For me. I asked you to carry her the same way you carried me. Everybody knows shes smart. Everybody knows shes tough. And thats why i can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman, not me, not bill, nobody more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of america. And good morning. It is thursday, july 28. Were live again in philadelphia on the fourth and final day of the Democratic National convention. Along with joe, me and willie in a very loud pub, we have the managing editors of Bloomberg Politics and cohosts, Mark Halperin and john hallman and senior Political Editor and White House Correspondent for the huffington post, sam stein. Youre here. Show your id. Willie, that was a heck of a night last night. A heck of a night, right . Im stopping it. Philadelphia had dog tracks as good as the one we went to last night. How could you have a problem with what happened last night. I heard that the convention went well too. The off track betting was good. Man, one store after another store after another store. Last night was like murderers row. When joe biden is pushed all the way up to 9 00 when hes not speak in the primetime hour. The president s speech was incredibly uplifting, a defense of his legacy. Heres where we were, heres where we are today. Made a case that Hillary Clinton is an extension of the obama years. How qualified she is, what she did in the situation room. A twopiece speech. Lets start with the president s speech delivered 12 years to the day since he first arrived on the National Political scene with his 2004 speech to the democratic convention. Last night he sought to contrast the vision he shares with Hillary Clinton against the one donald trump laid out one week earlier. Look, we democrats have had plenty of differences with the Republican Party. And theres nothing wrong with that. Its precisely this contest of idea that pushes or country forward. But what we heard in cleveland last week wasnt particularly republican. And it sure wasnt conservative. What we heard was a deeply pessimistic vision and that is not the america that i know. And most of all i see americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together. Black, white, latino, asian, native american, young, old, gay, straight, men, women, folks with disabilities all pledging allegiance around the same proud flag to this big bold country that we love. Thats what i see. Thats the america i know. After all these years, she has never forgotten just who shes fighting for. But hillary has been in the room. Shes been part of those decisions. She knows whats at stake in the decisions our government makes. Whats at stake for the working family. For the senior citizen. For the Small Business owner. For the soldier. For the veteran. That is the hillary i know. Thats the hillary ive come to o admire and thats why i can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman, not me, not bill, nobody more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of america. Time and again youve picked me up, and i hope sometimes i picked you up too. And tonight i ask you to do for Hillary Clinton what you did for me. I ask you to carry her the same way you carried me. America, youve vindicated that hope these past eight heres and now im ready to pass the pa on the and to my part as a private citizen. So this year in this election im asking you join me to reject cynicism and reject fear and to summon what is best in us to elect Hillary Clinton as the next president of the United States. And show the world we still believe in the promise of this great nation. The president capped his speech by literally embracing Hillary Clinton on stage. The night went on from there. But my goodness, quite a speech for sure. Quite a speech. Did the president do what was required for Hillary Clinton last night in. Yeah, i think he did. Look, weve seen four nights of the Republican Convention and three of the democratic convention. The president demonstrated that he is right now. Put aside what you think of him substantively, hes the best political performer in the country. He dropped the mike in a pretty dramatic way. His attacks were relatively restrained. He did not spend a lot of time attacking donald trump. But the restraint that she showed made the attack stronger. That line, hes the most qualified person to run for the presiden presidency, many people disagree with that but you couldnt ask for a more heartfelt ore declarative endorsement than he gave her. If organizing conventions and running conventions well count for anything, the democrats have once again lapped the republicans. Literally, 50 times. They did it four years ago, theyre doing it again this year. Last night there were more alist political stars speaking in one night. In a unified message. Than the republicans had all week last week. Antonio sab to jr. , come on. If youre a swing voter and you tuned into both conventions, theres no comparison between the two weeks. Democrats had along time to plan this. Youve got democratic operatives who have done this before and had a lot of precision and a lot of cooperation. After they got past the conflicts with Bernie Sanders, you saw last night the two big families on the democraticside, obamas and the clintons. They were fused as one. Barack obama needs her to win for his legacy. She needs his help for her to win. The hug was symbolic and figure tif. Their fates are intwined until november. The third night of the Republican Convention was defined by booing of ted cruz. Third night. And now we have the president and his defining speech here. I was struck, i have to say, by a how overt everyone was trying to reach out to republicans last night. It wasnt just inviting Michael Bloomberg on the stage. It was tim kaine referencing the politics of his fatherinlaw. It was obama referencing reagan saying thats not conservative. Absolutely. And there was something quietly conservative about his speech where he said we dont want to be ruled by one person. He can do this on our own. Krig shirley wrote me last night in an email and said what does it say when barack obama quotes ronlds reagan more than the republican nominee. And i also thought take about five paragraphs out of that obama speech and it could have been a reagan speech. Trust me, i know. It was about optimism. It was about believing that americas greatest days truly did lie ahead. And there was a great line that reached out to a lot of disaffected republicans who may never vote for Hillary Clinton but it got them thinking. That was the line when he said basically that Convention Last week, what i heard out that convention wasnt republican. And it surely wasnt conservative. On the reagan point, i agree with you guys. I was so struck by the fact that he thought donald trump is so vulnerable and the republicans are in such a mess right now that he can own the mantle of Ronald Reagan, the optimism, the city on a hill, h the reagan line whereas donald trump called our country a divided crime scene. Thats not what america is he. He talked about engineers, all of the great things that america does in the future. There seemed to be an appeal in a number of the speeches for people out there who dont seem like either partys platform is for you, its okay. Look at the choice out there and come this way for now. That choice some republicans are making. Ive heard that a lot from republican friends. Last night wikileaks posted 14 minutes of audio of what it claims for leaked voice mail messages. Meanwhile yesterday donald trump batted back accusations that his campaign is being assisted by the russian government. He dismissed analysis that points to their involvement in breaking into the Democratic National committees email. The suggesting that if they did, they should go a step further. Its just a total deflection, this whole thing with russia. By the way, they hacked. They probably have her 33,000 emails. I hope they do. They probably have her 33,000 emails that she lost and deleted because youd see some beauties there. But i watched this guy and he talked about, we think it was russia that hack. And then he said could be trump. Yeah, yeah. Trump. Trump. It is so farfetched, so ridiculous. Honestly i wish i had that power. Id love to have that power. But russia has no respect for her country and thats why the if it is russia. Nobody knows. Its probably china. But it would be interesting to see, i will tell you this. Russia if youre listening, i hope youre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Lets see if that happens. That will be next. Do you have any qualms about asking a Foreign Government to interfere, to hack into a system of anybodys in this country. Thats up to the president. Does that not give you pause. Gives me no pause. To have a Foreign Government you know what gives mess more pause . That a person in your government, crooked Hillary Clinton, hears be quiet. I know you want to save her. That a person in our government, katie, would delete or get rid of 33,000 email. That gives me a big problem. If russia or china or any other country has those emails, id love to see them. Thats the republican nominee. Reaction to trumps statement on russia yesterday drew Harsh Criticism from opponents and disagreements even from allies. House Speaker Paul Ryan released a statement, russia is a global menace led by a devious thug. Putin should stay out this election. And Michael Hayden say, quote, if hes talking about the state Department Emails on her server, he is inviting a Foreign Intelligence Service to steal sensitive American Government information. If hes talking about the allegedly private emails that she destroyed, he is inviting a Foreign Intelligence Service to violate the privacy of an individual protected by the Fourth Amendment to the american constitution. And later in the Night National security figures criticized him from the democratic conventions podium. Donald trump calls himself the law and order candidate. But he will violate international law. This morning, this very morning he personally invited russia to hack us. Thats not law and order. Thats criminal intent. Donald trump today once again took russias side. He asked the russians to interview in american politics. Think about that. As someone who was responsible for protecting our nation from cyberattacks, it is inconceivable to me that any president ial candidate would be that irresponsible. First of all, a footnote, it is inconceivable that democrats in that audience would be booing leon panetta and breaking up his speech with no more war while he was trying to go after donald trump on foreign policy. The insanity. As i tweeted last night, its good to know that the gop does not have a monopoly on stupidity. Last night when they did to the admiral and what they did to leon panetta i thought was disgraceful. Lets talk about what panetta and the admiral were talking about, what general hayden and paul ryan have been talking about. This is Donald Trumps m. O. He says something outrageous, something bizarre, something dangerous and he grabs the headlines. I noted last night, i went to check and wrote a brief post about it last night for the Washington Post that when you had these top democratic speakers on stage, six of the Washington Posts top seven stories that night were about Donald Trumps invitation to russia. And you know the funny thing is, people have been saying, why do you Pay Attention to trump . Why do you always allow him to grab headlines. When you have a major Party Candidate inviting our enemies to hack in to the state Department System, i think thats a news story. Well it led the evening news last night. Trump is great at grabbing headlines. We know his campaign thought what he said was a mistake. Both mike pence and his spokesman reputed what he said. Forget the warm things, forget his cute thing, we need better relations with russia. But Vladimir Putin, or at least russia may be funding his business empire. We will never know because paul manford said hes not relesioning his records. So the question hangs over his head by his own doing. What. What he did yesterday was way too cute. I think hes making a substantive mistake and a political mistake. I dont think its really ill go a little further on this one thing. Yesterday we talked about the question of putin interfering in an american election, does tuten have connections, whats the story here. You joe said theres smoke. A lot of smoke. So yesterday trump gives a press conference to address this issue. Most political figures i know would see the smoke, walk up with a water can and pour it on top of the smoke to put the smoke out. Denounce putin, decry, disclaim. Instead pours gasoline all over the fire. Basically everything he did yesterday only raises the questions more. The questions of what is his connection to putin. Is he really more on russias side. Every political question that was damaging and was out there, he exacerbated rather than and even on policy, even on cry cry mireille, well look into that. I dont think you can rift with our security. No. Thats the problem. Thats what should give people some pause. This is not a well thought out plan. He loves getting headlines. Were actually talking about him this morning. But the dangers of inviting a foreign country into our elections, theres something dangerous about a president ial candidate doing these things that come to his head. Well button this up with your column in the Washington Post that you posted last night entitled donald trump takes us all for a ride again. On a day when the Democratic National committee scheduled a last list of allstar speakers, the posts top seven stories focused on the republican nominee. Six of the seven headlines centered on trumps bizarre and disturbing invitation for russian criminal to break into Hillary Clintons email accounts. At least Richard Nixons men had the good taste to break into watergate under the cover of night. Under the brightest of lights. The chaos subsequently created seems to focus on little more than dominating the next news cycle at any cost. Tonight this one trick pony has taken us all for a ride again. Willie, at the end of the day, its about just getting on. Spell the name right. Its p. T. Barnum. Any press is good press. Just spell the name right. The problem is this is a very serious job. Being president of the United States. Hes very casual about that. Hes angry coming into that press conference. Angry with the press for people pushing this idea that he was linked to russia. He was angry about that. And i think as sam said, it was a throwaway moment. He was a performer and said im going to look to camera and talk to russia without thinking it through. I think everything he does is sort of ad lib but now it has real consequences. If you want to be president of the United States you cant say stuff like that. He was just rifting. You think he was joking . But there is a much bigger question regard russia. Why has he continually bent over backwards in support of russia . Why did he come on this show and say that he had respect for putin as a leader even after we talked about his assassinating journalists and politicians and political opponents and why did he say well, we kill people here in the United States too. At least hes a leader. Those were his words. There is something there with there is a russian connection there. What is it . Thats why this cant be taken as a throw away line. It comes in the context of all of the other things. I think the cry mia question was a case where he didnt know the issue. And he thought tim kaine was the governor of new jersey, right . That happened. Tom kaine was a great guy. Hes opening the door and you saw that on display and you will again tonight to the democrats saying were the National Security party. Oh my gosh. Here we go. Who will favor russia over american interests and american allys interests and that is a door that Hillary Clinton is delighted to walk through. Its clearly in the end we talked yesterday about Jesse Ventura and arnold schwarzenegger. He through the throwaway lines yesterday on russia has opened the door Perfect Timing for the democrats in the midst convention. With russia trying to interfere in the president ial election and the collusion of donald trump with Vladimir Putin