[Cooper:] Everything happening in this convention hall right now, all of the speeches you're going to be seeing tonight leading up to one pivotal speech. We are getting closer to Hillary Clinton on stage accepting her historic presidential nomination, more with the panel right now. Paul, in terms of how Secretary Clinton prepares for a speech like this, what do you know about her process? Patti?
[Doyle:] Well, for a speech like this, weeks ahead of time it is written by committee, basically. You've got a lot of hands dabbling with a lot of ideas and a lot of suggestions, but in the very end it's usually Hillary and her speechwriter, in her room, in her house, in her suite. Really, she hand writes notes on the margins. They talk it through. They work it out and nobody gets the final draft until she's about to give it. I wouldn't be surprised if she's tinkering with it right now.
[Begala:] Compared to her husband who I worked for, somewhat more disciplined.
[Unidentified Male:] He's still tinkering on his Tuesday night's speech. He still wants to finish his 1988 speech.
[Begala:] She's just a much disciplined, focused person and she doesn't have Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Clinton's oratorical speech, she just doesn't. But I do think that there's a simple authenticity in her very walky, very sort of clear-minded, her credo, I believe. Patti knows her better than I do, but 25 years on her, she loves this quotation attributed to John Wesley, Christian Methodist, the founder of her religion, John Wesley says this. Do all the good you can. By all the means you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. If I had a nickel for every time Hillary quoted that to me, I wouldn't need the super PAC. That's her philosophy.
[Unidentified Female:] Will she use it tonight?
[Begala:] Bet you a dollar.
[Doyle:] Bet you a dollar.
[Begala:] What do you think? She just use it all of the time.
[Doyle:] Yeah.
[Begala:] That's her view of life.
[Cooper:] I want to pick on some...
[Doyle:] Tim Kaine incorporated that. You know, Tim Kaine also incorporate.
[Unidentified Female:] Right.
[Doyle:] He used it in...
[Axelrod:] Well, and I think he has the same sort of motivation, different, you know, he's Catholic, but he has the same sort of deep faith. I want to pick up on something Michael said, there aren't there are hardly any opportunities in a presidential campaign in which you get an unfiltered opportunity to speak to an audience this size. This is really it.
[Unidentified Male:] Yup. Yeah.
[Axelrod:] The next time this many Americans will see Hillary Clinton at once it will be in debate.
[Unidentified Female:] Yeah, that's right.
[Axelrod:] When you don't have a clear shot, and so that's why this is so important. You don't get too many chances to do this, and this is her chance in her own words, in her own way to speak to a large number of Americans and you wanted the most of that opportunity.
[Borger:] And let's not forget the historic moment. I mean, she is going to be the first woman to accept the nomination of a major party at a major convention in the history of the United States.
[Unidentified Female:] Yeah.
[Jones:] Which means a lot of those millions of people that are watching are young people.
[Unidentified Female:] Yeah. Right.
[Jones:] You've got a lot of parents. You've got a lot of grandparents, you got a lot of uncles and aunts saying "Put the screen down. No, no, put the screen down, watch this."
[Smerconish:] I'm sorry. We were all so caught up on Monday in Debbie Wassermann Schulz and whether she was going to come out with the gavel and come on we love that stuff, right? Those of us at this table, but in the grand scheme of things I think that was inconsequential. Tonight matters. It's the super bowl of this presentation.
[Henderson:] Yes, yes and I don't care when she implores some humor right? I mean even you saw it last night with Barack Obama when he talked about Donald Trump. It was in some ways humorous. Humor is not her thing
[Cooper:] Governor Tom Wolf from Pennsylvania has just been introduced. Let's listen in.
[Gov. Tom Wolf, , State Of Pennsylvania:] Thank you. As governor of Pennsylvania, it has been an honor to host you here in Philadelphia this week. Two years ago I ran for governor on the fundamental belief that society can only succeed when we build prosperity and share it broadly. You know, this wasn't a lesson I learned in politics. It was a lesson I learned in business. After serving in the Peace Corps and earning a PhD at MIT, I surprised my family and friends by coming home to Central Pennsylvania to work in the family business, a building materials company where I started out driving a forklift. Eventually I bought the company along with two of my cousins, and we became one of the largest suppliers of kitchen cabinets in North America. One of the keys to our success was that we recognized that in business you were only as good as the people you have in your company, and thus, you had to treat everyone like they mattered. Why? Because, in fact, they do matter. Now, I understand that not all business people see it this way. When we contracted with a vendor we paid that vendor. Donald Trump, he stiffed hundreds of small businesses from plumbers to painters, ruining their companies as he saw to enrich himself. At our company like at many others all across this country, we treated our employees with respect. When they had kids, we celebrated them and we gave new moms paid leave. Donald trump said that pregnant workers were an inconvenienced so it's no surprise that he has put forward no plan for paid family leave. Finally, another important part of our business model was that we had a profit-sharing plan. We knew our employees thank you. We knew that our employees contributed to our growth. So in addition to good wages, good family-sustaining wages and really good benefits, we shared between 20 percent and 30 percent of our profit with our employees directly. Just to give you an example, in 2013 which was a turnaround year for our company, all of our workers, hundreds of them received an average, on average, $5,000 each in profit sharing that they could use for college tuition, a well-earned vacation or they could spend it on anything else they wanted. How about Donald Trump? He runs his businesses so that they only help who? You guessed it. Donald Trump. In his six, six bankruptcy filings, he used the process to protect himself and even enrich himself while his employees were left out of luck. We didn't do what we did because we were looking for awards. We did it because it was the right thing to do for our workers and we did it because it was great for our companies' bottom line. It was smart business, plain and simple. We were a stronger, more successful business because we were all in it together. Hillary Clinton believes that, too, and that's why as president, Hillary Clinton will reward companies that share profits with employees, not just executives. Under her proposal, companies will get tax credits worth 15 percent of the profits they share with their employees. The credits would last two years and would be larger for smaller businesses because Hillary believes that if you work hard you should share in your company's success. She will also fight to raise the minimum wage. She will ensure equal pay for women and guarantee up to 12 weeks' paid family leave, plus affordable child care. That's fair, it's smart and it's great for our economy because it's good for workers and it's good for businesses. At this moment, when we need to restore the fundamental American idea that if you work hard, you can get ahead and stay there, we need a president who recognizes that an economy that doesn't work for everyone doesn't work at all. We need a president who believes that our society can only succeed when economic prosperity is shared broadly. We need Hillary Clinton. Thank you very much.
[Cooper:] Coming up now is former governor Jennifer Granholm from Michigan. She [inaudible] this crowd four years ago at the Democratic National Convention. Let's see if she can do it again for Hillary Clinton this time around.
[Jennifer Granhold,  Former Michigan Governor:] All right, Democrats. I actually want to speak tonight to those Americans who feel you've been left behind. The Americans who believe you've been cheated, who believe that those at the top don't care about you. Now I know a little something about this because I was governor of Michigan, the epicenter of America's manufacturing rise and its painful fall and its resurgence. Michigan built the automobile and the automobile built America, but when the manufacturing industry fell on hard times so did Michigan. So did many of your states, and we were angry about it. About jobs going to low-wage countries, about unfair trade, but we were also determined, determined to build the industries of the future. We said we wanted advanced manufacturing. We wanted new jobs, so we started this hard process of moving in that direction, and then in 2008 we elected a democratic president to work with us, and you know what he did? He saved the American auto industry. Right, and then that renewed auto industry paid America back in full and that is what we can do together. Now I, like many of you, am a fierce democrat, but I know I know there are Democrats and Republicans all across this country who want to create jobs in America. Liberals and conservatives, public sector and private industry because we are not in this alone. We are all in this together. One candidate gets that and one candidate, as Joe Biden said last night, doesn't have a clue. Some people are worried. Some people are angry. I get that. But the answer is not to tear our country down. It's to build our country up. Not to build walls that keep out the rest of the world, but to keep building the industries and universities that the rest of the world which is they could get into. Hillary Clinton gets it. And that's why she has huge plans to create good-paying jobs in America. Imagine that. Imagine that, actual plans. I must have missed that night at the Republican convention. Detailed plans, people, written down. Plans with numbers that add up. You want to see them? You can actually see them. Just text JOBS to 47246. Now, last week, we heard about Trump's hopeless vision of our country, and then he said, "I alone can fix it." So imagine Donald Trump's version of the Constitution? "I, the person, in order to form a more perfect union" or centuries later, "I shall overcome," or "Ask not what I can do for my country, ask what my country can do for me." Donald, Donald, you're so vain. You probably think this speech is about you, don't you now? Here's what I know. We have got to stop Donald Trump. Our great country spans a continent, but we are all connected to each other no matter where we live. So when a miner in Virginia has the dignity of a new job in the advanced steel industry, we all have dignity. When the engineering student in the Sunshine States builds the solar panels of the future, we all succeed. When the autoworker in Detroit builds the electric vehicle that drives us forward, we all win, right? Whether you're in Michigan or Maryland or Missouri or Montana. And this, too, when Flint's water poisons its children, it hurts all of us. These are our children. We are all Flint, right, Philadelphia? Our next president knows that a nation is a village, that we are one family. And in a family, no one gets left behind. Not the steelworker in Pennsylvania. Not the farmer in Iowa. Not the dreamer in Nevada. Not the factory worker in Ohio. As our next president says we are stronger together. We're stronger. How? We're going to keep America great. How? Together. And we're going to work our hearts out to elect Hillary Clinton president. How? Together. Let's do this, brothers and sisters. Together.
[Cooper:] Jennifer Granholm, former governor of Michigan. Coming up now, just as last night, we saw former mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, an independent reaching out to independents as possibly other Republicans. Two Republicans tonight now speaking, Doug Elmets, a Reagan administration official. Let's listen.
[Doug Elmets, Fmr. Reagan White House Official:] It's an honor to be here. Candidly, it's also a shock not because of the momentous nature of this event or the size of the crowd. It's a shock because unlike many of you, I'm a Republican. 40 years ago, I cast my first vote for president, voting republican that day like I would do time and again. I haven't just voted Republican, I worked in President Reagan's White House. I recently led an effort to place a statue of Ronald Reagan in California's Capitol. I am here tonight to say, I knew Ronald Reagan. I worked for Ronald Reagan. Donald trump, you are no Ronald Reagan. President Reagan famously said "Tear down this wall," Trump says "Build the wall" because that will make America great again? Reagan saw nuance, and Trump sees the world as us versus them, where somebody with brown skin or a foreign-sounding name is likely to blame for our troubles. Reagan knew that a leader needs diplomacy to steer a safe, prosperous course forward. Trump is a petulant, dangerously unbalanced, reality star who will coddle tyrants and alienate allies. I shudder to think where he might lead our great nation. Fortunately, I don't believe he'll get that chance. While Hillary holds many policy positions that differ from my own, her qualifications are indisputable. Hillary knows that our strength of a nation lies in uniting, not dividing. This year's Republican platform is the most alarming I've ever seen. It's laced with anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-women positions that do not represent the views of most Americans. That is why this year, I will vote for a Democrat for the first time. To my fellow Republicans, if you believe like I do, you believe loyalty to our country is more important than loyalty to party, if you want a president with good judgment, a steady hand, and a temperament to represent our nation to the world, and our children, I ask you to join me in voting for Hillary Clinton as president of the United States. Thank you.
[Cooper:] This is Jennifer Pierotti Lim. She's a with an organization "GOP Women for Hillary."
[Jennifer Pierotti Lim, "republican Women For Hillary":] One of my first memories is standing outside our Richmond, Virginia polling place with my dad to hand out campaign literature in support of our chosen candidates, our chosen Republican candidates. When it comes to campaigning, I've done it all, phone banked voters and knocked on so many doors. I bet a lot of you do did the same. One difference though, I campaigned exclusively for the GOP until this election. I voted Republican my entire life. I believe in the bedrock values of the Republican Party, liberty, equality and the belief that there are individual rights that cannot be taken away. These are values to be proud of. And because the Republican Party has abandoned those values this year, this Republican is voting for Hillary Clinton. In Donald Trump's America, it doesn't matter what I've accomplished as an attorney and policy expert. All that matters is how attractive I am on a scale of one to 10. Trump's loathsome comments about women and our appearances are too many to repeat and too crass to repeat. They are too important to ignore, though. Trump can discount our accomplishments, he can disrespect our abilities, but come November, he cannot disregard our votes. There are some who will say I am voting for Hillary Clinton because she's a woman. People who say that dismiss my voice and Hillary's long record of public service. And I know there are some who are contemplating staying home this November. Your voice can help define the next chapter of American values, American policy, American leadership around the world, for better or for worse. I'm here tonight to ask all of you to join me to not only oppose Donald Trump, but to support Hillary Clinton. Because we're not just Democrats and Republicans, we're Americans. Thank you.
[Cooper:] Coming up next, Sheriff Lupe Valdez from Texas the only female Hispanic sheriff in the United States. She was previously an officer in the U.S. Army, which became the captain after that. Jennifer Loudon, a widow when Chicago police officer killed in 2010.
[Sherriff Lupe Valdez, Dallas County, Texas:] Good evening. I am the youngest of eight children born to migrant workers. When I told my father that I was going to join the police, he got angry. You see, he and my older brothers had been beaten by the police for no legitimate reason, but I stuck with my decision. Years later, whenever I visited, he'd show my badge off to all his friends. He saw the good I was doing, and he was proud of me. And I am proud of my fellow officers. When my officers when my officers report for duty, they have no idea what might come up that day. When they respond to a domestic violence call, they don't know whether a victim or an abuser with a gun will meet him at the door. When they stop a vehicle, they have no idea whether the driver is racing to the hospital to deliver a baby or fleeing the scene of a crime. They don't know whether the next 911 call will be their last, but they keep answering the call. They keep putting their lives on the line. They are doing the best they can to protect our communities. We put on our badge every day to serve and protect, not to hate and discriminate. We lost five officers in Dallas. They were killed as they were protecting citizens protesting the police. It's been a tough time for law enforcement communities all across America who have lost officers to violence. I've been trying to make some kind of sense out of it, but violence is not the answer. Yelling, screaming and calling each other names is not going to do it. Talking within your own group in your own language only where our groups understands leads nowhere. We have to start listening to each other. My deputies work hard to reach out to the community we serve. We attend all sorts of events, Ramadan, Cinco de Mayo, Juneteenth, Pride, veterans' parade, Irish festivals, you name it. We show up, and some of my officers are uncomfortable at first, but the only way to serve your community is to know your community. Last Sunday last Sunday after working in the morning, I went in uniform to meet my partner for lunch at a nice restaurant. As I handed the server my credit card, he smiled and said that at least four tables had offered to pay for our meal. My girlfriend and I both teared up. There wasn't a single person in that restaurant that I personally knew. The people of Dallas that even know, that even though our men and women in uniform are hurting, we never stop doing the job. Please help me in honor of all of American's fallen officers with a moment of silence. I am privileged to introduce to you some of the family members of our fallen officers, Wayne Walker, Wayne and Barbara Owens and Jennifer Loudon.
[Wayne Walker, Mother Of Officer Moses Walker Junior:] Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. For 19 years, my son, Moses Walker, protected us as a Philadelphia police officer. Every morning, for 19 years, Moses put on his uniform. One morning on the way home from the third shift, he was shot and killed. At Moses' living room, I found a pile of wrapped Christmas presents. It was in August, but Moses, he always thought ahead. He bought gifts for relatives, for single parents, for strangers down on their luck. One of these presents didn't even have a name on it. I still have it. Moses didn't live long enough to give all of the gifts he had to give. While we're here, we must do the good we can. Absolutely, we have to believe that we're stronger together. Thank you. Thank you, John.
[Barbara Owens, Mother Of Derek Owens:] We hear a lot about the problems in big cities. Our son Derek Owens joined the Cleveland police force to be part of the solution. His wife worked mornings, so he was the one who combed his daughter's hair. His friends joked and said he made it harder for the other dads because he did such a good job. After Derek was killed, we heard from so many people about his positive influence. One woman said that when she was a troubled teenager, Derek saw in her what she couldn't see in herself, and because of him, she's a better mother. Thank you. This was just one of the many stories we heard. Derek has left a legacy of service, integrity and love, and we we never want the sacrifice of Derek and all of the other fallen officers to ever be forgotten. Thank you.
[Jennifer Loudon, Thor Soderberg's Wife:] My husband and best friend, Thor Soderberg joined the Chicago police to help people. Once, he'd got a call about a boy who had stolen a belt. The boy only had a rope to keep his pants up. Thor negotiated and the charges were dropped. He also paid for the belt. He did not want that boy to start his life with a record. Thor knew that every interaction he had mattered, that every word he spoke and yes, even every arrest he made defined what it meant to serve and protect. He knew effective policing required treating people with kindness and respect, especially when he was most often called to their worst moments. When I lost Thor, I had no idea it was possible to lose so much and an entire lifetime much less than a single moment. And I know that in light of recent events, some of us have lost faith. But I want all Americans to know about Moses, Derek, Thor and all the officers out there who every day risk their lives protecting all of us. Let us honor all of the fallen officers who weren't named here today, but acting as our officers did, helping others, bridging communities and building peace. Thank you.