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. >>> please welcome president bill clinton. >> bill clinton's speech at the democratic national convention let the world know what it's known for a long time he's the most popular figure in america. >> as another president once said, there they go again. >> but clinton's impact is not just here in america but it's global. >> i love my life now. it's just fun. >> he's taken whatever capital he had as an ex-president and has put it trying to do real good in the world. >> bill clinton is a new kind of world leader. >> he's the single most extraordinary competent politician i've ever met. >> grandly ambitious planetary in scale. >> i want to keep being very active in the things i cared about as president where i can still have an influence. >> when he lands in a foreign country, people go wild. he's such a great ambassador for the united states of america today. >> his one phrase that people have said and that's he's president to the world. >>> 62 heads of state. hundreds of corporate leaders. multinational types. movie stars. an unparalleled collection of the powerful and celebrated gather to

we need bill clinton to come out and do only what bill clinton can do.n make the most complicated economic argument seem as simple and as easy as pie. and we need that because reality is we are in a complex economic situation. normal democrats who are not super powered people like bill clinton stumble over very simple stuff even asking are your better off, worse off? bill clinton will knock it out of the park tonight. i got my popcorn. >> i think that's right. i think we all do. levity aside for just a second, i think bill clinton actually has quite a difficult and quite an important role. it's not just to say, yes, i'm in obama's camp now. last night we got wonderful speeches. julian castro was fantastic. his daughter was even just so adorable. michelle proved once again that she is an exceptionally brilliant and beautiful woman. however, both of those speeches were purely emotional in their appeal. i love this man. you can trust this man. the american dream. what bill clinton now has to do is actually make a policy argument. why is it that barack obama

clinton. the crowd will also hear from elizabeth warren running for the senate in massachusetts. the speakers have been passionate at this convention. throwing punch after punch at republicans and aggressively affirming the strength of the president's record. and it's been great to see. they talked about the auto bailout. >> the american auto industry is not just surviving. it's thriving. where mitt romney was willing to turn his back on akron, dayton, and toledo, ohio, the president said i've got your back. >> the president's record on women's issues. >> being a mother is no longer a liability. and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition. now, that's what change looks like. >> and we've heard the most sustained defense of the obama health care law and what it means to this country. >> this is the president who delivered the security of affordable health care to every single american in every corner of this country after 90 years of trying. >> last night the first lady electrified

clinton inherited a $290 billion deficit. it, to a $236 billion surplus by the time the clinton years were done. mr. obama has inherited a $459 billion deficit. yeah, that's worse, but it's even worse now. 1.3 trillion. and homeownership rose to a record high during the clinton years. it's declined under president obama, and the mortgage crisis, although we have to be fair it's really clear when you look at those numbers, very different economic performance from these two administrations, and they're at pains now to explain this and try to make that context work for them and not against them. >> that's right. another interesting thing i noticed in here, president clinton, again, bringing up, brb has -- president obama has an approach proposed by the bipartisan simpson-bowles commission. we talked about this so much. >> endlessly. >> they keep stumbling into this. it's a commission that came up with a plan to fix the debt problem in this country. the president did not endorse the simpson-bowles commission. everyone may notice

much of bill clinton.work for him and we got him elected, first at governor and did so much. and you know how that turned out. so there is no question that he can provide support to president obama for a second term and that's what we're here for. >> mr. tommy roebuck, thank you to speak with you. >> my pleasure, thank you. >> the entire arkansas delegation very excited to hear from the former president tonight. let's send it right back to you, wolf. >> not just in arkansas. all across this huge arena here. thank you very much, soledad. one prominent democrat, nowhere to be seen right here in charlotte. we're talking about hillary clinton. traveling in asia, keeping up a longstanding tradition of secretaries of state being above partisan politics, but our own jessica yellin had a chance to interview her for her excellent documentary "obama revealed." she is in this unique position, work senators president, but married to a former president. >> that's right. as she said, a once in a lifetime or very unusual

classic bill clinton. go with the flow, ad lib. the teleprompter froze at one point, he carried on. >> it was ad libbed, but also deeply considered. clinton put his finger on the h-bomb of this election, and that is the issue of nursing homes. the ryan/romney plan proposes to hold harmless people who are seniors or over 55 from any cuts to medicare. seniors vote in enormous numbers. it might seem like they have nothing to worry about. but the ryan/romney plan proposes to make big cuts in medicaid, that is the program that increasingly pays for more and more of nursing home care. by talking about nursing homes, clinton put the senior vote back in contention. by reminding them of their fears. people congratulate bill clinton too much for this speech. it's important to remember, that the reason it was powerful was because of the strategic decision by republicans to endorse the ryan plan. they didn't have to do that. and some of us have been pleading with them for a year, do not do this, do not commit this election. do not make the sel

bill clinton is still alive and bill clinton is a surrogate for barack obama. what are you guys doing? that said, i think john raises a really good point, patty. we played tape of the president earlier this week. he was asked to grade himself. he said, incomplete. here you have a man who brought america to the thickets of the swamp of policy seamlessly, seemingly effortlessly. the question is, what does the obama administration need to or what does the campaign need to do? what lessons cant they learn frm bill clinton last night? >> i mean, to an extent bill clinton also said the record is incomplete. he just made a very strong case for keeping the incumbent in office in order to complete what has already been started. he said something that the white house has not been able to do, that nobody, he included himself, not even i, bill clinton, which is a big admission for bill clinton, could have fixed the economy in the space of four years but obama has moved it in the right direction. speaking to democrats here over the past couple of days, i think what bill cli

bill clinton did. clinton will say something to the effect that the republicans created a huge mess and now they are saying, hey, barack obama, you didn't clean it up fast enough. you have to put us back in charge. that's the essence of what president clinton will say. to put it in context the t, president clinton, without a single republican vote in 1993 got passed the balance budget economic plan. it was only until 1997 that the republicans then in control of congress had their stuff come into effect. that's indisputable. so what you will see today is president clinton saying, look. when president obama says i'm willing to cut government spending if we also have some revenues offset at a 3 or 4 to 1 ratio that's compromise. clinton will reframe it. >> look what obama is doing. obama is gutting welfare, the work requirements. the republicans came in in 1994. that's when the stock market started to rally. >> that's right. >> you saw it completely changed bill clinton. >> larry. >> i want to ask steve m

even the entrance was vintage clinton. he walked on stage to his 1992 campaign theme song "don't stop thinking about tomorrow." over the course of the 48 minutes, clinton countered issue by issue the core republican question of whether or not americans are better off under president obama than they were when he arrived in office. >> the republican argument against the president re-election was actually pretty simple. pretty snappy. it went something like this. we left him a total mess. he hadn't cleaned it up fast enough so fire him and put us back in. i like the argument for president obama's re-election a lot better. here it is. he inherited a deeply damaged economy. he put a floor under the crash. he began the long, hard road to recovery. are we where we want to be today? no. is the president satisfied? of course not. but are we better off than we were when he took office? president obama started with a much weaker economy than i did. listen to me now. no president, no president, not me, not any of my predecessors, no o

>> nobody does clinton better thatten clinton. >> john?e but i want no part of it. willie, if it's "way too early," my man, what time is it? >> it's "morning joe." see you back here in charlotte tomorrow. stick around after the breakor chuck. 4g lte has the fastest speeds. so let's talk about coverage. based on this chart, who would you choose ? wow. you guys take a minute. verizon, hands down. i'm going to show you guys another chart. pretty obvious. i don't think color matters. pretty obvious. what's pretty obvious about it ? that verizon has the coverage. verizon. verizon. we're going to go to another chart. it doesn't really matter how you present it. it doesn't matter how you present it. verizon. more 4g lte coverage than all other networks combined. hey, bro. or engaging. conversations help us learn and grow. at wells fargo, we believe you can never underestimate

one of the effects of bill clinton's speech, you saw how there's this clinton renaissance going on.s really setting up hillary clinton as a front runner like we've never seen before. so i'm really interested to see how he plays this speech tonight. this is a guy who obviously wants obama to get re-elected but also wants to be in the mix for 2016. >> and i think joe biden will clearly make the sort of every-man pitch that you're all talking about. willie, let's go back to bill clinton. i think that's what he did very effectively last night too. sort of explain obama's policies in language that, you know, the every man can understand. in fact, i came upon a great headline this morning saying "pass health care? call obama. explain it? call clinton." what do you think of how he delivered that message last night? >> it is interesting that the role of the vice president is always on the night of to do a step-by-step takedown of the nominee from the other party. as you said, bill clinton did that over the course of 48 minutes last night. sort of stole the role of joe biden. it will be inte

clinton. >> that's right. it is a picture of continuity and what is striking about that is in 2008, the tension between the two men was not just that barack obama was competing against hillary clinton, it was that barack obama was campaigning as a break from the clinton years, a break from clinton's kind of politics. now he is relying on that kind of politics and it is striking. usually a candidate arrives at a convention early to be seen with his wife, not this time. barack obama is going to recover and be seen, they hope, with bill clinton. that picture of continuity, that is the picture they want to see on the front pages tomorrow. >> pelley: john, thank you very much, bill plante is down on the convention floor and he has found bill daly of chicago, mr. daily used to be president obama's chief of staff. bill. >> i am with bill daly as you know was chief of staff to president obama and also was secretary of commerce for president clinton and therefore is in a good spot to tell us what it is that president c

i think hillary clinton and barack obama buried the hatchet a long time before bill clinton and barack obama did. that was a hard-fought race. and this is still quite a psycho drama between the two men. politics, politicos and reporters picking over every sign of any sort of a crack in their solid relationship, that they'd like to portray. but right tonight, we're expecting a very strong endorsement for barack obama and his economic principles from the former president bill clinton. >> let's head across the arena now, jake, to jon karl. jon, look around, tell us about the delegates around you. and tell us what you think the most important thing bill clinton has to do tonight for them. >> well, i'll tell you i've been talking to a lot of the delegates around here. and one the things i've heard over and over again is about that primary four years ago. it's ancient history. it's something that somebody who worked very hard for hillary clinton told me. now, we're all on board. you can see phenomenal dress down here. these delegates are fired up, diane. i've got to tell you, they are fired.

>> beat bill clinton. and relegate the energy to bill clinton.nd people a taste of what 2008 was all about. >> he needs to just sort of be okay. and... >> okay? >> and if they stopped tonight it would probably be better. >> and this is interesting theater. i don't think it matters. and i'm fixated on undecided. were are they sth. >> we don't know. we'll know after the debate. >> does that mean there are many undecides? >> only 6. >> greta: panel, thank you for being with us and staying up late for us. we'll be back live at our special time, 11:30 to 1:00 a.m. go to greta wire.com get your coffee ready for tomorrow night. good night from charlotte, north carolina go to greta wire.com. ♪

>> beat bill clinton. and relegate the energy to bill clinton.at 2008 was all about. >> he needs to just sort of be okay. and... >> okay? >> and if they stopped tonight it would probably be better. >> and this is interesting theater. i don't think it matters. and i'm fixated on undecided. were are they sth. >> we don't know. we'll know after the debate. >> does that mean there are many undecides? >> only 6. >> greta: panel, thank you for being with us and staying up late for us. we'll be back live at our special time, 11:30 to 1:00 a.m. go to greta wire.com get your coffee ready for tomorrow night. good night from charlotte, north carolina go to greta wire.com. ♪ forz(power!) andiamo! andiamo! (let's go! let's go!) avanti! avanti! (keep going! keep going!) hahaha...hahahaha! you know ronny, folks who save hundreds of dollars by switching to geico sure are happy. and how happy are they jimmy? happier than christopher columbus with speedboats. that's happy! get happy. get geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. ♪ [ malennounc

bill clinton talked about that last night.> in tampa, the republican argument against the president re-election was actually pretty simple. pretty snappy. it went something like this. we left him a total mess, he hasn't cleaned it up fast enough so fire him and put us back in. >> now, you were a key player in the 1996 reelect of bill clinton. barack obama approach this is convention like you did, an incumbent. what does he need to do tonight? what does he need to say to the american people? >> i think building on this platform that president clinton has provided if you will as the great explainer of what has happened for the last four years and providing that narrative, now president obama needs to do in my view exactly what president clinton did in 1996. you go back and look at his acceptance speech which i did work on. it is like a second state of the union address for the country. he is talking about the agenda, what he is going to do in his second term, and i think that now if you think about this as a narrative, as a stor

bill clinton. >> bill clinton? >> yeah.n hardly hear you. >> give us a preview of tonight. >> of what he would do? >> he would say there's nothing wrong with america. it cannot be fixed by what is right with america. i swear to god. >> and i'm curious as to whether donald trump is watching this at home. do you think? do you think? >> trump, he's dying to be here. >> yeah. >> what is it about trump and the hair? have you figured it out? >> i don't know. we used to call it the onion loaf. and it didn't seem to bother him at all. >> the onion loaf? >> yeah. like my hair is an onion loaf. it's the onion loaf. >> do you say huge the way he says it. >> huge! >> one more time. huge. >> huge! >> okay. that's enough. daryl hammond is coming back at midnight. we're going to be here having fun after everything. you'll do bill clinton tonight after bill clinton. eugene robinson, good sport. >>> ahead we'll look at bill clinton taking the stage and what it could be for this convention. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics.

>> i think clinton can speak to them better than biden because he speakings as the bill clinton who presided over a great economy. >> charlie:right. >> effective. biden is very effective with the people. >> charlie:organized labor. because of the trade and other issues. >> no, but he has a kind of trust among working class democrats. >> i think biden connects with those voters on a tbut level. >> charlie:yeah. >> i think clinton is still the best articulator of why the economic policies of this administration. >> charlie:and explain it better. >> barack obama win the working class and can he win catholics? >> i always say there is no catholic vote in its importance. they're classic 40-40 group. it's very hard for tem to get less than 40% and republican 40% but the march tbins matter. latinos are a huge part of the equation. in the end because of latinos i think obama will still carry the catholic vote this time overall. how much do these arguments over contraception affect him? at the margins, a little bit and i think the pressure from some of the hierarchy on obama and some mishandling of t

that is bill clinton. so we've seen advertisements playing in battleground states from president clinton. that is snapshot what i'm told we're going to hear on wednesday night. he is trying to inspire some of those people who long for the days of clinton but he is also trying to amplify this message that president obama hats struggled with, if you elect mitt romney you will be reversing things. the odd thing, person making the argument, it's backward looking convention. >> i haven't thought of it that way but maybe i should have looked at it that way. i love bill clinton. its concession as a speaker. think of all the times he has been off message, saying that bain capital, and romney was sterling and how much he thought the bush tax cuts should be extended and he said an awful lot of nice things about romney. clinton doesn't like obama that is obvious. i think some of us here, at least two of us have heard from people who know bill clinton very well that he will not be distressed if barack obama is not re-

bill clinton is a special person. he is probably the best articulator the democratic party has had maybe in history. and so to have him on your side, as a surrogate, as a spokesperson, as the visionary that he can be, is just a remarkable asset. and we saw it last night. >> why is it for bill clinton to articulate what president obama has done from his perspective and to rebut the republican charges? why hasn't the president been able to do that? and does he have to do it tonight? >> well, i think the president has done it but i think last night the whole country was watching. and it was bill clinton's moment to do it in his way. barack obama will do it tonight in his way. but i think the two of them together will provide the kind of message and the extraordinary able to articulate in a way that only a convention can showcase. and that's what we're seeing this week. >> now, one of the issues that has been fully embraced by the democrats this week is health care and the president's record on health care. no longer defe

classic bill clinton.n the video to introduce him first came up. when he came out, he had this audience. and even though he gave a classic clintonian long explanation of all of the policy points, he made it and applicable. he said no president, not me or my predecessors, could have recovered from this depression and done it any better. he made the point that we're on the road to recovery. all of the issues that the republicans have hammered away at president obama. obviously, he has his own perspective but as a political document, this speech was extraordinary. and i think it was classic clinton. just one other note. i've been messaging with the clinton traveling party, hillary clinton in timor. it is 13 hours ahead of us. it is already wednesday. she is going to have a news conference. she could not watch the speech. they barely have internet. they don't have television right now. as she travels around timor, talking through her aides and getting reports from the traveling pool. the pool producer travelin

bill clinton did a great job tonight. to the president of the united states to do a great job for himself. president obama certainly has some hard acts to follow when he speaks to this convention tomorrow night. can he live up to the speeches given by his wife, by the former president, bill clinton. stay with us. whether it's supporting a delaware nonprofit that's providing training and employment opportunities, investing in the revitalization of a neighborhood in the bronx, or providing the financing to help a beloved san diego bakery expand, what's important to communities across the country is important to us. and we're proud to work with all of those who are creating a stronger future for everyone. exclusive to the military, and commitment is not limited to one's military oath. the same set of values that drive our nation's military are the ones we used to build usaa bank. with our award winning apps that allow you to transfer funds, pay bills or manage your finances anywhere, anytime. so that wherever your duty takes

like clinton had.ced approach to reducingure deficit. if you do that, you'll have the growth and deficit reduction you had under president clinton as opposed to the economic collapse we had from 2000 to 2008. the american dream is real for the president. his story is the story of the american dream. he just wants to make sure all americans can have that dream. >> mr. crowley stole about 10 seconds from your 20 seconds. >> well, that's okay let me catch up. a little controversy on the floor, but basically democrats have had a very successful week. the bar is set high. the question is, can obama match it? the bar is high tonight. >> accolades for bill clinton's speech. but nobody should forget all of the key decisions leading to the housing bubble were made under bill clinton. to allow institutions to gamble with proprietary trading. the expansion of freddie may and fanny maie mae. he built that. >> dana, last 10 seconds. >> i think we saw the difference between a good communicator and a good ortar. bill

but clinton rallied the caucus in a way that only bill clinton can.epublican consultant and cnn contributor alex castellano praised clinton's appearance. >> tonight, when everybody leaves, lock the door. you don't have to come back tomorrow. this convention is done. this will be the moment that probably reelected barack obama. bill clinton saved the democratic party once. it was going too far left. he came in, the new democrats took it to the center. he did it again tonight. >> alex is in charlotte. he joins us now. hi, alex. >> hi, carol. >> you had a whole night to sleep on it. do you still feel the same today? >> yes, i do. i thought that was a tremendous speech. it was like watching a major league pitcher throw strikes effortlessly from center field. bill clinton is an old pro. but more importantly, he achieved a political objective. bill clinton did save the democratic party once. remember, the democratic party, big spenders. they weren't trusted with the -- america's checkbook. bill clinton said, it's the economy, stupid. and he moved the democr

>>f you gave obama a shot of clinton empathy and clinton a shot of obama discipline, you would have the perfect democratic politician [laughing] >> they are both awesome in their ways but need the other. in terms of their philosophical view. i did an interview with obama in 2007 where he praised clinton for correcting the cost of the temmic party. there's going to be interesting arguments about how far should you go to reach a budget deal? how much should you give up? i don't think there's any clarity about how far obama will go and a lot of liberals will wonder will he give away too much. we may repeat some of the arguments. >> charlie, i think the democratic party has changed since bill clinton was president in many ways he would agree with those changes because of what's happened with the republican party. >> charlie:it's moved from where to where. >> in the clinton sense, mr significantly new democratic party than have been to a somewhat more liberal or progressive party. not far left in a lot of ways but i think it has moved. there's certainly much more scep sism about trade issues