we at the dnc, dnc members, dnc bylaws. i know you noted in alabama, it's just true that the dnc has very little decision making process for those campaigns or ability. i think the other thing is that we've been talking a lot since we first met in may, and there's been i think a lot of evolution with the new dnc, with chairman perez, with deputy chair keith elson, and a lot of things we want to see. $1.5 million in virginia. there's a new exec board, a new budget committee. we've got to give them that chance. we're not even in a new year for the administration and we're barely in a a new month for the new dnc membership. so my opinion is we let them do what they do best without sharing our budget insight with potential opponents, with general public but make sure that it's being shown to the budget and exec committee. >> and i'd like to move to table this resolution. okay, fine, fine. >> it won't take but a second because this may be a solution. first of all, i do need to clear up it's not a secret committee. the budget and

this is totally at the dnc level. i would be furious, even though they might be glad -- i would be furious if i were secretary clinton. >> secretary clinton just named debbie wasserman shultz of her campaign. >> since the revelation? >> yes. >> that's bad. >> since the revelation of the e-mails, that's not good. >> you bring up the point 0 about the fallout. it is not going to satisfy bernie sanders supporters. she was mocking the republican party for their division. now how the tables have turned. we're here, 19,000 e-mails released suggesting she was favoring clinton throughout the campaign. she is not going to step down until the end of the week and didn't release an apology or take responsibility. >> the e-mail about using senator sanders religious beliefs against him is terrible. >> no one is stepping down either. >> they are mute on the topic. >> that person that sent that e-mail was the financial -- >> that is the intern. >> cfo. >> still working here for the dnc. the thing we need to watch for this week is ber

well, the dnc delegates and anybody going down in and around the area of the dnc, really going to have to battle the heat, especially tomorrow. temperatures not cooling off very quickly. this evening it's currently 82 degrees in philadelphia, 81 still in allentown. we've got 81 in wilmington. a little cooler in vineland at 75 degrees. and we're watching just this little blip on radar here. this started out as a fairly strong system to the west, but as it pushed to the east, it sort of is dying out. and we could get a few, little isolated showers moving through the area through the overnight, but that doesn't look like a big deal, and guess what, it's not expected to cool us off any. more heat and humidity building in for tomorrow. as that heat and humidity builds tomorrow for our monday, yes, very tropicallike elements in place, a very unstable atmosphere. and so, right about 2:00, we do expect this particular weather model showing a line of rain storm cells setting up. could have some convection embeed there. and then pushing right on through, this is here 5:30. we've got some potenti

disorder at the dnc. a major shake up rocking the democratic party amid a new e-mail scandal hours before they kickoff in philadelphia. >> debbie wasserman shuments announcing her resignation as an e-mail scandal starts. >> the dnc needed any other troubles another dark cloud descended over them. i am talking about not the e-mail scandal but a dark cloud. it is raining cats and dogs outside right now. big thunderstorm. if this continues there will be wet delegates. there is the other dark cloud e-mail scandal with debbie masser m wasserman schultz resignation. th the last thing they want her to do is take the stand and boos like we saw with ted cruz at the rnc. the democrats have succeeded in keeping hillary clinton away from the e-mail scandal. there's no evidence that she was conspireing with the dnc to sabotage the sanders campaign in any way shape or form. >> i don't know anything about the e-mails. i haven't followed it. i am proud of the campaign that i ran. i can't speak to what people who were not

this comes just days after the release of nearly 20,000 internal dnc e-mails hacked into the dnc system, published by wikileaks. some of the e-mails clearly showed favor to hillary clinton's campaign over bernie sanders, if not outright attempts to sabotage and hurt the sanders campaign. in wasserman schultz place, congresswoman martha fudge will take on a more prominent role. jeff zeleny has been following the race closely. mounting pressure on wasserman schultz for even more punishment for her. >> that's right. she won't have a major speaking role at this convention on the stage behind us, which is a big deal for her. >> yeah. >> she wanted to be presiding over this convention. that will not happen. her role will be very limited, i am told, by party sources. she may still gavel in at the very beginning and end but she will not be seen during primetime coverage or any speaking role. this is why. there is worrying across this party that these peace accords are breaking here because of this explosive wikileaks story. she's right now resisting pressure to step aside or do something more e

>> they're saying about the dnc. i'm simply saying, that's the clinton explanation of the dnc. however, you think that the server down in the basement of her home was less secure than this one? remember all their arguments? there's no proof? well, i got news for you, if they hacked this, they were hacking hers. the answer is, we're going to have more e-mails and this is just going to continue to upset the sanders delegates and voters. >> i have to point to john, though. because, john, not only is your chest puffed out, because now the democrats really have a hot mess on their hands going into this dnc, but also because this changes the narrative. this pults it right back in your candidates' camp that says, i've been telling you this all along. >> what really helped and hasn't happened and is not is going to happen, where's the outrage bernie sanders himself? >> well, he's given up. >> he spent his entire performance on "meet the press" trashing trump. he was on the hillary team. he wasn't as outraged over this wikileaks stuff as i think he should be. we've gotten away from some

. >> what do you expect for dnc? >> to be honest, i don't know. i think in light of what's gone on in the last week, it's potential to be a problem. >> they are preparing for everything and anything. still ahead, how philadelphia police and fbi are working together to make sure that potential problems do not develop. >>> does your neighborhood look like this this morning? strong storms blew through yesterday knocking down trees and in one community leading to a dramatic rescue. we'll show you that video coming up at 7:30. >>> police in philadelphia have gone through all of the final preparations for this upcoming week's democratic national convention and your nbc 10 investigators were there to see the state of the art technology they're using to secure the event. here's nbc 10 investigative reporter with more. >> reporter: you're inside the virtual model of the dnc. >> we come out and take thousands of photographs. >> reporter: bob's team built it. it's almost as detailed as the real thing. >> for example, there is e

disorder at the dnc. a major shakeup rocking the democratic party amid a new e-mail scandal just hours before their convention kicks off in philadelphia. >> dnc chair debbie wasserman schultz amid the e-mails plotting against bernie sanders. >> you're watching fox friends first. >> good to be here. >> no shortage of drama and we have fox news coverage on every angle of this story. >> the trump campaign slamming a quote, rigged system. and the very latest from doug. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. you know, these political conventions serve two fundamental purposes. first obviously to officially nominate their candidate for president but also to serve as squeaky clean into mer shl. chairman debbie wasserman schultz decision to resign as chairman before the convention gets underway. the last thing party officials wanted to see is a course of boos from the floor if she was to take to the days but democrats have succeeded so far from caping their kacandidate's name out of this e-mail muck. >> i don't

once the dnc achieved supporters to match the allocations the dnc shall collect the presidential preference and the alternate as applicable. the dnc shall make public the identity of each category 3 delegate and each alternate as applicable and the candidate for which they have a binding presidential preference. if the state chair or dnc determined a sufficient number of delegates, supporting candidates after alternate delegates the state chair, the dnc shall determine bylot respectively supporting the candidate supporting their vote at the national convention. and voted as and the states. and report a requisite number of proportions required to reach the presidential candidate allocation of category 2 and category 3 delegates. thank god i read to my kids every night so i can do that. >> i feel as if when i sign up for something on my phone and a tiny print thing that goes on for pages there should be a little agree button in the corner. it was amazing. >> we wanted to ensure it was not tiny print but loudly spoken print. that is the amended language before us. any discussion? seeing no dis

we'll be going to the dnc. for people around the country who want reform in the party and make it stronger, who want to see the number of super delegates radically reduced, want to open up the primaries, who want to make the caucuses more open and transparent, who want the party to be more accountable, there's a long way to go and the people of the grass roots have to get involved and stay involved as we move through this process. there is going to have to be polite and respectful communication with dnc members about where people at the grass roots stand in terms of these reforms to ensure that these reforms get through. particularly on the issue of super delegates we all understand that the dnc members themselves will be voting to bind themselves on the first ballot of presidential voting at the convention in the future and for many of them that will be a position that will be difficult or that they don't want to take. but that is what was mandated by the dnc, the convention in 2016, the highest authority in t

first of all, this is not the first time that the vendor hired by the dnc, and the dnc to run the voter profile program has failed to protect the data. it is incompetence, and it is our campaign that alerted them that the campaign data was made available to other campaigns. we were not running to the media, and relying on assurances from the vendor that the problem would be are resolved. unfortunately the other day, the vendor once again dropped the firewall between the campaigns for some data. secondly after discussion with the dnc, it was clear that some of the staffers irresponsibly accessed some of the data from another campaign, and that behavior is unacceptable to the sanders' campaign, and we fired the staffer immediately, and made certain that any information obtained was not utilized. we are now speaking to other staffers who might be involved an further the disciplinary action may follow, and clearly while the information was made available to the campaign, because of the incompetence of the ven do, it should not been looked at period. third, rather incredibly, the leadership

with all of this going on with debbie wasserman schultz head of dnc not being here to gavel in the dnc, bit ironic that the theme tonight is united together. some would say that is hardly the case. david: thanks, blake. melissa: we have former dnc communications director and georgetown institute of politics executive director. thank you so much for joining us today. it has been a bumpy start to this convention. what kind of impact do you think that has? >> well, look, you know, it is interesting. i think democratic party is far more unified than the republican party in cleveland. melissa: i got to stop you right there. i watched debbie wasserman schultz get shouted off the floor this morning. i watch bernie sanders go out, his people yell, we want you, bernie. >> let me finish my point before you cut me off. you have a number of bernie supporters don't want to let the dream go, right? they will support him. but beyond that, most of the democratic base, establishment, activists have rallied behind hillary clinton and tim kaine. and i think that is even more the case now with debbie wass

what what i do for the dnc members of the dnc chair, not just in meetings, but in general? how do you play part in a democratic party where i am in charge? quizzically, you do need to be involved. look to theo future. we have discussed this attanasio. one thing we hit on his millennials and young people. there is one way to do that. you guys have the experience. you guys have done this for decades and years. it is time to adopt a mentorship role. teach me. show me how as a millennial how i can be as your chair, at this table. jeannie was the reason i got to be at this table. -- jamie was the reason i got to be at this table. he signed the petition. that is showing that you give a damn about the little people. jamie harrison, did you sign the petition? [applause] >> i have been a member of the executive committee now, chair for 4 years, member of the executive committee for about 2.5 to 3 years. every meeting i have gone to, particularly over the past few years, you get an agenda that says, pledge of allegiance, new business, business, adjournment. -- old business, adjournme

they are following orders from the dnc. deirdre: i do want to say be the famous columnist william sapphire called clinton a congenital liar. this goes to her trustworthiness. i know donald trump is often stuck up in his own way for senator sanders. he has been tweeting a lot. ' here we go again with another clinton scandal and emails yet. can you believe, crooked hillary new the fix was in and bernie sanders never had a chance. crooked hillary knew everything her servant was doing at the dnc. does donald trump feel akin to him as taken outsider or does it just help him to cite sighs hillary clinton or both. >> donald trump has come to bernie sanders' defense several times as the primary process went along baits is a rigged system. this is a problem. when we look at the system when it wasn't rigged, hillary clinton lost. now we have actual vindication for what mr. trump has been saying on two fronts. number one, the system is rigged, and the media is extremely dishonest. now we know who is calling the shots. that was rigging

there's only so much the dnc can do, right? at the end of the day the party committee itself is a fundraising and organizing vehicle. it can't it doesn't have the power that someone like an obama or a hillary clinton, or you know, whoever that next figure is, to inspire that next generation of grassroots activists. just look down the republican side, brianna, it was donald trump who came along and added the energy and excitement to the republican party that allowed them to whip the white house, we live in an era of candidate-centered politics, right, that there's only so much that the party committees on the road can do. so perez is going to have his work cut out for him. he's inheriting a party that's at a low point when you add up the number of governorships and legislative seats that the democrats hold. despite the differences that this dnc race made clear, the ones we've all been talking about, the sanders wing versus the obama-clinton wing, trump is a unifying force now for the democrats. so i think that, when you're the o

a lot of people at the dnc are clinton people. they don't want to be condemning their own people for something i think it's fair to assume they knew about. martha: bernie sanders could have had the potential to be a ted cruz at this event and sort of rally his troops. but the feeling seems to be going in that the democratic party will be unified as debbie wasserman-schultz argued they were from the beginning. >> this is a disastrous way to start off a democratic convention. as far as the bernie delegates that i have seen in philadelphia. they did not come here to unite behind hillary clinton. they came to support bernie sanders. when he speaks tonight they will want to hear him talking about all the issues he will go through in the hour-long speeches and free college and universal healthcare. and i don't think they will respond as enthusiastically to the end when he says that's why we should all unite behind hillary clinton. >> donald trump jumping at the chance to bash the dnc. john roberts live at trump tower. good morning, john

now here's the dnc. okay chris with so many people fit to fill this arena and prominent figures set to take the stage behind me, security is top of the mind this week. officials anticipate tens of thousands of protesters. factors beyond anyone's control may play a part in the actual numbers. fox's rick levinthaw has more. >>> thousands of demonstrators creating oppressive heat to show support for clean energy and bernie sanders and other causes. they are hoping the world will pay attention on the eve of the democratic national convention. >> people united will never divided. >> reporter: city predict 35 to 50,000 protesters daily on the streets of the philadelphia issuing permits for dozens of rallies and marches but heat and humidity in the triple digits could a affect turnout. >> 5,000 person planned march because the weather is is he stifling 2,000 show up. nice day maybe more than 5,000 show up. we don't really know. we will be prepared for whatever we're facing. >> reporter: with the dnc designated

. >> hell no, dnc, we won't vote for hillary! [ inaudible ] >> we snow tha democrat party s protect unity starts day one much differently with. a sidelined party chair booed and jeered on her way out. angry bernie sanders delegates making their feelings clear. and a full-throated apology to try to cut off the growing dnc e-mail scandal. welcome to the wells fargo center in philadelphia, site of this week's democratic national convention. i'm bret baier and this is "special report." right now, campaign workers for bernie sanders and hillary clinton are trying to hand off what they fear will be a massive floor protest by sanders supporters. that includes a sanders' text begging his delegates to behave. and an apology to sanders and his people from party leaders for hacked e-mails showing what appears to be a conspiracy to tear down his candidacy and give hillary clinton every possible advantage in the primary season. add to that the party chair, the leader of the pack. she's been sent packing and prevented from gavel thing conventi

the executive committee, the dnc committee must adopt all dnc fund-raising policy. presidential debate schedule and criteria must be approved by the executive committee. quarterly financial reports come operational reports through the executives and senior staff must appear quarterly and get a report on their department. annual financial report and operational report. we need to make our meetings were interactive. i am sick and tired. i have been on this committee since 1999 and we get talked at. we do not get asked anything. we need to be able to participate. that means in the caucuses and will have a lot more to talk about. the convention. the idea that we have 20,000 activists international convention but nothing about training and were engaging them were in someone communicating with them so they are warriors for us and our causes, it does not make sense in we need to look at reviving the idea of the midterm convention and conference to make sure we bring up a lot of us. i will be a full-time dnc chair. when i say full-time i do not need 40 hours but 24/7. for t

first, as i pointed out earlier, this is not the first time the vendor hired by the dnc and the dnc to run the voter file program has allowed serious failures to occur. on more than one occasion they have dropped the firewall between the data of competing democratic campaigns. this is dangerous incompetence. it was our campaign months ago that alerted the dnc to the fact that the campaign data was being made available to other campaigns. at that time, our campaign did not run to the media, relying instead on assurances from the vendor that the problem would be resolved. unfortunately, the other day, the vendor once again dropped the firewall between the campaigns for some data. secondly, after discussion with the dnc it became clear that some of our staffers irresponsibly accessed some of the data from another campaign. that behavior is unacceptable to the sanders campaign and we fired the staffer immediately. and made certain that any information obtained was not utilized. we are now speaking to other staffers who might have been involved and further disciplinary action may follow. cl

before that he was the chair of , the dnc. the two spoke at an event in miami saturday where kaine spoke in both english and spanish. kaine code hello, m miami. hello, fiu.. [speaking spanini] [cheers] amy: that was senator kaine saying "welcome everyone, in our "welcome everyone, in our country, right? americans." re all the words of tim kaine, speaking in miami saturday. kaine learned spanish when he spent a year in honduras with the jesuit missionaries during the u.s.-backed dirty war in 1980. many believe kaine's fluency will help him with the latino vote, although a univision poll in found nearly 7-in-10 latinos 2002 say a candidate's ability to speak spanish would not affect their vote. meanwhile, many progressives are concerned about tim kaine's track record of supporting free trade agreements, including voting to fast-track the tpp. we'll have more on tim kaine later in the broadcast. a new cnn poll shows donald trump pleading hillary clinton 44% to 39% in a four-way matchup. gary johnson received 9%. dr. jill stein re

>>> right now on "nbc 10 news today," dnc drama. there is fallout because of leaked e-mails from dnc community members showing they may have been trying to help hillary clinton's campaign and hurt bernie sanders. >>> the philadelphia fire department is mourning the loss of one of their own. a firefighter from this station dies while at work but not battling a blaze. details ahead. >>> more heat is on the way today and into the week ahead following those strong storms sparked by yesterday's oppressive weather. the storms downed trees and power lines from south jersey to the philly suburbs. >>> good morning. this is "nbc 10 news today." i'm rosemary connors. it's 5:30 on this sunday. let's begin with the weather and meteorologist chrystle. >> just enough energy and lift for storms to fire off due to the hot conditions we saw yesterday. as a result, some of the isolated spot showers we expected, they even shifted into philadelphia. now today it's looking like we should see for the most part drier conditions and even lower humidity. we'

we checked with the joint information center, the dnc. at last check there were a dozen or so people who had to be treated for heat related illnesses. three will to go to local hospitals but those injuries were not considered life-threatening. i'm live in fdr park chad pradelli channel6 "action news." >> thank you, chad. >>> in center city reverend jesse jackson spoke at the dnc's black caucus meeting. the civil rights leader discussed close elections in southern states which he said shows the importance of every vote. >>> interfaith service of prayer was held this afternoon al: the reverend g. dennis hill presided over this special service. >>> aside from the many protests there is another place where people are making their opinions heard. an iconic philadelphia deli in queen village is the site of something called fourth street faceoff. "action news" reporter gray hall is there with that story tonight. hi, gray. >> reporter: hi, rick. well, customers showed up not only enjoyed great food and big sandwiches they also got to engage in so

all dnc hires about $100 must be approved at the dnc officers. contracts of $100,000 must be approved by officers. all loans of any amount must be approved by officers. all transfers of $1 million or more must be approved. each officer receives a monthly financial report and the executive committee. the dnc executive must adopt all fund-raising policies. presidential debate schedule and criteria must be approved by the executive committee. quarterly financial words to the executive committee and a senior staff must appear and give report on their department. annual financial report and operational reports. we need to make our meetings for interact. i'm sick and tired on this committee since 1999 and we get talkback. we need to be about to participate. and the caucuses, the full dnc with a lot more to talk about. the convention, the idea that we have 20,000 activists at our national convention but nothing about training them are engaging that are in some way communicating with them said that they are warriors for us. it doesn't make sense then we

i think on the part of the dnc, i mean when do we think of the dnc, or the rnc for that matter? after a candidate is nominated, he often puts or she puts his or her own person in there, we should been surprised that it happens this time and we shouldn't think of it very much after. >> for purposes of today, it's a big story. ann, your thoughts? >> it's confirmatory for the sanders supporters, that there was to their view there was a finger on the scale all along and that clearly there was a selective leak of e-mails that tends to back that up. that is a perception problem. it is potentially a problem when sanders speaks tomorrow night. it will -- it gives people who always wanted to have a reason to distrust this process some evidence to back that up. but the good news if you're hillary clinton is that the clinton campaign and the sanders campaign are in good standing. this is the dnc that is the bigger problem, as opposed to being a fight between these two camps in the way that cruz and trump were about the two individuals. >> chris, is this at all a kind of peace with the argu

it's in the bylaws in the dnc. nobody is to take a position in the presidential race or in any primary. and when gabby -- she resigned, as she should have, from the vice chairmanship of the dnc. this should not have happened. i don't think it had a big impact. the dnc really does have to be neutral. i was very disappointed when i saw those e-mails. that is not the kind of thing that should be -- i don't think it had any effect on the race whatsoever. it's just not the kind of thing that should happen. the dnc is supposed to be neutral and they should be neutral. >> when you say take responsibility, to the extent of having debbie wasserman-schultz resign? >> i'm with the person who was doing the clinton spokesman stuff earlier on the show. until i know all the facts i'm not going to call for somebody's reservation -- or resignation. from what i've read, i don't like it, it didn't look good. th is certainly an option. >> okay. elise, as you know, donald trump has gone on quite the twitter spree of bernie sanders the

. >> nbc 10 has extensive coverage of the dnc all week long. our live broadcast from the wells fargo center continue all morning, afternoon and evening. we'll also bring you a nightly one-hour special at 7:00 and be sure you have the free nbc 10 app that will have instant updates and behind the scenes footage from the dnc. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather. >>> 4:10. getting a warm start this morning. 79 degrees in philadelphia. with sunshine, upper 80s by lunch time. then it's into the 90s this afternoon, just the very low 90s today. the suburbs will see plenty of sunshine, 75 degrees right now. cooler with clear skies. 75 degrees at 8:00 with a few scattered clouds, then mostly sunny skies, 88 degrees by 2:00 this afternoon. the lehigh valley in the clear. no sign of fog this morning. that's not going to repeat. 70 degrees now. a quick warmup, upper 80s. that's by lunch time today. topping out in the very low 90s. winds just a light breeze out of the we have at 5 miles an hour by later this afternoon. we're keeping an eye on new jersey.

that is up to the dnc. the dnc sets the debate schedule. here we are coming off the heels of a saturday night debate this monday morning. we put out a press release recently talking about the bernie blackout, if you will. as you noted, report recently came out that noted senator sanders had only received 10 minutes of coverage from the flagship television newscast this year. 20 seconds from abc world news tonight. just 20 seconds. so we know senator sanders is attracting thousands and thousands of people to his rallies across the country, more than any other presidential candidate in this race, republican or democrat. we know he has raised millions of dollars. we just announced we had raised -- we have over 2.3 million contributions to our campaign, more than any other what has bit in history. senator sanders republican matchups does better than secretary clinton with donald trump and other republicans in this white house race. he's night endorsements from the medication workers of america, the working families party, democracy for america,

we are counting down until the dnc begins. now just about ten hours away. >> this morning we're bringing you complete coverage of the convention at the wells fargo center. we'll give you behind the scenes look at the event, break down today's speakers and tell you about the change in leadership that has everyone talking in the democratic party. >>> first, storms are moving through the area. we've been hearing them here at the wells fargo center. let's get right to bill henley who has the neighborhood forecast. >> the storms raced through first thing in philadelphia. it's now new jersey that's being impacted. light rain falls in philadelphia. the heavy rainfall has moved on and look at all that lightning, a tremendous amount of lightning in the last 15 minutes we've detected more than 200 lightning strikes and the worst of it is now moving into northern atlantic county, north of fo folsom, between waterford and folsom. these storms are on move. they'll have this storm system offshore by 7:00 this morning. at 6:15, toms river wi

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but he says the dnc is being biased in their treatment of the campaigns. that's the sort of thing that gets his supporters fired up. and what he has to do is increase their passion, their anxiety. and declaring their support in public in front much friends and neighbors. a lot of people don't want to do that, being fired up to do that. >> the president has acknowledged many nairns thought he was too low to, respond to he went on a bit of a speaking blitz, today at the white house trying to calm fears. do you think this was effective? >> i'm not going to say it's effective but now the fact is americans were worried, they found the president inadequate in his response. they wanted a president, essentially to do what jeb bush digeorge w.bush did, he doings o protect ordinary americans. so we understood the consequences and i think this is a counter-pleasure. >> bill schneider, good to have your perspective on this, thank you. a week before curricula dozen cs of prisoners nonviolent drug offenders got a pardon. >>> nasdaq and the s&p 500 saw big losses. econom

jamie for dnc chair.com. listen, at age 29 i was the first african-american and the youngest person to be executive director for the house democr democratic caucus. at age 30 i was the first african-american to be whip director for the whip operation. bottom line is this, we have to stop particularly with the consultants. you cannot come to the dnc and get a contract and the only minority face that you have is the person that answers your phone. fp you want a contract you need to have an operation where you train the next generation of folks so they can do the media, they can do everything else'. ' we have to transform the entire party from the contractors to internal and i'm the person that can do that. >> ray for dnc.com. 'read what i want to do as dnc chair but look what i've done. as state chair in new hampshire we always had a senior staff person, nearly 30 were african-americans last year. one of our dnc members from new hampshire is african-american. as head of the state chair's association i hired the

the dnc gavel now belongs to her. iain? >> thank you. >>> and the protests have gun for the dnc. there was a big one earlier today. why what happened today gives us reason to be optimistic about other demonstrations planned this week. he was playing the hottest game in the world, one man got so night he wound up somewhere end want to be. spruce street harbor ribs and rhyme, tgi friday held revolution today where they gave away free ribs and host add free style rap battle just in time for the dnc, it's about the pursuit of life, liberty and the delectable ribs. sgloorjs breach at the dallas for the worth airport. police say man was able to get through multiple security checkpoints without a tick or id. look at this, he walks up to the tsa checkpoint, gets through a closed security lane with metal detectors and goes through a tsa agent looks to be on his phone then gets on the plane. ultimately he was escorted off and police arrested the man for criminal trespass, and an airport spokesperson declined comment. >>> another unintended consequence of the pokemon go ap. this time, it le

all dnc hires of over 100,000 dollars must be approved by the dnc officers. all dnc contracts of over $100,000 must be approved by the officers. all dnc loans of any amount must be approved by the officers. all transfers of 1,000,000 dollars or more must be approved. each officer receives a monthly financial report political report, operation report. executive committee. the executive committee of this organization, the dnc executive committee must adopt all dnc fund-raising policies. presidential debate schedule and criteria must be approved by the executive committee. quarterly financial reports, operational reports to the executive committee and the senior staff must appear before the executive committee reportedly and give a report other department. the full deviancy. dnc. an annual financial report, and operation report. we need to make our meetings more interactive. i am sick and tired tha. i've been on this committee since 1999, and we get talked at. we don't get asked anything we need to be able to participate. that means in the caucuses. it's the ful

showing their support during the dnc. the hot spots where you may be able to spot one this week. >>> and california is burning. firefighters have their hands full trying to get it under control. why the number of evacuations is expected to grow. as we leave you here we've got a live look at the wells fargo center day one of the democratic national convention. our coverage continues right after this. ♪ >>> so it's elbow to elbow down l welcome to our studios greta van susteren from fox news channel. >> fantastic. i love this. what great view you have. little loud. >> i know it is a little allow. speaking of loud, my goodness, things going on on the floor and then over at the convention center today. i'll talk about the e-mail scandal with debbie wasserman schultz. bernie sanders has said for months, hey, it's rigged. it's rig against me and so then these e-mails come out. this happens. she gets booed by her own delegates at breakfast today. >> we call that proof in the courtroom when a e-mails come out yes, it is rig and

why into the dnc? that's where you would get, first of all, the playbook of the democrats as well as the playbook that the democrats had against the republicans. it would be the potential foreign policy adversaries of the russian government, whom they would be opposing. you can understand completely why this would be done. this is, of course, everything that we experienced all the way back into the watergate break-in at the dnc headquarters by the nixon white house, but here it is foreign adversaries who ramps it up. "the washington post" breaking the story and we've confirmed it all, brian. it just tells you going all the way back to when i would be sitting across the table from leon panetta when he was taking over the cia, he said cyber war was the next great front that we were not properly defended against. it has been very clear all the way back a decade ago that this is a major challenge from the north koreans to the russians to the chinese and to other less active actors. now, that said, the u.s.

it's not all politic at the dnc here in town. ahead some of the circus taking over the city that could make it hard for you to get around. >>> and before we head to break another live look from inside the democratic national convention from road closures to events around the city to everything you need to know about the dnc, head to our website fox29.com. ♪ >>> life inside the wells fargo center first lady michelle obama is addressing the gathered delegates while we await senator bernie sanders. delegates from across the nation have gather here for the first night of the democratic national convention, ton night city officials removed the mississippi state flag from a light post in south philadelphia. >> the move came after dozens of protesters refused to move off the street calling the state emblem offensive. empty flagpole at broad and passyunk about 50 bernie sanders marchers spurred the change. they said the confederate em women on the flag is offensive won not get off the street until it was gone. commissioner richard ross

dnc has to do that job. when you're recruiting candidates, dnc ought to be helping train them. when we're hiring organizers, dnc should be training them. when alaska flips to become democratic or kansas in a year when trump wins by 14 points they pick up 14 seats in state legislature, we should have a center for best practices to go to school on what happened there and take those lessons. that's what we have to do. when we're building that infrastructure, getting back to basics and going to rural america saying we are here and you know what, we stand for economic opportunity, we are the democratic party, that's how we turn it around. it's got to be long-term -- >> thank you. >> investments. we're too short-term too frequently. >> turn to something else that was talked about before the break about what is going on in and around the country and look at another map. six states only had democratic governors and state legislatures. in the last eight years more than 900 seats in state legislatures went from democrat to republican and mostply legislatures draw the districts and big re

all of this blister of dnc and fha sanders didn't have the same opportunities to work with the dnc is not true. they opted not to. you are really telling me sanders had the same opportunities to control taving and strategy and money and the head of the dnc, at the time lifelong clinton ally debbie wasserman- schultz? give me's break. what they told you was a lie. countless democrats must have known hillary rigged the system and they did nothing. bernie sanders knew it was rigged and yet he supported hillary clinton in the general election. where is his back bone and now nancy pelosi trying to avoid the questions. this is the highest level of corruption we have seen in our lifetime. every person that voted for hillary clinton should be outraged. especially those that voted for bern. it is now a massive scandal and dividing the democratic party. this smoking gun story broke yesterday and if you turned in to the network news conference. you would not know it existed. news buster reported not one single second much coverage was dedicated on abc, cbs and not on nbc. they are all driven by

the dnc's firewall failed miserably. this is the equivalent of debbie wasserman schultz walking by the desks of my staff and throwing files of clinton materials on their desks. they should not have opened them and looked at them. that's absolutely the case. that does not meet our high standards. and certainly we have fired one staffer, we are looking at some others. but let's be clear. we had a few 20-year-olds that looked at files that were provided to them by the dnc -- >> jeff, let me psh balk on that for a second. is that really the same as debbie wasserman schultz throwing clinton files -- they had to go past the firewall, which was down -- >> no, there was no firewall. you go -- >> right, the firewall was down -- >> you go on the computer -- i'm not trying to justify what they did. but let's be clear what it is. the firewall was down. you go on the computer system. you do a data search and it pulls up everybody's data. and that's how they realized, somebody realized at first that it happened. we fired one of them.

wikileaks posted thousands of dnc emails that appear to show collusion between the dnc and the clinton campaign. senate minority leader chuck schumer told reporters yesterday he hadn't read the excerpts. today the house minority leader followed suit. >> you haven't heard me relitigate last year's election. i wasn't involved in the presidential -- i am already looking forward, this is about the future. i haven't had time to be reading any of that anyway. >> along the prominent democrats agreeing with brazile is senator elizabeth warren, who yesterday answered my esteemed colleague jake tapper. the federal elections commission yesterday declined to say whether it is investigating brazile's allegations but the democratic congresswoman from hawaii in a video posted online today all but accused hillary clinton and the dnc of having clouded campaign laws. >> these laws allow the clinton campaign to bypass individual campaign contribution limits by funneling millions of dollars for the dnc and state parties. taking control of the dnc in the process. >> approached outside of an event in washin

all of this blister of dnc and fha sanders didn't have the same opportunities to work with the dnc is not true. they opted not to. you are really telling me sanders had the same opportunities to control taving and strategy and money and the head of the dnc, at the time lifelong clinton ally debbie wasserman- schultz? give me's break. what they told you was a lie. countless democrats must have known hillary rigged the system and they did nothing. bernie sanders knew it was rigged and yet he supported hillary clinton in the general election. where is his back bone and now nancy pelosi trying to avoid the questions. this is the highest level of corruption we have seen in our lifetime. every person that voted for hillary clinton should be outraged. especially those that voted for bern. it is now a massive scandal and dividing the democratic party. this smoking gun story broke yesterday and if you turned in to the network news conference. you would not know it existed. news buster reported not one single second much coverage was dedicated on abc, cbs and not on nbc. they are all driven by

dnc, some people have said you should be airing at sprint again, the dnc -- should be airing ads. again, the dnc in 2012 as an appendage of the obama reelection campaign. the rnc in 2020 is an appendage of the truck reelection campaign. -- the trump reelection campaign. the dnc in 2020 is running a campaign process to make sure everything a person has an demonstrate that they are most qualified to be president. and i do not believe it would be our role to be airing ads every time there is misinformation. that is up to the campaign. what we are doing, forcefully, and will continue to do forcefully, is to call out misinformation, to make sure that networks are not aiding and abetting in the dissemination of misinformation. i think that is a critically important role. for instance, when in the aftermath of the el paso shooting, there was a whole slew of misinformation regarding an allegation that was being perpetrated on social media that one of the assailants, one of the shooters, drove away in a pickup truck with a beddoe bumper sticker. and we informed the beddoe arauca campaign t

today, the dnc contends that although it was russia who did the hacking to break into dnc headquarte headquarters, they allege the trump campaign and people associated with the campaign were partners in this crime. the list of defendants is long. the dnc is suing the russian federation, which means russia, gru, russian military intelligence, the specific staff from the gru who posed as the hacker, which was the hacker that took credit for the hacking and robbery of the dnc. they are bringing the suit against russian business associates of trump behind setting up the trump tower meeting. they brought a suit against joseph missuf who prosecutor say told george papadopoulos that russia had stolen democratic e-mails. also brought against wikileaks and julian assuage. after them there's a bunch of familiar named. the trump campaign, donald trump junior, paul manafort, jared kushner, george papadopoulos, rick gates. some unnamed john does 1 through 10. name unknown russian operatives who had been part of the hacking scheme against the dnc. in this lawsuit today, the democrats are seeking m

let's go back to the floor for questions for the dnc. dnc member? >> thank you, i am from california. in the interest of time, my those whos only for are currently not on the administrative side or state leadership. i want to know, what have you done in your record, concrete example that backup empowering state parties? april: go ahead. >> let me tell you what we have done in indiana, mike pence's indiana. where neither the last, best where nevertheless, -- where nevertheless winning for democrats in mike pence's indiana. first of all we have to recognize that you have to show up everywhere. i cut my teeth running for statewide office. i went to 89 counties. i was on hand for the breaking of the world record for the most chicken fried chicken assembled in one place. they decided the canoe festival in franklin county set a world record. you just have to show up. since becoming mayor, i've been able to do that in new ways. i have been able to raise money for our state party able to support terrific candidate like helping joe taylor, a state , represen