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[applause] [applause] [applause] delegates, ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. please welcome back republican national committee chair rice priebus. mr. priebus: welcome to the third session of the 2016 republican national convention. the convention will come to order. olors will bec represented by our men and women in blue. please welcome the color guard from the cleveland police department for helping protect us tonight. [applause] thank you. halt. left face. please remain standing for the pledge of allegiance, the national anthem and the indication. representing countries from around the world, please welcome the patriotic nationality ambassadors will lead us in our pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and sue the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. mr. priebus: all right. please welcome lifelong browns ch, who will sing t ....
maryland, my maryland! [laughter] [cheers and applause] you have 120 votes. how do you cast your votes? chairlady,r] madam the great state of maryland, the great supremethe court justice thurgood marshall, author scott key and the of our nation s star-spangled banner is, the home of the academy, the naval home of the chesapeake bay, the in the united states and the third largest in the world, great, greathe senator barbara mikulski. [cheers and applause] who in 1986 became the first woman elected into the united states senate from maryland and and womanmarylander to chair the united states senate appropriations committee and, of course, the leader of the home ofnight, stephanie rawlings-blake. toam chair, we are elated cast 36 votes for a truly great .an, bernie sanders [cheers and applause] and we are excited and we are to vote cast 84 votes next president of the united states of america, hillary rodham clinton! [cheers and applause] mayor rawlings-blake: maryland, y ....
[cheers and applause] thank you. [cheers and applause] thank you. that was amazing and i m very proud parent of two amazing boys as you just heard, she is winning fight for kids all upr the country, opening opportunities they cannot even imagine. far from the spotlight and over her entire career, when hillary clinton sees a problem, she fights to fix it. like our justice system letting down to many americans. hillary clinton believes that no matter where you come from, where you live, or the cover color of your skin, you deserve the full freedoms and protections of our laws. this is the fight of hillary clinton s life, social justice. she learned to do all the good you can in all the ways you can for all the people you care. can. that is what has guided hillary clinton s whole life. she stood up for teenagers thrown in jail was fully grown adults, for migrant workers deprived of decent housing and sanitation and four children who were targets of segregation an ....
who pushedne leader to open the first eagle academy in the bronx and she made a promise to return four years later to offer the keynote address to our first graduating class. and that is a promise that she kept. you see, i m with hillary clinton because she has been with us. [applause] men who areve young confident, future leaders who are resilient. just look at them, america. [applause] they are brilliant. [applause] and full of promise. and we start every day with the poem, the same poem that strengthen the resolve of the imprisoned nelson mandela when he recited it each day so young men of the eagle academy. black as the pit from pole to pole, i think with the gods may e from my soul [cheers and applause] thank you. [cheers and applause] thank you. that was amazing and i m very proud parent of two amazing boys as you just heard, she is winning fight for kids all upr the country, opening opportunities they cannot even imagine. far from the spotlight and over her ....
out of foster care. she wanted to do it because she knew that tom delay, for all of our differences, was an adoptive parent, and she honored him for doing that. the bill they worked on, which passed in an overwhelming bipartisan majority, led to a big increase in the adoption of children out of foster care , including non-infant kids and special needs kids. it made life better because she is a change maker. that s what she does. when you are doing all this, were alive does not stop. 1997 was the year chelsea finished high school and went to college. we were happy for her, but sad for us to see her go. i will never forget moving 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 ....