i do want to recognize rich fitzgerald, chief executive of allegheny county. [applause] i saw that john fetterman, the former candidate for u.s. senate is here, is siding here today? [applause] the governor of the 49, he's originally from york pennsylvania. when you're that big, you know how hard it is to disappear? all right. and i will recognize some others, i see our attorney general candidate, the next attorney general of the commonwealth of pennsylvania, josh spiro. [applause] so in 1992, when some of us started, i started with the presidential conventions in 1992, the first thing i brought out is that the ministers were in charge. it was tony or john. and now it's john and every

four years it's kind of like they come and take over. my god, they've really done a great job. they never lose either so it's a pleasure tointroduce john podesta , he is the chairman of the hillary campaign and he is serving as chief of staff to president bill clinton. john pedesta, john. >> jason, in case there's any doubt, i'm just anyone. [laughter] i've learned a new rule in politics this morning . at this breakfast, which is never follow rich trumka in the morning. thank you, thank you pennsylvania. i want to thank the people of philadelphia, i want to thank governor wolf, mayor kenny, senator casey, for putting on a great convention and you

are going to highlight and showcase philadelphia and pennsylvania for the whole world to see, you will hear from them and the whole country and the whole world will get to see them later this week at the convention. so we appreciate how much you've done to make this convention successful for democrats. we are coming to philadelphia strong and united as the chairman said. this state has been good for hillary as you know and we had a hard-fought primary here. we want it, we are proud of that but we now needto come together , united to make sure that she gets elected president of the united states. we are, pennsylvania has, it's been pretty good for democrats running for president. we won the last six and were going to win this one as well. [applause] the sci you

reception last night, i saw they are the dude oh, he said were going to win allegheny county, get every vote in western pennsylvania, when in the four county region and take this forward. we're doing it by holding a grassroots -based organization bringing everyone in. our state director corey dukes has been at work since before the primary. we have 300 organizers already on the ground and more every day. we have 30 offices open and more every day. they are working to build a real coordinated campaign, to make that work for the candidate as well to make sure that my friend and former colleague katie mcginty gets elected to the senate. [applause] to make sure that josh is elected attorney general, to make sure that we turn the house red to blue.

we're also organizing across the county program of 3 million strong or 3 million people registered , pledging to vote for a democrat up and down the ticket in this election and were doing it because we have a message and a candidate that this country needs. we are stronger together when we build an economy that's inclusive, that works for working people, that doesn't just benefit people at the top but people across the board. that's what she's been talking about from day one, that's what she will deliver. she's been doing it for whole life. why she picked tim kaine because he has a lifetime commitment tohelping people, to serving people from the days he went to honduras to work in a jesuit missionary . as a city councilman, as a mayor, as lieutenant governor, and now as a senator serving senator casey. he's fought for working people and he's fought for a

more peaceful, better world and we are so proud to have him on our ticket area and we are all about building bridges, not walls. we are running against a campaign for those of you who have, who decided they want to tune in last week, what did you see? division, hatred, bigotry. the kind of campaign donald trump has been running for more than a year. it's all about himself. who are his people speaking on his behalf? dresses made in china, this and that but republicans, including republicans from pennsylvania were afraid to show up in cleveland area afraid to be associated. he is unfit, he is unqualified, he doesn't have the temperament. we need to keep it out of the oval office area we are all about family first and he's all about from first. we have as rich saidthe most progressive platform in history. tonight you will see a great

convention . some of the real all-stars of our party including our keynote from elizabeth warren who will talk about how we build that inclusive economy. we will hear from one of the great new stars of the democratic party, cory booker . you will hear from our great first lady michelle obama who's going to talk about how we strengthen families and of course, we're going to conclude the evening hearing from senator sanders doing what he has done since translate. [applause] doing what he's done since i was a young staff guy working for pat leahy. i knew him well when he was mayor of burlington and he took on a special interests, he talked about building a stronger, more inclusive economy. he talked about bringing people into the system, does that sound familiar? that's what he brought to this campaign. were proud of him, we're proud of his campaign, we're

proud that he endorsed hillary and were proud to work together to build a great democratic party. i have one announcement to make which is there's one more favorite sonof pennsylvania who will be speaking at the convention . on wednesday night and that's vice president joe biden. [applause] and i'm happy to say after, hillary will be campaigning with joe in scranton pennsylvania on august 15 so get ready. i want you all to be there. we have 106 days left between now and election day in november.so use every one of them, organize on every day, let's build this campaign, let's elect the first woman president of the united states, let's elect hillary clinton and tim kaine, thank you. [applause] >> so when people ask me

who's coming to your breakfast, i told them we've got the governor and the senator, you got me. unfortunately. but you never know who else walks in but i promise you there will be some major surprises.it was not really a surprise so as you probably saw on the way in, we have, you know, i'm starting to think of. about the republican convention and the people they were able to bring to the table. and it sounds like i'm watching some guy from various business interests and family, and i was looking for some substance. i was looking for some meat. look at where we are at. the governor said to us whatever you do, don't put me after rich trumka so i'm going to honor the governor's wishes.

unfortunately for him, he's going to have to go after our next speaker who i have a feeling we are going to be talking a whole lotabout in the future he's almost our native son, we're willing to adopt him . we got to come to our dinners. but he does all that. it's wonderful to have him here. senator cory booker. [applause] >> hello everybody. [applause] all right. i just came from louisiana south carolina, i love those states. my granddaddy from louisiana but is the good to be back standing with my neighbor here,pennsylvania thank you very much . [applause] you guys have extraordinary leadership on the stage, your governor is a great national leader. you have a wonderful head of your party but i've got to get this offmy chest. you guys said to the senate , a man who is heart, a man who is handsome, a man who is skinny, a man who has more

hair than me. and i hate him for all those things . but i want you to know one of the great honors i've had in my first two and half years in the united states senate is to have a colleague like your senator and i want to thank you for sending him to serve you in washington dc, my only request now is that you give him a democratic partner in the senate seat area. [applause] so look, i want to be very brief. i was raised by my father named perry booker. understand, i love listening to my dad tell stories about his life and i heard the same stories all my 40+ years and i have to say it wouldn't bother me that he would tell the same stories over and over again because every time he would tell them it would get more dramatic and more

interesting. my father talked about his home in north carolina in a way that made me afraid to go to that state because it was always raining and it was this hail. with hail the size of golf balls, then baseball, then hatchbacks and my father one day, i know the 10 commandments, it says thou shalt honor thy mother and father but one day my dad said son, when the tsunami hit our town and i'm like dad, i'm like dad, you live in the mountains of north carolina. there is no way a tsunami hit yorktown and you all have family members like this, he got indignant with me and he said boy, it's a long time ago before theinternet read you can't look it up but it happened . [laughter] my father tells me this one story. that really showed me that he had a good sense of humor and i'm not sure if it's true but i want to share it with you. he says he was sitting in the back of the classroom and the

teacher comes in and stands before the classroom and says class, first day at school i want to teach you all about self see. anyone in this classroom thinks they're stupid, think they're dumb, stand up. my father said nobody moved, everybody sat there and a woman sat there impatiently and she was like come on, you think you're dumb, you think you're stupid and up and my father said after looking around nobody was standing up and he pushed his chair and stood up proud. and the teacher looked at my father and said boy, what's wrong with you question mark you think you're dumb, you think you're stupid? my father scratches his head and says ma'am, i don't think i'm stupid but i didn't want you to be the only one standing. my father taught these two important lessons. then in like you've got to stand up. you can't sit down and you can't stay on the sidelines. martin luther king said it clearly.

the challenge we have today, he said is not the vitriolic words and violent actions of the bad people, it's the appalling violence and inaction of the good people. i listened. [applause] i listened to the negativity, to the bile, to the vitriol, to the hate that was viewed in that republican convention. it did a disservice to the republican party, that's why 22 of our colleagues in the senate didn't even show up. because they knew that the kind of vitriol that donald trump represents where he says a latino judge born in indiana can't do their job , something that paul ryan called textbook racism. they knew a man that stands up and makes fun of her reporter because of their disability, they knew that a man that says such demeaning,

negative things about women, they knew they didn't want to be anywhere close to that. but it's never about what they say. it's about what we do. we are a party that has always said we stand for something. this is a party with a purpose. we have a mission. we are not just here because we like politics. we are here because the democratic party is a party of we and not the party of me read it is a party of inclusion and not the party of exclusion. we are the party that wants to build this nation up, not there some people down. we are the party ... [applause] we are the party of civil rights, of workers rights, of women's rights, of gay and lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights. we are the party of the environment. we are the party of infrastructure. we are the party of unions. we are the party that knows

this nation is stronger when we are together. and that's where i want to hit my last point. my father said stand up for what you believe in but don't make this mistake that it's all about you. myfather said, when you stand you stand strongest when you stand with other people . he wanted me to understand that this nation will not fall or standalone. we are a nation that falls or stands together. my father was born poor, black, a single mom in segregated north carolina and he would tell me it was a conspiracy of love that brought him to where he is today. my father said when his mother couldn't take care of him it was people that stood for him and brought him into their house, raised him like they were his own child. my father had no dreams of college and it was the start up and said boy, you're going to go to college. were going to take a collection assist church to make sure you have enough money to pay your first

semester tuition . [applause] when my daddy was in college, he watched black folks and white. and latino, gay and straight folks pouring into the south to be a part of the civil rights movement to open up opportunities for him. when my father got to washington dc where he had the fortune to meet my mama and my mama had the charity and mercy to marry him. it was a time in america, look around this room. it was a time in america where whether you're an irish or a woman or gay or black, corporate america didn't want to hire you but i sell you want right now, my father because of the activism of others was hired as ibm's first salesman in the entire virginia area.

even when we moved into this small town in virginia i grew up in, they wouldn't show black families homes in that town so after my parents being denies to buy a home, a white couple follow them and found that the houses for sale, put a bid on house on the day of the closing, a white couple didn't show up at the house, my father got a volunteer lawyer and they walked into the real estate agents office, my dad in this volunteer man gave up his time and energy as part of that conspiracy of love, he confronted the real estate agent, punch my father's lawyer in the face and sick the dog on my back and i'm going to tell you right now that every time my dad would tell that story, the dog would get bigger. soon it wasn't a dog, it was a pack of wolves. but that's the story of my family, my father would say. you didn't get here on your own, boy. you drank deeply from wells of freedom, liberty and opportunity that you did not dig . you eat lavishly from banquet tables prepared for you by your ancestors. you can't just sit back eating your blessings, getting done, fat and happy.

you have a mission to pay forward your blessings through service. we are gathered here in this convention, in this great state, inthis historic city because of these ideals . and our mission is to elevate to the highest office in the land two of the finest people i'veever met in politics . that's tim kaine and hillary clinton. [applause] and i want to tell you, we've got to go into that convention and not show the kind of booze and hisses and negative hateful chance that we saw last week.we got to come in with our energy and our lights and our love because king said, darkness cannot drive out darkness. he cannot drive out hate, only light and love can do those things and so i call to younow , i call to you now ,

let us be a people in this convention that shows america what we are and what we stand for. let us go into that convention hall and wake up the echoes of our ancestors. let's go into that hall and wake up the moral imagination of this country. let's go into that hall and together in a course of conviction call for the conscience of our country. get off the sidelines. get off the couch. stand up for this country. stand up for our values. stand up for our ideals. then up for hillary clinton. yet let's unite this country and move forward together. thank you. [applause] >> wow.

you're going to have some loud moments but there's not going to be a better wild moment than that. senator cory booker. [applause] the good news is, he's about said everything that needs to be said. the bad news is, you're going tohave to hear it over and over again. but i've got good news for the governor . he doesn't have to follow senator booker either cause senator casey has other commitments. so with that, listen. and obviously cory booker is a special person in terms of the manner in which he speaks to us but, well not but, and, our next speaker is a special person not only because of what he says and he certainly doesn't have cory booker's

oratory skill but nobody ... sorry. [laughter] but he does have more hair than senator booker and i was going to give you a compliment. i love bob casey. i truly do. nobody in the senate, and it's more important than how you speak and he speaks well so i don't want to miss state that. nobody in the senate has a bigger heart of the people he serves then bob casey. senator bob casey, our friend. [applause] >> let's hear it for marcel. marcel, thank you for that introduction. i want the people in the back to know if you are really quiet back there i will ask cory booker to come back. that's the deal, you stay quiet we will have that happen so i want to first say

marcel that i appreciate the fact that you so lowered expectations ... [laughter] that governor wolf and i are bound to succeed today. >> i apologize publicly for my stupidity. >> there's a note here that says senator casey next with an exclamation point. i want to make a concession or disclose something that i've never disclosed before, i know there's no media here so everyone will keep it quiet area there's been a lot of discussion this morning about who's boring or who may not be as exciting as the other person. there's some of that going around this morning so i want you to know just so i can place myself firmly in that boring category. when i was running 10 years ago, i never shared this with

doctor marcel that this is news to get your pads out if you are out there writing. when i was running 10 years ago for the united states senate, you were kind enough to elect me that year and before the general election there was a columnist, i won't mentionhis name . i do remember who it was there. who said he was trying to capture my personality in that column for voters before the election which you should do, you should try to tell people who you are voting for. and he compared me to oatmeal. i'm not kidding you. so just remember that when you're having your breakfast today. let me just say a couple things. two words, two words i want to leave you with. one is gratitude and the other is solidarity. gratitude for all of you for doing this work.

give yourselves a hand for being a delegate, before being active in the party in pennsylvania and for helping hillary clinton and tim kaine, give yourselves a hand for that. i also want to make sure that as we are focused on the top of the ticket, hillary and tim, both of whom i served with, both of whom i know and both of whom i can give personal testimony about their character, about their ability and about their commitment to service but i also want to make sure we don't forget after the convention that we are going to go back to the travels across pennsylvania , were going to be working for katie mcginty. i haven't seen her today but let's give her a hand because she's going to win. [applause] i know josh was here, josh is here. josh for attorney general. [applause] how about eugene and joe, are they here? eugene and joe, running a statewide ticket, we're going to be working together. let me say this about the second part of this

solidarity area we have a lot of work to do. this is going to be a tough fight all the way to the end, a tough fight for hillary and tim and a tough fight for katie and all of us but never has it been more important. there might have been an election in my lifetime that was of equal weight and of equal consequence but never has an election exceeded that so let's say we are tied with some other year but let's not kid ourselves. this is a tough year and a very tough election. because one of the things, i will say to maybe, if you boil it down to two broad issues, economic security is at stake and nationalsecurity is at stake . the good news here for our candidate and for us is americans and as democrats, is that we have two candidates who are serious candidates, okay? that means they have years of public service for their state and for the country but

they are serious enough to put on paper what they will do if they were to be elected. that's on our side. the other side doesn't have that.i'll be talking about the other nominee tonight, i will talk about him today cause we got a big program but we've got serious candidates and remember what hillary said at the very beginning of this race. she set forth and put on paper a lot of important plans, go to a website and look at them, hillary clinton.com but in the middle of that or i should say the top of it, the headline, she said the defining challenge we have is raising incomes for hard-working americans. so economic security is going to be on the ballot as well and national security and on national security, unlike most people you will hear from in the next couple of days, most people know her record. i've actually worked with her on these important issues

when i was on the foreign relations committee. i know this very well. i know all the dangers of the middle east. i know the threat posed by the iranian regime. i know the challenge we have against isis, i know those things as well as anybody. no one in my lifetime is as prepared to take on those very grave and serious threats to our national security than hillary is prepared to do so this is going to be our big break about economic security and national security and i think were going to win this race with your help but i'm grateful that you're willing to serve, i'm grateful you are willing to spend these days here in philadelphia and i'm certainly grateful that this delegation and this breakfast is not only led by marcel but i'm really grateful it's led by governor tom wolfe so have fun, work hard, organize as rich trumka said and were going to win. thank you. [applause]

>> i need to clean up myact . i have to tell you, i know he's next. i'm not going to do anything bad with the governor. but josh will tell you that i always make stupid mistakes when i'm up here, he's shaking his head. just a second. listen, i know for me i should have said this before i started, for me some of the best moments in politics i've had with bob casey. we took a trip together to israel, that's something i willnever forget. more important than anything else that i see is the admiration he has for his colleagues . he does make us all proud every single moment that he serves.thank you bob. [applause] [inaudible conversation] the governor said he's watching me so i'm going to skip. is congressman ellis in here?

okay. so don't leave. he's supposed to come. i was going to introduce governor wolf as our final speaker but i won't, i'll just introduce him as our speaker. so everybody once in a while and politics you get a breath of fresh air. you get somebody who's not been part of the political process who's got wonderful ideas, who's got a great temperament, who just gets it and understands the governing. he gets elected sometimes. and he finds himself in a position where a lot of what he wants to do the comes very difficult. not because his ideas have changed, because they haven't. not because he doesn't want to come was things, and better everyone's lives in pennsylvania but because he finds an obstructive group who will say no to everything

and yes to almost nothing. and yet he plods through and it's not easy so i say all that number one out of admiration for who and what thank you. [applause]. thank you very much.

that was a really nice production. -- introduction. i think he was surprised he was introducing me. i want to welcome all of you to philadelphia those of you who are not from here but i want to say two things today, i want you to leave this breakfast being proud of two things first being prodded that you are pennsylvanians that you are representing our great commonwealth i want you to leave this place and the city at the end of the week being proud that your democrats. there are three things here. we are the host delegation the tens of thousands of people who are coming to pennsylvania

for this event this really important convention are going to judge us partially if we do not deliver a really welcoming and safe environment. we are the host so please make your fellow delegates here at this convention and everyone that comes to visit us feel so welcome that they want to come back after this. this is an amazing place. we have everything to be proud of. it is a wonderful thing that the democratic convention is here because this is where this nation started. the declaration of independence the 1787 convention. you'll know by the way that the united states has had two constitutions in its history. can anyone hear tommy where the articles of the convention

were drafted. all right. maybe that's not as exciting to the rest of you as it is to me. we are the place that great experiments begin. this is the year when we have to reaffirm those eternal values that were first handed down to us in 18th century. we have to refresh them we have to make them relevant to the 21st century. that is our job and pennsylvania is a the place to do it. it started here this is a place to reaffirm those values as a low delegation let's do that. the third thing as that is what we had been about politically. as governor i could use more help but i think we have accomplished some really good things in pennsylvania. hillary clinton is about fairness, about equity, and that is what we had been about

in harrisburg. if i have a little bit more help we can do even more up. we've done some amazing things. expanded medicaid. there 650,000 more medicaid -- people that have health care than they did just a little over a year ago. we had cut the rate of uninsured folks in half in pennsylvania. that is a big thing. the second thing is education. the government like ours and we care about fairness and equity we have to do two things. we to make sure we invest in education and we have to make sure we invest in education fairly. we are now estate. only three states in the country. we now had one. we have also invested more money in education at all levels than we have as far as i know in our history.

we have invested in spite of the lack of support in our state legislature. we had been able to do that over the last two years. but adequacy and fairness continue to be an issue when it comes to education. we have also legalized medical marijuana in pennsylvania. [applause]. what we have done has allowed families and doctors to have the medicines they think is best for their family when they are suffering. that is something that is humanitarian. we did in harrisburg and now joints the majority of the states in the united states have made medical marijuana legal. that is fairness and equity the final thing is the minimum wage. i've been calling for an increase in the minimum wage and we need to do that. i think we can all agree that

we need to move from $7.25 and we need to raise that. [applause]. that is what we have done in pennsylvania it has worked in spite of the overwhelming headwinds and has worked because pennsylvania is about fairness and equity. it has been about that since the very beginning one of the reasons that carpenters hall exists back in the 17th and 18th century is because we have religious freedom. we were free. we believed in fairness and equity right from the start. we still need to believe in that. and that's why hillary and tim are going to win the state in november. let me give you one final point. i want you to be proud of being a democrats. democrat. i talked about the minimum wage. we can disagree over could disagree over how high that to be.

i know there is disagreement. we need to talk about that we need to have an honest conversation about how high that ought to be. but let me tie something just sit illustrate the point. when we leave here let us be proud of the fact that we are democrats. because in this party we are having that conversation. in cleveland the term minimum wage did not come up. they did not talk about that. we might disagree we might leave this place with disagreement out of how high it should be but we've have a conversation and we're going to agree that it ought to be higher. we ought to be proud that we are democrats. [applause]. finally, the proudest thing is that our candidate in november hillary clinton is going to make us proud because she is going to fight hard for fairness. she's going to fight for equity. those are the things we believe in.

that's what she's going to bring us. let's make sure she went pennsylvania. let's make sure she wins the white house. thank you very much. [applause]. >> don't leave yet. we still have congressman allison who will become happier and i do want to recognize a couple of other people's. first of all, the former mayor of philadelphia mike, our you still here. thank you for starting all of this. our finance director who has been helping us raise all of

this money. scott, our you still here? it's very important for delegates. first of all congressman allison will be coming. i think he is outside. [inaudible] if you are a delegate please check your booklets we have all of the events in your booklet for the week. we would like to thank them for the hillary campaign. i have lost my voice. longtime friend you are at. >> good morning everyone.

i have a long history in pennsylvania starting with my work for the governor i was the a state director here in 1992 for those of you that are delegates. will be the people on the four floor to help you and solve your problems. and get you things that you need there'll be other people working the floor as well.

and anything that happens on the floor. the important thing is that like many other conventions they actually show up on the floor at gavel time. today that is 4:00. into the reason is the convention business will be conducted starting right after that. the primetime part of the program will be reserved for the speakers and not business. we can avoid some of what happened last week in cleveland. they can be ready to conduct business of the convention. and we will be there if you need anything is mike frazier

and we will be with you for the entire four days if you're not going to listen to the rest of my comments [applause]. we are waiting for the congressman and again i want to finish with restart it. i want to thank all of you for being here obviously the clinton delegation it is important for all of us if you are a delegate or a cedars person come up to us he will tell you i am for real.

one more thing can i have your attention for a second this has to do with the way the opponents have treated and spoken around our president. i find that the manage at which you speak are about our presidential nominee. it is repulsive to everything we stand for and i am offended by it. i suspect you are too. i recognize that that mantra sometimes is hard by others and i find myself in debates all the time on a one-on-one basis. and like you, i will not stop talking until i make people

see the light. i think most of the people in the commonwealth get it but we have to defend our nominee. moved to tell people that what we are hearing is repulsive it is wrong, it is a beyond the boundaries. it's not what we are and we will be and it's not what we want anybody to be. and with that i can stop talking and i want to thank you all for being here. our next in our last speaker is from right outside of minneapolis, i think. he represents the fifth congressional district one of the rising stars in the democratic party a give a welcome how are you guys doing.

i just want to say thank you for hosting us. great job with that. i am from minneapolis, minnesota. i've nothing but great love and admiration for pennsylvania. at the convention has been awesome so far. i think it has something to do with you guys. i want to talk to you about the top of the ticket i want to talk the state legislative races if you are fighting or working for a state legislative race. here's to. let me tell you. they are silky all over this country since 2008 we have lost 910 state legislative seat.

they have taken away those registrations. just like they did here. it is because we have taken it on the chin. so when you are campaigning to make sure that you can do that. when you go out there and fight to make sure that we return mike 'congress when you make sure that we went and when we went for christina it is critically important that the state of pennsylvania reclaim the pennsylvania house and senate for this whole country. we are only a couple of cycles away from redistricting.

if we turn out the vote now we can build on it and make sure that when we redraw the line we can be in that majority. they destroy the lines. and when they draw the line we usually suffer. we usually are the ones who end up redistricting and we are the ones that had found ourselves fighting just to get any thing else. i'm telling you the federal government needs the state government to deliver for the people of the state. so get out there and knock on the doors. at the end of the day when we reclaim tomorrow it will be because we are running at the grassroots level. let me tell you, i happen to be a bernie sanders supporters

--dash supporter leading up. i want to let you know that we made a big difference in this race. that's right. what difference is a platform eat. it's what they believe in and stand for. it wasn't important. you wouldn't see the delegates they up pointed including myself fighting to make sure it was a strong as we have ever seen it. a 15-dollar minimum wage. keep that in mind d

militarizing the police. as a person who has a 20-year-old daughter in college the public option. that is a financial transaction. it is a very strong platform. we've come together on the basis of unity and if we will fight together we will make the most progressive platform and a history of the democratic party in this nation the law of the land and it will require all of us to

get out there and fight and maximize voter turnout, can we do it. all right, thank you guys. >> we have our congressional candidate out of the seventh congressional delegate. be back here for lunch do whatever you want. your caucus tickets it you need him. be on the floor on time. thank you. [inaudible] debbie wasserman

schultz did not gavel in the convention today. the dnc chair plans to resign for her position. after staff e-mails were leaked including one talking about former presidential candidate bernie sanders. they booed her at the state's democratic party breakfast we will show you all of her remarks about 615 eastern time. a preview of some of what happened.

again we will have all of the remarks in front of the democrat at about 615. the lineup at the democratic convention tonight includes elizabeth warren and cory booker. and first lady michelle

obama. you can watch every minute live on c-span. here is another breakfast this one with the state delegation from virginia. if you would like to take a seat or stand behind the wall or sit on the floor we have an overflow of great virginia deli gets. did everybody have a good time leslie look, before i begin as we enjoy ourselves this week there are thousands of people

we know back in virginia who are full of despair, down and out facing a future without hope. but enough about republicans. [applause]. i am thrilled to kick off our first day here at the democratic national convention here in the city of brotherly love and sisterly affection. mike pence thinks it's against god's law but it's great to be here today with the best state party in the country from the best commonwealth in the country. in the best governor, senators and congressmen that we could ask for. and virginia is out tim kaine

--dash own tim kaine. i knew something was up with him the other day when i ask him his favorite tv show and he said veep. he has 99 senators who like him which is 99 more than ted cruz. just for fun i sent an e-mail to mike pence. i had found out from my sources that they've already given out to the codename. this year they are using disney movies. that explains why he is old geller. it's easy to make fun of the gop but this week we are going to be about celebrating democrats and showcasing our

people and the tapestry of real america and the policies that speak out for all americans. more importantly it's about nominating a common candidate who will win the white house in november. and you are going to notice a lot of differences between our week here and there week in cleveland. i want to thank our amazing delegation for taking a week away from their jobs and their family because it is quite a commitment. i see more than delegates in this room. i see 200 people who all think they should be appointed senator after he wins the vice presidency. think about it our next vice president is gonna be a virginian. i did warn you yesterday i was not going to stop talking about it.

our best chapter is yet to be written where we will have them to continue legacy and progress of president obama. thank you all for being here. let's go out had one hell of a week. now our next speaker is brandon davis. we have several speakers today. our next speaker is brandon davis. he is someone who if you don't know them as the chief of staff of the democratic national committee who has joined us this morning. hello virginia democrats, how are you doing? i am the chief of staff at the dnc i'm here to drive the work

around the general election and think about it working forward. this is one of my favorite places to be. i had spent the last six years with the national political director that means two things that i live just over the border in washington dc and means that i've watched. people do not think we could win as democrats. we are on the cutting edge of progressive politics. thank you all. for the incredible work you have done on that. and it is all due to the hard work the democrats had done it is amazing to me what has been possible with the leadership and the kind of policies that you been able to move in your state. everybody in this room knows that all i have to do is say the clinton kane ticket. that is what we are all excited about today.

i stop by today because i know we are to have a tremendous convention. we will see a big difference from what we saw last week in cleveland a convention where we talked about what's possible in america and what happens when we are stronger together. and we have demonstrated that. we just came out in the long primary and one for us was an incredible debate. we are ready to go into this convention and deliver on that platform we are incredibly excited about that. what i wanted to share with you is what we are doing at the dnc. when i took this job there was three things we were very clear about. one is that we have to win a presidential election. we have to continue to lead as democrats in this country and continue the momentum. we have to win at every level of the ticket. we have some tremendous opportunities in the state of

virginia. it's not just the presidential. it is all the way down to the state legislator elections. that's another place they have made tremendous gains in virginia. but what also has to happen is the huge investment that will happen. it can't just be about 2016 we have to build long-term infrastructure in the state. this has been a state that has been moving in the right direction. we want to continue that momentum. when we go out and we change the laws. when you expand voting to make it possible for people to register online when we lean into those things that's how working to create a permanent advantage so we are going to do the state things.

we will get to 270 electoral votes. we will win at every level of the ticket all the way down and we will set ourselves up for important races including the ones that you are can have next year in 2016 in virginia. i stop by to say thank you on behalf of the entire staff. the unity that exist in this room. i stop by to tell you that things are looking pretty good we are in a really good place in this country right now take back the senate. they make huge gains in the house. that's how we will create permanent advantage. that's how her to put aggressive policy in place. so thank you all. i will see on the convention floor. thank you so much.

see mac thank you so much brandon for stopping by. we look for to working with you. anyway, our breakfast every morning are sponsored by different folks and this morning it sponsored by david sylvia here who is going to say a few words. everybody give him a round of applause for helping us out. thank you very much we are very excited to be here. as some of you may know we have a long history in the state of virginia we are very proud to be here this morning. we just want two-point out and think mr. scott for coming here today. once again we like two-point out how happy we are that

senator tim kaine has been selected. i had been with the company a little over 17 years. spend some of it up in new york and then previously the past ten years down in richmond which was an eye-opener for a connecticut yankee. over the last 12 years me and my family have lived in virginia it has welcomed to us. we have a great time and really enjoy it. our company has really evolved over the last few years. when i joined 17 years ago we were not only the world list largest tobacco company but we owned the largest food company in kraft foods. things have evolved. so today what we find in the state of virginia a large number of those are hourly

union workers. the average tenure as a little over 15 years. it's one of the things i'm very proud about with our company is our willingness to develop and have a long career at the company. today it is made up of the leading tobacco companies. what a lot of people don't know we are on the largest wine company in saint michelle wine estate. some of the best wines. also the largest investor in sap miller which is undergoing a merger. we are very excited about how our company has evolved.

we've been in virginia since 1929. we don't plan on going anywhere anytime soon. a lot of people will ask me is it really a viable industry in this country today. i just wanted to give you a couple of factoids about the impact that it has. each year more than $2 billion related to our companies flow through the state through the form of taxes and small business revenue. all of those employees who are very proud to call virginia home. we are very proud as i said to not only have virginia be our home but the work with the delegation and elected officials throughout the state and often time working with them we are very excited about how all of them had worked with us key issues facing the

company. i want to thank you again for coming this morning and welcome you here. we look forward to a great week in philadelphia. thank you. [applause]. >> thank you again. we appreciate your sponsorship. we have a real treat with us this morning. our next speaker our next speaker as a youngest female secretary of state in the nation. and she is proof that a democratic woman can get elected in the south. and a real the real role model for women here in virginia because remember we have never elected since mary sue we have not left a woman to the state

statewide office. please welcome from kentucky. i just want to say she is a new demo crate new demo gray should. thank you so much for coming. good morning virginia democrats. getting up to the state is the same trouble that you get to see trump and pentz having at the white house. are we ready to do that. it is my privilege to join you off this morning i wanted to come be with the fellow commonwealth one of four and a country. as i have a chance to mingle with some folks here this

morning a great friend said allison i just want you to know that you are the second largest check i have ever written and politics. ice said the first was two of virginia democrat was. i'm here this morning because my ritz with your commonwealth we did send your senator back to washington dc doing some great things. i told him i said

mr. mcconnell. he refused to pass it. we elect the clinton-tim kaine ticket. but mitch mcconnell well no longer be majority leader. he will be elected to a two-year term. virginia gives the state of kentucky the entire south hope that democrats can get elected as you heard susan mentioned just one of a handful of meaning statewide elected women in the south and the youngest female secretary of state in the nation. virginia give a history of electing great democratic governors.

and my question before you this morning are your 12 votes going to go towards that. the nation is watching. they will see what will happen. they watched with baited breath what happened in 2014. your governor is someone who i hold dear as a friend i am so proud especially as the chief election official of the work that he has done to stand up for voting rights for all americans. i told him i was going to

bring him some pens that he could sign in view each and every one of those voting orders. and listen, he has grown the economy and infrastructure like never before we are here this morning because of virginia he is calm for someone who just got nominated to be the vice president of the united states. i told him i was coming to see his delegation and he said i will be there to see them give them my best. he is someone who unlike the nominee on the other side has a proven track record of success i am preaching to

acquire. can you say amen. he has been one who has fought for comprehensive immigration reform. and education. and building of infrastructure and yes standing up for the men and women in labor who have helped him with millions. i think he is an amazing addition to this ticket. as we are gathered i want us to be sane they are with us. there with us. i had have the opportunity to know hillary rotten clinton for the majority of my life -- hillary rodham clinton.

otherwise known as hey you. on the steps of the lincoln memorial in the cold weather of january 1983 getting to bring and that a young southern former governor to be our next president to greet heat in the first lady of the lincoln memorial. i could never imagine that so many years later a woman would call, write, e-mail and check up on my progress in law school and help me when my first ever race. and send next to me as i entered millions upon millions from one of the nation's biggest bullies. i thought mcconnell was bad but he doesn't have anything on trump. the hillary clinton that i know she is not only detailed

and very diligent as they like to penalize her for but she is inquisitive. she is someone who is an amazing listener someone who likes to unwind. house hunters international matter where she is. she is a woman who stands up and fights. tim kaine has done for the causes we have all held dear. there with us. [applause]. women get equal pay we can get

the minimum wage and grow our economy with us. so virginia, i'm here this morning because i believe we have a ticket in the clinton came ticket that is with all of us in importantly working to make sure that we bring all of america together. are we going to send that message? i woke up, friday morning, and i don't know about you but i have an anger hangover. it wasn't from too much kentucky bourbon but i did have to get through watching that. it was an anger hangover and what we will see this week is a positive contrast. well had to have the divisive rhetoric the hateful speech

that you heard in cleveland. you are going to hear about an america that is already bright one that will be built upon where we bring people together we don't divide them. i believe we have in the clinton came ticket ticket importantly that is in represents our values of fighting for families and children. there with us. we have a ticket importantly that is about growing our economy making sure that we help to reach out for early childhood education. we support our men and women in labor and we grow our economy not just for the top 1% but we left everybody up together. and when it comes to the next commander in chief i don't know about you but not only hillary clinton but i believe senator kane when he said i'm ready.

we have a ticket that has the temperament and the experience to the be the next commander in chief. this is going to be a great week and i am so honored to started out with each and every one of you. the commonwealth of virginia let's bring this home and elect the clinton came ticket. thank you all very much. [applause]. think you guys. all right. now folks, this will be like church up and down, up and down.

and susan will pass the collection plate. the next gentleman. he throws one heck of a labor day celebration. you have a congressman who has fought to make sure that we eliminate discrimination in the workplace. someone who has helped to build the economy some and you all know very well please get on your feet and help with your congressman. >> thinking.

what i have to say. it is proud to be a member of the virginia congressional delegation. and the next vice president of the united states senator tim kaine. i thought i saw my new best friend come in. good to see you. my new best friend. all right.

the vote restoring governor. let me give you one thing. we have the best governor in the united states. he will is doing a great job. in child nutrition. i work in make a difference. when we elect them as vice president of the united states. there is a difference between republicans and democrats. we are moving barriers for people that want to form unions. making sure that wages go up. with family and medical leave. and things that make them possible for people.

based on the work you do know who you are. virginia can make a difference. we know that we carry it. i gets a virtually impossible. so once we carry virginia at 1058 they called virginia and two minutes later they declared barack obama's president-elect of the united states of america we can help take over the senate in the united states house of representatives. the best thing we can do is elect our own senator as vice president of the united states. in leading the charge is one

of hillary's best friends our governor. governor terry mcauliffe. [applause]. >> here we are the greatest nation on earth. i've already done this but now i i'm here for the highlight my own. the greatest state party in the united states of america and the greatest chair. let me tell you there's no question in my mind the greatest congressman to ever walk the halls of the u.s. congress. bobby scott. the commonwealth kentucky.

in kentucky is getting it like virginia. we have to make sure we actually do that. it was no secret that i was innocent. the best cap seeker out there. i do want to recognize jim nolan today. today is his birthday. so we all know i like to sing happy birthday because many of you get my phone calls. however, i learned a trick. if it goes to voicemail i leave a nice message now because i hurt when i used to have the singing voice it was played over and over. let's all sing happy birthday to him.

happy birthday to you. happy birthday to you. happy birthday dear jim, happy birthday to you. [applause]. you think about it four years ago, i laid out in the agenda what we needed to do in the commonwealth of virginia. we have managed under assault and women rights. they have passed legislation and i said we will lean on on the all the issues. i think you are all aware that i relish a good fight i know at the end of the day you did get a fighter elected as governor. and we had leaned a lead-in on those issues.

the past legislation. we will add more water we are going widen the parking lots. it have nothing to do with the health and safety of women. they were operating without any profits. i'm very proud of my new board of health appointees. they've stayed open in the commonwealth of virginia. but if you hadn't elected a governor from the democratic side it would've been rolled back. i did my first executive order. virginia has to be open and welcoming to everyone. with the fight card to make

sure that everybody gets their wages. i want to recommend all of our men and women of our labor group. when you go out. the home healthcare workers the women who get on three buses a day. they go to three different jobs. there leave their children at home because the pay is so low that they have to take those jobs. that's not an america that we want. we want to make sure everybody gets good wages. as you know in 1902 they put a full tax together in a different franchise meant in our constitution. before i took the action i took four scholars including the gentleman who wrote our constitution in 1971 sat in my

office and said it's not even an issue that you have the authority to do this. once i have the authority i took action. i erased 114 years of racial prejudice. [applause]. thank you. and to put it in perspective for the 40 states have artie done what i have done. forty states have already done it. why should virginia always be at the end of the pack. why should we be the last to put our hands out to help. they served their sentence. they are back in society and they are going to our churches and our grocery stores and their paying taxes.

if you want them feeling good about themselves and if he stayed with me when they came up in 60 or 70 years. grown men in my office crying saying this is the greatest day of my life. it matters. and then on friday he sought four or three decisions. ..

[applause] >> and by two weeks, all 206,000 will have their rights back to vote. [applause] so at the end of the day, i think actually more folks will register to vote because they will not let this at and just a stamp and a stamp and i promise you this you will see that 13,000 number go up dramatically and you know what? we will give you the list to go out and register voters. we are going to show them what we are all about. you go get them and you register. [applause] if the republican leadership thinks that this is their way of denying people access to the polling booth i said from day one you ought to go instead of criticizing these folks want you go out and earn their right to vote. that's a better thing for democracy and if that's a game

you want to play, game on. [applause] think pigs -- think big folks or go home. think of where we are in virginia. when i got elected our economy was reeling and we had been hit the year before with $9.8 billion of sequestration cuts. we were losing jobs, got to work and made the community open welcome to everyone. we brought in 725 economic development projects, 12 $.65 billion of new capital and of my tenure. our economy is back and on friday i announced our unemployment rate has chopped to 3.7%, folks. [applause] if you don't remember, it was

5-3 when i got elected, 5-323-7 is the steepest decline in 32 years. [applause] so when you get democrats, you get jobs. and that's what's important. i'm also proud to stand here i inherited a large deficit when i became governor, $2.4 billion. we work to turn it into the biggest surplus and i'm proud that her budget this year included the largest investment in education in history, $1 billion of new funding for education. [applause] we have fixed and transformed their transportation so now the more political roads, no more wasting path -- taxpayer dollars. as you saw last week one of the largest given to open up our atlanta gateway from north virginia to hampton roads in blacksburg. we now have the rail lines from richmond all the way to north carolina.

folks, it's a new state today through transportation, education. the one thing i have not been successful at and it was not for wanting to try, but closing the gap to bringing our money back. [applause] so let me just say i want y'all to understand the dynamics. as of today in virginia, we have forfeited $7.9 billion, billion. that money is gone forever. we can never get it back. could you imagine all these economic differences if we had 7.9 billion asked her money running track, me we have 17 hospitals in tough shape in virginia. i could have traded 30,000 new jobs for that money. could have provided health care for four and a thousand. this is not a political issue just like restoration of rights that it's a moral issue. on friday -- [applause]

on friday i was at the clinic and wise counties my third year in a row and as you all know they come out of the mountains early in the morning to get health care one day of the year. think of that and i went and shook hands. i'm tired of going and shaking hands. we have paid for these people to get health care. you have paid for them to get health care but they are saying no we don't want it. you get in your car and drive 40 miles west to kentucky, you are in west virginia. both of those states are providing it. it's $2.4 billion a year of bureaucrats dollars and i structured it deal with the hhs for a very unique waiver. we could have brought this money back. it never even touched touch the state reliability. if i could have structured the deal working with hhs it never would impact us financially, no obligations.

what is your argument at that point? there is none. it's partisan politics. so i will continue that fight. it's the right thing to do but this is why these elections matter, folks. [applause] i thank you all for coming. we will have a great week and i'm proud i will be up there tomorrow when i take the stage to get to announce we have nominated the first woman in the history of the united states of america for president of the united states. [applause] and we are going to nominate the greatest of vice president in the history of the united states of america in tim kaine. folks, let's take the road for this country all the way to virginia. thank you all very much. [applause]

[inaudible conversations] >> of course the democratic convention is underway in philadelphia in the wells fargo center as you can see and you can see every minute of the convention on c-span. listen on the c-span radio app or or watch on our web site c-span.org. a popular steak shop is a pit stop for candidates to connect with the community through food. >> and italian market section of philadelphia where geno's steaks with professor bruce hardy temple university. professor hardy the food photo op when you do become a staple? >> the food photo op coincides with this media campaign to more personalized presents a campaign.

they wanted to show the community that i understand you and i understand your valleys -- values and it gives them a personal life to their campaign. >> in terms terms of years at the start of what decades are we saying where it really caught on? >> i think it's been ongoing probably since post-war campaign since we started introducing the campaigns in the 50s and when the candidates come in they stop at the right bar and they drink the right beer and it really connects with the community. food is higher among the communities so we refer to them in terms of geographic region. so it has really connected to the community. >> water one of the more memorable food ops every year? >> for example here in philadelphia and 2004 john kerry came in and ordered swiss cheese he got a lot of flack for that and in 2012 mitt romney walked

into a kfc in order to fry chicken but took the skin off because he wanted a more nutritious or healthier option and everyone knows you don't be fried chicken by taking the skin off in the south. the 191980s gerald ford but into a cornhusk at the alamo and that committee was shocked by that. >> so some risk involved in the food photo op. as a professor of strategic strategic medication what is the price you would give to candidates? >> make sure you know the community and it's not just food. it's anything that ties the community and that we room for barack obama throwing a gutter ball and a bowling alley or when he spoke to farmers in iowa and asked if they had been to whole foods for rogel and there was no whole foods and be where in iowa. so you have to be careful. you have to know the community and of the values and that's what they are doing.

these campaigns are, the opposition is out to make the candidate look like they are out of touch. >> when you get to the ordering spottswood is the right way to order a geno's cheesesteak? >> you get your stake first and you say with, which means with onion or provolone or american cheese and then you get your drink at the second window. >> and the in the right way the eve that cheesesteak? >> when it's hot and greasy with your hands and a fork and knife wouldn't look so great. >> we are across the street from pat's king of steaks another well-known cheesesteak cheesesteak spot in philadelphia. how does the candidate choose between one or the other? >> i would tell the candidates to go to both. >> which candidates have been to one or the other or both the cycle? >> i don't think our front-runner nominee donald trump or hillary have been here yet. maybe hillary will come through this week while she is here at the dnc. scott walker was here during the

primaries but some protesters were behind him with signs so the photo op that ruins. we will see if hillary stops by this week. >> enjoy your cheesesteak this morning. >> thank you very much. >> the lineup at the democratic convention tonight on c-span includes senators elizabeth warren and cory booker former presidential candidate bernie sanders and first lady michelle obama. debbie wasserman schultz did not gavel in the democratic national convention this afternoon and she is not going to speak at the convention either. the dnc chair plans to resign from her position on friday after staff e-mails were leaked including one talking about former presidential candidate senator bernie standard -- bernie sanders. let's take a look at debbie wasserman schultz speaking to the florida delegates as morning at a breakfast. [applause]

[applause] [cheers and applause] [chanting] [applause] >> okay, okay, now we are going to have senator murphy come back would you like to come back up and introduce debbie? >> listen, let me tell you this. that may have everybody sit down for a second.

[chanting] [cheers and applause] >> all right but have everybody sit down for a second. listen, i want to introduce to you somebody who has been -- let's have everybody's attention. let's have everybody sit down, please.

let the introduced to everybody somebody who has been an unbelievable leader to our party, somebody who has spent a great -- who has been a great friend of mine. somebody who was one of the first people to call me after the awful tragedy in my state, somebody who is going to continue to be a great leader for the state of florida and for the united states of america, debbie wasserman schultz. [applause] >> thank you so much. thank you. thank you so much. thank you. okay, thank you very much.

thank you. if i could ask everybody to settle down. thank you so much. thank you. thank you so much. [applause] good morning florida! it is so wonderful to be able to be here in my home state. all right everybody now, settle down. everybody settle down please. all right we have a big program today. let's be respectful. please be quiet so debbie can speak. it's okay, everybody let's hear from our speaker. we have other speakers as well.

>> thank you all so much. [booing] >> first of all i want to ask everybody to join me in technology in that we had a tragic shooting in fort meyers just yesterday. where there were children who were in harm's way and people lost their lives. [booing] we know something, we know something in florida about making sure that we can have the voices across our state heard. i am standing with the people who were injured and two were killed. it's so incredibly important.

so i know that you and i together will continue to fight to make sure that people who should not have guns cannot get access to them and i will continue to fight every day with you to make sure that doesn't happen. [applause] so i can see there's a little bit of interest in my being here and i appreciate that interest and a little bit of interest from the press but that really shows you that florida is the most significant battleground state so we will make sure that hillary clinton is elected president of the united states of america. [applause] we are at the state that will deliver the white house to make sure that we can continue to make the progress that we have been able to make under barack obama for the last eight years.

[applause] i am so proud to have been able to surf as the chair of the democratic national committee and yesterday, yesterday i had the great honor of speaking to both president obama and hillary clinton. i thanked president obama for the honor of serving as the chair of the democratic national committee and being able to watch his back and bring them across the finish line in 2012. we are going to do it again. i also spoke, i also had the privilege of speaking to hillary clinton and she thanked me for my service. we had a wonderful conversation. she asked me and i committed to her that i would serve as a

surrogate throughout this campaign so that we could make sure that she is able to help told on the progress that we have been able to make for the last eight years. so we have a lot of work to do. we have so much to do and we have to make sure that we move forward together in a unified way. we know that the voices in this room that are standing up and being disruptive, we know that is not the florida that we know. the florida that we know is united. the florida that we know can create jobs like the 14.8 billion jobs that were created under barack obama's leadership, the 20 million people who now have health care that didn't have it before. for me as a breast cancer survivor and i know there are many survivors in this room, we have to make sure that insurance companies can't deny his

coverage that they used to be able to do to kick us to the curb when it came to covering us with health care. we have had three-quarters of the deficit reduced under president obama and we have made sure that we continue to build our economy and we will under president hillary clinton make sure, we must undergo a clinton make sure that our economy works for everyone. i look forward to continuing to wrap present my constituents in florida 23rd congressional district and i thank all of you, i thank all of you for your incredible support. i'm going to continue to make sure that florida has a strong voice. we are loud and proud on our values and you will see me every day between now and november 8 on the campaign trail and we will lock arms and we will not

stand down. we will store the people of florida with the priorities -- thank you very much. thank you. [cheers and applause] bosco. >> all right, thank you. everybody get back in your seats. we have further speakers coming up. [inaudible conversations] where is he? i see him.

all right everybody thank you. >> and the democratic convention underway now in philadelphia. held in the wells fargo center. you can listen on the c-span radio app or watch on our web site c-span.org. a historic interpreter who plays founding father benjamin franklin was interviewed by c-span just before the start of the convention. >> we are at the betsy ross house just off of independent small, joined by philadelphia's most famous son benjamin franklin and mr. franklin i want to ask you today what you think of the political convention going on in this town? >> i find it very interesting. it's not something i'm familiar with, a political convention in my time in this country. we don't have political parties although i'm amelia with political parties at my time

there but it's an interesting gathering of people in the seems to be democracy at work. >> this is a convention that is being covered by over 10,000 members of the media. talk about the media in your day. >> the media in my day could actually change opinions and as a newspaper man myself i wanted to change opinions from time to time. i will give you an example of the media in my day and tell you about our constitutional convention very briefly. in 1787 we met in the state of the pennsylvania to former constitution were this country but we had people come from all parts of the country with various views, various interest and so we decided that we were going to meet in secret for four months. i don't think you could do this now get way with this over four months week that in a closed upstate house were no media access was had and that's how we were able to get a constitution that i do believe as its allies in the press every day that

probably some people would have just given up and gone home. >> these days politicians are so worried about their favorability ratings and how they are in the polls. can you talk about the politician of your time and whether you think that anybody would be as worried as they are today about the poll numbers and favorability ratings? >> george washington i don't think would be worried because he is who he was. john adams was convinced that no one would know who he was. he said something like when the history of this republic is written it will be that dr. franklin struck the rod with his lightning rod sewed john adams might be worried about his image that we are not worried about his image. >> if we could step away from benjamin franklin for second and talk to the man behind the german franklin. can you tell us your name? >> billows my name name. >> how long have you been studying to be benjamin franklin? >> i've been studying benjamin franklin for many years but certainly for the last 15 years or so i have studied him

intensely. i consider myself a serious student of history and benjamin franklin and now more and more a passionate student. i put in several thousand hours. i want to do this right. i want to be able to speak as benjamin franklin and not just how i think benjamin franklin would answer something. i want to speak as much as possible as franklin would speak because i am after all trying to bring him to people. >> what is your favorite heart of portraying benjamin franklin? >> first of all it's the respect that all it's their respective franklin as my people but the respect that i have for him a man who was an innovator, a man who was a curious person always trying to not only invent things but to reinvent himself constantly. that is something i've done in my life and that's what i think is interesting about him. >> who are you portraying benjamin franklin for? what is your group?

>> today i'm here representing the historic philadelphia incorporated. we are a nonprofit organization who brings free historical programming to people through storytellers, the costumes interpreters and such. you can meet bill rogue one, ben franklin on the streets of philadelphia at the democratic national convention. thank you. >> in the lineup at the democratic convention tonight includes senators elizabeth warren and cory booker, former presidential candidate bernie sanders and first lady michelle obama. you can watch every minute of the convention on c-span, listen on the c-span radio app and always watch on line at c-span.org. as the convention got underway today hillary clinton was addressing the national convention of the veterans of foreign wars in charlotte, north carolina. ♪

>> please be seated. our next guest is the first, first lady ever elected to public office and is the first new york, the first new yorker to ever serve as the senate arms forces committee which she did for eight years in the united states senate from the empire state. she last appeared before us in 2007 as a candidate for president of the united states and before moving on to serve our nation as secretary of state in the first obama administration, i would like to also point out that she is a former first lady, married to bill clinton are past president, rigidly from chicago. she graduated from wellesley college in yale law school and as i said married to bill clinton. enough times?

i think so. comrades and auxiliary members may present to you the presumptive democratic party nominee to become the next president of the united states, former secretary of state hillary rodham clinton. [applause] >> thank you. thank you so much. [applause] thank you very much commander for that very warm welcome. thanks to your executive director, bob wallace and all the men and women at the vfw, and of the auxiliary for your commitment, your service and your actions on behalf of americans veterans. this is the 117th national convention. that is quite a legacy. and in that time, the vfw has

built a record to be proud of. you have then a moving force behind hallmark achievements like the creation of the va, the passage of the g.i. of the, the establishment of national monuments dedicated to those who fight in world war ii the korean war, the war in vietnam, women in military service and veterans disabled for life. these monuments are sacred places. i have been to many of them, also to our cemeteries around the world. people comment to sit quietly, maybe lay a flower or a letter or other memento.

to reflect on the courage and sacrifice of those who fight for our nation and our ideals. i don't think it is an overstatement for me to say those memorials might not exist if it weren't for you. so, thank you and thank you for standing up today and every day for veterans health, for veterans education, for the right of all veterans to dignity and security and thank you for continuing to push our nation to live up to our obligation to those who serve. i have been a direct beneficiary of your expertise and commitment some of my top advisers are members of the vfw.

.. therefore i am deeply honored that he endorsed me this morning his confidence in me

and the other military leaders to support my campaign means a great deal to me but also imposes a high responsibility on me as well. so i think you for what you have done behind the scenes as well as in public to make sure that america keeps our promises honors our history and gives our veterans the respect and the opportunity they have earned. a lot of the issues you have fought for are at stake in this election they are grappling with big questions how do we keep this country safe how we make the world safer. how do we make sure that we give our troops what they need to see their mission through. and when they come home that they have the support and