Clintons Welcome New Grandbaby

Chelsea Clinton and husband Marc Mevinsky have announced the birth of a son named Aidan Clinton Mezvinsky. Hillary Clinton had no public events on Thursday or Friday, and none scheduled this weekend.

Hillary Clinton frequently mentions her granddaughter, Charlotte, at campaign stops, often saying, "FaceTime was invented for grandparents."

At an event in Santa Barbara, California, earlier this month, she said becoming a grandparent is "truly like falling in love all over again — nothing like it."

Bill and Hillary Clinton issues a statement saying: "We are all over the moom as Chelsea and Marc welcome Charlotte's little brother to the world and grateful for our many blessings. Chelsea and Aidan are both doing well and enjoying this very special time together."

Chelsea Clinton is vice chair of the Clinton Foundation , a nonprofit started by her father in his post-presidency life.

Sanders loses convention leverage Politico

The bad news bear is settling in over the Bernie Sanders campaign. Any leverage that Bernie might have is based on respect and a belief that he prioritizes the Democratic party over himself. Like Trump, Bernie seems to believe that his popularity will keep him in the limelight as a powerbroker. Every day that ticks by without a Clinton endorsement weakens his influence, as other progressives rally around Hillary. Let the next couple weeks be an education lesson in how politics is played on the big stage. There's ego and rigid thinking, and then there's poise and a connection to the big picture village. ~ Anne

Enough Bernie, Enough: Sanders Needs to Hang It Up New York Daily News

After decisively losing the nomination of a party that was never his political home, Bernie Sanders is revealing egotism of practically Trumpian proportions.

Sanders insists that he deserves powerful sway over the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton, whom he savaged during the campaign as an “unqualified” stooge of Wall Street.

As they say at closing time: Bernie, you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.

Bernie Sanders Does Not Concede Democratic Nomination to Hillary Clinton TIME

Sanders charts a risky path by deciding not to concede. He may anger party leaders as well as the base of the Democratic Party, who will begin to see him as an obstruction to Clinton despite his significant loss, and denying the first woman major-party nominee in the country the full claim to that title.

Clinton Condemns Attack on British MP as a Violent Act of Political Intolerance Politico

A terrible assassination occurred yesterday in Britain with the shooting and stabbing death of British MP Jo Cox. I'm distressed now to read that Cox has been the subject of a three-month barrage of hate for her positions 1) on supporting immigration of Syrian refugees into Britain and her town in Yorkshire and 2) wanting Britain to stay in the EU. While campaigning was suspended today, the Brexit vote happens in about a week.

I wrote about the truly gifted achievements of this young woman with so much heart. You can read about Jo Cox at in my yesterday article. I had no doubt that Hillary would make a strong statement, and I'm researching to see if Jo Cox's work at the Gates Foundation and Oxfam brought her to the Clinton Foundation. Hillary's quote follows.

"It is critical that the United States and Britain, two of the world's oldest and greatest democracies, stand together against hatred and violence. This is how we must honor Jo Cox -- by rejecting bigotry in all its forms, and instead embracing, as she always did, everything that binds us together," Clinton said on Thursday.

Former Rep. Gabby Giffords, who suffered a gunshot wound to the head in a 2011 assassination attempt, said she was “sickened” to receive news of Cox's murder.

“Absolutely sickened to hear of the assassination of Jo Cox. She was young, courageous, and hardworking. A rising star, mother, and wife,” she tweeted.

Giffords, who is now a prominent gun safety advocate, added that the attack on Cox as well as the one she endured "represent the importance of a democracy connected to its citizens."

Bernie Sanders Goes AWOL on Guns Filibuster by Goldie Taylor The Daily Beast

{Quote}: "Notwithstanding his track record on gun control, his absence was curious, given that his seat in the Senate is safe. He is—by any measure—in the final stretch of a decades-long political career. It’s difficult to imagine any political strategist worth their salt advising Sanders against going to the Capitol Wednesday night. Doing so would have been political malpractice.

Sanders stands at a critical juncture. Right now, as the DNC convention looms, he and his team of advisors should be coalescing their support and deepening points of leverage if he wants establishment types and Hillary Clinton’s forces to go along with some of his proposals. As a Democrat, especially one who just mounted a campaign for the presidency, he must make sure that his colleagues know they can count on his voice and his action in the fight.