tim promoting him from city council to mayor and governor and now senator. he will make our whole country proud as our vice president. [cheers & applause] and i want to thank sanders. [cheers & applause] bernie, your campaign inspired millions of americans, particularly the young people you put economic and social justice issues front and center where they belong. and to all of your supporters here and around the country, i want you to know, i've heard you. your cause is our cause. [cheers & applause] 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] we wrote it together. happen together. [cheers & applause] my friends, we have 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 not enough on how close that story came to never being written at all. 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. listening to each other, compromising, finding common purpose. by the time they left philadelphia, they had begun to see themselves as one nation. that's what made it possible to stand up to a king. that took courage. they had courage. our founder the enduring truth that we are stronger together. [applause] now america is once again at a moment of reckoning. powerful forces are threatening to pull us apart. fraying. just as with our founders, there are no guarantees. it truly is up to us. we have to decide whether we will all work together so we can all rise together. [applause] our country's m pluribus enum. will we stay true to that motto? well, we heard donald trump fans here 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 of today's world will blind us to its unlimited promise. 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 delanore roosevelt a much more perilous team. the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. [cheers & 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 always have. instead we will build an economy where ever where everyone that wants a good job can get one. and we will build a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants who are already contributing to our economy. we we will work with all americans and our allies to fight and defeat terrorism. [applause] yet we know there is a lot to do. too many people haven't had a pay raise since the crash. there's too much inequality, too paralysis in washington. too many threats at home and abroad. but just look for a minute at the strengths we bring as americans who meet these challenges. we have the most dynamic and diverse people in the world. we have the most tolerant and generous young people we've ever had. [cheers & applause] we have the most powerful military, the most innovative entrepreneurs, the most enduring values. freedom and opportunity. we should be so proud that those i have to tell you, as your secretary of state, i went to 112 countries. when people hear those words, they hear america. so don't let anyone tell you that our country is weak. we're not. don't let anyone tell you that we do. most of all, don't believe anyone who says "i alone can fix it." yes, those were actually donald trump's words in cleveland. and they should set off alarm bells for all of us. isn't he forgetting troops on the front lines, police officers and firefighters, doctors and nurses who care for us? teachers that change lives? entrepreneurs that teach possibilities in every problem? mothers that lost children to movement to keep other kids safe? he's forgetting every last one of us. americans don't say "i alone can fix it." we say "we'll fix it together." and remember, remember, our wrote a constitution so america would never be a nation where one person had all the power. 240 years later, we still put our faith in each other. look at what happened in dallas. after the assassinations of brave police officers. police officer chief david brown asked the community to support his force. maybe even join them. you know how the community responded? nearly 500 people applied in just 12 days. [applause] that's how americans answer when 20 years ago, i wrote a book called "it takes a village." and 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. america needs everyone of us to lend our energy, our talents, our ambitions to making our nation better and stronger. i believe that with all my heart. that's why stronger together is not just a lesson from our history, it's not just a slogan for our campaign, it's a guiding principle for the country we've 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 famil a communities are safe and yes, where love trump hates. [applause] that is the country we're fighting for. working toward. and so my friends, it is with humility, determination and boundless confidence in america's confidence, that i accept your nomination for now sometimes, sometimes the 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 new york. [cheers & applause] then i represented all of you as secretary of state. but my job titles only tell you what's done. they don't tell you why. the truth is, through all these years of public service, the 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, well, no one had their name on big buildings. my family were builders of a different kind. builders in the way most american families are. they used whatever toolshe had, whatever god gave them. whatever life in america provided and built better lives and better futures for their kids. my grandfather worked in the same scranton lace mill for 50 years. because he believed that if he gave everything he had, his children would have a better 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 for draperies. i remember watching him stand for hours over silk screens. he wanted to give my brothers and me opportunities he never had and he did. my mother, abandoned by her parents as a young girl. she ended up on her own at 14 working as a house maid. she was saved by the kindness of others. her first grade teacher saw she had nothing to eat at lunch and brought extra food to share the entire year. years later stuck with me. no one gets through life alone. we have to look out for each other and lift each other up. she made sure i learned the words from our methodist faith. "do all the good you can for all the people you can and all the ways you can as long as ever you can." [cheers & applause] so i went to work for the children's defense fund, going door-to-door in new bedford, massachusetts on behalf of children with disabilities who were denied the chance to go to school. i remember meeting a young girl in a wheelchair on the 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. mother and what she had gone through as a child. it became clear to me that simple 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 a students with disabilities. it's a big idea, isn't it? every kid with a disability has the right to go to school. but how? how do you make an idea like that real? you do it step by step, year by year, sometimes even door by anastasia simosa 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 and the drinking water in flint, michigan, the number health facilities in iowa or the cost of your prescription drugs. 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 after the four days of this convention, you've seen some of the people who have inspired me. people that let me into their lives and became a part of mine. people like ryan moore and laura 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 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 eight million kids in our country. lauren manning that stood here with such grace and power was debbie st. john who you saw in the movie and john doeland and all the victims that kept me working on behalf of 9-11 families and first responders that got sick at their time of ground zero. i was thinking of lauren, debbie and all the others ten years later in the white house situation room when president decision that finally brought osama bin laden to justice. [cheers & applause] in this campaign, i've met many more people that motivate me to keep fighting for change and with your help, i will carry all me to the white house. and you heard from republicans and independents who are supporting our campaign, well, i will be a president for democrats, republicans, independents, for the struggling, the striving, the successful, for those that vote for me and for those that don't. [cheers & applause] tonight we have reached a milestone in our nation's march to a more perfect union. the first time that a major president. [cheers & applause] standing here, 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 between. i'm happy for boys and men because when any barrier falls in america, it clears the way for everyone. [cheers & applause] after all, when there are no [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] but even more important tha 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 [cheers & applause] our economy is so much stronger than when they took off. nearly 15 million new private second or the jobs, 20 million more americans with health insurance. and an auto industry that just had its best year ever. [applause] now that's real 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 stayed with us through the recovery. i've gone around the country talking to working families, and i've heard from many that feel like the economy sure isn't working for them. some of you are frustrated. even furious. you know what? 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. less respect for them period. democrats, we are the party of working people. but we haven't done a good enough job showing we get what you'oi going to do something to help. so tonight i want to tell you 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. from my first day in office to