atlanta mayor kasim reed; houston mayor annise parker and antonio villaraigosa, mayor of los angeles and convention chair. thank you all for being with us. >> glad to be here. >> great to be here. >> woodruff: i do want to ask you about city issues but mayor villaraigosa what happened at the very beginning of this convention earlier this evening when you galved it to order and tried to add language in the platform about voice vote that would recognize jerusalem as capital of israel. you had to take the vote three times because the "nos" were almost as loud as the "yas." >> actually, the first time i knew we had a majority. the second time i was pretty sure, by the third time i was absolutely sure. that's what i oh, pined. you have 10 minutes to object. and nobody did. >> woodruff: but what was that all about? i mean the party has already been refugee criticism about taking that language out of the platform this year. >> i'll tea you what it was about. we have a president who expects the platform to reflect his values and his sentiments. and he made it clear that he wanted that langua

atlanta mayor kasim reed; houston mayor annise parker and antonio villaraigosa, mayor of los angeles convention chair. thank you all for being with us. >> glad to be here. >> great to be here. >> woodruff: i do want to ask you about city issues but mayor villaraigosa what happened at the very beginning of this convention earlier this evening when you galved it to order and tried to add language in the platform about voice vote that would recognize jerusalem as capital of israel. you had to take the vote three times because the "nos" were almost as loud as the "yas." >> actually, the first time i knew we had a majority. the second time i was pretty sure, by the third time i was absolutely sure. that's what i oh, pined. you have 10 minutes to object. and nobody did. >> woodruff: but what was that all about? i mean the party has already been refugee criticism about taking that language out of the platform this year. >> i'll tea you what it was about. we have a president who expects the platform to reflect his values and his sentiments. and he made it clear that he wanted that language b

along with eva longoria, annise parker, brian schweitzer, john kerry, and joe biden and president obamahis speech is due to start at 10:10 latonight. >> are we where we want to be today? no. is the president satisfied? of course not. what are we better off than we were when he took office? [cheers and applause] when president robert obama took office, the economy was in freefall. we were losing 750,000 jobs a month. are we doing better than that today? the answer is yes. host: politico has a look at the reviews of president clinton's speech. pundit swooned over clinton's s peech. is nearly 50 minute speech wednesday was praised by a reporters on all three major news agencies. this is from wolf blitzer -- here is ed schultz of msnbc. this is exactly what president barack obama needed. steve schmidt said his political power is is unmatched on either side of the title. " i wish we had someone on our side who have the ability to do that. we do not. it would be great if we did." brit hume said if i were guilty, i would not want -- i would want bill clinton there to defend the. nobody does a