host: time for one more call on why you are supporting hillary clinton. christie in indiana, why is that? you so hello, thank much, i am surprised. think first and foremost, having a woman president is so necessary in this country. a goodevery woman is man. i am not against men. i feel like abortion is a big issue. choose.rd to because she supports everybody coming into this country. a -- hardape -- it is thing to do. i have friends who have been and and because of religion pressure, they did not have an abortion. -- donald trump has been clear does he get his money?

the he get his money from backs of women? mail order brides? hillary clinton doesn't come from the viral abuse of anyone, boys or girls. it is not taken seriously. it was scary when the democrats said that with them control. how will we ever get stronger with domestic violence and rape laws? i am a nursing student. i am an older mom with two kids in college. and i am going to school for nursing. host: where are you attending? caller: community college. host: thank you for calling in. thank you everyone. "washington journal" will be back tomorrow from the independent small area in philadelphia. we have been giving away a lot of political trinkets.

if you happen to be in the area, if you live here, come down and see us at the c-span bus. live coverage of the convention, begins as afternoon. ♪ >> you will have a front-row the to every minute of democratic national convention on c-span.org. watch live streams of the proceedings without commentary or commercials. tool tovideo flipping create your own clips of your favorite moment and share them on social media. read twitter feeds from delegates in philadelphia. our special convention pages have everything you need to get the most coverage.

go to c-span.org for updated schedule information to see what is happening during each session. every speech will be available on demand for viewing when you want. our special convention pages and service-span.org is a of your cable provider. if you are a c-span watcher, check it out on the web. former president bill clinton will take the stage tonight. the former president will provide his wife's lesser-known celebrations. her policy campaigns as first lady and work as senator from new york. this will be bill clinton's 10th consecutive address. cover starts at 4:00 p.m. eastern. yesterday, donna brazile issued an apology for the contents of the leaked e-mail, saying on behalf of everyone, we want to

offer a deep and sincere apology to bernie sanders, his supporters and everyone in the party for the inexcusable remarks made over e-mail. these comments do not reflect the values of the dnc. .onna brazile talk to c-span here is a look at the five-minute interview. >> thank you. i love you all. get some rest. tomorrow. my favorite cable television. >> thank you for spending a moment with us. donna brazile, you have a role that you did not anticipate. how did this unfold? >> quickly. no sooner had i returned from washington and got some fresh clothes to come to philadelphia after the republican national convention -- i came in early because i saw the breaking news. i wanted to respond to it in

person. although i am not a member of the rules committee of the convention, i am a permanent number of the rules committee for the democratic national committee. i wanted to come here and be withof that and i also met the bernie sanders team. we decided we needed to issue an apology. i guess one could say that the apology along with some other issues -- let us just say this is my second stint, if it happens on friday, i will be the interim chair of the party. i was interim chair in 2011 when senator tim kaine -- i'm sorry, when tim kaine ran for senator. i have to get it right, i am tired. >> let me ask you about the earliert you issued saying that he will make sure it never happens again. how did this happen? >> i don't have all of the

materials. what i do know is that the fbi determined that -- the federal officials alerted the dnc that we were being hacked. the dnc responded by changing its protocols. the hackers redid the protocols. this led to a big security breach which we are now seeing the results of that. we are taking steps within the party. i don't have all of the materials and evidence, because i am not privy to the information yet, but we are taking very important steps to ensure that our data is never compromised and that the security system is the very best in the world. >> will debbie wasserman schultz be on the podium at any time this week? >> i am not the chair of the party. i respect her wishes. debbie made the decision to step down. she made the decision today, because everyone is working to unify the party and bring it together to help the next president of the united states, hillary clinton and her running

mate, tim kaine. debbie has made all of these decisions. she is a terrific lady. i know her, she is my friend and colleague. i support her wishes. >> is this a united party? >> everyone thinks you can overcome grief in 12 steps but you can unify in one day. we are working hard to unify a party that is passionate about raising wages of americans. keeping them safe and secure. we had a very long, contested, and challenging primary. i am proud of my party. that is what people do when you are in a democracy. imagine, 240 years ago, what did the framers do? how did they resolve their differences? it probably was messy but they came together and guess what? we are still here. >> any interest in being the party chair? >> oh, no.

you know, one of the things i thought about over the last couple of days, i love cnn and abc and i am grateful for the opportunities i have had as a commentator. i'm going back to who i really am. i am an organizer. i can't wait to go home and take some time off and rest. , wanted to become someone else and you said no, you are who you are. so i am going back to who i am, an organizer. i will work very hard. i will take a salary of one dollar. if we win i will ask them to give me $.50 back. but i love my party and my country. i want to say on a personal note -- she is not here. tonight, we heard from elizabeth warren who is a great and wonderful woman. but 40 years ago, i heard from barbara jurgensen -- i heard from barbara jordan many years ago. and tonight we heard from cory booker and michelle obama and of course bernie sanders. i am happy. somewhere in heaven there is a

choir. those who are fighters for justice and equality and tonight, they heard a joyful noise. it may not have been as harmonic as the noise in heaven, but still a joyful noise. this is my ninth convention. i am 56 years old. 40 years in the democratic process. i am proud of my work. who knew that in my 40th year i would have to go back to be an organizer? but i am happy. >> donna brazile, the interim chair. >> i love you. i love my students in georgetown. cnn and abc knows this, but i want to tell my students who signed up for my class -- i may not be there this semester but i want you to volunteer to be my intern. i will always make your coffee. god bless you. >> donna brazile, thank you for your time. the green party's

presidential candidate, jill stein, has said she would step aside if bernie sanders ran for the third party. conventionarty its august 4-7. that will be in houston. last night, bernie sanders reiterated his support for hillary clinton. the new york times reports that he has left a mark beyond this political year by bringing the lineal into politics. here is a look at his half-hour speech from last night's convention. >> please welcome senator bernie sanders from vermont. [cheering] [applause]

bernie sanders: thank you. [cheering] [applause] bernie sanders: thank you. thank you. [cheering] [applause] bernie sanders: thank you. [cheering] bernie sanders: thank you all

very much. thank you. [cheering] [applause] sanders: thank you. thank you very much. [cheering] [applause] bernie sanders: thank you. thank you. is -- it is an honor. [cheering] thank you.ers: [cheering] [applause] sanders: thank you very much.

[cheering] isnie sanders: it is -- it an honor to be here tonight. [cheering] bernie sanders: thank you. thank you very much. [cheering] bernie sanders: thank you. thank you. it is an honor to be here tonight and to be following in the footsteps of my good friend , elizabeth warren. [cheering] bernie sanders: and to be here tonight to thank michelle obama

for her incredible service to our country. [applause] bernie sanders: she has made all of us proud. theie begin by thanking hundreds of thousands of americans who actively participated in our campaign as volunteers. thank you. [cheering] [applause] bernie sanders: let me thank the 2.5 million americans who helped fund our campaign with an unprecedented 8 million individual campaign contributions. [cheering] [applause] sanders: anyone know what that average contribution was? >> $27.

bernie sanders: that's right. $27. let me thank the 13 million americans who voted for the political revolution. [cheering] bernie sanders: giving us the 1846 pledged delegates here tonight. [cheering] bernie sanders: and delegates, thank you for being here and thank you for all the work you have done.

[cheering] bernie sanders: i look forward to your votes during the roll call tomorrow night. [cheering] [applause] bernie sanders: and let me offer a special thanks to the people of my own state of vermont. [cheering] bernie sanders: who have sustained me and supported me as a mayor, congressman, senator and presidential candidate.

[cheering] bernie sanders: and to my family, my wife jane, four kids and seven grandchildren, thank you very much. [cheering] bernie sanders: i understand that many people here in this convention hall, 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. [cheering] [applause] bernie sanders: but to all of our supporters here and around the country, i hope you take enormous pride in the historical accomplishments we have achieved. [cheering]

bernie sanders: together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform america. revolution, our revolution, continues. [cheering] bernie sanders: election days come and go. but the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the 1%. [cheering] bernie sanders: a government based on the principles of

economic, social, racial, and environmental justice, that struggle continues. [cheering] bernie sanders: and i look forward to being part of that struggle with you. [cheering] bernie sanders: let me be as clear as i can be. this election is not about, and has never been about, hillary clinton, or donald trump, or bernie sanders or any of the other candidates who sought the presidency. this election is not about political gossip. it's not about polls. it's not about campaign strategy. it's not about fund-raising. it's not about all the things that the media spends so much time discussing. [cheering]

bernie sanders: this election is about, and must be about, the needs of the american people and the kind of future we create for our children and grandchildren. [cheering] bernie sanders: this election is about ending the 40-year decline of our middle class. [cheering] bernie sanders: the reality that 47 million men, women and children live in poverty. it is about understanding that

if we do not transform our economy, our younger generation will likely have a lower standard of living then their parents. this election is about ending the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality that we have in america today. [cheering] bernie sanders: it is not moral, not acceptable and it is not sustainable that the top 1/10 of 1% now own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90%. >> [booing]

bernie sanders: or that the top 1% in recent years has earned 85% of all new income. that is unacceptable. that must change. this election is about we were 7.5where re years ago, when president obama came into office after eight years of republican trickle-down economics. [cheering] bernie sanders: the republicans want us to forget that as a result of the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior on wall street, our economy was in the worst economic downturn since the great depression.

that is where we were. that is where we were. some 800,000 people a month were losing their jobs. 800,000 people. we were running up a record-breaking deficit of $1.4 trillion. and by the way, the world's financial system was on the verge of collapse. that is where we were when president obama came into office. we have come a long way in the last 7.5 years, and i thank president obama and vice president biden. [cheering] bernie sanders: i thank them for their leadership in pulling us out of that terrible recession. yes, we have made progress, but

i think we can all agree that much, much more needs to be done. [cheering] bernie sanders: this election is about which candidate understands the real problems facing this country and has offered real solutions. [cheering] bernie sanders: not just bombast, fear-mongering, not just name-calling and divisiveness. we need leadership in this country which will improve the lives of working families, the children, the elderly, the sick and the poor. [cheering] bernie sanders we need : leadership which brings our people together and makes us stronger.

[cheering] bernie sanders: not leadership which insults latinos, mexicans, insults muslims and women, african-americans and veterans and seeks to divide us up. [cheering] bernie sanders: by these measures, any objective observer will conclude that based on her ideas and her leadership, hillary clinton must become the next president of the united states. [cheering] the choice --:

[cheering] this election, this election, this election is about a single mother i saw in nevada who, with tears in her eyes, told me that she was scared to death about the future because she and her daughter were not making it on the $10.45 an hour she was earning. this election is about that woman and the millions of other

workers in this country who are struggling to survive on totally inadequate wages. [cheering] bernie sanders: hillary clinton understands that if someone in this country works 40 hours a week, that person should not be living in poverty. [cheering] bernie sanders: she understands that we must raise the minimum wage to a living wage. [cheering] bernie sanders: and she is determined to create millions of new jobs by rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, our roads, bridges, water systems

and wastewater plants. [cheering] bernie sanders: but her opponent, donald trump, well, he has a very different view. he does not support raising the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, a starvation wage. while donald trump believes in yuuuge tax breaks for billionaires, he believes that states should actually have the right to lower the minimum wage below $7.25. brothers and sisters, this election is about overturning citizens united. [cheering]

bernie sanders: citizens united is one of the worst supreme court decisions in the history of our country. [cheering] bernie sanders: that decision allows the wealthiest people in america, like the billionaire koch brothers -- >> [booing] bernie sanders: -- to spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying elections and, in the process, undermine american democracy. >> [booing] bernie sanders: hillary clinton will nominate justices to the supreme court who are prepared to overturn citizens united.

[cheering] and end thers: movement toward oligarchy that we are seeing in this country. our supreme court appointments will also defend a woman's right to choose. [cheering] workers' rights, the rights of the lgbt community. [cheering] bernie sanders: the needs of minorities and immigrants, and the government's ability to protect our environment. believe that this election is important, if you

think you can sit it out, take a moment to think about the supreme court justices that donald trump would nominate. and what that would mean to civil liberties, equal rights, and the future of our country. this election is about the thousands of young people i have met all over this country. [cheering] bernie sanders: the thousands that i have met who left college tragically,bt and the many others who cannot afford to go to college. during the primary campaign,

secretary clinton and i both focused on this issue but with somewhat different approaches. we have comeever, together on a proposal that will revolutionize higher education in america. [applause] [cheering] it willanders: guarantee that the children of any family in this ofntry with an annual income $125,000 a year or less, 83% of our population, will be able to go to a public college or university tuition free. [applause] [cheering] bernie sanders: that proposal

also substantially reduces student debt. [cheering] this election is about climate change, a great environmental crisis facing our planet. worlde need to leave this in a way that is healthy and habitable for our children and future generations. [cheering] clintonanders: hillary is listening to the scientists who tell us that unless we act boldly to transform our energy system in the very near future, there will be more droughts, more floods, more acidification

of the oceans, more rising sea levels. she understands that we can create hundreds of thousands of jobs transforming our energy system. [applause] [cheering] trump,sanders: donald like most republicans, he chooses to reject science. >> [booing] he believes that climate change is a hoax, no need to address it. hillary clinton understands that a president's job is to worry about future generations, not the profits of the fossil fuel industry. [cheering] [applause] this campaign is about moving the united states toward universal health care.

[cheering] and reducing the number of people who are uninsured or underinsured. hillary clinton wants to see that all americans have the right to choose a public option in their health care exchange. [applause] [cheering] bernie sanders: she believes that anyone 55 or older should be able to opt into medicare. see millions to more americans gain access to primary health care, dental care, mental health counseling, prescription drugs. a major expansion of community health centers. [cheering] bernie sanders: what is donald trump's position on health care?

no surprise there, same old republican content for working families. he wants to abolish the thro 20le care act, million people off of health insurance. >> [booing] and cut medicaid for lower income americans. understandston also that millions of seniors, and othersterans, are struggling with the outrageously high cost of prescription drugs. and the fact that americans pay the highest prices in the world for the medicine we use. she knows that medicare must negotiate drug prices with the pharmaceutical industry. [cheering] [applause] bernie sanders: and that drug

companies should not be making billions in profit when one out of five americans are unable to afford the medicine they need. the greed of the drug companies must end. [cheering] this election is about the leadership we need to pass comprehensive immigration reform and repair a broken criminal justice system. [cheering] bernie sanders: it is about making sure that young people in this country are in good schools and in good jobs, not rotting in jail cells. [cheering] hillary clinton

understands that we have to jobs for education and our young people, not more jails or incarceration. in these stressful times for our country, this election must be about bringing our people together, not dividing us up. [cheering] bernie sanders: while donald trump is busy insulting one group after another, hillary clinton understands that our diversity is one of our greatest strengths. [cheering] [applause] yes, we haves: become stronger -- we become stronger when black and white,

latino, asian american, native american, when we all stand together. yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay andstraight, nativeborn immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become. [cheering] it is no sees: group that hillary clinton and i disagree on a number of issues. that is what this campaign has been about. that is what democracy is about. [applause] bernie sanders: i am happy to tell you that at the democratic platform committee, there was a significant coming together andeen the two campaigns, we produced by far the most

progressive platform in the history of the democratic party. [applause] [cheering] among many, many other strong provisions, the democratic party now calls for breaking up the major financial institutions on wall street. [applause] passageanders: and the glass-steagallry act. it also calls for strong opposition to job killing trade agreements like the tpp. [applause]

-- we sanders: our job have got to make sure that tpp the not get to the floor of congress in the lame-duck session. [cheering] [applause] our job now is to see that strong democratic platform implemented by a democratic controlled senate. [applause] bernie sanders: by a democratic house and a hillary clinton presidency. [cheering]

bernie sanders: and i am going make all that i can to that happen. [cheering] [applause] bernie sanders: i have known hillary clinton for 25 years. i remember her as you do, as a great first lady who broke president in terms of the role that a first lady was supposed lead theas she helped fight for universal health care. [applause] bernie sanders: i served with her in the united states senate and know her as a fierce advocate for the rights of children, for women, and for the disabled. [cheering] bernie sanders: hillary clinton will make an outstanding president and i am proud to

stand with her tonight. thank you all very much. [cheering] [applause] >> republican presidential candidate donald trump tweeted this out during the democratic convention -- bernie sanders totally sold out to cricket hillary clinton. , andf that work, energy money, and nothing to show for it. bernie sanders responded, never

tweet. sanders supporters began chanting his name during a low in the program. al franken and sarah sanderson were on the stage. here is what happened after that speech. hillary.y, hillary, say, can the bernie or bust people, you are being ridiculous. [cheering] you made me cut off my speech.

i have so much i want to say. , listen, listen what you did. this is a comedian. this is the power of comedy. >> thank god we are victims of both. we have been -- i want to thank you because sarah and i have been asked to stretch because we are about to introduce someone that we are both huge fans of. how are we doing, guys? are we close?

we will see. you know, sarah, what i love about as both being here is that , it is like we are a bridge. >> how do you figure that we are a bridge? >> you were for bernie, i am for hillary. we are like a bridge over troubled -- >> oh, good lord. >> the result of those comments last night, washington post politics tweeted this out. former president bill clinton will take the stage tonight at the dnc in philadelphia. the associated press reports he will provide what aides are saying hit are his wife's

lesser-known achievements as a child advocacy lawyer and her work as senator of new york. this will be bill clinton's 10th consecutive convention address. that will be at 4:30 p.m. eastern. >> you will have a front row seat to the dnc on c-span. use our video clipping tool to create your own clips of your favorite convention moments and share them on social media. also, read twitter feeds from delegates in philadelphia. our convention pages have what you need to get the most of the gavel to gavel coverage. information, to see what is happening in each convention session, and every speech will be available for viewing when you want. our special convention pages and

all of c-span.org are a public service of your cable or satellite provider. watcher,e a c-span check it out on the web at c-span.org. >> the new york times says first lady michelle obama delivered one of the most stirring speeches at the democratic convention last night. here is what she said. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome first lady michelle obama. [cheering] honestly, i want to see you be brave i want to see you be brave just want to see you

i want to see you be brave want to see you i want to see you be brave ♪ ms. obama: thank you, all. thank you so much. you know it is hard to believe that it has been eight years since i first came to this convention to talk with you about why i thought my husband should be president. remember how i told you about his character and conviction, thedecency and his grace, traits that we have seen every

day that he serves our country in the white house? [cheering] ms. obama: i also told you about our daughters, how they are the heart of our hearts, the center of our world, and during our time in the white house we have had the joy of watching them grow from bubbly little girls to poised young women, a journey that started shortly after we arrived in washington when they set off for their first day at their new schools. i will never forget that winter morning as i watched our girls, just seven and 10 years old, heil into those black suvs with all of those big men with guns. i saw their little faces pressed up against the window, and the only thing i could think was, what have we done? [laughter] realized our time

in the white house would form the foundation for who they would become and how well we managed the experience could truly make or break them. thinks what barack and i about every day as we try to guide and protect our girls through the challenges of this unusual life in the spotlight. how we urge them to ignore those who question their father's citizenship or faith. [cheering] insist thatow we the hateful language they hear from public figures on tv does not represent the true spirit of this country. [cheering] explain thatw we when someone is cruel or acts like a bully you do not stoop to their level. our motto is when they go low, we go high. [cheering] ms. obama: with every word we

utter, we know our kids are watching us. we are our kids' largest role model and we take the job seriously because we know that our words and actions matter not just to our girls, but the children across this country, tvs who tell us i saw you on , i wrote a report on you for school. boy like the little black who looked up at my husband, his eyes wide with hope and he wondered, is my hair like yours? and make no mistake about it, this november when we go to the polls, that is what we are deciding. not democrat or republican, not left or right. in this election and every election is about who will have the power to shape our children

for the next four or eight years of their lives. [cheering] tonighta: and i am here because in this election, there is only one person who i trust with that responsibility. only one person who i believe is truly qualified to be president of the united states, and that is our friend, hillary clinton. [cheering] [applause] ms. obama: that is right. see, i trust hillary to lead this country because i have seen her lifelong devotion to our nation's children, not just her own daughter who she has raised

to perfection, but every child who needs a champion. kids who take the long way to school to avoid the gang. kids who wonder how they will ever afford college. kids whose parents do not speak a word of english the dream of a better life. kids who look to us to determine who and what they can be. hillary has spent decades doing the relentless, thankless work to make a difference in their lives. [cheering] [applause] for kids: advocating with disabilities as a young lawyer, fighting for children's health care as first lady, and for quality childcare in the senate. when she did not win the nomination eight years ago, she did not get angry or disillusioned. [cheering]

[applause] not pack: hillary did , because as a true public servant, hillary knows that this is so much bigger than her own desires and disappointment. [cheering] [applause] ms. obama: so she proudly stepped up to serve our country once again as secretary of state, traveling the globe to keep our kids safe. were plenty of moments when hillary could have decided that this work was too hard, that the price of public service was too high, that she was tired of being picked apart for how she looked, talked, or laughed. it here is the thing -- what admire most about hillary is that she never buckles under pressure.

she never takes the easy way out. and hillary clinton has never quit on anything in her life. [cheering] [applause] and when i think about the kind of president that i want for my girls and all our children, that is what i want. i want someone with the proven persevere, someone who knows this job and takes it seriously, someone who understands that the issues a president faces are not black and white and cannot be boiled down to 140 characters. [cheering] [applause] because when you have the nuclear codes at your

fingertips and the military in your command, you cannot make snap decisions. you cannot have a thin skin or tendency to lash out. you need to be steady and measured and well informed. [cheering] [applause] ms. obama: i want a president with a record of public service, work showsse life's our children we do not face -- chase fame and fortune for ourselves but we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed. and we give back, even when we are struggling ourselves because we know that there is always someone worse off. president who will teach our children that everyone a this country matters,

president who truly believes in the vision that our founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each part -- are a part of the beloved american story. when crisis hits, we do not turn against each other. we listen to each other. we lean on each other because we are always stronger together. [cheering] [applause] tonighta: and i am here because i know that that is the kind of president that hillary clinton will be, and that is why in this election i am with her. [cheering] [applause] ms. obama: you see, hillary understands that the president

is about one thing and one thing only. it is about leaving something better for our kids. that is how we have always moved this country forward by all of us coming together on behalf of our children. folks who volunteered to coach that team, teach that sunday school class because they know it takes a village. creed of every color and who wear the uniform and risk their lives to keep passing down those blessings of liberty. police officers and protesters in dallas who all desperately want to keep our children safe. people who lined up in orlando to donate blood because it could have been their son, their daughter in that club. [cheering] [applause] leaders like tim kaine. [cheering]

who show our kids what decency and devotion look like. leaders like hillary clinton who have the guts and the grace to keep coming back and putting cracks in that hard as glass ceiling until she finally breaks through, lifting all of us along with her. that is the story of this country. the story that has brought me to this stage tonight. the story of generations of people who felt the lash of bondage, the shame of servitude, the staying of segregation, but who kept on striving and hoping and doing what needed to be done so that today, i wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves. [cheering] [applause] watched myand i

daughters, two beautiful, intelligent black young women playing with their dog on the white house lawn. [cheering] [applause] and because of daughtersinton, my and all our sons and daughters now take for granted that a woman can be president of the united states. [cheering] [applause] so do not so look, let anyone ever tell you that this country is not great. that somehow we need to make it

great again, he does this right now is the greatest country on earth. [cheering] [applause] and as my daughters prepared to set out in the world, i want a leader that is worthy of that truth, a leader that is worthy of my girls' promise, a leader that will be guided every day by the love and hope and impossibly big dreams that we all have for our children. so in this election, we cannot sit back and hope that everything works out for the best. we cannot afford to be tired or frustrated or cynical. me, the between now and november we need to do what we did eight years ago and four years ago. [cheering]

we need to knock on every door. we need to get out every vote. we need to pour every last ounce of our passion and our strength and our love for this country into electing hillary clinton as president of the united states of america. so let's get to work. thank you all, and god bless. [cheering] [applause]

>> at the 2016 democratic national convention, hillary clinton becomes the first woman nominee of a major political party for president of the united states. join c-span at 3:00 p.m. eastern at a preview of the convention's events and speakers followed by coverage of every event at the convention. speaker will be bill clinton. president obama and vice president biden will speak. chelsea clinton will introduce her mother before she accepts the nomination for president of the united states. the democratic convention begins

at 3:00 today on c-span, the c-span radio app, and c-span.org. >> another series of protests and rallies as planned today arena.e wells fargo temperatures have been in the 90's in philadelphia but that has not stopped the demonstrations. live pictures from the wells fargo center. gabby for is attending a rally for common sense guide legislation.- gone she was shot and a campaign .ally in tucson john lewis is one of the politicians attending. bernie sanders supporters gather around city hall. talked with awe protest organizer about the weather outside the dnc despite

the extreme heat. we are at the betsy ross house, just off of independent small joined by philadelphia's most famous son, benjamin franklin. i want to ask you what you think of the political convention going on in this town. >> i find it very interesting. it is not something i am familiar with. i am familiar with political parties in england for my time there. it is an interesting gathering of people and it seems to be democracy at work. >> this is being covered by over 10,000 members of the media. can you talk about the media in your day? >> the media in my day and i am guessing in yours, could change opinions. 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 house of pennsylvania to form a constitution and we had people come from all parts of the country with various views and interests. we decided we were going to meet in secret for months. we met in a close up statehouse where no media access was had. that is how we were able to get a constitution. i do believe had we had this analyzed in the press every day, that probably some people would have given up and gone home. sothese days politicians are 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 poll numbers and favorability? >> george washington i do not

think would be worried because of who he was. john adams would have been concerned. john adams might be worried about his image but we are not worried about his image. i wonder if we could step away from benjamin franklin and talk to the man behind benjamin franklin. >> bill roebling is my name. >> how long have you step -- have you studied to be benjamin franklin? 15certainly for the last years or so i have studied it intensely. i consider myself a serious student of history and benjamin franklin, and now a more passionate student. i have put in several thousand hours. i want to be able to speak as benjamin franklin and not necessarily how i think he would answer something. i want to speak as much as

possible as franklin would speak because i'm trying to bring him to people. >> what is your favorite part of portraying benjamin franklin? >> first of all the respect he has, but also the respect i have for him. a man who was an innovator, a trying person, not only to invent things but to reinvent himself constantly. are you portraying benjamin franklin for, what is your group? today i am here representing the historic philadelphia incorporated, a nonprofit organization who brings free historical programming to people through storytellers, costume, entertainers and such. bill roebling or ben franklin on the streets of the democratic national convention. thank you. former president bill clinton

will be on the stage tonight at the democratic national convention in philadelphia, his 10th consecutive convention address. a preview program starts at 2:00 p.m. eastern. massachusetts senator elizabeth warren spoke to the democratic national convention last night. she endorsed hillary clinton and thanked bernie sanders for energizing progressives. she also addressed the republican nominee donald trump. [cheering] sen. warren: thank you. i love that. thank you.

and thank you, massachusetts, for the great honor of serving as your senator. thank you guys. [cheering] sen. warren: what a night. wow. michelle obama, cory booker. [cheering] sen. warren: and we still have bernie coming up. [cheering] sen. warren: bernie reminds us what democrats fight for every day. thank you, bernie. [cheering] sen. warren: we are here tonight because america faces a choice. the choice of a new president. on one side, a man who inherited a fortune from his father and kept it going by teaching

-- cheating people, by skipping out on debt. a man who has never sacrificed anything for anyone. a man who cares only for himself, every minute of every day. on the other side, it's one of those smartest, toughest, most tenacious people on this planet, a woman who fights for children women, health care, human , rights. a woman who fights for all of us and who is strong enough to win those fights. [cheering] sen. warren: we are here today because our choice is hillary clinton. i'm with hillary. [cheering] sen. warren: i'm with hillary. [cheering] sen. warren: for me, this choice is personal. it is about who we are as a people. it is about what kind of a

country we want to be. i grew up in oklahoma. my daddy ended up as a maintenance man. my mom worked a minimum wage job at sears. my three brothers served in the military. the oldest was career, 288 combat missions in vietnam. the second, construction. the third started his own small business. i got married at 19, graduated from a commuter college in texas that cost $50 a semester. [cheering] sen. warren: the way i see it, i'm a janitor's daughter became a public school teacher, a professor and a united states senator. america is truly a country of opportunity. [cheering] sen. warren: i'm deeply grateful to that america. i believe in that america. but i'm worried.

i'm worried that my story is locked in the past. worried that opportunity is slipping away for people who work hard and play by the rules. look around. americans bust their tail, some working two or three jobs. but wages stay flat. meanwhile, the basic cost of making a month-to-month keeps going up. housing, health care, child care. the costs are out of sight. young people are getting crushed by student loans. working people are in debt. seniors can't stretch a social security check to cover the basics and even families who are ok today worry that it could all fall apart tomorrow. this is not right. [cheering] sen. warren: it is not. here's the thing, america is not going broke. the stock market is breaking

records. corporate profits are at all-time highs. ceos make tens of millions of dollars. there is lots of wealth in america but it is not trickling down to hard-working families like yours. [cheering] sen. warren: does anyone here have a problem with that? [cheering] sen. warren: i do too! people get it. the system is rigged. [cheering] sen. warren: it is true. so-called experts claim america is in trouble because both political parties in washington refused to compromise. gridlock. that is just flat wrong. [cheering] sen. warren: washington works great for those at the top. when giant companies want more tax loopholes, washington got it done.

when huge energy companies wanted to tear up our environment, washington got it done. when an enormous wall street regulatoryd new loopholes, washington got it done. no gridlock there. but try to do something, anything for working people, you will have a fight on your hands. democrats have taken on those fights. that is what we do. [cheering] sen. warren: democrats fought to get health insurance for more americans. democrats fought for a strong consumer agencies so big banks cannot cheat people. we improve the lives of millions of people. thank you, barack obama. [cheering]

yes, we won sen. warren: yes, we won but republicans and lobbyists battled us every step of the way. five years later, that consumer agency has returned $11 billion to families who were cheated. republicans, they are still trying to kill it. i'm not someone who thinks that republicans are always wrong and democrats are always right. there is enough blame to go around. but there is a huge difference between people fighting for a level playing field and the people fighting to keep the system rigged. [cheering] sen. warren: look at congress. since the republicans took over. democrats propose refinancing student loans. and republicans said no. democrats proposed ending tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs overseas.

and republicans, they said no. democrats opposed raising the minimum wage and republicans, they said no. so to every republican in congress who said no, this november, the american people are coming for you. [cheering] sen. warren: that is right. [cheering] sen. warren: and where was donald trump in all of these fights? not once did he lift a finger to help working people. and why would he? his whole life has been about taking advantage of that rigged system. time after time, he preyed on

working people people in debt. people that fell on hard times. rauded them all and he has ripped them off. look at his history. donald trump said he was excited for the 2008 housing crash that devastated millions of americans because he thought it would help him scoop up more real estate on the cheap. donald trump set up a fake university to make money by teaching people and taking their life savings. donald trump goes on and on and on about being a successful filedssman, but he business bankruptcy six times always to protect his own money , and stick the investors and contractors with the bills. donald trump hired construction

workers and painters to do hard labor for his businesses and then he told them to take a fraction of what they are owed and fight the lawyers in courts for years. what kind of a man acts like that? what kind of a man roots for an caused --rash that cost millions of people their jobs, their homes, their life savings? what kind of a man cheats students and investors and workers? i will tell you what kind of a man. a man who must never be president of the united states. [cheering] sen. warren: never. [cheering] sen. warren: and we've got the leaders to make it happen. hillary clinton and tim kaine.

[cheering] they are going to make it happen. donald trump knows that the american people are angry. a fact so obvious he can see it from the top of the trump tower. so now, he is insisting that he, and he alone can fix the rigged system. last week, donald trump spoke for more than an hour on the biggest stage he has ever had, but other than talking about building a stupid wall, which will never get built -- [laughter] [cheering] sen. warren: other than that

wall, did you hear any actual ideas? >> no! sen. warren: did you hear even one solid proposal from trump to increase income or improving your kid's education? or creating even one single good paying job? let's face it, donald trump has no real plans for jobs or for college kids were seniors. no plans to make anything great for anyone except rich guys like donald trump. just look at his ideas. donald trump wants to get rid of the federal and minimum wage -- federal minimum wage. donald trump wants to roll back financial regulations and turn wall street loose to wreck our economy again. it donald trump has a tax plan that gives multimillionaires and billionaires like himself an average tax cut of $1.3 million a year.

if you are struggling to put your kids through college and donald trump thinks he needs a million-dollar tax break. his entire campaign is just one more late-night trump infomercial. hand over your money, your job, your children's future and that great trump hot air machine will reveal all the answers. [cheering] and for one low, low price he will even throw in a goofy hat. [laughter] sen. warren: and here is the real ugly underside to his pitch. trump thinks he can win votes by fanning the flames of fear and hatred. by turning neighbor against neighbor. by persuading you that the real problem in america is your

fellow americans. people who do not look like you or who do not talk like you or who do not worship like you. he even pick the vice president famous for trying to make it legal to openly discriminate against gays and lesbians. >> [booing] that is donald trump's america. and america here and hate. an america where we break apart. white against blacks and latinos. christians against muslims and jews. straight against gay. everyone against immigrants. race, religion, heritage, gender, the more factions the better. but ask yourself this, when white workers in ohio are pitted against black workers in north carolina or latino workers in florida, who really benefits? divide and conquer is an old story in america. dr. martin luther king knew it.

after his march from selma to montgomery, he spoke about how segregation was created to keep people divided. instead of higher wages for workers, dr. king described how poor whites in the south were fed jim crow which told of poor white worker that " no matter how bad off you are, at least he was a white man better than the black man." racial hatred was part of keeping the powerful on top. [cheering] sen. warren: when we turn on bankers can run our economy from wall street. oil companies can fight off clean energy. giant corporations can ship the last good jobs overseas. when we turn on each other, rich guys like trump can push through

more tax breaks for themselves and then we will never have enough money to support our schools, or rebuild our highways futures. in our kids' when we turn on each other, we can't unite to fight back against a rigged system. [cheering] sen. warren: but i've got news for donald trump, the american people are not falling for it. [cheering] sen. warren: we have seen this ugliness before and we are not going to be donald trump's hate filled america, not now, not ever. [cheering] this is about our values. about our shared values with our candidate hillary clinton and tim kaine. [cheering] sen. warren: let's talk about those values.

we believe that no matter who you are, no matter where you are from, no matter who you love, equal means equal. hillary will fight to make sure discrimination has no place in america and we are with her. [cheering] sen. warren: we believe that no one, no one who works full-time should live in poverty. hillary will fight for raising the minimum wage, fair scheduling paid family and , medical leave and we are with her. [cheering] sen. warren: we believe every kid in america should have a chance for a great education without getting crushed by debt. hillary will fight for refinancing student loans and debt free college. we are with her. [cheering]

sen. warren: and we believe that after a lifetime of hard work, seniors should be able to retire with dignity. hillary will fight to expand social security, strengthen medicare, and protect our retirement accounts and we are , with her. [cheering] sen. warren: we believe that oil companies should not call the shots in washington. that science matters, that climate change is real. [cheering] sen. warren: hillary will fight to preserve this earth for our children and grandchildren and we are with her. [cheering] sen. warren: we believe, and i can't believe i have to say this in 2016, in equal pay for equal work and a woman's right to

control over her own body. hillary will fight for women and we are with her. [cheering] sen. warren: we believe we don't need weaker rules on wall street. we need stronger rules and when big banks get too risky, break them up. hillary will fight to hold big banks accountable and we are with her. [cheering] believe thatand we the united states should never trade deals that help corporations but leave workers in the dirt. hillary will fight for american workers and we are with her. [cheering] sen. warren: ok. and just one more, just one more. we believe we must get big money

out of politics and root out corruption. [cheering] sen. warren: hillary will fight to overturn citizens united and return this government to the people. [cheering] sen. warren: if you believe that america must work for all of us, ,ot just for the rich and power if you believe we must reject the politics of fear and division, if you believe that we are stronger together, then let's work our hearts out to make hillary clinton the next president of the united states. thank you. thank you. [cheering] ♪

>> we are about an hour and a half away from our pregame for tonight's dnc program. abby philip of "the washington post" is looking ahead and tweets out an update tonight. " clinton, sanders camps and talks to give him a larger role tonight." sen. sanders: and unexpectedly at remarks at the florida delegation breakfast held at the 20 16th democratic national convention. he encouraged folks to vote for hillary clinton in november . bernieome, senator sanders, what a fabulous speech last night endorsing hillary clinton for president. [cheering]

sen. sanders: sorry to interrupt you. good morning, florida. well, thank you very much for allowing me to barge in with my wife, jane, and my son. she keeps getting a bigger and better response than i do. -- we did not do particularly well in florida, but i want to thank all of you who were there with us. thank you very much. and now, whether you supported me or secretary clinton, we all know what our task is. that is to make sure that donald trump is not elected president of the united states.

i know obviously, as the center, lots of republicans and i have friends who are republicans. i want to tell you that donald trump is something very different. it's not that he does not want to raise the minimum wage. it's not that he doesn't believe in climate change. once to that he give hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to the rich. that is what republicans believe. this man has the unique feature that not all republicans share by any means. that is that he is a demagogue, a bully, and somebody who does not believe in the constitution of the united states. [booing] sen. sanders: and i want you all to think about what it means for the future of this country if we were to elect somebody like donald trump as president. ,t would be a very sad

divisive, and dismal future for our country. our job in a difficult moment is to bring people together, not divide us up. [cheering] job is tors: our understand that climate change is real and to transform our energy system, not say that climate change is a hoax. [cheering] sen. sanders: our job is to expand social security. [cheering] job is to moveur this nation toward health care for all as a right. [cheering] joinsanders: our job is to it and the rest of the world in passing legislation for paid

medical and family leave. with thes to deal immorality of the level of income and wealth inequality that exists in america today. that is what we've got to do. ideologyw, given the of the republican party, which is an ideology that works for the rich and the powerful against the middle class and working families, the truth is that republicans do not win elections. democrats lose elections. we lose elections when people give up on the political process and do not vote. 2014 when 63% of the american people did not vote and 80% of young people did not vote. it seems to be in the

next few months is to do some very obvious things. number one -- we have got to elect hillary clinton as the next president of the united states. [cheering] -- weanders: number 2 have got to stay focused on the most important issues. it is not just about electing candidates. it is about transforming the country. [cheering] media does nothe like talking about the real issues, but that is what the american people want to hear discussion about. they want us to create millions of jobs rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. sure thatus to make public colleges and universities

in this country are tuition free. [cheering] sen. sanders: stay focused on the issues. get ordinary people and young people involved in the political process. what we are in the process of doing right now is transitioning our campaign into an organization that is going to encourage young people to get involved in politics. [cheering] sen. sanders: to run candidates at the school board level and the city council level. [cheering] the political revolution has begun and it will continue. [applause] i want to thank all of you who supported me and those who supported secretary clinton for your doing something that too few americans are now

doing, and that is getting involved in a democratic political cros process. [applause] sen. sanders: all right, we have made a great start. let's go forward. let us select secretary clinton. let us transform this country. thank you very much. [cheering] how cool is this? ♪ >> the c-span bus stop in philadelphia, pennsylvania to ask people about this week's democratic convention and issues most important to them in the 2016 presents a race. presidential race. >> the most important issue to me facing our country today is gun control, because too many people who have access to guns shouldn't have access to guns

and that makes me very unsafe. >> i'm a state senator in montgomery and delaware county. i met my eighth convention because i'm a huge history buff. i love to be a part of history and witness what is going on. i'm here representing hillary, which i think is awesome and inspiring. knowing the stakes in this election, i know it is important to participate in every stage of the game. looking forward to a great week. we will see all there. >> i'm a 19-year-old college student and i'm elected as a delegate for hillary clinton in the city of brotherly love, filled up. filled off you. -- philadelphia. in six grade, i sat on the sidelines, but now i am ready to elect a true leader and that is hilly clinton. >> my name is kim weaver and i'm the congressional canada from iowa's fourth congressional

district. some of you may have heard of my opponent, and that's why i am here today. i want to be able to show the rest of the world that iowans are more concerned about finding solutions and then creating division. we want to look at solutions for student debt reform, medicaid for seniors, as well as security for all families. thank you. >> i'm bob, a delegate representing west valley city, utah. i ran to be a delegate. i believe that government should work for the poor and the common people. i decided to become a delegate this year because i want us to fight for those, the little people, and i want to make sure that utah had a voice in the democratic process. ♪ >> voices from the road on c-span. and that is a look at the

philadelphia skyline from outside the wells fargo center in philadelphia. it is the site of the dnc this week. getting a look at the sights and sounds from around the facility as attendees prepare to attend the activities tonight. hillary clinton's campaign says tonight's campaign will make history. it's the first time a majority party will nominate a female presidential candidate. the senior adviser says the evening will focus on bill clinton story and the fight for her life. clinton herself will be watching the festivity, including the speech from former president will clinton, and her home in new york. bernie sanders delegates will be allowed to cast votes for him during a roll call tonight. bill clinton will be the featured speaker tonight at the dnc. coverage begins at four clock in

eastern and the preview program starts at 2:30 p.m. eastern here on c-span. this morning, we talk with a reporter covering the convention , giving us a sense of what is expected tonight. host: live back on independence mall in center city, philadelphia, we are now joined laura olson. lot of talk and praise for michelle obama for her speech last night. guest: they were passing out signs that said michelle and the crowd really loved her. after a really rocky beginning to the afternoon with the bernie sanders supporters, who have been shouting bernie every time secretary clinton's name had been mentioned at the beginning of the afternoon schedule, and by the time the first lady got up there, things had settled down a little bit. she got a really strong response from the room. host: are we going to see a revival of that today? the conflicts?

guest: tonight will have the rollcall vote of the state. they will be going roun around one by one to cast their votes and that is actually why we're here. as bernie sanders said last night in his speech, he is looking forward to the rollcall votes that he will be getting. he will "a number of votes from the delegates here. -- be getting quite a number of votes from the delegates here. we will see what the mood is. pennsylvania center supporters we were talking with yesterday, a fair number of them have come around and said, you know what? we're going to look at the options here. if hillary clinton is going to be the nominee, i'm going to go to that direction. i cannot support donald trump. there are some others who are really not ready to make that transition yet. host: as we continue our conversation in philadelphia about the democratic national convention, the phone numbers are on the screen divided by political affiliation -- democrats, republicans,

independents. we will take your calls for laura olson in just a few minutes. debbie wasserman schultz and all of the pomp around that, is that over as well? guest: it feels like it. it does not seem like it was something delegates were talking about yesterday. to a certain extent, it seemed to be the latest evidence with the concerns that these folks have had in terms of how the primary process played out. some concerns have gone deeper, but it was the latest evidence of what they had been feeling as the primary process continued. now that she has announced her resignation and was not on stage last night, we will see if that actually begins to trickle out of the conversations we've had with delegates. host: we learned yesterday that there is a 2:00 p.m. plan rally/protest.

is that still happening? guest: i believe so. we have seen a lot of protests or demonstrations over the last couple days. there's definitely a feeling of passion and enthusiasm out here on the streets. wentefore bernie sanders on yesterday, there was a lot of activity outside the convention center -- excuse me, the wells fargo center as well yesterday. even if sen. sanders: not be getting the nomination, there is with some concern what people. would like to see changed. the superdelegate changes did not go as far as his supporters wanted. there is discussion about how the party platform has become more progressive and some of the concerns were included in there. they want to make sure those things are not being forgotten or overlooked. host: laura olson, however pennsylvania democrat feeling

about -- how are pennsylvania democrats feeling about hosting conventions in november? guest: we had to philadelphia congressman come out last night and they said, welcome to my city, and welcome to my district. brady was very excited and influential in bringing the convention to philadelphia. we also saw democratic senator bob casey take the stage last night. he gave a pretty hearty criticism of donald trump and his business practices, talking about the economic strengths of hillary clinton's policy proposals. he got in a few philadelphia plugs as well. they are pretty excited to be here. host: senator casey, government for his father was a very strong pro-life democrat. is senator casey also pro-life? is that an issue? guest: he is, but he has also made a transition on several issues as well as ongoing

gun control. we definitely saw a policy transition on that where he is more in line with where other parts of the party have become, especially after the sandy hook shooting. we saw him say, you know what? we do need to make some changes, and that was a pretty dramatic shift for him. this is a state that favors gun rights in a lot of ways. he has gone through a transition. host: what was your experience down at wells fargo yesterday? guest: it was a pretty exciting room. i was in cleveland last week and there was a lot of emotion and a lot of anger from the crowd last week. this week, there was some anger as well. some of the supporters of senator sanders are not happy yet with how things are going. they need to kind of go through the process on their own. there's also a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of excitement, especially when the first lady came out, and even more so when senator sanders came on an address the crowd.

host: do you see any parallels between the trump-cruz situation and the sanders-clinton situation? guest: when senator cruz came out last week, there was a lot of -- there was a welcome for him at first and then once it became clear that he was not going to do and endorsed donald trump, the room took on a very different tone. the was a lot of shouting and chanting that grew there. was senator sanders, he has come out and very vocally endorsed secretary clinton. he repeated that to his delegates ahead of his speech last night. host: he got some booze for that -- boos for that. guest: it is a parallel situation, but not exactly the same. he is much more forceful and saying that it is a contrast between the two candidates. there is a clear choice here for

you to go and senator cruz is not been willing to do that. host: day two of the convention begins at 4:30 p.m. eastern time. what are you looking forward to tonight? guest: clearly the big speaker tonight is former president bill clinton. he has the potential to be the first first man. it will be fun to see how the cre crowd reacts to him and , how he message is pitches secretary clinton in terms of the evening's overall themes. this want to be a lot of focus on secretary clinton's track record when it comes to children and families. a lotl probably hear about her children's fund. the role probably be appearances from the mothers of the movement , a group of women whose children were killed after interactions with police officers. host: including trayvon martin's mother, right? guest: yes. it is a group that has appeared

-- a number of them have appeared in philadelphia with secretary clinton before during the primaries. they have been fairly involved in her campaign. you have heard a number of emotional stories from them. host: where is allentown, pa? guest: north of philadelphia, just up for 76, halfway between here and sprin scranton. host: how far is that? guest: the pens on traffic, but probably an hour or so. host: laura olson is a washington correspondent with the "allentown morning call." the first call comes from jack. caller: thanks for taking my call. i love c-span. i wanted to respond to a previous caller and made a really good point. he said the republican specifically, but political parties are starting to value their own power over the general welfare of the country.

that is a really good point. our founding fathers predicted that political factions would eventually devolve to the point where they cared more about themselves and maintaining their power instead of the general welfare of the country. i think we are starting to get to that point. i watched the republican convention and i watched the democratic convention last night and i'm a little worried because i am seeing a trend start to increase on both sides where people are starting to get their emotions involved and people are reasoning with emotions. that's not good. purpose of government is to enact, enforce, and interpret law. withare supposed be dealt reason and not with emotion. host: let's leave it there. let us see what laura olson

wants to add. guest: a being that we have heard from both sides of the the parties are rate and that the primaries have not gone in a way that was fair and equitable to the voters. we have heard from both democrats and republicans that there are some rule changes that need to happen. yet inhering about superdelegates here and phil duffy appeared -- you have inhering about superdelegates here in philadelphia and voters in cleveland that things were not going well on their side of the aisle either. we are seeing some pretty strong showings for third parties this year. there are some folks out there that share that concern this year. host: dalton in daphne, alabama, democrats line. caller: can you hear me ok? host: please go ahead, yes. caller: in my opinion, as far as going for president, i'm not

going for trump. the big reason being that you like theust the guy guy from florida, my neighbor state said. you cannot trust the guy who cannot show his tax returns. if you're going to end up trusting someone for president, you at least have to see where all their money is either going or coming from. i think that hillary is going to be our best choice. yes, she has made some bad choices, but she is the only right person for the job in my opinion. host: laura olson, anything to add to that? guest: i think trust is a big issue with the candidates this year. we're here and a lot of contrast the between the two of this desk we are clearing a lot of contrast between the two of these candidates. the rehearing whether hillary

clinton was someone you could -- we are hearings whether hillary clinton with someone you can trust because of her background. that is something that we will typically hear from republicans this year. host: when you talk to delegates, what is their enthusiasm level? we have heard from a lot of lers this morning who have expressed a more anti-donald trump you then pro-hillary clinton. have: that is where we more democrats become more enthusiastic because of the contrast that they are seeing at the top of the ticket this year. it is not just about hillary clinton. some of them have been hillary clinton supporters since 2008 and were pretty devastated when she was not able to make it across the finish line that year. now they're looking at the choice and that is definitely driving them. host: jack and providence, rhode island, republican line. go ahead, jack.

caller: good morning. i'm calling not about the previous caller, but the one before the previous caller who made valid points about people within the political parties valuing their own interest as opposed to the interest of the people, and i will use my words, the strength of the nation. i was a tread cruise -- a ted cruz supported. of really guy -- a brilliant guy, but he can rub people the wrong way because he's a little rigid. alabama's going to go to trump. it's in the bag for trump. this election is one to be decided by three states -- pennsylvania, ohio, in florida. i think florida being the key. what trump has got going for him

is a lot of people do not talk about -- and i think it's jealousy. the man has unbelievable stamina. here's a guy who is 70 years old. i am four years older than him. he is 70 years old and the guy is pretty much around the clock. host: jack, thanks for calling. laura olson, the election is going to be decided according to jack in pennsylvania, ohio, and florida. let's talk about your state. it seems to really be in play at this point. guest: pennsylvania has gone with the democratic candidate in presence of elections in everyone since 1988. that's the last time they went for a republican candidate. that's a pretty strong streak for the democratic side, particularly due to philadelphia where voter turnout and the heavy democratic area goes through the roof in presidential

election years. that will be a factor again. at the same time, we are seeing the closest poles in a presidential race that we haven't sometime. -- have in some time. donald trump and hillary clinton have switched a very narrow lead in the last clinic yet polls -- quinnipiac polls. this will be a close race. the truck campaign and the campaign will spend a lot of time here and a lot of resources. for the democratic side, it's less of a must win state because thei there are other avenues where she can pick up let twirl votes due to where states are leaning, but it is a must win on the republican side. host: the next call comes from tony in fort worth on the democrats line. you are on the air. caller: good morning, miss olson. how are you doing? guest: i'm doing well.

caller: i voted in the last 10 presidential primaries and general elections. i'm never going to vote again for anybody, because i believe that hillary clinton was the presumptive nominee when she resigned her term as secretary of state after president obama's first term. i think at that time she became the presumptive nominee. when she did announce that she was running, the vast majority of the sope superdelegates went to her and never changed hands. no matter how many states bernie sanders one, though superdelegates never changed hands. there was never serious competition for misses clinton in the primary race. where was john kerry? kerry?as where was the vice president, biden?

we have not had a serious democratic candidate. we had bernie sanders, an independent, and he did better than anybody thought he would. that is why i'm never voting again. host: that is tony in fort worth . guest: that's a pretty representative comment that we have heard from some of the sander supporters here, saying that this is how the primary process was set up and that there was a clear favorite and that the rules were in place for the clear favorite to remain the clear favorite. the superdelegates and elected officials and other party figures are not bound to any particular candidate went with clinton and gave her a lead in the delegate race that senator sanders was never able to overcome. , saying to make a pitch some of those folks could change their mind and could of change their mind, but they did end up staying with secretary clinton and that is where we are today

. host: michael in little rock, arkansas. caller: good morning. thank you very much, first of all, for a fantastic neutral show. it is very refreshing with how polarized everything has been to be able to see people's opinions the way that i can with "washington journal." to make ad like before i have my questions, which is very brief. for your running question this morning on why hillary, now i am a bernie supporter. all the polls that i've seen hillary answering why

has been essentially not with very much depth. it is been a lot of repetition of the same reasons, which have appeared to be predominantly talking points that i've seen on -- how they are against lost andthat bernie hillary won. all of these things we know. i've not heard any talk about policy. i've not heard original reflection. host: i think we got the point, michael. can you move on to your question for our guest? do you have a question? caller: absolutely. i wanted to know if she has any knowledge regarding what is going to be happening with minority reports. are those going to be put in to

cover issues that were voted on for the platform and did not make it in, particular for the tpp? and then for the rollcall, apparently that has been moved to this morning's breakfast outside of the convention and will no longer be televised. the results will be announced. i was hoping for some insight on that. host: all right, thank you very much, michael. first of all, the rollcall being moved. guest: that is not something i've heard about at this point. host: that would be kind of a huge -- guest: that is very unusual. regardless of whether the nomination has been as contested and exciting as this one has

been, the rollcall is a traditional part of the convention process. even when almost all the states are going to go to a clear candidate and there's not another candidate, they still do the ceremonial rollcall. that is a part of the convention process and why the delegates are here to formally cast those votes. actually in 2008, we saw that rollcall process go through and then saw secretary clinton. host: we had a counter on c-span . guest: as for the minority reports, that is something i have to check on. i've not heard a lot of discussion about those during last night's proceedings. host: surely is in new castle, pennsylvania, republican line. you are on the air. caller: thank you so much for taking my call. i love to watch c-span. ok, after yesterday, the whole

badd sees how deceitful and the democratic party is here in the united states. this is an absolute shame. z should nott only resigned from being chairman, she should completely resign and go home. after what all happened yesterday, and i give bernie a go alongedit, i don't with him because he's a socialist and that's not going to work with the united states, but at least he's getting behind the party and i give him a lot of credit for that. you know what? this country has had enough of the lying, the sneaking, the conniving, the scheming. we have had enough. we have to do something about it and the only thing we can do is vote for donald trump and at least give him a chance to see if he can turn some of this terrible, terrible mess around.

thank you so much. host: laura olson? week: we heard a lot last in cleveland along those lines of secretary clinton's background and that during her andre of secretary of state other periods of her life that she has not proven to be trustworthy. she has some concern aspects and it seems like the e-mail situation with the democratic ofional committee has kind added to some of those concerns for folks. host: what is the situation economically, socially in allentown? guest: allentown has gone through a little bit of a resurgence right now. we just had a minor-league hockey arena open up and getting a little more activity downtown. there is a state tax incentives set up down there that allows for a little more development to come back. you are seeing more people

walking downtown streets and restaurants. it's exciting for a region that was hard hit when the steal industry took a dip. host: are there any steal plants left? guest: at the moment, not really. host: who's the biggest employer? who are some of the largest ones? guest: we have a thriving medical tax device industry . we have a look this make some of those things. you may not think about this when you had to the doctor's office. interstate 78, there's a lot of warehousing activities there. amazon has a couple of warehouses. it's a good place to be moving things to and through to get to the northeast and back down along the eastern seaboard. host: betty in davenport, florida, independent line. we are listening. caller: how are you today?

i'm an independent. think, with a marked on each one of my hips. d and the other was a c. my mother was a democrat and my father was a diehard republican. i'm going through something which no one should have to go through. my grandson is 37 years old. his dad died when he was 49 and he ensured his disease. 12 years ago, they put a pacemaker and defibrillator and and him. he has been good for the 12 years, but you can never get insurance. three months ago, he was able to get on the affordable care act in michigan. two months ago, here nearly died. he turned blue and he was put in the university hospital in lansing.

his disease is so rare that there's only three doctors in the whole world that can do the surgery. one is from egypt. host: we appreciate your story and certainly sympathize. where are you going with this? what is the question that you want to tie into politics? caller: there are so many reasons -- there are some of the reasons that i would like to talk about other things. unless you are involved in something like the affordable care act and what michigan has had to do because they cannot pay for a doctor and mayo clinic in minnesota, and what my daughter at 64 has had to go through to get her son. today i'm waiting because the surgery as tomorrow. all that theye were going to pay for. he was not able to fly. she had to drive from 10 hours. host: thank you for calling in

from davenport, florida, and sharing your story with us. when it comes to the democratic platform, when it comes to the speeches, when it comes to some of the themes, is the aca being talked about here or in cleveland? guest: it is not something we heard about, unless i'm forgetting last night, but we haven't heard it mentioned yet. i'm sure weing will hear about on president barack obama takes the stage. is a signature part of his administration, but it has also had some flaws. i think politicians on both sides of the aisle have not been too shy about pointing out. we have heard last week, saying that when donald trump as president, you will be able to pick your doctor again. there have been some pretty strong critiques about how the program has worked. democrats also have had some concerns about it and mentioned

the medical device tax. there are concerns ranging from the accessibility of the health care programs and also to how to pay for it. even democrats like senator bob casey were saying we need to tweak some things and have a structure for paying for the program. there are some other ways to update the law to try to make it work a little more smoothly, especially as we have seen some of the premiums go up. host: laura olson with "the allentown morning call," makes for stopping by and chatting with our viewers. >> it has been hot in philadelphia, but that has not stopped the various demonstrations outside the dnc. this is where many of the protesters are meeting on the second day of the democratic convention. sandersndred of bernie backers met up at city hall and met up with groups decrying

police and justice. they're going to move to the wells fargo center where the convention has taken place. >> hell no, dnc. we won't vote for hillary. [chanting] >> hell no, dnc. we won't vote for hillary. hell no, th dnc. we won't vote for hillary.

>> [indiscernible] >> some of the early arrivals at the bernie sanders rally said they were not swayed by his speech monday night where he

said based on her ideas and leadership that hillary clinton must become the next president of united states and the choice is not even close. this morning, we spoke with one of the protest organizers . host: we are back live in philadelphia at the democratic national convention. someone else here at the dnc is a gentleman named kai newkirk, who is part of democracy spring, which is what? democracy spring is a nonviolent grassroots movement that is fighting to end the corruption of politics and guaranteeing the right of all to vote in fair and free elections. host: what happened to you yesterday? along withs arrested probably around 53 other people that did a protest. we marched from connie plaza in philadelphia down to the wells fargo center with the dnc is meeting to bring our demand to the democratic party that they live up to their name and commit

to fight to pass fundamental democracy reform in the first 100 days of a new administration if elected and prove their commitment to democracy by immediately demolishing superdelegates could if the. if they did not do so, we said we would commit civil disobedience. we went and block that area and sat in nonviolently. police came and surrounded the area. we wanted to ensure that we can bring our message to the party and going to nonviolently and peacefully crawl through the police barrier. after some time and tension there, a few of us were able to do so. more and more were arrested by the police and held for some hours and released last night . host: when you say you were held, where were you taking? en? guest: we were put in a small patty wagon at first. and then a big bus.

the bus was taken to a local station and processed. we were held for several hours. a lot of people were dehydrated. my phone is classic personally numb. this is civil disobedience that has made all kinds of progress from women suffrage, to the civil rights movement, told the labor movement all across the board. we feel this is a serious question for a country that is democracy going to work for all or plutocracy for the few? you are going to commit to do whatever it takes to make this the last corrupt billionaire dominated, photo suppression that we're going to have to go through. host: how would you describe your treatment by the police? guest: by the large, they were kind and respectful. some of the folks who were really getting hot and really dehydrated and thirsty, they gave a little water and get a raid to. some are a little rougher and

tougher if they are frustrated about what is going on. our fight is not with them. i was saying to the police that you should join us tomorrow and they should stand on the side of the people for democracy spring, black lives matter, across-the-board we need change. our fight and our message is to the democratic party and to the presumptive nominee and to the party leadership that they need to publicly pledge that they will fight to pass fundamental democracy reform -- that is voting rights and protections fundingnsions, voting elections, and to overturn citizens united. we have seen some concessions in recent days and weeks and we welcome that. we think that is progress. we will not accept anything less than leadership to ensure a democracy for all they are elected and what support in this election. we are clear about donald trump. he is a racist, and a racist, neofascist, strong man who does not have solutions to the issues we have in our system.

we are pushing the democratic party and we are not going to let them off the hook. we need them to step up, especially at this time, and live up to their name and let us know that they're going to deliver the change that this is the last election that frustrates so many people with the feeling that our voices are not equal. host: what was the solution like? guest: the solutions are on the table. host: what was the process like to have a marching permit and what are the protest areas that have been set aside like? guest: they've got some freedom cages as we call them, areas and fdr park where there are 75 free speech zones, which we think is an oxymoron. it was a march for marconi plaza , which was largely shut off to vehicular traffic as part of the changes they have made for the convention to be happening. we do not go through the process to get a permit. we just exercise the permit of the first amendment to march down peacefully and nonviolently.

we took over that area and then crossed over the barrier. this is something that everyday people can do. i imagine many of your listeners and viewers agree with us that we settle one person and one-vote democracy in which the voices of everyday people can't just as much as every billionaire. they should join with us at democracy spring on facebook or twitter. they can come out and be a part of what we are doing at the dnc every evening. we are doing training for people to prepare and participate in nonviolent civil disobedience. it is people power that cannot be taken away and that is how movements when change. host: tell us about yourself. guest: i grew up in west virginia. my parents -- my dad was a carpenter and my mom worked in childcare. they moved from the d.c. area in their youth as part of the lander movement and planted some seeds in me some real values of respect for land and community

service. they split up when i was young and went through a lot of changes in our family. organizingiscovered towards late in high school and college. i felt like this was a way that i could step up and carry forward and carry forward a lot of the dreams that my parents had and respond to people that were hurting and their lives in ways that i felt like we had in my family. the more i've learned about nonviolent community action over the course of 16 or so years that i have been part of it, i cannot really show up for people as a brother, as an uncle come in for the people that i love just by being there to them in individual lives, it has to be part of the movement that is fighting and working to change and better our society to make it so people can fulfill their dreams and aspirations. right now, i'm based in d.c. and officially still live in l.a. i'm devoted to organizing this

full-time because i think the crisis we face as a nation and the planet with climate change, deportation, nas mass incarceration, we cannot solve them fully in the timeframe we need with urgency unless we and big money in our politics and ensure we have a democracy for the government. we need tools so that progress and reform are not blocked by people with money to interest who want the status quo. it is an honor to be a part of this movement and dissipate in this change -- and participate in this change. host: again, mr. newkirk, when is the next march? how can people get a hold of you? guest: democracy spring.org. follow us on facebook and twitter. we are gathering at 2:30 p.m. at marconi plaza to rally. shortly after, we will head down to the wells fargo center. it's a non-violent carry of our

message forward and we will bring our demands to the democratic party. you will not settle anything less than leadership and give elections that give us all a free and equal voice. solutions are on the table and there's movement toward them, but we need it to be top priority and fight to get it done. is here inewkirk philadelphia and explained what he is doing. thanks for being with us on "washington journal." >> you have a front row seat to every minute of the democratic national convention on c-span.org. watch live streams of the convention proceedings without commentary or commercials. use our video clipping tool to create your own clips of your favorite convention moments and share them on social media. also, read twitter feeds from delegates and reporters in filled up you. our special convention pages have everything you need to get the most of c-span's gavel-to-gavel coverage. go to c-span.org/democratic national convention for updated

schedule information to see what is happening during each convention session. every speech will be available on demand for viewing when you want on your desktop, laptop, tablet, and smartphone. our special convention pages and all of c-span.org our public service of your cable or satellite provider. if you are a c-span watcher, check it out on the web at c-span.org. >> you want to know that our live coverage of the convention today starts at 4:30 p.m. -- 4:00 p.m. eastern. former president bill clinton is the featured speaker tonight. delegates and attendance are out and about. denny freeman found bernie sanders at lunch with his lamely at reading terminal market. abby phillip with "the washington post" reported that talks are underway to give sanders a larger role at tonight's convention event. possibilities include senator sanders being able to formally

nominate secretary clinton after the roll call vote of states. on this morning of day two of the 2016 dnc, senator sanders made a surprise appearance at a breakfast for the florida delegation. this is a 50 minute portion of that event. >> we are very excited to welcome to the podium one of our wonderful 10% of the congressional delegation who is a woman. it's part of my community that i lived in for many years, congresswoman kathy castor. she is from a family that we have known and loved in florida for a very long time. thank you. who serves on the budget committee and she is a rockstar from tampa. thanks so much for being with us. come up.

castor: i'm congresswoman kathy castor from tampa bay. love it. good morning. for democrats coming together, i love it. allison, thank you so much. everyone in the florida democratic party, all the hard-working people that helped make this possible for us, and then all of our wonderful florida delegates and their families and alternates. thank you so much for what you do that come to make sure that everyone of our neighbors has an opportunity to succeed. we are the party of the people. and it is going to take people power this november to elect democrats up and down the slate from hillary clinton and tim kaine to a new u.s. senator all the way down to those important local races. let me tell you -- last night,

it was a privilege to watch first lady michelle obama with all of you. i looked around at the florida delegates on the floor and we cannot be more diverse and energized. , were black, we are white are hispanic, we are every color of the rainbow, and then you throw the rainbow and on top of that. was thinking about what is it that bring so many different kinds of people, whether you are from ime or from the panhandle or tampa or the east coast, what is it that brings us together? obviously it is our shared values. we believe that this is the party of opportunity and it sure has been in my left. i am from tampa but i was born in miami at a time when my father started legal aid and my mother worked to become university president and a candidate for the u.s. senate in 2004. only in america can somewhat

achieve those signs of a a competent. -- accomplishment. all my parents wanted was for my sister and my brother and i to attend college. tiny and wasery paintin student loans and work studies, we all become the people we wanted to become. isn't that the american dream? isn't that what we are all here for -- to make sure that every single one of our neighbors has the same opportunity to attend college and become successful? i think so. so here's our challenge. [cheering] castor: our challenges that senator sanders has come into the room. welcome. welcome, senator bernie sanders. what a fabulous, fabulous speech last night endorsing hillary clinton for president.

bernie!e, sen. sanders: sorry to interrupt you. good morning, florida. [cheering] well, thank you very much for allowing me to barge in with my vi.e, jane, and my son, leav she keeps getting a bigger response when i do. -- we do not do particularly well in florida, but i want to thank all of you who were there with us. thank you very much. [cheering] sen. sanders: and now whether you supported me or you supported secretary clinton, we

all know what our task is and that is to make sure that donald trump is not elected president of the united states. [applause] by no obviously, as a senator, a a lot of republicans and i have friends -- i know obviously, as a senator, a letter republicans and i have friends who are republicans, but donald trump is different. it's not that he doesn't want to raise the middle wage. it's not that he doesn't believe in, change. -- climate change. that is what republicans believe . this man has the unique feature that not all republicans share by any means. that is that he is a demagogue, a bully, and somebody who does not believe in the constitution of the united states. [booing] sen. sanders: and i want you all to think about what it means for

the future of this country. if we were to elect somebody like donald trump as president. it would be a very sad, divisive, and dismal future for our country. in a difficult moment is to bring people together, not divide us up. [cheering] our job is to understand that climate change is real and to transform our energy system, not say that climate change is a hoax. [cheering] sen. sanders: our job is to expand social security. [cheering] sen. sanders: our job is to move this nation toward health care for all as a right.

[applause] joinsanders: our job is to with the rest of the world in passing legislation for paid medical and family our job is to deal with the immorality of the level of income and wealth inequality that exists in america today. that is what we have got to do. view, given the ideology of the republican party, which is an ideology that works for the rich and powerful, against the middle class and working families, the truth is that republicans do not win elections, democrats lose elections. we will lose elections when

people give up on the political process and do not vote. we lost in 2014 when 63% of the andican people did not vote 80% of young people did not vote. theur job it seems to me in next few months is to do some very obvious things. number one, we have got to elect hillary clinton as the next president of the united states. number two, we have got to stay focused on the most important issues.it is not just about electing candidates. it is about transforming the country. the media does not like talking about the real issues, but that is what the american people want to hear discussion about. they want us to create millions

rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. sure thatus to make public colleges and universities in this country are tuition free. the issues, yet ordinary people and young people involved in the political process -- what we are the process of doing right now -- is transitioning our campaign into an organization that is going to encourage young people to get involved in politics. to run candidates at the school board level and the city council level. the political revolution has begun, and it will continue.

so i want to thank all of you, those who supported me, those who supported secretary clinton, for you're doing something that too few americans are now doing, and that is getting involved in the democratic political process. all right, we have made a great start. let's go forward. let's elect secretary clinton. let's transform this country. thank you very much. how cool is this! whoo! fun!uch [indiscernible]

i love it. i am so happy. this is so cool. come on back up. wasn't that also? >> if everybody could take their seats. do not leave. if you leave, i will cut your breakfast off. if i could get people to take their seats -- the surface -- circus -- senator sanders is leaving, and you can jason, but he is not going to stop. we have kathy coming back up.

as she was saying -- >> that was fabulous. i will always remember that. while you are treating that bernie sanders came to the delegation breakfast, put in -- was presently interrupted by senator bernie sanders. i just started a new campaign twitter account. thesending pictures from convention all week, but i just started it and it is really sad how a few followers i have on my campaign, philadelphia kathcastor.witter, after that commercial announcement, democrats, everybody listening -- here's another reason why this is such an important year.

this is the first year that we will have the opportunity to elect democrats under the new fair districts constitutional amendments. after those fair district and amendments were adopted, the republicans in tallahassee fought it. they fought it tooth and nail. we finally resulted, and it has resulted in the opportunity of a lifetime for us to elect democrats to the state legislature and to congress. that is why this election begins our march toward greater equity in florida in those seats, and what that means for the people we represent? means we can make progress on health care, jobs care, everything that we hold dear. let's face it, democrats, we have made a lot of progress. pricesyment is down, gas

are down, more people have health care than ever before in america. our uninsured rate is the lowest it has ever been in history of the country. we are fighting for good schools, higher wages, but i need back up in the u.s. congress. another, you have heard from others about how important the, and let me give you examples. they adjourned for the longest recess in the history of the congress without passing emergency funds to address the to develop vaccines, diagnostics that we need to have on the ground. helprefuse to provide any to flint, michigan, or the toxic water in their pipes. they refuse to move a supreme court justice. your assertion is outrageous. pulsefter the orlando

cheating, we were completely set up, and under the guidance and leadership of john lewis, we sat in to stand up for gun safety. and we are not going to give up. i will tell you something, for the democrats, we need back up, and this is the. i think we have some of this congressional candidates here. corridor is going to be from a primary fight, or either one of them here, to the central florida, the heart orlando. thompson and others -- we need a democrat that can stand up for orlando for a change. and then we have an opportunity to electh of there another young woman to the united states congress in

stephanie murphy. is stephanie here? there is stephanie back there. this is what fair districts is going to do. some of these candidates do not have all the funds in the world, s why it will take democrat people power. democratbeen the only from key west to the panhandle and back. gwen around? it cannot be that lonely. we have an opportunity in the tampa area to elect charlie crist to the united states congress. i know some people say, he was former republican governor, but when president obama came to florida as the

collapsing, charlie crist said, thank you, president obama, our people need your head. helped to ensure that nonviolent felons can vote and get their civil rights restored. m strongly supporting charlie. i want our congressional --didates north of orlando it goes over to the east coast a little bit, st. john's, and lettor nelson is here to you know. democrats, we need back up. we need a democratic u.s. senator to represent the state of florida in addition to our hero, senator bill nelson. are you ready to elect democrats? the unitedackup in states congress, turn this country into something even greater than it is? i know we are. are you ready for hillary, ready

to elect democrats, ready to see bill clinton tonight? thank you for the opportunity to speak to you the story. >> now we will hear from one of my personal heroes, senator bill nelson. i go back a long time with this man. florida's senior statesman. he has led on issues with his heart. alone stood up sometimes for our environment, and we are seeing now how critical that is. as is a man who has championed everything we care about in florida, and it is my privilege to call him friend as well as my leader. senator nelson: thank you. good morning, florida. about a couple of candidates that i know. i want to tell you about tim

kaine. he is one of my best friends in the senate. tim is this extraordinary person. i hope you had a chance to hear him when he was introduced by hillary in miami. twoas an exceptional -- the of them, you could see they just sparkled together. and that is so important for a president that the vice president, they know will have their back. tim is that kind of person. he is humble. he is not flashy. but he is exceptionally competent. off, took a year off of law school, and went as a catholic missionary to honduras. that is where he learned his

fluent spanish. and you will see that throughout the campaign as it was evident in miami. fluentd just rate into spanish in the course of his speech. person --xceptional exceptional person. we will see a contrast of opposites. tim is humble. guess what donald trump is -- exactly the opposite. now, that tells you something when you compare candidates, because an election is a contrast, and this contrast is really of opposites. so we have donald trump, who says, where do you learn from? i have a very good brain. i know it myself. timyou have hillary and

that reach out to others who have the expertise in order to decisions.ry best what a contrast. you notase of hillary, only have somebody who is obviously prepared to be commander in chief, but is prepared to be what is so important in our country right unifier inat is a chief, to bring us together. it is going to be a wonderful campaign. do not be discouraged about that cnn poll that came out. they oversample. this is nationwide. they oversampled republicans in the poll. you will find what happens in thatda after the bump

hillary and tim will receive in the polls coming out of this convention. just give it a couple weeks, three weeks, to settle down, and what you will find is that hillary will lead, but we cannot granted.hing for that is because it is so nmportant that we have to wi florida. if we win florida with 29 electoral votes, that is more than 10% of the entire electoral 270, there is little other mathematical solution that donald trump could put together if we win florida. and so i want to thank you all for going, putting your forlders to the wheel

hillary and tim. of uss a team that most know personally. i can tell you for the nelson daughters haveur grown up with the clinton family. they have grown up together, they communicate all the time, including this week. this is a solid, solid team for america. pleasure toy great while hillaryou, will be the first woman president, she will have a speaker of the house, a woman, taking her back, leader nancy pelosi. representative pelosi: good morning, everyone. fork you, senator nelson,

the lovely introduction, and your beautiful statement about the excellence of our clinton-kaine ticket. senator nelson has been a champion of many issues in congress. he represents the great state of florida. in the last few months, has been such a leader in the country on the issue of zika funding. thank you, senator nelson, for being a voice for people in the senate. he, working with congressman debbie wasserman schultz, with tor, congressman deutsch who is here, the entire democratic delegation. we love that delegation. we want more. it is a great delegation. it represents a great diversity of this country and of this state.

to your gentlemen, thank you for working so hard to elect democrats. to all of of you, you, i come here to say three things. first of all, thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. you for so many things, but thank you for leading the way in our country to more representative and fair redistricting. because of your work, we will majorityeats to gain a in united states house of representatives. are very excited about our prospects in terms of more member,o -- will be a stephanie murphy will be a stephanie murphy, charlie crist will join us in the congress of the united

states, randy perkins will be a member, and we will have a hispanic member, joe garcia, in that district, and florida needs a democratic hispanic member, more than one, but let's get started. now that we have done some of our politics that we talked about, i come here to thank all of you for the strength that you demonstrated to the orlando tragedy. it was a terrible thing for our country. it was a crime in addition to a gun violence crime. but the way florida rallied was an example of the country of community. i will never forget that that word "community" has the word " it is, a very important word for us to be 60.

-- for us to succeed. so tragic, one example of gun violence, children killed, but after this one we have had a sit in in the house of , under theives leadership of john lewis. and because of what happened in orlando and because of this , thisity that rallied will be echoed across the country, and we will never stop -- we will never stop until the job is done for us to pass. buy.annot fly, you cannot and reasonable gun-prevention legislation that says you cannot buy a gun on the internet you cannot buy a gun at a gun show if you do not have a background check. what is so unreasonable about that?

but when the history is written them in the future looks back, they will look at you, florida, that night is, say that was the tipping point in our country, where we set enough, enough. so i thank you for that. i thank you again for the prospects, but i thank you in all the world is looking at florida in this election. --have been joined by lois she will be on the stage with the democratic women of the house tonight in a speaking role, and artfully proud of her -- and are we not proud of her? soldiers in iraq and afghanistan. the whole world is looking -- i

am from california. we will have a big victory for hillary. there is no mystery there. the difference will be made in florida. the difference will be made in florida. first woman president of the united states -- that is thrilling. up thehappy to give title of the highest-ranking woman in government in america. have happy to relinquish that title. i have been dying to get rid of that title. it is not because she is a woman. it is because she is the best. wonderful.ne is and that senate seat is important as well as the house and a state legislative races. let me just say this -- one of

the reasons we are going to be successful in this election is not only because of the greatness of hillary clinton, but because of bernie sanders. bernie sanders has engaged young people in such a way and more people who had been cynically involved, community oriented, but not really politically engaged. and now because of his appeal -- and i know you just heard from him -- his appeal, we will win more house seats, more senate seat, or state legislative seats, and we will elect a democratic president of the united states. are you ready for a great florida?c victory in is florida taking responsibility? onward to victory. thank you, all.

>> ok, how exciting is that? our next speaker is here, a man that i support when he ran from minnesota who was in a very tight race. senator al franken. franken: hello, everybody. i had fun last night. did you? i got to be funny, finally. isot of people have asked me being a senator as much fun as working on "saturday night live", and the answer of course is no. why would it be?

but it is the best job i have ever had. dayt to work hard every working for the people of minnesota, working for the people of america, to make this a better country. but we are a great country. there's no question about that. michelle obama said that yesterday, and wasn't she great? am so -- are you ok? thanks. member of the press. ok. struck by the differences between the two conventions. i actually was in cleveland for and ist they of theirs,

mean, they had some great speakers. o -- had scott bai [laughter] franken: and we had bernie sanders and cory booker and elizabeth warren and the .irst lady thank you, thank you, thank you. tone,e difference in when donald trump spoke last thursday, he painted a picture of an america that i did not recognize. in our country. there's no question about that. and we as the democratic party have been trying to address --se and have been blocked

elizabeth said this very well last night -- we have been blocked by the republican party in trying to achieve all we want to achieve. if we turn this over to them, we are going to go backwards. we are going to go backwards. we are going to have a president who divides people, not a president who unites people. what he painted last week was a dystopia, and he said it was all barack obama's faults, even though when barack obama took toice we were losing 750,000 800,000 jobs a month. that is what he inherited. he basically said all these problems were caused by barack anda and hillary clinton

that there was only one person in the country that could -- [laughter] could cure all: this, and it was him, and it was going to happen with magical thinking. because he did not tell us one thing he was going to do. and remember, he said things like "we are going to defeat isis and it is going to happen fast." goodness, what does he take the american people for, really? hismber, he said during campaign he has a secret plan to beat isis, but he cannot tell us because then isis would know. [laughter] i mean, this is , and i thought

bernie gave the case last night, think about the supreme court. now, i'm going to end with a story from about three weeks ago. i went to a high school minnesota,in wilmer, south-central minnesota. minnesota is the number one producer of turkeys in the united states, and wilmer is in the center of a county which is the number one turkey producer in minnesota. and so we have turkey producing there. packing turkey, meatpacking. and so the graduating class that i spoke to, i would say, is about 60% white, about 25% latino, and 15% somali. and i was there to speak because

i was there to introduce the and she had been a page, one of the senate pages for when she was a junior in high school, and now she had been picked by upper-class to be the class speaker. the valedictorian was a latino girl. and i remember when i was told about her, i was in my office in the hart building, and she told me about her, and i went down to the floor and said hi to her, and she was the only one there ijab and, she was somali, and i went up to her and said, you look like a minnesotan. [applause] senator franken: and she laughs.

kids love each other. when moona came down during pomp and circumstance, her name "a," so she was the first to get her diploma. when they came down, they sat in order. they come down and break off this way. she was holding hands with one carlsons. it was the most beautiful three i spent this year. [applause] everythingnic for you're hearing from the trump side, from donald trump. my lesson from that was, we be as servants have to good as the people we serve.

so i have the best job in the world. i'm going to be out there. you to be working every day. many ofd last night, you have jobs. many of you have families. ignore them. [laughter] let me tell you something about kids. they love it when their parents aren't home. they love it. olet me tell you something else. knows how to use a microwave oven. i'll tell you something else. can teach ad 4-year-old how to use a microwave oven. that's scientific fact. into thehy people go toitics in the first place, get away from their families. you know that, because anytime

resigns, they say i need to spend more time with my family. go out and get them, work for the next several months, get hillary elected, patrick murphy elected, take over the senate. thank you. thank you very much. leave theseing to remarks from the florida delegation breakfast this morning to return for a brief period of time to f.d.r. park in philadelphia. sanders supporters in protest over the treatment of their candidate.

>> oh, wait a minute, wait a minute! hillary is at the convention center to keep you outside.

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>> go bernie! integrity matters! go bernie! integrity matters! go bernie! do the right thing! >> integrity matters, vote bernie!

integrity matters, vote bernie! integrity matters, vote bernie! integrity matters, vote bernie! integrity matters, vote bernie! integrity matters, vote bernie! integrity matters, vote bernie! integrity matters, vote bernie! integrity matters, vote bernie! integrity matters, vote bernie! integrity matters, vote bernie! integrity matters, vote bernie! integrity matters, vote bernie!

did you go hillary loses against trump by 13 points? by your logic, voting against bernie would guarantee a trump presidency. i don't know why you would do that. maybe you want a corrupt president in the white house. democrat in the white house, vote for bernie. okay?

bernie supporters, not gary johnson, right? >> i guarantee you gary will be there.

>> my mother is not a female dog. my mother died in 1973. it wasn't for jesus, i would have no hope for my mother. the eyes of the lord are upon

the righteous! alleluia! >> that protest taking place near the site of the democratic national convention in philadelphia. park.t f.d.r. we will have live coverage of the convention when it gets away 4:00 p.m. eastern this afternoon here at c-span. you'll have a front row seat to every minute of the democratic convention on without commercials. create your own clips of your favorite moments and share them on social media. read feeds from delegates and reporters in philadelphia. our special convention pages have everything you need to get c-span'sof gavel-to-gavel coverage. to c-span.org for updated seedule information to what's happening during each convention session. each speech will be available for on-demand viewing.

our special convention pages and all of c-span.org are a public service of your cable or provider. if you're a c-span watcher, check it out on the web at c-span.org. >> and the democratic national convention in philadelphia gavels in today at 4:00 p.m. eastern. live coverage on c-span. att before that, starting 2:30, we'll show you a preview of what to expect today in philadelphia. and some news from cnn, representatives for bernie sanders and hillary clinton are for the vermont senator to formally nominate secretary clinton as the democratic party's candidate for president. the effort, according to cnn, is showcase party unity after the convention roll call vote today. among the speakers on the opening night of the convention last night, first lady michelle obama. her speech is about 15 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome first lady michelle obama.

♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] >> oh! you all. thank you so much.

know, it's hard to believe that it has been eight years since i first came to this with youn to talk about why i thought my husband should be president. remember how i told you about convictions, and thedecency and his grace, traits that we see every day country inerved our the white house. told you about our daughters, how they are the heart of our hearts, the center world, and during our time in the white house we've themhe joy of watching grow from bubbly little girls women, aed young journey that started soon after we arrived in washington when they set off for their first day at their new school.

forget that winter morning as i watched our girls, pile7 and 10 years old, into those black s.u.v.'s with with guns.ig men i saw their little faces pressed the window. the only thing i could think was, what have we done? [laughter] see, because at that moment i theized that our time in white house would form the foundation for who they would well we managed this experience could truly make them.ak that is what barack and i think about every day as we try to girlsand protect our through the challenges of this unusual life in the spotlight. how we urge them to ignore those their father's citizenship or faith, how we

hateful language they hear from public figures on tv does not represent the true this country, how we explain that when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don't stoop to their level. no. our motto is when they go low, we go high. with every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. their mostts are important role models. barack and iou, take that same approach to our job as president and first lady that our words and actions matter, not just to children, but the across this country. kids who tell us, i saw you on tv. i wrote a report on you for

school. black boythe little who looked up at my husband, his hope, and heh wondered is my hair like yours? mistake about it, this november when we go to the what we're is deciding. not democrat or republican. not left or right. no. in this election, and every haveion, is about who will the power to shape our children for the next four or eight years their lives. [cheers and applause] tonight, because in this election there is only one person who i trust with that responsibility. only one person who i believe is to be president of the united states, and that is our friend hillary clinton! [cheers and applause]

that's right. see, i trust hillary to lead seencountry, because i've her life-long devotion to our nation's children. daughter, whown ,he has raised to perfection but every child who needs a longion, kids to take the way to school to avoid the gangs, kids who wonder how ever afford college, kids whose parents don't speak a word of english, but dream of a better life, kids who look to us what theyne who and can be. you see, hillary has spent the relentless thankless work to actually make

in their lives. advocating for kids with disabilities as a young lawyer, children'sr healthcare as first lady, and for quality childcare in the senate. and when she didn't win the nomination eight years ago, she angry or disillusio hillary didd, not -- hillary did not pack up and go home, because as a true public servant hillary knows this is so much bigger than her own desires and disappointments. so she's proudly stepped up to serve our country once again as

secretary of hillary did not -- state, traveling our kids safe.ep and look, there were plenty of hillary could have decided this this work was too hard, that the price of public service was too high, that she picked apartbeing for how she looked, how she talked, or even how she laughed. here's the thing, what i admire most about hillary is that she buckles under pressure. takes the easy way out. neverllary clinton has quit on anything in her life. when i think about the kind of president that i want for my and all our children, that's what i want. someone with the proven

strength to persevere, someone knows this job and takes it seriously, someone who understands that the issues the faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled to 140 characters, because you have the new clear code at your fingertips, the military in your command, you can't make thin-skinned,, be buyou can't lash out, but you nd to be steady, measured, and well informed. a recordpresident with of public service, someone whose life work shows our children

chase fame and fortune for ourselves. we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed. back. give even when we're struggling ourselves, because we know that there's always someone worse off, and there but for the grace i.god go i want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our founders put forth all those years ago, that we are all created equal, each a the greatrt of american story. hits, we don't turn against each other. no. we listen to each other. on each other, because we are always stronger together.

i'm here tonight because i know oft that is the kind president that hillary clinton will be, and that's why in this i'm with her. [cheers and applause] see, hillary understands that the president is about one thing and one thing only. it's about leaving something kids. for our that's how we've always moved this country forward, by all of ofcoming together on behalf our children. folks volunteer to coach that teach that sunday school class, because they know village, heroes of every color and creed who wear their livesand risk to keep passing down those

blessings of liberty, police officers and the protesters in dallas, who all desperately want our children safe, people who lined up in orlando to donate blood because it could have been their son, their that club.n [cheers and applause] kaine. like tim our kids what decency and devotion look like. leaders like hillary clinton who the grace toand keep coming back and putting that highest and hardest glass ceiling until she liftingbreaks through, all of us along with her. that is the story of this

story that has brought me to the stage tonight, the story of generations of people who felt the lash of bondage, the shame of servitude, the sting of segregation, but who kept on striving and hoping be doneg what needed to so that today i wake up every in a house that was by slaves, and i watch my daughters, two beautiful women,gent black young playing with their dogs on the white house lawn. [cheers and applause] and because of hillary clinton our sonsers, and all and daughters, now take for

bented that a woman can president of the united states. [cheers and applause] so don't let anyone ever tell you that this country isn't great, that somehow we need to make it great again, because this right now is the greatest country on earth. [cheers and applause] as my daughters prepare to set the world, i want a leader who is worthy of that truth, a leader who is worthy of our kids'promise, all promise, a leader who will be anded every day by the love

hope and impossibly big dreams that we all have for our children. in this election, we cannot sit back and hope that for theng works out best. we cannot afford to be tired or frustrated or cynical. no. me, between now and november we need to do what we eight years ago and four years ago. knock on every door. we need to get out every vote. pour every last ounce of our passion and our strength for this country into electing hillary clinton as the united states of america. [cheers and applause] work.'s get to thank you all. god bless. god bless.

[cheering] ♪ ♪ >> welcome to do number two of the democratic national convention. we are live in the littlefield. in about two hours, one of those great traditions in american , a chanceill get on

for the delegates to show why they live in the great state of the leblanc. you can watch the proceedings here on c-span, listen to it on c-span radio. tonight focus will be children, families, hillary clinton's tenure as secretary of state, and a video with remarks by the 39th president, jimmy carter. we should point out that severe weather moved through last night during the evening proceedings, but the weather and perhaps the temperature of some of the delegates may be cooling down as the procedures get underway. in addition to the rollcall, we will hear from the incoming chair of the democratic national committee replacing debbie wasserman schultz who is stepping down on friday. introduce theill video of his grandfather, former president jimmy carter.

nancy pelosi will be on the ofium with cecile richard planned parenthood. she's the daughter of late texas governor, and richards. and husband tot hillary clinton, bill clinton will be delivering arcs. is ang us from the floor veteran journalist and author of more than it does in books and a special correspondent for the pbs news hour. jeff greenfield, thank you for being with us. >> a pleasure to be with c-span. >> talk about the changing demographics. delegatesk at the today, it's a very different party from one will clinton accepted the nomination in 1992. how has the demographics changed question mark >> the demographics of the united states have changed. every year, the number of whites

dropped 2%. asians, hispanics and african-americans have always been part of the coalition. as the parties have become more polarized, you find the movement, particularly of white working-class voters out of the democratic party has been complemented by a great increase in terms of african-americans, hispanics, and asians. summary fromd in mars at both conventions, they could tell you which party they were at. >> what was your reaction to some of the blues from the bernie sanders delegates and where does that the party moving ahead? because amusing to me in the days before the primaries , booze and hisses and big fights were part of what you expect because the combatants came here not knowing who would win, so you can look at the 1952

republican convention where the supporter of howard taft is chastising the speaker. in 1964ockefeller food when he wanted to condemn extremists. it is just in the recent decades that we are so unused to anything that looks like disruption that i think it took everybody aback. but the real question is, are the sanders diehards prepared to continue that even after the pleas from bernie sanders in a speech from michelle obama, is ort going to be we give up are there going to be booze when clinton talks tonight. bill clinton is the exemplar of party,ist democratic

tough on crime, and that is what the democrats are worried about. four days of disruption does not leave the world's greatest impression. let's go back to a piece that you wrote and is a picture worth a thousand words as senator ted kennedy and his campaign in 1980, refusing to have the traditional handshake and hands in the air at the square garden and the other moment that you write about, the failure of the balloons to drop properly. is that a metaphor for the democratic party was back then? in the political press look for portends everywhere. in 1980, a microphone went blank and the democratic rally and they said it was a symbol of what was going on with the dukakis campaign. but in the carter campaign, something went wrong with the balloon drop, it dribbled out

one by one in a aesthetic display of inadequacy. there is a picture of a guy trying to push the balloons out and everyone in the press said there is the symbol of jimmy carter toss failed campaign. and yes, jimmy carter that very cold handshake from kennedy, not the shot that is expect it of winners and losers. the pressn say about that that's a sign of how superficial we are, but it is taken seriously enough that it really matters. moments ine craziest the conventions, what do you think was the craziest? >> well. it was a little before my time, but in 1912, when teddy roosevelt was challenging william howard taft, the hands was -- the convention was totally in the hands of the taft people and they were rolling through credentials challenges

and they marched around the convention imitating a steamroller with bells and whistles -- i can't say i remember it, but that was a moment that shows you how much more boisterous contentious conventions were when we had contentious conventions. i don't know if it is the craziest, but in 1980, for the acceptance is free speech -- except since speech, there were rumors that ronald reagan is going to ask gerald ford to be his running mate and the work howkinds of speculation -- much power is being shared and at the end of the day, ronald reagan decided quite wisely this is not a good idea and came to the convention and said he had chosen george h.w. bush. oh myas probably the last goodness moment i can think of at a convention. vice presidents, why do you think senator 10 --

senator tim kaine expected nomination and on the republican side, governor mike pence with donald trump? >> it is not that unusual to decline the vice presidency. but in contrast to the old vice presidency, which was a nullity. it was a job that meant nothing. once roosevelt's vice president said it's not worth a pitcher of warm spit, but starting with carter and mondale, the vice presidency has meant real powder. joe biden is like a senior adviser. some people think dick cheney had too much power. that is one reason. and it does raise your visibility. but if you lose as vice president, the odds against you being president are very high because the only losing nominee that ever got to the white house was franklin roosevelt.

there's also a morbid factor. nine vice presidents have succeeded to the presidency, eight because of a death and one because of nixon's resignation. the idea you and get a vice presidential nominee to say that's an odd, it's out of the question, but it is a historical fact. >> senator tim kaine will accept the nomination, but he will be dealing with not one but two presidents if hillary clinton is elected. >> i did write a piece that said either of these vice presidents will have an issue because the a very tim kaine, significant voice will be in hillary clinton half year first in the morning and last night. in the case of mike pence, the question is does donald trump wasn't to anybody? he himself has said he listens to himself.

perhaps this policy you are proposing is shaky is not real evidence donald trump has said i may be wrong about that. so those were the issues i was raising in that piece. andet's go back to 1998 talk about the art of the clinton's career. he delivered the nomination of governor michael to caucus at the 1998 convention in this iconic moment from atlanta, georgia. mr. clinton: i had a professor in college he told me the sole reason for america's greatness is the believe that the future can be better than the present and we have always done what it took to secure it. and he said if we get to the point where our parents don't make their children's future than their parents, then we can forget it. michael dukakis will never, never, never forget it.

-- losing [cheering] remember -- >> as you will men -- as you well know, in closing is his remembered -- is what he is rumored for. 1988 tout the art from 2016. >> that speech was in atlanta and could have marked a me -- a real liability and what bill clinton did was very smart. he promptly went on johnny carson and mocked himself. for presidentran so that i could finish the speech i started four years ago. clintonrs ago, bill for a better argument

barack obama's reelection than barack obama. what he is doing tonight is tricky. he's going to talk about not only the nominee, but his spouse. given the doubts about hillary clinton, not just on trustworthiness, can he make a convincing case on that issue, that she is being unfairly judged? second, because he was a centrist who challenged some liberal orthodoxies, i think the sanders people in particular may not be inclined to give bill clinton a warm reception. that, he is the most effective public speaker of his generation and if anyone can figure out a way to walk that tightrope, it's ill clinton. jeff are talking with revealed, a veteran journalist who covered politics for more than 30 years. hiscan read them online and

column is available at politico. he's the author of 13 books and a special correspondent for the pbs news hour. let's go back to the floor. >> we are at the florida delegation. i want to enter issue to two of the florida delegates, a state senator finishing up a 16 year democraticer and the leader. thank you for being with us. >> it's my pleasure. >> i'm lisa king, i'm a clinton delegate from jacksonville, florida. >> florida has had a lot of attention this convention. how are you going to deliver it for hillary clinton? >> hard work. we have a plan. our ground game is good and we are going to get the vote out. we have registered thousands of people. florida delivered the vote for the last three presidential elections, clinton once and obama twice.

>> and it seems to be in the center of controversy this election cycle. how will the senate race affect turnout? >> it adds excitement for the democratic base. a lot of interest for both candidates and that is only going to help with more opportunities for registration and more opportunities for volunteers. your 16re answering up year career with a female candidate. can you talk about that? >> it is a watershed moment for america to finally elect the first woman president and it sends a message to all the little girls in this country that you can be anything you want to be and you can be president. i'm excited to have 10 a clinton delegate last election and this one and i know we are going to do it. i'm confident. much ability as

anyone else in america to lead this country and i'm excited knowing that my friend, hillary clinton, who i have known for more than 25 years, is going to be the leader of the free world. >> thanks to both of you for talking to us. >> thank you very much. as the band repairs to warm up inside the wells cargo center, i'm going to ask you the question you post in your most recent column, has bernie sanders ridge the divide among democrats who made not want to lined up behind hillary clinton? can offer if i something new journalist has ever said -- only time will tell. the more in two shall sanders voters who have been active in democratic party politics understand they have to get behind the nominee if they want to defeat donald trump.

there are a number of sanders delegates who feel they have been disrespected. the wikileaks tended to confirm their belief that the home was on the scale. picking tim kaine means hillary clinton is not interested in expanding to the progressive policies and so i deciding, are still do they want to find an alternative to tim kaine and put that nomination on the floor? he comesant to do when out? and how many of them are there? we simply do not know the answer to that question. but they very fact we have had so long a recent history of relatively disruptive free conventions means that even a remnant of creating a it of disturbance is not what the democrats want to see coming out of philadelphia.

46% of the delegates inside the wells fargo center are bernie sanders delegates. let me ask you where you think they would go if not hillary clinton? or do afor joel stein song or hands and not vote or will they eventually come along? >> the more strategic ones are saying if it is a competitive state like florida, ohio, virginia, we should hold our nose and vote for clinton. a state like california, new york and texas where it won't matter, and do what you want. right in somebody, vote for joel stein, stay home. whether that gets communicated to potential sanders voters, i don't know. but in florida, ralph nader got votes in a state where george bush won by 537.

i think many delegates say you're playing with fire. other voters say i'm sorry, enough,t aggressive she's part of the corporate political world and we can't go with it. each oft know how large those constituencies are. >> let me ask you about senate republican leader mitch mcconnell and paul ryan -- they really tried to dance around there was i support of donald trump. obviously they want to keep control of the house and senate, but how do they do it without alienating the trump supporters but making sure their supporters go to the polls and reelect republicans? >> one of the things that surprised me about the changing nature of the party is there might have been a time when the institutional wing of the republican party very early on would have said donald trump is not going to be our nominee. he does not stand for what we stand for, he's an apostate on

70 things. we don't trust his temperament, but they did not. once donald trump showed up with those delegates, they had to find a way to make us with him. so you find rhetorically, i support the nominee -- but what is the nominee's name? you endorse him, i support him -- others have been more up front because they have a mirror image of some of the disaffected democrats. some democrats say whatever you think of hillary clinton, we cannot accept the idea donald trump. for a lot of republicans, they cannot accept the idea of hillary clinton. it depends how well trump will be doing in the polls, october. putting up ao be fight, is he going to be leaving? we don't know until the campaign starts taking shape once labor day shows up.

>> we are inside the wells fargo center in the delegates are beginning to arrive. bad weather through yesterday. it has feared up it is a lesson afternoon and although temperatures are warm, not quite as hot as yesterday. let's go back inside with holy can expect on a fall campaign with susan swain on the floor. tonight on the floor, the first order of business is the rollcall. the florida delegation has their web operation laid out here. you have been following the bernie sanders delicate issue. -- delegate issue. will there be any issues on the floor mark exodus like there will be a lot of in the floor for there may be protests coming from delegations with a large number of delegates supporting bernie sanders. theuld be looking

delegations like minnesota and oklahoma. delegations that have a lot of sanders supporters that ours when weelegations and get to california -- i spent most of the night last night with the california delegation in their section of the arena, and there were a large number of people who had anti-tpp signs against the transpacific partnership and likewise. the question will be with those larger delegations, who is the one making the announcements for the state? minnesota, amy klobuchar is going to be the one making some of the announcements, the senator from minnesota. seeill be interesting to how these announcements are together and for people who

watched cleveland, said a similar process or not. >> one of the differences between cleveland is hearsay parade of congressional members and competitors -- we saw very few in cleveland. what does an appearance before the party faithful do for candidates? >> for candidates, it is probably more about fundraising and driving home the get out the vote operation and organizing than it is actually about getting notes. one thing that was said by mitch mcconnell, the republican majority leader, is that there's in your own votes party you are going to pick up at a convention, but you can pick up money at the ancillary and you can give people more excited your campaign in a way for them to make phone calls and knock on doors for you, particularly if you are in a contested race.

>> you just came back from arizona and senator mccain says it's much more competitive than he expected because of the donald trump candidacy. what did you find on the ground there? >> it was interesting. i said wednesday at the grand canyon with senator mccain. anything like there were a lot of people who are not yet engaged in the race. knows and large, everyone who john mccain is in arizona and the will be whether or not that will be able to make up for the fact, the people who are coming out to vote against donald trump, what mccain needs is for people like them to also vote for him and crossover on the ballot. you hate to say election is about turnout but in arizona, it may be where the turnout is. if it is in more hispanic communities, it might he a very

different outcome than if the votes are from other parts of the state. >> an interesting senate race there. thank you for talking to us. thank you and we are rejoined with jeff revealed of pbs and what ago. i want to go back to just the last week -- we had melania trump and the plagiarism issue. we had ted cruz, the acceptance speech by donald trump and tim kaine accepting the nomination on the democratic side, the announcement debbie wasserman schultz. down. last night michelle obama and bernie sanders. we seem to be moving from one story to the next and that's just in the course of one week. touch on that for moment. >> the fact that you now have conventions back to back, which is a relatively new phenomenon means you will have a constant

drumbeat of genuinely important news. the important thing is what is the half-life of all the things you mentioned? the two events that may have lasting significance is the acceptance speech of donald trump is the acceptance speeches the one part of the convention that remains always significant because it's the first time the country is settling down and thinking this is one of the two people who might be president. the other is michelle obama's speech. i think she found a town and a pitch to talk very tough about donald trump without ever mentioning his name. that the democrats are saying the sky is going to fall if he's president, but it when michelle obama talks in the tones, don't go low, go high, don't use these terms to denigrate your fellow countrymen, this is the greatest country on earth, that one speech will have some staying

power. >> we have a portion of her remarks and a full speech available on our website. the first lady addressing this convention last night. mrs. obama: i wake up every morning in a house that was told by slaves. [applause] daughters, two beautiful, intelligent, black young women playing with their dog on the white house lawn. [applause] and because of hillary clinton, my daughters and all of our sons and daughters now take for granted that a woman can be president of the united states. [applause]

so, don't let anyone ever tell you that this country is not , we did makeomehow a great again, because this, right now, is the greatest country on her. lady, last night here in philadelphia. the other interesting part of that is eight or nine years ago, rivals between hillary clinton and barack obama came together with her serving as secretary of state and she is speaking here. trumpon't believe donald has tweeted out a single critical remark about michelle obama's speech. that i missed one, but

tells you about how the democrats might try to figure out a tone that puts donald trump on the defensive, which is a very unusual position he would find himself in. >> let me conclude with a personal convention. -- a personal question. you have attended every convention since when? 1968? >> 1980. i had been working for robert kennedy and he was assassinated in june. convention ifirst went to as a journalist, analysts, whatever the heck this is. ask how have they changed? >> they have gotten more structured, more like an infomercial, more like a product rollout at an amway distributors slot. look at the floor with the microphones from the days when the state chairs would oppose points of order and objections and it's like the disney world

small-town america. it's an imitation, a throwback. it's not the obligation of political parties to provide exciting, divisive inventions, but they change in nature, once the primaries became the place where candidates were nominated comedy conventions took on a completely different role. people like me always say this could be the year of the brokered convention or the big ballot crossovers. i'm getting up there and i don't have to a more conventioneers left to see this happened -- to see this happen, but i am dubious. this is what they have become. >> but they are the super bowl of politics. jeff greenfield, his work is available online. his columns are a politico.com and we will look for your work on the pbs news hour. thank you for being with us.

live outside the wells fargo center with about one hour before the gavel comes down. miss the want to rollcall states. we will have that during underway at about 5:00 time. big speeches will be former president bill clinton talking on behalf of his wife who will formally accept the nomination on thursday and we're back on the floor with my colleague, susan swain.

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we were having some technical difficulties, not only here but the entire row of skyboxes. our phone lines and down. cbs and other news organizations dealing with those issues. susan glasser is standing by at what ago. we hope to talk to her during our preview program. the convention getting underway at 4:00 eastern time. we are covering not only what is going on inside the wells fargo center. this is the place for interns, many coming to the first conventions and getting a lesson in politics. cart drivinga golf around the wells fargo center where the democratic national convention will be held. with ben.e what is your official role? >> i'm a runner, but when i am not working, i'm a creative in turn at abc.

>> how did you get this job? >> i got this job through abc. arounderns get to drive in golf carts and help people get around. >> what are your official duties as a runner? fax basically pick up any abc talent, the anchors, people like pickingd when i'm not up anyone, i can pick up anyone who needs a ride to the wells fargo center. we are on the southwest side of the wells fargo center. where do you go to college? i'm studying at media and medications. >> what do you want to do when you graduate? >> i want to do something in film. working on are socially a stuff and creating videos for our facebook they -- facebook page. i want to get into writing for

film and filmmaking. oflooking ahead, the skyline villanova and the wells fargo center over my right shoulder, you havefront entrance seen from many of the shots of philadelphia. who have been some of the more interesting people you have picked up along the way? >> i have not really got anyone that important. a couple of cnn correspondents. i help the president of abc get on one of my friends vehicles. i think that free much it. >> what are you most excited to see? >> i hope to see some politicians, but i would be most excited just to meet interesting people like you and talk to them. it's a good time doing this. >> when do you head back to school?

to school at the end of fall in my internship is a then. are you in? >> i am an upcoming junior. >> i appreciate the concentration as you are driving. we will show you some of the media stands up to the right and the philadelphia skyline directly opposite of the wells fargo center. where are you staying? closeness to get into town from i-70's text, so i just a in new jersey where i live. i'm just staying at home. >> i appreciate the right around the wells fargo center. we will and by showing some of the media satellite trucks here taking up most of the parking lot outside the wells fargo center. you'll see the shot here in just a second.

>> back live to the floor of the wells fargo arena and day number two of the democratic national convention. the convention gaveling in and about 45 minutes. nominating speeches and rollcall votes in the keynote speech from former president bill clinton. more speeches and all of what we cover is available online at c-span.org, including this beach last -- from last night from new jersey senator, cory booker. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome eva longoria. ♪

eva: hello philadelphia! i am so honored to be here tonight and i am proud to say i am with her. cheers -- and eva: like many of you, this election is very personal to me. i am from a small town in south texas. ] heers and applause eva: if you know your history, texas used to be part of mexico. not generation american. my family never crossed the border. the border crossed us. so, when donald trump calls us criminals and rapists he is insulting of families. my father is not a criminal or a

rapist, in fact he is a united states veteran. applause] eva: when trump cruelly mocked the disabled reporter he was special needsy sister at and many like her. wife whoaid that a works is a very dangerous thing, he not only insulted me he insulted my mother who worked as a special education teacher for 30 years, raised four children while being a wife. me know, i believe in candidate who believes in all of us and that candidate is hillary clinton. cheers and applause] the eva: hillary has spent her whole life fighting for all

americans. from health-care reform to equal pay for women to gun safety to protecting the economy. she is the most qualified presidential candidate ever. applause] even: she is been fighting for us for decades and now it is time we fight for her. now, i am very proud to be part of that fight and i am very proud to be heard to introduce my dear friend cory booker. do i want you to take a look at your convention, philadelphia. a latina from south texas is introducing the first black from new jersey on the week we will nominate to our first female candidate for president of the united states. ] heers and applause

in eva: pretty great. so guess what donald, it turns out america is pretty great already. gentlemen, please welcome senator cory booker. [cheers and applause] ♪ sen. booker: hello philadelphia! thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. ] rowd chanting booker: thank you. think you. thank you very much.

240 years ago, our forefathers gathered in this very city and they declared to be for the a freehat we would be and independent nation. again ingather here brewery, in this city of -- brotherly love to reaffirm our values before the nation and the whole world. my purpose is not like there's tostart a great nation, but ensure that we continue in the best of our tradition. to, with humble homage generations and patriots before. we put forth to great americans. our nominee for president and vice president, hillary clinton and tim kaine. applause]

now, look at that core history. looking back to our founding fathers. documentsfounding that were indeed genius. but the founding documents were not genius because they were perfect. they were saddled with the imperfections and even the bigotry of the past. native americans were referred to as savages. black americans were fractions beings. and, women were not mentioned at all. of ourse ugly parts histories do not distract from our nation's greatness. and fact, i believe we are in even greater nation not because we started perfect but the cousin every generation has successfully labored to make us a more perfect union.

[cheers and >> that is part of last night class speech from cory booker. we take you now live to outside the wells fargo arena and a number two of the democratic national convention. >> we are back live at the wells fargo center. the delegates continued to arrive in the gavel comes down in about 40 minutes. stations losing telephone lines. that explains the delay in our conversation. we are joined now with the outgoing editor of politico. thank you for being with us and thank you for being patient. , steve, how are

you? thean bill clinton when bubba vote for hillary? and he has do that been on the beat since the beginning of this campaign and her reporting is that bill clinton has been offended personally that white working-class vote is no longer available to the democrats and i think he has taken it on as his own mission in his speech tonight to see what he can do about winning that away from trump. >> we were talking earlier about how the demographics of the democratic party has changed and that is evident when you compare it to at the party look like 20 or 30 years ago. compare it to the demographics last week in cleveland. there's not a reporter who

hasn't noticed the dramatic difference in just how much more diverse the crowd is in philadelphia this week. both parties have moved toward their bases over the last few years and you have a democratic a -- democratic base that is much more diverse. more african-american, more latino -- last week in cleveland, you saw a republican party that is much more southern and midwestern, and very, very white. clintonoes hillary improve the numbers where they show her ability and trustworthiness are in the low single digits or in the 20's or 30's, not enough to gain a majority of those wavering whether to vote for donald trump or hillary clinton? >> in the end, it's not a question of how likable hillary

clinton is, but compared with against one of the most unpopular candidates who has ever run for president, so as you see with the bernie , we are coming to terms with the fact that it's not a choice between hillary clinton and all possible choices, it's a choice between hillary clinton and donald trump, so that changes the context through which you look at those likability numbers. >> the libertarian party will have an impact in the debate or in the final results? i'm glad you brought that up. johnson, the gary libertarian party candidate is creeping up to that 15% mightold in which you find his way into a debate and that would be a significant change in the general election. there are key states in which

disaffected republicans could end up voting for gary johnson rather than voting for donald trump. so the republicans are going very hard against him, trying to make the argument that a vote for johnson might he a vote for clinton, but i would not discount the fact that it could matter. look how we are talking all leisure's later about whether ralph nader swung the outcome of the election in florida, giving it to george w. bush. doing a good job dealing with the delays and the rehearsal going on right now on the podium. i want to ask you about another story -- the democratic national committee trying to hide some of the money she raise for states and how much she cap for her own campaign. what can you tell us? >> that's all part of the big e-mail dump that has been

roiling the democratic convention over these last two days. one of the things that has turned up is there was a very complicated pro-hillary fund-raising arrangement the dnc had set up. our reporters were on to the story some months ago and now we have the e-mails that shows the best not too do its talk in a clear-cut manner about how favorable that joint fundraising arrangement was for the hillary clinton presidential campaign. it's an interesting example of wikileaks troves are affecting politics and showing the inner makings of the sausage. want to talk about the next step in your career as you prepare to move to jerusalem, but let's go back to the floor and susan swaney. -- the globalere

directorand outreach at facebook. what are you doing here? >> we have found facebook is the new town hall. it is the place people are talking about the election. having 89 million people 200 million posts about the candidates, so we are working with the delegates and elected officials on how to use things like facebook live. just to help display the conversation that is happening. in the are you seeing traffic so far and can you compare it to the traffic at the republican? the first night in cleveland, about 8.5 million people talked about the convention and the candidate. last night, we had about 10 million. it is a larger number of people talking about what is happening.

but it is the first live facebook convention. what are you learning about how people are watching it versus conventional television? >> i think it is helping to supplement what they are watching on conventional television. they get to go more backstage, so it is an interesting second screen experience some people can get a live feel of what is happening in the moment. on tv, you only get to do one or two different kinds of views. >> how are the campaigns using they campaigns have facebook as a central part of their strategy. mr. trump's live video last week was one of the most watched. clinton campaign has been using facebook live and using it to reach out to voters, to educate them about how to vote and where these and on the issues. >> what are you seeing about

international interest in the u.s. election? what if there's a lot of interest. what has been interesting for me is how the candidates in the u.s. are learning from some of the ways in recent elections are learning from recent elections in the united kingdom, the philip kent. greta: you have been very helpful. thanks for talking to us. >> thank you, susan, and susan glasser is joining us. what kind of traffic have you seen during the republican convention, what do you expect this week, and how have you tried to redefine how people get news and information from politico? ms. glasser: we are reinventing it all the time. there is an incredible amount of interest.

the traffic for the republican convention last week was something like three times more than it was in the 2012 convention. this week it seems like there is more interest and it is interesting because the tv ratings and the facebook numbers came out or the first night. that is true on politico's website as well. basically, what we are finding in this overwhelmingly documented new world, what we are choosing to do is focus on original, aggressive reporting that nobody else has, and that has always been in the dna since it was founded, but we have evolved to become even more aggressive and sophisticated in how we do that. in this universe where everything is being live stream, we are not focusing on that, sort of, come on any aspect of the news. we are trying to make sure that wherever possible our reporters are offering really original reporting and analysis.

we have done that at the republican convention, the democratic convention. we aim that every morning you should wake up and read some stuff on our site that you cannot read anywhere else. that is our way of not being replaced by the computer algorithm, at least for now. >> let's talk about the next couple of hours -- what is the story -- what are the stories you will be looking for this evening? ms. glasser: this is a big and interesting night. we have the rollcall vote on the floor starting after 4:30 p.m., and there have been intense negotiations between the clinton topaign and the sanders camp see what more bernie sanders can down the last gasp of his very, very avid supporters. we will find how successful he was at doing that when the rollcall vote heavens, and what level of discomfort and --

happens, and what level of discomfort and dissatisfaction, when hillary clinton is the nominee -- will they register, or will they be content to have course,te -- then, of the big kahuna, as they say, bill clinton. he has on many a democratic convention. this is an incredible, unique moment, where he is occupying the potential first lady's lot of the former president's slot of the convention week. as we reported earlier, we are looking for bill clinton, really, to aim at a demographic that was at the heart of how we captured the presidency in 1992, some of what we used to call reagan democrats, bringing them back into the democratic party for the 1990's. years replay the act 25 later with so much having changed in our politics and the american electorate? it is not clear, but it will be

something we are watching closely tonight. >> one of the questions we were asking, do you call him first president, two presidents in the white house, and vice president, if selected, senator tim kaine. it will be a dizzying title thing. or have see will be known as the first dude. we will have to see. i am looking forward to his first tour of the white house christmas the commissions. my guess is that will be well-attended by the press. >> do you really think he will do that -- isn't that a job for chelsea? ms. glasser: i don't know, but my guess is, knowing bill clinton, at least in his public life, i can imagine him relishing having some aspect of that. i am sure he is not going to pretend to be interested in the white house china, and stuff

like that, but i would not be surprised if he enjoys hamming it up for the camera should hillary clinton this role in november. i could see bill clinton enjoying it, couldn't you? what's in a moment, we will hear for more delegates, but you, personally, he will be leaving the united states traveling to euros lump with your husband -- traveling to jerusalem with your husband. what is next for you, susan glasser? to glasser: i am excited have a chance to return for a few years to another foreign assignment. my husband and i were bureau chief in moscow for "the washington post," during 9/11, iraq, and afghanistan, and i am a huge believer in the need for journalists to get some ground truth in this international world. it is an opportunity to doing what i love -- reporting and writing. i will write an international affairs column for "politico,"

hopefully writing and doing more big profile pieces for "the new york times. i am excited about that. >> and your husband working on a book, correct? ms. glasser: yes, actually, we are working on that together. we are doing a biography of james baker, george h.w. bush's secretary of state, and the white house chief of staff under president reagan. it is a fun and consuming project as well. i suppose that is another time,iew for another writing a book with your spouse -- i am sure you could write a book about that, susan glasser. ms. glasser: the good news is we are still married and we have already done one, so i am knocking what. >> think you for being with us, the editor of "politico," we appreciate it as always. steve: we are about 25 minutes

away from the gavel coming down in the roll call of states getting underway in about an hour, maybe an hour and a half your it is something that is iconic -- a tradition in american politics. you won't want to miss that, but first, susan swain in the virginia delegation. coveted seat at the virginia delegation, hoping not to anger anyone, a familiar face to longtime c-span viewers, many years a columnist for the houston newspapers and now he is an official delegate for the state of virginia. what is it like being on the other side? crag: heaven. i did not know overnight that tim kaine would get us the best seats in the house. i have been on the floor for over 18 conventions. this is my 19th. you recognize all the parts of

thethe arrangements, backstage, and all of that, but a sit here last night, for political groupie like i am, it is the ultimate. ,usan: did you capture it right or now that you are inside, were there some nuances that you missed? i was an opinion columnist, so they know i was a liberal democrat. it wasn't a surprise. susan: i am wondering about process -- did you capture the process correct? crag: i think a lot. i think it is among the most transparent pieces of the presidential campaign because it happened so quickly, so much is jammed in together. you can get drama like the chair business over the weekend with --bie, but it is amazingly

because, after 30, 40 years, you realize what is going on backstage, how it is being produced -- you see the teleprompters. -- and read along it along with them. it is the most transparent of all the pieces that go into a national campaign. what have the delegation meetings been like after senator kaine's selection? craig: heaven. it is all heaven. seriously, it is because i think tim kaine is such a good man. we can talk about policies, what he has done, and everything, but his base -- republicans -- they were trying to get virginia republicans to say bad things about him, they had a hard time. they said i am not going to go for him, but i cannot think of anything bad to say about him. he is a decent human being. susan: what are you expecting from bill clinton tonight -- this will be the last question. all thee will pull out

stops. he is older. i have seen them several times during the campaign. he is older. he is there. it is not -- dinner. it is not 1992. it is a long way after 1992, but there will be some clintonesque features of which people that have been watching it as long as .ou and i will say aha he will offer a defense of the family, what hillary has meant to the family, education, health care -- all of those issues, but in a very personal way, and i thought it was interesting when he came in last night, just happened to be in the middle of bernie's speech. he is still probably the smartest political animal i have ever covered. susan: you like you are having a good time. thank you for talking to sudan. we have known crack for many years.

-- c-span. we have known craig for many years. craig: the world turns. steve: we are back inside our skybox. you have been hearing alicia keys. she is among the performers. you will only see it on c-span. here is part of the rehearsal going on right now before the convention gavels in. oh, baby la ♪ ♪ what we doing? right now ands up

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is lovely. i am so happy to be here. we are making history. it feels like that. ♪ steve: some of the rehearsals going on, and now we are getting word of a later start than the 4:00 p.m. eastern time gavel coming down. now scheduled for 4:30 p.m. that gives us a chance to hear from you -- our phone lines are open at 202-48-8920. 202-748-8921 for republicans. all other ones, 202-748-8922. today, we covered donald trump in north carolina for the annual the fw convention. yesterday, hillary clinton was there. here is what both of the

nominees had to say to the convention. sec. clinton: that means we should lead in setting and enforcing the rules. if we retrieve -- retreat behind some kind of an imaginary wall, we will have lost our leadership, our purpose, our chance to prevail in the 21st century. lead, weerica doesn't leave behind a vacuum, and i will either cause chaos or enable others countries to rush in to fill that void. they will be the ones making decisions about american lives, and thed safety, choices -- make no mistake about it, may well not be to our benefit. that is not an outcome we can live with. i have set forth plans and

strategies for dealing with these threats. i know how challenging it will difficulties that we face in the world today, but, you see, i have confidence. i have optimism. i don't understand people who don't track -- who trash talk about america. talk about us as being in decline, who act as though we are not yet the greatest country that has ever been created on the face of the earth for all of history. if you want somebody who will scapegoat other people, peddle fear and smear, i am not your candidate. i am interested in bringing everybody together, rolling up our sleeves, and getting to work to solve our problems. mr. trump: the other candidate in this race, you know her name,

andked hillary clinton, believe me, folks, she is differentas a much view. she recently said of the the a a. scandal thatv. it is not as widespread as it has been purported to be. it is like she is trying to sweep it under the rug, which, by the way, politicians have and years and years. it will be four more years of the same if she got in, but that is not again. again! america great mr. trump: "make america great are right.ou thank you and we know how she takes care of the veterans. look at her invasion of libya and her handling of benghazi --

a disaster. look at her e-mails, which put america's entire national security at risk. to think she was here yesterday. i guess she didn't do very well. [applause] mr. trump: we are going to bring honesty back to government, and that starts with fixing the veterans administration. we will fix it. north donald trump in carolina joined by his running mate, governor mike pence, in the speech he gave at the vfw today, and yesterday by hillary clinton on our website can we will be covering donald trump as he travels to scranton, pennsylvania tomorrow. expect continuing coverage here in philadelphia as the democratic convention continues, then on friday, hillary clinton

with remarks here in philadelphia. now, the campaign train as well. it is on our website, c-span.org and the convention start time has been pushed back to 4:30 p.m., and we will have time to hear from you we will also check in with a veteran "new york times" reporter about senator bernie sanders, but first, debbie. go ahead. caller: thank you for taking my call. c-span fore to thank airing different topics that are important to this country. you do it like no other network, and i want to thank you. my comment is basically it is so unfortunate that we have two parties in this country -- democrats and republicans. for me, that is decisive -- divisive in itself. it takes one portion of people against another, when we are all fighting for the same thing -- our children, our families, our schools, our education.

i never understood that, and i never will. however, being a democrat, i totally understand -- we all make mistakes. am i correct? no one is perfect. no one. the republicans want to beat hillary up about the -- about e-mails and about her to and all make mistakes in life, but what i believe, and this is just for me, if, in fact, these things are true, and no one knows because that is between hillary and her god, i believe what she is saying today is sincere. it is coming from her heart. i really believe she wants to reading the mistakes she made in 2012 to date. with that being said, rather than us fighting against one another, whether democrats that were voting for bernie sanders, whom i love as a person, as a democrat -- all he has done all his life, young and old -- why don't we just build this bridge, bring people together?

people on the democratic party, stop fighting. people on the republican party, stop fighting. let's unify this party on the whole for the safety. for all of our children. no matter who wins the nomination -- in november somebody is going to win. i hope it is my candidate, but if she doesn't, you know what, i prayed republicans do what they are supposed to do for the people, because that is why we nominate them into office. if hillary would win, i hope she does for the people. that is why the people will vote her into office. trulyhat, may god truly, bless america. thank you. steve: debbie from north carolina. thank you for the call. catherine is joining us from alabama. good afternoon. caller: thank you so much for taking my call. i am not going to get into everything that has come out,

but something happened at the convention last night i really want to address. senator bob casey from pennsylvania had this long speech about american products and being made here, and then there was a little ad that they rump,d and it was about t whether it was donald or ivanka having their clothing line made overseas. one of the reasons most people are not going to vote for hillary in the south is because her husband and her -- because we all know she had something to do with it behind the scenes -- afta.signed n i have always lived in a small seven -- we had factories, and two of the largest cotton mills in the state of alabama. i have a ghost town now.

no one lives here. no one wants to move your. the people that want to move out can't because there is no industry. that is why a lot of us -- we cannot get over this. we go to town, and we have to drive to go to the grocery store because everybody has left our -- theut everything other, the e-mail, all of this -- that is going to be settled. you know, i have nothing to say to that because i don't know what is true and what is not, but i do know from seeing this in person that maybe donald and nka would have liked to have had their clothing made in the south, but there are no factories here anymore. if we had factors, we would be happy to sew. that is all i have to say. i invite hillary to come to the south.

steve: catherine, thank you for the call. you have been looking at scenes inside of wells fargo center, and the rim inside the boulware is located. joining us on the phone is kelly and conway, formerly with the ted cruz campaign, now a senior advisor to the donald trump-mike pence campaign. make you for being with us. conway:elly -- ms. thank you, steve. how are you question -- how are you? steve: last week we talked to debbie wasserman schultz, and we wanted to the same -- let's talk about the gap donald trump is facing among minors, millennials -- how does he bridge those? ms. conway: thanks for the opportunity. the message donald trump and mike pence are putting forward

our for all americans. we do not believe in slicing up the electorate based on their gender, race, or geography, but we do recognize different people have different issues, concerns, and respond to messaging differently. take for example something that trump and tents did today in charlotte, north carolina, where they repeated a 10-point plan to reform the veterans administration. committed tois make sure no veteran die waiting for care again and never wait for an inordinate amount of time again. that resonates with veterans, soldiers and their households, but with many people who feel it is a matter of fairness, who we are as a nation, government efficiency, also, that things like this would run effectively, and that the people that would need to care what get it. i think you heard ivanka trump talk about childcare being accessible and affordable for everyone that needs it. your donald trump talking about school choice, destroying isis,

standing with the police last week, talking about terrorism and the threat. it seems like there is an event each week, and people are on edge. people are very on edge. there is a lot of suburban angst. there are unnerved people in this country thinking am i standing in the wrong coffee line, the wrong part, reading a book or playing with my children -- i can be victim to random violence or terrorism. that is very much a concern. currently, there is a simple message -- if you are one of the 70% of americans that believe we are on the wrong track, clinton-kaine is more of the same. if you think things are going well, you feel safe and prosperous, perhaps you're on the hillary clinton side of the ledger, but trump intends to make us a choice election and change election, not unlike the 2008,rack obama did it in bill clinton did in 1992, george bush did it in 2000. they were all bound for change in leadership.

he also talked about rebuilding america, roads, bridges, airports, and of course, barack obama tried to do the same thing. he was resisted by republicans in congress. to do so requires money. pay for --nald trump and what is the difference between him proposing it and the president, 6, 7, 8 years ago? ms. conway: the difference is donald trump has a contract record outside of the usual political resume, and when politicians make promises you are skeptical and rightfully so because they are not held accountable. politics is the one industry what you do not have to deliver. you can keep your job, your health benefits, your pension. you can keep everything the same, even though you failed to deliver on your promises and the mandate the public has given you, frankly. in business, there is no such thing. immediate call when you are, there is no such thing. if you don't deliver, you are not good, you are constantly held accountable, and if you have performed effectively, you

are out, or your viewers leave, or somebody replaces you. that is the way the real world works. to have someone that is a true political outsider, but a proven leader as a captain in industry part of thery, is biography that is very attractive to many voters that support donald trump. the other thing they like is part of what he said in a speech last week -- he is for the forgotten man -- forgot man, forgotten voice. there are many still struggling, that do not feel the positive effects of the recovery. they are not worried about getting a job, but worried about keeping the job. they also want to know why a job is not enough to afford everyday life -- when did it happen that you are working each hard and at the end of each month you are worried about the mortgage, the rent, the tuition -- the basic necessities. again, that didn't just happen.

that happens because of bad policies. it happens because of inattention to areas and individuals that donald trump has promised to help, and promised to help in ways other than your usual government bureaucrat in washington, d.c. does. if you think things are going well -- if you're not disturbed by millions and millions of women in poverty -- if it is fine that children are stuck live,to school where they rather than their basic civil right to get a quality education, you will go with hillary clinton. donald trump is trying to make it a stark choice and also trying to make it a change election. , ave: kellyanne conway senior advisor, formerly with the ted cruz campaign, and now with donald trump, joining us live on the phone. thank you for being with us on day two of the democratic national convention. thank you. >> journey of his reporter

covering the early -- one bill flores a reporter covering the bernie sanders. i want to read the first paragraph of your story. you said that bernie sanders like to boast that he ignited a fire moving. monday the he had lost control on how it burned. please elaborate. it was the idea that bernie sanders started the revolution, he talked to people about the idea that wanted to transform america. now he realizes he is getting booed by the same people. at night we spent time talking we atit supporters who the name of hillary clinton. what was telling is what he was talking about clinton, it supporters are doing over him. he has