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the democratic national convention continues now. >> good evening and welcome to our special pbs newshour npr coverage of the democratic national convention in philadelphia p. i'm gwen ifill >> and i'm judy woodruff, joining us is npr's rachel martin, and here in the booth mark shields, david brooks. >> and also mara elliiason and down on the floor, john yang and susan davis. >> on the second night hillary clinton officially became the nominee and we are going to hear

from her husband, former president bill clinton right after this break. >> funding for this program has been provided by: >> lincoln financial-- committed to helping you take charge of your financial future. >> welcome back! we are here are our entire political team as the democratic party kicks off the second night of the 2016 presidential nominating convention >> last night was about unifying the party and tonight is a

celebration of a historical moment the first female nominee of a major political party in the united states. the theme this evening is "fight of her life" it's an opportunity to reintroduce hillary clinton to the american public. earlier this evening the delegates formerly nominated hillary clinton and ended with a familiar face from the campaign, let's look. >> madam chair i move that the convention suspend the procedural rules. i move that all votes, all votes cast by delegates be reflected in the official record and i move that hillary clinton be selected as the nominee of the democratic party for president of the united states! >> that's bernie sanders, the senator from vermont who of course decided to do the ultimate peace-making move there at the end and embrace not only

hillary clinton but have his delegates embrace her as well. >> and make history in so doing. he wanted to be nominated president, he didn't make it but the person who did is the first woman to be nominated by a marmg political party to be president of the united states. mark shields, it is history >> absolutely it's history. thinking that here we are 25 years after bill clinton and hillary clinton walked down from macy's department store to madison square garden to accept the nomination as he did, they have been a dominant family in american politics. for 25 years. she has emerged now, it's not geraldine ferrarro trying to catch up, or sarah palin, this is a woman who won it on her own and dominated the field against

a remarkable challenge from bernie sanders but it's history >> you think they were more dominant than the bushes? >> more dominant because the bushes were two den cautions, bill clinton was a john kennedy look-alike and now he's a 75 year old frail-looking man and he's about to endorse his wife for president of the united states and give a testimonial to her. >> amy walter, we glossed over it a little bit but being the first woman. >> yeah. >> what is it? 90 -- how many years since women got the right to vote, 97 years since women got the right to vote, that's all it took! >> there were a number of delegations, as a matter of fact, judy that picked a woman to introduce their state and i

think at lisa two of them were born before women had the right to vote. they were obviously elderly but you could see the pride they had in being able to come here and see something that when they were born was not even a possibility, not in the longest, grandest idea of possibility. i don't think it's really sunk in yet. i think that is going to sink in on thursday when hillary clinton comes and accepts the nomination. this is still somewhat theoretical until we see her take that speech. >> tonight is going to be a series of testimonials to hillary clinton, we see at the podium, eric holder, worked for president obama until last year and before that worked as attorney general for bill clinton, let's listen for a few minutes. then welcome back for thoughts around the table. >> we need a president who understands the reality that i saw in my travels across our

country as our nation's 82nd attorney general. that there should be no tension between protecting those who value and risk their lives to serve and ensure that everyone is treated fairly by the police. now as a brother of a retired police officer, i am profoundly aware that an attack on a police officer anywhere is an attack on our entire society. so it is not enough, it is not enough for us to praise law enforcement officers after they are killed. we must protect them, value them and equip them with the right tools, at that time particulars and training while they are still alive! we must also come to realize that keeping our officers safe

is not inquint with ensuring that those in law enforcement treat the people they are sworn to serve with dignity, with respect, and with fairness. we must commit ourselves to both goals. hillary understands that the goals we share are the same, safer communities with less crime, where all of our loved ones, police and community residents, they get the chance to come home at night. as president she will continue the work that needs to be done to rebuild trust because she knows that we are stronger together! let us be honest. at a time when our justice system is out of balance, when one in three black men will be incarcerated in their life times and when black defendants in the federal system receive sentences 20% longer than their white

peers, we need a president who will end this policy of overincarceration. as attorney general i launched sweeping reforms of our federal criminal justice system and reduced the alliance on drakonian federal prison sentences and we cut the prison population and the crime rate together for the first time in forty years. now -- that's right, that's right! despite the fiction and the fear mongering you've heard from the other party's nominee violent crime has gone down since president obama took office. as president hillary will go even farther. >> former attorney general eric holder speak being law enforcement at a year when certainly that's been front and

center of much of the discussion in this country about whether justice has been done when it comes to the treatment of black men, black women at the hands of law enforcement, it was certainly a subject at the republican convention, we're hearing it here from eric holder. before we go to the floor and hear from some of the delegates tonight, i want to ask you, david brooks, let's go back to hillary clinton going over the top. she hasn't accepted the nomination yet but the party is coming together. bernie sanders was the one who said let's make is unanimous >> sort of. i'm struck by how the delegates, the bernie sanders delegates feel they're superior and they think they are part of a movement of history that will be longer than this convention. i was walking down the corridor 45 minutes ago look for a chicken sandwich and i'm surrounded by sanders people saying hay hay ho, ho, super

delegates have to go. if you have a walk-out after a session that a walk-out or are you just leaving? i'm not sure. i'm struck by this, if you hang around the corridors, hang around the bars, ride the subway back to the hotel, there seem to be more sanders people, but they're more vivid, they know when they believe, hillary people are not wearing buttons. they fade to the background. >> because they know they're winning. >> maybe, but they're just more loud and proud. >> bernie sanders thinks the reason for that is so many of his supporters are first-timers, they haven't been to this rodeo before. >> i know that's what they say but when you look at the sanders delegates they're all different

ages and the tea party became a resource for the republic party they didn't split off and it will be interesting to see if the bernie sanders people stay in the tent and become a source of energy and activism for the democratic party. it certainly doesn't seem that way now with we won't vote for hillary and many of them talking about voting for donald trump, that's not the case but i do think bernie sanders, himself, i think the clinton campaign got as much as possible to get out of him between his speech last night and what he did on the floor today. >> listening to mara liasson and amy walter, david brooks and mark shields, now down to the pod yam to npr's rachel martin. tell us what it was like down there during the roll call. >> it was interesting, judy because as i was watching this unfold it was notable that

several representatives from the states when they got up to give their state's delegate counts sometimes they would say such and such number for bernie saers, but sometimes they took a moment to acknowledge the sanders movement and thetas their wording, to reach out, so delegation by delegation this unity work is being done. when bernie sanders and the state of vermont finally said this is the moment and bernie sanders moved to approve hillary clinton's nomination by anning clay makings there was a huge applause in the crowd but interestingly there were near us on the podium dnc officials who embraced one another, i mean, a flurry of embraces and huma abideen, hillary's closest advisor came out on the podium area and was joining in the

hugging so truly a sense of relief among many hillary clinton supporters here tonight >> lots of celebration not only in the halibut throughout the city today and susan davis from npr is also on the floor give us another sense of this. >> gwen, i stood for the roll call with the illinois delegation and among those included five of hillary clinton's childhood friends. the woman that put her votes up for nomination is a woman named betsy eberling who has known hillary since the fifth grade, the two of them snuck out to go to the 1968 convention together, and she said "this one is for you, hil" and she is incredibly high on popularity ratings and they point to these life-long friendships that she had give

assurances to people and they are lickly to be is your gates for her as we go into the general election. >> susan davis and welcome back to you throughout the night and let's go to john yang on the floor. you're talking to the delegates, what are they saying after this roll call? >> sorry. yes, i'm sorry, gwen, i missed the question. >> what are the delegates telling you? >> there was a small walk-out after the roll call closed and the nomination was made by anning clay makings, a number of del deities gates particularly in california and some in wisconsin left the floor, was not a huge number. they made their way across the alleyway here into the media tent where they were having what they called a silent protest. these are the really hard core bernie or busters, who said they

won't vote for hillary clinton no matter what and they wanted to make their displeasure known and in a lot of ways over the way that senator sanders, they feel, gave up too easily. a lot of them wanted to see a floor fight over the platform, particularly on the trance pacific partnership. she wanted to see more of a fight on super delegates so they were expressing their dish pleasure by walking out and they haven't come back >> what's interesting, john and everybody around the table is that they could walk out, do whatever they like but in the end bernie sanders himself, amy walters seemed to be most realistic about this situation. >> absolutely. >> in the end i plan to hold her feet to the fire on trance pacific trade -- transpacific

trade. >> this is not just what ted cru cruz said he wasn't able to get behind donald trump but when some of them maybe don't endorse him or maybe they don't and that is a marked different but it's always going to come down to the question of who are these people, right? and we talked a lot in the pry mary's about these new people that were coming into the party, who are these people that are coming out? 95, 96% of those voters are republican voters, they voted in general elections, they might not have voted in pry mary's so he brought people into vote into pry mary's but not necessarily new voters, the bernie sanders people are a new question,

and -- >> even he said today when he goes back to the senate he's still going to be an independent. >> right, and this has adopted itself but it's going to go away when bernie sanders is gone. >> and we should point out that donald trump is tweeting at least once a day saying he's going to pull over these bernie supporter and calling bernie a sell out because he endorsed hillary clinton. he's been watching all this closely, sort of hovering over the entire thing and depending on how serious you want to take it or not. we're going to step away for just a few moments and we want to tell you before we go this is special pbs news hour coverage in philadelphia for the democratic convention. we will be back shortly.

>> if you are just joining us, this is live coverage of the democratic national convention from npr and pbs news hour i'm gwen ifill. >> and i'm judy woodruff, we are here watch is the convention and we want to go to the floor where they are watching a video this is about the "mothers of the movement", mothers whose sons have died in violent encounters, mostly victims of gun violence. >> to ban together so that it's a constant drum beat and say look, we are citizens, we are mother's, we lost children, this is not only wrong it is

unacceptable and here are things that need to happen to prevent this from happening again. >> it's all of us who are trying to keep our kids alive, literally, their names alive so i need to speak so her voice can remain. >> i can't help trayvon but there are other trayvon martins that i can help. >> i believe in my heart that there is a seed planted so me and these different mom's can bring our voices together and our ancestors fought and fought and fought and i just want us to love one another. i want people to stop hating one another, stop taking from each other, let's build, let's unite. >> would you mind giving us a prayer before we go home? i would so appreciate it. these people here are among some

of the people that i treasure and admire so much. ♪ ♪ we're walking to the same place. we are walking to the same place we're walk to the pearly gates. we are walking to the pearly gates. ♪ ♪ >> wow! >> amen! >> the mother of sbrina fulton,

trayvon martin, several mother's, gwen carr, the mother of eric garner, mrs. pendleton, the mother of michael brown, the mother of oscar brant a young man who was shot by a police officer in oakland, california. >> we should say that just a few moments ago the democratic delegates also heard from the police chief in pittsburgh a city where the strain between police and the black community have been pronounced but front and center are these mother's. >> i need you all to hear me tonight. give me two moments to tell you how good god is!

whew? give me a moment to say thank you. we are not standing here because he's not good, we're standing here because he's great! whew! one year ago yesterday i lived the worst nightmare anyone could imagine. i watched as my daughter, sandra, was lowered into the ground in a coffin. she was my fourth of five daughters and she was gone. no, no, not on administrative leave. but on permanent leave from this earth. found hanging in a jail cell. after an unlawful terrific stop.

and an unlawful arrest. six other women have died in custody that same month. kindra chapman, aleis mcgovern, sara lee, mary lee, and joyce, so many of our children that are gone but not forgotten. i am here with hillary clinton tonight! because she is a leader and a mother wholy say our children's names. 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. it's a loss! a loss that diminishes all of us. what a blessing tonight to be standing here so that sandy can still speak through her momma. and what a blessing it is for all of us that we have the opportunity if we sees seize

it, we gotta seize it, to cast our votes! for a president who will help lead us down the path toward restoration and change. you don't stop being a mom when your child dies. you don't stop being a parent. i am still jordan davis' mother. his life ended the day that he was shot and killed for playing loud music, but my job as his mother didn't. i still wake up every day thinking about how to parent him, how to protect him and his legacy, how to ensure that his death doesn't overshadow his

life. here is what you don't know about my son. when jordan was little, he wouldn't eat a popsicle unless he had enough to bring out to his friends. he loved practical jokes, he liked having deep conversations with me about our love for god and how god could allow such pain and suffering. i lived in fear that my son would die like this. i even warned him that because he was a young black man he would meet people who didn't value him or his life. that is a conversation that no parent should ever have with their child. hillary clinton isn't afraid to say that black lives matter!

she isn't afraid to sit at a table with grieving mother's and bear the full force of our anguish. she doesn't build walls around her heart. not only did she listen to our problems, she invited us to become a part of the solution. and that's what we're going to do. we're going to keep telling our childrens' stories and we're urging you to say their names. we're going to keep building a future where police officers and community of color work together in mutual respect to keep children like jordan safe. the majority of police officers are good people doing a good job! we're asking, and we're also

going to keep using our voices and our votes to support leaders like hillary clinton who will help us protect one another so that this club of heart broken mothers stops growing. >> first of all i'd like to say it's an honor to be here to stand with these mother's and be among you. i am an unwilling participant in this movement. i would not have signed up for this, or any other mother that's standing here with me today, but i am here today for my son, trayvon martin who is in heaven.

also for his brother, javaris fullerton who is still here on earth. i did not want this spotlight but i will do everything i can to focus some of this light on the pain of a path out of the darkness. hillary clinton has the compassion and understanding to support grieving mother's. she has the courage to lead the fight for common sense gun legislation. she has a plan to help law

enforcement and the communities that she serve. this isn't about being politically correct, this is about saving our children. that's why we're here tonight with hillary clinton. and that's why in memory of our children we are imploring you, all of you, to vote this election day. hillary is one mother who can ensure our movement will succeed. i want to thank you for standing with us and supporting us and we would like to leave with you what god has given us, strength, love, and peace. thank you.

>> they call themselves the "mothers of the movement" we just heard from three of them, the first was geneva reed and the second was lucy mcbath and the third one was the mother of trayvon martin, and they are saying by saying their names they won't be forgotten. mara, they were saying this is about the children. >> last weekend the emphasis was all about people who are killing policemen, this week the emphasis is more balanced, you

heard police chiefs and eric holder talk about police and now you're hearing about the mother's of children who have been killed, not all of them were killed by police officer, certainly jordan davis wasn't but i thought this was a moving part of the convention and also hillary clinton has spent a tremendous amount of time with these women. they have traveled with her, appeared at many, many, many campaign events with her. >> and mark shields, we heard trayvon martin's mother, sybrina fulton say hillary clinton has the ability to carry on gun control. >> that was the movement statement, the action statement, common sense gun control separates the two parties that's background decks and in -- background checks and in hillary clinton's case it's ending assault rifles. these women all spoke of god, of

heaven, of the hereafter and spoke of their religious faith as they spoke about their dead children >> very much like being in church. >> i was struck the first mom, her child died a year ago, not long ago and she spoke with the greatness of god right away and she is celebrating and there is a deep optimism that comes with that and i'm struck by the tone at both of these conventions that it would be easy to be harsh about america and it's future and full of anger but it's also about realizing the difficulty america is facing and having a deep sense in the triumph over bad, good over evil, and these mother's all struck that note and michelle obama struck that note. >> amy you have to look at this from two different ends of the

spectrum, on one hand you have the grieving mother's, i don't think there is a parent who could listen to this without being touched by it on the reality, president obama and others have pushed gun control and gotten nowhere with it. >> right and this goes beyond gun control this goes to the heart of the matter, black lives matter, the issues of systemic racism and that is not something that is going to get passed bylaw that 'ne president isn't going to be able to fix and that seems to be what we're looking at for the theme for today the systemic problems and the ways in which government can help and, you know, that's the challenge in so many ways, too, for democrats for hillary clinton, when people feel government is completely worthless,so corrupted, dysfunctional that you can feel that electing one person can make a difference. >> on the stage is andra day,

i'm a big fan, listen. ♪ ♪i will rise, thousand times today. i will rise up, i will rise up in spite of the day and i will rise up and we'll do it a thousand times anagain. you, you, you.

rise ♪ >> andra day, rising star and continuing the theme, judy, rising up, last night we heard bridge over troubled water from paul simon. >> that was the perfect voice to hear following those mother's, the "mothers of the movement". >> we saw people in the audience hugging each other, flags being waved, emotional song i've got to say they set the tone differently than they set last night but that's what they were going for. >> we are going to take a very short break this is our in my opinion pbs news hour coverage of the democratic national convention. we will be right back.

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their cars or they could choose to opt out and pursue their own lawsuits. now back to gwen ifill and judy woodruff. >> we can do this together! if you're just -- >> sometimes we get confused about who goes first! special coverage of the democratic national convention from npr and the pbs news hour i'm judy woodruff >> and i'm gwen ifill, we want to talk to our floor reporters, first susan davis from npr who is on the floor, with one of the giants of the feminicism movement. susan? well, we'll get back to susan in a moment. in the meantime john yang is also on the floor and i think he's talking to a california delegate. let's see if we have that.

>> i'm on the floor with elenor smiel the president of the feminist majority movement. what does tonight mean? >> it's important not only for this country but women of the world. >> do you think feminists became more politic sized or less? >> i think we're the majority of the movement 60% of women identify with feminist and the more that identify the likely they're going to vote for hillary clinton. she is going to have a massive break-through because she is saying to every girl you can be what you want to be. >> what do you say to the public about her unpopular ratings? >> she has been voted 20 times now as the most popular woman in the world.

she has been beat up with negative advertising now, before she declared her numbers were really high but then they keep on these advertisements, which it will sore again and the day after she is elected everybody will be a feminist and for hillary. >> the button that says era yes? what's that about? >> it's the equal rights amendment and we're launching again because we're hoping through her presidency and we're hoping she will get two terms and put the equal rights amendment in the constitution, we will ban sex discrimination it will be a big advance for women. >> elenor, thank you very much, that's elenor, president of the feminist majority on the floor at the democratic national convention. >> thank you, susan, let's go down to john yang talking to someone in the california delegation. >> i'm here in the california delegation with roz wiman the

longest democratic committee person you were the first woman to chair a democratic national convention, 1984 the first woman nominated to the ticket, geraldine ferraro, what was it like for you personally to see hillary clinton nominated? >> this was incredible. i wish i was a wordsmith that i could describe what this really means to me. i started at 22 as a young woman and i have worked my entire life, helped get a senator elected in the state of california, the great diane fi e finstein watched nancy p etchingllosi became speaker, tears down my face, and tonight i held back the tears but this is -- this means everything to me.

because i have seen a woman who is competent. i would never just vote for a woman, i wanted to be a part of this so much in my life. every ceiling is being broken in america four months from now and little girls and women and now we can look up and say we're as great as all of you! they have had women in britt ton, england, germany and we in america, the greatest country on earth now have our women who i hope will be the president of the united states and every inch of me is supporting and on my too many stone i would like it to say roz was a great mother and she helped get hillary clinton elected in 2016 and i will lay in rest. >> you said you held back the tears tonight. what's it going to be like on thursday night?

>> i don't guarantee anything, but i can't tell you -- i can tell you if you're my age, i'm elderly, i'm 85 now, i think the women who have gone through life realize how much this really means and i think maybe some of the young people don't understand what it can mean to us. i've lectured and i've done some speaking and when i get done sometimes i can see them change and understand a little bit more. we fought for a lot of battles for women, abortion battles, better pay, to achieve, to get on boards, we have been through a lot of this and young people today just thought it could happen and it really means something when you know that some of these battles have been won and that we seal it and hillary's election really is so meaningful to a certain

generation of people and i think that's a very important thing. >> roz, she held back the tears tonight not making guarantees about thursday. back up to you. >> thank you, john yang, i tell you there has been another fight going on all year long in this campaign, judy and it's between the new if i am nests and the old feminists, we just heard from one feminist and now we are about to hear from two new feminists, lee re and america ferrera, two new feminists, holding hands walk out to the stage. >> hi, i'm lena dunham and according to donald trump my body is probably like a "2!" >> and i'm america ferrera and according to donald trump i'm probably a racist. >> but america you're not

mexican? >> and president obama isn't -- but that doesn't stop donald. >> no, we know what you're all thinking why should you care what a television celebrity has to say about politics. >> and we feel the same way but he is the republican nominee so we need to talk about him! >> the unfunny fact is that this man would have you believe that our differences are more important than what use nights us. >> when we know that the truth is that this country was founded on the belief that when sets us apart, race, language, religion, sexual orientation shouldn't dissolve what binds us. >> which is why we're proud to say we're with hillary!

>> i am the proud child of honed doe honduras immigrants. i have had the opportunities in this nation. i was educated in public school, my talents were nurtured through public arts programs and occasionally i needed a fee meal to get through the school day. not everybody looks at the millions of young people like me, children born into struggling families, children born to immigrant parents, children who are immigrants themselves, not everybody looks at them and sees an investment, but hillary has spent the last 30 years proving what she sees in us.

not our color, gender, economic status, but our capacity to grow into thriving adults. capable of contributing great things to this country. >> i am a pro choice feminist sexual assault survivor are a chronic reproductive illness. donald trump and his party think i should be punished for exercising my constitutional right. his rhetoric about women takes us back to a time when we were meant to be beautiful and silent. meanwhile 22 years ago hillary clinton declared that women's rights are human rights! and she made it possible for my fellow sexual assault survivors in my home state of new york to have access to safe, immediate care in any emergency room.

hillary knows that access and opportunity are the american promise, not transphobia, islamiphobia and systemic racism. she knows we have to fight hatred of all kinds and not ignite it for the purpose of seeking power. >> look, donald is not making america great again! he's making america hate again! and the vast majority of us, we cannot afford to see his vision of america come to be! >> luckily we the voters carry the future of this country. we don't accept hatred as the norm in our communities so why would we every accept it in the oval office?

>> so, to everyone here tonight and out there watching at home, here is your chance to join team hillary! >> did you want equal pay the for equal work? >> yes! >> the right to make decisions about your own body? >> yes! >> paid family leave? >> yes. >> as hillary clinton says, deal us in! >> text d-e-a-l to 47246 and we will make you a card-carrying member of this team. let's reject the vision. >> let's say with one voice that we all have worth, we are all a part of this country.

>> let's put hillary clinton in the white house! >> let's declare love trumps hate! >> two comedians with a serious message and now down to the floor, rachel martin with cecil richards. ed president of -- you are a daughter of a woman who broke her own share of glass ceilings tonight as you are on the stage giving your support to hillary clinton the first well to be the major nominee of a political party tell me what this moment is like? >> it's an extraordinary feeling this whole week i've been -- and watching the roll call tonight, a lot of us back stage were tiering up because this is soh something so many women -- we stand on the shoulders of the

women that came before us, including my mother ann richards and i think this is something we thought we would never see happen so i felt mom's spirit here tonight. >> as we are talking there are women who are standing on youed of this believe as members of the delegation who supports bernie sanders many of whom say hillary clinton has to earn my vote. they're not convinced yet. what is your mess sabling to them tonight? particular? >> well i would say one, hillary works every day to earn those votes and i think she is has been clear about that. i've known her for many years and in my work at planned parenthood there has never been a bigger supporter of women's rights and women's health and we need someone who will stand up and fight for women and families every day and hillary has. i hope as time passes here and as folks recognize now that she is the nominee of the party, the clear difference between her and

donald trump and the vision they have not only for america but for women in this world is profound. i do hope that folks will give her a second chance, if they had supported another candidate, i think they will find her to be an extraordinary woman. she is going to be an amazing president >> what would your mom, former texas governor think about tonight? >> mom was a deer friend of hillaries, and they were part of women helping other women and there is nothing that gave my mom more joy than to see other women helping other women and to see hillary clinton on thursday night become the nominee formally and accept this nomination, this is something she worked for her entire life and i think she would be most proud that her granddaughters were here to see it, really exciting. >> cecil richards, thanks very much. i'll throw it back to you two in the booth. >> i have to say, i was watching a video the other night of an

richards speech at the 1988 democratic convention what an amazing speaker, mark shields, you're nodding we were there covering that convention. >> it was a great speech and it's a great example of how to give a speech. she never raised her voice, there was no screaming, no screeching and she was in total control and total command of the evening. >> she said that george bush was born on third base and thought he hit a triple. >> and he was born with a silver foot in his mouth! >> it was amazing and -- >> that was my texas accent. >> it was good! >> those on radio that was gwen's texas accent! what struck me in watching the roz wyman interview on the floor, in 1960, she was a young city council member in los angeles and she persuaded robert kennedy to move john kennedy's acceptance speech to

los angeles coliseum because she wanted 50,000 more people to hear it and she prevailed, robert was skeptical, they moved it out there, john gave his speech to a full los angeles coliseum, precursor to barack obama in 2008 in denver and she was instrumental in bringing the dodgers from brooklyn -- >> mark, this is the reason we have you here, what happened in 1960! >> it's remarkable to see her on the floor. >> the spirit of an richards which is how you skewer your opponent without saying "lock him up" was great and i think it's been a serious message but it's never risen to the level we saw in cleveland.

>> even when it comes down to the musical selections they tried to embrace the optimism and one of the things i'm interested in amy walter is the hillary clinton folks are putting together the coalition and put it go it on display. >> they are and the first night it was about unionity, trying to make sure that the bernie sanders folks get back into the party and tonight it fleshing out hillary clinton and talking about the con at this time wenties and we have a few more days to go but the con at this time wenties hasn't -- constituency hasn't been addressed much yet, we haven't talked about the disadvantaged and the people who are sort of that world that we have been talking about now and i think that's going to be the challenge for bill clinton and obviously hillary clinton is going to need to make that case but the

coalition is a base coalition not a bigger, wider band. >> i'm sorry, i didn't mean to cut you off, there are promises that this will be coming, madeleine albright will be speaking and president tomorrow night and they said they will be talking about that. >> college educated women are drifting to the democratic party but largely it's because less than college educated men are massively drifting to the republican party and maybe those people are not worth getting but the divide is opening up for those with college degrees and those without and this convention has not gone after those without college degrees, it's been the minority group,

college town group that we have been used to. >> we see on the floor now, senator barbara boxer who has represented california in the senate since 1993, had a rocky relationship with the bernie sanders delegates during the pry mary's, let's listen. >> she wrote me a letter and she said i can't remember when hillary didn't take the long view of things, never instant gratification and she has a strong sense of empathy for others and the great sense of humor have served her well. now, that's a mom who knew her daughter well. now, we saw hillary's heart, her heart, when as first head she worked across party lines to bring healthcare to millions and

millions of children. we saw her strength when after 911 she stood with first responders and tirelessly fought for them. we saw her strength. we saw her leadership when as secretary of state hillary clinton was with america standing in the road, we remember that after the bush administration and i saw and she became a great smokey mountains, and her fight for a better america became even more personal and even more urgent. now, during this campaign, we have seen something else. her toughness. and i know a little bit about toughness. now, the right wing has thrown

everything at hillary -- not only the kitchen sink, not only the stove, but the refrigerator and the toaster, too. and you know what? she is still standing. they have thrown everything at her and she is still standing. america's families need hillary in the white house. standing with all of us. we need a president who knows, it's just plain wrong for women to make 79-cents for every dollar paid to a man and yet her supporter refuses to pay equal pay. well, it's 2016 and we're still waiting, mr. trump. we can count on hillary to fight to raise the minimum wage. her opponent says wages are too

high. now, that's unamerican. because in our great country, if you work full-time, you should never ever have to live in poverty. we can count on hillary. we can count on hillary to protect our right to choose. other opponent said a bomb should be punished for exercis ing her right to choose and then pick add running mate who believes roe v. wade belongs , to quote him, in the ash heap of history. well, i have a message fore donald trump and mike pence. we are not going back to the dark age when women's are in back alleys. we are never ever, ever, empletd ever going back. never. >> we are moving forward with

hillary clinton. you know there's a lot of talk about what makes america great. well, i will tell you this. it's not when we insult each other. it's not when we tear each other down. it's when we stand together. it's when we work together. it's when we build together. it's when we fight together. and that is what makes america great. and that is what hillary clinton will do and that is why i'm telling you tonight, hillary clinton will be our next president of the united states of america. thank you, california. thank you, america. thank you. >> retiring california senator barbara boxer, retiring after 23 , 23 years in the united states senate, at the end of

this year. filling out the picture of who hillary clinton is tonight, about the fights of her life and what we're about to see, as we're about 9:00 in the east, we're about to hear the nights of her life standing up for 9/11 survivors. we will be hearing from 9/11 responders and others that were there on that horrible day in new york city and in washington. >> we are at the table with ron of npr and the cook report. mark shields of mark shields incorporated and david brooks of the new york sometimes. thank you all very much for joining us again for our npr pbs newshour joint coverage of this election of this campaign of this convention. ron, give us a sense of how the night has gone so far. >> much different from the first night. there was a great deal of orchestration, a great deal of back and forth between the two campaigns.

hillary clinton's campaign was talking to bernie sanders campaign. they were trying to figure out more effective ways to deal with the hurt feelings of the sanders and the true rebellion and the people that were here for sanders and i think the way they let the roll go go and they had nor bernie sanders move for affirmation, it was very nice. >> and we heard david and we do want to go to the stage in just a moment for some of this 9/11. but you do get the sense that they're pleased they're letting the bernie sanders delegates vent their strong feelings. >> i come away with a strong feeling the dwrak party will not be hurt by division. the party is generally united the main challenge for the party is what is clinton's message,

why is she running for president , what policies does she want to advance. it's easy to talk about the sanders policies that he is here for. cloin ton still has sort of a vagueness about the theme, the core policies and the big change she wants to make. so to me it's substance not unit y that should be the main worry for the party. >> what do you think in the end the bernie sanders folks have had to do with the campaign, what difference and whether they continue to make any difference going forward. they're very optimistic if you talk to them but doesn't seem as organized as it might be. >> bernie sanders made history. as a result of citizens united it's been a belief the only way to run for p&l president was to be a billionaire or to be friendly with billionaires. and we depend upon six figure, 7 figure contradictions. bernie sanders raised

$89 million individual contributions of $27 as we know which is absolutely historic and remarkable and he did it because people believed in what he was saying. >> and going forward. >> going forward, i don't think there's any question. thank so the the energy. david mentioned earlier, the passion and the energy in the democratic party in 2016, this is great affection, great individual respect for hillary clinton, and 7/10 adulation but the real passion was bernie sanders. i think he gave georgia if i have as full throated an endorse ment as you're going to get. jeb bush wasn't as much. lindsey game wasn't in cleveland , forget ted cruz and his review. so i just -- i really think it was -- the clinton people were nervous what bernie was going to do. bernie was proud in defee.

he is supposed to be humble in victory and proud in defeat but he is the good soldier i think. >> we are in a video now talking about hillary clinton's role and standing up for the survivors of 9/11. >> i stood there on that street. it was as close to "hell" as i have ever seen, and out of this dusk and debris that was so thick, you know we're coming with a lot of the rescue workers >> she was the first one to say we stand up to make sure it's right. >> after 9/11 i said government didn't tell the truth. they told the people the air was safe. it was not safe. >> hillary clinton, she worked every day to help the families of loved ones lost rebuild their lives. per situated the president of a different party to provide the funds needed for a city to rebuild, help bring justice to one of our greatest enemies and fought year after year to make

sheurpd some of our greatest heroes got the care they deserv ed. >> she got the hospitals on board. she got us care and she went for the epa. >> one of the firefighters said to me, said, you know, senator, please, please, don't let anybody forget what happened here and don't let anyone forget us. >> she had our backs. we knew that and that's what you want in a empty -- that's what you want in a president. >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome , joe sweeney from new york. >> joe sweeney was a detective in new york at the time of 9/11. that's what he is here to talk about, right now. >> my name is joe sweeney, and i served as an nypd officers and text active for 21 years. i'm proud of every day i served

my city and my country. but i'm especially proud that i served on our worst day. beginning that horrible morning, we worked in the smoke and the ash for the search. first for survivors, then for remains. and then to begin clearing the rubble. police officers, firefighters, workers machine operators, neighbors and friends all joined together to help. we had a job to do and we did our best. at the time the epa assured us that the air at ground zero was safe to breathe. that information was dead wrong. thousands of my friends and brothers and sisters in blue were exposed to harmful toxins that caused life long health problems. when we needed someone to speak for us to stand with us, to

fight on our behalf, hillary clinton was there every step of the way. within 48 hours of the towers falling, hillary introduced introduced the bill that health workers get the care they earned then she pressured the epa to launch a new task force and led congressional hearings until the epa admitted that the air had not been safe. a lot of people moved on. they thought everything was fine but hillary clinton kept in touch and kept at it. 10 years later, hillary was still our toughest champion, making sure we still got our health benefits. [ applause ] i'm at this podium tonight because my first responders across america, senator clinton

has devoted her career to a simple creed: protect and serve time and again secretary clinton has kept her promises, include including to the extraordinary lauren manning. >> we're now going to hear -- that was joe sweeny. he served as a new york police officer and detective for 21 years. you heard him say he was a first responder. this is lauren manning. she was one of the most severely injured survivors of 9/11. >> my name is laura manning. when i arrived at the world trade center 2001 i was a partner at cannon fitzgerald. i was a wife and mother. a moment later i found my self

in the midst of the worst peace time attack in this nation's history. i was catastrophically bernard, over 82% of my body. my chances of survival, next to zero. i battled for months to live and for years to recover. i fought in tribute -- i fought in tribute to my friends and colleagues at fitzgerald that i lost that day and all of the 200-0996 people who were killed, i fought to honor our troops who were fighting and continued to fight on the front lines for each and every one of us around the world.

and i fought to return to my young son, 10 months old at the time. i thought as hard as i could so that the terrorists would not get one more. hillary clinton stood with me through that fight. and in the darkest of days and in the hardest of times, the people who show up in your life are the ones that mean everything. hillary showed up. she walked in to my hospital room, and she took my bandaged hand into her own. our connection wasn't between a senator and a constituent. it was person-to-person.

and as a woman, working in business for years i know you have to be tough. and in that woman is a hell of a tough person. for years, she visited, called, and continued to check in because hillary cares. when i needed her, she was there when our first responders needed her, she was there. when new york needed her, she was there. i trusted her when my life was on the line. and she came through. not for the cameras, not because anyone was watching but because that's who she is, contained, sharing, loyal, she had my back.

this is the hillary clinton i want you to know. she was there for me, and that's why i'm with her. >> that was lauren manning, one who suffered previously during the 9/11 attacks. she was a member of cantor fitzgerald that lost so many people. we are now about to hear from joe crowley. congressman of new york. >> not a cloud in the sty. it was just after 9:00 a.m. that i was waitings on the runway of laguardia to fly back to washington that i got the news: two planes had crashed into the world trade center.

i raced out of the terminal. i tried calling my cousins, both members. new york city fire department. we had grown up together in working class queens new york. they were supposed to be off duty that day. but then the call came in. both brothers responded, only one came home. but september 12th i stood in what had been the world trade center. all that remains was smoke and ash. i my cousin, italian chief john moran was listed among the missing. but deep down, i knew he wasn't coming home. neither were the other 342 missing firefighters. the weight of the loss was heavy

but there by my he side was hillary clinton. hillary clinton, the new york senator, hillary clinton my friend. she understood the pain, our family, our city, our nation were under. she fought to help other city rebuild and she delivered. people forget but the assistance package first proposed didn't have a dime -- not a dime -- for new york. hillary helped turn it around securing $20 million we needed to get new york moving again. but she didn't stop there. >> that was congressman joseph crowdly of new york, part of the conversation to resaid who hillary clinton is. they're talking about her role as a senator.

we to take a short break. the coverage of the democratic national convention in philadelphia. stay with us. 0. >> in 2004, senator barack obama gave the keynote address. it was powerful. it was very moving. it was so exciting. to see this young senator from chicago, this young african-american speak from the depth of his heart and soul. >> tonight is a particular honor for me, because let's face it, my presence on this stage is pretty unlikely. my parents shared not only an improbable love. they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation they would give me an african name of be right back or bless ing, meaning your name is

no barrier to success. i stand here knowing my story is part of the larger american story, that i owe a debt to all that came before me and that in no other country on earth is my story even possible. >> and i don't think he looked back sense. >> xq institute -- ♪ ♪ he. >> bnsn railway, lincoln financial, committing you to take charge of your financial future. this program was made possible by the corporation for public public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you.

>> reliable, balanced, real reaction election 2016 on pbs. >> if you are just joining us this is live coverage of the brack national quoangs from npr and the pbsz newshour. >> ifill: we're hearing several people talk about hillary clinton's role as a senator but we want to go down to the floor of the convention where we have our other than john yang talking to senator tammy baldwin of wisconsin. i'm sorry, it's rachel. >> i'm on the convention floor and joined by senator tammy baldwin of the state of wisconsin. thank you very much for being would us. >> my p easure. >> we all saw you read off the roll call for your state when the roll call was happening. what was that moment like for

you? >> it was a thrill. i have worked so long for this moment. and it was streeshed the. and actual a little more moving than i expected. i was waiting for thursday night to be the night for me to soak into the history being made. but when we went over the talk, when bernie sanders stood up and told us to unify, i was really choked up. it was very, very moving. >> so you're saying you went tore bernie sanders. >> yes. >> how are you feeling about the call for unity and whether or not this party can really come together? there are some seats that are empty at this very moment, some bernie sanders proponents have walked out in protest. >> i came to philadelphia from spending time in wisconsin. and some of the stops i was making were local campaign

headquarters. and i would go in and i would see some with bernie shirts on and some hillary shirts on and all working shoulder to shoulder because they understand what is at stake in this election. so on the ground it is my deputy sense having been traveling around my state that the unity is already there. but when you run to be a delegate if you have put your heart and soul into a campaign, i understand why that is a difficult thing. and i think increasingly as the days progress of this convention , you will see greater and greater unity. >> thank you. >> let's go back to you in the booth. >> thank you, rachel. and thanks had to senator baldwin. we have been hearing as gwen said the testimony about hillary clinton and what she has done as a fighter for those affected by 9/11. they're now making the

transition to hillary clinton as a fighter for health care. there's a video right now, and we will be hearing from a man who is -- a man who has a disability and from a number of others but the point of tonight, and we can bring in our friends here at the table, is, as you say, to fill out the picture of hillary clinton. this is someone who still has an issue with trust, with people. i think her campaign is the least known best known person in the world and they're trying to change it at this convention when there are a lot of eyeballs watching. >> take us back to the first time that we herd about hillary clinton and health care. it was not just a minute ago. it was 1993. >> it was a stunnener a way because the newly elected president clinton announced he was going to send his wife, not his secretary of health and human services or anybody from his cabinet or a health expert to the hill to negotiate with

his democratic majorities to see what kind of a health dairy form bill they could put together. and of course it was immediatelo call it hiltry-care. that was what went before obama care. the negotiation he went on for a long time and they had a lot of secretive talks before the white house and the senate didn't care for it, the house was that crazy about and it in the end they didn't list the allies from republican side and it was a disaster. but it was our first introduction to her as a full-fledged partner of the president on a policy basis. >> aimy walter, it was really a forecast of what we saw of hillary clinton in the future. i mean she was a partner of bill clinton when he was the govern much arkansas. she was more of a partner in the white house and it was setting the stage for her run for the senate and beyond. >> that's true. when you talk to the clinton campaign, they cite her defeat

on health care in 1993 was a very important moment. this idea that she was not down and came back and pitch thed to talk about children's health care and then the election of barack obama and now she is in the position of defending hiss signature health care plan. >> i find one of the interesting things that hillary clinton in these situation says first she was embraced on health care. she and strom therman were friends. everybody said they really liked her at first and then the worm turned inevitably. >> it was completely rewriting history. if we go back to that minute it was largely her own newt. not just by republicans but she led a highly secretive process and shed a lot people out of the deal and "life" magazine folded her and she had a variation -- anyway a highly complicated

machine that was to technocratic to work and she alienated a lot people and she learned how not to handle an administration and when the obama people did it, it was a dish process. the way she did it at least at that time it was not super effective. >> that theme of being scroll active and not wanting to bring other people in is something that we would see recurring. >> that has been partisanned and a persistent criticism of hers by the press, and by her political critics. but but i would just point out, what worked tonight was joe sweeney, the 21 year police department detective talking about what she did for thess firefighters and we're talking about white collar people. there's nobody in america -- the 343 firefighters that walked into the jaws of death and the

eyes of hell on that day, and that responsibility, all of the dues-paying union members, i might add, all of that, i thought joe crawly gave a view of hillary clinton and her concern for them that was really quite moving. >> we're going to go now to the stage where we have ryan moore who is about to speak. and he has ron there from -- >> my family began our friendship with hillary over 20 years ago. back then she was first lady, fighting for health care reform. as a person with a rare form of dwarfism, my family knew my life was going to be filled with surgery and hospital visits. so we were grateful when hillary clinton asked to here our story.

for me, quality, affordable health care was more than a privilege. and even more than a right. it was an absolute necessity. i'm thankful that she has september up the fight over the years. and i'm honored to call her my friend. here is what i can tell you through my years knowing hillary clinton. she is compassionate. every time i see hillary, she remembers meaningful details about my life, sometimes from years earlier, when i first met her, i was 7 years old and wearing a -- and two years later when i saw her again she patted my back and said you had don't have a back brace anymore. i could not believe that is a she remembered that.

a lot of people wouldn't have. a lot of people wouldn't have. but she did. she is thoughtful. every time i have a big operation coming up, i always receive a note from hillary full of encouragement and kindness. she lifts my spirits. she helps me believe that everything is going to be all right. most of all, she is genuine: something happens. something happens when you meet hill hillary. no matter how busy she is, and how pretty sure, she always really busy, she makes you feel like the most important person in her day. she blocks everything else out and just focuses on me. how my job is going. how i'm feeling. she really cares.

and i know that so many people who have met her over the years say the exact same thing. i wish everyone could get to know hillary's heart like i have she always looks out for the little guy -- no pun intended, and that is why i'm so proud to support hillary clinton as our next president. thank you. [ applause ] >> from nebraska, he has a form of dwarfism. as you heard him say he has known hillary clinton for more than 20 years. one of several people be disabilities that we have heard speak at this convention. here is the form everybody head of vermont and former head of

the democratic committee, howard dean. >> thank you. thank you. >> democrats, independents and to the millions of republicans who don't recognize the party they saw and heard in cleveland and cannot support their party's nominee for pot and vice president -- 25 years ago i got to know hillary clinton when she worked to achieve a goal, the goal that was a goal is a century ago, the goal that harry truman to give us all universal health care. between the aspirations of harry truman and the accomplishments of barack obama, there was hillary -- poise and persistent. when her first attempt at health

care cannot work out, healthal hillary could have given up. instead, she fought the way she always did. she did her homework. she persevered. she never forgot who she was fighting for. and thanks to her effort, the state children's health insurance program was born, and she worked just as hard to ensure that the states actually signed up, joining with republican governors to get it done. today, more than 8 million children have health insurance. as a result, that is 8 million children whose families don't have to choose between paying the rent and taking them to the doctor. when president obama took office he picked up the fight. and with the in orderable health

care act passed, we expanded insurance to 20 million more people. today, 90 percent of americans are covered, and we have made so much progress. and now we need to elect the person who will finish the job. hillary rad ham clinton. has a plan to drive down health care costs. hillary has a plan to stand up to the drug companies and lower prescription drug prices. and hillary has a plan to take us the lost a mile and finally achieve health care for all americans. that is what hillary will do. now donald trump has a plan, too he would rip up obama care and throw 20 million people off of

their health insurance. donald trump had take us back to a time when insurance companies could deny you coverage if you have a preexisting condition. or he will take you back to the time where insurance companies could charge you more just because you were a woman. and what is he going to replace this with? quote: something so much better , "huge" no doubt. that's it. that's the whole plan right there. six word plan for health care. his vice presidential pick is no better. mike pence voted against expand ing the children's health care program which hillary helped to start. mike pence voted against requiring insurance companies to cover mental health and and addiction treatment. mike pence voted to end medicare

as we know it. by the way, mike pence once said that when both parents and children end up facing stunted emotional growth. i have a medical degree. let me tell you what really stunts children's growth -- not having access to health care, inadequate funding for school, nutrition programs, guns, the ultimate public health crises. cigarettes. i hear governor pence missed a memo but they do cause cancer and no amount of tobacco company contributions to your campaign can change that, governor. the choice in this election is clear. we need a president whose decisions are rooted in the

facts. we need president who will defend our interests around the world and who knows what the takes to defeat and destroy isis , not with ignorance and bombast but with toughness and resolve. we need a president who will ensure that the wealthiest among us play by the same rules as hard-working, middle-classes americans. and we need a president who will never stop fighting to ensure that universal health care is a basic human right. and be if that is the president we want, if that is the america that we believe in, then do not wait until november to make your voice heard. go to hillary clinton.comto donate right now. help make history.

and volunteer because this race is going to be one 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 will go to the white house! >> that was howard dean, the former governor of vermont suppliesing us at the end there with a laugh following the lowest moment of hiss campaign -- i think it's fair to say it was a lowest moment of hiss campaign. >> the last moment. >> good on him. he gets asked i'm sure at every places he goes to do that. but, hey, that he can make fun of himself is important. i think what is interesting about this election, we're talking about health care. hold that thought and we're going to come right back to you. we need to take a break from our npr coverage of this national

convention in philadelphia. we will be right back. >> i am democratic leader nancy pelosi from san francisco. my most stand out moment in san francisco and chairman of the 2000 ahead convention which nominated barack obama for president, to gather that nomination. thachesz thrilling. >> we call this convention to order tonight, to put america on the path begun by our founders, a path that renews america's promise for a new century. we call this quengsz to order to nominate a new leader for our time -- barack obama, as the next president of the united states. barack obama's dream is the american dream. he gives us renewed faith and a vision of the future that is free of the constraints of the

retired policies of the past, a vision that is new and bold and calls forth the steps in the american people. >> ifill: if you are just joining us this is live coverage of the democratic convention. i'm gwen eiffel. >> woodruff: i'm judy woodruff, where i not only interrupted amy but i was giving you the cut off just a a little shock so i can be awakened. you know, health care was the big, big, big issue in the 2010 election. mitt romney talked a lot about repealing orange beach care in 2012. we haven't had a lot about it. obviously it's still part of the republican platform. they would like to see obama care repealed but the fervor is not there in the same way it has

been in earlier times, and you know, it's now been replaced by ccp and a lot of those other issues. >> it is interesting gwen because there's been so much discussion throughout the obama presidency. it publications up on what hillary clinton was trying to to do when she was in the white house. but mark shields -- there have been complication indications to put it mildly. >> one point on howard dean. his speech was -- the caucus of 2004. he at the time represented the break from the clintons when he ran. he was the antiwar candidate and introduced himself as i'm howard dean and i represent the democratic wing of the democratic party, which was not a repudiation but certainly a reaction against the triangulation, the business friendly bill clinton, democratic approach. and his endorsement of hillary

clinton over bernie sand service symbolically important. they were never close but both from vermont. >> and it foresaw what we would see this year which was a lot of that. there wasn't a lot of discussion about health care tonight. and if go if you go to a republican rally you're going to hear a chair when you mention obama care and repealing it and that has not gone away. >> that's about all they say. they say we're going to real peel obama care, root and branch but we never hear what is going to take its place. howard dean went to the state children's health insurance program. a moderate. a kind of halfway measure if you will. you have medicare for older people and you have astp for younger people and slowly you bring those two together and that's the incremental way that

you create basicsly health care for everyone. >> woodruff: it's interesting one thing that bernie sanders has done is per situated hillary clinton to have the mention of a public option for health care coverage in the democratic platform. who knows whether that would be implemented, if hillary clinton is elected but that was not something that she originally had in there. >> i still think that we're extremely thin on policy. when we do think of the policies thank we associate with the convention they all say it's policy. does anyone think hillary clinton repeals that, it's the minimum wage and public option. these are all sanders implants. does she have her own policy that is different? for clinton for 25 years stood for something phil philosoph ically different. and there was a void as i thought fewer years ago there

was a void and that led to legislative accomplishment. if you don't run on something big you don't accomplish something big. >> johnage is on the floor and talking to an illinois delegate who may know a thing or two about hillary clinton. >> that's right. this is bessy. she gave the votes for the delegation. how long have you known the nominee. >> since we were in 6th grade. i wasn't the new girl in class. >> back in the 6th grade did you ever think you would see a night like this? >> no. but you know, we were of the time when you watched conventions from gavel gavel to gavel and they were life and you would stay up lightly late and try to understand what was going on. i don't know that we ever thought we would participate at this level but i essentially knew that she would do something that would be -- not just great but important. >> why? what was it about her back in

the 6th grade and beyond that stood out like that. >> you know, our 6th grade class, if i must say, we were good kids. we had a great teacher, a great teacher. and hillary always had a sense of confidence. she got that from her mom. but she also got that from her dad who would nudge, you know. he was so conversational, and throw spitballs at us and say something that he knew would get us upset ask we learned how to debate from that dinner table. that's why i said tonight when i was doing the vote that dorothy and hue were looking down. yeah. >> what do you think it's going to be like thursday night watching her accept the nomination, watching your old 6 th grade friend accept the nomination. >> i don't know if it can beat tonight. tonight all of a sudden it really came to me this is happen

ing. this has been such an up and down year, and all of a sudden it's here. so it's kind of like waiting for christmas. and all of the presents are un wramed. so i guess thursday night we get to play with the presents. so that's fun too. >> you have four other classmates hire. also delegates? >> two are delegates. there's about 15 of the classmates that are here. >> bessy abilene who saw it all coming in the 6th grade in parkridge illinois. back to you. >> in the family box, jeff had a glimpse of chelsea clinton and her husband who are in the hall for the first time tonight. >> and to hear chelsey's dad, former president bill clinton, who will be coming up in the 10:00 hour, you have to say, amy walter, you can't get an older more reliable friend to testify for you than your 6th grade buddy. >> i think i interviewed her in

1992. >> that is very, very good point you know, what is striking to me , we talked in the republican convention, yes, i do didn't hear a lot of anecdotes about donald trump and who he was and we don't have a sixth grade friend. i don't know if this helps. i doubt anybody is going to walk away from watching this convention if say, boy, i really think completely differently now about hillary clinton because of what i heard at the democratic convention from the people talking about the work she has done or the relationships that she has had but it's the first attempt of trying to recapture from the image that has been, from the beginning of the campaign she is on defense, on defense about the e-mail, on defense from better than e. bernie sanders and now from donald trump. this is the first first time she's been able to go on offense >> and on if you don't

understand from the pro session of what many people have on their own and whether she is likable oar not. >> sphwhrieflt one of the things es the campaign likes to say is that she is the least well-known person that you know. i have heard donald trump's people side the same about him. he is the greatest celebrity in the world that you don't know. the difference is that they're trying to fill in the ghaps put people they think know hillary clinton pretty well, mark. >> i think they're making an effort. it's interesting about donald trump. there are no laterally roims or horizontal relationships that at least are public that we're warm of. there are no best friends from his boyhood or even young, growing up, college or whatever else, who are still with him or whatever. they seem to be vertical relationships. his children, of course, are

generational and they western very impress itch at the chiefs quengsz but i think this is an attempt to fill out a part of hillary clinton that has been missing. and if you can get five other character witnesses hike her 6 th grade chaz mailed mated all the way to saying we had a great teacher in the public schools in illinois which is a lovely testimonial. >> and i thought it was powerful to hear from the 9/11 voices, the first responder, the police man which you mentioned, mark, and the woman who was terriblably burned and said hillary clinton was there through the herpd recover roy. >> lauren manning was her name. she was extraordinarily moving. the delegates rose and applauded her just telling her own personal story before she even turned to the hillary clinton portion of the anecdote that she wanted to tell. between her recollection, joe crowley and especially the police man who wasn't in the

flame and live, she needs a lot more joe sweeneys and she needs them out there for herb day e. every day and week now to he november to take back the demographic. >> when you say that, more blue sweeney means nor blue collar white guys and particularly of a certain age but thank that is dem graphic she does most poorly >> what the democratic convention is doing is they have gone from health care to hillary clintonies term as sejt of state we are hearing from people that worked had her right now, amy who is on the floor and we're about to hear from the woman who was secretary, one of the female secretaries of state who preceded hillary clinton, madeleine albright. and david brooks, it's interesting to think about hillary clinton's term in conducting foreign policy. because, you know, it was time of such turn moil, and the

question is how much to you pin on hillary clinton. >> i thoughted highlight of her career was senator. she was an outstanding senator working extremely well, especially with the republicans, lindsey gram and john mccain but also as a work man like good senator for the state of new york and reflecting in the 9/11 people and in check in development programs and not lowling her celebrity power to overcome her effectiveness. i thought she handled herself with amazing grace through the her career. and secretary clinton has been an enigma. she travels a lot. what was her vision as secretary of state, what did she accomplish, how much power did she have as had opposed to the white house? she was not a bad secretary of state. people liked her. but what she accomplished is sort of alone open question for me. >> well i was just going to say that i wonder if her telling her story here at this deposition, we were all at the last

convention where they spent the entire evening talking about her huge failings having to do with benghazi and libya, i wonder if these two things balance themselves out. we have a few more days. >> you know, during the debate competency during the pbs debate , the question on libya, she does not have a good answer. she still has not quite -- we know the republicans are trying to go on benghazi but her answer for what were the follow-up plans once qaddafi was out of power was that good. with what you hear a lot about is miles flown, countries visited. there needs to be some more moo ette on those bones is there that's what i think they're trying to do tonight and john yang is on the floor with -- tell white house this to? >> gwen, it's secretary former commerce secretary william daily , served in the clinton administration. you'retant to hear your old boss

what do you think he is going to say tonight. >> i think he is going to lay oilt someone who knows hillary clinton better than anyone and over some years. exactly herb beliefs, her -- how she would lead, he has a unique perception not only as the husband of 40, 50 years but as a former president and understands what strengths are needed in the presidency. so i think it should be -- it's a difficult speech, if you think about it, to give but no one is better at bill clinton than articulating position. >> we also know hillary clinton very well. why should she be president. >> first of all she has enormous experience. when you walk around the world and say to your sea, do i trust this world? the u.s. is the leader. some meme don't like it. and don't want us to hold that position. but the fact is, we are it. and she understands that better than anyone. i think at this point with the difficulties around the world in

russia and china and on the other hand places to have a president that is untested and just winging it i think is dangerous. and i think that's one. number two, she understands america. she has traveled this country like nobody else and seen this in so many different ways, as senator, first lady, first lady of arkansas, secretary of state, a politician and somebody who is out of office. and as a keabts candidate for president twice. so i think so she has a unique perception of the country. and i think we have to take vong of being president, not just somebody that fell out of the sky and said i feel like being president and a year from now is president. >> william daily former white house chief of staff. bang to you. >> thank you john. i was going to say we are now on the floor and they're hearing from a sex trafficking survivor and "survivor" named imamatoole

born in indonesia and recruited in work in the u.s. but imprison ed in a hues and a pretty terrible story. she now advocates for that and this precedes madeleine albright mark shields we started to talk about hillary clinton and foreign policy. as were saying this is a vulnerability for her and could be a strength. i think we're going to hear the positive side from president obama's standpoint when he comes to talk to the delegates tomorrow night. >> i think we will hear from pad lynn all bright as well but i think the dilemma is this. you can see the difference in john kerry and hillary clinton. john kerry has been a convertible secretary of state because he does not have -- >> speaking of sejt of state, this is madeleine albright who was the first woman to serve as sejt of state. and obvious will a close friend and great voucher for hillary

clinton. she is getting a warm welcome tonight. >> thank you, thank you. thank you so much. thank you. thank you. thank you very much. [ applause ] my fellow americans. good evening. 68 years ago, during a time of grave danger, democrats gathered in philadelphia to nominate a tough, smart, and experienced presidential candidate. at the time, i was a child in europe. where i lived in fear because my native czechoslovakia had been taken over by communists. but within a few months, my family found refuge in america, and that candidate, harry truman became my first american president.

[ applause ] tonight in philadelphia, we nominated someone with truman's fighting spirit to be our next president, hillary clinton. [ applause ] and this fall we must do everything we can to make sure that hillary becomes our next commander in chief. because in this era, with these threats, boo beend a leader who has the experience and judgment to keep america strong, secure, and safe. i know hillary clinton will be that president because i have known her for more than 25 years because i have seen her fight and win for our croy and for causes that if counter. when hillary was first lady, we

went to the beijing women's conference. and she courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future. we went to prague where i showed her the city of my birth. and made her eat checking cab bage. she didn't like it very much. we met with -- who she did like because he made so many dreams of the freedom come truth. when hillary served in the senate i saw her workday and not as a member of the armed services committee, working working with republicans and democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families. and when hillary served as secretary of state, i watched her partner with president obama

to restore our country's reputation around the world. she fought terrorism. she stopped the spread of nuclear weapons, and she promot ed diplomacy, defense, development and democracy. smart power in every corner of the world. as i travel around the world today, i'm reminded how important it is that the person who represents our nation is trusted by our allies and who listens more than she talks. hillary and i share a few things in common. we something

right, but we also know what it's like to step off that plane with the words united states of america on it. she knows that safeguarding freedom and security is not like hosting a tv reality show. . it is a complex, round-the-clock job that demands not only a steady hand and a cool head but also a big heart. displayed thee qualities in every job she has ever had. and last week in cleveland, we were reminded that her opponent possesses none of them. u99k9

he has undermined our fight against terrorism, by alienating our muslim partners, he has weakened our standing in the world by threatening to walk away from friends and allies and by encouraging more countries to get nuclear weapons. donald trump also has a strange

admiration for dictators, saddam hussein, vladimir puten. when asked about puten donald trump said he's getting an "a." the truth is a trump victory in november would be a gift to puten and given what we have learned about the russians recent actions, puten is eager to see trump win and that she had worry every american! take it from someone who fled the iron cure taken, i know what happens when you give the russians a green light. trump's dark vision of america, one that's isolated in the world, alienated from our allies would be a disaster. we must make sure that this never happens! we must elect hillary clinton as our next president! my fellow americans, at the age of 11, i sailed past the statue

of liberty and started my life in a country of great democracy. i am so grateful for our country and i am supporting hillary clinton because i love it. god bless america and god bless the american people. >> madeleine albright the first woman secretary of state defending hillary clinton and also coming out pretty strong judy about donald trump saying p irkten is eager for trump to win and that she had worry every american. making the connection between the leaks and russia >> and one of the television network commentators said he thinks abouts a reason to think russians would favor donald trump. now here is the video leading up to bill clinton.

>> deer president bill clinton. >> deer mr. clinton. >> deer president clinton. >> thank you for this opportunity to write you. >> i am write get this letter on behalf of my family and myself. >> i would read these letters every week and we tried to help them. >> i am a 19 year old single mom with an 8th grade education. i was in a garage, collected welfare and anguished over the possibility of my child growing up and living his life in the streets. you came into view. you saw hearts and minds not colors. you believed that people were defined by their best qualities not their shortcomings. you showed me how my downtime -- >> they were experiences to learn from and leave behind. your message permeated the country. thank you for believing in me. >> there is nothing wrong with america that cannot be cured by

what is right with america. >> for bill clinton the work begins and ends with people. under his administration 23 million jobs were created and our country had a budget surplus. he signed the family and medical leave act and gave historic tax relief to working families and middle class parents sending their children to college. he protected 58.5 million acres of forests and saved medicare, medicaid and education spending from republican cuts. his actions changed millions of lives for the better. >> we moved 100 times as many people out of poverty as moved out when president reagan was in office, 40% more jobs and that meant we were empowering more people to take control of their lives.

>> my name is john boyer i live in ohio. this farm has been in our possession for about 180 years now. >> joseph robert moody, my father worked for chrysler and i started in 1996. both sides of my family were union so we believe in us and the working family. >> things were good through the clinton era, we retired a lot of debt and i think that's important. >> '93 and '94 was a big boom, mr. clinton was captivating, when he said stuff you believed it because you lived it. >> i'm jorge, i came to this country in '88 it was virtually xobl to get a house and then under bill clinton, i bought a house. we've been in this house for 23 years now, politicians tell you that they care for you, but bill clinton showed you how he cared

for you. >> i remember i was in this rural county this guy was standing there talking to me one day and he said we don't want a handout, but we do want a hand up. stayed with me my whole life. we need to share the future and we need to empower people to make the most of their own lives. >> from bosnia and cos vow to vietnam and columbia to northern ireland he worked tirelessly to improve peace and efforts through his foundation across the world like the central highlands in africa where he was struck by the simple but powerful way people greeted each other every day. >> one will say good morning, hello, how are you and the answer is not i'm fine how are you, the answer translated into english is "i see you." that's inherently empowering, you have to be able to look at

somebody and actually see them and at lisa imagine what their lives are like. i spent a lifetime trying to do that. >> in 1999 i graduated in the top 3% of my law school class and if 2013 my son graduated from ucla. >> if you get people out of poverty, then their children are likely to be out of poverty. >> i feel like i'm a clinton baby, the reason why i aspire to get my law degree and get my business degree, he has instilled that in my mom and she passed it down to me. >> deer cynthia thank you for sharing your story with me and what you said about the impact of my presidency on my life and your son's. out of your troubled past came a mother, lawyer, and citizen who embodies the best in america. help us make more of you. sincerely, bill clinton.

♪ tell me that you opened your eyes. tell me that you opened your eyes. >> bill clinton had a good administration, i like the philosophy of the democrats. they tend to care for each other >> you get up in the morning and you're really interested in giving people better life stories, there is 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 have imagined. >> senior clinton, micasa, su casa. >> i will try to write my own story, that's what i tried to make people believe they could do. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the 42nd president of

the united states, bill clinton. >> first of all we're back here at pbs news hour coverage of the 2016 democratic convention, as you see bill clinton on stage saluting and taking his time on the stage. he seems to love this the most. >> edge i read this is his tenth speech at a convention but you have to say, yes, he gave the acceptance speech in 1992 and, again in 1996 but this is historic, a former president is on stage to talk about his wife being nominated by his political party, major political party to be president how many years later. it is just -- 18 years later he is basically running around the stage greeting people, there are signs red white and blue that

says "america" handed out during that video, and this is going to be a very personal speech. what i was told is he will have you at the first line so we'll see, bill clinton. >> thank you. >> thank you. thank you. in the spring of 1971, i met a girl. the first time i saw her, we were appropriately enough in a class on political and civil rights. she had big, plopped 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. then -- then i saw the girl again. standing at the opposite end of

that long room. finally she was staring back at me. i watched her, she closed her book, put it down and started walking toward me. she walked the whole length of 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 lisa ought to know each other's names, i'm hillary rodham, who are you?" 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! couple days later i saw her again, i remember she was wearing a long, white flowery skirt, and i went up to her and she said she was going to register for classes for the next term. i said i would go, too. we stood in line and talked, you had to do that to register back then. i thought i was doing pretty well until 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?" [laughter] i turned red and she laughed that big laugh of herself and i -- hers and i thought, heck, since my cover has been blown i 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.

and we've done it in good times and bad, through joy and heart break. we cried together this morning on the news that our good friend and a lot of your friend mark winert 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 parkridge, illinois to meet her family and see the town where she grew up, a perfect example of a post world war ii middle class america, nice houses, great schools, good parks, a big public swimming pool.

and almost all right. i really liked her family, her crusty, conservative father, her rambunctious brother's all extotalling 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. she had a childhood that made mine look like a piece of cake. she was easy to underestimate with her soft manner and she was reminding me you should never judge a book by its cover, knowing her was one of the greatest gifts anyone every gave

me. i learned that hillary got her introduction to social justice through her med dysminister, don jones he took her down to which i to listen to martin luther king speak. he remained a fan of hers the rest of his life. this will be the only campaign of hers he every missed. when she got to college the vietnam war compelled her to change parties and become a democrat. and between college and law school on a lark she went to alaska and spent time sliming fish. more to the point by the time i met her she had been involved in the law school's legal services project and she had been influenced by marion write

adelman. she took a summer internship intervehing workers in migrant camps for senator walter mondale's subcommittee. she had also begun working in the yale hospital to help with procedures to handle child abuse issues. she got so involved in child issues that she went to school for an extra year in law school learning what could be done to improve the lives and futures of poor children. 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 a segregated academy, the economics board claimed federal tax exemptions to which they were not legally entitled. she got set to prove they weren't and went into one of these academies pretending to be a housewife who had just moved to school to find a school for her son and finally she said look, let's get to the bottom line here if i enroll my son will ebb in a segregated school yes or no? and they said absolutely! she had i am him! i've seen it a thousand times since! and she went back and her encounter was part of her report that gave marion write edelman to keep working to take those

tax exemptions away and give kids access to an equal education. then she went down to south texas where she met one of the nicest fellows i every met, the wonderful human leader franklin garcia and he helped her register mexican 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 to many young african american boys, i mean young teenagers were being jailed for years with adults in men's prisons. she filed a report on that which

led to 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, first time she had been over seas and we were on the shoreline of lake interdale, i asked her to marry me and she said i can't do it so i went home to teach in the law school and hillary moved to massachusetts to keep working on children's issues. this time trying to figure out why so many kids counted in the sense success weren't -- 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. [applause] you saw the results of that last night when anastasia simosa talked. she never made fun of people with disabilities she tried to empower them! meanwhile! i was still trying to get her to marry me! so the second time i asked i tried a different tact 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 and she said "that's not a good sales pitch" and 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 laughed and said are you out of your mind? nobody would every vote for me! so i finally got her to come visit me in arkansas.

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 had every 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. didn't take 'em 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 and she said don't tell me you're as smart as anybody you've got to believe in yourself and work for it. she believed 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 it.

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 1100 square feet, and an attic fan and no air conditioner in hot arkansas and a screened-in porch. hillary commented on what a house it was.gned and beautiful 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 know that house you liked and she said yeah and i said while you were gone i bought it. you have to marry me now! the third time was the charm! [applause]

we were married in that little house on october 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 as you can hear,

that is still active today! in 1979. in 1979 just after i became governor i asked her to chair a health committee to help he can up and down healthcare 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. 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 went out and figured out what needed to be done and what made the most sense and what would help the most people and if it was controversial she tried to persuade people it was the right thing to do.

[applause] 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. 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. she will see was born just before midnight. 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 absolute conviction that my daughter had the best mother in the whole world.

[applause] for the next 17 years, through nursing school, montessori, tea ball, sleep overs, summer camps, family vacations and chelsea's own ambitious excursions from parties in the neighborhood to a gala in the white house, hillary first and more most 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 over the top when i took a couple days off with chelsea to watch all

six police academy movies back-to-back! [laughter] when chelsea was nine months old, i was defeated for reelection in the reagan landslide. i became over night 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 is what we're going to do. we're going to get a house, you're going to get a job and we're going to enjoy being chelsea's parents and if you want to run again you've got to go out and talk to people, figure out why you lost, tell people you got the message and show 'em you still got good ideas. i followed her advice. within two days we had a house, i soon had a job, and 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! [applause] i think my experience is it's a pretty good thing to follow her advice. the rest of the decade sorta 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 or in response to a court order to equalize funding and a report by a national expert that said woefully underfunded schools were the worst in america. hillary held listening tours in all 75 counties with our committees. she came up with really ambitious recommendations, for example, that web the first state in america to require elementary counsel lores 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 plain spoken farmer said looks to me like we elected the wrong clinton. [laughter] well, by the time i ran for president nine years later the same expert who said 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! [applause] now, two years later, hillary told me about a preschool program developed in israel called hi ppi e home instruction

for youngsters, the idea was for parents to be the children's first teachers and she said she thought it would work in arkansas and i said that's great, what are we going to do about it and she said i called the woman in israel and she will be here if a few days to help us get started. keep in mind this was before universal kindergarten and i'm being dragged to preschool graduations and i'm seeing parents with tears rolling down their cheeks because they never thought their kids would be able to learn. 20 years later there are a lot of young adults in america that have no idea that hillary had anything to do with that. she did all this while being a

full-time worker, a mother, and enjoying life. why? well, she is curious, she is a natural leader, she is a good organizer and she is the best darn change-maker i ever met in my entire life! [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 affected, you know it's hard and some people think it's boring, speeches like this are fun, actually doing the work is hard! so people say well, we need change! she's been around a long time, she sure has and she has been worth every single year she put into making people's lives better! [applause]

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! [applause] when i became president, with a commitment to reform healthcare hillary was the natural to head the healthcare task force. you all know we failed because we couldn't break a senate fillibuster. hillary went to work on solving

the problems. 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, push that go rock up the hill. in 1997 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 that because she knew that tom delay for all of our differences was an adoptive parent and she honored him for doing that! [applause]

the bill they worked on that passed with anover whelming by partisan marnt helped children out of foster care including infants and special needs kids. it made life better because she is a change-maker. that's what she does! when you are doing all this, real life doesn't stop. in 1997 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 reality flick. there i was staring out the window trying not to cry and there was hillary on her hands and knees desperately looking

for one more drawer to put that liner paper in. chelsea took charge and told us every so gently that it was time for us to go! so we closed the big chapter in the most important work of our lives, as you will see thursday night when chelsea speaks, hillary has 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! [applause] now, in 1999 congressman charlie

wrangle a new york democrat urged hillary to run for the seat of retiring pat monahan. hillary had never run for office but she decided to give it a try. she began her campaign the way she always does new things, by listening and learning. after a tough battle, new york elected her to the seat once held by another outsider, robert kennedy. and she didn't let him down. her early years were dominated by 9/11, by working to fund the recoveries and monitoring health

and providing compensation to victims and first and second responders. she and senator schumer worked tirelessly and so did the house members. in 2003 she became the first senator in the history of new york every to serve on the armed services committee. so she tried to make sure people on the battle field had proper equipment, tried to expand and did expand healthcare coverage to reservists and natural guard, got lodger family leave for people caring for wounded service members and worked for extensive care for people with traumatic brain injury. she also served on a pent gone commission -- pentagon commission to propose changes to meet security challenges. newt gingrich was on that commission and he told me what a

good job she had done. i say that because nobody who has seriously death with the men and women in the military believes they are a disaster, they believe they are a national treasure in all walks of life! [applause] now, meanwhile she compiled a solid record, totally progressive on economic and social issues, voted for and against trade deals, she became the de facto development officer for the air of new york outside the ambit of new york city. she worked for farmers, wine makers, small businesses and manufacturers, upstate cities and rural areas who needed more ideas and more new investment to create good jobs, something we have to do again in small town in rural america in

neighborhoods that have been left behind in our cities and indian country and yes in coal country! she lost a 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, we had to keep asking. 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" called a half court

shot at the buzzer she got russia and china to support -- cher team helped to reestablish inspections and she got enough support to get two-thirds of the senate to ratify the treaty. she flew all night long from cambodia to the middle east to get a cease fire that would avoid an all-out shooting war between hamas and israel and gha skshgsa to -- ghaza to protect the region. she got president obama's decision to go after osama, she launched a new global humanitarian effort. we've got to win this battle in

the mine fields! she put climate change at the center of our foreign policy, she negotiated the first agreemen agreement every and got china to reduce emissions and as she had been doing since she went to beijing in 1995 and said women's right are human rights and human rights are women's rights, she worked to empower women around the world and to make the same exact declaration on behalf of the lgtb community in america and around the world! [applause] and nobody every talks about this much, nobody every talks about this much but it's important to me, they tripled the number of people with aids

in countries who's lives are being saved with your tax dollars, most of them in africa going from 1. -- going to 1.5 million lives saved, and she fought for the drug companies to give them generic drugs which lowered the cost. you don't know any of the people but they know you, because they see you as seeing their lives matter they know you and that's one reason the approval of the greats was 20 points higher when she left the secretary of the state's office than when she took it! 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. [laughter] [applause] you just have to decide. you just have to decide which is which my fellow americans. the real one has done more positive change-making before she was 30 than many public officials do in a lifetime of office. the real one, the real one if you saw her best friend vote from illinois today, best friends from childhood from arkansas where she has not lived more than 20 years having all

across america at their own expense to fright for the person they know. the real one has earned the loyalty at this, the respect and the support of people who have worked with her in every stage of her life including leaders around the world who know her to be straightforward and completely trustiworthy. the real one calls you when you're sick, when your kids in trouble or when there is a death in the family. the real one repeatedl drew praise from prominent republicans and when she was secretary of the 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 you're only option is to

create a cartoon, a cartoon alternative, then run against the cartoon, they're two-dimensional, easy 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!

we've got to get back on schedule, you've got to stop! 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. wafts president i -- when i was president i worked hard to give you peace and prosperity to give you an america where no one is invisible or counted out. but, boy, this time, hillary is uniquely qualified to seize the opportunity and reduce the risks we face and she is still the best darn change-maker i have ever known!ñi

you could drop her into any trouble sposhgts pick one, come back in a month and somehow, some way, she will have made it better, that is just who she is! there are clear achievable, affordable responses to our challenges, but we won't get to them if america makes the wrong choice in this election. that's why you should elect her. you should elect her because she will never quit when the going gets tough. she will never quit on you! she sent me in this primary to west virginia where she knew we were going to lose, to look those coal miners in the eyes 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 had 50 years ago have at it, vote for whoever you want to, but if she wins she is coming back for you to take you along on the ride to america's future! so i say to you: if you love this country you're working hard, paying taxes and obeying the law and you would like to become a citizen you should choose immigration reform over somebody that wants to send you back. if you are 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 that wear blue to protect our future. hillary will make us stronger, together. you know it, because she spent a lot of time doing it. i hope you will do it. i hope you will 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. [applause] >> that's bill clinton, the 44th president of the united states. and he is walk ago cross the stage doing that signature salute after having delivered a close to 45-minute long speech in which he was here to tell america that hillary clinton is the girl he met and he has never essentially fallen out of love with her, a compleelgt different speech than we've heard him give before >> and a speech that we have never heard anywhere in the united states, never been a president that came on stage to say vote for my wife to be president of the united states. it was really quite a speech, i mean, starting with as you said

"i met a girl," and talking about their -- his courtship, courting hillary clinton and the arc of that is he said he found she was a woman who never stopped trying. mark shields, it was a remarkable story >> it was a loving testimonial and tribute to his wife. it really was. done in terms as well of public policy that her concerns were those not of the powerful, not of gold maman sachs and wall stt but the powerless. the line "i thought i married my best friend" was almost a sense of parting about bill clinton. i have lived a long and full life, those who have more

yesterdays than tomorrows, an acknowledgment but he never talked about himself. this campaign is seen somewhat as a "back to the future" campaign, when bill clinton was president of the united states, 21,892,000 jobs were created in eight years when he raised tax on the wealthiest 1.4% of americans, balanced the budget and 93% of those jobs are in the private sector, amazing record and he stayed away from it. >> the case he tried to make tonight we saw the signs in the hall, we're all looking at the stage and had he handout signs saying something different, saying "change maker" and he kept coming back to this throughout his speech. >> last week we looked at melania trump's speech and we want her to tell a story, we wanted details and bill clinton give us stories. he went through the arc of their entire life and he did something with trying to address a lot of

the vulnerabilities that hillary clinton has, the perceived vulnerabilities, trying to call her this change-maker, somebody who has never been for the status quo and really tried to pull this jujitsu, in a way saying she is not the cartoon character. >> there is a video that the democrats have put together, this is my fight song, they put a number of singers together in a montage. >> not just singers but celebrities, who don't sing, clearly, but it's almost on the floor like there is a conversation where people are guessing every time time they recognize another face, they begin to cheer! so it's kind of like a puzzle and it's keeping -- because they play this song at every hillary clinton rally, if you are a hillary clinton fan, this is a song you know. >> or if you had to cover a lot

of her campaigns you have heard it a billion times! >> the thing that struck me, amy walter among many things he said this is a woman who we take long walks together, have breakfast, lunch or dinner she wants to change the world. you drop her into any trouble spot things are going to get better. he is biased and prejudice -- >> just a little. to me the other remarkable thing was you had a husband introducing someone who could be the next president of the united states talking about her water breaking, that's when you know you are now hitting a very new stage in our american presidency that that is now something that is part of her story. >> you should point out when he was telling the arc of her life he skipped the years between 1996 and 2000, what could have happened then? >> hmmmm.

>> david brooks? >> we know what happened then. going with the age thing, this woman has been around forever she is the status quo, i think that was the theme mat particular stress. he's so personal, the use of the word "you" in a bill clinton speech, he's just talking to you and it's unveiling and in a personal way he communicates. his use of his hands have always struck me as amazing as a rhetorical gesture, the marriage is another main theme, it's one that a lot of us have trouble understanding and he seemed that it was a normal, american marriage, and two things merging together? >> we are going to the stage, meryl streep needs no introduction.

one big celebrity moment to another! >> we got some fight left in us, don't we? what does it take to be the first female anything? it takes grit, and it takes grace. debra sampson was the first woman to take a bullet for our country. she served disguised as a man in george washington's continental army. and she fought to defend a document that didn't fully defend her. all men are created equal, it read. no mention of women. and when she took a blast in

battle to her leg, she was afraid to reveal her secret so she took out a pen knife, dug out the ball and sewed herself back up again. that's grit. and grace? hillary clinton has taken some fire over forty years! her fight, her family and her children, how does she did it? that's what i want to know. where does she get her grit and her grace? where? where do any of our female firsts, our path breakers, where do they find that