CHRIS CUOMO (CO-HOST): All right, Gov., history maker-yourself, what does this mean to women in general, partisanship aside?
JENNIFER GRANHOLM: Oh my God, and I can speak just personally, Chris. I was watching this speech last night and I was so -- like so many women, I was on my Twitter feed, probably like you were, too, and I was like, just verklempt. The uplifting nature of that speech, the notion of having met this moment. You know, the thing saying that the arc of justice bends slowly? Well, it took a very dramatic curve towards justice last night. The arc of history took a very dramatic curve towards justice last night. It means so much, and it means so much, Chris, not just symbolically, but if she were able to take the presidency, it would mean a difference for policy as well. So -- And we can get to that, but last night was really -- I hope people will remember it for the rest of their lives. My mother will remember this for the rest of her life. All of the mothers who have uplifted women like me, who have tried to open doors, will remember this forever, and it was a big moment.
ALISYN CAMEROTA (CO-HOST): That's so nice, Governor, to hear -- we can hear how emotional you still are, and obviously many people around the country felt that way. Margaret, as a Republican woman, a generation different than the Governor's mother and mine, how do you mark this?
MARGARET HOOVER: Look, I -- As a Republican woman, I feel very strongly that this is a moment in history that is worthy of acknowledgement and honoring it. We're that much closer to -- we are, today, a step closer to a more perfect union than we were yesterday and I, as a Republican woman, can acknowledge and honor that moment in history without liking Hillary Clinton as a presidential candidate. You can hold two competing thoughts in your head at the same time, and honor and acknowledge that, and I think that is the moment for Republicans to do that.
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CUOMO: How impressive is this to you and why?
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY: Major milestone. I teach US History, we're always waiting for the big woman moment when finally they get the nomination of a Party. Last night Hillary Clinton talked about Seneca Falls and in way invoked Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott and that whole generation and in a recent New York magazine, they were commenting on Shirley Chisholm, and Margaret J. Smith, Geraldine Ferraro, all of these women that tried to get in the game, particularly since 1920 when women got the right to vote. So to become the presumptive nominee last night's a very major moment in American history but bigger in Philadelphia when she delivers that speech and she's the actual nominee for the Democratic Party.
