[Carol Costello, Cnn Host, "newsroom":] We are live in Philadelphia, the site of the Democratic National Convention. Good morning to you, I'm Carol Costello, thanks so much for joining me. Any moment now Bernie Sanders delegates are set to speak in Philadelphia. Expected to roll out new plans for their platform moving forward. Those plans coming less than 12 hours after Bernie supporters booed several speakers during day one of the DNC. First Lady Michelle Obama, oh no, they did not boo the First Lady. Mrs. Obama, though, called for unity.
[Michelle Obama, First Lady Of The United States:] But when a crisis hits we don't turn against each other. 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.
[Costello:] With me now, Democratic strategist and Hillary Clinton supporter, Tracy Sefl. Patricia Murphy, columnist for The Daily Beast and Roll Call. And Tim Miller, former Communications Director of the Jeb Bush presidential campaign. Welcome to all of you. Tracy I will start with you. Michelle Obama, everybody says great speech, hit it out of the park. But I had a Bernie Sanders supporter on just a few minutes ago who said that she did nothing to unify the party when it comes to Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.
[Tracy Sefl, Democratic Strategist:] Well are we sure he saw the speech? Because that's pretty small in terms of the percentage of Bernie supporters who are acknowledging all of the unity, and the efforts, and the policy proposals, and calls to support her. So is it a done deal, is it going to be 100 percent? No, of course not. I mean we're Democrats, after all. We like to make things a little complicated.
[Costello:] Patricia what do you think? Will we hear as many boos tonight? You know Bill Clinton is expected to take the stage. A lot of Bernie supporters don't like his policies.
[Patricia Murphy, Columnist, "the Daily Beast":] That is the great unknown, going into these next three days at the Democratic convention. I was with Bernie supporters yesterday who were actively plotting a challenge to Tim Kaine's Vice Presidential nomination, on the floor. And they were also talking about other ways they could express their continued disapproval of the Democratic Party. Especially after the Wikileaks email. I think that really inflamed the tensions coming into this Democratic convention. So we're going to have to wait and see. I know they were talking about booing Hillary Clinton, challenging Tim Kaine. I and I said well what if Bernie asks you all to stop doing that? And they said you know, it was never about Bernie. And they don't consider themselves Democrats in some cases. They don't care if they disrupt the Democratic Party's convention. And so many of them are wedded to this disruption even more than they're wedded to Bernie Sanders.
[Costello:] Well what's interesting and Tim Miller, I'll bring you into this part of the conversation I talked to a lot of Bernie Sanders supporters who were protesting yesterday. And they too said this has nothing to do with Bernie Sanders. We skipped the Republican National convention, they said, because everybody knows that's corrupt. We want to like bring out the DNC's the corrupt nature of the DNC. That's why we are here. So as a Republican, as you sit here and watch this convention, Tim, what goes through your mind?
[Tim Miller, Former Communications Director, Jeb Bush Presidential Campaign:] Well I don't have to be as diplomatic as Tracy does because I don't have to win these folks over. I think they're cuckoo for cocoa puffs. I don't I have no idea what is happening. They Bernie got crushed in you know it wasn't even really that close. So I mean, obviously it was surprisingly close. We thought Hillary was going to win easily and it was a challenge. But in the end she won by 4 million votes, about. And the policies that they're pushing are two clicks short of Venezuela. So I don't know what they're doing and I think what you're seeing on the Democrat side is a party that is going through the early stages of what we are seeing in the Republican Party right now. Which was kind of a takeover from the anti-establishment side. And I think if the Bernie folks had been a little bit more diplomatic and united with maybe some of the African American base or the Latino base of the Democratic Party, he might have ended up being the nominee. Which would just be insane as far as I'm concerned.
[Costello:] Going back to Michelle Obama's speech, I thought it interesting on many fronts. She talked about Hillary Clinton in very much the terms of a mother. She talked about her children a lot. And she talked about Hillary Clinton being our friend, as in Barack Obama's friend and Michelle Obama's friend. Let's listen.
[Michelle Obama, First Lady Of The United States:] And 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. 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.
[Costello:] OK so there were all there was always these rumblings, Tracy, that you know, the Obamas didn't really get along with Hillary Clinton, or the Clintons. I mean, but did this dispel those notions?
[Sefl:] She not only dispelled them but she did it in such an elegant, effortless, graceful way. I have to give props to Sarah Hurwitz, her speech writer, for the magnificent prose. But props of course, to the First Lady for her delivery. I thought it was incredibly authentic. And I loved hearing her say she trusts that Hillary Clinton is the best person for this job. Those are really important words for everyone in the hall, and outside, and all around Philly. Whatever their grievances may be, her words were very, very powerful.
[Costello:] And she was also, Patricia, very positive on a night when everybody was dissing Donald Trump. And at Michelle Obama's speech, frankly, resonated more with the crowd than the speeches dissing Donald Trump.
[Murphy:] Yeah, and not just what resonated with this crowd, but I think what resonated beyond these crowds and these conventions, out to the millions of Americans watching these messages. And I covered the Republican convention last week and this convention this week. And I would say if there's a criticism to be made of the Republican convention last week it was a lot, it was dark in some cases, but also a lot of following Donald Trump's lead. Saying, "we're losers, we don't win anymore. Our country, people aren't afraid of us, they don't respect us." And after a while that kind of was beating the audience down a little bit. Until he said, "and here's how I'm going to fix it." I mean thanks from Michelle Obama, particularly a woman who's had her own patriotism challenged, and her husband's citizenship challenged. To come out and say regardless of everything that they have been through, this is the best country today, in the world. And so I thought it was really powerful. And again, something that people could connect to. Because if, you know, anything about Americans, they want to be hopeful about their future. And so I would say if other Democrats can follow that lead, they'll be successful in this convention.
[Costello:] So Tim, do you think that resonates with Republicans like yourselves, who aren't all in for Donald Trump?
[Miller:] Well look, she's not going to, I don't think, bring a lot of Republicans over to Hillary's side. I just think that the fault lines are too deep and it's been really 20, 30 years where Hillary has been an extremely partisan, negative force looking towards Republicans. So I don't think she's going to be able to fix that rift. But I do think that she was a model last night for what we should see the next three days for Democrats. And I think trying to turn Donald Trump into just your average Tea Party Republican is not an effective attack. I think Michelle gave a very personal defense of Hillary that also attacks Donald Trump without not saying his name, but on the lines of character, and readiness. And this is not your usual Republican. He's far outside what is acceptable for a President of the United States. And I thought that is something that's going to resonate, I think, particularly with women, Republicans who are sitting there trying to decide do they vote for Trump or do they maybe just take a pass and vote down ballot.
[Costello:] All right. Tracy Sefl, Patricia Murphy, Tim Miller, thanks to all of you, we appreciate it. Still to come in the Newsroom, Trump is keeping busy with running mate Mike Pence this morning. They're hitting the trail to talk to veterans.