Hes selling the American People short. Were not a fragile people. Were not a frightful people. Our power doesnt come from some selfdeclared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We dont look to be ruled. Our power our power comes from those immortal declarations first put to paper right here in philadelphia all those years ago, we hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men are created equal, that we, the people, can form a more perfect union. Thats who we are. Thats our birth right. The capacity to shape our own destiny. Weve got all the highlights coming up. Plus the host of saturday night lives weekend update. Lets bring back chris hayes, joy reid, Michael Steele. Lets talk about a guy who gets overlooked too damn many times, joe biden. Yeah. I think joe knows because hes told me the best way to get popular in this country is not run for president. And i saw that tonight. He is very popular, so is dr. Jill biden. They went out on that stage. Lets watch a bit of it and then i want some remarks about everybody. He warned voters about what a Trump Presidency really means for a group he really does represent, joe biden. His cynicism is unbounded. His lack of empathy and compassion can be summed up in a phrase i suspect hes most proud of having made famous, youre fired. Really, im not joking. Think about that. Think about everything youve learned in a child, no matter where you were raised. How can there be pleasure in saying youre fired . Hes trying to tell us he cares about the middle class. Give me a break thats a bunch of malarkey theres a modern word, malarkey. Governor, let me ask you, is this state in play, pennsylvania. Could the republicans come up here and win this state . Well, theyre saying that they can. What do you think . I think if democrats do everything that they do, as someone in politics who wants to motivate people, a good thing is fear and concern from people who bring out the vote. Philadelphia delivered about a 500,000 vote margin for president obama, and im talking to everybody now and they are saying we will do it again for hillary. You need to have people feeling very concerned. Thats right, philadelphia. So you think the minority vote will come out for hillary as it has for obama on two occasions . Really . I do. When you put donald trump in the equation, i think that raises the stakes and i think that people realize how dangerous the situation is. And also, you know what, Hillary Clinton is no stranger to the africanamerican community. I know, but and shes invested. Okay, who is the best effective campaigner, speakers this week up here in pennsylvania . Who is going to come up on a saturday afternoon and get a big crowd . Is it hillary . Is it barack obama . Is it bill clinton . Who sells there . Joe biden . Who do you want most . Put them in order. Who would you most like to come up . I love obama. President obama. Hes unbelievable. Who would you bring to north philly . Obama. Can i say this about the biden speech. My buddy characterized the speech as this way, come on, you were raised better than this. When your child does something that disappoints you, he was saying you were raised better than this. Who is going to bring the case, of conservative, ticked off democrats joe biden . People from scranton are interested in somebody who shares their experience. He can draw the line under some of the malarkey that trump has been talking. And he hasnt made money off his political career. He has not cleaned up like the clintons. I think what democrats came into this convention with was a lot of distaste for donald trump but what they lacked was a cohesive rahrah enthusiasm for their cause. The last two nights of this convention have increased the enthusiasm level, last night africanamericans who watched those moms up there and connected those moms, those mothers of the muovement to Hillary Clinton suddenly felt a greater investment. Tonight blue collar democrats, looked at joe biden, heard that pep rally essentially that he gave for this country and felt more enthusiasm. The democrats i think have in the last two days sliolidified their case to their own supporters as to why not only this election matters, but why they should be positive and enthusiastic about Hillary Clinton and not just against donald trump. I would put it to 10 in my opinion. Is that a financial opportunity here. Theres got to be a level of urgency. I think theyll do it in philadelphia and around the state. I think these people behind me know that. We have already nine professors. They got philly. Give up, republicans. Its all over. Lieutenant governor, a great guy from a great family. Sir. Coming up, the hosts of saturday night live are coming right here. And my pick for the line of the night. It doesnt come from big shots. Day three from the Convention Live from philly. Democracy isnt a spectator sport. America isnt about, yes, he will. Its about yes, we can. And were going to carry hillary to victory this fall because thats what the moment demands. Got a quarter . W. I was always searching for ways to manage my symptoms. I thought i had it covered. Then i realized managing was all i was doing. When i finally told my doctor, he said humira was for people like me who have tried other medications,. But still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohns disease. In clinical studies, the majority of patients on humira saw significant symptom relief. And many achieved remission. Humira can lower your ability to fight infections. Including tuberculosis. Serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers,. 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Theres a theory out there strongly held that liberals are too humorless, theyre too politically correct, they dont like any wildness in their attitudes, theyre very careful. Did you notice there was a stiffness in the Democratic Convention this week because of that or were they as loosy goosy as those wild and crazy republicans last week . There was a certain sense of importance for a lot of democrats but for the most part its funny, its funny. You walked in and you saw the Republican Convention, you had to stand up in front of it last week and do your a material, what could ydo you think would been the different reactions because to me there was a chemical difference chemical difference . You dont like that, what would be the word for it . Theres something in the water . Hah i can say this moodwise there was a huge freak ii ifreakin d between the the protesters here were democrats. In cleveland the protests were democrats but it was the Republican Convention. I thought there was a lot of police out there. Yeah, that was scarier for me, i guess. You were probably fine. Which one did you find most attractive . Did you like the black and tan . The black and tan. Oh, yeah. Which one did you like . I liked the black and tan. Ghost about tbusters . And then there was the state troopers, there was a lot of mounties out there. Campaign ads for hillary or just no, out there in cleveland. I have to tell you, i had a mood ring difference between these two conventions. This one has been happy. They dont like trump, they dont hate him, but they just think hes ridiculous. But they really hated hillary. The hate was palpable. I thought the was a lot of hate for hillary. There were a lot of bernie people that were very upset. When you get off the body of the subway line, the l, what happens is they herd you into this area and all of a sudden these protesters realize theyre stuck, and they get really mad and all they can see is screen. I would have given anything to hear the conversations. They come after me, im the media. What do they say . Tell the truth. I said tell me what im saying wrong and they i dont think anybody is more honest and looser than you are. Im loose. I was watching you and you were very good. Thanks. The taped material was good, too. You liked it . When you do everything live, you only get one crack at it. Im going to run some names by you. Some numbers are funny. Three is funny. I thought you were going to say whats the favorite . Thesrees company. Joe biden, whats the joke . Whats the joke with joe biden . Theres always a joke. He likes trains. Train, go. You know the gaffes. The gaffes. He likes trains. He literally said literally ten times. And malarkey. Malarkey is kind of old. Malarkeys old . What . Malarkeys old. Malarkey was the first word. Do you think tim kaine could overshadow hillary . Too much pizzazz . Maybe if she stands directly behind him. Other than that, no, i dont see that happening. Who else is there . You know, i thought he was great. Michelle obama, not a joke but what did you make of her monday night . Awesome. I thought she was fantastic. She was a great speaker. She spoke from the heart. She was honest. She was unbelievable. You know what i felt watching her . I wanted more the last seven and a half years, just the heart and the charm and everything was there and the big picture, the elevated, you know, big picture notion of the country. I said you could have done this every month or every week. I think she grew into it, which makes it feel more authentic. She didnt start at that. She grew into that and that makes people realize i first met her at the fords theater thing, which is always weird to see the president of the United States in fords theater. Imagine what hes thinking and she comes by, hi, chris. Lets talk about the president tonight. I thought the president did a good job of taking down trump but keeping a little elevation from him, he didnt engage. He played his game. He basically had the strategy of, come on. The bully, the braggert. He said were not looking to be ruled. How about making Hillary Teddy roosevelt tonight, saying that she was the man in the arena. He made it a plus to have the guts to stay in the arena all these years. I liked bills speech yesterday, one element i liked was that he said that hillary initially didnt think anyone would vote for her, when he was talking about i didnt buy that. I buy that she would be worried whether people would vote for her. You can spot the politicians by junior year in high school. They all run for class president. I was not class president. Did you run . No. I was class clown. Voted in, though. I was the only one to vote and i wrote myself in. It was a small cool. I bet you were good. Did you get in trouble . No, never. No, i was class tattle as well. Talent . I was the class tattle tail. Yeah, man, snitches get to go home. Where are we going after . Do you want to go out . I think the biggest takeaway of my week here has been being with you. How so . I dont know, man. This has been a treat. I feel like learned journalism through you. You want to Say Something to the crowd . Say something. I love Chris Matthews philly, philly bobilly. I have a new floor director, his name is michael cho and colin, colin jost. My middle name and third name are the same. My pick, the single best line of the night, i think it was great line. Thats ahead when our coverage of the Democratic NationalConvention Continues from out here. Be ins call. Im anne howard and im michael howard. We left on our honeymoon in january 2012. It actually evolved into a business. From our blog to video editing. Our technology has to hang tough with us. When youre going to a place without electricity, you need a long battery life. The touch, combined with the screen resolution. 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One thing i really like about you, youre a guy that really knows what youre talking about. You read the times every day, you dont bull [ expletive ]. This is the strangest election certainly in my lifetime. I think the press has had a really tough time interacting with donald trump and you saw today in the press conference but when you get him oneonone, there have been very few and i put you in there, as somebody who actually could pin him down. Tamron pins him down, chris cuomo does on another network, but when you got him to say women should be punished for getting an abortion, that needs to happen because its so crazy and he lies so much of the time that all you have to do is take one thing, it doesnt matter what it is, you took the abortion issue and you just extrapolated to its furthest degree. Today he said something that is so beyond the pale and we keep saying, well, you cant say, you know, all muslims should be banned or the mexicans are racist. You cant do that. Today he actually did it and we are so just blind to all this stuff because we dont think anything he actually said a foreign country, an enemy of ours, should hack into a political candidate and ultimately change an election. That is Richard Nixon was brought down, a presidency was destroyed over a guy who tried to get he wasnt even successful. And then he said, ooh, i better cover this up. Heres a guy actually announcing i want you to go in there and get the and we go, ha, ha, ha. Nobody understands, thats just refreshing candor. Rob, when you and i were growing up, the russians were coming was the scary time. Now its please come. I think the idea of the watergate breakin is an excellent parallel. There you have a political dirty tricks operation, the plumbers breaking in who knows they want to know something about larry obrien they can use against him. Nixon. The connection here is and you said to a certain extent it was a strong man but i think its powerful where barack obama is saying, look, this guy is not operating like an american candidate or leader. He is saying he wants to rule. For me the key line tonight was barack obama saying not only we dont look to be ruled, america is not yes, he will, it is yes, we can. And Richard Nixon, for those who dont recall, ran something called an imperial presidency. He said at one point while he was in the oval office, yes, we could take a Million Dollars from whoever but it would be wrong. Then he said later, you know what, im president i can do whatever i want and if i do it, its not illegal. I agree Economic Issues will be key but theyre also appealing to swing voters in the suburbs and elsewhere with the idea that the fundamental principles of government that are written right there is not donald trump. And we talked that the president in his text compared fa fascis fascism, communism and jihadism with trumpism. Luckily, im not afraid of bugs. Actually, im terrified of them. What donald trump did is he came in in 2012 saying that barack obama is not american. What barack obama did tonight was he said that the idea of an authoritarian strongman, who is more in like with putin be than he is with nato, that is is what is unamerican. I t