someone they love is in the firing line, it feels very different. so that will be his challenge tonight, to make the case for his wife without sounding too defensive, to sell her attributes to an american population, some of whom know her very well, others of whom do not. we pick it up there with bret baier in a moment. history being made tonight inside the wells fargo center. hillary clinton is now officially the first woman nominated for president by a major party. and in a sign of unity, it was senator bernie sanders who made it official. good evening, everyone. i'm bret baier. and you're here again. >> i'm megyn kelly, and we are coming to you live from the second night of the democratic national convention right here in philadelphia, pennsylvania. we are now waiting for the biggest speech of the night. former president bill clinton set to address the crowd here in philadelphia in just a few moments. >> we are joined by our panel, brit hume, chris wallace, and ron williams. brit, we talked earlier -- i

heard you earlier, i should say, reference bill clintons past speeches. this is actually his tenth consecutive speech at a democratic national convention, and you were referencing the 1988 speech. >> i said it was 1980. i was incorrect about that. it was 1988 when he made the speech that went on so long that when he said, in conclusion, the delegates all burst into applause. but he's recovered from that pretty well and has become noted now, i think, as a potent convention speaker as he proved just four years ago, speaking up for barack obama. >> chris, he's been pretty defensive on the campaign trail when talking about his wife. he's gotten in a couple of jams. >> yes, absolutely. and he did eight years ago against barack obama in that primary fight as well. we're told tonight -- and this is vintage clinton as of 2:00 this afternoon, the clinton campaign -- the hillary clinton campaign still hadn't gotten a copy of the speech, didn't know what he was going to say. they said it was going to be half an hour, but they kind of laughed as one of them said

we're going to let the big dog run. and one of the things they said, though, the key is to say that she is a change maker. they know that in this year of change, that the idea that she is the status quo, she's the elite, is toxic. so they're going to say, yes, she's been in the public eye for a quarter century, but she has fought for change and made change at all different levels of her life, and that if you want to vote for change she, not trump, is the choice. >> and not knowing what's in bill clinton's speech is a little different than not knowing what's in ted cruz's speech last week. >> we don't think that he's going to refuse to endorse her and say vote your conscience. >> that's right. >> here i am. >> ron, your thoughts. >> actually watching bill clinton this year has been somewhat disappointing to me because it's not the bill clinton, the vintage bill clinton. i mean even if you go back to the last democratic in charlotte, 2012, i think he did the best speech i ever saw bill clinton deliver for barack obama. but since then there's been the

heart surgeries. he's on a vegan diet. he looks thin to be honest. >> a vegan diet will interfere will -- >> i just don't know about the energy level. >> he needs a these burgcheeseb. is that what you're say something. >> i'm just telling you that i think his energy and the power, the presence -- he's a guy if he walks into the studio, everybody turns around. bill clinton's there. i don't know that that's still there for him. but everybody tonight in the arena is saying they're looking for vintage bill clinton. they're looking for him to pop tonight, and that's the challenge. can he still pop? if there's anybody that bill clinton wants to pop for, it's hillary. he owes her big. >> the number of conventions that he's been to and spoken at is testament to how long he's been around. but it's also a reminder of how long she's been around, and she's been very visible at his side as part of his administration for all these -- all these years going back, you know, to the '70s and '80s, and '90s, and all the time when he

was president. so this task of reintroducing her and seeking to portray her in perhaps a new light for this electorate, i think, is more difficult than would otherwise be the case. people know hillary clinton and most people who followed it at all, know what they think of her. >> megyn, you made a great point earlier this evening about bill clinton's shepherding of the economy and his presidency is so different than where this democratic party is now. and the fact that at one point hillary clinton said she was going to have bill clinton run the economy even if she's president. he passed nafta. he was very centrist. now you have this dust-up. governor terry mcauliffe from virginia said after his speech that, no, hillary clinton's going to pass the tpp, the transpacific partnership trade deal even though she said she's against it in the primary, and there was a big dust-up, and all the clinton aides are now out saying, no, no, governor

mcauliffe is a great guy, but he's gone. >> it was extraordinary. terry mcauliffe was the campaign chairman for hillary clinton in 2008, and after he said that -- and, remember, this was a big issue, tpp, in the primaries. john podesta, the current campaign chairman says, love the gov, but he's wrong on this one. they wanted to put this one to rest real quickly. she's not flipping -- as secretary of state she was for tpp, then she was against it. and you could see the attack ads. they didn't want that to happen. they put it to rest. >> so this is what's going on with the democratic party right now. you have the pressure coming from the left, from bernie sanders and his supporters who are so strongly anti-trade. so if hillary clinton, who i think is by nature more of a centrist, tries to veer back to the center for the general election, there is going to be cries of traitor. you know, last night we heard some, we trusted you and all that when elizabeth warren was speaking. they're going to say we trusted you.

you said in this platform that you would oppose trade deals. you said you would go more to the left on in-state college tuition, on health care. and if she doesn't do those things, i think you're going to hear a large echo from the left, from the sanders supporters, and the questions will arise will they simply not show up? >> i don't know what he's going to say tonight, but i'm pretty sure i know one thing he's not going to say, and that's the era of big government is over. at this moment, with this party, after this presidency, the era of big government most certainly is not over. >> dick morris used to say that bill clinton was a liberal who governed as a centrist and that hillary clinton is a centrist who would run as a liberal. sounds like he's kind of gotten that right at least thus far in the campaign. >> what's astonishing is how different -- and we're all sort of talking about it -- the democratic party of 1992 that nominated and elected bill

clinton was from the democratic party of today. it's far more to the left on big government, big spending, anti-trade deals. there are a whole raft of issues. some of bill clinton's biggest accomplishments like nafta are an asthma now to this party. hillary clinton has had a kind of awkward moving and in some cases throwing her husband under the bus, the crime bill in 1994, super predators. she took all kinds of grief about that and kind of had to disavow one of her husband's proudest accomplishments. >> i want to stand you by because we're going to check in with martha maccallum. there's a video about bill clinton's life playing right here. he'll come out on the floor as soon as it ends. first we want to check in with martha. >> i just want to pick up on something that you all are talking about because one thing bill clinton has to be careful about tonight is making this more about him and protecting his own legacy as president

because on the campaign trail, he spent a fair amount of time sticking up for the programs that you just talked about. in fact, he got into a 30-minute argument with a bernie sanders supporter sticking up for his own legacy. so the movie that's going on behind us right now is doing just that. so how much time will bill clinton spend out there tonight talking about bill clinton as president and how much will he spend talking about what his wife would be like as president is one of the questions that we don't quite know the answer to yet. the other big thing here is that she has a 68% untrustworthy rate. this is a problem. this is the e-mails. this is benghazi. this is all the stuff that you haven't heard one word about down here. the movies, the presentations, everything is about hillary and how much she has protected women, families, children. but there's a lot of stuff out there she has to combat and that is one of the things bill clinton has to draw the circle on. he has to show her as somebody who is trustworthy, and those credibility numbers have to increase for hillary clinton if she wants to bring this thing

home and bring these two back to the white house, megyn. >> we are waiting for bill clinton. we're going to take you into this video to see the final few seconds of this. remember, this is the 42nd president of the united states trying to make a pitch so that his wife can become the 45th. >> they care for each other. >> you get up in the morning and you're really interested in giving people better life stories. there's always something to do. >> mr. clinton, i want to thank you. you opened my eyes when i was 18. i'm living the greatest dream i could ever imagine. >> senor clinton, mi casa is su casa. >> i will still write my loife story. that's what i tried to make people believe they could do. >> ladies and gentlemen, please

welcome to the 42nd president of the united states, bill clinton. ♪ >> thank you. thank you.

thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. in the spring of 1971, i met a girl. [ cheers and applause ] the first time i saw her, we were, appropriately enough, in a class on political and civil rights. she had thick blonde hair, big glasses, wore no makeup, and she exuded this sense of strength

and self-possession that i found magnetic. after the class, i followed her out, intending to introduce myself. i got close enough to touch her back, but i couldn't do it. somehow i knew this would not be just another tap on the shoulder. and i might be starting something i couldn't stop. i saw her several more times in the next few days, but i still didn't speak to her. then one night i was in the law library talking to a classmate who wanted me to join the yale law journal. he said it would guarantee me a job at a big firm or a clerkship with a federal judge. i really wasn't interested. i just wanted to go home to arkansas. [ cheers and applause ] then -- then i saw the girl

again, standing at the opposite end of that long room. finally she was staring back at me. so i watched her. she closed her book, put it down, and started walking toward me. she walked the whole length of the library, came up to me and said, look, if you're going to keep staring at me -- and now i'm staring back -- we at least ought to know each other's name. i'm hillary rodham. who are you? [ cheers and applause ] i was so -- i was so impressed and surprised that whether you believe it or not, momentarily i was speechless. finally i sort of blurted out my name, and we exchanged a few words, and then she went away.

well, i didn't join the law review, but i did leave that library with a whole new goal in mind. a couple days later, i saw her again. i remember she was wearing a long white flowery skirt. i went up to her and she said she was going to register for classes for the next term. i said i'd go too. and we stood in line and talked. you had to do that to register back then. and i thought i was doing pretty well till we got to the front of the line, and the registrar looked up and said, bill, what are you doing here? you registered this morning. i turned red, and she laughed that big laugh of hers. and i thought, well, heck, since my cover's been blown, i just went ahead and asked her to take a walk down to the art museum. we've been walking and talking and laughing together ever since.

[ cheers and applause ] and we've done it in good times and bad, through joy and heartbreak. we cried together this morning on the news that our good friend and a lot of your good friend mark weiner passed away early this morning. we built up a lifetime of memories. after the first month and that first walk, i actually drove her home to park ridge, illinois, to meet her family and see the town where she grew up, a perfect example of post-world war ii middle class america. street after street of nice houses. great schools. good parks, a big public

swimming pool, and almost all white. i really liked her family, her crusty, conservative father. her rambunctious brothers, all extolling the virtues of rooting for the bears and the cubs. and for the people from illinois here, they even told me what waiting for next year meant. could be next year, guys. now, her mother was different. she was more liberal than the boys, and she had a childhood that made mine look like a piece of cake. she was easy to underestimate with her soft maern, and she reminded me all over against of the truth of that old saying, you should never judge a book by its cover. knowing her was one of the greatest gifts hillary ever gave

me. i learned that hillary got her introduction to social justice through her methodist youth minister don jones. he took her downtown to chicago to hear dr. martin luther king speak, and he remained her friend for the rest of his life. this will be the only campaign of hers he ever missed. when she got to college, her support for civil rights, her opposition to the vietnam war compelled her to change parties and become a democrat. and then between college and law school on a total lark, she went alone to alaska and spent some time slamming fish. more po tto the point, by the ti met her, she had already been involved in the law school's

services project and been influenced by adelman. she took a summer internship interviewing workers in migrant camps for senator mondale's committee. she'd also begun working in the yale-new haven hospital to develop procedures to handle suspected child abuse cases. she got so involved in children's issues that she actually took an extra year in law school working at the child studies center to learn more what could be done to improve the lives and futures of poor children. [ cheers and applause ] so she was already determined to figure out how to make things better. hillary opened my eyes to a whole new world of public service by private citizens. in the summer of 1972, she went

to alabama to visit one of those segregated academies. the only way the economics worked is if they claimed federal tax exemptions to which they were not legally entitled. she got sent to prove they weren't. so she saunterred into one of these academies all by herself pretending to be a housewife that had just moved to town and needed to find a school for her son. and they exchanged pleasantries and finally she said, look, let's get to the bottom line here. if i enroll my son in this school, will he be in a segregated school? yes or no? and the guy said, absolutely. she had him. i've seen it a thousand times since. and she went back, and her encounter was part of a report that gave marian wright aidle man the ammunition she needed to keep working to force the nixon

administration to take those tax exemptions away and give our kids access to an equal education. [ cheers and applause ] then she went down to south texas, where she met -- she met one of the nicest fellows i ever met. the wonderful union leader franklin garcia, and he helped her register mexican-american voters. i think some of them are still around to vote for her in 2016. then in our last year in law school, hillary kept up this work. she went to south carolina to see why so many young -- she went to south carolina to see why so many young african-american boys -- i mean young teenagers -- were being jailed for years with adults in

men's prisons. and she filed a report on that which led to some changes too. always making things better. now, meanwhile let's get back to business. i was trying to convince her to marry me. i first proposed to her on a trip to great britain. the first time she'd ever been overseas, and we were on the shoreline of this wonderful little lake. i asked her to marry me, and she said, i can't do it. so in 1974, i went home to teach in the law school, and hillary moved to massachusetts to keep wo working -- to keep working on children's issues. this time, trying to figure out why so many kids counted in the census weren't enrolled in school. she found one of them sitting alone on her porch in a

wheelchair. once more she filed a report about these kids, and that helped influence ultimately the congress to adopt the proposition that children with disabilities, physical or otherwise, should have equal access to public education. [ cheers and applause ] you saw the results of that last night when anastasia sim oh sa talked. she never made fun of people with disabilities. she tried to empower them based on their abilities. meanwhile -- meanwhile i was still trying to get her to marry me. so the second time i asked, i tried a different tack.

i said, i really want you to marry me, but you shouldn't do it. she smiled and looked at me like, what is this boy up to? she said, that is not a very good sales pitch. i said, i know, but it's true. and i meant it. it was true. i said, i know most of the young democrats our age who want to go into politics. they mean well, and they speak well, but none of them is as good as you are at actually doing things to make positive changes in people's lives. so i suggested she go home to illinois or move to new york and look for a chance to run for office. she just laughed and said, are you out of your mind? nobody would ever vote for me. so i finally got her to come visit me in arkansas.

and when she did, the people at the law school were so impressed, they offered her a teaching position. and she decided to take a huge chance. she moved to a strange place, more rural, more culturally conservative than anyplace she'd ever been, where she knew good and well people would wonder what in the world she was like and whether they could or should accept her. it didn't take them long to find out what she was like. she loved her teaching, and she got frustrated when one of her students said, well, what do you expect? i'm just from arkansas. she said, don't tell me that. you're as smart as anybody. you've just got to believe in yourself and work hard and set high goals. she believed that anybody could make it. she also started the first legal aid clinic in northwest arkansas, providing legal aid services to poor people who

couldn't pay for them. one day, i was driving her to the airport to fly back to chicago when we passed this little brick house that had a for sale sign on it. and she said, boy, that's a pretty house. it had 1,100 square feet, an attic fan and no air conditioner in hot arkansas, and a screened-in porch. hillary commented on what a uniquely designed and beautiful house it was. so i took a big chance. i bought the house. my mortgage was $175 a month. when she came back, i picked her up, and i said, you remember that house you liked? she said, yeah. i said, while you were gone, i bought it. you have to marry me now. the third time was the charm.

we -- [ sheecheers and applause ] we were married in that little house on october the 11th, 1975. i married my best friend. i was still in awe after more than four years of being around her at how smart and strong and loving and caring she was. and i really hoped that her choosing me and rejecting my advice to pursue her own career was a decision she would never regret. a little over a year later, we moved to little rock when i became attorney general, and she joined the oldest law firm west of the mississippi. soon after, she started a group called the arkansas advocates for families and children.

it's a group that you can hear is still active today. in 1979 -- [ cheers and applause ] in 1979, just after i became governor, i asked hillary to chair a rural health committee, to help expand health care to isolated farm and mountain areas. they recommended to do that partly by deploying trained nurse practitioners in places with no doctors, to provide primary care they were trained to provide. it was a big deal then. highly controversial and very important. and i got the feeling that what she did for the rest of her life, she was doing there. she just figured out what needed to be done and what made the most sense and what would help the most people. and then if it was controversial, she just tried to

persuade people it was the right thing to do. it wasn't the only big thing that happened that spring. my first year as governor, we found out we were going to be parents. and time passed. on february 27th, 1980, 15 minutes after i got home from the national governor's conference in washington, hillary's water broke, and off we went to the hospital. chelsea was born just before midnig midnight. [ cheers and applause ] and it was the greatest moment of my life. the miracle of a new beginning. the hole filled for me because my own father died before i was born. and the absolute conviction that

my daughter had the best mother in the whole world. [ ] for the next 17 years, through nursing schooinining -- nursery montessori, through sleepovers, summer camps, family vacations and chelsea's own very ambitious excursions, from halloween parties in the neighborhood to a viennese waltz gala in the white house, hillary first and foremost was a mother. she became as she often said our family's designated worrier. born with an extra responsibility gene. the truth is we rarely disagreed on parenting although she did believe that i had gone a little over the top when i took a couple of days off with chelsea to watch all six "police

academy" movies back-to-back. when chelsea was nine months old, i was defeated for re-election in the reagan landslide, and i became overnight, i think, the youngest former governor in the history of the country. we only had two-year terms back then. hillary was great. immediately she said, okay, what are we going to do? here's what we're going to do. we're going to get a house. you're going to get a job. we're going to enjoy being chelsea's parents. and if you really want to run again, you got to go out and talk to people, figure out why you lost, tell people you got the message, and show them you still got good ideas. i followed her advice. within two days, we had a house. i soon had a job. we had two fabulous years with chelsea. and in 1982, i became the first governor in the history of our state to be elected, defeated, and elected again.

[ cheers and applause ] i think my experience is it's a pretty good thing to follow her advice. the rest of the decade sort of flew by. as our lives settled into a rhythm of family and work and friends. in 1983, hillary chaired a committee to recommend new education standards for us as a part of -- in response to a court order to equalize school funding and a report by a national expert that said our woefully underfunded schools were the worst in america. typical hillary. she held listening tours in all 75 counties with our committees. she came up with really ambitious recommendations. for example, that we be the first school in -- first state in america to require elementary counselors in every school because so many kids were having

trouble at home and they needed it. so i called the legislature into session hoping to pass the standards, pass the pay raise for teachers, and raise the sales tax to pay for it all. i knew it would be hard to pass, but it got easier after hillary testified before the education committee, and the chairman, a plainspoken farmer, said it looks to me like we elected the wrong clinton. well, by the time i ran for president nine years later, the same expert who said that we had the worst schools in america said that our state was one of the two most improved states in america, and that's because of those standards that hillary -- now, two years later, hillary told me about a preschool program developed in israel

called hippy. the idea was to teach low income parents, even those that couldn't read, to be their children's first teachers. she said she thought it would work in arkansas. i said that's great. she said, i called the woman who started the program in israel. she'll help us get started. next thing i know i'm being dragged around to all these preschool graduations. watching these poor parents with tears in their eyes because they never thought they'd be able to help their kids learn. now, 20 years -- 20 years of research has shown how well this program works to improve readiness for school and academic achievement. there are a lot of young adults in america who have no idea hillary had anything to do with it, who are enjoying better lives because they were in that

program. she did all this while being a full-time worker, a mother, and enjoying our life. why? well, she's insashably curious. she's a natural leader. she's a good organizer, and she's the best darn change maker i met in my entire life. [ cheers and applause ] so, look, this is a really important point. this is a really important point for you to take out of this convention. if you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives are bettered, you know it's hard and some people think it's boring. speeches like this are fun. actually doing the work is hard. some people say, well, we need to change. she's been around a long time. she sure has, and she's sure been worth every single year she's put into making people's

lives better. i can tell you this. if you were sitting where i'm sitting and you heard what i have heard at every dinner conversation, every lunch conversation, on every long walk, you would say, this woman has never been satisfied with the status quo in anything. she always wants to move the ball forward. that is just who she is. [ cheers and applause ] when i became president with a commitment to reform health care, hillary was a natural to head the health care task force. you all know we failed because we couldn't break a senate filibuster. hillary immediately went to work on solving the problems the bill

sought to address one by one. the most important goal was to get more children with health insurance. in 1997, congress passed the children's health insurance program. still an important part of president obama's affordable care act. it ensures more than 8 million kids. there are a lot of other things in that bill that she got done piece by piece, pushing that rock up the hill. in 1987 -- '97, she also teamed with the house minority leader tom delay, who maybe disliked me more than any of newt gingrich's crowd. they worked on a bill together to increase adoptions of children out of foster care. she wanted to do it because she knew that tom delay, for all of our differences, was an adoptive parent, and she honored him for doing that.

now, the bill they worked on, which passed with an overwhelming bipartisan majority, led to a big increase in the adoptions of children out of foster care, including non-infant kids and special needs kids. it made life better because she's a change maker. that's what she does. [ cheers and applause ] now, when you're doing all this, real life doesn't stop. 1997 was the year chelsea finished high school and went to college. we were happy for her but sad for us to see her go. i'll never forget moving her into her dorm room at stanford. it would have been a great little reality flick. there i was in a trance staring out a window trying not to cry.

and there was hillary on her hands and knees, depusperately looking for one more drawer to put that liner paper in. finally chelsea took charge and told us ever so gently that it was time for us to go. so we closed a big chapter in the most important work of our lives. as you'll see thursday night when chelsea speaks, hillary's done a pretty fine job of being a mother. and as you saw last night beyond a shadow of a doubt, so has michelle obama. [ cheers and applause ] now, fast-forward. in 1999, congressman charlie rangel and other new york

democrats urged hillary -- urged hillary to run for the seat of retiring senator pat moynihan. we also intended to go to new york after i left office and commute to arkansas, but this had never occurred to either one of us. hillary had never run for office before, but she decided to give it a try. she began her campaign the way she always does new things, by listening and learning. and after a tough battle, new york elected her to the seat -- to the seat once held by another outsider, robert kennedy. [ cheers and applause ] and she didn't let him down. her early years were dominated by 9/11, by working to fund the

recovery, then monitoring the health of and providing compensation to victims and first and second responders. she and senator schumer were tireless, and so were our house members. in 2003, partly spurred on by what we were going through, she became the first senator in the history of new york ever to serve on the armed services committee. she tried to make sure people on the battlefield had proper equipment. she tried to expand and did expand health care coverage to reservists and members of the national guard. she got longer family leave working with senator dodd for people caring for wounded service members. and she worked for more extensive care for people with traumatic brain injury. she also served on a special pentagon commission to propose changes necessary to meet our new security challenges. newt gingrich was on that commission. he told me what a good job she

had done. i say that because nobody who has seriously dealt with the men and women in today's military believes they are a disaster. they are a national treasure of all races, all religions, all walks of life. [ cheers and applause ] now, meanwhile she compiled a really solid record, totally progressive on economic and social issues. s she became the de facto development officer for the area of new york outside the ambit of new york city. she worked for farmers, for wine makers, for small businesses and manufacturers. rural areas that needed more ideas and more new investment to create new jobs, something we have to do again in small town

and rural america, in neighborhoods that have been left behind in our cities and indian country, and yes, in coal country. when she lost the hard fought contest to president obama in 2008, she worked for his election hard. but she hesitated to say yes when he asked her to join his cabinet because she so loved being a senator from new york. so like me in a different context, he had to keep asking. but as we all saw and heard from madeleine albright, it was worth the effort and worth the wait. as secretary of state, she worked hard to get strong sanctions against iran's nuclear program, and in what "the wall street journal" no less called a

half-court shot at the buzzer, she got russia and china to support them. her team negotiated the new start treaty with russia to reduce nuclear weapons and re-establish inspections, and she got enough republican support to get two-thirds of the senate to vote necessary to ratify the treaty. she flew all night long from cambodia to the middle east to get a cease fire that would avoid a full-out shooting war between gaza -- between hamas and israel and gaza, to protect the peace of the region. she backed president obama's decision to go after osama bin laden. she launched a team -- this is really important today. she launched a team to fight back against terrorists online and built a new global counterterrorism effort. we've got to win this battle in

the mine field. she put climate change at the center of our foreign policy. she negotiated the first agreement ever, ever for china and india officially committed to reduce their omissions. and as she had been doing, since she went to beijing in 1995 and said women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights, she worked to empower women and girls around the world and to make the same exact declaration on behalf of the lgbt community in america and around the world. [ cheers and applause ] and nobody ever talks about this much. nobody ever talks about this much, but it is important to me. she tripled the number of people

with aids in poor countries whose lives are being saved with your tax dollars. most of them in africa, going to 5.1 million lives, and it didn't cost you any more money. she just bought available fda approved generic drugs, something we need to do for the american people more. now, you don't know any of these people. you don't know any of those 3.4 million people, but i'll guarantee you they know you. they know you because they see you as thinking their lives matter. they know you, and that's one reason the approval of the united states was 20 points higher when she lost the secretary of state's office than when she took it. [ cheers and applause ] now, how does this square with the things that you heard at the

republican convention? what's the difference in what i told you and what they said? how do you square it? you can't. one is real. the other is made up. [ cheers and applause ] and you just have to decide -- you just have to decide which is which, my fellow americans. the real one had done more positive change making before she was 30 than many public officials do in a lifetime in office. the real one -- the real one, if you saw her friend vote for illinois today, has friends from childhood through arkansas, where she has not lived in more

than 20 years, who have gone all across america at their own expense to fight for the person they know. the real one has earned the loyalty, the respect, and the fervent support of people who have worked with her in every stage of her life, including leaders around the world who know her to be able, straightforward, and completely trustworthy. the real one calls you when you're sick, when your kid's in trouble, or when there's a death in the family. the real one repeatedly drew praise from prominent republicans when she was a senator and secretary of state. so what's up with this? well, if you win elections on the theory that government is always bad and will mess up a two-car parade, a real change maker represents a real threat.

so your only option is to create a cartoon, a cartoon alternative. cartoons are two dimensional. they're ease to absorb. life in the real world is complicated, and real change is hard. and a lot of people even think it's boring. good for you because earlier today, you nominated the real one. [ cheers and applause ] listen. [ crowd chanting ]

we got to get back on schedule. you guys calm down. look, i have lived a long, full, blessed life. it really took off when i met and fell in love with that girl in the spring of 1971. when i was president, i worked hard to give you more peace and shared prosperity, to give you an america where nobody is invisible or counted out. but for this time, hillary is uniquely qualified to seize the opportunities and reduce the risk we face. and she is still the best darn change maker i have ever known. [ cheers and applause ]

you could drop her -- you could drop her in any trouble spot. pick one. come back in a month, and somehow, some way, she have mad. that is just who she. there are clear, achievable, affordable responses to our challenges but we won't get to them if america makes the wrong choices. that is why you should elect her because she'll never quit when the going gets tough. she'll never quit on you. she sends me to west virginia where she knew we were going to lose to look those coal miners in the eye and say "i'm down here because hillary sent me to

tell you that if you really think you can get the economy back you have had 50 years ago, have at it." if she wins, she's coming back for you to take you along on the ride for america's future. so i say to you if you love this country, you're working hard, paying taxes and obeying the law and want to become a citizen, you should choose immigration reform over somebody that wants to send you back. if you're a muslim and you love america, and freedom and you hate terror, stay here and help us win and make a future together. we want you.

if you're a young african american disillusioned and afraid we saw in dallas how great our police officers can be. help us build a future where nobody is afraid to walk outside including the people in blue who protect our futures. hillary will make us stronger together. you know it, because she's spent a lifetime doing it. i hope you'll do it. i hope you'll elect her. those of us who have more yesterdays than tomorrows tend to care more about our children and grandchildren.

the reason you should elect her is that in the greatest country on earth we have always been about tomorrow, your children and grandchildren will bless you forever if you do. god bless you. thank you. >> the 42 president of the united states, bill clinton in a highly personal speech talking about his wife, starting in 1971 when he met hillary rodham for the first time, saying he asked her to go for a walk and they've been hafing and talking and walking ever since. the former president laid out story after story designed to show hillary clinton is a change maker. she's not the status quo, the clintons are about as establishment as any other family. he made points to tell stories that she was highly ideologically a woman on the

left, not the centerist that we heard perhaps in the campaign of 1992. and in this pitch, came back around that she is the one who can make the change, not donald trump. >> they say he wanted to humanize her in this speech which, you know, is a question in these campaigns why would that be necessary. she has struggled with her favoribility numbers and owe connect with a lot of audiences. they say she does well in small groups but on the stump does less well. this is the man trying to introduce us to the young woman with the big glasses and no makeup he met 40 years ago. >> no mention of the clinton foundation, which has come under controversy over how it got and spent money when she was secretary of state and only one line tapping on the heartache and troubles of the late 90s in the scandal involving president clinton where the house

impeached him and made it through. now has high approval ratings in this party. >> it's an interesting choice. he's a character witness for her, he told us through the lens of a love story between himself and his wife and skipped a chapter in two in there which was, you know, the elephant in the room here and on twitter everybody is wondering how he was going to handle the awkwardness that was the monica lewinsky affair and other affairs. not that we're electing the best couple in america but that is the lens through which he choice to present it and led to questions to what wasn't there. that leads to our panel tonight. brit, what did you think? >> this was a political biograp biography. >> yes. >> it was line after line after line about the different things she tried to do politically over this long marriage they have had together.

we heard they do laugh, was there a story in there about them laughing together about anything? we heard the sweet moment with a birth of their daughter but then, on to more policy. it was really kind of a wonkish speech of the idea she's not the status quo, that she's the great change agent. we don't know how much pure compost was in this tale. the guy has not last his fast ball and it was glorious fun to listen to him. if i read that text, people would be asleep and dying. not bill clinton. wag that crooked finger at me more than once since i've known him but he is still the big dog. >> he did it to chris wallace, too. he wagged his finger. i want to ask you whether you

think he got it done because brit raises a good point. the story telling and scene setting as he talked about the 1100 fair foot home she liked and you can picture a young woman there thinking about getting married. >> when going into this, i said to you he disappointed me in terms of speech making and i wondered it was the vegan diet. and you said, he needs a hamburger. he must have found a hamburger here tonight. i agree with brit. that was bill clinton. he delivered for hillary clinton tonight. the key point people will take away is that last week at the republican convention you heard a story about hillary clinton. i told you a story tonight. the question is how do you square it? he said you can't square it. they have built a cartoon about this woman and i, her husband, her best friend, who lived a life i've just told you about, a love story as you described it, i'm telling you this is the real

story. if you elected me twice as you know me, you know, i'm telling you the truth. this is bill clinton putting himself on the line in a passionate, and i think, convincing way. >> chris, you know the constant recurring theme of a change maker, not the status quo, clearly they look at that threat in an antiestablishment environment as real. >> oh, absolutely. let me say first of all all of the dissing of the vegan diet was making him weak. as they said in the movie "i'll have what he's having". he turned this cavernous hall into a wonderful story. it seemed to me they were weaving the political and personal. that is the life these people

led. i understood their marriage, her constant desire to make life better, to make change. both in a political and personal sense, i thought it was a very powerful speech that undid or tried to undo some of the damage done to her last week in cleveland. >> interesting, chris, thank you. he said you can drop her into a trouble spot and in a month she'll have made it better which will lead a lot to donald trump talking about syria and libya and other hot spots we've seen while she was secretary of state where there were problems. >> he went out of his way to point to things she did and negotiating as secretary of state and flying across the world to make a deal come through. but when her own people in this campaign tried to articulate her successes as secretary of state, they often had a hard time lifting all of them. so it will be interesting to see how she handles foreign policy.

we've been talking about isis is not a big word in this convention so far. >> we'll hear from donald trump undoubtedly soon. so that is it. this you have the former president speaking as a character reference for his wife and our coverage is going to continue throughout the evening, including with sean hannity. >> thanks, megyn, oh, getting feedback here. welcome to "hannity." day two of the democratic national convention is coming to an end and former president bill clinton just left the stage where he made the case for his wife to be the next president of the united states. joining us now, former speaker of the house, newt gingrich. mr. speaker, how are you? >> bill clinton is a great story teller. you have to give him credit. he's one of the finest story tellers in modern american politics. old uncle bill had this story and wanted to tell you