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line," what do you mean? >> i mean i want to see her again. i want to be with her again. it sounds horrible to wait. we're just waiting. >> by the finish line, it sounds like death. >> i mean, yes. i think that's what everybody wants, to just be with their kids again. i think that's normal. some change to the white hou se. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com i like the president, but nding and finally balance the budget.
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[barack] i believe governor romney's a good man, but when he said 47% of the country consider themselves victims, think about who he was talking about. [tim] for conservatives across the country, they've been frustrated for a long time. justice antonin scalia has died. i simply ask republicans to give merrick garland a fair hearing. i am running for president of the united states. there are questions swirling tonight around hillary clinton and they concern a personal email account. you say that you have the most transparent administration ever. it's true. it can be frustrating, this business of democracy.
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mahalo. as some of you heard, the state of hawaii released my official long-form birth certificate. [amy] president obama, a first black president, was constantly questioned not really because of the policies but literally because of who he was. it's not just that they disagreed with obama, the undertones of it were pretty clear. he is an other. [chip] donald trump called the so-called birther issue from background noise into a loud drumbeat. all i wanna do is see this guy's birth certificate. [van] it was obviously stupid from the beginning. it kept growing and growing,
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and that force, whatever that dark matter is in american life, was just getting started and we didn't know. no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the donald, donald trump. let's hear it tonight. say what you will about mr. trump, he certainly would bring some change to the white house. i was at the white house correspondents' dinner and trump was furious. and i wouldn't say that's the reason he ran for president. i'm not saying it's the singular tripwire why history was changed, but it didn't help. all kidding aside, obviously, we all know about your credentials and breadth of experience. this night was coming right before the biggest gamble of the obama presidency. only a small group of inner advisors knew that once the jokes were over, the mission to capture or kill osama bin laden
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was happening. in august of 2010, leon panetta, the cia director, went to obama at the white house and said, "we think we have a pretty good lead on the courier who is servicing bin laden. the cia followed this courier back to this compound in abbottabad, pakistan. they tried all kinds of ways of figuring out if it was really him. in the end, they estimated that they only had about a fifty-fifty chance of him being bin laden. so obama, he didn't have perfect information. some people were against it. vice president biden said, "let's not do this." the secretary of defense robert gates also advised against it. and if there was some huge screwup on the ground, obama could have a one-term presidency. [julian] finally, obama authorizes a mission with navy seals to go into the compound. he goes to a room that's adjacent to the situation room to sit and watch on the screen as a drone is covering what was about to happen. they shoot and killed a bodyguard, and then they go off to the third floor
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where bin laden is. he doesn't put up a fight. the lead seal shoots at bin laden's head and he's killed. tonight, i can report to the american people and to the world that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al-qaeda. [chip] we're told that when it finally became clear to the president that this mission was going to succeed, he announced to the room in a calm voice, "we got him." usa! usa! it's like a big burden has been taken off the shoulders of america. [tim] it was like the country had one national sigh of relief and that was an unusual moment in the obama administration. that night, there weren't republicans and democrats. there were americans. and this is at least one step toward achieving this war on terror. [amy] and he did get a little bump in job approval, but it lasted maybe a week, two weeks. and then everybody went back to their sides. it was a good precursor to the division that really defined most of the era.
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change is what's happening in america. in 2008, you had this big dawn of hope with barack obama. we'd had in two or three generations. and you start hearing this freight train coming, saying, "heck, no, to barack obama. heck, no, to the big budget fixes," and it's called a tea party. campaign 2010 proved to be an historic election for the republican party and a decisive defeat for president obama and many of his fellow democrats. the republican's win in 2010 was largely because of the tea party. the big issue was healthcare and republicans saying, "everything is going to change and this isn't what you should stand for as americans." swept up in that was the notion that government is too big, spending is too much, taxes are too high. they made it impossible for president obama to get anything done.
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[harry] there is a new speaker of the house, republican john boehner. god bless you, speaker boehner. [julian] john boehner had been in congress for a long time when he becomes the speaker of the house. i like the president, personally. we get along well. but the president isn't leading. during 2010, he had encouraged tea party-ers to run. but, initially, he's setting out and saying, "i'm gonna work with obama. we're gonna work on issues like the budget together." that quickly falls apart. as congress debates raising the debt ceiling, many tea party-ers are saying, "we won't do it," which means the whole nation will go into default. the speaker called president obama at 5:31 tonight. they spoke for 11 minutes. and the speaker said, "i'm sorry, the deal's off. i can only negotiate now with the senate." every attempt for civility or working together was fraught with consternation. what we once knew of unity was fractured. mr. chairman and delegates,
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i accept your nomination for president of the united states. [amy] republicans really believed that to beat obama was pretty simple. people were giving obama low marks for how he was handling the economy. we're still coming back from the financial crisis. so, "put a business man in." i will cap federal spending at 20% or less of the economy and finally, finally balance the budget. romney is a classic american republican conservative. i'm in favor of protecting the sanctity of life. i'll cut off funding to planned parenthood. [tim] but the republican party had changed. it's now shaped by a tea party movement that doesn't think government can be good. republican presidential candidate mitt romney is going on the offense after a video surfaced in which he told donors back in may that it's not his job to worry about the 47% of americans who don't pay income taxes. these are people that believe that they are entitled to healthcare, to food, to housing, to you-name-it.
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[van] that 47% comment confirmed what people suspected that he's up here. he thinks he's better than everybody. i believe governor romney's a good man. but when he said 47% of the country consider themselves victims, think about who he was talking about. i wanna fight for them. [tim] for romney to say this deepened the impression this guy doesn't get it. and he was up against a president who knew who he was. barack obama didn't change his brand. [scott] the election night bulletin, president obama has won a second term as president of the united states. whether i earned your vote or not, i have listened to you.
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[norah] this is continuing coverage of the deadly shooting in newtown, connecticut. a man armed with at least two handguns opened fire at about 9:30 this morning in the sandy hook elementary school in newtown, connecticut. [brian] he killed 20 small children and six adults before taking his own life. [scott] it is the second-deadliest school shooting in american history and, by far, the worst at an elementary school. [valerie] i remember being in the oval office when his assistant came in and gave him the news. it was as though all of the air in the room was just sucked out. the majority of those who died today were children,
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beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old. [elizabeth] he said later, he was experiencing the worst day of his presidency. and he also spoke about the need to stem the tide of violence that was sweeping the nation. [barack] i will use all the powers of this office to help advance efforts aimed at preventing more tragedies like this. and i'm not gonna be able to do it by myself. ultimately, if this effort is to succeed, it's gonna require the help of the american people, standing up and saying, "enough" on behalf of our kids. president obama, he appealed to congress to pass an array of measures. among them, limits on high-capacity magazines like those that were used in the shooting, enhanced background checks. the effort was made to say, "this is not a second-amendment kind of attack. and yet it still failed.
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the bipartisan compromise to expand background checks on guns just failed to break a republican filibuster. you had newtown families going around and they just could not convince enough of these senators to go along with it. i can't imagine a better litmus test to prove that our ph balance was off. it should've led to a moment of, "oh, my god, we've gotta rally together to fight this problem." but it divided us further. what happened last night, the defeat of a majority leader in congress never happened before. eric cantor, the number-two-ranking republican in the power structure, is gone. you had to imagine the shock when not only does eric cantor lose but he loses by 11 points to a guy no one had ever heard of before, dave brat. he's this conservative who basically ran against the republican party. i will be stepping down as majority leader. it is with great humility that i do so, knowing the tremendous honor it has been
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to hold this position. things didn't quite work out for me as i had thought in 2014 in my primary. there was a disdain for people who were in leadership positions in government. obviously, i was the leader at the time and by definition you were the problem. for conservatives across the country, they've been frustrated for a long time. american people are looking again for big ideas. they want leadership. it was almost as if i was a tip of the spear in terms of the populace, and it evolved from the tea party movement into the maga movement. and if you recall, at 2014, elections resulted in the republicans winning the senate in a big way. i do think it was another step on the part of the public saying, "hey, enough of this." and there have been six years of an obama presidency. as president, i have a unique responsibility to try and make this town work. so to everyone who voted, i want you to know that i hear you. to the 2/3s of voters who chose not to participate in the process yesterday, i hear you too.
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[erica] outrage over the fatal shooting of 17-year-old trayvon martin is spreading now around the country. [david] seven 911 calls in all beginning with this one from george zimmerman. [man] shock, confusion, and fear, you can hear it in the voice of every caller. when the police arrive, they don't arrest him. here you have somebody who just kills an unarmed african american teen who wasn't doing anything. several weeks before there is an actual arrest, in part because you have prosecutors and police who are saying, "well, it's stand your ground, right?" even though he was the aggressor. that shook african americans to the core. not just because of the tragedy of the moment but because we've seen it before.
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the african american community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn't go away. i had an interview with him and we were talking about race. and it was very clear to me that he was being delicate in the extreme. interview ended, he walks out of the oval office, he goes down the hall, and then he turns all the way back and comes back, and says, "look, you have to understand when i talk about race, it just changes everything. and it can be explosive if i'm not incredibly precise." that trayvon martin could've been me 35 years ago. obama's a case study of navigating the third rail in american politics, race. over time, what you see is obama finding his voice in that space to be able to say the things that were necessary to prick the consciousness of americans
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while, at the same time, maintaining the dignity and respectfulness that people would've expected from the president of the united states. [norah] right now the search is on for a white gunman who entered a black church last night and started shooting. the massacre killed 9 people. one of them was the church pastor state senator clementa pinckney. a lynching had taken place, a mass murder, by an avowed white supremacist. [barack] reverend pinckney once said, "across the south, we have a deep appreciation of history. we haven't always had a deep appreciation of each other's history." [hassan] despite all of the things that had happened, obama connected with people at not just a human level but at a soulful level. clem understood that justice grows out of recognition of ourselves in each other.
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he knew that the path of grace involves an open mind. he said to mrs. obama and his speech writer, "i might sing," and we're like, "sing?" we said, "well, what would be the context?" and he said, "well, this speech is really about amazing grace." ♪ amazing grace ♪ how sweet the sound [hassan] you felt the pain that he was feeling. that is a steady thread throughout his presidency. [barack] clementa pinckney found that grace. cynthia hurd found that grace. [hassan] but i think, also, for african americans, that moment in the church was something that we had been looking for. may god continue to shed his grace on the united states of america.
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and we'd have a better view. do you need mulch? what, we have a ton of mulch. [savannah] president obama spoke earlier today with iraqi prime minister nouri al-maliki and told him, "us troops will leave iraq at the end of this year." [obama] as a candidate for president, i pledge to bring the war in iraq
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to a responsible end. [fareed] for obama, getting out of iraq was core to his whole rationale for having become president. he was determined that the united states would not get involved in more of the chaos and complexity of the middle east. there are 39,000 us troops in iraq right now. that number is going to go to zero. and he tried to maintain that discipline. and then he faces this problem in syria. [barbara] the us intelligence community has determined the syrian regime has used chemical weapons multiple times against civilian populations in syria. i have resisted calls for military action. the situation profoundly changed, though, when assad's government gassed to death over a thousand people. the question now is what the united states of america is prepared to do about it. in august of 2012, barack obama decided to draw a red line. [barack] we have been very clear
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that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. [chuck] after saying in 2012, serious use of chemical weapons would cross a "red line," the president now says the international community's credibility is at stake. i didn't set a red line. the world set a red line. this issue of syria, he faces skeptical world leaders and also a skeptical american public. [julian] president obama doesn't back away from his initial statement because he wants to back away from it. what he sees, quickly, is there's not a lot of support. republicans on capitol hill don't support sending in the military. [brian] twenty-five yes, 20 no, but there are 55 undecided senators, so the white house has its work cut out for it there. [robin] the mood in the united states was that it didn't wanna get entrapped in syria's civil war. syria was a country that had long been an ally of russia. the united states wanted out of its wars in the middle east. and this looked like another quagmire.
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[wolf] cnn has learned that russian forces have landed on ukrainian territory. ukrainian officials are accusing russia of what they're calling an armed invasion. [william] president putin invaded crimea and the world was caught by surprise because for 69 years since the end of world war ii, there has been no invasion in europe of one nation against another in order to grab territory. i wanna be clear that there is also a way to resolve this crisis that respects the interests of the russian federation. president obama basically thought that ukraine was always going to be a core issue for russia, but ukraine was not a core issue for the united states. obama wanted to have a light footprint. and so the only thing the united states could do was really impose some sanctions and even those weren't all that strong. i think administration's in a very difficult situation right now. and even if there is an ambiguous resolve, putin has gotten what he wanted. [tim] while this is happening,
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the situation in the middle east, particularly in iraq, is unraveling. [fareed] everyone was stunned. a few thousand militants swept through iraq and syria, sewing fear in the region and the world. we will chop off the heads of the americans, chop off the heads of the french, chop off the heads of whoever you may bring. isis begins as a partner of al-qaeda and eventually breaks off from al-qaeda. their mandate is to hold onto land throughout syria and iraq and other areas of the muslim world, and top impose their interpretation of strict islamic law. [nancy] republicans argue this terrorist invasion might not have happened if the administration hadn't failed to cut a deal with the iraqi government to leave some us forces in the country. after having to deal with the awkwardness that was, in some ways, related to the withdrawal from iraq, the obama administration adopts a kind of war-fighting strategy that slowly, methodically, pushes at isis,
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using special forces, using strikes, using drones. and it ends up being remarkably effective. [peter] what supporters and detractors tend to forget is how president obama turned out to be quite a war-like president. he vastly increased the scope of the drone program, whether in pakistan, yemen, or other places. he actually fought various kinds of wars in seven muslim countries. and i think that's surprising to some people. one of the things that humbles you as president, i'm sure hillary feels the same way as secretary of state, is that all you can do every single day is to figure out a direction, make sure that you are working as hard as you can to put people in place where they can succeed. all along, president obama really wanted hillary clinton to carry on his legacy. i have to ask you, what's the date of expiration on this endorsement? oh, steve, you know... as you know, steve, i am still secretary of state, so i'm out of politics. i think everyone around her knew that she was gonna run and she knew that she was gonna run. the state department years were her years
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to do what she needed to do to work up to that moment. but she has the benghazi scandal lingering in the background. christopher stevens was the us ambassador to libya. he was killed last night in an attack of our consulate there in the city of benghazi. [julian] on september 11, 2012, libya becomes a big problem for president obama and secretary clinton when there is an attack on the us embassy in benghazi. [richard] over the next five hours, until nearly dawn, us and libyan security personnel inside the consulate battled the militants, building to building. four americans including the ambassador are killed. we will not waiver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. and make no mistake, justice will be done. [lindsey] as to secretary clinton, she needs to be asked about what she knew about the deteriorating circumstances in benghazi
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was she informed of the rise of al-qaeda militia. it turned into this massive political football which was used against hillary clinton. so i think, when you have a united states ambassador personally warning about the situation over there, sending this cable to your office, i must... [hillary] well, if i could... 1.43 million cables a year come to the state department. they're all addressed to me. the us embassy in benghazi asked for more security, which had been turned down in part because republicans hadn't granted enough resources in the annual budget, but hillary clinton became the target of republicans. did you see, personally, the cables specifically asking for the reinforcements for the security detail that was gonna be evacuating? no, sir. [van] the republicans know that hillary clinton is hard to stop. and what are you, you gonna say about hillary clinton except that you don't like her in all the many roles she's been in, serving america? but you've got this one spot on the record which is benghazi.
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and they concern a personal email account she used while serving as secretary of state. oh, my god. what a story of unintended consequences. [kristen] last month, the state department turned over about 300 emails to lawmakers investigating the attack in benghazi. then last night, revelations, those emails were from her personal account. no us official is supposed to do any business by email on anything except official accounts. [bill] you say that you have the most transparent administration ever... it's true. but how does this square with that? well, the fact that she's gonna be putting them forward will allow us to make sure that people have the information they need. president obama, he was a little bit annoyed by the fact that she could be so reckless. and of course, he towed the party line and was very supportive of her publicly, but i think, privately, it annoyed him that his legacy was on the line. you do not need a law degree to have an understanding of how troubling this is. it fed into this idea
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that the clintons are secretive and they're secretive because they're hiding bad stuff. looking back, it would've been better if had i simply used a second email account and carried a second phone, but at the time, this didn't seem like an issue. that was the starting line. i am running for president of the united states. i think there was also no real message that hillary clinton had. [hillary] i know how hard this job is. i was in the situation room on the day we got bin laden. what it really seemed to be was, "i've earned this. i did my time. this is historic. we should put a woman in the white house and i'm incredibly qualified." [peter] and isn't it true that you've been thinking about getting political credit for months on this? -[hillary] no. -[peter] if that's your answer, let me draw your attention, madam secretary... congressman, let me please, if i could... benghazi was just an issue republicans would not let go. you had those senate hearings in 2013, that big house hearings in 2015,
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and hillary clinton spending hour after hour, sitting there fielding the questions that she had been asked before. the fact is we know what happened in benghazi and what went wrong. but that is an explanation that some republicans continued to be unwilling to accept. who else was at your home? were you alone? i was alone, yes. -[martha] the whole night? -well, yes, the whole night. [martha] i don't know why that's funny. did you have any in-person briefings? [chuckling] i'm sorry. a little note of levity at 7:15. when she testifies, she wins a lot of praise because she goes on for hours and then, with the skill of a politician, uses her facial expressions to let the country know what she thinks of the interrogators. i am proud to announce my candidacy for president of the united states of america. bernie sanders, you see an older gentleman, who looks like the science professor at college. but it's not about age, it's about the message.
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our country belongs to all of us and not the billionaire class. i watched 100 bernie sanders speeches in 2015 and 2016 and they were never any different. they were always really long. they were always like an old man yelling at you for an hour. so what we have got to do together is to create an economy that works for working families, not just billionaires. [john] and then you saw it. you started to see thousands of kids showing up. they were like, "screw both parties. they're all corrupt. and all i know is i'm still living in my parents' garage five years after college and i've got $250,000 in student loan debt. and i can't find a job, and if i do find a job, it's a crappy job. where's my voice?" we're gonna talk about a lot today, but let's start with politics. a new poll says in iowa, it's 48, 45. you were once way ahead. oh, john, these polls go up, they go down. i stay pretty focused. tonight matters in this presidential race because if hillary clinton doesn't win, bernie sanders becomes a viable alternative.
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he could go on to win new hampshire and then, suddenly, there he is. i remember talking to some clinton staffers, and you could almost feel and hear the trauma of 2008 bubbling up to the surface. [chris] hillary clinton leads bernie sanders by five state delegate equivalents. the iowa democratic party says the results are the closest in the history of the democratic caucus. she wins by the slimmest of margins. so as i stand here tonight, breathing a big sigh of relief, thank you, iowa. her campaign is feeling a little bit let down by it. they feel like they should've won by a lot more. so they're flying to new hampshire and basically saying, "it feels good, but it really doesn't." nine months ago, we had no name recognition and we were taking on the most powerful political organization in the united states of america.
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[amie] and bernie sanders essentially feeling like he's won and has that energy going into new hampshire. secretary clinton does represent the establishment. i represent, i hope, ordinary americans, and by the way, who are not all that enamored with the establishment. his strengths were perfectly matched to her weaknesses. fairly or not, lot of people thought she was a phony. lot of people thought she was a liar. i think it's time to end the very artful smear that you and your campaign have been carrying out in recent weeks. [crowd angrily murmuring] and let's talk about the issues. all of that was there and bernie never had to attack her. he just basically had to be not her. and on the democratic side, hillary clinton locks in wins in seven states. bernie sanders picked up four wins. it was not a coronation. she got a fight. and she got a fight from someone who was tapping into something really important to the democratic party that was a warning sign for what was to come in the fall.
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perhaps the most conservative member of the court, suddenly dies in his sleep, it's march of 2016. barack obama's gonna be president until january, 2017, and he nominates merrick garland, who is a federal circuit court judge, to replace scalia. i simply ask republicans in the senate to give him a fair hearing. if you don't, it will indicate a process for nominating and confirming judges that is beyond repair. now if the gop doesn't give garland a hearing, it will be the first time since such proceedings became the norm 60 years ago that a nominee has been denied a hearing. [jeremy] mitch mcconnell, he's going to do something that no senate majority leader has ever done, deny a sitting president a vote on his supreme court nominee. [mitch] the american people may well elect a president who decides to nominate judge garland. the next president may also nominate somebody very different. [bill] mitch mcconnell thought there was some chance republicans will win the presidency and therefore he wanted to not have
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president obama's nominee confirmed. he understood the political utility of holding that seat open. and as we know, most republicans refuse to meet with garland. they want a nominee next year, chosen by whoever wins the white house this fall. [david] what mitch mcconnell pulled off was a matter, in my mind, of theft and well beyond the bounds of american politics, no matter how gritty and even dirty they can get. [savannah] the former secretary of state won in new jersey, new mexico, south dakota, as we said, just a short time ago. the big prize, california, was called for clinton. meantime, bernie sanders took montana and north dakota. [andrea] and with that big win now in california. hillary clinton has her best argument for persuading bernie sanders to concede. thanks to you, we've reached a milestone. [barack] i wanna congratulate hillary clinton on making history. [jeff] on the sidelines no more, president obama offering a full-throated endorsement tonight of hillary clinton.
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sanders didn't directly address plans to suspend his campaign but signal he's ready to unite democrats against the presumptive republican nominee. and i will work as hard as i can to make sure that donald trump does not become president of the united states. by that point, i'd seen bernie undergo this transformation from having been a cranky, quixotic socialist. he had now gone through the transformation, right? the crucible had changed him. and he had seen 20,000, 30,000 people show up at his events. and he was like, "i'm leading a movement." so you said you'll vote for hillary clinton which means you won't vote for yourself. have you accepted now that you won't be the nominee? i'm pretty good at arithmetic and what i know is that hillary clinton has more pledge delegates than i do. and she has a lot more super delegates than i do. but what i also know is we're bringing 19,000 delegates into the convention that we have received 13 million votes.
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he's not getting out of the race. he is forcing hillary clinton to continue to look over her left shoulder, pay attention to bernie sanders, and not pivot to the general election. although we did not find clear evidence that secretary clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information. on the day that president obama had started campaigning for her, you had james comey, the fbi director, come out and say they were dropping charges on hillary's emails. [lester] the announcement lifts a dark legal cloud hanging over the clinton campaign but may still leave her under a political one. it was quite an extraordinary thing, generally speaking, the fbi investigates and either charges are brought or they're not brought. here was james comey, the fbi director, taking it upon himself to say, "no, she didn't break the law.
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no, we're not gonna prosecute her. but she did something wrong." and i think she was damaged by that. well, this convention is beginning with a developing scandal and emails are at the center of it. i remember being on the convention floor and i saw on my phone the wikileaks dump. [nancy] that leak of about 20,000 emails revealed that debbie wasserman schultz had called the sanders campaign a mess, had criticized him, and, worse, some of her aids had actually discussed ways to blunt his momentum. dnc stole the election. it wreaked havoc on the dnc but then also the clinton campaign, because you had content in these emails that proved the sanders' voters right, that the party just wanted hillary clinton. as a democrat, i'm pissed off because we had everything going for us and then this turd in the fishbowl. the party's gotta get this behind them as soon as possible. [bernie] i understand that many people here in this convention hall
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and around the country are disappointed about the final results of the nominating process. i think it's fair to say that no one is more disappointed than i am. [dana] the wounds that were just starting to heal among many of the die-hard sanders supporters were ripped open. hillary clinton must become the next president of the united states. even though bernie sanders said what he needed to say and played the good soldier, i can't tell you how many sanders supporters i spoke to the day hillary clinton was becoming the official nominee who said, "i don't care if donald trump gets elected. she is not gonna get my vote." thank you all very much.
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there's so much that president obama did that gives him great pride. after the worse recession in 80 years, we fought our way back. we brought more of our troops home to their families. and we delivered justice to osama bin laden. [valerie] the tone he set from the top in terms of how he was the president for all of america, even those who disagreed with him, and being able to show up on the world stage and make people in the united states feel proud of how they were being represented, i think that he's really proud of the work that he did. it can be frustrating, this business of democracy. trust me, i know. hillary knows too. when the other side refuses to compromise, people are hurt by the inaction, but i promise you, when we keep at it, when we change enough minds, then progress does happen. i think there are a lot of folks who saw
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that barack obama was gonna be the beginning of an era. we had this black president who inspired so many voters to come out to the polls and yet his credibility was constantly questioned. his ability to live within that very complicated space was impressive, and i don't know that democrats have figured out how to do it since then. i see americans of every party, every background, every faith, who believe that we are stronger together. that's the america i know. and there is only one candidate in this race who believes in that future, has devoted her life to that future, a leader with real plans to break down barriers and blast through glass ceilings, and widen the circle of opportunity to every single american, the next president of the united states,
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hillary clinton. [lester] if this was the bar, we have to think that barack obama just raised it for hillary clinton. it's obviously the speech of her life. and she has a tough act to follow. all of that is true. the thing i'm gonna be looking for is humility. how does she tackle the trust issue? i know she is gonna try to tackle it tonight. she won't solve it for one speech. but she's gonna start the conversation with voters tonight. i'm curious to see how she does it. [man] on this historic evening, hillary clinton hopes for a second chance to make a first impression on american voters, almost 100 years after the first american woman cast a vote, she has just over 100 days to find her way to the white house. tonight we've reached a milestone in our nation's march toward a more perfect union, the first time that a major party has nominated a woman for president.
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[tim] if barack obama had broken a glass ceiling for men of color, hilary would be breaking a glass ceiling for woman. the truth is, through all these years of public service, the service part has always come easier to me than the public part. i get it that some people just don't know what to make of me. you can't take away how difficult it is to be the first anything, be the first woman running, and also she has a lot of scandals over her head, not just the emails but just years and years of clinton fatigue. but, man, donald trump brings a whole lot of baggage, right? and could america really make this leap. i accept your nomination for president of the united states.
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[barack] our country is stronger than it was when we started. and through every victory and every setback, i have insisted that change is never easy. we've still got more work to do. and that work involves a big choice this november. this is a more fundamental choice about who we are as a people and whether we stay true to this great american experiment in self-government.
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