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Clinton Formally Introduces Kaine as VP Pick; 80 Dead in Kabul Blast, ISIS Claims Responsibility; Police: Teen Gunman Was Bullied, Mentally Troubled; Clinton, Dems Prepare For DNC in Philadelphia; Clinton Picks Sen. Tim Kaine as Running Mate; Leaked DNC E-mails Support Sanders Claim of Unfair Treatment; Security in Philly Tights Ahead of DNC; Unarmed Black Man Shot by North Miami Police. Aired 5-6p ET

Aired July 23, 2016 - 17:00   ET

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[17:00:20] POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR: All right, top of the hour. Five o'clock Eastern. I'm Poppy Harlow live today in Philadelphia.

You are watching CNN special live coverage of the Democratic National Convention. The Democratic convention gets underway right here officially on Monday. But today the party's focus is in Miami. That is where Hillary Clinton debuted her newly announced running mate, Senator Tim Kaine.

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HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Please join me in welcoming the next Vice President, my friend, Senator Tim Kaine.

(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE)

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HARLOW: Senator Kaine is from Virginia a critical battleground state. And before becoming a senator, he served as the state's governor. Donald Trump is already blasting Clinton's pick suggesting that he is the ultimate insider. Kaine did not shy away, though, from his political background today at all.

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SEN. TIM KAINE (D), VIRGINIA: 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. I have been able to see how government works, and how sometimes it doesn't. From just about every perspective. And I've always believed that however you serve, what matters is whether you actually deliver results for people. And that's been my goal -- that's been my goal in every position I've ever held.

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HARLOW: CNN's Brianna Keilar is in Miami. She joins me now. She was there for it. Look, huge raucous applause when he opened up with his first line in Spanish, basically saying "Welcome to everyone" and he wove his Spanish in and out of his remarks today to huge applause. What do you think as someone who has covered the Clinton campaign so closely? What do you think she gains most from Senator Kaine on the ticket now?

BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You know, part of it I think was that he is a bit of an attack dog. He does it in a sort of understated way. So, I think there has been this concern that maybe he isn't an attack dog. But he is so clearly, Poppy, an effective, if you are judging by today, aggressive cheerleader for Hillary Clinton. He is someone who as we saw today because this was a pretty tremendous speech especially after one that he gave about a week ago that it's not that it was terrible, but I think it had a lot of people saying, hey this guy is going to be perhaps boring, he is not really going to be the punch that maybe the ticket needs.

But I think that today in a way he was able to give a very good speech and not totally outshine Hillary Clinton the way perhaps some of her other picks would. He talked a lot about himself. But he kept pivoting back to Hillary Clinton. And make no mistake. It's not that he is the vice presidential running mate who doesn't have some vulnerabilities. He does. Specifically on his left --

HARLOW: Yes.

KEILAR: He is been supportive of offshore. He's been supportive of some restrictions on abortion. But this is a campaign where Hillary Clinton has been moved to the left and she is worried about for instance white males in Pennsylvania and Ohio, where Donald Trump could make inroads. And that's they are hoping an area where he can help her.

HARLOW: So on that point, Brianna, I mean he was supportive of TPP although, you know, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. He is walking that back a little bit now as you mentioned. Environmental issues. He is not as progressive on a number of these things as those Sanders supporters would like to see. They wanted perhaps an Elizabeth Warren pick. But he used the word "progressive" a number of times in his remarks today. Clinton used the word progressive introducing him. How much do you think they will be able together to convince the Sanders supporters or more of the left wing of the party that he is progressive enough for them?

KEILAR: Well, they have already been able to. That's what polls are showing is that even though the Sanders camp may not be very happy with Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine isn't the pick that they would prefer. Polls are showing that those liberal Democrats are moving over to Hillary Clinton in a way that the Clinton campaign is comfortable with. Now, in some ways, Tim Kaine has been in line very much with the Democratic base. He was against the Keystone Excel Pipeline. And he didn't just walk back that support of TPP of that trade deal that's become such an issue that Bernie Sanders was against and Hillary Clinton was for while secretary of state and has since flipped on.

He completely flipped on that. He has not been asked about this. I expect he and Hillary Clinton are doing their first interview with "60 Minutes". I think that we are going to hear him asked about that. And we'll see for the first time publicly how he responds to that. But it really just goes to show that you that the Clinton campaign, they feel that he will appeal to moderates, he will appeal to white males who Hillary Clinton did not do well with against Bernie Sanders.

[17:05:15] And also the fact that he does speak Spanish and as that he is culturally adept when it comes to Latinos. He spent time in Honduras. He also and he talked about this today, is a member of St. Elizabeth Catholic Church in Richmond Virginia. This is where he married his wife almost three decades ago. It is a predominantly African-American church. So, this is a way in which he has really participated in the African-American community for years and years. So, they think he has broad appeal even if he does have some of these vulnerabilities -- Poppy.

HARLOW: Brianna Keilar, we'll see if that question is asked, then answered. As you said a complete flip on TPP in that joint interview that they are doing with "60 Minutes" for tomorrow. Brianna in Miami. Thank you very much.

With -- all this pick, and how the roll out went this afternoon in Miami, CNN executive editor of CNN Politics Mark Preston is with me. CNN political commentator and columnist at The Daily Beast Sally Kohn, who just wrote an op-ed about the Kaine pick and she supports Clinton. With me also is Nomi Konst, she is the host of "The Filter" on SiriusXM Progress. She is also a DNC Platform Committee member. And we're joined by CNN political commentator and Donald Trump supporter Scottie Nell Hughes.

Thank you all for being here. And Sally, let's begin with your op-ed. You called Tim Kaine a meh pick, like meh. OK. But beyond that, you said that what's most important perhaps about the -- there is the thunder from the big storm that's coming.

SALLY KOHN, DAILY BEAST COLUMNIST: It would appear God may disagree with my meh characterization. He may feel more enthusiastic. Anyway --

HARLOW: You said that this is important for voters because you are who you surround yourself with. So what should voters read from the Tim Kaine pick, Clinton choosing to surround herself with him as a running mate?

KOHN: First of all, I should be clear, you know, I am a progressive. I see my job both to make sure that the incredibly disastrous regressive xenophobic hateful candidacy of Donald Trump doesn't happen and to continue to push Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party not only to the left because I think it's the right thing to do in terms of policy outcomes. But it's actually the right thing to do politically. That is why the majority of the Democratic voters and the American people are moving.

In this context, Tim Kaine could have been worse, could have been a worse choice. No doubt. He has some good positions on immigration. He at least in the Senate has had good voting records on abortion and I take my progressives friends, at face value who support him. But there is no question, this was not saying either in substance or in signal to the left of the party. Yes, we are bringing you into this campaign --

HARLOW: OK, Sally, thank you. We're going to take a break here. The weather is getting really bad. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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[17:11:25] SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR: Hi, welcome back. I'm Suzanne Malveaux in Washington.

Now to international news. An explosion shaking up Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. Watch this. We are talking about three separate explosions, suicide bombers who killed themselves and 80 other people earlier today. The killers were in the middle of a crowd of peaceful demonstrators in Kabul. More than 260 others are now wounded. ISIS is claiming responsibility. Deadly attacks in Afghanistan have spiked recently since ISIS began losing territory in Iraq and Syria.

Also overseas right now, CNN has confirmed the name and picture of the man in Germany who police say opened fire on a McDonald's, then a shopping mall, killing nine people. Eighteen-year-old Ali Sonboli. He is a dual citizen of Germany and Iran. Officials note a history of mental illness. Now, police say that Sonboli is the man in the videotape firing a handgun shouting curses about foreigners. And intentionally aiming at teenagers and children.

CNN's Will Ripley is at the scene in Munich. Will?

WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This is where the shooting began. Police continue to guard this area. And you can see local dignitaries arriving here to pay their respects to the nine people who were killed. Seven of them teenagers. And 27 other people injured, some of them with very serious gunshot wounds. The mood out here, somber. You can see lots of international media. But also many locals are here as well. We've seen families with their adolescent children, children who may have very likely come to the Olympia mall, a gathering place for young people.

And also the place where police say the vast majority of the victims in this attack died. They searched the apartment of the 18-year-old attacker. And Munich police say they did not find any evidence of Islamic radicalization. He was not a jihadist, they say. They believe he did act alone. And they say they found information, research materials about going on a shooting rampage, why students kill, and they also say that going back into this attacker's past, there were incidents of bullying when he was around 13, 14 years old when he was beaten up by a group of young people, actually suffered physical injuries.

And also, he was the victim of theft. They don't know if that's what motivated this because they haven't recovered a suicide note. But it is some of the evidence that they are looking at as they try to piece together how this happened. Another key question, how did this teenager get his hands on a weapon, a weapon that had the serial number scratched off in a country where gun laws are exceedingly strict? Meanwhile the German Chancellor Angela Merkel telling the country that she mourns alongside the families. And you can see this makeshift memorial here, flowers and candles.

It has continued to grow, even a teddy bear there for the young victims. And also mourning for a city that has now endured something that people aren't used to. In fact, this city of some one-and-a-half million people was on lockdown for more than seven hours. People afraid to leave their homes on a Friday night because of the actions of a single teenager, a motive unclear. And now Germany trying to come to grips with how this happened and what can be done to prevented it from ever happening again here or elsewhere.

Will Ripley, CNN, Munich.

MALVEAUX: And Donald Trump and the Republicans have wrapped up their convention painting what many pundits are calling a bleak picture of the United States. So, how are the Democrats going to portray the American future when they gather in Philadelphia?

We'll going to discuss that with a leading Democrat in just a couple of minutes. You are live in the CNN NEWSROOM.

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[17:18:51] MALVEAUX: Donald Trump wrapped up the Republican National Convention with his acceptance speech. Pundits called his views of the United States darker and bleaker than they had really expected. So, how are the Democrats going to handle the mood of the country this week as they gather in Philadelphia? Where Minnesota Democrat and U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar is joining us now.

And just talk about this a little bit. Because the mood does seems to be angry. A lot of voters, it fueled the campaigns of both Trump and Bernie Sanders because they seemed to channel this disappointment with politics as usual. How do you think the DNC balance that out staying positive with the message that is inspiring and at the same time understand and, you know, they get what the voters are feeling?

SEN. AMY KLOBUCHAR (D), MINNESOTA: Exactly. And I think what you are going to see this coming week from Hillary Clinton and everyone from Michele Obama on is going to be message of we still have challenges ahead. We want to make things easier so people can buy a house, so they can send their kid to college. And here are some concrete things we can do. You contrast that to what we saw last week -- I actually said right after Trump's speech that, you know, our first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln. And he appealed to people's better angels in one of his speeches, his famous speeches. And that Donald Trump basically gave us a 76-minute rebuttal to that with a very dark portrait of America.

And while we know there are challenges, Americans have always risen to those challenges. We are an on optimistic country. And I really think you saw that today in Tim Kaine's speech where he talked about his own life, being born in Minnesota, growing up in Kansas City with his dad working hard every day of his life. What he did when he got to Virginia, focusing on results. And I think that message you heard in Florida is what you are going to be hearing in Philadelphia.

MALVEAUX: Senator of course, we know that Hillary Clinton is going to need those Bernie Sanders supporters, but there is some damning information that came out today regarding the Wikileaks dump of the DNC documents, evidence that perhaps the DNC was working against Sanders. And I want you to listen to this. This is what Trump said Thursday night.

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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: 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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MALVEAUX: So, Senator, we know already that he is feeding into the idea that this is a DNC that is divided. Do you think this hurts Hillary Clinton's chances of getting those Sanders supporters on board this week?

KLOBUCHAR: I'm looking forward to Bernie's speech. I take him at his word. He is a man of his word. And he has said that he is endorsing her. He gave a very strong endorsement of her just a few weeks ago. And now he's going to appear before a whole convention and say the same thing. And I will say this. When you look at the Bernie sanders supporters, I think about what they care about. And we have a lot of people that supported Senator Sanders in my state who are now supporting Hillary Clinton. They care about things like climate change.

Donald Trump has said it has been invented by the Chinese. He said it in a tweet. They care a lot about free college. That is one of their main focuses. It's Bernie's proposal for free college. What do we have on the Trump side? We have Trump University and ripping off all those students. They care a lot about helping people. Bringing themselves up, low income, middle class. And then you look at what Donald Trump said during the housing crisis he wanted to bet on it to make money off it. There is a vast difference between the Bernie Sanders supporters and what you saw last week at the Republican National Convention. So, I'm very positive about how we are going to be able to work together and unite behind Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine.

MALVEAUX: I want to talk about this at one time here. You had teamed up with fellow Minnesota Democratic Al Franken back on equal pay, a bill regarding that. I want you to listen to what Trump's daughter Ivanka said Thursday night when she introduced her father. Take a listen to this.

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IVANKA TRUMP, DAUGHTER OF DONALD TRUMP: At my father's company there are more female than male executives. Women are paid equally for the work that we do. And when a woman becomes a mother, she is supported, not shut out.

(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE)

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[17:23:20] MALVEAUX: Senator, some people who were joking saying it sounded more like a speech for the DNC as opposed to the RNC. But this does kind of -- it gives you a window, an insight if you will of some common ground perhaps that you could find with Donald Trump on this issue in the campaign?

KLOBUCHAR: Well, you know, we always welcome Republican support for family child leave policies and for child care. But we have tended not to see that. And I'm sure that you will see that laid out at our convention about how when we have tried to move forward with some of these proposals they haven't happened. And there has been Republican opposition. And I really appreciated what Ivanka Trump said. But I didn't hear that same tone in her dad's speech. And guess what. It's her dad that is running for president.

MALVEAUX: That is true. You were speaking before the convention. Give us a sense, a little preview of what you will be saying. What are you going to be addressing?

KLOBUCHAR: Well I'm going to focus on some of Hillary Clinton's work with going after sex trafficking, going after human trafficking. She has been such a leader on this way back to her speech when she was first lady when she said women's rights are human rights, human rights are women's rights. She then moved into as senator and secretary of state fighting for some of the first sex trafficking laws that we have had in our country way back when she was first lady and then moving forward.

And she even put our own country on that international list of how countries are doing when it comes to law enforcement. And really made us accountable and said, hey, we are not perfect. We've got our own problems. And certainly as a former prosecutor I've seen this in my own state and across the country. And so, her leadership on these issues where she says women and girls should be elevated. They should be in leadership positions. I think it is an important foreign policy argument as well as part of our law enforcement efforts here in the U.S.

MALVEAUX: And put on a different hat for us if you will. You used to be the county attorney near Falcon Heights where Philando Castile was shot by police and everybody knows that case by now. A lot of hurt around that. We saw at the RNC convention a lot of chants "Blue Lives Matters" it was a popular applause line. We know that the DNC is going to be showcasing several mothers of the victims of police shootings. Is there going to be a balance here?

Talk about the need here to recognize both sides. Because what some people are saying is that this is being politicized along partisan lines where you have sympathies for say the police on the RNC and they are still looking for something that acknowledges social injustice and sympathies for police at the DNC -- how will that be presented? KLOBUCHAR: Well, I think first of all you are going to see that

balance. You know, the case that we had in Minnesota, heart breaking. I've met with that family. But at the same time, you've also had a law enforcement officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge gunned down, innocent people. And so I think what you'll see is a balance. A big focus on, yes, we need reform in our criminal justice system. We need to do more work on gun violence. We need to make sure that our system is accountable.

But at the same time, we know, as the President so beautifully put it when he was down in Dallas, we know the work these officers on the front line every single day putting their lives at risk for us. So there is a way to focus on reform at the same time an enormous respect for law enforcement and the work that they do every day in our neighborhoods.

MALVEAUX: And as a prosecutor, what is your feeling about how you actually balance -- how you take these cases into consideration, these police shootings?

KLOBUCHAR: Sure, well, my job I figured when I headed up our biggest prosecutor's office. And I always said my job was to convict the guilty, protect the innocent. Innocent means people would are wronged by perpetrators and criminals, and it also means people who are unfairly caught up in the criminal justice system. So that means things like I was an early advocate for videotaping interrogations. And we found that helped on the victim's side because people were actually able, and the officer's side able to see what was going on in an interrogation room. And it also made sure that Miranda rights were read and rights were protected. And overall, that worked well.

The same thing with these body camera trials. We have to look at the privacy said. But I think overall that can be done in a very positive way for our community. Training officers, making sure that we have a police force that reflects our community at large. So, I do think that we can move forward together as a nation. And I have appreciated the President's leadership on this. And as someone who has a lot of respect for the tough job that officers have every day, I do think that there are many officers that want to work with the community and get this right and move forward. And I think that's what the focus should be on in the coming week as opposed to dividing people. It's how we bring them together.

[17:28:26] MALVEAUX: Senator Amy Klobuchar, we have covered a lot of grounds. Thank you so much. I appreciate it.

KLOBUCHAR: We will be covering a lot of ground next week.

MALVEAUX: Yes. The weather is a little fierce out there right now. So, please be safe in your travels. We really appreciate your time.

KLOBUCHAR: Well, I'm sure it will be sunny when we all get there. Thank you.

(LAUGHTER)

MALVEAUX: All right. Thank you.

We'll be right back.

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[17:31:56] MALVEAUX: Hillary Clinton formally debuted her newly named running mate today. He is Senator Tim Kaine. He not only does have years of political experience, but he is also from Virginia, a key battleground state.

Kaine says he got the offer from Clinton only yesterday. He described what that moment was like to our own Dan Merica.

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DAN MERICA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: What was your first reaction when she told you?

SEN. TIM KAINE, (D), VIRGINIA & VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: It's kind of surreal. But what a warm welcome we have had. Great to be in Miami. Great to be in Florida. Such a great crowd.

MERICA: What do you think you bring to the ticket?

KAINE: I think we are going to be good colleagues. I'm going to do everything to help her win and help her be a great president.

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MALVEAUX: CNN's Jeff Zeleny has more on what Kaine brings to the Democratic ticket.

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KAINE: Are ready for Hillary?

JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine, new partners on the Democratic ticket.

KAINE: Do you want a "you're fired" president or a "you're hired" president?

ZELENY: It may be an anti-establishment year but Clinton's running mate is an insider, a U.S. Senator from Virginia, and a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

KAINE: If I have anything to do with it we'll win again.

ZELENY: By selecting Kaine, Clinton is betting experience in government, not sizzle, is the best way to defeat Trump.

KAINE: Elections are just the beginning. The real work starts tomorrow.

ZELENY: He is neither flashy nor showboat, a seemingly safe pick and steady hand, just what Hillary Clinton told Anderson Cooper what she is looking for vice president?

HILLARY CLINTON, (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE: I wanted to be sure anybody I pick could be president immediately if something were to happen. That's the most important qualification.

KAINE: I'm Tim Kaine.

ZELENY: Who is Timothy Michael Kaine? A decade ago, as governor of Virginia, he introduced himself in the Democratic response to President Bush's State of the Union address.

KAINE: I learned to measure my life by the difference I can make in someone else's life.

ZELENY: It was a stint as a Jesuit missionary in Honduras that shaped and now distinguishes him.

KAINE: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

ZELENY: He learned fluent Spanish and still speaks it today, which makes him a different kind of attack dog against Trump.

KAINE: If you are a Latino, he is going to trash-talk you.

ZELENY: Born in Minnesota and raised in Kansas.

KAINE: The best decision I ever made was moving to Richmond to marry my wife, Ann, 26 years ago.

ZELENY: He built his political career in Virginia, rising from city councilman in Richmond --

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ZELENY: -- to lieutenant governor and governor.

KAINE: Thank you all so very much.

ZELENY: He is 58, 10 years younger than Clinton. Known well inside the party but not beyond.

KAINE: I'm not the one with the biggest profile. I'm not the one that's best known.

ZELENY: He signed on early this time around, endorsing her in 2014 more than a year before she declared her candidacy.

For an original Barack Obama-supporter, it was a chance to make up for lost time.

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Give it up for Tim Kaine.

(APPLAUSE) ZELENY: His politics are more moderate than the liberal strain driving today's Democratic Party. He is Catholic. Outwardly moved by Pope Francis' visit to Capitol Hill last year. His views on abortion are more conservative than most Democrats, as he explained in this interview.

KAINE: I'm personally opposed to abortion and the death penalty. And I've lived my life that way.

The law is what it is and I'm going to carry out the law and I am going to protect women's little rights to make their own reproductive decisions.

[17:35:12] ZELENY: He has also spoken out forcefully against the administration for failing to seek congressional approval for to fight the Islamic State.

KAINE: The war against ISIL is just, it's necessary, it's noble, but it's illegal. There has been no congressional authorization for this war.

ZELENY: It's an open question whether Kaine fits the mold of today's red-hot politics. Yet, his selection could help soften Clinton's partisan edges.

KAINE: When it comes to our leadership in the world, trash-talk ain't enough. We need a bridge builder. We've got a bridge builder in Hillary Clinton.

(CHEERING)

ZELENY: Jeff Zeleny, CNN, Washington.

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MALVEAUX: Just as Democrats get ready to gather in Philadelphia for their national convention, along comes a bombshell. This is from WikiLeaks. The online file sharing site released nearly 20,000 hacked leaked e-mails from the Democratic National Committee. What they include, one of them, the DNC staff discuss ways to undercut fellow Democrat Bernie Sanders.

CNN has not independently established the e-mail's authenticity but we take a look at them.

Correspondent, Chris Frates, has the details.

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CHRIS FRATES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Bernie Sanders and his top aides have complained for months that the DNC and their chairwoman was putting its finger on the scale for Hillary Clinton. And these new e- mails add fuel to that fire.

Take this one from May 13th, just days after Sanders won West Virginia. An aid to Debbie Wasserman Schultz informs her that Sanders campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, thinks Sanders should take his fight all the way to the convention floor. She responds that Weaver, quote, "is an ass."

A few days later, on May 17th, that same aide tells Wasserman Schultz that in an interview with CNN, Weaver was asked about violent behavior by Sanders supporters at the Nevada Democratic Convention and he then criticized the Nevada state party. Wasserman Schultz then replies, "Damn liar. Particularly scummy that he barely acknowledges the violent and threatening behavior that occurred."

Now, it's worth repeating that CNN has not independently established the e-mails' authenticity and has reached out to the DNC, Sanders and Clinton camps, and haven't yet gotten a response.

But the e-mails could flare tensions ahead of this week's Democratic National Convention in Philly. It could threaten the truce between Sanders and Clinton. And that includes a more progressive party platform in exchange for Sanders' dropping his fight to replace Wasserman Schultz as the DNC chair.

Republican Donald Trump really tried to stoke those flames of discontent this morning by tweeting about how the e-mails show the DNC was planning to destroy Bernie Sanders.

And for Clinton and other Democrats who were really hoping to unite the party in Philadelphia this week, these e-mails are really bad news.

Chris Frates, CNN, Washington.

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MALVEAUX: A reminder, don't miss CNN's live coverage of the Democratic National Convention beginning Monday at 4:00 p.m. eastern.

With such a high-profile list of speakers the contention security, of course, going to be very tight. Coming up, a look at how the city is now preparing for any possibly.

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[17:41:48] MALVEAUX: The City of Brotherly Love will become the center of the U.S. political universe in about 48 hours with the kick off of the 2016 Democratic National Convention. That means, of course, lots of security preps.

Our CNN's Miguel Marquez reporting on how the city of Philadelphia is preparing now for any scenario.

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MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The city of Philadelphia is preparing for 50,000 protesters every day while the DNC is on. 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 those fences, across those streets, on the other barriers on the other side is the Wells Fargo Center.

We are on Broad Street in south Philadelphia. If you kept going that way four or five miles, you would be in the center, the heart of Philadelphia where the Declaration of Independence was signed at Independence Hall.

You are seeing these trucks everywhere 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 will be the main place for the protests, but they won't see a lot through these barricades. There will be protests though throughout the city, is what the city is dealing with. That presents them with two problems. One, they want to keep the protesters themselves safe so they can protest and have their say. But they also don't want them to be 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 here to take care of it. Everything from no E-cigarettes inside there to I-95, right behind here, no commercial traffic. Anything over five tons banned during the DNC. Back to you.

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MALVEAUX: All right, thanks, Miguel.

Regardless of party or decades, newly minted presidential nominees have given supporters at these national conventions similar inspirational messages. This is a really cool package, a mash up of 28 years in 90 seconds. Watch this.

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OBAMA: To all my fellow citizens.

BOB DOLE, (R), FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Ladies and gentlemen.

MICHAEL DUKAKIS, (D), FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: My fellow Americans.

MITT ROMNEY, (R), FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I accept.

RONALD REAGAN, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Your nomination.

SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, (R), ARIZONA & FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: For president.

DOLE: Of the United States.

ROMNEY: I do so with.

MCCAIN: Gratitude.

OBAMA: And great humility. JOHN KERRY, (D), SECRETARY OF STATE & FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE:

We're here tonight because we love our country.

DUKAKIS: The race to the finish line begins.

MCCAIN: We are going to win.

DUKAKIS: Because we are the party that believes in the American dream.

GEORGE H.W. BUSH, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: This election is about the beliefs we share, the values that we honor, and the principles that we hold dear.

GEORGE W. BUSH, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I believe in the transformational power of liberty.

GEORGE H.W. BUSH: Things aren't perfect in this country.

OBAMA: It's time for us to change America.

ROMNEY: Today the time has come to turn the page.

BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: And I am determined to take our best traditions into the future.

WALTER MONDALE, (R), FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Of America.

ROMNEY: We Americans have always felt a special kinship with the future.

AL GORE, (D), FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The future is not something that just happens to us. It's something that we make for ourselves.

REAGAN: America is coming back and is more confident than ever about the future.

GEORGE H.W. BUSH: I seek the presidency to build a better America. It's that simple and that big.

DOLE: The election will not be decided by the polls or by the opinion makers or by the pundits. It will be decided by you.

GORE: And I'll stand up for you.

REAGAN: In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal. America's is.

OBAMA: Thank you.

DOLE: May God bless you.

ROMNEY: And may God bless the United States

BILL CLINTON: Of America.

(CHEERING)

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[17:45:24] MALVEAUX: Up next, an unarmed black man shot, and an officer accused of lying about what happened. Watch this. We'll have the latest on this shooting.

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MALVEAUX: A North Miami police officer is suspended without pay after a disturbing incident involving the shooting of an unarmed black man. This was caught on video. The man, Charles Kinsey. He is lying on the ground with both hands raised when he was shot by an officer.

CNN's Boris Sanchez has that story.

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BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Charles Kinsey is home this weekend recovering after being released from the hospital on Thursday. There are calls for the police officer that shot him to be fired.

But meantime, there is even more controversy brewing about another officer that was involved in the incident.

[17:49:50] (voice-over): This cell phone video, taken moments after Kinsey, an unarmed African-American man, was shot by North Miami police, sparked outrage across the country this week. But new developments suggest the controversy doesn't end there. On Friday, police released the names of the two officers involved in the incident. Jonathan Aledda, the officer who pulled the trigger, is a four-year veteran of the department. He's on paid administrative leave. But another officer, Commander Emile Holland, who is now on unpaid administrative leave, because city officials say he provided false and misleading information about the shooting.

SCOTT GALVIN, MIAMI CITY COMMISSIONER: There will not be any cover- ups in the city of North Miami. The police officer who you just heard named, who has been put on leave, totally violated his trust from the public to protect and serve. By giving misinformation to this department, he not only jeopardized Mr. Kinsey's life and the life of his client, but he jeopardized the life of every police officer who serves this city.

MICHAEL ETIENNE, ELECTED CITY CLERK, CITY OF NORTH MIAMI: An officer who betrays the trust of any residents of any community, they must be shamed, removed, fired, and, of course, completely, completely lose the right to ever wear an officer's uniform again.

SANCHEZ: Meanwhile, representatives for Officer Aledda urged the public to resist jumping to conclusions, saying the widely seen video doesn't tell the whole story.

JOHN RIVERA, PRESIDENT, DADE COUNTY POLICE BENEVOLENCE ASSOCIATION: The initial call went out as a man with a gun, possibly suicidal. That came from an independent witness who obviously called 911. There were other officers on the scene who also thought the individual had a firearm. At one point, they even thought he was reloading the firearm.

SANCHEZ: That individual was an autistic person, who walked out of the assisted living facility where Kinsey worked. He then stopped in the middle of the street to play with a toy.

Kinsey's boss says he was doing the right thing.

CLINT BOWER, PRESIDENT OF MACTOWN CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED: My employee was trying to get him out of traffic that was going down the street. And then Mr. Kinsey has stated, next thing you know, the police sirens arrived, and they -- we saw what he did. Mr. Kinsey was a hero. And he saved the life of that individual.

SANCHEZ: Though several demonstrators swarmed the headquarters of North Miami police on Thursday, so far, the community's reaction has been more restrained than what's occurred in Baton Rouge and Minneapolis in the wake of police shootings there. That's something both sides are hoping to maintain.

(on camera): The police union has come out and said that this whole thing was an accident. They're saying the officer wasn't even aiming his weapon at Kinsey, but rather at the autistic person that was to the side of Kinsey in that video.

The question now is, why? What was it that that person was doing that escalated the situation to where officers had to aim their weapons to begin with?

There is surveillance video captured by nearby surveillance cameras owned by Florida Power and Light, the electrical company in south Florida. We are hoping to get an eye on that surveillance footage soon so we can see how this whole incident unfolded.

Boris Sanchez, CNN, Miami.

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MALVEAUX: All right. Thank you.

We'll be right back.

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[17:57:04] MALVEAUX: To the RNC. Politicians, delegates are flocking to Cleveland's best restaurants. And what they might not have realized at one of them, all the servers and cooks were ex cons. Their boss is this week's "CNN Hero," an elite chef who is helping his employees get back on the right track.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BRANDON CHROSTOWSKI, CNN HERO: Coming home from prison, after someone has done their time, everyone deserves that fair and equal second chance.

So my left hand moves, my right hand follows.

I see that opportunity that someone deserves. I can see it. I can feel it. And I've been given the gifts to fight to make sure that door does get opened.

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MALVEAUX: You can nominate someone who you think should be a 2016 "CNN Hero" at CNNheroes.com.

There's a guy in Texas this weekend who wants everyone to know that, yes, he is still alive. You might not think so if you're one of the million-plus people who actually saw the video of him flying like a rag doll off a wild water slide.

Here's CNN's Jeanne Moos.

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JEANNE MOOSE, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Giant water slides. They're supposed to be fun, whether a sliding down an enclosed tube --

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Woo!

MOOS: -- featuring a light show, or enclosed in a capsule as the door opens beneath you.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Launch!

MOOS: It's supposed to be scary, but not this scary.

Watch Dallas resident, David Salmon, use his arm to try and steer himself down a slide near Austin, Texas.

It's even more frightening in normal speed.

(SHOUTING)

DAVID SALMON, SURVIVES FALLS FROM WILD WATER SLIDE: Oh!

MOOS: 32-year-old David posted on his Facebook page, "Too dang old to be going down waterslides. Fell off this one over a rocky cliff, broke my arm and fractured ribs, multiple lacerations."

EMS had to carry him up the hill and take him to the hospital. He has since been released.

(on camera): But this wasn't at some water park. This was at somebody's house, their own private water slide.

(voice-over): At a rental house near Lake Travis, Texas, the water slide snakes down the canyon from the back patio.

The video quickly got over one million views.

Commented one friend, "So glad you're not dead. Also so glad this was caught on video, because it's amazing. I can't stop watching."

Less sympathetically, someone posted, "Ha-ha-ha-ha, he will never be a bobsledder."

We weren't able to reach David, but he seems to have a sense of humor, judging from the hash tags he chose, among them, #notdead.

To those of you who crave the thrill of a water slide --

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Woo! That was a hell of a ride.

MOOS: No, this is a hell of a ride.

Jeanne Moos, CNN --

(SHOUTING)

SALMON: Oh!

MOOS: -- New York.

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MALVEAUX: All right.

I'm Suzanne Malveaux. One hour from now, I'm back live in Philadelphia, the site of the Democratic National Convention.

"Smerconish" starts right now.