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| Democratic convention live: Obama, Biden and mass shooting survivors to speak | |
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| Kelly notes he’s a son of two cops and a veteran of dozens of combat operations, and a former astronaut. He says from his unique perspective he has scene the country at its best and worst. “From orbit, I saw our planet as a perfect blue marble.. but I also saw expanding deserts and shrinking rain forests.” | |
| Just as Hillary is prepared to defeat Isis... Hillary is ready to take on one of our country’s greatest moral failures here at home, and that is the gun violence that is tearing so many of our communities apart. | |
| We have to do better. And Hillary knows we can. | |
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| Here’s Angela Bassett, the actress, who names the victims of the mass shooting inside Charleston AME church in South Carolina. | |
| I visited Charleston this year, and I can tell you that city’s soul is on fire. It burns with resilience... it brought down the confederate flag and it brings the Charleston community closer together every day.” | |
| Basset introduces Felicia Sanders & Polly Sheppard, survivors of the Charleston shooting. | |
| Sanders says she rejects hate: | |
| “It destroys those who harbor it. I refuse to let it destroy me.” | |
| “No one should feel what I’ve seen. No one should feel how we feel. How we suffered. The Bible tells us... turn from our wicked ways. .. Let us heed God’s word, and in turn may God heal our nation. | |
| Sheppard: | |
| Amen. The shooter in Charleston had hate in his heart. Orlando and Dallas too. So much hate, too much. But as scripture says, love never fails. I choose love. And in this election, I choose Hillary Clinton. | |
| Here now is astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of Gabby Giffords. | |
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| Wikileaks releases DNC voicemails – Reuters | |
| We haven’t heard the audio files yet. Developing... | |
| BREAKING: WikiLeaks releases hacked audio recordings of Democratic National Committee voicemails. https://t.co/xzq9hzldIq | |
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| Now here is former Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, who served on the president’s special police reform commission, to talk about the need to stop violence against police officers. | |
| The lineup to follow forges more and more deeply into the theme of the country’s failure to get gun violence under control: | |
| RemarksActress Angela Bassett | |
| RemarksFelicia Sanders & Polly Sheppard | |
| Felicia and Polly are two of the three survivors of the Mother Emanuel Church shooting in Charleston, SC. | |
| RemarksGabby Giffords & Mark Kelly | |
| Updated | |
| at 1.06am BST | |
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| Smegielski says she should be watching at home on TV, with her mom. | |
| “But, my mom was murdered, so I’m here.” | |
| “I’m here alone, without my mother, while too many politicians cower behind the gun lobby instead of standing with American families.” | |
| The crowd stands to applaud. | |
| “What we need is another mother who’s willing to do what’s right, whose bravery can live up in equal measure to my mom’s. What we need is to elect Hillary Clinton... so that no other daughter ever has to say, I would give every single day that I have left for just one more day with my mom.” | |
| The crowd applauds, but the speech is a gut-punch. There’s a downbeat muted quality to the clapping. | |
| "I would give every single day that I have left for just one more day with my mom." —Erica Smegielski https://t.co/WVhAk7POo5 | |
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| Murphy gives a pretty fired-up speech. Enough, he says. “We have had enough.” The crowd chants with him too. | |
| Next up is Erica Smegielski, whose mother, Dawn Hochsprung, was the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary and was killed while trying to protect her students. | |
| There’s a video to introduce her: | |
| “We waited and waited and waited. And they told us, if you’re in this room, it’s because your family member’s not coming out.” | |
| “Hillary Clinton is the only candidate that has what it takes to take on the gun lobby” – the line is applauded. “There’s finally someone who can change things.” | |
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| Here’s Connecticut senator Chris Murphy to talk about the massacre in Newtown and efforts to advance gun safety legislation. | |
| “I am furious,” he says. “I am furious that in three years in Sandy Hook... the Republican congress has done absolutely nothing to prevent the next massacre. It stokes inside me a sense of outage that I’ve never felt before. And that’s what drove me to stand on the floor of the United States senate for 15 hours to demand change.” | |
| Murphy says that Clinton “held firm” against the gun lobby, “stood up to the NRA.” | |
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| Leinonen: | |
| Christopher was a big Hilary supporter. That’s why I’m here. So I can tell you about the day he was born. | |
| At the time she was a Michigan state trooper. When she went into labor, the hospital put her gun in a safe, she says. | |
| I didn’t argue. I know that common sense gun policies save lies. The weapon that murdered my son fires 30 rounds in one minute... one minute for a gun to fire so man shots. | |
| Five minutes for a bell to honor so many lives. | |
| I’m glad common sense gun policy was in place when Christopher was born. But where was that common sense the day he died. | |
| I never want you to ask that question about your child,” she says. “That’s why I support Hillary Clinton. | |
| She’s hugged by her son’s friends. Lee Daniels is still onstage and hugs them. They leave the stage arm-in-arm to a great wave of applause. | |
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| Mother of Orlando victim appears | |
| Now here is Christine Leinonen, Brandon Wolf and Jose Arraigada. | |
| The crowd, which had been loud, is shushed. | |
| Christine Leinonen is the mother of Christopher “Drew” Leinonen, who was killed in the Pulse attack in Orlando. | |
| She is speaking on the verge of tears, with a hard twist in her life. | |
| “Christopher was my only child. As I used to tell him, you can’t do better than perfect.” | |
| Brandon Wolf and Jose Arraigada are survivors of the attack at the nightclub in Orlando. | |
| Leinonen says that in high school, her son won the Anne Frank award for starting a gay-straight alliance. | |
| His paternal grandparents met and fell in love in a Japanese internment camp, so it was in his DNA that love always trumps hate. | |
| This line is applauded for a long time. | |
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| Director Lee Daniels (Precious, The Butler) is next. He talks about a number of family members who have been to jail, and his father, a police officer shot dead in Philadelphia. | |
| He says, in part: | |
| Hillary has stood with families of people who have died due to gun violence... I wish she was around for me when my father died. | |
| Hillary understands our right to bear guns, but wants to stop guns from getting into the wrong hands... | |
| This is the most important election of our lifetime. Come November, vote for her. | |
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| Jerry Brown: Donald Trump is a lying 'fraud' | Jerry Brown: Donald Trump is a lying 'fraud' |
| Now here’s Jerry Brown, the California governor. | Now here’s Jerry Brown, the California governor. |
| What is it that the California delegation is chanting? We can’t quite make it out. Is that Jerry! Jerry! (?) | What is it that the California delegation is chanting? We can’t quite make it out. Is that Jerry! Jerry! (?) |
| “That sounds good,” he says. “But I only got five minutes. I got to get going here.” | “That sounds good,” he says. “But I only got five minutes. I got to get going here.” |
| His remarks focus on climate change. He describes a “world imperative to take action.” | His remarks focus on climate change. He describes a “world imperative to take action.” |
| “But you wouldn’t know it by listening to Donald Trump,” Brown says. He notes that Trump never once mentioned climate change or global warming at the Republican convention. | “But you wouldn’t know it by listening to Donald Trump,” Brown says. He notes that Trump never once mentioned climate change or global warming at the Republican convention. |
| Some strong lines: | Some strong lines: |
| Trump says global warming is a hoax. I say Trump is a fraud. | Trump says global warming is a hoax. I say Trump is a fraud. |
| Trumps says there’s no drought in California. I say Trump lies. | Trumps says there’s no drought in California. I say Trump lies. |
| So it’s not surprising that Trump chose as his running mate a man who denies evolution. | So it’s not surprising that Trump chose as his running mate a man who denies evolution. |
| He says the Republicans and Trump “have strayed into sheer ignorance and dark fantasy.” | He says the Republicans and Trump “have strayed into sheer ignorance and dark fantasy.” |
| “While Trump talks and talks and talks,” Brown says, “Trump says stuff.” | “While Trump talks and talks and talks,” Brown says, “Trump says stuff.” |
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| For all the talk of unity in the hall and streets, the fact remains that there is an ugly undercurrent – at times it surfaces – of antipathy directed at the first woman to be nominated for president by a major party. | For all the talk of unity in the hall and streets, the fact remains that there is an ugly undercurrent – at times it surfaces – of antipathy directed at the first woman to be nominated for president by a major party. |
| One example is right downstairs from the press risers, in a men’s restroom. | One example is right downstairs from the press risers, in a men’s restroom. |
| This is a bathroom right now inside the arena that is hosting the third night of the Democratic National Convention. pic.twitter.com/zSEFLNX0Wx | This is a bathroom right now inside the arena that is hosting the third night of the Democratic National Convention. pic.twitter.com/zSEFLNX0Wx |
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| Sigourney Weaver is next, but the Hollywood actress simply cannot equal the undiluted star power of Martin O’Malley. | Sigourney Weaver is next, but the Hollywood actress simply cannot equal the undiluted star power of Martin O’Malley. |
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| O'Malley kills | O'Malley kills |
| O’Malley: | O’Malley: |
| Unlike that immigrant-bashing, carnival barker, Donald Trump... Hillary Clinton understands the enduring symbol of the United States of America is not the barbed wire fence... it is the Statue of Liberty! | Unlike that immigrant-bashing, carnival barker, Donald Trump... Hillary Clinton understands the enduring symbol of the United States of America is not the barbed wire fence... it is the Statue of Liberty! |
| And then O’Malley gets the biggest applause of the night so far, with a line about Trump being a bully: | And then O’Malley gets the biggest applause of the night so far, with a line about Trump being a bully: |
| It’s time to put a bully in his place, and a tough woman in hers (pause) -- The White House! | It’s time to put a bully in his place, and a tough woman in hers (pause) -- The White House! |
| Hillary Clinton, Tim Kaine -- | Hillary Clinton, Tim Kaine -- |
| Forward together -- Stronger Together! | Forward together -- Stronger Together! |
| The crowd roars and everybody waves whatever’s in their hands, in many cases Clinton signs. O’Malley positively gleams. Then he does a jig as he walks offstage! Make ’em laugh, knock ’em dead and dance ’em home. Who is this guy? | The crowd roars and everybody waves whatever’s in their hands, in many cases Clinton signs. O’Malley positively gleams. Then he does a jig as he walks offstage! Make ’em laugh, knock ’em dead and dance ’em home. Who is this guy? |