The democrats will be looking to show unity tonight. Many Bernie Sanders supporters have voiced their discontent with clintons nomination since day one of the convention. Well be be looking to see whether or not those voices have been quelled. John, to the degree you can hear me in that room, what do you expect to be the focus for tim kaine tonight . Carl, tim kaine will introduce himself on the National Stage as a jesuiteducated kid from a blue collar family, grew up in kansas city. Hes going to make the case about why average americans can trust Hillary Clinton and why they cant trust donald trump. When you compare this speech to indiana governor mike pence last week, john, i think pence had a lot of heavy lifting to do. Remember he was the guy who had to prove the conservative bona fide to the rnc. Tim kaine doesnt have that same issue here. Hillary clinton, theres no question about her liberal bona fide at this point. Hes just got to introduce himself to the country because hes not a household name. Michelle, think about the air cover on that front that tim kaine has gotten, elizabeth warren, Bernie Sanders, Michelle Obama, Vice President biden and later youre going to hear from president obama. So tim kaine does not have to work that hard to try to unify the party. That work has mostly been done. Hes got to introduce himself and hes going to show that he is willing to go aggressively after donald trump in a way that Vice President ial candidates often do. People have wondered whether tim kaine is a very genial guy, was going to be up for that task. What did you think, john, about mayor bloombergs speech just moments ago . I thought mayor bloomberg was extremely effective in the same way that del miller democratic politician from georgia was a dozen years ago when he went after the democratic nominee john kerry at george bushs convention. Mike bloomberg spoke as an independent urging independents to fall behind Hillary Clinton. He said, lets elect the same competent candidate. He also went after donald trump from the standpoint of a very successful businessman. He he said, i started a business, but i didnt start it with a Million Dollar check from my father. The richest thing he said about donald trump is his hypocrisy as one businessman going after another wealthy businessman, thats strong stuff. He got a lot of huge cheers. Another moment is when he said, listen, im from new york, and i know a con when i see one. And that also got a huge round of applause here from the audience. Yeah. As bloomberg said, very few of us can speak of those of us who have our names on the door. John, it seems like tonight we had panetta going after trumps diplomacy, we had Vice President biden talking about his compassion, and then bloomberg going after trumps business acumen. Does tonight feel more muscular than prior nights this week, especially coming off of that performance of broadway singers singing what the world needs now is love . Yes. Theyre making the case against donald trump, but i think that were going to hear something a little more modulated from president obama in his speech. But, yes, certainly they decided that some of the earlier speakers were going to go very hard after him. Le hen panetta brought up Donald Trumps invitation to russians to hack Hillary Clintons email. Thats something that was striking. He said that he made the case that donald trump was not fit to be commander in chief. In fact, an admiral was on earlier saying donald trump is not fit to polish john mccains boots. That was some of the strongest rhetoric weve heard. Leon panettas speech was the one moment where once again we saw the potential disunity here when he was speaking at one point saying america should not withdraw from the world, bernie sande erers supporter eer chant march war. Michelle, i believe Vice President ial nominee tim kaine is going to the stage right behind you guys. Lets listen in. Thank you, everybody. Hello, philadelphia hello, democratic family. I want to start off, my three wonderful children, nat woody and anella. Theyre sitting right up there. You know, my son nat deployed with his Marine Battalion just two days ago. He deployed overseas to protect and defend the very nato allies that donald trump says he now wants to abandon. Semper fi, nat semper fi my parents and my inlaws are here, our siblings and their spouses, our nieces and nephews, and hundreds of friends from virginia and beyond. I love seeing you front and cent center. Including my friend of 37 years, senior senator mark warner, my great Governor Terry mcauliffe, and my great friend and congressman bobby scott. We love you all. Today, for my wife ann and every strong woman in this country, for nat, woody and anella and every young person starting out in life to make their own dreams real, for every man and woman serving our country in the military, at home or abroad, for every working family working hard to get ahead and stay ahead, for my parents and inlaws and every Senior Citizen who hopes for a dignified retirement with health care and research to end diseases like alzheimer alzheimers, for every american who wants our country to be a beloved community where people arent demeaned because of who they are but rather respected for their contributions to this nation and for all of us who know that the brightest future for our country is the one that we build together and for my friend Hillary Clinton, i humbly accept my partys nomination to be Vice President of the United States. Thank you can i be honest with you about something . Can i be honest with you about something . I never expected to be here. But let me tell you how it happened. I was born in minnesota and grew up in kansas city. My folks werent much into politics. My dad ran a union iron working shop in the stockyards, and my mom was his best salesman. My two brothers and i pitched in to work during summers and weekends, and, you know, thats how small Family Businesses do it. My parents al and kathy here tonight and going strong, they taught me about hard work and about kindness and most especially about faith. I went to a jesuit boys high school, rockers high school. Wow, thats a big line for the jesuits. Now, we had a motto in my school, men for others. And it was there that my faith became something vital, my north star for orienting my life. And when i Left High School i knew that i wanted to battle for social justice like so many of you. Like so many of you. Thats why i took a year off from law school to volunteer with jesuit missionaries in honduras. I taught kids how to be welders and carpenters. [ speaking spanish ] faith, family, and work. Faith, family, and work. [ speaking spanish ] and let me tell you what really struck me there. I got a firsthand look at a different system, a dictatorship, a dictatorship, where a few people at the top had all of the power and everybody else got left out. Now, that convinced me that weve got to advance opportunity for everybody no matter where you come from, how much money you have, what you look like, how you worship or who you love. Back in 1970 in virginia, a republican governor named Lynnwood Holton believed exactly the same thing. He integrated virginia Public Schools so black and white kids could finally learn together, and then the family enrolled their own kids, including his daughter ann, in those integrated inner city schools. Many years later, ann went off to college and she brought those lessons from that pivotal time with her and then one day in a study group she met this goofy guy who had been off teaching kids in honduras. Well, ann and i have now been married almost 32 years, and i am the luckiest husband in the wor world. You know, let me tell you something. Anns parents lynn and jinx are here today 90plus and going strong. 90plus and going strong. Lynnwood holton, hes still a republican, but hes voting for an awful lot of democrats these days. An awful lot of democrats. And heres why. Hes voting for democrats because any party that would nominate donald trump for president has moved too far away from his party of lincoln. And i tell you, if any of you are looking for that party of lincoln, weve got a home for you right here in the Democratic Party lynnwoods example helped inspire me as a civil rights lawyer over 17 years i be took on banks, landlords, real estate firms, local governments, anybody who treated anybody unfairly. I had a sixyear case against an Insurance Company that was discriminating against minority neighborhoods all across the United States in issuing homeowners insurance. Folks, democratic friends, these are the battles that i have fought my entire life. And thats the story of how i decided to run for office. My city of richmond was divided and discouraged in the early 1990s. We had an epidemic of gun violence that was overwhelming our low income neighborhoods. People were pointing fingers and casting blame instead of finding answers. And i couldnt stand it. So i ran for city council, and i won that first race more than 20 years ago by a landslide margin of 94 votes. And ive said ever since, if im good at anything in politics, its because i started at the local level, listening to people, learning about their lives, and trying to get results. I see a mayor here who knows what im talking about. Later i became mayor of richmond, lieutenant governor, and then the 70th governor of virginia. Now, i was a hard times governor. I had to steer my state through the deepest recession since the 1930s. But, hey, tough times dont last and tough people do. And can i tell you that virg villa virginians are tough people . We are tough people. And were smart, too. We achieved National Recognition for our work, best managed state, best state for business, best state for a child to be raised, low unemployment, high median income. We shed tears along the way. We shed tears especially together in the days after that horrible mass shooting at Virginia Tech that killed 32 people from beautiful 19yearold students to 70plusyearold romanianborn holocaust survivors. And we shed tears and held each other up. But afterwards we rolled up our sleeves and we fixed a loophole in the background records check system so we could make our commonwealth safer, and weve got to do that in the nation. We invested in our people, expanding prek and higher ed because we all know in this room that education is the key to all we want to be. All we want to be be. And now i have the honor of representing my commonwealth in the u. S. Senate. I work on the Arms Services and Foreign Relations committees to keep us safe at home and strong in the world. I work on the Budget Committee with our great democratic leader of that committee, a spectacular senator who used to be a mayor in vermont be, Bernie Sanders. And [ crowd chanting bernie, bernie ] everybody, we all should feel the bern and we should all not want to get burned by the other guy. On that Budget Committee under bernies leadership we fight for investments in education, health care, research, transportation, and i also serve on the aging committee to make sure that seniors like my folks have a secure retirement and dont get targeted by ripoff artists who will scam them out of their savings or overcharge them for prescription drugs. Can i tell you a funny thing about the senate . Can i tell you a funny thing about the senate . That sounds like a yes. I spend a lot of time with republican senators who once they have made sure that nobody is listening will tell you how fantastic a senator that Hilary Clinton was. Now, look, this journey that ive told you about has convinced me over and over again that god has created in our country a beautiful and rich tapestry, an incredible Cultural Diversity that succeeds when we embrace everybody in love and battle back against the forces, the dark forces, of division. Were all neighbors, and we must love our neighbors as ourselves. Now, Hillary Clinton and i [ speaking spanish ] and we share this basic belief. Its simple. Do all the good you can and serve one another. Pretty simple. Pretty simple. Thats what im about. Thats what youre about. Thats what Bernie Sanders is about. Thats what joe and jill biden are about. Thats what barack and Michelle Obama are about. And thats what Hillary Clinton is about. [ speaking spanish ] yes, we can. Yes, we can. Yes, we can. Hey, last week in cleveland, we heard a lot about trust. So lets talk about trust. Lets talk about trust. I want to tell you why i trust Hillary Clinton. First, shes consistent. She has battled to put kids and Families First since she was a teenager, in good times and bad, in victory and defeat, in and out of office, through hell or high water, fighting for underprivileged kids, working at the childrens defense fund, fighting to get Health Insurance for 8 million low income children when she was first lady, fighting for the wellbeing of women and children around the world. Hey, can i offer you a little tip . When you want to know something about the character of somebody in public life, look to see if they have a passion that began long before they were in office and that they have consistently held it throughout their career. Do they have a passion . Did it start before they were in office . Have they held on to it consistently . Folks, hillary has a passion for kids and families. Donald trump has a passion, too. Its himself and with hillary its not just words. Its accomplishments. She delivers. As senator after 9 11 i got my new yorkers right here and my virginians right here, she battled Congressional Republicans to care for the First Responders who went into the towers, who went into the pentagon and saved the victims of those terrorist attacks. As secretary of state, she implemented tough sanctions against iran to pave the way for a diplomatic breakthrough to curtail a Nuclear Weapons program. And she wasnt afraid. She wasnt frayed. She wasnt afraid to stand up against thugs and dictators and as a key part of the Obama National security team, they decided to go to the ends of the earth to wipe out osama bin laden. Hey, do you all remember karla, the little girl we heard from on monday night who was worried that her parents would be deported . Karla said she trusts hillary to keep them together. And do you remember the mothers of the Movement Last night . They said they trust hillary to keep other mothers sons and daughters safe. And on a personal level, as hes serving our nation abroad, i trust Hillary Clinton with our sons life. Now, you know who i dont trust . Hmm, i wonder. Donald trump. Donald trump. Trump is a guy who promises a lot but you might have noticed hes got a way of saying the same two words every time he makes his biggest, hugest promises. Believe me. Its going to be great, believe me. Were going to build a wall and make mexico pay for it, believe me. Were going to destroy isis so fast, believe me. Theres nothing suspicious in my tax returns, believe me. By the way, does anybody in this massive auditorium believe that Donald Trumps been paying his fair share of taxes . Does anybody here believe that trump ought to release his tax ru returns just like every other president ial candidate in modern history . Of course he should. Hey, donald, what are you hiding . And yet donald still says, believe me. Believe me. Believe me . Believe me . I mean, heres the thing. Most people when they run for president , they dont just say believe me, they respect you enough to tell you how they will get things done. I mean, thats what most people who run for president do. In fact, you can go on hilaryclinton. Com right now and find out exactly how shell make the biggest investment in new jobs in a generation, how shell defend and build on wall street reform, how shell reform our immigration system to create a path to citizenship, how shell make it possible to graduate from college debtfree. You can see how shell protect roe v. Wade, guarantee equal pay for women and make paid family leave a reality. All it takes is one click. All it takes is one click. And we can see how shell do it, how shell pay for it, and how well benefit by it. Not donald trump. Not donald trump. He never tells you how hes going to do any of the things hes hell do. He just says, believe me. So heres the question. Heres the question. Do you really believe him . I mean, Donald Trumps whole career says you better not. Small contractors, Companies Just like my dads, believed him when he said hed pay them to build a casino in atlantic city. They did the work. They hung the drywall. They poured the concrete. But a year after opening, trump filed for bankruptcy. He walked away with millions, and they got pennies on the dollar. Some of them went out of business. All because they believed donald trump. Retirees and families in florida, they believed donald trump when he said that hed build them some condos, thousands of them. They paid their deposits. But the condos, they were never built. He just poc