They dont know. But does he actually think trump can win . Our very candid conversation with the president today, wednesday, july 27, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the Democratic National convention with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from philadelphia. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning, live from philadelphia, the site of the dnc. And hail, hail, the gangs all here. The bells tolling. I think it is 7 01 actually. A little bit late. It was a late night at the convention. History was made. Hillary clinton, the first woman to head a major party ticket. History, and a little bit of hostility on the floor at the dnc. Kristin welker is live at the Wells Fargo Center. Shes got the recap. Kristen, good morning to you. Reporter matt, good morning to you. There has been a range of emotion throughout this arena as tonight the headliners will be president obama, Vice President biden and Hillary Clintons vp pick tim kaine. But last night it was clintons husband who got personal in an attempt to reintroduce to the voters one of the worlds best known women. This morning, Hillary Clinton has broken the Glass Ceiling becoming the first woman in history nominated for president from a major party. And she marked 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 entire life. Reporter sprinkling anecdotes about their life together, and about her work for women and families, all in attempt to turn around her high unfavorable rating, only made worse after republicans spent a week trying to tarnish her. Whats the difference in what i told you and what they said . How do you square it . You cant. One is real, the other is made up. Reporter and contrasting what he called the real Hillary Clinton with the caricature painted by her political opponents. Earlier today, you nominated the real woman. [ cheers and applause ] reporter it was also a night filled with celebrity appearances, including a performance from alicia keys. And speeches from elizabeth barns and meryl streep, lena dunham and America Ferrera also sharing the stage. And 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 Hillary Clintons name forward for nomination. I move that Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States. Reporter sanders even getting choked up when his brother cast his vote on behalf of democrats abroad. And while a small group of sanders supporters did walk out in protest, the arena seemed more unified than just 24 hours before. Now all eyes will be on the current commander in chief as president obama prepares to make the case for Hillary Clinton. And president obama is expected to talk about clintons readiness to be president. There will likely be a few jabs at donald trump. The Campaign Already touting the fact that there were no former republican president s to vouch for trump at his Convention Last week. Matt, savannah . All right, kristen welker, thank you very much. Steve kornacki and nicolle wallace. Good morning to both of you. History made last night. We know that. There was also a speech 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 candidate in the end. It is a speech weve never heard bill clinton give before. It wasnt a policy speech at all. It was a personal speech. It got to the central challenge for Hillary Clintons entire political career. How many times have you heard from her entire time in politics someone comes forward and says, if only you know in person the person i know in private. We remember from 2012, bill clinton really stepped up and delivered for president obama. Different kind of speech, but do you feel like he delivered in terms of what he had to do, which is to steves point, really kind of humanize and show another side of Hillary Clinton . I thought the way you described it. For me it was a tale of two speeches. I thought the first half played really well in the arena. The story of their love affair. He talked about how he first hit on her in law school. To me that it was a flashing red light about what has been a very publicly rocky marriage. But the second half of the speech, he just brought it. He was the political warrior that republicans cheer and democrats cheer for. He was very effective in make being the political case for her. But im not sure that the personal story was a sale beyond the base of her support. Let me go back to what steve said. How many times over the course of 30 or 40 years and say, no, you have it wrong. Why doesnt the public have the option to say weve watched her for years . This is the central story. It is striking to me that they invoke donald trump more times than the first night at their convention than Donald Trumps surrogates invoked Hillary Clinton. This is going to end up being a campaign and a cycle where each is tearing down the other as much as theyre building up themselves. We saw sort of the excitement of the beginning, excitement maybe not if you are a Democratic Convention planner but there was some tension between Bernie Sanders supporters and Hillary Clinton supporters. They had the roll call vote. Do you feel that this tension that existed within the party has been exsorized out . Yeah. I think there are some hardcore delegates and sanders supporters who arent going to be there in the end. But i think the second half of bill clintons speech, the clinton name so familiar, and in many peoples eyes, too familiar. He was trying to make her into the second part of that speech as well, he kept using that term change maker, wants to make her feel fresh. Thats the other challenge. Now to our exclusive interview with president obama. We spoke in the white house map room where you will see a podium behind him. This is where hes been rehearsing for tonights speech. I began our conversation with a pointed question about this election. Is it possible that 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 in to 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 that trump is the most dangerous candidate ever to run for president. On this very specific issue, do you personally find it frightening the prospect of him having the Nuclear Codes . Set aside the Nuclear Codes. What i think is scary 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 listen 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 in the muslim world. Those are things that he doesnt know and hasnt seemed to spend a lot of time trying to find out about. Lets talk about Hillary Clinton. Can you still, as we sit here today, say she didnt jeopardize National Security information . You know, 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 that 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 that you heard in cleveland lock her up. That seems to just ignore what a republican fbi appointee of spotless integrity said. And thats troubling. And i think it is indicative of the degree to which folks are rough on Hillary Clinton in ways that, even as somebody who has had my share of getting whacked in the public eye, im surprised by it sometimes. And i dont think it is fair. But it is not just her political opponents who are saying this was wrong. You have the fbi director saying it was extremely careless. The director said that a reasonable person should know. Again, savannah, 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. I went back and looked at it. Did you . Not recently. I look so young. I laugh sometimes when i see it. I think, 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. One of the most memorable lines. Can you say that today, not just as some gauzy aspirational vision, but say it with conviction . I am 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 that 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 believes the russian government was behind this dnc email hack and release of those emails as the Clinton Campaign has claimed, and if Vladimir Putin was trying to interfere with the president ial election. His response anythings possible, and he added that russia has influenced elections in europe in the past. This morning a spokesperson at the kremlin is responding saying russia never interferes in other countries peas electoral campaigns. Well have a lot more of our exclusive interview with president obama in the next halfhour. If you want more coverage of the dnc, check out msnbc throughout the day. Also, we are live in prime time tonight, 7 00 eastern excuse me, 10 00 eastern, 7 00 pacific right here in nbc. You are anticipawell also h with Chelsea Clinton tomorrow. Shell introduce her mother before her mothers big speech. Were also covering that brutal terror attack in a Church Inside france by members of isis. This morning were hearing harrowing stories from people who were there. Nbcs ron mott has the latest. Reporter the French Interior minister made a pitch this morning for citizens to join the military reserves in the wake of this latest attack on a catholic church, an you a tack that represents a new frontier in terror. This morning the is no longer a sanctuary for terror in paris. Thele ll ll lle 86yearold pri ordered to his knees and his throat slashed. This woman managed to escape. When i saw them i said to myself, thats it, its over, sister danielle said of the attackers. You christians, you kill us. It was this type of conversation. One parishioner was seriously injured. Police responded quickly, killing both men as they left the church. Isis claiming responsibility. Pope francis condemned the deadly assault, part of what the vatican called absurd violence. French president Francois Hollande rushed to the scene, shaking hands with police, comforting the rattled. Their nation under siege by terror. We will win, he said in a nationwide address. I also owe you this truth. This war will be long. France has become a frequent terror target from homegrown threats. A neighbor of one of the church suspects said friends triedof b jihadist. He tried to indoctrinate us. We were not taking him seriously what he was saying. We were telling him to stop talking nonsense. This morning, an interfaith meeting in paris with one muslim leader calling the attack blasphemous against islamic principles. A french prosecutor said 1 of the 2 attackers, a 19yearold, was known to antiterror officials after he was caught twice last year using a fake idaho trying to travel to syria. He was arrested and fit with a tracking device. He was wearing that ankle monitor when he was killed. Ron mott on the story, thank you very much. Here at home, californias declaring a state of emergency for two major wildfires burning out of control today. The fire in monterey souther in big sur has burned 20 homes threatening a scenic stretch of coastline there. Eight hikers had to be rescued tuesday after they became lost ten days ago. Once the fire started up the men were stranded and didnt know which direction would lead to safety. In the meantime, crews made some progress over night with the sands fire in los angeles. That fire has scorched 37,000 acres. It is now 25 contained. There is about a 25degree difference in temperature from where we are sitting to where al is standing. But, you know, it is not so bad because we got a little cloud cover right now. All in all, lot of comfortable folks. And look at this little one. Lucy, 3 weeks old. Thats right. Thats a big aww out of the crowd. She is gorgeous, thanks for sharing. My golly, weve unfortunately been sharing heat between both parts, coasts, of the country. A western heat dome and eastern heat dome between nice and cool. But here in the east we have another couple of days of above normal temperatures. Then things get a little bit closer to normal. 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