hello. it's 1:00 p.m. here in philadelphia. where ever you're watching from around the world, thanks for joining us. we start with opening day of the democratic national convention. i want to show you these live pictures right now. these are live pictures of clinton in charlotte, north carolina. she is meeting with volunteers. she is obviously very exsietd

about deping day here in phil fi. let's listen? here. >> i cam here a few hours before our convention opened. i want to thank kelly for those wonderful words of introduction of being a public schoolteacher right here in mecklenburg county. i want to thank mayor jennifer roberts, your wonderful mayor. i want to thank members of your city council who are here from charlotte, members of the north carolina house and senate. i want to give a shout out to your young chair of the county democrats, matt. i also just want to mention my

friend and your congresswoman, alma adams who will be -- who will be ton the ticket with me n november and we need to keep electing through the u.s. house and senate. i'll tell you, we'll have a very different one than last week. watching the fear amongering. i'll tell you, it is a sight to behold, talking about building walls, a very different vision about bringing americans together. i'll tell you what, you'll hear from some great americans at our convention this week who represent not only the diversity

of the democratic party but the diversity of the united states of america. i am very excited about contrasting our vils with wh. this election poses such stark choice doesn't it? we always believe our elections are poor and that's at the heart of our democracy. people have fought and died for the right to vote and to express themselves. but i think it is fair to say, it puts everything into such stark difference. donald trump wants to take his

to a new level. he offered a lo of bigotry and fe fear. i listened hard to hear anything that would help any american get ahead and stay ahead in our economy. i listened really hard about how we are going to bring people together in our nation. i listened really hard to hear anything that i thought would make a difference in the future we are trying to guild together. build together. what we heard from donald trump of everything that he said is wrong with america which personally i took offense at. i don't know how you run for

president of the united states if you spend all of your time trash talking about the united states. you have a long list of everything that was wrong with our country, some of which just offended me. calling our military a disaster, raising doubts about whether were not we are the strongest country, the best economy in the world? we will solve them by rolling our sleeves up and getting to work together. >> hillary clinton in charlotte, north carolina, going after donald trump, the first day near

philadelphia. we'll continue to monitor her words. the democrats, by the way, they have a long list of heavy hitters set to speak this week. hillary clinton accepting the presidential nomination. the first lady will take the stage tonight. she is expected to speak about the legacy and about the future with hillary clinton as president of the united states corey booker is there, elizabeth warren, bernie sanders. elizabeth warren tweeted a photo of herself prepping for her big speech. it will be key to the convention whether they got a bump that has given them.

we are in charlotte, north carolina right now. bree brianna, will hillary clinton make an appearance at the democratic convention tonight? >> reporter: as we understand it she will let the big names, bernie sander, michelle obama, we helizabeth warren make her c tonight. we believe she is not doing a video address tonight. debbie wasserman schultz is stepping down after damaging hacked e-mails were released. here is what greetd her here in

philadelphia this morning. [ booing ] here with me now is leah daugherty. it is the second time you did this, right? >> yes. >> and how much of a problem is it, this controversy hovering over and will debbie wasserman schultz appear on the convention floor and hit that gavel formally opening the convention? >> you know, the e-mails are

certainly a distracted. we have done to hard work of bringing the sanders campaign and clinton campaign together. we were able to come up in the rules committee where we could deal with the issue of super delegates. e-mails come as a bit of a distraction. it seems to me it's part of the chal len alenge and we'll find w it happened. we are focused on moving forward. >> will she make -- >> it is her decision. >> do you know if she will? >> that is her decision. at this point she will. that is for her to decide. what we know is that she has served the party with exemplary

service. she is choosing to step down at this time. it is certainly okay. i leave that decision to her. regardless, we'll have a fan tochblt we have all of senators. you will see the broad diversity from where they come from and they will be and we are united to win in november. >> you saw some of those supporters this morning aggressively booing her. i assume the same thing would happen too. >> he has given to the party and keep our eyes on the project. you know, you have a lot of di

rers opinions. we will bring our party together, demonstrating our unity. >> i also noticed when the democratic supporters started heckling and booing her as well. the is this going to go on with sanders supporters interrupting people they don't like? >> i don't think so. when you get in and the pageantry starts -- and he will have addressed his delegates. i think they will be ready to be focused. the realish hue is defeating trump in november. we understand that. so the differences of opinion is a democratic party.

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>> we have shown the entire world that our ideas are not some crazy, wild utopian fantasies. they are ideas supported by working people from one end of this country to the other. we have shown that the american people want a bold progressive agenda that takes on the billionaire class, that fights for racial, social, economic and environmental justice and that will create a government that

represents all americans and not just a handful of wealthy campaign contributors. >> we won 13 million votes across this country and more importantly in every state we compete in we won by a considerable margin, the young people of this country. >> we won the volts from young people who are white, who are black, who are latino, who are

asian american, who are native american. young people are the future of america. we have set the agenda for the future of america. we won 23 democratic primary and caucus contests. we con over 1,800 pledged delegates. welcome to philadelphia.

and the by way -- and by the way, while it is true we did not get many super delegates, we won 46% of the pledged delegates. our campaign put together hundreds of thousands of volunteers across the country. people were out making the phone calls, making the contacts that a progressive movement has to make. and we showed -- we showed in a way that will change politics in

our country forever that you can run a competitive national campaign without begging billionaires for campaign contributions. >> all of us are proud that we are the only campaign not to have a super pack. >> in an unprecedented way we received 8 million campaign contributions averaging $27.

our people participated in writing the platform in meetings held in st. louis a few weeks and and in orlando last week and i want to thank them for their great work. despite the fact that our people were a minority we came out of that committee with by far the most progressive platform ever written in the history of the democratic party. >> just the other day the

committee met and once again we won a major victory in transforming the democratic party. in the next presidential election instead of having 715 super delegates there will be 250. a 60% decline. there will also be commissions working to end closed primaries and bring about other needed reforms. as i think all of you know

debbie wasserman schultz resigned yesterday as chair of the dnc. her resignation opens up at the top of the democratic party that will stand with working people. and that will open the doors to the party to those people who want real change. in addition as a result of our political successes in a number of states there are now at least five chairs of state democratic parties who were elected as part of the political revolution.

this is just some of what we have accomplished. the question now is where do we go from here? how do we build on our successes? how do we continue the political revolution? number one, we have got to be strong and consistent in making it clear that what we want to achieve is nothing less than the transformation of american society.

that means ending the 40-year decline of the american middle class and creating an economy that works for some of us, not just the 1%. it equals wealth and equality today. it is not sustainable when the top 1% owns as much wealth as the bottom 90%. we will change that.

the wealthy and large corporations will start paying their fair share of taxes. when millions of our brothers and sisters from all over this country are working for starvation wages, yes, we will raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. whether it is flint, michigan, or hundreds of other communities around this country we will rebuild our crumbling

infrastructure and have million of decent paid jobs. yes, we will end it including the tpp. and starting today we are r going to do everything we can to make sure that tpp does not come to the floor of congress during the lame duck session. we will far medicare for all health care system.

health care is a right for all people. we understand what donald trump does not understand, climate change is real. and it is already doing devastating harm to this planet. yes, we are going to transform our energy system away from fossil fuel to sustainable energy. yes, we are going to reform a broken criminal justice system. we want our young people at

decent jobs and school not rotting in jail cells. and yes, we are going to achieve comprehensive immigration reform in a path towards citizenship. it is what we want to fight for every single day. we have got to defeat donald trump. we have got to elect hillary clinton and tim kaine.

brothers and sisters -- brothers and sisters, this is the real world that we live in. trump is a bully and a demago e demagogue. trump has made bigotry and hatred the cornerstone of his campaign. throughout this campaign he has

insulted mexicans and latinos. he has insulted muslims and insulted women and african americans. [ chanting "we want bernie" ]

>> thank you. it is not just my opinion. that is what many conservative republicans believe trump is a danger for the future of our country and must be defeated. and i intend to do everything to see that he is defeated. further, it seems to me that if we are going to turn this

country around and defeat right wing extremism we need to build a movement that is prepared to fight at every level of government from the school board to the city councils to county commissioners to the united states senate. my hope is that our revolution will be supporting at least 100 candidates all across this country. and by the way, as all of you know, real politics is not necessarily sexy. knocking on doors, talking to

people, handing out leaflets, sending out e-mails but that is what we need to do. this campaign for me personally has been an extraordinary and unbelievable experience, one that has made it so extraordinary, so extraordinary. i have had the opportunity to visit 46 states throughout this country and many of you personally. what i want to say, what i want everybody to appreciate this, there are extraordinarily wonderful and beautiful people all over this country.

i have met people in every state, young people, working people, old people, people from every race and every religion who have hope in their eyes and are prepared to come together to transform our country. this campaign has been a fantastic beginning, a beginning and from today onward we continue to fight. thank you all very much. >> pretty remarkable moment, bernie sanders is there with jane sanders's wife right now actually got heckled and booed

when he told the crowd to support hillary clinton for president of the united states. it was a fairly extraordinary moment there. i don't think i have seen that before when bernie sanders had been speaking. it underscores the passion of his supporters who clearly, many of them in that room do not want to support hillary clinton. david gregory is here. have you seen anything like that? bernie sanders booed and heckled by his supporters? >> we have not seen anything like that. it was largely his dump speech use to go fire up his supporters. it is different moment now. now is a challenge for him to contain. he tried to there a little bit kind of a -- he seemed to be a little bit unaware of how he could do that. it was electing trump would be dangerous, certainly using that argument of why hillary clinton

is the personal to ele to elect. it was a preview likely of what we are going to hear tonight. she speaking tonight -- he is speaking at the prime time here tonight. >> it is exclusive of clinton and kaine. and now the resignation of debbie wasserman schultz, not a very good moment. maybe they can do that with the line-up tonight. think about who is speaking, particularly elizabeth warren. it is the progressive core of the democratic party. >> and i'm getting word this is being approved. because of that i'm told debbie wasserman schultz will not speak this afternoon. stephanie blake will be doing

that. she will be on hand for hillary clinton's speech but she will not be speaking at the c convention i'm told. >> what about the rest of the week? >> the rest of the week. what we saw this morning -- >> she clearly hoped to gavel and then close the session thursday and then resigned for her resignation taking effect right after the convention. for all practical purposes it is over. >> as long as what we are hearing she has a few more hours to do so again. they are recognizing what is happening here today. they have trying to keep it unified. we know so far it's not quite that way. >> he spent almost all of the time reviewing all of his agene da going forwards. towards the end he mengtioned

debbie wasserman schultz and then he said he supports hillary clinton, tim kaine for president and vice president. he was interrupted and heckled and then as you point out, he spent most of the remaining time not saying how great hillary clinton would be as president but how awful donald trump would be as president. >> this is so important because this is really all that unified this wing of the party, these bernie supporters is that there is no alternative. where are they going to go? look at the numbers in our poll for gary johnson who is running on the libertarian ticket getting 9%. that is a real concern. a lot of millennial voters who have part of that obama coaliti coalition, the clinton campaign needs them to turn out and turn out big. they are only going ton united in opposition to trump. that is what they are counting on. tonight you're going to hear speak frers the first lady to elizabeth warren to bernie sanders himself hitting hard on

the economy and hitting trump hard on hi ties his ties to wall street. they want to drive those negatives up for trump in the way that we see the negatives that were driven up in the republican convention for hillary clinton. >> and they are fine if bernie sanders one mission is to tell his people how that i think dai dangerous donald trump would be. they are fine with that because donald trump is watching this and trying to troll some of these supporters. >> sit something of a progressive champion. that is how she is telling herself. >> no doubt. >> and at the end of the day johnson and jill stein. i spoke to so many, they like her as well. it is safe to say they will all not support hillary clinton. what they are try to go get them to though is stop them from voting for donald trump. >> if you add up the green party

can d candidate they got 12%. the fear among democrats is a lot of that 12% is going to hurt hillary clinton more than donald trump. and then also try to occupy the sent ae center a little it. give them a place to go. it is not an easy proposition this week for her. >> it's not easy at all. we'll see if the speech bernie sanders just delivered is a preview of what he is going to do later tonight, something similar or go in a different direction. thanks very much. let's take a quick break. that's lot coming up here from philadelphia at the democratic national convention. we'll be right back.

we are live at the cnn grill a few hours away from the official start of the democratic national convention. we learned that the chair of the democratic national convention will no longer be using a gavel to be opening the convention. she would be booed by a lot of bernie sanders supporters. they would heckle her. she was decided to no longer formally open her convention. we saw other breaking news.

when he said -- when he told supporters to go out for president and vice president of the united states watch the reaction from these bernie sanders supporters. >> and we have got to elect hillary clinton and tim kaine. [ booing ] >> brothers and sisters -- >> truly extraordinary moments. i don't think i have ever seen them heckled and booed when he told them to go ahead and support the presidential nominee. i want to bring in committee

chairman right now. a new cnn poll shows trump has a post convention leading clinton by six points in this new poll. bernie sanders heckled when he said go ahead and vote for hillary clinton. what was your reaction? >> my reaction was they were lied to and their own party and grass roots and they committed a fraud on the american people. they were either ticked off or have a right to be and hillary clinton is based on false pretenses. i'm not sure whether they have any mechanism to vote their conscious ton floor or recordti the problem or not. they are mad. they should be. >> do you think that some of

those bernie sanders supporters would vote for the republican nominee? >> there is a number of people -- probably not the delegates. we are not dumb here but i think there's a lot of people for a movement for change that would rather have someone like donald trump than the same old democrat. both parties had a change candidate that disrupted the normal course of business. we chose the outside candidate. they didn't. so there are millions of people out there that like the outsider message that will come to donald trump even though they may have been intrigued with bernie sanders. i think it is very possible. >> and what's your reaction? she has now resigned taking effect after this convention but even gaveling the convention into order which you did at the

republican convention. she is no longer going to do it because of uproar among bernie sanders supporters. when you hear that are what was your reaction? >> well, i can promise you that. these e-mails and this personal really disgusting attack on bernie sanders, his religion, his faith, you know, setting up traps to embarrass somebody, it's the type of thing that will be ha historical political stor for years to come. she had to resign. there is no way around it. it is unfortunate she can't gavel in. the fact is it was all a fraud from the beginning, the debates, the entire operation was a fraud. the real issue is can these delegates fix it this week? can they actually vote their

conscience? look, we had certain rules in our party where bound delegates but donald trump got 14.5 million republican votes more than any in the history of our party and he is our nominee. look, they have a lot of problems. i just think it's a total mess. >> so thousands and thousands of dnc e-mails were hacked, as you know. how worried are you it could be hacked maybe by the same group that hacked the dnc? >> i'm not worried about it, wolf. we triple checked everything and we have a pretty good system that takes a double, triple sign-in. it is pretty thoord ghard to ge. it's stupid stuff, you are

putting things in e-mails but even more dumb you write the e-mails and hit send on the button. you know, i don't get that kind of stupidity but i'm sure in everyone's inbox and outbox have a few stupid things in it but the fact of the matter is this was an orchestrated fraud perpetrated on bernie sanders and the democrat part yy. it's not right. it's not the way national parties should operate. i've had my disagreements with donald trump, we've argued about them. but when he became the presumptive nominee we came together and we're working together two, three times a day and we're both part of each other's operation. that's the way things should work. that's not the way things worked on the dnc side and people have known it from the beginning but the shock is actually seeing it in writing. >> reince priebus is the chairman of the republican national committee here in philadelphia just as democrats,

including debbie wasserman schultz, were in cleveland during the republican national convention last week. reince, thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> with just hours to go until the official start of the democratic national convention, the party is facing a big scandal. russians are suspected of hacking into dnc e-mails. the fbi clearly investigating right now, wikileaks published thousands of those dnc e-mails, many of them critical of senator bernie sanders. in its wake, dnc chair debbie wasserman schultz, as you know, a long-time clinton ally, resigned and as our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto tells us, it has both parties up in arms. >> reporter: u.s. officials believe the hack of dnc e-mails bear the hallmarks of russian cyber activity. the fbi is now investigating, but experts on russian cyber attacks say the timing of the release on the eve of the democratic party convention points to a possible attempt to influence the u.s. election.

>> they've certainly used hacking in the past to get political results. it's their modus operandi. they use hacking to shape opinion to get political results. so it fits with what they've done in the past. >> hillary clinton's campaign manager took the allegation a step further saying the release was intended to help her rival, republican candidate donald trump. >> i don't think it's coincidental that these e-mails were released on the eve of our convention here and that's disturbing. >> the cyber security firm crowd strike, which analyzed the attack, found digital fingerprints pointing to russia, including time stamps matching moscow's time zone and some coding in the russian language. democratic party officials and others have also pointed to trump campaign manager paul manafort's past work for the pro-russian former president of ukraine, victoria -- viktor yanukovych. >> i respect putin, he's a

strong leader. >> reported financial ties to trump's businesses and russian backers and comments last week that he might not come to the aid of nato allies under attack if elected president. donald trump's son dismissed the alleged ties outright. >> i mean, i can't think of bigger lies but that exactly goes to show you what the dnc and what the clinton camp will do. >> reporter: russia has accused the u.s. of political tampering of its own. moscow believes the u.s. orchestrated the pro-democracy protests in kiev in 2013 which deposed president yanukovych in favor of a more pro-western petro poroshenko. some see potential russian payback in the attack on the dnc. >> they want to undermine our information hegemony and win the battle in the information space. this is just another part of that effort. >> jim sciutto joins us live from washington right now. jim, do officials think other political servers were targeted as well? >> not the target of this attack

but fact is, wolf, there has been an m.o. here of russian attacks, attacks on white house e-mails, state department e-mail, often the information being released to the public with something of an information goal here, right. the russians see this as an information war to some degree with the u.s. and that extends to political processes and they consider this kind of thing fair game. whether or not they're supporting an individual candidate to undermine confidence in the u.s. political system is a goal that russia will often pursue with hacks like this. and it's partly that pattern in addition to the other evidence that is leading some in the intelligence community to point in the direction of russia for the dnc attack. >> pretty disturbing development. all right, jim sciutto, thanks very much. let's discuss these developments with my next guest, democratic congressman adam schiff of california, he's the ranking member, the top democrat of the house intelligence committee and i know congressman you've been

well briefed on this. what is your assessment? >> my assessment is the russians have the motive, they have the means, certainly, we have seen them interfere in the political affairs and elections of other countries, particularly adversaries so i wouldn't put it past the russians for a minute. it's going to take time for the fbi to do the investigation to make attribution. they may never be able to publicly make attribution but i'm not surprised that crowd strike, which is quite reputable, has reached a conclusion there's russian hands involved and that may ultimately be where we end up. >> i want you to listen to what robbie mook, the campaign manager for hillary clinton, said to cnn about his theory behind this dnc hack. >> what further experts are saying is that then because they possessed those e-mails that russian state actors were feeding the e-mails to hackers

for the purpose of helping donald trump. >> his theory is that these e-mails, very embarrassing to the dnc, were leaked now just before the start of the democratic convention to embarrass hillary clinton and, in effect, he says, help donald trump become the next president because he supposedly is more pro russian. >> that would be perfectly consistent with the russian motivation. they clearly have a strong preference in the presidential race. they have in donald trump someone who speaks admiringly of putin, someone who has said he would necessarily come to the defense of nato if they were attacked or invaded by russian that so he's a dream candidate from moscow and i think that ought to concern every american. on the other hand, i think the russians are afraid of hillary clinton. they recognize in hillary clinton somebody who's very carabcar care -- capable. so as much as they like trump, i think they're worried about a clinton presidency.

>> this is just a theory you have. there's no hard evidence that russi russia is seeking to interfere in domestic american politics by leaking these e-mails to try to help donald trump become the next president? >> wolf, i can't go into what we may have found thus far in terms of the intelligence community. all i can say is we have seen a pattern of russian interference through cyber means in other governments. this would be unprecedented, though, to have them in such a deliberate way try to interfere in the political process, make mischief in the convention and try to sway an electorate. that would be unprecedented but i wouldn't put it past them in a minute. this is a regime that has poisoned people as it did with

it wi the polloonium in tea. it's not above making hostile journalists disappear, murdering journalist, holding those responsible immune from prosecution so i wouldn't put anything past pathe kremlin. >> what's your reaction that debbie wasserman schultz, the chair of the dnc, is no longer going to formally open this convention because of fear the bernie sanders supporters would boo her out of the convention floor? >> i'm sure this was a very difficult and painful decision for debbie both the step down and not to speak during the convention. she loves the party but i think she made the right decision. it's not about the party, it's about electing secretary clinton as president of the united states, that's simply too important to have any obstacle to unity, better unity within the party so i think it was the right call. >> and bernie sanders, when he told his supporters to support hillary clinton and tim kaine, listen to the reaction he got from his own supporters. >> and we have got to elect hillary clinton and tim kaine.

[ boos ] brothers and sisters -- >> this was an extraordinary moment. i've never seen bernie sanders heckled and booed by his own supporters. >> well, you know, among the bernie sanders supporters around the country you have some of the most fervent supporters in that room. these are people who devoted their entire lives for the last year to his campaign i've been on the losing side of campaigns in primaries, in general elections. it's hard to move on. i think some people in that room still feel passionately about senator sanders and to change that dynamic i think the senator will need to speak more about why he's supporting secretary clinton and i hope he deal that tonight. >> we'll see what he says tonight. he's one of the prime time

speakers, congressman, thanks for coming in. >> thanks, wolf. >> that's it for me. i'll be back 5:00 p.m. in the situation room. all night long we'll bring you the latest from the democratic national convention. our special coverage continues right now. top of the hour, i'm brooke baldwin, happy to be in beautiful philadelphia. you're watching cnn's special live coverage here from the democratic national convention. just a short time from now the big dnc will be kicking off and hillary clinton gets her chance to respond to donald trump. secretary clinton poised to become the first woman to headline a major party's presidential ticket and tonight some powerhouse speakers due to take the stage behind me to address the democratic faithful from liberal hero elizabeth warren, the darling of the left, to first lady of