An interest in learning what they dont know. But does he actual think trump can win. A candid conversation with the president today, wednesday, july 27th, 2016. From nbc news this is a special edition of today at the Democratic National convention with matt lawyer and Savannah Guthrie live from philadelphia. Good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning live from philadelphia, the site of the dnc and the games all here. The bell is tolling at 7 01, a little bit late. It was a late night at the convention and history made. History and a little bit of hostility on the floor of the dnc. Were live at the Wells Fargo Center. Reporter there have been a range of emotions throughout the arena and tonight the headliners of t will be president obama but last night her husband got personal to reintroduce her to voters. This morning Hillary Clinton has broken the Glass Ceiling becoming the first woman in history nominated for president for a major party. And she marks the moment with a surprise satellite appearance at the Democratic National convention tuesday night. I cant wait to join you in philadelphia. Thank you. Reporter in his tenth appearance at a convention her husband, former president bill clinton, also had a first, playing the role of political spouse for a president ial nominee. In the spring of 1971, i met a girl. Reporter getting deeply personal. Shes the best darn change maker i ever met in my life. Reporter sprinkling anecdotes about their life together all in an attempt to turn around her high unfavorable rating made worse after a week of republicans trying to tarnish her. How do you square it . One is real and the other is made up. Reporter contrasting what he called the real Hillary Clinton with a character tur painted by her political opponents. Earlier today you nominated the real woman. Reporter it was also a night filled with celebrity appearances including a performance from alicia keys and speaker meryl streep. There was raw emotion, mothers who lost their loved ones to gun violence taking the podium. Hillary clinton isnt afraid to say that black lives matter. Reporter all capping a day filled with political drama, Bernie Sanders putting her name forward for nomination. I move that Hillary Clinton be nominated as the nominee for president of the United States. Reporter sanders getting choked up when his brother cast his vote and when a small group of sanders supporters in protest the arena seemed more unified than 24 hours before. All eyes will be on the current commander in chief as president will make the case for Hillary Clinton. President obama is expected to talk about clintons readiness to be president. There will be likely to be tweets that there were no figures to speak for donald trump last week. History made last night. We know that. There was a speech that everyones talking about this morning from former president bill clinton. It was two speeches. It was a love story in the beginning and more a case for the candidate in the end. What did you think of it. It was a speech weve never heard bill clinton give. It was a personal speech and it was about Hillary Clinton and her entire political career. How many times have you heard since Hillary Clintons been in politics somebody who knew her comes forward say if you knew the person i know in private. That was bill clintons goal last night that people have been talking about for years. In 2012 bill clinton stepped up and delivered for president obama. A different speech but do you feel like he delivered in terms of what he had to do kind of humanize and show another side of Hillary Clinton. It was a itll of two speeches. The first half played well in the arena, the story of the love affair and he talked about how he first hit on her and i thought to me that was a flashing red light about what has been a very publicly rocky marriage, but the second half of the speech he brought it, he was the political warrior that republicans fear and democrats cheer for. He was effective in making the political case for her but im not sure the personal story was a sale beyond the base of her let me stick with you and go back to what steve said though, how many times over the course of 20 or 30 years can you go to the public and say no you have it wrong . Why doesnt the public have a right to say weve watched her for 30 years. This is the challenge of the clinton candidacy and this is why conventions are the plays. They try to tell a story and build up their candidate but they invoked donald trump more than donald trump surrogates invoektd Hillary Clinton. This is going to be a campaign and cycle where each is tearing down the other as much as theyre building up themselves. We saw the excitement of the beginning, maybe if youre not a Democratic NationalConvention Planner but there was tension between the Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton supporters. They had the roll call vote. Do you feel this tension within the party has been exercised out. I think there are hard core sanders delegates there who are not going to be there in the end, but the bigger challenge was probably in the second half of bill clintons speech is the fact that the clinton name so familiar and in many people lives too familiar so he was trying to make her in the second part of that speech as well he kept using the term change maker. He wants to make her feel fresh. Thats the challenge. Thank you very much. Now to our exclusive interview with president obama. We spoke in the white house room where youll see a podium behind him. This is where hes been rehearsing for tonights speech. I began with a question about this election. Is it possible donald trump wins the presidency. Anything is possible. It is the nature of democracy that until those votes are cast and the American People have their say, we dont know. Are you worried . You know, as somebody who has now been in elected office at various levels for about 20 years, ive seen all kinds of crazy stuff happen and i think anybody who goes into campaigns not running scared can end up losing so my advice to democrats i dont have to give this advice to Hillary Clinton because she already knows it, is you stay worried until all those votes are cast and counted because one of the dangers in an election like this is that people dont take the challenge seriously. They stay home and we end up getting the unexpected. Hillary clinton says trurmp s the most dangerous candidate to run for president. On this issue do you personally find it frightening the prospect of him having the nuclear codes. Set aside the nuclear codes. What i think is scarey is a president who doesnt know their stuff and doesnt seem to have an interest in learning what they dont know. And you think of trump that way . I think if you listen to any press conference hes given or listened to any of those debates basic knowledge about the world or what a Nuclear Triad is or where various countries are or the difference between sunni and shia are things he doesnt know and hasnt seemed to tried to find out about. How about Hillary Clinton, can you say she didnt jeopardize National Security information. I dont want to characterize any further what the fbi director said. I think he was comprehensive, unusually so, about how they arrived at the decision. I think hillarys acknowledged she made a mistake and she wouldnt take this approach again, but i think what is absolutely clear is that all this talk about her engaging in criminal activities, the sort of prosecutorial case you heard in cleveland. Lock her up. That seems to just ignore what a republican fbi appointee of spotless integrity said, thats troubling and i think its indicative of the degree to which folks are rough on Hillary Clinton in ways that even as somebody who ive had my share of getting whacked in the public eye, im surprised by it sometimes and i dont think its fair. But its not just her political opponents who are saying that this was wrong, you have the fbi director saying it was extremely careless, the director did say that a reasonable person should know. Look, im not going to relitigate this. What i am saying is that i can say with confidence that Hillary Clinton was an outstanding secretary of state, that she helped to make this country safer, that if she made mistakes, they were not ones that were intended to in any way compromise american security. Lets talk about your speech. It happens 12 years to the day after your 2004 Convention Speech that launched you into national politics. S. I went back and looked at it. Did you . Not recently. I look so young. I laugh sometimes. I cant believe i got elected to anything at that point. I look like i just got out of college. You said then. There is not a liberal america and a conservative america, there is the United States of america. The most memorable line. Can you say that today not just as some aspiration vision but say it with conviction. Im the first to admit that when i spoke in 2004, when i ran in 2008, my hope, my expectation was, that we could lift up all that Common Ground and create a new way of doing business in washington and a new political tenor, a new political tone. There was more respectful and more practical and trying to solve problems and that hasnt happened, but it doesnt keep me from wanting to keep on trying. I know you dont want to give away your speech before you give it. What do you hope your headline is the next morning . I hope my headline is that the president of the United States is profoundly optimistic about americas future and is 100 convinced that Hillary Clinton can be a great president. I also asked the president if he believed the russian government was behind those dnc email hacks as the be Clinton Campaign has claimed and if Vladimir Putin was trying to interfere with the president ial election here, his response, anythings possible and he added russia has influenced european elections on a regular basis before. This morning at a spokesperson is responding to all of that saying russia quote never interferes in other countrys electoral campaigns. Well have more of our exclusive interview with president obama in the next half hour and tomorrow matt will sit down with Chelsea Clinton who will introduce her mom tomorrow night. If you want more Convention Coverage check out msnbc today and were live tonight 10 00 eastern. We have breaking news this morning. John hinkley junior the man who injured president reagan and others will be released from an intuition. A federal judge issuing that ruling a short time ago. Lets go to pete williams. Good morning. What can you tell us about this. Reporter over the past dozen years that judge has allowed him longer and longer visits to the home of his mother in virginia, about 120 miles south of washington, this morning the judge ruled he can begin living with her full Time Starting next months. He said doctors have concluded theres no medical benefit to keeping him in the hospital but he does impose conditions, he must continue to receive psychiatric treatment, he must come to washington at least once a month for evaluations in order for this arrangement to continue, he must notify the secret service whenever he comes for those visits and he must tell his Treatment Team before going to in he private homes. The judge says after at least a year with his mother he may then move out and live on his own or with roommates. Theres been no word yet from the Justice Department on whether it intends to appeal the judges order. Savannah. All right. Pete williams with this breaking news out of washington. We have new information on the shocking terror attack on a Catholic Church that left the priest dead. He was leading mass on tuesday. Two knife wielding man linked to isis took several nuns hostage. Isis has had a hit list of churches for some time and one of the men was known to antiterror officials after he was caught trying to get into syria. He was wearing a tracking device at the time of the attack. Here at home california is declaring a state of emergency for two major wildfires burning out of control. The fire near big sur has burned 20 homes and threatening the coast line there. Eight hikers had to be rescued tuesday after they became lost five days ago. Once the fire flared up the men were stranded and they didnt know which direction would lead them to safety. Crews made progress overnight against the sand fire thats north of los angeles. That fire has scotched 37,000 acres. Its 35 contained. Lets get the first check of the weather with mr. Roker. The weather out west not very conducive to helping those firefighters unfortunately. We have the heat dome here in the east but also one out west. The difference is theres no humidity with the heat out west and so look at these temperatures over the next several days. No relief in sight. Vegas will see temperatures well over the triple digits and the same in phoenix, salt lake city. Portland will see temperatures in the 90s and l. A. Will see temperatures in the low to mid 90s. Not a good news out there and they need the rain and not getting it. As you can see the western weather looking for sunshine. Denver could be in the 90s and billings getting up in the 88 degree range and los angeles well over 100 degrees. Rest of the country today we are looking at wet weather stretching from the gulf on into the mid atlantic states, some sunshine florida on in to the southeast. 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