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follow us at c-span on twitter and like us on facebook to see video of newsworthy moments. watch every minute of the 2016 democratic national convention starting today on c-span, the c-span radio app and c-span.org. >> well, good monday morning to you. this is the first day of the democratic national convention in philadelphia. this morning pennsylvania governor tom wolf is featured speaker at breakfast for state delegates. he will be joined by john podesta and afl-cio president richard trumka. we expect this to get started shortly live on c-span2. a look at one of the most popular exhibits at the national constitution center in philadelphia.

we will le conversations]. >> here at the national constitution center, which is where we are based this week, they have an area called, signers hall. c-span's john mcardle took a tour. >> welcome to the constitution center. we're the first and only museum in the country dedicated to the u.s. constitution. we're on independence mall in heart of historic philadelphia. we have three main missions at the center. of course we're a museum where you can come to see our amazing interactive exhibitions. we're also america's town hall. you can find great programing on

site, online, about current constitutional debates and discussion. we're a specific education center.nds. we're trying to get a lot of our civic and constitutional content out to students across the country. we'll talk a lot more about our museum.. we're in one of the signature exhibition spaces called signsers hall. this is depicting the moment of the constitution was signed back on sent 17th, 1787. there are 42 statues represents those still present and participating in the constitutional convention after a long summer working in philadelphia to create this document. you wan walk amongst the signers. you can touch them. we invite you to touch them. they're life-size bronze statues. they are made to be interactive. this is ben franklin.

he is one of the most loved. you can also find out that not everybody at the constitutional convention was happy with how things ended up. there were actually 55 men who attended at different points. some of them left because they had other business that theyey needed to attend to. some left out of protest. they weren't really happy how things were going. these three are our descenters. george mason, randolph and gerry. they were still here beyond september 17th about, but they refused to sign the document because they felt it didn't do enough to protect the interests that they had for the country's future and for their personal states. we have we have other famous people in this room you might recognize. we alexander hamilton who was left as only delegate from new york after his two delegates who were with him left in protest earlier in the convention. he was still here at the end and helped with the final crafting

and signing of the document. we also have james madison right here. he is the shortest delegate in the room. he is only five four. these are life-size, very accurate depictions. he is considered the father of the constitution. he came in with a plan that set the agenda for the rest of the summer. he was really super influential kind of chasing what the final product was. he also took all the notes of the convention. he is person who let us know what happened during the convention. finally we have george washington. he is of course the father of our country but he was also elected president of the convention and he really was that steady hand who was here all summer long overseeing these proceedings and kind of lending his gravitas and how much respect he had from the fellowfe country men to the whole proceeding. they would have to go out to the

people to make the case to get them to support this new form of government. at the end of this exhibit you can be a part of the story and add your name to the constitution. this is about bringing the past to life and getting you to interact with the past and understand these events and period of history better thanio you might otherwise just reading something out of a textbook. >> one of the many historic sites in the city of brotherly love. philadelphia of course hosting this year's democratic convention. live picture here this morning as we await the start of the delegate breakfast for pennsylvania state delegates. pens gain governor tom wolf and hillary clinton campaign manager john podesta and afl-cio president richard trumka is expected to speak today. we expect this to start in just a moment.

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>> again waiting for the pennsylvania state delegate breakfast to get underway as the democratic national convention starts on this day and we'll have more now from the national constitution center here in philadelphia as we look at an exhibit called, headed to the white house.see independen >> here at the national constitution center we took a tour of one of the exhibits. cl] >> here we are in another one of our feature exhibitions here at the center, called, headed to the white house. this will be up throughout the election year. it is about sell it braking the election and teaching about the presidential election process and all different parts of constitution that affect that process. it is broken up into four sections. you're learning how to be the candidate. you were thinking how you would join the race if you were going to be a candidate. you get to the section which is called earn the nomination. this is part of the process we're in right now. you learn about the primary

process, how that works. you get to go to the convention. you can make your own campaign buttons and stucker and say vote for me for president. we're in the convention section. we have the polls look like you're on the convention floor that talk about each state and how their primaries work. you can watch great footage from past conventions and get the excitement and feeling what happens on the floor of the convention, like it will be happening here in philadelphia all week. we also have a great artifacts. we have artifacts from conventions past, badge, funnyy hats people would wear and make themselves, different things you would get at convention. you get a souvenir. we have a tastykake from the republican national convention last time held here in so philadelphia in 2000. it is fun, interactivity and role playing. you actually go into the oval office yourself and you can take

a photo behind the oval office desk and so it is great for kids and families of all ages. >> again the democratic national convention kicking off today here in philadelphia. we're live waiting for the kickoff for the breakfast for pennsylvania state delegates. pennsylvania governor tom wolf, also hillary clinton campaign manager john podesta and we'll hear from afl-cio president richard trumka. it is expected to start in just a moment.

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>> we're live in morning on c-span2 as the democratic national convention kicks off today in fill definitely we're awaiting the start of a breakfast for pennsylvania state delegates. we'll hear from the governor of the state, pennsylvania governor tom wolf, hillary clinton's campaign manager, john podesta, and richard trumka, president of the afl-cio is expected to address the delegates this morning. it should start in just a moment. the associated press saying democrats opening their national convention are eager to show off a forward-looking party united behind hillary clinton, facing lingering bitterness among support is of rival bernie sanders and fresh political mess of the party's own making. resignation of debbie wasserman-schultz as chair made for rocky start. the congresswoman heeded bernie

sanders longstanding call to leave as party chief. it came after publication of 19,000 hacked emails which the vermont senator said that the national party played favor the for hillary clinton during the national primary.

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[inaudible conversations] >> we're waiting for the pennsylvania state delegate breakfast to get underway as the democratic national convention begins today in philadelphia. day of controversy yesterday as the convention was about to get underway with the resignation of the chair of the dnc "the hill" writing today, the democratic national convention off to rocky start and hasn't even officially begun. dnc chair debbie wasserman-schultz resignation the day before the convention opens big news following release of embarrassing emails between dnc officials that appear to confirm suspicions of bernie sanders supporters that debbie wasserman-schultz and dnc tipped

the scales in the party's primary in favor of hillary clinton, the presumptive nominee. read more about that at the hill.com. supporters of bernie sanders held a news conference to voice the disappointment of selection of virginia senator tim kaine as her vice-presidential running mate as well as other issues. norman solomon who heads sanders delegate network said floor fights are possible. he was joined at the news conference by donna smith, progressive democrats of america >> good morning. i'd like to welcome, everyone to this first news conference of the bernie delegates network. by way of a little bit of background the bernie delegates network was launched by the online action group, roots action.org which i co-founded and coordinate.

and roots action has about 700,000 active members online and the bernie delegates network is ongoing in very active partnership with progressive democrats of america and this morning we're going to hear from the executive director of that inside of the democratic party major player, in terms of progressive activism, organizing and electoral work, progressive democrats of america, or pda, donna smith. i'd like to open by just giving a bit of background how the bernie delegates network got to where we are now and where we anticipate we'll be going in the next few days. one thing that i think needs to be very emphatically emphasized is that the bernie delegates network is independent. we're entirely independent of the democratic has committee and

the democratic party. we're entirely independent of the bernie sanders official campaign. we have no working, direct or indirect relationship or communications with ben bernanke or the campaign apparatus -- bernie sanders. from the outset we've been independent. that is where we are now. that's where we continue to be. at this point as i speak, we have 1250 sanders delegates in the bernie delegates network. in other words 2/3 of all the delegates are in our network. something else i want to emphasize that the bernie delegates network reflects, it does not direct. we do not tell anybody, we do not try to instruct any delegate what to do or what not to do, other than our commitment to non-violence.

what does the bernie delegates network reflect today? >> i think it is a really good idea because this is the beginning of our convention. now that you're all seated i will ask you all to rise for a pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> thank you all, very much. i want to wish good morning to all of the delegates. to all of our, of all of the guests. to all of our speakers. many of whom who are, coming up as we speak. i wanted to congratulate the delegates for being selected to represent the common wealth. and i'm proud to welcome everybody here to, to my adopted

city and to many of you who are here, the city of philadelphia. the city of brotherly love and sisterly affection. this week we're going to make history. and we're going to make history through november. [applause] and i've got a lot to say but i'm not going to say it all right now. i want to start with one thing because i believe it's really important. i'm going to start with it. i'm going to close with it and i need people to understand what i'm saying. this four days is not just about selecting a presidential candidate which we will do. these four days is to have unity within our party. [applause] and so here's what i want to ask.

if you're a bernie sanders supporter or a bernie sanders delegate, would you please rise. [applause] i want to -- you can sit down. it's all right. i want to thank you all for being here. i know some of you have been in politics a long time. for many of you this is the beginning. i know i should address everybody but i want to specifically address you. we want you. we need you. we want you to be part of us. i've been in this a long time and we have people who were for howard dean. we had people who were barack obama who thought they were outside.

we grabbed them. we're going to hug you. we need your thoughts, we need your ideas, we need your passion and we need your ability to come together so we can speak with one voice. [applause] and i'm not good about baloney. we also need you to help us create compromises because in order to speak with one voice it can't just be your voice and it just can't be my voice. it has to be all of our voice. for those of you that are in politics, for the first time, that is the single-most difficult and most important thing that we can accomplish. so i want to welcome you and we'll get on with the program and i want to thank you at the end of the program for being here as well. first i want to thank our sponsors. i think you should all thank our sponsors because you guys are all eating and i'm not.

so i want to make sure somebody saves me some food. it is -- first of all our sponsors are shop rite and lorelai matice is here. raise your hand. thank you very much. [applause] and our sponsor is also pp&l. is christine mart pin here? christine, thank you, thank you very. [applause] the breakfast looked so good i'm actually going to enjoy it when i'm all done. we'll have a number of speakers and i -- i'm sorry. we're going, listen, i need your help with this too. it will be free flowing. i have no idea what i'm doing, okay? i will try to make it as smooth as possible. i will keep it rolling. we've got people coming in. we have our governor and our senator sitting here. we have rich trumpka.

all of them will speak and all have time commitments. i will try. be patient with me. at the end of the meeting when i'm giving my remarks to the press, feel free to stick around and you can tell me what i did wrong, all right? i understand that our first speaker is our sponsor, christine martin. just for a couple of words from pp&l. christine. come on up. thank you. [applause] >> well, thank you. i'm certainly honored to be your first official speaker this morning. and thank you for all for being here. this is my fourth dnc, my fourth time addressing the delegates. so it is quite an honor and pp&l corporation is very proud to support our pennsylvania delegation. so i got a number of questions at our table about ppl. for those whme