it is wednesday, july 27th. day two of the dnc filled with more drama as hillary clinton is officially nominated the democratic presidential nominee. her husband, former president bill clinton, taking center stage to make her case. >> but bernie's backers not going down without a fight flooding the streets in protests, even lighting flags on fire. >> feel the bern, feel the better than obern. >> i move that hillary clinton be selected as the nominee of the democratic party for president of the united states. >> she's the best darn change

maker i ever met in my entire life. >> [ bleep ]. >> i am truly honored to nominate bernie sanders for president. >> donald, did you hear me? already great nation. >> the trump campaign is so hard up for moneys just saw the fog machine on ebay for 30 bucks. don't feel good about it. >> that's not for you to say. >> earlier today, you nominated the real one. >> we just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet. she's excited. good morning to you, you are watching "fox & friends first" on this wednesday morning.

i'm heather childers. >> and i'm abby huntsman. day three of the dnc kicking off in just a few hours. the stage set for president obama and vice president biden. >> we have fox news team coverage for you this morning. jackie is following trump hot on the campaign trail. >> but let's get right to doug live in philly with the latest from the dnc where it is still dark out there. good morning to you. >> reporter: morning. the dnc was able to heal some of the lingering damage with last night's roll call vote, but not without tension. a large group of protesters made their way from downtown philadelphia to just outside the security perimeter at the convention site around 9:00 pchl last night, at one point burping the american flag. as one woman steppeded in to put the fire out, the man who had actually lit the fire shouted what gives you the right to storm out someone's protest? meanwhile inside bernie sanders

made a huge move to ease the tension when he asked that the roll call vote be interrupted and asked that hillary clinton's name be placed in the nomination by acclamation. >> i move that hillary clinton be selected as the nominee of the democratic party for president of the united states. >> reporter: and while many sanders supporters protested that move by walking out of the auditorium a auditorium, it between paver the way for the formal nomination of hillary clinton and in a rare video appearance, she hangthank the delegates. >> we put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet. >> reporter: and hillary clinton also spoke last night. for him, this is the first time he'd of spoke as a spouse of a nominee. >> she's a natural leader, she's a good organizer, and she's the

best darn change maker i ever met will in my entire life. >> reporter: also speaking last night, mothers of the movement, mothers of eric garner, michael brown and trayvon martin against heavy handed policing. this was highly controversial. the fraternal order of police spoke out against it earlier in the week. it was balanced out however by another speech by the pittsburgh police chief, but lingering animosity about that. back to you. >> yes, some saying a real missed opportunity. members of police officers family as there, as well. doug, thank you. so donald trump and mike pence are hot on the campaign trail. >> and now a look at trump's new plan to put our heros first. jackie. >> reporter: good morning. it was donald trump's turn to take center stage with the veterans of foreign wars convention in charlotte. just one day after hillary clinton spoke at the same spot, trump went after his rival on benghazi, libya and her private e-mail server scandal.

a few military veterans shouting "lock her up." >> the other candidate in this race, you know her name, crooked hillary clinton, she recently said of the v.a. scandal that it's not as widespread as it's been purported to be. it's like she's trying to sweep it under the rug. >> lock her up! >> trump stressing revamping the v.a. as one of his top priorities and outlined a 10 point reform plan including a private white house hotline answered by a real person 24 hours a gay, firing employees who don't put the well-being of veterans first and more mental health care. the republican presidential nominee also knocking the democrats for blatantly ignoring isis at the dnc, even going so far as blaming them for creating the terror group. trump now heading to florida,

pennsylvania and ohio today, a busy day. >> jackie ibanez, thank you. well, someone that everyone wanted to hear from, bill clinton, he did speak yesterday making the case for why hillary clinton deserves to win. but is the popular former president an asset or is he a liability? >> here to weigh in, our political panel. welcome to both of you. good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> guy, we'll start with you. a lot of people waiting to hear from hillary clinton. he could have gone so many directions with this speech. he decided to make it more personal talking about hillary clinton just being a real human being. >> more of a love story. >> and what exactly did bill have? >> well, the broader question is he an asset or liability and i think of course in the scheme of things he's an asset. he is much more popular thana b.

they go anklely asked me do you think he will try to go after any policy level or maybe try to rehabilitate her image on trustworthiness and i said i don't think so. i think he realizes that people have opinions of hillary clinton that are already set in stone especially when it comes to her honesty. what he can do is help her favorability by putting a human face and telling the types of stories that he ended up doing. >> do you think he helped her in that effort? >> i do. i don't think it was a home run speech. i thought it was a solid base hit speech. i'm not sure if it will have a lasting impact too far beyond the convention, but he certainly told a story about a woman that most people don't normally think about and imagine in their mind when they start thinking about hillary clinton. and that is a good thing for her. >> capri, would you have liked

to have heard more policy or just a personal aspect enough for you? >> that's really not the role of bill clinton in all of this. yes, he's the former president of the united states, but in context of the democratic national convention in 2016, he is the spouse of the nominee for president of the united states, not just a former president of the united states. so his role here was a traditional spousal role to talk about the relationship and what they are like as parents and how they have groan togethwn togeth the last 40 years both personally and professionally. so that's what he needed to do. as far as the broader question that guy and you mentioned at the top of the segment as far as asset versus liability, i think that he's a little bit of both depending on the audience. so with the traditional what i would call either reagan democrat or a bill clinton democrat, the more blue collar folks that you may think of in the industrial midwest, bill clinton is still incredibly popular with many of those

folks. folks that i represent certainly in ohio. on the flip side, we saw earlier in the show about the protesters speaking out because they were bernie or bust. and these bernie or bust people who are millennials and they are yu young and they think bill clinton is a sellout because they were not -- many weren't alive or super young when he was president of the united states. so bill clinton is not a unifying force for them and does not speak to them. so depending on the audience, bill clinton can an asset or liability. >> a lot of bernie's followers saying that bernie himself was a sellout. so interesting where -- >> everyone is a sell out. >> everyone is a sellout. >> right. all right. thank you both for joining us. and we'll have you back. the time 10 after the hour. and democrats under fire for one major campaign issue missing from the dnc, terrorism. >> you're looking at a party that is not concerned about

massive security. >> so who has the best strategy to win the war on terror, donald trump or hillary clinton? our next guest breaks that down up next.

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we need to change our foreign policy to focus on defeating and destroying isis, a word you didn't hear last night at the democrat convention. >> yesterday in philadelphia, 61 speakers came to the podium and not one of them named isis by name. >> that of course was mike pence and dud talking about the threat of isis and americans living in fear of lone wolf attack. but winning the war on terror

not a popular topic at the dnc. terror mentioned only a few times. >> i think amongst four different speaker, only mentioned five time. so who has the best plan to win the war on terror? here with us aaron mcclain. thank you very much for joining us. >> good to be here. >> so let's look quigley at tck two plans. first of all, donald trump's plan for fighting terrorism in the u.s. compared to clinton's, control our border, suspend immigration where there is a history of terrorism, screen applicants, control amount of future immigration into this country to prevent pockets of radicalization. and clinton's plan, give officials the right tools to prevent attacks, allow the fbi to stop gun sales to suspected terrorists, enact comprehensive background checks, keep military

style assault weapons off our streets and support law enforcement to build strong relationships with american muslim communities. so who has the stronger plan? >> well, both plans have elements that i think have experts a little confused and both are met with broad support from americans in a different almosts. hillary clinton's focus on gun control has met with a lot of push back from folks that the so-called no-fly/no-buy rule would not for example have stopped omar mateen who was for about a year on an fbi watch list but taken off of it well before the taeg thattack that h perpetrated. trump's plan focuses on immigration, something that plays very well in the republican primaries and his base. it's met with a fair amount of resistance particularly on the question of the immigration ban which is kind of undergone this torturous journey, originally a muslim ban, then muslim countries and now i believe banned from countries with

established history of terrorism. just a nebulous category. and i think folks are kind of confused how that will work considering that he also wants to work with allies, but of course some of those allies are the very countries that have a problem with terrorism. >> and those are their plans really here on the home front. when it comes to fighting terrorism overseas, here is what they say, trump saying america must unite the whole civilized world, he wants an intelligence gathering system and clinton saying intense guy the coalition campaign, step up support for local arab and civil forces, but sue d pursue diplomatic strategy and work with tech companies to fight propaganda online. who has the better plan? >> both plans would probably take a tougher line on isis than president obama has which is an

admittedly low bar, but nevertheless i think with secretary clinton, in some respects you would see merely intensification of what obama has been doing in terms of the level of froops there, maybe a slight pickup from that, the major difference between her and obama of course is her attitude toward the assad regime in syria. president obama has decided to cooperate with the russians and takes setly layoff assad despite resistance of his own advisers. of course hillary i think would return on a more pockish line on assad. with trump, he's shifted back and forth. on the question of troops, i think for sure we will see more money. i think he woulded loosen the rules of engage the and afterno would see afternoon aggressive line from the air. if you want to talk about the difference between clinton and trump abroad, it's the attitude

toward assad. i think clinton would be very hawkish, she would alter no-fly zone, called for a tough line. trump of course made a habit of saying wouldn't it be nice if we were friendly with the russians. i think he would continue the obama approach of cooperating with the russians and assad while bombing isis. >> i look forward to hearing the debates between the two of them to get a better sense. >> 81% of people say that they feel less safe than they did eight years ago. >> aaron maclean, thanks for being with us about. it's 18 after the top of the hour. protesters hit the streets targeting america and its pride and that's not all. they targeted fox news, too. >> you don't even know what i do. >> [ bleep ]. >> you have to see this. yes, geraldo rivera in the

center of all of it. >> in the spring of 1971, i met a girl. >> and why bill clinton's opening line is setting social media on fire.

welcome back. it was a big day in philly at the democratic national convention, but what was the reaction on social media? >> let's ask clayton morris. clayton, i think bill clinton is still the number one trending thing on twitter right now. >> that's right, and of course all eyes on the former president. how would he come out and talk

about his wife? obviously they have had a tumultuous relationship to be sure and it played out in public about, but he started out the speech with this line. watch. >> in the spring of 1971, i met a girl. >> that was all the internet needed to then of course as many memes as they could possibly go. so here are some of the tamer tweets that we can show you on television. erik says does he remember that it was hillary that he met. and dave tweeting this, surprised he can keep them all straight #don't believe a word he says. ouch. and then kitty tweeting this, and then i met another and another and you know how the story goes. >> that is funny. >> yeah, if you want to look at the less tame one, you can certainly do that this morning. and then also do you remember a few days ago donald trump comes out to the smoke machines in

silhouette, almost looked like a wwe style entrance? sean stoun cold austin will smash a beer can on someone's head. elizabeth banks had some fun with it, but people weren't sure what the heck was going on when she comes out to smoke screen and sort of to mock donald trump's entrance. people one exercising what in the heck is happening here? of course it was a joke. people took to -- started out kind of funny, but people were unclear. bill matthews tweeting i don't know how much elizabeth banks i expected, but probably like 1/50th as much elizabeth banks. and emily tweeted i like elizabeth banks a lot, but this is kind of a lot of elizabeth banks. i like elizabeth banks too. and steven tweeting apparently elizabeth banks is the new dnc chair. yeah, that's how donna brazile should have come out. would have been a good entrance.

and of course you remember we all have to play at home and try to pick who that is. and you remember back in 2004, it's the scream that undid the dean campaign and it played out like a meme for weeks. watch. >> we're going to oregon and michigan and then we're going to washington, d.c. to take back the white house. aagh! >> that filled the room. it was so loud. and then it played out on television and people were like what is going on, people morning of mocking his speech. howard dean may have had the funniest moment so far of the entire convention. here is him revising his scream role last night. watch. >> this race is going to be won on the ground. and it's going to be won in colorado, and in iowa, and north

carolina and michigan and florida and pennsylvania and then we're going to the white house! >> he didn't do the ending, though. >> i know, i was waiting. maybe his voice was so blown out, hard to replicate i guess. but guy benson tweeting that was actually funny #dean scream. and another the tweet, might be the funniest thing i've seen at the convention. and then kevin with the final tweet, hillary should have named howard dean her running mate. that might not have been a bad idea. and that is a wrap up of some of the biggest social media trends of the evening. >> like politicians don't know that the mic picks up sound. >> yeah, always assume it's hot. >> thanks, clayton. the time 27 after the hour. the biggest stars of the democratic party taking the stage in the first two nights of

the dnc. are they setting the bar too high for hlry? our political panel is on deck to weigh in. >> do you support open borders? >> i believe in a borderless planet. and also a xlers-free planet. >> see what happens when, yes, jesse watters asks people about illegal immigration.

we just put about the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet. >> hillary clinton making history and now officially the democratic party's presidential nominee. good morning to you. it is wednesday, july 27th. you're watching fox and friends first. i'm abby hunpt ntsmanhuntsman. >> and i'm heather childers. bernie sanders backers not going

down without a fight. protesters flooding streets of philadelphia burning the american flag as you can see there. >> this as donald trump and mike pence hit the trail hard promising to fix our broken veterans system. >> our v.a. is broken and this builder will fix it. >> our veterans are the bravest and the finest people on earth. >> we have fox news team coverage with you beginning with doug mcelway live in philadelphia. good morning, doug. >> reporter: good morning. this convention whose theme is united together might better have been billed as disunited and not together given what happened early this week. but last night's session went a long way to healing a lot of the damage. but it was not without tension. a large group of protesters made their way from fr downtown

philadelphia to outside the security perimeter at the convention site around 9:00 p.m. last night. at one point burning an american flag. meanwhile inside the convention center, bernie sanders made a huge move towards reconciliation when he interrupted the roll call vote to ask that hillary clinton's name be placed into nomination by acclamation. here he is. >> i move that hillary clinton be selected as the nominee of the democratic party for president of the united states. >> reporter: some sanders supporters dwnts like that, they walked out of the auditorium in protest and actually staged a sit-in in the main media center where police locked them in. hillary clinton, though -- bernie sanders paved the way for hillary clinton's nomination. she appeared on video while her husband appeared in person for the first time as the spouse of a nominee. >> she's the best darn change maker i ever met in my entire

life. earlier today, you nominated the real one. >> we just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling. >> reporter: on tonight's speaking agenda, two heavy hitters, president obama and vice president joe biden. heather, abby, back to you. >> it will be a big night tonight. thanks so much. and donald trump and his running mate hot on the campaign trail. >> the republican nominee promising to revolutionize for . >> and jackie ibanez live with trump's brand new plan to tifix the v.a. >> it was donald trump's turn to take center stage in charlotte, north carolina just one day after hillary clinton spoke at the same spot. trump went after his rival on benghazi, libya and her private e-mail server scandal. >> we know how she takes care of the veterans. just look at her invasion of

libya and her handling of benghazi. a disaster. or look at her e-mails which put american's entire national security at risk. >> trump stressing that revamping the r.a. of a is a to priority. his plan include as private white house hotline answered by a real person. firing employees who don't put the well-being of veterans first. and more mental health care. the republican presidential nominee also knocking the democrats for not talking specifically about isis at the dnc tweeting out dems don't want to talk isis because hillary's foreign interventions unleashed isis and her refugee plans make it easier for them to come here. trump is now heading to florida, pennsylvania and ohio later today. >> jackie bei, thanks so much. star democrats taking the

stage first two nights of the dnc. >> how did this square with the things that you heard at the republican convention? one is real, the other is made up. >> huge difference between people fighting for a level playing field and the people fighting to keep the system rigged. >> donald, did you hear me? already great nation. >> about when women succeed, america succeeds. >> america, we will rise. this is our history. >> because this right now is the greatest country on earth. >> tonight it is president obama's turn, but have they already set the bar too high for hillary? let's ask our political panel. former campaign adviser and also a gop strategist. thank you both for joining us.

>> good morning. >> and you know hillary, you worked with the campaign in 2008. have they set the bar too high or can she handle it? >> no, heather, you know the answer to that question. the bar was set too low last week. if we look at the yelling in cleveland and screaming and heat tread versus the fact that we've had real americans on the stage, people talking about hak that they know how warm she is, that she's not a change talker, she's a change maker. and we'll get a chance to see that in a couple days from her. but i don't think that there is a bar that could be set too high for hillary clinton clearly i'm biased as a life long democrat, but the story that we heard about who she really is versus the cartoon character that people want to portray out of

hatred, that is all laying the foundation for what i think will be in line with what happened today. history making coming from hillary clinton. >> and it is not easy following a really strong speaker. look at elizabeth warren who followed michelle obama. >> and corey booker, too. >> so what does hillary clinton have to do to mauk sure that she gets the buzz everybody is hoping that she gets? >> first of all, there were real americans at the republican convention. the slain officer that died in benghazi's mother spoke. we had a lot of business people that had actually created businesses, run successful businesses at the republican national committee that came out and spoke. you've seen a lot of platy tuds. you've seen a lot of good feelings here. that is great and all, but i look at polling every day. i know what the american people think. that is not where they are right

now. i'm glad that they're happy and they think america is absolutely great. i think it's great, too, but it can be a whole lot better. >> speaking of the republicans and a donald trump, let's turn now to the campaign trail where the republican nominee spent two days campaigning in north carolina. >> and the real clear politics average poll now showing a very tight race with hillary only two points ahead. so how can he win the key battleground states? north carolina, ohio, florida, pennsylvania, all of them right now are very close. >> donald trump wouldn't know a ground game if it bit him in the butt. but i just have to comment on his statement about making america great again. the hypocrisy coming from conservatives when you have any progressive say anything negative about america, when there was the whole idea that barack obama didn't think we were exceptional. and now flip the script.

everything is bad. america is just in tatters. and there is no recognition even from our colleagues here at fox news who just ripped him to shreds for saying america is not good and he didn't even say it, but now it's the entire message. come on, that's not how he's going to win the battleground states. it will take a positive vision for the future. >> polls would suggest otherwise. phillip, you get the final word. >> 30 years of the clintons tearing other people down and now let's listen to a speech and know that they will build everybody up. >> thank you both for waking us up very spirited conversation this morning. >> love having you guys. have a good day. well, the time is about 20 until the top of the hour. and an emotional plea. mothers of black men killed in gun violence taking center stage at the dnc.

but where were all the mothers of the law enforcement killed in the line of duty? the convention controversy now brewing up next.

the so-called mothers of the movement who lost children to gun and police violence were given a voice at the dnc last night. >> she knows that when a young black life is cut short, it's not just a loss. it's a personal loss. it's a national loss. >> we're going to keep building a future where police officers and communities of color work together in mutual respect to keep children likor de ojordan .

>> she has a plan for the communities they serve. an emotional part of the night, but no relatives of slain police officers were on the speakers list. so what message does this send? here to react, vincent hill. sir, thanks for being with us so early. >> top of the morning. thank you for having me. >> so there were a lot of people saying there have been innocent lives lost on both sides of this situation. and that there was a real missed opportunity here. what are your thoughts? >> well, clearly we missed an opportunity here. i mean we had ten police officers killed in the last couple of weeks. you look at dallas, baton rouge. so sandra bland's mother says the loss of a black life is a national loss, but here are men and women who have served their country, who have served their community and no one is actually saying what about their loss.

that to me is a national loss. >> the number of police deaths from gunshots from shooting deaths has risen 72% from just the same time period compared to last year. what about maybe inviting some of those family members, some of those mothers to join these mothers on stage? >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, at the end of the day, police are human, as well. they have mothers, daughters, brothers, sisters. so why is the country not hearing their fight, as well? it should go both ways. >> do you think this needs to be a political issue? because it seems likes's turned in to one. we have a statement from the from stern al order of police, they say a slap in the face to our men and women and their families who were victim sized by the same type of violence. obviously this is hitting home for a lot of people that have been impacted by this. >> absolutely it's a slap in the face. you look at dallas, you look at the officers who gave their

lives protecting the ones that were there basically who had no respect for them, who had no love for them, who basically hated them. but yet they went out and did their job, the police that were protecting the dnc were out doing their job, yet no one respects them. >> and what message do you think this sends to the general public when they see something like this happen at such a big venue? >> well, the thing that struck me the most is besides not seeing too many american flag, i saw a lot of "black lives matter" movement flags. i saw the chant of "black lives matter" when the mothers of the movement were speaking. to me it was sickening. i think back to the memorial of the officers in dallas where the president of the united states said america needs to hear the pain of alton sterling. well, at the end of the day, alton sterling resisted arrest, he that had a gun which led to death. so again, where is the protests

for the police? >> and everyone has been impacted. vincent hill, thanks for being with us. >> thank you. the time is now 47 after the hour. illegal immigration at the dnc. >> what would you do to secure the southern border? >> nothing. borders are the problem. >> so if democrats don't support donald trump's wall, how do we fix illegal immigration? jesse watters finds out their plan. they brought this on themselves.

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an american flag torched on the streets of philadelphia. bernie backers not going down without a fight, flooding downtown and dramatic protests even going so far as to stomp on the flag. >> and geraldo rivera caught in the middle of alls people. >> you don't even know what i do. >> [ bleep ]. >> time to go. >> [ bleep ]. >> wow. crowds lashing out, climbing fences just feet from the dnc. geraldo reacted to all the madness last night on hannity calling the crowds very aggressive. >> i feel that they came at us with an attitude, you know, f you, fox news, this and that and

just put my chin out and say oh, yeah? >> well, geraldo will join fox and friends live in philadelphia at 7:30. looking forward to hearing what he has to say. in don . >> don't mess with geraldo. >> so what do people at the dnc think about illegal immigration? jesse watters hit the streets to find out. ♪ >> i love your hat. >> thank you. my hat loves you. it's mutual. >> take it and like it. >> do you support open borders? >> i believe in a borderless planet, and always commerce-free planet. it's all a bunch of bs. >> you're not speaking my language. >> i believe that people should come here and we should accept them with open arms. >> how do you have a country if you don't have a border? [ crickets ]

>> glad you thought it over. >> what would you do to secure the southern border? >> nothing. borders are the problem. >> we are a land of immigrants open and welcoming to every. that's how you grow diversify the economy. >> we need to have adequate security. you have to pass immigration reform so you don't have border security overwhelmed with chasing people 300 miles inland and breaking up families. >> you have a good day. >> we're on a schedule. thank you. >> illegal immigration is not a hot topic for me. you want to ask me about bernie policies, i'm all about that. the things important to republicans are not important to me. >> in is a law called kate's law. you could face five years mandatory in prison. do you support that? >> no. >> you don't come here and hurt

people. >> so you support keeping illegal alien felons out of the country? >> they're felons. if we can prove that. >> illegal aliens convicted of an aggravated felon already deported, mandatory minuimum fie years. do you support that? >> i -- i -- i -- >> i would not mind supporting something to that effect. >> yay! ♪ >> how do you have a country without borders? crickets. >> watters world a little chaotic. and last night bill clinton told a love story to make his case for hillary clinton. >> i said while you were gone, i bought the house. you have to marry me now. this the third time was the charm. >> did it work with the voters? brand new dials just coming in.

it is wednesday, july 27th, day two of the dnc filled with more trauma as hillary clinton is officially nominated the democratic presidential nominee. historic moment, her husband former president bill clinton taking center stage to make her

case. >> bernie's backers not going down without a fight, flooding the streets in protests, everyone lightieven lighting flags on fire. >> feel the bern, feel the bern sglnc ! >> i move that hillary clinton be selected as the nominee of the democratic party of the united states. >> she's the best darn change maker i ever met in my entire life. >> you don't even know what i do. >> [ bleep ]. >> i am truly honored to nominate bernie sanders for president. >> donald, did you hear me? already great nation. >> trump campaign is so hard up for money, i just bought their fog machine on ebay for 30 bucks. i don't feel good about it. i don't.

>> that's not for you to say. >> black lives matter. >> earlier today, you nominated the real one. >> we just put the biggest crack in that glass in that glass ceiling, yes. (screams n. ( >> i love her shirt. the american flag shirt. >> two down, two to go. what in the world happens next? >> you are watching "fox & friends first" on this wednesday morning. i am heather childers. >> i am abby huntsman. day three of the dnc president obama and vice president biden tonight. >> jackie ibanez following the trump train hot on the campaign trail. let's go to doug