Thats pretty darn good. Thats history made. I think we can drink to that. Good morning, everyone. Really, think about whats happened the last two weeks. This week we nominate the first woman, right, in our history . Youre not going to make a joke, are you . Last week, willie geist, the first Reality Tv Show started. Im not sure theyre equal in merit. We got here with that big dnc leak story. This is huge for this country. 240 years and we now have our first woman. Shes jumping up because i brought my pet cat from connecticut here. You know, mike, whats so fascinating about the United States, there are so many there are so many ways that we are first in the world, so many ways. But when it comes to this issue, israel was ahead of us like 40 years ago with golda meir. 1970 we are last in the world when it comes to letting women run this country. Its always been a little bit of an embarrassment. We certainly broke an important, important threshold. Theres absolutely no doubt about that, but its interesting how the political sphere has taken so long to catch up with the cultural and economics sphere. Women have made great advances culturally, deservedly so and e belatedly. Its not going to be on an even scale until women do, indeed, get the same pay scales as men do. But the most important thing last night, i want to share this with you you just preached to the choir. I love you, mike. Thank you for saying that. I met a girl last night. Oh, gosh, now youre going to take equal pay for equal work and bring it down to that level . You stop it right now. Well get to bill clintons speech in just a moment. It is wednesday, july 27, and we are live at mcgillans in philadelphia, all of us. Were all here. Mcgillans is the oldest pub in philadelphia. It is also the loudest its the third day of the Democratic National convention. Everyone here, along with willie, joe and me. Weve got msnbc contributor, the legend, mike barnicle, cohost john halpern and john heilman. And, of course, tvs own willie geist so its a big morning. Vice President Joe Biden will join us here right in the ale house at 8 00 a. M. Eastern time. It is going to be something. I want to ask about last night, the big event last night. Mike halpern, obviously, bill clinton speaking. You followed the clintons since the first run for president. How did it go last night . The big thing was her speech for Hillary Clinton. Its so hard to see in any given moment in our cynical world something thats historic and everybody in the moment realizes its bigger. As willie said, the clintons have been around for so long. I didnt think it was bill clintons best speech of all time in the hall. He never got a lot of momentum until the very end. But it was, i think, purposely intended to be a lowkey explanation of what her life was like from someone who knows her best. He was biographer in chief last night telling her life story. Im not sure it was the best use of his abilities, but i think it was his best of the night. I think he was the surrogate, not the headliner in some ways, and i agree with mark, i was not electrified by the speech, weve come to expect magic from bill clint clinton, but it made me think of that state of the union speech where we waited for it for a long time, it wasnt that good, but it scored off the charts. We have highlights from that, but first we want to talk about the history that was made last night, Hillary Clinton being formally nominated for president of the United States, a woman being nominated for president of the United States for the first time in 97 years after suffrogates earned the right to vote. It comes in the wake of a tumultuous first night. Democrats extended their unity push into a second day with emotions and tributes that were nearly as much a celebration of Bernie Sanders as they were about nominating clinton. Our nation was born here in philadelphia 240 years ago. Our Founding Fathers gave us a great start, but it was the founding mothers who said, do not forget the ladies or we will ferment our own revolution. On behalf of all the women who have broken down barriers for others, and with an eye toward the barriers ahead, i proudly praise Hillary Clinton in nomination as the next president. Eight years ago, the Democratic Party elected the first person of color to ever serve in the white house. Tonight, on this night, we will shatter that Glass Ceiling again. Arizona, you have 85 votes. Im from arizona. Im proud to be joined here by jerry emmett, age 102. 51 votes for the next president of the United States of America HillaryRodham Clinton for Hillary Clinton, we give you hillarys lifelong friend, betsy everling. On this historic, wonderful day, in honor of dorothy and hughs daughter and my sweet friend, i know youre watching, this one is for you, hill. 98 votes. Yes. 14 votes for the inspiring, progressive Bernie Sanders 19 votes for the leader of our revolution which shall contin continue. We are elated to cast 36 votes for a truly great man, Bernie Sanders. 66 votes for a great senator, Bernie Sanders. Madam secretary, oregon, feeling the bern, casts 38 votes for senator Bernie Sanders. Democrats abroad, to cast our final vote, here is Larry Sanders i want to bring before this convention the names of our parents, eli sanders, Dorothy Glassberg sanders. They did not have easy lives and they died young. He makes them proud as a son. They loved him. They loved Franklin Roosevelt and would be especially proud that bernie is renewing that vision. With all this pride, i cast my vote for Bernie Sanders. Okay. Im having a hard time not crying. From that 103yearold woman, that was incredible. Incredible moment to watch happen for her. Its mindful of something that mark pointed out and john referred to. We in the media, we surrender to cynicism far too often. I know. And that was a wonderful moment throughout the evening. Beautiful. And we also, i think, view it through a different prism than most people do because weve seen these speeches before. Many people, that was their first introduction to conventions last night given the hour, or however often they watch. The first introduction to this election cycle for a lot of people. They havent been following the minutia every step of the way with us. They saw this. Its been an exciting two weeks. Both weeks have been explosive at times, have been moving at times, but on the house on the floor of the convention and even on tv, there is no comparison between the excitement theres just not. You can say this as an objective observer. There is no comparison between the excitement on the floor of the Democratic Convention as there was the Republican Convention. There were always empty chairs there. They were sleepwalking. Half of them didnt seem like they wanted to be there. There were, of course, yeah, some very excited people there. But this was absolutely packed and rollicking all night. This was an establishment event and they nominated a state senator, and the republicans nominated an outsider. Their convention reflected that. The insiders dont like the person they nominated. Last night you saw people crying on the floor. You saw emotion based on a historic first. The clinton folks did a very good job of reminding people of the history of it, regardless of what you think of Hillary Clinton, whether you like her personally, whether you like her policies. The country did something last night its never done, and they did a very good job of harnessing that emotion, and youre absolutely right, every seat was filled. The talking point yesterday when there was moments of discord on the floor, you would hear some democrats would say, well, you know, this is the Democratic Party. Weve got conflict, this is a fractious party, eventually well get it together. Then by the end when Bernie Sanders called for acclimation to have Hillary Clinton nominated, you had all the passion of the clinton supporters, and what had been threatening the day before, the talking point came true. You suddenly had this moment where, by and large, the side by side passions kind of came together in one thing, and everyone had that cathartic moment and there was this huge jolt in the hall, which you didnt have in the Republican Convention. The republicans and the conservative writers were just so shocked and they were so outraged. How dare you could say that when the climax of that convention was an 82yearold actor talking to a chair. Incredible. There are some things that are obvious. That was obvious then. Two days in, this is obvious now. If you just judge it by the first two nights, there is no comparison between these two conventions, how they were put on, the power of the speakers and the connection with americans. Think of where we are now as opposed to two days ago, or 36 hours ago, even, where there was all this discord. We were talking about Debbie Wasserman schultz and the bernie supporters were booing and calling out Hillary Clintons name. The turning of the page, maybe with the Sarah Silverman moment, but definitely with Bernie Sanders speech. Lets applaud Bernie Sanders for doing a good job. There were people leaving the hall for Bernie Sanders. There were people marching out of the hall. That was a small story, not enough to really make a big difference, but lets compare how the first two nights ended at the Republican Convention. You had joni ernst speaking to an empty hall. In prime time. They mismanaged it so badly that the halls were emptying out as the most viewers i read an article in variety, tv executives were flabbergasted that when they had the most eyes to be watching, people were walking out. And the Democratic Convention, bill clinton doing it in prime time. They managed this as well this week as the republicans managed it poorly last week. I wonder if Michelle Obamas speech might go down as one of the best convention speeches, one of all time. It just i mean, it wasnt a hard call to make. I kind of knew the Democratic Convention would crush what happened last week in cleveland for a lot of reasons. They just do conventions better. Start with the lineup. You have a divided Republican Party, you had a lot of people that didnt even want to show up at the Convention Last week. Yeah. The people that would have been the biggest stars, the biggest speakers, werent even showing up. You had the last republican president of the United States not showing up, his father not showing up. It was, for a tv producer who puts on big shows, a very, very bad, small show. But willie, last night the show went on. We talked about bill clintons speech. He became the first man in American History to speak about his wifes nomination. He did not mention Donald Trumps name once. He did not wade deep into policies as hes known to do. Instead he spoke for 42 minutes and described year by year first his courtship with his wife, raising their daughter chelsea and delivering a scandalfree version skipping over several years of their life in public service. I have lived a long, full, blessed life. It really took off when i met and fell in love with that girl in the spring of 1971. When i was president , i worked hard to give you more speech and shared prosperity, to give you an america where no one is invisible or counted out. For this time, hillary is uniquely qualified to seize the opportunities and reduce the risk we face. And she is still the best darn change maker i have ever known how did this square with the things that you heard at the Republican Convention . One is real, the other is made up. And you just have to decide which is which, my fellow americans. The real one calls you when youre sick, when your kids in trouble, or when there is a death in the family. The real one repeatedly deals praise from prominent republicans. If you worry about something thats really bad and will mess up a twocar parade, a real change maker represents a real threat. So your only option is to create a cartoon. Cartoons are twodimensional. Theyre easy to absorb. Life in the real world is complicated and real change is hard, and a lot of people even think its boring. Good for you, because earlier today, you nominated the real woman. Mike barnicle, good lesson for kids everywhere that deliver a horrible speech, that guy, 1988, delivered such a bad speech. That went on forever. Democratic national convention. I remember he went on carson the next night and made fun of himself because it was so pathetic. Hes done ten of them now, and i dont think there are a lot of other historical figures that have done that before. He was the first real political guest that Johnny Carson had on his show, and the reason carson final relented and had bill clinton on the show was because he played the tuba. The sax. The tuba . Its been a long night. He probably went on too long. He gave you more insight into his wife, more personal an he can doe anecdotes about his w than you got all last week. Everyone who came to the table shared something about Hillary Clinton that is truly connective, and thats the difference im seeing. Not to rail on the Republican Convention, well, i met donald trump for five minutes in the hall. He actually wrote me a note. Nobody knew him. Or he called my wife for five minutes. You could see it in realtime. Weve got Better Stories than that about donald trump. Actually, we do. That show is better than that. And again, it goes to really bad producing. Gathering a convention well, and last weeks was just as bad as this weeks starting out. Ill tell you something about bill clintons speech. If you watched that speech, you could see where they believe theyre vulnerable around donald trump. Over and over he went back to, shes the change maker, she really does it, hes just a fake. They understand right now that trump has the mantel of change. This speech was built more than anything, i think, to make a counterargument against that, that hes on offense on the change question, and they need to get some of that back for Hillary Clinton. Thats what bill clinton was trying to do last night. They hit that on the head. I just wonder if its possible to reintroduce Hillary Clinton to america. Weve known her for 25 years. People have basically made up their minds about her and donald trump, so to start to tell her story again, im just not sure how many people are influenced by that. A lot of people think thats a repeated discussion of their relationship. I think the part they feel a contrast with donald trump is she doesnt just want to make people rich. You know when you watch a great musical, and you can sort of see where its going, and you start to smile because you can see where its going. You can see this feeding into barack obama. Coming up on that stage and delivering a message to that hall and the rest of america, where he does four years later what bill clinton did for him four years ago. You know how people said, why cant anybody make the case . Bill clinton came out and made that case for the obamas better than the obamas could make for themselves. Barack obama, i predict, returns the favor tonight and makes that case that you all are talking about in a way better than the clintons can make for themselves. You look at that lineup. Its absolutely extraordinary. I think were going to look back, i really do. I think joe biden and barack obama, i think this is going to be a night to remember if you love politics, if you love this sort of thing. At morning joe, its a morning to remember. It is. Its quite a morning. The Vice President of the United States, joe biden, joins us here on set for an exclusive interview on morning joe. Plus, congressman Elijah Cummings who led the committee on black reform will join us. And later david bluff sizes up the nominating cast. Covering is caring. Because covering heals faster. To seal out water, dirt and germs, cover with a water block clear bandage from bandaid brand. Hillary Clintons Campaign launched a game app on sunday where you can complete challenges and get real rewards including an autograph from Hillary Clinton. I actually have a clip from the game. It looks pretty fun. Deleted deleted deleted my goodness. The kids are all playing that. That and candy crush. Willie, i just wanted to ask you. What . Have you ever had a friend who is straight and narrow, and then he gets into a bit of trouble and youre shocked. Youre like, i never saw that coming from that, right . Yes. Terry mcauliffe. Who would have ever seen Terry Mcau