christie's republican keynote. a convincing keynote address. happyfully inflamed the candidate.ke the happy lawyer up there, he was smiling all the way, even when doing violence for the good name. michelle obama's challenge was different. she had to tell us something we didn't know. any modern president is an open book who has been reading himself to us incessantly. this president wrote two books about himself as a young man. so what can she tell us? she combatted the image of barack obama as cool and detached too too much, so. the no drama obama probably greats on some people in a country that's really frightened and unhappy. tonight, she tried to say he's not cool and not detached. >> so cheerfulness in castro, a long way in politics. and passion. what do you think, donna? >> inspirational. i think tonight, one, democrats to came to hear from the first lady. they came to hear what is going on in this country. and tonight, she answered it, she said president obama is not only a great dad, a wonderful husband but he's a proven leader, and let me tell what you he's been up to. so

ghosts of surgery,ful and unsuccessful keynotes gone by. >> my fellows. >> reporter: in 1988, the keynoteby bill clinton at the dnc was widely jeered and almost derailed his career. and yet, four years later, clinton was elected president. but there are plenty of speakers no one remembers. julian castro feels the pressure. why did obama pick you? >> i think that he and i see eye to eye on a lot of issues. i also think it's another signifier of the significance of h himself pan hispanics. >> reporter: his mother immigrated to the country, his brother joaquin is now running for congress. he's expected to win. tonight, he introduced julian. >> ours is a nation like no other. a place where great journeys can be made in a single generation. no matter who you are or where you come from, the path is always forward. >> reporter: you grew up in a community, you wind up going to stanford, and a law degree from harvard, you and your brother. how is that possible? >> we are very blessed to have a family that wanted to make sure we got a good education. >> they studied. >> reporter: julian's mother ro

he had this crowd roaring and laughing as he delivered the keynote address here. and it was a stemwinder. abc's john quinones spent the day with him. >> reporter: julian castro spent most of today rehearsing in his hotel room. >> right now, i feel pretty good, relaxed. i'm sure a few minutes before i walk on stage i'll be nervous. >> reporter: for the 37-year-old mayor of san antonio the first hispanic ever chosen to give the keynote, it's been an extraordinary journey. we both grew up in the same neighborhood, i've known him for years. as we walked along the san antonio river, it began to sink it in. the first hispanic ever to give the keynote at a democratic national convention. it's a big deal. >> sure, i'm looking forward to doing it. >> reporter: nervous? >> of course, a little bit. it's a combination of being both very excited and a little bit nervous. >> reporter: so nervous, in fact, the days before his address, castro met with these catholic nuns. >> i wanted to ask you all to say a little prayer for me, because i think i'm going to need it. >> reporter:

he is the keynote speaker. he is supposed to get the energy up for this nominee. >> you do get the sense that christie and rubio were talking more about themselves. >> let's keep the keynote address in perspective. remember the great address andrew cuomo gave on behalf of mondale? look what happened to mondale. look at the great speech given in 1956 and what happened to at least even sen. the great speech given by ronald reagan on behalf of barry goldberg. look what happened to him. keynote speeches are not positive. >> can i ask a question? why would romney risk his reputation by a speech that -- why would ryan missed his reputation, a speech that was full of energy, why would he risk all that by putting it into things that were overly false? >> it is just a guess -- he is learning what it is to be a vice-presidential candidate. they are going to sell their point of view. they are going to sell that barack obama took $700 billion out of welfare -- medicare. if the candidate does not want to say it, the vice-pr

barack obama has given a keynote speech. i'm julian castro. >> reporter: castro knows the burden is on him to appeal to latinos as well as inspire a broader audience of voters. >> the choice that we have to make in this election is whether to continue to invest so that everyone can reach the american dream or whether we're going to scale back from that. >> reporter: with an estimated 12 million latino voters expected to cast ballots in november, both campaigns are fighting hard for their attention. >> can't just trot out a brown face and spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate. >> reporter: that's why delagara, a professor at columbia university, says the choice of julian castro to deliver the keynote was smart. >> castro brings, as a speaker, a number of important characteristics. he is smart. he's well educated. he is politically literate. he has a vision and he has ambition. he raised in a highly political family in san antonio. he understands the limit of ethnic politics. >> t

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he'll become the first latino keynote speaker in dnc history.astro is the ripe old age of 37. and already running america's 7th largest city. in fact, when president obama first met him a couple of years ago, joked at the time about mistaking him for an intern. we have video of jewel can castro on the floor earlier today. he has a twin brother, you may see them together. it's sometimes confusing. he may seem young, but he's been around this sort of thing his whole life. >> the story of my family and so many families across the united states from different parts of the country represent an american dream story. >> shep: it's a story that began two generations ago in mexico. >> my grandmother came here from mexico when she was a young girl. she dropped out of elementary school and she worked as a maid, a cook examine baby-sitter so my mother could have a good shot in life. >> shep: julian castro and his twin brother were born in san antonio in 1974. their mother at one point ran for city council and shared her love of politics with the boys. >> th

keynote still make the election. they helped momentarily.t the spirit up, no question about it. neil: they also launched either event of that ticket loses, the mondale ticket -- it did for the presidential wheels in motion. you didn't respond to that, you can want that job, but it did launch your career. he did launch you into much more national ways, as barack obama did for john kerry in 2004. i'm wondering for chris christie, did this torpedo such talk? >> no. chris is a great speaker and he will continue to be a great speaker. if he keeps going in new jersey at the pace that he is going now, he will be very popular. no matter what happens in this election. that popularity is not going to depend upon mitt romney winning. so i think he is secure for the time being. of course, you never know. there are two things that i wish could have been, instead of a great keynote speech. i think the first of all, he should be able to get more specifics into the argument. there was a front-page story in which mitt romney said he had plans. this is in "th

and you mentioned the keynote speaker tonight, julian castro. he is going to be one to watch for sure. he is 37 years old. an identical twin. and his twin is going to introduce him. he is also a politician. so that will be kind of the opening salvo for this convention. >> actually as we were watching the pictures there, dana, michelle obama was front and center. how important is her role tonight? >> reporter: very important. you remember four years ago what a difference four years makes, right? she was somebody who they were a little bit worried about inside the obama campaign because she might have come across as harsh, and they were trying to soften her image when she got to the democratic convention. not anymore. not at all. she is incredibly popular. one of the most popular political figures in the country. so they are hoping that some of that kind of carries over to her husband, that she can remind people why they want the obamas back in white house for another four years. >> all right, dana. i know you're working really hard for us and rea

especially the keynote speaker. and the hispanic vote, brian is so key to, the re-election of barack obama. because he is overwhelmingly popular among hispanics. but he has to build that enthusiasm. they think they're going to do that tonight. >> deep in the heart of texas. the texas delegation here. nbc's ron allen. ron, this is their moment. we are second away. >> it is their moment, brian. they're surprised -- a lot in the delegation admit they were shocked when they heard the mayor of san antonio was going to deliver such a huge speech. they're obviously very excited, very proud. and they know president obama is not going to win texas, but they think this is the beginning of something. and they point out that the delegation here is about 30% african-american, 30% latino, 30% anglo. tonight they say texas is showing what it is becoming, hopefully a purple state in their mind. a lot of pride for this local mayor who has the got a very big stage and some very big expectations as well. as we know, his story echos pr

he is the keynote speaker. he is supposed to get everybody keyed up for this nominee. >> you do get the sense that christie and rubio was talking more about themselves. >> let's keep the keynote address in perspective. remember the great speech andrew cuomo gave a behalf of walter mondale? look at what happened to mondale. look at the speech in 1956 on behalf of at least even sen. >> barack obama 2004. >> the great speech given by ronald reagan. this is the time for change. on behalf of barry goldberg. >> can i ask a question? why would try and risk his reputation -- why would ryan risk his reputation with a speech that was full of energy -- he is the darling of this convention in some ways -- why would he risk all that by putting into at the things that are overtly false? >> i have a guess -- just a guess -- he is learning what it is to be the vice-presidential candidate. you are the hatchet. you are the hammer. they are going to sell your point of view. they are going to sell that barack obama took $700 billi

he is the first latino keynote at the democratic national convention. also a huge personal story that democrats hope people will really buy into and listen to. he is like the president of the united states, a harvard law grad. he has a twin brother. he grew up with a single mom, some challenges there in his personal life. and pretty dynamic speaker. so people are hoping to tune in. obviously, for democrats, the latino vote is huge this election cycle. even here in states like north carolina, a large and growing minority population. so they're hoping julian castro really strikes a cord this evening, ashley. >> and people should remember back in 2004, there was a young man who was the keynote speaker named, oh, i believe it was barack hussein obama. >> i was on the floor for that. >> ah, you remember it well, don't you? let's talk about getting down to business. and that is the party platform. obviously, it differs from the republican party platform. but it also differs from past democratic platforms. i'm talking to you, same-sex marriage. so what else is

maybe they should keynote before the keynote.at's my keynote -- >> you'll have to teach me those. the term spin as in political spin? >> political spin, well, the late william sapphire of "the new york times" says that it comes from slang to deceive or spin a yarn. thinking about it, when a piece of yarn is spun, it twists as it is spun. the first political use of the word spin came from the mondale/reagan 1984 debate. from a wonderful web site that i found called word spy, the actual definition of spin is the following, and we will see and hear a lot of it -- to convey information or cast another person's remarks or actions in a biased or slanted way so as to favor or influence public opinion. >> love it. >> not that any of us would ever do that, right? >> never, never, never. certainly not here on cnn. all right. that was fun. thank you. i feel much smarter now. i learned something there. >> i did learn something. >> that was great. thank you. >>> it's going to be a big week in washington. we'll look at the calendar and show yo

san antonio mayor julian castro uses the convention's keynote address to make the case against the gop ticket. >> their theory has been tested. it failed. our economy failed. the middle class paid the price, your family paid the price. mitt romney just doesn't get it. >>> election violence in canada. quebec's newly elect premiere is pulled off stage after a deadly shooting at her victory rally. >>> the seal's story. one of the elite commandos who took out osama bin laden tells scott pelley about the mission and how it almost failed. >> at this point, i was pretty sure we were going in. >> going to crash? sure we were going in. >> going to crash? >> yeah. captioning funded by cbs >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for wednesday, september 5, 2012. >>> good morning everybody. good to be with you. i'm terrell brown. at the democratic national convention is it's all about re-electing president obama. former president bill clinton makes his case tonight. last night speaker after speaker cast president obama as a champion of his people and his rival mitt romney as rich and out of touch. and

and now the keynote address. >> thank you. thank you. (cheers and applause) >> thank you. >> thank you. thank you. my fellow democrats, my fellow americans, my fellow texans-- (cheers and applause) >> i stand before you tonight as a young american, a proud american, of a generation born as the cold war receded, shaped by the tragedy of 9/11, connected by the digital revolution and determined to re-elect the man who will make the 21st century another american century, president barack obama! (cheers and applause) the unlikely journey that brought me here tonight began many miles from this podium. my brother joaquin and i grew up with my mother, rosie and my grandmother victoria. my grandmother was ar orphan, as a young girl she had to leave her home in mexico and move to san antonio where some relatives agreed to take it in. she never made it past the fourth grade. she had to drop out and start working to help her family. my grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a baby-sitter. barely scraping by, but still, workin

the optics of the keynote. julian castro to chris christie, keynoter in tampa, the governor of new jersey. couldn't have been more different. >> well, they had very different roles. they were still each of them, though, had a target audience. and chris christie with the white working class voters. and of course the san antonio mayor, latino minority voters. and young voters. and so they both were shooting for a target. and christie's case, his speech read better than it was delivered. and in the case of san antonio mayor, wow, that was sort of like an obama 2004 moment. he really knocked that thing out of the park. a very good speech. >> there was another important difference in those two speeches also. and that was that christie did not prosecute the case against the president. en: no. >> mayor castro prosecuted very hard the case against mitt romney. and in that sense, that's partly the traditional role of the keynoter. and obviously the layout of some themes as christie did. christie tried to say this is a b

keynote spot launched political careers. mario coan cuomo, ann richards, using the keynote address to become governor of texas, to win the gubinatorial election two years later. a lot of people look at julian castro and say, he can use this speech to par lay into a campaign for governor of texas. that is since ann richards. and the problem for republicans and the reason why julian castro is a threat, is they have faced this evolving demographic challenge in texas. large state, conservative state, but a growing hispanic population. if it is alienated, eventually the numbers work out so a guy like julian castro can win an election there. unless republicans change their tune in adopting a more inclusive tone towards hispanic. >> tonight's headliner, first lady michelle obama who told sirius xm a bit about what she will be talking about. >> ready for this convention, ready for to win this election. i'm pretty fired up. >> what are you prepared to tell the american people? >> i'm going to remind people about the values that drive

he's the first latino to ever deliver a democratic keynote address. you see him hugging his twin brother. they look exactly the same. tonight the convention spotlight will shine on former president, bill clinton, he'll be nominating barack obama for a second term. and also it will be important for him to bolster the theme of stay the economic course. d dana, hoping for a strong day yesterday and today? >> they are. if you look and listen to what happened on first day, it's obvious that the democrats realize that there are very few undecided voters. this is about getting the base out and riled up and talking about the middle class. talking about how bad mitt romney is and when it came to the first lady, talking about the fact that people should remember why they liked her husband. >> who better to convince voters that the barack obama they were to excited about four years ago is still that same guy? >> whether it comes to his character and his convictions and his heart, barack obama is still the same man i fell in love with all of those years ago. >> b

speaker this year is a latino the first latino in history to be speaking giving the keynote address at the republican or excuse me democratic national convention of course san antonio mayor julian. julian castro castro it is that here that is the the keynote speaker but a lot of others are just disillusioned with the way that president obama has his policies when it comes to immigration or our lack of immigration reform pointing out to the fact that it's under president obama's presidency that the most people in history and u.s. history were deported over one million people in the past three years were deported under his presidency so a lot of people disillusioned and of course hoping that that will come to an end liz that's really interesting that you brought that out but i'd like to sort of go back to your your report that we just played a little while ago i'm sort of one third wondering how are they doing over there any is anybody being charged formally what's going on there. well i just spoke to the organizer one of the organizers on the bus herself tanya there she was in the st

president obama use the 2004 keynote address to watch himself into the national spotlight. look for the republicans to cling to that question, are we better off in four years ago? all right and is campaigning today and he is supposed to continue those attacks. >> i guess the democratic candidate for senate in massachusetts passed the same question and they discuss it on cbs this morning coming up later >> yes. elizabeth warren appeared on cbs this morning and was asked that question and she was really talking about let's not forget where we were four years ago and what the recklessness of wall street did to us with the housing crisis pension losses. she said we really felt a very long way. >> thank you so much. >> the chairman of the california democratic party compares gop tactics to mop the propaganda. he is in the news room to tell us wet he had to say to kcbs radio and reaction provoked over the weekend >> political experts say burtons comments went way too far when he compared republicans with joseph burbles, the prop is propaganda minister for nazi he responded with a

and of course much later tonight as judy mentioned, the keynote from the 37 year old mayor of san antonioexas, hoolian julit trocastroand michelle obama, tht lady of the united states. >> woodruff: mark shields and draifd brooks were with us last weak in tampa and they are here with us in charlotte. what does this line up tonight say to you what the democrats, what barack obama wants to accomplish. >> michelle obama isç obviously the mostç interesting one. just as romney needed to be, still president obama needs to be humanized a little. he's a bit ensue her. motivation behind healthcare and the turmoil to do a lot of things; even though the overall rates is high and has been phenomenally favorable, the favorable or unfavorable rated has shifted quite significantly. an abc pofl has obama's unfavorability among women going up by 11 poifnts while romney's favorability was going up by seven. it shifted in a republican direction even if the overall number is not. >> ifill: which are the faces we're going to see on the stain tonight. >> that's right gwen. michelle obama is most important. th

to deliver a keynote speech at the dnc. he talked up the president but delivered a punch to mitt romney. >> i don't think governor romney nent meant any marm. he has no idea how good he's had it. mitt romney quite simply doesn't get it. >> it was a democratic party so speakers served up a lot of red meat. >> if mitt was santa claus, he would fire the reindeer and outsource the elves. >> women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. maybe 23 cents doesn't sound like a lot to someone with a swiss bank account, a cayman island investment. >> put simply, women in america cannot trust mitt romney. >> i want to bring in ruth marcus, columnist for "washington post" and political reporter nick con sore ri. let's talk about michelle obama. it was called a resounding trium triumph. what do you think she accomplished? >> i think it was very important as we saw with ann romney's speech. spouses serve a very validating humanizing function, it's not that people don't know president obama, but they can speak about their spouse

the keynote speech from julian castro mayor of san antonio. then first ly, michelle obama, making the case in primetime for four more years for the president. >> announcer: from nbc news, "decision 2012." the democratic national convention live from charlotte, north carolina. >>> good evening from charlotte, the arena home to the bobcats. tonight it is noisy and about the democrats. we get our first primetime glimpse of the message they have planned. days after tampa, 63 days until the election and a lot has changed as we said at the top of the broadcast since the days of hope and change, the last democratic convention in '0 #. tonight we hear from a man billed as a rising star, young mayor of san antonio and from a more established star, first lady, michelle obama. our team is in place for all of it including the largest fleet

was worried about what it would mean for our girls if he got that chance. >> let's talk about the keynote address tonight, julian castro gave what many are comparing to state senator barack obama's 2004 keynote address. who is this guy? what's his job tonight? >> simply put, brian, this represents the next generation of the democratic party and by all accounts this was a tour de force. mayor castro represents this next generation as a lot of its old leaders have kind of passed aside of last week the reps put their own out featuring the florida senator marco rubio, but tonight mayor castro riveted that crowd in charlotte in a speech talking about his own immigrant roots, his mother and grandmother's struggles to put he and his twin brother through school. that story was really the underpinning of the point of his speech. the democrats view mitt romney and the republicans are engaging in their own version of class warfare through their own economic policies. >> what we don't accept is the idea that some folks won't even get a chance and the thing is mitt romney and the republican party are

he got that plum assignment of the keynote address. and afterwards eric l, and afterwards, a lot more people knew who barack obama was. steve handelsman live at the democratic national convention in charlotte. >> back when he was the senator and now president. thank you very much, steve. and president obama will be arriving soon. he stayed back today because his two girls are starting their first day of school. we will have continuing coverage. democratic national convention. live coverage of the big speeches starts tonight following the news at 6:00 p.m. we will also have in-depth analysis and streaming coverage. convention on line at nbcbayarea.com. >>> just ahead, soan easy equatn to solve -- hard work, dedication, and an aspiring teacher. all equals an eimpeachment accompli-- epic teacher. >>> and lives that need help and learn how you can get involved. >>> and good afternoon, i'm jeff ranieri in the nbc bay area weather center. numbers down a little for today. we've got a cool breeze continuing to develop. 70s in the south bay, an