leon panetta you canned about it. joe biden talked about it, not just he has wrong views but lacks the temperament for the office. outside even what republicans think. donald trump said very nice things about vladimir putin.in paul ryan said, he said russia in the deviant -- pout is in the deviant. >> o'donnell: nancy is on the floor.. we heard vice president biden talking about needing a sane and competent leader. >> that's right. you'll hear tim kaine make the same case. he'll argue that experience in government, insiders have kind of been on the outs but he'll say that his experience as a mayor, as a lieutenant governorr as a governor now as a gives him an understanding of how government works at all levels and why in some cases it doesn't work. >> pelley: now being introduced on to the stage is virginia senator tim kaine, hillary clinton's running mate. a glimpse of your interview, this will really be the first introduction for many millions of americans that don't live in the state of virginia. >> pelley: that's

there's leon panetta, and steve schmidt and i and others agree that he's in a rarefied subgroup of peopleho have served in military and government. probably bob gates on the gop side, panetta on the democratic side, are pretty much alone. but then you heard him interrupted by hecklers. we could hear "no more wars." we could hear, "lies, lies, lies." then another group trying to drone it all out with "usa." we saw some fireflies come out, the flashlight apps on people's phones because they cut the lights in their sections of the arena. it has to be said that these hecklers were of the friendly fire variety meaning left of center. you saw protest signs against the drone wars, panetta was, after all, defense secretary for a time under president obama. so these were left of center protesters. we have peter alexander down on the floor reporting on it. let's listen for now to dr. jill biden. >> hillary rodham clinton. let me start by thanking you for allowing me to seven as second lady of the united states for the past eight years. it's been an honor. and let me thank you for the love and suppo

started chanting no more war to the point that leon panetta leon panetta could no longer go on withe who served as secretary of defense to president obama. he wrote critically about president obama and his leadership. he is up here now supporting hillary clinton. it is interesting to see if the president and leon panetta run into each other in the hall. the reaction in this crowd tells you a lot about why this group and why the people that jesse watters spoke to don't know much about isis and don't want to hear much about war. >> interesting that obama administration would give leon panetta a platform. he did criticize as did all other secretaries of defense. disengaged with the terror threat, didn't think it was a top priority and wasn't aggressive enough. i guess to hillary clinton's credit, i should say because remember leon panetta was a top adviser to her husband when he was president, hillary clinton allowed panetta to have a say. it is shocking that he would be shouted down. >> reporter: it is shocking. clearly leon panetta and hillary clinton are more on the same pamg. this

thank you. >> leon panetta is coming out next.ans are standing guard. our brave military and intelligence professionals are on the front lines far from home, risking their lives for us, for our freedom, for our way of life. a president, a commander in chief has no greater responsibility, no greater responsibility than the decision to send our troops into harm's way. i have worked alongside nine presidents, republican and democrat, all experienced, all believing in the u.s. role and world leadership, and i can tell you this, that in this election there is only one candidate for president who has the experience, the temperament and the judgment to be commander in chief and that's hillary clinton. >> this is no time -- this is no time to gamble with our future. america faces flashpoints and threats from around the globe. we need a president who is strong and smart and courageous, who enters the oval office with the respect of the generals and admirals who lead our military, with the confidence of diplomats who represent america and w

. >> yeah, two people tonight, leon panetta and joe biden, anyone who worked with them will tell you no one better that they've worked with. i just want to jump back to leon panetta for a moment because there might not have been a second term of the clinton presidency without leon panetta coming in at the beginning of the second year as the white house chief of staff to professionalize that white house that everyone had decided including the president wasn't working. he's done extraordinary things before he got to the obama administration. joe biden said about donald trump, no candidate has ever known less. no candidate for president has ever known less than donald trump. joe biden, going after donald trump, is something we saw tonight how he can do it. we can expect 14 weeks of that from joe biden. this is the first of many speeches. joe biden versus donald trump. >> they haven't yet done a joint campaign appearance. they were going to early this morning because of the dallas shootings. hillary clinton and joe biden are going to appear together the first time august 15th in skr t sc

lou: former cia director leon panetta now on stage.n the front lines far from home race canning their -- risking their lives for us, for our freedom, for our way of life. a president, a commander-in-chief, has no greater responsibility, no greater responsibility than the decision to send our troops into harm's way. i have worked alongside nine presidents. republican and democrat. all experienced. all believing in the u.s. role in world leadership. i can tell you this, that in this election, there is only one candidate for president who has the experience the temperament and judgment to be commander-in-chief, and that's hillary clinton. [cheers and applause] this is no time, this is no time to gamble with our future. america faces flashpoints and threats from around the globe. we need a president who is strong and smart and courageous, who enters the oval office with the respect of the generals and admirals who lead our military, with the confidence of diplomats who represent america, and with the trust of our troops who know that she'l

theyey reached a peak when formr cia director leon panetta took the stage. while panetta was criticizing donald trump's appeal to the russians to hack hillary clinton's e-mails, many delegates started chanting "no more war." >> donald trump asks our troops to commit war crimes, spurns our allies from europe to asia, suggests that cocountries have nuclear weapons, and he praises dictators from saddam hussein to vladimir putin. >> [chanting] --today amy: just after leon panetta stopped speaking, democracy now! 's deena guzdeder caught up with one of the delegates who took part in the protest. >> my name is alexis edelstein. i am a bernie delegate. >> who is speaking, and what happened here right now? >> former director of the cia leon panetta was speaking to the oregon delelegation started to chant "no more war." others were chanting with them. as soon as that kept going and going, the dnc shut off the lights to the oregon delegegati. i do not know if that is a way of showing they want to silence them. >> why did this action happen when leon panetta was speakin

that, because it didn't want to hear they were somehow helping hillary clinton. >> obviously, leon panetta'smarks got donald trump's attention, the reason that he responded. but we cannot ignore the loud boos and jeers over panetta's remarks, as well. >> those from the left of center. those were people against war. not those who align themselves with donald trump. further to the left. >> thank you very much. >>> joining me now, former u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, a stanford professor. thank you so much for your time. >> sure. thanks for having me. >> i think part of the reason that people believe this is possible is that this link with russia and donald trump is possible, is because of the different answers he's given when asked about his relationship with investments in russia and with vladimir putin. let me play what he just said regarding his relationship and we'll play what he said in the past. >> i never met putin. i don't know who putin is. he said one nice thing about me. he said i'm a genius. i said thank you very much to the newspaper and that was the end of it. i neve

leon panetta said as much from the stage last night.at. >> donald trump, who wants to be president of the united states, is asking one of our adversaries to engage in hacking or intelligence efforts against the united states of america to affect an election. as someone who was responsible for protecting our nation from cyber attacks, it is inconceivable to me that any presidential candidate would be that irresponsible. >> john phillips, donald trump supporter, you've heard the criticism. how do you respond? >> wolf blitzer asked me what should donald trump do during the democratic party week. i said he needs one of those collars like you put on a dog that zaps them when they start barking. >> you still want him to be your president? >> trump supporter. >> lots of presidents haven't had self-control. you seen what president taft did around the carbs. but listen, this is something he should. be doing. he was trying to take the story line, the story line at both conventions have been hijacked by unforeseen events. it happened with debbie w

let's bring on leon panetta, former defense secretary and cia director. you spoke earlier and made the case that in fact he did. >> i did because never in my lifetime did i anticipate that a candidate who's running for president would ask an adversary to conduct espionage and get involved in political election in this country. i just thought it was irresponsible. -- outrageous. >> how much of a threat is russia? i ask this because four years ago mitt romney said it was the number one geopolitical threat to the united states. the obama administration pushed back almost laughing at him now, it doesn't seem like a laughing matter today. how would you assess the threat of russia to the united states? >> you know, there's a lot of flash points in the world, terrorism, isis, north korea, dealing with china. but russia i think is one of those flashpointsec whole new chapter of the cold syria, and there's concern about his aggressiveness in other areas. so i think russia is up there as one of the threats we have to worry about. >> mr. secretary, to play devil's a

i thought it make no substantive sense to pig that part of leon panetta's teach to boo. they knew they couldn't boo by deny or leon panetta himself. it was an organized effort. it made absolutely no sense with what he was talking about at the time they started making noise. >> let's talk about the long view with a guy we asked to come up with a long view every night because that, after all, is how he makes his living. presidential historian and author michael beschloss. michael, again, in your line of work you're supposed to be the thoughtful ones. we can argue and fuss and fight and rave in new york and in philadelphia. how do you think this will live beyond tonight and talk about the skills of the president we just saw. >> well, i can make a really flat statement, brian. which is that we have never -- we americans have never heard a stronger convention endorsement speech by any outgoing president of the united states for his preferred successor. that's how this was really unusual tonight. you look at the speeches that someone like for instance ronald reagan gave in 198

i'm laughing a little bit because leon panetta talking about cyber attacks and the next president of united states, the potential for russia and china to have everything that hillary clinton exposed using her unclassified server and all the things we know the fbi director said is just unbelievable. another point, another speaker last night that was president obama and he talked about reducing fraud. the biggest fraud that we have right now is the person running for president and that's hillary clinton. what she did to our national security, to expose some of the most sensitive secrets we have of our country that can't even be disclosed to the american public in the record of the fbi and the other fraud that we have seen in the last week is the fraud of the entire democratic national committee leadership by disparaging african americans, disparaging latin americans, disparaging jews. my god. look at the level of corruption inside this incredibly just rigged system that we've heard about so that's why i think the reason that people are talking about this and frankly i even talking abou

i think it made no substantive sense to pick that part of leon panetta's speech to boo. they couldn't boo biden and they couldn't boo obama himself. they picked leon panetta and it was an organized effort and it made no sense with what he was talking about when they made noise. >> let's talk about the long view. that after all is how he makes his living. presidential historian and author. michael, again, in your line of work, you are supposed to be the thoughtful ones. how do you think this will live beyond tonight and talk about the president we just saw? >> i can make a statement that we americans have never heard a stronger convention endorsement speech by any outgoing president of the united states for his preferred successor. that's how this was unusual tonight. you look at the speeches that someone like ronald reagan gave in 1988 or others early in american history. it tends to be a farewell. they go through the highlights of their own administration and how they would like to be remembered. a few nice words for the candidate who is running that fall. this went so

leon panetta bringing up the russian problem. guess for trump about asking the e-mail hackers to try to find hillary's e-mails? >> when panetta spoke, that was a serious speech. tim kaine who had a great rollout on saturday with hillary clinton, i think looked foolish up there. if they did not learn anything from marco rubio trying to make fun of donald trump, i don't understand. i think tim kaine would have been better served delivering the biden speech and biden delivering the tim kaine speech. he was doing schtick and it did not come off well. >> let's talk about michael bloomberg. he knows donald trump. they are both new yorkers and he knows some of donald trump's business dealings. listen to this. >> through his career, donald trump has left behind a well documented record of bankruptcies. and thousands of lawsuits. and angry stockholders and contractors who feel cheated. and disillusioned customers who feel they have been ripped off. trump says he wants to run the nation like he's running his business. god help us. >> so, ju

want you to listen to what happened to former defense secretary leon panetta when he spoke last night]

meanwhile, leon panetta was at the podium yesterday around he's been a critic of barack obama and the time, but yet, he says that hillary clinton is determined to go after isis and then gets shut down by chants in the back against leon panetta. listen to the no more war chants. >> no more war! no more war! >> what's your reaction? >> my reaction is, i have a friend who's now deceased who was a judge in philadelphia. he used to tell me every once in a while i don't know why i'm a republican. i get annoyed at the party. then i watch a democratic convention and i say to myself, now i know why i'm a republican. that guy should become a republican. >> leon panetta was a republican. >> well, he should come back. >> they are at war with us. those people are so stupid it's ridiculous. the president of france two days ago when the priest was beheaded about which they said nothing at the convention for which they should really apologize to the catholic church and every christian. >> well, you know, that -- >> the president of france said islamic extremism terrorism is at war with us. we must be

last night when they did to the admiral and what they did to leon panetta i thought was disgraceful. let's talk about what panetta and the admiral were talking about, what general hayden and paul ryan have been talking about. this is donald trump's m.o. he says something outrageous, something bizarre, something dangerous and he grabs the headlines. i noted last night, i went to check and wrote a brief post about it last night for the "washington post" that when you had these top democratic speakers on stage, six of the "washington posts" top seven stories that night were about donald trump's invitation to russia. and you know the funny thing is, people have been saying, why do you pay attention to trump? why do you always allow him to grab headlines. when you have a major party candidate inviting our enemies to hack in to the state department system, i think that's a news story. >> well it led the evening news last night. trump is great at grabbing headlines. we know his campaign thought what he said was a mistake. both mike pence and his spokesman reputed what he said. forget the war

. >> former cia leon panetta changed his speech of donald trump challenging russia to go after hillarynton e-mails. >> trump laughing off claims he helped hack into computers. but intelligence officials have little doubt russian intelligence was behind the attack even if they won't say it publicly. >> p the russians hack our system, not just government systems but private systems. but what the motives were in in terms of the leeks, all that yasi can't say directly. what i do know is that donald trump has repeatedly expressed admiration for vladimir putin. >> trump added away allegations that business ties were at play. >> i built an unbelievable company but if you look there you will see there's nothing in russia. >> the only connection he said a russian billionaire netting him a huge profit. he denied any dealings with the russian leader, but he has praised him. >> there's one thing i paid attention to and that i definitely welcome is that trump said that he's ready to full fledged looking for -- >> whether russia is manipulating the u.s. election is an open question, but even members

leon panetta, the former secretary of defense will be delivering are robust response to donald trump and his comments today about russia. here on this stage he will be developing and delivering that response. vice president biden will respond about the seriousness to which the democrats should treat this. but tim kaine, his maiden speech here. the delegation from virginia behind me here. he will talk about his son, nathaniel who has just been deployed. he will talk about the service on the armed services committee. jake, tonight throughout the evening, i'm told will be terrorism security a different tone a turning of the page from the internal disputes to one of protecting the country. there will be criticism about that but donald trump i'm told changed the program a little tonight. he was trying to interrupt the convention a little bit, but he may just have given them something else to talk about here. >> jeff thank you so much. let's get to our panel now. david, gloria michael, michael nut nutter van jones, and andre bower. let's start with andre, please explain the comments. it so

other democrats today, leon panetta, said what trump did today was unprecedented. >> absolutely. her senior policy adviser saying, this has to be the first time that a major presidential candidate has actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent. this is perfect timing for the democrats. donald trump has been hammering hillary clinton on her e-mails, on her foreign policy decisions, now, the tables are turned. >> mr. trump later said he was trying to encourage russia from >> absolutely. paul ryan said pew tutin shouldy out of this election. a former official said this was tantamount to treason. >> and vice president biden told me yesterday, he thought vladimir putin was trying to hurt hillary clinton. we are expecting tim kaine on the stage any minute. he's the running mate. senator from virginia. >> b the story yesterday that was different, and it was you. your spirit of, even in a dark day, of optimism and community and hope. >> cecilia vega, as we watch this video right here, tim kaine always appeared to be hillary clinton's first cho

i want to discuss what leon panetta said. it broke yesterday, but talked about on the stage. big foreign policy story. let's listen to leon panetta. >> donald trump who wants to be president of the united states is asking one of our adversaries to engage in hacking or intelligence efforts against the united states of america to effect an election. as someone who was responsible for protecting our nation from cyber attacks, it is inconceivable to me that any presidential candidate would be that irresponsible. >> josh rogin, the foreign policy circles are turned upside down because of the nato comments last week and turned upside down again after last night. >> trump have seeded the ground on national security for the first time anyone can remember. republicans have always been the daddy party. tough on russia party. military party. here we have donald trump making unforced error. it is clear he doesn't know what he is talking about. it doesn't matter if he is joking or serious. i think he is serious. i don't think he is joking. >> some people thought he was joking. >> i talked

we will hear from national security leaders, including the on panetta, former -- leon panetta, formertary. trump made this charge a couple hours ago, and the democrats are going to try to -- mark: bill clinton would never have let gun-control be such a prominent thing at his convention. the issue has obviously changed. between our boss, mike bloomberg, speaking tonight, and gabby giffords, do they see a risk or is this all-in? phil: they said they think this is a winning issue, that they can win over suburban moms in virginia, north carolina, and ohio with the gun control message. it's a real sea change in politics. john: we talked about this all week, how liberal the convention is, and how different it is from bill clinton's era. we had an document workers -- undocumented workers up on stage. even if you embrace immigration, doing that seems risky, especially in the climate donald trump has capitalized on. are a worried about that? margaret: this is a turnout game in their mind. if they can turn out liberal democrats, there are a lot of liberal registered democrats who might or might

i was here with the delegation when people left to their feet and chanting against leon panetta. our sense is there will still be some who has been devoted as any to bernie sanders and that cause who may try to disrupt tonight. but monday was their day to let that energy burn out. we have seen over each of these days a little smaller group, a little less of that energy and i think for many other delegates, less tolerance for that because those who say it's time for unity want to keep that to a minimum. we have these red cards on seats in this section. there's an attachment that says this is a card to create a card stunt. they are asking people not to take them out of the plastic. then over here they are white cards and on that section they are blue. do you sense a theme. perhaps there's a red, white and blue motif that will happen when they get delegates involved for some visual stunt at the end of the evening. just a little behind the scenes color. >> i think i was over by the blue section. hi an opportunity to interview nancy pelosi there on the floor by the california section.

for example, look what happened to leon panetta, not to be confused with his panini-making cousin, leona. (laughter) you've got to try his bread unbelievable. >> dictators from saddam hussein to vladimir putin. >> crowd: no more war! no more war! no more war! >> larry: so the crowd was yelling "no more war." now, the audience wasn't happy with panetta because, as former c.i.a. director and defense secretary, many of the progressives blame him for escalating drone strikes, such as the one that was recently responsible for the deaths of at least 73 innocent people in syria... (sigh) but let's get back to the fun stuff! joe biden, in a moment of uncensored anger, let out an expletive that somehow was not bleeped by the network. >> he cares about the middle class? give me a break. that's a bunch of malarkey! >> larry: (gasp) he said the m-word? (laughter) how am i supposed to explain that to my kids, or anyone who was not born before 1920? hmm? but the speech of the night belonged to president obama, who did his typical soaring rhetoric with call and response, though some of the response to

you saw leon panetta's speech, this is something where he's going to be facing fire.from democrats. republicans, notably silent. >> reporter: hallie and i used to work together many moons ago. >> same station, first years out of college. >> reporter: and also worked with katy zachry. we're bunning with happy family here. you've got to get to the "today" show. nice to see you again. it's been almost ten years. she's done a lot of hard work for the network. "today" show coming up in just a few minutes. guys, back to you. >> announcer: now, your nbc10 "first alert" weather. >> i thought they were about to get run over there. this is the time to exercise. this is the coolest part of the day. we're going to see sunshine and the temperatures are going to heat up this afternoon. this is a view looking across the delaware at center city from adventure aquarium. you'll definitely need your sunglasses. it's this afternoon that storms are likely to develop and storm threats for this evening. that's why we issued a "first alert" for delaware and new jersey and greatest for philad

chants of "no more war" over top of his speech, ruining an important part of this convention for leon panettand for the campaign. so the question tonight, of course, is whether, when retired general john allen appears here at the podium, a former deputy director of central command in the united states, whether he's also going to get the same kind of treatment to leon panetta did. there's concern here on the floor about that, also concern about the fact that a number of bernie sanders supporters actually disrupted a breakfast this morning with the california delegation. i've talked to people here on the floor who are expressing hope that those bernie sanders supporters who showed up will not show up tonight and ruin this most important moment for hillary clinton. i did reach out to the sanders people and michael briggs, the spokesman for bernie sanders said they've already made their views known on this issue, and he didn't answer the question essentially, as to whether bernie sanders is going to do anymore as he did a couple days ago to try to quell the dissent in order to give hillary clinto

that's leon panetta, the former defense secretary.rump talking yesterday about the hacking and the leak of democratic party e-mails. then he decides to add in the e-mails hillary clinton deleted from her private server. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> now today on fox news, mr. trump took issue with his critics in the clinton campaign. >> you have to be kidding. his client, his person deleted 33,000 e-mails illegally. when i'm being sarcastic. >> were you being sarcastic? >> of course i'm being sarcastic. >> he says he's only being sarcastic. >> it was a joke. >> this is the problem with donald trump's rhetoric if you envision him being president. >> you can move financial markets. >> you can move financial markets. everything you says as president has consequences. you can't be sarcastic and 12 hours later say that. that's hugely consequential if you imagine him in the oval office. >> everybody at the press conference didn't believe that was sarcasm. it's possible it

he praises dictators from saddam hussein to vladimir putin. >> the point i want to make, here's leon panettacongressman, cia director, secretary of defense, and he goes over a litany of all the things that isis has done, from attacks in this country, attacks in europe, ending with the horrific attack yesterday where they slit the throat of an 85-year-old priest, then he says these murderers must be stopped. and the reaction was utterly tepid. and at the time i thought, you know, if he had called for lgbt rights, he would have gotten a bigger response. well, maybe that's too tough. then he continues on and they basically drown him out shouting "no more war." this is going to be my opinion, i'm going to state it, but i thought to myself, these people, most of them sanders supporters, they were in the pockets of where sanders supporters are on the floor, if they were to make that no more war statement to members of isis, they'd happily slit their throats and think, guess what, there's a war. >> good point. >> strong words to follow. >> litany like that is hardly in defense of the obama/clinton

i think that work was done by leon panetta, by some of the other national security speakers.hink the president is going to go after donald trump. he will say his name. but i think he'll do it on a higher plane than that. 's not going to get down in the weeds on that issue. >> and is it a given, john, that the president takes -- that he goes to the convention for his party and gives this very partisan address? is this business as usual? >> oh, yeah. it happens all the time. now, these speeches differ depending on the agenda of the nominee. in 2000, bill clinton went to the democratic convention that was nominating his vice president al gore mostly talked about his own record. gore was distancing himself from president clinton and so praise for gore was a lesser part of the speech. but i think in this speech president obama, because hillary clinton has such high negatives, because so many americans don't like her, don't trust her, is going to try to do some heavy lifting to make the case, as tim kaine did, here's why you can trust her, here's why you can put her in the oval off

the clinton campaign and democrats, leon panetta, former cia director there at the convention in philadelphia suggested that trump is cozying up to dictators and giving them license to break our laws. trump says this is being completely blown out of proportion. in past campaigns this would have been a measure of temperament and trump says it was all a joke. he said it publically and the kind of thing that causes big-time controversy and not yet resolved. >> one of the biggest names to attack trump remarks former cia chief leon panetta. >> i find the statements to be totally outrageous. you have now a presidential candidate who is in fact asking the russians to engage in american politics. and i just think that that is beyond the pail. >> paul monafort joins me now. was this a joke? >> what i find outrageous is mr. panetta focussing on what mr. trump said in a sarcastic way and not focussing on the real problem. the real problem is that she had an unsecured server sitting in her closet at her home to be hacked by anybody in the world. that is what the issue is. the national security outrage sh

was also heckling this week of president obama's former secretary of defense and cia director leon panettait is more liberal ideas that draw the applause. >> is there anybody at temple that like the idea of debt free college? (cheers and applause). >> ken for democrats heading into the general election if the clinton campaign went too far left during the primaries, the truth is, they had to with energy and huge crowds turning out for bernie sanders in his ideas that likely make it more challenging to win those moderates in the middle. in philadelphia, mike emmanuel, fox news. >>> and thank you for joining us for our special you decide tonight. fox 29 beginning an 11:00 o'clock newscast every week night beginning neck mond monday. >> we're excited about that. and tomorrow make sure you join in to good day weekend starting at 7:00 a.m. have great night an good weeke at 7:00 a.m. have great night an good weeke weekend, everyone. >> judge judy: i assume that that's the broken laptop. >> yes. >> judge judy: 'cause people love to bring show-and-tell here. >> announcer: this ex has plenty to tell

there was still shouting when leon panetta was speaking last night.o you think there will be yelling or chanting tonight when hillary clinton is speaking? >> absolutely, sal. there will be. the chanting and shouting, that's not going away. and there is going to be talk about her and her record as secretary of state in terms of getting involved in wars in the middle east. so that you will definitely, definitely hear that. people will continue to hold up signs that say no ttp, the trans-pacific partnership she was for and now against. tim kaine is fast tracking it. now he is backing off of it. you are going to see that in the audience. and last night leon panetta, of all people, was shouted down many times by the people in the audience. of course, secretary of defense, long time congressman. so, yes, you will see that tonight. >> tim kaine went hard at trump regarding his tax returns. i wonder if hillary clinton will do the same. interesting idea about getting her away from the podium there. one of the first public speaking classes joe ever took was a t

probably hear a lot of russia remarks tonight and probably revised remarks, vice president biden and leon panetta, former head of the cia. on the outside what surprised me today is the lack of collective republican outrage. there's been some, paul ryan and mike pence and maybe it's because trump conflated what russia has done with hillary clinton and her e-mail issue and conflated it very cleverly. perhaps republicans are afraid to speak out on this because it looks like they're helping hillary clinton because it looks too partisan. this is a violation of the sovereignty of this country. the idea that there is even tacit encouragement, this was public encouragement of russia doing this. i guess i am floored by the lack of bipartisan outrage. there is some but i'm surprised they haven't dropped the hammer and sickle on him. >> and to the speakers tonight, barack obama is speaking. you have insight. will he mention donald trump? >> he will. early on it seemed like the president went out of his way not to mention his name and he will call him out and take him on commander in chief and this notion tr

at the dnc last night, former defense secretary leon panetta held nothing back. >> donald trump who wantsthe united states is asking one of our add a aadversaries to engage in hacking or intelligence efforts against the united states to affect an election. >> u.s. intelligence said it's confident the russians hacked computer servers of the democratic national committee. on the trump rischia, this internet meme is making the rounds, it is sloganed make russia great again with vladimir putin pictured as trump's running mate. >>> this morning, nbc10's matt delucia is taking a closer look at why this election is so important for women. he joins us live at independence mall. >> reporter: good morning. when hillary clinton accepts that nomination later on tonight she'll be one step closer to making even more history should she win the presidenty. sharma shawna at the university of kansas saying this is the most racially diverse election that she's ever seen. so why is the women's vote so critical here? well, in every presidential election since 1954, rutgers found the number of women outvoted t

at the dnc former defense secretary leon panetta held knowledge back. >> donald trump who wants to be president of the united states is asking one of our adversaries to engage in hacking or intelligence efforts against the united states of america to effect an election. >> u.s. intelligence said that it's confident the russians hack computer servers of the democratic national committee. local delegates we spoke with at the convention were quick to criticize trudge for his comments. >> one of them called his remarks treason while another said no one should give him any attention. >> there's for validity in what he says that he grabs attention. i think it's sad he spent so little money and got so much press when he was out there campaigning. he's not man of substance. and we got to stop giving him that power by always acknowledging what he says. >> you know, today, trump did something that is just inexcusable and unacceptable in this country. he's asking the russians to hack into clinton's e-mail. he's telling a woman to sit down and be quiet. that should not be happening. that is treas

leon panetta: thank you for the invitation to be here.n my over 50 years of public life, this is this grooviest -- iest damn election. [laughter] >> i've served under nine presidents, starting with lyndon johnson. republican and democrat, all experienced, all had a great appreciation for american leadership in the world. wheres the first election there is only one candidate who has the experience, temperament and understanding of the world to be commander-in-chief. doesn't havedidate any experience, doesn't know the world, shoots from the hip on all these issues. today by the hip asking russia to conduct a cyber attack against the united states. it is funny but it is deadly serious business. people that are up here know that better than anyone. thate living in a world has a number of flashpoints. a world that has a lot of instability since world war ii. you know what all the issues are from terrorism and isis and failed states and dealing with nuclear threats from north korea , continuing to worry about what iran might be up to. a new cha

tonight will be the democrats' chance to answer that and they will do it with heavy hitters -- leon panettaformer director of the c.i.a. and former director of defense and will make the case for why hillary clinton should be the next commander-in-chief. vice president joe biden said democrats have forgotten how to talk to white blue-collar voters and he will reach out to them. we'll hear from tim kaine, the vice presidential pick, and the keynote will be from barack obama, arguably hillary clinton's most powerful surrogate. all eyes will be on him and his message this evening. thank you. >> woodruff: thank you. conventions are often a place where relative newcomers capture the national political spotlight. in 2012, that was true for julian castro-- then-mayor of san antonio. he's now in president obama's cabinet as secretary of housing and urban development. his brother, joaquin castro, is a second-term congressman from san antonio. both are being floated as potential next heads of the democratic national committee, and both join us now. we welcome you to the program. julian castro, first,

we are going to show you leon panetta, defense secretary, his speech interrupted and that's leon panettafthand side. general allen, four star general, interrupted by demonstrators, no more war. a medal of honor recipient. people in the crowd turned their backs on him, a war hero, ralph, you're a military guy, a great deal of disrespect was laid on the military yesterday. are you really thinking about voting for hillary and that party? >> yes. and the bernie-- it's not so much voting for hillary. and a lot can happen between now and november, but it's voting to keep trump out of the oval office. hillary, i disdain hillary clinton, i believe see should have been indicted, but based on what trump has said the last few weeks, about nato, the baltics, crimea, russia, turkey, this guy, i mean, he's strategicically illiterate and got the attention span and temper of a five-year-old. stuart: but they would argue that he's simply realigning our foreign policy, renegotiating our foreign policy, if you like, is that-- >> blather. you know how hard i've been on the obama administration and may remem

questioned in 2013 general martin dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and secretary leon panetta of the department of defense or d.o.d., gave no hint that special forces had actually spun up. >> was any d.o.d. asset ever deployed to help these people before the end of the attack? >> would you -- would you -- >> was any d.o.d. asset, aircraft, or individual soldier, ever sent, put in motion, to help these people before the attack was over? >> if i could, as soon as we knew there was an attack, the national mission force and the fast teams began -- >> my question is, did anybody leave any base anywhere to go to the aid of the people under attack in benghazi, libya, before the attack ended? >> no. because the attack ended before they could get off the ground. >> thank you. sharyl: multiple officials said the same thing. >> there simply wasn't enough time at that point to bring u.s. military forces. >> flair assets were too far away to make much difference in any timely fashion. >> there simply was not enough time for u.s. military forces to have made a difference. sharyl: adding to