240 years after the birth of our nation in this city, 96 years after american women first got the right to vote, Hillary Rodham clinton has become the first nominee for president. Here was the moment, just hours ago, when her defeated foe, Bernie Sanders, made it happen. I move that all votes, all votes cast by delegates be reflected in the official record and i move that Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States. Some emotion there from sanders. Then this. All in favor of the motion, say aye. Aye opposed, no. The ayes have it and the crowd went wild. Cecilia vega, you were on the floor for that moment of history that brought unity to this hall. George, electrifying is the only way to describe what happened down here today. Yes, there has been talk about this hall being divided, yes, there are Bernie Sanders supporters who are in here tonight who are still angry, but right now, this is an energized court. We saw people crying today at what they witnessed. I saw a Woman Holding a sign with a picture of the white house that said, byebye glass ceiling. From Hillary Clinton today, a oneword response on twitter. The word history. And george, after what happened here today, there will be a generation of children who will grow up knowing that a woman can have a shot at the white house in this country. Hillary clinton tweeted herself, this moment is for every little girl who dreams big. There is Chelsea Clinton coming in earlier this evening. She is there in the box. Going watch the proceedings tonight. Going watch her dad, who is going to come to the floral. That could mean that grandma is babysitting aiden and charlotte. Martha raddatz, you traveled thousands of miles with Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. Shes broken a lot of glass ceilings in her life. This is the biggest one yet. It is. She was the third female secretary of state, but when you think about the possibilities for Hillary Clinton, shes not just running for president. If she wins, she would be commander in chief. The most profound, important job in the world. She would be the one sending young men and women into battle. There has never been a female secretary of defense. Theres never been a female chairman of the joint chiefs. Never been female service chiefs. So, this would be a huge moment for the nation, and its hard for some people to accept. Ive heard people out, voters out saying they would have a difficult time with her, a woman, being commander in chief. . One of the challenges she has to overcome. Matthew dowd, eight years ago when Hillary Clinton first ran for president against barack obama, didnt put a lot of stress on the fact that she would be the first woman president , that has changed in this campaign. Yeah, its changed dramatically. If you think about the time in 2008, it came at the tail end of george w. Bushs presidency, a lot of cowboy masculinity, and she ran away she didnt say she said, dont vote for me because im a woman. Now, she is playing the womans card. She wouldnt play it last time. Its her whole card. She is saying, vote for me, because im a woman. Thinking that will make the difference. On the floor right now, a video of bill clinton. Hes going to come to the floor in a few minutes. Jon karl, lets go back to the moment from Bernie Sanders. Generous moment for him, echoing what Hillary Clinton did for barack obama eight years ago. You could feel the mood shift in the room when he did it. 1,900 Bernie Sanders delegates in this room. Many telling us that they think Bernie Sanders had a chance, they could never get around to supporting Hillary Clinton. I have to tell you, when he came up and he did what he did, you could feel the mood change in the hall. The tears coming out of his own eyes, the vermont delegation, his supporters around the hall, and when he said, for Hillary Clinton, this place erupted. And you couldnt hear many of the boos anymore. And david muir, you were on the floor for much of the afternoon, when they went through the roll call, state by state and let the Bernie Sanders voters have their say, put the delegates on the board, that made a huge difference, too. Absolutely, george. It acknowledged the hard work and really the history made by sanders. We were down on the floor as the roll call began. They went state by state through the votes. They would announce the votes for Bernie Sanders. You would hear the cheers in the crowd, and then, the votes for Hillary Clinton. State by state. And in the end, no one knew that Bernie Sanders was going to do that. They moved vermont to the end of the list. And he did appear. And to watch the arc of the last 24 hours, george. Michelle obama coming in here, changing the temperature immediately last night. And to have Bernie Sanders supporters acknowledged today with that roll call vote, and then sanders himself, and now tonight, this crowd awaiting, it is silent in here as they watch this video for bill clinton and this very personal speech. That big speech is coming up. Terry moran, you covered bill clinton in the white house. This speech is a first in another way, weve had husbands come and support their wives at conventi conventions. Weve had spouses do that. Weve never had a former president come out and basically vouch for his wife as the president ial candidate. Its extraordinary, george. And this is the next chapter in this convention. Its as if the whole convention has taken a breath, after all the emotion that we talked about, and he is next. Bill clinton. And one of the things people are expecting, i was talking to a woman delegate, they want to hear his side of their personal story, which including their troubles, which includes their famous troubles, through the impeachment. Theyd like to hear him talk about that, address the impact on hillary, and what we can draw about Hillary Clinton from their life story. Its a very different kind of speech. It is a different kind of speech. And cecilia vega, the speech some what of a mystery. Usually, bill clintons speeches are a joint effort. Nobodys seen it. What we do know is that hes spent a lot of time working on this speech himself, george. This will be bill clintons tenth convention speech. We know that this one is going to be very personal. Hes here not just as a former president , as a huge person in this Democratic Party, but tonight, he is here as a husband. His job is to try to prevent another side of Hillary Clinton that america doesnt yet know. Hillary clinton that only he knows, matthew dowd. Just as four years ago, he had to talk about, as we see Chelsea Clinton there, again, the barack obama only he knew as a former president. That was one of the key moments in the campaign that basically began to turn the race and put barack obama as the front. I dont think you can underplay the dominance that bill clinton has said in the last 50 years in america, as much dominance in Democratic Politics that fdr had. This is his tenth consecutive convention. Hes defined the Democratic Party for nearly a half a century. He has to give the stage over now, martha raddatz. He certainly does. And one of the things he has to do, which is such a challenge tonight is that americans know Hillary Clinton. They have been seeing her for decades. And he is trying to tell everyone something new about Hillary Clinton. Something that will reach beyond this convention hall. And jon karl, in many ways, this Democratic Party is not the Democratic Party that bill clinton spoke to in 1992. In fact, Bernie Sanders supporters here have been in revolt against the Democratic Party of bill clinton. The party of free trade, the party of try angulation, moderation. This is in many ways a very Different Party that now Hillary Clinton finds herself leading. And we look at that floor now, waiting bill clinton, as that video wraps up. Some anticipation now for his speech, as we see Chelsea Clinton, next to senator elizabeth warren. David muir, give us a feel. I got to tell you, george, this room is silent, watching this video. And what a shift for Hillary Clinton, for years, you know, supporting her husband and then supporting barack obama when she lost that hardfought nomination battle with barack obama, but seeing her this week with tim kaine, that joint interview, him defending her and now president clinton, who will come out here and make the case for his wife, just imagine what its like for her in new york tonight, watching people defend her, have her back and make the case for Hillary Clinton. Just seconds away right now. Lets go down to the stage for the introduction of former president bill clinton. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the 42nd president of the United States, bill clinton. That slow amble there to the podium. Right in the middle of the stage. As you said, matthew dowd, hes done this, this will be his tenth time. And he loves it. Hes gotten very, very good at this. But as martha said, this is the first time he has to turn the stage over to somebody else in a big way, and its his wife. The signs of america out there. I think theres a little jump there to the stage. Thank you. He is ready to get started. Thank you. Hair so much whiter than when he accepted the nomination in 1992. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. In the spring of 1971, i met a girl. The first time i saw her, we were appropriately enough, in a class on political and civil rights. She had thick blond hair, big glasses. Wore no makeup. And she exuded this sense of strength and selfpossession that i found magnetic. After the class, i followed her out. Intending to introduce myself. I got close enough to touch her back, but i couldnt do it. Somehow i knew this would not be just another tap on the shoulder. That i might be starting something i couldnt stop. I saw her several more times in the next few days but i still didnt speak to her. Then, one night, i was in the law library, talking to a classmate who wanted me to join the yale law journal. He said it would guarantee me a job at a big firm or a clerkship with a federal judge. I really wasnt interested, i just wanted to go home to arkansas. Then then i saw the girl again. Standing at the opposite end of that long room. Finally, she was staring back at me. So, i watched her, she closed her book, put it down, and started walking toward me. She walked the whole length of the library, came up to me and said, look. If youre going to keep staring at me, and now im staring back, we at least ought to know each others name. Im Hillary Rodham. Who are you . I was so i was so impressed and surprised that, whether you believe it or not, momentarily, i was speechless. Finally, i sort of blurted out my name, we exchanged a few words and then she went away. Well, i didnt join the law review, but i did leave that library with a whole new goal in mind. Couple days later i saw her again. I remember, she was wearing a long, white flowery skirt. And i went up to her and she said she was going to register for classes for the next term. I said, id go, too. And we stood in line and talked, you had to do that to register back then. And i thought i was doing pretty well. Until we got to the front of the line, and the registrar looked up, said, bill, what are you doing here . You registered this morning. I turned red and she laughed that big laugh of hers. And i thought, well, heck, since my covers been blown, i just went ahead and asked her to take a walk down to the art museum. Wed been walking and talking and laughing together ever since. And weve done it in good times and bad, through joy and heartbreak. We cried together this morning on the news that our good friend and a lot of your good friend, mark winart passed away this morning. We built up a lifetime of memories. After the first month, and that first walk, i actually drove her home to park ridge, illinois, to to meet her family and see the town where she grew up. A perfect example of postworld war ii middle class america. Street after street of nice houses, great schools, good parks, big public swimming pool. And almost all white. I really liked her family. Her crusty conservative father. Her rambunctious brothers. All extolling the virtues of roofting f ing rooting for the bears and the cubs. And for the people from illinois here, they even told me what waiting for next year meant. Could be next year, guys. Now, her mother was different. She was more liberal than the boys. And she had a childhood that made mine look like a piece of cake. She was easy to underestimate, with her soft manner and she reminded me all over again of the truth of that old saying, you should never judge a book by its cover. Knowing her was one of the greatest gifts hillary ever gave me. I learned that hillary got her introduction to social justice through her methodist youth minister. He remaineded her friend for the rest of his life. This will be the only campaign of hers he ever missed. When she got to college, her support for civil rights, her opposition to the vietnam war compelled her to change parties and become a democrat. And then between college and law school, on a total arc, she went alone to alaska and spent some time sliming fish. More to the point, by the time i met her, she had already been involved in the law Schools Legal Services project and shed be influenced by Marian Wright adelman. She took a summer internship interviewing workers in migrant camps for senator walter m mondales subcommittee. She hads begun working in the Yale New Haven Hospital to develop procedures to handle suspected child abuse cases. She got so involved in childrens issues that she actually took an extra year in law School Working at the Child Studies Center to learn what more could be done to improve the lives and the futures of poor churn. So, she was already determined to figure out how to make things better. Hillary opened my eyes to a whole new world of Public Service by private citizens. In the summer of 1972, she went to alabama to visit one of those segregated academies that enrolled half a million white kids in the south. The only way the economics worked is that they claimed federal tax exceptions for which they were not legally entitled. She got sent to prove they whereabout. So, she sauntered into one of the academies, all by herself, pretending to be a housewife that needed to find a school for her son. And they exchanged pleasantries and finally, she said, look, lets just get to the bottom line here. If i enroll my son in this school, will he be in a segregated school, yes or no . And the guy said, absolutely. She had him. Ive seen it 1,000 times since. And she went back and her encounter was part of a report that gave the ammunition needed to keep working to force the Nixon Administration to take those Tax Exemptions away and give our kids access to an equal education. Then then she went down to south texas where she met she met one of the nicest fellas i ever met, the Wonderful Union leader, franklin garcia, and he helped her register mexicanamerican voters. I think some of them are still around to vote for her in 2016. And then and our last year in law school, hillary kept up this work, she went to South Carolina to see why so many young africanamerican boys, i mean, young teenagers, were being jailed for years with adults. In mens prisons. And she filed a report on that, which led to some changes, too. Always making things better. Now, meanwhile, lets get back to business. I was trying to convince her to marry me. I first proposed to her on a trip to great britain. The first time shed ever been overseas, and we were on the shoreline of this wonderful little lake. I asked her to marry me and he sai she said, i cant do it. So, in 1974, i went home to teach in the law school and hillary moved to massachusetts to keep working on childrens ush s issues. This time, trying to figure out why so many kids counted in the census werent enrolled in school. She found one of them sitting alone on her porch in a wheelchair. Once more, she filed a report about these kids and that helped influence ultimately congress to adopt the proposition that children with disabilities, fizz kag physical or otherwise, should have access to public education. You saw you saw the results of that last night, when anastasia talked. She never made fun of people with disabilities, she tried to empower them based on their abilities. Meanwhile, i was still trying to get her to marry me. So, the second time i asked, i tried a different tactic. I said, i really want you to marry me, but you shouldnt do it. She smiled and looked at me like, what is this boy up to . She said, that is not a very good sales pitch. I said, i know, but its true. And i meant it, it was true. I said, i know most of the Young Democrats our age who want who want to go into politics, they mean well, and they speak well, but none of them is as good as you are at actually doing things to make positive changes in peoples lives. So i suggested she go home to illinois or move to new york and look for a chance to run for office. She just laughed and said, are you out of your mind . Nobody would ever vote for me. So, i finally got her to come visit me in arkansas. And when she did, the people at the law school were so impressed, they offered her a teaching position. And she decided to take a huge chance. She moved to a strange place, more rural, more culturely conservative than any place shed ever been, where she knew good and well people would wonder, what in the world she was like and whether they could or should accept her. Didnt take them long to figure out what she was like. She loved her teaching, and she got frustrated when one of her students said, well, what do you expect, im just from arkansas. She said, dont tell me that, youre as smart as anybody. You just have to work for it and set high goals. She believed that anybody could make it. She also started the first legal aid clinic in northwest arkansas. Providing Legal Aid Services to poor people who couldnt pay for them. One day, i was driving her to the airport to fly back to chicago when we passed this Little Brick House that had a for sale sign on it and she said, boy, thats a pretty house. It had 1,100 square feet, an attic fan and no air conditioner in holt arkansas, and a screenedin porch. Hillary commented on what a uniquely designed and Beautiful House it was. So, i took a big chance. I bought the house. My mortgage was 175 a month. When she came back, i picked her up, i said, you remember that house you liked, i said, while you were gone, i bought it. You have to marry me now. The third time was the charm. We were married in that little house on october 11th, 1975. I married my best friend. I was still in awe, after more than four years of being around her, at how smart and strong and loving and caring she was. And i really hoped that her choosing me and rejecting my advice to pursue her own career, was a decision she would never regret. Little over a year later, we moved to little rock, when i became attorney general, and she joined the oldest law firm west of the mississippi. Soon after, she started a group called the arkansas advocates for families and children. Its a group its a group, as you can hear, is still active today. In 1979. In 1979, just after i became governor, i asked hillary to chair a rural health committee. To help expand health care to isolated farm and mountain areas. They recommended, to do that partly by deploying trained Nurse Practitioners to provide primary care that they were trained to provide. It was a big deal then. Highly controversial and very important. And i got the feeling that what she did for the rest of her life, she was doing there, she just went out and figured out what needed to be dope and what made the most since and what would help the most people and then if it was controversial, she just tried to persuade people it was the right thing to do. It wasnt the only big thing that happened that spring. My first year as governor. We found out we were going to be parents. And time passed. On february 27th, 1980, 15 minutes after i got home from the National Governors conference in washington, hillarys water broke. And off we went to the hospital. Chelsea was born just before midnight. And it was the greatest moment of my life. The miracle of a new beginning. The hole filled for me, because my father died before i was born. And the absolute conviction that my daughter had the best mother in the whole world. For the next for the next 17 years, through nursery school, kindergarten, through tball, soccer, volleyball and her passion for ballet, sleepovers, summer camp, and chelseas own ambition excursions, from halloween parties in the neighbor to a viennese waltz gala in the white house, hillary first and foremost was a mother. She became as she often said, our familys designated worrier. Born with an extra responsibility gene. The truth is, we rarely disagreed on parenting, although she did believe that i had gone over the top when i took a couple of days off with chelsea to watch all six Police Academy movies back to back. When chelsea was 9 months old, i was defeated for reelection in the reagan landslide. And i became, overnight, i think, the youngest former governor in the history of the country. We only had twoyear terms back then. Hillary was great. Immediately, she said, okay, what are we going to do . Heres what were going to do. Were going to get a house, youre going to get a job, were going to enjoy being chelseas parents. And if you really want to run again, you got to go out and talk to people, figure out why you lost, tell people you got the message, and show them you still got good ideas. I followed her advice. Within two days, we had a house. I soon had a job. We had two fabulous years with chelsea, and in 1982, i became the first governor in the history of our state to be elected, defeated and elected again. I think my experience is, its a pretty good thing to follow her advice. The rest of the decade sort of flew by as our lives settled into a rhythm of family and work and friends. In 1983, hillary chaired a committee to recommend new education standards for us, as apart of, or, in the response to a court order, to equalize school funding, and a report by National Expert that said our woefully underfunded schools were the worst in america. Typical hillary, she held listening tours in all 75 counties with our committee. She came up with really ambitious recommendations. For example, that we be the first state in america to require elementary counselors in every school, because so many kids were having trouble at home and they needed it. So i called the legislature into session, hoping to pass the standards, pass the pay raise for teachers and raise the sales tax to pay for it all, i knew it would be hard to pass, but it got easier after hillary testified before the education committee, and the chairman, a plain spoken farmer said, looks to me like we elected the wrong clinton. Well, the time i ran for president nine years later, the same expert who said that we had the worst schools in america said that our state was one of the two most improved states in america and thats because of those standards that hillary developed. Now, two years later, hillary told me about a preschool program developed in israel, Home Instruction Program for preschool youngsters. The idea was to teach low income parents to be their childrens first teachers. She said she thought it would work in arkansas, i said, thats great, what are we going to do about it . She said, oh, i already did. The woman that started the program in israel will be here in ten days and will help us get started. Next thing you know, im being drag around to all these preschool graduations. Keep in mind, this was before the state had universal kindergarten. Im watching these poor parents with tears in their eyes, because they never thought theyd be able to help their kids learn. Now, 20 years 20 years of research has shown how well this Program Works to improve readiness for school and academic achievement. There are a lot of young adults in america who have no idea hillary had anything to do with it, who are enjoying better lives because they were in that program. She did all of this while being a fulltime worker, a mother and enjoying our life. Why . Well, shes curious, shes a natural leader, shes a good organizer and shes the best darn change maker i ever met in my entire life. So look. This is a really important point. This is a really important point for you to take out of this convention. If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many peoples lives are better, you know its hard and some people think its boring. Speeches like this are fun. Actually doing the work is hard. So, people say, well, we need to change. Shes been around a long time. She sure has. And shes sure been worth every single year shes put into making peoples lives better. I can tell you this if you were sitting where im sitting, and you heard what i have heard at every dinner conversation, every lunch conversation, on every long walk, you would say, this woman has never been satisfied with the status quo in anything. She always wants to move the ball forward. That is just who she is. When i became president , with a commitment to Reform Health care, hillary was a natural to head the Health Care Task force. You all know we failed, because we couldnt break a senate filibuster. Hillary immediately went to work on solving the problems the bill sought to address, one by one. The most important goal was to get more children with health insurance. In 1997, Congress Passed the Childrens Health insurance program. Still an important part of president obamas Affordable Care act. It insures more than 8 million kids. There are a lot of other things in that bill that she got done, piece by piece, pushing that rock up the hill. In 1997, she also teamed with the House Minority leader, tom delay, who maybe disliked me more than any of Newt Gingrichs crowd. They worked on a bill together to increase adoptions of churp out of foster care. She wanted to do it, because she knew that tom delay, for all of our differences, was an adopted parent, and she honored him for doing that. Now the bill they worked on, which passed with an overwhelming bipartisan majority, led to a big increase in the adoption of children out of foster care, including noninfant kids and special needs kids. It made life better, because shes a change maker. Thats what she does. Now when you are doing all this, real life doesnt stop. 1997 was the year chelsea finished high school and went to college. We were happy for her, but sad for us to see her go. Ill never forget, moving her into her dorm room at stanford. It would have been a great little reality flick. There i was in a trance, just staring out the window, trying not to cry, and there was hillary on her hands and knees, desperately looking for one more drawer to put that liner paper in. Finally, chelsea took charge and told us ever so gently that it was time for us to go. So, we closed the big chapter and the most important work of our lives. As youll see thursday night, when chelsea speaks, hillarys done a pretty fine job of being a mother. And, as you saw last night, beyond a shadow of a doubt, so has michelle obama. Now, fast forward. In 1999, congressman Charlie Rangel and other new york democrats urged hillary to run for the seat of pat moynihan. We always intended to go to new york, but this had never occurred to either one of us. Hillary had never run for office before, but she decided to give it a try. She began her campaign the way she always does new things, by listening and learning. And after a tough battle, new york elected her to the seat to the seat once held by another outsider, robert kennedy. And she didnt let him down. Her early years were dominated by 9 11. By working to fund the recovery, then monitoring the health and providing compensation to victims and first and second responders. She and senator schumer were tireless and so were our house members. In 2003, partly spurred on by what we were going through, she became the first senator in the history of new york ever to serve on the Armed Services committee. So, she tried to make sure people on the battlefield had proper equipment, she tried to expand, and did expand Health Care Coverage to reservists and members of the national guard. She got longer family leave working with senator dodd for people caring for Wounded Service members. And she worked for more extensive care for people with traumatic brain injury. She also served on a special pentagon commission to propose changes necessary to meet our new security challenges. Newt gingrich is on that commission. He told me what a good job she had done. I say that, because nobody who is seriously dealt with the men and women in todays military believes they are a disaster. They are a National Treasure of all races, all religions. All walks of life. Now, meanwhile, she compiled a really solid record, totally progressive, on economic and social issues. She voted for and against some proposed trade deals. She became the de facto Economic Development officer for the area of new york outside new york city. She worked for farmers, wine makers, for small businesses, manufacturers. Her upstate cities in rural areas who needed more new investment to create new jobs. Something we have to do again in small town and Rural America and neighbors that have been left behind in our cities and, yes, in coal country. When she lost a hardfought contest to president obama in 2008, she worked for his election, hard. But she hesitated to say yes when he asked her to join his cabinet. Because she so loved being a senator from new york. So, like me, in a different context, he had to keep asking. But as we all saw and heard from madeleine albright, it was worth the effort, and worth the wait. As secretary of state, she worked hard to get strong sanctions against Irans Nuclear program and in what the wall street journal no less called a Half Court Shot at the buzzer, she got russia and china to support them. Her team negotiated the treaty with russia to reduce Nuclear Weapons and reestablish inspections and she got enough republican support to ratify the treaty. She flew all night long from cambodia to the middle east to get a ceasefire that would avoid a fullout shooting war between hamas and israel in gaza. To protect the peace of the region. She backed president obamas decision to go after osama bin laden. She launched a team this is really important today. She launched a team to fight back against terrorists online, and built a new global count counterterrorism effort. Weve got to win this battle in the mind field. She put Climate Change at the center of our foreign policy. She negotiated the First Agreement ever, ever, for china and india, officially committing to reduce their emissions. And, as she had been doing, since she went to beijing in 1995 and said womens rights are human rights and human rights are womens rights, she worked to empower women and girls around the world and to make the same exact declaration on behalf of the Lgbt Community in america and around the world. And nobody ever talks about this much. Nobody ever talks about this much, but its important to me. She tripled the number of people with aids, most of them in africa, going from 1. 7 million lives and it didnt cost you more money. She bought fdaapproved generic drug drugs like we need to do for the american people. You dont know any of those 3. 4 million people, but i guarantee, they know you. They know you, because they see you is thinking their lives matter. They know you, and thats one reason the approval of the United States was 20 points higher when she left the secretary of States Office than when she took it. Now, how does this square . How does this square with the things that you heard at the Republican Convention . Whats the difference in what i told you and what they said . How do you square it if y . You cant. One is real, the other is made up. And you just have to decide you just have to decide which is which, my fellow americans. The real one has done more positive change making before she was 30 than many Public Officials do in a lifetime in office. The real one, if you saw her friend betsy vote for illinois today, has friends from childhood, through arkansas, where she has not lived in more than 20 years, who have gone all across america, at their own expense, to fight for the person they know. The real one has earned the loyalty, the respect and the support of people who have worked with her in every stage of her life, including leaders around the world who know her to be able, straightforward and completely trust worthy. The real one calls you when youre sick. When your kids in trouble. Or when theres a death in the family. The real one repeatedly drew praise from prominent republicans when she was a senator and secretary of state. So, whats up with this . Well, if you win elections on the theory that government is always bad and will miss up a twocar parade, a real change maker represents a real threat. So, your only option is to create a cartoon. A cartoon alternative. Then run against the cartoon. Cartoons are two ghepgsal. Theyre easy to absorb. Life in the real world is complicated and real change is hard. And a lot of people even think its boring. Good for you. Because earlier today, you nominated the real one. Listen. We got to get back on schedule. You guys calm down. Look. I have lived a long, full, blessed life. It really took off when i met and fell in love with that girl in the spring of 1971. When i was president , i worked hard to give you more peace and shared prosperity. To give you an america where nobody is invisible or counted out. But for this time, hillary is uniquely qualified to seize the opportunities and reduce the risk we face. And she is still the best darn change maker i have ever known. You could drop her you could drop her into any trouble spot, pick one. Come back in a month, and somehow, some way, she will have made it better. That is just who she is. There are clear achievable affordable responses to our challenges. But we wont get to them if america makes the wrong choice in this election. Thats why you should elect her. And you should elect her, because shell never quit when the going gets tough. Shell never quit on you. She sent me in this primary to west virginia, where she knew we were going to lose to look those coal miners in the eye and say, im down here because hillary sent me to tell you that if you really think you can get the economy back you had 50 years ago, have at it. But if she ones, she is coming back for you, to take you along on the ride to americas future. And so, i say to you if you love this country, youre working hard, youre paying taxes and youre obeying the law, and youd like to become a citizen, you should choose Immigration Reform over somebody that wants to send you back. If youre a muslim and you love america and freedom and you hate terror, stay here and help us win and make a future together. We want you. If youre a young africanamerican disillusioned and afraid, we saw in dallas how great our Police Officers can be, help us build a future where nobodys afraid to walk outside, including the people that wear blue to protect our future. Hillary will make us stronger together. You know it, because shes spent a lifetime doing it. I hope youll do it. I hope youll elect her. Those of us who have more yesterdays than tomorrow tend to care more about our churn aildrd grandchildren. The reason you should elect her is that in the greatest country on earth, we have always been about tomorrow. Your children and grandchildren will bless you forever if you do. God bless you. Thank you. Americas 41st president , bill clinton, walking off the stage after his tenth speech at a democratic convention. This one, a different one. It was the life of Hillary Clinton, through a husbands eyes. Like most bill clinton speeches, lightly tethered to the teleprompter, he improvised quite a bit over that 42 minutes. Conversational, intimate, at times. Detail, martha, but not entirely comprehensive, that speech. Not entirely. He did have a richness of detail, he talked about the skirt she wore and it was the white flowery skirt when she first met her, but he stressed softness, her children over and over and over again and obviously stressed their long relationship, their long marriage, that there was a big hole in that narrative, george. Skipped over 1998, matthew dowd. He did refer to some good times and bad times, did not talk about the crisis in their marriage and the impeachment by congress. There will be a lot of debate if that was the right or wrong decision, if it would have overwhelmed the rest of the speech. Great story teller, and he permized the story, but they have a tendency to great myths. And i think a big part of tonight, because he left out a huge part of their story, which was a lot of pain and a lot of anguish, and he said, heartbreak, that she went through in the course of that, and i think this is oneamental in this election. Lets be transparent. Lets be authentic and genuine. I think the voters would have responded unbelievably if he had gone through and said, listen, i put her through a lot of pain and her is a chapter of our story that i havent talked about and im going to talk about it. Cecilia vega down on the floor, he seemed to bring the crowd to their feet when he talked, he got a little bit more political and talked about the real Hillary Clinton, versus the cartoon he says was protraded at the Republican Convention. At times, but they were captivated by the story telling. I have to tell you, sitting out here, this felt very much like bill clinton telling a family story at a bar, or around the dinner table at a holiday. It was a play by play of their life and he started by saying, i met a girl back in the spring of 1971, talking about the three times that he had to propose to her before Hillary Clinton finally said yes. We knew this was going to be a personal story, whbut we didnt know this was bog to going to b clinton attempting to reintroduce her to this country. George, her campaign has long said, behind the scenes, that he is the secret weapon for him on this campaign trail and tonight, he proved himself to be a very valuable asset going forward. We see Chelsea Clinton there. Shell speak on thursday night. You are hearing the Pitch Perfect cast in the background. And david muir, one of the political points president clinton was trying to make, you saw the signs there, change maker, the idea that Hillary Clinton is not part of the status quo, she can make change. You hear in the Clinton Campaign, this frustration that its not part of the national conversation, the amount of work that Hillary Clinton has done over the years. Fought for families around children ever since the 70s, where president clinton began his story tonight of the girl he met, he also talked about donald trump not using his name, but when talking about children with disabilities, for example, he said, she never made fun of anyone with disabilities, the Clinton Campaign has seized on that piece of video involved that reporter, they believe that trump was making fun of, obviously, he said, she helped people with disabilities. They were handing out those placards that say change maker. You knew that line was coming. He would make the case that you can vote for the made up hillary, the story line of hillary from the opponents, or you can vote for the real one, and the real one that he made the case for is the one he says is the true change maker. That issue, can she be the change maker . This is a hard case to make, when the clintons have been on the stage for so long, when we have had 16 of the last 24 years with either a clinton or an obama in the white house. How can you make the case that this is the candidate of change . I also have to say, it seemed a bit of a diminished bill clinton out there. I was on the floor there in 2012, just four years ago when he electrified the convention, had the convention on its feet. This this was not the same level of energy as that. Okay, were going to take a quick break, be back with a surprise guest after this. Before it became a medicine, it was an idea. A wild whatif. So scientists went to work. They examined 87 different protein structures and worked for 12 long years. There were thousands of patient volunteers and the hope of millions. And so after it became a medicine, someone who couldnt be cured, could be. Me. Went to ancestry, i put in the names of my grandparents first. 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