♪ >> our party has chosen a man to testus who represents the of our party. that man is john kerry. he will never sacrifice our basic liberty or use faith as a wedge to divide us. was either barack obama or his son making a speech . a republican in our democratic strategist. how is the convention going so far? think it is telling the story of the candidate, what candidateuntry the

sees. they had a low bar after cleveland last week. i think that that was cleared about the time they gaveled open. the first two nights of dumbing great job and illustrated some basic things about hillary clinton that get lost in the campaign. what is in the mind of barack obama as he gears up to do this each -- >> i do not know what is in the mind of -- john: you know. >> i don't know. john: what is his focus? whyo make the best case for hillary clinton should be elected president. it is a focus about why this hection is so important and is someone who stays at very,

very focused on the main issue here. there is also a part of the where we haveess been as a country and where we are going. painting this job as one only hillary clinton is going to fill. mark: the lead story, i predict, about barack obama or bill clinton. it will be about russia. our voters likely to learn anything about what is happening in his convention as opposed to what is going on with vladimir putin? >> i think everyone has looked at the ratings this week. it has been very encouraging in terms of these speeches. the late news tonight and what you will see on social

media, you will have telling speeches, some of the party felt most compelling speakers. john: you were the communications director at a chump craziness in the white house. you were around when trump was assaulting the president, rising the birther issue. how does that make the president feel personally, donald trump is a republican nominee? >> i think when the thing got up at the white house correspondents dinner when he discussed the birther movement did the best job anyone ever well telling the world what he goes about donald trump in the issue. from the white house, but i was around for the first round of the birther stuff, during the 2008 campaign. we were a campaign that prided itself on transparency, putting these things out. i would have to

work on a campaign where we would have to put somebody birth certificate on the web for everybody to look at and even then it was the short version -- not "the real version." no o mark: you are a big campaign fan, right? >> i love tim kaine. the: you're speaking on same night as joe biden and barack obama. do you think that tim kaine will chafe at this in the next four months? >> i think tim kaine walked into this knowing exactly what the job's and embracing the job. 2008 ande of three in had plenty of time back then to think about what it means to give up -- mark: i'm sorry, but joe biden fought and really fights for a seat at the table. madethink hillary clinton it clear, she wants a vice president who has a big seat at

the table, a governing partner. one thing that was striking on saturday, she looked terrific. she was happy, she was natural. mark: he makes her better. >> he makes her better and she really likes that. john: one quality that is not evident in tim kaine is the ability to take the wood to someone. does he have the capacity to be an attack dog? will he be a tough debater against mike pence? >> tim kaine has been elected governor and senator in a genuinely purple state. in four years, you might call it a blue state. i think now we can call it a purple state. those are tough elections. those are not easy elections. he has won them. he isessment of kaine, one of those politicians who has the ability to deliver a negative message without

sounding negative. that's important. mark: have you seen any indications that the bill better speech played any outside the hall then inside the hall, which was relatively subdued white folk? speech was interesting, in one sense that no one has heard a male spouse make that speech about a female. it had some any of the classic elements of a spouse speech at a convention and we are all looking at it and thinking, oh, my gosh. we have not heard that speech made about a woman. i thought it was interesting reactions just based on that. not just that, but we have seen bill clinton be pyrotechnic in past convention speeches and he was much more subdued and much more of a surrogate, forgetting about the gender dynamics. >> i think tim kaine embraces billole as number two and clinton is learning his role as a surrogate and a spouse.

what he gave last night was in many ways the classic spousal speech. i will tell you a little bit about our private life, some anecdotes -- which none of the week, nod last personal anecdotes. taking chelsea to college and hillary was going around doing all of the unpacking and stuff like that -- not only did it ring true. mark: tiffany trump just talked about her dad reading her dad reading a report card. >> that's right. mark: when we come back, we talk about the convention, the campaign, and the clintons. ♪

mark: we are here live, democratic convention at the wells fargo center in philadelphia, the early part of the fourth and final day of this convention. they are playing a video now. lots of speakers leading up to

hillary clinton. a big night for going to preview that speech, talk about the convention with a former president of candidate and longtime friend, associate and occasional rival of the clintons -- welcome. it's your first time on the show. we are happy to have you here. you have known the clintons for a long time. i first met you in 1992, when bill clinton was running for president, and you and he had at times a contentious relationship. let's talk about your history with the clintons and how you have what's them become the first family of the democratic party. they were doing free legal work, that stood out. they went tod as the white house, the health care i watched her grow. sort ofays had the

southern folklore -- he could talk oxford talk. he could kind of do it all. i watch them grow. ascourse, bill's record president was successful and he is never stopped working. on theou were clearly liberal end of the spectrum. bill clinton and hillary clinton were modernizers, they were more centrist. do you think now, when you look at hillary clinton -- this the question progressives all have -- is she really a progressive now? gone where the party is? or is she a closet dlc person? mark: calling democrats the leisure class. >>th were trying to get the votes that reagan did. we were trying to get people we never had. rainbow outlasted dlc. while he tried to govern as deal see, his new votes came from the rainbow.

as a matter of fact, they had the senate majority. because blacks in the south voted in big numbers for the first time. -- she hillary has had has made an adjustment. no longerthink she is a deal new democrat. she is a democrat democrat, a rainbow, push kind of democrat? , asupporting health care commitment now to radically reducing student loan debt, that is a concession. she wanted to trust to the banks with removing glass-steagall. there is much more strengthened banks were make

accountable. that's an accommodation. the things she has done to accommodate represent growth and a new reality. mark: my guess is you and donald trump have known each other over the years, right? >> over a long time. mark: tell me your best donald trump story. >> we were going to different boxing matches and donald trump, tyson, those kinds of matches, and he was an affable guy. when we began to try to open up wall street for blacks and latinos to do business, he gave us office space for a year. mark: so, helping with that project, hanging out, my guess is before this you thought he was a pretty fun guy to be around, right? >> for social events. but he was one of the first and the birther movement. mark: that's a pretty big

signal. >> trying to challenge the legitimacy of resin obama and he kept going further with that, and now he has gone from that to wanting to kill health care, which affects 30 million people, will not support raising wages for working people. and he is talking about removing nato -- he says that hillary can't say radical islam. he can't say anything critical of putin. it just can't be done. we share 2000 miles with mexico, but also trade with mexico. could taste -- destabilize the country. to debateyou want him? >> i'm anxious to.

i have some credibility. discuss ideas about europe and america are dangerous. john: a lot of democrats think donald trump is a stone cold racist. do you agree with that? >> i don't want to go into that. [indiscernible] it is almost childish. he is the republican party's and he will be america's president. where does he stand with health care? in this city, unemployment is 3%, for blacks, it is 12%. in pennsylvania, 4%, 5%.

we need to think -- i thought he would be running -- he got back into it. sarah mcbride, the first openly transgender person to speak it either party's convention. if a transgender person -- what a transgender person speak at the clinton's convention in 1992? >> not 1992 maybe. [indiscernible] there is a little culture shock. [laughter] i think all of us -- mark: is the democratic party changing faster than the country, or leading the way or -- >> bernie took us to another level. ont women could not serve

juries. for a while it did not vote. now it is voting. so, women when hillary makes the glass ceiling, it's not just the glass ceiling. mark: a lot of changes. >> a lot of changes taking place. i think hillary has made the adjustment, and i also think people will be working on accountability beyond the election. jackson, good to have you. hope you come back this year a lot. >> you're the man. john: when we come back, more of our best, best, best interviews from this past week. ♪

president obama: for four years i had a front row seat to her intelligence, her judgment, and

her discipline. i came to realize that her unbelievable work ethic wasn't for prai, it wasn't for attention. n this for everyone who needs a champion. i understood that after all of these years, she has never isgotten just to she fighting for. hillary has still got the tenacity that she had as a young woman, working at the children's defense fund, going door-to-door, to ultimately make sure kids with disabilities could get a quality education. she still has the heart she showed as our first lady, working with congress to push through a children's health program that to this day protects millions of kids. she is still seared with the she metf every american

who lost loved ones on 9/11. hard is why she fought so to help first responders, to asp the city rebuild areas secretary of state, she sat with me in the situation room and forcefully argued in favor of the mission that took out bin laden. you know -- nothing truly prepares you for the demands of the oval office. you can read about it, you can study it. but until you have sat at that desk, you don't know what it's like to manage a global crisis or send young people to war. roomillary has been in the . she has been part of those decisions. stake in what is at the decisions our government

makes, what is at stake for the working families, for the senior citizens, the small business owners, the soldiers, the veterans. and even in the midst of crisis, she listens to people and she keeps her cool and she treats everybody with respect. and no matter how daunting the odds, no matter how much people tried to back her down, she never, ever quit. quits.e never, ever that is the hillary that i know. that is why i say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman, not me, not bill, nobody, and more qualified than hillary clinton to serve as the president of the united states of america. mark: that was present barack

obama, of course, bring down the house at the democratic national convention in philadelphia on wednesday. thanks for watching this edition of the best of "with all due respect." we will see you monday. until then, sayonara. ♪

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