hello. i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. many washington and 8:00 p.m. in jerusalem. wherever you're watching from around the world, thank you for joining us. the presidential ticket is about to hold its first post-convention campaign event in philadelphia. hillary clinton who accepted the nomination last night and her running mate tim kaine beginning a 102-day push to the november 8th election. the event today kicks off a major bus tour through pennsylvania and ohio. two key battleground states. donald trump kicks off the post convention spirit -- sprint, i should say, to november in another key battleground state today. we're talking about colorado. our senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny is over at the clinton/kaine event

at temple university in philadelphia. jason carroll is in denver just ahead of the trump appearance. jeff, talk a little bit about the message, the importance of these two states, pennsylvania and ohio. >> reporter: well, wolf, now the march to the election day is on here. 102 days exactly from today. what the clinton campaign is trying to do is expound on their themes of the convention. we saw so many signs that said stronger together. she's hoping that she and tim kaine are indeed stronger together but the reality is that the scripting that we've seen is going to be replaced by the political reality here, that she's locked in a very tight race with donald trump. her campaign, along with tim kaine, is focusing on pennsylvania and ohio. 20 electoral votes here in pennsylvania, 18 electoral votes in ohio, they are going to be talking about the economy as they make their way across the bus here in philadelphia on to

harrisburg and finally on to ohio. and really drawing a contrast with donald trump and his outsourcing activities. they are going to be visiting factories, talking to voters along the way here. wolf, the reality is, once the balloons were cleaned up off the convention floor, the hard work of the next three months is at hand here and the clinton campaign knows it has work to do in terms of the campaign specifically. donald trump still ranks higher than her in poll numbers on the economy as well as other measures. wolf? >> stand by. jason carroll is out in this colorado. trump has been in attack mode this week with all of the criticism leveled against him. do you expect him to keep up that pressure today once he speaks at his rally? >> reporter: without question, wolf. to step up the pressure, any indication of what we heard yesterday in davenport, iowa, we're expected to hear more here

today in colorado springs when the town hall gets under way. after you've listened to everything at the dnc convention, hillary clinton, the president, democrats in general, they are feeling out of touch, out of touch with what real americans feel and what they think about the country in terms of feeling they feel as though most americans feel they are not safe. they don't feel safe going to the theater, they don't feel safe getting on an airplane and feel as though the president painted a rosy picture, one that doesn't exist. yesterday hillary clinton made it clear that donald trump is someone, a man who is easily bathed into tweeting. that didn't stop him from tweeting several times throughout her speech much of what he has to say read like this. let me read a few of them to you. crooked hillary clinton mentioned me many times and many

statements were lies and fabrications. "crooked hillary said i couldn't handle the rough and tough of a political campaign. really? i just beat 16 people and i am beating her." and wolf, just within the past hour, i checked donald trump's facebook page. he basically said that hillary clinton leading the country would be worse. it would mean, quote, more higher taxes, rampant terrorism and more corruption. this is what he's saying about this candidate. what this is coming down to, it's an election not just about who is the better candidate to leave the country, it's about which vision of america you believe in. the trump camp is betting that most people believe in the mission that he is painting. wolf? >> jason carroll in colorado covering the trump campaign and jeff zeleny at temple university covering the hillary clinton campaign. we'll have more updates coming

up. hillary's message last night was the sky is the limit and she's the one who has had the steady hand to handle the most important office in the world. here with us, senior political reporter, nia-malika henderson, john king, anchor of "inside politics." the first of the three presidential debates, those are going to be the big events coming up over the next several months. still 59 days away. the presidential debate on november september 26th. going into what will be the critical debates, there's momentum. >> think about it, wolf. the contrasting messages and contrasting tones that we heard in philadelphia and cleveland. imagine when they are just a few feet away on the stage. given how close the race is, the debates will be highly

consequential. what happens between now and then, if hillary clinton can hold pennsylvania and win ohio, donald trump is not going to be the next president of the united states. where do you go? into small towns that have that anxiety. youngstown, ohio, blue collar workers where hillary clinton is struggling right now. she needs to make that donald trump talks the -- he says he's your voice but what would he do? he has no plans. he doesn't care about you. she's touched on the outsourcing by the trump companies, the ties, the suits, all of that. but also look for her to try to make the case that she did last night. she said we democrats have not spent a lot of time listening to you. it's critical to the democrats. >> nia, as you remember that first cnn orc poll after the republican convention in cleveland, there was a ten-point swing. donald trump went from five

points to -- up five points. tim kaine, the vice presidential nominee, spoke about the message from the democrats going forward. listen. >> with respect to donald trump and the things that he's proposing and the way he treats others and the vision he has for this country, it's going to be very easy for me to point that out consistent with them laying out why we're so different and why a clinton administration is going to be one that is focusing on positive results for people. >> the clinton campaign, they are expecting a considerable bump out of their convention as well. isn't that right? >> that's right. you saw donald trump give something of a bump there. he's been talking about his lead in the polls, at least according to our cnn poll, the orc poll shows him up six points or something. so we'll see what happens with hillary clinton. you saw her there really reach out to a broad range of people. on the one hand, trying to hold on to the obama coalition and then trying to reach out to

independent voters and republican voters. they think, in talking to the clinton campaign, that they did their campaign a lot of good. they expect to see a polling bounce. but again, i think we have to check in august and september and leading up to the election to see how this plays out and see if it even lasts. and then i think we just have to see what they are doing in these different states, what states they are targeting, what kind of ground game each of them has, what kind of ads they are putting up on the air. we saw from the hillary clinton campaign really go up early, spend millions of dollars in a lot of these swing states and now you see donald trump trying to catch up with a message essentially saying don't keep the car and the keys in hillary clinton's hands because look where the country is now. i think one of his best lines has been how is the status quo working out for you? i think that's a theme that we're going to hear him keep on hammering. >> let me play a clip for you,

john. chelsea clinton introducing her mother. >> my earliest memory is my mom picking me up after i had fallen down, giving me a big hut and giving me a good night moon. from that moment until this one, every single memory i have of my mom is that regardless of what was happening in her life, she was always, always there for me. >> you and i have been covering the clintons since the 1990s. how do you think chelsea did? >> i first met chelsea when she was 11. she's so poised. a lot of people compared her speech to ivanka trump. ivanka is the more polished

speaker. "she was always there for me." that's what they are trying to say. chelsea was saying even though she was busy, she made my ballet recitals. trying to humanize her and soften the edges and say when she starts something, she sticks with. chelsea was part of the testimonial, she's a doer, not a talker and sometimes she loses but gets back up. trying to take the rough edges off but the tenacious and fighting part of hillary clinton. >> it's interesting, ivanka is 34 years old, chelsea is 35 years old. they are both very poised, good

speakers. i think they were friends or at least good acquaintances in new york. >> probably not anymore. >> i don't know what's going on now but both of these women will be out there on the campaign trail, effective spokeswomen for their parents. >> i think that's right. they are spokespeople for the liberal agenda. if you remember ivanka's speech, she in some ways sounded like a democrat, talking about a paid maternal leave. i think that surprised her a little bit but donald trump sees her as an ambassador to women voters, a group of voters he's not doing well with. again, they both just had babies, if i recall, quite recently. we'll see how they are able to juggle that and be surrogates for their parents. i think they are pretty effective surrogates. chelsea clinton, i think she has a master's in public health.

she's a real walk just like her mother and it will be interesting to see how she's deployed in these next months in these campaigns because it's very much a all-hands-on-deck moment. not a lot of the republicans are rallying to trump's side in the way that democrats are rallying to hillary clinton's side. >> donald trump last night reacting to what he heard this week at the democratic convention. >> i wanted to hit a couple of the speakers so hard, i was going to hit one guy in particular, a very little guy. i was going to hit this guy so hard, his head would spin, he wouldn't know what the hell happened. >> i want your reaction to that. this is donald trump who has caused a little stir with those words. >> i think most people think when he says "the little guy" that he's talking about michael

bloomberg. he says he's saying i'm a knnew yorker and know a con when i see one. and that's what hillary clinton said, that people laugh at donald trump because it's controversial and entertaining. she was trying to make the point, it's not funny. he's the candidate for president. that's not the person you want when you have to make a big decision about policy and this is a key part, again, a key part of donald trump's appeal. he's authentic, says what comes into his head and voters think he's unvarnished and unfiltered and it's worked for trump so hard. clinton is trying to say -- he's essentially trying to say, he's not a president and this will be the debate for the next 100 days. she's trying to disqualify him by saying, you may laugh at him but you don't want to laugh at

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hillary clinton and tim kaine are holding a rally in philadelphia at temple university. tim kaine is speaking now, getting ready to introduce hillary clinton. they will go from pennsylvania, a key battleground state, next door to ohio, another key battleground state. their spouses, bill clinton and anne holton are there as well. we'll have live pictures when hillary clinton starts speaking. get ready for that. tens of billions of people watched hillary make history last night, becoming the first

woman of the united states to accept the nomination for president here in the united states. but what you didn't get to see are the private moments of hillary clinton backstage as she watched her daughter chelsea clinton introduce her and as she celebrated with family, friends and staff after the speech. the photographer who took these pictures for cnn described hillary clinton as tense but not nervous knowing it was an important moment for women in this country. that's a direct quote from the photographer. and what was arguably one of the most powerful moments of the democratic national convention, a grieving father recounted the pain of losing his soldier son in iraq. he painted a portrait of american ideals, love the country, honor of military sacrifice and khizr kahn offered a strong counternarrative to

donald trump's appeal. >> our son, in my own head, dreams, too, of being a military lawyer but he put those dreams aside the day he sacrificed his life to save the lives of his fellow soldiers. [ applause ] hillary clinton was right when she called my son the best of america. if it was up to donald trump, he never would have been in america. donald trump consistently smears

the character of muslims. he disrespects other minorities, women, judges even his own party leadership he wants to build walls and ban us from this country. donald trump, you're asking americans to trust you with their future. let me ask you, have you even read the united states constitution? i will gladly lend you my copy.

[ applause ] in this document, look for the words -- look for the words liberty and equal protection of law. have you ever been to arlington cemetery? go look at the graves of brave patriots who died defending the united states of america. you will see all faiths, genders and ethnicities. you have sacrificed nothing and no one! >> father of 27-year-old mayan kahn, a u.s. army captain who

was killed in battle in iraq. those were woufl moments. y powerful moments. you guys were with me at the convention. i was down on the floor and you all could feel the tension as a result of the grieving father and the mother standing right next to him. one of the most powerful moments of this democratic convention. >> yeah. and he could make the case like no one else on stage there as someone who had a son, who sacrificed -- who made the ultimate sacrifice for the country and essentially saying to donald trump, you don't get american values, you don't get the fact that we all share these american values and immigrants share them, muslims share them. i thought it was very powerful. for a lot of people, that might have been the most memorable thing because he was so poised, so heartbroken in some ways and i think angry with donald trump in making this case that democrats are trying to make as well. >> and by nature, we just

discount what a politician says. they are supposed to criticize the other guy. but to have a gold-star parent talking about his son who died for all of us, let's be clear about that, he's a hero, you sacrifice nothing. donald trump is rich, elite, not in touch with you. you know, here's my constitution. you're not american. you can't be our president. you don't represent our values. you're intolerant. look at all of the different faiths. every layer that they are trying to make for whom you have to look at and spoke with such poise and dignity, when you meet the gold star parents and families, you just -- their pain is lasting. this is 12 years later. that never goes away. to stand there and make that case, i asked before the convention, you reach out to republicans, okay, it's a democratic convention but send me a text and e-mail when you hear moments that you like or hate. people said, wow, a powerful moment. again, we've talked about this,

there was a lot of patriotism at the democratic convention, a lot of republicans are saying where was that at our convention because that's typically a big theme at republican conventions. >> donald trump has revised his -- earlier he said he wanted a temporary ban on muslims coming to the united states until the u.s. can figure out what's going on as far as terrorism is concerned but lately he's been talking about a ban on individuals where terrorism is a serious problem. he's not using the reference to muslims any longer. that seems to be a shift. >> that seems to be a shift. but still unclear as to the details. i mean, is he talking about france, for instance? is he banning travelers from there? you know, in some ways, he thinks that it's an expansion. he's talked about it in that way but it's a significant issue for him and you wonder if, god forbid, there's another terrorist attack, how he talks

about it. i think the convention wisdom early on has been that he benefits from -- i hate to put it that way -- politically benefits when there's a terrorist attack because people see him as stronger on isis and terrorism. but, you know, at some point he's going to have to talk more clearly details. >> they think it's unconstitutional but, b, how do you legislate that? what is the process in what is the customs guy at the airport supposed to do? are you a muslim? yes or no. it's not on your passport what religion you are. mike pence in an interview with hugh hewitt done yesterday or today, he said that he told donald trump he has to change this. governor pence is more comfortable saying if there's terrorism in your country, you have to have extreme vetting. you want to look hard at people coming into the country but the nuts and bolts of it are to be

explained. >> yeah. it's indeed a very powerful moment and a very important moment at that democratic convention. right now, senator tim kaine is still speaking. he's introducing hillary clinton at a campaign rally at temple university. any moment now, hillary clinton will take the stage. we're going to bring you her remarks live. that's coming up. many people clean their dentures with toothpaste or plain water. and even though their dentures look clean, in reality they're not. if a denture were to be put under a microscope, we can see all the bacteria that still exists on the denture, and that bacteria multiplies very rapidly. that's why dentists recommend cleaning with polident everyday. polident's unique micro clean formula works in just 3 minutes, killing 99.99% of odor causing bacteria. for a cleaner, fresher, brighter denture every day.

the check they sent isn't enough to replace your totaled new car. thank you all so much. thank you. thank you very, very much. i have to begin by thanking our hosts, the people of philadelphia you know a little something about history and about making history and i am so grateful to everyone in this

city who pulled such a great convention together, who were so gracious, welcoming and hospitable and i am thrilled that so many americans from everywhere got a chance -- this is breaking news. >> hillary clinton has just started speaking at temple university in philadelphia. >> how much they were impressed. so i want to thank your mayor. thank you, mayor kennedy. i want to thank your congressman who tries to come home to philadelphia every day and i know why because he loves his city. bob brady. i am always happy to be here with someone who has been a

friend for bill and me over so many years, an extraordinary servant and advocate, former mayor and governor, ed rendell. now, like tim, i had the great pleasure of serving in the senate with senator bob casey i appreciated the tenacity and work he did for you every single day so i want to thank bob and i want to recognize who i hope will be his partner in the senate come november, katie mcginty. and i hope the next attorney

general for the commonwealth of pennsylvania, josh sapiro. this has been such an invigorated, exciting week. as i said last night, we heard from the man from hope, bill clinton, and we heard from the man of hope, barack obama. and i was so excited to introduce to america our partners. it's going to be fun to travel with both tim and anne, because they are going to demonstrate to the people what virginia already

knows, there's no better people to have in your corner than tim kaine and anne holton. now, i don't know about you, but i stayed up really late last night. it was just hard to go to sleep. oh, thank you. thank you. it was so exciting but it was also kind of overwhelming. i take deeply and with great humility the responsibility that this campaign imposes on us. there is no doubt in my mind that every election in our democracy is important in its own way but i can't think of an election that's more important in my lifetime. and it's not so much that i'm on the ticket. it is because of the stark

choice that is posed to america in this election. so when i did wake up this morning -- thank you. when i did start moving and bill and i started drinking our coffee or asking that it be administered through an iv, we suddenly looked at each other and we realized, as of tomorrow, we have 100 days to make our case to america! so what better place to kick off this campaign than right here in philadelphia where it all started 240 years ago.

i believe with my all heart that our founders came together to create one nation because they understood what we understand. we are stronger together! and as we pointed out during our four great days of our convention, you heard something very different from the republicans, didn't you? we might as well have been talking about two different countries or, as someone said, two different planets. donald trump painted a picture, a negative, dark, divisive picture of a country in decline. he insisted that america is weak and he told us all after laying out this very dark picture that i alone can fix it.

now, as i -- as i watched and heard that, it set off alarm bells because just think about what happened here 240 years ago. think about our founders coming together, a declaration of independence, writing a constitution. they set up our form of government, the longest lasting form of democracy in the history of the world. and you know, they did it -- they did it -- they did it because they knew they didn't want one person, one man to have all the power like a king. and think about george washington, our first president. after he served, he stepped down

voluntarily. people around him couldn't believe it. but he said, no, this is the example we should set. a democracy requires something from all of us. not just people we elect but every single one of us. and washington set that example and i don't know any founder, no matter how strong they were, how smart they were who believed that only they could solve our problems. so -- and i'll tell you something else. i'll tell you something else, they also expected a kind of raucous debate in america. but at the end of the debate, we had to come together and get

things done, don't we? so as tim said, we are going to get on a bus as soon as we leave here and we're going to drive through pennsylvania and into ohio. it's kind of nostalgic for me. my dad was born in scranton. i spent every summer of my life up in northeast pennsylvania. my father, my brother went to penn state. so i know -- i know how beautiful this commonwealth is and how wonderful the people are but we've got work to do. i'm not satisfied with the st status quo. i'm not telling you that everything is peachy king but we have progress to do if we make sure that everybody is included.

and i think we have to have more jobs, raise wages and not help just those at the top. if you listen really closely to the republican convention, you know that donald trump talked for 75 minutes and did not offer one solution. in fact, his speech, his whole convention seemed more about insulting me instead of helping the american people. so here's what i've said i will do. and we're going to get to work on the very first day, within the first 100 days of our administration, we're going to break through the gridlock in

washington and make the biggest investment in new good, paying jobs since world war ii. we're going to do it in infrastructure, technology, advanced manufacturing. and i'm also going to pay special attention to those parts of our country that have been left out and left behind, from our inner cities and to our small towns, from indian country to coal country, from communities ravaged by addiction. and places hallowed out by plant closures. anybody willing to work in america should be able to find a job to get ahead and stay ahead. that's my goal.

so on our bus tour, we're going to be able to visit a few places where people are making things. i find it highly amusing that donald trump talks about make america great again. he doesn't make a thing in america except bankruptcies. so there's a lot to be done, my friends, and i'm excited. i'm excited to have tim and anne as part of this team and i'm excited to have the 42nd president of the united states as part of this team! [ applause ]

the four of us are going to barnstorm the country because, as a very smart president who just so happens to be here today, one said, there is nothing wrong with america that can't be cured by what's right with america! so now, we had a great convention but we've got to go out and we've got to fight for our vision of the future. and i can't do it alone. i need each and every one of you -- here's what i'd ask you to do. please, join us, go to hillaryclinton.com or text "j-o-i-n" to be part of this campaign and we are hiring organizers here in pennsylvania

and across the country. and between now and election day, we are going to register 3 million more people! and we're not just going to register them, we're going to get them to commit to vote. we feel deeply the responsibility for continuing the work that started out down the road from here 240 years ago. now, nobody who looks like me was thought to be possible to run for president back then. no one who looked like barack obama was thought to be possible. but contrary to donald trump, i

believe every time we knock down a barrier in america, it liberates everyone in america. i have to say, last night, after -- after the end of our convention, i knew -- i knew that every parent in this country could look at their son or their daughter and now say the very same thing, you, too, could be president of the united states. thank you all! god bless you! ♪ ♪ ain't no mountain high enough ain't no valley low enough ♪ >> hillary clinton and tim kaine at temple university in philadelphia wrapping up their first rally after the democratic

convention. bill clinton was there as well as tim kaine's wife anne holton. the convention lasted four days, started off on a sour note with the sensitive e-mails released, forcing the resignation of the chair debbie wasserman schultz but they got over that and went on to do four days of major speeches which were very important. >> the convention was a success, from their point of view, and they hit the messages that they wanted to hit. the republicans may disagree. if you got a little emotion coming out of the convention, can you build on it and add to it and where is the most important place to take advantage of the highlight. look at where they are going, youngstown, blue collar towns, places where you have independents and swing voters

and guys who work with their hands. she's trying to make the case, i'm on your side and i'll fight for you. maybe i'm not your favorite politician but i'll fight for you. this is the important phase of the campaign because they have to think, where are we going to target? what is the electoral map? how do you shape the map 59 days until the debate. now you try to shape them after getting the most favorable position as possible in this phase. >> and they are going to be on a bus. they are going to be together. they are going to go throughout pennsylvania and then on to ohio. if they can carry those two states, if donald trump loses pennsylvania and ohio, he's going to have a tough time being elected. >> it makes it really hard for him to win if he keeps the romney states, he still needs to figure out where he can get 64 and you imagine a place like pennsylvania and ohio would have to be a part of that. i will say, as a campaign reporter, covering those bus tours was always so great

because you get to see america and people are excited and it's just so much fun and you're on this bus and people are waving and in small towns, it's just such a classic campaign move. so they will be on this bus tour just like the clinton and gore campaign. >> hillary clinton is running a much more traditional campaign. the bus tour is very traditional. republicans had different speakers, mostly the trump family and they didn't want to travel together. they went their separate way. this raises a contrast in every single way. >> donald trump is going to have a campaign rally later today in colorado. live coverage of that on cnn as well. up next, we know hillary clinton made history by becoming the first female presidential nominee of a major party here in the united states, but who else broke barriers at the conventions? that's next. ♪ i was diagnosed with endometrial cancer.

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respective conventions, one thing has become very clear. we saw quite a few convention firsts, including senator bernie sanders calling for hillary clinton to become the first female presidential nominee of a major party in the united states. >> 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. >> four years -- four years ago, i came out as transgender while serving as student body president in college. at the time, i was scared.

i worried that my dreams and my identity were mutually exclusive. since then though i've seen that change is possible. i witnessed history interning at the white house and helping my home state of delaware pass protections for transgender people. >> now we are told that the great debate is about who gets to use which bathroom. this is a distraction from our real problems. who cares! [ cheers and applause ] of course, every american has a unique identity. i am proud to be gay. i am proud to be a republican. but most of all, i am proud to be an american. >> peter thiel speaking at the republican convention. that was a first for a republican convention. we saw some firsts at the democratic convention. a presidential historian, allan

lickman, from american university in washington, d.c. joins me. from a historians' perspective, what emerged in your mind? >> the donald trump convention was truly unique historically. it was the most singularly personal convention in the history of the republic. not only did you have his children as his major speakers -- absolutely unusual -- but it was almost entirely centered on the individual and personality of donald trump and the party didn't even seem to matter. that really fit with his theme that i am the one to fix things. this is kind of the ultimate expression of what we've seen in recent years, wolf, and that is the candidate-centered campaign. now we have the totally candidate-centered convention. extraordinary. >> what about on the democratic side? >> the democratic side was more obviously a traditional kind of convention bringing in the big celebrities. their main, of course, emphasis was to draw a contrast, what i

thought was kind of unique, mr. khan, this father of a slain american hero, speaking directly to the opposition presidential candidate saying, i don't think you understand our constitution. i don't think you understand the kind of sacrifices that we make. i don't think you understand our diversity, and you, sir, have never sacrificed yourself. amazing moment. >> listen to hillary clinton accepting the nomination. listen to this. >> and so, my friends, it is with humility, determination, and boundless confidence in america's promise that i accept your nomination for president of the united states! >> it's taken a long time, but this is the first time a woman has accepted the nomination of a major political party in the united states. >> it's 1 of the 3 great milestones in terms of the diversity of the presidency.

the first was in 1928 when al smith, the democrat, became the first catholic to be nominated by a major party. he lost, but that paved the way for john kennedy in 1960 to shatter that religious barrier which was very important. then of course, we had barack obama in 2008. and now hillary clinton. what's amazing about this, too, is most observers 15 years ago would have said, we're going to have a woman president probably before an african-american president. but now we've seen the reverse, and the two perhaps even coming together depending on the outcome of the election. >> it is going to be an exciting election. exciting campaign season over the next three months. three presidential debates, one vice presidential debate from your perspective as a presidential historian, allan lichtman, you'll have a lot to write about in the coming years. >> and two such different visions of america. >> two very different convent n conventions and two very

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here we go. on this friday afternoon, i'm brooke baldwin. back in new york. great to be with you. i'm watching cnn. let's start with on the move and under pressure, hillary clinton and tim kaine have already gone from convention stage to campaign trail with -- count it with me now -- 101 days officially remaining until you decide who will become the next president of the united states. 101 days. today the democratic ticket begins a three-day bus tour going through the key