Day, i hear stories just like my own. Hope. I have there is a growing awareness about the impact of human growing thethat is strength of survivors in our communities and businesses. And this growing commitment to finding a solution to make sure this generation of survivors will be the last. [applause] hope, especially that Hillary Clinton is becoming president , as a survivor and an advocate, i have hope that we can end human trafficking. Thank you. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome former secretary of state, madeleine albright. [applause] thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much. My fellow americans, good evening. 68 years ago during a time of grave danger, democrats gathered in philadelphia to nominate a tough, smart, experienced president ial candidate. A child in, i was europe where i lived in fear because my native czechoslovakia had been taken over by communists. Within a few months, my family found that age in america and harry truman became my First American president [applause] tonight, in philadelphia, we nominated someone with trumans fighting spirit to be our next president , Hillary Clinton. [applause] and this fall, we must do everything we can to make sure hillary becomes our next commander in chief. [applause] because in this era with this stress, we need a leader who has the arians and judgment to keep andica strong, secure, safe. I know Hillary Clinton will be that president because i have known her from when a 25 years, because ive seen her fight and win. \ when hillary was first lady, we the beijing womens conference and she spoke out on behalf of human rights and women rights. Where i showedue her the city of my birth and cabbage. Eat check which she didnt like very much. And when hillary served as secretary of state, i watched her partner with president obama to restore our countrys reputation around the world. Fought terrorism, stopped the spread of nuclear weapons, and promoted diplomacy, defense, development and democracy, smart power in every corner of the world. As i travel around the world today, im reminded how important it is that the person who represents our nation as trusted by our allys. And i share a few things in common. We both went to relatively college. Andre both mothers grandmothers. So i know where she got her management skills. We are both very proud of our daughters and grandsons so we must have done something right. We also know what its like to step off that plane with the Words United States of america on the. She knows safeguarding freedom and security is now like hosting a tv reality show. Complex, roundtheclock job that demands not only a butdy hand and a cool head a big heart. You are not just representing yourself, you are there for all of us. Hillary has displayed these qualities every job shes ever had and last week in cleveland, we were reminded that her up from it possesses none of those. Many have argued that donald would harm our National Security if he were elected president. The fact is he has already done damage just by running for president. [cheers and applause] he has undermined our fight but alienatingsm our muslim partners, he has weekend arts ending in the world walk awaytening to from our friends and allies and by encouraging more countries to get nuclear weapons. Donald trump also has a strange admiration for dictators. About Vladimir Putin, donald trump said in terms of leadership, hes getting an a. A trumpet victory in november would the a gift to Vladimir Putin and given what we have learned about the russians ration actions, Vladimir Putin win. To see when [applause] and that should worry every american. Take it from someone who fled the iron curtain. I know what happens when you give the russians a green light. Trumps dark vision of america, one thats isolated in the world and alienated from our allies would be a disaster. We must make sure this never happens. We must elect Hillary Clinton as our next president. At the age of 11, i sailed past the statue of liberty and started my life in the worlds greatest democracy. I am so grateful to our country and i am supporting Hillary Clinton because i love it. God bless america and god bless the american people. A road to the white house coverage continues today, in the morning Donald Trump Holds a news conference. We have it live on cspan 2. In the afternoon mr. Trump and his running mate, governor pence will be live at 3 00 p. M. Eastern and also live on cspan 2. Hillary clinton received the formal nomination of the Democratic Party yesterday. She responded in a facebook next simply says, history. The nomination makes they are first female nominee of a Major Political party. Ring yesterdays roll call vote, Bernie Sanders brother, lari cast his vote for senator sanders. Heres a look. Clinton. Llary [cheers and applause] and to cast our final vote, here sanders. [cheers and applause] ,i want to read before this convention the names of our ely sanders, dorothy sanders. And did not have easy lives they died young. They would be immensely proud of their son and his accomplishments. They loved him. [applause] they loved the deal of franklin and would be especially proud that bernard is renewing that vision. Pride that iormous cast my vote for Bernie Sanders. [cheers and applause] mayor rawlingsblake thank you very much. Democrats abroad, you have cast seven votes for secretary clinton cspan is live today at the 2016 Democratic National convention. Starting with a day of previewed and scheduled featured speakers, tonights speakers include president barack obama and Vice President joe biden. Also r tim kaine will speak. And shells sea clinton will also speak. Live Coverage Today on cspan, the cspan radio app and span. Org. Former president bill clinton headlined day two of the Democratic Convention in philadelphia yesterday. He told story of how he and hillary met and characterized the change maker. His 1350e67 is 40 minutes. Thank you. Thank you. [applause] in the spring of 1971 , i met a girl. [applause] the first time i saw her, we were appropriately enough, in a class on political and civil rights. She had thick, blond hair. Big glasses. [laughter] wore no makeup. And she exuded this sense of strength and selfpossession they found magnetic. After the class i followed her out. Intending to introduce myself. I got close enough to touch her back. But i couldnt do it. Somehow i knew this would not be just another tap on the shoulder. And i might be starting something i couldnt stop. I saw her several more times in the next few days but i still didnt speak to her. Then one night i was in the law library talking to a classmate who wanted me to join the yale law journal. He said it would guarantee me a job at a big firm or a clerkship with a federal judge. I really wasnt interested. I just wanted to go home to arkansas. [applause] then i saw the girl again. Standing at the opposite end of hat long room. Finally she was staring back at me. So i watched her. She closed her book and put it down and started walking toward me. She walked the whole length of the library and came up to me and said, look, if youre going to keep staring at me [laughter] and now im staring back. We at least ought to know each others name. Im hillary rod m. Who are you . [applause] i was so impressed and surprised that whether you believe it or not, momentarily, i was speechless. [applause] finally i sort of blurted out my name, and we exchanged a few words, and she went away. Well, i didnt join the law review. But i did leave that library with a whole new goal in mind. Couple days later i saw her again. I remember she was wearing a long, white flowery skirt. I had an went up to her and she said she was going to register for classes for the next term. I said id go too. And we stood in line and talked. You had to do that to register back then. [laughter] and i thought i was doing pretty well until we got up to the front of the line and the woman said bill, what are you doing here . You registered this morning. I turned and she laughed that big laugh of hers and i thought well since my cover had been blown i went ahead and asked her to take a walk down to the art museum. Weve been walking and talking and laughing together ever since. [applause] and weve done it through good times and bad and joy and heart ache. We cried together this morning on the news that our friend and lot of your good friends mark winer passed away this morning. We built you have a lifetime of memories. After the first month and that first walk i actually drove her home the park ridge, illinois. [applause] to meet her family. And see the town where she grew up. World ct example of post war ii, middle class america. Street after street of nice house us. Great schools. Good parks, a big public swimming pool. And almost all white. I really liked her family. Her crusty, conservative father, her rambunctious brothers, all extoling the virtues of rooting for the bears and the cubs. [applause] and for the people from illinois here, they even told me what waiting for next year meant. Could be next year, guys. [applause] now, her mother was different. She was more liberal than the boys. And she had a childhood that made mine look like a piece of cake. She was easy to underestimate with her soft manner, and she reminded me all over again of the truth of that old saying, you should never judge a book by its cover. Knowing her was one of the greatest gifts hillary ever gave me. [applause] learned that hillary got her introduction into social justice through her youth minister. He took her downtown to hear dr. Martin luther king speak. He remained her friend for the rest of his life. This will be the only campaign of hers he ever missed. When she got to college her opposition of the vietnam war compelled her to change parties and become a democratic. [applause] and then between college and law school on a total lark, she went alone to alaska and spent some time sliming fish. [applause] more to the point, by the time i met her, she had already been involved in the law Schools Legal Services project and had been influenced by Marion Wright edelman. She took a summer internship interviewing for senator mondales subcommittee and had begun working in the yale hospital to develop procedures to handle child abuse cases. She got so involved . Childrens issues that she actually took an extra year in law School Working at the Child Study Center to learn what more could be done to improv the lives and futures of poor children. [applause] so she was already determined to figure out how the make things better. Hillary opened my eyes to a whole new world of Public Service by private citizens. In the summer of 1972 she went to alabama to visit one of those segregated academies. Only way the economics worked is if they claimed federal Tax Exemptions to which they were not legally entitled. She got sent to prove they were not. So she aunt isered into one of these academies all by herself pretending to be a housewife that had just moved town and needed to find a school for her son and finally she said lets just get to the bottom line here, if i enroll my son in this school will he be in a segregated school, yes or no . And the guy said absolutely she had him. Ive seen it a thousand times since [laughter] and she went back, and her encounter was part of a report that gave Marion Wright edelman the ammunition she needed to keep working to force the nixon flogs take those Tax Exemptions away and give our kids access to an equal education. [applause] then she went down to south texas where she met [applause] one of the nicest fellows i ever met Franklin Garcia and she helped him register mexicanamerican voters and i think some of them are still around 20 feet vote for her in 2016. [applause] and then, in our last in our last year in law school she kept up this work and went to South Carolina to see why so many young africanamerican boys, i mean young teenagers were being jailed for years with adults in mens prisons. And she filed a report on that which led to some changes too. Always making things better. Now [applause] meanwhile, lets get back to business. I was trying to convince her to marry me. I first proposed to her on a trip to great britain. First time she had ever been overseas, and we were on the shoreline of this wonderful little lake, lake interdetail and i asked her to marry me and she said, i cant do it. So in 1974 i went home the teach in the law school and hillary moved to massachusetts to keep working [applause] to keep working on childrens issues. This time trying to figure out why so many kids counted in the census werent enrolled in school. She found one of them sitting alone on her porch in a wheelchair. Once more, she filed a report about these kids. And that helped influence ultimate thirty congress to adopt the proposition that children with disabilities, physical or otherwise should have equal ackdrose public education. [applause] the result of that last night when talked. She tried to empower them based on their ability. Trying e, i was still to get her to marry me. So the second time i asked i tried a different tact. I said i really want you marry me but you shouldnt do it. [laughter] she smiled at me like, what is that boy up to . She saids that not a very good sales pitch. I said i know but its true. And i meant it. It was true. I said i know most of the Young Democrats our age who want to go into politics. They mean well. And they speak well. But none of them is as good as you are, at actually doing things to make positive changes in peoples lives. [applause] so i suggested she go home the illinois and run for office. She just laughed and said are you out of your mind . Nobody would ever vote for me. So i finally got her to come visit me in arkansas. And when she did the people at the law school were so impressed they offered her a teaching position. And she dyeded to take a huge chance. She moved to a strange place more rural, more culturally conservative than any place she had ever been where she knew good and well people would wonder what in the world she was like and whether they could or should accept her. Didnt take them long to find out what she was like. She loved her teaching. And she got frustrated when one of her students said well, what do you expect . Im from arkansas and she said dont tell me that. Youve just got believe in yourself and work hard and set high goals. She believed anybody could make it. She also started the first legal aid clinic in northwest arkansas. [applause] providing Legal Aid Services to poor people who couldnt pay for them. One day i was driving her to the airport to fly back to we passed a house with a for sale sign on it. She said boy, thats a pretty house. Was 1100 square feet and no air conditioner and an atic fan and screened in porch. Hillary commented on what a uniquelydesigned house that was. So i took a chance. I bought house. Y mortgage was 175 a month. When she came back i picked her up and i said remember that house you sfliked she said yes, i said while you were goney, i bought it. You have to marry me now. The third time was the charm. [applause] we [applause] we were married in that little house on october 11, 1975. I married my best friend. [applause] i was still in aw after more than four years of being around her. At how smart and strong and loving and caring she was. And i really hoped that her choosing me and rejecting my advice to per sue her own career was decision she would never regret. Little over a year later, we moved to little rock when i became attorney general, and she joined the oldest law firm west of the mississippi. Soon after she started a group called the arkansas advocates for family and children. Its a group as you can hear is still active today. No 1979. [applause] in 1979 just after i became governor i asked hill troy chair a rural health demee help expand health care to isolated farm and mountain areas. They recommended to do that partly to deploy trained Nurse Practitioners where there were no doctors and it was a big deal then. Highly controversial and very important. And i got the feeling that what she did for the rest of her life, she was doing there, she just went out and figured out what needed to be done and what would make most sense and what would help the most people and if it was controversial, she would just try to persuade people that it was the right thing to do. It wasnt the only big thing that happened that spring, my first year as governor, we found out we were going to be parents. [applause] and time passed. N february 27, 1980. 15 minutes after i got home from the National Governors conference hillarys water broke and off we went to the hospital. Chelsea was born just before midnight. [applause] it was the greatest moment of my life. The miracle of a new beginning. The hole filled for me, because my own father died before i was born, and the absolute had ction that my daughter the best mother in the whole world. [applause] 17 next for the next school, ough nursing monte sorry, kindergarten. Soccer, volleyball and her passion for ballet and sleepovers and summer camp and chelseas own very ambitious excursions from halloween parties in the neighborhood to a vietnamese wall scaler in the white house. Hillary first and foremost was mother. She became as she often said, our familys designated wore yer, born with an extra responsibility gene. Truth is we rarely disagreed on parenting, although she did believe that i had gone a little over the top when i took a couple days off with chelsea to watch all six Police Academy movies backtoback. [laughter] when chelsea was nine months regan as defeated in a reelection by a landslide and i became i think the youngest former governor in the history of the country. We only had twoyear terms back then. Hillary was great. She said heres what w