>> i want to thank you for watching "the kelly file" this week in philadelphia. keep it right here because our continuing coverage with hillary clinton and chelsea clinton continues right now with yours truly and bret baier. welcome to philadelphia. hillary clinton set to become the first woman ever to accept the nomination for president from a major party. good evening, everyone. i'm bret baier. >> hi, everybody. i'm megyn kelly, and it is the final night of the democratic national consequenvention here philadelphia. hillary clinton is facing the biggest moment of her political career. the democratic nominee is expected to speak about a, quote, moment of reckoning in america as katy perry sings about hearing me roar. >> she's roaring all right, setting up this historic moment. clinton's daughter, chelsea, who will take the stage any minute to introduce her mother.

martha maccallum is down on the floor with more. martha. >> katy perry behind us performing tonight, getting this crowd going. a night where we will talk about reckoning when hillary clinton comes on this stage. it's been a very serious, somber evening. we've heard from a muslim captain's father who lost his son fighting for america. we then heard very strong words and a very volatile exchange here in the arena between general john allen, who oversaw the war in iraq and afghanistan, and the people in this arena. basically the bernie sanders supporters were putting up peace signs. no more war, they chanted loudly. his voice was booming throughout the course of this room, and he said thing as long these lines. we will defeat evil. america will defeat isis and protect the homeland. he then gave a message to isis and others. you will fear us. we will defeat you. mixed reaction in the crowd. many people cheering and

chanting. the usa signs had just been handed out specifically for that moment. they knew they were going to get protests, and they wanted to have something to counterbalance those. the usa signs all around and the chants of "no more war" coming against them. back to you guys. >> well, we are awaiting chelsea clinton, and obviously the world met her in 1992 when president clinton won that election and first lady clinton at the time. there you see the former president sitting in a special section that was set up right next to the stage. and he is sitting next to the vice presidential nominee, tim kaine. >> a lot of people have looked at chelsea clinton and wondered if she has a political future. she says she understands why people think that of her. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome chelsea clinton. >> let's take a listen to her tonight. ♪

>> thank you. thank you. oh, thank you. thank you. it is such an honor for me to be here tonight. i'm here as a proud american, a proud democrat, a proud mother. and tonight in particular, a very, very proud daughter. [ cheers and applause ] mark and i can't quite believe it, but our daughter charlotte is nearly 2 years old. she loves elmo. she loves blueberries. and above all, she loves

facetiming with grandma. my mom can be about to walk onstage for a debate or a speech, and it just doesn't matter. she'll drop everything for a few minutes of blowing kisses and reading chuck achuck achoo choo with her granddaughter. oh, chugga chugga got an applause. our son aidan is 5 1/2 weeks old, and we are so thankful that he's healthy and thriving and, well, we're a little biased. but we think he's just about the cutest baby in the world. a view i'm pretty sure my mom shares. and every day that i spend as charlotte and aidan's mother, i think about my own mother. my wonderful, thoughtful,

hilarious mother. my earliest memory is my mom picking me up after i'd fallen down, giving me a big hug, and reading me "good night, moon." from that moment to this one, every single memory i have of my mom is that regardless of what was happening in her life, she was always, always there for me. every soccer game, every softball game, every piano recital, every dance recital, sundays spent together at church, in the local library, countless saturdays spent finding shapes in the clouds, making up stories about what we would do if we ever met a triceratops. in my opinion, the friendliest

looking dinosaurs, although my mom would always remind me they were still dinosaurs. as a kid, i wasre ptty obsessed with dinosaurs, and the day that my parents took me to dinosaur national park, i didn't think life could get any better. whenever my mom was away for work, which thankfully didn't happen very often, she left notes for me to open every day she was gone, all stacked neatly together in a special drawer, with a date on the front of each one so i would know which note to open on which day. when she went to france to learn about their child care system, i remember one was all about the eiffel tower. another was about the ideas she hoped to bring home to help the kids of arkansas. i treasured each and every one

of those notes. they were another reminder that i was always in her thoughts and in her heart. growing up, conversations around the dinner table always started with what i learned in school that day. i remember one week talking incessantly about a book that had captured my imagination, "a wrinkle in time." only after my parents had listened to me would they then talk about what they were working on -- education, health care, what was consuming their days and keeping them up at night. i loved that my parents expected me to have opinions and to be able to back them up with facts. i never once doubted that my parents cared about my thoughts and my ideas, and i always,

always knew how deeply they loved me. that feeling of being valued and loved, that's what my mom wants for every child. [ cheers and applause ] it is the calling of her life. my parents raised me to know how lucky i was that i never had to worry about food on the table, that i never had to worry about a good school to go to, that i never had to worry about a safe neighborhood to play in. and they taught me to care about what happens in our world and to do whatever i could to change what frustrated me, what felt wrong. they taught me that's the responsibility that comes with being smiled on by fate and --

[ cheers and applause ] i know my kids are a little young, but i'm already trying to instill those same values in them. there's something else that my mother taught me. public service is about service. and as her daughter, i've had a special window into how she serves. i've seen her holding the hands of mothers worried about how they'll feed their kids, worried about how they'll get them the health care they need. i've seen my mother promising to do everything she could to help. i've seen her right after those conversations getting straight to work, figuring out what she could do, who call,

how fast she could get results. she always feels like there isn't a moment to lose because she knows that for that mother, for that family, there isn't. and i've also seen her at the low points, like the summer of 1994. several people this week have talked about her fight for universal health care. i saw it up close. it was bruising. it was exhausting. she fought her heart out, and as all of you know, she lost. for me, then 14 years old, it was pretty tough to watch. but my mom, she was amazing.

she took a little time to replenish her spirits. family movie nights definitely helped. dad, as all of you now know, liked "police academy." my mom and i loved "pride and prejudice." and then she just got right back to work because she believed she could still make a difference for kids. [ cheers and applause ] people ask me all the time how does she do it? how does she keep going amid the sound and the fury of politics? here's how. because she never, ever forgets who she's fighting for. [ cheers and applause ]

she's worked to make it easier for foster kids to be adopted, for our 9/11 first responders to get the health care they deserve, for women around the world to be safe, to be treated with dignity, and to have more opportunities. fights like these, they're what keep my mother going. they grab her heart and her conscience, and they never, ever let go. that's -- that's who my mom is. she's a listener and a doer. she's a woman driven by compassion, by faith, by a fierce sense of justice, and a heart full of love.

so this november, i'm voting for a woman who is my role model as a mother and as an advocate, a woman who has spent her entire life fighting for families and children. i'm voting for the progressive who will protect our planet from climate change and our communities from gun violence. [ cheers and applause ] who will reform our criminal justice system and who knows that women's rights are human rights. and who knows that lgbt rights are human rights. here at home and around the world. i'm voting for a fighter who never, ever gives up and who

believes that we can always do better when we come together and we work together. i -- i hope that my children will someday be as proud of me as i am of my mom. i am so grateful to be her daughter. i'm so grateful that she is charlotte and aidan's grandmother. she makes me proud every single day. and, mom, grandma would be so, so proud of you tonight. [ cheers and applause ] to everyone watching here and at home, i know with all my heart

that my mother will make us proud as our next president. this is the story of my mother, hillary clinton. >> here is a woman. what does she dream of? when does she feel proud? how many times will she leave her mark? how many ways will she light up the world? >> she's got this wonderful, infectious laugh that carries quite far and sometimes will be surprising because you'll be in the middle of something and she'll -- ha! and there's a joy and a mirth that i think the public always see. >> i remember her holding my hand a lot. i felt like she tried to soothe me. >> it wasn't about pictures or a

big production. she just kind of showed up, and she had a very simple message. thank you, and i'll do whatever i can for you. and she -- she would make good on that. >> chelsea clinton, the daughter of one president, hoping to be the daughter of two. let's bring in our panel. brit hume, chris wallace, and juan williams. brit, what did you think in. >> it's always something touching about a kid speaking about a mom. and i think anyone watching that would have found it affecting, and i certainly did as well. i couldn't help but think that part of the function of her remarks was when we keep hearing about humanizing her mother and all of that, if people doubt she's a human being, which i don't think people really do, but it was also to get people to sort of see hillary clinton, who's been a part of this very unusual marriage to put it gently, was really a normal mom. and i think that was the purpose of it, and i don't know what everybody else thinks, but we'll

see, i guess. >> chris? >> you know, it is so interesting, and you get a sense by watching that and now the little bit of the video that we watched what they think is important to accomplish on this very big night. she has a lot of political tasks, but clearly she and the campaign think the biggest task is personal. she has very high unfavorables, second only to donald trump. the vast majority of the american public does not trust her. tonight they want people to get a different sense of her as a human being, her values, and maybe to chip away at some of that distrust of her. this video, done by shonda rhimes, yes, i will explain, i am a fan of those shows like "scandal" and grey's anatomy. and narrated by morgan freeman. they're pulling out all the stops to give the people a warmer, gentler sense of hillary clinton. >> we're going to listen to a little more of the video in just a minute but we wanted to get

around the horn here quickly. juan. >> i think this is an interesting political season. last week in cleveland, we saw so many of donald trump's children as the kind of character witnesses for donald trump. i think he was at a deficit for other people to speak. so it became a cascade of family members. but tonight we have chelsea clinton really speaking and, i think, in a singular mode. she's not a politician. she is not her father, president clinton. she's not barack obama, michelle obama. she's not joe biden, tim kaine. she is speaking on a level that i found very personal and intimate. i think this is what hillary clinton has to do tonight to speak to the trustworthy issue that looms so large as a deficit for her at this moment, especially with people who are undecided and especially with women voters. she has trouble, as we've talked about before, with white men, especially those who haven't gone to college. but she needs to bump up her numbers with women, and i think chelsea saying, your mother,

mom -- in other words, grandma -- would be so proud of you tonight. and i don't think there's any doubt about it on a night when you're going to see a woman be nominated by a major american party for president of the united states. >> the thing about chelsea clinton, too, is that she has -- i think she has a lot of love from the american public. she grew up in the public eye in the white house. she was ridiculed by "saturday night live" mercilessly. can you imagine going through your awkward years, you know, in the white house with that kind of spotlight on you? she turned out to beautifully, articulately endorsing her mom, giving us another side of her. she doesn't need to be as polished as barack obama. that came from the heart, and it would probably play well with most viewers out there who may not be as polished as some of the other speakers we've seen. they could probably relate to chelsea clinton a lot better. >> one of the problems i think that mrs. clinton has is questions of authenticity. is she a scripted politician as

opposed to genuine? tonight i don't think there was any question chelsea, for her slow-speaking style or whatever, seemed so authentic talking about the books they read and the movies. >> i wouldn't want to get up there five and a half weeks after giving birth. >> you don't hear hilarious as a word that usually describes hillary clinton, but that's what chelsea called her. let's go down to bill hemmer. >> good evening. sources close to the campaign tell me that there is a bit of internal tug oh war as to whether or not to go after donald trump sometimes. i am told that secretary clinton pushed hard for the latter. that's not the suggest that he won't mention him by name or go after him tonight, but she will essentially say to paraphrase, i know you know me, but i want you to know more about me. and i know you know my opponent, but i need you to know more about him. bill clinton was famous for getting in the limo and going up to the capitol and making edits at the last minute.

mikt is n hillary clinton is not like that. this speech, i'm told, was in the ba the bag several hours ago with secretary clinton making the final edits. >> i'm going to bring in monica crowl crowley, and chris stirewalt. what do you make of tonight and hillary clinton's challenge? >> i find kind of remarkable that they're putting so much emphasis on humanizing her, that somehow she needs to be humanized relentlessly. it almost seems to be pointing to a problem. i don't know why they're belaboring this instead of talking about the fact that she is, as her husband talked about, supremely accomplished. she's been a united states senator. she's been secretary of state. she has a resume. why not talk about that? why not make it sound like there's a deficit here? >> tucker, can you answer that question? >> i think they're focusing on the wrong thing. look, as you well know, there's a long unwritten but long-standing rule that you don't criticize the children of political figures and i think it's a great rule and most of us

abide by it. i got to be honest with you and say chelsea clinton's speech hit some false notes, that it was almost overcompensation. the truth is hillary wins if she's margaret thatcher in this case. if she can present herself as the person who is a steady hand, i think she's got a really good shot at winning. i don't think after 35 years in the public eye, that reintroducing herself as someone who most people don't think you are is going to work. it's too late to make that sale. she's never going to win on warmth. she shouldn't try. why would she try? we're not hiring someone for warmth? >> she won in 2008 for warmth in new hampshire in that cafe when she expressed emotion, when people were surprised by that. >> that's right. i think that's a fair point, but i think it's a different world. as of right now, perhaps i'm misreading the country, but i think there's a lot of anticipation and anxiety about what happens next, especially run as donald trump is. she says, look, i know whae i'm doing. you may not want to have dinner with me, but i am a steady hand.

i think that's a winner. >> do you think the pressure on hillary clinton is greater to show, quote, warmth because she's a woman, or do you think we'd be doing this if a man who came off as cold and unrelatable as some of her critics charge she is? >> yeah, i don't think it's -- i think it is unique to hillary clinton not because of her gender but because of who she is and her pattern of behavior over the last nearly 30 years on the national scene. i mean there's very little conversation about positive, tangible achievements over the last week because they are sparse. and so what she's had to do over the last week is drag out these testimonials of people who know her like her husband and her daughter to prove to the american people that she is in fact human. the problem here is again she's been on the national scene for so long, people already have an entrenched impression of her. to try to reintroduce herself yet again for the millionth time may not work. again, the two candidates that had, i think, the most passionate support over the last year are the ones who showed a

raw authenticity. bernie sanders and donald trump. donald trump, of course, is the republican nominee. so the fact that they are trying so hard to establish that she is authentic might not, in fact, be washing with many voters. >> monica, thank you. >> thank you. >> back to the panel here in the studio, what she needs to show according to many is charm, right? donald trump, for all of his foibles, can be quite charming. he wants to charm you, you're probably going to be charmed unless you're a democrat in this room. they're probably not going to be. but she hasn't shown a huge appty tud for that out on the campaign trail. >> no. there's an interesting thing. there was a fame ousz saying by mario cuomo. he said you can't paimpaign in you govern in prose. she campaigns in prose, that kind of warm, engaging spirit, or that sense as we've seen with both her husband and barack

obama where they're able to campaign and it sings. it will be interesting to see tonight whether she's able to sing and whether she's able to translate a considerable charm, which i've had the good luck to see in private situations, whether she's able to transfer that into a public situation. you know, i must say i disagree with a lot of the other comments my colleagues here have made. i don't think trying to show people you're human and that you care and that trying to chip away at the unfavorables and the untrustworthiness is a bad thing to do. i don't think it's the only thing she's going to do. i very much it's the only thing she will do, but it's not a bad thing to do. >> one of the articles today said can clinton meet the moment? she's not a natural at this, and the stakes couldn't be higher. >> well, we'll find out, won't we? that's what we're all sitting here waiting for is to find out whether she can do this. my own -- from a political standpoint, i'm not sure she has to hit it out of the park 207

tonight. i think the advantages she and her party have in this election are pretty steady and pretty strong, and so i think she just needs to do a decent job probably. >> what message does she want to leave the american public with? last week we saw donald trump hit all the notes. he hit on everything. he went on a little long but hit it all and left obviously a good impression because he got a good bump, juan. >> he sure did even though i thought it was a very difficult convention for him with obviously ted cruz refusing to endorse and the like. but here i think to speak to some of my colleagues, you've got to understand this woman has been in the public spotlight, not just the spotlight but the heat lamp for so long, and she has endured a fuselage, a barrage of criticism, and she has to respond to that criticism and change the narrative about who she is if she wants to win. >> let's go to the video and see the end of this as hillary clinton gets ready to come onstage. >> -- that my mother would hope for me. >> how many times will she leave

her mark? how many ways will she light up the world? this is the woman. [ cheers and applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, my mother, my hero, and our next president, hillary clinton. ♪ this is my fight song ♪ take back my life song ♪ ♪

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thank you. thank you all so much. thank you. thank you. thank you all very, very much. thank you for that amazing welco welcome. thank you all for the great convention that we've had. and, chelsea, thank you.

i am so proud to be your mother and so proud of the woman you've become. thank you for bringing mark into our family and charlotte and aidan into the world. and, bill, that conversation we started in the law library 45 years ago, it is still going strong. [ crowd chanting ] you know that conversation has lasted through good times that filled us with joy and hard times that tested us, and i've even gotten a few words in along

the way. on tuesday night, i was so happy to see that my explainer-in-chief is still on the job. i'm also grateful to the rest of my family and to the friends of a lifetime. for all of you whose hard work brought us here tonight and to those of you who joined this campaign this week, thank you. what a remarkable week it's been. [ cheers and applause ] we heard the man from hope, bill clinton, and the man of hope, barack obama. [ cheers and applause ] america is stronger because of

president obama's leadership, and i'm better because of his friendship. we heard from our terrific vice president, the one and only joe biden. [ cheers and applause ] he spoke from his big heart about our party's commitment to working people as only he can do. and first lady michelle obama reminded us that our children are watching. and the president we elect is going to be their president too. and for those of you out there who are just getting to know tim kai

kaine, you -- you will soon understand why the people of virginia keep promoting him from city council and mayor to governor and now senator. and he will make our whole country proud as our vice president. and i want to thank bernie sanders. [ cheers and applause ] >> bernie! bernie! >> bernie, your campaign inspired millions of americans, particularly the young people

who threw their hearts and souls into our primary. you put economic and social justice issues front and center where they belong. and to all of your supporters here and around the country, i want you to know i've heard you. your cause is our cause. [ cheers and applause ] our country needs your ideas, energy, and passion. that is the only way we can turn our progressive platform into real change for america!

we wrote it together. now let's go out and make it happen together. my friends, we've come to philadelphia, the birthplace of our nation, because what happened in this city 240 years ago still has something to teach us today. we all know the story, but we usually focus on how it turned out and not enough on how close that story came to never being written at all. when representatives from 13 unruly colonies met just down the road from here, some wanted to stick with the king, and some wanted to stick it to the king.

the revolution hung in the balance. then somehow they began listening to each other, compromising, finding common purpose. and by the time they left philadelphia, they begun to see themselves as one nation. that's what made it possible to stand up to a king. that took courage. they had courage. our founders embraced the enduring truth that we are stronger together. [ cheers and applause ] now america is once again at a moment of reckoning. powerful forces are threatening

to pull us apart. bonds of trust and respect are fraying. and just as with our founders, there are no guarantees. it truly is up to us. we have to decide whether we will all work together so we can all rise together. our country's motto is e pluribus unum. out of many, we are one. will we stay true to that motto? well, we heard donald trump's answer last week at his convention. he wants to divide us from the rest of the world and from each other. he's betting that the perils of

today's world will blind us to its unlimited promise. he's taken the republican party a long way, from morning in america to midnight in america. he wants us to fear the future and fear each other. well, you know, a great democratic, frankly delano roosevelt, came up with the perfect rebuke to trump more than 80 years ago during a much more perilous time. the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. now, we are clear-eyed about what our country is up against, but we are not afraid. we will rise to the challenge

just as we always have. we will not build a wall. instead, we will build an economy where everyone who wants a good job can get one. [ cheers and applause ] and we'll build a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants who are already contributing to our economy. we -- we will not ban a religion. we will work with all americans and our allies to fight and defeat terrorism. yet we know there is a lot to do. too many people haven't had a pay raise since the crash.

there's too much inequality, too little social mobility, too much paralysis in washington. too many threats at home and abroad. but just look for a minute at the strengths we bring as americans to meet these challenges. we have the most dynamic and diverse people in the world. we have the most tolerant and generous young people we've ever had. we have the most powerful military, the most innovative entrepreneurs, the most enduring values. freedom and equality, justice and opportunity. we should be so proud that those words are associated with us. [ crowd chanting ]

i have to tell you as your secretary of state, i went to 112 countries. when people hear those words, they hear america. so don't let anyone tell you that our country is weak. we're not. don't let anyone tell you we don't have what it takes. we do. and most of all, don't believe anyone who says "i alone can fix it." yes, those were actually donald trump's words in cleveland. and they should set off alarm

bells for all of us. really? "i alone can fix it"? isn't he forgetting troops on the front lines, police officers and firefighters who run toward danger, doctors and nurses who care for us, teachers who change lives, entrepreneurs who see possibilities in every problem, mothers who lost children to violence and are building a movement to keep other kids safe? he's forgetting every last one of us. americans don't say "i alone can fix it." we say, "we'll fix it together."

and remember, remember our founders fought a revolution and wrote a constitution so america would never be a nation where one person had all the power. 240 years later, we still put our faith in each other. look at what happened in dallas. after the assassinations of five brave police officers, police chief david brown asked the community to support his force, maybe even join them. and you know how the community responded? nearly 500 people applied in just 12 days. [ cheers and applause ]

that's how americans answer when the call for help goes out. 20 years ago, i wrote a book called "it takes a village." and a lot of people looked at the title and asked, what the heck do you mean by that? this is what i mean. none of us can raise a family, build a business, heal a community, or lift a country totally alone. america needs every one of us to lend our energy, our talents, our ambition to making our nation better and stronger. i believe that with all my heart. that's why stronger together is not just a lesson from our history. it's not just a slogan for our

campaign. it's a guiding principle for the country we've always been and the future we're going to build. a country where the economy works for everyone, not just those at the top. where you can get a good job and send your kids to a good school no matter what zip code you live country where all our children can dream, and those dreams are within reach. where families are strong, communities are safe, and, yes, where love trumps hate. [ crowd chanting ]

that -- that's the country we're fighting for. that's the future we're working toward. and, so my friends, it is with humility, determination, and boundless confidence in america's promise that i accept your nomination for president of the united states! [ cheers and applause ]

now, sometimes -- sometimes the people at this podium are new to the national stage. as you know, i'm not one of those people. i've been your first lady, served eight years as a senator from the great state of new york. then i represented -- then i represented all of you as secretary of state. but my job titles only tell you what i've done. they don't tell you why. the truth is through all these

years of public service, the service part has always come easier to me than the public part. i get it that some people just don't know what to make of me. so let me tell you. the family i'm from, well, no one had their name on big buildings. my family were builders of a different kind, builders the way most american families are. they used whatever tools they had, whatever god gave them, and whatever life in america provided and built better lives and better futures for their kids. my grandfather worked in the same scranton lace mill for 50 years. because he believed that if he gave everything he had, his

children would have a better life than he did, and he was right. my dad, hugh, made it to college. he played football at penn state and enlisted in the navy after pearl harbor. when the war was over, he started his own small business, printing fabric for draperies. i remember watching him stand >> my mother, dorothy was abandoned by her parents as a young girl. she ended up on her own at 14, working as a house maid. she was saved by the kindness of others. her first grade teacher saw she had nothing to eat at lunch and brought extra food to share the entire year.

the lesson she passed on to me, years later, stuck with me. no one gets through life alone. we have to look out for each other, and lift each other up. and she made sure i learned the words from our methodist faith. do all the good you can, for all the people you can, in all the ways you can, as long as ever you can. so i went to work for the children's defense fund, going door to door in new bedford, massachusetts. on behalf of children with disabilities who are denied a chance to go to school. i remember meeting a young girl in a wheelchair on the small back porch of her house. she told me how badly she wanted

to go to school. it just didn't seem possible in those days. i couldn't stop thinking of my mother, and what she'd gone through as a child. it became clear to me that simply caring is not enough. to drive real progress, you have to change both hearts and laws. you need both understanding and actions. so we gathered facts. we built a coalition. and our work helped convince congress to ensure access to education for all students with disabilities. it's a big idea, isn't it? every kid with a disability has the right to go to school. but how? how do you make an idea like that real? you do it step by step. year by year, sometimes, even

door by door. my heart just swells when i saw anastasia samosa representing millions of young people on this stage. because we changed our law to make sure she got an education. so it's true. i sweat the details of policy when we're talking about the exact level of lead in the drinking water in flint, michigan, the number of mental health facilities in iowa, or the cost of your prescription drugs. because it's not just a detail if it's your kid. if it's your family, it's a big deal. and it should be a big deal to your president, too.

[ crowd cheering ]. after the four days of this convention, you've seen some of the people who have inspired me. people who let me into their lives and became a part of mine. people like ryan moore, and lauren manning. they told their stories tuesday night. i first met ryan as a 7-year-old, he was wearing a full body brace that must have weighed 40 pounds because i leaned over to lift him up. children like ryan kept me going when our plans for universal health care failed and kept me working with leaders of both parties to help create the childrens health insurance program that covers 8 million kids in our country. lauren manning, who stood here

with such grace and power was gravely injured on september 11th. it was the thought of her, and debbie st. john who you saw in the movie and john dolan and joe sweeney and all of the victims and survivors that kept me working as hard as i could in the senate on behalf of september 11th families and our first responders who got sick from their time at ground 0. i was thinking of lauren, debbie, and all of the others 10 years later in the white house situation room, when president obama made the courageous decision that finally brought osama bin laden to justice. and in this campaign, i've met many more people who motivate me to keep fighting for change and with your help, i will carry all of your voices and stories with

me to the white house. and you heard, you heard from republicans and independents who are supporting our campaign. well, i will be a president for democrats, republicans, independents, for the struggling, the striving, the successful, for all of those who vote for me, and for those who don't. for all americans together. [ crowd cheering ]. tonight, tonight we've reached a milestone in our nation's march toward a more-perfect union. the first time that a major

party has nominated a woman for president. [ crowd cheering ]. standing here, standing here as my mother's daughter and daughter's mother, i'm so happy this day has come. i'm happy for grandmothers and little girls and everyone in between. i'm happy for boys and men, because when any barrier falls in america, it clears the way for everyone. after all, when there are no

ceilings, the sky's the limit. [ crowd cheering ]. so let's keep going. let's keep going until everyone of the 161 million women and girls across america have the opportunity she deserves to have. but, even more important, than the history we made tonight is the history we will write together in the years ahead. let's begin with what we're going to do to help working people in our country get ahead and stay ahead. i don't think president obama and vice president biden get the credit they deserve for saving us from the worst economic crisis of our lifetime.

our economy is so much stronger than when they took office. nearly 15 million new private-sector jobs. 20 million more americans with health insurance and an auto industry that just had it's best year ever. that is real progress, but none of us can be satisfied with the status quo. not by a long shot. we're still facing deep-seeded problems that developed long before the recession and stayed with us through the recovery. i've gone around the country, talking to working families and i've heard from many who feel like the economy sure isn't working for them. some of you are frustrated. even furious.

and you know what? you're right. it's not yet working the way it should. americans are willing to work and work hard, but right now an awful a lot of people feel there is less and less respect for the work they do. and less respect for them, period. democrats, we are the party of working people. but we haven't done a good-enough job showing we get what you're going through and we're going to do something to help. so tonight, i want to tell you, how we will empower americans to live better lives. my primary mission as president will be to create more opportunity and more good jobs with rising wages, right here in the