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1. 0:00Two sources close to the campaign tell NBC News former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
2. 0:05will announce she's running for president.
3. 0:07Ok, let me do it one more time.
4. 0:09I know you think I'm crazy.
5. 0:10You're right.
6. 0:21Everyday Americans need a champion, and I want to be that champion.
7. 0:24This afternoon, with a sixteen-word tweet and a two-minute video, Hillary Clinton managed
8. 0:29to electrify the race for president.
9. 0:31Who knew Hillary Clinton likes herself a good road trip?
10. 0:36She has traveled from New York to Iowa in what she has dubbed her "Scooby Van."
11. 0:44I've spent my life fighting for children, families, and our country, and I'm not stopping now
12. 0:54Hillary Clinton campaign offices: Welcome to Brooklyn!
13. 0:58I tell everybody in my cab to vote for Hillary Clinton!
14. 1:01Well, you're my kind of man!
15. 1:04Breaking this hour, the nation's highest court ruling to require states to allow marriage
16. 1:09between same-sex couples.
17. 1:11This morning, love triumphed in the highest court in our land.
18. 1:19This year, there are a lot of candidates.
19. 1:21Martin O'Malley.
20. 1:23Hillary and Bernie.
21. 1:24More than a dozen Republican governors and senators.
22. 1:26And the always outspoken real estate mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump.
23. 1:30Val, I wish you could be president!
24. 1:33Me too!
25. 1:42Honest to God, do you think anybody talked to Bernie Sanders about his shoes?!
26. 1:45The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails!
27. 1:50Thank you, me too!
28. 1:51Madam Secretary, you’re welcome to answer the question.
29. 1:55I wrote a whole chapter about this in my book, Hard Choices.
30. 1:58I'd be glad to send it to you, Congressman.
31. 2:00What's happening in Flint, Michigan: Every single American should be outraged.
32. 2:11Hillary Clinton isn't afraid to say that Black Lives Matter.
33. 2:16Every single one of our children deserves the chance to live up to his or her God-given
34. 2:21potential.
35. 2:25It's finally the real thing tonight in Iowa.
36. 2:27You can feel the energy.
37. 2:30This one is a close race.
38. 2:31Hit “refresh.”
39. 2:32What do you think I've been doing here for five seconds?
40. 2:35Hi!
41. 2:36This is a nail-biter, huh?
42. 2:39Hillary Clinton declared victory for the Democrats.
43. 2:43Wow!
44. 2:44What a night!
45. 2:46The campaigns now take to New Hampshire and beyond.
46. 2:48Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton.
47. 2:50Thank you, New Hampshire!
48. 2:55She expanded her lead tonight.
49. 2:57Clinton now getting her strongest show of support yet.
50. 3:00Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton recorded a string of important wins.
51. 3:03All right, hold on!
52. 3:05NBC just called it.
53. 3:06NBC News is now declaring Hillary Clinton the presumptive Democratic nominee.
54. 3:14To the next President of the United States!
55. 3:28Thanks to you, we've reached a milestone.
56. 3:32Hillary Clinton naming her vice presidential running mate.
57. 3:35My friend, Senator Tim Kaine!
58. 3:40I'm feeling a lot of things today: most of all, gratitude.
59. 3:43I'm grateful to you, Hillary, for the trust that you've placed in me, and we’re going
60. 3:49to be compañeros de alma in this great lucha ahead.
61. 3:59Our motto is, “When they go low, we go high.”
62. 4:02“Brave.”
63. 4:03That's what Hillary Clinton called me when I told her I was worried my parents would
64. 4:10be deported.
65. 4:11Donald Trump, have you even read the United States Constitution?
66. 4:16I will gladly lend you my copy.
67. 4:20No matter how daunting the odds, no matter how much people try to knock her down, she
68. 4:26never, ever quits.
69. 4:28That's the Hillary I admire.
70. 4:32In honor of Dorothy and Hugh’s daughter, and
71. 4:36my sweet friend: This one's for you, Hil.
72. 4:39Ninety-eight votes.
73. 4:42Yes!
74. 4:44I move for Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee of the Democratic Party for President
75. 4:50of the United States.
76. 4:53It is with humility, determination, and boundless confidence in America's promise that I accept
77. 5:02your nomination for President of the United States!
78. 5:08It is a historic night in Philadelphia, as Clinton becomes the first woman to accept
79. 5:13the presidential nomination from a major party.
80. 5:15When there are no ceilings, the sky is the limit.
81. 5:22It will be Clinton versus Trump.
82. 5:24A man whose presidential candidacy was greeted as a joke when he announced it.
83. 5:28I alone can fix it.
84. 5:29I have a very good brain.
85. 5:31I know words.
86. 5:32I have the best words.
87. 5:33Bing bing bong bong bing bing.
88. 5:35What I say is what I say.
89. 5:37I don't like mosquitos.
90. 5:39Bong bing bing bing.
91. 5:41I tweet.
92. 5:47Hillary Clinton clearly ready to take Trump on.
93. 5:49When you see how well it works for Donald Trump, do you ever think to yourself: “Oh,
94. 5:53maybe I should be more racist?”
95. 5:56The first presidential debate.
96. 5:57Secretary Clinton.
97. 5:58Wooo!
98. 5:59Okay.
99. 6:03I don't know Putin.
100. 6:04He said nice things about me.
101. 6:06He has no respect for her.
102. 6:07Well, that's because he’d rather have a puppet as President of the United States...
103. 6:11No puppet, no puppet.
104. 6:12And it's pretty clear...
105. 6:13You're the puppet.
106. 6:14Mr. Trump.
107. 6:15Nobody has more respect for women than me. Nobody.
108. 6:18Chris, let me respond to that because that's horrifying.
109. 6:21Turns out what America really needs Hillary Clinton to be, she is.
110. 6:25One of the only people in the whole country who's not afraid of a bully.
111. 6:29That's right.
112. 6:30Hillary doesn't play.
113. 6:34Starting right now, let's come together.
114. 6:37Let's work together, and let’s be hopeful and optimistic and unify in the face of division and hate.
115. 6:49Let's have each other’s backs, lift each other up, not tear each other down.
116. 6:54We're going to do it.
117. 6:55Yes we are!
118. 6:56Let's go out and win this election to make sure we do exactly that!
119. 7:08I believe that we will win!