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Democratic convention live: Obama, Biden and mass shooting survivors to speak Democratic convention live: Obama, Biden and mass shooting survivors to speak
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Here’s the lineup of speakers on deck:
RemarksKristen Kavanaugh
Kristen Kavanaugh is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a former Marine Corps Captain who deployed to Iraq. She later co-founded the Military Acceptance Project, a California-based social justice organization dedicated to promoting acceptance of marginalized populations within the military.
RemarksFormer Congressman and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta
RemarksU.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (Ohio)
Introduction of SpeakerDr. Jill Biden
RemarksVice President Joe Biden
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Hutson s interrupted – is that the California delegation? – it’s a chant.
“I can’t hear what they’re saying,” Hutson says.
We can’t either, they’re on the other side of this big arena.
He goes back to his speech, which now concludes:
“When you’re a citizen you have the responsibility to choose the commander-in-chief who will keep us safe, strong and secure. Choose Hillary.”
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And now the 2016 Democratic convention is applauding the 2008 Republican nominee. Hutson on Trump:
He even mocks our POWs, like John McCain. I served in the same navy as John McCain. I used to vote in the same party as John McCain. Donald, you’re not fit to polish John McCain’s boots!
They like the line.
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Next up is retired Admiral John Hutson. “Unlike Donald Trump there are two things I know an awful lot about: law and order,” he begins. He was 30 years in the navy and a judge advocate general.
“Donald Trump calls himself the ‘law and order candidate’ but he’ll violate international law... this morning, this very morning, he personally invited Russia to hack us! That’s not law and order. That’s criminal intent.”
Hutson isn’t an electrifying speaker, but he enjoys a crowd deeply sympathetic to the argument he’s making:
The real disaster is what would happen if we let Donald Trump become the face of the country we love.
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Now they’re screening a video titled Solemn Responsibility, featuring a great number of national security figures, from right and left, saying Trump is not fit to be commander in chief and definitely not to have the nuclear codes. Here’s the video:
Who would have predicted four years ago that a video clip of Mitt Romney would air at the DNC as a validation against the R nominee?
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Onstage is unfolding an extraordinary musical number. A tremendous line of recording artists doing a rendition of What the World Needs Now Is Love – lyrics by Hal David, composed by Burt Bacharach.
The crowd is overwhelmed with the vibe. When they wrap, the cheer exceeds any yet on the night – maybe the whole convention. Long lines of delegates were clasping raised hands and swaying.
Now they chant:
Love trumps hate!
Love trumps hate!
Love trumps hate!
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NRA releases new ad attacking Clinton
Lois Beckett
As survivors and family members of victims from four different mass shootings speak in support of Hillary Clinton tonight, the National Rifle Association is preparing to release a new Clinton attack ad claiming that “you right to own a gun for self-defense is at risk in this election.”
The ad features Kimberly Corban, a rape survivor and gun rights advocate.
“The thought of owning a handgun terrified me, until one morning, a stranger broke into my apartment, and raped me. He had evil in his eyes, and I was helpless,” Corban says in the ad.
“My fear of firearms disappeared when I got my second chance at life.”
“Self defense is your right. Don’t let it be taken away,” Corban says.
The NRA ad will air starting on Thursday on national cable, and will also run digitally in battleground states.
Corban was one of the gun rights advocates who questioned the president during Obama’s CNN town hall on guns in January.
“As a survivor of rape, and now a mother to two small children -- you know, it seems like being able to purchase a firearm of my choosing, and being able to carry that wherever my -- me and my family are -- it seems like my basic responsibility as a parent at this point,” she told Obama.
“Why can’t your administration see that these restrictions that you’re putting to make it harder for me to own a gun, or harder for me to take that where I need to be is actually just making my kids and I less safe?”
“Well, Kimberly, first of all, obviously -- you know, your story is horrific. The strength you’ve shown in telling your story and, you know, being here tonight is remarkable, and so -- really proud of you for that,” Obama responded.
“I just want to repeat that there’s nothing that we’ve proposed that would make it harder for you to purchase a firearm.”
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More Giffords:
In Congress I learned a powerful weapon. Strong women get things done....
In the White House she will stand up to the gun lobby. That’s why I’m voting for Hilary.
Speaking is difficult for me. But come January, I want to say these two words: Madam president.
Thank you very much.
The crowd can’t clap enthusiastically enough. And Giffords walks off and waves the whole way. The audience applauds until she disappears.
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Kelly introduces Giffords, “someone who has taught me to deny the acceptance of failure. Someone who doesn’t give up. And someone who believes, like Hillary does, that we are all Stronger Together.”
My wife, my wife, the awesome congresswoman Gabby Giffords.
The delegates are on their feet. Giffords walks out slowly, unaided. She smiles and waves, smiles and waves.
The crowd cheers and cheers, it gets louder and louder when Giffords arrives at the lectern.
Fellow Democrats! she says.
Huge cheer.
What a crowd!
We have work ahead of us. Work that will determine the future of our country. Are you ready?
Yeah!
Are you ready?
Yeah!
Are you ready?
Yeah!
I’m ready.
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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.”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.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.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.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.”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.Basset introduces Felicia Sanders & Polly Sheppard, survivors of the Charleston shooting.
Sanders says she rejects hate:Sanders says she rejects hate:
“It destroys those who harbor it. I refuse to let it destroy me.”“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.“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: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.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.Here now is astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of Gabby Giffords.
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Wikileaks releases DNC voicemails – ReutersWikileaks releases DNC voicemails – Reuters
We haven’t heard the audio files yet. Developing...We haven’t heard the audio files yet. Developing...
BREAKING: WikiLeaks releases hacked audio recordings of Democratic National Committee voicemails. https://t.co/xzq9hzldIqBREAKING: 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.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: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 BassettRemarksActress Angela Bassett
RemarksFelicia Sanders & Polly SheppardRemarksFelicia Sanders & Polly Sheppard
Felicia and Polly are two of the three survivors of the Mother Emanuel Church shooting in Charleston, SC.Felicia and Polly are two of the three survivors of the Mother Emanuel Church shooting in Charleston, SC.
RemarksGabby Giffords & Mark KellyRemarksGabby Giffords & Mark Kelly
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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'
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! (?)
“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.”
“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:
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.
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.”
“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.
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
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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:
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:
It’s time to put a bully in his place, and a tough woman in hers (pause) -- The White House!
Hillary Clinton, Tim Kaine --
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?