democracy isn't a spectator sport. america isn't about, yes, he will. it's about yes, we can. and we're going to carry hillary to victory this fall because that's what the moment demands. >> no matter where you were raised, how can there be pleasure in saying you're fired? he's trying to tell us he cares about the middle class. give me a break. that's a bunch of mularkey. >> the president and vice president giving it their all to make sure hillary clinton defeats donald trump in the fall. tonight, it's her turn. plus, that stunning new conference from donald trump,

news conference, that's only raising more eyebrows about his ties to russia and whether moscow is trying to help him win an election. it's 5:30 on the east coast, 2:30 out west. this is "way too early." ♪ ♪ good morning. it's thursday july 28th, i'm chris jansing live in philadelphia. welcome back to this extended edition of "way too early." in a single speech last night, president obama capped nearly eight years in office by defending his terms and to use his words, pass the baton to hillary clinton. but once more he evoked the language of ronald reagan to contrast their vision with that of the republican nominee, donald trump. >> donald trump calls our military a disaster. he suggests america is weak. he must not hear the billions of

men and women and children from the baltics to berma who look to america to be the right of dignity, freedom and human rights. america is already great. america is already strong. and i promise you our strength, our greatness, does not depend on donald trump. ronald reagan called america a shining city on a hill. donald trump calls it a divided crime scene that only he can fix. he's betting that if he scares enough people he might score just enough votes to win this election. and that's another bet that donald trump will lose.

he's selling the american people short. we're not a fragile people. we're not a frightful people. our power doesn't come from some self declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. we don't look to be ruled. our power, our power comes from those immortal declarations first put to paper right here in philadelphia all those years ago. we hold these trues to be self evident that all men are created equal. that we, the people, can form a more perfect union. that's who we are. that's our birthright. that's why anyone who threatens our values, whether fascist or

communist or jihadist or home grown dem gods will always fail in the end. that is america. that is america. those bonds of affection, that common creed. we don't fear the future. we shape it. we embrace it as one people. stronger together than we are on our own. that's what hillary clinton understands. this fighter, this states woman, this mother and grandmother, this public servant, this patriot, that's the america she's fighting for. >> and his rhetorical embrace of hillary clinton then followed by a real one on stage. virginia senator tim kaine introduced himself to the american people last night and

accepted the democratic vice presidential nomination. as he made his way on to the stage a group of protesters on the third tier unveiled a banner that read election fraud. kaine went on to deliver a speech attacking donald trump and paying tribute to former notable democrats. >> trump is a guy who promises a lot but you might have noticed, he's got a way of saying the same two words every time he makes his biggest, hugest promises. believe me. it's going to be great. believe me. we're going to build a wall and make mexico pay for it. believe me. we're going to destroy isis so fast -- believe me. there's nothing suspicious in my tax returns. believe me. thomas declared all men were equal and abigail remembered the

women. woodrow brokered the peace and eleanor broke down the barriers. jack, jack told us what to ask and lyndon answered the call. martin had a dream and [ speaking in foreign language ] and harvey gave his life. bill, bill built a bridge into the 21st century and barack gave us hope. and now hillary is ready. she is ready to fight. she's ready to win. and she is ready to lead. god bless all of you. on to victory and thank you, philadelphia. >> well, the big party was going on here, last night wikileaks posted 14 minutes of audio of what they claimed were hack voice mail messages. nbc news has not authenticated the 29 files and is not quoting from them. meanwhile, yesterday donald trump batted back accusations that his campaign is being assisted by the russian

government. he dismissed -- he suggested that if they did, they should go a step further. >> it's just a total deflection. this whole thing with russia. by the way, they hacked, they probably have her 33,000 e-mails. i hope they do. they probably have her 33,000 e-mails that she lost and deleted because you would see some beauties there. but i watched this guy. he talked about -- we think it was russia that hacked. then he said could be trump -- yeah, yeah, trump, trump. it is so farfetched. it's so ridiculous. honestly i wish i had that power. i would love to have that power, but russia has no respect for our country. and that's why -- if it is russia. nobody even knows. it's probably china or could be somebody sitting in his bed. it will be interesting to see -- i will tell you this, russia, if you're listening, i hope you're

able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. i think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. let's see if that happens. that will be next. >> do you have any qualms about requesting a foreign government, russia, china, anybody to interfere, to hack into a system of anybody's in this country? >> that's up to the president. let the president talk to them. >> does that give you no pause? >> no. if they have it, they have it. hey, you know what gives me more pause that a person in our government, crooked hillary clinton -- >> someone else -- >> i know you wanted to save her. that a person in our government, katie, would delete or get rid of 33,000 e-mails. that gives me a big problem. if russia or china or any other country has those e-mails, i mean to be honest with you, i would love to see them. >> trump also defended his praise for russian president vladimir putin and would not call for him to stay out of the

white house race. >> do you call on putin to stay out of this election? >> i'm not going to tell putin what to do. why should i tell putin what to do? he did something today where he said don't blame them essentially for your incompetence. i don't think putin has any respect whatsoever for clinton. i think he does respect me. and i hope i get along great with him. it's possible that we won't, jeremy. i hope that we get along great with putin because it would be great to have russia with a good relationship. right now we don't have a good relationship. putin has said things over the last year that are really bad things. okay? he mentioned the n word one time. i was shocked to hear him mention the n word. you know what the n word is, right? he mentioned it. i was shocked. he has a total lack of respect for president obama. number one, he doesn't like him. number two, he doesn't respect him. i think he's going to respect your president if i'm elected. and i hope he likes me. >> joining me now in beautiful

philadelphia ed o'keefe reporter for the washington post. thanks for coming out way too early. >> great to see you. >> let's start with donald trump since that's where we were. >> why not. >> go ahead, russia, meddle in u.s. politics. >> he really did. he went there. never seen this before. raises questions yet again about what really are his connections to russia. he has a lot of business interests over there, i believe and i think it will revive those questions. >> you saw last night there were people who couldn't resist talking about that. i wondered if they would actually address that specifically, they did. but overall, what was your take away from the dnc last night. >> i thought if you're somebody who needed someone to tell you why donald trump is not the person you should vote for, you had options last night and somebody inevitably spoke to you. i think bloomberg being there was a symbol of republican disaffection, if maybe the business community disaffection. lot of people take cues from him, wanted him to run and i think, look, if you're one of the political independents, you

like him, come with me, vote for clinton. biden went full irish and quite a swang song for him. >> i thought as i watched him last night, he is the anti-trump, joe biden. >> yeah, it reminds you that he might have ran and one wonders how well he could have done against trump. there you had two sort of guys, two older white guys who come at this from very different perspectives. it's a signal also that if biden wants to go do a little more of this he has an argument to make and one that's quite effective. >> how convincing did you find barack obama? this was for both he and joe biden this huge speech on a national stage, a swan song. i talked to some people in the illinois delegation said it would be very emotional for them. >> yeah. >> to watch him up there one last time. how did he do? >> you know, very few other politicians can use their addresses to sort of really

bookend and craft their narrative. and the fact that he was talking 12 years to the night since he had spoken in 2004 at the keynote address you kind of saw him -- and i think you saw a lot of people go wow in the crowd, can you believe it's that long? but the bookends of his ark really were quite something. and to see secretary clinton come out the way she did, we don't see a lot of body language from her too often, but that was clearly someone she has become much closer to -- >> what a remarkable trajectory that relationship has gone through over the last decade or so from when she flew over to chicago for this guy that people were buzzing about that they were going to raise money for. >> right. >> and eventually she ended up losing to him. look at them there. i mean, together. then you had tim kaine who i thought what an unenviable position to be between joe biden

and the rhetorical skills of barack obama and being introduced essentially to most of the nation. >> yeah. hard task. obviously he has some -- well, neither you nor i could do that, he has wrork to do in the convention speech giving department but did a pretty effective job of trying to assuage some concerns in the hall among liberals, that sort of citation of liberal heroes was a good stroke there. probably the more effective part of his speech again was siting the concerns of republicans. the idea that he who has been a bridge builder in the senate to republicans coming out there and sort of saying don't listen to me, listen to barbara bush, listen to john kasich, listen to the people who advised john mccain. gosh, we can't do this. he was giving them a reason to. >> ed o'keefe "the washington post," thanks for coming in. still ahead, somewhat of a

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let's get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. hello, bill. >> you're in for an interesting day in philadelphia. it will be warm and hot. who knows maybe the hottest day of the summer we'll see from here on out. then you'll get thunderstorms. you're not alone in philadelphia. we have flash flood watches for 17 million people including the philadelphia area to dover and back through west virginia, kentucky, bowling green and down into nashville. potential for at least some torrential rain. it's been a dry summer in these areas, so it's not the end of the world. as far as the rainfall goes right now, the worst has been up towards the lexington, kentucky area and south of cincinnati. this is what eventually will transition late tonight and early tomorrow morning into areas of the east.

rainfall totals here. this is the purple is an inch and a half. the red is two inches of rain. when you get to this pink color, here a good section here, the greater philadelphia area, new york city could get some, too. we've been in a drought so we need the rain. we just don't need it all in one area. kansas, colorado and d.c. to richmond to norfolk, chance for isolated storms. little of everything on the map including the stubborn heat wave in the west that continues right into the weekend. >> bill karins, thank you. now a check on the other headlines this morning. how is it looking over there, lewis? >> it's looking good, chris. everyone here -- breakfast of champions. doesn't get any better than this. saturday night live covered the rnc in cleveland and this week they took their talents to philly to cover the democratic convention. the comics took to the streets

to hand out water on one of the hottest days of this summer, but not everyone was thirsty for the h 2 0rks they were offering. >> free water. >> come get your free water. >> free water. on this hot, 100 degree day, we're giving out free waters. free water for everybody. >> thank you. oh, no, no, trump. >> are you a water fan. >> no. oh my god! i would rather die of thirst. >> oh my god, take your water back. >> people on the fence about water, i guess. >> i definitely am not interested. >> would you try this? >> absolutely not. if i come home with trump water, nobody will let me in the house. >> no thank you. i will walk away tired and thirsty. >> totally tasteless. >> man, you almost couldn't tell you were acting. >> trump water. >> make water great again. >> i think he already did. >> everyone refusing to drink that trump ice.

the internet went to a frenzy last night after tim kaine spoke during day three of the democratic national convention. the former virginia governor warm and jovial appearance inspired his dad-like presence. he is a father of three. one user posted a photo of him from the the family of the '90s tv show "full house" with kaine superimposed with the father with the caption, i knew i recognized him. someone tweeted tim kaine drives a subaru and the only bumper sticker says honk if you're happy. tim kaine goes through the drive-through twice when he forgets to say have a blessed one the first time around. i just want tim kaine to make me scrambled eks when i'm sad and ask me, what's wrong, scout? one more for you, tim kaine is not afraid to turn this car around and drive everyone back

home if your kids don't stop fighting. so there you go, chris. a lot of funny tweets about tim kaine being very fatherly and that he is. >> i don't think that's necessarily a bad persona to have. thank you, lewis. >> i don't think so either. >> say hi to all the folks there. coming up, more than 35 years after attempting to assassinate president ronald reagan, a judge has released john hinckley jr. how the reagan family is reacting. that's ahead on "way too early" . staying in rhythm, it's how i try to live,

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"way too early," pope francis touring poland over the next few days took a tumble this morning. the pope was heading toward the alter for mass when he appeared to trip on a step. members of the clergy around him quickly helped the 79-year-old pontiff back to his feet. after collecting himself, the pope continued with the service. the man who attempted to assassinate president ronald reagan is set to leave a mental hospital after nearly 35 years there. the judge's decision over john hinckley jr.'s released is getting mixed reactions from reagan's family. pete williams has more. >> reporter: a federal judge says 35 years after john hinckley jr. shot president reagan and three others outside a washington hotel, he is not the profoundly disturbed 25-year-old he was then and now at age 61 is no longer a danger to himself or others. starting next month, hinckley can stop living at the mental hospital where he has been

treated since 1982 when a jr. found him not guilty by reason of insanity and live full time with his 90-year-old mother in a gated community in williamsburg, virginia, two hours south of washington. reagan's oldest son michael tweeted that his father forgave hingry, adding maybe he should do the same. patti davis says forgiving someone doesn't mean you let someone loose. some of the hinckley neighbors say they're worried. >> bring him here and put him under the care of his 90-year-old mother seems to be a pretty foolish decision. >> reporter: the judge ordered hinckley to get a job or do volunteer work, stay away from government officials and have no contact with members of the reagan family or jodi foster the actress he was trying to impress by shooting president reagan. all goes well, hinckley will start living from his own a year

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♪ hillary clinton, she's smart, she's steady, she's right and she's ready. donald trump, he's reckless, he's risky, he's wrong and he's scary. >> that was new york city mayor bill de blasio at last night's democratic national convention. one last story as we leave you this morning -- president obama has reportedly settled on a site for his presidential library. accoing to the associated press and "the chicago tribune," the president has chosen

chicago's historic jackson park. the park was one of two options on the city's south side that was being considered. a formal announcement is expected next week. the library expected to be look, we democrats have had plenty of differences with the republican party. but what we heard in cleveland last week wasn't particularly republican. and it sure wasn't conservative. >> trump says he wants the run the nation like he's running his business. god help us. >> he doesn't have a clue about the middle class. actually he has no clue period. >> truth be told, the richest thing about donald trump is his hypocrisy. >> and tonight i ask you to do for hillary clinton