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[19:00:14] POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR: Hi, everyone. Top of the hour, 7:00 p.m. Eastern. I'm Poppy Harlow joining you here in Philadelphia for special live coverage of the Democratic National Convention set to get under way here in just about 48 hours' time when 50,000 people will descend on this great city. We'll see what is ahead for this week.

Let's go.

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HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESUMPTIVE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: I think being the first woman president would be quite a change from the presidents we've had up until this point.

I'm running because I have a lifetime of experience in getting results and fighting for people. I'm a progressive, but I'm a progressive who likes to get things done.

(AUDIENCE CHANTING)

BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: The issue of your e-mail practices.

CLINTON: I didn't have to turn over anything.

REPORTER: Did you wipe the server clean?

CLINTON: You mean like with a cloth or something?

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I), VERMONT: The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn e-mails.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: All people want to talk about Donald Trump.

CLINTON: Isn't he the one who is like, oh, you're all losers?

I have just one word for Mr. Trump: Basta. Enough!

DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: I think the only card she has is the women's card. CLINTON: If fighting for paid health care and family leave and equal

pay is paying the woman card, then deal me in. We are stronger together. Let's go out and make that case to America.

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HARLOW: And today in Miami, a monumental day for the Clinton campaign. Is it the day that they needed as they introduced her running mate, Tim Kaine, to the world? The two of them walked on the stage hand in hand. He spoke Spanish throughout his remarks.

Is it enough to bring in the liberal wing of the party and get those votes that Hillary Clinton wants?

Let's talk about all of that, but first take a look back at what happened onstage in Miami.

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CLINTON: I have to say that Senator Tim Kaine is everything Donald Trump and Mike Pence are not.

(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE)

He is qualified to step into this job and lead on day one. And he is a progressive who likes to get things done.

(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE)

That's just my kind of guy, Tim.

GOV. TIM KAINE (D), PRESUMPTIVE VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: I could not be any more honored to stand by Hillary's side in this very important campaign. I've spent most of my life in public service because I believe in doing everything I can to make a positive difference in people's lives. And I can see a lot of you out there who feel exactly the same way.

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HARLOW: My colleague and friend Brianna Keilar covering the Clinton camp was there in Miami, watching all of it unfold.

Quite a different rollout of her number two, the vice presidential particular, from what we saw last Saturday when Donald Trump took the stage, spoke for 28 minutes, bashed Hillary Clinton a lot, and then brought his number two, Mike Pence, onto the stage. A different rollout.

Did it work? How effective was it, Brianna?

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BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Poppy, this was Virginia Senator Tim Kaine's first real chance and probably his most important one to introduce himself to Democrats and others who may be thinking of supporting Hillary Clinton. He emphasized his Midwestern roots. He spoke Spanish often, and talked about his time working in Honduras with missionaries.

And for someone who had a knock on him that he would be a boring running mate f| Hillary Clinton, he gave a very impassioned speech. He took a softer approach to being an attack dog against Donald Trump and a very aggressive approach to being a cheerleader for Hillary Clinton.

KAINE: When I was a kid growing up, my favorite president was another Kansas City guy, Harry Truman. Great Democratic president. Great Democratic president.

And let me tell you something that Harry Truman said that could have been written five minutes ago. He said it in the late 1940s. And it's so well-put.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Friends, Hillary Clinton --

(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE)

[19:05:07] Hillary Clinton is filled with that courage, that imagination, and that unbeatable determination.

And that's why we trust her to fight for all Americans. That's why I'm with her. That's why I'm with her. Are you with her?

KEILAR: Senator Kaine is not without vulnerabilities, of course. He has had some moderate positions on the TPP trade agreement, something he only very recently, in fact within the last week, has decided not to support. That according to sources, we are learning. He hasn't publicly spoken about that.

He's been for offshore oil drilling. He's been on some restrictions on abortion like parental consent, and he's supported a late term abortion ban with exceptions for the life and health of the mother.

But the Clinton campaign, calculating his appeal to white males obviously in Ohio and Pennsylvania where Donald Trump could make inroads against Hillary Clinton, and also his appeal to Hispanic voters in addition to his rapport that was very clear today with Hillary Clinton, that that is going to make him the best bet for her running mate -- Poppy.

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HARLOW: Brianna Keilar for us in Miami, thank you so much, Brianna.

Let me bring in my friend and my colleague, Mark Preston, executive editor of CNN Politics.

Let me just note for a moment, we got knocked off the air at about 5:20 because of wicked weather that came here to Philly. Storms, you should have seen the lights filled with water, the prompters out. It's the guys behind us that brought us back on the air by 7:00 p.m. To the men and women out here, thank you, incredible job.

MARK PRESTON, CNN POLITICS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Really unbelievable work. And we get this, it's sunny back again.

HARLOW: Sunny now in Philadelphia.

But you don't see all the work behind the camera. They put together a makeshift so the for us, and we're back. Thank you for sticking around with me, my friend.

Let me ask you this -- as you listened to Tim Kaine today, do you agree with David Axelrod, who just tweeted, "Very strong debut for Tim Kaine, natural, engaging, connecting". Does Tim Kaine make Hillary Clinton who critics called not transparent more real?

PRESTON: Yes. Well, and certainly if -- first of all, low expectations for Tim Kaine coming into this. He himself jokes that he's boring, he's not dynamic. He's been in Democratic politics a long time but not known by anybody, he even said that, today, you don't really know, nobody really knows me.

But what he was able to do today was able to add a little bit of warmth to Hillary Clinton that we don't often see. She was laughing and smiling and seemed relaxed. And for any concern she may have had about picking Tim Kaine as her running mate has absolutely dissipated.

HARLOW: He talked about being the son of a welder, getting up at the crack of down to help his family with work that needed to get done. He felt like in that speech everyday America.

PRESTON: He seemed human. We talk a lot about him being from Virginia, he was the mayor of Richmond, a governor of Virginia. But he grew up in the Midwest.

HARLOW: Born in Minnesota.

PRESTON: Born in Minnesota.

HARLOW: A great state.

PRESTON: Midwest sensibility to him that we often talk about in politics and saw on display today.

HARLOW: Here's the thing. The Clinton camp constantly runs up against this narrative, believe it or not, that they play by different rules.

PRESTON: Right.

HARLOW: And part of that, throughout the fight and the campaign between Sanders and Clinton, was did she have the favor of the DNC. Was the DNC stacking the cards for her and against Sanders? So, now, WikiLeaks dumps all these documents, 20,000 documents. CNN hasn't independently confirmed them. But these e-mails do appear to show some collusion among some DNC

staffers in favor of Clinton and against Sanders.

PRESTON: And assuming that these e-mails are right, we haven't heard from the DNC denying that they are in fact true, they are extremely damaging at the beginning of the Democratic convention.

HARLOW: And some of them are from Debbie Wassermann Schultz, the head of the DNC.

PRESTON: Right. One of them, actually a staffer, says we basically need to plant a story questioning Bernie Sanders' faith before two critical primaries in the Democratic primaries. So, absolutely bad for the Democratic Party, bad for Hillary Clinton, because now she is going to have to try to beat this back. Bad for Debbie Wassermann Schultz as they're trying to unify the party.

Look, we spent last week about Donald Trump trying to unify the Democratic Party. Well, there are a lot of Sanders people that were coming over to Hillary Clinton now may be backing off.

HARLOW: And how will it or will it affect what he says onstage here at the DNC on Monday night? I mean, they want a full-throated endorsement. Will they get it as glowingly as they may have before this happened? We'll see.

PRESTON: Right. And I think they will. It won't be a Ted Cruz moment. And you do think the Sanders folks will eventually be with Hillary Clinton. But this is a terrible moment for them.

HARLOW: Stay with me. Mark Preston here with me for the hour.

[19:10:00] Let's go now to Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, not only the mayor of Baltimore but also the secretary of the Democratic National Committee.

Thank you so much for being with me, Mayor. I appreciate it.

STEPHANIE RAWLINGS-BLAKE, MAYOR OF BALTIMORE: I appreciate being inside. I saw you had to run offset earlier, I hope you're okay.

HARLOW: We're braving it, yeah, we're just fine. Thank you for being with me.

Before we get to your support of Clinton and what you'll say onstage this week, I do want to address what Mark and I just talked about, the WikiLeaks document dump. You're the secretary of the DNC. This is not a good luck, and frankly something that Donald Trump brought up on Thursday night in his remarks onstage, talking about what he deems to be a rigged system.

Let's listen.

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TRUMP: I have seen firsthand how the system is rigged against our citizens, just like it was rigged against Bernie Sanders. He never had a chance. Never had a chance. But his supporters will join our movement.

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HARLOW: So, as the secretary of the DNC, any response to these documents, to what Trump is saying, that the cards were stacked?

RAWLINGS-BLAKE: I think Donald Trump is grasping at straws. I think the e-mails, while not verified, suggest the same thing that happened at the Republican Party. There's no person that's engaged in politics that doesn't have an opinion about politics. Expressing an opinion about a candidate doesn't mean that you're in collusion, doesn't mean that you are actively working against them. And I don't think that that's what it shows. In the Republican Party, we saw that very clearly.

HARLOW: I think it's a question of acting equally on behalf of both of your leading candidates in the Democratic Party, right? That's the key question here is, was Clinton's camp treated more favorably from the DNC as a whole?

RAWLINGS-BLAKE: No. As the secretary of the DNC, my expectation is beyond your opinion about a candidate, that you act evenly. All of the officers took a pledge of neutrality. And I honored that. And I take that very seriously. And I know that the chair will hold those employees accountable if they're found to have acted outside of that neutrality and even handedness.

HARLOW: All right. So, let's move on to your city of Baltimore. I was just in Baltimore last month doing a story on some of the great things that are happening there. Also, though, it is challenged city, when you talk about the unemployment rate, when you talk about the unemployment rate for young black men in particular. Donald Trump addressed your city of Baltimore on Thursday night as well.

Let's play that.

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TRUMP: Every action I take, I will ask myself, does this make better for young Americans in Baltimore, in Chicago, in Detroit, in Ferguson, who have really in every way, folks, the same right to live out their dreams as any other child in America? Any other child.

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HARLOW: What does the city of Baltimore, Mayor, need from a President Trump or a President Clinton?

RAWLINGS-BLAKE: Well, I'll say from any president, we need an optimistic executive. And the vision that he has of Baltimore and other challenged cities are not the cities that we know. You have to do more than dump on a city or to spotlight the negative things to try to boost yourself up in order to be a leader. We need a president like Secretary Clinton that understands the value

of infrastructure investment, understands that those young men that Trump was talking about can be put to work, if we are to be aggressive with rebuilding America's cities. Secretary Clinton is on board with that.

The difference between -- one of the differences between Secretary Clinton and Donald Trump is when she says something, she actually has a plan on how to do it. She doesn't just throw disconnected words out there and hope that people understand what she's talking about. She believes in pushing for infrastructure investment in America's cities.

HARLOW: Finally, before we go, quickly, your message, when you take the stage here this week, what will it be, how will you convince those voters?

RAWLINGS-BLAKE: Well, I think the Republican convention did more to convince Americans that the continuation of Democratic Party in the executive office is the way to go, more than anything that we can say. There was so much hate, there was so much divisiveness.

That is not the optimistic country that I want to leave for my daughter. When you think about the different things, even the one Muslim gentleman that spoke on the stage was heckled.

[19:15:05] That's not the best reflection of America. And I think you'll see a very stark difference here in Philadelphia. And it is a difference that I think people will believe in.

HARLOW: Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, thank you for joining us. A big week ahead for all of you here in Philadelphia, thank you very much.

RAWLINGS-BLAKE: Thanks.

HARLOW: We have a lot ahead this hour. Coming up next, the report from Munich. A tragic shooting taking the lives of nine people there yesterday, many of them children and teenagers. What was in the mind of the killer? The latest from Munich, next.

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HARLOW: Welcome back to our live coverage from Philadelphia, ahead of the DNC.

But I do want to take you to Munich, Germany, because we're learning more about the man who went on a shooting rampage yesterday, taking the lives with nine people, many of them teenagers and children.

We now know his name and we now have a photograph of him. He is 18- year-old Ali Sonboly, a dual citizen of Germany and Iran. Officials found he had a history of mental illness. Police say that he is the man in this video firing a handgun, shouting curses about foreigners and intentionally aiming at teenagers and children.

The gunman is dead. He killed himself at the end of this rampage. And now the shocked people of Munich are wondering why this happened, how this could happen.

Our Fred Pleitgen is in Munich tonight -- Fred.

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FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice- over): Mourning the dead. Many clearly overwhelmed by pain, sadness, and anger at the makeshift memorial near the scene of the killings.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm so glad that no one of my friends is affected and they are all alive and safe. I'm so sorry for the people who were here at the moment.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I mean, I'm in pieces. I don't know. I haven't foreseen that happening in your own neighborhood, you know?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Pray for Munich. And pray for the world.

PLEITGEN: The shooter, identified by CNN as 18-year-old Ali Sonboly, killed nine and wounded more than two dozen when he opened fire here on Friday afternoon. Police are still trying to determine who may have motivated the shooter to go on this rampage. But they say there are strong indications that he may have specifically been targeting younger people.

[19:20:01] So far, none of those killed or wounded have been publicly identified.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have all the equipment inside you need for anger management.

PLEITGEN: At Munich's biggest hospital, Professor (INAUDIBLE) and his team remember all too well the mass casualty situation they were confronted with, treating several wounded but enable to save one of those rushed here.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It really makes me sad, because I want to fight for every life. And especially in young victims, this is not a good thing for a physician.

PLEITGEN: The aftermath of this crime weighing heavily on Munich and all of Germany as this country grieves for those killed and struggles to understand what may have motivated the man who took their lives.

Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Munich, Germany.

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HARLOW: Fret Pleitgen reporting for us tonight from Munich.

Coming up, we return to politics, and I will speak live with Senator Al Franken from the great state of Minnesota about the pick of Tim Kaine as Hillary Clinton's number two.

Also, what he expects we will see from the DNC here in Philly this week. How will it compare to last week in Cleveland? A lot ahead with Senator Franken.

Stay with us. Live coverage continues.

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HARLOW: All right. Welcome back to our special live coverage here in Philadelphia, head of the DNC, which kicks off officially on Monday. Fifty thousand more people will descend on this city.

And today, a huge moment for the Clinton camp, officially unveiling Tim Kaine as her number two, walking on stage hand in hand, the two of them together, as Tim Kaine really introduced himself, frankly, to America, frankly admitting "many of you don't know me, here is my story."

[19:25:00] Let's talk about the Tim Kaine pick and the campaign overall with Senator Al Franken, from the great state of Minnesota.

Thank you so much for being with me, sir. I appreciate it.

SEN. AL FRANKEN (D), MINNESOTA: Thank you, Poppy.

HARLOW: I just left my beautiful home state of Minnesota this morning. And I'm so glad you're joining us from there. Let me ask you this, I know you like Tim Kaine pick.

FRANKEN: I do.

HARLOW: But what do you think he did in his remarks today to convince voters that he's the right man and that he's progressive enough for them? How well did he make his case today?

FRANKEN: I think he made it beautifully.

I've always said about Tim Kaine, if you kind of got to know him for five minutes, you would go, oh, okay, I get it. He can be president. He's a real guy. He's driven by his faith.

He is -- he went through a Jesuit Catholic school. It's all about that Catholic social justice. He has lived his life that way. He's lived his life in public service, went to Honduras and learned Spanish there. He said he learned from his students and/or from the people there, and he also taught them, because his dad was an iron worker at an iron working business, he taught them certain things.

But he was a civil rights lawyer. He worked with people who were being discriminated against in housing. He's a complete progressive. He's -- and his heart is exactly there. I think you saw that today.

HARLOW: So, I'm interested to know if you are one of those who believes that he makes Hillary Clinton more real. And here's why I ask, because I know you've been endorsing her since before she announced, since December of 2014, you're a huge advocate.

But you also know that she has a transparency issue and a trustworthiness issue when you look at all the polling. And even when you talk to some of her supporters. Does Tim Kaine, who says when I went to Honduras my Harvard law degree didn't help me, it was my work with my father in the iron shop helped me.

FRANKEN: Right.

HARLOW: Does his Midwest roots and what he said today, does he help make Hillary Clinton more real to much of America?

FRANKEN: I think you're asking about authenticity. Look, I trust Hillary completely. And what I trust her to do is, being in the Senate, I get to see the presidency a little closer than a lot of other people do.

And it is hard work. And I trust that Hillary will do that hard work. I've never met anyone who worked as hard as her, who is as smart as her, as knowledgeable or experienced as her.

We need someone in the White House who is going to do that job and workday day in and day out, because when you're the president, there are decisions that come to you and only you. And you never know what they're going to be. They're crises. And you better have a wealth of experience and knowledge to draw from. And she does.

And you need to be someone that the American people can trust to do their homework every day and work day in and day out. I think she in that way is the opposite of Donald Trump.

HARLOW: So I was asking about authenticity. Let me ask it this way, Senator. You've known the Clintons for more than two decade some have described Hillary Clinton as the most famous person that nobody knows.

What do you think voters don't know yet about Hillary Clinton that she needs them to know to win this election?

FRANKEN: Well, I know her as the most present, one of the most present people. When I'm with Hillary, she is there with me and in a moment. She's actually very funny and she's got a goofy sense of humor.

And I do think that her presentation doesn't do her justice, and that maybe some of that has been because they've been so under the looking glass for so long, and that there may be a defensiveness there.

But my goodness, she is someone that I completely trust, and completely enjoy being with. She's got a goofy sense of humor, and she is -- she authentically wants to do the job of improving people's lives.

[19:30:01] That's what Paul Wellstone from our state said, that politics isn't about winning, it is about power, it's about improving people's lives. And that's what Hillary and what you saw from Tim Kaine today, that's what this ticket is about.

HARLOW: Senator, before I let you go, the picture that was painted by Donald Trump on Thursday night on stage was one of a dystopian America that only he can fix. And it reflected the anger, the real anger among many Americans. And perhaps not on the coast per se always, but when you talk about the rest of the country, where I'm from, where you're from, and I've been in the field and I see the anger and I see the economic desperation among some Americans who really feel and are living the reality that this economy isn't working for them.

It's clear from Clinton and Kaine's remarks today, the DNC is going to have a much more upbeat tone. How does she walk the line with that tone while at the same time recognizing what much of America is feeling that is being, you know, portrayed by Donald Trump getting to where he is today?

FRANKEN: I don't think there's any question that we Democrats understand people's anger and fears. But I don't think that you play to them in a kind of demagogic way and paint this ugly, ugly picture of America and then say that magically, you are going to transform it by virtue of -- you're the only one.

I think we're -- we Democrats believe that the economy grows from the middle out. The Republicans believe it goes from the top down. We are going to be fighting so that people who are -- who aspire to be in the middle class could be in the middle class and those who are -- the hollowing out of the middle class that we answer that. And we're going to answer that in a whole bunch of different ways.

And we're going to be talking about affordable childcare. We're going to be talking about raising the minimum wage. We're going to be about strengthening our manufacturing sector, about job training, about education, about early childhood education. We're going to be talking about actually how we get from here to there.

They -- Donald Trump's whole thing was this country is failing, this is -- I've painted this ugly picture, there's only one person in this country who can save you, it's me. And I'm not going to tell you how, because I have no clue how I'm going to do it. It's just magical thinking.

HARLOW: Senator Al Franken, wish we had more time but thank you for taking the time to be on with us tonight, a big week ahead for all of you here in Philadelphia. Thank you.

FRANKEN: Good talking, Poppy.

HARLOW: All right, Senator Al Franken, we're going to take a quick break. Much more live from Philadelphia next.

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[19:35:49] HARLOW: All right, if history has shown us anything, it is that you better win Ohio if you want to take the White House. And women, the women's vote is critical this time around. So I sat down with a number of women voters in the great city of Ohio to ask them how they feel about Trump, Clinton and especially those undecided.

Donald Trump has said, Kim, that Hillary Clinton is playing the woman card. He said the only thing she's got is the woman card. Frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don't think she'd get five percent. You say?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I disagree. Hillary Clinton is not playing a woman card. She gets it. She's qualified for the position to be president. Hillary Clinton is a person that wants to bring everyone together. But when I think about Donald Trump, he scares me. It's dangerous, the way he feels about women, the way he feels about abortion. The way he feels about women is very rude. It's nonprofessional. He is -- I mean the things he says is very disgusting.

HARLOW: I interviewed Ivanka Trump last fall. And I asked her, "How would your father be as a president for women?" And she said, and I'm paraphrasing, "He would be extraordinary for women." And she pointed to the Trump Corporation, Trump Organization, where there are many, many women at very high levels.

Does that sway your opinion at all?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I still disagree. The only thing that sticks out in my mind is what he's said about women and that, I can't get out of my head.

HARLOW: Kathleen, I want your response to that. Kim just called your candidate, Donald Trump, dangerous for women.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, that's usually a media term because that's what Hillary has got in her ads. And actually, Hillary has been very dangerous for America. She's completely twisted around at the Benghazi situation. And I'm sorry, I'm not sticking up for Donald Trump because he has missaid a lot of things. And he doesn't offend me. I do not think he hates women. I think he absolutely adores women. He's never been an aggressive guy to use a woman. He's never used no reputation for anything like that. His ex-wives stick up for him constantly.

It's the portrayal of his, you know, missteps that he has said. And yeah, he does have an issue like that because that's the persona that he appeared on television as in his little ...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Because running as a president, you can't have that. You just can't say mean things like that about women and try to get their votes.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Can you -- Well, I agree with you and I'm not sticking out for him in that instance. But I'm also not sticking out for Hillary, who has said she's not running on a female platform. And that is outrageous. That's like she's saying to me, "You're a woman, you must vote for me." I can't, that's crazy.

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HARLOW: ... because this is a really interesting exchange, because Kathleen, who is a big Trump supporter, is saying, "Yeah, I don't love all those comments, but I still support him."

What do you say when it comes to the comments that Donald Trump has made about women? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, you know what, we as women, for years, we've always had to get the blunt issue, you know, the blunt end of the stick. And we have to suck it up sometimes.

And this is -- When it comes to Donald Trump, I really believe he's had some times where, you know, he's misspoken. But like you said, he's taken it back. And, you know, bottom of the line, he's a man, and he's learning and this is on-the-job training. And I still say, sometimes it's better to put a new horse in a race than to keep the same one who hasn't been winning, because if the stable's going to get burned down, you know, I want to be protected, I'm sorry.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm not voting for Hillary just because she's a woman. I don't feel inclined or pressured that she's a woman so I'm -- I have to do this or that because I voted Democratic in the past, I have to vote for her. I don't feel that way at all.

I feel that she needs to speak to me, as where I am in life right now and I just -- I don't relate to her. I don't -- I'm not moved by the way she speaks currently. I never really have been, to be honest. So, nothing about her really excites me. So her being a woman doesn't really sway me automatically in that regard.

[19:40:05] HARLOW: What about you, Holly? We've heard that from a number of young female voters that are Democrats that she struggles with younger women voters, why?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think part of the reason is that she's not as transparent maybe as she needs to be. I also feel that she doesn't speak to the people. I feel like a lot of times, she speaks over people's heads, maybe not intentionally but that's how it conveys.

So, I think she needs to, you know, be more mindful of how she speaks to people and that it doesn't come across as brash or that she's better than others.

HARLOW: Something genuine ...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Right.

HARLOW: ... when she speaks.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You can't be personable when you're not transparent. You said you just can't be personable when you're a liar and you get caught in lies.

And, you know, let's keep it real. If she wasn't Hillary Clinton and she was just an everyday person like you two undecideds, you'd be sitting in jail right now.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I agree with that but I think Trump is not very personable either, so your rhetoric to me isn't really swaying me. But I agree with you, I do, on that point.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yeah, what did she do so wrong to end up in jail?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The e-mails ...

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, to think about it, those e-mails were -- and we all know, they were politically motivated. If something was wrong, the FBI would have found it. They didn't find anything.

HARLOW: The head of the FBI called it extremely careless.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My saying so is yeah, Clinton, it's trust with me. It's -- I'm not saying that she should be hung for treason or, you know, anything crazy. But I am saying that, yeah, how are you going to run a country if the people around you maybe don't trust you or the other governments that need to work with you are a little wary of your character?

Same with Trump really, I mean, he's so out there. Again, how are you going to unite the people with you? How are you going to get them to rally behind you? So I just -- That's why I don't like either of them.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think what's most important is that the best candidates be in office. And I'm not convinced at this point in time that either one is the best candidate.

HARLOW: Well, Juliana, to you, I mean, the concerns you just heard here about Hillary Clinton from two undecideds voters, what do you say to them about ...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, I just -- I guess I want to go back to Hillary. And, you know, I have the same concern, you know, first learning about Secretary Clinton and being a young woman, you know, college student, and I was like, you know, am I for Hillary or, you know, am I for Trump? Like where do I align? And then, you know, something that I did is I researched for a little bit more and I learned that, you know, when she was my age, she was an activist and she was going out there and she was fighting for children, fighting for families. And I think that's a new tide that Hillary is seeing and hopefully, she'll be able to show those emotions.

HARLOW: Donna, one of the issues that you brought up, you have said that you believe that the African-American community in America has taken a hit under the current administration. Is that correct?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, a lot of black people voted for President Barack Obama because he was black. And he's done nothing for us in eight years. So, I ask you, if you're going to vote for Hillary Clinton because she's a woman, you know what I'm saying? There's already practice that doesn't work.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The reason that I believe in Trump is because he wants Americans to succeed. And even though he missteps and says things and then goes back and doesn't really -- you know, he doesn't stay in the heat of the argument, whatever that he said it and he has to admit, he wants Americans to exceed..

[09:44:03] UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The biggest thing that we got from here is that, you know, the women's vote is not as united as people may think it is. Obviously, we have diverse women right here and we're saying that we all have our own opinions and, you know, women aren't just in one ticket. We all have our own thoughts.

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HARLOW: There you have it, Hillary Clinton's number two vice presidential candidate, Tim Kaine, addressing a crowd of supporters in South Florida today. He spoke Spanish throughout. He opened by saying is Spanish, "Welcome to everyone." Will it move the needle enough? And does it matter that he was speaking Spanish in the big picture?

Let's talk with CNN Espanol Reporter Gustavo Valdes. What do you think? This was a crowd of supporters, they were cheering him on, yes, but does it make a difference with the Latino vote really?

GUSTAVO VALDES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: In South Florida, speaking Spanish is a must. The question is, is this Hillary Clinton saying, "Look, I found somebody who speaks your language"? Or is Hillary Clinton saying, "I'm sorry, I could not speak Hispanic, I have somebody who speaks your language"? Is it going to be enough? Well, he is going to be able to walk the crowd, answer questions in Spanish from Spanish media, who are going to, you know, broadcast that message a lot easier. But does it make a difference in Colorado, in New Mexico, in Arizona?

HARLOW: What do you think?

[19:50:01] VALDES: Well, those are states where you have established long-time historic Hispanics. These people didn't cross the border, they are long-time Americans. They don't necessarily identify as Latin-American citizens. Will that resonate with them?

Many of them don't speak Spanish. Julian Castro, who was supposed to be her Hispanic pick, doesn't speak Spanish. So, that's the question. And the other thing is speaking Spanish constantly, will it alienate those white voters who doesn't like to, you know, press 2 for English? Middle America, a lot of Donald Trump's message is that. We need to take our country back from that kind of issues. Is her pick going to help the Latino vote who is already behind her? Donald Trump has an uphill battle to gain more Latino votes.

HARLOW: It can't just be that he speaks Spanish, right? He talks about his time as a missionary in Honduras. And he said, "My Harvard law degree didn't do anything to help me there but my work with my father did." And he talked about faith, family and work in that order.

So we'll see if it is more than just the language but his experience as a whole.

VALDES: The message will be beyond Central America and Puerto Rico. Puerto Ricans are the largest, fastest growing segment of the Latino voters, Central Florida, Ohio, this part of the country. They want to know what the government is going to do to help the island. This is not an immigration issue. It's an economic issue for Puerto Ricans.

HARLOW: Gustavo Valdes, nice to see you, my friend. Thank you so much.

A quick break. Coming up, much more live coverage here from the DNC in Philadelphia straight ahead.

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HARLOW: Welcome back to our live coverage here in Philadelphia.

As 50,000 people descend on this city this week, security is at a high and a lot has been put in place to prepare for this week. Miguel Marquez has more on the security concerns ahead of the DNC.

MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The City of Philadelphia is preparing for 50,000 protesters everyday while the DNC is on.

[19:55:09] And this is what it looks like here at the Wells Fargo Center. This is about the area where the protesters will be able to get to, through these fences, across the street through barriers on the other side is the Wells Fargo Center.

And then we are on Broad Street in South Philadelphia. If you kept going up that way about four or five miles, you get right into the center, the heart of Philadelphia, where the Declaration of Independence was signed at Independence Hall.

You're seeing these trucks everywhere now on the areas going into this area to prevent a sort of Nice-like attack. With so many protesters in this area, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park, this will be the main place for protesters but they won't see a lot through these barricades.

There will be protests throughout the city, though, is what the city is dealing with. That presents them with two problems. One, they want to keep the protesters themselves safe, so that they can protest and have their say. But they also don't want them to get out of control. They also want the delegates to be able to go about their business.

An enormous undertaking, 6,000 police officers from the City of Philadelphia alone, thousands more from across the country will be in here to help secure it. Everything from no e-cigarettes inside there to I-95 right down here, no commercial traffic, anything over five tons banned during the DNC.

Back to you.

HARLOW: Miguel, thank you very much. And a big thanks before I go tonight to our incredible crew here with us. We got knocked off the air with pretty wicked weather. They got us back on the air despite severe storms. So thanks to our entire crew here in Philadelphia for all they did for us tonight.

That'll do it for me. I'm Poppy Harlow live in Philadelphia. The "Race for the White House" is next.

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