united states. let s not forget the history as we talk about the news and the scuttlebutt, if you will. and the rumors. anyway, that woman is hillary clinton. her husband former president bill clinton gave the night s big speech, delivering a strong defense of her history of public service. he threw that in on top of their romance which i think he talked about with great embroidering. anyway, hillary came off tonight as the former president put it as the real game changer. the real change maker, challenging certainly donald trump to that fight. here he is. if you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of bet hard and some people think it s boring. speeches like this are fun. actually, doing the work is hard. some people say well, we need a change. she s been around a long time. she sure has, and she s sure been worth every single year she s put into making people s lives better. and as i said earlier in the night, the democrats made it off
going to just get cut at some point in the evening. knowing that and knowing all floor reporters should wear flats, male and female, we ve assembled them all. so halle jackson, start us off. it s the road warriors gang coming to you from the floor, brian, hi, senator franken. hi. thanks for joining the team. we re talking about minnesota corn beef. his mom is from my hometown. a jewish suburb. reporter: we were talking about sarah silverman during the commercial break also. what did you make of that moment? she had that bernie or bust comment. well, you know, the latest polls i ve seen, 90% of bernie supporters are for hillary. this is a little earlier in the night before michele and before bernie. [ inaudible ] you re an old pro. reporter: [ inaudible ]. that s right. reporter: you re funny on the floor all the time, senator. the campaign asked me to be funny, to kind of do oh, okay. really? on this you got to eat the mic here? they asked me to be
he s selling the american people short. we re not a fragile people. we re not a frightful people. our power doesn t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. we don t look to be ruled. our power our power comes from those immortal declarations first put to paper right here in philadelphia all those years ago, we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that we, the people, can form a more perfect union. that s who we are. that s our birth right. the capacity to shape our own destiny. we ve got all the highlights coming up. plus the host of saturday night live s weekend update. let s bring back chris hayes, joy reid, michael steele. let s talk about a guy who gets overlooked too damn many times, joe biden. yeah. i think joe knows because he s told me the best way to get popular in this country is not run for president. and i saw that tonight. he is very popular, so is
it was a historic day where today hillary clinton, this is the news, became the first woman to be nominated. has a plausible route from here to the white house. everything else is just scuttle butt as they said in the navy which i was never in. that history was not lost on the person who knows her best, former president bill clinton who tonight made a case as to why his wave wife is the best and only choice for this country s future. here s what he said in his very emotional closing appeal tonight. i hope you will do it. i hope you ll elect her. those of us who have more yesterdays than tomorrows tend to care more about our children and 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. i can tell you out there working that hall, i saw so many people gleaming at every word that president said. this hour i ll
that s independence hall behind us where it all began. i m he chris matthews with a special edition of hardball live. day one got off to a rocky start as we ve been talking about after leaked e-mails from the democratic national committee threatened to over shadow tonight s theme that america is united tonight. in this head line speech this evening or later tonight, bernie sanders said hillary clinton must be the next president. he s proud to stand with it. it was a forceful speech. this election is about which candidate understands the real problems facing this country. by these measures any objective observer will conclude that based on her ideas and her leadership, hillary clinton must become the next president of the united states. hillary clinton will make an outstanding president, and i am proud to stand with her tonight. thank you all very much. well, that s former president bill clinton up in the balcony there. anyway, the most empassioned speech many thought wa