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DNC CONVENTION DAY 1 PODIUM HEAD ON 9PM / HD
07/25/2016
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HEAD ON PODIUM SHOT FROM THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION AT THE WELLS FARGO CENTER IN PHILADELPHIA / 21:02:22 [ VIDEO PLAYS ] ANASTASIA SOMOZA 21:04:00 I first met Hillary as first lady on a visit to the white house. I was 9 years old and I listened to her and my mom discuss health care and early intervention for children with disabilities. [ cheers and applause ] Over the past 23 years, she has continued to serve as a friend and mentor, championing my inclusion and access to classrooms, higher education and the work force. She has never lost touch with people like me. She has invested in me, she believes in me and in a country where 56 million Americans with disabilities so often feel invisible, Hillary Clinton sees me. 20:05:11 She sees me as a strong woman, a young professional, a hard worker and the proud daughter of immigrants. My father from Nicaragua and my mother from Ireland. She has shown me that all these aspects of my identity are strengths which will help me effect change. I fear the day we elect a president who defines being American in the narrowest possible terms, who shouts, bullies and profits off of vulnerable Americans. 21:06:00 Donald Trump has shown us who he really is and I honestly feel bad for anyone with that much hate in their heart. I know we will show each other and the world who we really are in November when we choose genuine strength and thoughtful leadership over fear and division. Donald Trump doesn't see me. He doesn't hear me. And he definitely doesn't speak for me. [ cheers and applause ] 21:06:50 I am confident that as our president, Hillary will do everything in her power to promote the rights, empowerment and humanity of all Americans. [ cheers ] She knows that when we support access to education and employment opportunities for absolutely everyone, more of us will be able to live happy, independent lives and to promote, build, and contribute to this great country. 21:07:31 As president, Hillary Clinton will continue fighting and inspiring us all with her (?) and tireless efforts on our behalf. On the eve of the 26th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act, I'm proud to be with you, Hillary. Thank you for showing me how to live boldly with a courageous heart. AL FRANKEN AND SARAH SILVERMAN 21:14:57 FRANKEN>> Remember me? I'm senator Al Franken and this past year, I have been #I'mwithher. SILVERMAN>> I'm Sarah Silverman. And this past year, I've been feeling the Bern. Relax. I put some cream on it. FRANKEN>> What did you say? SILVERMAN>> I said I put some cream on it. 21:15:30 FRANKEN>> You see, Sarah's the comedian so she gets the joke and I'm the politician now, so I get to make what's known as an ask. But trust me, it's a good ask. You see, if you go to hillaryclinton.com before midnight tonight and join the team, you can be not just #I'mwithher in spirit but #I'mwithher literally, as in you could win a trip to Philadelphia to be here on Thursday night when Hillary accepts the nomination. See, Sarah? That's even more fun than getting to get the joke. 21:16:15 SILVERMAN>> Oh, Al. You still got it. While we're on the subject, can I make my speech now? FRANKEN>> Oh absolutely. Go ahead. SILVERMAN>> Thank you. Al, get out of my frame. As some of you may know, I support Bernie Sanders and the movement behind him. [ cheers and applause ] 21:16:41 And Bernie's already succeeded in so many ways. He proved that citizens united is in fact not a necessary evil and by the way, citizens united, isn't that such a beautiful name for something that means billionaires buying politicians? Good Lord. Rails against the very spirit of our democracy. 21:17:06 And I'm very glad that Hillary has vowed to overturn it. [ cheers ] Not only did Bernie wake us up, he made us understand what is possible and what we deserve. You know, my shrink says we don't get what we want, we get what we think we deserve, and Bernie showed us that all of America's citizens deserve quality health care and education, not just the wealthy elites. I know. It sounds so obvious, who wouldn't agree with that? But yet it's not what's been happening. You know, I happen to believe the crazy notion that people who maybe weren't born with the same opportunities as you and me should be given the same opportunities as you and me. 21:17:57 And all it takes to accomplish this is everyone, is all of us, or as a pretty kick-ass woman once said, it takes a village. This democratic primary was exemplary. No name calling, no comments about the size of candidate's hands or ethnicity or how much they sweat or if they go to the bathroo m. Inside secret, they do. That stuff is for third graders. Come on. That's like major arrested development stuff. That's -- I'm still emotionally for calling people names from my gold-encrusted sand box because I was given money instead of human touch or coping tools stuff. Stop. But I digress. I have just been told to stretch. 21:18:54 Hillary heard the passion of the people, the people behind Bernie, and brought those passions into the party's platform and that, that is the process of democracy at its very best and it's very cool to see. [ cheers and applause ] Hillary is our democratic nominee and I will proudly vote for her. >> [ boos ] [ SHOT OF BERNIE SUPPORTERS ] 21:19:28 It's so inspiring, it's so inspiring, just a few years ago -- [ SHOT OF BERNIE SUPPORTERS BOOING ] -- she was a secretary and now she's going to be president. I mean, come on. She's like the only person ever to be overqualified for a job as the president. 21:19:51 So I tell you this, I will vote for Hillary with gusto, as I -- as I continue to be inspired and moved to action by the ideals set forth by Bernie, who will never stop fighting for us. [ CAN HEAR AUDIENCE IN BACKGROUND ] I am proud to be a part of Bernie's movement and a vital part of that movement is making absolutely sure that Hillary Clinton is our next president of the United States. Boo ya. Ba, ba, booey. 21:20:31 FRANKEN>> Gee, that was pretty good, Sarah. Hillary, Hillary. SILVERMAN>> Unity, unity, unity. FRANKEN>>Hillary, Hillary. 21:20:56 SILVERMAN>> Can I just say to the Bernie or bust people, you're being ridiculous. [ cheers ] They told us to stretch so I figured I'd add that. They made me cut off my speech and now we have to stretch. Oh I have so much I want to say. FRANKEN>> Well, okay. >> [ chant ] BERNIE! BERNIE! FRANKEN>> You know, listen to that. Listen to what you did. This is a comedian. This is the power of comedy. SILVERMAN>> Thank god they can fix this in post. 21:21:55 FRANKEN>> You know, we -- we have been -- I want to thank you, because Sarah and I have been asked to stretch, because we are about to introduce someone that we're both huge fans of. How we doing, guys? We close? We'll see. You know, Sarah, what I love about us both being here is that you know, it's like we're a bridge. A bridge. SILVERMAN>> How do you figure that, Al? How do you figure that we're a bridge? FRANKEN>> Well, you were for Bernie. I'm for Hillary. So we are like a bridge over troubled -- 22:22:52 SILVERMAN>> Oh, good lord. Are they ready? Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Paul Simon. 21:23:30 [PAUL SIMON PERFORMANCE] 21:28:41 VIDEO OF MARIO CUOMO PLAYS EVA LONGORIA 21:32:29 >> Hello, Philadelphia! [ cheers ] Oh, man, I am so honored to be here tonight and I am proud to say I'm with her. [ cheers ] You know, like many of you, this election is very personal to me. I'm from a small town in south Texas and if you know your history, Texas used to be part of Mexico. Now, I'm ninth generation American. My family never crossed a border. The border crossed us. 21:33:20 So when Donald Trump calls us criminals and rapists, he's insulting American families. My father is not a criminal or rapist. In fact, he's a United States veteran. When Trump cruelly mocked a disabled reporter, he was also mocking my special need sister, Lisa, and many like her. When he said that a wife who works is a very dangerous thing, he not only insulted me, he insulted my mother, who worked as a special education teacher for 30 years, raised four children while being a wife.You know, I believe in the candidate who believes in all of us and that candidate is Hillary Clinton. 21:34:24 Hillary has spent her whole life fighting for all Americans from health care reform to equal pay for women to gun safety to protecting the economy. She is the most qualified presidential candidate ever. She's been fighting for us for decades and now it's time we fight for her. Now, I'm very proud to be part of that fight and I'm very proud to be here to introduce my dear friend Cory booker, but, but before I do, I want you to take a look at your convention, Philadelphia. 21:35:10 A Latina from south Texas is introducing the first black senator from New Jersey on the week we'll nominate our first woman candidate for president of the United States. Pretty great. So guess what, Donald, it turns out America is pretty great already. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome senator Cory booker. CORY BOOKER (NEW JERSEY) 21:36:02 Hello Philadelphia! Thank you! Thank you! [ cheers ] >> [ chant ] Cory! Cory! Cory! BOOKER>> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much, thank you. 21:36:27 Two hundred forty years ago, our forefathers gathered in this city and they declared before the world that we would be a free and independent nation. Today, we gather here again, in challenging times, in this city, in this City of Brotherly Love, to reaffirm our values, before our nation and the whole world. Our purpose is not like theirs to start a great nation, but to ensure that we continue in the best of our traditions, and with humble homage to generations of patriots before, we put forth two great Americans - our nominees for President and Vice President: Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine! 21:37:32 Now looking back to our history, our founding fathers put forth founding documents that were indeed genius. But our founding documents were not genius because they were perfect. They were saddled with the imperfections and even the bigotry of the past. Native Americans were referred to as savages, black Americans were referred to as fractions of human beings, and women were not mentioned at all. 21:38:06 But those facts and other ugly parts of our history don't distract from our nation's greatness. In fact, I believe we are an even greater nation, not because we started perfect, but because every generation has successfully labored to make us a more perfect union. 21:38:31 [SHOT OF BILL CLINTON] BOOKER: Generations of heroic Americans have made America more inclusive, more expansive, and more just. Our nation was not founded because we all looked alike, or prayed alike, or descended from the same family tree. But our founders, in their genius, in this, the oldest constitutional democracy on the planet earth, they put forth the idea that all are created equal; that we all have inalienable rights. And upon this faithful foundation we built a great nation, and today, no matter who you are - rich or poor, Asian or white, man or woman, gay or straight, any religion or none at all - you are entitled to the full rights and responsibilities of citizenship. 21:39:36 In this city, our founders put forth a Declaration of Independence, but let me tell you, they also made a historic declaration of interdependence. They knew that if this country was to survive and thrive, we had to make an unusual and extraordinary commitment to each other. 21:40:03 Look, I respect and value the ideals of individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, it didn't build our nation's highways. Rugged individualism didn't map the human genome. We did that together. [ cheers and applause ] 21:40:28 And so, this is the high call of patriotism. Patriotism is love of country. But you can't love your country without loving your countrymen and your countrywomen. [ cheers and applause ] Now we don't always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, and we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good. 21:41:04 Let me tell you, we can't devolve into a nation where our highest aspirations are that we just tolerate each other. We are not called to be a nation of tolerance. We are called to be a nation of love. That's why that last line in the Declaration of Independence says it so clearly. It says that we must, to make this nation work we must mutually pledge to each other our lives and our fortunes and our sacred honor. Tolerance is the wrong way. Tolerance says I am just going to stomach your right to be different. That if you disappear from the face of the earth, I am no better or worse off. 21:41:52 But love - love knows that every American has worth and value, that no matter what their background, no matter what their race or religion, or sexual orientation. Love, love recognizes that we need each other, that we as a nation are better together, that when we are divided we are weak, we decline, yet when we are united we are strong - invincible! 21:42:25 This -- [ cheers ] -- this, this is the understanding of love that's embodied in one of my favorite sayings, it's an African saying and it says: "If you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together." This is the reason why I'm so motivated in this election. Because I believe this election is a referendum on who best embodies the leadership we need to go far, together. 21:43:09 Donald Trump isn't that leader. We've watched him try to get laughs at others' expense; try to incite fear at a time we need to inspire courage; try to rise in the polls by dragging our national conversation into the gutter. We've watched him mock, cruelly mock a journalist's disability. We've watched him demean the service of my Senate colleague, saying, "He's not a war hero, "He was a war hero because he was captured. Trump said I don't like people who get captured. Would he say that from POW's from WWII. Would he say that to POWs from Vietnam. Would he say that to the brave men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan risking capture or worse. That's not the commander in chief. 21:44:04 We've watched Donald Trump paint with a broad and divisive brush, saying that Mexican immigrants who came to America to build a better life in America are in his words "bringing crime, they're bringing drugs." He called many of them rapists. He said that an Indiana-born federal judge can't be trusted to do his job because of his Mexican ancestry - a statement that his fellow Republicans have described as racist. 21:44:39 We've watched Donald Trump, our children, our daughters, our nieces and grandkids have watched Donald Trump and heard him calling women degrading and demeaning names. "Dog." "Fat pig." "Disgusting." "Animal." It's a twisted hypocrisy when he treats other women in a manner he would never, ever accept from another man speaking about his daughters or his wife. In this great nation where our founders put a fundamental principle forward of religious freedom, he says ban all Muslims, don't let certain people into our America because of how they pray. 21:45:31 Now, I take particular interest in the fact that Trump says he would run our country like he has run his businesses. Well, I'm from Jersey -- cheers ] -- I'm from the great Garden State, and we've seen the way he leads in Atlantic City. He got rich while his companies declared multiple bankruptcies. Yet without remorse, even as people got hurt by his failures, he bragged, and I quote, "The money I took out of there was incredible." Yes, he took out a lot of cash but he stiffed contractors - many of them small businesses, refusing to pay them for the work that they'd done. You know, we in America have seen enough of a handful of people growing rich at the cost of our nation descending into crisis. [ applause ] 21:46:33 America, at our best, we stand up to bullies and we fight those who seek to demean and degrade other Americans. In times of crisis we don't abandon our values - we double down on them. [ cheers ] [ SHOT OF BILL CLINTON ] Even amidst of the crises of the Civil War, Lincoln stood up and called out to all of our country saying, "With malice toward none and charity toward all." This is our history. THis is the history that I was taught. 21:47:14 My parents never wanted my brother and I to get too heady. Gratitude was to be my gravity, so they never stopped reminding my brother and I that our blessings sprang from countless ordinary Americans who showed extraordinary acts of kindness, decency, and love; people who struggled, and sweat and bled for our rights, people paid the ultimate price for the freedoms we all enjoy. I was told that we can't pay those Americans back for their colossal acts of service, but we have an obligation to pay it forward to others through our service and sacrifice. 21:47:59 I support Hillary Clinton because these are her values, and she has been paying it forward her entire life. Long before she got in politics. [CHANTING] She was in Massachusetts, going door-to-door collecting stories of children with disabilities. In South Carolina, she fought to reform the juvenile justice system so children wouldn't be thrown into adult prisons. In Alabama, she helped expose remnants of segregation in schools. In Arkansas, she started a legal aid clinic to make sure poor folks could get their day in court. 21:48:42 She's always fought for people, and she's always delivered. That's why we trust her to fight, and deliver, for us as President. We have a Presidential nominee in Clinton who knows that, in a time of stunningly wide disparities of wealth in our nation, that America's greatness must not be measured by how many millionaires and billionaires we have, but how few people we have living in poverty. 21:49:13 Hillary knows when workers make a fair wage, it doesn't just help their families, it builds a stronger, more durable economy that expands opportunity and makes all of us Americans wealthier. She knows that in a global knowledge-based economy, the country that out-educates the world will out-earn the world, out-innovate the world, and will lead the world. She knows that debt-free college is not a gift, it's not charity, it's an investment. It represents the best of our values, the best of our history, the best of our party: all of our shared ideas and values together. 21:49:56 Hillary Clinton knows that when we have paid family leave, this is something that must happen because when a parent doesn't have to choose between being there for a sick kid and paying rent, or when a single mom earns an equal wage for equal work, it empowers the most important building block in all our nation and that is the family. 21:50:26 Hillary Clinton knows that security doesn't come from scapegoating people because of their religion, alienating our allies, stoking fear and pointing fingers. It comes when we band together to face down and defeat our common enemy. 21:50:42 And she knows something that I fight for everyday: that our criminal justice system desperately needs reform. >> [ chant ] Black lives matter! Black lives matter! BOOKER>> That we need to bring back fairness to a system that still, as Professor Bryan Stevenson says, treats you better if you are rich and guilty than poor and innocent. 21:51:03 [ chant still happening ] And she knows that we can be a nation that both believes that police officers deserve more respect, they deserve more support, more cooperation, and love - and believes that a black twenty-something black protester deserves to be valued, deserves to be heard, [ chant immediately seems to stop ] that they should be listened to with a more courageous empathy, and that change is needed in the system. [ cheers ] 21:51:33 And Hillary Clinton knows what Donald Trump betrays time and again in this campaign: that we are not a zero-sum nation, it is not you or me, it is not one American against another American. It is you and I, together, interdependent, interconnected with one single interwoven destiny. 21:51:58 When we respect each other, when we stand up for each other, when we work together against our challenges, against our neighbors' challenges - be it a neighbor with a beautiful special needs child or one struggling with the ugly disease of addiction - when we as Americans help them, when we show compassion and grace, when we evidence our truth, that we are the UNITED States of America, one nation, under God, indivisible, that is when we are stronger. That is when we go from an already great America to an even greater America. [ cheers ] [ SHOT OF BILL CLINTON ] 21:52:40 Now let me tell you right now, when Trump spews insulting and demeaning words about our fellow Americans, I think of the poem by Maya Angelou. Ya'll know it, you know how it begins: "You may write me down in history / With your bitter, twisted lies, / You may trod me in the very dirt / But still, like dust, I'll rise." 21:53:10 Well ya'll know it -- [ cheers ] -- ya'll know it. [ SHOT OF BILL CLINTON ] This, this , this captures our American history: 240 years ago, an English King said he would crush our rebellion, but Americans from around our nation joined the fight. From Bunker Hill to the Battle of Trenton, they stood, and so many fell giving their lives in support of our daring declaration that: America, we will rise. 21:53:46 This is our history, this is our history. Escaped slaves, knowing that liberty is not secure for some until it's secure for all, sometimes hungry, often hunted, in dark woods and deep swamps, they looked up to the North Star and said with a determined whisper, America, we will rise. 21:54:12 Immigrants, risking their lives in times of sweatshops and child labor, they organized labor unions and devoted to lifting the tired, the poor and the huddled masses - with the fiercest of grit, they shouted so all could hear: America, we will rise. 21:54:36 King pointed to a mountain top, Kennedy pointed to the moon - from Seneca Falls to those who stood at Stonewall Inn, giants before us said in a chorus of conviction that America, we will rise. 21:54:53 My fellow Americans, my fellow Americans we cannot fall into complacency or indifference about this election, because still the only thing necessary for evil to be triumphant is for good people to do nothing, you know the saying. My fellow Americans, we cannot be seduced into cynicism about our politics, because cynicism is a refuge for cowards and this nation is and must always be the home of the brave. We are the United States of America. We will not falter or fail. We will not retreat or surrender - we will not surrender our values, we will not surrender our ideals, we will not surrender the moral high ground. 21:55:40 Here in Philadelphia, let us declare again that we will be a free people. Free from fear and intimidation. Let us declare again that we are a nation of interdependence, and that in America love always trumps hate. [cheers and applause] Let us declare, so that generations yet unborn can hear us. We are the United States of America; our best days are ahead of us. 21:56:15 And together, with Hillary Clinton as our President, America, we will rise. God Bless America. Let us rise, together. God Bless America. CHERYL LANKFORD 21:59:10 When you lose a spouse, you know that your life will change forever. You know that it won't be easy. But I didn't expect that on top of grieving the loss of my husband and trying to take care of my baby, I would also be the victim of a scam. You just saw what happened to me. How Trump University cheated me out of the money I received after my husband's death. How they broke their promises. How they stopped taking my calls. How the whole thing was a lie. 21:59:45 By conning me out of the money the military gave me after my husband died, I felt like trump University was disrespecting Jonathan's memory. I was furious. Frightened. And the truth is, I was embarrassed. The worst part is that I wasn't the only victim of Donald Trump's greed, far from it. He preyed on vulnerable people like military widows and the elderly. 22:00:16 He made millions of dollars off of people like me. Millions. He cheated more than 5,000 students. Hardworking middle class folks. Teachers. Police officers. Even veterans. These are folks just like me who didn't have a lot, but who were told that if they paid for Donald Trump's program, they might be able to make a better living. Here's a guy who was born rich and who has all the money in the world and there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, I signed up for trump University because I thought I could learn something from him. But then he decided to make himself even richer. By cheating working people who had nothing to spare. 22:01:13 What kind of man does that? It's not easy for me to get up here and tell my story. For a long time, I didn't tell anybody. Not even my family or my friends. But I'm here because America deserves to know the truth. This election isn't about Democrat versus Republican It's about right versus wrong. It's about someone who helps ordinary people no matter what it takes versus someone who helps himself no matter who it hurts. 22:02:02 Donald Trump made big promises about Trump University, and I was fooled into believing him. Now, he's making big promises about America. Please, don't make that same mistake. MICHELLE OBAMA 22:05:36 Oh. Thank you, all. Thank you so much. You know, it's hard to believe that it has been eight years since I first came to this convention to talk with you about why I thought my husband should be president. Remember how I told you about his character and conviction, his decency and his grace. The traits that we've seen every day that he's served our country in the white house. [ cheers ] 22:06:22 I also told you about our daughters, how they are the heart of our hearts, the center of our world, and during our time in the white house, we've had the joy of watching them grow from bubbly little girls into poised young women. A journey that started soon after we arrived in Washington, when they set off for their first day at their new school. I will never forget that winter morning as I watched our girls just 7 and 10 years old, pile into those black SUVs with all those big men with guns. And I saw their little faces pressed up against the window, and the only thing I could think was, what have we done. [ laughter ] 22:07:15 See, because at that moment, I realized that our time in the white house would form the foundation for who they would become and how well we managed this experience could truly make or break them. That is what Barack and I think about every day as we try to guide and protect our girls through the challenges of this unusual life in the spotlight. How we urge them to ignore those who question their father's citizenship or faith. How we insist that the hateful language they hear from public figures on TV does not represent the true spirit of this country. 22:08:03 How we explain that one someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don't stoop to their level. No, our motto is, "When they go low, we go high." [ cheers ] With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models, and let me tell you, Barack and I take that same approach to our jobs as president and first lady because we know that our words and actions matter. Not just to our girls, but the children across this country. 22:08:44 Kids who tell us, I saw you on TV, I wrote a report on you for school. Kids like the little black boy who looked up at my husband, his eyes wide with hope, and he wondered, is my hair like yours? And make no mistake about it, this November when we go to the polls, that is what we're deciding. Not Democrat or Republican. Not left or right. No, in this election and every election is about who will have the power to shape our children for the next four or eight years of their lives. [ cheers and applause, shot of woman crying ] 22:09:30 And I am here tonight because in this election, there is only one person who I trust with that responsibility. Only one person who I believe is truly qualified to be president of the United States, and that is our friend, Hillary Clinton. [ cheers, SHOT OF BILL STANDING AND CLAPPING ] That's right. 22:10:04 See, I trust -- I trust Hillary to lead this country because I've seen her lifelong devotion to our nation's children. Not just our own daughter who she has raised to perfection, but every child who needs a champion. Kids who take the long way to school to avoid the gangs, kids who wonder how they'll ever afford college. Kids whose parents don't speak a word of English but dream of a better life. Kids who look to us to determine who and what they can be. 22:10:44 You see, Hillary has spent decades doing the relentless, thankless work to actually make a difference in their lives. Advocating for kids with disabilities as a young lawyer. Fighting for children's health care as first lady and for quality childcare in the senate. And when she didn't win the nomination eight years ago, she didn't get angry or disillusioned. [ cheers ] She -- Hillary did not -- Hillary did not pack up and go home because as a true public servant, Hillary knows that this is so much bigger than her own desires and disappointments. 22:11:44 So, she proudly stepped up to serve our country once again as secretary of state, traveling the globe to keep our kids safe. And look, there were plenty of moments when Hillary could have decided that this work was too hard, that the price of public service was too high, that she was tired of being picked apart for how she looks or how she talks or even how she laughs. But here's the thing, what I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. 22:12:25 And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. [ cheers ] And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that's what I want. I want someone with the proven strength to persevere. Someone who knows this job and takes it seriously. Someone who understands that the issues a president faces are not black and white and cannot be boiled down to 140 characters -- 22:13:03 Look, because -- [ cheers, SHOT OF BILL ] because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military in your command, you can't make snap decisions. You can't have a thin skin or tendency to lash out. You need to be steady and measured and well informed. [ cheers and applause ] I want a president with a record of public service. Someone whose life work shows our children that we don't chase fame and fortune for ourselves. 22:13:53 We fight to give everyone a chance to succeed. And we give back even when we're struggling, ourselves, because we know that there is always someone more soft, but there, for the grace of god, go I. I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters. A president who truly believes in the vision that our founders put forth all those years ago, that we are all created equal. Each a beloved part of the great American story. And when crisis hits, we don't turn against each other. 22:14:35 No, we listen to each other We lean on each other because we are always stronger together. And I am here tonight because I know that that is the kind of president that Hillary Clinton will be, and that's why in this election, I'm with her. You see, Hillary understands that the president is about one thing and one thing only. It's about leaving something better for our kids. That's how we've always moved this country forward, by all of us coming together on behalf of our children. 22:15:33 Folks who volunteer to coach that team, to teach that Sunday school class because they know it takes a village. Heroes of every color and creed who wear the uniform and risk their lives to keep passing down those blessings of liberty. Police officers and the protesters in Dallas who all desperately want to keep our children safe. People who lined up in Orlando to donate blood because it could have been their son, their daughter, in that club. [ cheers and applause ] Leaders like Tim kaine, [ cheers ] who show our kids what decency and devotion look like. 22:16:28 Leaders like Hillary Clinton who has the guts and the grace to keep coming back and putting those cracks in that highest and hardest glass ceiling until she finally breaks through, lifting all of us along with her. That is the story of this country. The story that has brought me to this stage tonight. The story of generations of people who felt the lash of bondage, the shame of servitude, the sting of segregation, but who kept on striving and hoping and doing what needed to be done so that today, I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves. 22:17:20 And I watch my daughters, two beautiful, intelligent, black young women, playing with their dogs on the white house lawn. [ cheers ] And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters and all our sons and daughters now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States. [ cheers ] 22:18:07 So look. So, don't let anyone ever tell you that this country isn't great, that somehow we need to make it great again, because this right now is the greatest country on Earth. And as my daughters prepare to set out into the world, I want a leader who is worthy of that truth. A leader who is worthy of my girls' promise and all our kids' promise. A leader who will be guided every day by the love and hope and impossibly big dreams that we all have for our children. 22:18:58 So in this election, we cannot sit back and hope that everything works out for the best. We cannot afford to be tired or frustrated or cynical. No, hear me. Between now and November, we need to do what we did eight years ago and four years ago. [ cheers ] We need to knock on every door. We need to get out every vote. We need to pour every last ounce of our passion and our strength and our love for this country into electing Hillary Clinton as president of the United States of America. So let's get to work. Thank you, all. God bless. JOSEPH KENNEDY III 22:21:07 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. My first day of law school, my very first class. The goal escape unscathed. Not three seconds in and I get the first question, Mr. Kennedy what is the definition of assumpsit? Huh Mr. Kennedy, you realize assumpsit is the very first word in your reading? Yeah. I actually circled it because I didn't know what it meant. 22:21:56 Mr. Kennedy, do you own a dictionary? That's what people do when they don't know what a word means, they look it up in a dictionary. I never showed up unprepared for professor Elizabeth Warren ever again. [ cheers and applause ] She was the toughest teacher on campus, but the wait list for her class was a mile long. She pushed us hard. She brought out our best. She believed in us. And she believed in the law, not as an abstraction, but as a living force with the power to make life better or worse. 22:22:43 She taught us that it's impactly not classrooms or textbooks, but in a society where wages had not budged in 40 years. Where two-and-a-half million children are homeless, where we can expected one in three black men to go to prison. Our laws have human consequences. That fact fuelled a law school professor to on this country's most entrenched financial interest. It brought a middle class champion back to Massachusetts senate seat and it led a first term U.S. Senator become our government gutcheck. In a sea of power and privilege senator Warren is an anchor for the voiceless and victimized. 22:23:35 She asks more from all of us because she believes deeply in each of us. That faith in our country and the American people is the very foundation of our democratic party. It echos through this arena tonight and to every classroom, living room, and hearing room that senator Elizabeth Warren has ever touched. Ladies and gentlemen, it's my honor to introduce to you, your senator, my senator, our senator, senator Elizabeth Warren. [ Applause ] ELIZABETH WARREN 22:24:34 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Joe and thank you Massachusetts for the great honor of serving as your senator. Thank you, guys. What a night. Wow! Michelle Obama, Cory booker! [ Applause ] And we still have Bernie coming up Bernie reminds us what Democrats fight for every day, thank you Bernie. Thank you. 22:25:25 Now, we are here tonight because America faces a choice, the choice of a new president. On one side is a man who inherited a fortune from his father and kept it going by cheating people, by skipping out on debts, a man who has never sacrificed anything for anyone, a man who cares only for himself every minute of every day. On the other side is one of the smartest, toughest, most tenacious people on this planet, a woman who fights for children, for women, for health care, for human rights, a woman who fights for all of us and who is strong enough to win those fights. 22:26:16 We're here today because our choice is Hillary Clinton. I'm with Hillary. I'm with Hillary. [Applause ] I'm with Hillary. [CHANTING WE TRUSTED YOU] 22:26:32 You know, for me this choice is personal. It's about who we are as a people. It's about what kind of a country we want to be. I grew up in Oklahoma. My daddy ended up as a maintenance man, and my mom worked a minimum wage job at sears. My three brothers served in the military. The oldest was career, 288 combat missions in Vietnam, the second worked construction and the third started his own small business. Me, I got married at 19, graduated from a commuter college in Texas that cost $50 a semester. 22:27:16 The way I see it, I'm a janitor's daughter who became a public schoolteacher, a professor and a United States state senator, America is truly a country of opportunity. Truly. [ Applause ] I am deeply grateful to that America. I believe in that America. But I'm worried. I'm worried that my story is locked in the past, worried that opportunity is slipping away for people who work hard and play to the rules. I mean look around, Americans bust their tails, some working two or three jobs, but wages stay flat, meanwhile the basic cost of making it from month to month keep going up, housing, health care, child care, the costs are out of sight. 22:28:09 Young people are getting crushed by student loans. Working people are in debt. Seniors can't stretch a social security check to cover the basics. And even families who are okay today worry it could all fall apart tomorrow This is not right. It is not. And here's is the thing, America isn't going broke. The stock market is breaking records, corporate profits are at all-time highs. CEOs makes tens of millions of dollars. 22:28:50 There's lots of wealth in America, but it isn't trickling down to hardworking families like yours Does anyone here have a problem with that? [ cheers ] Yeah, well I do too. People get it. The system is rigged. You know -- [ cheers ] -- it's true. Now, so-called experts claim America is in trouble because both political parties in Washington refuse to compromise, gridlock, that is just flat wrong. Washington works great for those at the top. 22:29:36 When giant companies wanted more tax loopholes, Washington got it done. When huge energy companies wanted to tear up our environment, Washington got it done. When enormous Wall Street banks wanted new regulatory loopholes, Washington got it done. No gridlock there. But try to do something, anything for working people and you'll have a fight on your hands. Democrats have taken on those fights, that's what we do. [ Applause ] 22:30:13 Democrats fought to get health insurance for more Americans. Democrats fought for a strong consumer agency so big banks can't cheat people. We fought, we won and we improved the lives of millions of people. Thank you, Barack Obama. [ Applause ] Yes, we won, but Republicans and lobbyists battled us every step of the way. Five years later, that consumer agency has returned $11 billion to families who were cheated, and Republicans, Republicans, they're still trying to kill it. 22:31:04 Now look, I'm not someone who thinks that Republicans are always wrong and Democrats are always right. There's enough blame to go around. But there is a huge difference between people fighting for a level-playing field and the people fighting to keep the system rigged. Look at congress, since the Republicans took over. Democrats proposed refinancing student loans and Republicans, they said, no. Democrats proposed ending tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs overseas and Republicans, they said, no. 22:31:45 Democrats proposed raising the minimum wage and Republicans, they said, no. So to every Republican in congress who said no, this November, the American people are coming for you. [ Cheers and Applause ] Yup. Yes. That's right. 22:3219 And where was Donald Trump? In all these fights, not once did he lift a finger to help working people. Why would he? His whole life has been about taking advantage of that rigged system. Time after time, he prayed on working people, people in debt, people who had fallen on hard times. He's conned them. He's defrauded them and he's ripped them off. Look at his history. Donald Trump said he was excited for the 2008 housing crash that devastated millions of American families because he thought it would help him scoop up more real estate. 22:33:07 Donald Trump set up a fake university to make money by cheating people and taking their life savings. Donald Trump goes on and on and on about being a successful businessman, but he filed business bankruptcy six times, always to protect his own money and stick the investors and contractors with the bill. Donald Trump hired plumbers and painters and construction workers to do hard labor for his businesses, then he told them to take only a fraction of what he owed or fight his lawyers in court for years. What type of a man acts like this. What kind of man roots for an economic crash that cost millions of people of their jobs, their homes, their life savings. What kind of a man cheats students, investors, cheats workers. 22:34:14 Well I'll tell you what kind of a man, a man who must never be president of the united States. [Applause] Never. And we've got the leaders to make it happen, Hillary Clinton and Tim kaine. They're going to make it happen. [ cheers ] Donald Trump knows that the American people are angry, in fact, so obvious, he can see it knows that the American people are angry, in fact, so obvious, he can see it from the top of the trump tower. 22:35:10 So now he's insisting that he and he alone can fix the rig system. Last week he spoke for more than an hour on the biggest stage that he's ever had. Other than talking about building a stupid wall which will never get built -- [ applause ] -- Other than that wall, did you hear any actual ideas? [ No ] Did you hear even one solid proposal from Trump for increasing incomes? [ No ] Or improving your kids' education? [ No ] Or creating even one single good-paying job? [ No ] Let's face it, Donald Trump has no real plans for jobs or college kids or for seniors, no plans to make anything great for anyone, except the rich guys like Donald Trump. [ Applause ] 22:36:14 Just look at his ideas. Donald Trump wants to get rid of the federal minimum wage. Donald Trump wants to roll back financial regular laces and turn Wall Street loose to wreck our economy again. And Donald Trump has a tax plan to give multimillionaires and billionaires like himself an average tax cut of $1.43 million a year. [ Boo ] 22:36:43 You're struggling to put your kids through college, and Donald Trump thinks he needs a million dollar tax break. Trump's entire campaign is just one more late night trump infomercial. Hand over your money, your jobs your children's future and the great trump hot air machine will reveal all the answers. [ Applause ] And for one low low price, he'll even throw in a goofy hat. [Laughter ] And here is the really ugly underside to his pitch, trump thinks he can win votes by fanning the flames of fear and hatred, by turning neighbor against neighbor, by persuading you that the real problem in America is your fellow Americans, people who don't look like you or don't talk like you or don't worship like you. 22:37:48 He even picked a vice president famous for trying to make it legal to openly discriminate against gays and lesbians. That's Donald Trump's America, an America of fear and hate, an America where we all break apart. Whites against blacks and Latinos, Christians against muslims and jews, straight against gay, everyone against immigrants, race religion heritage and gender, the more factions the better. But ask yourself this, when white workers in Ohio are pitted against black workers in north Carolina or Latino workers in Florida, who really benefits? Divide and conquer is an old story in America. 22:38:40 Dr. Martin Luther king knew it. After his March from Selma to Montgomery, he spoke of how segregation was created to keep people divided. Instead of higher wages for workers, Dr. King described how poor whites in the south were fed Jim Crow which told a poor white worker that "No matter how bad off he was, at least he was a white man better than the black man." Racial hatred was part of keeping the powerful on top. [ Applause ] 22:39:20 When we turn on each other, bankers can run our economy for Wall Street, oil companies can fight off clean energy and giant corporations can ship the last good jobs overseas. When we turn on each other, rich guys like Trump can push through more tax breaks for themselves. And then we'll never have enough money to support our schools or rebuild our highways or invest in our kids' future. When we turn on each other, we can't unite to fight back against a rigged system. [ Applause ] 22:39:59 Well I've got news for Donald Trump, the American people are not falling for it. [ cheers ] We've seen this ugliness before and we are not going to be Donald Trump's hate-filled America, not now, not ever. This is about our values, about our shared-values with our candidates, Hillary Clinton and Tim kaine. [ Applause ] Let's talk about those values. We believe that no matter who you are, no matter where you're from, no matter who you love equal means equal, Hillary will fight to make sure discrimination has no place in America and we're with her. 22:41:03 We believe that no one no one who works full time should live in poverty. Hillary will fight for raising the minimum wage, fair scheduling, paid family and medical leave and we're with hear . [Applause ] We believe every kid in America should have a chance for a great education, without getting crushed by debt. Hillary will fight for refinancing student loans and debt free college. We are with her. And we believe that after a life-time of hard work, seniors should be able to retire with dignity. Hillary will fight to expand social security, strengthen medicare and protect our retirement accounts, and we're with her. [ Applause ] 22:42:08 We believe that oil companies shouldn't call the shots in Washington, that science matters, that climate change is real. Hillary will fight to preserve this Earth for our children and grandchildren and we're with her. We believe, and I can't believe I have to say this in 2016 -- in equal pay for equal work and a woman's right to control over her own body,, Hillary will fight for women, and we're with her. [ cheers ] That's right. We believe, we don't need weaker rules on Wall Street. We need stronger rules and when big banks get too risky, break them up. Hillary will fight to hold big banks accountable, and we're with her. 22:43:11 And we believe that the united States should never, never sign trade deals that help giant corporations but leave workers in the dirt. Hillary will fight for American workers and we're with her. Okay. Just one more, we believe we must get big money out of politics and root out corruption. Hillary will fight to overturned citizens united and return this government to the people. 22:43:56 If you believe that America must work for all of us, not just for the rich and powerful, if you believe that we must reject the politics of fear and division, if you believe that we are stronger together, then let's work our hearts out to make Hillary Clinton the next president of the United States. [ Applause ] Thank you. KEITH ELLISON (MN) 22:45:00 Hello democrats! [ cheers ] You know, tonight, tonight my Democrats, we are -- we are united around the most Progressive platform in history, the most Progressive platform in history, a 15-dollar an hour minimum wage, banning private prisons, expanding social security, the public option, and debt free college tuition. That's the platform that Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton wrote together. [ cheers ] And that's the platform -- that's the platform that we can make the law of the land if we stand together, if we work together and if we vote together on November 8th. 22:46:11 You know trump, he wants to divide and conquer us with his anti muslim, anti-mexican, anti-worker message. They don't want us to vote They want to push voter I.D. Laws that black and Latino voters, Paul Rand won't even allow the vote to restore the voting rights act. You know, we must push back. Voting is not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender. When they bring the fear, we bring the courage. When they bring the division, we've got to bring the unity, everybody. 22:47:03 As a proud, and I said proud Bernie Sanders' supporter, I will always remember feeling the bern in Minnesota. There's my minnesotans over there. 6,000 in Duluth, 14,000 in Saint Paul, Bernie sparked the beginning of a revolution, y'all. He packed them in from Davenport to Detroit -- to your town and mine. 13 million Americans voted their progressive values and millions more made an investment in building that movement $27 at a time. 22:47:56 You know together, together we call for climate justice. We call for racial justice We call for wage justice, you know what, we made our voices heard. Together, Democrats, we will make our voices heard in November when we defeat Donald Trump. And elect Hillary Rodham Clinton the next president of the united States of America. [ cheers and applause ] 22:48:35 But tonight, tonight -- let us raise our voices in gratitude to the man who has helped make this great party greater than ever, ladies and gentlemen, I give you Bernie Sanders. BERNIE SANDERS WALKS ON 22:50:09 SPEAKS AT 22:53:02 [About 3 minutes of cheering before he can speak] 22:50:49 [ SHOT OF CROWD WITH BERNIE SIGNS ] 23:53:02 It is an honor to be here tonight and to be following in the footsteps of my good friend Elizabeth Warren and to be here tonight to thank Michelle Obama for her incredible service to our country. She has made all of us proud. 23:53:35 Let me begin by thanking the hundreds of thousands of Americans who actively participated in our campaign as volunteers--thank you. Let me thank the 2.5 million Americans who helped fund our campaign with an unprecedented 8 million individual campaign contributions. 22:54:16 Anyone know what that average contribution was? >> $27! SANDERS>> That's right. $27. And let me thank the 13 million Americans who voted for the political revolution, [ cheers and applause ] giving us the 1,846 pledged delegates here tonight. [ cheers and applause ] 22:55:08 >> [ chant ] Bernie! Bernie! And delegates, thank you for being here and thank you for all the work you've done. I look forward -- [ cheers ] -- I look forward to your votes during the roll call tomorrow night. [ cheers and applause ] 22:56:03 And let me offer a special thanks to the people of my own state of Vermont--who have sustained me and supported me as a mayor, congressman, senator and presidential candidate. 22:56:27 And to my family - my wife Jane, our four kids and seven grandchildren -thank you very much. I understand that many people here in this convention hall and around the country are disappointed about the final results of the nominating process. I think it's fair to say that no one is more disappointed than I am. But to all of our supporters - here and around the country - I hope you take enormous pride in the historical accomplishments we have achieved. 22:57:27 Together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America and that revolution - our revolution - continues. Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the 1 percent [ cheers ] - a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice - that struggle continues. 22:58:34 And I look forward to being part of that struggle with you. Let me be as clear as I can be. This election is not about, and has never been about, Hillary Clinton, or Donald Trump, or Bernie Sanders or any of the other candidates who sought the presidency. This election is not about political gossip. It's not about polls. It's not about campaign strategy. It's not about fundraising. It's not about all the things that the media spends so much time discussing. [ cheers and applause ] 22:59:34 This election is about - and must be about - the needs of the American people and the kind of future we create for our children and grandchildren. This election is about ending the 40-year decline of our middle class, the reality that 47 million men, women and children live in poverty. It is about understanding that if we do not transform our economy, our younger generation will likely have a lower standard of living than their parents. This election is about ending the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality in America today. [ cheers ] >> [ chant ] 99%! 99%! 23:01:00 It is not moral., it is not acceptable and it is not sustainable that the top one-tenth of one percent now own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. [ boos ] Or that the top 1 percent in recent years has earned 85 percent of all new income. That is unacceptable. That must change. [ boos ] This election is about remembering where we were 7 1/2 years ago when President Obama came into office after eight years of Republican trickle-down economics.
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