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. ONCE CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE, HE DID THOSE FAVORS TO OTHER COUNTRIES AND THE FBI RAIDED HIS THEY DISCOVERED GOLD BARS AND ENVELOPE AFTER ENVELOPE OF CASH, WADS OF IT IN HIS BOOTS. IT IS JACKETS IN HIS SHOES. AND IT TOTALED NEARLY HALF BILLION DOLLARS STUFFED EVERYWHERE IN THAT HOUSE KYRA. >> I HAVE TO CHUCKLE. I KNOW IT'S A SERIOUS STORY, BUT WE REMEMBER THE IMAGES, THOSE IMAGES BECOMING EVIDENCE, BRIAN, THE GOLD BARS, THE CASH. I MEAN, IT REALLY WAS THE SCENE OUT OF A, Y KNOW, HULU SPECIAL WHEN WE SAW WHAT INVESTIGATORS HAD FOUND SO CLEARLY DON'T THINK YOU'RE VERY SURPRISED AT THIS VERDICT. GOLD BRICKS AND CASH OF POPPING OUT OF JACKETS INSIDE OF THE MENENDEZ HOME. NOW, THE DEFENSE MAY ARGUMENTS THAT THIS IS JUST CUBAN HERITAGE THAT THEY TYPICALLY KEEP ON HAND OUT OF FEAR OF THE GOVERNMENT HERE. >> BUT OF COURSE, ALSO POINTING THE AT MENENDEZ, HIS WIFE, WHO IS STILL AWAITING TRIAL, AND ONE THAT CAN BE A VERY PRODUCTIVE ARGUMENT FOR THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY, ESPECIALLY IN A CASE THIS. BUT IT WASN'T A LOT OF DIRECT EVIDENCE THAT MENENDEZ HAD REALLY RECEIVED BRIBES. IT WAS MORE THAT HIS ALMOST HIS WIFE HAD RECEIVED INFORMATION AND THEN TRIED TO USE HIS INFLUENCE. AND HE WAS A PART IT. BUT THERE WASN'T ANY DIRECT EVIDENCE THAT WHAT THE JURY SAW THROUGH THAT AND SAW THAT HE WAS TO THESE BRIBES AND HE WAS SELLING HIS INFLUENCE TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, SO TO SPEAK. >> SO. SO, BRIAN, WE'VE GOT TO TALK ABOUT MENENDEZ, HIS WIFE, THOUGH, NADINE. SHE WAS ALSO IN THE BRIBERY SCHEME, BUT HER TRIAL WAS DELAYED. SO SHE COULD ACTUALLY BE TREATED FOR CANCER. LET'S TALK ABOUT THE VERDICT HERE. COULD IT IMPACT HER TRIAL AT ALL. AND ALSO, WE CAN'T FORGET THE FACT THAT BOB CONTINUALLY THREW HIS WIFE UNDER THE BUS, EVEN SHE'S BEEN GOING THROUGH CANCER TREATMENT SAYING THIS WAS ALL HER. >> BUT CLEARLY, THE JURY DIDN'T SEE THAT TODAY. >> ABSOLUTELY. SO IT ALWAYS DEPENDS ON THE FACTS. BUT I WOULD THE FACTS OF THIS CASE WITH BOB MENENDEZ BEING CONVICTED DOESN'T HELP NADINE, BECAUSE SHE WAS ALMOST THE FULCRUM IN THIS CASE WHERE THE REPRESENTATIVES FROM QATAR AND EGYPT KIND OF USED THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH NADINE TO THEN GET TO BOB MENENDEZ. AND SO INTO THE GOVERNMENT HAS ALREADY PROVEN THAT THAT RESULT, GETTING TO BOB MENENDEZ FOR THEIR FAVORS AND GETTING CASH IS AS A GUILTY VERDICT, THEN ANYTHING IN BETWEEN SHOULD ALSO BE GUILTY AS WELL. A LOT OF THE EVIDENCE IN BOB MENENDEZ CASE ALSO INCRIMINATES THAT OF NADINE. NOW, SHE MAY POINT THE FINGER AS WELL, BUT I THINK A MAJOR QUESTION GOING TO HURT HER AND NOT BEING WHY WOULD YOU INFLUENCE THE WIFE OF A SENATOR TO GET POLITICAL IF IT WASN'T ULTIMATELY TO GET TO THE HUSBAND? AND SO SHE I THINK, APPEARS TO BE THE FULCRUM IN THIS ALL, AT LEAST IN THE GOVERNMENT'S EYES. AND I THINK BOB'S CONVICTION DOES HELP THE GOVERNMENT IN CONVICTING HER AS WELL. >> AARON KATERSKY BRIAN BUCKMIRE, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. KIND OF AT THE LAST MINUTE THERE FOR THE BREAKING NEWS. WE SURE APPRECIATE IT. NOW, I WANT TO TAKE YOU ALL BACK HERE TO THE RNC. HAPPENING RIGHT NOW BEHIND ME, OUR JAY O'BRIEN AND SENIOR REPORTER KATHERINE FAULDERS, BOTH HERE IN MILWAUKEE FOR THE CONVENTION. JAY WAS RIGHT THERE IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL THE ACTION DOWN ON FLOOR. A LOT MORE QUIET TODAY, JAY, FOR SURE, BUT REPUBLICANS HOPING TO MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN. THAT'S THEME TODAY, QUITE APROPOS IN LIGHT OF WHAT WE WITNESSED OVER WEEKEND IN PENNSYLVANIA, FOR SURE. >> YEAH, ABSOLUTELY, KYRA. THE FLOOR DOESN'T TECHNICALLY OPEN FOR A LITTLE BIT AND THINGS KICK OFF HERE FOR SOME TIME. BUT THE THING TO WATCH FOR TONIGHT, IN ADDITION, THAT THEME AND OBVIOUSLY THIS EMERGING KIND OF UNDERCURRENT THEME THAT ISN'T THE STATED THEME OF DEFIANCE IN THE WAKE OF THAT ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. SO THOSE TWO THINGS ARE TO WATCH FOR. BUT THE OTHER THING IS THAT WE KNOW, ACCORDING TO PEOPLE WHO ARE FAMILIAR WITH THIS SCHEDULE, THAT NIKKI HALEY IS LIKELY TO ADDRESS THE CONVENTION TONIGHT, SHE WAS OBVIOUSLY A SIGNIFICANT RIVAL OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP'S AS SHE WASN'T SCHEDULED TO ADDRESS THIS CONVENTION UNTIL JUST IN THE IMMEDIATE OF THAT ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT IS WHEN SHE WAS A LAST MINUTE ADDITION TO THE PROCEEDINGS HERE. AND THEN WE ALSO THAT ANOTHER FORMER TRUMP RIVAL, FLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS, IS GOING TO ADDRESS THIS CONVENTION AS WELL. AND IT'S INTERESTING TO HEAR WHAT BOTH OF THEM SAY ABOUT UNITY. TRUMP HAS BEEN ENDORSED BY DESANTIS, BUT NOT BY HALEY. AND THERE ARE STILL NIKKI HALEY VOTERS OUT THERE WHO HAVE VOTED IN A PROTEST VOTE AGAINST TRUMP FOR HALEY IN CERTAIN PRIMARY STATES. SO IT'S INTERESTING TO SEE WHAT MESSAGE, IF ANY, HALEY DELIVERS TO SOME OF THOSE MORE MODERATE REPUBLICANS WHO MAY NOT LIKE THE UNPREDICTABILITY OF TRUMP OR OTHER THINGS ABOUT TRUMP'S BACKGROUND. DOES SHE GIVE THEM A MESSAGE, PARTICULARLY IN THE WAKE OF WHAT HAPPENED SATURDAY, TO GET BEHIND HIM IN THIS SPIRIT OF PARTY UNITY? KATHERINE, WHAT'S BEEN THE REACTION TO THE J.D. VANCE PICK IN BOSTON? >> WELL, LOOK, YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY UNITING BEHIND J.D. VANCE, THOSE FORMER VP HOPEFULS, OF COURSE, NOW FORMER MARCO RUBIO, TIM SCOTT, THEY ALL HAVE THROWN THEIR FULL SUPPORT BEHIND J.D. BADE. SO AND THAT'S BEEN THE REACTION HERE SO FAR. WHAT I'VE HEARD BEHIND THE SCENES AT LEAST FROM SOURCES PRIVATELY, IS THAT THERE'S SOME DISCUSSION OF HOW WELL A HE POLL AND MAYBE SOME OF THOSE DEMOGRAPHICS THAT TRUMP DOESN'T DO AS WELL WITH THAT HE NEEDS. WE'LL HAVE TO SEE HOW THAT WORKS. BUT ONE VOCAL CRITIC, I SHOULD SAY, REPUBLICAN CRITIC OF VANCE, IS THE FORMER CONGRESSWOMAN FROM WYOMING, LIZ CHENEY, OF COURSE, SHE SAID ON THE JANUARY 6TH COMMITTEE, THAT HOUSE COMMITTEE, SHE HAS BEEN CRITICAL OF VANCE, SAYING, YOU KNOW, HE ESSENTIALLY WOULD DO WHAT HE WOULD DO, WHAT PENCE DIDN'T DO AS IT RELATES TO CERTIFYING ELECTION RESULTS IN 2020. SO THAT'S BEEN A NOTABLE CRITICISM. BUT OVERALL, THE REACTION HERE AT LEAST HAS BEEN A GOOD ONE, AT LEAST FROM PEOPLE WHO I'VE TALKED TO PRIVATELY AND PUBLICLY, KYRA. >> WELL, SPEAKING OF REACTION, JUST WHILE I HAVE YOU, JAY, BECAUSE KNOW YOU'RE WORKING YOUR SOURCES ON ALL THE NEWS OF THE DAY, WE JUST REPORTED MOMENTS AGO ON THE BREAKING NEWS, BOB MENENDEZ FOUND GUILTY IN HIS FEDERAL CORRUPTION TRIAL. WE CAN'T FORGET ALL THE PICTURES OF STUFFED CASH IN HIS BOOTS AND HIS CLOSET AND ALL THE GOLD BARS. LOOKS LIKE THE EVIDENCE DEFINITELY CONVINCED A JURY THAT HE'S GUILTY. >> WHAT ARE YOU JUST HEARING? THE BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD MAKE THE POINT THAT WHILE WE WERE COVING COVERING THE CORRUPTION TRIAL OF THE FORMER IN NEW YORK, I MEAN, RIGHT NEXT DOOR WAS THE CORRUPTION OF A DEMOCRAT, BOB MENENDEZ. IT LOOKS LIKE WE'VE GUILTY VERDICTS, TWO DIFFERENT TRIALS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE NOW. >> AND I'VE TALKED TO ALREADY SOME SOURCES WHO SAY A COUPLE OF THINGS ABOUT THINGS. THE FIRST IS REMEMBER THAT WHILE MENENDEZ WAS ACCUSED AND NOW CONVICTED OF ENGAGING IN THAT CONDUCT AS ERIN POINTED OUT JUST MINUTES AGO, HE WAS THE CHAIR OF THE POWERFUL SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE, WHICH GOVERNS AS ITS NAME, FOREIGN AFFAIRS. AND SO THE THING THERE IS THAT I'VE TALKED TO DEMOCRATS ON THE HILL ALREADY WHO SAY, LOOK, THIS LEAVES A STAIN ON THAT COMMITTEE IN THE TEN YEAR NEWS VOLUME THAT WAS RUNNING IT. HE STEPPED DOWN FROM THAT POST IN THE WAKE OF THAT INDICTMENT. THE OTHER THING TO KEEP IN MIND IS THAT BOB, HIS SEAT IS UP FOR REELECTION THIS YEAR. HE HAS SAID HE'S NOT GOING TO RUN AS A DEMOCRAT. HE HASN'T FULLY CLOSED THE DOOR ON RUNNING AS AN INDEPENDENT. AND THAT WAS BEEN AN OPEN QUESTION IN NEW JERSEY. THERE'S ALREADY A DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE, ANDY KIM, WHO IS RUNNING FOR THAT SEAT, AND IT'S A DEMOCRATIC LEANING STATE. SO HE'S EXPECTED TO POTENTIALLY PERFORM WELL. I JUST TEXTED A SOURCE WITH THE KIM CAMPAIGN AND I ASKED THEM IF THEY KNOW IF BOB MENENDEZ, IN THE WAKE OF THIS OR EVEN BEFORE IT WAS STILL CONSIDERING RUNNING AS AN INDEPENDENT IN ANY OF THEIR WORK ON THIS CAMPAIGN. THIS SOURCE SAYS, ESPECIALLY THE WAKE OF TODAY'S NEWS, QUOTE, THAT IS A QUESTION FOR BOB MENENDEZ. SO THIS IS GOING TO HAVE RIPPLE EFFECTS, NOT JUST IN NEW JERSEY POLITICS, BUT OBVIOUSLY IN THE BATTLE THIS ELECTION CYCLE FOR CONTROL OF THE SENATE DEMOCRATS, AS YOU KNOW, ONLY HAVE A RAZOR THIN CONTROL OF THAT CHAMBER. >> ALL RIGHT, JAY O'BRIEN KATHERINE FAULDERS, THANKS SO MUCH. LET'S CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION WITH OUR WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF AND POLITICAL DIRECTOR RICK KLEIN NOW. RICK, BEFORE WE GET INTO WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE AT THE RNC THE JURY, FINDING SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ GUILTY, AS YOU JUST HEARD JAY EVEN SAYING, THE RIPPLE EFFECTS FOR CONTROL OF THE SENATE ALREADY BEING FELT. WHAT ARE YOU HEARING? WELL, MENENDEZ IS FORCED OUT OF THE SENATE, WHICH I WOULD EXPECT THERE ARE GOING TO BE INCREASED CALLS FOR HIM TO DO THAT. THE GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY IS A DEMOCRAT. HE WOULD, OF COURSE, APPOINT A DEMOCRAT TO BE THE SUCCESSOR. BUT MORE IMMEDIATELY, THE POLITICAL FALLOUT COULD HAPPEN AS EARLY AS THIS FALL. THAT SEAT IS UP THIS FALL. HE IS NOT THE NOMINEE. HE SAID HE WOULD RUN AS AN INDEPENDENT. BE HAS REALLY DONE MUCH ON FRONT. THE DEMOCRAT, ANDY KIM, WOULD BE FAVORED UNDER NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES. BUT I HAVE TO TELL YOU, HERE ARE THESE ARE NOT NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES, NOT JUST THE SALACIOUS AND SCANDALOUS DETAILS THAT CAME OUT OF THE MENENDEZ TRIAL THAT LED TO THE GUILTY VERDICT TODAY, BUT ALSO THE OVERALL POLITICAL CLIMATE. DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN TALKING A LOT ABOUT HIS ABILITY TO WIN NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY AND OTHER BIG BLUE STRONGHOLDS. AND IT WOULDN'T TAKE MUCH IN THIS POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT TO PUT SENATE SEATS INTO PLAY. I KNOW THAT THE THE THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES ACROSS THE BOARD, WE'RE GOING HEAR FROM A LOT OF THEM BY TONIGHT HERE AT THE CONVENTION, ARE VERY EXCITED ABOUT PUTTING SOME TRADITIONALLY STATES LIKE A NEW JERSEY, LIKE MARYLAND IN PLAY THIS FALL. ALL RIGHT. LET'S TAKE IT BACK TO THE RNC, WHERE WE ALL ARE AND JUST TALK ABOUT TURNING ENEMIES INTO ALLIES NOW. J.D. NOW ON THE TICKET AND NIKKI HALEY SPEAKING TODAY . I GUESS FOR THE SAKE OF POLITICS, BYGONES CAN ALWAYS BE BYGONES. >> YEAH, AND A BIG SPEECH BY MARCO RUBIO, OF COURSE, WAS SO CRITICAL OF DONALD TRUMP BACK IN 2016, BUT EMERGED AS ONE OF THE FINALISTS FOR THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL SLOT. YOU'RE GOING TO SEE, I THINK, A HIGHLIGHT OF YES, PEOPLE THAT RAN FOR THE NOMINATION AND FELL SHORT LIKE VIVEK RAMASWAMY AND RON DESANTIS NIKKI HALEY. WE'VE BEEN PUT IN A DIFFERENT CATEGORY THAT IS PROBABLY THE MOST ANTICIPATED SPEECH OF THE NIGHT FOR POLITICAL INTRIGUE. BUT SHE LONG SIGNALED THAT SHE WOULD NOT BE ATTENDING. SOMETHING CHANGED SINCE SATURDAY. WE KNOW WHAT EXACTLY WENT INTO THAT DECISION. BUT GIVEN THE THEME OF THE NIGHT IS ABOUT CRIME AND PUBLIC SAFETY, IT SEEMS TO MAKE SENSE TO HAVE TRY TO CARRY THAT BANNER. BUT PEOPLE WILL BE WATCHING VERY CLOSELY HERE TO SEE IF THERE'S DAYLIGHT THAT SHE OFFERS UP BETWEEN HER TAKE ON NOT JUST NOT JUST DOMESTIC POLICY, PARTICULARLY FOREIGN POLICY AND THE TAKE OF PRESIDENT TRUMP, THE TRUMP VANCE PARTY IS, OF COURSE, WHAT IS POPULATING THAT ARENA. >> SO BEFORE I ASK YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT J.D. VANCE, HALEY, YOU KNOW, WORD ON THE STREET IS SHE IS GOING TO PLAY A MAJOR PART IN A TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IF INDEED SHE GETS THE WIN FOR THE WHITE HOUSE? WHAT ARE YOU HEARING? WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS? COULD WE SEE A SECRETARY OF STATE HERE, SOMETHING OF THAT LEVEL? >> I GOT TO SAY UNTIL SATURDAY NIGHT, I WOULD HAVE SAID NO WAY, NO HOW. AND THERE WAS A LATE RUMOR THAT SHE WAS CONSIDERED TO BE TRUMP'S VICE PRESIDENT. I WAS NEVER REALLY REALISTIC. BUT I DO THINK SOMETHING CHANGED IN THE COUNTRY POTENTIALLY, BUT CERTAINLY WITHIN THE PARTY ON SATURDAY. AND IT GAVE HALEY AN INVITATION BACK INTO THE PARTY. I THINK ALSO SHE'S GOING TO HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT KIND OF THE POLITICAL INTRIGUE OF DOWN THE ROAD. SHE'S QUITE A BIT YOUNGER THAN DONALD TRUMP AND SHE MADE A LOT OUT OF IT. WELL, I THINK J.D. VANCE, ABOUT 12 YEARS YOUNGER THAN SHE IS, SHE HAS TO BE WORRIED ABOUT KIND OF BEING LEFT BEHIND GENERATIONALLY IF SHE DOESN'T GET ON BOARD. SHE'S NOW IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR. I'M SURE SHE'S ENJOYING NOT BEING IN THE SAME POLITICAL LIMELIGHT, BUT SHE'S ONLY IN HER EARLY FIFTIES. SHE WOULD BY ANY BY ANY OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE, A BRIGHT FUTURE. AND IF THAT FUTURE INVOLVES A ROLE IN THE TRUMP, I GUESS I CAN'T DISCOUNT THAT POSSIBILITY AS MUCH AS I WOULD HAVE A FEW DAYS AGO. >> SO MAKES ME FEEL SO GOOD TO HEAR YOU SAY FIFTY'S AS YOUNG AS I AM 55 YEARS OLD. AND DON ALWAYS NECESSARILY FEEL THAT WAY. ALL RIGHT. LET'S STAY ON THE THEME OF AGE ,SHALL WE? I MEAN, YOU TALK ABOUT NIKKI HALEY OR I GUESS J.D. VANCE BEING YOUNGER THAN NIKKI HALEY. HOW ABOUT THE FACT THAT J.D. VANCE, 40 YEARS YOUNGER THAN TRUMP? DO YOU THINK? THAT COULD BE AN ISSUE. HE'S ONLY BEEN IN OFFICE FOR 18 MONTHS. WILL TRUMP RESPECT HIM? LISTEN HIM, LEAN ON HIM OR RUN ALL OVER HIM LIKE AN AMTRAK TRAIN? >> WELL, THEY DO HAVE AN EXISTING RELATIONSHIP DEEPER THAN THE RELATIONSHIP WAS WITH MIKE PENCE, FRANKLY, EVEN THOUGH IT'S NOT YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT LIKE IT GOES BACK DECADES. BUT OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, VANCE HIMSELF INTO A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS THAT WERE IMPORTANT TO THE FORMER PRESIDENT. HE CAME VERY CLOSE WITH HIS WITH HIS ADULT SONS WHO WERE AROUND HIS HIS AGE. I THINK THIS GENERATIONAL TICKET BALANCING STRIKES ME AS A BUSH QUAYLE SITUATION OR AN EISENHOWER NIXON SITUATION, AND EVERY PRESIDENT, THE VICE PRESIDENT, KIND OF HANDLES THAT ON THEIR OWN. AND IF YOU LOOK AT IT ANOTHER WAY, GIVEN HIS AGE RIGHT NOW, AND YOU KNOW, KYRA, YOU A LOT OF TIME LEFT, TOO. I MEAN, IT'S I THINK 45 YEARS UNTIL HE GETS THE BIDEN'S AGE. SO IF VANCE ISN'T SUCCESSFUL THIS TIME OR EVEN IF HE IS, THAT'S LIKE TEN OR 11 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CYCLES WHERE WE COULD STILL BE TALKING ABOUT HIM BY THE SAME MAP. >> OKAY. YOU JUST MADE MY DAY TWICE. I'M YOUNG AND I STILL HAVE LIFE. HOPEFULLY IN THIS BUSINESS AND IN LIFE IN GENERAL. RICK KLEIN THINKS THINGS ARE GOOD TODAY. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. WELL, WE ARE LEARNING MORE NOW ABOUT THAT SHOOTER IN THE FAILED ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON DONALD TRUMP OVER THE WEEKEND. THE FBI SAYING THAT 20 YEAR OLD THOMAS CROOKS BROUGHT ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION FROM A GUN SHOP. GUN SHOP, RATHER, ACTUALLY, BEFORE HE WENT TO THE RALLY AND ALSO TO CRUDE EXPLOSIVE DEVICES WERE FOUND IN HIS CAR. THESE ARE DETAILS THAT WE'RE JUST LEARNING. WE'RE ALSO FINDING OUT THAT JUST OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS, CROOKS RECEIVED PACKAGES MARKED AS HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, BUT A MOTIVE STILL UNKNOWN. SPRING IN OUR ALEX PRESHA. HE IS IN BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA. ALSO OUR JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REPORTER ALEX MALLIN IN WASHINGTON. SO ALEX PRESHA, START WITH YOU. THE FBI SAYING THAT IT HAS GAINED ACCESS NOW TO THE SHOOTER'S PHONE, BUT HAVE THEY BEEN ABLE TO GET INTO IT, OPEN IT UP, SEE ANY TEXTS OR MESSAGES OR CALLS? WELL, SO KYRA, THEY'RE HOPEFUL THAT WILL BE AN INDICATOR OF SOME SORT OF MOTIVE. BUT AS THERE STILL AS THEY CONTINUE TO GO THROUGH HIS ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, WE DO KNOW THAT THEY CONDUCTED MORE THAN 100 INTERVIEWS, MANY TAKING PLACE IN HIS BATTLE NEIGHBORHOOD. YOU MENTIONED THOSE TWO CRUDE EXPLOSIVES THAT WERE FOUND IN THE CAR. THERE WAS ANOTHER ONE FOUND INSIDE THAT HOME. AND WE'RE ALSO LEARNING A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THIS SHOOTER'S PROFILE RIGHT. HE WAS SET TO BEGIN ATTENDING ROBERT MORSE UNIVERSITY IN THE PITTSBURGH AREA THIS FALL HE HAD JUST GRADUATED FROM A COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF SORTS THIS, MAY RECEIVE HIGH HONORS AND STUDIED SCIENCE, BUT HE'S ACTUALLY BEEN DESCRIBED BY MANY IN HIS NEIGHBORHOOD AS A QUIET LONER AND LISTEN, IT'S FAMILY AS HIS REPUBLICAN TIES. HE IS A REGISTERED REPUBLICAN, DESPITE AT LEAST SOME ONE WITH HIS NAME, DONATING $15 TO A PROGRESSIVE, PROGRESSIVE GROUP A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO. BUT LISTEN, ALL OF THIS IS GOING TO GO INTO BUILDING THAT PROFILE AND HOPEFULLY DETERMINE SOME SORT OF MOTIVE HERE KYRA. >> OKAY. WELL, LAPSE SECURITY, WE DEFINITELY WITNESSED THAT. A MAJOR LAPSE IN SECURING KEY ALEX MELLON. >> WHAT'S THE LATEST ON THAT SIDE OF THINGS? YEAH, I MEAN, KYRA, THIS WAS ALREADY ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT EVENTS, IF NOT THE MOST SIGNIFICANT EVENT IN SECRET SERVICE HISTORY. AND IT REALLY POINTS THE PASSAGE OF TIME ONLY SEEMS TO RAISE MORE AND MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE LAPSES THAT WERE REALLY PRESENT HERE. ABC NEWS CHIEF JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT PIERRE THOMAS GOT TO SEE AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH A SECRET DIRECTOR WHERE IT WAS HER FIRST TIME TAKING QUESTIONS SINCE THAT INCIDENT. >> THIS IS WHAT SHE HAD TO SAY. THIS IS AN EVENT THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED. >> WHO IS MOST RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS HAPPENING? WHAT I WOULD SAY IS THAT THE SECRET SERVICE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT. SO BUCK STOPS WITH YOU. >> THE BUCK STOPS WITH ME. I AM THE DIRECTOR. OF THE SECRET SERVICE. IT WAS UNACCEPTABLE. AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN. >> FINE. BUT EVEN IN LIGHT OF THAT INTERVIEW, MORE QUESTIONS BEING RAISED. THE SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR TO PUT THE ONUS FOR PROTECTION OF THAT FACILITY THAT THE SHOOTER WAS TO MOUNT AND TAKE THOSE SHOTS AT TRUMP LARGELY ON LOCAL OFFICIALS, SHE NOTES THAT THERE WERE ACTUALLY LOCAL POLICE OFFICERS STATIONED IN THAT BUILDING AT THE TIME THAT HE CLIMBED ON TOP. >> THE REAL QUESTIONS RAISED IS WHAT WAS THE LAPSE IN COMMUNICATION BETWEEN OFFICIALS IN THAT BUILDING, THE SECRET SERVICE, WHO WERE ABLE TO OBSERVE THE SHOOTER ONCE HE DID CLIMB ATOP THAT PERCH? AND AGAIN, ALL THESE QUESTIONS BEING TO THE SECRET SERVICE, AND SHE'S GOING TO BE IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE ON AT 10 A.M. ON MONDAY TO TAKE SOME QUESTIONS FROM LAWMAKERS. EXPECT THAT TO BE BRUISING TESTIMONY. SHE TOLD PIERRE THAT SHE DOES NOT PLAN TO RESIGN AT THIS TIME. >> ALL RIGHT. WE'LL BE LISTENING. ALEX PRESHA ALEX. THANK YOU BOTH. SO VOTERS ARE PREPARING TO HEAD TO THE POLLS. THEY HAVE ALSO BEEN TALKING, DEBATING AND LOT OF VOTERS THAT I WAS ABLE TO CATCH UP WITH HERE IN WISCONSIN ARE EVEN WORRIED ABOUT WHO THEY MAY HAVE TO PICK A LOT STILL ON THE FENCE. SO, OF COURSE, WE WENT TO ONE OF THE BEST PLACES TO FIND GOOD CONVERSATION AND KNOW IT WAS AT A BAR, THE LOCAL PUB. >> BUT THE BARBER SHOP, OF COURSE, I DON'T REALLY AGREE WITH WHAT BOTH MEN HAVE SHOWN AS FAR AS LEADERSHIP, AS FAR AS WHAT I EXPECT OUT OF A PRESIDENT, WHAT I'VE SEEN GROWING. BOTH OF THEM HAVE THE KIND OF LET ME DOWN JUST MORE STRAIGHT, MORE CHARACTER, MORE ALIGNMENT, MORE UNITY. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? LIKE, EVEN PRESIDENT, LIKE GEORGE BUSH, WHO I DEFINITELY DIDN'T AGREE WITH A LOT THAT HE WAS ROCKING WITH, BUT HE WAS ABLE TO GET THE PARTIES TO WORK TOGETHER. AND I REALLY SEEING THAT FROM THE TWO PRESIDENTS, I FEEL I NEED TO VOTE BECAUSE MY ANCESTORS FOUGHT FOR. I MEAN, THEY DIE LIKE I'M STILL LIVING. SO FOR THEM TO DIE GO THROUGH WHAT OUR PEOPLE HAVE GONE THROUGH, OUR MOMS GETTING EMOTIONAL. IT THAT'S WHY I'M SO GLAD TO REACH EXCUSE ME BLANK THING THAT THEY TALKING ABOUT. BUT I'M VOTING FOR THE BETTERMENT OF OUR PEOPLE PERIOD. I YOU LOOK FOR BOTH AND I THINK BOTH PRESIDENTS ARE AT AN AGE TOO, WHERE IN MY PERSONAL OPINION, THEY SHOULDN'T EVEN BE IN THIS POSITION. THERE'S NOTHING AGAINST THEM. THE TALENT SHOULD BE. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AT THE POINT WHERE WE HAD SOMEONE WHO WAS YOUNGER AND READY TO KIND OF PUSH FORWARD AND TAKE THE COUNTRY AND PUT A NEW IN A NEW, MORE INNOVATIVE, MORE YOUNG ENERGY KIND OF DIRECTION SO THAT THE FACT THAT THEY'RE BOTH HERE KIND OF SPEAKS TO THE PARTY'S LIFE. AND OF COURSE, JUST GETTING THE CHANCE TO TALK WITH A HANDFUL OF VOTERS, IT WAS INTERESTING TO SEE THAT NO ONE WAS REALLY SOL ON ONE CANDIDATE OR ANOTHER, AND THEY ALL ARE LISTENING TO RNC. THEY WANT TO SEE WHAT THE SPEAKERS HAVE TO SAY AND OF COURSE, THEY'RE WAITING TO SEE WHAT COMES OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND FUTURE OF PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN AS WELL. WE'LL KEEP TALKING TO VOTERS IN ALL PARTS OF WISCONSIN. COMING UP, OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE ,THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION CONTINUES. >> WE ARE HERE LIVE FROM MILWAUKEE. TAKE YOU TO THE FLOOR OF THE RNC. AND, OF COURSE, A LOT MORE INTERVIEWS AHEAD WITH SOME OF THE FOLKS THAT WILL BE SPEAKING TONIGHT. STAY WITH US. >> WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS, WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR AFTER THAT SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE, REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING. >> ABC NEWS LIVE RIGHT THERE EVERYWHERE FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE IN UKRAINE. REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY IN ROLLING FORWARD. THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS LITTLE TOWN. THE MOST DEVASTATING DISASTER IN HAWAII FROM CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN ICELAND. LET'S GO TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT IN MEXICO CITY, WHEREVER THE STORY IS ON THE FRONT LINES FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL, OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP IN BEIRUT FOR THE FBI, REPORTING FROM THE NURSES ON THE PICKET LINE HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET IN LONDON, STREAMING LIVE TO YOU WHERE EVER THE STORY IS. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE THERE. 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THIS MORNING, AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT? WELCOME BACK. YOU WATCHING ABC NEWS LIVE IN OUR CONTINUING COVERAGE FROM THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. I AM LIVE IN HERE LIVE FROM MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. LET'S BRING IN OUR POLITICAL EXPERTS AS WE CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION. OUR GOP STRATEGIST DAVID WILENSKY. ALSO DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST JULIE ROGINSKY DAVID, LET'S START WITH YOU. THE BREAKING NEWS TODAY IS BOB MENENDEZ GUILTY VERDICT. WE ARE WAITING FOR THE NEW JERSEY SENATOR TO ACTUALLY EXIT THE COURTROOM AS WE SPEAK. HE MAY ADDRESS REPORTERS HE'S DONE THAT IN THE PAST. WHILE WE WAIT FOR THAT, LET'S TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT THIS IS A FIRST CONVICTION OF A SITTING U.S. SENATOR AND SENATE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER NOW JUST CALLING FOR MENENDEZ MENENDEZ TO RESIGN. LET ME JUST GET YOUR IMMEDIATE REACTION. >> SURE. WELL, LOOK, I THINK PEOPLE OF ALL STRIPES, ALL PARTIES, THIS ISN'T A PARTISAN ISSUE. THEY'RE JUST TIRED OF THE TRADITIONAL OLD WAY OF BACKROOM POLITICS. AND THIS IS JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF OBVIOUSLY TAKING IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL. AMERICANS ARE TIRED OF THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOR. THEY'RE SICK OF IT. WHETHER IT'S BOB MENENDEZ IN NEW JERSEY. YOU KNOW, AS WE'VE SEEN CASES ACROSS THE COUNTRY, IT'S TIME TO CLEAN HOUSE. IT'S TIME FOR POLITICIANS AND PEOPLE THAT REPRESENT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO GO TO WASHINGTON AND NOT PEOPLE THAT WANT TO GO TO WASHINGTON AND REPRESENT THEMSELVES. >> AND SO I YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW ALL THE INTIMATE DETAILS OF THIS CASE, BUT I'M GLAD THE JURY TOOK, YOU KNOW, THEIR SERIOUSLY AND FOUND HIM GUILTY OF CHARGES. YOU KNOW, I THINK SENATOR SCHUMER IS RIGHT, AS ARE REPUBLICANS, DEMOCRATS ALIKE IN THE SENATE. >> HE NEEDS TO GO AND HE NEEDS TO GO NOW, RECENTLY, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT PARTY FROM REPUBLICANS. YOU KNOW, YOU CAN HAVE A FORMER PRESIDENT OF, THE UNITED STATES CONVICTED IN. NOW, AS WE MONITOR A CORRUPTION TRIAL ON THE SIDE OF DEMOCRATS, WE'VE GOT A CONVICTION THERE NOW. SO IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT PARTY YOU'RE IN. PEOPLE ARE BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL. JULIE, LET ME ASK YOU, COULD THIS LEAVE DEMOCRATS VULNERABLE ,YOU THINK, GOING IN TO THE ELECTION NOW? >> WELL, I DON'T THINK SO. >> FIRST, LET ME LET ME BACK UP BY SAYING I'VE KNOWN SENATOR MENENDEZ PERSONALLY ABOUT 30 YEARS. SO IT'S A VERY SAD DAY FOR ME. I KNOW HIM. I KNOW HIS FAMILY QUITE WELL. AND SO AND IT'S FROM MY I DON'T LIVE IN NEW JERSEY ANYMORE, BUT IT IS MY HOME STATE. SO I'M VERY SORRY AND SAD FOR MY HOME STATE AS WELL AS FOR THE SENATOR'S FAMILY AND FOR HIS CONSTITUENTS WHO HAD TO LIVE THROUGH THIS AND SUFFER THROUGH THIS TRIAL, THESE ALLEGATIONS. >> I WILL SAY THAT THERE SEEMS TO BE TWO LEVELS OF JUSTICE HERE, RIGHT? SOMEBODY AS POWERFUL AS SENATOR MENENDEZ, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE WAS CONVICTED. HE IS FACING JAIL TIME. AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S UP TO MORE THAN 30 YEARS OF PRISON TIME. AND THEN ON THE OTHER HAND, YOU HAVE A JUDGE IN FLORIDA WHO JUST DECIDED ARBITRARILY TO THROW OUT A VERY SERIOUS CASE AGAINST THE FORMER PRESIDENT. SO THERE ARE TWO TIERS OF JUSTICE. AND I AGREE WITH DAVID, IF WE GOING TO HOLD PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE, LET'S HOLD EVERYBODY ACCOUNTABLE. YOU HAVE A PRESIDENT IN UNITED STATES, FORMER PRESIDENT, WHO'S BEEN CONVICTED OF CRIMES IN NEW YORK STATE, AND YET HIS SENTENCING HAS BEEN ADJOURNED PENDING THE SUPREME COURT'S BIZARRE DECISION TO POTENTIALLY ALLOW HIM TO WALK ON THOSE CHARGES AS WELL. >> SO, YOU KNOW, WE ARE SAYING THAT NO MATTER WOMAN IS ABOVE THE LAW. IT SEEMS TO ME THAT SOME PEOPLE ARE ABOVE THE LAW AND WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE ONE PERSON. DONALD TRUMP. THAT TO ME IS VERY SAD AS WELL. IT'S UNFAIR. SHOULD BE SAD FOR EVERYBODY, REGARDLESS OF PARTY, THAT THERE ARE CERTAIN SETS OF JUSTICE, SOME PEOPLE, BUT NOT FOR OTHERS. >> WELL, WE'RE DEFINITELY SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING, DAVID, ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE OF THINGS. AND IT'S BEEN A ROUGH COUPLE OF WEEKS FOR DEMOCRATS FROM FROM JOE BIDEN TO BOB MENENDEZ . THE SPOTLIGHT, THOUGH, BACK HERE ON THE GOP AND TRUMP. LET'S ABOUT J.D. VANCE. IT HAPPENED YESTERDAY DURING THE AFTERNOON SOON WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IT AS THE MOMENT WAS HAPPENED OR THE AS THE MOMENT WAS ACTUALLY PLAYING OUT. NOW THAT HE GOING TO BE ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, WHAT DO YOU SEE FROM J.D. VANCE? WHAT WILL HE CONTRIBUTE? WHAT WILL HE DO? AND I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T MENTION, LOOK, HE'S 40 YEARS YOUNGER THAN THE FORMER PRESIDENT. NO DOUBT THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HIS ENERGY AND HIS YOUTH HERE. >> WELL, THAT'S RIGHT. AND LOOK, I THINK I THINK HE'S THE RIGHT PICK FOR THE RIGHT MOMENT. AND, YOU KNOW, AS WE SEE BUOYANCY IN, THIS RACE, A LOT OF THINGS HAVE HAPPENED OVER THE LAST THREE WEEKS STARTING THE DEBATE BUT NOT ENDING THERE. YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THIS, I THINK, ULTIMATELY SHIFT BACK TO THE ECONOMICS OF THE DAY IN THE AND HOW PEOPLE FEEL. >> CAN THEY AFFORD TO PUT THEIR KIDS THROUGH, PUT FOOD ON THE TABLE? CAN YOUNG COUPLES AFFORD TO BUY THAT FIRST HOME THEY'VE BEEN SAVING FOR? AND SO I THINK J.D. VANCE, IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, THE CONSERVATIVE, YOU KNOW, PRESIDENT TRUMP MAGA MOVEMENT ORIENTED ECONOMIC VISION IS THE FIT FOR THIS MOMENT. HE'S A KNOW, BLUE COLLAR GUY, RAISED THE MIDWEST. AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU TALK TO POLITICS AND TRADITIONALLY VICE PRESIDENTIAL DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE MUCH INFLUENCE ON THE BALLOT OR HOW PEOPLE ULTIMATELY AT THE BALLOT BOX. DO THINK HIS HISTORY IN THE RUST BELT IS REPRESENTATION OF A RUST BELT STATE IS GOING TO HAVE A MEANINGFUL IMPACT. HIS STORY, HIS VISION, HIS ABILITY TO TALK ECONOMICS IN A WAY THAT, YOU KNOW, BLUE COLLAR ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY WILL UNDERSTAND, I THINK IS ACTUALLY A BIG ADVANTAGE AND AS WE KNOW, THE PRESIDENT BIDEN'S ONLY CHANCE AT THIS ELECTION IS TO SWEEP THE RUST BELT. AND IT'S ALREADY GOING TO BE DIFFICULT ENOUGH. >> I THINK IT BECAME MUCH HARDER AFTER LAST NIGHT. >> I HAVE A FEELING VANCE'S BOOK IS GOING TO AGAIN HIT THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST SINCE THE PICK. ALL RIGHT, JULIE, NOW LET'S TALK ABOUT DEMOCRATS RESUMING CAMPAIGNING, OF COURSE, TODAY. THE DNC LAUNCHING THESE DARK BRANDED BILLBOARDS ALL ACROSS MILWAUKEE WITH MESSAGES SAYING RESTORE ROW BOAT FOR ROE AND SOCIAL SECURITY. TRY ME. THE DNC ALSO RELEASING ITS FIRST PAID MEDIA CAMPAIGN TARGETING THE TRUMP ADVANCE TICKET. JUST WHEN WE THOUGHT WE WERE IN NATIONAL UNITY HERE. WELL, OKAY, THERE'S MULTIPLE BILLBOARDS WARNING OF ABORTION BANS AND HIGHER TAXES. I GUESS WE HAD TO EXPECT THIS, OF COURSE. HOW DOES THIS V.P. ANNOUNCEMENT ALTER THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN STRATEGY, IF AT ALL? YOU THINK? >> WELL, LOOK, J.D. VANCE MAY BE YOUNG, BUT HIS VIEWS ARE KIND OF ANTEDILUVIAN. I MEAN, THIS IS SOMEBODY WHO VOTED AGAINST THE IVF TO ALLOW WOMEN TO HAVE IVF. I MEAN, THAT'S NOT THE PARTY OF LIFE FROM WHERE I'M SITTING. THIS IS SOMEBODY WHO ESPOUSED CUTS TO SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE BY SUPPORTING 2025. >> THIS IS. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, GUYS. I APOLOGIZE. DAVID, JULIE, STAY WITH US THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON. WE WANT TO GET STRAIGHT BACK TO NEW YORK CITY WHERE BOB MENENDEZ WAS JUST FOUND GUILTY ON CORRUPTION CHARGES. >> PRESS CONFERENCE UNDERWAY WITH THE U.S. ATTORNEY. LET'S LISTEN IN. I'M NOT HEARING IT, GANG. >> JOSH, SO YOU JUST YOU KNOW, I'M NOT HEARING THIS AT ALL. >> I'M ENORMOUSLY PROUD OF THEM. AND TO SERVE WITH THEM. THANK YOU. DO YOU THINK THE MAXIMUM SENTENCE FOR. GOOD AFTERNOON. I'M CHRISTI CURTIS AND THE ACTING ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF THE FBI'S NEW YORK FIELD OFFICE . TODAY IS A DAY AT VICTORY AND A VICTORY FOR JUSTICE. PUBLIC CORRUPTION INVESTIGATIONS LIKE THIS HOLD OUR LEADERS ACCOUNTABLE AND ENSURE THEY SERVE THE PUBLIC'S INTEREST AND NOT THEIR DAYS. SURE, THEY SERVE THE PUBLIC'S INTEREST AND NOT THEIR OWN. THIS CONVICTION COMES AFTER CAREFUL INVESTIGATION AND HARD BY THE FBI, IRS AND THE U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, THE FBI, ITS PURSUIT OF TRUTH AND INTEGRITY WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN SECURING THIS CONVICTION. WHEN AN ELECTED OFFICIAL BETRAYS THE TRUST PLACED THEM, IT UNDERMINES THE FOUNDATION OF OUR DEMOCRACY. THANK. MY NAME IS A MINORITY GOVERNMENT AND I'M I.R.S. GROUP INVESTIGATIONS. I'M AT THIS ESPECIALLY IN CHARGE IN THE NEW YORK FIELD OFFICE. THANK YOU AND GOOD AFTERNOON. THANK YOU TO U.S. ATTORNEY DAMIAN WILLIAMS FOR HOSTING US TODAY. IT IS A GREAT COMMITMENT AND COLLABORATION BETWEEN IRS CRIMINALS, THE AGENTS, THE FBI, AND AS YOU KNOW, WHY THE TODAY'S VERDICT WAS POSSIBLE. I WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE THE WORK OF THE FBI PUBLIC CORRUPTION SQUAD, THE FDNY, PUBLIC CORRUPTION TRIAL ATTORNEYS AND PARALEGALS FOR THE TREMENDOUS IN PERCENT IN THIS CASE. AND THE AS THE NY TAX ATTORNEYS . I WILL I WANT TO SPECIFICALLY RECOGNIZE THE IRA I.R.S. SPECIAL AGENTS WHO WORKED THIS CASE IN TANDEM WITH SPECIAL AGENTS. TODAY'S VERDICT IS A REFLECTION OF ALL THEIR HARD WORK. JOB WELL DONE. THANK YOU. MR. WILLIAMS, WHEN YOU SPEAK, THE MAXIMUM. ALL RIGHT. FROM THE U.S. DISTRICT ATTORNEY THERE TO INVESTIGATORS, A LITTLE BIT OF AN IMPROMPTU PRESS THERE AFTER TEN WEEKS OF A TRIAL, 15 HOURS OF CLOSING ARGUMENTS. BOB MENENDEZ, THE SENATOR OF NEW FOUND GUILTY OF BRIBES, PAID CASH, GOLD AND A CAR FOR POLITICAL FAVORS. OUR PHIL LIPOFF HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THIS FOR US. DIDN'T KNOW WE WERE TO GET A VERDICT SO SOON. PHIL, WE'VE ALSO GOT JAY O'BRIEN, WHO'S HERE WITH ME AT THE RNC AND OUR LEGAL BEAGLE BRIAN BUCKMIRE, WHO'S BEEN TRACKING THE TRIAL AS WELL. PHIL, LET'S START WITH SINCE YOU'VE BEEN MONITORING THIS FOR US. YOU GOT WORD TO US THAT ABOUT TO GET A VERDICT. JUST BRING US UP TO DATE ON WHAT WE KNOW. I HEARD PART OF THAT PRESS CONFERENCE. THERE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF AN AUDIO ISSUE. SO JUST IF YOU DON'T MIND, WRAP WHAT WAS SAID BY ALL THREE. >> AND WHERE WE STAND AT THIS POINT? NO, OF COURSE, WAS ABLE TO HEAR ALL OF IT HERE IN THE STUDIO. IT WAS QUICK AS AS YOU MENTIONED AND TWICE REPORTERS ASKED, ARE YOU GOING TO SEEK MAXIMUM SENTENCE? AND NO ONE ANSWERED THAT QUESTION. BUT THE GIST OF IT WAS THEY WERE HAPPY. THIS IS WHAT THEY LAID OUT IN THE INDICTMENT. THEY LAID OUT IN THE CHARGES, AND THEY'RE HAPPY WITH THE VERDICT. 13 HOURS OF DELIBERATION OVER THREE DAYS. AND NOT JUST THAT. THIS IS THE SENIOR SENATOR FROM ,NEW JERSEY. I'VE BEEN COVERING HIM FOR 15 YEARS NOW, BUT HE'S A DEMOCRAT POWERHOUSE AND. >> HE WAS CHARGED AND NOW CONVICTED OF TAKING BRIBES IN THE FORM OF GOLD BARS. WADS OF CASH STUCK IN HIS APARTMENT, AUTOMOBILE FOR TAKING BRIBES ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF EGYPT AND QATAR AND THREE NEW JERSEY BUSINESSMEN AT ONE POINT. HE POINTED FINGER AT HIS WIFE OVER OVER THE TAKING OF A MERCEDES. AND AT ONE POINT, KYRA, HE SAID AS AN EXCUSE FOR, HAVING THESE GOLD BARS AND HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN CASH, THAT THIS IS SORT OF THE WAY HE GREW UP, BECAUSE HE GREW UP IN A IN A CUBAN FAMILY AND YEARS AGO IN CUBA. THIS IS THE WAY, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE, PEOPLE DID IT BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T TRUST THE GOVERNMENT. >> THIS IS THIS IS A HUGE FALL FROM GRACE. HE IS NOW THE FIRST AMERICAN TO BE CONVICTED, BEING A PUBLIC FIGURE WHO ACTED AS AN AGENT OF A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT, NAMELY EGYPT. THIS IS A BIG DEAL, A HUGE FALL FROM GRACE. HE WILL BE SENTENCED OCTOBER 29TH AND COULD GET DECADES IN JAIL BECAUSE OF. YEAH, I THINK THE CUBANS WOULD TAKE ISSUE WITH BOB MENENDEZ TRYING TO THROW HIS CULTURE UNDER THE BUS THERE FOR HOW HE OPERATES AS A AS A SENATOR, AN ELECTED OFFICIAL FOUND GUILTY NOW ON THESE CORRUPTION CHARGES . SO JUST REAL QUICKLY, BECAUSE THE NEWS. WELL, THE REACTION COMING FORWARD NOW. WE'VE GOT MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER CALLING MENENDEZ TO RESIGN. ARE YOU HEARING FROM ANYBODY AND WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN NOW POLITICALLY FOR THE SENATOR? >> YEAH, THAT'S CORRECT. SO CHUCK SCHUMER, WHO HAS NOT CALLED ON MENENDEZ TO RESIGN UNTIL THIS VERDICT TODAY, SAID THAT HE SHOULD, QUOTE, DO WHAT IS RIGHT FOR HIS CONSTITUENTS, SENATE AND OUR COUNTRY, AND RESIGN WHEN MENENDEZ WAS ACCUSED AND NOW CONVICTED OF CONDUCTING THIS ACTIVITY. HE WAS THE CHAIR OF THE POWERFUL FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE. AFTER THIS INDICTMENT CAME OUT, HE STEPPED DOWN FROM THAT POST . BUT HE IS STILL IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE EVEN RIGHT NOW. HE'S ACTUALLY RUNNING FOR REELECTION. HIS SEAT IS UP IN NOVEMBER. HE'S RUNNING AS AN INDEPENDENT. HE JUST SAID HE DID NOT SEEK THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION HERE . THERE'S A REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE AS WELL, A HOTEL BUSINESSMAN. THEN THERE WAS CONGRESSMAN ANDY KIM WHO WAS RUNNING AS THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE HERE. MENENDEZ FILED AS AN INDEPENDENT. IT'S UNCLEAR HOW SERIOUS THAT CAMPAIGN IS. THERE WERE SOME QUESTIONS AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THAT CAMPAIGN WAS BEING KEPT IN ORDER TO PAY FOR MENENDEZ'S DEFENSE. WE'RE WAITING TO HEAR FROM. OH, I JUST GOT IT. I GOT A STATEMENT HERE FROM CONGRESSMAN ANDY KIM. WELL, I'M SITTING WITH YOU HERE ON THE AIR. HE'S, AGAIN, THE DEMOCRAT RUNNING TO REPLACE BOB MENENDEZ IN THE NEW JERSEY SENATE. HE SAID, QUOTE, THIS IS A SAD AND SOMBER DAY FOR NEW JERSEY AND OUR COUNTRY, OUR PUBLIC SERVICE PUBLIC SERVANTS SHOULD WORK FOR THE PEOPLE. AND TODAY WE SAW THE PEOPLE JUDGE, SENATOR MENENDEZ, AS GUILTY AND UNFIT SERVE. THAT IS AGAIN, FROM ANDY KIM, WHO IS THE DEMOCRAT RUNNING TO REPLACE BOB MENENDEZ IN THE SENATE. WORTH POINTING OUT HERE, MENENDEZ, AS OF RIGHT NOW, HAS NOT RESIGNED AND HE'S ALSO SEEKING REELECTION. BUT OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS FAST. >> AND WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS TOWARDS THE END OF THE DAY. JAY YOU MEAN ANDY CAMDEN SAY THIS IS A SAD DAY IN AMERICAN POLITICS, BUT GREAT DAY FOR ME. I MEAN, THIS OPENS THE DOOR FOR ANDY KIM IN A BIG WAY. RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT. WELL, WELL, THERE IS THAT CONSIDERATION, TOO. HE'S OBVIOUSLY ALREADY THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE. BUT ALSO THERE'S A CONSIDERATION THAT I'VE HEARD CONCERNS FROM SOME NEW DEMOCRATS EXPRESS, WHICH IS THAT IF MENENDEZ IS CONVICTED, THERE MAY BE A RIPPLE EFFECT ON DEMOCRATS IN PARTY. AND THEY SAID IF BECAUSE THEY WERE EXPRESSING THESE CONCERNS PRIOR TO THE CONVICTION TODAY, IN THAT IF THIS LONGTIME DEMOCRATIC SENATOR FROM THIS STATE IS CONVICTED OF DOING ILLEGAL WHILE THE SENATOR OF THAT STATE DOES, THAT IN A SENSE PAINT A NEGATIVE PICTURE OF DEMOCRATS AND MAKE THAT RELATIVELY SAFE DEMOCRATIC SEAT, A SENATE SEAT MORE COMPETITIVE, WE'RE NOT CERTAIN HOW THAT WILL SHAKE OUT, BUT I CAN TELL YOU IT IS SOMETHING THAT A WORRY THAT DEMOCRATS EXPRESSED TO ME MONTHS AGO WHEN THIS CASE WAS STILL GOING THROUGH THE COURT SYSTEM. >> SO, BRIAN BUCKMIRE, IT LOOKS LIKE HE WILL BE SENTENCED, BOB, OCTOBER 29TH AND THE CHARGES THAT HE'S BEEN CONVICTED OF CARRY THE POSSIBILITY OF DECADES IN PRISON. >> YOUR THOUGHTS? YEAH. >> SO FROM NOW UNTIL OCTOBER 29, HIS DEFENSE AS WELL AS THE PROSECUTOR, THE DEPARTMENT OF PROBATION, ARE GOING TO EVALUATE BOB MENENDEZ IN A WAY THAT CREATES A POINT SYSTEM. AND BASED ON THOSE POINTS, HE'S TO HAVE A SENTENCING GUIDELINE. AND WHAT I MEAN BY GUIDELINES WILL BE A RANGE. I CAN'T GIVE YOU THE EXACT NUMBER BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE POINTS MAY. I KNOW THAT HE HASN'T ADMITTED GUILT, SO HE'LL GET ADDITIONAL POINTS FOR THAT. THIS IS A FIRST TIME CONVICTION. I KNOW HE'S HAD A MISTRIAL IN THE PAST, SO HE'LL GET POINTS FOR HAVING A CLEAR RECORD. BUT AS THAT GUIDELINE IS FORMED, BOTH THE PROSECUTION AND THE DEFENSE WILL HAVE THE ABILITY TO ARGUE AGGRAVATING AND MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES. AND THAT'S WE'RE GOING TO GET A RANGE. I KNOW YOU'RE SAYING DECADES. I THINK IT'S SOMEWHERE A 20 TO 30 YEARS. BUT FOR A CASE LIKE THIS WITH SOMEONE HIS BACKGROUND AND AS BAD AS IT MAY BE, THERE'S ALSO SOME GOOD THERE. THERE'S GOING TO BE INTERESTING TO SEE WHERE THAT RANGE ENDS UP. BUT OF COURSE, THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME NEGOTIATING ON THE SIDE AND THAT COULD INFLUENCE HOW LONG HE SPENDS IN PRISON. >> AND NOW, PHIL, IT LOOKS LIKE THE NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR IS JUST PUT OUT A STATEMENT HERE ASKING FOR BOB MENENDEZ TO RESIGN. YOU KNOW, YOU'RE THERE IN NEW YORK. WHAT'S THE BUZZ? DO YOU THINK? THIS IS JUST GOING TO CONTINUE TO BE A DOMINO EFFECT? AND BY THE WAY, PHIL, IS IT RIGHT THAT WE'RE THINKING THAT MAYBE BOB MENENDEZ MIGHT STEP UP TO THE MIC AND AND TALK? >> WELL HE HAS BEEN DURING THIS TRIAL NOW THAT HE'S CONVICTED OF ALL THESE COUNTS. NOT SURE THAT HE WILL, BUT WE ARE WE HAVE EYES ON THAT PODIUM AND WE'LL BRING IT TO YOU IF IT HAPPENS. IT WON'T BE THE LAST PUBLIC OFFICIAL TO CALL FOR HIM TO RESIGN. >> HE'S NOW CONVICTED. AND THESE ARE REALLY SERIOUS CHARGES. >> AND THIS IS, BY THE WAY, SEVEN YEARS AFTER A MISTRIAL IN THE FIRST FEDERAL BRIBERY PROSECUTION AGAINST HIM. SO IT MAKES ANOTHER DUBIOUS DISTINCTION. THE ONLY U.S. SENATOR EVER TO FACE FEDERAL CHARGES TWICE AND THE FIRST CONVICTED OF ACTING AS A FOREIGN AGENT. SO I DON'T KNOW HOW ANYBODY I MEAN, BOB MENENDEZ AS JAY OUT IS RUNNING AS AN INDEPENDENT, STILL RUNNING, STILL ACTIVE, NOT STEP DOWN. HOW WILL THIS AFFECT IT? WE'LL SEE. BUT HE HAS MAINTAINED HIS INNOCENCE THROUGHOUT THIS ENTIRE TRIAL, THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE ORDEAL, EVEN WHEN HE POINTED THE FINGER AT HIS WIFE, WHO, BY THE WAY, IS IS NOW GOING TO BE TRIED. AND AS BRIAN APTLY POINTED OUT EARLIER ON, SHE WAS KIND OF THE CONDUIT TO GETTING TO THE THE SENATOR FOR WHAT YOU NEEDED TO DO. >> SO SHE DOESN'T LOOK GOOD FOR HER EITHER. BUT, YEAH, I MEAN, IT WILL BE THIS IS JUST GOING TO BE A THAT BURST WITH EVERYBODY ASKING HIM TO RESIGN WOULD BE MY WHY. >> WELL, AND I WAS GOING TO SAY TO JAY, I'M HAVING FLASHBACKS HERE FEELING A JORGE SANTOS MOMENT. YES. I MEAN, WHAT DO YOU THINK IS OKAY, HERE COMES BOB MENENDEZ. >> LET'S TAKE IT. OBVIOUSLY, I'M DEEPLY, DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED BY THE JURY'S DECISION. I HAVE FAITH THAT THE LAW AND THE FACTS DID NOT SUSTAIN THAT DECISION AND THAT WE WILL BE SUCCESSFUL UPON APPEAL . I HAVE NEVER VIOLATED MY PUBLIC OF I NEVER BEEN ANYTHING BUT A PATRIOT OF MY COUNTRY AND FOR MY COUNTRY. I HAVE NEVER, EVER BEEN A FOREIGN AGENT. AND THAT DECISION RIGHT THERE BY THE JURY TODAY WOULD PUT AT RISK EVERY MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE IN TERMS OF WHAT THEY THINK A FOREIGN AGENT WOULD BE. SAY SOMETHING IN AN ONGOING AFTERNOON. >> WE WERE DISAPPOINTED WITH THE JURY'S VERDICT. WE DISAGREE WITH IT. AND WE BELIEVE TO DAY AS WE HAVE SINCE DAY ONE IN BOB'S INNOCENCE, THERE ARE GRAVE APPELLATE PROBLEMS WITH THIS CASE AND WITH THIS VERDICT. AND WE'RE GOING TO PURSUE ALL APPELLATE AVENUES AGGRESSIVELY. AND WE DO EXPECT HE WILL VINDICATED. >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU. >> ALL RIGHT, BRIAN, TWO QUESTIONS FOR YOU FIRST. IT LOOKS LIKE HE'S GOING TO APPEAL. HOW DO YOU SEE THIS PLAYING OUT ? YES, I HAVEN'T SEEN EACH AND EVERY SECOND OF THE CASE, BUT I'LL GIVE YOU A PLAY BY PLAY OF HOW APPEALS TYPICALLY WORK. WHAT THE DEFENSE IS GOING TO LOOK AT IS ANY MISTAKE LAWS. THE BIG ONES ARE USUALLY ANY MISTAKES THAT A JUDGE HAS MADE IN TERMS. BUT ADMITTING EVIDENCE THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE COME IN. AND THEN ANY MISTAKES THAT THE PROSECUTORS HAVE MADE. YOU CAN AND IT IS AN OPTION AS WELL. WE WILL HEAR IT FROM TIME TO TIME. INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL. YOU CAN'T EVEN SAY THAT YOUR DEFENSE ATTORNEY MADE SOME MISTAKES. AND IF THOSE MISTAKES AMOUNTED TO MATERIAL DIFFERENCES AS TO HOW THE JURY GOT THE CASE AND ULTIMATELY THAT COULD BE SOMETHING THAT COULD REVERSE ON APPEAL. THE APPELLATE PROCESS IS A LONG WAS A LONG AND ARDUOUS ONE. SO WILL TAKE SOME TIME. THE QUESTION WOULD BE IS WHETHER OR NOT HE CAN THE APPEAL TO PUSH BACK THE SENTENCING. BECAUSE THE BIG THING, HE DOESN'T WANT TO BE SITTING IN A FEDERAL PENITENTIARY WAITING FOR AN APPEAL. HE RATHER BE, AS HE JUST SAID RIGHT NOW, WALKING FREE ON THE STREET AND, SEEING WHERE HIS LEGAL OPTIONS LEAD HIM GO TO JAIL. >> NEXT, LET'S JUST TALK. >> SHAKE UP THE SENATE NOW. YEAH. WHAT? >> WHAT HAPPENS TO BOB MENENDEZ IN TERMS OF HIS SENATE SEAT RIGHT. HE IS STILL A UNITED STATES SENATOR BEING CONVICTED OF A CRIME AND. APOLOGIZE FOR THE NOISE YOU AND I HEARD TOGETHER COVERING THE RNC. BUT JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE CONVICTED OF A CRIME DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO SERVE. IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE, THERE'S NO PROVISION OF FEDERAL LAW THAT SAYS SO. EITHER MENENDEZ HAS TO RESIGN OR, HE CAN BE EXPELLED FROM THE SENATE. WHAT HAPPENED, FOR INSTANCE, GEORGE SANTOS IN THE HOUSE. ALTHOUGH SANTOS WAS EXPELLED PRIOR TO THE ADJUDICATION OF HIS CASE AND MENENDEZ'S CASE HAS OBVIOUSLY BEEN ADJUDICATED DESPITE THE FACT THEY'RE GOING TO APPEAL. >> WE GOT A STATEMENT FROM PHIL MURPHY, THE GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY, AND THIS IS VERY TELLING AND PHIL MENTIONED IT A MOMENT AGO. THERE'S ONE PART HERE THAT REALLY STICKS OUT TO ME. HE SAYS, QUOTE, IF HE REFUSES, HE BEING MENENDEZ, TO VACATE HIS OFFICE, I CALL ON THE U.S. SENATE TO VOTE TO EXPEL. THAT WOULD BE SIGNIFICANT. THE SENATE DOES NOT TAKE UP THESE TO EXPEL MEMBERS OF THE SENATE LIGHTLY. I CAN'T THINK OF ONE IN MODERN POLITICAL HISTORY, ALTHOUGH I'M SURE SOME OF MY WHO ARE A LITTLE BIT MORE VOICED IN THE STORIED HISTORY OF THE SENATE MIGHT CHECK ME THIS, BUT I CAN'T THINK OF ANOTHER TIME. THE UNITED STATES SENATE IN JUST THE FEW DECADES, HAS VOTED TO EXPEL ONE OF ITS MEMBERS. THE HOUSE DONE IT, JIM TRAFICANT, ETC., BUT NOT NECESSARILY THE SENATE. THAT WOULD BE EXTREMELY SIGNIFICANT HERE FOR THE SENATE TO TAKE UP THIS STEP. >> AND THEY WOULD PHIL MURPHY'S CALL ON THEM TO RATHER IF MENENDEZ HOLDS FIRM, SAYS HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG, AS HE INDICATED IN THAT PRESS CONFERENCE AND CHOOSES NOT TO STEP DOWN. SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR NOW. DOZENS OF MEMBERS UP ON THE HILL, THEY'RE CALLING FOR MENENDEZ TO STEP DOWN. PHIL, WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS MEANS FOR DEMOCRATS IN A PIVOTAL ELECTION YEAR? >> WELL, NONE OF THIS IS ANY GOOD. THE LAST THE LAST WEEK OR SO IN NATIONAL POLITICS HAS REALLY BEEN KIND OF EARTH SHAKING. BACK TO GOVERNOR MURPHY'S STATEMENT. >> JAY WAS JUST POINTING OUT, YOU KNOW, YOU HEARD SENATOR, THERE IS A VERY QUICK AND DEFIANT STATEMENT. IT'S AS BEEN THIS ENTIRE TRIAL. HE SAID, I AM INNOCENT. I'VE ALWAYS BEEN INNOCENT. I'M GOING TO PROVE MY INNOCENCE. EVEN AFTER BEING CONVICTED OF ALL THESE CHARGES. THERE WERE MISTAKES MADE. THE GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY, WHERE SENATOR MENENDEZ SAYS HE RECEIVED A FAIR TRIAL. >> AND THAT'S ONE THING THAT SENATOR MENENDEZ SAID THIS THIS THIS THIS TRIAL. YOU KNOW IT COULDN'T. HOW COULD IT HAVE BEEN FAIR? I WAS I'M INNOCENT. WELL ONE OTHER THING THAT HE SAID, KYRA, THAT I WANTED TO POINT OUT THERE AT THE END, HE SAID THIS SORT OF SENDS A CHILLING MESSAGE TO ALL OTHER SENATORS THAT THAT THE WAY THEY DO THEIR JOB COULD LAND THEM IN THE SAME SITUATION. I MEAN, THAT'S THAT'S THE KIND OF ARGUMENT WAS MAKING AT THE END THERE. I THINK MANY WOULD DISAGREE. I DON'T KNOW OF ANY OTHER SENATORS WHO HAVE BEEN CAUGHT WITH GOLD BARS. HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN CASH WITH HIS FINGERPRINTS ON IT. I MEAN, THE EVIDENCE WAS PRETTY STACKED UP AGAINST HIM. THIS WASN'T ACCORDING TO WHAT HE'S BEEN CONVICTED OF, SOMEONE JUST DOING THEIR I MEAN, THOSE GOLD BARS. I THINK HE EVEN GOOGLED AT ONE POINT. HOW MUCH IS AN OUNCE OF GOLD WORTH ON HIS COMPUTER AND? THERE'S THE MERCEDES THAT WAS THAT WAS INVOLVED IN A BRIBE THAT WIFE WAS INVOLVED IN, ACCORDING TO THE INDICTMENT. >> THE EVIDENCE GET MUCH BETTER THAN THAT. THE ACTUAL GOLD BARS, THE STUFF GOUGED AND THE SWANKY CARS. ONE MORE QUESTION, IF YOU DON'T MIND. BEFORE WE TAKE IT BACK TO THE RNC. JAY, LET'S TALK ABOUT POSSIBILITY OF EXPULSION HERE. >> WHAT ARE WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS? YEAH, IF MENENDEZ DIGS IN HIS HEELS, THE UNITED STATES SENATE CAN VOTE TO KICK HIM OUT. BUT IT IS VERY RARE. I PULLED UP SOME RESEARCH HERE ON MY PHONE SINCE THE LAST TIME YOU AND I SPOKE. SINCE 19 OR CB SINCE 1789, THE SENATE HAS EXPELLED ONLY 15 MEMBERS. THIS ACCORDING TO THE US SENATE . OF THAT NUMBER, 14 WERE EXPELLED DURING CIVIL WAR FOR SUPPORTING THE CONFEDERACY. THE REST TO RESIGN UNDER THREAT OF EXPULSION. SO THE LAST ANALOGOUS CASE THAT WE CAN FIND IS ROBERT PACKWOOD, WHO RESIGNS UNDER THE THREAT OF EXPULSION. HE WAS A SENATOR FROM OREGON OVER SEXUAL MISCONDUCT AND ABUSE OF POWER. BUT AGAIN, THE SENATE DOESN'T TAKE THAT EXPULSION VOTE IN. HIS CASE, HE RESIGNS UNDER THAT THREAT. SO IF MENENDEZ IN HIS HEELS AND THIS IS A LOT OF IFS IN MEN'S. RIGHT. BUT IF THE SENATE DOES DIG IN, IT'S MENENDEZ DIGS IN HIS HEELS AND REFUSES RESIGN AND THE SENATE MOVES FORWARD WITH A VOTE TO EXPEL HIM THAT WOULD BE RELATIVELY UNPRECEDENTED IN MODERN POLITICAL CAROL. >> WHAT DID WE EVER DO BEFORE? GOOGLE JAY O'BRIEN, EVEN THOUGH I KNOW YOU HAD ALL THAT IN YOUR HEAD. WHAT DID WE EVER DO BEFORE GOOGLE? SOMEBODY DID TEXT ME A FEW THINGS TO TO REMIND ME SOMEONE ,DID A FEW THINGS. >> WELL, I ADMIRED RESPECTED ALL OF YOUR BRAINS. PHIL LIPOF. JAY O'BRIEN. 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THAT'S WHAT WE WERE JUST TALKING AND THEN WE GET BACK HERE TO THE RNC AND, OF COURSE, YOUR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, NEW VP PICK, TRUMP, HOPING THAT J.D. VANCE, ALONG WITH HIMSELF, WILL BE THE NEXT TO LEADING OUR COUNTRY. BUT BOB BENNETT IS FOUND GUILTY IN HIS FEDERAL CORRUPTION TRIAL. >> YOUR REACTION? LOOK, THIS IS I THINK, WHAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANTED AND EXPECTED, AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT MATTERS THE MOST. WE'VE ALL KIND OF BEEN SURPRISED BY THE DETAILS THAT HAVE BEEN COMING OUT, THOUGH. I'VE HEARD RUMBLINGS ABOUT HIM FOR YEARS. NO ONE REALLY EXPECTED WHAT CAME OUT IN THIS TRIAL, THIS CASE. SO I THINK THE VERDICT ACTUALLY WAS EXPECTED BY MOST OF US. AND I THINK THE AMERICAN DESERVE THAT VERDICT, BUT ALSO DESERVED THIS TRANSPARENCY THAT THEY GOT IN THE CASE. >> AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT. WELL, LOOK, IT WASN'T LONG AGO THAT EVERY SINGLE DAY WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE PRESIDENT AND FOLLOWING HIS TRIAL AS WELL. I MEAN, HE'S NOW A CONVICTED FELON. IT SEEMS, NO MATTER WHAT THE PARTY. WE'RE FINDING GUILTY VERDICTS ALL ACROSS THE BOARD. BUT THEN THIS LAST WEEKEND, THIS ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT, SOMETHING HAPPENED. SOMETHING CHANGED, AT LEAST FOR A MOMENT. AND WE HEARD NOT ONLY PRESIDENT BIDEN AND FELLOW DEMOCRATS, BUT ALSO THE FORMER PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP AND REPUBLICANS FOR THE FIRST TIME LOWERING THE TEMPERATURE ABOUT UNITY, TALKING ABOUT POLITICAL VIOLENCE, AND THAT THINGS NEED TO CHANGE, THAT THERE'S NO ROOM FOR THAT. IS THAT CONVERSATION GOING TO CONTINUE, AT LEAST FOR YOUR SIDE? >> I DEFINITELY BELIEVE THAT IT IS I DON'T THINK ANYONE OBVIOUSLY EXPECTED WHAT HAPPENED ON SATURDAY. I DON'T THINK ANYONE REALLY KNOWS HOW TO REACT TO IT JUST YET. I MEAN, THIS IS A MAN WHO LITERALLY LOOKED AT DEATH IN THE EYE. THIS WAS ABOUT 45 SECONDS FOR ME THAT I DIDN'T KNOW IF HE WAS ALIVE. I ACTUALLY HAD A FELT MY FATHER IN LAW IN THE AUDIENCE AS WELL. I DIDN'T KNOW IF HE WAS ALIVE. IT WAS A VERY DIFFICULT MINUTE ,ME AND MY FAMILY, VERY DIFFICULT, OF COURSE, FOR THE PRESIDENT AND HIS FAMILY. AND I DON'T THINK ANYTHING PREPARES YOU FOR THAT NOR FOR HOW TO RESPOND TO THAT MOVING FORWARD. AND I THINK THAT WE'VE HAD A VERY DIFFICULT FEW YEARS IN THIS COUNTRY. WE CAN ALL AGREE THE COUNTRY IS DIVIDED, THE COUNTRY IS FRACTURED WE ARE MORE POLARIZED THAN PROBABLY EVER BEFORE, CERTAINLY IN MY LIFETIME THAT I'VE EVER EXPERIENCED THAT IF ANYTHING CAN BRING US BACK FROM THAT, IT IS THIS HORRIBLE. NOT ONLY DID DONALD TRUMP ALMOST LOSE HIS LIFE, A FORMER PRESIDENT, BUT WE DID AN AMERICAN SOUL ON SATURDAY, SOMETHING THAT SHOULD NEVER, EVER HAPPEN IN, A POLITICAL EVENT IN THIS COUNTRY. MY PARENTS CAME FROM THE FORMER SOVIET UNION. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS OVER THERE RIGHT NOW. I WANT YOU TO WAKE UP EXCITED TO SEE A POLITICAL CANDIDATE THEY SUPPORT IN AMERICA AND NOT COME HOME THAT NIGHT. AND I THINK, UNFORTUNATELY, THAT HAD TO HAPPEN. FOR US TO UNITE AROUND WHAT MAKES US AMERICAN IS SOMETHING THAT ALL SHARE, WHICH IS A LOVE FOR THIS COUNTRY. >> DO WE KNOW IF THE FORMER PRESIDENT DID OUT TO THE FAMILY OF THAT FIREFIGHTER WHO WAS KILLED, YOU KNOW, RIGHT NEXT TO THE FORMER PRESIDENT WHEN THAT SHOOTING WENT DOWN? I MEAN, EVERYBODY'S BEEN TALKING ABOUT HOW HE WAS, YOU KNOW, COVERING HIS KIDS. THEY SURVIVED HE DIDN'T. OTHERS WERE ALSO INJURED. HAS THE PRESIDENT SORT OF LOOKED BEYOND HIS SURVIVAL IN THIS CAMPAIGN AND JUST FOR A MOMENT AND RECOGNIZE THOSE THOSE THOSE THOSE PEOPLE THAT WERE THERE TO SUPPORT HIM, ONE MAN LOSING HIS LIFE. WE KNOW IF THE PRESIDENT HAS REACHED OUT. I CANNOT SPEAK FOR HIM. OBVIOUSLY, THOUGH I KNOW THAT THE FAMILY IS VERY MUCH AFFECTED BOTH PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HIS FAMILY BY HAPPENED. I'M SURE THERE'S GOING TO BE MORE TO COME OUT FROM OUR COMMUNICATION WITH THAT FAMILY IN THE FUTURE. BUT I CAN SAY THAT WE ARE ALL AFFECTED. WE ARE ALL MOURNING TOGETHER WITH THIS HEROES FAMILY, WOMAN TO WOMAN HERE, NIKKI HALEY. HEY, THERE WAS THE TIME SHE AND THE FORMER PRESIDENT WERE THROWING EACH OTHER AT THE FORMER WAS SAYING SHE WILL NEVER, EVER BE IN MY WORLD NOW SHE IS SPEAKING TODAY >> THE FLIP. HOW DID IT HAPPEN? HOW DID THE FORMER PRESIDENT REALIZE THIS WOMAN IS IMPORTANT TO BE IN MY CAMP? YOU KNOW I'VE BEEN IN TRUMPWORLD ON AND OFF SINCE 2016. >> I'VE SEEN A LOT OF FLIPS AND LOT OF WAYS. >> LOOK AT J.D. VANCE. RIGHT? THIS IS A MAN WHO DID NOT SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP, AND HE IS ONE OF HIS BIGGEST SUPPORTERS, OBVIOUSLY, ON THIS TICKET. NOW. WE'RE ALL VERY EXCITED TO HAVE IT. I'VE SEEN A LOT OF PEOPLE CHANGE THEIR MINDS ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP. >> I'VE SEEN PRESIDENT TRUMP CHANGE HIS MIND ON A LOT OF THINGS, TOO. SO IN THE INTEREST OF UNITY, I THINK I CAN SAY EVEN BEFORE SATURDAY, WE WERE ALL EXCITED TO HAVE HER AND ANYONE ELSE THAT WANTS TO BE A PART OF THIS MOVEMENT WILL BE VERY INTERESTING. SEE AND LISTEN TO HIS SPEECH THIS THURSDAY NIGHT. >> WHAT CAN WE EXPECT? LOOK, HE WAS VERY VERY AFFECTED BY WHAT HAPPENED ON SATURDAY. THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT HIS SPEECH AND COUNTLESS OTHERS HAVE CHANGED AFTER WHAT WE WITNESSED. I KNOW HE WANTS TO SPEAK TO THE PEOPLE, NOT JUST AS A FORMER PRESIDENT, AS A CANDIDATE RIGHT NOW, BUT AS AN AMERICAN. I WOULD HOPE THAT ALL AMERICANS THAT WATCH, THAT DOESN'T MATTER OR RIGHT WERE AFFECTED. NO ONE WANTS TO SEE THAT HAPPEN TO ANY POLITICIAN. LET A PRESIDENT IN THEIR COUNTRY. I KNOW THAT HE BELIEVES PEOPLE FEEL THAT WAY AND HE'S EXCITED FOR. I THINK THE MOMENT TRULY TO CONNECT WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME, SEE HIM AS A HUMAN, TO SEE HIM AS SOMEONE THAT THEY RELATE TO IN ANY WAY BECAUSE NO ONE EXPECTED THIS. AND OUT OF TRAGEDY, I CAN ONLY HOPE WE CAN COME TOGETHER. >> ELIZABETH PEPCO, APPRECIATE TIME. APPRECIATE YOU STOPPING BY. ALL RIGHT. 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NOW, THAT'S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN'T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE AND WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE AND OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION . WE NOW HAVE A REPUBLICAN TICKET, FOLKS AFTER DONALD TRUMP PICKED OHIO SENATOR J.D. VANCE AS HIS RUNNING MATE, 39 YEARS OLD, VANCE WOULD BE ONE OF THE YOUNGEST V.P. GUYS IN HISTORY, NEARLY FOUR DECADES YOUNGER THAN THE FORMER PRESIDENT. WE ARE AT DAY TWO NOW HERE AT THE PFIZER FORUM ARENA IN DOWNTOWN MILWAUKEE. THE OFFICIAL THEME FOR TODAY, MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN. BUT THE FOCUS WILL REALLY BE ON UNITY WITHIN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. TONIGHT, TRUMP'S FORMER RIVALS GRABBING KEY SPEAKING SLOTS THAT INCLUDES RON DESANTIS VIVEK RAMASWAMY ME AND NIKKI HALEY, WHO WENT FROM CRITICIZING TRUMP TO HER SUPPORTERS TO VOTE FOR HIM. CONVICTED AS CHARGED ON CORRUPTION ON A MASSIVE SCALE. THAT'S THE BREAKING NEWS WE HAVE FOR YOU RIGHT? NEW JERSEY DEMOCRATIC SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ GUILTY ON CHARGES CARRIED THE POSSIBILITY OF DECADES IN PRISON. LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER ASKING HIM TO RESIGN. NOW. AND OF COURSE, WE'RE STILL FOLLOWING THE LATEST IN THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST DONALD TRUMP. WE WILL HAVE AN UPDATE ON THAT INVESTIGATION AND WHERE GOES FROM HERE. HELLO, EVERYONE. I'M KYRA PHILLIPS. SO GLAD THAT YOU CONTINUE TO STREAM WITH US HERE LIVE FROM THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. I DO WANT TO GET RIGHT TO THAT BREAKING NEWS FIRST BEFORE WE TALK ABOUT TODAY'S EVENTS HERE AT THE RNC, WE ARE STILL FOLLOWING THAT BREAKING NEWS OF NEW YORK CITY LOOKING AT THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS NOW. A JURY FINDING SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ GUILTY, AS YOU KNOW, IN THE FEDERAL BRIBERY AGAINST HIM. IF YOU'VE BEEN WATCHING, WE BROUGHT THAT TO YOU JUST MOMENTS AGO. MENENDEZ CONVICTED ON ALL 16 COUNTS THAT HE FACED, BECOMING THE FIRST AMERICAN CONVICTED OF BEING A PUBLIC OFFICIAL, ACTED AS AN AGENT OF A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT. MOMENTS MENENDEZ REJECTED THE VERDICT, CAME TO THE MICS VOWING TO APPEAL. >> TAKE A LISTEN. >> OBVIOUSLY, I'M DEEPLY, DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED THE JURY'S DECISION. I HAVE EVERY FAITH THAT THE LAW AND THE FACTS DID NOT SUSTAIN THAT DECISION AND THAT WE WILL BE SUCCESSFUL. >> I FEEL THAT WE HAVE OUR PHIL LIPOFF ALSO WHO'S JOINING ME HERE FROM THE RNC, IN ADDITION TO OUR LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR AND LEGAL BEAGLE, BRIAN BUCKMIRE. OKAY, GUYS, PHIL, START WITH YOU. >> WHAT'S THE LATEST? WELL, YOU JUST HEARD A VERY DEFIANT SENATOR MENENDEZ SAYING HE HAS EVERY FAITH THAT HE WILL BE, YOU KNOW, FOUND NOT GUILTY ON APPEAL, BUT THERE'S NO EVIDENCE TO THAT, YOU KNOW, FOR HIM TO HAVE THAT THOUGHT. >> YOU SEE HIM COME OUT THERE AS HE HAS EVERY DAY OF THIS NINE WEEK TRIAL. VERY DEFIANT, CLAIMING HE WAS INNOCENT, BUT HE WAS CONVICTED ON 16 COUNTS, AS YOU SAY, HAD TWO OTHER DEFENDANTS ALONG CODEFENDANTS ALONG WITH HIM. THEY WERE CONVICTED ON COUNTS. HE NOW IS THE FIRST AMERICAN TO BE CONVICTED OF BEING A PUBLIC OFFICIAL WHO ACTED AS AN AGENT OF A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT. IN THIS CASE EGYPT. MENENDEZ TOOK BRIBES. WE CAN NOW IT BECAUSE HE'S BEEN CONVICTED, TOOK BRIBES IN THE FORM OF GOLD BARS, TONS, CASH, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN CASH. A LUXURY AUTOMOBILE IN IT, ACTING ON BEHALF OF THESE BUSINESSMEN AND THESE OTHER GOVERNMENTS. AND THIS IS HIS SECOND TRIAL. SEVEN YEARS AGO, A BRIBERY TRIAL, A FEDERAL BRIBERY TRIAL ENDED IN A MISTRIAL. AND NOW MORE PEOPLE ARE CALLING FOR HIM TO STEP DOWN HERE. SOME OF THE EVIDENCE IN THE CASE, THE GOLD BARS, ALL THAT CASH. AT ONE POINT, HE SAID IT WAS A FAMILIAR OLD TRAUMA THAT HAD HIM KEEP ALL THIS CASH IN IN HIS IN HIS HOME FAMILIAL TRAUMA FOR LEAVING. THAT WAS ONE OF THE EXCUSES ALSO THAT HIS WIFE WAS GIFTED GOLD BARS BY HER FAMILY. BUT THE OTHER SENATOR IN NEW JERSEY, SENATOR CORY BOOKER, HAS NOW COME OUT AND SAID SENATOR MENENDEZ SHOULD STEP DOWN. SO HE IS THE SENIOR SENATOR IN NEW JERSEY. NOW, THE JUNIOR SENATOR HAS CALLED FOR HIM TO STEP DOWN AND SO HAS A GOVERNOR PHIL MURPHY, THE GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY. AND THOSE WON'T BE THE LAST TWO CALLS FOR HIM TO STEP DOWN KYRA. >> RIGHT, RIGHT. THE NAMES STILL COMING FOR SURE. BRIAN MENENDEZ, FACING 36 YEARS BEHIND BARS. LET'S ABOUT THAT. JUST THE IMPACT THAT THIS VERDICT WILL HAVE POLITICALLY AS WELL AND WHAT WE CAN EXPECT AT SENTENCING. >> YOU THINK IN SENTENCING YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR BOTH THE GOVERNMENT AND THE DEFENSE GIVE THEIR AGGRAVATING AND MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES. WHAT I THINK THIS IS GOING TO BE A REAL DETRIMENT TO BOB MENENDEZ. THE SENATORS, SENATOR MENENDEZ, SORRY, IS THAT WHEN WE THINK ABOUT PUNISHING PEOPLE OR EVEN JUST INCARCERATION? DEFENSE ATTORNEYS AND PROSECUTORS OFTEN THINK ABOUT WHY COME THE FIVE PILLARS OF WHY WE INCARCERATE SOMEONE THAT'S OUT RETRIBUTION, REPARATION, REHABILITATION AND INCAPACITATION. AND THE BIG ONE, I THINK, FOR THE SENATOR IS DETERRENCE, FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE. I THINK HE'S GOING TO BE MADE AS EXAMPLE AND A BIG PILLAR THAT I THINK THE GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO LOOK AT HERE IS THAT BOB MENENDEZ IS MEANT TO BE THE FIRST SENATOR TO BE CONVICTED OF A FOREIGN ACTOR OR AGENT. AND THEY'RE HOPING THAT HE IS THE LAST AND THAT A PUNISHMENT IS TO HIM IN A WAY THAT TELLS ALL OTHER SENATORS AND ALL OTHER PEOPLE REPRESENT THE UNITED STATES, WHETHER IT'S ME OR THE PRESIDENT OR A LOCAL MUNICIPALITY, THAT YOU WILL BE PROSECUTED AND WILL SERVE SERIOUS JAIL TIME. >> SO I THINK IT WILL BE A DIFFICULT ARGUMENT FOR THE DEFENSE. SO, JAY, WE'RE ALREADY TALKING ABOUT THE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS. WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IT PRIOR TO THE CONVICTION. AND NOW THAT WE KNOW THAT HE HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY. WE'RE SEEING SENATE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER CALLING ON HIM TO RESIGN. YOU JUST MENTIONED THE GOVERNOR IN NEW JERSEY. >> I MEAN, CLEARLY THIS IS GOING TO SHAKE UP THE SENATE . WELL, THERE'S A FEW THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND HERE. FIRSTLY, THERE WERE SENATE DEMOCRATS WHO WERE KEEPING THEIR POWDER DRY AND, NOT CALLING ON MENENDEZ TO STEP DOWN BECAUSE THEY WERE WAITING FOR THIS TO PLAY OUT. SCHUMER, BY MY RECOLLECTION, HAS NOT CALLED ON HIM TO RESIGN UNTIL TODAY. >> AND NOW HE HAS. PHIL MURPHY HAS ON MENENDEZ TO RESIGN BEFORE, BUT HE TOOK THE EXTRA STEP TODAY OF SAYING THAT THE SENATE SHOULD VOTE TO EXPEL HIM IF CHOOSES NOT TO RESIGN. IF MENENDEZ DIGS HIS HEELS IN AND DOESN'T GO ANYWHERE, THAT WOULD BE SIGNIFICANT. A VOTE TO EXPEL THE SENATOR HASN'T HAPPENED IN RECENT POLITICAL HISTORY. MOST SENATORS JUST RESIGN. THREAT OF EXPULSION. THE LAST EXAMPLE WE COULD FIND WAS FROM 1995. THAT'S THE FIRST THING TO KEEP IN MIND. THE OTHER THING IS THAT CORY BOOKER, FOR INSTANCE, WHO PHIL REFERENCED AS WELL, HAS ALSO ON MENENDEZ TO RESIGN. BUT HE REITERATED THAT CALL TODAY. AND SO YOU'RE GOING TO SEE TWO THINGS PLAY OUT. DEMOCRATS IN NEW JERSEY EXPECTING FIRST, PEOPLE WHO HAVE ALREADY CALLED ON MENENDEZ TO RESIGN, REITERATING THOSE CALLS, WHICH WILL COMPLICATE THE ONGOING ELECTION THERE. REMEMBER, MENENDEZ IS RUNNING AS AN INDEPENDENT FOR HIS JOB. AGAIN, IT'S UNCLEAR HOW, SERIOUS THAT CAMPAIGN IS. SOME FOLKS I TALKED TO IN NEW JERSEY WERE SPECULATING THAT WHETHER OR NOT THAT CAMPAIGN WAS JUST A CAMPAIGN TO KEEP MENENDEZ IN THE CONVERSATION AND POTENTIALLY COVER SOME OF HIS LEGAL BILLS. THERE'S OBVIOUSLY A DEMOCRAT, ANDY KIM, RUNNING TO REPLACE MENENDEZ. AND THEN THERE WAS A REPUBLICAN, A HOTEL MAGNET WHO'S RUNNING AS THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE. SO THIS COMPLICATES THAT RACE. AND ALSO IT POTENTIALLY PUTS PRESSURE ON SOME OF THOSE DEMOCRATS WHO HAVE YET TO VOCALIZE ANY DESIRE FOR MENDEZ TO STEP ASIDE, EVEN THEY FEEL THEM PRIVATELY TO DO SO PUBLICLY. SO YOU'VE GOT TO WATCH BOTH THOSE THINGS PLAY OUT AT ONCE. CERTAINLY, IT'S GOING TO SHAKE UP THE POLITICAL CONVERSATION IN NEW JERSEY AND POTENTIALLY CONTROL THE UNITED STATES SENATE IF THAT SEAT GETS INTO PLAY. ALL RIGHT. A LOT TO WATCH. PHIL LIPOFF JAY O'BRIEN, BRIAN BUCKMIRE BUCK MEYER. THANK YOU, GENTLEMEN, SO MUCH. YOU CAN PROBABLY HEAR BEHIND ME A LITTLE BIT THE MIC CHECKS TAKING PLACE ON THE FLOOR HERE AT THE 2024 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL . OUR SENIOR REPORTER, KATHERINE FAULDERS JOINS ME NOW. SHE'S ALSO HERE IN MILWAUKEE. SO THE ACTUAL THEME TONIGHT IS MAKE AMERICA SAFE ONCE AGAIN. LAST MONTH, THE FBI RELEASED THE NUMBERS SHOWING WHAT THE ATTORNEY GENERAL CALLED A HISTORIC DROP IN CRIME. WHAT ARE WE EXPECTING TO HEAR AND WHAT ARE WE DEALING WITH? >> I MEAN, WE'VE GOT DUELING REALITIES, THAT'S FOR SURE. YEAH, THAT IS FOR SURE. WE DO KNOW THOSE FBI STATISTICS MONTH THAT SAID THAT THEY THAT CRIME WAS DOWN HISTORICALLY. THAT ALSO IN THAT SAME REPORT, THERE WAS SOME LANGUAGE ABOUT HOW EVEN CRIME IS GOING DOWN. IT DOESN'T REALLY JIVE WITH PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF CRIME. THEY DON'T BELIEVE THAT CRIME IS ACTUALLY, IN FACT, GONE. SO I THINK MAYBE THAT COULD BE A RESULT OF SOME OF THE RHETORIC AND SPEECHES COULD HEAR TONIGHT. BUT THIS IS A TYPICAL TALKING POINT FOR TRUMP AND HIS ALLIES. I THINK WE'LL HEAR ABOUT WHAT THEY BELIEVE IS A RISE IN CRIME. THIS IS WHAT THEY SAY, RISING CRIME IN THE UNITED STATES, WHICH OBVIOUSLY IS CONTRADICTORY TO THOSE FBI STATISTICS, BUT IT'S ALSO GOING TO BE BROADENED OUT TO IMMIGRATION. THESE ARE THE TALKING YOU HEAR FROM TRUMP A LOT. IMMIGRATION AND BORDER CONTROL AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO I THINK THAT'S WHAT'S ON TAP HERE. MAKE AMERICA SAFE. THAT WILL BE THE THEME. WE'LL HAVE TO ULTIMATELY SEE WHAT'S IN THESE SPEECHES. BUT AS YOU KNOW THE SPEECHES HAVE BEEN CHANGED, THEY'RE GOING TO FOCUS MORE ON A MESSAGE OF UNITY. DOES THAT AFFECT THE THEME TONIGHT IN THE SPEECHES? WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT. SEE. ALL RIGHT. WELL, TRUMP HAS TALKED A ABOUT NATIONAL UNITY IN THE WAKE OF HIS NEAR ASSASSINATION ON SATURDAY. BUT TONIGHT, THE FOCUS IS REALLY GOING TO BE ON PARTY UNITY. WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF ALL THE FORMER NOW ON BOARD WITH THE FORMER PRESIDENT? OF COURSE, EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT NIKKI HALEY. YEAH, AND SHE'S THE BIG ONE, KYRA. SHE'S THE ONE TO WATCH NIKKI HALEY. SHE ONCE CALLED DONALD TRUMP. I BELIEVE ONE OF THE WORDS WAS A CATASTROPHE. SHE WAS A LAST MINUTE ADDITION HERE. SO SHE WILL BE SPEAKING FASCINATED TO SEE WHAT SHE SAYS. OF COURSE, SHE'S ENDORSED FORMER PRESIDENT. NOW SHE IS RUNNING AGAINST HIM. SO SHE WILL BE FRONT AND CENTER HERE TONIGHT. WE'LL HAVE TO SEE WHAT SHE SAYS. BUT LOOK, OTHER RIVALS OF HIM AS WELL, BY THE WAY, INCLUDING SOME OF THOSE VP CANDIDATES, MARCO RUBIO IS EXPECTED TO SPEAK IN PRIMETIME. WHAT WILL HE SAY OF COURSE, AFTER NOT BEING SELECTED TO BE TRUMP'S RUNNING MATE? I THINK IT WILL BE FASCINATING TO AT LEAST SEE HOW THOSE SPEECHES HAVE, HOW A MESSAGE OF UNITY HAS BEEN BROUGHT INTO THOSE SPEECHES WAS TOLD BEHIND THE SCENES. THEY'RE STILL OBVIOUSLY SORTING OUT A LOT OF THESE SPEECHES AND, CHANGING THEM, OF COURSE, RIGHT UP UNTIL THIS EVENING KYRA. ALL RIGHT, KATHERINE FAULDERS APPRECIATE IT. >> THANKS SO MUCH. WELL, WHILE THE MOOD INSIDE THE CONVENTION HAS BEEN FAR FROM CELEBRATORY, THE MOOD OUTSIDE HAS BEEN DECIDEDLY A LITTLE MORE MIXED WITH PROTESTERS MAKING THEIR PRESENCE PRETTY WELL KNOWN. OUR CHIEF CORRESPONDENT, MATT GUTMAN IS OUTSIDE THE RNC HERE, MILWAUKEE. MATT, AS I'M LOOKING AT THE LIVE PICTURES BEHIND YOU, LOOKS LIKE A LITTLE MORE CALM THAN YESTERDAY. WHAT'S GOING. BRING US UP TO DATE. >> YOU KNOW, IT IS VERY CALM, BUT JUST A FEW MOMENTS AGO, YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN THESE MOUNTED OFFICERS SORT OF CLUMP UP HERE. NOT EXACTLY WHAT THEY'RE DOING RIGHT NOW. THEY JUST ARRIVED CREATING THIS PHALANX HERE. BUT OBVIOUSLY, IN A VIEW, SEEN IT FROM INSIDE, KYRA. SECURITY HERE HAS BEEN INTENSE AND IT CRESCENDOED PROBABLY LAST NIGHT WHEN FORMER PRESIDENT ARRIVED HERE. THIS IS NOTHING. THERE WERE ALSO SNIPERS ON THE ROOFTOPS. SO YOU MAY BE ABLE TO MAKE OUT THAT TENT UP THERE IS JUST ABOVE WHERE YOU ARE HERE. INSIDE, YOU COULD SEE SPOTTERS . LOOKS LIKE SECRET SERVICE UP THERE NOW. THERE ARE MULTIPLE LOCATIONS WHERE THERE ARE TEAMS OF SNIPERS AND SPOTTERS TOGETHER. THERE WERE DRONES. THE AIR. HELICOPTERS, MOUNTED POLICE. BICYCLE COPS LIKE THE ONES YOU SEE HERE, FOOT PATROLS, LITERALLY THOUSANDS OF POLICE AND GUNBOATS IN THE RIVER. SO IT WAS THIS GRIDLOCK OF SECURITY LOCKED DOWN IN THIS PART OF MILWAUKEE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS SOFT AREA. AND I THINK IT FELT VERY SECURE. AND I SPOKE WITH MULTIPLE CITY OFFICIALS AND FEDERAL OFFICIALS, AND THEY ARE VERY PLEASED WITH HOW YESTERDAY WENT . AS YOU MENTIONED, SECURITY INCREDIBLY TIGHT BECAUSE OF THAT ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION ON SATURDAY. EVERYBODY HERE WAS ON TENTERHOOKS KYRA. >> YEAH. AND JUST, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT THE SCENE BEHIND YOU, MATT, DO YOU THINK IT IS IT'S JUST DIFFERENT FROM FROM YESTERDAY WHERE WHERE THE PROTESTS THAT WERE LOUD AND PROUD. AND WE YOU AND I EVEN TALKED ABOUT ALL VARIOUS SIGNS. WE DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING TOO NASTY. BUT THERE WERE THERE WERE PROTESTERS. WITH REGARD TO WHAT'S HAPPENING IN GAZA, YOU DID HAVE SOME POLITICS, THE MASK MIX SAYING THEY WEREN'T HAPPY WITH BIDEN NOR TRUMP. YOU HAD FOLKS OUT THERE EVEN WITH SIGNS REGARDING IMMIGRATION. >> I MEAN, IT WAS AN INTERESTING MIX AS SECURITY IS SORT OF BEEFED UP. YEAH, TELL ME. GO AHEAD. WHITE, AND I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT'S LEFT OF IT. >> NOT VERY MUCH. I MEAN, IT'S BASICALLY A GROUP OF PEOPLE RIGHT HERE. SAVES FROM THERE WAS A ANIMAL TESTING GROUP AGAINST, ANIMAL TESTING. AND THAT'S PRETTY MUCH AT CITY AUTHORITIES AND THE COALITION TO MARCH ON THE RNC WHICH ORGANIZED YESTERDAY'S VERY BROAD AND LARGE PROTEST HAD AT LEAST A THOUSAND PEOPLE, PROBABLY MORE. THEY SAID THEY'RE NOT PLANNING ANYTHING. IN ADDITION, WE WERE JUST AT A BRIDGE NEARBY WERE CODE PINK. FOUR OR FIVE PEOPLE UNFURLED A BANNER CALLING FOR THE END OF THE WAR IN GAZA. BUT THAT'S BEEN BASICALLY AT VERY, VERY QUIET HERE. AND I THINK THAT THAT ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT ON SATURDAY COUPLED WITH THIS SOFT PERIMETER AREA BEING A PLACE WHERE BECAUSE OF WISCONSIN GUN LAWS, FIREARMS ARE ALLOWED, PEOPLE CAN OPEN CARRY PUT A DAMPER ON PEOPLE'S DESIRE TO PROTEST HERE. AND AS WELL AS THIS MASSIVE SECURITY. SO THE ONE THING THAT WE'VE SEEN FROM EVERYBODY WHO'S BEEN PROTESTING IS DISCIPLINE. NOBODY HAS WANTED TO INTERACT WITH POLICE OR START WITH FIGHTS. AND KYRA, AT THIS POINT, WE HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN A WHIFF OF VIOLENCE. THE CITY DID TELL ME THAT THREE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED IN THE PAST 24 HOURS. MOST OF THEM DISORDERLY CONDUCT AND NOTHING MAJOR, AT LEAST AT THIS POINT. RIGHT? WELL, THAT I THINK THIS IS THE SAFEST MILWAUKEE HAS EVER, BEN. I WAS JUST SITTING HERE MAKING A LIST OF ALL THE ASSETS FROM THE MEDIA, THE MOUNTED UNIT, THE POLICE ON BIKES, THE BOATS ON THE WATER. WE'VE SEEN THE AIR ASSETS. I EVEN SAW A COAST GUARD HELICOPTER FLYING ABOVE. I MEAN, THEY ARE TAKING NO CHANCES. AND I'M SURE SATURDAY PLAYED THAT THAT RIGHT? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY AND, YOU KNOW, PROTESTERS ARE AWARE OF IT AND THEY ARE ALSO AWARE THAT THERE MIGHT BE COUNTER-PROTESTERS WHO MIGHT BE EDGIER THAN NORMAL. SO I THINK THAT THAT GENERAL AWARENESS HAS CHANGED TONE AND TEMPER OF WHAT PEOPLE EXPECTED TO BE MASSIVE PROTESTS OUTSIDE THE RNC. THERE WAS AN EXPECTATION OF SOME SORT TENSION AND TALKS, BUT IT HASN'T REALLY MATERIALIZED. AND AGAIN, I THINK THE BIGGEST PART MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE MASSIVE AND VERY VISIBLE PRESENCE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT. SECRET SERVICE PRETTY MUCH EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK HERE, KYRA . ALL RIGHT. MATT GUTMAN, GREAT TO HAVE YOU. APPRECIATE IT SO MUCH. AND IT IS NICE TO SEE CALM ON THE ON THE OUTSIDE, BUT IT SURE WASN'T THAT WAY, AS WE KNOW, OVER THE WEEKEND, AS WE ARE LEARNING MORE NOW ABOUT THAT SHOOTER IN THE FAILED ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON DONALD. THE FBI SAYING THAT 20 YEAR OLD THOMAS CROOKS BOUGHT 50 ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION FROM A GUN SHOP BEFORE TO THE RALLY AND TWO CRUDE EXPLOSIVE DEVICES ALSO FOUND IN HIS CAR. WE'VE ALSO LEARNED OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS THAT CROOKS RECEIVED PACKAGES MARKED AS HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, BUT A MOTIVE STILL REMAINS UNKNOWN. LET'S GET TO OUR ALEX PRESHA IN BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA, ALSO OUR JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REPORTER ,ALEX MALLIN. NOW, ALEX, WE KNOW THAT THE FBI HAS GAINED ACCESS TO THE SHOOTER'S CELL PHONE, BUT WHAT EXACTLY DOES THAT MEAN. CAN THEY READ TEXT MESSAGES? CAN THEY HEAR CELL PHONE CALLS, EMAILS? SO. SO HERE THEY WILL HAVE ACCESS TO TEXT MESSAGES. THEY WILL HAVE ACCESS TO E-MAILS. AND IT ALSO SOCIAL MEDIA POST AND CONTENT. AND WE KNOW AND IN PAST CASES, I MEAN, THAT HAS BEEN PARAMOUNT TO, COBBLING TOGETHER SOME SORT OF MOTIVE. BUT, YOU KNOW, AS THAT KIND OF PLAYS OUT, WE KNOW THAT THE INVESTIGATION IN, BETHEL PARK IS IN FULL SWING. THE FBI HAS CONDUCTED MORE THAN 100 INTERVIEWS, MANY OF THEM HAPPENING IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE THE SUSPECTED SHOOTER LIVED. WE KNOW THAT HIS PARENTS ARE BOTH COOPERATING. AND AS YOU MENTIONED, THERE WERE THOSE TWO CRUDE EXPLOSIVES THAT WERE FOUND IN HIS CAR. WE KNOW THAT ANOTHER WAS FOUND INSIDE THE HOME. AND SO THAT GOING TO CERTAINLY RAISE SOME QUESTIONS. BUT THOMAS CROOKS, BY MANY ACCOUNTS OF FOLKS THAT WE'VE TALKED TO THAT, WENT TO SCHOOL WITH HIM. HE WAS KNOWN AS A LONER AND SOMEONE WHO WAS OFTEN BULLIED AND KIND OF KEPT TO HIMSELF. HERE. >> ALEX MELLON, BRING US UP TO DATE ON THE SECRET SERVICE. DEFINITELY UNDER FIRE, BUT WHAT APPEARS TO BE A MAJOR LAPSE IN SECURITY. HOW DID CROOKS GET UP ON THAT ROOF? HOW IS HE NOT SEEN AND HOW WAS HE ABLE TO PULL THE TRIGGER? YEAH, I THINK HERE WITH MORE TIME PASSING, THE MORE QUESTIONS THAT ARE BEING RAISED ABOUT THIS, BEING ABLE TO EVEN HAPPEN. I THINK THAT WHAT WE HEARD FROM THE SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR YESTERDAY IN HER EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, PIERRE, IS A LITTLE BIT OF BLAME SHIFTING TO LOCAL OFFICIALS ON THE GROUND. THEY SAY THAT THAT FACILITY THAT THE SHOOTER CLIMBED, A TOP OF IT WAS ACTUALLY OCCUPIED IN THE BUILDING ITSELF BY THE LOCAL POLICE THERE. IT DOESN'T REALLY EXPLAIN WHY THE SHOOTERS, THE SORRY, THE SECRET SERVICE THAT WERE POSITIONED TO TOP THAT BUILDING WERE ABLE TO SPOT THEM AND HOW MUCH TIME PASSED BEFORE HE WAS ALLOWED TO TAKE THAT SHOT AT THE FORMER PRESIDENT. HERE'S WHAT THE SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR HAD TO SAY. AND THAT'S EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH. >> OUR CHIEF JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT, PIERRE THOMAS. THIS IS AN EVENT SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED. WHO IS MOST RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS HAPPENING? >> WHAT I WOULD SAY IS THAT THE SECRET SERVICE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT. SO THE BUCK STOPS WITH YOU. THE BUCK STOPS WITH ME. I AM THE DIRECTOR OF THE SECRET SERVICE. IT WAS UNACCEPTABLE. AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN AGAIN AND EXPECT CHILDREN TO FACE A LOT MORE. WHEN SHE APPEARED BEFORE THE HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE NEXT MONDAY AT 10 A.M.. >> KYRA. ALL RIGHT. WE'LL BE FOLLOWING IT. ALEX PRESHA ALEX MALLIN, THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH. COMING UP, WE OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE RIGHT HERE FROM THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION AS WE TAKE YOU LIVE TO THE FLOOR AND ALSO TALK ABOUT ALL THE SPEAKERS COMING UP IN PARTICULAR VIVEK RAMASWAMY ROMNEY, TED CRUZ, NIKKI HALEY, GOVERNOR SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS AND MORE. STAY WITH US. >> WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS, WE ARE HERE. ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR, ENROLLING FOR IT. THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS TOWN FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE. >> ABC NEWS LIVE EVERYWHERE IN ICELAND. LET'S GO ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET, WHEREVER THE STORY IS. WE'RE GOING TO TAKE THERE YOU'RE STREAMING, ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE, YOU'RE STREAMING NEWS LIVE. >> ABC NEWS LIVE, STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE. >> WITH SO MUCH AT STAKE, SO MUCH ON THE LINE. MORE AMERICANS TURN HERE THAN ANY OTHER NEWSCAST. ABC NEWS WORLD TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ACROSS ALL OF TELEVISION AND "NIGHTLINE". THE STORIES THAT SHAPE YOUR WORLD, THAT SHAPE YOUR LIFE TO A STUNNING, EMPOWERING GENRE. THE MOST POWERFUL STORIES OUR TIME. "NIGHTLINE" ONLINE AFTER KIM WEHLE AND STREAMING ON HULU AT HOME. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS? THIS IS "START HERE". TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY'S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY. SO LET'S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD R MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE. ABC NEWS, MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW, THAT'S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN'T COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE'S A LOT GOING ON. WE'RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE'VE IN RIOT GEAR ARRESTING DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY? >> ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE MIGRANTT. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOMEONE IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE 17 POLE, THE BUZZ KILL AND FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA'S ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHY? >> I'M ERIELLE RESHEF IN NORWALK, CONNECTICUT. WHEREVER THE IS, WE'LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU'RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE . >> SOME OTHER HEADLINES WE'RE FOLLOWING FOR YOU THIS HOUR. WE'RE GETTING WORD OUT OF GAZA THAT ISRAEL HIT A REFUGEE SHELTER FOR AIRSTRIKE WITH AIRSTRIKES, RATHER, IN THE SECOND STRAIGHT DAY. THIS COMES AFTER A WEEKEND STRIKE THAT TARGETED HAMAS LEFT 90 PALESTINIANS DEAD. THOSE LATEST STRIKES DRAWING A SHARP REBUKE FROM THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE AND THE HEAD OF COLUMBIA'S SOCCER FEDERATION AND HIS SON ALSO FACING CHARGES AFTER ALLEGEDLY ATTACKING A SECURITY GUARD AFTER THE COPA AMERICA FINAL ON SUNDAY. POLICE SAY THE PAIR TRIED TO GET ON THE FIELD AFTER COLOMBIA LOST TO ARGENTINA, THEN THREW A GUARD TO THE GROUND WHEN THEY WERE FINALLY STOPPED. THE FEDERATION SAYS THE PRESIDENT REGRETS WHAT HAPPENED. JUST ONE OF THE DOZENS OF ARRESTS AROUND THE MATCH IN THE PAST SEVERAL WEEKS. AND THE DODGERS HAVE THEIR FIRST HOME RUN DERBY WINNER TEOSCAR HERNANDEZ TOPPING PERENNIAL FAVORITE PETE ALONSO AND BOBBY DEWITT BLASTING 49 DINGERS INTO THE STANDS OVER THREE ROUNDS. BUT HIS BIG WIN MIGHT HAVE BEEN DROWNED OUT BY NATIONAL ANTHEM AHEAD OF THE DERBY, WHICH, WELL, IT WAS SO BAD THE SINGER ACTUALLY APOLOGIZED TO THE MLB AND CHECKED HERSELF INTO REHAB AFTER WORD ENDS OF THREE DAY SHE PITCHED ALL RIGHT I FEEL REALLY BAD SAYING ANYTHING BECAUSE SHE SAID SHE CHECKED HERSELF INTO REHAB. SO MY HEART BREAKS FOR HER AFTER A PRETTY BRUTAL PERFORMANCE. HOPEFULLY SHE'LL COME BACK WITH A BETTER VOICE SOON. >> ALL RIGHT. COMING UP FROM THE RNC, OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION CONTINUES. WE ARE HERE IN MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. WE ARE TO VOTERS AND WE HAVE ALL KINDS OF GUESTS COMING UP AS WE GET READY FOR SOME BIG SPEAKERS TONIGHT, INCLUDING SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON, NIKKI HALEY, DR. BEN CARSON, MARCO RUBIO AND LARA TRUMP. TOPPING THINGS OFF TONIGHT. WHENEVER WHEREVER NEWS BREAKS. >> SO IMPORTANT TO ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT LIVES ARE CHANGED HERE IN LONDON AND IN BUFFALO, LIVE ALL DAY. >> TEXAS, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND REPORTING FROM ROLLING FORK, MISSISSIPPI, THE UKRAINIAN REFUGEES HERE IN WARSAW. WE'RE HEADING TO A SMALL COMMUNITY OUTSIDE OF MEXICO CITY. YOU BEHIND THE STORIES AS THEY HAPPEN. ABC NEWS FROM WILL TAKE YOU THERE. >> STREAM ABC NEWS LIVE WEEKNIGHTS WHEREVER YOU STREAM MORNING IS ONLY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> WITH SO MUCH AT STAKE SO MUCH ON THE LINE MORE AMERICANS HERE THAN ANY OTHER NEWSCAST. ABC NEWS WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ACROSS ALL OF TELEVISION. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE'S A LOT GOING. WE'RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. ARE IN RIOT GEAR ARRESTING DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY? >> ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE MIGRANT FAST, STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOMEONE IN BETWEEN . CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE 17 PULLED A BUZZ KILL AND BASEBALL FIRST THING IN THE MORNING AMERICA THIS MORNING AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. WHAT? >> THERE IS A PRICE TO BE PAID EVERY TIME A SURVIVOR SHARES THEIR STORY. I WILL NOT BE SILENCED. DO YOU FEEL THE CHURCH ACCEPTED ABUSE? I WON'T SAY ACCEPTED AS SO MUCH. >> PRETENDED IT DIDN'T EXIST. THAT'S YOU READY. KYRA PHILLIPS WITH ABC NEWS. DOES YOUR CHURCH PROTECT SEXUAL PREDATORS AND "IMPACT X NIGHTLINE" SECRETS OF THE TO BUY TO CHURCH. >> THERE'S NOTHING PRETTY ABOUT HERE ON NOW STREAMING ON HULU. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE ABC NEWS THIS IS STARTING TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY'S TOP STORIES START HERE. THAT'S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN'T SEE COMING. MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS . SO GLAD YOU HAVE PICKED US TO WATCH THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION UNFOLD. WE ARE IN THE SECOND DAY NOW. THE BIG SPEAKER TONIGHT, OF COURSE, NIKKI HALEY WANTS A WELL, NOT SO FRIENDLY PERSON TOWARD DONALD TRUMP NOW GETTING READY TO JOIN IN AND TELL HER SUPPORTERS TO SUPPORT HIM AS WELL. BUT WE'RE ALSO FOLLOWING A LOT OF BREAKING NEWS OUT OF NEW YORK CITY. EVEN AS WE FOLLOWED THE RNC, A JURY EARLIER TODAY FINDING SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ GUILTY IN THE FEDERAL BRIBERY AGAINST HIM. MENENDEZ CONVICTED ON ALL 16 COUNTS THAT HE IS FACE. HE'S THE ONLY U.S. SENATOR TO EVER FACE FEDERAL BRIBERY CHARGES TWICE. AND THE FIRST CONVICTED OF ACTING AS A FOREIGN AGENT. MENENDEZ EARLIER REJECTING THAT VERDICT, SAYING HE'S GOING TO APPEAL. OBVIOUSLY, I'M DEEPLY, DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED BY THE JURY'S DECISION. I HAVE EVERY FAITH THAT THE LAW AND THE FACTS DID NOT SUSTAIN THAT DECISION AND THAT WE WILL BE SUCCESSFUL. >> I FEEL LET'S BRING IN OUR PHIL LIPOFF, ALSO OUR ABC NEWS LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR BRIAN BUCKMIRE. BRIAN, LET'S START WITH YOU. SENTENCING. WE HAVE NOW LEARNED, IS SET FOR OCTOBER 29TH, JUST ABOUT A WEEK BEFORE WE ALL GO VOTE FOR THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES. KNOW THE VERDICT COULD MEAN DECADES BEHIND BARS FOR MENENDEZ. WHAT CAN WE EXPECT FROM SENTENCING, YOU THINK? AND ON WHAT GROUNDS DO YOU EXPECT MENENDEZ APPEAL PRIOR TO THE SENTENCING? >> WE WILL GET, OR AT LEAST THE FANS AND THE GOVERNMENT WILL GET A PRE-SENTENCING REPORT. BOB MENENDEZ WILL SPEAK WITH THE PROBATION OFFICER AND WALK THROUGH HAPPENED IN THIS CASE. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IF HE STICKS TO WHAT HE'S DOING AND NOT BEING THAT HE IS INNOCENT OF THESE CHARGES THAT COULD BE USED HIM IN THE FACT THAT HE IS NOT ADMITTING GUILT, IT COULD BE A NEGATIVE STRIKE AND MULTIPLE NEGATIVE STRIKES COULD AMOUNT TO A HIGHER SCORE NUMBER. AND THAT SCORE NUMBER WILL GO INTO THE SENTENCING GUIDELINES, BECAUSE WHAT HE DOES FACE EMANUEL, 36, IS 36 YEARS IN PRISON AND, PROBABLY FAR LESS THAN THAT BASED ON HIS BACKGROUND AND HIS LACK OF CRIMINAL HISTORY. WHEN IT COMES TO AN APPEAL, I DON'T REALLY SEE A FOR AN APPEAL, BUT I DIDN'T SEE EACH AND EVERY PRETRIAL ARGUMENT. I THINK THE BIGGEST ARGUMENTS THAT YOU CAN MAKE FOR AN APPEAL IS THAT THE JUDGE MADE A MISTAKE OF NOT ADMITTING EVIDENCE THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL, HELPFUL IN ADVANCE, OR LETTING IN EVIDENCE THAT THE PROSECUTION OR GOVERNMENT SAID THEY NEEDED AND WAS WRONG DOING SO. SO I THINK HE'S GOING TO ATTACK WHAT THE JUDGE DID AND ALSO THE PROSECUTOR FROM A LEGAL STANDPOINT AND SAY THAT REALLY HURT HIM. BUT WHEN A COCONSPIRATOR TAKES THE STAND AND SAYS, I GAVE THIS PERSON MONEY ALONG WITH HIS WIFE TO BUY HIM AND PUT HIM IN MY POCKET, IT'S KIND OF HARD TO ARGUE THAT ON APPEAL IS GOING TO SAVE HIM. >> SO, PHIL, THERE'S A GROWING CHORUS FROM HIS OWN PARTY CALLING FOR MENENDEZ TO RESIGN, INCLUDING MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK AND HIS FELLOW NEW JERSEY SENATOR CORY BOOKER. EVEN THE GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY. CLEARLY, THERE ARE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS HERE. >> YEAH, IT COMES FROM THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF OUTSIDE OF THE PRESIDENT. PEOPLE AS SAID, THE SENATE LEADER, CHUCK SCHUMER, THE GOVERNOR OF HIS OWN STATE, THE OTHER SENATOR HE SERVES WITH, CORY BOOKER NOW, WILL STEP ASIDE. NO INDICATION THAT HE WILL. YOU SAW HE'S VERY DEFIANT THERE WHEN HE CAMEUT OF COURT, AS HE'S BEEN FOR THIS NINE WEEK TRIAL, MAINTAINING INNOCENCE, SAYING THAT THE FACTS HE'S CONFIDENT, THE FACTS THAT HE'LL WIN ON APPEAL. NO EVIDENCE TO AS A JURY JUST CONVICTED HIM ON ALL 16 COUNTS. ALSO THE TWO CO-DEFENDANTS WHO WERE CHARGED WITH HIM, HIS WIFE IS ALSO CHARGED. HE HAS A SEPARATE TRIAL LATER THIS YEAR. SO WHAT CAN HE DO? WELL, THERE'S NO LAW THAT SAYS YOU CAN'T SERVE IN CONGRESS, IN THE SENATE IF YOU'VE CONVICTED THAT SAME KIND OF THING WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT WITH THE FORMER PRESIDENT. THERE'S NO LAW SAYING HE CAN'T BE PRESIDENT SINCE HE'S BEEN CONVICTED. SAME IN THE SENATE. SO NOTHING PROHIBITS HIM. BUT AS JAY O'BRIEN WAS TALKING ABOUT A LITTLE WHILE AGO ABOUT A HOUR AGO, THAT THE GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY SAYS IF HE DOES NOT STEP ASIDE, HE WILL CALL ON THE SENATE TO EXPEL. NOW, THAT IS VERY RARE. HASN'T HAPPENED, I THINK JAY SAID, SINCE 1995. AND IT IS VERY RARE. MOST PEOPLE UNDER THREAT OF EXPULSION RESIGN. WHAT WILL BOB MENENDEZ DO? SENATOR MENENDEZ, WHO KNOWS HE'S BEEN SERVING SINCE 2006 IN THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, AND THERE IS NO SIGN, AT LEAST PUBLICLY THAT HE IS EVEN ENTERTAINING THE THOUGHT OF STEPPING DOWN. >> ALL RIGHT. WELL, FOLLOW BECAUSE WE KNOW HOW THIS THE MORE PEOPLE THAT CRY FOR YOU TO DO SOMETHING, YOU MIGHT BE PRESSURED TO DO. SO THEN AGAIN, LET'S LOOK AT ALL THE PRESSURE GEORGE SANTOS PUT UNDER. THAT GUY JUST REFUSES TO STEP ASIDE IN SO MANY WAYS AS WELL. PHIL LIPOFF. BRIAN BUCKMIRE. THANK YOU, GUYS. LET'S TURN BACK NOW TO OUR COVERAGE OF THE 2024 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION . WE. WE ARE HERE LIVE IN MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. THE GOP DEFINITELY FEELING GOOD ABOUT ITS NEWLY MINTED TRUMP VANCE, THE FORMER PRESIDENT, TAPPING OHIO SENATOR J.D. VANCE DESPITE HIS PAST CRITICISM. AND IT'S ESPECIALLY PERTINENT TODAY AS A NUMBER OF TRUMP'S FORMER RIVALS GET READY TO TAKE STAGE. THAT INCLUDES NIKKI HALEY AND RON DESANTIS, THE PARTY PUTS ITS UNITY ON DISPLAY THE ENTIRE COUNTRY TO SEE. LET'S BRING IN OUR JAY O'BRIEN . HE, OF COURSE, HAS BEEN WITH ME THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE WEEK SO FAR. WE'RE IN TODAY, TOO. WE'VE GOT A COUPLE MORE TO GO. YOU'RE NOW DOWN ON THE FLOOR, BOY. JAY, A LOT MORE QUIET, CALM, NO MUSIC VERSUS YESTERDAY. IT WAS A LITTLE YESTERDAY. >> IT WAS. THIS IS A MUCH DIFFERENT SCENE THAN YESTERDAY HERE. AND I COULD ACTUALLY SEE THE BACK OF YOUR HEAD. HELLO IS THE SECOND TIME I'VE DONE THIS A LITTLE BIT OVER THE COURSE OF THE WEEK AND I'LL KEEP DOING IT. BUT SO, YEAH, NOT MUCH GOING ON, OBVIOUSLY. >> PREPARATIONS UNDER WAY. WE'VE SEEN SPEECH PRACTICES, THINGS OF THAT NATURE AND THERE AREN'T AS MANY QUESTIONS HANGING OVER TODAY AS THERE WERE YESTERDAY. THE BIGGEST QUESTION HANGING OVER YESTERDAY WAS HOW THAT ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON SATURDAY CHANGE THE DYNAMIC OF THIS CONVENTION. WE ALREADY SAW THAT PLAY OUT LAST NIGHT, RIGHT WHEN FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP MADE THAT DRAMATIC SURPRISE APPEARANCE WITH THE BANDAGE ON HIS EAR HE SAT IN THE BOX. HE WAS WITH HIS NEWLY PICKED VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, J.D. VANCE. THAT WAS ANOTHER QUESTION HANGING OVER YESTERDAY. WHO WOULD BE THE VP PICK TODAY? >> THERE ARE STILL QUESTIONS, THOUGH, AND THERE ARE QUESTIONS OF UNITY. SO YOU MENTIONED NIKKI HALEY. SHE IS EXPECTED TO ADDRESS THIS ADDRESS THIS CONVENTION TONIGHT. THERE HAS BEEN QUESTIONS AS TO WHETHER NOT TRUMP IS DOING ENOUGH TO APPEAL TO MORE MODERATE NIKKI HALEY TYPE WHO HAVE VOTED FOR NIKKI HALEY IN SOME CASES AS A PROTEST IN CERTAIN STATE PRIMARIES, EVEN AFTER SHE DROPPED OUT THE RACE. AND WHILE TRUMP MAY NOT MAKE THOSE OVERTURES AND MAYBE EVEN VANCE WILL OR WON'T, THE QUESTION FACING NIKKI HALEY TONIGHT, WHEN SHE TAKES STAGE, AS SHE IS EXPECTED TO DO, IS WHAT DOES SHE SAY TO HER VOTERS? DOES SHE TELL HER SUPPORTERS TO GET BEHIND TRUMP? THAT WOULD, OF COURSE BE SIGNIFICANT. ALL RIGHT. WHAT'S THE NEXT. ALL RIGHT, JAY, I WAS JUST CHECKING IN TO SEE IF WE WERE GOING TO BE COMING BACK TO YOU BECAUSE WE'RE GETTING WORD OH, WE'RE GETTING GLITCHES THAT SHOT, WHICH ARE WE JUST SAW. SO WE'RE GOING TO FIX THAT. AND I PROMISE WE'RE GOING TO COME DOWN TO THE FLOOR AND TALK TO YOU A NUMBER OF TIMES. ARE YOU? NO, NO, NO. YOU'RE THERE. YOU'RE STILL THERE. JAY. FORGIVE ME. IT WAS GLITCHING IN AND OUT, BUT WE WILL BE COMING BACK, I PROMISE. ALL RIGHT. LET'S BRING IN OUR POLITICAL EXPERTS NOW, GOP STRATEGIST DAVID PARTY IS ALSO FORMER DEMOCRATIC SENATOR OF NORTH DAKOTA AND, ALSO ABC NEWS POLITICAL CONTRIBUTOR HEIDI HEITKAMP. I KNOW WE'VE GOT THEM LOCKED AND LOADED BECAUSE THEY ARE ON ZOOM AND WE WILL NOT LOSE YOU. I'LL TELL YOU, THAT FLOOR SHOT HAS BEEN TOUGH, GUYS. YOU KNOW, YOU'VE BEEN BOTH OF YOU HAVE BEEN DOWN ON THAT FLOOR AND IT GETS CRAZY WITH ALL TECHNICALITIES OF CAMERAS AND LIVE FEEDS. GOOD TO SEE YOU BOTH. DAVID, LET'S START WITH YOU. IT'S INTERESTING. TRUMP IS STARTING TO DISTANCE HIMSELF. PROJECT 2025. WE HAVEN'T MENTIONED PROJECT 2025, BY THE WAY IN A WHILE. NOW, THIS LIST OF CONSERVATIVE POLICY PROPOSALS THAT WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT WITHIN PROJECT 2025 DEMOCRATS CALLING IT VERY EXTREME, WONDERING IF HE WILL BE ABLE TO CONTINUE THAT SORT OF TONE AFTER NAMING J.D. VANCE AS VP. WHAT'S YOUR THOUGHT? BECAUSE IT HASN'T COME UP SINCE WE'VE BEEN HERE, I CAN TELL YOU THAT. >> WELL, FIRST, IT'S -- IT'S NICE TO TALK TO YOU WITHOUT THAT BACKGROUND MUSIC. IT WAS NICE, BUT IT'S A LITTLE EASIER TO HEAR YOU TODAY. YOU KNOW, LOOK, I THINK YOU'VE SEEN THE PRESIDENT THINK HE HIMSELF HAD A PRETTY IMPORTANT FOOTPRINT ON OUR PARTY'S PLATFORM, WHICH WAS VOTED YESTERDAY BY RNC MEMBERS. AND I THINK THAT LAYS OUT HIS VISION, THE GLOBAL DESIGNS OF HIS FUTURE, NOT FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS, BUT FOR THE FUTURE OF THE PARTY. AND SO WHAT GROUPS AND ADVISERS DO YOU KNOW, EXTERIOR TO REALLY DOESN'T MATTER. AND THAT HAPPENS ON BOTH SIDES ALL THE TIME. THERE ARE OUTSIDE THAT TRY TO INFLUENCE ADMINISTRATIONS AND CAMPAIGNS. YOU GET THAT EVEN THROUGH PRIMARIES. I DON'T THINK THAT MATTERS MUCH HERE. I THINK WHAT'S MORE IMPORTANT IS YOU'RE SEEING A PARTY UNITED, A PARTY UNITED BEHIND PRESIDENT TRUMP AND NOW HIS VICE PRESIDENTIAL PICK. YOU'RE SEEING PARTY UNITED BY HIS VISION FOR THE PARTY AS A WHOLE, EVEN FROM THE PLATFORM STANDPOINT, EVEN WHEN THERE WERE SOME INTERNAL DISAGREEMENT . EVERYBODY'S COME TO THE TABLE AND UNITED BEHIND THAT. AND I THINK THAT'S PRETTY SHARP CONTRAST AND SOMETHING DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO HAVE TO STRUGGLE WITH A BIT TODAY. AS YOU SEE HOUSE DEMOCRATS BACK IN WASHINGTON, A LETTER ASKING FOR THE PRESIDENT TO DROP OUT AT LEAST FROM THE NOMINATION PROCESS FOR HIS PARTY. THAT'S A PRETTY STARK CONTRAST . YOU HAVE YOUR BASE HERE IN MILWAUKEE, EXCITED, ENTHUSIASM READY TO ROLL AND EXCITED ABOUT THE PROSPECTS OF WINNING NOVEMBER VERSUS, YOU KNOW, THE OTHER SIDE. 36 DAYS OUT FROM THEIR CONVENTION TRYING TO PUSH OUT THE INCUMBENT SITTING PRESIDENT WHO I LIKE OUR CHANCES OF THAT IN THAT BATTLE. >> WELL, HEIDI, WE KNOW THAT VANCE J.D. VANCE IS A STAUNCH SUPPORTER OF ABORTION BANS, SIGNALING THAT HE WOULD SUPPORT A NATIONAL ABORTION BAN . WHAT COULD A TRUMP VANCE PRESIDENCY MEAN FOR ABORTION? >> WELL, I THINK ANYONE WHO THINKS THAT SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO PROJECT 25 DIDN'T PAY ATTENTION WHEN THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY PROVIDED A LIST THAT WOULD FORM THE NEW SUPREME COURT AND ALL THE NEW NOMINEES THAT TRUMP APPOINTED CAME FROM THAT LIST. TRUMP HAS NEVER BEEN PARTICULARLY CONCERNED ABOUT POLICY OR ABOUT IDEOLOGY. HE TOOK THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN A DIRECTION THAT DON'T THINK THEY EXPECTED BY APPEALING TO BLUE COLLAR WORKERS, OPPOSING FREE TRADE, BY NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO DEBT AND DEFICIT GREW AT TWICE AS MUCH. AND SO, YOU KNOW, TRUMP TRUMP IS GOING BE AN INTERESTING KIND OF PERSON TO WATCH HERE BECAUSE HE DOES NOT FEEL LIKE HE NEEDS THOSE OF THE PARTY BASE, BUT DO PAY ATTENTION TO 2025. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE DEMOCRATS, I DON'T DISAGREE. I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF UNITY RIGHT NOW COMING OFF AN ASSASSINATION AND YOU SEE THE RALLYING AROUND THE PARTY BANNER, WHICH YOU SHOULD ALWAYS EXPECT IN A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. AND BY THE SAME TOKEN, YES, THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO WERE ASKING THIS PRESIDENT TO STEP ASIDE AND LET THE NOMINEE BE SOMEONE ELSE. BUT IF HE DECIDES TO STAY IN IT, MAKE NO MISTAKE, THERE WILL BE A HUGE RESOLVE, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TO HOLD FIRM AND TO FIGHT VERY, VERY HARD, TO RETAIN CONTROL OF. THE WHITE HOUSE AND CERTAINLY THE HOUSE AND HOPEFULLY THE SENATE. SO, YOU KNOW, GOING FORWARD, ABORTION RIGHTS IS STILL KEY ISSUE AND WILL BE A KEY ISSUE IN THIS ELECTION, ESPECIALLY FOR SUBURBAN WOMEN. IF YOU LOOK AT THE KIND OF VOTING PATTERNS IN THE LAST TWO ELECTIONS, THIS HAS BEEN THE ISSUE THAT HAS DRIVEN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TO VICTORY. SO J.D. VANCE'S POSITION WILL BE VERY PROBLEMATIC AS THE PRESIDENT TRIES TO PIVOT TO A STATES ONLY KIND OF ARGUMENT. >> DO YOU SEE J.D. VANCE BEING PROBLEMATIC? DAVID ABSOLUTELY NOT. THIS IS THIS IS AN ECONOMIC ELECTION. PEOPLE ARE GOING TO VOTE BASED ON THEIR ABILITY, PUT FOOD ON THE TABLE, SEND THEIR KIDS TO SCHOOL, PAY FOR THE BOOKS AND EVEN FOR YOUNG COUPLES WHO WANT TO BUY THAT FIRST HOME. THIS IS GOING TO BE ABOUT THE ECONOMY. AND AS WE SEE IN EVERY MEASUREABLE, YOU KNOW, THE PRESIDENT IS LOSING EVERY DAY ON THAT FRONT. AND I THINK J.D. VANCE, HIS BACKGROUND, HIS HISTORY, HIS BOOK, HISTORY, WHERE HE'S FROM AND WHERE HE REPRESENTS IT AND HIS ABILITY TO CAMPAIGN IN THE RUST BELT STATES IS GOING TO BE A HUGE ADDITIVE IN TERMS OF THE ECONOMIC FIGHT THAT'S GOING TO LEAD TO ULTIMATELY REPUBLICAN SUCCESS IN NOVEMBER. SO ABSOLUTELY. >> YOU KNOW, HEIDI, TRUMP SEEMS SORT OF UNTOUCHABLE SINCE THE ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE. HOW ARE DEMOCRATS GOING TO TRY AND CATCH UP TO THIS MOMENTUM? I MEAN, YOU KNOW, HE PRESIDENT BIDEN WAS JUST GETTING HAMMERED ON HIS MENTAL ACUITY AND HIS AGE. I MEAN, THAT WAS IN EVERY SINGLE HEADLINE. THEN SATURDAY COMPLETELY CHANGED THE HEADLINE AND IT WAS ALL ABOUT THIS POSSIBLE OR THIS ATTEMPT ASSASSINATE TRUMP, BUT HE SURVIVES. AND NOW THE HEADLINE IS TRUMP SURVIVES ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT . AND BOY, ARE THEY PLAYING OFF OF THAT. AND YOU KNOW YOU, HAVEN'T REALLY HEARD MUCH ABOUT PRESIDENT BIDEN'S MENTAL ACUITY LATELY. THE CONVERSATION HAS REALLY SHIFTED. ARE WE GOING TO GO BACK TO FINDING A BALANCE? HOW DO YOU SEE THIS PLAYING OUT? >> WELL, I THINK WHAT IT TELLS YOU IS, IF YOU PAY TOO MUCH ATTENTION AT THE ISSUE TO DEBATE WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW, WAIT UNTIL THE NEXT WEEK. AND SO, YES, WILL BE A GOOD WEEK FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. THEIR CONVENTIONS ALWAYS ARE. IT'S THEIR WAY TO HIGHLIGHT WHAT THEY'RE TO REALLY ENERGIZE BASE. THE DEMOCRATS WILL GO LAST. AND I EXPECT THAT THE CONVENTION IN CHICAGO WILL BE EQUALLY UPLIFTING, THAT THERE'LL BE A LOT OF GREAT FOLKS THAT COME OUT TO ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF ELECTING A DEMOCRATIC AGENDA. AND I JUST IT JUST TO THE THE POINT ABOUT THIS BEING AN ECONOMIC ELECTION, THAT'S WHAT WE HEARD DURING THE MIDTERMS. GUESS WHAT? IT WASN'T. AND SO THE ECONOMY IS BETTER NOW THAN IT WAS IN THE MIDTERM . I THINK THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE AN ELECTION AS ELECTIONS ARE ABOUT THE FUTURE. AND, YES, YOU KNOW, BIDEN DOES NOT GET GOOD MARKS ON THE ECONOMY, BUT ON THE ISSUES THAT MATTER TO A LOT OF SWING VOTERS, A.K.A. SUBURBAN CHOICE, IS STILL A MAJOR ISSUE. YES, IT IS. HEIDI HEITKAMP, DAVID POLANSKY, THANK YOU SO MUCH. SPEAKING OF CHOICES AND WHERE VOTERS STAND, WE DID HEAD OUT INTO THE STATE OF WISCONSIN TO GET A FEEL ON THE TONE. WE'RE GOING TO BRING THAT TO YOU COMING UP AS OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION CONTINUES. WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST IN AMERICA AND OPERATION LIKE THIS THAT THAT OPERATION SAID, WE'RE APPROACHING THE GATE NOW. MILITANTS CAME IN FROM FOUR OR FIVE DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. OPERATION NUCLEAR REACTOR. SO WE HAVE A COUPLE LOADED AND READY TO GO NOW. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED, BUT THE FLAG, THERE'S NOT A TEAR IN AND OUT OF IT. HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS LABEL RIGHT HERE? MAYBE WITH THEY LOOK HERE, SMILE. >> YOU'RE PROUD OF IT? I LOVE IT. GREAT WORK. HI. VERY, VERY. THANK YOU. IT'S DAVID. >> GREAT. YES. YES. I'M DAVID MUIR. >> I KNOW YOU ARE. EVERY NIGHT. ABC'S WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR. IS MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST. >> ALL RIGHT. LET THE DOGS OUT, PLEASE. >> I DON'T THINK HE'S GOING TO GIVE YOU A HARD TIME, EVEN IF HE GIVES ME A HARD TIME. >> I'M THE RIGHT GUY. I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ALL LEARN TOGETHER. I'M CONFIDENT. I'M CALM. SURRENDER. EVERYTHING THAT HE'S TAUGHT HAS A REALITY. WE ARE SO GRATEFUL AND IMPRESSED. >> FEEL LIKE HE CHANGED OUR WORLD. IT IS A BEAUTIFUL THING TO SEE AS YOU REHABILITATE THE DOG, YOU ALSO REHABILITATE YOU. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM? >> ABC NEWS. THIS IS "START HERE". TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY'S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET'S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD R. MURROW AWARDS AND SEE T A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT'S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN'T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS START HERE AND WELCOME BACK. >> YOU ARE WATCHING ABC NEWS LIVE IN OUR CONTINUING COVERAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. I'M KIRA PHILLIPS LIVE HERE IN MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. AS VOTERS ARE PREPARING TO HEAD TO THE POLLS. WELL, THEY HAVE ALSO BEEN TALKING AND DEBATING AND A LOT OF PEOPLE WITH WHOM WE SPOKE RIGHT HERE IN WISCONSIN. THEY'RE EVEN WORRIED ABOUT WHO THEY MAY HAVE TO PICK. NOT EVERYONE'S THRILLED WITH THE TWO CANDIDATES AND WHERE ELSE TO FIND THE BEST PLACE TO GET, YOU KNOW, GOOD CONVERSATION WHERE YOU GO GET A CUT. >> OF COURSE, THE LOCAL BARBERSHOP. >> I DON'T REALLY AGREE WITH WHAT BOTH MEN HAVE SHOWN AS FAR AS LEADERSHIP, AS FAR AS WHAT I EXPECT OUT OF A PRESIDENT, WHAT I'VE SEEN GROWING UP. BOTH OF THEM KIND OF LET ME DOWN. JUST MORE STRENGTH, MORE CHARACTER, MORE ALIGNMENT, MORE UNITY. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? LIKE EVEN A PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH, WHO I DEFINITELY DIDN'T AGREE WITH A LOT THAT HE WAS ROCKING WITH, BUT HE WAS ABLE TO GET PARTIES TO WORK TOGETHER. AND I REALLY SEEING THAT FROM THE LAST TWO PRESIDENTS, I FEEL I NEED TO VOTE BECAUSE MY ANCESTORS FOR I MEAN, THEY DIED. I'M STILL LIVING. SO FOR TO DIE AND GO THROUGH WHAT OUR PEOPLE HAVE GONE THROUGH, I'M ALMOST GETTING EMOTIONAL ABOUT IT. THAT'S WHY I'M BROKE. I HAVE TO REACH. EXCUSE MY LANGUAGE. IT'S OKAY. A THING THAT THEY TALKING ABOUT. BUT I'M VOTING FOR THE BETTERMENT OF OUR PEOPLE, PERIOD. I MEAN, YOU LOOK FOR BOTH. AND I THINK BOTH PRESIDENTS ARE AT AN AGE TOO WHERE, IN MY PERSONAL OPINION, THEY SHOULDN'T EVEN BE IN THIS POSITION. I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST. BUT THE TALENT SHOULD BE AND IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE POINT WHERE WE SOMEONE WHO WAS YOUNGER AND READY TO KIND OF PUSH FORWARD AND TAKE THE COUNTRY AND, PUT IT IN A NEW, MORE INNOVATIVE, MORE YOUNG ENERGY KIND OF DIRECTION SO THAT THE FACT THAT THEY'RE BOTH HERE KIND OF SPEAKS TO THE PARTY'S. >> SO LET ME TELL YOU WHY BOTH CANDIDATES WENT THERE. THAT WAS KENOSHA, WISCONSIN. YOU MAY REMEMBER FOUR YEARS AGO. THAT IS WHERE JACOB BLAKE SHOT BY A WHITE POLICE OFFICER IN THE BACK SEVEN TIMES. HE'S NOW PARALYZED FROM THE WAIST DOWN. THEN YOU'LL REMEMBER THE PROTESTS AND THE LOOTING THAT HAPPENED AFTER THAT. AND THEN WHEN THAT WAS TAKING PLACE, YOU REMEMBER 70-YEAR-OLD KYLE RITTENHOUSE, HE CAME THERE SAYING HE WAS COMING TO PROTECT A CAR DEALERSHIP. WELL, HE ENDED UP SHOOTING THREE PEOPLE, KILLING TWO, THEN A TRIAL. THE WORLD WAS WATCHING. HE'S ACQUITTED. THAT'S WHY WE WENT TO KENOSHA BECAUSE AFTER THAT ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT THAT WE WITNESSED OVER THE WEEKEND, WE WANTED TO GO BACK INTO THAT COMMUNITY TO SEE HOW THEY WERE FEELING, IF THAT WAS PLAYING INTO THEIR VOTE. ALL THIS POLITICAL VIOLENCE. IT IS. AND THAT WAS JUST A TASTE OF MORE VOTERS. WE TALKED TO FROM KENOSHA. YOU WILL HEAR FROM ALL OF THEM. BUT THE LINE IS THEY MORE THAN ANYBODY WANT TO HEAR A MESSAGE OF NATIONAL UNITY FROM BOTH CANDIDATES AND GOING TO IMPACT THEIR VOTE. >> COMING UP. A LOT MORE FROM MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, AS OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONTINUES. >> WHENEVER WHEREVER NEWS BREAKS. IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT LIVES ARE CHANGED HERE IN LONDON, IN BUFFALO, LIVE ALL DAY. TEXAS, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, REPORTING FROM ROLLING FORK, MISSISSIPPI, THE UKRAINIAN REFUGEES HERE, WARSAW. WE'RE HEADING TO A SMALL COMMUNITY OUTSIDE OF MEXICO CITY, GETTING YOU BEHIND THE STORIES AS THEY HAPPEN. ABC LIVE PRIME, WE'LL TAKE YOU THERE. >> STREAM ABC NEWS LIVE WHEREVER YOU SCREAM YOUR NEWS ONLY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> WITH MUCH AT STAKE SO MUCH ON THE LINE MORE AMERICANS TURN HERE THAN ANY OTHER NEWSCAST. ABC NEWS WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ACROSS ALL OF TELEVISION. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE'S A LOT GOING. WE'RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT IN RIOT GEAR, ARRESTING DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT'S HAPPENING? >> ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, MIGRANT CRISIS. FAST, STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE 17TH. HOLD A BUZZ IT BASED ON FIRST THING IN THE MORNING AMERICA THIS MORNING AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. WHAT? >> THERE IS A PRICE TO BE PAID EVERY TIME A SURVIVOR SHARES THEIR STORY. >> I WILL NOT BE SILENCED. DO YOU FEEL THE CHURCH ACCEPTED ABUSE? I WOULDN'T ACCEPT IT AS SO MUCH. >> PRETENDED IT DIDN'T EXIST. THAT'S YOU READY? KYRA PHILLIPS WITH ABC NEWS. DOES YOUR CHURCH PROTECT SEXUAL PREDATORS AND "IMPACT X NIGHTLINE" SECRETS OF THE TO GO TO CHURCH. NOTHING PRETTY ABOUT HEARING THIS. >> NOW STREAMING ON HULU. PLE ST THEIR DAY HERE? ABC NEWS THIS IS STARTING TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY'S STORIES. START HERE. THAT'S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN'T SEE COMING IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS . >> REPORTING FROM THE SITE OF THE 2024 IOWA CAUCUSES. I'M VICTOR OQUENDO. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE'LL TAKE YOU THERE YOU'RE STREAMING. >> ABC NEWS LIVE. WELCOME BACK, EVERYONE. I'M KYRA PHILLIPS HERE LIVE IN MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. GLAD YOU'RE STARTING WITH US AS WE ARE HERE AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL. AS YOU CAN SEE RIGHT NOW, DON JUNIOR ON, THE STAGE GETTING READY FOR HIS SPEECH TONIGHT DOWN THERE ON THE FLOOR. AND THIS IS JUST BEHIND ME AS I'M LOOKING DOWN. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ALL KEY SPEAKERS GET READY TO TALK. THEY LOOK AT THE TELEPROMPTER. THEY MAKE SURE IT'S AT THE RIGHT SPOT. THEY'RE GETTING DIRECTION ON WHERE CERTAIN PEOPLE WILL BE STANDING. SO AS I LOOK AT THE RUNDOWN OF EVERYBODY HERE THAT IS GOING TO SPEAK TONIGHT, I DON'T SEE HIM ON THE LIST IS HE SPEAKING TONIGHT OR IS HE JUST CHECKING OUT THE STAGE? DO WE KNOW. YEAH, I DON'T THINK THAT HE'S SPEAKING TONIGHT. SO THIS IS INTERESTING. SO I WONDER WHY DON JR. YEAH. IS OUT THERE. OUR JAY O'BRIEN IS ACTUALLY DOWN THERE ON THE FLOOR. JAY I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE ABLE TO GO UP THERE AND SEE IF DON JUNIOR WILL TALK TO YOU, BUT I'M LOOKING AT THE LIST HERE OF SPEAKERS. I DON'T, I DON'T SEE THAT HE IS SPEAKING OR INTRODUCING ANYONE THIS NEW OR IS HE JUST CHECKING THINGS OUT? THIS IS THE MIKE CHECK. SO THEY USUALLY DO THESE THE DAY BEFORE SOMEONE SPEAKS OR SOMETIMES THEY DO THEM THE SAME. BUT THIS IS RELATIVELY PAR FOR THE COURSE. TO YOUR QUESTION OF WHETHER OR NOT WE CAN GET UP THERE. NO, THERE'S BIG PLEXIGLASS BARRICADES HERE, BUT THIS IS RELATIVELY PAR FOR THE COURSE, NOT NECESSARILY AN INDICATION OF ANYTHING CHANGING IN TERMS OF THE RUN OF SHOW HERE, BUT IT IS HIS MIKE CHECK. AND ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE WAITING FOR HERE THIS GROUP OF REPORTERS IS NOT JUST DON JUNIOR, BUT IS THERE ANYONE ELSE NOTABLE THAT COMES FOR THEIR MIKE CHECK IN THE NEAR FUTURE? CERTAINLY. THAT'S WHY WE'RE CAMPED OUT HERE AT THE BASE OF THE STAGE TO SEE WHO. >> WE CAN SEE HERE. OKAY. WELL, AS I'M LOOKING AT THE LIST, YOU'VE NOW CONFIRMED THIS IS JUST ABOUT A MIC CHECK. I KNOW YOU WANT TO CHECK THINGS OUT, BUT NIKKI HALEY SPEAKING ABOUT 816 EASTERN TIME OR NO, MILWAUKEE TIME CENTER, TED CRUZ OF A VAGUE RAMASWAMY SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON, DR. BEN CARSON, GOVERNOR SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS ,SENATOR MARCO RUBIO, OF COURSE, LARA TRUMP TOPPING THINGS OFF AROUND 930 TONIGHT. 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VANCE AS HIS RUNNING MATE, THAT 39 YEAR OLD YOUNG LAWMAKER WOULD BE ONE OF THE YOUNGEST VP'S IN HISTORY. NEARLY FOUR DECADES YOUNGER THAN THE FORMER PRESIDENT. GLAD WITH US, EVERYONE. I'M KYRA PHILLIPS. IT IS DAY TWO AND IT IS UNDERWAY HERE AT THE PFIZER FORUM ARENA IN DOWNTOWN MILWAUKEE. THE OFFICIAL THEME FOR TODAY. MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN. BUT THE FOCUS WILL REALLY ON UNITY WITHIN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. TONIGHT, TRUMP'S FORMER RIVALS ALL GRABBING KEY SPEAKING SLOTS. THAT INCLUDES RON DESANTIS VIVEK RAMASWAMY NIKKI HALEY, WHO, AS YOU KNOW, WENT OUT ON CRITICIZING TRUMP FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. NOW SHE HAS CHANGED BASE ALL HER SUPPORTERS TO VOTE FOR HIM, CONVICTED AS CHARGED ON CORRUPTION ON A MASSIVE SCALE. IT'S THE OTHER STORY THAT WE'RE FOLLOWING YOU. NEW JERSEY DEMOCRATIC SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ GUILTY ON CHARGES THAT CARRY THE POSSIBILITY NOW OF DECADES IN PRISON. SENATOR LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER ASKING HIM TO RESIGN. AND OF COURSE, WE ARE STILL FOLLOWING THE LATEST IN THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST DONALD TRUMP. WE'VE GOT THE LATEST ON THAT INVESTIGATION AND WHERE EXACTLY IT GOES FROM HERE. OKAY, LET'S GET RIGHT TO IT. WE WILL START WITH THE BREAKING NEWS OUT OF NEW YORK CITY. SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ FACING GROWING CHORUS FROM WITHIN HIS OWN PARTY TO RESIGN AFTER BEING FOUND GUILTY IN THE FEDERAL BRIBERY TRIAL AGAINST HIM THIS AFTERNOON. MENENDEZ CONVICTED ON ALL 16 COUNTS, HE FACED AS THE FIRST AMERICAN CONVICTED OF BEING A PUBLIC OFFICIAL WHO ACTED AS AN AGENT OF A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT. BUT HE'S VOWED TO APPEAL. >> TAKE A LISTEN. >> OBVIOUSLY, I'M DEEPLY, DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED BY THE JURY'S DECISION. I HAVE EVERY FAITH THAT THE LAW AND THE FACT IS NOT SUSTAINED AND THAT WE WILL BE SUCCESSFUL . >> I FEEL. LET'S BRING IN OUR PHIL LIPOFF ALSO WITH THIS HOUR, JAY O'BRIEN AND ABC NEWS LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR BRIAN BUCKMIRE. PHIL LET'S GO AHEAD AND START WITH YOU. MENENDEZ HAS FACED CALLS TO RESIGN FOR SOME TIME NOW, EVEN BEFORE THIS VERDICT. HOW WILL THINGS CHANGE NOW THAT THAT GUILTY VERDICT IS OFFICIAL? >> WELL LAST TIME WE SPOKE, JAY DESCRIBED IT AS A LOT OF DEMOCRATS WERE HOLDING THEIR POWDER, AND THAT'S THE CASE. >> A LOT OF WILL WAIT UNTIL THERE IS A GUILTY VERDICT BEFORE THEY CALL FOR ANYTHING. YOU'RE CORRECT. SOME POLITICIANS DID COME OUT AND SAY HE SHOULD RESIGN, BUT NOW THE GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY HAS OFFICIALLY CALLED FOR IT AND SAID IF HE DOESN'T STEP ASIDE. HE SHOULD BE EXPELLED BY THE SENATE. THAT'S A WHOLE STORY THAT JAKE AND TALK ABOUT RARELY EVER HAPPENS. THE JUNIOR SENATOR FROM NEW JERSEY, CORY BOOKER, THERE'S THE GOVERNOR'S STATEMENT. BOOKER, CHUCK SCHUMER, ALL OF THESE FOLKS HAVE COME OUT AND SAID NOW THAT HE IS GUILTY OF USING THE POWER OF HIS OFFICE, TAKING BRIBES TO INTERFERE WITH PROSECUTE PRISONS AND SECURE INVESTMENTS FROM QATARI OFFICIALS, NOT LET ALONE BE AN AGENT OF A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT, WHICH THEY THEY THEY ALLEGED AND NOW CONVICTED OF BEING EGYPT. >> 37 WITNESSES IN ALL CALLED, JUST FIVE CALLED BY BY MENENDEZ . HE DID NOT TESTIFY. THE FBI SEIZED ALMOST HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS IN CASH, 13 GOLD BARS TO, WHICH HE SAID THAT THERE WAS SOME FAMILIAL TRAUMA AFTER LEAVING CUBA AND A LOT OF CUBAN-AMERICAN FAMILIES DO THAT. IT JUST DIDN'T HOLD WATER. THIS JURY AND THIS IS THIS COMES SEVEN YEARS AFTER. HIS LAST TRIAL, THERE WAS A MISTRIAL IN THE FIRST TIME THE FEDS WENT AFTER HIM FOR BRIBERY CHARGES. THAT WAS SEVEN YEARS AGO. THERE WAS A MISTRIAL THERE. HERE THEY HAVE A CONVICTION ON ALL 16 COUNTS. >> HE COULD SPEND UP TO 36 YEARS IN PRISON. SO COULD. LET'S TALK ABOUT THE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS. SENATOR MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER ALREADY CALLING FOR HIM TO RESIGN. WE HAVE FELLOW NEW JERSEY SENATOR CORY BOOKER, CORY BOOKER AS WELL, CALLING ON HIM TO RESIGN. AND I MEAN, ALREADY SHAKING UP THE TALK UP ON CAPITOL HILL, WHICH IS USUALLY WHERE YOU ARE. BUT YOU'RE DOWN ON THE FLOOR OF THE RNC. YOU'RE STILL GETTING WORD, THOUGH, FROM BACK HOME RIGHT WHERE WE ALL LIVE AND COVER OUR NATION'S CAPITAL THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS GOING TO SHAKE UP THE SENATE . YEAH. AND JUST TO GIVE YOU A SENSE OF WHY I'M STANDING HERE, WE'RE WAITING ON MIKE CHECKS OF CERTAIN NOTABLES HERE RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE STAGE OF THE RNC. BACK TO YOUR QUESTION ON SENATOR MENENDEZ. SO WHAT GOVERNOR PHIL MURPHY'S STATEMENT IS THE MOST INSTRUCTIVE HERE BECAUSE MURPHY HAS CALLED ON MENENDEZ TO RESIGN BEFORE. BUT ALSO WHAT HE SAID IS IF MENENDEZ IN HIS HEELS AND REFUSES TO RESIGN NOW IN THE WAKE OF THIS CONVICTION, PHIL MURPHY WILL CALL ON THE SENATE TO TO EXPEL MENENDEZ. AND THAT WOULD BE UNPRECEDENTED MODERN AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY FOR THE SENATE TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT. WE'VE SEEN THAT IN THE HOUSE PLAY OUT. OF COURSE, GEORGE SANTOS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THAT. BUT IN THE SENATE, THEY DO NOT TEND TO VOTE TO EXPEL THEIR MEMBERS. ACCORDING TO THE SENATE. I BELIEVE IT'S BEEN ONLY 15 IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE SENATE. AND 14 OF THOSE SENATORS EXPELLED. ARE THOSE EXPULSIONS RELATED TO THE CIVIL WAR? WHEN SENATORS FACE ANY KIND OF EXPULSION EFFORT, THEY TEND TO RESIGN BEFORE THEY ARE VOTED TO BE EXPELLED. THE LAST EXAMPLE OF THAT IN 1995. POINT BEING, IF MENENDEZ DOES DIG HIS HEELS AND THIS IS AN IF AND THEN A THEN BUT IF MENENDEZ DOES DIG IN HIS HEELS, IT WOULD LEAD TO AN UNPRECEDENTED PERIOD OF SENATE POLITICAL OR RELATIVELY UNPRECEDENTED PERIOD OF SENATE POLITICAL HISTORY, WHERE THERE WOULD BE THIS POTENTIALLY ON THE PARTS OF DEMOCRATS TO KICK HIM OUT. SO LOOKING AHEAD NOW, MENENDEZ IS SET TO BE SENTENCED IN OCTOBER. BRIAN, WHAT CAN WE EXPECT FROM THAT HEARING AND ON WHAT GROUNDS DO YOU THINK HE MIGHT APPEAL? >> LOOK, YOU'RE IN A HEARING. YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM BOTH SIDES MAKING THE PLEA. MENENDEZ SHOULD EITHER GET MORE JAIL TIME OR LESS FROM THE GOVERNMENT. THEY'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING TO MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF HIM TO CREATE A SENSE OF DETERRENCE SO THAT ANY SENATOR OR ANY PERSON IN THE HOUSE UNDERSTAND THAT IF YOU ARE CONVICTED OF BRIBERY OR EVEN BEING AN AGENT OF A FOREIGN NATION, THAT THERE'S SERIOUS PENALTY THAT COMES WITH IT TO THE TUNE OF POTENTIALLY IN JAIL. YOU SAID THAT HE'S ALREADY FACING UP TO 36 YEARS, BUT THE DEFENSE WILL TRY TO MAKE THE OPPOSITE ARGUMENT, SAYING THAT THERE ARE MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES AND TRYING TO DECREASE THAT SENTENCING RANGE BECAUSE THERE WILL BE A RANGE BASED ON HIS BACKGROUND, HIS LACK OR OR SENSE OF CRIMINAL RECORD, AS WELL AS HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE COMMUNITY. AND A BIG PART OF IT AS WELL IS WHETHER OR NOT HE ADMITS GUILT. SO FAR HE HAS NOT. AND THAT COULD BE USED AGAINST HIM IN TERMS PUNISHMENT, BUT AN APPEAL. I DON'T SEE ANY APPEAL ISSUE, BUT OF COURSE, I DON'T HAVE HIS CASE IN FRONT OF ME. BUT I THINK HE'S GOING TO ON THE EVIDENCE THAT CAME IN, WHAT THE JUDGE ALLOWED TO COME IN THAT HE MIGHT OF MADE OBJECTIONS TO WHEN THE JUDGE RULED AGAINST HIM OR EVEN WHAT PROSECUTOR DID OR HOW HE PROSECUTED THIS CASE. THOSE ARE OFTEN THE BIGGEST ARGUMENTS OR GENRES OF ARGUMENTS THAT A DEFENDANT MAKE UPON APPEAL AND SEE WHERE IT GOES FROM THERE. BUT I THINK THE MAJOR HURDLE HERE IS THAT THE MOUNTAIN OF EVIDENCE AGAINST SENATOR MENENDEZ COULD MAKE IT THAT ANY SMALL ISSUE THAT HE MIGHT WIN ON APPEAL WILL NOT OVERCOME THE STANDARD WHAT'S CALLED HARMLESS ERROR, THAT IT'S A VERY SMALL ISSUE SHOULD HAVE BEEN RESOLVED. THAT COULD BE A PROBLEM. BUT THE LARGE PART OF THE EVIDENCE PROVES THAT HE'S GUILTY. IT'S SOMETIMES CONSIDERED HARMLESS. AND A JUDGE MAY SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, YOU'RE STILL GUILTY REGARDLESS OF THE SMALL ISSUE. I'M TO PUSH FORWARD WITH SENTENCING AND THE CONVICTION. ALL RIGHT, BRIAN, JAY, PHIL THANKS, GUYS. APPRECIATE ESPECIALLY YOU. JAY, YOU'RE DOING DOUBLE DUTY FOR THE RNC. AND BREAKING NEWS, BRIAN, FILL ,YOU ALWAYS JUMP IN ON THE FLY. THANKS, GUYS, SO MUCH. OUR COVERAGE OF THE 2024 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION CONTINUES AS WE NOW TALK WITH EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL PRODUCER JONATHAN. HE'S HERE IN MILWAUKEE AS WELL. ONE OF THE THINGS WE CAN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT, OF COURSE, IS THE LATEST PICK FOR BE FOR VP. WE NOW ACTUALLY HAVE AN OFFICIAL TICKET. IT IS DONALD J. AND J.D. VANCE. AND TRUMP APPARENTLY MADE A DRAMATIC AND EMOTIONAL APPEARANCE AT THE CONVENTION LAST NIGHT. HOW DO YOU THINK THAT WENT OVER? WHAT DO YOU THINK IS PLAYING INTO THAT? DO YOU THINK IT'S THE FACT THAT HE CAME TO THE STAGE REALLY PUBLICLY FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE SOMEONE TRIED TO TAKE HIS LIFE? >> YEAH, KYRA, GREAT TO BE WITH YOU. LISTEN, I THINK YOU HIT IT RIGHT ON THE HEAD. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN OUT IN PUBLIC SINCE THE EVENTS OF SATURDAY PLAYED OUT. AND REALLY, KYRA, THERE WAS A MOMENT THAT STRUCK ME, BESIDES LOOKING AT THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S FACE AND BODY, LOOKING AT THE WAY HE INTERACTED WITH HIS ADULT SON, SEEING THAT MOMENT HE HAD WITH DONALD TRUMP JUNIOR, AS THEY SHOOK HANDS. OBVIOUSLY, THEY HAD BEEN IN CONTACT FOR MUCH OF THE LAST 24 HOURS AS HE, OF COURSE, WAS PUSHING HIS FATHER TO PICK J.D. VANCE, JOIN HIM ON THE TICKET. BUT REALLY, THE EMOTION. I THINK SO SAW IN DONALD TRUMP'S FACE LAST NIGHT. I THINK IT HAS OVERWHELMING FOR HIM. I THINK EVEN SEEING HIM BACKSTAGE, WHICH WAS A RARE MOMENT ACTUALLY, OF DONALD TRUMP JUST SORT OF WAITING TO BE ANNOUNCED TO COME IN TO THE ARENA. I THINK ALL OF IT JUST CAME ON TO THIS FORMER PRESIDENT CAME ON TO IT, AS WE ANY HUMAN WOULD, FRANKLY, AFTER NEARLY BEATING DEATH AND DONALD TRUMP ABOUT THAT. TO O COLLEAGUE JONATHAN KARL, WHERE HE SAID, YOU KNOW, JUST SLIGHT TURN OF HIS HEAD ON SATURDAY, JUST INCHES CLEARLY SAVED HIS LIFE HERE. JUST AN UNBELIEVABLE MOMENT LAST NIGHT. WHY DO YOU THINK HE PICKED J.D. VANCE OVER MARCO RUBIO AND THE OTHER FOLKS THAT WERE ON THE SHORT LIST? WELL, LISTEN, UP UNTIL THE LAST FEW HOURS YESTERDAY HERE, I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE WERE ALL REPORTING IN REAL TIME ON THE AIR. YOU IT WAS REALLY A NAIL BITER. I MEAN, J.D. VANCE ONLY GOT CALL 20 MINUTES BEFORE IT CAME ANNOUNCED TO THE PUBLIC AND DONALD TRUMP SOCIAL MEDIA. BUT MY SENSE ON IT IS THAT DONALD TRUMP NIGHT BEFORE THE SATURDAY EVENT, THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ACTUALLY BROUGHT ALL THREE MEN DOWN TO MAR A LAGO, HAD ONE ON ONE CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM. AND J.D. VANCE, AT THE END OF THE DAY, OUT ALL THREE IDEOLOGICALLY IS MUCH CLOSEST TO DONALD, SOMEONE THAT MANY PEOPLE AROUND DONALD TRUMP, OF COURSE, LED BY HIS SON TRUMP JUNIOR, WERE REALLY PUSHING FOR. AND I THINK A OF THOSE CONVERSATIONS WERE PLAYING OUT IN REAL TIME. I ALSO LISTEN, WE KNOW ONE THING ABOUT DONALD TRUMP, RIGHT? IT'S WHO'S DEFENDING THE MOST. AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE MEDIA APPEARANCES THAT J.D. VANCE HAS DONE OVER THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS, MANY OF WHICH WHILE DONALD TRUMP WAS ON CRIMINAL TRIAL IN MANHATTAN FOR THAT CASE, J.D. VANCE, YOU GOT TO IMAGINE, WAS CLEARLY THE STRONGEST ANY OF THOSE DEFENDERS. AND I THINK THAT PLAYED A BIG ROLE. ALL RIGHT. AND JUST AS WE WERE TALKING, JOHN, I WANT TO TAKE IT BACK TO THE FLOOR, BECAUSE J.D. VANCE IS STEPPED UP TO THE MIC. DID DO. IT'S INTERESTING, JAY WAS MENTIONING TO US, WE WERE LOOKING AT THE LIST OF WHO WILL SPEAKING TONIGHT, BUT THEY'VE ALREADY DONE THEIR MIKE CHECKS. THEY'RE ALREADY GETTING READY. AND SO NOW THE KEY SPEAKERS COMING UP TOWARDS THE END OF THE WEEK ARE GETTING A CHANCE TO UP LOOK AHEAD, SEE WHERE THE TELEPROMPTER IS, GET A MIC CHECK, GET, YOU KNOW, BRIEFED BY THE DIRECTORS ON EXACTLY WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. SO LIVE PICTURES RIGHT NOW FROM THE FLOOR OF THE CONVENTION HERE IN MILWAUKEE. J.D. VANCE, FORMER PRESIDENT'S PICK FOR VICE PRESIDENT, HIS BEST THERE RIGHT BY HIS SIDE, DON JR, WHO REALLY PUSHING FOR J.D. VANCE FOR A LONG TIME, TELLING HIS FATHER THAT IT'S THIS YOUNG OHIO SENATOR. ARE YOU ABLE GET CLOSE, JAY, YOU'RE GOING TO GO FOR A QUESTION. WHAT YOU THINK? >> WELL, IT'S SO WE'VE GOT BARRICADES BETWEEN US AND THEM ON THE STAGE. OKAY. WE'RE QUITE A FAR DISTANCE AWAY. AND THERE'S A THRONG OF REPORTERS HERE, BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT. SO WE WERE WAITING HERE FOR SENATOR VANCE BECAUSE WE THOUGHT PERHAPS THIS WOULD BE THE TIME THAT HE WOULD DO HIS MIKE CHECK. AND CERTAINLY IT IS OBVIOUSLY, HE IS NOT SPEAKING TONIGHT AS. YOU NOTED THERE IS A DIFFERENT SCHEDULE. HE'S SPEAKING TOMORROW NIGHT. BUT THE POINT BEING IS, THIS IS IT STILL COMES AS THERE ARE LINGERING QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS VICE PRESIDENTIAL PICK. FIRSTLY, IS J.D. VANCE TO BE ABLE AND FORGIVE ME FOR NOT LOOKING AT YOU. >> HERE WE GO. WE'RE SHOUTING A FEW QUESTIONS THAT YOU AND I DON'T THINK HE'S GOING TO TAKE THE BAIT AND ANSWER NOW. WELL, I THINK HE'S IGNORING I THINK HE'S GOING TO WALK. >> YEAH. SO. POINT BEING IS THIS IT COMES AS THERE ARE SOME LINGERING QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT J.D. VANCE IS GOING TO BE THE PICK WHO CAN REACH OUT TO AS YOU'VE JOHN AND KATHERINE ET CETERA REPORT. AND LET'S GET A LITTLE BIT OUT OF THE WAY HERE. YOU'VE HEARD JOHN AND KATHERINE ET CETERA REPORT THAT, RIGHT? THERE'S ONE THAT IT'S UNCLEAR IF J.D. IS THE CANDIDATE WHO'S ABLE TO REACH OUT TO SOME OF THOSE MORE MODERATE VOTERS, THOSE HALEY TYPE VOTERS, FOR INSTANCE. NIKKI HALEY ALSO EXPECTED TO SPEAK TONIGHT. AND CAN J.D. VANCE DO WHAT DONALD TRUMP HAS NOT DONE SO FAR, WHICH IS TALK TO THOSE MODERATE REPUBLICANS, THOSE FISCAL CONSERVATIVES, FOR INSTANCE, WITH HIS BUSINESS BACKGROUND, ETC., WHO MIGHT NOT LIKE UNPREDICTABILITY OF DONALD TRUMP, WHO ARE MORE ATTRACTED TO A CANDIDATE LIKE A NIKKI HALEY. CAN VANCE DO THAT BETTER THAN TRUMP CAN, OR IS HE CUT VERY MUCH IN DONALD TRUMP'S MOLD? I CAN TELL YOU I TALKED TO MIKE DEWINE, GOVERNOR EVENTS HIS HOME OF OHIO YESTERDAY RIGHT AFTER THE VANCE PICK WAS ANNOUNCED. HE FIRST SAID HE THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD PICK. HE CONGRATULATED SENATOR VANCE AND THEN HE ON TO SAY, KYRA, THAT HE SEES VANCE VERY MUCH CUT FROM THE SAME CLOTH AS DONALD TRUMP, HAVE USED THEM AS BEING VERY PEOPLE. AND SO I BET I ASKED THE QUESTION OF HIM, DOES THAT BEG THE QUESTION THEN, IS VANCE ABLE TO REACH OUT TO THOSE MODERATES? AND HE DIDN'T NECESSARILY ANSWER. ALL HE SAID IS THAT HE BELIEVES THAT VANCE AND TRUMP ARE VERY SIMILAR. BUT THAT'S THE QUESTION HANGING OVER THIS PICK IS WHAT DOES THIS CAMPAIGN LOOK LIKE? >> DOES IT LOOK LIKE THE EXACT SAME CAMPAIGN IT WAS PRIOR TO THIS VANCE PICK, AT LEAST IN TERMS OF APPEAL TO MODERATES OR IN ADDITION TO THE EVENTS ON SATURDAY AND TRUMP'S EXPRESSED DESIRE FOR UNITY IN LIGHT OF THOSE EVENTS PLUS THIS PICK, DOES IT TRY TO UNIFY THE PARTY? IN HIS INTRO. ALL RIGHT, JAY, APPRECIATE IT SO MUCH. I KNOW MARYALICE PARKS. OUR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT, IS ALSO WITH. >> WHERE'S YOUR LOCATION? MARYALICE. YEAH, I'M BASICALLY STANDING ABOVE JAKE HERE. I CAN SEE CHAIR OF THE CORNER MY EYE AND ALSO I CAN SEE THE THE THE RUNNINGMATE NOW, JUST LEAVING THE STAGE WAS INTERESTING TO ME WHEN HE TOOK THE STAGE. THE HALL IS STILL PRETTY EMPTY. DELEGATES AREN'T EXPECTED TO BE HERE. CARE FOR A FEW HOURS. BUT STILL WHEN HE TOOK THE STAGE THOSE WHO WERE HERE, OTHER VOLUNTEERS REPUBLICANS THAT ARE IN THE ROOM, OF COURSE, CHEERING FOR HIM. AND THEN THIS BIG MOMENT, HIM GLAD HANDING THERE WITH DON JR LIKE YOU'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT WITH JOHN JAKE, THE TWO OF THEM CLEARLY CLOSED AND WE KNOW THAT HE WAS REALLY ADVOCATING FOR THE OHIO SENATOR TO BE THEIR RUNNING MATE. SO, YOU KNOW, ALL THESE HERE WERE GATHERED DEFINITELY EXCITED TO CATCH A GLIMPSE OF HE'S A BIG BUZZ. OBVIOUSLY, IT'S THE HEADLINE SO FAR. YOU KNOW, THAT, OF COURSE, FOR A PRESIDENT'S APPEARANCE. BUT JUST TO ADD A LITTLE BIT TO WHAT YOU WERE TALKING WITH JAY ABOUT, SORT OF THAT, THE ANXIETY, I WOULD SAY, AMONG SOME OTHER REPUBLICANS, THE PICK I MEAN, OVERALL, WE'VE HEARD NOTHING BUT SUPPORT AND EXCITEMENT FROM, PEOPLE IN THE ROOM. BUT IF THERE IS AN ANXIETY, I AGREE IT'S WHETHER OR NOT IS A PICK THAT IS TOO CONFIDENT, SORT OF OVERCONFIDENT. I MEAN, NORMALLY, TRADITIONALLY YOU HAVE A VICE PICK THAT IS THAT IS ONE THAT IS SEEN AS STRATEGIC TO TRY TO EXPAND THE BASE OR TO REACH OUT TO A DIFFERENT DEMOGRAPHIC, TO REACH TO A DIFFERENT STATE. I MEAN, OHIO IS A RELIABLY RED STATE, ONE THAT TRUMP IS SURE GOING TO WIN AND TO THE POINT JAY WAS MAKING, I MEAN, WE ARE LOOKING AT A SENATOR WHO HAS BEEN FULL SUPPORTER OF THE MAGA MOVEMENT SINCE HE GOT THERE INTO THE SENATE. HE IS FIRST THROUGH AND THROUGH. AND SO TO ME, IT REALLY PROJECTS A SENSE OF CONFIDENCE FROM THE FORMER PRESIDENT GOING INTO THIS NOVEMBER ELECTION. HE DIDN'T FEEL THE NEED OR THERE ARE THOSE WHO ARE PUSHING TO TRY TO PICK SOMEONE THAT WOULD IN SOME WAY BROADEN HIS APPEAL OR EXPLAIN EXPAND APPEAL TO A TO A NEW SWATH OF VOTERS. THAT ARGUMENT DIDN'T WIN OUT. THIS IS THIS IS A CONFIDENT PICK THAT'S REALLY REINFORCING THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, CAROL . >> ASMA, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT NIKKI HALEY AS I JUST LOOK AT THIS? RIGHT. OF COURSE, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT NIKKI HALEY, BUT MARCO RUBIO AS WELL. YOU KNOW, THOSE IN PARTICULAR HAVE BEEN VERY CRITICAL OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT. AND NOW THERE'S TALK. CAN YOU HEAR ME OKAY, ASMA? OKAY, GOOD. WE GOT YOU. YOU KNOW, THERE'S TALK OF THESE TWO INDIVIDUALS, YOU KNOW, PLAYING A PART IN HIS CABINET IF INDEED HE WINS AGAIN. PUT INTO PERSPECTIVE JUST WHY YOU THINK CRITICS LIKE THIS DECIDED TO FLIP AND NOW WILL BE ON STAGE SPEAKING TONIGHT. WELL TWO REASONS. ONE, I WOULD SAY REALLY, I DO THINK THAT THE SHOOTING, THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OVER THE WEEKEND OF DONALD TRUMP DID REALLY SOLIDIFY SUPPORT BEHIND HIM WITHIN THE BASE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. CERTAINLY, THOSE ARE THE REPORTS WE'RE HEARING ABOUT NIKKI HALEY'S INVITATION TO COME AND SPEAK HERE AT THE CONVENTION, MILWAUKEE. BUT SECONDLY, I WOULD SAY IN MANY WAYS, I DON'T FIND IT PARTICULARLY THOSE OF US WHO COVERED THE ELECTION IN 2016. REMEMBER THERE WAS A LOT OF REPUBLICAN INTRAPARTY DEBATES. AT THE END OF THE DAY MUCH OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ALIGNED BEHIND DONALD TRUMP. AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SEEING THAT IS THE TONE OF THIS CONVENTION SO FAR. IT IS A MESSAGE OF UNITY AND I WILL SAY, AS SOMEONE WHO COVERS THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE DEMOCRATS OFTEN, IT IS A STARK CONTRAST TO THE DEBATE WE'RE SEEING CURRENTLY ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE. THERE'S A LOT OF INTRA PARTY DEBATE ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE. THIS MOOD, THE VIBES HERE, VERY DIFFERENT. THERE IS A VISION OF UNITY AND THERE'S A DESIRE TO PROJECT PARTY UNITY. ALSO, MARYALICE, ASMA THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH. >> I APPRECIATE IT. WHY WE'RE TALKING SO MUCH ABOUT THE NATIONAL CONVENTION AND FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND. EVERYTHING THAT HAS HAPPENED OVER THE PAST WEEK. LET'S NOT FORGET THERE IS PRESIDENT HE'S ALSO ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL AND TODAY HE IS IN NEVADA AFTER TEMPORARILY PAUSING EVENTS DUE TO THAT ATTEMPT ON TRUMP'S LIFE. AND THIS COMES AS THE PRESIDENT IS NOW DONORS. IT WAS A MISTAKE TO SAY IT'S TIME TO TRUMP IN A BULL'S EYE. SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT IS IN LAS VEGAS WITH THE PRESIDENT, JOINS ME NOW MORE AND SLATE I'M GLAD WE HAVE YOU BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN SO ON THE RNC. WE'VE BEEN SO FOCUSED ON THE FORMER PRESIDENT AND WHAT HAPPENED THE WEEKEND. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS ACTUALLY GOTTEN BACK THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL SINCE THEN. AND YOU EVEN SAY THAT HE WOULD TAKE DOWN ALL ATTACK ADS FOR THE TIME BEING. HOW IS BIDEN DOING NOW? WHAT IS HE HOPING TO ACCOMPLISH AS HE'S BACK ON THE TRAIL? HE'S IN NEVADA. HE IS STILL ONCE AGAIN, MORE THAN LIKELY GOING TO BE QUESTIONED ABOUT HIS MENTAL ACUITY AND HIS AGE AND HIS ABILITY TO LEAD. WE CAN'T FORGET THAT. THAT WAS THE HEADLINE BEFORE THE RNC AND BEFORE THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. YEAH, TERRIBLE. AFTER THE WEEKEND EVENTS THAT PAUSE IN THE CAMPAIGN IS VERY MUCH OVER. THE PRESIDENT IS GOING TO TAKE THE STAGE ANY MOMENT NOW HERE AT THE ACP AND IT'S PART OF HIS OUTREACH TO BLACK VOTERS. THIS IS A CRITICAL CONSTITUENCY THAT THE PRESIDENT NEEDS TO WIN REELECTION. AND WHAT THIS SHOWS IS THAT THE CAMPAIGN VERY MUCH PLOWING AHEAD, VISITING THIS CRITICAL BATTLEGROUND STATE. AND I'M TOLD THAT THE PRESIDENT IS NOT ONLY GOING TO DRIVE HOME THAT CONTRAST HIM VERSUS DONALD TRUMP. HE'S ALSO GOING TO HIGHLIGHT DONALD TRUMP'S EXTREME VISIONS, BUT HE'S ALSO GOING TO TAKE THINGS BACK TO CORE ISSUES LIKE HOUSING. TODAY, I HEAR THE PRESIDENT IS CALLING ON CONGRESS PASS LEGISLATION THAT WOULD CAP RENT INCREASES PER YEAR, CAP THEM AT 5%. HE'S CALLING ON CONGRESS TO DO THAT. SO VERY MUCH THIS CAMPAIGN IS TRYING TO RESET THE CONVERSATION HERE. BUT HERE I CAN TELL YOU, I'VE BEEN SPEAKING TO EVENTS AND KEY MEMBERS HERE AT THIS AND THEY'VE BEEN TELLING ME THEY'RE PRETTY SPLIT ON PRESIDENT BIDEN. SOME TELL ME THEY ARE FULLY BEHIND THE PRESIDENT NO MATTER WHAT. BUT OTHERS TOLD THAT THEY WOULD PREFER VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS AT THE TOP THE TICKET. THESE ARE SERIOUS DEMOCRATS AND BIDEN SUPPORTERS. PRETTY NOTABLE THAT SOME OF THEM WOULD PREFER THE VICE PRESIDENT. SO THIS IS ALL HAPPENING AFTER THE ANNOUNCEMENT TO SENATOR J.D. VANCE AS TRUMP'S RUNNING MATE. HOW DOES KNOWING FULL TICKET NOW CHANGE HOW THE PRESIDENT OR DOES IT NOT CHANGE IN ANY WAY? WELL, KYRA, I THINK IT'S ACTUALLY GIVING THE CAMPAIGN SUBDUED FEEL AND ABILITY FOR THEM TO SHIFT THE CONVERSATION BACK TO TRUMP'S POLICIES. SO THE CAMPAIGN YOU ALREADY SEE THEM GOING AFTER J.D. VANCE, CALLING HIM THIS CLONE EXTENSION OF DONALD TRUMP. AND THEY'RE REALLY ZEROING IN ON HIS. THEY'RE GOING AFTER HIS PREVIOUS COMMENTS SAYING HE WOULD SUPPORT A NATIONWIDE ABORTION BAN AND EVEN CRITICIZE EXCEPTIONS TO AND . THEY'RE ALSO CALLING HIM OUT FOR HIS COMMENTS THAT HE WOULD NOT HAVE IMMEDIATELY CERTIFIED THE ELECTION IF HE WERE VICE PRESIDENT ON JANUARY 6. SO, VERY MUCH THIS IS AN ABILITY FOR THEM TO BRING THE CONVERSATION BACK, TRUMP AND HIS POLICIES. IT DOESN'T CHANGE THE CORE MESSAGING, BUT IT DOES GIVE THEM SOME NEW FUEL TO ATTACK. SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT SELINA WANG THERE IN LAS VEGAS US. >> SELINA, THANK YOU. WELL, COMING UP, I MET HER ON PLANE ACTUALLY COMING TO MILWAUKEE. CALIFORNIA DELEGATE. BUT NILA SINGH JOINS ME NEXT. DOCTOR. CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE AND IN THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE. WHAT DOES SHE THINK OF THE ENERGY AMONG DELEGATES HERE? >> SHE'LL TELL US NEXT. >> WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS. WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, NATION AT WAR AFTER THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. >> REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS, ABC NEWS LIVE IS RIGHT THERE EVERYWHERE FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE NEED FOR UKRAINE. REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY IN ROLLING FORTH THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS LITTLE TOWN FROM THE MOST DEVASTATING DISASTER IN, HAWAII. FROM CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN ICELAND. LET'S GO TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT IN MEXICO CITY, WHEREVER THE STORY IS ON THE FRONT FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL, OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP IN BEIRUT, FROM THE FBI REPORTING FROM THE NURSES ON THE PICKET LINE HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET IN LONDON STREAMING LIVE TO YOU FOREVER. 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MURROW A IT A NEWS WORTH LISTENING TO YOU STAR HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW, THAT'S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN'T COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. >> GLAD WITH US AS WE CONTINUE OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE, DAY TWO OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. >> WELL, I MET HER ON MY FLIGHT TO MILWAUKEE, HEADED HERE TO THE RNC, AND I FOUND OUT SHE'S A DELEGATE FROM CALIFORNIA, WAS A FORMER CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER, THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DURING THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION . AND OH, YEAH, SHE ALSO BROUGHT HER SON WITH HER, OF COURSE, TO TAKE PART IN ALL THE FESTIVITIES AND GET A FIRSTHAND LOOK AT WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A DELEGATE. DR. VANILLA HELSING JOINING ME NOW ON SET. AND OF COURSE, GREAT TO SEE YOU AGAIN, BY THE WAY. FANTASTIC TO BE HERE. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING KNOW. IT'S A PLEASURE. AND, YOU KNOW, JUST TO GIVE A LITTLE MORE CONTEXT, I MEAN, WHEN YOU AND I WERE TALKING, YOU SAID, YEAH, I'M A DELEGATE FROM CALIFORNIA, BUT THEN YOU STARTED GOING DOWN THE LIST OF ALL THE AMAZING THINGS THAT YOU HAVE DONE IN YOUR LIFE. AND THEN YOU DID BRING THAT TO THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION LAST TIME OR WHEN HE WAS IN OFFICE. JUST FOR A MOMENT, BEFORE WE GET INTO THE ENERGY AMONG ALL THE DELEGATES RIGHT NOW, WHEN YOU WERE IN THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU WERE MOST PROUD OF? FROM A MEDICAL BEING A DOCTOR AND WORKING WITH THE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES. BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT WHEN IT CAME TO HEALTH CARE, MEDICINE, MAYBE EVEN THE PANDEMIC WHILE YOU WERE THERE? >> WELL, THAT'S QUITE A QUESTION. AND HONESTLY, IT WAS AN HONOR AND I WAS REALLY HUMBLED TO BE ABLE TO GO TO THE GOVERNMENT AND BRING WHAT I THINK WAS YEARS OF EXPERIENCE, ANESTHESIOLOGY AND PAIN MANAGEMENT, WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE A TIME OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS OF THE OPIOID. >> THAT WAS YOUR SPECIALTY, RIGHT? THE OPIOID CRISIS. AND IF I LOOK BACK, I MEAN, THERE WERE SO MANY THINGS, BUT REALLY IT WAS THE CARA LEGISLATION. THE TASK FORCE THAT WAS TASKED TO HHS WITH THE DOD AND THE VA TO PUT OUT A REPORT. AND I HAD AN INCREDIBLE GROUP OF FOLKS ON OUR TASK FORCE WHO WERE OF ALL BACKGROUNDS AND EXPERTISE WITH DIFFERING POLITICAL VIEWS, I PRESUME. BUT THEY WERE REALLY BROUGHT ON FOR THEIR EXPERTISE. AND WE PRODUCED WHAT I BELIEVE WAS A VERY NUANCED APPROACH TO THE OPIOID CRISIS, EMPHASIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF INNOVATION AND HOW TO HELP PEOPLE WITH PAIN. OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE AFFECTS PEOPLE'S LIVES, THEIR ABILITY TO WORK, ABILITY TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR KIDS. AND IT'S IT'S ABOUT, YOU KNOW, 30 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES, MAYBE 50 MILLION WHO ARE AFFLICTED BY IT. SO IT WAS REALLY A HUGE, HEARTFELT SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOR. AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I'M VERY PROUD OF. WELL, NOW YOU HERE AGAIN RIGHT IN THE MIX. YOU'RE A DELEGATE. WHAT WAS IT TO BE DOWN THERE ON THE FLOOR WITH ALL THE OTHER DELEGATES FROM ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE YOU AND I WE TEXTED AFTER WE MET AND THEN THAT ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT TO HAPPEN HAPPENED ON TRUMP AND ALL YOU SAID, I'M PRAYING FOR FOUR FOR DONALD TRUMP. HOW DID THAT CHANGE THINGS AND TRANSLATE INTO THE ENERGY WHEN YOU WERE DOWN ON THE FLOOR TALKING TO DELEGATES FROM ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY? >> RIGHT. AND, YOU KNOW, WE WERE EXCITED . I WAS SO EXCITED TO BRING MY SON AND MY DAUGHTERS HERE TO AND THEY'RE LIKE HIGH SCHOOL AND SOON TO BE A COLLEGE KID. AND I WANTED THEM TO FEEL WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE PART OF THE POLITICAL PROCESS AND THAT THE PEOPLE HAVE TO BE INVOLVED. AND THEN SUDDENLY IT'S ALL TURNED ON ITS HEAD AND IT'S VERY REAL AND SURREAL, I THINK. I THINK IT CHANGED THE EXUBERANCE, REALIZED THAT THERE'S SO MUCH STAKE AND PEOPLE FORGET THAT WE HAVE THE HONOR REALLY TO CONSIDER POLICIES. AND WHO DO WE TO SUPPORT. AND WE FORGET THAT EVEN WHEN THERE'S DIFFERENCES. SO I THINK THIS IS LIKE A REALITY CHECK. I DID FEEL ONCE I GOT TO THE DELEGATE SECTION, THE EXCITEMENT THAT PEOPLE HAD, THE WILLINGNESS, THE DESIRE TO BE RESILIENT. >> I THINK FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP IS REALLY LIKE PUT THAT TO THE FOREFRONT. THAT THIS WILL NOT STOP US TO MOVE FORWARD. >> AND I THINK THAT'S AN IMPORTANT LESSON FOR ALL OF US AMERICANS NOT TO BE HELD BACK TO KEEP FIGHTING FOR THE IMPORTANT THINGS IN LIFE FOR EACH OTHER, FOR OUR COMMUNITY, FOR OUR KIDS, FOR OUR FUTURE. BUT WE HAVE TO DO IT, OF COURSE, WITH DIALOG AND UNDERSTANDING AND EVEN ABILITY, MODIFY OUR THOUGHTS AND WHAT WE BELIEVE. YOU KNOW, WE'RE JUST A HYBRID OF OUR EXPERIENCES. SO THAT'S WHAT I CAME OUT WITH AND THAT'S WHAT EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT. >> NATIONAL UNITY IF INDEED TRUMP DOES TAKE THAT SEAT IN THE WHITE HOUSE ONCE AGAIN, DO YOU WANT TO PLAY A PART IN THE ADMINISTRATION ONCE AGAIN WITH YOUR BACKGROUND AND YOUR EXPERIENCE. LOOK, YOU RAN FOR CONGRESS, I KNOW, IN CALIFORNIA IT DID. HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THAT? WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A PART OF THE ADMINISTRATION AGAIN? YOU KNOW, I WOULD BE HONORED IF I WAS TAPPED TO COME BACK AND CONTRIBUTE. >> I DO FEEL, ESPECIALLY THIS TIME AROUND, I THINK EACH TIME YOU BRING MORE EXPERIENCE, I WENT RIGHT BACK INTO THE CLINICAL REALM. MY FEET ARE ON THE GROUND. YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T FORGET WHO YOU ARE AND WHERE YOU COME FROM. AND I THINK THAT BRINGS A REALISM TO THE GOVERNMENT. I THINK THAT'S THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT WITH FOLKS WHO ARE THERE AND WHO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY LEAD AND SET THE AGENDA. SO ABSOLUTELY. WELL, I HAVE YOU SINCE YOU'RE A DOCTOR AND THEN I PROMISE WE'LL GO TO BREAK, FOLKS. BUT I I'VE GOT TO ASK YOU THIS AGAIN. I DID ASK YOU AS A DOCTOR, AND YOUR SPECIALIZATION IS PAIN MANAGEMENT, WHICH IS LEAD LED INTO SO MANY OTHER PARTS OF YOUR RESEARCH AT STANFORD ETC.. BUT I ASKED YOU ABOUT PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN AND HIS HEALTH AND WHAT YOU SEE AND WHAT YOU ARE PAYING ATTENTION TO. YOU KNOW, THERE WAS THE TALK OF THIS PARKINSON'S EXPERT VISITING THE WHITE HOUSE. WE'VE TALKED ABOUT HIS MENTAL ACUITY. WHAT HAVE YOU NOTICED AND WHAT CONCERNS YOU? AND CLEARLY YOU'RE NOT HIS DOCTOR, BUT YOU ARE PAYING ATTENTION AND YOU HAD SOME INTERESTING THOUGHTS. YOU SHARED WITH ME. >> YEAH, YOU KNOW, I FIRST OF ALL, I FOR HIS HEALTH, I THINK WE ALL DO. RIGHT? HE'S OUR PRESIDENT. BUT IT'S CLEAR THAT THERE IS A COGNITIVE DECLINE. I DON'T SAY THAT BECAUSE IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS FINE. IT'S ACTUALLY IMPORTANT TO BE MATURE AND UNDERSTAND THAT THESE ARE SERIOUS POTENTIAL IMPLICATIONS. AND THAT'S BEEN CLEAR FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS WITH, YOU KNOW, RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS. SOMETIMES IT'S A MEMORY, SOMETIMES IT'S CONFUSION ON THE STAGE. AND WHEN I THINK ABOUT THAT, YOU THINK ABOUT NEUROLOGIC POTENTIAL AND I'M CERTAIN HE HAS ACCESS TO THE BEST AND I'M CERTAINLY HOPING THAT THEY'RE THINKING ABOUT THAT AS WELL AS POTENTIAL RELATED DISORDERS MAYBE PARKINSONIAN LIKE BUT CERTAINLY HE HE NEEDS GOOD TREATMENT AND ARE GREAT TREATMENTS AND THERE'S HOPE OUT THERE BUT THAT'S THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT COME TO MIND. >> APPRECIATE YOU SO MUCH NOT TALKING TO ME ON THE PLANE. WELL, WE HAD A TWO HOUR DELAY. I GOT A CHANCE TO KNOW YOU, BUT JUST COMING BACK AND BEING ON SET WITH ME AND GIVING SOME PERSPECTIVE AS A DELEGATE, I'M REALLY GRATEFUL FOR YOU, VANILLA, YOUR AND YOUR TIME. BRING YOUR KIDS BACK, WILL. OKAY, SO YOU BET IT. THINGS ARE KICKING UP ON THE STAGE WE'VE GOT A LOT MORE LIVE COVERAGE HERE FROM THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. WE'LL TAKE YOU DOWN TO THE FLOOR NEXT. WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST IN AMERICA AMERICA? AN OPERATION TO CAPITALIZE POINT COMBAT OPERATIONS ARE. WE'RE APPROACHING THE GATE NOW. MILITANTS CAME IN FROM FOUR OR FIVE DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. OPERATIONAL NUCLEAR REACTOR. SO THE COUPLE LOADED AND READY TO GO. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED, BUT THE FLAG THERE'S NOT A TEAR IN AND OUT OF PERIOD. HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS LABEL RIGHT HERE? THE. >> LOOK AT YOUR SMILE. YOU'RE PROUD OF IT. I LOVE IT. GREAT WORK. HEY, WHERE ARE YOU? WHERE ARE YOU APPRECIATE. THANK YOU. >> ISRAEL. DAVID. YES, YES I'M DAVID MUIR. >> I KNOW YOU DO. EVERY NIGHT. AND ABC'S "WORLD NEWS TONIGHT" WITH DAVID MUIR IS AMERICA'S MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST. >> ALL RIGHT, THE DOGS OUT, PLEASE. >> I DON'T THINK HE'S GOING TO GIVE YOU A HARD TIME. >> EVEN IF HE GIVES ME A HARD TIME. I'M THE RIGHT GUY. I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ALL LEARN TOGETHER. CALM, CONFIDENT, CALM CONFIDENT, CALM, SURRENDER. EVERYTHING THAT HE'S TAUGHT HAS BECOME REALITY. WE ARE SO GRATEFUL AND IMPRESSED. I FEEL CRYING. YOU CHANGED OUR WORLD. IT IS A BEAUTIFUL THING TO SEE AS YOU REHABILITATE THE DOG. YOU ALSO REHABILITATE YOU. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? FROM ABC NEWS? THIS IS "START HERE" TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT ON THE DAY'S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY. SO LET'S GET INTO IT. LISTEN TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR THE NET A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW, THAT'S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN'T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. OH, THE MUSIC JUST WRAPPED UP. I WAS HOPING HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A MUSICAL INTERLUDE HERE AS WE CONTINUE SPECIAL COVERAGE ON DAY TWO OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION FROM MILWAUKEE. HERE NOW WITH US, REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN TIFFANY. HE REPRESENTS THE SEVENTH DISTRICT IN THE NORTHWESTERN OF WISCONSIN. >> YOU GUYS SURE KNOW HOW TO THROW A PARTY. HEY, THIS IS A GREAT PARTY. >> I TELL YOU WHAT. WELCOME TO WISCONSIN. OH, HEY, YOU KNOW, I'VE GOT IT BACK HOME. I WORKED OUT HERE IN GREEN BAY. I'VE MY IRISH RELATIVES EVERYWHERE. I HAD MY CHEESE CURDS LAST NIGHT, SO I'M A GOOD PLACE RIGHT NOW. >> BUT DID YOU I GUESS I HAVE TO ASK YOU THIS. WHEN WE FOUND OUT THE RNC WAS GOING TO BE HERE AND YOUR MAN, DONALD TRUMP, DIDN'T HAVE VERY NICE THINGS TO SAY ABOUT MILWAUKEE. >> OH, THAT'S A HORRIBLE CITY. >> WHY HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO TALK TO HIM ABOUT THAT? AND WHAT DO YOU HOPE THAT HE REALIZES WHILE HE'S HERE ABOUT THE GREAT STATE OF WISCONSIN? >> SO WHEN THEY SAID THAT HE MADE THAT COMMENT ABOUT A HORRIBLE CITY, I WAS SITTING TEN FEET AWAY, THAT IS NOT WHAT HE. OH, IT WAS TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT BY A WASHINGTON, D.C. REPORTER. THAT WAS NOT AN ACCURATE QUOTE IN REGARDS TO DONALD TRUMP, LOVES MILWAUKEE. HE LOVES WISCONSIN. AND HE KNOWS, KYRA, HOW IMPORTANT WISCONSIN IS FOR ELECTORAL PROSPECT PROSPECTS IN NOVEMBER. >> OKAY. SO I LIKE HOW YOU SWITCH TO LET YOU SWITCH THINGS UP HERE? OKAY. NOW, I WOULD FOLLOW UP, BUT JUST BEEN TOLD YOU CAN PROBABLY SEE THE LIVE PICTURE RIGHT HERE. IT'S HAPPENING BEHIND US. NIKKI HALEY JUST STEPPED TO THE STAGE. >> SHE IS SPEAKING TONIGHT. EVERYBODY IS TALKING ABOUT NIKKI HALEY AND WHAT SHE IS GOING TO HAVE TO SAY. WE WEREN'T EXPECTING TO ACTUALLY SEE HER. SO WHILE SHE'S THERE, WE HAVE THIS LIVE PICTURE. >> WHAT DO YOU THINK OF NIKKI HALEY? YOU KNOW, NIKKI REPRESENTS THE BROAD TENT THAT IS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. I MEAN, YOU LOOK AT PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, ECONOMIC CONSERVATIVES ARE TOUGH ON FOREIGN POLICY. >> I MEAN, THERE'S A WHOLE THE LIBERTARIANS, WHICH I THINK J.D. VANCE, THAT'S PART OF THE PICK. THEY'RE SAYING, WELL, HELLO, LIBERTARIANS, WE'RE WITH YOU. SO IT'S A BIG TENT THAT WE HAVE NIKKI HALEY'S IN THAT TOWN. WHAT DOES SHE ADD BY BEING HERE AND SPEAKING? YOU KNOW, SHE AND THE FORMER PRESIDENT, THEY WERE ON THE OUTS. >> CLEARLY, THEY WERE THEY WEREN'T SAYING VERY NICE THINGS ABOUT EACH OTHER. IT WAS NOT THE WISCONSIN WAY. SIR, WITH ALL DUE RESPECT. NOW, THERE SIDE BY SIDE, WHAT CAN SHE ADD TO THE PARTY? AND WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE HER A PART OF THE ADMINISTRATION IF? >> INDEED. HE TAKES THE WHITE HOUSE FOR ANOTHER FOUR YEARS. YOU KNOW, I THINK SHE'S BEEN A BIG PART OF THE REPUBLICAN EVER SINCE BEING GOVERNOR IN SOUTH CAROLINA. AND HER MESSAGE WILL BE REALLY IMPORTANT? BUT IT GOES BACK TO THE BIG TENT PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS HAD RUN INS WITH HIS REPUBLICAN OPPONENTS BEFORE. IT IS HAPPEN. >> THEY USUALLY MAKE UP AND GET ON WITH BUSINESS BECAUSE IT IS ABOUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. >> THAT'S THE ONE THING I HEAR HER BACK AT HOME. >> WHAT ABOUT US? WHAT ABOUT US? THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? IS THIS TONE GOING TO STAY HERE RIGHT NOW? SATURDAY WAS A WAKE UP CALL. I HAVE HAD REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS SAY TO THIS HAS BEEN A WAKE UP CALL FOR EVERYBODY THAT NO MATTER WHAT SIDE YOU'RE TO STOP, STOP THE DANGEROUS RHETORIC, STOP THE NASTINESS, NOT PROMOTE VIOLENCE, LET'S LET'S LET'S COME TOGETHER AND FINALLY FIND UNITY THAT WE CAN ALL PARTICIPATE IN. CAN THAT TONE CONTINUE? WE KNOW DONALD, WE KNOW THAT HE CAN GET FOLKS RILED UP. DANGEROUS RHETORIC IS SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE HAD TO TALK ABOUT FOR FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS WHILE HE WAS IN OFFICE. CAN THIS CHANGE IN TONE? STAY? >> BUT TO BE FAIR, PEOPLE ON THE OTHER SIDE HAVE DONE IT, TOO. AND I'M NOT GETTING THAT EACH SIDE DOES IT. I THINK THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO TALK ABOUT POLICY GET THE PERSONALITIES ASIDE, AND THAT'S WHY I SAY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SAYING, WHAT ABOUT ME? THEY WANT TO KNOW WHAT POLICIES ARE GOING TO COME OUT OF WASHINGTON, DC. SO LET'S MAKE IT A DEBATE ABOUT POLICY, BECAUSE IF IMMIGRATION, THE ECONOMY AND INFLATION ARE WEAKNESS ON THE WORLD STAGE, WE REPUBLICANS WILL WIN. IF THE DEBATE IS ABOUT POLICY, PEOPLE KNOW THE COUNTRY IS GOING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION. KYRA WELL, YOU NAMED THREE THINGS THAT EVERYBODY THEY ARE DEFINITELY TALKING ABOUT ALL THREE OF THOSE ISSUES IN LIGHT OF EVERYTHING THAT'S GOING ON RIGHT NOW, PEOPLE WANT TO WAKE UP, BE ABLE TO FILL UP THEIR CAR WITH GAS, BE ABLE TO BRING HOME A SOLID PAYCHECK, TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR FAMILY. ECONOMY IS ON THE HEART OF EVERYONE RIGHT NOW. REPRESENTATIVE TOM TIFFANY, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE. >> APPRECIATE IT, CONGRESSMAN. GREAT TO HAVE YOU IN THE STATE. >> IT'S GREAT TO BE. I SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT MY CHEESE AT. IT'S KIND OF MESSED UP. I'VE HAD IT FOR A LONG TIME, SPENT ABOUT THREE DECADES COMING UP. >> WE DO CONTINUE OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. LIVE FROM MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, I'M KYRA PHILLIPS. >> LOT MORE NEWS AHEAD. STAY WITH US. >> WHEN EVERY NEWS BREAKS, WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR ENROLLING FOR IT. 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A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET'S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD R. MURROW AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST LISTENING TO YOU START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW, THAT'S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN'T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE'S A LOT GOING ON. WE'RE STILL IN FLASH FLOOD WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE'VE IN RIOT GEAR, DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE MIGRANT CRISIS, FAST, STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON 17, ALL THE BUZZKILL AND BASEBALL. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT? GLAD YOU'RE WITH US AS WE CONTINUE TO FOLLOW MAJOR BREAKING NEWS OF NEW YORK CITY TODAY. NEW JERSEY SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ FACING CALLS FOR HIS RESIGNATION FROM THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF CONGRESS AFTER HIS CONVICTION IN THE FEDERAL CORRUPTION AND BRIBERY TRIAL AGAINST HIM. DESPITE CONDEMNATION FROM MEMBERS OF HIS OWN PARTY, INCLUDING SENATE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER, MENENDEZ SAYS HE PLANS TO APPEAL. >> TAKE A LISTEN. OBVIOUSLY, I'M DEEPLY DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED BY THE JURY'S DECISION. I HAVE FAITH THAT THE LAW AND THE FACTS DID NOT SUSTAIN THAT DECISION AND THAT WE WILL BE SUCCESSFUL UPON APPEAL AND THE SENATE ETHICS COMMITTEE ALSO JUST MOMENTS AGO SAYING, IT WILL PROMPTLY COMPLETE THE INVESTIGATION INTO MENENDEZ. IT STARTED THESE ALLEGATIONS FIRST SURFACED. FOR MORE, LET'S BRING IN OUR PHIL LIPOFF HE'S BEEN COVERING THIS FOR US FROM THE MOMENT NEWS BROKE. FELLOW OF HIS OWN PARTY, INCLUDING CHUCK SCHUMER, NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR PHIL MURPHY, HIS FELLOW NEW JERSEY SENATOR CORY BOOKER, ALL CALLING ON MENENDEZ TO RESIGN NOW. WHAT DO YOU THINK COULD HAPPEN TO A SEAT AND EVEN THE OVERALL SENATE MAKEUP OF THIS ELECTION YEAR, PHIL? >> YEAH, WELL, THAT ALL HANGS IN THE BALANCE RIGHT? MEAN, LISTEN TO THE THE DEMOCRATS YOU JUST TALKED ABOUT SENATE MAJORITY CHUCK SCHUMER, THE OTHER SENATOR, THE JUNIOR SENATOR, CORY BOOKER IN NEW JERSEY, THE GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY, AND THE GOVERNOR EVEN WENT AS FAR TO SAY, IF YOU DON'T STEP ASIDE, WHICH I THINK YOU SHOULD DO, THEN I THINK YOU SHOULD BE EXPELLED FROM THE SENATE. >> THE SENATE HASN'T DONE THAT IN A LONG TIME. OUR JAY O'BRIEN DID RESEARCH AND 14 OF THE 15 SENATORS WHO HAVE EVER BEEN EXPELLED WERE EXPELLED FOR THE CIVIL WAR . SO IT'S NOT IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS. I MEAN, YOU SEE HIM COME OUT. HE'S VERY DEFIANT. HE'S TALKING ABOUT HIS APPEAL. HE'S RUNNING RIGHT NOW AS AN INDEPENDENT. AND THERE IS NO LAW, AS YOU KNOW, THAT SAYS YOU CANNOT BE IN THE SENATE IF YOU'RE CONVICTED OF A FELONY. >> THE SAME KIND OF THING. PEOPLE WERE SHOCKED ABOUT A LOT OF WERE SHOCKED ABOUT WHEN THEY HEARD THAT DONALD TRUMP COULD STILL RUN FOR PRESIDENT WHEN HE WAS CONVICTED. IT'S THE SAME THING IN THE SENATE. IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE HE'S GOING TO STEP ASIDE. HE'S MOVING FORWARD WITH HIS APPEAL AND HE'S MAINTAINING HIS INNOCENCE, AS HE HAS SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THIS ENTIRE ORDEAL. IT'S BEEN A NINE WEEK TRIAL. AND BY THE WAY, THIS IS THE SECOND TIME HE'S FACED BRIBERY CHARGES. BRIBERY CHARGES. HE'S THE ONLY SENATOR EVER, THE ONLY AMERICAN POLITICIAN THINK EVER TO FACE A TWICE. THIS WAS SEVEN YEARS AGO. AND THAT ENDED IN A MISTRIAL. THIS TIME, A CONVICTION ON ALL 16 COUNTS. HE COULD SPEND 36 YEARS IN PRISON FOR THIS. AND HIS WIFE, BY THE WAY, WAS CHARGED. >> SHE WILL BE TRIED LATER THIS YEAR, AND WE'LL FOLLOW THAT, TOO. LOOK, HE CAN DENY THE CHARGES BUT THE PICTURES DON'T LIE. WE'VE SEEN THE GOLD BARS. WE'VE SEEN THE CASH IN THE BOOTS AND THE COAT POCKETS. YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP. I MEAN IT'S LIKE AN OLD TIME GANGSTER, YOU KNOW, HIDING EVERYTHING IN THE CLOTHES, UNDER THE BED, UNDER THE MATTRESS. WHAT DO YOU THINK WE CAN EXPECT FROM HIS SENTENCING IN OCTOBER? PHIL? >> WELL, I WOULD LEAVE THAT MORE TO A LEGAL MIND ABOUT WHAT I KNOW. HE'S FACING 36 YEARS. HE'S FACING DECADES IN PRISON. THIS IS REALLY SERIOUS. YOU KNOW, THEY'RE SAYING HE AS A FOREIGN AGENT IN AN AGENT FOR FOREIGN FOR EGYPT AND QATAR. AND IT'S I MEAN THIS IS HE'S ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL DEMOCRATS. >> SO HE'S PROBABLY GOING HE'S GOING TO GET JAIL TIME. AND THEY'RE PROBABLY TO MAKE AN EXAMPLE OUT OF HIM. BECAUSE IF YOU CAN HAVE SOMEONE IN THE SENATE DOING THIS, YOU CAN HAVE SOMEONE ANYWHERE IN THE GOVERNMENT DOING THIS. AND THAT IS NOT GOING TO STAND. >> ONE LAST THING, KYRA. YOU TALKED ABOUT THE GOLD BARS ,13 GOLD BARS, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN CASH . MERCEDES THAT WAS SITTING OUT IN THEIR DRIVEWAY AND THINK TO A LOT OF PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY A LOT OF MY CUBAN-AMERICAN WHO TELL ME THAT IT WAS JUST REALLY OFFENSIVE WHEN HE SAID HE HAD THOSE GOLD BARS AND THAT MONEY BECAUSE THERE WAS FAMILIAL FROM LEAVING CUBA AND THAT'S WHY HE STASHED ALL THIS STUFF IN HIS HOUSE AS ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL DEMOCRATS IN THE SENATE. STAY TUNED. LOTS TO COME PHIL LIPOFF APPRECIATE YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. ALL RIGHT. WELL, LET'S TURN OUR COVERAGE BACK TO THE 2024 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION, SHALL WE? CAN YOU HEAR THE MUSIC? THE GOP FEELING PRETTY GOOD ABOUT ITS NEWLY MINTED TRUMP VANCE TICKET. THE FORMER PRESIDENT TAPPING OHIO SENATOR J.D. VANCE DESPITE PAST CRITICISM AND WELL, IT'S ESPECIALLY PERTINENT TODAY AS A NUMBER OF TRUMP'S FORMER RIVALS GET SET TO TAKE THE STAGE. THAT INCDES NIKKI HALEY, WHO WE SAW ON STAGE JUST MOMENTS AGO FROM CHECK. ALSO, RON DESANTIS WILL BE SPEAKING TONIGHT AS THE PARTY PUTS ITS UNITY ON DISPLAY IN TIME FOR THE ENTIRE COUNTRY TO SEE. BRING IN OUR JAY O'BRIEN NOW IS DOWN THERE ON THE FLOOR. AM I HEARING A LITTLE CREED RIGHT NOW? HOLD ON. I'M HEARING A LITTLE HIGHER. SO. OKAY. YES, YOU ARE. I WANT TO GO JUST GRAB THIS GENTLEMAN HERE. >> GOVERNOR. GOVERNOR. PART OF MY INTERRUPTION. WE'RE LIVE ON ABC NEWS. HOW ARE YOU SIR? CAN WE ASK YOU A QUICK QUESTION? I KNOW GOVERNOR HUTCHINSON, THIS IS GOVERNOR ASA HUTCHINSON ,A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE AT ONE TIME. WE JUST SAW NIKKI HALEY ON THE STAGE, OBVIOUSLY SOMEONE WHO CAPTURED THE NATION WITH THE VIOLENCE IN THE PARTY LIKE YOU DID. >> SO CAN I ASK YOU THIS? DO YOU THINK MODERATE REPUBLICANS, GIVEN THE EVENTS OF SATURDAY, SHOULD ALSO BEHIND TRUMP? >> WELL, I THINK THIS CONVENTION SHOWS THAT THE REPUBLICANS ARE COMING TOGETHER IN LARGELY BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP SHOWED SUCH GREAT IN THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. AND THEN HE COMES OUT AND SAYS, THIS IS A TIME THAT WE CAN COME TOGETHER AS A NATION. I THINK THAT'S VERY POSITIVE. I MYSELF IS TOO CONSERVATIVE, AND I RAN DONALD TRUMP. BUT HATS OFF. WE'RE VERY CRITICAL OF. I WAS SAYING, YOU KNOW, WE STILL HAVE SOME SERIOUS DISAGREEMENTS, BUT I'M ANXIOUS TO HEAR NIKKI HALEY TONIGHT. HE WAS LAST MINUTE, BUT I'M SO DELIGHTED THAT TRUMP EXTENDED INVITATION TO HER. I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING HER. AND VANCE'S WEEK AND THEN AT TRUMP. THESE ARE KEY MOMENTS FOR THE CAMPAIGN AND PERSUADE TO COME IN. >> WILL YOU VOTE FOR DONALD TRUMP, SIR? WELL, YOU KNOW THAT I'VE MADE THE COMMITMENTS ABOUT NOT VOTING FOR A CONVICTED FELON, BUT THAT SEEMS LIKE A LONG TIME AGO. SO YOU COULD MOVE AWAY FROM THAT COMMENT. LET'S LET'S HOW IT DEVELOPS IN THE FUTURE. >> GOVERNOR ASA HUTCHINSON, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME, SIR. THANKS FOR THIS LIVE. THAT WAS GOVERNOR ASA HUTCHINSON, ONETIME PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. OBVIOUSLY STAUNCH MODERATE IN THE PARTY, HAD A LOT TO SAY ABOUT THE STATE OF THE PARTY WHEN HE RAN A LOT OF CRITICAL THINGS TO SAY ABOUT DONALD TRUMP. AND AS YOU JUST HEARD HERE, HE WAS NOT SAYING AS HOT OF A KIND OF CRITICISM AS HE SAID IN THE PRIMARY. >> IN THAT INTERVIEW JUST THERE. YEAH, RIGHT. ENDING THE HIS CAMPAIGN AFTER SIXTH PLACE FINISH IN THE IOWA CAUCUSES. INTERESTING. I THINK YOU CAUGHT HIM OFF GUARD THERE. AND HIS ANSWER, VERY TRANSPARENT AND GENUINE WHEN IT CAME TO HIS FEELINGS REGARDING THE FORMER PRESIDENT. SOMETHING TELLS ME I DON'T KNOW. >> JAY, WHAT DID YOU THINK OF WHAT HE SAID? YEAH. AND WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK OVER TO THE STATE BECAUSE WE WANT TO SEE IF WE CAN SEE SOME OTHER PEOPLE. BUT I'LL ANSWER YOUR QUESTION ON THE MOVE. SO IT'S INTERESTING BECAUSE. >> THERE HAS BEEN THIS QUESTION OF WHAT HAPPENED ON SATURDAY AND WHAT KIND OF UNITY DOES THAT PROVIDE? DONALD TRUMP SAID HE WANTS TO MAKE THIS CONVENTION IN THE WAKE OF THAT ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ABOUT UNITY. AND I CAN TELL YOU, I'VE TALKED TO MEMBERS OF REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP IN CONGRESS, FOR INSTANCE, WHO SAY THAT THEY'VE HEARD FROM MODERATES WHO, THINK VERY MUCH AGAINST HUTCHINSON, FOR EXAMPLE, WHO IN THE WAKE OF SATURDAY SEE THEMSELVES SUPPORTING DONALD TRUMP BECAUSE OF THE WAY HE CARRIED IN THE IMMEDIATE MOMENTS AFTER THAT ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AND THEN, OF COURSE, SUBSEQUENT IN THE DAYS SINCE THEN AS WELL . >> AND SO IT'LL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW THINGS FULLY SHAKE OUT ON THURSDAY. BUT THERE IS AN EMERGING TREND HERE, WHICH IS GOP PARTY UNITY . PRIOR TO SATURDAY, THERE WAS THIS QUESTION OF WILL THE MODERATES IN THE PARTY, THE NIKKI VOTERS, FOR INSTANCE, EVER REALLY GET BEHIND DONALD TRUMP? >> AND I CAN TELL YOU THE MODERATES WE'VE SPOKEN TO OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST FEW DAYS, ASA HUTCHINSON, THEM HAVE SAID, LOOK, DONALD TRUMP IMPRESSED THEM ON SATURDAY, AND THEY MAY NOT SAY THAT THEY'RE FULLY SUPPORTING HIM AS THE GOVERNOR DIDN'T JUST THERE, BUT THEY'RE SEEING THEMSELVES GETTING THERE. AND THAT IS A SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT FOR THIS PARTY. >> IT SURE IS. I MEAN, YOU JUST MADE NEWS THERE WITH ASA HUTCHINSON. JAY, WE'RE GOING TO GET THAT OUT ON THE DL. LOVE HOW YOU'RE ABLE JUST TO SPOT FOLKS AND MAKE THINGS HAPPEN. THEY'RE DOWN ON THE FLOOR FOR US HERE AT THE CONVENTION AS THE MIKE CHECKS. ALSO, THE MUSIC CHECKS CONTINUE. THE SOUND CHECKS, RATHER. WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE OUR CONVERSATION NOW WITH WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT MARYALICE PARKS, PLUS ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR ASMA KHALID. THEY'RE BOTH HERE IN MILWAUKEE AS WELL. MARYALICE, HOUSE DEMOCRATS THIS MORNING ACTUALLY TRYING TO DELAY THE DNC CONVENTION CALL, I UNDERSTAND. >> WHAT'S THE LATEST? >> YEAH, WELL, A FEW OF THEM HERE. IT SEEMS LIKE THIS IS STILL JUST A GROWING MOVEMENT, BUT I REPORT OUT A FEW OF MY COLLEAGUES. THE FACT THAT THERE IS THIS LETTER CIRCULATE AMONG SOME HOUSE DEMOCRATS CALLING ON THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION AND THE PARTY TO WAIT TO CONDUCT THAT ROLL CALL THAT WOULD MAKE PRESIDENT BIDEN THE FORMAL NOMINEE. OBVIOUSLY, WE'RE HERE AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION, WHERE JUST YESTERDAY WE SAW THAT ROLL CALL. ALL OF THE STATES SORT OF FORMALLY PLEDGING THEIR DELEGATES TO MAKE TO MAKE IT OFFICIAL, TO MAKE TRUMP THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE. WELL, ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE, KYRA, HAD PLANNED TO DO THIS KIND OF VIRTUAL ROLL CALL GOING AROUND COUNTRY AND HAVING DELEGATES WEIGH IN AROUND THE COUNTRY TO FORMALLY PRESIDENT BIDEN TO BE THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE. THEY'D MOVED UP THE DATES BECAUSE OF SOME RULES IN OHIO. WELL, NOW, BECAUSE OF ALL OF THE CONTROVERSY, ALL OF THE ANXIETY, FRANKLY, IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AROUND PRESIDENT BIDEN'S, WE'RE SEEING SOME OF THESE HOUSE DEMOCRATS ASKING THE PARTY TO REALLY PUMP THE BRAKES WHERE THEY HAVEN'T MADE ANY FORMAL DECISIONS YET. I TALKED TO FOLKS WITH THE CONVENTION PLANNING. THEY SAID, HOLD YOUR ROLL. THERE'S NO FORMAL DECISION. THEY'RE TO MEET THIS WEEKEND AS SORT OF A RULES COMMITTEE AND MAKE THAT THAT FORMAL PLAN. BUT IT JUST GOES TO SHOW THERE IS STILL SUCH ANXIETY ABOUT WHAT IS BEING DONE THERE EVEN AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET EVEN WHEN IT COMES TO FORM FORMALLY NOMINATING PRESIDENT BIDEN TO BE THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE. AND SOME MEMBERS REALLY HOPING THAT THEY WILL HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME INTO THE PARTY, WON'T RUSH THIS PROCESS KYRA. >> YES. HOW DO YOU DO THAT? HOW DO YOU SORT OF SLOW DOWN AND NOT RUSH THIS PROCESS? I MEAN, A LOT OF QUESTIONS OUT THERE. WHEN WOULD BIDEN BE FORMALLY NOMINATED AND COULD THIS ALL GO DOWN? I MEAN, CLEARLY, TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. THIS IS A HUGE DECISION. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. I MEAN, THERE'S ONLY SO MANY TIMES SO MANY WAYS THEY CAN CHANGE THE RULES. THEY CAN REWRITE THE RULES. I MEAN, THE PARTY THAT MAKES THIS DECISION FOR THEMSELVES, THEY DECIDE EXACTLY HOW AND THEY'RE GOING TO NOMINATE THEIR PARTY. BUT THERE'S A BIT OF A DEADLINE BECAUSE AT SOME POINT THEY HAVE TO SUBMIT THEIR CANDIDATE TO THE STATES TO BE ON ALL THE BALLOTS TO BE PRINTED. WE'VE HEARD DIFFERENT DEMOCRATS TALK ABOUT WHAT THAT KIND OF FINAL DEAD DATE WOULD BE LIKE, MORE LIKELY THE END OF AUGUST. BUT OF COURSE, NO ONE REALLY WANTS TO SEE THIS PROCESS DRAG ON PAST THE CONVENTION, EVEN COME CLOSE TO THE CONVENTION. I THINK THAT DEMOCRATS ARE AWARE THAT THEY HAVE TIME. BUT THE QUESTION IS, WILL THEY USE TIME OR INSTEAD ARE THEY GOING TO MAKE A DECISION WHERE THEY THEY DO THIS KIND OF FORMAL ROLL CALL SOONER RATHER THAN LATER, EVEN AS SOON AS THE END OF THIS MONTH, WEEKS BEFORE ALL OF THEM ARE SET TO GATHER THE MIDDLE OF AUGUST IN CHICAGO. THAT'S THE SCENARIO WHERE THEY ACTUALLY DO THIS SOONER THEY FORMALLY NOMINATE THE PRESIDENT TO BE THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE, BUT THEY DO IT SOONER. >> HAS SOME OF THOSE HOUSE DEMOCRATS A LITTLE BIT ANXIOUS CAROL. ASKED ABOUT THOUGHTS YET? YOU KNOW, LOOK, I THINK THE MAJOR THOUGHTS TO ME, SOMEBODY WHO COVERS BIDEN'S WHITE HOUSE, IS HOW DIFFERENT THIS MOMENT REPUBLICAN CONVENTION FEELS FROM THE CURRENT MOMENT IN THE DEMOCRATIC. YOU KNOW, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A CONVENTION IN WHICH WE ARE HEARING OF UNITY WHETHER THESE ARE THE MORE MODERATE FOLKS, WHETHER IT'S SOMEONE LIKE VIVEK RAMASWAMY HEARD HIM SPEAK YESTERDAY, ALL SORTS OF FACTIONS WITHIN, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ARE UNITING BEHIND DONALD TRUMP. THEY ARE UNITING LARGELY HIS PICK FOR VICE PRESIDENT, OHIO SENATOR J.D. VANCE. >> AND ON THE OTHER SIDE, THE DEMOCRATS. LOOK, I THINK THIS PREDATES EVEN THE CONVERSATIONS THE PRESIDENT'S AGE AND THE DEBATE FOR MONTHS BECAUSE OF THE IN GAZA. YOU'VE BEEN HEARING DISSENT WITHIN SORT OF PROGRESSIVE LEFT LEANING CIRCLES OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. THERE IS A LOT OF DISSENSION. THERE ARE EXPECTED TO BE LARGE SCALE PROTESTS AT THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. AND FRANKLY, JUST NOT SEEING THAT HERE AT THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. AND AS SOMEBODY WHO HAS COVERED CONVENTIONS, I WILL SAY THERE IS A A MOOD OF CONFIDENCE AND AT THIS REPUBLICAN CONVENTION THAT I THINK IS DIFFERENT FROM DEMOCRATS NOW. BUT I ALSO WOULD SAY IT'S DIFFERENT FROM WHERE REPUBLICANS WERE AT THEIR LAST BIG IN-PERSON CONVENTION IN 2016. >> ALL RIGHT. MARYALICE, ASMA KHALID, APPRECIATE YOU BOTH SO MUCH. GREAT TO HAVE YOUR PERSPECTIVE UP. >> WE DO CONTINUE OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE HERE IN MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION AS THEY ARE GETTING READY SOME KEY SPEECHES TONIGHT ON THAT STAGE. NIKKI IS THE ONE EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT. TED CRUZ, SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS AND MORE. >> WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST IN AMERICA? AN OPERATION AFTER ISIS FIGHTERS? COMBAT OPERATIONS ARE WE'RE APPROACHING THE GATE NOW. MILITANTS IN FROM FOUR OR FIVE DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS TO OPERATE NUCLEAR REACTORS HAVE A COUPLE LOADED AND READY TO GO. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED. BUT THE FLAG, THERE'S A TEAR IN AND OUT OF CARE. HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS LABEL RIGHT HERE IN THE USA. >> LOOK AT YOUR SMILE. YOU'RE PROUD OF IT? I LOVE IT. GREAT WORK. HI. WHERE ARE YOU? THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ISRAEL. >> DAVID? YES. YES, I'M DAVID. >> YOU ARE. I KNOW YOU ARE. YOU DO EVERY NIGHT. 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LET'S GO OUT ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET. >> WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE. YOU'RE STREAMING, ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE, YOU'RE STREAMING NEWS LAW, ABC NEWS LIVE, STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE EVERYWHERE IF WE DIDN'T. >> ALL RIGHT, EVERYBODY IT IS DAY TWO OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. IT IS SET TO GET UNDERWAY HERE TONIGHT. YOU'RE LOOKING LIVE AT THE FISERV FORUM ARENA DOWNTOWN MILWAUKEE. I'M KAYNA WHITWORTH AND WE'RE SO GLAD TO HAVE YOU ALONG WITH US. THIS, OF COURSE, IS ABC NEWS LIVE SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE HISTORIC GOP GATHERING HERE IN THE KEY BATTLEGROUND STATE OF WISCONSIN. LET'S GO TO OUR TOP HEADLINES RIGHT NOW, STARTING WITH THE VERDICT TODAY, SHOCKWAVES THROUGH THE POLITICAL WORLD, THE PRESSURE NOW BUILDING FOR DEMOCRAT SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ TO RESIGN. THIS IS AFTER A JURY FOUND HIM GUILTY OF ALL COUNTS IN HIS CORRUPTION TRIAL. AND BACK IN MILWAUKEE, THE NEW REACTION TO DONALD TRUMP'S PICK FOR PRESIDENT, J.D. VANCE, HOW THE OHIO SENATOR COULD SET COURSE FOR THE FUTURE OF THE PARTY. PLUS, THE ANTICIPATION FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF HIGH PROFILE SPEAKERS, INCLUDING VIVEK RAMASWAMY AND OF COURSE THE LATE ADDITION, NIKKI HALEY. WE'LL TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM THEIR SPEECHES TONIGHT. BUT LET'S START HERE WITH THIS BREAKING NEWS OF NEW JERSEY. >> NEW JERSEY SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ FOUND GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS IN THIS FEDERAL TRIAL. FEDERAL PROSECUTORS ALLEGE THE LAWMAKER ACCEPTED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN BRIBES IN THE FORM OF CASH, GOLD BARS, MORTGAGE PAYMENTS, MORE IN EXCHANGE FOR FAVORS. NOW, MENENDEZ PLEADED NOT GUILTY TO 16 FEDERAL CHARGES, INCLUDING BRIBERY, FRAUD, ACTING A FOREIGN AGENT AND OBSTRUCTION. >> THE SENATOR EXPRESSING, HIS DISAPPOINTMENT IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE JURY'S DECISION. TAKE A LISTEN. I HAVE NEVER VIOLATED MY PUBLIC OATH. I HAVE NEVER BEEN ANYTHING BUT A PATRIOT UP MY COUNTRY. AND MY COUNTRY. I HAVE NEVER, EVER BEEN A FOREIGN. AND THAT DECISION RENDERED BY THE JURY TODAY WOULD PUT AT RISK EVERY MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE IN TERMS OF WHAT THEY THINK A FOREIGN AGENT WOULD BE. >> WELL, MENENDEZ NOW RECEIVING BACKLASH FROM NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR PHIL MURPHY AND SENATE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER AS WELL, ASKING HIM TO RESIGN AND IN A STATEMENT SAYING, QUOTE, HE MUST NOW DO WHAT IS RIGHT FOR HIS THE SENATE AND OUR COUNTRY. THE VERDICT COMING DOWN AS MENENDEZ SEEKS REELECTION AND AS AN INDEPENDENT. OF COURSE, A DEEP BLUE STATE. THIS IS THE SECOND TIME IN NEW JERSEY SENATOR HAS FACED FEDERAL CORRUPTION CHARGES. SO I WANT TO BRING IN ABC PHIL LIPOFF FOR THE LATEST ON THIS. AND PHIL, WE'RE SO GLAD TO HAVE YOU HERE WITH US. LOOK MENENDEZ IS THE ONLY U.S. SENATOR TO EVER FACE FEDERAL BRIBERY CHARGES AND THE FIRST CONVICTED OF ACTING AS A FOREIGN AGENT. SO, PHIL, ANY WORD ON IF HE PLANS TO APPEAL? I MEAN, HE COULD BE LOOKING AT DECADES IN PRISON HERE 36 YEARS TO BE EXACT. >> CASE IS WHAT, FACING ON OCTOBER 29TH AT SENTENCING. BUT YOU JUST HEARD HIM THERE WHEN HE CAME OUT. HE WAS AS DEFIANT AS HE'S BEEN DURING THIS NINE WEEK TRIAL WITH 37 WITNESSES. ONLY FIVE CALLED BY MENENDEZ'S TEAM. HE DEFINITELY PLANS TO APPEAL, THINKS HE SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN CONVICTED THE FIRST TIME. THAT AT SENTENCING, NOT GOING TO HOLD UP SO WELL, BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS THEY LOOK FOR IN SENTENCING IS IS REMORSE. AND HE SAYS WHAT HE DID. I MEAN, YOU SAW THE PICTURES 13 GOLD BARS, THOUSANDS, HUNDREDS OF THOUSAND DOLLARS IN CASH. THE EVIDENCE WAS THERE AND HE WAS CONVICTED ON ALL COUNTS. >> EXACTLY. WE'VE SEEN PICTURES OF THAT CAR. WELL, SO NO REMORSE, NO RESPONSIBILITY THERE IN THAT STATEMENT. BUT ALSO, PHIL WE KNOW SENATE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER AGAIN, PROMPTLY CALLED ON HIM TO RESIGN. STATEMENT WAS PRETTY POWERFUL THERE. RIGHT. HE TALKED ABOUT THAT. THIS IS WHAT HE NEEDS TO DO FOR NOT JUST HIS CONSTITUENTS, BUT REALLY FOR THE COUNTRY. SO, PHIL, IF HE DOESN'T STEP DOWN. COULD HE BE EXPELLED HERE? HOW DOES THAT WORK? >> WELL, THOSE CALLS ARE SPREADING. THE GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY, CORY BOOKER THE OTHER SENATOR FROM NEW JERSEY, BOTH DEMOCRATS, BOTH CALLING FOR HIM TO STEP DOWN. THE GOVERNOR SAID WHEN AS FAR AS TO SAY, IF YOU DON'T STEP DOWN, I CALL ON THE SENATE TO EXPEL YOU. NOW, THAT'S A BIG DEAL. WE'VE SEEN CONGRESS DO THAT. GEORGE SANTOS IS A GREAT EXAMPLE THAT RECENTLY. BUT THE SENATE DOESN'T REALLY DO THAT. 14 OUT OF THE 15 PEOPLE THEY'VE EVER EXPELLED WERE DURING THE CIVIL WAR. SO IT IS VERY RARE THAT THEY DO THAT IN MODERN TIMES. SO IT'LL BE TO HIM TO STEP DOWN. AND RIGHT NOW HE'S STILL RUNNING AND BY THE WAY, CAME TO KNOW LAW AGAINST HIM SERVING IN THE SENATE AS A CONVICTED FELON. >> ALL RIGHT. AND MAYBE PERHAPS RUNNING AS AN INDEPENDENT. SO INTERESTING. I PHIL LIPOFF. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE WITH US. AND LOOK, THIS FALLOUT FROM THE MENENDEZ CONVICTION IS RIPPLING THROUGH THE CONVENTION HERE IN MILWAUKEE. AGAIN, THIS IS DAY TWO AND IT'S ALL SET TO KICK OFF HERE IN JUST A FEW HOURS. SO JOINING ME LIVE RIGHT NOW IS ABC NEWS JAY O'BRIEN, ALONG WITH ABC NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF AND POLITICAL DIRECTOR RICK KLEIN AND ABC NEWS SENIOR REPORTER KATHERINE FAULDERS. THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE WITH US. >> AND RICK, LET'S START HERE WITH YOU. ARE YOU HEARING ANY REACTION RIGHT NOW FROM LAWMAKERS ABOUT WHAT THIS COULD MEAN, THIS MENENDEZ CONVICTION HERE, WHAT IT COULD MEAN FOR THE BATTLE IN THE SENATE? >> YEAH, LOOK, THERE ARE MANY DEMOCRATS THAT JUST WANT HIM GONE AND WANT TO BE DONE WITH IT. HIS SEAT IS UP THIS FALL. HE'S NOT DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE, AS YOU REFERENCED. HE'S RUNNING AS AN INDEPENDENT, BUT HE'S REALLY BARELY RUNNING. THEY WANTED TO GET OUT OF THE WAY SO THAT ANDY CAME TO THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE HAS A CLEAR SHOT. AND LOOK HAVE TO BE WORRIED BECAUSE ANYTHING IN THIS POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT, ANYTHING THAT EXPANDS THE MAP, IS A BIG, BIG PROBLEM FOR DEMOCRATS. THEY REALLY WANT THE MENENDEZ HEADACHE TO END LIKE MURPHY MURPHY CHOOSE A DEMOCRATIC SUCCESSOR AND THEN LET THE CAMPAIGN OUT IN NEW JERSEY, AS IT SHOULD. THIS IS JUST A MASSIVE DISTRACTION, A DISTRACTION, AND AS SOME ARE CALLING IT, A STAIN ON THE SENATE AS WELL. KATHERINE. IT SOUNDS LIKE MENENDEZ, AGAIN, WILL BE SENTENCED HERE IN OCTOBER TONIGHT. WE ALSO HEAR THAT HE'S GOING TO RUN HERE AS AN INDEPENDENT. HOW DOES THAT HOW DOES THAT COLLIDE? >> HOW DOES THAT ALL PLAY OUT HERE? YEAH, HE'LL BE SENTENCED OCTOBER 29TH. AND A COUPLE OF THINGS SEEM TO HAPPEN BEFORE, OF COURSE, HE'LL DO A PRE-SENTENCE INTERVIEW THAT WILL HAPPEN. AND THEN COURSE BOTH SIDES, THE DEFENSE, MENENDEZ, HIS LAWYERS AND PROSECUTORS WILL SUBMIT MEMOS THAT ESSENTIALLY HAVE THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS FOR HIS SENTENCE. OF COURSE, HE'S FACING DECADES IN PRISON HERE IN TERMS OF THE RUNNING AS AN INDEPENDENT, OBVIOUSLY STATED THAT PUBLICLY. AND JUST TO RICK'S POINT HERE, THERE'S NOTHING IN THE LAW THAT SAYS HE CAN'T CONTINUE TO SERVE IF HE'S FOUND GUILTY. THE QUESTION NOW IS, WILL HE HEED CALLS FROM SENATE LEADERSHIP TO RESIGN IF HE DOES? AND OF COURSE, THERE ARE MECHANISMS FOR THAT FOR PUNISHMENT. THEY COULD EXPEL MENENDEZ IF THEY THEY DECIDE TO BRING A RESOLUTION FOR THE FLOOR. OF COURSE, THAT REQUIRES A TWO THIRDS VOTE BY THE SENATE. WE'LL JUST HAVE TO SEE WHAT MENENDEZ SAYS AND DECIDES HERE AS THESE CALLS FOR HIM TO RESIGN ARE GROWING. >> RIGHT. AND EXPULSION, AS PHIL MENTIONED, WOULD BE HISTORIC. RICK, WE HAVE TALKED A LOT ABOUT TRUMP'S EAGERNESS RIGHT TO VOTES ALL ALONG THE EAST COAST, NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK, MARYLAND. HOW QUICKLY, RICK, DO YOU THINK J.D. VANCE WILL BE HITTING THIS CAMPAIGN TRAIL? AND DO YOU DO YOU SEE HIM TAKING ON SOME OF THOSE STATES OR DO YOU SEE HIM STICKING MORE TO THE RUST BELT, AS THEY CALL IT? >> IT REALLY DEPENDS ON ON WHAT THE POLLING LIKE THE FORMER PRESIDENT HAS SAID. HE WANTS THEM CARVED OUT OF PENNSYLVANIA. THEY'RE ALSO LOOKING AT WISCONSIN AND MICHIGAN. THAT'S THE OLD BLUE WALL. AND IF JOE BIDEN DOESN'T WIN ALL THREE OF THOSE STATES, HE ALMOST CERTAINLY DOESN'T GET ELECTED PRESIDENT A SECOND TIME. J.D. VANCE FROM A SIMILAR OF THE COUNTRY. OHIO'S A MUCH REDDER STATE RIGHT NOW, SO I'D EXPECT THAT TO BE THE INITIAL. WE NOW KNOW THAT THE FIRST TRUMP VANCE EVENT ON THE JOINT CAMPAIGN EVENT IS GOING TO BE SATURDAY IN GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, ONE OF THOSE BIG THREE BLUE WALL STATES. BUT IF WE'RE IN A SITUATION, WE'RE ABOUT NEW JERSEY AND NEW YORK, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A LANDSLIDE. THAT'S WHAT DEMOCRATS HAVE TO PREVENT. AND IT'S VERY INTERESTING. AND JAY, LET'S GO DOWN THERE TO TODAY'S CONVENTION THE THEME IS MAKE AMERICA SAFE ONCE AGAIN. WHAT ARE YOU HEARING ABOUT HOW REPUBLICANS WILL BE REINFORCING THAT MESSAGE TONIGHT? OF COURSE, JAKE, WE KNOW THERE'S ALSO THIS THEME, THERE'S UNDERLYING THEME NOW OF UNITY AT THE SAME TIME. >> YEAH, EXACTLY. AND THE QUESTION TONIGHT IS HOW MUCH DOES THAT THEME OF UNITY EXTEND, THE MODERATES IN THIS PARTY, BEFORE WE EVEN GET TO THAT? VERY QUICKLY, YOU ARE EXACTLY. THAT IS THE THEME WE EXPECT TO HEAR DISCUSSION OF IMMIGRATION, THE BORDER AND CRIME AND LAW ENFORCEMENT. BUT THE OTHER THING I'LL TELL IS THAT NIKKI HALEY IS EXPECTED TO TAKE THE STAGE TONIGHT. THIS IS A PERSON WHO WAS NOT EXPECTED TO SPEAK AT THIS CONVENTION UNTIL THE IMMEDIATE WAKE OF THAT ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON SATURDAY. AND THE QUESTION FACING HER REMARKS, WHAT DOES SHE SAY TO HER NIKKI HALEY VOTERS? THOSE VOTERS WERE VOTING IN PROTEST IN SOME STATES AGAINST DONALD TRUMP EVEN AFTER HAD DROPPED OUT. DOES SHE THROW HER SUPPORT BEHIND TRUMP AND TELL THEM TO VOTE FOR HIM, TOO? I CAN TELL YOU VERY BRIEFLY, I TALKED TO ONE PROMINENT MODERATE IN THE PARTY ASA HUTCHINSON, WHO WAS ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. WE JUST SAID IT LIVE ON THE AIR MOMENTS AGO. HE SAID EVEN HE IS COMING AROUND TO VOTING FOR DONALD TRUMP IN THE WAKE OF THAT ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. SO UNITY APPEARING TO PICK UP STEAM AS THIS CONVENTION PROGRESSES. >> IT CERTAINLY IS. AND WE KNOW WE SAW NIKKI HALEY DOWN THERE DOING MAKE TEXAS FEW MINUTES AGO RICK AND KATHERINE, OUR THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR BEING HERE US. THERE'S ALSO THE CONCERN OF SECURITY HERE AT THE CONVENTION. MILWAUKEE IS CERTAINLY TOP OF MIND AFTER THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON FORMER TRUMP. SO THE INVESTIGATION RIGHT NOW IS FOCUSING ON WHAT LAPSES IN SECURITY PROTOCOLS HAPPENED, AS WELL AS THE POSSIBLE MOTIVE ,THIS SHOOTER. SO BUTLER BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA OFFICIALS RIGHT NOW ARE CONFIRMING THAT IT WAS A LOCAL POLICE OFFICER THAT DID, IN FACT, CLIMB TO THE ROOF OF, THE BUILDING WHERE THAT SHOOTER WAS PERCHED AND CONFRONTED HIM. THE GUNMAN TURNED POINTING HIS RIFLE AT THE OFFICER. THE OFFICER DID NOT FIRE ON THE GUNMAN AND RETREATED. THAT IS THE LATEST INFORMATION WE'RE GETTING. AND RIGHT NOW, THERE WAS, AN ABC NEWS EXCLUSIVE. >> OUR CHIEF JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT PIERRE THOMAS SAT ,DOWN WITH THE HEAD OF THE SECRET SERVICE WHO TOOK FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THAT BREACH AND SECURITY. >> TAKE A LISTEN. THIS IS AN EVENT THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED. WHO IS MOST RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS HAPPENING? >> WHAT I WOULD SAY IS THE SECRET IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT. >> SO THE BUCK STOPS WITH YOU. THE BUCK STOPS WITH ME. I AM THE DIRECTOR OF THE SECRET SERVICE. >> IT WAS UNACCEPTABLE. AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN AGAIN. >> ALL RIGHT. SO JOINING ME NOW IS ABC'S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, ALEX MALLIN IN WASHINGTON, D.C. ALEX, SO GLAD TO HAVE YOU HERE WITH US. IT LOOKS SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR KIMBERLY TAYLOR, YOU HEARD SHE ALSO SAID IN THAT INTERVIEW WITH PIERRE THAT LOCAL POLICE HAD BEEN IN THE BUILDING AND WERE QUOTE ,FOR THE OUTER PERIMETER OF THE BUILDING. >> BUT HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? ALEX RIGHT. THE SHOOTER WAS ABLE TO SCALE UP ONTO THAT ROOF ESSENTIALLY UNIMPEDED AND WAS ABOUT 400 FEET FROM THE STAGE WITH A DIRECT LINE OF SIGHT TO THE FORMER PRESIDENT AND RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT SPECIFIC BUILDING THAT THE SHOOTER WAS ABLE TO CLIMB TOP OF IT WAS BASICALLY THE LOCAL POLICE'S RESPONSIBILITY AND WE RECENTLY, IN THE PAST HOUR JUST GOT A STATEMENT FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE SAYING THAT THEY DON'T BELIEVE THAT THEY WERE HELD SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR SECURING THAT BUILDING. SO WE'RE ALREADY SEEING A LITTLE BIT A WAR OF WORDS BETWEEN THE SECRET SERVICE AND PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE PUSHING BACK ON EACH OTHER NOW. AND OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS JUST COMES AS MORE QUESTIONS ARE BEING RAISED ABOUT THE EFFORTS TO COUNTER THAT SNIPER AS HE CLIMBED ON TOP OF THAT BUILDING. AND WHAT REALLY THIS ALL COMES DOWN TO IS WE NEED TO REALLY GET A SENSE OF THE TIMELINE OF HOW LONG THAT SHOOTER WAS ON TOP OF THAT BUILDING. HOW LONG WAS WAS IT BEFORE HE WAS DETECTED AT THAT RALLY? AND WE KNOW FROM THAT WITH THE SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR THAT THAT SECRET SERVICE WAS ALERTED TO HIS PRESENCE. SO IT'S ALL ABOUT TIMING. I THINK WE'RE GOING TO SEE A LOT OF THESE QUESTIONS ANSWERED WHEN THE SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR APPEARS BEFORE THE HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE NEXT MONDAY. DANA OH, THAT REALLY EMBODIES THE WATER DOSE. >> AND WHEN YOU SORT OF SEE LAW ENFORCEMENT FINGER POINTING. >> ALEX MELLON, OUR THANKS TO YOU AS ALWAYS. AND WE HAVE A LOT MORE SPECIAL COVERAGE AHEAD HERE IN MILWAUKEE. WE'RE SO GLAD TO HAVE YOU WITH US. WE'RE LIVE AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. YOU'RE LOOKING LIVE DOWN THERE ON THE STAGE. WE HAVE A SLEW OF SPEAKERS TONIGHT SET TO REINVIGORATE THIS PARTY ON A TUESDAY. >> WE'LL BE BACK WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS. >> WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR AFTER THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY. >> HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC SHOOTING. >> ABC NEWS LIVE IS RIGHT THERE EVERY MINUTE FROM THE SCENE OF DEADLY MISSION STRIKE. CONTINUE FOR UKRAINE. REPORTING FOR THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY, ENROLLING FOR THIS TORNADO THROUGH THIS LITTLE TOWN FROM THE MOST DEVASTATING DISASTER IN HAWAII. FROM CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN ICELAND. >> LET'S GO TRAVELING THE PRESIDENT IN MEXICO CITY, WHEREVER THE STORY IS ON THE FRONT LINES, SOUTHERN ISRAEL OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP IN BEIRUT FROM THE FBI REPORTING FROM THE NURSES ON THE PICKET LINE HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET IN STREAMING LIVE TO YOU WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE. YOU'RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE ,ABC NEWS LIVE, YOU'RE STREAMING, ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC LIVE, STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE. AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE'S A LOT GOING ON. WE'RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE IN RIOT GEAR ARRESTING DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE MIGRANT CRISIS FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON, THE 17TH, ALL THE BUZZKILL IN BASEBALL. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. WHAT? >> THERE IS A PRICE TO BE PAID EVERY TIME A SURVIVOR SHARES THEIR STORY. I WILL NOT BE SILENCED. DO YOU FEEL THAT CHURCH ACCEPTED ABUSE? I WOULDN'T SAY IT ACCEPTED. >> IT AS SO MUCH PRETENDED IT DIDN'T EXIST YET THAT'T' KYRA PC NEWS DOES. >> YOUR CHURCH PROTECT SEXUAL PREDATORS. THE NEW "IMPACT X NIGHTLINE" SECRETS OF THE TO BUY TO CHURCH. >> THERE'S NOTHING PRETTY ABOUT THAT NOW STREAMING ON HULU. PEOPLE OF THIS CITY FACED PERIL TOGETHER AND LIFTED A FLAG OVER THE RUINS AND DEFIED THE ENEMY WITH THEIR COURAGE. MY FELLOW AMERICANS, FOR AS AS OUR COUNTRY STANDS, PEOPLE WILL TO THE RESURRECTION OF NEW YORK CITY AND THEY WILL SAY HERE, BUILDINGS FELL HERE NATION ROSE. MR. CHAIRMAN, DELEGATES, FELLOW CITIZENS, I'M HONORED BY YOUR SUPPORT AND I ACCEPT YOUR NOMINATION FOR. >> WELL, THAT WAS REPUBLICAN INCUMBENT CANDIDATE GEORGE W BUSH AT THE 2004 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION, ACCEPTING HIS PARTY'S NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT. HE AND HIS RUNNING MATE, DICK CHENEY, WENT ON TO WIN REELECTION THAT NOVEMBER, DEFEATING DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE JOHN KERRY AND HIS RUNNING MATE, JOHN. I'M KAYNA WHITWORTH AND WE'RE SO GLAD TO HAVE YOU HERE WITH US ON OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE ,THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. AND IT, OF COURSE, IS GETTING UNDERWAY THIS WEEK. IT DAY TWO. AND WHILE THIS IS HAPPENING, PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN IS HITTING THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL TODAY IN THE BATTLEGROUND STATE OF NEVADA. HE IS EXPECTED TO ADDRESS NAACP NATIONAL CONVENTION. THIS IS HIS FIRST CAMPAIGN EVENT SINCE THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. NOW, BIDEN IS HOPING TO COURT BLACK VOTERS IN THAT IS A KEY DEMOGRAPHIC IN THAT STATE. ABC NEWS IS NOW LEARNING THAT THERE'S ALSO A NEW LETTER RIGHT NOW THAT IS CALLING ON THE DNC TO DELAY THE VIRTUAL ROLL ON PRESIDENT BIDEN'S OFFICIAL NOMINATION. RIGHT NOW, THIS IS CIRCULATING AMONG DEMOCRATS ON CAPITOL HILL. THIS IS ACCORDING TO MULTIPLE SOURCES THAT ARE FAMILIAR WITH THIS MATTER. SO I WANT TO BRING IN ABC NEWS SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT SELINA WANG, WHO'S LIVE FOR US IN LAS VEGAS. >> SELINA, GLAD TO HAVE YOU WITH US. LET'S START WITH THAT LETTER. WHAT MORE. DO WE KNOW ABOUT WHAT IT SAYS AND HAVE ANY LAWMAKERS RIGHT NOW CONFIRMED? YES, THEY WILL BE SIGNING IT. SO, DANA, WE'VE HEARD FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES THAT AT LEAST SEVERAL LAWMAKERS ARE PLANNING TO SIGN ON TO THIS. AND WE OBTAINED THIS LETTER AS WELL. AND IT ARGUES BY HOLDING THIS VOTE SO EARLY TO NOMINATE PRESIDENT BIDEN, IT ESSENTIALLY STIFLES DEBATE AND ANY POSSIBLE CHANGES TO THE TOP OF THE DEMOCRATIC. NOW, KATE, I WANT TO STEP BACK AND GIVE SOME CONTEXT AS TO WHY THEY ARE PLANNING TO HOLD THIS EARLY VOTE AS EARLY AS THE END OF THIS MONTH. AND THE REASON IS BECAUSE OHIO HAD CHANGED ITS BALLOT ACCESS RULES AND THEY WANTED TO GET AROUND THOSE RULES. BUT LATER, OHIO CHANGED ITS RULES AND PUSHED BACK THE DEADLINE. SO THIS LETTER ARGUES IT IS NO NECESSARY TO HAVE THIS EARLY VIRTUAL ROLL CALL VOTE. >> JUST A GLARING QUESTION THERE OF PARTY UNITY STILL DEMOCRATIC PARTY SELINA WANG, OUR THANKS TO YOU FOR JOINING US THERE FROM LAS VEGAS. >> WE HAVE A LOT MORE SPECIAL COVERAGE AHEAD HERE IN MILWAUKEE FROM THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL. >> PLEASE STAY WITH US. >> FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE'S A LOT GOING ON. WE'RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT IN RIOT ARRESTING DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE MIGRANT CRISIS. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE 17TH HOLD A BUZZ KILL BASEBALL. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE. EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. AND THEY WRITE THE STORIES THAT SHAPE YOUR WORLD, THAT SHAPE YOUR. DRAMATIC, STUNNING, EMPOWERING SHONDA RHIMES. THE MOST POWERFUL STORIES OF OUR TIME. "NIGHTLINE" ON RUNNING AFTER KIM WEHLE AND STREAMING ON HULU . >> WITH SO MUCH AT STAKE, SO MUCH ON THE LINE, MORE AMERICANS HERE THAN ANY OTHER NEWSCAST, ABC NEWS, "WORLD NEWS TONIGHT" WITH DAVID MUIR, AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ACROSS ALL OF TELEVISION. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE'S THEIR DAY HERE. FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS "START HERE" BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY'S TOP STORIES A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET'S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS. HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD R. MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT'S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN'T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCAST, START HERE. >> THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE THE CRUSH OF FAMILIES ON GROUND IN UKRAINE. ABC NEWS LIVE. AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS ANYTIME, ANYWHERE STREAMING 24/7. STRAIGHT TO YOU FOR FREE. THANK YOU FOR MAKING ABC NEWS LIVE AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS IS REPORTING FROM JOINT BASE IN ZON. GIO BENITEZ. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE'LL TAKE YOU THERE. >> YOU'RE STREAMING. ABC NEWS LIVE. >> ALL RIGHT, WE ARE BACK WITH ABC NEWS LIVE AND THIS IS OUR CONTINUING COVERAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION HERE IN MILWAUKEE. I'M KAYNA WHITWORTH AND WE'RE SO HAPPY TO HAVE YOU HERE WITH US. I WANT TO NOW BRING IN OUR ABC NEWS POLITICAL CONTRIBUTOR AND FORMER DEMOCRATIC SENATOR FROM NORTH DAKOTA, HEIDI HEITKAMP, ALONG WITH ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND EDITOR OF THE NATIONAL REVIEW, RAMESH PONNURU ,YOU BOTH FOR BEING HERE WITH US. AND RAMESH, WE ARE WE SAW FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE J.D. VANCE. THEY WERE IN THE CONVENTION HALL LAST NIGHT TOGETHER. OF COURSE, DONALD TRUMP HAD THE BANDAGE OVER HIS EAR, BUT WE SAW THE TWO INTERACT. NOW THAT THEY ARE BOTH OFFICIALLY THE NOMINEES HERE, RAMESH, WHAT IS THE MOOD, A REACTION RIGHT NOW AMONG REPUBLICANS THAT YOU'RE SPEAKING WITH TODAY? >> WELL, MOST REPUBLICANS ARE PRETTY POSITIVE, NOT REALLY SO MUCH ABOUT THE SELECTION OF VANCE, ALTHOUGH HE HAS QUITE A FEW FANS AS ABOUT ALL THE SIGNS THAT REPUBLICANS ARE DOING. WELL, IT'S ALWAYS BETTER TO BE ON THE SIDE THAT'S POLLING BETTER. AND REPUBLICANS LOOK AT THE DISARRAY ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE AND THEY'RE JUST REALLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THIS ELECTION. >> I JUST WANT TO QUICKLY FOLLOW UP THERE, ARE YOU GETTING A LOT OF REMARKS THAT PEOPLE ARE NOT HAPPY WITH THE VANCE PICK? >> NO, NO. I MEAN, I'M CERTAINLY THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO AREN'T HAPPY WITH AND PEOPLE WHO ARE MORE ALLY TO KIND OF THE OLD SCHOOL OF REPUBLICAN POLITICS. >> BUT OVERALL, HE'S GOTTEN A POSITIVE. I JUST THINK IN GENERAL, IT'S NOT SO MUCH THAT PEOPLE ARE REACTING TO VANCE AS OPPOSED TO BURGUM AS OPPOSED TO RUBIO THEY'RE JUST FEELING POSITIVE ABOUT THEIR PARTY. >> RIGHT. OKAY. AND HEIDI, ON THAT NOTE, I MEAN, HOW ARE DEMOCRATS, AS RAMESH MENTIONED, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN THIS SEEMS TO BE VERY UNIFIED IN LOCKSTEP WHERE THE, YOU KNOW ,THE DEMOCRATS SEEM TO BE INCREDIBLY DIVIDED IN THIS MOMENT. >> I THINK THAT'S ABSOLUTELY TRUE. BUT THEY'RE ALSO AT THEIR AND I WANT TO SAY THIS ABOUT J.D. VANCE. I, I THINK THAT PEOPLE SEE IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY SOME VULNERABILITIES GIVEN SOME OF HIS PAST HISTORY AND SOME OF HIS PAST STATEMENTS . AT THE END OF THE DAY, YOU EXPECT A CONVENTION TO THE TROOPS. YOU'RE SEEING EVERYBODY COME HOME. THIS WAS PREDICTED A LONG TIME AGO. THE QUESTION IS, WILL NIKKI HALEY DISAFFECTED REPUBLICANS ACTUALLY COME BACK AND AND BE PART OF THE CAMPAIGN AND WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS. >> CERTAINLY WILL. AND AS YOU BOTH WERE TALKING, WE'RE SHOWING VIDEO THERE OF VANCE AND NIKKI HALEY THERE DOING MIKE CHECKS. THIS WAS ALL HAPPENED EARLIER TODAY. WE KNOW THAT NIKKI HALEY IS EXPECTED TO SPEAK HERE TONIGHT. TRADITIONALLY, THE VICE PRESIDENT SPEAKS ON A WEDNESDAY. BUT IT WAS INTERESTING THAT WE SAW HIM OUT THERE DOING THE MIC TODAY. AND RAMESH, WE ALSO KNOW THAT REALLY EVERYTHING THAT J.D. VANCE HAS SAID IN THE PAST IS GOING TO BE PICKED APART. LAST WEEK AT THE NATIONAL CONSERVATISM CONFERENCE, HE MADE SOME COMMENTS, ONE OF THE US'S TOP ALLIES. SO I WANT TO PLAY THIS FOR YOU. TAKE A LISTEN. WHAT IS THE FIRST TRULY ISLAMIST COUNTRY THAT WILL GET A NUCLEAR WEAPON? AND WE WERE LIKE, MAYBE IT'S IRAN. YOU KNOW, MAYBE PAKISTAN ALREADY KIND OF COUNTS. AND THEN WE SORT OF FINALLY DECIDED IT'S ACTUALLY THE U.K. SINCE LABOR JUST TOOK OVER. >> RAMESH, WHAT'S YOUR REACTION TO THAT COMMENT THERE? I IT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WOULD HAVE TRADITIONALLY BEEN CONSIDERED FOR A CERTAINLY A PRESIDENT OR A VICE PRESIDENT. AND IT'LL BE INTERESTING TO SEE IF SOME OF THE RHETORIC FROM SENATOR VANCE, CHANGES NOW THAT HE'S TAKING ON A NEW ROLE . YEAH, CERTAINLY. AND WE KNOW THAT PEOPLE WILL BE WATCHING HIM VERY CLOSELY. HEIDI, FOR YOU, THE PICK OF VANCE, IT DOES SOLIDIFY THE MAGA PART OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. RIGHT. AND YOU THE VULNERABILITIES RIGHT NOW THAT DEMOCRATS COULD BE SEEING. BUT I'M ALSO CURIOUS IF YOU MIGHT BE CONCERNED AS A DEMOCRAT AND AGREE WITH THE THOUGHT PROCESS HERE THAT J.D. VANCE IS TELLING SOME OF THESE VOTERS, I WAS YOU BEFORE. I DIDN'T BELIEVE IN DONALD TRUMP. AND I TOOK A HARD AT HIS POLICIES AND HOW THINGS HAVE BEEN THE LAST FOUR YEARS. AND NOW I SUPPORT HIM AND YOU SHOULD, TOO. >> YOU KNOW, I HAVE THIS THEORY . VICE PRESIDENTS, THEY DON'T HELP YOU. THEY ONLY HURT YOU. AND I THINK OF HIS PAST STATEMENTS, ESPECIALLY ABOUT CHOICE, ESPECIALLY ABOUT OF OUR ALLIES, AS YOU JUST SAW THERE, ME, ME, YOU HIDE THAT STUFF ANYMORE. IT'S GOING TO BE ON TAPE. IT'S GOING TO BE AVAILABLE. AND SO I THINK THAT HE COULD, IN FACT, BE A GREAT CAMPAIGNER. BUT ONE OF THE CHALLENGES THAT THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE IS THAT YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF REPUBLICANS BEHIND THIS PICK THAT WISH THEY WERE THE GUY OR THE WOMAN AND SO, YOU KNOW, PICKING HIM WAS LIKE PICKING THE LEADER OF THE FUTURE MAGA EFFORT. RIGHT. AND WE KNOW AND THE MANNER IN WHICH IT WAS PICKED, TOO, WAS VERY TRUMPIAN AND VERY INTERESTING. HEIDI HEITKAMP, RAMESH PONNURU, OUR THANKS TO YOU, AS ALWAYS. WE SO APPRECIATE HAVING YOU. WE HAVE A LOT MORE SPECIAL COVERAGE AHEAD HERE FROM THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. >> I'M KAYNA WHITWORTH IN MILWAUKEE. PLEASE STAY WITH US. WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST IN AMERICA? AN OPERATION LIKE THIS ONE DURING COMBAT OPERATIONS? WE'RE APPROACHING THE GATE. MILITANTS CAME IN FROM FOUR OR FIVE DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. OPERATION NUCLEAR REACTOR ALSO GAVE THE COUPLE LOADED AND READY TO GO. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED. THE FLAG, THERE'S NOT A TEAR IN AND OUT OF IT. HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS LABEL HERE IN THE USA? >> LOOK AT YOUR SMILE. YOU'RE PROUD OF IT? I LOVE IT. GREAT WORK. HI. WHERE ARE YOU? WHERE YOU THINK IT'S ISRAEL? >> DAVID? YES. YES I'M DAVID. >> YOU ARE. I KNOW YOU ARE. YOU DO IT EVERY NIGHT. ABC'S WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR IS AMERICA'S MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST. >> WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS, WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL. A NATION AT WAR IN ROLLING FORK. THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS TOWN FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING FROM THE SCENE OF. THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE ABC NEWS LIVE EVERYWHERE IN ICELAND. LET'S GO ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET FOREVER. >> THE STORY IS WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE. YOU'RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE THERE, STREAMING NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE, STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE'S A LOT GOING ON. WE'RE STILL A FLASH FLOOD MORNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE ARE IN RIOT ARRESTING DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE MIGRANT CRISIS. FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE 17TH. HOLD A PHONE, KILL AND FACE. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHY? WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS "START HERE" TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE THE DAY'S TOP STORIES A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET'S GET INTO IT. LISTEN TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD R. MURROW AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE ABC NEWS MAKE IT DAILY FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW THAT'S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN'T SEE. WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. >> THERE IS A PRICE TO BE PAID EVERY TIME SURVIVOR SHARES THEIR STORY. >> I WILL NOT BE SILENCED. DO YOU FEEL THE CHURCH ACCEPTED ABUSE? I WON'T SAY ACCEPT IT AS SO MUCH. >> PRETENDED IT DIDN'T EXIST. THAT'S HOW. KYRA KYRA PHILLIPS WITH ABC NEWS. >> DOES YOUR CHURCH PROTECT SEXUAL PREDATORS IN THE IMPACT "NIGHTLINE". SECRETS OF THE TO BUY TO CHURCH. THERE'S NOTHING PRETTY HEARING THIS NOW STREAMING ON HULU. ALL RIGHT. WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE, SPECIAL COVERAGE OF. THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION DAY TWO IS SET TO KICK OFF IN JUST ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF FROM NOW. >> AND TODAY'S THEME IS MAKE AMERICA SAFE ONCE AGAIN. THERE WILL BE THAT WILL BE FOCUSING ON CRIME, AMERICA'S DEADLY FENTANYL CRISIS AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. NOW, AMONG THOSE SET TO ADDRESS THE CONVENTION TONIGHT, YOU SEE IT THERE, VIVEK RAMASWAMY. AND LATE ADDITION TO THE PROGRAM, TRUMP'S LONGEST STANDING RIVAL, THE GOP PRIMARY, FORMER SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR NIKKI HALEY. >> SO I WANT TO TURN TO OUR TEAM COVERAGE NOW WITH ABC NEWS JAY O'BRIEN, ABC NEWS EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL PRODUCER JOHN SANTUCCI AND ABC NEWS POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT AND COAUTHOR OF THE POLITICO PLAYBOOK. RACHEL. SO I'M SO HAPPY TO HAVE YOU ALL HERE WITH US. AND JAY, YOU'VE BEEN DOWN ON THE FLOOR, WORKING THE FLOOR FOR THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS HERE OF THIS CONVENTION, IS THAT I KNOW YOU JUST CAUGHT UP WITH ARKANSAS GOVERNOR ASA HUTCHINSON AS WELL, WHICH REALLY I THINK IS QUITE INDICATIVE OF SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE SEEING HERE AT THE CONVENTION A REAL RALLYING CRY HERE FOR UNITY WITHIN THE GOP. >> YEAH, IT'S INTERESTING. IN THE EARLY DAY, IN THE EARLY HOURS, RATHER, OF THIS CONVENTION, I TALKED TO A HOUSE GOP LEADERSHIP SOURCE WHO SAID, LOOK, THEY HAD MEMBERS AMONGST HOUSE REPUBLICANS WHO WERE MORE MODERATE, THEY WERE IN MORE COMPETITIVE DISTRICTS, AND THEY WERE UNSURE WHAT SAY PUBLICLY ABOUT DONALD TRUMP. THEY WEREN'T VERY VOCAL ABOUT THEIR SUPPORT FOR HIM IF THEY DID SUPPORT HIM. AND THEN THIS GOP LEADERSHIP SOURCE SAID A LOT OF HIS AFTER SATURDAY STARTED TO FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE, MORE AIR COVER, IF YOU WILL, TO COME OUT AND SUPPORT TRUMP. SO HE'S ESSENTIALLY SAYING THERE IS SOME VALIDITY, THIS TRUMP MESSAGE OF UNITY, THAT HE IS BRINGING SOME OF THOSE MODERATES IN THE PARTY THAT WEREN'T PARTICULARLY FANS OF HIS TOGETHER. ASA HUTCHINSON IS KIND OF CUT FROM THAT MOLD. HE'S A MODERATE IN THE PARTY HE WAS VERY CRITICAL OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP WHEN HE WAS LONG SHOT REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT. HE SAID HE WOULD NEVER VOTE FOR HIM BECAUSE HE WOULD NEVER VOTE FOR, IN HIS WORDS, A CONVICTED FELON. >> AND I ASKED HIM. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN NOW? AND HE SAID, LOOK, HE'S COMING AROUND. HE MIGHT HAVE TO HE SAID, DO AWAY WITH THAT PLEDGE THAT HE WOULDN'T VOTE FOR DONALD TRUMP. HE SAID THAT PLEDGE WAS A QUOTE, LONG TIME AGO. AND THE REASON HE GAVE ME IS BECAUSE OF WHAT HOW TRUMP ACTED ON SATURDAY. SO THERE ARE MODERATES GETTING BEHIND HIM IN THE WAKE OF THAT ATTEMPT. AND THAT WILL BE REALLY INTERESTING. AND IT WILL BE ESPECIALLY TO SEE WHAT NIKKI HALEY SAYS TONIGHT AND IF SHE ADDRESSES LOT OF THOSE MODERATE REPUBLICANS THAT WE KNOW ARE VERY SUPPORTIVE OF HER. AND RACHEL, TO YOU, AS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT UNITY HERE WITHIN THE GOP, WE ARE SEEING MORE FRACTURING WITHIN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. I WANT TO ASK YOU QUICKLY, IF I CAN, ABOUT DEMOCRATIC SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ, WHO'S BEEN CONVICTED HERE ON CORRUPTION AND BRIBERY CHARGES. AND NOW THERE'S A BIT OF A GROUNDSWELL OF CALLS FOR HIM TO STEP DOWN THAT COULD POTENTIALLY BE A VULNERABLE SENATE SEAT. >> NOW. YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT. I LOOK, USUALLY IN CONGRESS WHEN SOMEBODY IS INDICTED, THE LEADERS WILL OFTEN SAY WE'RE GOING TO LET THE PROCESS PLAY OUT. THIS PERSON IS SORT OF INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY. BUT WHEN THEY'RE CONVICTED, THOSE MEMBERS ARE EXPECTED TO GO. AND THAT'S WHY YOU SEE PEOPLE LIKE CHUCK SCHUMER SAYING ENOUGH'S ENOUGH. THIS GUY HAS TO STEP DOWN. BUT LOOK, IN THIS OF THIS ENVIRONMENT RIGHT NOW, NEW JERSEY IN PARTICULAR, WE HAVE SEEN POLLS CHANGING AND REPUBLICANS BOOSTING THEIR POLLING THERE. AND SO IT IS A STATE, IT'S A BLUE STATE. BUT YOU NEVER KNOW IN THIS POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT, SPECIFICALLY WHEN JOE BIDEN IS SORT OF DRAGGING DOWN THE TICKET RIGHT NOW, THAT IS REALLY INTERESTING. RACHEL AND JOHN, I WANT TO COME TO YOU HERE WHEN. WE SAW DONALD TRUMP WALK INTO THIS CONVENTION CENTER LAST NIGHT. IT WAS AN INCREDIBLY POWERFUL MOMENT. OF COURSE, WE ALSO SAW HIM SITTING THERE NEXT TO HIS VICE NOMINEE, J.D. VANCE. AND I'M NOT TRYING TO OVERSTATE IT OR OVERPLAY IT, JOHN, BUT IT REALLY SEEMED TO BE FILLED WITH EMOTION, ESPECIALLY FOR DONALD TRUMP HIMSELF IN THAT MOMENT. >> 100%. CAN I LISTEN, I'VE COVERED DONALD FOR NEARLY TEN YEARS FOR ABC NEWS. I HAVE NEVER SEEN THAT SHOW SO MUCH EMOTION, SO MUCH OF A REACTION IT WAS ALMOST THE BODY LANGUAGE TOLD MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE. AND IT WAS ONE OF THOSE NIGHTS THAT REALLY WE DIDN'T HEAR DONALD TRUMP BUT HIS BODY HIS FACIAL REACTIONS, THE WAY THAT HE WAS JUST SILENTLY TAKING IT IN REALLY TOLD THE STORY. SO I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH YOU. IT WAS A VERY RARE HUMAN MOMENT FROM DONALD TRUMP. AND LISTEN, YOU'RE DONALD HAS SAID EVERY DAY OF HIS LIFE IS A TV SHOW. YOU WILL WHO COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED WHAT HAPPENED SATURDAY ,HAVE IMAGINED WHERE HE'S BEEN IN DONALD TRUMP HIMSELF? DANA WAS TELLING MY SATURDAY NIGHT AS HE WAS PROCESSING IT. IT WAS A LOT OF BLOOD. I CAN'T BELIEVE I TURNED MY HEAD JUST A FEW INCHES. I SURVIVE SO I JUST THINK THAT PROCESSING OF THAT AND AGAIN, THE FACT THAT NIGHT WAS THE FIRST NIGHT ANY AMERICAN HAD REALLY SEEN HIM PUBLICLY TO SEE THAT BAD NEWS, TO SEE THAT REACTION ON HIM. I THINK THAT ALSO THE SEEING THE CROWD CHEERING HIM ON, YOU KNOW, KNOW DONALD TRUMP LOVES A BIG CROWD. WE KNOW HE ENJOYS THOSE RALLIES . IT'S GOING TO BE INTERESTING, FRANKLY, HOW THIS MOVES FORWARD WITH THE CAMPAIGN REACTION TO THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON SATURDAY, HOW THEY AFFECT THE RALLIES GOING FORWARD. BUT LAST DAY, I THINK, WAS REALLY A MOMENT THAT HUMBLED DONALD TRUMP. >> TINA, I AGREE IT ALMOST APPEARED AS IF HE WAS EXPRESSING A LOT OF GRATITUDE ALONG THAT EMOTION. YOU SAW IT FROM HIS ADULT SONS THAT WERE THERE WITH HIM AS WELL. AND JOHN, I DO WANT TO FOLLOW UP WITH YOU, BECAUSE I'VE BEEN SPEAKING WITH VOTERS OUT HERE AND THEY HAVE CONCERNS OVER THE ECONOMY. THEIR BIGGEST MOST OF THE VOTERS I TALKED TO IS SAFETY, NATIONAL SECURITY. AND, JOHN, WE KNOW TODAY'S THEME IS TO MAKE AMERICA SAFE ONCE AGAIN. HOW DO YOU ANTICIPATE TRUMP'S TEAM AND OTHER GOP LEADERS WILL BE ADDRESSING NATIONAL SECURITY AND SAFETY OF THIS COUNTRY AND SPECIFICALLY GUN SAFETY? >> WELL, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THEY'RE GOING TO TRY TO DO TONIGHT, KENA, IS REALLY TALK THE BORDER, BUT BRING THE STORY INTO LOCAL NEIGHBORHOODS. AND WHAT MEAN BY THAT IS TALK ABOUT HOW THE INFLUX MIGRANTS SOME OF THESE FACILITIES, YOU KNOW, THINK ABOUT LISTEN, CAN I LIVE IN NEW YORK RIGHT? THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY THIS. THEY TALK ABOUT HOTELS BEING TAKEN OVER. THEY'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT LOCAL COMMUNITIES ARE NO LONGER SAFE. THEY'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE BEEN KILLED IN THESE SITUATIONS BY SOME OF THE FOLKS THAT HAVE CROSSED OVER THE BORDER ILLEGALLY. SO I THINK A LOT OF THAT IS GOING TO COME INTO TONIGHT. AND ALSO, LOOK, THEY ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT SAFETY ON A BROADER LEVEL, PEOPLE THAT ARE CARRYING GUNS. AND OBVIOUSLY THAT'S GOING TO BE A BIT OF CONFLICT WITH THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM. BUT THEY'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE VIOLENCE FACTOR. RIGHT. AND EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS OUTSIDE SOMEONE'S FRONT DOOR. THEY'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT SCHOOLS AND SAFETY, I THINK IS GOING TO A LOT OF THAT TONIGHT. AND I'M LISTEN, THE SPEAKER LINEUP HERE, YOU MENTIONED NIKKI, ONE OF THE SPEAKERS THAT I THINK IS REALLY GOING TO HONE IN TO THAT BASED ON HER IS SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, DONALD TRUMP'S FORMER PRESS SECRETARY, NOW THE GOVERNOR OF ARKANSAS. THAT WILL BE SOMETHING SHE WILL HIT HARD, I'M TOLD. >> OH, THAT IS REALLY INTERESTING. SO WE KNOW THAT THEY'LL TALKING A LOT ABOUT POLICY. IT'S OUR UNDERSTANDING AS WELL THAT YOU'LL HEAR FROM PEOPLE EVERY NIGHT ON THAT STAGE THAT WILL SHARE A PERSONAL STORY THAT WILL THIS REPUBLICAN MESSAGE. JOHN AND RACHEL, OUR THANKS, ALL OF YOU, AS ALWAYS. >> WE HAVE A LOT MORE SPECIAL COVERAGE AHEAD HERE ON ABC LIVE HERE AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IN MILWAUKEE. WE'RE SO HAPPY TO HAVE YOU HERE WITH US. AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THIS LIVE SHOT, THE SEATS ARE TO FILL UP ONCE AGAIN. THERE IS A LOT OF ANTICIPATION FOR A REALLY EXCITING LIST OF SPEAKERS THAT WE WILL SEE HERE TONIGHT IN. >> STAY WITH US. >> WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS, WE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR AFTER THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. >> REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING. >> ABC NEWS LIVE IS RIGHT THERE EVERYWHERE FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE IN UKRAINE. UKRAINE REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY, ENROLLING FOR THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS LITTLE TOWN FROM THE MOST DEVASTATING IN HAWAII. FROM CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN ICELAND. >> LET'S GO BACK. TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT IN MEXICO CITY, WHEREVER THE STORY IS ON FRONT LINES FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL, OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP IN BEIRUT, COMING REPORTING FROM THE NURSES ON THE PICKET LINE HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET IN LONDON, STREAMING LIVE TO YOU WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE. YOU'RE STREAMING, ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE, YOU'RE STREAMING, ABC NEWS LIVE ,ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE AMERICA IS NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE'S A LOT GOING ON. WE'RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD WARNING. CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. POLICE IN RIOT GEAR ARRESTING OF PROTESTERS. WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE MIGRANT CRISIS FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON. THE 17TH HOLD A BUZZ KILL AND BASEBALL. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. WHAT IF THERE IS A PRICE TO BE PAID EVERY TIME A SURVIVOR SHARES THEIR STORY? I WILL NOT BE SILENCED. DO YOU FEEL THE CHURCH ACCEPTED ABUSE? I WON'T SAY ACCEPTED AS SO MUCH. >> PRETENDED IT DIDN'T EXIST. READY? KYRA PHILLIPS WITH ABC NEWS. DOES YOUR CHURCH PROTECT SEXUAL PREDATORS? THE POWERFUL "IMPACT X NIGHTLINE" SECRETS OF THE TO BUY TO CHURCH. >> THERE'S NOTHING PRETTY ABOUT HEARING THIS NOW STREAMING ON HULU. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS "START HERE" TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY'S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET'S GET INTO IT LISTEN TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD R. MURR WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST LISTENING TO YOU START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW THAT'S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN'T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST? AMERICA? WE ARE PART OF AN OPERATION TO SERVE COMBAT OPERATIONS. WE ARE APPROACHING THE GATE. MILITANTS CAME IN FROM DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. THEY REACTED, RECEIVED A COUPLE OF LOADED AND READY TO GO. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED, BUT THE FLAG YOU KNOW HOW IMPORTANT IT MADE THE USA. >> GREAT WORK. HI, IT'S LYLE. >> DAVID. I'M DAVID. YOU ARE. YOU ARE YOU DO EVERY NIGHT. >> ABC'S WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR IS AMERICA'S WATCHED NEWSCAST. WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS "START HERE". >> TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY'S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET'S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD R. MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. NOW, THAT'S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN'T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCAST, START HERE HERE. AND WELCOME BACK. THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IS, OF COURSE, GETTING UNDERWAY THIS WEEK. IT TUESDAY, IT IS DAY TWO. AND YOU ARE LOOKING LIVE RIGHT NOW. I THE CONVENTION FLOOR WHERE THE SEATS ARE STARTING TO FILL UP AND THEY ARE GETTING READY AGAIN FOR AN EXCITING LIST OF SPEAKERS HERE FOR THE GOP TONIGHT. >> IN THE MEANTIME, THOUGH, PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN IS ALSO HITTING THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. HE IS IN THE BATTLEGROUND STATE OF NEVADA AND HE IS EXPECTED TO ADDRESS THE NAACP NATIONAL CONVENTION. >> THIS IS HIS FIRST CAMPAIGN EVENT SINCE THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. BIDEN RIGHT NOW HOPING TO COURT BLACK VOTERS, A KEY DEMOGRAPHIC IN THAT STATE. >> AND AS THIS IS HAPPENING, ABC NEWS IS LEARNING THAT THERE'S A NEW AND THIS LETTER IS CALLING ON THE DNC TO DELAY VIRTUAL ROLL CALL ON PRESIDENT BIDEN'S NOMINATION . AND THIS LETTER IS CIRCULATING AMONG DEMOCRATS ON CAPITOL HILL. THIS IS ALL ACCORDING TO MULTIPLE SOURCES THAT ARE FAMILIAR WITH THAT MATTER. SO I WANT TO BRING IN ABC NEWS SENIOR HOUSE CORRESPONDENT SELINA WANG, WHO IS LIVE IN LAS VEGAS FOR. AND, SELINA, IT'S SO WONDERFUL TO HAVE YOU HERE WITH US. AND LET'S START WITH THIS LETTER HERE. WHAT ARE YOU HEARING FROM SOURCES ABOUT WHAT THIS LETTER SAYS AND WE KNOW, SELINA, IF ANY LAWMAKERS HAVE CONFIRMED. YES THEY'LL SIGN IT OR HAVE ALREADY SIGNED IT. YEAH, KATE, WE'VE LEARNED FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES THAT AT LEAST A FEW LAWMAKERS ARE PLANNING TO SIGN ON TO IT. WE HAVE OBTAINED A DRAFT VERSION, THIS LETTER, AND IT ESSENTIALLY ARGUES THAT BY HOLDING THIS ROLL CALL, THIS VOTE FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN'S NOMINATION SO EARLY, IT ESSENTIALLY ANY DEBATE AND IT SHUTS DOWN THE POSSIBILITY OF CHANGING THE TOP THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET. AND WHAT THIS SHOWS, KAYNA, IS THAT THESE AREN'T GOING DISCUSSIONS ABOUT HAVING PRESIDENT BIDEN STEP ASIDE WHILE THEY AREN'T GOING AWAY ANY TIME SOON AFTER THAT BRIEF REPRIEVE FOLLOWING THE EVENTS OF THIS. >> NOW, THESE CALLS ARE VERY MUCH ONLY ESCALATING, BUT I GOT TO STEP BACK A LITTLE BIT TO GIVE SOME CONTEXT ON THIS LETTER. SO ESSENTIALLY, THE DNC HAD CHANGED ITS PROCESS TO GIVE EARLIER VOTE FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN VIRTUALLY IN ORDER TO COMPLY WITH CHANGES TO OHIO'S BALLOT ACCESS. HOWEVER, OHIO LATER THEN CHANGED RULES, PUSHED BACK THE DEADLINE. SO THIS LETTER IS ARGUING THAT YOU NO LONGER NEED TO HAVE THIS VERY EARLY VOTE TO COMPLY WITH THOSE RULES. SO THIS ONGOING DEBATE, IT IS STILL HAPPENING. THIS IS A DRAFT LETTER. WE'VE GOT IS SOME PUSHBACK FROM MEMBERS OF SOME MEMBERS OF THE DNC WHO SAY THEY SHOULD MOVE AHEAD WITH THIS AS PLANNED. >> INTERESTING IN THIS LETTER CALLS IT, A TERRIBLE IDEA, COULD DEEPLY UNDERMINE THE MORALE AND UNITY OF DEMOCRATS, A PARTY THAT IS CERTAINLY STRUGGLING WITH UNITY IN THIS MOMENT. BUT ALSO, SELITA, BACK TO BIDEN ADDRESSING THE NATIONAL CONVENTION AT THE NAACP. WHAT DO WE EXPECT TO HEAR FROM HIM TODAY? IT ALMOST APPEARS LIKE THIS IS SERVING LIKE COUNTER-PROGRAMMING OR SOMETHING TO THE RNC YET. >> KAINE IT IS EXACTLY COUNTERPROGRAMMING TO THE RNC. WE ARE EXPECTING THE PRESIDENT ACTUALLY TO TAKE THE STAGE ANY MOMENT NOW. AND I'M TOLD THAT HE IS GOING TO DRAW THE CONTRAST BETWEEN VISION FOR AMERICA AND DONALD TRUMP'S EXTREME MAGA VISION IS WHAT THEY'RE LABELING IT AS. BUT HE'S ALSO GOING TO BRING THE CONVERSATION BACK TO KEY ECONOMIC ISSUES LIKE HOUSING. THE PRESIDENT TODAY IS CALLING ON CONGRESS TO PASS LEGISLATION THAT WOULD CAP PRICE INCREASES FOR RENT AT 5% PER YEAR, NOT ALLOWING LANDLORDS TO GO ABOVE THAT. THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CAMPAIGN TO REALLY RESET THE CONVERSATION AFTER THAT ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION ON DONALD TRUMP OVER THE WEEKEND. THE CAMPAIGN HAD A BRIEF PAUSE, BUT NOW THINGS ARE VERY MUCH BACK TO NORMAL. THEY ARE PLOWING AHEAD AND THEY WANT TO AGAIN BRING THE FOCUS TO THE PLANS OF PRESIDENT BIDEN, WHICH MANY MEMBERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CRITICIZED THE PRESIDENT FOR NOT PROPERLY ARTICULATING. OH, THAT'S REALLY INTERESTING, BECAUSE HE DOES OFTEN FOCUS ON WHAT HE'S DONE THE PAST AND HE WANTS TO HANG HIS HAT ON THAT WHEN SO MANY AMERICANS HAVE QUESTIONS, HIS FUTURE AND CAN HE SERVE ANOTHER FOUR YEARS? AND SELINA I MEAN SOME OF THESE SWING STATES. I'M HERE IN WISCONSIN, YOU'RE THERE IN NEVADA, IN NEVADA, A KEY SWING STATE IN THE 2024 ELECTION. BIDEN NARROWLY WON IN 2020. SO THE STAKES ARE CLEARLY VERY HIGH, WHERE YOU'RE AT. WHAT ARE PEOPLE TELLING YOU THERE ABOUT RIGHT NOW? THEIR SUPPORT, THIS BIDEN-HARRIS TICKET? >> I PROJECTED IT, YEAH. BEEN FASCINATING. I'VE BEEN TALKING TO ATTENDEES OF THESE EVENTS. THESE ARE ACP MEMBERS AND THEY ARE VERY MUCH SPLIT ABOUT THE PRESIDENT'S CANDIDACY. >> SOME OF THEM ARE FIRMLY BEHIND PRESIDENT BIDEN, NO MATTER. >> WHAT? BUT OTHERS TELL ME THEY WOULD PREFER SOMEBODY ELSE AT THE TOP, THE TICKET, ESPECIALLY VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS. >> SO TAKE A LISTEN TO WHAT SOME OF THEM TOLD ME. >> IF YOU LOOK WHAT THE PRESIDENT IS GOING TO STEP ASIDE AND ALLOW HARRIS, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT PERSONALLY. WE NEED NEW INNOVATIVE THINKING. I STUDIED THE SAME OLD WAY. I'LL TAKE A PERSON WHO'S 83 YEARS OLD OF A PERSON WHO HAS BEEN PART OF AN INSURRECTION ANY DAY OF THE WEEK. I'LL TAKE A MAN WHO HAS BEEN A LOYAL HUSBAND AND FATHER OF A MAN WHO HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF BEING WITH A PORN STAR. AND ANOTHER VOTER TOLD THAT SHE WOULD POSSIBLY PREFER SOMEBODY ELSE. BUT REALLY, IT'S JUST TOO LATE IN THE GAME. SO SHE SAID, REALLY, THE PARTY SHOULD STICK WITH WHAT THEY'VE GOT WORK WITH, WHAT THEY'VE GOT. BUT LOOK, EVEN THOUGH MULTIPLE VOTERS SAID THEY WERE SUPER CONFIDENT ABOUT HAVING PRESIDENT BIDEN AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET, THEY SAID THEY WERE GOING VOTE AND SUPPORT FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN IF HE CHOOSES STAY IN THIS RACE. >> AND I WANT TO FOLLOW UP WITH YOU REALLY QUICKLY. WE JUST HEARD FROM ONE OF OUR ANALYSTS HERE THAT, YOU KNOW, THE VICE PRESIDENT, THE TICKET OFTEN DOESN'T REALLY MATTER. IT DOESN'T MAKE THAT BIG OF DIFFERENCE. BUT I'M CURIOUS AS TO WHAT YOU'RE HEARING FROM DEMOCRATS IN NEVADA ABOUT HOW THEY FEEL NOW THAT WE KNOW THAT J.D. VANCE IS ON THE TICKET HERE WITH DONALD TRUMP. AND OF COURSE, THEY KNOW KAMALA HARRIS IS ON THE TICKET THERE WITH BIDEN. WHAT ARE YOU HEARING FROM THEM IN TERMS OF THE IMPORTANCE OF WHO IS THE VICE PRESIDENT? >> WELL, I CAN TELL YOU THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN CERTAINLY THINKS IT'S VERY THAT J.D. VANCE IS THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL PICK, AND THEY'RE ACTUALLY USING THIS A CHANCE TO REALLY BRING NEW FUEL TO THEIR ARGUMENT ABOUT TRUMP'S AGENDA. THEY ARE CALLING OUT J.D. VANCE AS A CLONE AND AN EXTENSION OF DONALD TRUMP, CALLING HIM OUT, SAYING THAT HE WOULD BEND OVER BACKWARDS TO ENACT TRUMP'S AGENDA. THEY'RE CALLING OUT FOR HIS PREVIOUS RECORD WHERE HE SAID HE WOULD BACK AND NET NATIONWIDE ABORTION BAN, EVEN CRITICIZING EXCEPTIONS FOR RAPE AND INCEST. >> SO FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, THEY BELIEVE THIS IS ACTUALLY GOING TO HELP GIVE FUEL TO THEIR KEY MESSAGE HERE. >> BUT IT IS VERY INTERESTING, SELINA WANG THERE IN LAS VEGAS. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE WITH US. AND WE HAVE A LOT SPECIAL COVERAGE AHEAD HERE IN MILWAUKEE. >> OF COURSE, WE ARE AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL. 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ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING THE MIGRANT CRISIS FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE 17 POLE. THE BUZZKILL IN BASEBALL FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA'S ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> HI I'M MANDY. >> AND I'M SABRINA AND WE'RE MOMS JUGGLING TONS OF STUFF EVERY DAY, LIKE ALL YOU MOMS OUT THERE. >> AND YOU KNOW WHAT? WE LOVE, LOVE POP CULTURE. SO WHAT HAPPENS WHEN BEING OBSESSED? POP CULTURE COLLIDES WITH BEING A MOM? YOU GET US. SO, LISTEN, THAT'UR NEW PODCAST, POP CULTURE MOMS. WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS . WE'RE PULLING IN SAINT PETERSBURG, FLORIDA. IN THE AFTERMATH OF HURRICANE ADELPHIA. I'M AND WHEN WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE'LL TAKE THERE YOU'RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE . ALL RIGHT, EVERYBODY WELCOME BACK HERE TO MILWAUKEE AGAIN YOU ARE LOOKING LIVE THERE AT THE STAGE. YOU CAN SEE THE THEME OF MAKE AMERICA ONCE AGAIN EACH NIGHT A DIFFERENT, MORE SPECIFIC THEME. AND TONIGHT IS MAKE AMERICA SAFE ONCE AGAIN. WE ARE LIVE FOR YOU IN MILWAUKEE. AND WE'RE SO HAPPY TO HAVE YOU HERE WITH US FOR OUR NEWS SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. >> I WANT BRING IN OUR ABC NEWS POLITICAL CONTRIBUTOR HEIDI HEITKAMP AND ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR PONNURU AS WELL. WE'RE SO HAPPY TO HAVE YOU HERE BOTH WITH US. AND RAMESH, WE'VE BEEN TALKING A LOT ABOUT THE SPEAKERS HERE TONIGHT. WE HAVE LIST OF SOME OF THEM. THIS IS AN EXCITING MOMENT FOR THE GOP MOST NOTABLY HERE. WE'VE BEEN TALKING A LOT ABOUT NIKKI HALEY. WE SAW HER DOWN THERE JUST A LITTLE AGO. >> SHE WAS IN WHITE DRESS. SHE WAS DOING A MIC CHECK. OF COURSE, NIKKI HALEY WAS A LATE ADDITION RIGHT TO THE LIST OF SPEAKERS. TRUMP'S OTHER FORMER GOP PRIMARY OPPONENT THERE, RON DESANTIS, ALSO WILL BE SPEAKING ALONG WITH VIVEK RAMASWAMY, ALL OF THEM SPEAKING TONIGHT. MARCO RUBIO, WHO WAS A FAVORITE THERE POTENTIALLY FOR VICE PRESIDENT, WILL BE THE NIGHT. WHAT DO YOU ANTICIPATE THAT WE WILL BE HEARING? IT'S OUR UNDERSTANDING AGAIN, THE THEME IS SAFETY HERE, BUT IT'S OUR UNDERSTANDING THAT SPECIFICALLY RON DESANTIS AND NIKKI HALEY WILL BE FOCUSING A LOT ON UNITY. >> WELL, THERE'S NO QUESTION THAT WHETHER OR NOT IT'S THE STATED CONTENT OF ALL THE SPEECHES, THE UNOFFICIAL THEME, AT LEAST, IS PARTY UNITY. YOU'VE GOT ALL OF THESE CANDIDATES, FORMER CANDIDATES FROM DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE PARTY, ALL BASICALLY BLESSING THE TRUMP ADVANCE. I WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO HEAR NIKKI HALEY OFFER A MORE FULL THROATED ENDORSEMENT OF THE TICKET THAN SHE HAS IN THE PAST. SHE HAS SORT OF BEEN WARMING UP TO THIS TICKET IN STAGES FOR HER SAYING THAT SHE WAS GOING TO VOTE FOR TRUMP. >> THEN MOST RELEASING HER DELEGATES TO VOTE FOR TRUMP, WHICH PROBABLY IS WAY FOR HER SPEAKING APPEARANCE TONIGHT. AND YOU'VE GOT TO THINK FROM POLITICAL STANDPOINT, WITH TRUMP LOOKING LIKE THE FAVORITE TO WIN IN NOVEMBER, SHE'S GOING TO WANT TO BE ON SIDE. RIGHT. CERTAINLY SORT OF FALL IN LINE LOCKSTEP WITH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. AND, HEIDI, TOO. WE KNOW THAT NIKKI HALEY HAS BEEN VERY POPULAR, ESPECIALLY AMONG MODERATE REPUBLICANS AND SOME INDEPENDENTS AS WELL. HEIDI, WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THE FACT HERE THAT SHE IS SPEAKING TONIGHT? >> DO YOU THINK THAT THAT'S A BAD SIGN FOR DEMOCRATS WHO WERE ALSO REALLY TO WOO HER SUPPORTERS? >> I THINK NIKKI HAS BEEN A PROTEST VOTE, A NEVER TRUMP VOTE. AND SO HER COMING INTO THE FOLD, DOES THAT MOVE ANY OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO WERE ONCE CYNICAL OR SKEPTICAL ABOUT DONALD TRUMP OVER? NOT SURE THAT THAT'S THE THE REAL OUTCOME OF THIS. I THINK THAT SHE WAS WILLING TO KIND OF SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER. SHE'S NOW COMING IN. IT DOESN'T SURPRISE ME THAT SHE'S DOING THIS. IF SHE WANTS A FUTURE IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, SHE HAS TO. BUT I'M NOT SURE THAT IT'S GOING TO RESPOND TO THE CONCERNS THAT SUBURBAN REPUBLICAN WOMEN HAVE ABOUT THIS TICKET. >> INTERESTING. AND RAMESH, AGAIN, BACK TO THE THEME HERE TONIGHT OF MAKING AMERICA SAFE AGAIN. IT IS REALLY EXPECTED TONIGHT TO FOCUS SPECIFICALLY ON SECURITY AND ON IMMIGRATION. BUT RAMESH THIS IS ALSO WHERE WE'VE SEEN REALLY A LOT OF FINGER POINTING FROM REPUBLICANS. A LOT OF, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE PLACING BLAME ON DEMOCRATS AND SOME FIERY RHETORIC THERE AS WELL. HOW DO YOU ANTICIPATE THEM TRYING TO GET THEIR POINT ACROSS WHILE AT THE SAME TIME, YOU KNOW, TONING DOWN THAT DIVISIVE RHETORIC? >> WELL, I THINK IT IS GOING TO DEPEND ON SPEAKER. SO SOME OF THE SPEAKERS THAT YOU MENTIONED REALLY PRETTY MUCH ALMOST ALL OF THEM, I THINK ARE GOING TO BE CAREFUL IN HOW THEY ADDRESS THESE ISSUES. >> BUT NOT ALL OF THEM WILL. I DO THINK THAT LEAVING THE DEMOCRATS AND THE PARTISAN ELEMENT OF THIS, THERE ARE SOME SERIOUS QUESTIONS ABOUT THE SEQUEL SECRET SERVICE THAT NOW NEED TO BE ANSWERED IN RELATION TO SAFETY AND SECURITY. AND I THINK THEY'RE ON MINDS OF A LOT OF PEOPLE BOTH INSIDE THE CONVENTION AND OUTSIDE IT. >> ABSOLUTELY. AS WE'RE STARTING TO SEE THE FINGER POINTING THERE. HAPPENING NOW BETWEEN THE SECRET SERVICE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT THERE IN PENNSYLVANIA. SO WE'LL, OF COURSE, KEEP ON TOP OF THAT INVESTIGATION AS WELL. HEIDI HEITKAMP AND WE'RE IN. >> RAMESH PONNURU, THANK YOU BOTH FOR BEING HERE WITH US. AND THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU FOR STREAMING WITH US. >> WE'RE SO HAPPY TO HAVE YOU HERE ON KAYNA WHITWORTH. AND OUR SPECIAL PRIMETIME COVERAGE OF THE 2024 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION CONTINUES. THE REST OF THE CONVENTION HERE KICKS OFF ON ABC NEWS LIVE TONIGHT AT 7 P.M. EASTERN. SO MAKE SURE TO JOIN IN BECAUSE LINSEY DAVIS WILL BE JOINED BY OUR VERY OWN DAVID MUIR AND, OUR ENTIRE POWERHOUSE POLITICAL TEAM. SO WE CERTAINLY HOPE YOU CHECK THEM OUT. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS, AND NEITHER DO WE. KEEP IT RIGHT HERE ON ABC NEWS LIVE LIVE. WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS "START HERE". TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY'S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET'S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST. HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD R. MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT'S PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN'T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. THIS WEEK, DONALD TRUMP AND THE REPUBLICANS THEIR CASE. SEE IT ALL STREAMED ON ABC NEWS LIVE. ALL LIVE NONSTOP COVERAGE. AND THEN AT 7 P.M. EASTERN, LINSEY DAVIS LIVE AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, THERE'S A LOT GOING ON. WE'RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE IN RIOT GEAR ARRESTING, DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE MIGRANT CRISIS FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR. THE 17 POLE, A BUZZKILL IN BASEBALL. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT A GREAT MORNING AMERICA. GOOD MORNING, AMERICA. GOOD MORNING, AMERICA. YOU DON'T JUST SEE IT. YOU FEEL IT. I'M IN. I'M IN. I'M IN. I'M IN, IN. >> TO BE HERE NOW. >> HI, I'M MANDY. AND I'M SABRINA. AND WE'RE MOMS JUGGLING OF STUFF EVERY DAY, LIKE ALL YOU MOMS OUT THERE. >> AND YOU KNOW WHAT? >> LOVE, REALLY LOVE POP CULTURE. SO WHAT HAPPENS WHEN BEING OBSESSED WITH POP CULTURE COLLIDES WITH BEING A MOM? YOU GET US STEN NOW TO OUR NEW , POP CULTURE MOMS. WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR. >> REPORTING FROM THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL, I'M EVA PILGRIM WHEREVER THE STORY IS WILL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU'RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE . WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE MOST NEWSCAST IN AMERICA? WE ARE PART OF AN OPERATION. THIS IS OUR COMBAT OPERATIONS. WE'RE APPROACHING THE GATE. MILITANTS CAME IN FROM DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS HERE REACT SO WE HAD A COUPLE LOADED AND READY TO GO. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED, BUT THE FLAG, YOU KNOW HOW IMPORTANT IT MADE THE USA. GREAT WORK. HI, IT'S LYLE. >> DAVID. I'M DAVID. YOU ARE. YOU ARE HERE EVERY NIGHT. >> ABC'S WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR IS MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST. BABE RUTH, HANK AARON SHOHEI OHTANI, LEGENDS OF THE GAME. BUT NOW THE LIST OF GREATS REDEFINED. FROM ABC NEWS RECLAIM THE FORGOTTEN LEAD SIDE OF THE STORY OF BASEBALL YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD BEFORE LIKE THIS. THE AWARD WINNING PODCAST IS BACK. LISTEN, WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, SCAN THE QR CODES. >> YOU SEE HERE RIGHT. >> ALL RIGHT. WELCOME BACK, EVERYBODY. DAY TWO OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION SET TO GET UNDERWAY HERE TONIGHT AT THE PFIZER FORUM ARENA DOWNTOWN MILWAUKEE. YOU ARE LOOKING LIVE RIGHT NOW AS PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO FILL THEIR SEATS. THEY'VE PUT IN THE OFFICIAL NEWLY ELIMINATED TRUMP ADVANCE SIGNS. >> AND MOST OF THOSE SEATS. >> SO THIS IS CERTAINLY AN EXCITING NIGHT AHEAD. AND YOU'RE ALSO SEEING MIKE CHECKS AND PREPARATIONS ARE UNDERWAY. I'M KAYNA WHITWORTH IT. THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE HISTORIC GOP GATHERING HERE IN THE KEY BATTLEGROUND STATE OF WISCONSIN. AND LET'S TALK ABOUT OUR TOP HEADLINES RIGHT NOW STARTING. WITH THE VERDICT TODAY SENDING SHOCKWAVES THROUGH THE POLITICAL WORLD, THE PRESSURE NOW BUILDING FOR DEMOCRATIC SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ TO RESIGN AFTER A JURY FOUND HIM GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS IN HIS CORRUPTION TRIAL. BACK HERE IN MILWAUKEE, WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE NEW REACTION TO DONALD TRUMP'S PICK FOR VICE PRESIDENT, J.D. VANCE. HOW THE OHIO SENATOR SET THE COURSE FOR THE FUTURE OF THE GOP. PLUS, THE ANTICIPATION NOW FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF HIGH PROFILE SPEAKERS, INCLUDING THAT MAN RIGHT THERE, VIVEK RAMASWAMY. AND THE LATE ADDITION TO THE PROGRAM, NIKKI HALEY. SO WE'LL TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM EACH OF THEIR SPEECHES TONIGHT. BUT WE DO START HERE WITH THIS BREAKING NEWS FROM NEW JERSEY. BOB MENENDEZ FOUND GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS IN HIS FEDERAL TRIAL. FEDERAL PROSECUTORS ALLEGE THE LAWMAKER ACCEPTED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN BRIBES IN THE FORM OF CASH, GOLD BARS, MORTGAGE AND MORE IN EXCHANGE FOR FAVORS. MENENDEZ PLEADED NOT TO 16 FEDERAL CHARGES, AND THAT INCLUDES BRIBERY, FRAUD, ACTING AS A FOREIGN AGENT AND OBSTRUCTION. >> THE SENATOR EXPRESSING, HIS DISAPPOINTMENT IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE JURY'S DECISION. >> TAKE A LISTEN. I HAVE NEVER VIOLATED MY PUBLIC OATH. I NEVER BEEN ANYTHING BUT A PATRIOT OF MY COUNTRY AND FOR MY I HAVE NEVER, EVER BEEN A FOREIGN AGENT. AND THAT DECISION RIGHT THERE BY THAT JURY TODAY WOULD PUT AT RISK EVERY MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE IN TERMS OF WHAT THEY THINK A FOREIGN AGENT WOULD BE. >> WELL, MENENDEZ NOW RECEIVING BACKLASH FROM NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR PHIL MURPHY AND SENATE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER ASKING HIM TO RESIGN AND IN A STATEMENT SAYING, QUOTE, HE MUST NOW DO WHAT IS RIGHT FOR HIS CONSTITUENTS, THE SENATE AND OUR COUNTRY. THE VERDICTS COMING DOWN AS MENENDEZ SEEKS REELECTION AS AN INDEPENDENT IN A DEEP BLUE STATE. THIS, OF COURSE, IS THE SECOND TIME THAT NEW JERSEY SENATOR HAS FACED THESE FEDERAL CORRUPTION CHARGES. I WANT TO BRING IN OUR ABC NEWS, WHO HAS THE LATEST FOR US THERE IN NEW YORK. SO, PHIL, THANKS FOR BEING HERE WITH. AND LOOK, WE KNOW MENENDEZ IS THE ONLY U.S. SENATOR TO EVER FACE THESE FEDERAL BRIBERY CHARGES TWICE AND THE FIRST CONVICTED OF ACTING AS A FEDERAL AGENT. SO, PHIL, IS THERE ANY WORD NOW ON HOW HE PLANS TO APPEAL AS? YOU POINTED OUT HE SOUNDS VERY DEFIANT IN SPEAKING TO THOSE EARLIER. >> YEAH, I MEAN, IF THAT BRIEF STATEMENT IS ANY INDICATION, CANDY, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, HE SAID THE JURY GOT IT WRONG. MEANTIME, THE JURY SAW, THIS MOUNTAIN OF EVIDENCE, LITERALLY A MOUNTAIN OF CASH AND GOLD BARS AND THE MERCEDES OUT IN FRONT OF THIS HOUSE, HIS FIRST FEDERAL BRIBERY CASE. AS YOU MENTIONED, CARTER WAS SEVEN YEARS AGO. THAT ENDED IN A MISTRIAL. THIS ONE ENDED IN A CONVICTION ON ALL COUNTS. HE FACES 36 YEARS IN PRISON BECAUSE OF THIS HIS WIFE WAS CHARGED AS WELL. AT ONE POINT, HE SORT OF BLAMED WIFE FOR WHAT HAS HAPPENED. THE MERCEDES WAS INVOLVED IN THAT. SHE WILL BE TRIED A LITTLE LATER ON THIS YEAR. BUT NO, THERE'S NO INDICATION OF HIM WANTING TO STEP ASIDE. >> INTERESTING. AND WE ALSO KNOW, AGAIN, SENATE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER, YOU KNOW, PROMPTLY CALLED ON HIM TO RESIGN, IS CERTAINLY NOT THE ONLY VOICE CALLING FOR HIM TO RESIGN IF DOES IT IF MENENDEZ DOESN'T STEP DOWN, STEP DOWN, THEN HAPPENS. >> PHIL, I MEAN, COULD HE BE THEN EXPELLED? HE COULD BE EXPELLED. >> IT'S VERY RARE. IT'S ONLY HAPPENED BY OUR RESEARCH 15 TIMES AND 14 OF THOSE SENATORS EXPELLED WERE DURING THE CIVIL BECAUSE OF THE CIVIL WAR. SO IT DOESN'T REALLY HAPPEN IN MODERN TIMES. THE GOVERNOR, GOVERNOR PHIL MURPHY, SAID YOU SHOULD STEP ASIDE AND. IF YOU DON'T, THE SENATE SHOULD EXPEL YOU. WILL THAT HAPPEN? WE DON'T KNOW. BUT REMEMBER, THERE'S ALSO NO LAW AGAINST SERVING IN THE SENATE AS A CONVICTED FELON. SO RIGHT NOW HE PLANS TO APPEAL AND CONTINUE TO SERVE, THOUGH HE IS RUNNING NOW AS AN INDEPENDENT. >> RUNNING AS AN INDEPENDENT. IT WOULD BE REALLY TO SEE HOW THIS ALL PLAYS OUT. AGAIN, SENTENCING COMING IN OCTOBER. PHIL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING WITH US. AND NOW BACK HERE IN MILWAUKEE AND LESS THAN AN HOUR BEFORE TONIGHT'S CONVENTION PROGRAM BEGINS. SO, AGAIN, THE SEATS ARE FILLING UP BEHIND ME. IT IS A MOMENT OF EXCITEMENT HERE FOR THE GOP. I WANT TO BRING IN MATT COOK, THE FORMER TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL, AND PRESIDENT OF AMERICAN FRONTIER STRATEGIES. SO HAPPY TO HAVE YOU HERE WITH US. >> AND FIRST OF ALL, I DO WANT TO KNOW THAT YOU'RE FROM OHIO. SO IS IT LIKE TO HAVE ANOTHER BUCKEYE NOMINATED FOR VICE PRESIDENT HERE IN JD VANCE? >> THIS HAS BEEN SUCH AN EXCITING DAY, SUCH AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY. IT NOT ONLY THAT OHIO, EVEN THOUGH WE'RE NOT A SWING STATE, WE ARE SO IMPORTANT FOR MANY OTHER SWING STATES, J.D. VANCE IS A FORCE MULTIPLIER. HE'S GOING TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT. HE UNDERSTANDS THAT WORKING CLASS, BLUE COLLAR AND ALL THE ISSUES THAT MATTER THAT BIDEN HAS ABANDONED. SO IS GOING TO BE ASTRONOMICAL FOR THIS CAMPAIGN. THIS IS THE 2020 FOR UNITY CANDIDATE. AND I TRULY BELIEVE THAT TRUMP IS SETTING UP HIS LEGACY. THE NEXT FOUR, EIGHT AND 12 YEARS IS GOING TO BE MARKED BY GENERATIONAL. >> AND J.D. VANCE IS THE FACE OF THIS. AND AT 39 YEARS OLD, RIGHT, HE COULD BE LEADING THE PARTY HERE, COULD VERY WELL BE THE FUTURE OF THE PARTY. AND I'VE HEARD YOU TALK ABOUT HIM AS BEING, AS YOU CALL IT, A MULTIPLIER MANY TIMES. AND YOU ALSO BROUGHT UP UNITY AS WELL. BUT IT DOES ALSO SEEM THAT HE POTENTIALLY IS THE MAGA CANDIDATE. THAT'S SOMETHING ELSE THAT WE'RE HEARING RIGHT NOW. SO DOES THIS SEEM LIKE WITH THIS CHOICE THAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS SAYING, LOOK, IT'S -- IT'S MAGA OR ELSE ? OR DO YOU THINK J.D. VANCE'S MESSAGE OF IDENTITY TRUMP BEFORE HIS POLICIES CHANGED MY MIND, DO YOU THINK THAT WILL RESONATE MORE WITH. I THINK ALL OF IT LOOK MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN IS TRULY ABOUT GETTING OUT OF BIDEN NOMICS. THE FACT THAT WE ARE PAYING 20% MORE FOR GAS, GROCERIES AND EVERYDAY LIVING IN ADDITION TO SAFETY AND SECURITY, WHICH IS ABOUT THE BORDER. SO THIS IS A MESSAGE THAT RESONATES WITH MANY AMERICANS. IN ADDITION, I AM SO PLEASED THAT J.D. VANCE WAS A CANDIDATE THAT CHANGED HIS MIND, AND THAT'S THE IMPORTANCE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. WE NEED INDEPENDENT THAT ARE NOT JUST RUBBER STAMPING REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT, BUT THAT ARE TRULY LOOKING AT CANDIDATES AND INDIVIDUALS AND BELIEVE J.D. VANCE ACTUALLY LOOKED AT PRESIDENT TRUMP'S POLICIES, SAW IMPACT AS SOMEBODY WHO CAME FROM POVERTY, CAME FROM NOTHING, AND HAS BECOME ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. HE IS TRYING TO SHOW AMERICA YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR MIND. FORGIVENESS IS KEY AND MOVING ON. AND PRESIDENT TRUMP IS THAT UNIFIER. HE CAN BRING SOMEBODY WHO WAS A NEVER TRUMPER INTO THE PARTY. SHOW HIM HE HAS A PLACE AND A PLACE FOR GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY. AND THAT IS FOR ALL OF US. IT'S NOT JUST REPUBLICANS. IT'S INDEPENDENTS. MANY DEMOCRATS ARE LEAVING JOE BIDEN'S BASE BY THE DROVES BECAUSE THEY ARE TRULY FORGOTTEN, GIVEN BIDEN'S POLICIES. >> AND IN TERMS OF THESE NEVER TRUMPERS OR EVEN MODERATE VOTERS, INDEPENDENTS ALIKE. LET'S TALK ABOUT NIKKI HALEY AND HER SUPPORTERS. RIGHT. WE KNOW SHE'S EXPECTED TO SPEAK HERE TONIGHT. WE KNOW THAT SHE HAS RELEASED ALL OF HER DELEGATES AND URGED THEM TO SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP. SHE'S SORT OF FALLEN SHORT OF DOING ANY FUNDRAISING HIM. HOWEVER, SHE IS TAKING THE STAGE HERE TONIGHT. WHAT DO YOU THINK IT MIGHT TAKE FOR THE GOP TO START TO WIN OVER HER SUPPORTERS? >> I THINK NIKKI HALEY NEEDS TRULY SPREAD THAT MESSAGE BECAUSE SHE IS SOMEBODY WHO CAN REACH OUT TO THOSE INDEPENDENT VOTERS AND SAY WHY SHE'S SUPPORTING PRESIDENT TRUMP TODAY. THE FACT THAT SHE IS ON STAGE AS SOMEBODY WHO WASN'T SURE SHE WOULD SUPPORT TRUMP SHOWS THAT THE PARTY IS UNIFYING. AND I'M GOING TO TELL YOU SOMETHING. THE INCIDENT ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT THAT TOOK PLACE ON SATURDAY RATTLED AMERICA. IT WASN'T ABOUT DEMOCRATS, INDEPENDENTS AND REPUBLICANS. IT WAS TRULY ABOUT THE AMERICAN DREAM, RULE OF LAW, AND IS AT STAKE. PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS RIGHT FROM DAY ONE. DEMOCRACY IS AT STAKE. HE IS BEING ATTACKED ON EVERY SINGLE LEVEL. HE WAS TAKING A FOR THAT COUNTRY. AND I BELIEVE NIKKI HALEY IS GOING TO STAND THERE AND TELL THE AMERICANS, IT'S TIME TO UNITE. TELL THE DELEGATES IT'S TIME TO GET BEHIND PRESIDENT TRUMP. HE'S BEEN RIGHT ALL ALONG. WE HAVE A COUNTRY SAVE. IT IS BIGGER THAN ONE MAN AND ONE PARTY. IT IS ABOUT OUR COUNTRY TODAY IN THE AMERICAN DREAM. ALL RIGHT. MIKE COOK, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE WITH US TODAY. WE APPRECIATE YOUR PERSPECTIVE AND YOUR TIME. AND I WANT TO TURN NOW TO OUR TEAM COVERAGE WITH ABC'S JAY O'BRIEN AT ABC NEWS, CONTRIBUTING POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT AND COAUTHOR OF THE POLITICAL PLAYBOOK RACHEL BAY. THANK YOU BOTH FOR BEING HERE WITH US. AND SO, JAY, LOOK, WE JUST HEARD FROM HER RIGHT ABOUT HOW REPUBLICANS REALLY DO SEEM TO BE UNIFIED THIS MOMENT. SHE EVEN TALKED ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED OVER THE WEEKEND. SHE SAID THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT RATTLED AMERICA. AND I KNOW THAT YOU'RE NOW TO LAWMAKERS THAT ARE GETTING, FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD, SWEPT UP IN THE UNITY MOMENT THAT WE'RE SEEING PLAY OUT HERE DAY AFTER DAY IN MILWAUKEE. YEAH, AND FORGIVE ME, KATE, I'M GOING TO LOOK BEHIND ME REAL QUICK AND SEE IF THERE'S ANYONE I WANT TO TALK TO. THERE WAS SOMEONE OVER THERE THAT THINK. NO, THAT'S NOT WHO I THINK IT IS. ANYWAY, FORGIVE ME. I WAS JUST LOOKING AROUND. YES. SO WE TALKED TO ASA HUTCHINSON, FORMER GOVERNOR OF ARKANSAS, FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, A STAUNCH MODERATE. THE PARTY VERY CRITICAL WHEN HE HAD HIS LONGSHOT PRESIDENTIAL BID OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. HE MADE A COMMITMENT SAYING HE WOULD NEVER VOTE FOR A CONVICTED FELON, AMONG OTHER THINGS. AND WHEN WE FOUND HIM HERE ON THE CONVENTION, WE WANTED TO ASK, DID THE EVENTS OF SATURDAY CHANGE MIND ABOUT TRUMP AS A CANDIDATE? AND WHAT HE SAID WAS VERY INTERESTING AND IT PERHAPS DEMONSTRATES MAYBE AN ARC HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IN THE PARTY, CERTAINLY IN THE WAKE OF SATURDAY'S EVENTS. >> HERE'S WHAT THE GOVERNOR SAID. WILL YOU VOTE DONALD TRUMP, SIR? WELL, YOU KNOW THAT I'VE MADE COMMITMENTS ABOUT NOT VOTING FOR A CONVICTED FELON, BUT THAT SEEMS LIKE A LONG TIME AGO. >> SO YOU COULD MOVE AWAY FROM THAT. LET'S LET'S SEE HOW IT DEVELOPS IN THE FUTURE. NOW, LOOK, NIKKI HALEY IS EXPECTED TO TAKE THE STAGE TONIGHT AND IT WILL BE INTERESTING AS TO WHAT SHE SAYS, BECAUSE WHILE SHE HAS SAID SHE WILL VOTE FOR DONALD TRUMP, SHE HAD A LOT OF CRITICAL THINGS TO SAY ABOUT HIM AT THE TIME. DOES SHE TELL HER VOTERS TO GET BEHIND HIM IN A FULSOME WAY, OR IS IT ONLY A TACIT ENDORSEMENT THAT WE DON'T KNOW? >> THAT IS VERY INTERESTING. ALL RIGHT, JAY O'BRIEN. THANK. AND RACHEL BATE, I WANT TO CHECK IN WITH YOU. HERE I HAVE SOME OF YOUR NEW REPORTING HERE STARTING IT OFF WITH THE FACT THAT WE'RE STARTING TO ACTUALLY SEE IN THE AFTERMATH OF THIS ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. WE'RE STARTING TO SEE THE SECRET WHILE THEY'RE TAKING FULL RESPONSIBILITY. THERE'S A BIT OF FINGER POINTING THAT HAS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW BETWEEN THE SECRET SERVICE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT THAT WERE THERE DAY AS INVESTIGATORS START TO PICK APART EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. AND IT SOUNDS LIKE WE'RE HEARING SOME PRETTY SERIOUS CONCERNS FROM HEAD REPUBLICANS RIGHT NOW, RACHEL. THAT'S RIGHT, KATE. I JUST HAD TWO BACK TO BACK INTERVIEWS WITH MAJORITY LEADER STEVE SCALISE AND THE CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE JUDICIARY, JIM JORDAN. AND I CAN TELL YOU BOTH OF THEM WANT ANSWERS AND SAY THEY'RE GETTING A WHOLE LOT OF NOTHING RIGHT NOW. WHEN MY INTERVIEW WITH JORDAN HE BASICALLY RAILED AGAINST THE FACT THAT THEY'RE NOT GETTING MORE INFORMATION. REPUBLICANS HAVEN'T EVEN HEARD YET IF THIS WAS SORT OF A LONE WOLF SITUATION OR WHETHER IT WAS PART OF SOME SORT OF CONNECTED GROUP. ARE THERE OTHER PEOPLE GOING ON OTHER PEOPLE WHO WERE PART OF IT? STEVE SCALISE CALLED FOR THE THE SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR TO STEP DOWN AND JORDAN TALKED ABOUT HOW HE ACTUALLY WANTS TO BRING IN SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ON THE GROUND THERE FOR THE SHOOTING INTO HIS COMMITTEE ON CAPITOL HILL TO GET A TOCK OF EXACTLY WHAT WENT DOWN AND THE COMMUNICATION COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN. >> THOSE ARE ALL CERTAINLY IMPORTANT QUESTIONS. I KNOW STEVE SCALISE SHARED WITH YOU AS WELL, WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE SHOT AND HOW THAT AFFECTS YOU IN THE AFTERMATH AND I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS A LOT MORE WITH YOU, RACHEL, BUT OUR THANKS TO YOU. RIGHT. WE DO NEED TO TAKE EVERYBODY TO NEVADA AT THIS MOMENT. YOU SEE THERE PRESIDENT BIDEN IS SPEAKING. THIS IS IN LAS VEGAS AT THE ACP CONVENTION. >> LET'S TAKE A LISTEN. THIS GUY RIGHT NOW, PRESIDENT JOHNSON JOHNSON, THERE IS LIKELY TO BE MORE. 60 YEARS AGO, I INTERVIEWED PRESIDENT EISENHOWER FOR SOMETHING ELSE. SURE. HE GOES TO AND SAYS, YOU WANT A FRIEND IN WASHINGTON? GET IT DONE THIS FAR PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS DOWN TO THE LAST COUPLE WEEKS. I KNOW WHAT HE MEANS BY SOME OF THE ANSWERS. I HAVE REAL FRIENDS. I'VE HAD MY TIME. I THINK I'VE HAD VERY GOOD LUCK . >> LOTS OF PEOPLE. SERIOUSLY. ONE MORE QUESTION. AT LEAST AS FAR AS LINCOLN PROJECTS. HE WAS WITH US LAST YEAR ON ONE OF THOSE TRULY ME HERE. IS THIS TENSE? THIS COUNTRY, A TENSE MOMENT JUST A FEW DAYS AFTER THIS LAST EXAMPLE ON TRUMP. HE WAS NOT SUSTAINED. WE CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR HIM AND HIS FAMILY, THIS TIME FOR HIM TO. >> OUR POLITICS HAS GOT TO HEAL . ON SUNDAY NIGHT BECAUSE THE MAN DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO RESPOND, KNOW TO LOWER THE TEMPERATURE TEMPERATURE AND CONDEMN THE VIOLENCE AND HE'S GOING GOT A NUMBER OF THINGS BECAUSE THE NEIGHBORS WERE SO NERVOUS ONCE BEFORE IN A SCHOOL IN FERGUSON. CHECK THE VIOLENCE AND VIOLENCE IN ANY TIME PERIOD. >> DENMARK, SCOTLAND, ETC.. CONVOYS. THE VIOLENCE IS NOT THE ANSWER. THAT'S YOU SHOULD RALLY AROUND AS A NATION THAT'S NOT TALKING ROCK JORDAN'S NATION. OH, THAT WAS EASY FOR THE REST . RIOTS IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, 1908. YES, YES. THAT WAS HE WAS BORN. THAT'S WHAT STARTED BACK. YOU KNOW, THE PAIN FIRST THE VIOLENCE. YOU UNDERSTAND HOW TO TALK ABOUT SLAVERY AGAINST BODIES. YOU GOT TO STAND AGAINST ALL THE VIOLENCE BECAUSE OF THE COMPLAINT AGAINST PRESIDENT PARENTS IN PENNSYLVANIA. I STAND AGAINST ALL OF OUR VIOLENCE PERPETRATED AGAINST GEORGE FLOYD IN MINNESOTA. YES, BUT THERE WAS ALSO JANE GOODALL SAYS, BY COMMERCIAL WORKERS, FAMILIES ,AN ALARMING UNDERSTANDING, VIOLENCE, INTIMIDATION, MERCHANDIZING THE BIRTH AND HIS DEMISE IN THE GROCERY STORE. BUFFALO NEW ALONG WITH EVERY OTHER MAN WHO TURNED PRO NORTH CAROLINA STAND AGAINST THE POSSIBILITY OF CONSEQUENCE LAS VEGAS. AND IT'S NOT A SINGLE CUSTOMER AND NEVER MAKE THE NEWS BECAUSE YOU'VE ALL NEVER BEEN IN THE COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND STILL FIND OUT WHAT YOU DON'T MISS OUT ON THE PROBLEMS NOT TO SPEAK ABOUT GUNS FOR CHILDREN AND THE KIND GUN SHOP GOVERNMENT THAT EVERY OTHER REASON THAT'S COMING OUT THAT IS SICK SHEER TERROR BECAUSE WE DO NOTHING ABOUT THIS. SO YOU WANT TO STAND AGAINST VIOLENCE IN AMERICA AND JOIN MARY KENNETH CHESEBRO PIERS MORGAN OFF THE STREETS OF AMERICA. >> AMERICAN SHOOT U.S. FROM JUST WASN'T STRONG ENOUGH TO KILL SOMEBODY, INCLUDING CHILDREN. >> IT'S TIME TO OUTLAW. I DID IT ONCE AND I WILL DO IT AGAIN AGAIN NOW JUST BECAUSE IT GOES LOWER. THE TEMPERATURE. OUR POLITICS REALLY DIVISIVE. PRESIDENT BUSH HAS NOT A TRUTH YOU ARE. BUT YOU GOT. WELL, YOU KNOW, THAT'S VERY. HARRY TRUMAN SAYS I'VE NEVER CARRIED ON IN MY HOUSE. I JUST TOLD THE TRUTH. AND I THOUGHT IT WAS DOWN. THERE'S THE TRUTH ABOUT WHY DONALD TRUMP WAS NOT LIKE AMERICA. HE TRIED TO REPEAL OBAMACARE. I MEAN, MILLIONS BLACK AMERICANS. AUTHOR, OVERSEER AND A TRUE TRILLION DOLLAR TAX CUT LITTLE REPUBLIC BENEFIT THE SUPER WEALTHY BIGGEST CORPORATION EXPLODE THE FEDERAL DEBT ARGUABLY MORE THAN ONE THIRD BECAUSE NO ONE SHOULD BE DOING IT. THAT'S THE BIGGEST EFFECT. PEOPLE'S LIVES ARE CHOPPED FOR CARE. SO MUCH MORE TO GROW THE ECONOMY HEALTHY IS LESS THAN THE PANDEMIC DEVASTATED FOR BLACK AMERICA. I KNOW ANOTHER COUNTRY AS A COMMUNITY RECALLING THAT IDENTITY CRISIS. >> THE EARLY BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT DECIMATED SMALL BLACK BUSINESSES PEACEFULLY PROTEST GEORGE FLOYD'S MURDER ON THE FRONT OF THE NATIONAL GUARD. WHAT DOES IT MATTER THIS COUNTRY BEHIND THE PURPOSE OF MY WORDS, BARACK OBAMA SAID HE WASN'T BORN IN AMERICA AND HE WAS A U.S. CITIZEN. >> OF COURSE, LOCKED UP FOR 11 STRAIGHT. SO WHAT ABOUT NOW ABOUT HIS CHARACTER OF THE BOX OFFICE? IT'S THE VICE PRESIDENT, NOT A STATE FIRST VICE PRESIDENT. WHAT I KNOW, THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT SINCE AMERICAN HISTORY CAN'T HELP THE JOB. I KNOW THE FIRST BLACK MAN MAKES THE GREAT FIRST PROMISE, FIRST I CONSIDER MY ADMINISTRATION WOULD LIKE WERE DIVERSITY. FIRST OF ALL, HISTORY. IT'S HAPPENED. SO TOWNSEND THAT'S MY DAUGHTER. ARE THESE GUYS OKAY? THAT'S WHY IT SO SUCCESSFUL. I'M SURE THAT'S WHAT MAKES US THE GREATEST NATION ON EARTH. IT'S NOT UNHEARD. THEY'RE BOTH COUSINS. YOU ARE PRESIDENT FROM ARIZONA, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. GREAT LOOK AT MEMBERS OF THE CONGRESS BECAUSE WAS DONE SERIOUSLY. PRESIDENTIAL SAID WE GOT MORE GUN OF CONSEQUENCE AND THEN PRESIDENT SINCE LINCOLN. >> BECAUSE THINK ABOUT WHERE BLACK COMMUNITY WAS WHEN I CAME IN OFFICE. THINK ABOUT HOW THE BLACK VOTERS COME. WE STILL GOT A LONG WAY TO GO TRUMAN NO LONGER CONTROLS OUR LIVES. OUR COUNTRY IS NOT VERY GOOD. THE STRONGEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD. NO BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, DARKER GROWTH OF BLACKS. AS I SAID THIS AGAIN, BECAUSE TRUMP, LIGHT HEARTED ABOUT UNEMPLOYMENT, HIT A RECORD LOW UNDER BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION. FIRST, PROGRESS IN RESEARCHING AND ANALYSIS 3.1% BIRDSHOT PERFECT FACTOR IN THE POCKETS PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY DUE THROUGH THE PANDEMIC. >> I TRUST YOU CANNOT ARGUE THAT THE JUDGMENT TO GO BACK TO POVERTY IN HALF. >> AND WHEN WE FINALLY GET RID OF PEOPLE, WHY GET ON AN ODYSSEY VERSUS THE ECONOMY? BUT SPENT MONEY VERSUS THE GREED, AMERICAN ECONOMY TO THE STRONGEST IN THE WORLD, NOT RETURN TO TAX CUT PERMANENT OUTSIDE WHATEVER GOVERNMENT, BY THE WAY? NO. THE DATA SHOWS WE LET THEM TELL US WE'VE HAD A DEVASTATING EVIDENCE OF CHILD KILLER. GUESS WHAT? MOM OR DAD FOR WORK OR CONNECTED BLACK LEADERS ARE CUT OFF HIGHWAYS. AND THIS HAS BEEN DECADES. I SEE RECOVERIES IN DELAWARE. I-95 RUNS UP THERE USED TO BE THE BLACK COMMUNITY DIVIDED SIX TIMES BY THE NATURE OF THE STATES WANTED TO LABOR CAME OVER TO TALK ABOUT I STILL HAVE A HIGHWAY CONNECTION BECAUSE WE'RE GOING THIS IS CAUSE EVERY PERSON IS I WOULDN'T HOUSE IN AMERICA. SO EVERY CHILD IS CLEAN WATER. NOT THROUGH THE PRESIDENT IS DELIVERING HIGH SPEED AND AFFORDABLE BROADBAND. >> NO CHILD SHOULD HAVE TO SIT OUT IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE COUNTRY $4 A GALLON THE FIRST YEAR. NOW WE'RE FORGETTING OBAMACARE LOT LOBBY INCREASING HEALTH CARE MORE AFFORDABLE FOR YOU. AND BY THE WAY IT'S EVER BEEN WHEN IT'S EVER BEEN BURIED, AFRICAN-AMERICANS DON'T HAVE HEALTH CARE. >> THE GREEN WASHINGTON HOMEOWNERSHIP REACH. HOW DO YOU GENERATE GENERATIONAL WEALTH MUCH OF THE YEAR FROM HOW WE GET EVERYTHING GOT STUCK IN SCRANTON WITHOUT JOBS AND DENTAL WORK THAT WORK LIKE HEALTH YOU CAN GET DOWN PAYMENT TO, BUY A SMALL HOUSE. THAT'S HOW YOU BUILD EQUITY. AS FAR AS THE THREE PAPERS, LOOK AT A HOME FOR FOUR KIDS, AND THAT'S WHAT IT WAS. THE HOME. WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE? I PROPOSED TO GET A PLEASANT ENVIRONMENT EVER IN ALL OF HISTORY, INCLUDING ALL SIGNIFICANT ACTION, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE. LOOK, I THINK ABOUT I STARTED DELAWARE. I'M REALLY DON'T KNOW WHY I BY STATE LAW HAS A BUNCH OF THE TOP OF THE STATE THERE'S A HALF HOUR AND UNTIL ONE MORE OIL REFINERIES ON THE OTHER SIDE AND THAT MARK ZUCKERBERG ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY HOUSTON YES BUT WHEN THE GLOBAL SOUTH EAST AND THE HIGHEST DENSITY FOR THE LONGEST TIME. YOU KNOW THE FACT IT TAKES TIME TO, YOU KNOW, THE FENCE, NIGERIANS ARE BLOCKING THIS. MY FOCUS AS WE MAKE THIS LEGISLATION WORK, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE CARE OF THOSE COMMUNITIES FIRST, FIRST, FIRST, FIRST, FIRST. I MEAN, SAFETY FIRST. LOOK, WE'RE STILL VERY SUPPORTIVE. >> 4 MILLION BARS. BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY. CALL ME SAYING, MR. PRESIDENT, I GOT A PHONE CALL THAT THAT THE PRESIDENT, FRANKLY, COULD GET THERE. THERE WAS A ORANGE COULD HAVE CHILDREN, COULD SEE THE COUNTRY. YOU KNOW, COULDN'T BUY A HOME. >> YEAH. YEAH. BUT WHAT YOUR DID EXTREMELY MY DAD AND YOU CAN BE 10,000 BUCKS IN THE TOWN YOU KNOW THIS PROJECT WANTED TO WORK 2025 AND YOU YOU'RE HEARING TALKS ABOUT EDUCATION HBCU RECRUITERS ANY OF THE UNIVERSITIES I 39 COUPLE I HAVE A COUSIN FIGHT SHE SAYS SHE SAYS LARGE INVESTORS BEST STATES KATHERINE HER HUSBAND HOW COOL IS THIS? WHY IS THIS THEY DON'T HAVE THE ENDOWMENT. IT'S ONE OF THE JOBS IN THE HIGH TECH STOCKS BECAUSE YOU PAY A LOT OF MONEY. THEY DON'T HAVE THE MONEY IN THE LABORATORIES. WHAT I WANT IS ALL THAT MATERIAL. SO THAT'S WHY I'VE INVESTED RECORD 16 BILLION WAS I MADE I DON'T GO TO FOR THE GIRL IS FOR POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA THIS ONE BACK OH FOUR BECAUSE YOU AND I SIMPLY MANY OF US ARE GETTING INVESTMENTS IN BLACK AMERICA EVER IT ALL HISTORY IT'S SAME RESULTS I'M GOING TO SHOW WAS THAT IS THE LOWEST IN 20 YEARS. THE PRICES DOWN TO THREE YEARS AND COMING DOWN FURTHER. AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE, AS I SAID, SOFT LANDING. BUT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE AS FASTER ADVISOR. THAT'S COX IS WHAT YOU SEE. >> YOU'RE 16 NOBEL PRIZE WINNING ECONOMIST. YOU PUT OUT A STATEMENT LOOK AT IT, MICRON AND PLATINUM TRUMP AS THE MARKET VALUE BECAUSE IF YOU LOWER INFLATION YOU'RE PROBABLY PRICES ARE FALLING CARS PRICES AND KEEP CORPORATE GREED WITH THEM AND THEY'RE VERY RESILIENT TRUMP IS THAT HIS POLICIES WILL CAUSE A RECESSION HOW THIS IS NOT A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT. 16 NOBEL LAUREATE NO, WE'RE GOING TO I COME FROM CORPORATE STATE OF THE WORLD GOVERNMENT. I KNOW HOW I WORK AND WORK FOR PRESIDENT BUSH IN, AMERICA, ALL COMBINED. THAT'S WHAT THAT'S A DIRECT CORPORATE GREED. >> THAT'S MY QUARTER COGNITIVE DOUBLE SAYS ABOUT HIM. THANK YOU. VERY IMPRESSIVE. NOW WE HAVE A PRESIDENT FIRST FIRST BOOK SINCE THE IDEA, THE IDEA OF CORPORATE ON HOUSING IS THEY RAISE YOUR RENT THREE OR 400 BUCKS A MONTH OR SOMETHING. AND I'M ABOUT TO ANNOUNCE I CAN'T RAISE IT MORE THAN $55 . THAT DEBATE IS TAKING PLACE. BOTTOM LINE IS WE'RE JUST GETTING STARTED. WELL, KNOWS NOT ENOUGH TO TALK ABOUT THE PAST WE NEED A VISION FOR THE FUTURE. HERE'S MY FOR THE FIRST HUNDRED DAYS IN A SECOND TERM. COME ON. I CALL ON CONGRESS TO PASS THE JOHN LEWIS VOTING ACT. I DID ALL. I WAS POSSIBLY ABLE TO DO WITH EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY, BUT WE NEED THE ACT AND WE NEED TO PASS THE FREEDOM TO VOTE ACT NOW, SIGN THE BOOK TO THE LAW IMMEDIATELY. AND THAT'S WHY? COME OR HIGH WATER, WE'RE GOING TO RESTORE ROE V IS THE LAW OF THE LAND. I KNOW, I KNOW. YOU'RE SAYING JOE, HE MAY NEVER CONGRESS. WELL, GUESS WHAT? YOU ALL TOLD ME I COULDN'T PASS. THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT. YOU ALL TOLD ME I COULDN'T FACE THAT ANYWAY, WE DID IT WITH YOUR HOUSE REPUBLICANS. BLOCKED POLICE REFORM IN CONGRESS. SO I SIGNED THIS HISTORIC EXECUTIVE ORDER, ESPECIALLY FOR THEM. I'M GOING TO COME BACK AND WE'LL SIGN GEORGE FLOYD IN POLICING ACT INTO LAW COME OR HIGH WATER. NOW, NOT GOING TO STOP. MAJOR REPUBLICANS GOING TO STOP THAT IN THEIR PROGRAM. AND 2025, WE'RE GOING TO STOP THEM FROM CUTTING SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE I'M GOING TO EXPAND SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE BY MAKING THE VERY WEALTHY BEGIN TO PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE. WE'RE GOING TO BREAK RANKS. AND AS I SAID, WE'RE GOING TO BUILD 2 MILLION AFFORDABLE HOMES. CAP PRICE INCREASES OF 5% A YEAR. SO CORPORATE LANDLORDS CAN'T GUARD ANYWAY. AND I GET GOING. I'M GOING TO GET VERY UPSET. BUT THEN IS GOUGING AMERICA AND WE'RE GOING TO KEEP RELIEVING STUDENT DEBT. WE'RE GOING TO END MEDICAL DEBT HAS ALREADY MADE SURE MEDICAL CAN NO LONGER BE PUT ON A CREDIT REPORT. WELL, I'M WORKING WITH STATES TO WIPE OUT MEDICAL DEBT FOR CREDIT ON THE DOLLAR, SO IT'S NOT HANGING OVER YOU THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. WE'RE GOING TO RAISE THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE. OUR FIRST TERM RECAP, THE COST OF INSULIN PROCEDURES AT $5. TURN, TURN DRUG COSTS FOR SENIORS BEGINNING TO 20 2024 FIVE AT $2,000 FOR SOME OF THOSE CANCER DRUGS ARE TEN, 12, $14,000 A YEAR. BUT THE SECOND TERM, WE'RE GOING TO DO THAT FOR NOT JUST SENIORS, EVERYONE IN AMERICA, BY THE WAY, NOT ONLY SAVES LIVES, WE'LL SAVE TAXPAYERS. THAT'S WHAT I DID ON THE FIRST ROUND WITH MEDICARE. IT SAVES THE $160 BILLION BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE TO PAY EXORBITANT PRICES. DO THESE ANYWAY THIS YEAR. MEDICARE'S NEGOTIATING LOWER PRICES FOR SOME OF THE COSTLIEST DRUGS ON THE MARKET THAT THREATEN EVERYTHING THAT TREATS EVERYTHING FROM HEART DISEASE TO ARTHRITIS IN THE NEXT TERM. WANT TO GO FURTHER? GIVE MEDICARE THE POWER TO NEGOTIATE LOWER PRICES FOR 50 DRUGS A YEAR, NOT TEN, NOT TO SAVE LIVES. IT'S ESTIMATED TO SAVE THE TAXPAYER. ANOTHER $200 BILLION. THIS IS SAVING TAXPAYERS MONEY BY LAW. IF YOU NOTICE ALL THE STUFF THEY SAID, BIG SPENDING, BIDEN WE HAVE LOWERED THE DEFICIT, NOT RAISED THEM. WE'VE INCREASED ECONOMIC GROWTH . FOLKS ARE ALSO DETERMINED TO DO DETERMINE THE END TIMES TRACK TRUMP'S TAX CUTS FOR THE VERY WEALTHY BIG CORPORATIONS AND MAKE THE TAX FAIRER. IT IS THE BURDEN ON WORKING PEOPLE. I KEPT MY COMMITMENT TO NO ONE MAKING LESS THAN $400,000. YOU NEVER SAW MY LIFE TODAY. I LIKE THE PRESIDENT WOULD PAY A PENNY MORE IN FEDERAL TAXES. BUT HERE'S THE WE HAVE IN AMERICA SINCE THE PANDEMIC. 1000 BILLIONAIRES, 1000. NOW, HOW MUCH IN FEDERAL TAX THEY PAY? 8.2%. THAT'S THE FEDERAL TAX, 8.2%. WE'RE GOING TO MAKE BILLIONAIRES PAY 25%, WHICH IS LARGE. NO BILLIONAIRE SHOULD PAY A LOWER TAX RATES THAN A TEACHER. A FIREFIGHTER A NURSE, A JANITOR. THAT'S SIMPLY RIDICULOUS. AND WHEN WE DO THAT, THAT ALONE WILL GENERATE FIVE HUNDREDS BILLION DOLLARS IN REVENUE OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS, ALLOWING US TO LOWER COSTS FOR FAMILIES AND THE GOVERNMENT MONEY. WE CAN DO MORE ON HEALTH CARE, CHILD CARE, BRINGING DOWN THE FEDERAL DEFICIT. IT'S SO MUCH MORE THIS IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE, FOLKS, BUT THEY'VE CONVINCED US ANY SPENDING THE MONEY IS COSTLY. IT'S SAVING MONEY. GOD'S TRUTH, IT'S SAVING MONEY. IT'S VITALLY IMPORTANT. YOU KNOW, THE NEXT PRESIDENT UNITED STATES COULD APPOINT TWO OR MORE JUSTICES. JUST IMAGINE, I KNOW THE STATES FOLKS I VISIT WITH JOE KENNEDY TO BE ALL ABOUT WORKING THIS NATION ALL MY WHOLE CAREER. GO BACK AND LOOK AT I'M NOT THE PERFECT BY ANY STRETCH IMAGINATION, BUT A SIMPLE PROPOSITION. THE FAMILY. I COME FROM, A NEIGHBOR, OUR COUNTRY. EVERYBODY DESERVES A SHOT. JUST A SHOT. NO GUARANTEE. GET HEY, NO SAFE HARBOR. LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND. THAT'S A STARK CONTRAST TO MY PREDECESSOR, THE MEG OFFICIALS. THEY'LL DO EVERYTHING. UNDO EVERYTHING THE ACP STANDS FOR. BUT NOW THEY'RE TRYING TO DENY THEY'RE LYING ABOUT THEIR 2025. THEY WANT TO DENY YOU FREEDOM THE FREEDOM TO VOTE. HAD IT COUNTED, THEY'D IMPOSE A NATIONWIDE BAN ON ABORTION. AS NEW VICE PRESIDENT. DO YOU EVER ANY DOUBT, MAN JUST TAKE A LOOK. WHAT BEEN SAYING. THEY WANT TO PROSECUTE POLITICAL ENEMIES. THEY WANT TO CUT SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE, REFUGEE PROTECTION, PRIVILEGE, A PREEXISTING CONDITION, OR 400 MILLION PEOPLE. STOP MEDICARE FROM NEGOTIATING ON PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICES, RISKING PEOPLE'S LIVES, COSTING THE GOVERNMENT MORE MONEY. THERE'S ELIMINATE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, NO ,YOU OUGHT TO READ IT, SAYING IT'S A STATE ISSUE. GIVE ME A BREAK. YOU SAY WE NOT WHAT WE DO WITH THE STATES. IT WOULD CUT SCHOOL LUNCHES, ELIMINATE HEAD START PROGRAM FOR LOWER INCOME CHILDREN. >> THE LAW EMPLOYS STOP PAYING OVERTIME. EMPLOYERS TO STOP PAYING GETS US WOULD STOP PAYING OVERTIME TO HOURLY WORKERS ARE SUCH GOOD PEOPLE BUT GIVE THE VERY WEALTHY A BIG CORPORATE AND CORPORATIONS TAX THEY'VE ALL EVISCERATED EVISCERATED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION THAT ALSO TO DECIMATE DIVERSITY EQUITY, INCLUSION ALL ACROSS AMERICAN LIFE. ALREADY TRYING TO DO IT BY BANNING BOOKS. THEY'RE TRYING TO ERASE BLACK HISTORY. BLACK HISTORY IS AMERICAN BOOKS . I'M NOT BEING DRAMATIC, AND WE CANNOT LET THAT HAPPEN. THAT'S WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO ME, THE SUPPORT TO ME TO MAKE JUNETEENTH A FEDERAL HOLIDAY. IT CANNOT RACIST PEOPLE REALLY KNOW WHAT JUNETEENTH. THAT'S WHY I MADE FEDERAL A FEDERAL HATE CRIME. IT NEVER TELLS MEMORY. AND THAT'S WHAT BEEN REMINDED NEVER TO TRY TO DO AS WELL AS ESTABLISH NATIONAL FOR MAMIE AND EMMETT TILL. SO MUCH MORE SO THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT WHAT'S LOOK FOLKS THE SAID BEFORE WE KNOW HISTORY IS AMERICAN HISTORY AS SIMPLE AS THAT BECAUSE THIS FARM TELLS I'VE BEEN YOUNG AND NOW I'M ON IT. I'M NOT SAYING THE RIGHTEOUS FORSAKEN. I HAVE NOT SEEN REGISTER CENTRAL AND I WILL NOT SEE THE LIES ASSOCIATED HARMFULLY. THEY HAVE DEMONSTRATED A LITTLE BIT OF WISDOM. HERE'S WHAT I DO KNOW. I KNOW HOW TO TELL THE TRUTH. I KNOW RIGHT FROM WRONG. I KNOW HOW TO DO THIS JOB. AND I KNOW THE GOOD LORD HAS BROUGHT US THIS FAR TO LEAVE US NOW THERE IS MORE WORK TO DO . THERE'S BOUND TO BE ENGAGED WORKERS. YOU'RE GOING TO RECRUIT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF VOLUNTEERS. THOSE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, TO MAKE THEIR VOICES HEARD. THEY WILL AMERICA'S FUTURE FOR DECADES TO COME. THAT'S IMPORTANT. WE MUST ALL BE DEFENDERS FOR FREEDOM, JUSTICE, EQUALITY AND THE BEDROCK OF DEMOCRACY. THERE'S BEEN NO MORE IMPORTANT VOICE IN THAT TRUTH THAN THE VOICES OF THE BLACK. I KNEW WHEN AMERICANS FAILED TO LEVEL UP. WHEN WE SAY WE BELIEVE, YOU DON'T GIVE UP HOPE, NOR DO I. WE'VE ALWAYS LOVED THIS COUNTRY, EVEN WHEN IT'S NOT LOVED US BACK. WE WORKED HARD, HARD AS . JUST THINK ABOUT IT. OUR CHILDREN. YOUR CHILDREN. GRANDCHILDREN. ASK YOURSELF WHAT AMERICA YOU WANT TO LEAD THEM. MY ANSWER IS AN AMERICA OF HOPE, FAIRNESS, OPPORTUNITY, POSSIBILITIES. LOOK, I SPENT MORE TIME WITH XI JINPING OF CHINA THAN ANY OTHER WORLD LEADER. AND I WAS WITH HIM IN CHINA ON THE STEPS OF THE MOUNT. LOOKED AT ME AND HE SAID, DID YOU DEFINE AMERICA FOR ME? IT'S GOD'S TRUTH. I SAID, I SAID YES IN ONE WORD. AMERICA. POSSIBILITIES NOTHING IS BEYOND OUR CAPACITY. AMERICA WAS FULL OF PROMISE TO THE WORLD AND EVERYBODY. AMERICA. RACISM WAS NO LONGER THE GHOST OF TOO LONG. HALF THE NATION, FOLKS. IT'S ABOUT YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES AND EVERYTHING IT STOOD FOR FOR GENERATIONS. FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY, AMERICA. ALWAYS MARCHING, ALWAYS BELIEVING, ALWAYS KEEPING THE FAITH. WE'RE GOING TO DO. SO THEY ASK YOU, ARE YOU ALWAYS IS. I'M ALL IN. HAVE REMEMBER WHO ARE WE ARE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. AND THERE IS NOTHING, NOTHING BEYOND OUR CAPACITY TO DO IT TOGETHER. AND LET'S STAY TOGETHER. GOD BLESS, YOU ALL. >> AND MAY GOD PROTECT OUR TWO . ALL RIGHT. SO THERE YOU SEE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN, AND HE WAS JUST SPEAKING AT THE NAACP NATIONAL CONVENTION IN LAS VEGAS. OF COURSE, ANY CRUCIAL SWING STATE OF, NEVADA. AND HE WAS MAKING HIS PLEA TO BLACK VOTERS THERE. A PIVOTAL VOTING BLOC FOR HIM. AND HE TALKED A LOT, HIS POLICIES IN THE PAST THAT HAVE HELPED THIS COMMUNITY . BUT HE ALSO TALKED ABOUT HIS PLAN FOR THE FIRST HUNDRED DAYS. IF HE WERE TO WIN IF HE WERE TO WIN THE WHITE HOUSE. YET AGAIN. AND HE TALKED ABOUT PASSING WHAT HE CALLS THE FREEDOM TO VOTE ACT. HE TALKED ABOUT RESTORING ROE VERSUS WADE. HE TALKED ABOUT CAPPING RENT PRICES, WHICH IS SOMETHING HE BROUGHT UP SPECIFICALLY THERE IN NEVADA. AND HE TALKED ABOUT RELIEVING DEBT, WIPING OUT MEDICAL DEBT AND RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE AS WELL. AND HE ALSO TALKED ABOUT HOW THE POSSIBILITY OF THE NEXT PRESIDENT COULD NOMINATE TWO MORE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES TO THE SUPREME COURT. AND, OF COURSE, TOUTING HIS NOMINATION OF THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO THE SUPREME COURT. WANT TO BRING IN ABC'S SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT SELINA WHO IS THERE IN NEVADA WITH US. AND SELINA, YOU AND I SPOKE, RIGHT BEFORE HE TOOK THE STAGE THERE AND THIS SPEECH WAS VERY FIERY AND VERY ENERGETIC AND HE DIDN'T HAVE ANY MISSTEPS IN THIS MOMENT. SELINA, AND I KNOW THAT YOU WERE TALKING WITH SOME VOTERS WHO WERE THERE TO SUPPORT HIM, BUT ALSO REALLY TO SUPPORT THE PARTY IF THEY WERE FALTERING A LITTLE BIT ON, THEY WOULD REALLY WANT JOE BIDEN TO BE THE ONE LEADING THAT PARTY. HOW DOES A SPEECH LIKE THAT GO OVER THE ROOM? IT CLEARLY SOUNDED LIKE THEY WERE CHEERING, ESPECIALLY WHEN HE ASKED THEM, ARE YOU ALL IN? THERE WAS A RESOUNDING YES, YOU CAN I CAN TELL YOU THE ENERGY IN THIS ROOM WAS ELECTRIC. PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO WALK OUT NOW ABOUT. BUT THE ENTIRETY OF THAT SPEECH, YOU HAD MANY PEOPLE BEHIND ME STANDING THE ENTIRE TIME. THERE'S A BUNCH OF PEOPLE IN FRONT OF ME AS WELL. YOU CAN'T SEE IT. THEY WERE ALSO STANDING AND CHEERING. THERE WERE CHANTS FOR FOUR MORE YEARS. THERE WAS ONE PART OF THAT SPEECH I WANT TO ISOLATE, WHICH IS HE SAID THAT VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS IS A GREAT VICE PRESIDENT, WOULD ALSO BE A GREAT PRESIDENT. YOU HAD CHEERS DURING VOTE MCCAIN UP, BUT THEN YOU ALSO HAD CHANTS AFTERWARDS OF PEOPLE SAYING FOR YEARS AND WE HAD SPOKEN BEFORE THE PRESIDENT STARTED SPEAKING. I WAS TALKING TO MANY OF THE NAACP MEMBERS WHO WERE HERE TODAY, AND SOME OF THEM TOLD ME THEY WOULD PREFER VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET. ONE MAN TELLING ME HE THINKS SHE WOULD BRING FRESH, NEW IDEAS OF THE SAME OLD THINKING. BUT THEN AGAIN, YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF FOLKS WHO SAY THEY ARE BEHIND PRESIDENT BIDEN NO MATTER WHAT. ONE WOMAN TELLING ME THAT THE CRITICISM AGAINST PRESIDENT BIDEN IS, QUOTE AGEISM. SO YOU REALLY GOT SPLIT VIEWS HERE. BUT AS YOU SAY, THE DELIVERING A VERY STRONG AND FIERY SPEECH. AND I WILL ALSO OUT THAT HE DID THREAD THE NEEDLE AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS SPEECH. HE DID BRING UP THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, BUT HE PIVOTED THAT IN A WAY. HE SAID WE NEED TO STAND UP AGAINST VIOLENCE, NOT ONLY TALK ABOUT SOME KINDS OF VIOLENCE, BUT ALL VIOLENCE. HE TALKED ABOUT HOW AMERICA NEEDS TO STAND UP TO GUN VIOLENCE, VIOLENCE AGAINST GEORGE FLOYD, AGAINST WHITE SUPREMACY, AGAINST ALL TYPES OF VIOLENCE AGAINST BLACK POLICE OFFICERS ON JANUARY SIX. SO YOU DID THE PRESIDENT PIVOT THERE AND ALSO SAY THAT HE HOPES THE PRESIDENT, FORMER PRESIDENT IS RECOVERING WELL, SAYING THAT HE IS GRATEFUL. DONALD WAS NOT SERIOUSLY INJURED. >> HE DID SAY THAT. AND I THOUGHT IT WAS AN INTERESTING MOMENT AS WELL, SELINA, BECAUSE WHEN HE SAID THAT, YOU ALSO HEARD THAT CROWD OF PEOPLE CHEER IN SUPPORT FOR WHAT HE WAS SAYING THERE. THIS IS A CROWD OF PEOPLE WHO WERE ALSO SHARING THAT NOTION WITH HIM THAT WERE GLAD THAT FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WAS NOT MORE SEVERELY INJURED OR KILLED IN THAT ASSAULT. HOWEVER, HE ALSO DID USE THAT TO SORT OF WEAVE IN SOME CONCERNS ABOUT WHAT A TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WOULD LOOK LIKE. HE TALKED ABOUT SOME CURRENTLY HE CONCERNS. HE SAID THAT DONALD TRUMP WOULD RAISE WOULD CAUSE A RECESSION, THAT HIS POLICIES WOULD CAUSE A RECESSION. HE ALSO TALKED ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT BIDEN AND HIS ADMINISTRATION HAS DONE FOR HBCU SHOWS. BUT ALSO, OF COURSE, I DO WANT TO NOTE THAT DONALD TRUMP SIGNED A BIPARTISAN BILL RIGHT THERE SENDING $250 MILLION A YEAR TO HBCU'S THAT WAS IN 19. BUT AGAIN, I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT, SELITA, HE USED THIS MOMENT AND WHAT HAPPENED TO DONALD TRUMP ALSO TO TALK ABOUT HIS PLAN TO BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS AND SOME OTHER THINGS LIKE THAT. BUT THE WAY IT WAS RECEIVED IN THE ROOM I THOUGHT WAS VERY WHEN HE TALKED ABOUT THAT. >> KAINE AND IT IS A PRETTY TRICKY BALANCE TO STRIKE. >> BUT THE PRESIDENT SAYING WE NEED TO LOWER THE POLITICAL TEMPERATURE, THAT THIS IS A MOMENT OF TENSION AND OF UNREST, BUT ALSO NOT SHYING AWAY FROM DRAWING THE CONTRAST ,HIS VISION AND THAT OF DONALD TRUMP, OFTEN REFERRING TO HIM AS MY PREDECESSOR, PAINTING THIS PRETTY DARK VISION OF WHAT A MAGA COULD LOOK LIKE. AND AS WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER, THE PRESIDENT FINALLY DOING A BETTER JOB OF ARTICULATING WHAT HIS FUTURE VISION WOULD BE WHEN IT COMES TO RELIEVING STUDENT DEBT, HIS INVESTMENTS IN CLIMATE INVESTING IN EACH BECUSE HIS ECONOMIC VISION, HIS PLAN TO LOWER RENT PRICES. I WILL SAY THE PRESIDENT DID MAKE A BIT OF A SLIP UP. THE FIRST TIME HE TALKED ABOUT RENT PRICES. IT IS A 5% CAP PER YEAR THAT HE'S PROPOSING. HE APPEARED TO SAY 55, BUT THEN THE PRESIDENT LATER CORRECTING THAT. BUT I THINK PEOPLE HERE, WHEN I SPOKE TO THEM, THEY SAID THEY REALLY WANTED TO SEE A FORWARD MESSAGE. AND YOU DID GET THAT IN CONJUNCTION WITH A MESSAGE ABOUT HIS RECORD AND WHAT HE'S ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED. YEAH, EXACTLY RIGHT. SO HE WASN'T JUST TOUTING HIS PAST. HE WAS AGAIN, TRYING TO LAY OUT HIS PLAN FOR THE FIRST HUNDRED DAYS. AND HE WENT ON TO SAY, TURNING DOWN THE TEMPERATURE ON THE RHETORIC DOESN'T MEAN NOT TELLING THE TRUTH. SO THAT WAS INTERESTING. AN INTERESTING SPLIT SCREEN TO WHAT WE'RE SEEING HERE BEHIND US AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION THAT'S GETTING KICKED OFF. AS YOU CAN HEAR, SELINA WANG, OUR TO YOU FOR JOINING US THERE FROM LAS VEGAS. AGAIN, IN THAT CRUCIAL SWING STATE. >> AND WE HAVE A LOT MORE SPECIAL COVERAGE AHEAD HERE ON ABC NEWS LIVE. OF COURSE, ARE HERE AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IN MILWAUKEE. AND THINGS ARE REALLY STARTING TO GET STARTED DOWN THERE. YOU SEE THOSE SEATS ARE CERTAINLY UP NOW. DON'T GO ANYWHERE. STAY WITH US. >> WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS, WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR AFTER THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. >> REPORTING FROM MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING. >> ABC NEWS LIVE RIGHT THERE EVERYWHERE FROM THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE. CONTINUE UKRAINE REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY ROLLING FORTH. THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS LITTLE TOWN FROM THE MOST DEVASTATING DISASTER IN HAWAII. FROM CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA ,ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN ICELAND. LET'S GO BACK. TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT IN MEXICO CITY, WHEREVER THE STORY IS ON THE FRONT LINES FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL, OUTSIDE THE GAZA STRIP IN BEIRUT, FROM FBI REPORTING FROM THE NURSES ON THE PICKET LINE HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET IN LONDON, STREAMING LIVE TO YOU. WHEREVER STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE THERE YOU'RE STREAMING, ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE, YOU'RE STREAMING, ABC NEWS LIVE ,ABC NEWS LIVE STREAMING FREE EVERYWHERE AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE'S A LOT GOING ON. WE'RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. POLICE IN RIOT GEAR, DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE MIGRANT CRISIS FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE 17TH HOLE, THE BUZZKILL IN BASEBALL FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. WHY THERE IS A PRICE TO BE PAID EVERY TIME A SURVIVOR SHARES THEIR STORY. I WILL NOT BE SILENCED. DO YOU FEEL THE CHURCH ACCEPTED ABUSE? I WOULDN'T SAY ACCEPTED AS SO MUCH. >> PRETENDED IT DIDN'T EXIST. THAT'S YOU READY KYRA PHILLIPS WITH ABC NEWS. DOES YOUR CHURCH PROTECT SEXUAL PREDATORS. >> IN AN ACT BY "NIGHTLINE", SECRETS OF THE TWO BUY TO CHURCH. >> THERE'S NOTHING PRETTY ABOUT HEARING THIS NOW STREAMING ON HULU. WELCOME BACK, EVERYBODY. I'M KAYNA WHITWORTH AND THIS IS PART OF OUR ABC NEWS LIVE SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. WE'RE SO HAPPY TO HAVE YOU HERE WITH US AS THINGS ARE GETTING KICKED THEY'RE KICKING OFF HERE BEHIND ME. IT'S GETTING A LITTLE BIT LOUD. GOP CERTAINLY RALLIED UP HERE TONIGHT. BUT I WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT TONIGHT'S HERE AT THE RNC. IT IS MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN. AND THERE IS A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT WILL BE HEARING FROM A SET OF HUGE SPEAKERS, INCLUDING NIKKI HALEY. BUT I DO TO BRING IN REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE BRIAN MAST. HE HAILS FROM FLORIDA'S 21ST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT ON THE EAST COAST OF THE STATE . BRIAN, I'M SO HAPPY TO HAVE HERE WITH US AND AS YOU HEARD ME MENTIONED, RIGHT, WE KNOW THAT THE THEME OF TONIGHT IS TO MAKE AMERICA SAFE ONCE AGAIN. AND I WANT TO JUST BRING TO YOU A FEW QUESTIONS BECAUSE WE JUST LISTENED TO PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN SPEAK LIVE IN NEVADA AT THE NAACP AND NATIONAL CONVENTION, AND HE REALLY HIGHLIGHTED SOME WAYS IN WHICH HE THINKS THAT DONALD WOULD NOT MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN. AND HE TALKED ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE. AND HE ALSO SAID AND I WANT TO JUST SHARE THIS WITH YOU, HE WAS CRITICAL OF DONALD TRUMP FOR BRINGING IN THE NATIONAL GUARD FOR WHAT HE CALLED PEACEFUL PROTESTS FOR MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD. I WANT TO GET SOME OF YOUR OF YOUR REACTION TO SOME THOSE SENTIMENTS THAT WE JUST HEARD FROM PRESIDENT BIDEN. >> YEAH, I DID HEAR THE ENTIRE LAST SEGMENT, THE ANALYSIS OF JOE BIDEN'S SPEECH. I THOUGHT THE ANALYSIS WAS LAUGHABLE, JUST, YOU KNOW, FLAT OUT TO HEAR THAT THERE WAS NO MISSTEPS IN BIDEN'S SPEECH. EVERY TIME HE TO GO SAY SOMETHING THAT WAS OFF THE CUFF, HE LITERALLY SAID, WELL, ANYWAY WELL, ANYWAY, IN 10 MINUTES I MUST HAVE HEARD HIM SAY THAT TEN TIMES. BECAUSE, AGAIN, IF NOT READING IT, HE DOESN'T REALLY HAVE A THOUGHT OF HIS OWN TO GO OUT THERE AND GIVE. BUT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS ALWAYS SPEAKING FOR HIMSELF. HE'S ALWAYS SPEAKING OFF THE CUFF. AND HE GOES OUT THERE AND HE PRESENTS REAL IDEAS ON HOW TO MAKE AMERICA SAFE, STRONG, SECURE. THAT HAS TO DO WITH THE BORDER. TOTALLY. ON THE OTHER END OF THE SPECTRUM, FROM WHAT JOE BIDEN IS DOING ON OUR BORDER, THAT MEANS GIVING STATES THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXERCISE STATES' RIGHTS. OBVIOUSLY, THAT WAS HIT BY JOE BIDEN JUST NOW IN HIS SPEECH IN NEVADA, TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, GOING AND REVERSING WHAT THE SUPREME COURT DID WITH ROE V WADE. HE WANTS TO BE THE OTHER SIDE THAT NOT LET THE STATES HAVE THEIR RIGHTS. I KNOW YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT SECURITY. I CAN'T HELP BUT GET OVER THE ANALYSIS THAT I JUST HEARD ABOUT JOE BIDEN'S SPEECH TRUTHFULLY, YOU'VE ALSO TALKED A LITTLE BIT HOW JOE BIDEN HAS SOMEWHAT TO HIS SUPPORTERS WHEN HE'S TALKING ABOUT AND THIS HAS HAPPENED IN THE POLICY REGARDING THE WAR IN. CAN YOU ELABORATE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT? AND CAN YOU TALK ABOUT CONCERNS THAT YOU MAY HAVE IN THAT PANDERING AND HOW THAT WOULD RELATE TO POLICY THAT HE MIGHT PUT IN PLACE BETWEEN NOW AND NOVEMBER? YEAH, I MEAN, THE PANDERING CONVERSATION IS UNFORTUNATE, BUT EASY TO DISCUSS IF HE'S GIVING A SPEECH IN MIAMI, FLORIDA, WHERE THERE'S A LARGE JEWISH POPULATION, HE'S GOING TO GO OUT THERE AND SAY HE HAS ISRAEL'S BACK IT'S IRON CLAD. THERE'S NO DISTANCE BETWEEN THEM. IF HE'S GOING TO DO A SPEECH OUTSIDE OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, HE'S GOING TO TALK ABOUT BUILDING A PIER FOR THE HAMAS TERRORISTS IN GAZA. THAT WAS A WASTE OF $300 MILLION OF THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER. HE'S GOING TALK ABOUT NOT FINISHING THE JOB THERE, HAVING A CEASEFIRE, NOT LETTING THE IDF GO OUT THERE AND COMPLETE THE MISSION OF ERADICATING HAMAS. IT'S CONSTANTLY A TALE OF TWO CITIES. WHAT HE'S SPEAKING, DEPENDING WHO HE'S SPEAKING TO. AND FOR ALL OF THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE OUT THERE ACROSS THE GLOBE, THEY DON'T HAVE THE LUXURY OF GASLIGHTING THEIR LEADERS. LIKE SO MUCH OF WHAT HAPPENS HERE IN THE UNITED STATES. THEY GO OUT THERE AND THEY GIVE THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT THE PRESIDENT IS SAYING TO THEIR LEADERS. AND THEY KNOW THAT, UNFORTUNATELY FOR THIS PRESIDENT, THERE A LOT OF DAYLIGHT BETWEEN WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN WITH GETTING RID OF THE TERRORISTS IN GAZA AND WHAT THE COMMITMENT OF JOE BIDEN ACTUALLY. >> YOU ARE IN THE UNIQUE POSITION OF HAVING SERVED AFGHANISTAN AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, BUT ALSO VOLUNTEERED WITH THE IDF. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU ARE TALKING WITH YOUR CONSTITUENTS, ALSO YOUR SUPPORTERS ABOUT IN TERMS OF HOW THAT BE HANDLED? IF THE GOP WERE TO TAKE OVER IN NOVEMBER? LOOK, THERE ARE DOMINOS AND YOU BROUGHT UP AFGHANISTAN. AFGHANISTAN WAS ONE OF THE FIRST MAJOR DOMINOS THAT STARTED TO KNOCK DOWN NATIONAL SECURITY, LET'S SAY, STARTED TO KNOCK DOWN DOMINOS THAT PRODUCED NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS ACROSS GLOBE BECAUSE OF THAT WITHDRAW, THAT BOTCHED WITHDRAW IN AFGHANISTAN. YOU SEE HAMAS START TO SPREAD TERRORISM ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST, WHETHER IT'S YEMEN, WHETHER IT'S WITH HEZBOLLAH, WHETHER IRAN SPREAD TERRORISM ACROSS THE REGION, WHETHER IT'S WITH YEMEN WHETHER IT'S WITH HEZBOLLAH AT THE NORTH OF ISRAEL. YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS ON OUR SOUTHERN BORDER. YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS WITH UKRAINE. YOU SEE HAPPENS WITH CHINA AND TAIWAN, PUTTING THEM IN THEIR CROSSHAIRS. THIS WHAT HAPPENED IN AFGHANISTAN WAS THAT FIRST MAJOR DOMINO THAT ALONG THE U.S. SOUTHERN BORDER, THERE'S A VERY BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE WAY PRESIDENT TRUMP HANDLES NATIONAL ISSUES. HIS YES IS YES. HIS NO IS NO. HE'S NEVER GOING ALLOW AMERICA TO BE STEPPED UP AND HE MAKES THOSE STATEMENTS. IF YOU HARM THE ON THE HEAD OF ONE AMERICAN, THEN YOU ARE GOING TO PAY THE HIGHEST PRICE IMAGINABLE. AND THOSE KIND STATEMENTS HAVE REAL RESULTS WHICH RESULT IN THE SAFETY FOR AMERICA AND SERVICEMEMBERS. UNFORTUNATELY, THIS WEAKNESS THAT WE SEE OUT OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION FROM BEGINNING RIGHT UP INTO THIS MOMENT THAT HAS DETRIMENTAL RESULTS FOR THE AMERICAN WHO'S OUT THERE ON THE FRONT LINES, CERTAINLY WE HAVE HEARD FROM SOME VOTERS AND TALKED TO SOME PEOPLE THAT EVEN SPECIFICALLY THE WITHDRAW FROM AFGHANISTAN WAS SO DASTROUS. THAT IS A PIVOTAL MOMENT FOR THEM AS THEY WERE, YOU KNOW, THINKING ABOUT HOW THEY WERE GOING TO VOTE, THAT EVEN, IN FACT, SOME PEOPLE SWITCHED PARTIES AFTER WATCHING THAT DISASTROUS WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN. >> WHEN YOU ARE PAYING ATTENTION TO THE SPEECHES TONIGHT IN TERMS OF SECURITY AND SAFETY FOR AMERICA, HOW DO YOU IMAGINE THE SPEAKERS WILL NAVIGATE IN THAT CONVERSATION WHILE ALSO TONING DOWN THE RHETORIC AS WE'VE BEEN HEARING? OR DO YOU THINK THAT IT MIGHT FIERY HERE ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE HERE TONIGHT? >> LOOK, I THINK THE SPEAKERS ARE TALKING ABOUT THINGS THAT SHOULD BE UNIFYING. THIS IS A THIS IS A COUNTRY FOR REPUBLICANS, DEMOCRATS, NONVOTERS OF OTHER PARTIES. IT'S A COUNTRY FOR EVERYBODY. BUT NO MATTER WHAT PARTY YOU COME FROM, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO RALLY AROUND THE IDEA OF HAVING A SAFE COUNTRY, A CENTER, A SECURE COUNTRY, A STRONG COUNTRY, AND SOME OF THE SPEAKERS THAT YOU ARE GOING TO HEAR FROM ARE THE FAMILIES OF THOSE 13 THAT WERE KILLED IN THE ABBEY GATE BOMBING IN WITHDRAW FROM AFGHANISTAN. AND AGAIN, WHEN YOU LOOK WHAT'S GOING ON HERE AND THE WAY THAT THEY'RE AFFECTED, NOT ONLY WAS THAT BOTCHED WITHDRAW ,A DOMINO THAT KNOCKED DOWN SO MANY OTHER THINGS, BUT WE SAW THIS REPLAY ITSELF IN AN EVEN WORSE WAY, IN PART AT THE AT THE RECENT DEBATE, AT THE DISASTROUS DEBATE WHERE JOE BIDEN DID NOT EVEN REMEMBER THAT THERE WERE 13 AMERICANS THAT WERE KILLED IN THAT WITHDRAW. AND IF YOU DON'T TAKE THAT, DIG SOMETHING UP FOR THOSE FAMILIES THAT LOST THEIR LOVED ONES. ABSOLUTELY IT DOES. BUT THOSE ARE GOING TO BE SOME OF THE SPEAKERS THAT WILL BE OUT THERE AND THEY'LL BE TALKING ABOUT THAT AS WELL, BECAUSE THEY'VE SEEN IT PLAY OUT FIRSTHAND BY HAVING FOLDED FLAGS NOW SITTING ON THEIR MANTEL THAT WERE DRAPED OVER THE CASKETS OF THEIR LOVED ONES. >> NOW, THAT'S CERTAINLY A GOOD POINT, RIGHT? THE OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE. REPRESENTATIVE BRIAN MAST, OUR THANKS TO YOU. WE DO APPRECIATE YOU COMING ON. THANK YOU. >> AND THANK YOU FOR STREAMING WITH US ON KAYNA WHITWORTH. WE HAVE A SPECIAL PRIMETIME OF THE 2024 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION KICKING OFF RIGHT HERE ON, ABC NEWS LIVE TONIGHT AT 7 P.M. EASTERN. AND LATER ON LINSEY DAVIS, I'LL BE JOINED BY OUR OWN DAVID MUIR AND OUR TIRE POWERHOUSE POLITICAL TEAM. WE HOPE YOU CHECK THEM OUT. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS. NEITHER DO WE. KEEP IT RIGHT HERE ON ABC NEWS LIVE. WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE MOST NEWSCAST IN AMERICA? WE ARE PART OF AN OPERATION COMBAT OPERATION CENTER. WE ARE APPROACHING THE GATE. MILITANTS CAME IN FROM DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS HERE. REACTOR A COUPLE OF LOADED AND READY TO GO. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED, BUT THE FLAG AND ACCOUNT HOW IT MADE THE U.S.A. GREAT WORK. >> I THINK IT'S. >> DAVID, I'M DAVID. YOU ARE. YOU ARE. YOU DO EVERY NIGHT. >> ABC'S WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR IS AMERICA'S MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. >> THERE'S A LOT GOING ON WE'RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE ARE IN RIOT GEAR ARRESTING DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT MIGRANT CRISIS FAST, STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE 17 PULLED A BUZZKILL IN BASEBALL FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS MORNING AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. WHY WHENEVER WHEREVER NEWS BREAKS, IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO ALWAYS THAT LIVES ARE CHANGED HERE IN LONDON IN BUFFALO, YOU'VE ALL DAY TEXAS, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND REPORTING FROM FORK, MISSISSIPPI, THE UKRAINIAN REFUGEES HERE IN WARSAW. WE'RE HEADING A SMALL COMMUNITY OUTSIDE OF MEXICO CITY GETTING YOU BEHIND THE STORIES AS THEY HAPPEN. ABC NEWS LIVE. >> WE'LL TAKE YOU THERE. STREAM ABC NEWS LIVE WEEKNIGHTS YOU STREAMING NEWS ME ON ABC NEWS LIVE ALL LET THE DOGS OUT PLEASE. >> I DON'T THINK HE'S GOING TO GIVE YOU A HARD TIME. >> EVEN IF HE GIVES ME. I'M THE RIGHT GUY. I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ALL LEARN TOGETHER, CALM, CONFIDENT CALM, CONFIDENT, CALM, SURRENDER. EVERYTHING THAT HE'S TAUGHT HAS BECOME A REALITY. WE ARE SO GRATEFUL AND IMPRESSED. I FEEL LIKE CRYING. YOU CHANGED OUR WORLD. IT IS A BEAUTIFUL THING TO SEE AS YOU REHABILITATE THE DOG. YOU ALSO REHABILITATE YOU DO. WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM NEWS? >> THIS IS "START HERE" TO BE IN THE KNOW AND A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY'S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY. SO LET'S GET INTO IT. LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST. HONORED WITH FOUR EDWARD AH MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO. YOU START HERE ABC NEWS, MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT'S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN'T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCAST START HERE. >> THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE THE CRUSH OF FAMILIES ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. ABC NEWS LIVE AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS ANY TIME ANYWHERE STREAMING 24/7 STRAIGHT TO YOU FOR FREE. THANK YOU ABC NEWS AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS REPORTING FROM PARIS ON THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY ON TOM SOUFI BURRIDGE. WHATEVER THE STORY, WE'LL TAKE YOU THERE. >> YOU'RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE. >> ALL RIGHT. WELCOME BACK, EVERYBODY. IT'S DAY TWO OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. OF COURSE, IT IS GETTING UNDER WAY RIGHT NOW AT THE VISER FORUM ARENA IN DOWNTOWN MILWAUKEE. PEOPLE ARE CERTAINLY FILING IN AND FILLING UP THE SEATS ON KAYNA WHITWORTH AND IS ABC NEWS SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE HISTORIC GOP GATHERING THE KEY BATTLEGROUND STATE OF WISCONSIN. LET'S GO THROUGH SOME OF OUR HEADLINES HERE, INCLUDING, OF COURSE, TONIGHT'S CONVENTION THEME TO MAKE AMERICA SAFE. ONCE AGAIN. HOW TONIGHT'S WILL FOCUS ON CRIME. AMERICA'S DEADLY FENTANYL CRISIS AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. THE HIGH STAKES PROFILED, INCLUDING VIVEK RAMASWAMY. YOU SEE HIM THERE AND, OF COURSE, THE LATE ADDITION OF NIKKI HALEY. WE'LL TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM THEIR SPEECHES TONIGHT. PLUS, WE HAVE THE LATEST TO DONALD TRUMP'S PICK FOR VICE PRESIDENT. J.D. VANCE. HOW THE OHIO SENATOR COULD SET THE COURSE FOR FUTURE OF THE GOP. >> BUT WE BEGIN HERE WITH DAY TWO OF THIS HISTORIC CONVENTION IS SET TO START HERE IN ANY MOMENT, THE PFIZER FORUM. AND AGAIN, TODAY'S THEME IS TO MAKE AMERICA SAFE ONCE AGAIN. SPEAKERS WILL BE FOCUSING ON CRIME ALONG WITH AMERICA'S DEADLY FENTANYL CRISIS AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. AND AMONG THOSE SET TO ADDRESS THE CONVENTION TONIGHT, OF COURSE, IS VIVEK RAMASWAMY LEE AND NIKKI HALEY. SHE HAS BEEN TRUMP'S BIGGEST FROM THE GOP, SAYS THE FORMER SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR. WE SAW HER DOING SOME MIC TESTS HERE EARLIER TODAY. THIS IS ALL, OF COURSE, A DAY AFTER TRUMP RECEIVED THE RESOUNDING RIGHT HERE INSIDE THE FORUM, APPEARING ALONGSIDE RUNNING MATE J.D. VANCE. YOU CAN SEE THERE THE BANDAGE, THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S RIGHT EAR FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION AGAINST HIM OVER THE WEEKEND. JOINING ME FOR MORE ON THIS IS ABC NEWS JAY O'BRIEN AND ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTING POLITICAL CORRESPOND AND COAUTHOR OF THE POLITICAL PLAYBOY. RACHEL BATE. I'M SO GLAD TO HAVE YOU HERE, BOTH OF US. JANE, LOOK, I KNOW YOU'RE DOWN THERE. IT'S REALLY BUSY. IT'S STARTING TO GET LOUD IN HERE. WE'VE TALKED A LOT ABOUT HOW WE WILL SEE VIVEK RAMASWAMY WANT ME AND NIKKI HALEY, BUT ALSO RON DESANTIS WILL BE TAKING THE STAGE TONIGHT. SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS. IT SOUNDS LIKE, THOUGH, SPECIFICALLY IN TERMS HALEY AND DESANTIS, THAT THEY REALLY DO PLAN TO BRING UNITY TO THE TOP OF MIND AS THEY TALK ABOUT SECURING THIS NATION. >> J YEAH, AND SO QUESTION BECOMES, WHAT DO THOSE ONETIME RIVALS OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT SAY ON THAT STAGE AS IT RELATES TO UNITY? WE KNOW THAT NIKKI HALEY HAS SAID SHE WILL VOTE FOR DONALD TRUMP, FOR JIMMY CARTER. WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO GRAB THIS OUT OF HERE. SENATOR SCOTT, SENATOR SCOTT, WE'RE LIVE ON ABC NEWS. CAN WE ASK YOU A QUESTION VERY QUICKLY, SIR? SENATOR RICK SCOTT OF FLORIDA HERE WITH ME. >> WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION TO THE EVENTS ON SATURDAY AND DO YOU THINK, AS TRUMP HAS SAID, THAT IT MIGHT UNIFY MAYBE SOME THE MODERATES IN THE PARTY BRING THEM INTO THE FOLD? I HOPE WE ALL DO AS WE ALL START TO FOCUS ON THE ISSUES THAT FOCUS ON HOW DO WE BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER TO SOLVE THE ISSUE IN THE COUNTRY. WE KNOW WE HAVE TO SHARE A BORDER. WE'VE GOT TO GET INFLATION UNDER CONTROL. WE GOT TO GET OUR BUDGET UNDER CONTROL. THERE'S A LOT OF PROBLEMS. THIS ALL COME TOGETHER TO DO IT. AND SO HOPEFULLY THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING. DO YOU THINK THAT TRUMP IS DOING ENOUGH OUTREACH TO THOSE MODERATES WHO MAYBE FELT HE UNPREDICTABLE, DIDN'T LIKE HIM AS A CANDIDATE EARLIER ON IN THE CAMPAIGN? I HE'S YOU KNOW, YOU LOOK AT WHO THE SPEAKERS ARE HERE. HE'S TALKING TO AND YOU LOOK AT WE HAD A GREAT START LAST NIGHT WITH THE SPEAKERS, NOT JUST EVERYDAY PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT HOW WITH THE BIDEN IS BIDEN HAS DONE IS HURT THEIR LIVES AND WHAT THE TRUMP AGENDA HAS DONE IMPROVES THEIR LIVES. >> LAST QUESTION. HE PICKED YOUR COLLEAGUE J.D. VANCE FOR VICE PRESIDENT. DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE TEXAS? I THINK, YOU KNOW, J.D. HAD CHALLENGE CHILDHOOD HE FIGURE OUT HOW TO SUCCEED. HE'S BEEN IN AUSTIN A YEAR AND A HALF. >> HE'S DONE A GREAT JOB. HE HIT THE GROUND RUNNING. HE WORKS HARD, HE'S SMART, AND HE'S GOING TO DO A GOOD JOB . HE'S TOO SIMILAR TO TRUMP TO COMPLIMENT HIM IN ANY WAY. ARE THEY TOO SIMILAR? IN A WAY THEY'LL WORK WELL TOGETHER. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SENATOR SCOTT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR. SENATOR RICK SCOTT. I'LL LET YOU GO THIS WAY, SIR. SENATOR RICK SCOTT WITH US OF FLORIDA. OBVIOUSLY FOR A PLACE IN SENATE LEADERSHIP, RACHEL KNOWS THAT BETTER THAN I BECAUSE SHE HAS COVERED THAT STORY EXTENSIVELY. BUT WE'LL SEND IT BACK TO YOU. >> ALL RIGHT, JAY, THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND THAT WAS REALLY INTERESTING . AGAIN, THE CALL FOR PARTY UNITY AND THEN CERTAINLY THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IS A TOP OF MIND FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE. AND ON THAT NOTE, RACHEL, I KNOW THAT YOU'RE SPEAKING WITH LEADERSHIP INSIDE, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, AND THIS IS AS THE CALLS FOR THE DIRECTOR OF THE SECRET SERVICE ARE GROWING, FOR HER TO RESIGN AND STEP DOWN ARE GROWING LOUDER. >> THE DAY RACHEL. YEAH, I MEAN, IT'S INTERESTING, THE THEME OF THE DAY MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN. REPUBLICANS WANT TO FOCUS ON IMMIGRATION AND CRIME, BUT THERE'S ALSO JUST AS MUCH CONCERN WITH THESE REPUBLICAN ELECTED OFFICIALS ABOUT THEIR OWN SECURITY, BUT ALSO WHAT HAPPENED WITH FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WITH THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT JUST A OF DAYS AGO, I INTERVIEWED THE HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER, STEVE SCALISE, HOUSE JUDICIARY CHAIRMAN JIM JORDAN, AND BOTH OF WERE ADAMANT THAT SECRET SERVICE HAS NOT BEEN TRANSPARENT ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED. HOW DID A GUNMAN, A 20 YEAR OLD GUNMAN, GET WITHIN 150 YARDS OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT? HOW IS IT THAT SOMEBODY HIM ON THE ROOF, NOT SOMEBODY MULTIPLE SOMEBODY SAW HIM ON THE ROOF AND YET THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO STOP THIS? JIM JORDAN TOLD ME THAT HE ACTUALLY WANTS TO NOT ONLY TALK TO PEOPLE IN THE UPPER ECHELONS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT LIKE THE HEAD OF THE SECRET SERVICE, BUT ALSO THE FBI AND FOLKS AT DOJ, BUT THE PEOPLE ON THE GROUND. AND SO WE'RE GOING TO LAWMAKERS IN THE COMING DAYS AND WEEKS ACTUALLY REACH OUT TO THOSE FOLKS, GET A TIKTOK A SECOND BY SECOND TIKTOK ABOUT EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. MEANWHILE, I HEARD FROM STEVE SCALISE THAT HE ACTUALLY WANTS THE SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR TO STEP DOWN. AND SO, I MEAN, REPUBLICANS, THEY'RE ANGRY AND THEY WANT ANSWERS ON THAT. >> THEY CERTAINLY ARE ANGRY ABOUT IT. AND AS YOU POINTED OUT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT SECURITY AND SAFETY HERE, THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION TONIGHT. AND, RACHEL, WE KNOW A LOT OF THAT CONVERSATION SURROUNDS BORDER SECURITY AND IMMIGRATION AND WHAT ARE YOU HEARING FROM YOUR SOURCES ABOUT HOW THESE SPEAKERS MIGHT HANDLE THAT SPEECH TONIGHT IN LIGHT OF THE CONCERN OVER FIERY ON BORDER SECURITY, IT'S LONG BEEN OF THE MOST RED MEAT ISSUES FOR THE REPUBLICAN BASE. AND SO THAT WILL ABSOLUTELY BE A BIG THEME THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. I MEAN, YOU'RE NOT OBVIOUSLY GOING TO HEAR THE BACK STORY ABOUT HOW IT WAS REPUBLICANS, CONGRESS WHO SINGLE HANDEDLY TANKED THIS BIPARTISAN IMMIGRATION BILL OR BORDER BILL THAT PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN STRUCK WITH SENATE REPUBLICANS IN THE UPPER CHAMBER. SO WE'LL HAVE TO KEEP IN MIND, OF COURSE, THAT REPUBLICANS WERE THE ONES WHO HALTED PROGRESS WHEN IT CAME TO THE BORDER ISSUES. I MEAN, DONALD TRUMP WANTED TO RUN ON IT. HE WANT IT TO PASS. AND SO THEY KILLED THE ISSUE. BUT I ALSO THINK THAT THE ISSUE OF CRIME IS ONE THAT REALLY RESONATES WITH PEOPLE RIGHT NOW. I MEAN YOU LOOK AT WHAT FOLKS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT, THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE BORDER. THEY'RE ALSO REALLY WORRIED ABOUT CRIME. AND, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE SEEN AN INCREASE IN CRIME SINCE THE PANDEMIC OF THOSE NUMBERS HAVE STARTED TO COME DOWN. BUT THIS IS VERY MUCH AN ISSUE THAT REPUBLICANS KNOW WORKS IN THEIR FAVOR. AND I CAN TELL YOU A LOT OF DEMOCRATS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THIS AS WELL AND HAVE BEEN TRYING TO SORT OF RUN AWAY FROM THE SORT OF DEFUND THE POLICE MOVEMENT IN YEARS OR SAY THAT BASICALLY TRYING TO TO TO NOT PROSECUTE CERTAIN CRIMES. THEY DON'T WANT TO DO THAT ANY MORE. SO THERE'S ACTUALLY BEEN A 180 SHIFT IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AS WELL, BECAUSE THIS ISSUE WAS SUCH CONCERN FOR VOTERS. >> ABSOLUTELY. RACHEL WADE AND JAY O'BRIEN ARE HERE WITH JAY. I WAS TRYING TO TURN AROUND AND LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING BECAUSE WHEN THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IS PLAYED AND WHEN THEY DO THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, WE ARE TO STOP AND WE ARE GOING TO HONOR THE FLAG AND OUR COUNTRY. AND SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE THAT WASN'T, OH, THERE IS A PRAYER SERVICE RIGHT NOW. LET'S GO AHEAD AND TAKE A MOMENT HERE AND LISTEN HERE. I DON'T WANT TO TALK OVER A PRAYER, BUT THIS IS YOUR NEXT MOMENT OF THIS, WHICH IS AN YOUR WORDS SAYS, BLESSED IS THE NATION WHO'S GONNA COME OVER HERE TONIGHT? TONIGHT WE BLAME AMERICA FOR BELIEVING THAT IF YOU DECIDE LESS AND PROSPER OUR COUNTRY AS WE ARE YOU AND YOUR FATHER FORGIVE US FOR WHERE WE HAVE STRAYED FROM YOUR COUNTRY AND GRANT US AND OUR FAMILY THAT KIND. TONIGHT WE HAVE RIGHT TO PROTECT OUR COUNTRY FROM THOSE WHO WOULD DO US HARM. YOU WERE PROTECTING PRESIDENT TRUMP GIVEN THE MANY ATTACKS LEVEL PLAYING FIELD TELEGRAPHED, BUT ESPECIALLY THE ATTACK THIS PAST TIME PART OF ON TONIGHT WE PRAY FOR OUR LEADERS AND ALSO FOR LIKE PRAY FOR OUR POLICE OFFICERS, FIREFIGHTERS, FIRST RESPONDERS FROM AS THEY RISK THEIR LIVES. SO WE THINK PARTICULARLY THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE. YOU COMMANDED JOSHUA TO BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS. TONIGHT, ALL ACROSS THIS COUNTRY, I PRAY THAT YOU WOULD RAISE UP A GENERATION OF COURAGEOUS LEADERS WHO FOLLOW YOU, THEIR WHOLE HEART AND GOVERNANCE WITH INTEGRITY. WE ASK THESE THINGS AND THE NAME OF THAT IS EVERY NAME THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. >> AMEN. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLEASE RISE FOR THE PRESENTATION OF COLORS. THE COLORS ARE PRESENTED BY THE PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS OF WISCONSIN. >> GUARD LET'S GIVE THEM A WARM WELCOME RIGHT. LOOK, LOOK. LIVE. RIGHT, LOOK, LOOK. LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT. WE LEFT, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, LEFT, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT YOU LEFT, YOU LEFT, RIGHT, YOU LEFT, YOU LEFT, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT. BASE BASE. >> PLEASE REMAIN STANDING FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM. >> PRESENT ARE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLEASE WELCOME MARY ANN TAYLOR TO LEAD US IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ALLEGIANCE. >> HELLO, HARRIET. ARE YOU READY TO PLEDGE THIS A FLAG AND GIVE THEM OUR LOYALTY. >> YES. WELL, WE DON'T DO THIS THE SOUTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA WAY A LITTLE BIT SLOWER IF YOU ARE MILITARY. AND I'M LOOKING OUT AND A LOT OF YOU ALREADY ARE POISED IF YOU'RE LIKE ME, A MILITARY FAMILY, BUT NOT MILITARY. >> WE'RE GOING TO STAND AT PLACE, YOUR RIGHT HAND OVER YOUR HEART AND PLEDGE WITH ME. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC, WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL LADIES. AND GENTLEMEN, WELCOME TO THE STAGE. GRAMMY AWARD WINNING SINGER AND U.S. ARMY VETERAN MILWAUKEE NATIVE DANIEL TO PERFORM OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM. >> NO WARS. >> I WAS EVER GOING. >> IT WAS SO RAW WHEN WE LOOKED AT THE COWBOY LOST AND HE WAS BROUGHT STRIPES. I DIDN'T RISE TO THE LAST WAR. >> THE RUN PUNCHED HIM WALL. >> ALL OF US WERE SO PLEASED TO SEE WHAT THE ROCKERS OF OBAMA'S BUTTONS DO HERE TO GET THROUGH ALL THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LEG WAS LOST. >> IT WAS THE HEARTS OF GOLD. NO WAY FOR THE WAR. OH, OH, OH, OH. THE RED, PLEASE, REMAINS STANDING WHILE THE COLORS ARE RETIRED. >> GREAT. THANK, HOWARD. BUT YOU'RE LEFT LEFT. LEFT, RIGHT. YOU LEFT, LEFT, LEFT, RIGHT. YOU LEFT, LEFT, LEFT, RIGHT YOU LEFT, LEFT, LEFT, LEFT. YOU LEFT, LEFT, RIGHT. YOU LEFT, LEFT, LEFT, RIGHT. YOU LEFT, LEFT, LEFT, RIGHT. YOU LEFT, LEFT. ALL RIGHT YOU ARE NOW HEARING APPLAUSE HERE AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IN MILWAUKEE. YOU JUST WATCHED THE FIREFIGHTER HONOR GUARD LEAVE THIS CONVENTION CENTER AFTER THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ,THE NATIONAL ANTHEM. AND YOU CAN'T HELP BUT THINK ABOUT THE MAN, THE FATHER, THE HUSBAND, THE FIREFIGHTER THAT WAS KILLED DURING THAT ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON FORMER DONALD TRUMP JUST DAYS AGO IN PENNSYLVANIA. HIS FUNERAL IS SET TO BE HELD THIS THURSDAY. AND THAT IS CERTAINLY WEIGHING HEAVILY ON THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF ALL AMERICANS, BUT ESPECIALLY THOSE ARE IN ATTENDANCE HERE TONIGHT AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION . THIS TREMENDOUS SHOW OF UNITY AND PARTY SUPPORT AND REALLY THE PLANS FOR THE FUTURE OF, THIS PARTY ARE REALLY COMING TO FRUITION HERE IN MILWAUKEE DAY BY DAY. AND I WANT TO CHECK IN WITH JAY O'BRIEN, WHO'S BEEN DOWN THERE ON THE FLOOR OF THIS CONVENTION NOW FOR SEVERAL DAYS, AND HE'S BEEN TALKING LAWMAKERS, DELEGATES, VOTERS ALIKE. EVEN IN YOUR CONVERSATION RECENTLY WITH ASA HUTCHINSON, I IT APPEARS THAT THERE IS A BIT OF A SHIFT IN SUPPORT RIGHT NOW, AND IT IS SEEMINGLY A GROUNDSWELL OF SUPPORT RIGHT NOW. >> DONALD TRUMP AND NOW J.D. VANCE AS WELL. AND REPUBLICANS WENT INTO THIS CONVENTION, CAME IN WITH SOME PRETTY FISSURES WITHIN THEIR PARTY. LOOK, FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP DOES HAVE BROAD ACROSS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. BUT THERE WAS THIS QUADRANT OF WHO WERE SUPPORTING NIKKI HALEY, WERE SUPPORTING ASA HUTCHINSON. SOME OF THEM WERE SUPPORTING RON DESANTIS, AND THEY WERE VOTING AGAINST TRUMP IN THE IN THE THOUSANDS IN SOME STATES, EVEN AFTER ALL OF THOSE CANDIDATES HAD DROPPED OUT, THEY WERE ESSENTIALLY CASTING PROTEST VOTES AGAINST TRUMP. SO THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN THIS CADRE OF MODERATE, YOU KNOW, 2016 THEY WERE CALLED NEVER TRUMPERS. AND THEN 2020 THEY TOOK ON A DIFFERENT FRAME. AND THEN THIS YEAR, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE CONSIDERED THE NIKKI HALEY VOTERS OR WHAT HAVE YOU, BECAUSE WE HAD THAT MUCH BROADER PRIMARY PROCESS. AND SO THE QUESTION GOING INTO THIS CONVENTION WAS WHAT WOULD BE THE PLACE FOR THOSE MODERATES? WOULD THEY EVENTUALLY COME INTO THE TRUMP FOLD? AND WHILE WE DON'T 100% KNOW THE ANSWER OF THAT, OF COURSE, THE ANSWER OF THAT QUESTION GOING TO BE REALLY FOUND IN NOVEMBER. >> WHAT WE'VE SEEN IS SOME OF THE FIGUREHEADS OF THAT MODERATE ISA HUTCHINSON EARLIER, NIKKI HALEY TAKING THE STAGE TONIGHT SIGNAL THAT THEY MAY BE OPEN TO THROWING THEIR FULL SUPPORT BEHIND TRUMP. ASA HUTCHINSON SAID HE WOULD NEVER VOTE FOR TRUMP. HE SAID HE WOULD NEVER VOTE FOR A CONVICTED FELON. TRUMP IS NOW A CONVICTED FELON. AND HE TOLD ME EARLIER HE'S ESSENTIALLY RETHINKING THAT PLEDGE. NIKKI HALEY HAS SAID SHE WOULD VOTE FOR TRUMP, BUT SHE NEVER REALLY FULL THROATED ENDORSED HIM. SHE NEVER REALLY THREW HER FULL POLITICAL WEIGHT BEHIND HIM. AND WE'LL BE WAITING TO SEE HER REMARKS ON THIS STAGE TONIGHT. IF DOES THAT AND IF THERE IS THIS KIND OF JOINING OF THE MAGA SECTION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE MODERATE SECTION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, THAT WOULD BE SIGNIFICANT. IT WOULD GIVE TRUMP MORE GAS IN THE TANK GOING INTO NOVEMBER. >> YEAH, IT CERTAINLY WOULD BE. AND IT WILL BE. INTERESTING TO SEE HOW NIKKI HALEY ADDRESSES THE CROWD TONIGHT. IS SHE AGGRESSING THE MAGA BASE HERE AS SHE ADDRESSING THE MAGA BASE OR IS SHE ADDRESSING SOME OF THESE MODERATE VOTERS AS THEY MOVE FORWARD TO NOVEMBER, KNOW SHE HASN'T DONE ANY FUNDRAISING FOR DONALD TRUMP. PERHAPS THAT'S IN HER FUTURE AS WELL. WE DON'T KNOW. WE KNOW THAT RON DESANTIS HAS DONE SOME FUNDRAISING, ALSO WILL BE TAKING THE STAGE HERE TONIGHT ALONG WITH VIVEK RAMASWAMY SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS AS WELL AND MARCO RUBIO. I WILL BE ENDING THIS TONIGHT. I WANT TO BRING BACK IN RACHEL BAY HERE. RACHEL, WE HAVE SOME NEW INFORMATION HERE ABOUT VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS AND VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE J.D. VANCE. IT SOUNDS LIKE THEY'VE NOW FINALLY HAD A CONVERSATION. WE HAD SOME REPORTING EARLY ON THAT KAMALA HARRIS HAD HAD REACHED OUT TO TO TRY AND CALL HIM AND THAT THEY DIDN'T QUITE CONNECT AT FIRST. AND IT SOUNDS LIKE THEY HAVE HERE. >> RACHEL, ANY IDEA HOW THAT CONVERSATION WENT? YEAH. CAN OUR COLLEAGUES HERE AT ABC NEWS HAVE A COUPLE OF NUGGETS ON THIS CONVERSATION? IT HAPPENED EARLIER TODAY WAS, QUOTE, BRIEF AND RESPECTFUL AND THE TWO AGREED THAT THEY LOOK FORWARD TO DEBATING EACH OTHER. AS YOU KNOW, KAMALA HARRIS HAD EARLIER INDICATED THAT SHE WOULD BE TO DEBATE WHOEVER THE VICE PRESIDENT NOMINATION OR VICE PRESIDENT RUNNING MATE IS WITH DONALD TRUMP. AND THIS IS COULD BE A REALLY INTERESTING I MEAN, J.D. VANCE, YOU WATCH HIM ON TV, HE'S PRETTY QUICK. HE'S GOOD. HE'S PRETTY SMART AND ARTICULATE. HE KNOWS HIS POLICY ISSUES VERY WELL. KAMALA HARRIS, FORMER PROSECUTOR HERSELF, WHO HAS BECOME SORT OF THE THE LEAD VOICE RIGHT NOW, THE CASE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP TO THE PUBLIC. GIVEN THAT JOE HAS HAD SOME TROUBLE DOING THAT HIMSELF. AND SO I THINK IT'LL BE INTERESTING TO SEE, YOU KNOW, CAN SHE SORT OF PERFORM AND CONTINUE TO GROW IN HER ROLE AS VICE PRESIDENT, AS HAVE SEEN HER DO RECENTLY? YOU KNOW, ON THE DEBATE STAGE DURING THE PRIMARY SHE GOT SORT OF CRITICIZED FOR HAVING TOO MANY CANNED LINES, PEOPLE LIKE SHE WAS NOT VERY AUTHENTIC. BUT HARRIS HAS GOTTEN A LOT BETTER ABOUT THAT. AND SO THIS DEBATE WILL BE SOMETHING REALLY INTERESTING TO WATCH. >> IT CERTAINLY WOULD A FORMIDABLE FOES HERE TAKING THAT STAGE TOGETHER WHEN THAT HAPPEN. AJ AND RACHEL, OUR THANKS TO BOTH OF YOU. WE ALL OF YOU BEING HERE WITH US ON KAYNA WHITWORTH. >> WE HAVE MUCH MORE SPECIAL COVERAGE FROM THE RNC STRAIGHT AHEAD. WE WILL BE HERE IN MILWAUKEE AS THINGS ARE REALLY STARTING TO GET UNDER WAY HERE WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS. >> WE ARE HERE IN A NATION AT WAR AFTER THAT BRUTAL SURPRISE ATTACK BY HAMAS ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. >> REPORTING FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING. >> ABC NEWS LIVE IS RIGHT THERE EVERYWHERE ON THE SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE. THE NEED FOR UKRAINE REPORTING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY IN ROLLING FORTH TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS LITTLE TOWN FROM THE MOST DEVASTATING DISASTER IN HAWAII. 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TONIGHT, I HAVE A PRIVILEGE GIVEN FEW AMERICAN HAS THE PRIVILEGE OF ACCEPTING OUR PARTY'S NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. >> AND THAT, OF COURSE, WAS THE LATE GOP SENATOR OF ARIZONA, JOHN MCCAIN, ACCEPTING HIS PARTY'S NOMINATION AT THE 2008 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. AS HISTORY SHOWED JUST MONTHS LATER, IN NOVEMBER OF THAT SAME YEAR. AND HIS RUNNING MATE, FORMER ALASKA GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN, WENT ON TO BE DEFEATED BY THEN SENATORS BARACK OBAMA AND HIS RUNNING MATE, JOE BIDEN, ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE. >> WELCOME BACK, EVERYBODY. I'M KAYNA WHITWORTH AND WE ARE HERE LIVE AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IN, MILWAUKEE. AND IT IS MY PLEASURE NOW TO BE JOINED BY REPUBLICAN ALABAMA SENATOR BRITT. SHE GAVE A SPEECH ON THE CONVENTION FLOOR JUST LAST NIGHT. A MOMENT OF EXCITEMENT, I KNOW, FOR THIS PARTY AND IS JOINING US NOW. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE WITH US. AND LET'S JUMP RIGHT IN. AND LOOK, YOU'RE YOU'RE THE YOUNGEST WOMAN EVER TO BE ELECTED TO THE SENATE. AND NOW J.D. VANCE COULD BECOME ONE OF THE YOUNGEST VICE PRESIDENTS, AMERICAN HISTORY. WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT YOUR GENERATION AND POLITIC AS MILLENNIALS START TO RISE INTO POSITIONS OF POWER NOW? ABSOLUTELY. KATIE, THANK YOU SO MUCH HAVING ME ON. AS YOU CAN TELL, THIS IS SUCH AN EXCITING TIME NOT ONLY FOR OUR PARTY BUT FOR OUR NATION. YOU CAN FEEL THE ELECTRICITY WHEN YOU WALK THE ARENA AND YOU CAN FEEL JUST A UNIFYING FORCE, NOT JUST THROUGHOUT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. BUT I TRULY BELIEVE THROUGHOUT THE NATION AND YOUR POINT. ABSOLUTELY. I AM SO PROUD OF MY FRESHMAN COLLEAGUE, J.D. VANCE. HE IS GOING TO DO A TREMENDOUS JOB AS NEXT VICE PRESIDENT. WE RAN, BOTH OF US, BECAUSE WE BELIEVED THAT THE NEXT GENERATION HAD TO GET OFF THE SIDELINE AND FOR OUR NATION, MAKE SURE THAT WE PRESERVE OUR COUNTRY AND THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE HAD FOR OUR CHILDREN AND OUR CHILDREN'S . AND SO I AM EXCITED TO SEE J.D., J.D. AND I HAVE NOT ONLY BECOME COLLEAGUES, BUT HAVE BECOME FRIENDS. WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY ONCE A MONTH, OUR REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES GET TOGETHER DINNER WHERE WE NOT JUST TALK ABOUT POLITICS OR POLICY OR EVEN PERSONNEL, BUT WE GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER AS PEOPLE AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE GET TO KNOW THE PERSON. J.D. VANCE, AND THEY GET TO KNOW US. THEY ARE GOING TO LOVE EVERYTHING. THEY LEARN. IT IS A STORY OF THE AMERICAN DREAM. IT IS A MAN WHO HAS GIVEN HIS LIFE TO SERVICE, WHO HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL, AND NOW TO MAKE SURE THAT HARDWORKING AMERICANS, THE FORGOTTEN AND WOMEN OF THIS NATION, HAVE A SEAT AT THE TABLE, HAVE VOICE AND HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SUCCEED. AND I THINK YOU WILL SEE OUR GENERATION CONTINUE TO SPEAK UP, SPEAK LOUDLY, SPEAK DIRECTLY, BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THIS NATION IS WORTH SAVING. AND WE'RE GOING TO DO EVERY THING WE CAN TO PUT IT BACK ON A MORE PROSPEROUS TRAJECTORY FOR THOSE WHO COME OUT THERE AND LET ME ASK YOU ABOUT YOUR SPEECH LAST NIGHT. >> YOU SAID THAT YOU SAID IN YOUR SPEECH THAT PROSPERITY IN AMERICA HAS BEEN DIMINISHED JUST LIKE THE MAN IN THE OVAL OFFICE. >> IN YOUR MIND, WHAT KIND OF ACTIONABLE CHANGE WOULD A SECOND TRUMP ADMINISTRATION MAKE IN TODAY'S ECONOMIC LANDSCAPE TO HELP THE AVERAGE FAMILY? YES, AND I AM SO SORRY, DANA. I MISSED THE PART OF YOUR QUESTION. YOU HEARD THAT LAST PART. WE HAVE A LOT OF EXCITEMENT OUT HERE. SO I MISSED THAT. >> AND THAT'S OKAY. SENATOR, I GET AS WELL. IT'S LOUD IN HERE AS WELL. SO BASICALLY, I'M JUST CURIOUS TO KNOW ABOUT WHAT KIND OF ACTIONABLE CHANGE YOU THINK THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION COULD MAKE IN TODAY'S ECONOMY THAT WOULD HELP THE AVERAGE AMERICAN FAMILY? WELL, FIRST, WE'RE GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT JUST ENERGY INDEPENDENT, BUT WE'RE ENERGY DOMINANT. WE KNOW THAT THAT DRIVES EVERYTHING FROM THE GAS STATION TO YOUR ELECTRICITY PRICES TO THE GROCERY STORE AND BEYOND . NOT ONLY DOES THAT HELP AMERICANS PROSPER, BUT IT ALSO HELPS US CREATE A MORE PEACEFUL GLOBE BECAUSE WE KNOW WHEN WE ARE NOT PRODUCING ENERGY, WHICH BY THE WAY, WE DO IT CLEANER, BETTER AND EFFICIENTLY THAN ANYONE ACROSS THE WORLD, WE KNOW THAT THAT MEANS THAT OUR ADVERSARIES ARE IT PUTS THE ALLIES IN THE PALM OF OUR ADVERSARY'S HAND, GIVING AN UPPER ADVANTAGE WHEN IT COMES TO NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES. SO DOING THAT ON DAY ONE, ROLLING BACK OVER BURDENSOME REGULATION, THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS TAKEN THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE TO NEW LEVELS. >> LOOK, THE PEOPLE THAT SERVE IN THESE BUREAUCRACIES THAT SERVE IN THESE AGENCIES ARE NOT ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE WE'VE GOT TO MAKE SURE WE ROLL REGULATION BACK THAT WE IN START MAKING DECISIONS AND WE PUT AMERICA ON A PATHWAY FORWARD. IT ALSO COMES WITH SECURING OUR BORDER. THAT IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT WHEN WE LOOK, WE'VE HAD OVER 10 MILLION PEOPLE COME HERE ILLEGALLY UNDER JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS DISASTROUS POLICIES. WE'VE GOT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE SECURE OUR BORDER, START CREATING SAFETY IN OUR STREETS, IN OUR COMMUNITIES WE KNOW WHERE THE FENTANYL IS COMING. IT'S COMING FROM CHINA. IT'S MAKING ITS WAY TO MEXICO ACROSS OUR BORDER. AND IT IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH BETWEEN THE AGES OF 18 AND 45 IN THIS NATION. SO WE'RE GOING TO START PUTTING PLACE POLICIES THAT ACTUALLY PUT AMERICANS FIRST. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE FIND WAYS TO DRIVE WAGES UP TO HELP PEOPLE CREATE THE AMERICAN DREAM FOR THEMSELVES. AND ANY IMPEDIMENT TO THAT, WE WANT TO ROLL BACK. WE ARE HERE TO MAKE THE MAIN STREETS OF OUR SMALL COMMUNITIES THRIVE AND GIVE PEOPLE A CHANCE FOR SUCCESS. >> AND, SENATOR, I DO WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT A POLICY THAT DEMOCRATS HAVE REALLY HONED IN ON IN TERMS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. THEY VIEW THIS AS A WEAK IN TERMS OF REPRODUCTIVE CARE. THERE WAS SOME CONTROVERSY OVER ,ACCESS TO IVF TREATMENT IN ALABAMA STATE. OF COURSE, ULTIMATELY PASSING A LAW, PROTECTING ACCESS TO IVF AT THE RNC, NOW AFFIRMING SUPPORT FOR IVF IN THEIR PARTY PLATFORM. SO, SENATOR, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT PARTY PLATFORM IN REGARDS BOTH IVF AND ACCESS TO ABORTION? >> LISTEN, THERE IS NO STRONGER SUPPORTER OF IVF. PRESIDENT TRUMP. IMMEDIATELY, PRESIDENT TRUMP CAME OUT AND SAID WE SUPPORT IVF. I BELIEVE IVF IS PRO-LIFE IT'S PRO-WOMAN, IT'S PRO-FAMILY. IT IS EXACTLY WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY STANDS FOR. AND WE WANT TO HELP PEOPLE EXPERIENCE GOD'S GREATEST GIFT AND BE ABLE TO BRING LIFE INTO THIS WORLD. SO I PROUD NOT ONLY OF PRESIDENT TRUMP'S POSITION ON THIS VERY ON, I WAS PROUD OF MY COLLEAGUES IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE. I, ALONG WITH SENATOR TED CRUZ, LED ALL 49 REPUBLICAN SENATORS IN SAYING THAT WE STRONGLY NATIONWIDE ACCESS TO IVF. NOW, LET'S CONTRAST THAT WITH SENATOR SCHUMER, WHO IS TRYING TO PLAY HIS SUMMER OF SCARE TACTICS UP AT FULL TILT FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, PUTTING A BILL ON THE FLOOR TRYING TO MAKE IT SEEM LIKE REPUBLICANS DON'T IVF, WHICH COULDN'T BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH. THE TRUTH IS IS AVAILABLE AND ACCESSIBLE IN ALL 50 STATES ACROSS THIS COUNTRY. REPUBLICANS HAVE STOOD UP AND SAID WE WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THAT. WE WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT IS THE CASE. I AM PROUD OF THAT AND ALL THE OTHER WORK WE'RE DOING FOR MATERNAL CARE AND MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE REACHING OUT TO MATERNAL CARE DESERTS. WE'RE TRYING TO FIND SOLUTIONS FOR WOMEN, WANT TO BRING THEIR CHILDREN INTO THIS WORLD, AND WE'RE GOING TO KEEP DOING THAT AND KEEP MAKING A DIFFERENCE. SENATOR BRAD, THANK SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. WE APPRECIATE YOU COMING ON THE PROGRAM WITH US. HEY, I THANK YOU. I THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME. AND THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AS CAN TELL, IT'S AN EXCITING TIME. WE ARE UNITING THE PARTY, UNITING THE COUNTRY, AND WE'RE GOING TO PUT US BACK ON TRACK. >> ALL RIGHT. WE APPRECIATE YOU, SENATOR THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE HAVE A LOT MORE SPECIAL COVERAGE AHEAD HERE ON ABC NEWS LIVE OF COURSE, WE ARE AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION RIGHT HERE ,MILWAUKEE. >> MAKE SURE TO STAY WITH US WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS. >> WE ARE HERE IN ISRAEL, A NATION AT WAR ENROLLING FOR IT. THIS TORNADO TORE THROUGH THIS TOWN FROM LEWISTON, MAINE, THE SCENE OF A HORRIFIC MASS SHOOTING FROM SCENE OF THAT DEADLY MISSILE STRIKE. ABC NEWS LIVE EVERYWHERE AND ICELAND. LET'S GO. ON THE 2024 CAMPAIGN TRAIL HERE AT TEN DOWNING STREET, WHEREVER THE STORY IS GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE, YOU'RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE, ABC NEWS LIVE. 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NOW, THAT'S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN'T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, START HERE. >> HI, I'M MANDY. AND I'M SABRINA AND WE'RE MOMS JUGGLING TONS OF STUFF EVERY DAY. LIKE ALL YOU OUT THERE. >> AND YOU KNOW WHAT WE LOVE? REALLY LOVE POP CULTURE. SO WHAT HAPPENS WHEN BEING OBSESSED WITH POP CULTURE COLLIDES WITH BEING A MOM YOU GET US. SO LISTEN NOW TO OUR NEW PODCAST, POP CULTURE MOMS. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS, FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, THERE'S A LOT GOING ON. WE'RE STILL IN A FLASH WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT IN RIOT GEAR, ARRESTING DOZENS OF PROTESTERS, WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE MIGRANT CRISIS, FAST, STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE HOLD, A BUZZ KILL AND BASEBALL. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. WHAT I TALK ABOUT IS THIS GROUP, THE UKRAINIAN ATTACK HELICOPTERS IN EASTERN UKRAINE. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE'LL TAKE YOU THAT YOU'RE WATCHING ABC NEWS LIVE. >> ALL RIGHT. WELCOME BACK TO ABC NEWS LIVE COVERAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. DATA IS OFFICIALLY UNDERWAY AND TODAY'S THEME IS MAKE AMERICA SAFE ONCE AGAIN WITH SPEAKERS FOCUSING ON CRIME ,AMERICA'S DEADLY FENTANYL CRISIS AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION . AMONG THOSE SET TO ADDRESS THE CONVENTION TONIGHT, VIVEK RAMASWAMY. AND OF COURSE, THE LATE ADDITION TO THE PROGRAM IS TRUMP'S LONGEST STANDING RIVAL FROM THE GOP PRIMARY, FORMER SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR NIKKI HALEY. SO I WANT TO TURN NOW TO OUR TEAM COVERAGE. JOINING ME NOW, OUR ABC NEWS CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT JONATHAN KARL. JOHN, I'M SO HAPPY TO HAVE ON THE PROGRAM HERE WITH US. AND JOHN, LOOK, WE KNOW A LOT OF FORMER RIVALS OF TRUMP WILL BE TAKING THE STAGE TONIGHT AND JOHN, WE ALSO KNOW THAT NOW ARKANSAS GOVERNOR ASA HUTCHINSON JUST TOLD JAY O'BRIEN, ESSENTIALLY HE'S CONSIDERING WALKING BACK SONY'S COMMENTS ABOUT NOT VOTING FOR A CONVICTED FELON, SOMETHING HE SAID HE WOULD DO, AND NOW HE SAYS HE'S CONSIDERING IT. JOHN, IS REALLY THE MESSAGE THAT VOTERS WILL BE HEARING, EVEN THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT SECURITY AND SAFETY TONIGHT. WELL, I THINK THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME PRETTY SHARP RHETORIC IN TERMS OF DIRECTED AT JOE BIDEN AND DEMOCRATS, THE BORDER. BUT AS FAR AS THE REPUBLICANS AMONG THEMSELVES A UNITY IS IN ORDER. BY THE WAY, WE HAVE SOME NEWS THIS JUST IN THE VICE PRESIDENT, KAMALA HARRIS, HAS SPOKEN TO J.D. VANCE. NOW, OF COURSE, DONALD TRUMP'S RUNNING MATE. WE ARE TOLD THAT THE CONVERSATION WAS BRIEF AND RESPECTFUL. IT'S THEIR FIRST CONVERSATION SINCE THEY ARE NOW OFFICIALLY RIVALS FOR FOR THE VICE PRESIDENCY. AND THEY HAVE AGREED DO A DEBATE. SO WE'LL SEE WHERE THE DETAILS OF ARE, YOU KNOW, WHO WILL HOST THE DEBATE WHEN. IT WILL BE AND ALL OF THAT. BUT -- BUT LOOKS LIKE WE WILL HAVE A VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. >> I KNOW THAT A LOT OF AMERICANS BE TUNING INTO THAT. WE'VE HEARD TIME OVER TIME THAT SOMETIMES THIS VICE PRESIDENT POSITION IT MAKE THAT MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE. BUT REALLY, WE'RE HEARING THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE SOME VOTERS AT THIS POINT RIGHT NOW. AND JOHN, I AM CURIOUS OF YOUR ASSESSMENT BECAUSE WE WERE TALKING TO SOME ANALYSTS YESTERDAY THAT FEEL LIKE J.D. VANCE COULD BE HER BIGGEST CHALLENGE IN TERMS OF DEBATE FOR HARRIS. >> YES. I MEAN, LOOK, I THINK THAT USUALLY THE THE UNDERCARD IS NOT A BIG FACTOR, THAT THERE CAN BE RACES WHERE PERHAPS A RUNNING MATE MAY HURT THE PERSON AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET ACTUALLY HELPS THE PERSON AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET. YOU CAN SEE POSSIBLE EXAMPLES OF WHERE WHERE THE RUNNING MATES MATTERED. MAYBE LBJ AS JOHN KENNEDY'S RUNNING MATE, MAYBE DAN QUAYLE MIGHT HAVE HURT A BIT. >> GEORGE H.W. BUSH. BUT THIS RACE, THIS RACE WITH TWO MEN, 181 YEARS OLD, THE OTHER JUST A FEW YEARS, THERE'S A LOT OF ATTENTION FOCUSED ON ON ON THE CANDIDATES FOR VICE PRESIDENT. AS I HEARD BIDEN SAY TODAY IN HIS SPEECH TO THE ACP CALLING OUT, KAMALA HARRIS SAYING SHE'S BEEN A GREAT VICE PRESIDENT. AND NOT ONLY THAT, SHE WOULD SHE COULD BE PRESIDENT, BUT HE DIDN'T SAY COULDN'T BE A GREAT PRESIDENT. SHE COULD BE PRESIDENT. AND LOOKING JOE BIDEN, I THINK PEOPLE ARE VERY MUCH THAT'S TOP MIND. J.D. VANCE IS 39 YEARS OLD. HE'S THE YOUNGEST. IF YOU GOT IF HE BECAME VICE PRESIDENT, HE WOULD BE THE YOUNGEST VICE PRESIDENT SINCE VICE BRECKINRIDGE IN 1861, SWORN. SO ON ONE HAND, HE'S YOUNG, HE'S INEXPERIENCED BUT HE IS A VERY SKILLED DEBATER. AS A MATTER OF FACT, I THINK THAT WAS ONE OF THE REASONS. ONE OF THE THINGS DONALD TRUMP LIKED ABOUT HIM IS HOW HE PERFORMED IN THE DEBATES WHEN HE WAS RUNNING FOR SENATE JUST JUST TWO YEARS AGO. SO THIS COULD BE A YOU KNOW A TOUGH SPARRING PARTNER FOR KAMALA HARRIS AND PERHAPS PERHAPS THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE THAT WE'VE EVER SEEN, AT LEAST A TELEVISED VICE PRESIDENTIAL. >> CERTAINLY. I AGREE WITH YOU THERE, JON KARL. ALSO, I TO ASK YOU, I KNOW THAT YOU SPOKE WITH DONALD TRUMP AND HE TALKED TO ABOUT REWRITING THE SPEECH THAT HE WILL MAKE THIS WEEK AFTER THE ATTEMPT THERE ON HIS LIFE. WE SAW WALK IN HERE LAST NIGHT. IT WAS INCREDIBLY EMOTIONAL TO WATCH HIM WALK IN HERE. DO YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL DETAILS OR WHAT IS YOUR ASSESSMENT HERE OF WHAT WE MIGHT HEAR WHEN DONALD DOES TAKE THE STAGE IN WAKE OF EVERY IN THE WAKE OF EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENED? >> WELL, HE WAS I THOUGHT TRUMP HIMSELF, THE MOMENT WAS EMOTIONAL. CERTAINLY THE CROWD, THE ANTICIPATION. THEY PLAYED IT OFF ALMOST LIKE WAS A WWE ENTRANCE. YOU KNOW, YOU SAW HIM IN THE IN HALLWAYS BEFORE HE CAME OUT TO WALK INTO THE STAGE AS IF HE GOING INTO A PRIZE FIGHT. BUT, YOU KNOW, WHEN HE GOT OUT THERE, THE HALL WAS ACTUALLY QUIET PEOPLE LOOKING AND TRYING IN ANTICIPATION, TAKING IN THE MOMENT THAT WHO WAS WHO JUST CAME WITHIN MAYBE A HALF INCH OR AN INCH OF AN ASSASSIN'S BULLET FROM BEING KILLED WAS THERE AT THE CONVENTION. THAT WILL MAKE HIM AFTER THE THIRD TIME THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE. I THOUGHT TRUMP HIMSELF WAS QUITE EMOTIONAL. HE SEEMED ON THE VERGE OF CHOKED UP. AND WHEN I SPOKE TO HIM, HIS HIS WAS WAS SUBDUED. HE WAS A LITTLE BIT QUIETER, SEEMED REFLECTIVE. HE SPENT A FAIR AMOUNT OF THAT CONVERSATION. WE SPOKE FOR ABOUT 10 MINUTES REFLECTING ON HOW CLOSE HE CAME TO GETTING KILLED AND MARVELING AT THE REACTION OF THE CROWD AROUND HIM AFTER THE SHOTS WERE FIRED AND TELLING ME, YOU KNOW, I ASKED HIM POINT BLANK, IS THIS EXPERIENCE, YOU KNOW, CHANGED YOU, I WOULD THINK ANY HUMAN BEING, MAYBE EVEN DONALD ,KNOWING THAT THEY CAME THAT CLOSE TO DEATH, WOULD CAUSE TO HAVE SOME SENSE OF A REASSESSMENT OF EVERYTHING. SO I ASKED, HOW IS IT GOING? IS IT GOING TO CHANGE YOUR APPROACH TO THE TO THE CAMPAIGN? IS IT GOING TO CHANGE YOUR APPROACH TO THIS CONVENTION? AND ONE OF THE THINGS HE SAID IS THAT, AS YOU ALLUDED TO, HE SAID HE'S REPEAT UP HIS OLD SPEECH. HE SAID IT HAD BEEN A HUMDINGER. I MEAN, MAYBE IT WOULD HAVE BE A REPLAY OF AMERICAN CARNAGE, A DEEPLY NEGATIVE OF JOE BIDEN. NOW, HE SAYS HE'S GOING TO EMPHASIZE MORE UNITY NOW, BY THE WAY. HE'S GOT A COUPLE OF DAYS TO RIP THAT SPEECH UP, TOO. I MEAN, WE'LL SEE. WE'LL SEE WHAT IT'S LIKE WHEN TRUMP ACTUALLY COMES OUT ON THE STAGE. BUT SO FAR, DAY ONE, THIS IS A CONVENTION THAT LOOKS A LOT MORE MUCH TURNED DOWN. YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THE DIVISIVE, RHETORIC, RHETORIC ABOUT JANUARY 6TH, ABOUT STOLEN ELECTIONS. I WAS ABSENT AT LEAST ON DAY ONE. >> IT CERTAINLY WAS ANY. AND YOU'RE RIGHT. WE WILL SEE HOW THIS ALL PLAYS OUT. JON KARL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING ON AND BEING WITH US. WE APPRECIATE YOU AS ALWAYS. WHITE HOUSE CHIEF. ALL RIGHT. I WANT TO TURN NOW TO ABC NEWS JAY O'BRIEN AND ABC CONTRIBUTING POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT AND COAUTHOR OF THE POLITICAL PLAYBOOK, RACHEL BAY. SO THANK YOU BOTH FOR BEING HERE. AND LOOK, RACHEL, YOU WERE ABLE TO JUST HEAR JON KARL, I ASSUME, AND HE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT DONALD TRUMP WAS, YOU KNOW, ASSESSING AND DIGESTING THIS ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE AND HOW THAT MIGHT CHANGE ONLY HIS APPROACH TO THIS CONVENTION, BUT HIS APPROACH TO HOW HE DECIDES TO LEAD THIS COUNTRY IF HE IS ELECTED PRESIDENT. AND I KNOW THAT RACHEL JUST HAD A CHANCE, RIGHT, TO SPEAK WITH HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER LEADER STEVE SCALISE, WHO SHARED WITH YOU WHAT IT WAS LIKE FOR HIM IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE REALLY THE ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE AS WELL. >> NIGHT. >> I MEAN, LOOK, YOU COULD SEE THE CHANGE IN DONALD TRUMP'S FACE NIGHT WHEN HE CAME OUT INTO THE ARENA. I MEAN, WE DIDN'T SEE THE TYPICAL SWAGGER THAT SORT OF EMANATES FROM DONALD TRUMP INSTEAD. THERE WERE MOMENTS WHEN HE WAS WALKING WHERE HE LOOKED LIKE HE WAS ACTUALLY ABOUT TO CRY. I ASKED STEVE SCALISE, A SURVIVOR OF GUN VIOLENCE HIMSELF, ABOUT WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO SORT OF COME BACK FROM THAT TRAUMA. AND HE ADMITTED, LOOK, IT'S -- IT'S REALLY DIFFICULT. BUT WHAT HIS ADVICE TO THE FORMER PRESIDENT WAS, IS YOU CAN'T JUST SORT OF HANG BACK AND SORT OF WALLOW IN WHICH HONESTLY WOULD BE WOULD BE A NATURAL REACTION. YOU'VE GOT TO GET OUT THERE AND YOU'VE GOT TO EXPOSE YOURSELF. AND THEN IT GETS EASIER. YEAH, I MEAN, IMAGINE WHAT THAT'S LIKE, RIGHT? TO ENTER A CROWDED VENUE AGAIN, IT'S OUR UNDERSTANDING THE FIRST CAMPAIGN STOP THERE IN MICHIGAN WILL BE MOVED TO AN INSIDE EVENT. I WANT TO BRING IN AS WELL HERE. SO, JAY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE WE'RE TALKING A LOT ABOUT UNITY HERE ,JON KARL SAYING THAT DONALD TRUMP'S SPEECH IN ALL LIKELIHOOD WILL BE A LOT ABOUT UNITY. BUT WE'RE ALSO SEEING, I MEAN, NOT JUST IMAGES, YOUR EARS, YOU'RE HEARING ABOUT RESILIENCY AND STRENGTH AS WELL AND THE PEOPLE THAT YOU'RE SPEAKING WITH ON THE FLOOR. WHAT ARE THEY HOPING TO HEAR FROM THE FORMER PRESIDENT, PENNSYLVANIA? WELL, IT'S INTERESTING. AS WE LOOK AROUND, THERE'S JUST A BIT OF A SCRUM HERE. NOTHING'S GOING ON. THERE'S JUST A LOT OF ACTIVITY. OFTENTIMES BUT, KATE, TO YOUR QUESTION ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE ON THE FLOOR WANT HEAR. THERE'S A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT COME UP WHEN YOU TALK TO PEOPLE ABOUT TONIGHT. FIRSTLY, THEY ALL ARE AWARE OF THE THEME TONIGHT, WHICH IS MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN. SO TALKING ABOUT THE BORDER TIGHTENING UP, LAW ENFORCEMENT, ETC.. BUT ALSO, AS YOU AND I DISCUSSED LAST NIGHT, EVEN WHEN THE THEME WAS THE ECONOMY, THERE WAS ALWAYS THIS UNDERCURRENT THEME OF DEFIANCE IN THE WAKE OF THOSE EVENTS ON SATURDAY. WHEN YOU TALK TO PEOPLE HERE, THAT'S THE FIRST THING YOU BRING UP, NOT THE THEME OF THE NIGHT, BUT WHAT HAPPENED ON SATURDAY. TRUMP PUTTING HIS FIST IN THE AIR AND THAT ACT DEFIANCE. >> YEAH, HE CERTAINLY DID. AND THAT IS A PICTURE AND A MOMENT THAT HAS RESONATED WITH A LOT OF AMERICANS NO MATTER WHICH SIDE OF THE AISLE YOU'RE ON. JAY AND RACHEL, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE WITH US. >> AND WE HAVE A LOT MORE SPECIAL COVERAGE AHEAD HERE FROM THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL IN MILWAUKEE AS THINGS ARE FULLY UNDERWAY HERE ON DAY TWO. STAY WITH. >> WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST IN AMERICA AMERICA? AN OPERATION THAT CAPITALIZES ON COMBAT OPERATIONS? AND WE'RE APPROACHING THE GATE NOW. MILITANTS CAME IN FROM FOUR OR FIVE DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. OPERATION NUCLEAR REACTOR WAS THE COUPLE LOADED AND READY TO GO. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED, BUT THE FLAG THERE'S NOT A TEAR IN AND OUT OF THERE. HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS LABEL RIGHT HERE MADE TO USA? >> LOOK HERE. SMILE. YOU'RE PROUD OF IT? I LOVE IT. GREAT WORK. HI. WHERE ARE YOU? ARE YOU? THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ISRAEL. >> DAVID? YES. YES. I'M DAVID. >> ARE I KNOW WHO YOU ARE. YOU DO EVERY NIGHT. ABC'S WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR IS AMERICA'S WATCHED NEWSCAST. >> ALL RIGHT. LET THE DOGS, PLEASE. >> I DON'T THINK HE'S GOING TO GIVE YOU A HARD TIME. >> EVEN IF HE GIVES ME A HARD TIME. I'M THE RIGHT GUY. I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ALL LEARN TOGETHER? TOM, I'M CONFIDENT. SURRENDER. EVERYTHING THAT HE'S TAUGHT HAS BECOME REALITY. WE ARE SO GRATEFUL AND IMPRESSED. >> FEEL LIKE CRYING. YOU CHANGED OUR WORLD. IT IS A BEAUTIFUL THING TO SEE AS YOU REHABILITATE THE DOG. YOU ALSO REHABILITATE THEY DO. WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM? >> ABC NEWS THIS IS "START HERE" TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY'S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET'S INTO IT LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR ARE MURROW AWARDS AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH LISTENING TO START HERE ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN NOW THAT'S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT DIDN'T SEE COMING. >> WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCAST, START HERE. >> WHENEVER, WHEREVER NEWS BREAKS, IT'S SO IMPORTANT. >> ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT LIVES ARE CHANGED HERE IN IN BUFFALO YOU'VE ALL DAY TEXAS, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND REPORTING FROM ROLLING FORK, MISSISSIPPI. UKRAINIAN REFUGEES HERE IN WARSAW WE'RE HEADING TO A SMALL COMMUNITY OUTSIDE OF MEXICO CITY, GETTING YOU BEHIND THE STORIES AS THEY HAPPEN. ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME. >> WE'LL TAKE YOU THERE. STREAM ABC NEWS LIVE WEEKNIGHTS WHEREVER YOU STREAMING NEWS ONLY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> AND WELCOME BACK. THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE. CONTINUING COVERAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION HERE IN MILWAUKEE. THE ROOM IS DARKENED, BUT THE STAGE CERTAINLY IS BRIGHT. I WANT BRING IN NOW THE HOST OF THE FIVETHIRTYEIGHT POLITICS PODCAST, GALEN DRUKE TO TALK MORE ABOUT WHICH WAY THE SCALES COULD TIP FOR FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP NOW THAT HE HAS PICKED HIS RUNNING MATE. SO GOOD LET ME FIRST ASK YOU HERE. THIS RUNNING MATE IS NOT ONE THAT A LOT OF ANALYSTS BELIEVE PULL IN MODERATE OR INDEPENDENT VOTERS. SO NOW I'M REALLY CURIOUS AS TO YOUR ASSESSMENT HERE, BECAUSE WE KNOW NIKKI HALEY IS GOING TO BE TAKING THE STAGE TONIGHT . WE KNOW RON DESANTIS WILL BE TAKING THE STAGE TONIGHT. ARE YOU AND YOUR POLLING AND YOUR ANALYSIS, ARE YOU STILL SEEING DIVISIONS WITHIN THE RIGHT NOW DESPITE THE CALLS FOR UNITY? SURE. THERE ARE CERTAINLY SOME DIVISIONS. THE WAY THAT I WOULD EXPLAIN THIS IS THAT IN 2020, PART OF THE REASON, JOE WON IS BECAUSE HE OVERPERFORMED WITH WELL-EDUCATED HARD SUBURBANITES IN THE COLLAR COUNTIES AROUND PLACES LIKE ATLANTA, DETROIT, MILWAUKEE, WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW. AND IF DONALD TRUMP WANTED MAYBE THE MOST STRAIGHTFORWARD PATH BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE, HE TRY TO WIN THOSE VOTERS BACK, PERHAPS J.D. VANCE HEADED FOR SECURING HIS APPEAL AMONGST THE TYPE OF VOTERS THAT HE DOES QUITE WELL, WHICH WITH WHICH IS WORKING CLASS WHITE VOTERS IN THE UPPER MIDWEST. SO WE'LL SEE IF HE CAN STILL WIN OVER THE, SAY, NIKKI HALEY VOTER, FOR EXAMPLE. >> IT'S REALLY INTERESTING. AND HOW DOES J.D. VANCE COMPARE TO, LET'S SAY, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE? YEAH, I MEAN, I THINK PROBABLY THE MOST SIGNIFICANT WAY THAT HE DIFFERS FROM MIKE PENCE IS THAT HE TOLD ABC HIMSELF, THAT HE WOULD NOT HAVE CERTIFIED THE 2020 ELECTION AS PER DONALD TRUMP'S REQUEST. OF COURSE, THAT WAS ON JANUARY SIX. DONALD TRUMP SAID HE WANT HIS VICE PRESIDENT TO CERTIFY THE ELECTORS TO THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE, BASICALLY SUGGESTING THAT THERE WAS AN OPENING OVERTURN THE 2020 ELECTION. SO THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT WITH THE FORMER VICE PRESIDENT. ALSO, HE'S NOT EVANGELICAL CONSERVATIVE TYPE THAT YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH SEEING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. JUDY VANCE, RIGHT OUTSIDE OF THE CHURCH. ALL RIGHT. OUR THANKS TO YOU, AS ALWAYS, RIGHT DOWN THERE ON THE FLOOR OF REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. >> WE HAVE A LOT MORE COVERAGE AHEAD HERE. WE'LL BE SPEAKING WITH OUR POLITICAL PANEL AS SOON AS WE RETURN. MAKE SURE TO STAY. >> ABC NEWS LIVE FROM THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. >> WHENEVER WHEREVER BREAKS, IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT LIVES CHANGED HERE IN LONDON, IN BUFFALO. >> YOU'VE ALL DONE TEXAS, SCOTLAND. REPORTING FROM ROLLING FORK, MISSISSIPPI, UKRAINIAN REFUGEES HERE IN WARSAW, WE'RE HEADING TO A SMALL COMMUNITY OUTSIDE OF MEXICO CITY, GETTING YOU BEHIND THE STORIES AS THEY HAPPEN. >> ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME. WE'LL TAKE YOU THERE. STREAM ABC LIVE WEEKNIGHTS WHEREVER YOU SCREAM YOUR NEWS ONLY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE'S A LOT GOING ON WE'RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT IN RIOT GEAR, ARRESTING DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE MIGRANT CRISIS FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE 17 YEAR OLD BUZZKILL AND FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHY? WHAT DO YOU MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE FROM ABC NEWS THIS IS "START HERE". TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE THE DAY'S TOP STORIES. A LOT OF NEWS TODAY SO LET'S GET INTO IT LISTEN NOW TO THE DAILY NEWS PODCAST HONORED WITH FOR EDWARD R. MURROW LAWRENCE AND SEE WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS IT A NEWS PODCAST WORTH TO START HERE. ABC NEWS MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN. >> NOW, THAT'S A PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN'T SEE COMING. WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS. >> START HERE. 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AND JOINING US NOW IS OUR ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AMANDA RENTERIA. SHE'S THE A FORMER OFFICIAL FOR THE 2016 HILLARY CLINTON CAMPAIGN, ALONG WITH TRICIA, A REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST AND FORMER SENIOR ADVISER TO VIVEK RAMASWAMY. I'M SO HAPPY TO HAVE YOU BOTH HERE WITH US. I TRICIA, I WANT TO GO TO YOU FIRST, IF I CAN. LOOK, PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS WE ALL KNOW, JUST SURVIVED AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT OVER THE WEEKEND IN PENNSYLVANIA. THE THEME OF TONIGHT'S PROCEEDINGS IS TO AMERICA SAFE AGAIN. TRICIA, DO YOU ANTICIPATE ANY CHANGES TERMS OF THE GOP PLATFORM ON GUN CONTROL OR DO YOU THINK TONIGHT THEY REALLY JUST BE FOCUSING HERE ON BORDER SECURITY AND THINGS LIKE THAT? NO, I THINK THIS IS ABSOLUTELY ABOUT BORDER SECURITY, MAKING COMMUNITIES AROUND THE COUNTRY ARE SAFE. I THINK OUR OPINION AS ADVOCATES, WE BELIEVE THAT MORE FIREARMS AND, GOOD PEOPLE'S HANDS IS MAKES COMMUNITIES MORE SAFE. >> AND, AMANDA, I KNOW WE'RE RUNNING SHORT HERE ON TIME, THOUGH, BUT WE KNOW NIKKI HALEY IS GOING SPEAK TONIGHT. WHAT DOES THAT DO TO BIDEN'S ATTEMPT TO TRY TO NAB HER SUPPORTERS, SOME OF THOSE INDEPENDENT OR MORE MODERATE VOTERS? BUT SHE MIGHT GET LOT OF SUPPORT HERE TONIGHT. >> THAT WILL BE IMPORTANT TO HEAR WHAT SHE HAS TO BECAUSE ON THE ISSUES, IT IS STILL TRUE THAT WOMEN'S RIGHTS HAVE BEEN PROTECTED, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. BUT WE'LL SEE WHAT NIKKI HALEY HAS TO SAY THAT WILL GIVE SOME INFORMATION, THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, ON HOW HE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT PROTECTING WOMEN'S RIGHTS GOING FORWARD. >> AND, TRICIA, IN TERMS OF SECURITY AND SAFETY, WE KNOW THAT CAN BE A TIME FOR DIVISIVE RHETORIC. HOW DO YOU THINK THAT THESE PEOPLE THAT TAKE THE STAGE HERE TONIGHT WILL TURN THAT INTO A SPEECH ABOUT UNITY AS WELL? >> I THINK WE HAVE TO STICK TO POLICIES. I MEAN, WE HAVEN'T JUST HAD A GUNMAN OUTSIDE OF THE PERIPHERY TODAY. SO I MEAN. WE REALLY GOT TO TONE DOWN THE RHETORIC HERE, BOTH ON THE DEMOCRAT AND REPUBLICAN SIDES. >> AMANDA AND TRICIA, I THINK I APPRECIATE THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE WITH US AND THANK ALL OF YOU FOR STREAMING WITH US. I'M WE HAVE A SPECIAL PRIMETIME COVERAGE OF THE 2024 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION, WHICH KICKS OFF RIGHT HERE ON ABC NEWS LIVE TONIGHT RIGHT AFTER THIS QUICK BREAK. OF COURSE, LATER LINSEY DAVIS WILL BE JOINED OUR OWN DAVID MUIR AND OUR ENTIRE POWERHOUSE POLITICAL TEAM. WE HOPE YOU CHECK THEM OUT AS WELL. THE NEWS NEVER STOPS. NEITHER DO WE. KEEP IT RIGHT ON ABC NEWS LIVE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. >> THERE'S A LOT GOING ON. WE'RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE IN RIOT GEAR ARRESTING, DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE MIGRANT CRISIS, FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE 17TH POLE, THE BUZZKILL IN BASEBALL. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHY WITH SO MUCH AT STAKE, SO MUCH ON THE LINE, MORE AMERICANS TURN HERE THAN ANY OTHER NEWSCAST. ABC NEWS WORLD TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ACROSS ALL A TELEVISION. >> THERE IS A PRICE TO BE PAID EVERY A SURVIVOR SHARES THEIR STORY. I WILL NOT BE SILENCED. DO YOU FEEL THE CHURCH ACCEPTED ABUSE? I WON'T ACCEPT IT SO MUCH. >> PRETENDED IT DIDN'T EXIST. THAT'S HOW. YEP. READY. KYRA PHILLIPS WITH ABC. >> DOES YOUR CHURCH PROTECT SEXUAL PREDATORS? THE POWERFUL "IMPACT X NIGHTLINE" SECRETS OF THE TWO BY TWO CHURCH. THERE'S NOTHING PRETTY ABOUT HEARING THAT NOW STREAMING ON HULU. AND A GREAT MORNING AMERICA. >> GOOD MORNING, AMERICA. GOOD MORNING, AMERICA. >> ARE YOU COVERING THE BIGGEST EVENTS IN THE COUNTRY RIGHT NOW? >> THERE'S A LOT GOING ON. HAVE YOU DON'T JUST SEE IT, YOU FEEL IT. >> I'M IN. I'M IN. I'M IN CITY HERE. I AM HERE AND SO I'M HAPPY. I MEAN, I LIVE ZERO, MICHAEL, FOR WHERE I TODAY IS REALLY NICE. >> WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE START THEIR DAY HERE? >> ABC NEWS THIS IS STARTING TO BE IN THE KNOW AND GET A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE DAY'S TOP STORIES STAR HERE. THAT'S THE PART OF THE STORY THAT YOU DIDN'T SEE COMING. >> MAKE IT YOUR DAILY FIRST LISTEN WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS. THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE. >> THE PRESSURE ON FAMILIES ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE. >> ABC NEWS LIVE. AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS ANYTIME, ANYWHERE. STREAMING 24/7 STRAIGHT TO YOU FOR FREE THANK YOU FOR MAKING ABC NEWS LAUREN AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST IN AMERICA? WE ARE PART OF AN OPERATION OR COMBAT OPERATION, SOMETHING WE'RE APPROACHING THE GATE. MILITANTS CAME IN FROM A DIFFERENT FROM HERE. REACTOR THREE. THE COUPLE LOADED AND READY TO GO. THE HOUSE IS DESTROYED BUT THE FLAG IN TOM FORD IMPORTANT. IT MADE THE USA GREAT WORK. >> I THINK IT'S LOUD. DAVID I'M DAVID. YOU ARE. >> YOU ARE. YOU DO EVERY NIGHT. ABC'S WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, AMERICA'S MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST REPORTING FROM TAYLOR WORLD TOUR IN LONDON. I'M WILL GANSS. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE'LL YOU THERE YOU'RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE . >> HERE'S TO GOOD MORNING AMERICA. CAN YOU FIT IN OH MORNINGS THAT INSPIRE FILLED WITH HOPE KINDNESS, SURPRISES AND SO MUCH FUN IT'S JUST GREAT. >> ABSOLUTELY GREAT. START YOUR DAY WITH GOOD MORNING AMERICA'S RAY OF SUNSHINE, HIGHLIGHTING THE BEST OF AMERICA AND HELPING MAKE DREAMS TRUE. I'M JUST SO HAPPY TO SORT SO GET READY, SMILE AND PUT THE GOOD INTO YOUR MORNING AMERICA BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT WILL MAKE THE MORNING BETTER. >> A LITTLE RAY OF SUNSHINE. TIME FOR THE ABC NEWS AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE NEWS SOURCE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. >> THERE'S A GOING ON. WE'RE STILL IN A FLASH FLOOD WARNING TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT OVERNIGHT WE IN RIOT GEAR ARRESTING DOZENS OF PROTESTERS. WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY? ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING THE MIGRANT CRISIS FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN. CHECK OUT THE GATOR ON THE 17 PULLED A BUZZKILL IN BASEBALL. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. WHAT RUTH HANK AARON SHOHEI OHTANI LEGENDS OF THE GAME. BUT NOW THE LIST OF GREATS REDEFINED FROM >> TONIGHT, NIGHT 2 OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. THE PARTY FAITHFUL GATHER IN MILWAUKEE ONE DAY AFTER FORMALLY NOMINATING DONALD TRUMP AND NEW RUNNING MATE J.D. VANCE FOR THE 2024 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL TICKET AS THE NEXT WAVE OF POTENTIAL REPUBLICAN LEADERS TAKE THE STAGE. >> THE YOUNG REPUBLICANS WILL BE FIGHTING TO MAKE THE ECONOMY GREAT AGAIN. >> THEY OPENED A BORDER ENDANGERING OUR COUNTRY. >> REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS SENT THE NATIONAL GUARD TO THE BORDER TO PROTECT IT. >> TO CRACK DOWN. >> IMMIGRATION AND SECURITY ARE TONIGHT'S TOP ISSUES AS THE G.O.P. HONES IN ON WHAT THE PARTY DESCRIBES AS DONALD TRUMP'S GREATEST POLICY STRENGTHS WHILE BRINGING THE STORIES OF EVERYDAY MEN AND WOMEN TO MILLIONS OF VIEWERS. >> WE WANT TO LIVE IN A PLACE WHERE IT'S SAFE FOR OUR CHILDREN, SAY FOR OUR FAMILIES. >> IT'S NOT ONLY THE BORDER, IT'S THE CHAOS IN THE STREETS. >> A COUNTRY WITHOUT A BORDER IS NOT A COUNTRY. >> WE'LL HAVE THAT AND MORE ON THIS NICE 2 OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. ♪ ♪ >> GOOD EVENING EVERYONE, I'M LINSEY DAVIS THANKS SO MUCH FOR STREAMING WITH US. WE ARE HERE LIVE IN MILWAUKEE AS NIGHT 2 OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IS NOW IN FULL SWING. THE OFFICIAL THEME OF TONIGHT MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN. BUT YOU CAN ALSO CALL IT CONVERTS NIGHT. FORMER BITTER CAMPAIGN RIVALS WILL TAKE TO THE STAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND SEEK TO PROJECT TO THAT MESSAGE OF UNITY. THE ARENA STOOD AWESTRUCK LATE LAST NIGHT AS TRUMP MADE HIS FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE SINCE THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT SATURDAY, THAT BANDAGE VISIBLE ON HIS RIGHT EAR. ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL NIKKI HALEY SAID DONALD TRUMP BRINGS CHAOS AND CALLED HIM TOTALLY UNHINGED. BUT TONIGHT SHE WILL TAKE THE STAGE OFFERING HER SUPPORT. IN KEEPING WITH THE PARTY'S NEW PUSH TO COME TOGETHER. GOVERNOR RON DeSANTIS IS ALSO EXPECTED TO SPEAK TONIGHT AND WE HAVE NOW LEARNED TRUMP IS ASKING FOR THE ENDORSEMENT OF THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE RFK, A POSSIBLE SPOILER AND WHAT COULD BE A TIGHT RACE. TENSIONS ARE HIGH OUTSIDE THE ARENA IN MILWAUKEE AFTER A SCARE NOT FAR FROM THE CONVENTION SITE, A MAN KILLED BY POLICE, MORE ON THAT IN A MOMENT. INSIDE THE ARENA THROUGHOUT THIS HOUR WE WILL HEAR FROM SENATE G.O.P. HOPEFULS, MANY IN KEY BATTLEGROUND STATES REPUBLICANS NEED TO WIN IN ORDER TO RETAKE THE SENATE. WE CAUGHT UP WITH DONALD TRUMP'S SON ERIC A SHORT TIME AGO HE WAS WATCHING THAT RALLY ON SATURDAY AT LIVE WITH HIS TWO CHILDREN, WE WILL SEE OUR INTERVIEW IN JUST A FEW MINUTES BUT ALSO TAKING THE FLOOR SPEAKER THE HOUSE KEVIN McCARTHY. ANOTHER BUSY NIGHT IN MILWAUKEE WITH OUR FULL TEAM STANDING BY. RACHEL STOTT LEADS US OFF. >> TONIGHT, ANOTHER ASSIGNMENT DONALD TRUMP TORE UP THE SCRIPT FOR THIS CONVENTION AFTER DODGING AN ASSASSIN'S BULLET IN PENNSYLVANIA. THE THEME IN MILWAUKEE, UNITY, TOGETHERNESS. A SUBDUED TRUMP, A BANDAGE ON HIS WOUNDED EAR GREETING THE DELEGATES. TONIGHT A SURPRISE ADDITION TO THE SCHEDULE. HIS FORMER PRIMARY RIVAL NIKKI HALEY. ONCE UNSPARING IN HER CRITICISM. >> MANY OF THE SAME POLITICIANS WHO NOW PUBLICLY EMBRACE TRUMP PRIVATELY DREAD HIM. THEY KNOW WHAT A DISASTER HE HAS BEEN AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE FOR OUR PARTY. >> I WANT TO THANK AMBASSADOR NIKKI HALEY. >> SHE HAS SINCE ENDORSED TRUMP AND TONIGHT SHE HAS BEEN INVITED TO ADDRESS THE CONVENTION AS IT TRUMP WORKS TO BUILD SUPPORT. HE ALSO REACHED OUT TO INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE ROBERT KENNEDY JR. ASKING FOR HIS ENDORSEMENT. A MEMBER OF KENNEDY'S TEAM RECORDING VIDEO OF THE CALL. THEN HIS SON POSTING IT ON SOCIAL MEDIA. >> I THINK IT WOULD BE SO GOOD FOR YOU, AND WE ARE GOING TO WIN. >> PLAYING INTO KENNEDY'S BRACE OF MISINFORMATION ABOUT VACCINES BY REPEATING INACCURATE AND DEBUNKED INFORMATION HIMSELF. >> OF VACCINATION, 38 DIFFERENT VACCINES THAT IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S MADE FOR A HORSE, NOT A KID OR A 20-POUND BABY, IT LOOKS LIKE YOU SHOULD BE GIVING THE HORSE THIS AND IT'S THE SIZE OF IT, IT'S JUST MASSIVE. THEN YOU SEE THE BABY ALL OF A SUDDEN STARTING TO CHANGE RADICALLY. >> THIS IS NOT ACCURATE, BABIES ARE NOT GIVEN VACCINES ENDORSES EQUIVALENT TO HORSES, PEDIATRIC VACCINES ARE THE PRODUCT OF HIGH-QUALITY STUDIES OF THE DECADES OF RESEARCH, THEY HAVE SAVED COUNTLESS LIVES AND DO NOT CAUSE BABIES TO START CHANGING RAPIDLY. THE VIDEO WAS TAKEN DOWN AND TODAY KENNEDY RELEASING A STATEMENT "I AM MORTIFIED THIS WAS POSTED TO. I APOLOGIZE TO THE PRESIDENT." IN MILWAUKEE THE FIRST GLIMPSE OF THIS YEAR'S REPUBLICAN TICKETS, TRUMP AND HIS NEW RUNNING MATE OHIO SENATOR J.D. VANCE. TODAY, VANCE AND CHECKING OUT THE PODIUM PREPARING FOR HIS OWN BIG SPEECH. WITH A HUG FROM HIS BIGGEST BOOSTER, TRUMP'S SON DON JR. ON FOX NEWS, VANCE DESCRIBING WHEN HE GOT THE CALL. >> HE CAN HELP ME WIN IN SOME OF THESE MIDWESTERN STATES LIKE PENNSYLVANIA, MICHIGAN, AND SO FORTH. >> RIGHT NOW ON THE STAGE SENATE KACANDIDATE IN ARIZONA KARI LA. NEW INFORMATION ABOUT WHEN TRUMP WILL MAKE ANOTHER APPEARANCE IT'S HAPPENING US HIS FORMER RIVAL IS SET TO TAKE THE STAGE. >> EXACTLY, TYPICALLY WHAT YOU HAVE THE PERCEPTIVE NOMINEE COMING READY TO ACCEPT THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION YOU DON'T SEE THEM A FEW DAYS INTO THE ACTUAL CONVENTION. DONALD TRUMP MAKING IT A POINT TO SHOW UP HERE NOT ONLY ON THE FIRST NIGHT BUT ALSO ON THE SECOND NIGHT AND AS YOU MENTION IT COMES AS HIS FORMER RIVALS INCLUDING FORMER SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR NIKKI HALEY WILL BE TAKING THE STAGE. AS WE HEARD IN THAT PIECE, SUPERCRITICAL OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT. SHE WAS HIS LAST REMAINING RIFLE AND CAMPAIGN SOURCES TELL ME THEY WERE HOPING HER BEING ON THE STAGE TONIGHT IS AN APPEAL TO INDEPENDENT VOTERS TO COME AND BACK THE FORMER PRESIDENT. >> Linsey: YOU PREVIOUSLY REPORTED VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS HAD REACHED OUT TO J.D. VANCE, HAVE THEY FINALLY GOT A CHANCE TO SPEAK? >> THEY FINALLY HAVE GOTTEN THAT CHANCE TO TALK. SENATOR J.D. VANCE RETURNING VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS' CALL. WE WERE TOLD HARRIS EXTENDED A CONGRATULATIONS FOR BEING SELECTED AS DONALD TRUMP'S RUNNING MATE AND ALSO SHE WELCOMED HIM INTO THIS RACE. BOTH MADE IT VERY CLEAR THEY LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING EACH OTHER ON THE DEBATE STAGE VERY SOON. >> Linsey: RACHEL SCOTT, OUR THANKS TO YOU. WE WENT TO THE CONVENTION FLOOR A SHORT TIME AGO TO CATCH UP WITH THE FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE KEVIN McCARTHY AND WE TALKED ABOUT WHAT HE THINKS ABOUT J.D. VANCE AS THE NEXT POTENTIAL VP. THE G.O.P.'S PUSH FOR UNITY AND I WANT TO SAY IS WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THIS PUSH FOR UNITY, THE HOUSE HERE JUST ERUPTED WITH CHANTS TO BUILD THAT WALL. WE ALSO WANTED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN McCARTHY ABOUT WHAT IS NEXT FOR HIM PERSONALLY, POLITICALLY. LET'S START WITH SATURDAY, WHERE WERE YOU WHEN YOU HEARD THE NEWS IN YOUR IMMEDIATE REACTION. >> I WAS IN CALIFORNIA, SOMEBODY TEXTED ME TO TURN ON THE TV AND I WAS SHOCKED, LIKE EVERY AMERICAN TO SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON THEN AND GETTING THE OTHER INFORMATION. I CALLED TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE NEXT DAY AND TALK TO HIM. YOU SAW THE PRESIDENT BEING MUCH DIFFERENT IN THE PROCESS. HE EXPLAINED TO ME HEARING THE SOUND OF THE BULLET GOING BY AND HITTING PART OF THIS YEAR BUT HE WAS STILL THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF, HE SAID I LEARNED THERE'S A LOT OF BLOOD IN THE EAR, YOU HAVE A BIG, BEAUTIFUL EARS, YOU WILL LEARN THAT ONE TAKE. HE REALLY TALKED ABOUT WORRIED ABOUT CORY'S FAMILY. THEN HE TALKED ABOUT UNITING THIS NATION AND I CONTINUE TO HEAR THAT TODAY WITH HIM GOING FORWARD AND FROM A TRAGIC SITUATION THAT IT WAS TRYING TO TURN IT INTO A MORE POSITIVE THING FOR THIS NATION AS A WHOLE TO THINK ABOUT THE RHETORIC IN WHICH THEY SAY -- WE CAN HAVE DIFFERENCE OF OPINION BUT WE SHOULD RESPECT ONE ANOTHER'S OPINIONS. GOVERNMENT IS DESIGNED TO HAVE COMPROMISE, HAVE A DEBATE IS HEALTHY BUT TURNING IT INTO WHAT WE SAW THERE WAS A TRAUMATIC AND REALLY A DEMOCRACY CAN'T SUSTAIN ITSELF. I HAVE TALKED TO A NUMBER OF FOREIGN LEADERS HAVE CALLED ME ABOUT WHAT TRANSPIRED TO. >> Linsey: LIZ CHENEY WHO RELEASED A STATEMENT TODAY IN RESPONSE TO J.D. VANCE BEING SELECTED AS A VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE DESCRIBED HIM AS BEING A WILLING AND PLEDGING TO DO WHAT MIKE PENCE WOULDN'T, OVERTURN AN ELECTION, SOMETHING THAT SHE HAS CALLED A TEAR IN. I'M CURIOUS YOUR RESPONSE TO THAT. >> I THINK THERE'S A REASON LIZ CHENEY ISN'T HERE AND I BET SHE HAS NEVER MET J.D. VANCE SO SHE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT J.D. VANCE WOULD DO. I'M NEVER SEEN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AS UNITED AS IT IS NOW. WE GOT RON DeSANTIS, WE'VE GOT NIKKI HALEY SPEAKING TWO NIGHTS. THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO RAN FOR PRESIDENT TOO BUT UNDERSTAND THEY WANT TO PUT THE COUNTRY FIRST AND UNITE PEOPLE TOGETHER. I LOOK AT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, ONLY ONE-THIRD OF DEMOCRATS WANT THEIR NOMINEE TO BE JOE BIDEN. I LOOK AT THEM FIGHTING AMONG THEMSELVES AND IF YOU WERE HERE LAST NIGHT, THAT WAS AN UNBELIEVABLE MOMENT. I EVEN LOOKED BACK TO THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTIONS FOUR YEARS AGO, EIGHT YEARS AGO. YOU HAD PEOPLE STANDING UP THERE NOT SUPPORTING PRESIDENT TRUMP. IT IS MORE UNITED, WE HAVE A GREATER CONTRAST IN IDEAS FOR THE FUTURE AND THE SOLUTIONS THEN WE DO WITH THE DEMOCRATS, THE DEMOCRATS ARE DIVIDED, WE ARE UNITED'S. I THINK THIS IS A TIME WHERE REPUBLICANS CAN REACH PEOPLE WHO MAY BE NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT VOTING REPUBLICAN BECAUSE THEY ARE LOOKING AT WHAT TRANSPIRED FROM AN OPEN BORDER, FROM INFLATION, FROM NOW WE'VE GOT WAR THROUGHOUT EUROPE, HOW CAN WE DO IT BETTER AND I THINK THEY'RE LOOKING AT THE IDEAS WE ARE PRODUCING. >> YOU MENTION THE DEMOCRATS I'M CURIOUS IF YOU GIVEN THOUGHT OR CONSIDERATION AT ALL, DO YOU THINK JOE BIDEN ULTIMATELY WILL BE THE NOMINEE? >> HE WILL BE THE NOMINEE. HE HAS TO DECIDE HE'S NOT GOING TO. I'VE NO JOE BIDEN A LONG TIME, HE BELIEVES HE'S THE ONLY PERSON WHO CAN BEAT DONALD TRUMP. HE WON LAST TIME BUT I DON'T THINK HE'S GOING TO DO NOW. I SERVED WITH JOE BIDEN AS A SPEAKER I WORKED WITH HIM, I TOLD PEOPLE THIS IS NOT THE SAME JOE BIDEN. THIS IS NOT AN INDIVIDUAL THAT'S UP TO THE JOB AND THEY FINALLY FOUND IT WITH THE DEBATES. I THINK AMERICA IS SEEING THAT. >> Linsey: AS FAR AS J.D. VANCE BEING DECIDED US TO PICK YOUR REACTION TO THAT -- DO YOU FEEL LIKE HE'S THE RIGHT MAN FOR THE RIGHT TIME? >> I LOOK AT WHOEVER PRESIDENT TRUMP BELIEVES CAN BE A RUNNING MATE IT'S GOING TO BE A TEAM BUT I THINK HE IS AN EXCELLENT INDIVIDUAL. MUSIC OF HIS UPBRINGING, HIS BACKGROUND. RAISED BY HIS GRANDPARENTS. HOW MANY AMERICAN FAMILIES HAVE STRUGGLED WITH ADDICTION? YOU THINK ABOUT JOINING THE MARINES, WRITING A BEST-SELLING BOOK BUT WHAT WAS THE BOOK ABOUT? THE APPELLATIONS, THE STRUGGLES, THESE SMALL COMMUNITIES LOSING THEIR JOBS. YOU WANT SOMEBODY TO HAVE A VOICE FOR THEM I THINK HE'S GOING TO WORK WELL ACROSS PENNSYLVANIA, WISCONSIN, AND MICHIGAN. I THINK THOSE ARE KEY STATES FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP. TO BE HONEST, J.D. VANCE IS EXCELLENT BUT IT DIDN'T MATTER WHO PRESIDENT TRUMP PICKED. AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME IT'S REALLY A DECISION ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP VERSUS PRESIDENT BIDEN. >> Linsey: DONALD TRUMP HAS REALLY SEPARATED HIMSELF FROM PROJECT 2025, THOUGH THERE ARE THOSE WHO SAY IF YOU L LOOK AT A LOT OF THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO WORKED FOR HIM DIRECTLY, LOYALISTS WHO CREATED IT. WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THOSE WHO MIGHT BE ON THE FENCE, THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT PROJECT 2025 POTENTIALLY BEING THE FUTURE AGENDA FEES TO BECOME PRESIDENT AGAIN? >> I WAS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE I NEVER HAD ONE MEETING OF PROJECT 2025 I NEVER MET WITH ONE PERSON ABOUT IT. PRESIDENT TRUMP IT IS ABOUT IT, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HIM. THINK ABOUT AND LISTEN TO WHAT YOU ARE HEARING HERE, THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE HEARING AND TO KNOW WHAT YOU SAW WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP. SECURE BORDER, ECONOMICS, YOU ARE MAKING MORE MONEY. YOU HAD AMERICA, THE ONLY TIME PUTIN HAS NEVER INVADED ANOTHER COUNTRY ONE AMERICAN PRESIDENT WAS PRESIDENT TRUMP. YOU HAD NORTH KOREA NOT TESTING MISSILES, WE HAVE FIVE EMPHASES HAVE TO EVACUATE, 13 NEW GOLD STAR FAMILIES BASED ON WHAT PRESIDENT BIDEN DID IN AFGHANISTAN. THERE'S A CONTRAST HERE, DON'T WORRY ABOUT WHAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING TO MAKE UP, JUST THINK ABOUT WHAT YOUR LIFE WAS LIKE AND WHAT YOU WANTED TO BE IN THE FUTURE FOR YOUR CHILDREN. >> Linsey: WHAT'S NEXT FOR YOU AND HAVE YOU RULED OUT RUNNING AGAIN? >> FI LOOK AT THOSE RUNNING RIGHT NOW I COULD WAIT ANOTHER 20 YEARS AND JUMP BACK IN. I WANT TO MAKE SURE I MAKE THIS COUNTRY A BETTER PLACE BY CONTINUING TO HELP EVERY PLACE I CAN. >> Linsey: HAVE YOU RULED OUT RUNNING? >> I DON'T THINK I'M RUNNING AGAIN BUT I WILL CONTINUE TO SERVE IN ANY CAPACITY I CAN. >> Linsey: THANK YOU VERY MUCH MUCH, APPRECIATE IT KEVIN McCARTHY. NOW WE WANT TO TAKE A LISTEN TO THE STATES RIGHT NOW, A SENATE CANDIDATE FOR HERE IN WISCONSIN. >> THIS SHOWS HOW DETACHED SHE IS FROM EVERYDAY WISCONSINITES. IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY. UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP, FAMILY BUDGETS WERE MORE SECURE. OUR BORDER WAS SECURE, OUR WORLD WAS SECURE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] WHERE BIDEN AND BALDWIN HAVE FAILED, PRESIDENT TRUMP AND I WILL GET THE JOB DONE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> Linsey: ERIC RUNNING FOR SENATE IN WISCONSIN. SECURITY TIGHT IN WISCONSIN ESPECIALLY AFTER THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT OF A FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP OVER THE WEEKEND, THERE WAS AN OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING NOT FAR FROM THE CONVENTION SITES. "ABC NEWS" CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT IS HERE IN MILWAUKEE, GIVE US A SENSE OF WHAT YOU ARE LEARNING THIS HOUR ABOUT THAT SHOOTING. >> HERE'S WHAT WE UNDERSTAND FROM MILWAUKEE POLICE OFFICIALS AND FROM THE COLUMBUS POLICE DEPARTMENT AS WELL. OFFICERS ON BICYCLES PATROLLING THE OUTER LIMITS OF THE SECURITY FROM THE RNC ABOUT A MILE FROM WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW THEY ENCOUNTERED TWO MEN FIGHTING, ONE OF THEM PULLED OUT A KNIFE. THEY DEMANDED HE PUT THE KNIFE DOWN, HE DIDN'T. THEY FELT THREATENED AND THEY SHOT THE MAN. HE WAS KILLED. THIS HAS CAUSED SOME OUTRAGE IN THAT COMMUNITY AT THIS POINT. WE SAW MASSIVE POLICE PRESENCE, HELICOPTERS IN THE AIR, THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE SAID WHY IS IT TO SOMEBODY WHO IS COMING FROM OUT OF STATE'S SHOOTING SOMEBODY IN AN ALTERCATION IN OUR BACKYARD TO? MILWAUKEE IS ALREADY ON EDGE AS YOU NOTICED FROM THE MASSIVE SECURITY CORDON AROUND US AND THESE LINES, THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ARE IN MILWAUKEE. THE CITY IS ON EDGE BECAUSE OF THIS. >> Linsey: MATT GUTMAN, OUR THANKS TO YOU. THIS IS NOT WHO WE WANT TO GO TO -- PRESIDENT BIDEN RESTARTED HIS CAMPAIGN AFTER TAKING A PAUSE IN LIGHT OF THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. HE SPOKE AT THE NAACP CONVENTION TODAY IN LAS VEGAS WHERE HE HAD SEVERAL SUPPORTERS. >> THERE IS THE TRUTH ABOUT -- I KNOW WHAT A BLACK JOB IS. IT'S THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. >> Linsey: ABCs SELENA WANG IS LIVE IN LAS VEGAS. WHAT WAS HIS MESSAGE TO BLACK VOTERS TODAY? >> THE PRESIDENT HAD TO GO KEY MESSAGES, THE FIRST ONE WAS TO DRAW THE CONTRAST WITH DONALD TRUMP AND THE SECOND ONE WAS TO POSITION HIS FORWARD-LOOKING MESSAGE AND ENVISION WHY THAT WOULD HELP BLACK AMERICANS. THE FIRST ONE HE DID NOT SHY AWAY FROM SLAMMING THE FORMER PRESIDENT CALLING HIS PRESIDENCY "FOR BLACK AMERICANS." CITING THE PANDEMIC POLICIES, HIS TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY, AND ALSO HIS EFFORTS TO REPEAL THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT. HE CALLED OUT PROJECT 2025 AND THE MAGA TRUMP VISION SAYING THIS WOULD BE AN ATTEMPT TO ERASE BLACK HISTORY. HE DID ALSO PRESENT WHAT HIS PLAN WOULD BE TALKING ABOUT HIS EFFORTS TO FURTHER REDUCE RENT PRICES, HE'S CALLING ON CONGRESS TO PUT A 5% YEARLY CAP ON THE PRICE INCREASE IS TALKING ABOUT HIS EFFORT TO REDUCE MORE STUDENT DEBTS. THE STAKES ARE HIGH FOR THE PRESIDENT TO CONVINCE THIS COMMUNITY WHY HE IS THE BETTER CHOICE AT A TIME WHEN BLACK SUPPORT HAS BEEN SLIPPING FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN AND TRENDING A LITTLE BIT MORE TOWARDS PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. >> Linsey: YOU BEEN ON THE GROUND SPEAKING WITH VOTERS, WHAT ARE THEY TELLING YOU ABOUT WHETHER THEY WOULD SUPPORT A BITE AND CANDIDACY AMID CALLS FOR HIM TO STEP ASIDE? >> I'VE BEEN TALKING TO NAACP MEMBERS WHO ARE HERE TODAY AND THEY ARE VERY MUCH SPLIT ON THE PRESIDENT'S CANDIDACY. SOME OF THEM TELL ME THEY WOULD ACTUALLY PREFER TO VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS AT THE TOP OF THE TICKETS, OTHERS TELLING ME THEY ARE BEHIND A PRESENT BIDEN NO MATTER WHAT'S. TAKE A LISTEN TO WHAT SOME OF THEM TOLD ME. >> IF HE FEELS HE'S NOT IN A POSITION TO CARRY THE TORCH, I WOULD HOPE HE WOULD HAVE ENOUGH INSIDE OF HIM FOR THE PARTY TO SAY I'M GOING TO STEP DOWN AND LET SOMEONE ELSE. >> I WILL TAKE A PERSON WHO IS 83 YEARS OLD OVER A PERSON WHO CAUSED INSURRECTION AND TO ANY DAY OF THE WEEK. >> ONE FOLDER TOLD ME THEIR PREFERENCE WAS FOR KAMALA HARRIS BECAUSE SHE WOULD PRESENT MORE FORWARD-LOOKING OR INNOVATIVE NEW IDEAS INSTEAD OF THE SAME OLD IDEAS. ANOTHER VOTER TOLD ME THEY WOULD PREFER KAMALA HARRIS BUT BELIEVES IT'S TOO LATE IN THE GAME AND THE PARTY HAS GOT TO STICK WITH WHAT THEY'VE GOT BUT NOT REALLY A FULL-THROATED ENDORSEMENTS FROM ALL OF THE MEMBERS HERE TODAY. >> Linsey: VERY INTERESTING. SELENA WANG OUR THANKS TO YOU AS ALWAYS. THERE IS A NEW DEVELOPMENT INVOLVING SECURITY SURROUNDING DONALD TRUMP AND WILL NOT GET TO THAT IN A MOMENT BUT WE ARE ABOUT TO SEE BROUGHT TO THE STAGE SENATE CANDIDATE FOR MICHIGAN MIKE ROGERS, WE WILL TAKE A LISTEN AS THEY AMOUNTS AND BRING HIM TO THE STAGE. >> HELLO, AMERICA, I'M MIKE ROGERS, CANDIDATE FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE FOR THE GREAT STATE OF MICHIGAN. AND I WANT TO GIVE A QUICK SHOUT OUT TO MY FELLOW MICHIGANDERS, THE HARDEST WORKING PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES, GOD BLESS YOU. BECAUSE JILL BIDEN AND MY LIBERAL OPPONENTS, RUNAWAY SPENDING, AMERICAN FAMILIES HAVE BEEN CRUSHED BY INFLATION. HIGH COST OF GROCERIES AND GASOLINE AND RENT. I WAS TALKING TO A GROCERY CLERK JUST RECENTLY. SHE SAID I GOT A TWIN CART'S GOT A LITTLE SKINNY AT THE BEGINNING OF JOE BIDEN'S ADMINISTRATION BECAUSE OF HIGH COSTS. BUT WHAT BREAKS MY HEART IS AT THE END OF RINGING UP AN ORDER THEY HAVE TO REACH UP AND PULL SOMETHING OFF THE COUNTER AND PUT IT BACK IN THEIR CART. THANKS TO THE DEMOCRATS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. THE MOST EXPENSIVE VEHICLE TO OPERATE IN MICHIGAN IN 2024 IS YOUR GROCERY CART, THANKS TO THE DEMOCRATS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. WHILE POCKETS ARE PINCHED, BIDEN IS TRYING TO FORCE YOU TO BUY AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE. [BOOS] YOU BETTER GET A LONG EXTENSION CORD. LET ME BE CLEAR. EV MANDATES WILL DESTROY AMERICAN JOBS. EV'S REQUIRE 40% LESS LABOR TO BUILD THAN GAS CARS AND HERE'S THE KICKER. 85% OF THE CRITICAL MINERALS NEEDED TO BUILD THEM ARE PROCESSED IN CHINA. [BOOS] IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO BUILD -- >> Linsey: MIKE ROGERS WHO IS RUNNING FOR IN MICHIGAN. I WANTED TO GO BACK TO THE STORY, NEW DEVELOPMENT REGARD TO SECURITY SURROUNDING DONALD TRUMP. THE SECRET SERVICE HAD ALREADY HAD POLICE PROTECTION FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP BEFORE THAT RALLY BECAUSE INTELLIGENCE THAT IRAN WANTS TO ASSASSINATE HIM. THE QUESTION NOW IS HOW WAS THE GOVERNMENT ABLE TO GET ON THE ROOF WITH INCREASED SECURITY. HERE IS ABCs PIERRE THOMAS. >> THREAT OFFICIALS CONFIRMING THEY HAD INTELLIGENCE, A THREAT FROM IRAN TO ASSASSINATE FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP WELL BEFORE THE SHOOTING AT SATURDAY'S RALLY. IN RESPONSE THE SECRET SERVICE IN RECENT WEEKS SEARCHING RESOURCES TO BOLSTER HIS SECURITY DETAIL. EVEN THAT COULD NOT PREVENT THE ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE IN BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA. [GUNSHOTS] [SCREAMING] >> THE WHITE HOUSE SAYING IRAN FOR SOME TIME WANTED REVENGE FOR HIM ORDERING THE STRIKE THAT KILLED MILITARY COMMANDERS TO BE 25 AND 2020. OFFICIALS STRESS THERE IS NO EVIDENCE LINKING IRAN TO THE SHOOTER AT THE RALLY. IF THEY SEARCH IT SECURITY BECAUSE OF IRAN, HOW DID THAT MEN COULD ON THE ROOFTOP? MEANWHILE IN THE PENNSYLVANIA INVESTIGATION TONIGHT, SOURCES TELLING "ABC NEWS" BEFORE THE SHOOTING, SECRET SERVICE AGENTS COULD HEAR RADIO DISPATCHES FROM LOCAL POLICE ABOUT A SUSPICIOUS MAN. SHORTLY AFTER THEY HEARD MORE RADIO TRAFFIC SAYING LOCAL POLICE HAD CONFRONTED THE SUSPECT THEY WERE LOOKING FOR. THEN SHOTS FIRED. >> HE'S GOT A GUN! >> IN OUR EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW THE HEAD OF THE SECRET SERVICE SAYING LOCAL OFFICERS WERE STATIONED INSIDE THE SAME BUILDING WHERE TRUMP'S WOULD-BE ASSASSIN CLIMBED UP TO THE ROOF AND OPENED FIRE. >> HE'S ON THE ROOF! >> THERE WAS LOCAL POLICE IN THAT BUILDING. THERE WAS LOCAL POLICE IN THE AREA THAT WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE OUTER PERIMETER OF THE BUILDING. I AM BEING TOLD THE SHOOTER WAS ACTUALLY IDENTIFIED AS A POTENTIAL PERSON OF SUSPICION, AND SO THE LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT PUT A CALL OUT TO. >> WE ALSO PRESSED THE SECRET SERVICE ON WHY AGENTS WEREN'T POSTED ON THAT ROOF. >> SURE THAT RUTH HAD BEEN SECURE, PERIOD? >> THAT BUILDING IN PARTICULAR HAS A SLOPED ROOF AT ITS HIGHEST POINT. THERE IS A SAFETY FACTOR THAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED THERE, WE WOULDN'T WANT TO PUT SOMEBODY ON A SLOPED ROOF. THE DECISION WAS MADE TO SECURE THE BUILDING FROM INSIDE. >> Linsey: OUR THANKS TO PIERRE THOMAS, JOINING US NOW IS FORMER CHIEF OF THE SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA, POLICE DEPARTMENT WHO GUIDED HIS DEPARTMENT THROUGH ONE OF AMERICA'S WORST MASS SHOOTINGS, A TERRORIST ATTACK IN 2015 PERPETRATED BY A HUSBAND AND WIFE WHO KILLED 14 INNOCENT PEOPLE AND INJURED MORE THAN 20. WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO JOIN US. THE FBI IS NOT YET CALLING THE MAN WHO SHOT FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP A LONE WOLF, THEY SAY THEY WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HIM FIRST BUT THERE ARE SOME SIMILARITIES BETWEEN HIM AND THE SHOOTER YOUR TEAM EVENTUALLY KILLED IN 2015. BOTH HELD DOWN JOBS AND MOVED THROUGH SOCIETY WITHOUT ATTRACTING TOO MUCH ATTENTION, HOW DIFFICULT IS IT TO STOP POTENTIAL LONE WOLVES IN THE FIRST PLACE? >> WE KNOW LONE WOLVES ARE AMONG THE MOST DIFFICULT AND CHALLENGING ASPECT OF STOPPING OR PREVENTING AN ATTACK. INTELLIGENCE IS PRETTY WELL DEVELOPED AND QUITE OFTEN WE CAN PICK UP ON INTELLIGENCE ON LARGE GROUPS, IT'S DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO KEEP SECRETS OR TO KEEP QUIET. LONE WOLVES ARE ACTING BY THEMSELVES AND IF THEY DON'T LEAVE SIGNALS ON SOCIAL MEDIA, IF THEY DON'T TELL PEOPLE WHAT THEY ARE THINKING ABOUT DOING IT BECOMES EXTRAORDINARY DIFFICULT TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THEM OR HAVE ANY IDEA THEY MIGHT BE PLANNING SOMETHING. >> Linsey: INVESTIGATORS ALWAYS WANT TO DISCOVER THE MOTIVE BEHIND IT SUCH A VIOLENT ACTS, WHY IS THAT IMPORTANT FROM A POLICING STANDPOINT? >> THE MOTIVE HELPS TELL THE STORY, IT HELPS POTENTIALLY PREVENT FUTURE OCCURRENCES FROM HAPPENING. FOR INSTANCE IN THE CASE WE DEALT WITH SEVERAL YEARS AGO, OBVIOUSLY THE MOTIVE LED TO ITS BEING A TERRORIST INVESTIGATION AND A FEDERAL INVESTIGATION. MOTIVE CAN BE EVERYTHING. >> Linsey: THE FBI IS CASTING A VERY WIDE NET TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THAT SHOOTER IN PENNSYLVANIA. IN THESE KINDS OF INSTANCES, THESE INVESTIGATIONS WERE YOU TALKING TO AND WHAT PHYSICAL EVIDENCE ARE YOU GATHERING? >> KEEP IN MIND, THERE WILL BE NO STONE LEFT UNTURNED IN THIS INVESTIGATION. EVERYBODY THAT KNEW HIM FROM HIS FAMILY TO HIS FRIENDS TO HIS COWORKERS TO FORMER CLASSMATES, MANY OF WHOM WILL BE INTERVIEWED TO GET THE CLEAREST PICTURE AS TO WHO HE WAS, WHO HE WAS CONNECTED TO. WHAT NETWORK WAS POTENTIALLY IN PLACE AND WHAT POTENTIALLY MOTIVATED HIM. WE WILL ALSO BRING EVERY AVAILABLE SOURCE TO BEAR IN TERMS OF UNCOVERING THIS FROM A FORENSIC STANDPOINT. WE ALREADY HEARD ABOUT THE PHONE, SOME SIMILARITIES IN HOW TAKES TO GET INTO A PHONE. WHAT WERE HIS GOOGLE SEARCHES, WHAT WERE HIS SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVITY. WHAT WAS HE REALLY INTERESTED IN AND WHAT WAS ON THAT DEVICE? >> Linsey: YOUR DEPARTMENT DID A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW IN RESPONSE TO THE TRAGIC DAY IN 2015, HOW IMPORTANT IS IT FOR SECRET SERVICE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TO DO THE SAME? >> EVERY CRITICAL INCIDENT REALLY DESERVES A FRESH SET OF EYES TO DO THE LESSONS LEARNED PIECE. WHAT DID WE LEARN, HOW CAN WE GET BETTER, HOW CAN WE IMPROVE A RESPONSE FROM THE FUTURE? WHEN I FIRST SAW THAT INCIDENT, BUT TALKED ABOUT THE CHAOS THAT WAS GOING ON, I KIND OF UNDERSTOOD IT. I'VE WORKED IN A NUMBER OF INCIDENTS WITH THE SECRET SERVICE WHERE YOU'VE GOT A CAMPAIGN STOP THAT COMES INTO THE CITY, THERE IS A VERY QUICK PLAN THAT IS PUT TOGETHER TO SECURE A FACILITY AS WELL THAT IS POSSIBLE, THE SECRET SERVICE CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT THE HELP OF LOCALS, BUT IT'S ALSO NOT THE SPECIALTY OF LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT. LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT IS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT AS IT GOES. CLEARLY THERE WAS A BREAKDOWN IN COMMUNICATION, CLEARLY THERE'S LESSONS TO BE LEARNED ON HOW THE SECRET SERVICE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT CAN WORK BETTER TO ENSURE THOSE EVENTS ARE SAFE AND THE PERSON BEING PROTECTED IS SAFE. >> Linsey: WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR INSIGHTS TONIGHT TO. TURNING NOW TO ANOTHER TOP STORY, DEMOCRATIC SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ WAS FOUND GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS AND HIS FEDERAL CORRUPTION TRIAL, THE NEW JERSEY SCENTED WAS CONVICTED ON ALL 16 CHARGES INCLUDING BRIBERY, FRAUD, OBSTRUCTION, AND ACTING AS A FOREIGN AGENT TO. HE WAS ACCUSED OF ACCEPTING BRIBES IN THE FORM OF CASH, GOLD BARS IN EXCHANGE FOR FAVORS BENEFITING THE THREE NEW JERSEY BUSINESSMEN AND THE GOVERNMENTS OF EGYPT AND QATAR. DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER AND NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR PHIL MURPHY HAS BOTH CALLED FOR HIM TO RESIGN SHORTLY AFTER THE VERDICT WAS READ TO. WE HAVE MUCH MORE TO GET TO ON THIS SPECIAL EDITION OF ABC NEWS LIVE, THE THEME TONIGHT, MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN. MANY ARE PAINTING MIGRANTS AS A THREAT TO PUBLIC SAFETY BUT IS IT AS DIRE AS SOME SAY? WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE FACTS. BEFORE WE GO TO BREAK WE LOOK AT GEORGE W. BUSH'S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH AT THE RNC IN 2,000, JUST LIKE TRUMP'S FIRST TERM HE WON TO THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE AND LOST THE POPULAR VOTE. >> IF YOU GIVE ME YOUR TRUST I WILL HONOR AT, GRANT ME A MANDATE I WILL USE IT, GIVE ME AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEAD THIS NATION AND I WILL LEAD TO. I KNOW HOW SERIOUS THE TASK IS BEFORE ME. I KNOW THE PRESIDENCY IS AN OFFICE THAT TURNS PRIDE INTO PRAYER. I AM EAGER TO START ON THE WORK AHEAD AND I BELIEVE AMERICA IS READY FOR A NEW BEGINNING. MR. CHAIRMAN, DELEGATES AND MY FELLOW CITIZENS, I PROUDLY ACCEPT YOUR NOMINATION. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] surprise attack by Hamas on the ground in Ukraine reporting from Lewiston Maine scene of a horrific mass shooting ABC News live is right there everywhere on the scene of that deadly missile strike and Denis braid, Ukraine. 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What's happening today escalating tensions in the Middle East what people are talking about the migrant crisis fast straightforward with some fun in between check out the gator on the 17th hole the buzzkill and baseball first thing in the morning America this morning America's number one early morning news on ABC News live. What does it take to be the most watched news cast in America are part of an operation sister combat Operation Center. We're approaching the gate militants came in from different directions. We're reactor. So we have a couple loaded and ready to go. The house is destroyed but the flag out of Perry and comforted me to USA David. I'm David you are these World News Tonight with David Muir is America's most watched news cast. If you were coming of age in the 1980s, the brat pack was here the center of your cultural awareness, but for those of us experiencing it from the inside the brat pack was something very different the critics agree hated the breathitt. What a disaster. Why did we take it as an offense Beatles? Right? Well, we didn't fail Shea Stadium 1985. I think we could They call him the beauty queen killer. He's targeting young women in malls. I am single I want to enjoy the company. I remember on Monday. He tortured me. How did she survive 9 days of Terror the word accomplice came up Nobody Knows the real story The Beauty Queen Killer only on Hulu. >> Linsey: WELCOME BACK, RIGHT NOW TAKING THE STAGE, TWO TIME GOVERNOR OF WEST VIRGINIA JIM JUSTICE WHO IS RUNNING FOR THE SENATE IN WEST VIRGINIA ALONG WITH HIS DOG JOINING HIM ON STAGE TONIGHT. >> HELLO, EVERYBODY. I'M JEFF JUSTICE AND I'M FROM WEST VIRGINIA, AND I ABSOLUTELY BELIEVE WITH ALL MY SOUL WE'VE GOT THE GREATEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD IN WEST VIRGINIA. AND WE WANT YOU TO COME AND TRY US OUT SOMEDAY. NOW WITH ALL THAT BEING SAID, I KNOW A LOT OF YOU WANT TO MEET MY LITTLE BUDDY. IF BABY DOLL CAN COME ON OUT HERE. NOW, AS THE WORLD WATCHES, YOU DIDN'T REALLY EXPECT THAT, DID YOU? WITH THAT BEING SAID, LET ME SAY THIS. SHE MAKES US SMILE THAT SHE LOVES EVERYBODY. AND HOW COULD THE MESSAGE POSSIBLY BE ANY SIMPLER THAN JUST THAT? I'VE GOT TO TELL YOU JUST THIS. THE FOUNDATION OF MY LIFE IS THE TRUTH. I'VE GOT TO TELL YOU THIS AND TELL YOU THIS RIGHT NOW. I CHALLENGE THE MEDIA ALL THE TIME TO FIND SOMETHING KNOWINGLY I TOLD HIM THAT'S NOT THE TRUTH AND THEY CAN'T DO IT BECAUSE I'M NOT GOING TO DO THAT. I WANT YOU TO LISTEN TO THIS AND PAY REALLY CLOSE ATTENTION. THE BOTTOM LINE TO WHY WE ARE HERE, THE BOTTOM LINE TO EVERY SINGLE THING THAT'S GOING ON IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY TODAY IS ONE THING -- WE BECOME TOTALLY UNHINGED IF DONALD TRUMP IS NOT ELECTED IN NOVEMBER. >> Linsey: GOVERNOR JIM JUSTICE VYING FOR A SPOT AS THE NEXT SENATOR FROM WEST VIRGINIA. IMMIGRATION IS A BIG THEME, I WANT TO BRING ON REA MIREYA VILLARREAL. >> I THINK IT'S ALL ABOUT ISSUES, I THINK THE ONE THING THAT HAPPENS AFTER THE DEBATE WE HEARD A FEW WEEKS AGO HIS PEOPLE WERE SURPRISED OBVIOUSLY THAT THERE WAS A LOT OF CHATTER BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THAT TWO CANDIDATES. BUT WHAT WASN'T HEARD WAS THE IMPACT AND PATHWAYS MOVING FORWARD WHEN IT COMES TO IMMIGRATION. WE HAVE HEARD A LOT OF IMMIGRATION TALK TONIGHT, IN GENERALITIES. THE IDEA THAT THERE IS AN OPEN BORDER, A BORDER CRISIS. I THINK WHAT PEOPLE ARE TRULY WANTING IN THESE COMMUNITIES AS A PATHWAY MOVING FORWARD TO. WHAT IS THE PLAN AFTER THE ELECTION? HOW ARE WE GOING TO HANDLE ISSUES AT THE BORDER, WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT IN TERMS OF RESOURCES? ARE WE GOING TO COME TO A CONSENSUS WHEN IT COMES TO PROVIDING MORE FUNDING FOR DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY? HOW ARE WE GOING TO WORK TOGETHER WITH NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AND BORDER COMMUNITIES TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE SAFE AND ALSO FUNDED IN WAYS THEY NEED TO? RIGHT NOW I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE, NOT JUST VOTERS BUT COMMUNITY LEADERS AND ORGA ORGANIZERS, LOCAL POLITICIANS, THEY ARE HOPING TO GET MORE OF A TRUE UNDERSTANDING OF WHERE NOT JUST THE REPUBLICAN PARTY STANDS AS A WHOLE BUNCH OF REALLY WHERE THE PRESIDENT AND NOW THE VICE PRESIDENT POTENTIALLY, THE CANDIDATES FOR THESE POSITIONS, WHERE THEY WILL STAND MOVING FORWARD TO. HOW HARD IN THE PAINT WILL THEY GO? >> Linsey: YOU TALK ABOUT THOSE QUESTIONS THAT MAY ARISE AS A RESULT AFTER THE ELECTION BUT GIVE US A SENSE OF THE STATE OF PLAY RIGHT NOW WHEN IT COMES TO CROSSINGS, MIGRANT CRIME AND BORDER SECURITY? >> LISTENING TO MOST OF THE CONVERSATIONS RIGHT NOW, MOST OF THE SPEECHES THAT ARE BEING GIVEN, THE ONE THING I DON'T HEAR THAT WE OFTEN HAVE IN THE LEFT TWO YEARS A LOT OF SPOUTING OF STATISTICS. A LOT OF THAT MIGHT HAVE TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT WE JUST IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS HAVE SEEN A CONSIDERABLE DECREASE, A CONSIDERABLE CHANGE AT THE BORDER. YOU ARE NOT SEEING THE MASSES COME TO THE BORDER AND CROSS OVER INTO THE U.S. LOOKING TO SEEK ASYLUM. THE NUMBERS ARE SUPPORTING WHAT THE VIDEO IS A SHOWING THIS POINT. WHAT WE CAN TELL YOU IS ALONG THE SOUTHWEST BORDER, AND COUNTERS HAVE DECREASED BY 50% SINCE JILL BIDEN'S NEW PLAN WHERE HE ESSENTIALLY SHUT DOWN THE BORDER OF THE PORTS OF ENTRY AND CONSIDERABLY LIMITING WHO CAN COME IN AND WHO CAN STAY HERE AND SEEK ASYLUM. WE KNOW AS OF RIGHT NOW, 50,000 INDIVIDUALS HAVE BEEN SENT BACK INTO AT LEAST A HUNDRED DIFFERENT COUNTRIES AGAIN, SINCE THIS NEW PLAN WENT INTO EFFECT IN JUNE AND FINALLY WE ARE ALSO SEEING 83,000, JUST OVER 83,000 APPREHENSIONS MADE BY BORDER PATROL SINCE JUDAH AND THAT IS THE LOWEST AMOUNT WE HAVE SEEN HIM IN A GIVEN MONTH SINCE JANUARY OF 2021. CONSIDERABLE DIFFERENCE WE HAVE SEEN JUST IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS ESPECIALLY AFTER THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION PUT IN A NEW PLAN IN PLACE. THERE'S A LOT OF QUESTIONS AROUND WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG TO GO INTO EFFECT? THE ADMINISTRATION WILL SAY A LOT OF THAT HAS TO DO WITH THE REALITY OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TRYING TO COME TOGETHER -- [INAUDIBLE] >> Linsey: WE ARE HAVING SOME TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES HERE BUT OUR THANKS TO HER. SO MUCH MORE TO GET TO ON THIS SPECIAL EDITION OF A ABC NEWS LE THE G.O.P. CONVENTION, FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL ACCEPT THE NOMINATION LATER THIS WEEK, THE END OF US FIRST PRESIDENCY WAS OF COURSE MARRED BY THE JANUARY 6 CAPITOL ATTACK. SOME HAVE TRIED TO DOWNPLAY IT IN SUBSEQUENT YEARS OF VIEWING THE RIOTERS AS MARTYRS BUT NOT EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED THAT DAY STILL BELIEVES WHAT THEY DID WAS RIGHT TO. WE TALKED TO SEVERAL OF THEM ABOUT HOW THEY FEEL NOW, ALL COMING UP NEXT AS WELL AS MORE ANALYSIS AND COVERAGE OF THE DAY'S EVENTS AS WE ARE LIVE IN MILWAUKEE, DAY 2 OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. operations. We're approaching the gate now militants came in from four or five different directions operation. So we have a couple loaded and ready to go the house is destroyed but the flag there's not a tear in it out of Terry and how important this label right here made the USA. Look at you. Smile you're proud of this. I love it. Hi, David. I'm David. ABC's World News Tonight with David Muir is America's most watched news cast. >> Linsey: TONIGHT'S THEME AT THE RNC IS MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN BUT HANGING OVER ALL OF THIS IS THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP, REMINDING ALL OF US OF WHAT THIS COUNTRY FACED SINCE ITS FOUNDING, POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND CERTAINLY NOT THE FIRST TIME WE'VE SEEN IT. PRESIDENTS HAVE BEEN KILLED AND WOUNDED INCLUDING TEDDY ROOSEVELT HE SURVIVED AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT JUST BLOCKS AWAY FROM HERE IN MILWAUKEE BACK IN 1912. THEN ON JANUARY 6TH, FEDERAL PROSECUTORS ARGUE WAS LIKELY THE LONG NECK LARGEST SINGLE ASSAULT EVER ON U.S. LAW ENFORCEMENT. WE SEEN A CULMINATION OF YEARS OF WORK OF TRYING TO REWRITE THE HISTORY OF THE CAPITOL ATTACK. JAY O'BRIEN SPENT MONTHS INVESTIGATING THAT, INTERVIEWING FORMER GENERA SIX DEFENDANTS, SOME OF WHOM ARE STILL IN PRISON AND HAVE THIS REPORT. >> DENNIS ADAMS, JUSTIN ADAMS, TOMMY HOLLAND, CHRIS ALBERT, JOSHUA ATWOOD -- >> BECAME, IN THE SHADOW OF THE BARBED WIRE AND BRICK OF THE WASHINGTON, D.C., JAIL. TO SEE THIS. ♪ ♪ EVERY NIGHT WHEN THE SUN SETS AND THE FLAGS COME OUT. THE PROTESTERS HERE SING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM UNLIKE YOU HAVE EVER HEARD IT BEFORE. JOINT ON THE PHONE FROM INMATES IN THE SIDE THAT THE VERY SAME JAIL WHO FACE CHARGES FOR THEIR ROLE IN THE JANUARY 6TH ATTACK ON THE U.S. CAPITAL. A DAY OF VIOLENCE. AN ATTEMPT TO STOP THE PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF POWER, THAT HAS NOW BECOME A CORNERSTONE OF FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP'S REELECTION CAMPAIGN. HE EVEN PLAYS A RECORDING OF THAT JAILHOUSE RENDITION OF THE NATIONAL ANTHEM. TO KICK OFF. AND OCCASIONALLY SALUTES. HE HAS PROMISED PARDONS FOR JANUARY 6TH DEFENDERS AND SAYS THIS. >> THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE, HIS HOSTAGES. >> NOW OUR EYES ARE OPEN TO. >> I TRULY BELIEVE MY HUSBAND AT THIS POINT, HE IS A HOSTAGE, HE HAS DONE HIS TIME. >> THAT IS NICOLE'S HUSBAND IS SEEN IN THE BLUE JACKET IN THIS VIDEO USED AS EVIDENCE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. HE WAS SENTENCED TO JUST SEVEN YEARS IN PRISON. >> YES OF COURSE, PEOPLE HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO BE THERE THOUGH. >> SEVERAL JANUARY 6 DEFENDANTS AND THEIR FAMILIES WHOSE FEELINGS ABOUT THE CAPITOL ATTACK ECHOED TRUMP. >> COAL COUNTRY AND TRUMP COUNTRY ARE ONE IN THE SAME. >> WE WERE ON THE BACK ROADS OF WEST VIRGINIA TO MEET ONE OF THEM, THE MAN GIVING US THIS TOUR AND HE SERVED FEDERAL PRISON TIME FOR HIS ROLE IN JANUARY 6TH. HE'S DEREK EVANS, A FORMER MEMBER OF THE WEST VIRGINIA HOUSE OF DELEGATES. >> YOU GUYS WANT TO BE HERE TALKING TO ME RIGHT NOW IF JANUARY 610 HAPPENS. >> HE WAS CONVICTED OF TRESPASSING AT THE CAPITOL AND TRYING TO OBSTRUCT CERTIFICATION OF THE 2020 ELECTION. [STOP THE STEAL! >> PROSECUTORS USE THIS LIVE STREAMED VIDEO HE AS EVIDENCE. >> HE ISSUED AN APOLOGY FOR HIS ACTIONS ON JANUARY 6TH. AND RESIGNED FROM THE STATE LEGISLATURE WHICH HE NOW SAYS HE REGRETS. >> THE FEDERAL AGENTS SAID IN YOUR INTERVIEW WITH THE FBI YOU EXPRESSED GREAT SHAME. >> I DON'T KNOW ABOUT SHANE. >> THEY SAID YOU WERE APOLOGETIC AND EXPRESSED REMORSE, DO YOU HAVE REMORSE? >> IT DEPENDS WHICH WAY YOU ARE MEANING THAT. DO I REGRET WHAT MY FAMILY WAS FORCED TO GO THROUGH BECAUSE OF MY ACTIONS? ABSOLUTELY. DO I REGRET THAT THE MEDIA, I WAS PART OF THE SOMETHING THAT ALLOWS THE MEDIA TO PAINT THIS FALSE NARRATIVE, TO TWIST THIS NARRATIVE AND PAINT THIS INTO SOMETHING IT WASN'T? ABSOLUTELY. DO I HAVE SHAME? NO I DO NOT. >> AFTER SERVING THREE MONTHS IN FEDERAL PRISON THIS YEAR, HE JOINED A HANDFUL OF OTHERS JANUARY SIXTH DEFENDANTS RUNNING FOR CONGRESS. PORTRAYING HIMSELF AS A POLITICAL MARTYR, EVEN USING THIS PHOTO FROM COURT ON HIS WEBSITE. AND REPEATEDLY INSISTING JANUARA VIOLENT ATTACK FUELED BY LIES OF A STOLEN ELECTION, BUT A PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION. >> YOU WERE STANDING RIGHT NEXT TO RIOTERS WHO WERE CLASHING -- >> THAT'S SIMPLY NOT TRUE. >> IT'S ON VIDEO AND I WILL SHOW IT TO YOU. HERE IT IS, READY? THIS IS YOUR VIDEO. >> FOR THE RECORD I'M NOT TOUCHING ANYTHING I AM JUST HERE TO WATCH. >> THAT'S NOT AT THE CAPITOL BUILDING. >> THERE ARE ABOUT TO BREAK THROUGH THE FIRST BARRICADE. >> OKAY, I THOUGHT YOU MEANT AT THE CAPITAL. >> THIS IS THE CAPITAL COMPOUND. >> FOR THE RECORD, THEY ARE NOT CLASHING. >> THEY'RE PUSHING THE BARRICADES. >> THEY ARE REMOVING BARRICADES -- >> THEIR ART REMOVING THE BARRICADES, THEY'RE PUSHING THROUGH. >> THEY ARE NOT FIGHTING OFFICERS. THE POLICE OFFICERS ARE HOLDING THE BARRICADES BACK. >> SHOW ME WERE SOMEONE PUTS THEIR HANDS ON A POLICE OFFICER. >> THEY'RE PUTTING THEIR HANDS ON A BARRICADE, SHOW ME WHERE SOMEONE PUTS THEIR HANDS ON A POLICE OFFICER. >> THERE PUSHING THE THING THE OFFICERS -- >> I'M NOT ARGUING WITH YOU I AGREE WITH YOU. >> HE LOST HIS PRIMARY THIS SPRING. AT HER HOME IN SOUTH CAROLINA, PAM HENDRIX FEELS MUCH DIFFERENTLY ABOUT THE CAPITOL ATTACK. >> WE HAVE TO FIGHT THE GOVERNMENT TO IMPROVE TO THEM THEY ARE WRONG -- I WAS WRONG, I WAS GUILTY. >> THE 69 EUROS CANCER SURVIVOR. SHOT THIS VIDEO INSIDE THE CAPITAL THAT DAY. SHE WAS SENTENCED TO TWO MONTHS IN PRISON FOR HER ACTIONS ON JANUARY 6TH. SHE STILL HAS THE LETTERS TRUMP SUPPORTERS WROTE TO HER WHILE SHE WAS BEHIND BARS BUT SHE CALLS ANY CLAIM SHE WAS A POLITICAL PRISONER AND INSULT. >> THAT'S WHAT GASLIGHTING IS, IT MAKES YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE NUTS. WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE IN THERE THAT DAY, IT'S OUR HOUSE -- THAT'S ALL DELUSIONAL. >> THE SAME DAY WE PLANNED TO INTERVIEW HER, MINUTES BEFORE OUR CAMERA STARTED TO ROLL, WE GOT AN UNEXPECTED PHONE CALL. >> I'M PUTTING ON MY MICROPHONE HERE BECAUSE I WASN'T EXPECTING YOUR CALL. >> FROM SOMEONE WHO STILL REVERES TRUMP AND BELIEVES WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT JANUARY 6TH. >> THIS CALL IS FROM A FEDERAL PRISON. >> ON THE PHONE WAS RACHEL HOWARD CURRENTLY SERVING A FOCAL YOUR SENTENCE. >> I DON'T FEEL BAD ABOUT BELIEVING THERE WAS ELECTION FRAUD. >> THAT IS HOWELL AND THE PINK HEAD FUELED BY TRUMP'S LIES ABOUT ELECTION FRAUD TRYING TO SMASH THROUGH A WINDOW OF THE CAPITAL. >> YOU WENT TO THE COURT SYSTEM, YOU'RE NOT A HOSTAGE, NECESSARILY. >> I DO FEEL LIKE A HOSTAGE. I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING. ANY OTHER PROTESTER -- THERE ARE PROTESTERS THAT HAVE DONE SOME TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE THINGS AND THEY ARE SLAPPED ON THE WRIST OR THEY ARE FIND. >> THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY FORGIVE HURTING POLICE OFFICERS, RIGHT? >> NONE OF US IN HERE HURT POLICE OFFICERS OR WENT THERE WITHOUT INTENTION. >> THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE SAYS MORE THAN 140 POLICE OFFICERS WERE INJURED TO THAT DAY. WE WONDERED WHAT DEREK EVANS THOUGHT? >> DO I THINK ANYONE SHOULD BE FIGHTING POLICE OFFICERS? NO, I DO NOT COME I THINK IT'S WRONG TO DO THAT. THE POLICE OFFICERS ARE THE ONES THAT REALLY STARTED THE WHOLE VIOLENCE GO >> COME ON. >> COME ON NOTHING. >> THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THERE WHO BROKE THROUGH THE PERIMETER AND POLICE OFFICERS RESPONDED TO. >> IF YOU WANT TO BELIEVE THESE POLICE OFFICERS DID NO WRONG FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY THAT'S FINE. >> I THINK IT'S INTERESTING YOU'RE TAKING SOMEWHAT OF AN ANTI-POLICE STANCE. >> I AM, ABSOLUTELY. >> MULTIPLE ACCUSED RIOTERS HAVE PUT FORWARD TO DEFENSES CLAIMING THEY WERE INCITED TO VIOLENCE BY POLICE. NONE HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN COURT. >> ACCORDING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, MORE THAN 1400 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH JANUARY 6TH. IT'S MISS INFORMATION ABOUT THAT DAY THAT CONCERNS JOHN COHEN, AND "ABC NEWS" CONTRIBUTOR WHO HANDLED COUNTERTERRORISM FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY IN THE MONTHS AFTER THE CAPITOL ATTACK. >> WHEN YOU HAVE MAINSTREAM FIGURES IN POLITICS OR THE MEDIA MIMICKING THE SAME NARRATIVES WE ARE SEEING ON TERRORISTS OR VIOLENT EXTREMIST FORUMS, THAT CREATES THE PERFECT STORM FOR VIOLENCE. >> YOU HAVE TO GO HOME NOW. >> TRUMP WAITED NEARLY THREE HOURS THAT DAY TO TELL THE MOM TO GO HOME. HEMPHILL TOLD US SHE WILL NEVER VOTE FOR HIM AGAIN. >> HE STARTED OFF WITH FEAR, THEY'RE COMING AFTER ME BUT THEY'RE REALLY COMING AFTER YOU. >> SHE'S AN OUTLIER. MOST FORMER JANUARY 6 THE DEFENDANTS WE MET ARE STILL DEEPLY LOYAL TO THE FORMER PRESIDENT, LIKE RACHEL POWELL WHO MAILED US THIS PHOTO SMUGGLED OUT OF HER FEDERAL PRISON CELL SHOWING HER END OF THREE OTHER JANUARY 6TH INMATES SMILING WITH THE WORDS "TRUMP 2024 SCHOOLED UP TOP." >> THAT'S A LITTLE GLIMMER OF HOPE. >> DO YOU THINK IS A SYMPTOM OF A WAIT WE ARE GOING TO HANDLE POLITICAL DISAGREEMENT IN THE FUTURE? >> I THINK WE ARE THERE, I THINK THIS COUNTRY IS MORE DIVIDED PROBABLY IT WAS BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR. >> FOR MANY JANUARY 6TH HAS CREATED A SENSE OF UNITY, FUELED BY A DEEP SEATED FALSE BELIEF THAT THEY ARE BEING PERSECUTED. THAT'S THE MESSAGE AT THIS VIGIL EVERY SINGLE NIGHT. AND THAT IS WHAT DONALD TRUMP HAS TAPPED INTO AS HE RUNS FOR THE WHITE HOUSE AGAIN. >> Linsey: STILL MUCH MORE TO GET TO ON THIS SPECIAL EDITION OF ABC NEWS LIVE PRIMA, THE G.O.P. CONVENTION. WE ARE LIVE IN MILWAUKEE AT DAY 2 OF THE RNC. SOME RIVALS FOR THE G.O.P. 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TALKING TO PEOPLE HERE THAT ARE AS OBVIOUSLY SO PRO-TRUMP, WHAT NIKKI HALEY HAS TO SAY ABOUT HER COMMITMENT TO THIS PARTY, HER COMMITMENT TO DONALD TRUMP, HER COMMITMENT TO THE MOVEMENT, I THINK THEY ARE READY TO BURY THE HATCHET'S. PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO HAVE HARD FEELINGS IT DOESN'T FEEL LIKE THOSE CONVENTIONS WHERE THERE'S HUNDREDS OF DELEGATES THAT ARE JUST NOT COMING WITH THE REST OF THE PARTY. BERNIE SANDERS AND HILLARY CLINTON MOST RECENTLY. THAT'S NOT THE WAY THIS FEELS. THERE ARE HILLARY VOTERS HERE I TALKED TO ONE A LITTLE WHILE AGO. SHE SAID SHE HOPES NIKKI HALEY GETS A POSITION IN THE ADMINISTRATION. I TALKED TO A TRUMP DELEGATE WHO SAID THAT DEPENDS ON WHAT SHE SAYS TONIGHT. >> Linsey: FOLLOWING NIKKI HALEY'S FLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DeSANTIS WHO ALSO COMPETED FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION, A MAN THEY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO BURY THE HATCHET BUT IT REALLY SEEMS LIKE THIS IS A NIGHT OF CONVERTS, NOW SUPPORTING DONALD TRUMP. >> HE IS -- THERE WAS A TIME ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO WHEN PAUL SHOWED RON DeSANTIS HAD A LEAD TO, HE WAS IN HIS OWN MIND HE COULD SENSE IT'S COMING HIS WAY. OF COURSE IT DIDN'T, HE'S GOT TO BE DISAPPOINTED TO. THERE WERE SOME SHARP WORDS BETWEEN THEM BUT ONCE AGAIN, YOU DON'T SEE WITH RON DeSANTIS VOTERS THE KIND OF RESENTMENT THAT YOU SEE IN OTHER LOSING CANDIDATES, DELEGATES AT OTHER CONVENTIONS, AS ONE DELEGATES FROM ARKANSAS PUT IT WHO WAS A RON DeSANTIS FLOATER, HE SAID WINNING MAKES EVERYBODY FRIENDS. THEY CAN SENSE THEY BELIEVE THEY ARE GOING TO WIN THIS ELECTION. THEY CAN AFFORD TO BE NICE TO ONE ANOTHER. >> Linsey: WE DISCUSSED THIS A LITTLE BIT LAST NIGHT WHEN YOU WERE HERE BACK IN 2016 IT SEEMED LIKE THERE WAS ROOM FOR DISSENT, IS THERE ANY ROOM FOR DISSENT ON THE FLOOR TONIGHT? >> I THINK SO BECAUSE I DON'T THINK THERE'S THAT MUCH INTEREST IN DISSENT. DONALD TRUMP WAS THE INSURGENTS, THE OUTSIDER, HIS PEOPLE WERE THE DEPLORABLES, NOW THEY ARE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. I SENSE THERE IS GREATER TOLERANCE FOR NIKKI HALEY VOTERS, PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR RON DeSANTIS. THE PARTY HAS DECIDED, IT IS A TRUMP PARTY, THAT'S THE WAY THEY ARE GOING TO GO, IS THERE ROOM FOR DISSENT? SURE. I DON'T THINK THERE IS MUCH INTEREST, THEY GET A SENSE THIS IS WORKING, IT'S WORKING ELECTORALLY, IT'S WORKING FOR THE COUNTRY, I DON'T GET THE SENSE THAT THERE'S BITTERNESS HERE. THERE ARE PEOPLE DISAPPOINTED, THE NIKKI HALEY FOLDER I TALKED TO, SHE WANTED NIKKI HALEY TO BE UP THERE ON THURSDAY NIGHT. 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THE OFFICIAL THEME OF THE NIGHT TO MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN BUT YOU CAN ALSO CALL IT CONVERTS AT NIGHT, TRUMP'S FORMER BITTER CAMPAIGN RIVALS WILL TAKE OF THE STAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY SEEKS TO PROJECT THAT THE MESSAGE OF UNITY. WE'VE BEEN HEARING FOR THE PAST HOUR FROM SENATE G.O.P. HOPEFULS LIKE KARI LAKE, MANY AND KEY BATTLEGROUND STATES WERE REPUBLICANS NEED TO WIN IN ORDER TO RETAKE THE SENATE. PENNSYLVANIA SENATE HOPEFUL DAVE McCORMICK AT THE RALLY SATURDAY NIGHT CALLED THE MOMENT TERRIFYING AND PRAISE TO DONALD TRUMP'S RESOLVE. NO APPEARANCE FROM FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AS OF YET BUT THE ARENA STOOD AWESTRUCK LATE LAST NIGHT AS HE MADE HIS FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE SINCE THAT ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON SATURDAY, THAT THE BANDAGE CLEARLY VISIBLE ON HIS RIGHT EAR. ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL NIKKI HALEY SAID DONALD TRUMP BRINGS CHAOS AND CALLED HIM TOTALLY UNHINGED. TONIGHT SHE WILL TAKE TO THE STAGE OFFERING HER SUPPORT AFTER A LATE ADD IN KEEPING WITH THE PARTY'S NEW PUSH TO COME TOGETHER. FLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DeSANTIS IS ALSO EXPECTED TO SPEAK AND WE NOW LEARN TO TRUMP AS ASKING FOR THE ENDORSEMENT OF THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE RFK JR., A POSSIBLE SPOILER AND WHAT COULD BE A TIGHT RACE. TENSIONS ARE HIGH OUTSIDE OF THE ARENA HERE IN MILWAUKEE AFTER A SCARE NOT FAR, MORE ON THAT IN A MOMENT. I DO WANT TO GO BACK TO THE FLOOR WHERE SENATOR RICK SCOTT FROM FLORIDA IS NOW SPEAKING. >> LIKE ALL OF YOU, I AM BLESSED. I WAS BORN TO A SINGLE MOM, I GREW UP IN PUBLIC HOUSING, I STARTED WORKING AT THE AGE OF 7. I ENLISTED AT THE U.S. NAVY AT THE AGE OF 18, GO NAVY. BUT ONLY BECAUSE I GREW UP IN AMERICA, I WAS ABLE LIKE MANY OF YOU TO COME FROM ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO BUILD ONE OF THE BIGGEST COMPANIES IN THE WORLD, BE THE 45TH GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA, A U.S. SENATOR WHERE WE HAVE TO FIGHT EVERY DAY TO STOP THE RADICAL DEMOCRATS FROM ABSOLUTELY DESTROYING OUR GREAT COUNTRY. THEY WILL LOSE, WE WILL WIN. [CHANTING "USA! USA! "] WE WILL WIN. LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT A DREAM I HAD RECENTLY, I HAD A DREAM I DID SOME TIME TRAVELING. I'M TRAVELING TO THE FUTURE TO AN IMAGINARY WORLD WHERE JOE BIDEN GOT REELECTED. REMEMBER THE CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST WAS MIKE AND MY DREAM I MET THE GHOST OF BIDEN FUTURE. I GOT TO SEE A BIDEN SECOND TERM -- IT WASN'T A DREAM, IT WAS A NIGHTMARE. MORTGAGE RATES SKYROCKETING TO 15%, ONLY RICH PEOPLE COULD BUY GROCERIES. GAS WAS $10 A GALLON. IN MY NIGHTMARE, S BIDEN HAD ERASED THE SOUTHERN BORDER AND MEXICAN CARTELS STARTED GETTING FREQUENT FLYER MILES. >> Linsey: FLORIDA SENATOR RICK SCOTT ADDRESS IN THE RNC TONIGHT I WANT TO BRING IN RACHEL SCOTT WHO JOINS US FROM THE CONVENTION FLOOR. WHAT DO YOU TRUMP'S EFFORTS TO TRY TO GET RFK JR. TO ENDORSE HIM? >> WE KNOW FROM A PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP DID SPEAK TO RFK JR., THERE WAS VIDEO RELEASED FROM THAT PHONE CALL IN WHICH THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS SPREADING FALSE, THE LEADING INFORMATION ABOUT VACCINES, TRY TO GET RFK JR. TO COME AROUND TO BACK HIM UP. RFK JR. ULTIMATELY APOLOGIZED SAYING HE NEVER INTENDED FOR THAT TO BE RECORDED OR RELEASED FROM THE SIDE OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS LOOKING AHEAD TO NOVEMBER, LOOKING TO COALESCE SUPPORT AROUND HIM AND SEES SOME DANGER IN A POSSIBLE THIRD PARTY CANDIDATES. >> Linsey: YOU PREVIOUSLY REPORTED VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS REACHED OUT TO J.D. VANCE YESTERDAY, HE MISSED THE CALL BUT ASSUMING THEY FINALLY GOT A CHANCE TO SPEAK. >> VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS CALLED FOR A PRIVATE NUMBER SO SENATOR J.D. VANCE MISSED THAT CALL. THEY DID HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONNECT AND HE EXTENDED A CONGRATULATIONS TO SENATOR J.D. VANCE SELECTED AS DONALD TRUMP'S RUNNING MATE. ALSO OFFICIALLY WELCOMING THEM INTO THE RACE INTO BOTH OF THEM MADE IT CLEAR THEY WANTED TO MEET AGAIN ON THE DEBATE STAGE SOON. >> Linsey: IT'S DISCUSSED NIKKI HALEY SUPPORTERS, DO YOU THINK SHE WILL BE ABLE TO HELP TERM THEN INTO TRUMP VOTERS WITH HER SPEECH TONIGHT? SPEAK OF THIS IS GOING TO BE REALLY BIG FOR FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AT HIS CAMPAIGN. NIKKI HALEY WAS HIS LAST REMAINING REPUBLICAN RIFLE AND NOT ONLY THAT EVEN AFTER SHE DROPPED OUT OF THE RACE SHE WAS GETTING A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF THE VOTE IN SEVERAL KEY REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES EVEN THOUGH SHE WASN'T EVEN RUNNING ANYMORE. THIS IS A CHANCE FOR NIKKI HALEY TO REACH OUT TO THOSE VOTERS, MAYBE SOME OF THOSE DOUBLE HATERS WHO DON'T LIKE PRESIDENT BIDEN OR FOR A PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, WE WILL SEE WHAT SHE HAS TO SAY TONIGHT BUT IT COULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S CAMPAIGN. >> Linsey: RACHEL SCOTT FROM THE CONVENTION FLOOR. EARLIER TODAY I HAD A CHANCE TO GET ON THE CONVENTION FLOOR AND CAUGHT UP WITH DONALD TRUMP'S SON ERIC WATCHING THAT RALLY LIVE SATURDAY NIGHT WITH HIS TWO YOUNG CHILDREN. GIVE US A SENSE OF HOW WHAT HAPPENED IN BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY HAS CHANGED YOU AND THE CAMPAIGN? >> WHEN YOUR FATHER HITS THE GROUND BECAUSE SOMEONE TRIES TO PICK UP A SAID WITH A RIFLE IT OBVIOUSLY CHANGES YOU AND EVERYBODY. SCARY MOMENT, I WAS WATCHING WITH MY TWO KIDS, SIX AND 4-YEAR-OLD ON YOUR LAP, YOU HEAR THE GUNSHOTS RANG OUT IN A BUNCH OF PEOPLE JUMP ON TOP OF HIM, YOU SEE THEM COME UP WITH BLOOD RUNNING DOWN HIS FACE, IT'S UNTHINKABLE. IN THE 48 HOURS LATER WE ARE HERE IN MILWAUKEE AND I WAS CASTING A VOTE AS A DELEGATE FOR FLORIDA TO ULTIMATELY MAKE HIM THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. HIM TALK ABOUT HIGHS AND LOWS, THOSE ARE YOUR HIGHS AND LOWS. WHEN HE STOOD UP, WHEN HE GOT UP AGAIN RUNNING DOWN HIS FACE AND PUT HIS FIST IN THE AIR AND SAID FIGHT, FIGHT, I COULDN'T BE MORE PROUD OF HIM. THAT'S THE PERSON AMERICA NEEDS, WE NEED THAT MORE THAN ANYTHING RIGHT NOW IS A COUNTRY, WE NEED THAT WITH ALL THE PROBLEMS WE HAVE AS A NATION. I HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE PROUD OF A PERSON IN MY LIFE AND I LOVE HIM TO DEATH. >> POLITICS ASIDE YOU KNOW HIM WELL AS A PERSON. BUT WAS AT FIRST CONVERSATION LIKE, WE WERE ABLE TO GET IN TOUCH WITH HIM? >> THANK GOD HE STILL HAS HIS SENSE OF HUMOR, WE HAVE AN UNBELIEVABLE RELATIONSHIP, THERE'S PROBABLY NO TWO PEOPLE WHO ARE CLOSER. HE CRACKED A JOKE AND I KNOW LIFE WAS STILL IN HIM. HIM THEY THREW HIM AND THAT CAR, THINGS ARE CHAOS OF THE TIME TRY TO GET HIM TO A HOSPITAL AND EVERYTHING ELSE. 'S VOICE WAS BEYOND REASSURING. I WAS IN A LITTLE BIT OF CONTACT WITH THE SCARY. TRACK OF TIME IT REALLY IS. >> Linsey: YOU MENTION YOU ARE GOING TO BE ON THIS STAGE SHORTLY. HAVE YOU CHANGE WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO SAY? >> YEAH, I HAVE. I THINK THE TONE HAS CHANGED, I'VE BEEN DOING INTERVIEWS ALL DAY -- I CAN TELL YOU THE TONE OF ALL OF THEM HAS BEEN BEAUTIFUL, IT'S BEEN RESPECTFUL. EVERY SINGLE TIME I'VE COME OFF THE AIR I'VE SAID THAT. ISN'T THIS NICE, ISN'T THIS WITH POLITICS CAN BE? YOU CAN DISAGREE ON ISSUES BUT ISN'T IT NICE TO HAVE STABILITY AND SOME LOVE? AT THE END OF THE DAY WE DON'T DISAGREE ON THE FRONT WHEEL OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WE CAN ALL FIGHT FOR THAT. IT DOESN'T NEED TO GET AS UGLY AS IT'S GOTTEN, I THINK EVERYBODY CAN TURN IT BACK IN A VERY BIG WAY. OFTEN TIMES PEOPLE'S MEMORIES ARE SHORT, I HOPE TO GOD IF I HAVE ONE WISH, IF I HAVE ONE DREAM I HOPE TO GOD PEOPLE'S MEMORIES AREN'T SHORT AND THAT CAN BECOME THE NEW NORM. >> TONIGHT YOU MIGHT CONSIDER A NUMBER OF CONVERTS WHO ARE GOING TO BE SPEAKING INCLUDING NIKKI HALEY WHO HAS SAID IN THE PAST SHE FEELS YOUR DAD BRINGS CHAOS. IN THE NAME OF UNIFYING THE PARTY, WHAT DO YOU FEEL -- PEOPLE SAYING THEY WERE AT ONE TIME NEVER TRUMPER-WHAT TO SAY TO THEM? >> IT'S POLITICS IN THE UNITED STATES, KAMALA HARRIS ONE TIME CALLED JOE BIDEN A RACIST, IT WAS PART OF THE POLITICAL BASE THEY RAN PERIODS NOT NICE BUT IF THE POLITICAL SYSTEM OF THE UNITE STATES. PEOPLE RUN ON THEIR OWN IDEAS, IT GETS VERY PERSONAL. SOMETIMES IT GETS VERY UGLY BECAUSE OF THAT. YOU AND I BOTH WISH THAT DIDN'T EXIST IN THE WORLD BUT IT DOESN'T EXIST ON BOTH SIDES. IT'S A GREAT TESTAMENT THAT NIKKI HALEY IS HERE TONIGHT AND I THINK HER WORDS ARE GOING TO BE BEAUTIFUL. IS A GREAT TEST BUT RON DeSANTIS IS GOING TO BE HERE TONIGHT AND I THINK HIS WORDS ARE GOING TO BE INCREDIBLE POWERFUL. THE LIST GOES ON AND ON. OFTEN TIMES YOU TAKE SOMEBODY WHO WAS CRITICAL OF YOU AND TURN THEM AROUND, MAYBE THEY WERE WRONG, MAYBE THEY MISSED SOMETHING, I THINK IT'S A BEAUTIFUL THING. IT'S A MUCH NICER THAN HAVING SOMEBODY WHO HAS BEEN A LIFELONG BELIEVER WHO IS STILL A BEL BELIEVER. ALMOST DID THE IMPOSSIBLE BASED ON THE FACT YOU PROVED SOMETHING TO THEM. BASED ON YOUR CHARACTER, POSITIONS, POLICY COME I THINK IT'S PITIFUL THEY ARE SPEAKING AT WE WELCOME EVERY PERSON INTO THIS PARTY. I DON'T CARE WHO YOU ARE OR WHERE YOU ARE, YOUR RACE, YOUR ETHNICITY. WE WELCOME EVERYONE TO THIS PARTY, MY FATHER HAS ALWAYS REACHED OUT TO EVERYBODY WITH OPEN ARMS. ONE WAS LAST TIME THE TEAMSTERS SPOKE AT A REPUBLICAN EVENT? HE COMES IN HERE SAYING IT'S THE GREATEST HONOR OF MY LIFE BECAUSE I WANT TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF EVERYBODY. MY FATHER HAS OPENED HIS ARMS, MY WIFE IS CERTAINLY RUNNING THE RNC, OPENED HER ARMS. IT DOESN'T MATTER WE WANT TO IN THE PARTY, WE LOVE YOU, WE CARE ABOUT YOU, YOU ARE IN AMERICA TO MAKE THIS COUNTRY GREAT AGAIN. >> Linsey: J.D. VANCE WITHIN AN HOUR OF THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT TWEETED BLAMING POINTING FINGERS AT JOE BIDEN, DO YOU FEEL THAT FLIES IN THE FACE OF THE MESSAGING OF UNIFICATION? >> WE NEED TO UNIFY, WE NEED TO UNIFY -- THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF THINGS. OBVIOUSLY JOE BIDEN HAD A TWEET PUTTING A BULL'S-EYE ON THE PRESIDENTS HEAD TO. THAT WASN'T HELPFUL FOR THE PRESIDENT THAT THE UNITED STATES TO GO OUT THERE AND SPEAK TO HOWEVER MANY CONSTITUENTS HE HAS -- >> Linsey: HE HAS APOLOGIZED FOR. >> FAIR ENOUGH. I DON'T THINK THAT WAS HELPFUL. WHETHER HE METAPHYSICALLY PUT A TRUE CROSSHAIR ON SOMEBODY'S FACE OR WHETHER IT'S METAPHORICAL ABOUT US, I'M NOT AT ALL SUGGESTING THAT. THERE'S SOME PRETTY TOUGH RHETORIC ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE AND IDEALLY IT STOPS. WE HAVE TO FIX OUR ECONOMY, EVERYTHING IS MORE EXPENSIVE, EVERYTHING IS TOO EXPENSIVE, NO ONE CAN AFFORD LIFE, WE HAVE TO FIX OUR COUNTRY WE HAVE TO FIX OUR BORDERS, 300,000 KIDS DIED FROM FENTANYL THIS YEAR. LET'S TACKLE THE IMPORTANT STUFF, STOP WITH THE SOUND BITES. WE CAN MAKE THIS COUNTRY SO MUCH STRONGER, SO MUCH SAFER, SO MUCH BETTER. OUR CITIES ARE FALLING APART, THE STRUCTURE IS FALLING APART. LET'S FOCUS ON THE BIG HOLE IN THE ROOF WE HAVE IS A COUNTRY AND THE STOP WITH THE NONSENSE, STOP MESSING AROUND WITH THINGS THAT AREN'T IMPORTANT. WE WOULD BE A MUCH BETTER NATION IF WE DID NOT IS WHAT WE WILL HEAR TONIGHT FROM MY FATHER. >> Linsey: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME, APPRECIATE IT. I WANT TO TAKE A SLAP TO CENTER STAGE WHERE CONGRESSWOMAN ELISE STEFANIK. >> SANCTUARY CITIES AND DEFUND THE POLICE POLICIES LIKE WE HAVE SEEN IN MY HOME STATE OF NEW YORK. ALL THE WHILE CORRUPT DEMOCRAT PROSECUTORS AND JUDGES WHICH ILLEGAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAW FARE AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP IN AN EFFORT TO DO JOE BIDEN'S POLITICAL BIDDING. AROAROUND THE WORLD TO THE FECKS AND FAILED JOE BIDEN HAS CAUSED CHAOS. WEAKENING OUR NATIONAL SECURITY. FROM THE CATASTROPHIC WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN TO PUTIN'S INVASION OF UKRAINE, TO HAMAS' TERRORIST ATTACK AGAINST OUR MOST PRECIOUS ALLY, ISRAEL. LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION, WHAT HAS BEEN THE RESPONSE FROM THE RADICAL LEFT ON OUR COLLEGE CAMPUSES? VIOLENT ANTI-SEMITISM, CHANTING "DEATH TO ISRAEL." DEATH TO JEWS, DEATH TO AMERICA. THIS IS JOE BIDEN'S DEMOCRATIC PARTY. WHO SAW THAT CONGRESSIONAL HEARING WITH THE COLLEGE PRESIDENTS OF SO-CALLED ELITE UNIVERSITIES? [APPLAUSE] THEY ARE FORMER PRESIDENTS. >> Linsey: ELISE STEFANIK, CONGRESSWOMAN FROM NEW YORK. GEORDIE MAY NOW IS "ABC NEWS" EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL PRODUCER JOHN SANTUCCI. A BIG NIGHT WITH RON DeSANTIS AND NIKKI HALEY HITTING THE STAGE WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO BE LOOKING FORWARD IN PARTICULAR TONIGHT? >> I'M GOING TO BE WATCHING TO SEE IF DONALD TRUMP IS LASERED IN AND FOCUSED AS HIS FORMER RIVALS TAKE THE STAGE. THERE IS NOTHING DONALD TRUMP LIKES MORE THAN SEEING PEOPLE HE BEAT HAVE TO SAY NICE THINGS ABOUT HIM, WE KNOW THIS. IT IS DONALD TRUMP'S FAVORITE THING. TO THINK NOT ONLY HE GETS RON DeSANTIS, HE GETS NIKKI HALEY RIGHT THERE? HE IS GOING TO TO SAY NICE THINGS -- IF DONALD TRUMP WE KNOW IS ABLE TO BE IN THE HALL TONIGHT, IF HE COMES INTO HEAR HER SPEAK, OBVIOUSLY WE KNOW IT'S BEEN A FROSTY RELATIONSHIP. DONALD TRUMP MADE NO BONES ABOUT IT, HE MADE IT VERY CLEAR WHEN WE WERE EVENTUALLY IN THE VEEP STAKES, SHE WASN'T OF THE RUNNING MUCH LESS IN THE SHORT LIST BUT THOSE SHE KNOWS THIS IS THE WAY TO STAY RELEVANT IN REPUBLICAN POLITICS. WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ALL DAY ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY PLATFORM, HOW DIFFERENT THIS PARTY IS IN 2016. ANY SKEPTICISM THEN GONE NOW. THIS IS DONALD TRUMP'S REPUBLICAN PARTY AND FOR NIKKI HALEY TO HAVE A FUTURE IN IT SHE GOT TO BE HERE. >> I THINK IT'S FAIR TO SAY SO FAR AT LEAST DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN LOW-KEY, SOMETHING THAT WE MAY NOT BE USED TO SEEING. ARE YOU READING ANYTHING INTO THIS? >> A LITTLE LOW-KEY, IF YOU SEE SOME OF THE TRUTH OF SOCIAL POSTS WE ARE GETTING KIND OF BACK TO THE RHETORIC IF YOU WILL BUT IT'S SLOW, IT'S STEADY. THE REALITY IS YESTERDAY WAS OBVIOUSLY SOMETHING EVEN DONALD TRUMP WAS OVERWHELMED BY. USE OF THE MOTION, YOU SAW THAT THE REACTION, YOU SAW THE WAY HE LOOKED AT HIS ADULT CHILDREN AS HE ENTERED THE ROOM. I THINK IT'S THE BEGINNING I THINK WE ARE GETTING BACK TO PROGRAMMING IF YOU WILL. IT WILL BE CURIOUS TO SEE IS DONALD TRUMP TOLD OUR COLLEGE JONATHAN KARL WHAT THAT SPEECH ON THURSDAY IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE. IS IT MORE UNITY, IS IT HOT? THAT IS WHERE WE WILL GET THE SENSE OF DONALD TRUMP GOING FORWARD. I THINK THE REALITY ALSO IS THIS IS HIS PARTY, THE EVENTS. WE KNOW HE'S GOING TO BE ENJOYING IT TONIGHT. I'M SURE WE WILL ENJOY SEEING HIM TOMORROW WHEN HIS NEW RUNNING MATES J.D. VANCE TAKES THE STAGE. USE ALL THE EXCITEMENT IN THE HOME WHEN HE DID THAT WALK-THROUGH AND IF YOU ARE RUNNING AROUND ON THE FLOOR YOURSELF. NIGHT 1 IS A LITTLE BIT OF GETTING BACK INTO THE GROOVE OF IT IF YOU WILL, NOW WE GET ON WITH THE SHOW. >> Linsey: JOHN CENA TO SEE OUR THANKS TO YOU. SECURITY HAS BEEN TIGHT AROUND MILWAUKEE AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT ESPECIALLY AFTER THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. I WANT TO BRING BACK CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT MATT DUFFIN JUST OUTSIDE OF THE CONVENTION SITE TO. EARLIER TODAY WE KNOW THERE WAS AN OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING NOT FAR FROM THE CONVENTION HERE. WHAT ARE WE LEARNING ABOUT THAT AT THIS HOUR? >> WHAT HAPPENED ABOUT A MILE FROM WHERE WE ARE STANDING RIGHT NOW. AS WE UNDERSTAND IT, POLICE FROM OHIO AND WISCONSIN HERE, A GROUP OF BICYCLE OFFICERS ENCOUNTERED TWO MEN AT A MARTIN LUTHER KING PARK THEY WERE IN AN ARGUMENT, IT WAS VIOLENCE. ONE OF THEM PULLED A KNIFE. AT SOME POINT THREATENING THE OFFICER OR THE OTHER MAN AND THE OFFICERS OPENED FIRE KILLING THAT MAN. AS A RESULT THERE WAS A MASSIVE POLICE PRESENCE. YOU'VE SEEN WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE HERE BUT AT THAT INTERSECTION WHERE WE SPENT A COUPLE OF HOURS TODAY THERE WERE HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF HOURS MIKE OFFICERS, S.W.A.T. TEAMS, BICYCLE COPS. FBI, OTHER AGENCIES AS WELL. A VERY SIGNIFICANT PRESENCE AND NOW PEOPLE ARE BEGINNING TO ORGANIZE. WE UNDERSTAND THERE WILL BE A VIGIL IN 45 MINUTES, PEOPLE EXTREMELY UPSET AN OFFICER FROM OUT-OF-STATE SHOT SOMEBODY RIGHT IN THEIR BACKYARD. THAT IS CAUSING A BIT OF VEGETATION IN THE CITY THAT IS ALREADY ON EDGE. >> I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN SEE THAT YOU WILL PROBABLY ASK ME AND ASKED ABOUT SECURITY. WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING THIS HELICOPTER FROM THE COAST GUARD PASSED TO THAT BUILDING THERE GO AROUND AND AROUND. THERE IS ALSO A CUSTOMS HELICOPTER FLYING ABOVE OUR HEADS. YOU CAN SEE HOW MANY OFFICERS THERE ARE ON FOOT PATROL RIGHT OUTSIDE ONE OF THESE ENTRANCES. ARE GOOD TO HAVE HER CAMERAMAN SUBMITTED THAT NEST UP THERE, YOU CAN SEE SPOTTERS AND THE SNIPERS RIGHT ABOVE WHERE YOU ARE. SECURITY HERE HAS BEEN INCREDIBLY INTENSE, THOUSANDS OF OFFICERS FROM 24 DIFFERENT STATES AND FEDERAL AGENCIES AS WELL PACKED INTO THIS AREA. AS WE UNDERSTAND IT FROM THAT SHOOTING, THEY ALSO OPERATING AT A PRETTY FAR LIMIT FROM THIS CONVENTION. ABOUT A MILE OUT TO. THEY CREATED A LARGER FOOTPRINT OVER THE CITY AT THIS POINT. >> Linsey: LAND, SEA, AND AIR, WE SEE SECURITY REPRESENTED EVERYWHERE TH. JOINING US NOW IS REINCE REINCE PRIEBUS, AND A FORMER DNC CHAIR DONNA BRAZILE. YOU AND OTHER FORMER DNC CHAIRS WROTE A LETTER APPEALING TO THE COMMITTEE THAT SUPPORTS A VIRTUAL ROLL CALL AHEAD OF THE CONVENTION, WHY DO YOU FEEL THAT'S NECESSARY WHILE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PARTY ARE ASKING NOT TO MOVE FORWARD? >> IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WE SET OUT RULES AND PROCEDURES EARLY IN ADVANCE. AND SEPTEMBER OF 2022 WE APPROVE THE CALL TO THE CONVENTION. AFTER WE LEARNED OHIO AND SEVERAL OTHER STATES WE DECIDED IT WAS PRUDENT FOR US TO GO AHEAD AND CONDUCT A VIRTUAL NOMINATION. IT'S NOT JUST OHIO, IT'S ALSO WASHINGTON STATE, SEVERAL OTHER STATES THAT HAVE DEADLINES DURING THE TIME OF OUR CONVENTION. THIS WILL GIVE US THE FLEXIBILITY TO ENSURE OUR NOMINEES ARE ON THE BALLOT AND THAT'S WHY WE DID IT. THERE ARE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS INTO DONORS AND ACTIVISTS AND PUNDITS WHO THINK WE SHOULD STOP THE PROCESS. WE DO EVERYTHING WITH NOTICE. WE HAVE HAD MEETINGS, WE HAVE HAD DEBATES. WE HAVE HAD FORUMS, IT'S TIME NOW THAT THE DNC MOVE ASIDE AND LET THE DNC SEE WHICH CONTAINS THE DELEGATES, LET THEM MAKE THE DECISIONS. ANY MEMBER CAN VOTE YES, NO, OR ABSTAIN. IT'S OUR PRIORITY TO ENSURE THE NOMINEES ARE SELECTED AND PROCEED TO GET ON THE BALLOT IN ALL 50 STATES IN AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. >> WHAT'S YOUR REACTION TO THAT AND SIGN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY MAY STILL BE DIVIDED OVER JOE BIDEN'S CANDIDACY? >> I'M GOING TO LEAVE THE EXPERTISE ON THE RULES OF THE DNC UP TO DONNA. YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE RULE MAKING PROCESS IN THESE PARTIES IS PRETTY STRICT. THERE ISN'T A LOT OF DEVIATION, IF THE RULES ARE DRAFTED, NOTICE IS GIVEN, GENERAL BELIEF THINGS GOING TO ROLL BUT I WOULD JUST SAY GENERALLY OUTSIDE OF THAT ISSUE, THE DNC -- THE DEMOCRATS ARE EVENTUALLY GOING TO COME BACK TO THE CORE ISSUE WHICH IS WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO ABOUT JOE BIDEN? WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO ABOUT A GUY EVERY TIME HE DOES A INTERVIEW ON TV, PEOPLE HAVE A JAR OF TUMS NEXT TO THEM AND THEY ARE EATING THEM LIKE M&MS BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW WHETHER THEY ARE GOING TO GET THROUGH IT OR NOT TO. I THINK THEY ARE GOING TO GET TIRED OF BEING NERVOUS AND UPSET. IT GETS TIRING AND AFTER A WHILE YOU WANT TO MOVE ON, WE'LL SEE WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO DO. >> I WOULD LOVE TO ASK YOU ALL MORE BUT DO WANT TO GO TO THE STAGE NOW WITH CONGRESSMAN STEVES TO THE LEASE FROM LOUISIANA WHO OF COURSE HAS BEEN SHOT BEFORE, LET'S LISTEN IN. >> THE PAST FOUR YEARS -- JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS HAVE SPENT YOUR TAX DOLLARS TRASHING AMERICA'S FINANCES IN WAYS NO SANE OR SOBER MINDED PERSON EVER WOULD. LET'S TALK ENERGY. THEY HAVE ERODED AMERICAN ENERGY DOMINANCE THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP DELIVERS. JOE BIDEN APPROVED THE NORD STREAM TWO PIPELINE FOR RUSSIA, BUT HE KILLED THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE HERE AT HOME. THOUSANDS, THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN JOBS GONE. IT DOESN'T END THERE. BIDEN LET IRAN AND VENEZUELA EXPORTED THEIR OIL BUT HE STOPPED LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS EXPORTS HERE IN AMERICA. PRESIDENT BIDEN IS NOT DONE. DONE. PRESIDENT BIDEN WAY OF THE TAXES ON CHINESE SOLAR PANELS, BUT HE RAISED TAXES ON AMERICANS. WHEN WE ELECT DONALD TRUMP AS OUR NEXT PRESIDENT AND EXPAND OUR REPUBLICAN HOUSE MAJORITY, WE WILL END AND THE DEMOCRATS ASSAULT ON AMERICAN ENERGY ONCE AND FOR ALL. LET'S LOOK AT TAXES. BIDEN AND HARRIS WANT A $5 TRILLION TAX HIKE. IN OUR FIRST HUNDRED DAYS, PRESIDENT TRUMP AND REPUBLICAN MAJORITY WILL MAKE THE TRUMP TAX CUTS PERMANENT. YES, WE WILL END TAXES ON TIPS AND DELIVER ANOTHER TAX CUT FOR WORKING FAMILIES. ON THE BORDER, BIDEN AND HARRIS OPENED IT UP TO THE ENTIRE WO WORLD. PRISONS ARE BEING EMPTIED TO. PRESIDENT TRUMP AND REPUBLICAN MAJORITY WILL REPASS HR TO THE STRONGEST BORDER SECURITY BILL IN DECADES. WE WILL LOCK DOWN THE BORDER AND WE WILL FINISH BUILDING THE W WALL! [CHANTING "TO BUILD THAT WALL!" >> Linsey: THE SECOND TIME WE'VE HEARD THE BUILD THE WALL CHANT, STEVE SCALISE AND OTHER SPEAKERS TALKING ABOUT WHAT HE DESCRIBES AS ASSAULT ON AMERICAN ISSUES, POCKETBOOK ISSUES. I WANT TO BRING BACK IN REINCE PRIEBUS AND DONNA BRAZILE. I WANT TO PICK UP ON THE POINT WE WERE LIVING OFF BEFORE WITH TOP DEMOCRATS, MANY STILL NOT CONVINCED JOE BIDEN THAT SHOULD BE THE NOMINEE INCLUDING REPRESENTATIVE ADAM SCHIFF OF CALIFORNIA, PRIVATELY SOUNDED THE ALARM OVER THE WEEKEND ABOUT THE BUY-IN CANDIDACY AND WHAT IT COULD MEAN FOR DEMOCRATS DOWN THE BALLOTS. WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL BE THE IMPACT ON CRITICAL CONGRESSIONAL RACES FOR DEMOCRATS? >> JOE BIDEN HAS REALLY BEEN A CHAMPION OF NOT JUST MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, BUT EVERY DOWN BALLOT GOVERNOR, THE STATE LAWMAKERS, TO MAYORS AND COUNTY OFFICIALS, HE HAS BEEN THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE AND THE PUBLIC SERVICE, HE HAS SUPPORTED ALL OF THESE CANDIDATES. WE HAVE A RULE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IT'S CALLED 13J WHICH MEANS YOU CAN VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE. I WOULD LIKE TO SAY TO MY FRIENDS ESPECIALLY ON CAPITOL HILL, VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE. BECAUSE JOE BIDEN HAS BEEN REWARDED MORE THAN 90% OF THE DELEGATES, MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO ARE AUTOMATIC DELEGATES WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO PERHAPS VOTE THEIR CONSCIENCE. LET ME SAY THIS, I HEARD THE CHAIRMAN SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE CHAIRMAN OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. DEMOCRACY IS MESSY BUT WE HAD AN OPEN PROCESS, WE HAVE AN OPEN PROCESS ON PLATFORM, PLATFORM TODAY AND ONLY TWO PEOPLE VOTED AGAINST IT. IT WAS A STRONG A DOCUMENT THAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE IN A COUPLE HOURS. WE HAVE THESE DEBATES BECAUSE WE BELIEVE IN A DEMOCRATIC PROCESS. NOT EVERYONE WILL BE ON BOARD THE JOE BIDEN TRAIN, THE JOE BIDEN-KAMALA HARRIS TRAIN. I BELIEVE WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO MOVE FORWARD. YOU'VE SEEN THE POLLS AFTER THE MEDIA HAS TALKED NONSTOP ABOUT JOE BIDEN'S INABILITY TO COMPLETE A SENTENCE OR TWO. YOU'VE SEEN THE POLLS STAY STEADY. MAY BE SOME EROSION, BUT AFTER DONALD TRUMP WAS CONVICTED, 34 CONVICTIONS, HIS POLL NUMBERS ALSO REMAINED STEADY. WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO KEEP MOVING FORWARD AND I HOPE THAT JOE BIDEN CONTINUES TO DELIVER THE KIND OF STRONG MESSAGE AND DELIVER FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. I WANT TO CORRECT A STEVE SCALISE I NOTICE A LOT OF FACT-CHECKERS WORKING TONIGHT I DON'T HAVE TO SIT HERE IN FACT-CHECK -- WE ARE EXPERIENCING THE LARGEST OIL BOOM AND HAD REPUBLICANS IN THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS NOT CAVED INTO DONALD TRUMP, JOE BIDEN WOULD HAVE BROUGHT EXTRA PROTECTION TO THE BORDER. HE WOULD'VE BROUGHT EXTRA JUDGES TO PROCESS THOSE WHO WERE SEEKING ASYLUM, HE WOULD HAVE BROUGHT MORE PERSONNEL, MORE BORDER SECURITY. IF THEY WANT TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS, WORK WITH DEMOCRATS. I HAVE TO SAY ONE LAST THING, MIKE JOHNSON IS SPEAKING TODAY BECAUSE THE DEMOCRATS RALLIED TO SUPPORT HIM WHEN MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE TRY TO OVERTURN ONCE AGAIN THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE. I'M PROUD OF THE DEMOCRATIC RECORD, I'M PROUD OF THE JOE BIDEN AND I STILL BELIEVE JOE BIDEN IS GOING TO WIN. >> Linsey: DONNA BRAZILE, REINCE PRIEBUS WE THANK YOU BOTH FOR YOUR TIME. AS YOU WERE JUST MENTIONING TO SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE MIKE JOHNSON WHO WAS ON THE STAGE ADDRESSING THE CONVENTION RIGHT NOW -- >> WE ALWAYS HAVE BEEN AND WE ALWAYS WILL BE THE ADVOCATES FOR THE RULE OF LAW. WE ALL KNOW THAT PRINCIPAL AS WELL AS MANY OTHERS IS IN SERIOUS JEOPARDY TODAY. WE HAVE COME TO A MOMENT IN AMERICA WHERE THE BASIC THINGS THAT WE ONCE TOOK FOR GRANTED ARE BEING OPENLY CHALLENGED LIKE NEVER BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER JUST IN A BATTLE BETWEEN TWO OPPOSING POLITICAL PARTIES, WE ARE BUT IT'S NOT JUST OURS ANYMORE, WE ARE NOW IN THE MIDST OF A STRUGGLE BETWEEN TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT VISIONS OF WHO WE ARE AS AMERICANS AND WHAT OUR COUNTRY WILL BE. SPEAK OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WILL STAND FOR THEIR FOUNDATIONAL TRUTHS THAT MAKE AMERICA THE GREATEST NATION IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. WE ARE THE MOST FREE OF THE COME OF THE MOST POWERFUL, THE MOST BENEVOLENT NATION THAT HAS EVER BEEN END. WE HAVE NO GUARANTEE THIS GRAND EXPERIMENT IN SELF-GOVERNANCE CAN ENDURE UNLESS WE RESPOND TO THE CALL TO KEEP IT. 248 YEARS AGO WE PROCLAIMED IN OUR DECLARATION THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, NOT BORN EQUAL, CREATED EQUAL. AND THAT WE ARE ENDOWED BY OUR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS. WE UNDERSTAND OUR RIGHTS DO NOT COME FROM GOVERNMENT, THEY COME FROM GOD. IS ANOTHER THING THAT WE RECOGNIZE, WE RECOGNIZE WE ARE MADE IN HIS IMAGE. BECAUSE OF FATS, EVERY SINGLE PERSON HAS DIGNITY AND VALUE. YOUR VALUE IS NOT RELATED IN ANY WAY TO THE COLOR OF YOUR SKIN, WHAT ZIP CODE YOU LIVE IN, WHERE YOU COME FROM, WHAT YOUR TALENTS ARE, AND WHAT YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIETY. YOUR VALUE IS INHERENCE BECAUSE IT IS GIVEN TO YOU BY YOUR CREATOR. THAT'S WHAT WE STAND FOR. >> Linsey: MIKE JOHNSON THERE, I WANT TO BRING AN ABC POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT RACHEL BAY WHO JOINS US NOW. WE SAW CONGRESSMAN STEVE SCALISE FROM LOUISIANA ON THE STAGE, I KNOW YOU GOT A CHANCE TO SPEAK WITH HIM NOT LONG AGO. HE ALSO EXPERIENCED A LIFE-THREATENING ACT OF GUN VIOLENCE, HE WAS SHOT IN 2017 BY SOMEONE TARGETING REPUBLICANS, WHAT DID HE TELL YOU ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCE? >> THAT'S RIGHT, LOOK -- FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND HIS INNER CIRCLE ARE SAYING HE IS FINE, THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS IN GOOD SPIRITS BUT ANYBODY WHO HAS GONE THROUGH THIS EXPERIENCE WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN A BREATH FROM DEATH, THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE SOME SORT OF TRAUMA. I TALKED TO STEVE SCALISE ABOUT THAT. HE SAID IN THE MOMENT WHEN THAT HAPPENS YOU ACTUALLY DON'T KNOW HOW BAD IT IS, A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE WATCHING HIM ON THE STAGE, HE STANDS UP AND PUTS HIS FIST IN THE AIR PEOPLE THOUGHT HE'S FINE. STEVE SCALISE TOLD ME WHEN HE WANTS TO HE HAD NO SENSE OF WHETHER OR NOT HE WAS FINE WHEN HE WAS SHOT AND BLEEDING OUT ON A CONGRESSIONAL BASEBALL FIELD WHERE THEY WERE HAVING THIS PRACTICE, HE BASICALLY WENT NUMB. HE DIDN'T FEEL ANY PAIN, HE WAS IN A STATE OF SHOCK AND IT WASN'T UNTIL MUCH LATER THAT HE REALIZED HE WAS GOING TO BE FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE. I ASKED HIM ABOUT HOW HE DEALT WITH TRAUMA AFTER, NOT JUST TALK TALK ABOUT THE PHYSICAL TO THE MENTAL STRENGTH THAT IT WOULD TAKE TO GO OUT AS AN ELECTED OFFICIAL OR SOMETHING LIKE THIS COULD HAPPEN AGAIN. HIS WIFE AT THE TIME JENNIFER WANTED HIM TO RETIRE AND RETURN TO LOUISIANA, INSTEAD HE DECIDED TO GET BACK TO WORK RIGHT AWAY AND THIS IS WHAT HE SAID ABOUT THE WAY HE APPROACHED THE TR TRAUMA. >> I HAD A CHOICE TO MAKE EARLY ON, DO YOU TRY TO FEEL SORRY FOR YOURSELF OR DO YOU FOCUS ON GETTING BETTER? I MADE AN EARLY DECISION, RIP THE REARVIEW MIRROR OFF I'M NOT GOING TO LOOK BEHIND ME. >> HE SAID HE FIXED THE DIRECTOR OF THE SECRET SERVICE NEEDS TO STEP DOWN I ASKED HIM WHY THE WOULD EVER THINK ABOUT PASSING SOME SORT OF GUN RESTRICTIONS, UNSURPRISINGLY HIS ANSWER WAS NO, HE DIDN'T THINK SO BUT I THINK IT'S AN INTERESTING THING TO WATCH GIVEN DONALD TRUMP WHEN HE WAS IN THE WHITE HOUSE ACTUALLY FLIRTED WITH THE IDEA OF MAKING SOME SORT OF DEAL WITH DEMOCRATS ON GUN ISSUES. NOW HE IS A SURVIVOR OF GUN VIOLENCE, THAT IS SOMETHING I THINK WILL BE INTERESTING TO WATCH AND ASK HIM IN THE FUTURE. >> NOW I WANT TO BRING AN "ABC NEWS" CONTRIBUTOR, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN COVERING THE BORDER AND IMMIGRATION FOR DECADES NOW. WHY DO YOU THINK IT CONTINUES TO BE A THEME, ELECTION YEAR AFTER YEAR? >> BECAUSE THE IMMIGRATION SYSTEM HAS BEEN BROKEN FOR DECADES AND IT'S BEEN A POINT OF CONTENTION FOR DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS FOR DECADES NOW. THERE HAVE BEEN ATTEMPTS FOR BOTH ADMINISTRATIONS WHO PASSED IMMIGRATION REFORM TO ADDRESS IMMIGRATION AT THE BORDER CREATING A PATH FOR MILLIONS OF IMMIGRANTS THAT LIVE IN THE U.S. MEMBERS OF CONGRESS NEVER AGREE. THEY HAVE BEEN CLOSE BUT NOTHING YET. ALSO NEVER UNTIL DONALD TRUMP FIRST RAN FOR PRESIDENT HAS THE RHETORIC TOWARDS IMMIGRANTS BEEN SO HARSH. CALLING THEM DRUG DEALERS AND MURDERERS AND CALLING IT AN INVASION AND SAYING THEY POISONED THE BLOOD OF THIS COUNTRY. THAT RHETORIC HAS BROUGHT UP THE TEMPERATURE ACROSS THE COUNTRY. THIS YEAR THAT DECADES LONG DEBATE IS MORE HEATED THAN EVER. >> Linsey: MANY TIMES PEOPLE COMPLETE THE ISSUE OF IMMIGRATION WITH THE LATINO VOTE BUT IMMIGRATION GOES FAR BEYOND ONE COMMUNITY. WHEN YOU TALK TO PEOPLE ABOUT IMMIGRATION REGARDLESS OF POLITICAL AFFILIATION, WHAT ARE THEY WANTING TO HEAR FROM OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS? WHAT DO THEY WANT TO SEE THEM DO? >> THE MAJORITY OF IMMIGRANTS MIGHT BE FROM MEXICO, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA, THERE ARE MILLIONS OF UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS, MANY ARRIVED WITH THE VISA. IT'S NOT JUST A LATINO ISSUE. WHAT IS ITS PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR? IT DEPENDS ON WHO YOU ASK. THERE ARE 25 TO 30% OF LATINO VOTERS THAT ARE REPUBLICAN CONSERVATIVES, TO SUPPORT THE PARTY LINE, TO SUPPORT THE HARD-LINE APPROACH TO IMMIGRATION. DEMOCRATS ON THE OTHER HAND WOULD LIKE TO SEE AND IMMIGRATION REFORM THAT ALLOWS UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS TO COME OUT OF THE SHADOWS. PROMISING ELUSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM, NO MATTER WHAT THEIR PARTY AFFILIATION, MOST IMMIGRANTS WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE PARTIES WORK TOGETHER AND FIX THE IMMIGRATION SYSTEM. COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM ADDRESSES ALL THE ISSUES, A MORE ORDERLY IMMIGRATION SYSTEM AND THE LEGALIZATION OF THOSE ALREADY HERE. THEY REALIZE IMMIGRANTS CONTRIBUTE TO THIS COUNTRY THROUGH THEIR WORK. THERE ARE INDUSTRIES THAT DEPEND ON THEIR LABOR. THEY ARE ESSENTIAL WORKERS, THEY HAVE ESTABLISHED ROOTS HERE. MANY ARE PART OF MIXED STATUS HOUSEHOLDS, THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT TO. THEY WANT IMMIGRANTS AND THE REPUBLICANS TO WORK TOGETHER AND FIX THIS. >> Linsey: WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AS ALWAYS. I WANT TO GO BACK TO THE MAIN STAGE HERE WHERE VIVEK R VIVEK RAMASWAMY, FORMER CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ADDRESSING THE CONVENTION NOW. >> THAT YOU GET AHEAD IN THIS COUNTRY NOT IN THE COLOR OF YOUR SKIN BUT ON THE CONTENT OF YOUR CHARACTER AND YOUR CONTR CONTRIBUTIONS. IT MEANS WE BELIEVE IN THE RULE OF LAW AND I SAY THIS OF LEGAL IMMIGRANTS INTO THIS COUNTRY, THAT MEANS YOUR FIRST ACT OF ENTERING THIS COUNTRY CANNOT BREAK THE LAW. WE WILL SEAL THE SOUTHERN BORDER ON DAY 1. IT MEANS THE PEOPLE WE ELECT TO RUN THE GOVERNMENT OUGHT TO BE THE ONES WHO ACTUALLY RUN THE GOVERNMENT. NOT UNELECTED BUREAUCRATS IN THE DEEP STATE. THESE ARE NOT THE BLACK IDEAS WHITE IDEAS, THEY ARE NOT DEMOCRATIC IDEAS OR REPUBLICAN IDEAS, THEY ARE AMERICAN IDEAS THAT WE FOUGHT A REVOLUTION TO SECURE AND THE MAN WHO WILL PROVIDE THESE IDEALS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS YOUR NEXT PRESIDENT, THE 47TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, DONALD J. TRUMP. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] IF YOU WANT TO SEAL THE BORDER, BOAT TRUMP. IF YOU WANT TO RESTORE LAW AND ORDER VOTE TO TRUMP. IF YOU WANT TO REIGNITE THE ECONOMY IN THIS COUNTRY VOTE TRUMP. IF YOU WANT TO REVIVE NATIONAL PRIDE IN THIS COUNTRY, VOTE TRUMP. IF YOU WANT TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, VOTE TRUMP. THERE'S ONE MORE REASON NUMBER TO ASK YOU TO VOTE TRUMP IN THIS THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE. IT WAS THE ONE THE MEDIA WANT TO TALK ABOUT BUT IT'S THE TRUTH. DONALD TRUMP IS THE PRESIDENT WHO WILL ACTUALLY UNITE THIS COUNTRY. NOT THROUGH EMPTY WORDS BUT THROUGH ACTION. YOU KNOW WHAT? SUCCESS IS UNIFIED. >> Linsey: VIVEK RAMASWAMY ON THE STAGE TONIGHT, A BUSY AND HIGH-ENERGY EVENING ALREADY BUT SOME OF DONALD TRUMP'S BIGGEST CRITICS, FORMERLY IN THE PARTY MOMENTS AWAY FROM TAKING STAGE TONIGHT INCLUDING SEVERAL OF HIS PRIMARY RIVALS NOW VANQUISHED. JOINING ME IS NOW STEWART STEPHEN, FORMER -- RON DeSANTIS BOTH ADDRESSING THE CONVENTION, WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THAT SHOW OF UNITY FOR THE PARTY NOW -- IT OFTEN TURNS WERE A PERSONAL. >> ONE THING THEY ALL HAVE IN COMMON IS THEY RAISE THEIR HANDS AND THEY SAID THEY WOULD SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP IF HE WAS A CONVICTED FELON. YOU HAVE TO SAY THEY HAVE BEEN TRUE TO THEIR WORK, HE IS A CONVICTED FELON AND THEY ARE SUPPORTING YOUR. I JUST DON'T THINK MOST AMERICANS BELIEVE WE SHOULD HAVE A FELON AS PRESIDENT, IT'S A RADICAL NOTION BUT THE MAJORITY OF THE COUNTRY -- >> Linsey: HOW DOES THE REPUBLICAN PARTY MOVE ON AFTER THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT? WHAT DOES THE FUTURE OF THE PARTY LOOK LIKE WITH SENATOR J.D. VANCE NOW? >> THIS IS THE FULL EMBRACE OF TRUMPISM FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY I WORKED IN GOING BACK TO GEORGE BUSH NO LONGER EXISTS. GEORGE BUSH COULDN'T GET A 5% OF THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES -- THIS IS AN ANGRY PARTY, IT'S A PARTY THAT HAS DONALD TRUMP OUT THERE SAYING WE LIVE IN A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY, UNCIVILIZED COUNTRY. THERE ARE THESE DARK DEMONS DOWN THERE THAT ARE AFTER US. YOU NEED A STRONG MAN TO PROTECT DEAL. I JUST DON'T THINK THAT'S WHERE THE COUNTRY REALLY IS. RONALD REAGAN ANNOUNCED IN FRONT OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY TO WELCOME IMMIGRANTS. HIS LAST SPEECH WAS IN OH TWO IMMIGRATION. YOU HAVE THIS ATTACK ON PEOPLE WHO WANT TO COME TO AMERICA FOR A BETTER LIFE. I THINK IT'S NOT WHERE THE MAJORITY THE COUNTRY IS. >> Linsey: WHAT MESSAGING WOULD YOU HAVE FOR DEMOCRATS LOOKING AHEAD TO THE DNC? >> I THINK THIS IS A VERY SIMPLE RACE. IF YOU LOOK AT THE HUNDRED DAY PLAN THE PRESIDENT OUTLINED LAST FRIDAY NIGHT IN MICHIGAN THOSE ARE IDEAS TO TEST ABOUT 80-20, LOOK AT PROJECT 2025 THAT ARE BEING TOSSED AROUND IN REPUBLICAN CONVENTIONS, THEY TRUST ABOUT 20-82 THE BAD TO. I THINK YOU TAKE THE 80-20 AND YOU RUN AGAINST THE 20-80 IT'S PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD. YOU HAVE SOMEONE WHO IS OUT ON BAIL WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, HIS HOMETOWN JURY FOUND HIM LIABLE OF ASSAULT AND THE JUDGE CALLED RAPE, THIS IS NOT A COMPLICATED RACE. I THINK THEY NEED TO GET THROUGH IT. THEY HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO HAS BEEN ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL FIRST-TERM PRESIDENT SINCE WORLD WAR II. THEY OUGHT TO RUN ON THAT RECORD FOR THE STOCK MARKET IS AT RECORD HIGHS. THE ECONOMY IS IN GOOD SHAPE. PUT IT OUT THERE, GET ABOUT THE BUSINESS OF MAKING THE CASE. >> Linsey: STUART STEVENS WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME, WE APPRECIATE IT. MORE CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS WE GET TO HEAR ON A SPECIAL EDITION OF "ABC NEWS" PRIME, WE ARE LIVE IN MILWAUKEE AS WE HAD TO BREAK A LOOK AT THE LAST CONVENTION WHEN THEN INCUMBENT PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ACCEPTED THE NOMINATION, HOPING TO BEAT NOW PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN IN NOVEMBER. >> THIS ELECTION WILL DECIDE WHETHER WE DEFEND THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE OR WHETHER WE ALLOW A RADICAL MOVEMENT TO COMPLETELY DISMANTLE AND DESTROY IT. I PROFOUNDLY ACCEPT THIS NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. the right guy. I want to make sure that we all learn together calm confident. I'm confident come surrender everything that he's taught has become a reality. We are so grateful and impressed. I feel like crying and changed our world. It is a beautiful thing to see as you rehabilitate the dog. You also rehabilitate you Babe, Ruth Hank. Aaron show a Otani Legends of the game, but now the list of greats, redefined from ABC News. Reclaim the Forgotten lead a side of the story of baseball. You have never heard before. Like this, the award-winning podcast is back. Listen, wherever you get your podcasts, or scan the QR code to see here. ReRulli, wherever the story isam will take you there. You're streaming ABC News live. >> Linsey: LIVE AT DAY TOUR THE CROWN OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION, TONIGHT'S THEY MAKE AMERICA SAFE ONCE AGAIN. HAS BEEN TALK ABOUT CLIMATE IMMIGRATION, WHO DO VOTERS THINK IS MORE CAPABLE OF HANDLING BOTH OF THOSE ISSUES? >> ABC RECENTLY DID POLLING WITH IT SO'S ASKING VOTERS ABOUT THEIR PERCEPTIONS OF THE TWO CANDIDATES. IMMIGRATION AND CRIME WORK TO GO AREAS WHERE TRUMP LEADS PRESIDENT BIDEN. BUT IMMIGRATION, HE HAS A LEAD OVER THE CURRENT PRESIDENT BY ABOUT 15 PERCENTAGE POINTS ON THE QUESTION OF WHO YOU TRUST MORE ON IMMIGRATION AND WHEN IT COMES TO CRIME AND THE SAFETY HE LEADS BY ABOUT EIGHT PERCENTAGE POINTS. THIS HAS BEEN A THEME OF DONALD TRUMP'S POLITICAL CAREER FOR ALMOST A DECADE NOW. THESE TWO AREAS OF POLICY AND WE'VE SEEN HIM RUN ON IT IN 2016, IN 2020, AND AGAIN NOW. PERCEPTIONS AMONGST THE BROADER PUBLIC HAVE CHANGED OVER THE PAST DECADES. WHEN TRUMP CAME THE SCENE AND CAME OUT OF THAT ESCALATOR AND TALKED ABOUT THE BORDER WALL AND MASS DEPORTATIONS, THOSE WERE VERY UNPOPULAR POLICY POSITIONS. THEY WERE PROBABLY WITHIN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY BUT WOULD YOU LOOK AT THE GENERAL ELECTORATE THEY REJECTED THOSE IDEAS. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE POLLING TODAY THERE'S A MAJORITY OF AMERICANS IN SUPPORT OF BUILDING A BORDER WALL. I THINK THAT IN PART RESPONDS TO WHAT WE HAVE SEEN ON THE SOUTHERN BORDER DURING THE BIDEN PRESIDENCY WHICH ENCOUNTERS ELEVATED ABOVE 150,000 ENCOUNTERS PER MONTH DURING OBAMA AND TRUMP'S PRESIDENCIES IT WAS MORE THAN 50,000 PER MONTH. PUBLIC OPINION HAS CHANGED ACCORDINGLY. >> Linsey: THE MAJORITY OF THOSE SPEAKING FOR THE PAST HOUR HERE ARE SENATE CANDIDATES, VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS ACTING AS A TIEBREAKER. WHAT WAS -- DOES IT GETTING MOE SEATS LOOK LIKE? >> IF REPUBLICANS GAIN JUST ONE SEAT AND ALSO WIN THE PRESIDENCY AND THEREFORE VICE PRESIDENCY, THEY WOULD HAVE A MAJORITY. OF THE EXPECTATIONS AS REPUBLICANS WILL AT LEAST FLIP THE SENATE SEAT IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA. FORMER DEMOCRAT, CURRENT INDEPENDENT JOE MANCHIN IS NOT RUNNING FOR REELECTION AND CURRENT GOVERNOR OF WEST VIRGINIA JIM JUSTICE WE JUST HEARD EARLIER IN THIS EVENING IS RUNNING FOR SENATE AND HE'S LIKELY TO WIN THAT SEAT. ACROSS THE SENATE MAP OF THIS A LOT OF VULNERABILITIES FOR DEMOCRATS. LOOK AT STATES LIKE MONTANA, ARIZONA, WISCONSIN, OHIO, THESE ARE STATES WHERE REPUBLICANS IN MANY CASES ARE GOING ON OFFENSE AND PLAYING ON FRIENDLY TERRITORY. OHIO IN PARTICULAR IS NOT EVEN REALLY THOUGHT OF AS A BATTLEGROUND STATE ANYMORE. CURRENT DEMOCRATIC SENATOR SHERROD BROWN IS PRETTY VULNERABLE THEY ARE AND IF REPUBLICANS PUT THOSE TWO SEATS, THEY WOULDN'T EVEN NEED TO WIN THE PRESIDENCY IN ORDER TO HAVE CONTROL OF THE SENATE. IN ALL LIKELIHOOD, IT'S HARD TO PREDICT THREE AND A HALF MONTHS OUT BUT IN ALL LIKELIHOOD REPUBLICANS COULD BE THE MAJORITY IN THE SENATE COME 2025. >> Linsey: AT 538'S -- NOW I WANT TO TAKE A LISTEN INTO REALITY TV START SAVANNAH CHRISLEY. >> MY FAMILY WAS PERSECUTED BY ROGUE PROSECUTORS IN FULTON COUNTY. DO TO OUR PUBLIC PROFILE -- I KNOW, FULTON COUNTY, THEY KNOW HOW TO DO IT, DON'T THEY? DUE TO OUR PUBLIC PROFILE AND CONSERVATIVE BELIEFS. THEY ACCUSED MY PARENTS OF FRAUD WHEN REALLY WE WERE DEFRAUDED BY A DISHONEST BUSINESS PARTNER WHO LET'S NOT FORGET, THE GOVERNMENT GAVE FULL IMMUNITY TO. WE SUFFERED WARRANTLESS RAIDS AND HARASSMENTS. ONE OF THE OFFICIALS EVEN HAD MY FATHER'S FACE -- >> Linsey: I WANT TO BRING BACK NOW JAY O'BRIEN, WE ARE ABOUT 30 MINUTES FROM NIKKI HALEY TAKING THE STAGE. SHE RAN AGAINST DONALD TRUMP FOR THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION AND LOST, SHE SAID REPEATEDLY ON THE TRAIL THE NATION CAN'T SURVIVE ANOTHER FOUR YEARS OF THE CHAOS THAT SURROUNDS DONALD TRUMP ERGO WHY DO YOU THINK SHE DECIDED IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR HER PERSONALLY TO BE ON THE STAGE TONIGHT? >> THAT IS THE OPEN QUESTION, IT'S WHAT EVERYONE IS GOING TO BE THINKING WHEN THEY LISTEN TO NIKKI HALEY'S REMARKS COME YOU CAN EXPECT EVERY WORD SHE SAYS ON THAT STAGE BECAUSE THE REALITY IS WHILE NIKKI HALEY HAS SAID SHE WOULD VOTE HERSELF FOR DONALD TRUMP, SHE HAS NEVER GIVEN HIM HIS FULL-THROATED ENDORSEMENT. SOME OF THE SUPPORTERS AS YOU AND I HAVE DISCUSSED OVER THE COURSE OF THE CAMPAIGN HAVE VOTED FOR NIKKI HALEY RATHER IN SOME PRIMARIES AS A PROTEST VOTE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP. WHAT DOES SHE SAY TO THOSE MODERATE REPUBLICAN VOTERS? I'VE TALKED TO VOTERS WHO CONTINUE THEMSELVES MODERATE, SOME OF WHOM ARE NOT FULLY SOLD ON FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. SOME SAID THEY STILL AREN'T BUT THE EVENTS OF SATURDAY -- IF NIKKI HALEY PICKS UP ON THAT PREVAILING THEME WHAT APPEARS TO BE A PREVAILING THEME, DOES SHE CONTINUE THIS MESSAGE OF UNITY AND TALK TO THOSE MODERATES, THOSE NIKKI HALEY VOTERS AND GET THEM INTO DONALD TRUMP'S CAMP? IF THAT HAPPENS IT WOULD PUT A LOT MORE GAS IN HIS TANK COME NOVEMBER. >> WE WILL BE WATCHING, WE WILL TALK TO YOU A LITTLE BIT LATER, THANK YOU. STILL MUCH MORE CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS TO GET TO ON THIS SPECIAL EDITION OF ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME. WE ARE HERE IN MILWAUKEE FOR A DDAY TO TRIM AND THE THEME WAS MAKE AMERICA SAFE ONCE AGAIN. EVERY NIGHT THE PARTY IS LOOKING FOR A DIFFERENT PART OF ITS PLATFORM, WE LOOK AT THE PICTURE THEY ARE PAINTING OF THE FUTURE NEXT. All right, let the dogs out please. I don't think he's gonna give you a hard time. Even if he gives me a hard time the right guy. I want to make sure that we all learn together calm confident. 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Look at you. Smile you're proud of this. I love it. Hi, David. I'm David. ABC's World News Tonight with David Muir is America's most watched news cast. >> Linsey: WELCOME BACK, JOINING US NOW FORMER GEORGIA REPRESENTATIVE TOM GRAVES AND FORMER ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY MARCIA ESPINOZA. TONIGHT'S THEME AT THE RNC IS MAKE AMERICA SAFE ONCE AGAIN. I WANT TO ASK YOU BOTH THE SAME QUESTION, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR EACH OF THE PARTIES AS THEY MAKE THEIR CASE TO VOTERS? WE WILL START WITH YOU SINCE THE RNC PLATFORM IS FOCUSED WITH SAFETY CONCERNS ON THE BORDER. >> I'M NOT UNDERSTANDING THEIR PLATFORM OF UNITY TONIGHT OR THEIR EFFORTS TO MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN, BUT I WILL POINT OUT JOE BIDEN ON DAY ONE HIS ADMINISTRATION PUT FORTH A BORDER BILL TO TRY TO GET SOMETHING DONE ON IMMIGRATION WITH BOTH SIDES AGREE IS COMPLETELY BROKEN. REPUBLICANS DIDN'T DO ANYTHING ON THAT, THEY DIDN'T DO ANYTHING ON THE BIPARTISAN BORDER BILL THAT WAS PROPOSED IN THE SENATE JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO. THEY WANTED TO KEEP IT AS A POLITICAL ISSUE AND TALK ABOUT IT THIS WEEK AT THEIR CONVENTION, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THEY GOT. THEY COULD SAY THE BORDER WAS BROKEN, WE ALL AGREE IMMIGRATION NEEDS TO BE SOLVED BY CONGRESS, THE ONLY BODY THAT CAN ACTUALLY SOLVE IT. THEY'VE GOT THAT TALKING POINTS TONIGHT, UNFORTUNATELY THEY COULD HAVE DONE SOMETHING ABOUT IT. JOE BIDEN HAS DONE EVERYTHING HE CAN WITH THE POWERS THAT BE TO TRY TO SOLVE THIS INCLUDING HIRING MORE AGENTS AND ASYLUM OFFICERS AND JUDGES, WE ARE STILL WAITING TO SEE WHAT THEIR ACTUAL PLAN IS. >> I WANT TO BRING YOU IN HERE, WHAT IS YOUR RESPONSE? >> IT'S UNFORTUNATES, IT HAS TO BE A PLATFORM ISSUE. WE HAVE SO MANY PROBLEMS IN OUR COUNTRY OF THE REPUBLICANS ARE TAKING THE LEAD ON THIS. IT SHOULD BE A BIPARTISAN ISSUE. LET'S BE FAIR, JOE BIDEN HAS BEEN PRESIDENT, THE DEMOCRATS HAVE CONTROL OF THE SENATE AND REPUBLICANS HAVE HAD 83 OR FOUR SEAT MAJORITY FOR A YEAR AND A HALF. IS NOT THEIR ISSUE OR CRISIS, IT WASN'T CREATED BY THEM. I THINK MOVING FORWARD THE PLATFORM YOU ARE SEEING TODAY IS SOMETHING AMERICA IS SEEKING. >> Linsey: EARLIER THIS EVENING WE HEARD PRESIDENT BIDEN TALK ABOUT SAFETY AT THE NAACP CONVENTION, HE SPOKE ABOUT THE SHOOTER THAT TRIED TO KILL TRUMP HAVING EASY ACCESS TO AN AR-15, DOES THIS REOPEN THE CONVERSATION ABOUT GUN ACCESS IN AMERICA? >> IT IS REOPENING SO MANY CONVERSATIONS INCLUDING GUN SAFETY, WHICH OUR VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS HAS LED ON FOR SO MANY YEARS AND HER EXPERIENCE AS AG AND PROSECUTOR IN CALIFORNIA. SO MANY OPEN QUESTIONS REGARDING WHAT HAPPENED ON SATURDAY. ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS WAS AT THE WHITE HOUSE PODIUM SAY THEY WOULD CONDUCT AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION WHAT HAPPENED THERE. THE SERVICE DIRECTOR HAS ALSO INDICATED SOME MISTAKES WERE MADE AND THEY ARE TAKING A LOOK AT. MUCH MORE TO COME THERE. >> THE APPEAL AND TRUMP ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE IN FLORIDA HAS BEEN DELAYED UNTIL DECEMBER UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION, WHAT HAS BEEN A REACTION AND TO THINK IT WILL HAVE AN IMPACT ON THE ELECTION OF IT HAS BEEN DELAYED? >> I DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO HAVE AN IMPACT, I THINK PRESIDENT TRUMP IS DOING FANTASTIC IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA. WANT TO GO BACK TO THE ISSUE, THE THEME OF THE NIGHT, IT IS SAFETY, IT IS SECURITY. THAT'S FOR FAMILIES, FAMILIES IN THE U.S. WHAT THE PRESIDENT IS PUTTING OUT THERE IS A VISIONARY PLAN ON HOW TO PROTECT FAMILIES. IS NOT DEFUNDING THE POLICE LIKE DEMOCRATS HAVE ADVOCATED FOR INSTEAD OF STRENGTHENING POLICE AND OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES. IS NOT FOR OPEN BORDERS IT'S FOR BUILDING BORDER WALL'S. THOSE SHOULD BE BIPARTISAN ISSUES WE CAN GATHER AROUND FOR THE PRESIDENT IS MAKING THIS A KEY PART OF HIS PLATFORM. I THINK HE'S RIGHT TO DO WHAT, REPUBLICANS ARE UNIFIED AROUND AT. THE MESSAGE TONIGHT IS ABOUT UNITY, HAVING NIKKI HALEY, HAVING GOVERNOR DeSANTIS JOIN THE STAGE CANNOT BE A PART OF THIS EVENT, YOU CAN'T UNITE THE COUNTRY UNTIL YOU UNITE THE PARTY AND THE PRESIDENT HAS TAKEN A LEADERSHIP ROLE THATTITES. >> Linsey: AS WE ARE LOOKING J.D. VANCE MAKING HIS ENTRANCE, DOING HIGH FIVES AND HANDSHAKES, SLAPPING BACKS HERE, I'M JUST CURIOUS TO GET YOUR TAKE ON WHAT YOU THINK NOW ON DAY 2 OF THE RNC, DO YOU FEEL THEY'VE BEEN ABLE TO MOVE THE METER AT ALL, PERHAPS CONVINCING SOME INDEPENDENT POLL ARRESTS AND NEVER TRUMPER TO NEVER COME ON BOARD. >> CONVENTIONS ARE ABOUT ENERGIZING YOUR BASE ABOUT BRINGING THE PARTY BACK TOG TOGETHER. I THINK THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS NOMINEE AS A GREAT WAY TO DO THAT FOR REPUBLICANS. >> FORMER GEORGIA REPRESENTATIVE TOM GRAVES AND ASSISTANT SECRETARY HOMELAND SECURITY MARCIA ESPINOZA WE THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH FOR JOINING US TONIGHT TO. 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REPUBLICANS COME TOGETHER IN MILWAUKEE TO MAKE THEIR CASE TO AMERICA AND STAND BEHIND DONALD TRUMP AND HIS NEW RUNNING MATE SENATOR J.D. VANCE. TO TAKE ON PRESIDENT BIDEN IN THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE. THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION LIVE FROM MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. NOW REPORTING DAVID MUIR. >> David: YOU ARE LOOKING LIVE AT THE CONVENTION HALL RIGHT HERE AND MILWAUKEE. PACK TALL MOVE-IN ON THE ABC BROADCAST BOOTH. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US ON THIS VERY BUSY NIGHT 2 OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION HERE. FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND NEW RUNNING MATE J.D. VANCE ARE EXPECTED TO BE HERE TONIGHT. J.D. VANCE WE SAW MOMENTS AGO. THE FORMER PRESIDENT EXPECT TO APPEAR AT ANY MOMENT AND SO ARE HIS BIGGEST RIVALS, NOW TURNED ALLIES. THAT IS POLITICS IN AMERICA IN 2024. FORMER GOVERNOR RON DeSANTIS AND NIKKI HALEY HERE TONIGHT. SHE WAS A LATE ADDITION. SHE WILL SPEAK IN THE CONVENTION HALL TONIGHT. SHE HAD SAID DAYS AGO THAT SHE WOULD NOT BE COMING. SHE WILL SPEAK TONIGHT. NIKKI HALEY WAS SEEN ON STAGE. SHE CALLED DONALD TRUMP UNHINGED, UNFIT FOR OFFICE. CHAOS FALLS TRUMP EVERYWHERE HE GOES. SHE LATER ENDORSED HIM. SHE WILL SPEAK HERE IN THE CONVENTION HALL TONIGHT. DONALD TRUMP WATCHING NIKKI HALEY WHO FOUGHT IN THE PRIMARY. SHE HAS NOW ENDORSED DONALD TRUMP. THE OTHER MAJOR HEADLINE HEADING INTO TONIGHT. THERE IS NO VIDEO IT DOES EMERGED SHOWING THE PHONE CALL BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT ARE SKATE JR. YOU CAN SEE AND HEAR TRUMP ASKING HIM FOR SUPPORT. TELLING KENNEDY IT WOULD BE VERY GOOD FOR KENNEDY. APPEARING TO AGREE WITH HIS VIEWS ON CHILD VACCINES AS WELL. THE THEME IN MILWAUKEE IS UNITY. THAT WILL BE PUNCTUALLY AIDED WITH SEVERAL OF THOSE FORMER CRITICS. NONE MORE VOCAL THAN NIKKI HALEY. DONALD TRUMP AND THIS WILL BE INTERESTING FOR US TO WATCH TONIGHT ALONG WITH THE REST OF THE COUNTRY. DONALD TRUMP WATCHING NIKKI HALEY TALK ABOUT DONALD TRUMP. I'M HERE WITH MY TEAM. RACHEL SCOTT AND LET'S GET RIGHT TO RACHEL SCOTT. HERE IN THE HALL WE SAW J.D. VANCE ARRIVE MOMENTS AGO. WE ARE WAITING ON THE FORMER PRESIDENT. HERE HE COMES. STANDBY. THE FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IS ENTERING THE HALL IN A SIMILAR FASHION TO WHAT WE SAW LAST NIGHT. OF COURSE, EVERYBODY TRAINED ON THAT RIGHT HERE IN THE BANDAGE OVER HIS FEAR HAS GONE VIRAL. THE BANDAGE. WE SAW SOME IMAGES TODAY OF HIS SUPPORTERS PUTTING BANDAGES UNDER EARS IN SOLIDARITY WITH DONALD TRUMP ENTERING THE HALL. THIS IS A TRUMP SIGNATURE IN THESE POLITICAL CONVENTIONS. HIS THIRD NOMINATION AND HE COMES TO THE CONVENTION EVERY NIGHT. NOT TYPICAL IN MODERN POLITICS, BUT YES REDEFINED IT IN SO MANY WAYS. AT NIGHT TO AND TRUMP HAS ARRIVED, WAVING TO THE CROWD. AS HE WALKS UP THOSE STAIRS, I WOULD GATHER HE WILL JOIN HIS RUNNING MATE J.D. VANCE. THERE YOU SEE J.D. VANCE IN THE FRONT ROW WAITING FOR DONALD TRUMP. REVELING IN THE MOMENT RACHEL SCOTT. NOT SPEAKING. THE FIST BUMP, THE PATCH IN THIS YEAR, AND RESILIENCE. THAT IS THE THEME AND IMAGE HE HOPES TO PROJECT. >> EXACTLY. WHEN I WAS TALKING TO FORMER PRESIDENT SENIOR ADVISOR I ASKED WHY HE WANTED TO COME AND SHOW UP BEFORE HE IS SCHEDULED TO ACCEPT THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION. HE TOLD ME IT WAS FOR THAT VERY REASON. THEY WANT TO PROJECT STRENGTH AFTER THAT ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. I WILL TELL YOU. YOU WOULD THINK THAT THIS STAGE WAS IN THE BACK OF THE ARENA. EVERYBODY HAD TO MOVE THIS WAY TO GET A GLIMPSE OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT, DAVID. >> SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS IS EXPECTED TO SPEAK. ERIC TRUMP. J.D. VANCE. RUNNING MATE. BY DONALD TRUMP'S SIDE. 39 YEARS OLD. OHIO SENATOR AND JUNIOR SENATOR FROM OHIO. A VERY VOCAL CRITIC. A DARLING OF LIBERALS FOR A PERIOD OF TIME AS HE WAS DESCRIBED. WROTE HILLBILLY ELEGY. WELL KNOWN FOR HIS CRITIQUE OF DONALD TRUMP. SAID THAT DONALD TRUMP IS TAKING THE WHITE WORKING CLASS OF THIS COUNTRY TO A DARK PLACE. IT CALLED HIM AMERICA'S HITLER. SO MANY WORDS THAT HE USED TO DESCRIBE DONALD TRUMP. HE KNOWS THESE QUESTIONS WILL COME HIS WAY. HE LAUGHED ABOUT IT ON FOX NEWS LAST NIGHT WITH SEAN HANNITY. BROUGHT UP SOME OF THOSE TERMS TO DESCRIBE DONALD TRUMP. HE EXPECTS THESE QUESTIONS COMING HIS WAY. >> ABSOLUTELY. AS WE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE DONALD TRUMP LOVES THE CONVERT. HE LIKES PEOPLE THAT HAVE ALWAYS BEEN LOYAL. HE LIKES SOMEBODY WHO PARTIALLY CRITICIZED HIM AND HAD TO COME AROUND. IT GIVES HIM HOPE THAT OTHER PEOPLE THAT DO NOT LIKE HIM NOW IT WILL COME AROUND AND DO THE SAME. >> REALLY INTERESTING. HE LOVES A BELIEVER. HE LOVES THE CONVERT EVEN MORE. >> J.D. VANCE IS NOT JUST A CONVERT. HE IS A TRUE BELIEVING CONVERT IN EVERY SENSE. >> David: THE CAMPAIGN PLAN AND WE SAW IT THE NAME CHANGE OF TRUMP/VANCE. THEY'RE SHOWING A VIDEO OF PRESIDENT BIDEN. NOT A BIDEN CAMPAIGN VIDEO. TRUMPS TAPE OF WHAT THEY HAVE WITNESSED DURING THE BIDEN YEARS. IT J.D. VANCE AND DONALD TRUMP SIDE. LINSEY DAVIS WE LEARNED LATE TODAY THAT AFTER VICE PRESIDENT, HARRIS REACHED OUT TO VANCE TO CONGRATULATE HIM ON THE RUNNING MATE ROLE, THEY DID TALK TODAY FOR THE FIRST TIME WE WERE TOLD IT WENT WELL. >> Linsey: WE WILL SEE IF THEY MEET AGAIN BEFORE THE FIRST TIME ON THE DEBATE STAGE. I THOUGHT IT WAS INTERESTING. WE HEARD SOME OF THE THINGS FROM A NUMBER OF THOSE RIVALS. WHAT THEY DON'T LIKE ABOUT DONALD TRUMP IS THAT HE IS HERE AND GOING TO BE ABLE TO HEAR FIRSTHAND WHAT THEY LIKE ABOUT HIM. I HAVE TO SAY WITH REGARDS TO NIKKI HALEY I HAD A CHANCE TO INTERVIEW HER BACK IN DECEMBER. I ASKED, DO YOU THINK DONALD TRUMP IS FIT TO BE PRESIDENT? SHE SAID, THAT IS NOT THE QUESTION. THE QUESTION IS SHOULD HE BEAT THE PRESIDENT. SHE NOW SAYS, OR HAD SAID PRIOR THAT HE WAS NOT THE RIGHT PRESIDENT. WE WILL HEAR WHAT SHE HAS TO SAY NOW. EARLIER TONIGHT I HAD A CHANCE TO TALK TO ERIC TRUMP. HE ECHOED THAT SENTIMENT WHERE HE SAID IT IS NICER TO HAVE SOMEONE WHO YOU CAN CONVINCE TO COME INTO THE TENT THEN A LIFELONG BELIEVER. WE ARE GOING TO SEE SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE COMING INTO THE TENT AND AT THE 11TH HOUR. >> David: THIS IS NOT A BRAND-NEW CONCEPT IN POLITICS. IT IS SOMEONE EXTREME TO HEAR THE TYPES OF DESCRIPTIONS THAT WE HEARD FROM J.D. VANCE. ON THIS NOTION OF A POTENTIAL DEBATE. J.D. VANCE AND KAMALA HARRIS SAID WE LOOK FORWARD TO DEBATING UTILITY DURING THIS PHONE CALL AT A FUTURE TIME AND PLACE. THEY WERE APPARENTLY THE CALL WAS WARM. GRACIOUS. >> THAT WAS A DEBATE WE WOULD ALL LOVE TO SEE. THAT WOULD BE THE KIND OF DEBATE THAT IS MORE OLD-FASHIONED. NOT THE FIREWORKS THAT WE HAVE SEEN BEFORE. A REAL DEBATE. >> David: SPEAKING OF DEBATES WE HAVE SEEN TED CRUZ DEBATE DONALD TRUMP BEFORE BACK IN THE RUN UP TO 2016. IT WAS A VERY HEATED DEBATE BETWEEN BOTH OF THOSE CAND CANDIDATES. HE DID EVENTUALLY ENDORSE HIM AND NOW HE IS BACK ALL THESE YEARS LATER TO ENDORSE HIM AGAIN. >> LAST TIME TED CRUZ SPOKE AT A REPUBLIC CONVENTION HE GOT HOUNDED OUT OF THE PLACE. >> David: VERY DIFFERENT TONIGHT, I WOULD EXPECT. >> LET ME START BY GIVING THANKS TO GOD ALMIGHTY FOR PROTECTING PRESIDENT TRUMP. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] AND FOR TURNING HIS HEAD ON SATURDAY AS THE SHOT WAS FIRED. TOGETHER WE LIFT UP IN PRAYER ALL OF OUR LEADERS FOR PROTECTION AND OUR PRAYERS ARE PARTICULAR WITH THE FAMILY OF FIRE CHIEF COREY COMPERATORE, AND THE OTHERS INJURED ON SATURDAY. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] NEVER BEFORE HAS AN ELECTION MATTERED SO MUCH. WE ARE FACING AN INVASION ON OUR SOUTHERN BORDER. NOT FIGURATIVELY, A LITERAL INVASION. 11.5 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE CROSSED OUR BORDER ILLEGALLY UNDER JOE BIDEN. [BOOS] LOOK AROUND YOU. THIS ARENA HOLDS ABOUT 18,000 SOULS. NOW IMAGINE 639 ARENAS JUST LIKE THIS FILLED TO THE BRIM. THAT IS 11.5 MILLION PEOPLE LARGER THAN ALL BUT EIGHT STATES IN THE NATION. THE NUMBERS DO NOT SHOW US THE TRUE PRICE THAT OUR COUNTRY HAS PAID. EVERY DAY AMERICANS ARE DYING. MURDER, ASSAULT, RAPE BY ILLEGAL MIGRANTS THAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE RELEASED. TEENAGE GIRLS AND BOYS WEARING COLORED WRISTBANDS ARE BEING SOLD INTO A LIFE OF SEX SLAVERY. THIS IS EVIL AND IT IS WRONG. IT IS HAPPENING EVERY DAMN DAY. THINK OF KATE STEINLE. SHE WAS 32. WALK WALKING WITH HER FATHER IN A SAN FRANCISCO. WHEN A BULLET TORE THROUGH HER HEART. THE MAN WHO FIRED THAT GUN HE HAD BEEN DEPORTED FIVE TIMES. EVERY DAMN DAY. THINK OF 22 YEARS OLD NURSING STUDENT. OF DREAMS OF KILLING OTHERS. SHE WENT FOR A JOB AND NEVER CAME HOME HER LIFE TAKEN BY OTHER BY SOMEONE WHO SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN HERE. DAMN DAY EVERY. OR RACHEL MARIN. A BEAUTIFUL MOTHER OF FIVE RAPED AND MURDERED IN SUBURBAN MARYLAND BY AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT THAT THE DEMOCRATS RELEASED EVERY DAMN DAY. OR JOCELYN. ONLY 12 YEARS OLD. IT WAS JUST ONE MONTH AGO TODAY THAT SHE WAS BRUTALLY RAPED AND MURDERED BY TWO MEN THAT WERE SUPPOSED TO BE DETAINED AND MONITORED, BUT INSTEAD AND RELEASED TO ROAM FREE. EVERY DAMN DAY. THESE ARE NOT JUST STORIES OR STATISTICS. THERE ARE DAUGHTERS, SISTERS, FRIENDS. THE FAMILIES DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE EMPTY NUMBERS, THEY CARE ABOUT THE EMPTY CHAIRS AT THE DINNER TABLE. ABOUT THE VOICES THEY WILL NEVER HEAR AGAIN. ABOUT THE LAUGHTER THEY HAVE LOST, AND ABOUT THE DREAMS THAT WILL NEVER BE FULFILLED. I HAVE SAT WITH THESE FAMILIES AND LIVING ROOMS READY SILENCES SO LOUD THAT IT HURTS. WHERE PHOTO ALBUMS ARE OPENED WITH TREMBLING HANDS. HOW DID WE GET HERE? IT HAPPENED BECAUSE DEMOCRATS CYNICALLY DECIDED THEY WANTED VOTES FROM ILLEGALS MORE THAN THEY WANTED TO PROTECT OUR CHILDREN. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] TODAY AS A RESULT OF JOE BIDEN'S PRESIDENCY YOUR FAMILY IS LESS SAFE, YOUR CHILDREN ARE LESS SAFE, THE COUNTRY IS LESS SAFE. BUT HERE'S THE GOOD NEWS. WE CAN FIX IT. AND WHEN DONALD TRUMP IS PRESIDENT WE WILL FIX IT. [APPLAUSE] WE KNOW THIS BECAUSE HE HAS DONE IT BEFORE. I NOTICE BECAUSE I HAVE WORKED HAND-IN-HAND WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP TO SECURE OUR BORDER AND WE ACHIEVE THE LOWEST RATES OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND 45 YEARS. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] IT IS REAL SIMPLE. HE HAS DONE IT BEFORE AND HE WILL DO IT AGAIN. SO TONIGHT I SPEAK FOR KATE, AND LINCOLN, AND RACHEL. TONIGHT I SPEAK FOR JOCELYN AND LETS US GO FORWARD TOGETHER AND KEEP OUR SACRED OATH TO DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION, AND TO PROTECT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. LET US SECURE OUR BORDER, ENFORCE OUR LAWS, PROTECT OUR CHILDREN, AND RESTORE THE FUTURE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] BECAUSE WHEN WE DO THAT, WHEN WE REMEMBER WHO WE ARE, AND WHO WE LOVE, AND WE ACT TO PROTECT THEM, DAN, AND ONLY THEN WILL WE TRULY MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] THANK YOU, GOD BLESS TEXAS, AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. >> David: THIS WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY CHANGE OF TONE FROM TED CRUZ THE LAST TIME HE SPOKE IN 2016 YOU MIGHT REMEMBER HE SAID IF YOU LOVE YOUR COUNTRY, CHILDREN AS MUCH AS I KNOW YOU DO YOU STAND AND SPEAK, AND VOTE YOUR CONSCIOUS. THAT WAS THE MOMENT HE WAS BOOED INSIDE THE CONVENTION HALL BY NOT COMING OUT AND SAYING VOTE FOR DONALD TRUMP. TONIGHT WHAT A STARK CONTRAST. HE BEGAN BY SAYING LET ME START BY GIVING THANKS TO GOD ALMIGHTY FOR PROTECTING PRESIDENT TRUMP. WE WILL GET INTO IMMIGRATION AND WHAT HE SAID. A HUGE ISSUE FOR REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS IN THIS COUNTRY, INDEPENDENCE TOO. YOU ARE ON THE FLOOR AND THIS IS GOING TO BE ONE OF THE BIG THEMES TONIGHT. WARM ARRIVALS GETTING UP THERE AND WHOLEHEARTEDLY ENDORSING, EMBRACING DONALD TRUMP. >> TED CRUZ'S JOURNEY IS THE JOURNEY OF SO MANY REPUBLICANS. HIS IS EXCEPTIONAL IN THE WHOLE BRUTAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN POLITICS IT IS HARD TO THINK OF AN ART INSTANT WHEN ONE POLITICIAN SAID WORSE THINGS THAN WHAT DONALD TRUMP SAID ABOUT TED CRUZ. HE SAID HIS WIFE IS UGLY AND SUGGESTED HIS FATHER MIGHT HAVE SOME ROLE IN THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY. HERE'S TED CRUZ TONIGHT STANDING UP AND SAYING VOTE YOUR CONSCIOUS. REFUSING TO ENDORSE DONALD TRUMP. CLEARLY HE IS 100% PART OF THIS PARTY. HE KNOWS WHERE THIS PARTY IS. FOUR YEARS AGO HE MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT THAT THERE WOULD BE A POST-TRUMPET REPUBLICAN PARTY. MAYBE HE WANTED TO PROTECT HIS POSITION AND THAT. NOW HE KNOWS THERE IS NO SUCH THING AND HE IS RIGHT ON BOARD. >> David: NOT ONLY ON BOARD, BUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE ENERGY ON THE FLOOR WHEN HE SAID VOTE YOUR CONSCIOUS AND 2016 VERSUS WHAT WE HEARD FROM HIM TONIGHT. >> THAT LINE THAT HE BEGAN WITH. THANK GOD FOR PROTECTING PRESIDENT TRUMP. JUST LIKE ANY DECENT PERSON. HIS EMBRACE OF TRUMP IS MEANT WITH WARMTH. I DON'T THINK THEY FORGET THE ENMITY OF THESE TWO MEN. THE SPIRIT IS ONE OF BARRETT THE HATCHET. >> David: BIG QUESTIONS OF HOW THE WELCOME WILL BE INSIDE THAT ROOM FOR NIKKI HALEY TONIGHT. >> THAT IS A FASCINATING QUESTION. I'VE BEEN TALKING TO DELEGATES AND PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR NIKKI HALEY. THERE IS A GENERAL SENSE THAT WINNING MAKES EVERYONE FRIENDS. THEY SENSED THAT THEY CAN WIN. THE HALEY DELEGATES, ONE OF THEM THAT I TALKED TO, HALEY VOTER SAID THAT SHE HOPES THAT HALEY HAS A ROLE IN THE ADMINISTRATION. I MENTIONED THAT TO A TRUMP SUPPORTER AND HE SAID IT DEPENDS ON WHAT SHE WILL SAY TONIGHT. A LOT IS RIDING ON HER SPEECH AND HOW SHE IS RECEIVED DEPENDS ON WHAT SHE SAYS. >> David: NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT. LET'S GET TO CHRIS CHRISTIE WHO IS IN THAT REPUBLICAN PRIMARY WITH NIKKI HALEY. DONALD TRUMP, CHRIS CHRISTIE, ALARIS AT ONE POINT ALONG THE WAY. CHRIS CHRISTIE GOT OUT OF THE RACE BEFORE IT NIKKI HALEY DID. WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR TONIGHT AND WHAT DO YOU GATHER WILL BE THE INITIAL REACTION WHEN THEY SEE HER COME OUT ON THAT STAGE TONIGHT? >> MY GUESS IS THAT IT WILL BE MIXED. THIS WAS COMPLETELY PREDICTABLE. NIKKI HALEY NEVER REALLY TOOK DONALD TRUMP ON DIRECTLY UNTIL THE VERY, VERY END OF THE RACE WHEN IT MAY BE PEOPLE ARGUED THAT THE RACE WAS ALREADY OVER. WHEN SHE PLEDGED, THAT SHE WOULD NEVER BE WITH DONALD TRUMP, AND WORKED REALLY HARD TO CONVINCE PEOPLE IN THAT STATE THAT SHE THOUGHT THAT TRUMP WAS UNFIT TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. I THINK ONE OF HER BIG PROBLEMS AFTER TONIGHT IS GOING TO BE WHICH STATEMENT DID NIKKI HALEY ACTUALLY MEAN IT. DID SHE MEAN THAT SHE WAS UNFIT TO BE PRESIDENT OF UNITE UNITED STATES -- BELIEVE ME, THE TRUMP PEOPLE HAVE REVIEWED HER SPEECH AND APPROVED THE SPEECH BEFORE SHE EVER IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO STEP FOOT ON THAT STAGE. YOU CAN BE CONFIDENT IT WILL BE FILLED WITH -- FOR NIKKI HALEY SHE HAS MADE A DECISION TO PLACE HER OWN AMBITION AHEAD OF WHAT SHE SAID BACK IN THE CAMPAIGN WITH HER PRINCIPAL. I DO NOT KNOW WHETHER THOSE WERE HER PRINCIPLES OR NOT. I SUSPECT THEY WERE NOT. AMBITION IS WHAT DRIVES IT. >> David: CHRIS CHRISTIE. AMBITION IS WHAT DRIVES HER. AS SHE MAKES HIS APPEARANCE HERE WE HAVE LEARNED THAT IN RECENT DAYS NIKKI HALEY HAVE BEEN ASKED WHAT YOU SHOW UP AT THE CONVENTION. SHE SAID I'M NOT GOING TO BE THERE. SHE WAS NOT ON HIS SCHEDULE. DONALD TRUMP, PERSONALLY THE CAMPAIGN, PERHAPS DONALD TRUMP HIMSELF REACHING OUT AND SAYING WE WOULD LIKE YOU DARE AND PARTICULARLY IN LIGHT OF WHAT THE COUNTRY WITNESS. THE HORROR ON SATURDAY AND PENNSYLVANIA AND THIS PUSH FOR UNITY AT THE CONVENTION SPEAKS VOLUMES ABOUT WHAT THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN IS TRYING TO DO HERE TONIGHT BY BRINGING AN AMBASSADOR. >> UP TO A FEW WEEKS AGO THERE WAS A STANDOFF. NIKKI HALEY SAYING SHE WAS NOT GOING. PEOPLE CLOSE TO TRUMP SAYING SHE IS NOT GOING TO BE INVITED OR WELCOME IN THIS HALL. THERE WAS RESENTMENT THAT SHE STAYED IN THE RACE TOO LONG. NOT JUST ALL THE THINGS THAT SHE SAID ABOUT HIM, BUT SHE STAYED TOO LONG. SHE RELEASED HER DELEGATES IF YOU WEEKS AGO. THIS OUTREACH HAPPENED. I'M TOLD THE TWO HAVE NOT SPOKEN SINCE THE ASSASSINATION THAT ATTEMPT ON SATURDAY. TRUMP TOLD ME ABOUT HOW MANY PEOPLE REACHED OUT. IT HAS NOT SPOKEN TO HER YET. WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE WHAT THE RECEPTION IS HERE. A FULL-THROATED ENDORSEMENT OF DONALD TRUMP. THEY ARE STILL SOME BITTERNESS HERE. I WANT TO READ ONE THING THAT SHE SAID AFTER JANUARY 6. YOU SHOULD THINK ABOUT IT AS SHE TAKES THE STAGE. IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THE CAPITAL. SHE SAID, HE LETS US DOWN. TRUMP LETS US DOWN. WENT DOWN A PATH THAT WE SHOULD NOT HAVE. WE SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO HIM. WE CANNOT LET THAT EVER HAPPEN AGAIN. HERE SHE IS. >> David: WHICH NIKKI HALEY ARE YOU TO BELIEVE. SHE HAD A STRONG SUPPORT AMONG INDEPENDENTS IN THIS COUNTRY. I WANT TO BRING IN DONNA DONNA BRAZILE. AS YOU KNOW, PRESIDENT BIDEN, BITING CAMPAIGN WILL VERY MUCH LIKE TO REACH THOSE NIKKI HALEY VOTERS AS WELL. WHAT THIS IS DUE TO CHANGE THAT CALCULATION AT ALL GIVEN THE FACT THAT SHE IS GOING TO APPEAR HERE IN PERSON AND DONALD TRUMP WATCHING, EMBRACING THIS, INVITING HER HIMSELF. SPEAK I BELIEVE THOSE VOTERS ARE UP FOR GRABS. THEY ARE INDEPENDENT AND FIERCELY LOYAL TO CONSERVATISM, THEY WANT THE KIND OF COUNTRY WHERE THEY CAN TALK ABOUT ACCESS TO ABORTION. THEY WANT A TYPE OF COUNTRY WHERE THEY CAN TALK ABOUT REAL ISSUES IMPACTING THE MIDDLE CLASS THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE STRUGGLING TO MAKE ENDS MEET. THEY DO NOT SEE THAT IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY I THINK THE VOTERS ARE STILL UP FOR GRABS AND THE PRESIDENT REALLY MUST CONTINUE TO TALK TO THEM, PERSUADE THEM, AND I DO BELIEVE IT WILL BE A WINNING STRATEGY FOR TO DEMOCRATIC PARTY. >> David: DONNA BRAZILE BELIEVES THE NIKKI HALEY VOTERS ARE STILL UP FOR GRABS. MARTHA RADDATZ I THINK IT IS A FASCINATING DYNAMIC TO HAVE DONALD TRUMP AND THE HALL WATCHING THESE FORMER RIVALS NOW STAND THERE AND FULLY EMBRACE HIM. THEY ARE SPEAKING TO THE COUNTRY, BUT THEY ARE ALSO SPEAKING TO DONALD TRUMP TONIGHT. >> THERE ARE DEFINITELY SPEAKING TO DONALD TRUMP. THE BOTTOM LINE IS IF DONALD TRUMP HAS FORGIVEN THEM AND WE WILL. THAT IS WHAT YOU TALK TO VOTERS ABOUT AND PEOPLE ON THE FLOOR TONIGHT. WHAT DONALD TRUMP SAYS, IF NIKKI HALEY IS INVITED TO TALK, AND YES FORGIVEN HER, THEN AGAIN, WE WILL HAVE TO WATCH HOW PEOPLE REACT TO HER. I ALSO THINK THAT NIKKI HALEY VOTERS WILL DIFFER FROM THE OTHERS, THE VIVEK RAMASWAMY. SOMEONE SHE FELT VERY STRONGLY ABOUT. THEY WERE LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE TO DONALD TRUMP. DONNA IS RIGHT. THEY WILL STILL BE LOOKING. NOT NECESSARILY THAT THEY WILL GO TO JOE BIDEN, BUT I THINK THERE'LL BE SOME DISAPPOINTMENT THERE AT WHAT NIKKI HALEY SAYS. >> David: WE ARE MINUTES AWAY FROM HEARING FROM FORMER GOVERNOR, FORMER AMBASSADOR NIKKI HALEY. LET'S GO TO RACHEL SCOTT ON THE FLOOR. RACHEL, WE SAW NIKKI HALEY EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. HER WALK-THROUGH AND PREPARATION FOR THE SPEECH TONIGHT. YOU HAVE TALKED TO SOME OF THE NIKKI HALEY SUPPORTERS NOT ONLY IN THIS CONVENTION HALL, BUT YOU COVERED THE CAMPAIGN AS WELL. HOW DO YOU THINK SHE WILL BE RECEIVED IN THE HALL, NOT JUST BY THE PEOPLE WHO SUPPORTED NIKKI HALEY ALONG THE WAY, BUT BY THOSE WHO THOUGHT THAT SHE STAYED IN THIS RACE TOO LONG AND GAVE DONALD TRUMP A FIGHT, MORPH A FIGHT THAT MANY THOUGHT SHE WENT. >> DAVID, THINKING OF SOME OF THE VOTERS I'VE MET AND SOME OF THESE CRITICAL BATTLEGROUND STATES AND INCLUDING AN INVITE OUT. I SPOKE TO ONE VOTER THAT TOLD ME THAT HE WANTS AN ALTERNATIVE TO DONALD TRUMP. HE IS IN THAT GROUP CALLED THE DEVIL HATERS. THEY DON'T LIKE PRESIDENT BIDEN, DONALD TRUMP. THEY THOUGHT THE NIKKI HALEY WAS THE BEST ALTERNATIVE. NIKKI HALEY WAS THE LAST REMAINING REPUBLICAN RIVAL TO THE FORMER PRESIDENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT EVEN AFTER SHE DROPPED OUT OFF THE RACE SHE STILL GOT A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF THE VOTES IN SEVERAL KEY REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES. IT IS A SIGN THAT VOTERS ARE STILL OUT THERE LOOKING FOR A DIFFERENT OPTION. TODAY, AS NIKKI HALEY COMES ON THAT STAGE, THAT DYNAMIC IS GOING TO BE FASCINATING. NOW ONLY FOR THE FORMER PRESIDENT WHO IS SITTING BEHIND ME IN THIS BOX, BUT 40s VOTERS WHO ARE GOING TO BE LISTENING, AND HOPING THAT MAYBE SHE DELIVERS THE MESSAGE THAT GETS THEM CLOSER TO MAKING A DECISION IN THIS RACE. SO MANY HAVE TOLD ME THAT THEY ARE TORN AND DON'T KNOW HOW THEY'RE GOING TO VOTE IN NOVEMBER. >> WE ARE A MINUTE AWAY FROM NIKKI HALEY. I WANT TO BRING IN OUR CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT BECAUSE WHEN NIKKI HALEY DROPPED OUT OF THE RACE AS WE ALL KNOW IN THOSE PRIMARIES ARE STILL TO COME, SHE RECEIVED A SIZABLE NUMBER OF VOTERS WHO WENT HER WAY EVEN THOUGH SHE BAILED OUT OF THE RACE. SHE DID EVENTUALLY ENDORSE DONALD TRUMP. A TO PRESIDENT BIDEN AFTER HE GOT OUT OF THE RACE PUT OUT A STATEMENT TRYING TO REACH OUT TO NIKKI HALEY VOTERS. SHE IS HERE FOR DONALD TRUMP, BUT THE EFFORT DOES NOT END. >> IT CERTAINLY DOES NOT. THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN IS OPTIMISTIC THAT THOSE VOTERS ARE UP FOR GRABS. THAT IS GOING TO BE THE MESSAGE THAT YOU HEAR FROM THEM TONIGHT AS THEY ARE VERY CLOSELY WATCHING NIKKI HALEY'S REMARKS. THEY DO THINK THAT THERE IS STILL A OPPORTUNITY HERE. EVEN THOUGH NIKKI HALEY MIGHT BE COMING OUT HER VOTERS MAY NOT FOLLOW HER TO DONALD TRUMP. THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE HOPING. DATES AND NIGHTS ARE CERTAINLY BIDEN CAMPAIGN BEING MORE AGGRESSIVE WITH HOW THEY ARE MESSAGING AND RESPONDING TO SPEECHES AND REMARKS WE ARE HEARING TONIGHT. THEY ARE ARGUING THAT WHILE THE FORMER PRESIDENT AND THOSE THAT SUPPORT HIM ARE COMING OUT AND CRITICIZING WHAT IS COMING FROM THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION THEY ARGUED THAT DONALD TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE SOLUTIONS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SUPPORT. >> THANK YOU AND WILL BE WITH US ALL NIGHT LONG. WE ARE GOING TO DIVE INTO WHERE THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN STANDS RIGHT NOW. THE PRESIDENT AND IS HE GOING TO BE THE NOMINEE. WE WILL GET INTO THAT. LONG NIGHT AHEAD AND A LOT OF ISSUES THEY GET HERE. SHORT LIST FOR VP. WE KNOW IT IS J.D. VANCE. A LOT OF FOLKS ARE SAYING MARCO RUBIO. J.D. VANCE. GOVERNOR BURGUM. SOME OF THAT SAID ANY CHANCE HE COULD BE NIKKI HALEY. ONE OF THE FOLKS THAT SAID, NOT A CHANCE. >> I SAID 99.9% NOT. YOU JUST NEVER KNOW ENTIRELY WITH DONALD TRUMP. YOU HAD TO SUPPRESS NEWS THAT SHE WAS GOING TO NOT JUST BE COMING TO THE CONVENTION, BUT A SURPRISE SPEECH. WE ALL THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE J.D. VANCE. ALL THE SIGNS POINTED TO J.D. VANCE. TRUMP WANTED TO HAVE THAT ELEMENT OF SURPRISE. FALSE SIGNALS THAT WERE PUT OUT. >> David: LET'S WATCH AND HERE SHE COMES. NIKKI HALEY ADDRESSING THE CONVENTION. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> David: MANY ARE ON HER FEET FOR HER. LET'S LISTEN TO THE AMBASSADOR. >> MY FELLOW REPUBLICANS, PRESIDENT TRUMP ASKED ME TO SPEAK TO THIS CONVENTION IN THE NAME OF UNITY. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] IT WAS A GRACIOUS INVITATION AND I WAS HAPPY TO ACCEPT. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] I WILL START BY MAKING ONE THING PERFECTLY CLEAR. DONALD TRUMP HAS MY STRONG ENDORSEMENT PERIOD. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] OUR COUNTRY IS AT A CRITICAL MOMENT. WE HAVE A CHOICE TO MAKE. FOR MORE THAN A YEAR I SAID A VOTE FOR JOE BIDEN IS A VOTE FOR PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS. AFTER SEEING THE DEBATE EVERYONE KNOWS IT IS TRUE. IF WE HAVE FOUR MORE YEARS OF BY THEN FOR A SINGLE DAY OF HARRIS, OUR COUNTRY WILL BE BADLY WORSE OFF. FOR THE SAKE OF OUR NATION WE HAVE TO GO WITH DONALD TRUMP. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] BUT THERE IS MORE TO IT THAN THAT. WE SHOULD ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THERE ARE SOME AMERICANS WHO DO NOT AGREE WITH DONALD TRUMP 100% OF THE TIME. I HAPPEN TO KNOW SOME OF THEM. AND I WANT TO SPEAK TO THEM TONIGHT. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] MY MESSAGE TO THEM IS SIMPLE. YOU DON'T HAVE TO AGREE WITH TRUMP 100% OF THE TIME TO VOTE FOR HIM. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] TAKE IT FROM ME. I HAVEN'T ALWAYS AGREED WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP, BUT WE AGREE MORE OFTEN THAN WE DISAGREE. WE AGREE ON KEEPING AMERICA STRONG. WE AGREE ON KEEPING AMERICA S SAFE. AND WE AGREED THAT DEMOCRATS HAVE MOVED SO FAR TO THE LEFT THAT THEY ARE PUTTING OUR FREEDOM IN DANGER. I'M HERE TONIGHT BECAUSE WE HAVE A COUNTRY TO SAVE. AND A UNIFIED REPUBLICAN PARTY IS ESSENTIAL FOR SAVING HER. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] B3 FOR THOSE WHO HAVE SOME DOUBTS ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP I WANT TO TELL YOU A FEW THINGS ABOUT THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF I KNOW AND WORKED WITH. AS AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS I HAD A FRONT ROW SEAT TO HIS NATIONAL SECURITY POLICIES. WE SURE COULD USE THOSE AGAIN. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] THINK ABOUT IT. WHEN BARACK OBAMA WAS PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUT IN INVADED CRIME ERA. WITH JOE BIDEN AS PRESIDENT PUTIN INVADED ALL OF UKRAINE. WHEN DONALD TRUMP WAS PRESIDENT PUTIN DID NOTHING. NO INVASION. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] NO INNOVATIONS, NO WARS. THAT WAS NO ACCIDENT. NO INNOVATIONS AND NO WARS. PUTIN DID NOT ATTACK UKRAINE BECAUSE HE KNEW DONALD TRUMP WAS TOUGH. A STRONG PRESIDENT DOES NOT START WARS. A STRONG PRESIDENT PREVENTS WARS. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] THEN LOOK AT THE MIDDLE EAST. EVERY PROBLEM AND THAT PART OF THE WORLD THAT CAN LAID AT THE FEET OF IRAN. THE DICTATORS THAT CHANT DEATH TO AMERICA ARTIE BANK ROLLERS AND WEAPON SUPPLIERS FOR HAMAS. THEY ARE BEHIND THE BARBARIC MASSACRES AND HOSTAGETAKING. ONCE AGAIN COMPARED TRUMP AND BIDEN. TRUMP GOT US OUT OF THE INSANE IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL. HE IMPOSED THE TOUGHEST SANCTIONS EVER ON RON AND HE ELIMINATED THE ARCH TERRORIST. OUR RON WAS TOO WEAK TO START ANY WARS. THEY KNEW TRUMP MEANT BUSINESS AND THEY WERE AFRAID. THEN THERE IS JOE BIDEN. HE LIFTED THE SANCTIONS. HE BEGGED THEM TO GET BACK INTO THE NUCLEAR DEAL. HE SURRENDERED IN AFGHANISTAN. HE SENT EVERY POSSIBLE SIGN OF WEAKNESS. EVEN NOW WALT HAMAS IS STILL HOLDING AMERICANS HOSTAGE, BY THEN IS PRESSURING ISRAEL INSTEAD OF THE TERRORIST. [BOOS] BETWEEN ISRAEL AND HAMAS, DONALD TRUMP IS CLEAR ABOUT WHO IS OUR FRIEND, AND WHO IS OUR ENEMY. THEN LOOK AT THE BORDER. IT IS THE SINGLE BIGGEST THREAT AMERICANS FACE. UNDER JOE BIDEN MIGRANTS ARE COMING INTO OUR COUNTRY BY THE THOUSANDS EVERY DAY. WE HAD NO IDEA WHO THEY ARE. WHERE THEY END UP, OR WHAT THEY PLAN TO DO. AND LET ME REMIND YOU. LOT HAD ONE JOB. ONE JOB THAT WAS TO FIX THE BORDER. NOW IMAGINE HER IN CHARGE OF THE ENTIRE COUNTRY. UNDER DONALD TRUMP WE DID NOT HAVE TO BORDER DISASTER WE HAD TODAY. AND WE WILL NOT WHEN HE IS PRESIDENT AGAIN. I WAS PROUD TO SERVE AMERICA AS PRESIDENT TRUMP'S CABINET. I WILL TELL YOU SOMETHING YOU WILL NOT HEAR FROM THE CRITICS. HE APPRECIATED ADVICE AND END POINT. AMERICANS WERE WELL SERVED BY HIS PRESIDENCY EVEN IF THEY DID NOT AGREE WITH HIM ON ALL TH THINGS. NOW, TO MY FELLOW REPUBLICANS, WE MUST NOT ONLY BE A UNIFIED PARTY, WE MUST ALSO EXPAND OUR PARTY. WE ARE SO MUCH BETTER WHEN WE ARE BIGGER. WE ARE STRONGER WHEN WE WELCOME PEOPLE INTO OUR PARTY WHO HAVE DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS AND EXPERIENCES. AND RIGHT NOW WE NEED TO BE STRONG TO SAVE AMERICA. THIS IS A DEFINING MOMENT. NOT ONLY FOR OUR PARTY, BUT FOR OUR COUNTRY. OUR FELLOW AMERICANS ARE FEARFUL RIGHT NOW. FAMILIES ARE SUFFERING FROM INFLATIONS AND WAGES THAT DO NOT KEEP UP WITH PRICES. YOUNG PEOPLE ARE BEING INDOCTRINATED TO THINK OUR COUNTRY AS RACIST AND EVIL. THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IS FACING AN OBSCENE RISE IN ANTI-S ANTI-SEMITISM. TOO MANY MINORITIES ARE TRAPPED IN COMMUNITIES DEVASTATED BY CRIME. OUR FOREIGN ENEMIES WIN WHEN THEY SEE AMERICANS HATE EACH OTHER. THEY SEE THAT TODAY WHETHER IT IS ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES OR IN A FIELD IN BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA. WE CAN CONQUER THOSE FEARS WITH STRENGTH AND UNITY. NO PRESIDENT CAN FIX ALL OF OUR PROBLEMS ALONE. WE HAVE TO DO THIS TOGETHER. AMERICA HAS AN AMAZING ABILITY TO SELF-CORRECT. IN THIS MOMENT, WE HAVE A CHANCE TO PUT ASIDE OUR DIFFERENCES AND FOCUS ON WHAT UNITES US AND STRENGTHENS OUR COUNTRY. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] LETS US JOIN TOGETHER AS A PARTY. LET US COME TOGETHER AS A PEOPLE. AS ONE COUNTRIES, STRONG AND PROUD. LET US SHOW OUR CHILDREN AND THE WORLD THAT EVEN ON OUR WORST DAY WE ARE BLESSED TO LIVE IN AMERICA. GOD BLESS YOU, THANK YOU. GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> David: LIFE PICTURE. DONALD TRUMP'S REACTION APPLAUDING NIKKI HALEY. GOVERNOR CHRISTIE WAS THAT A GIFT FOR JOHN DONALD TRUMP TONIGHT MECH SPEAK I KNOW, IT NOT. IT WAS A COMPLETE INCREDIBLE FLIP-FLOP FROM WHAT SHE HAS D DONE. I DID NOT THINK ANY HALEY WORDS CAN REPAIR. >> David: LET'S LISTEN TO GOVERNOR DeSANTIS. LET'S SEND DONALD TRUMP BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] LIFE WAS MORE AFFORDABLE WHEN DONALD TRUMP WAS PRESIDENT. OUR BORDER WAS SAFER UNDER THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND OUR COUNTRY WAS RESPECTED WHEN DONALD TRUMP WAS OUR COMMANDER IN CHIEF. JOE BIDEN HAS FAILED THIS NATION AS A VETERAN I WAS APPALLED WHEN 13 IF OUR SERVICE MEMBERS WERE KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN DUE TO JOE BIDEN'S DERELICTION OF DUTY. AS A CITIZEN, AS A HUSBAND, AND AS A FATHER I AM ALARMED THAT THE CURRENT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES LACKS THE CAPABILITY TO DISCHARGE THE DUTIES OF HIS OFFICE. OUR ENEMIES DO NOT CONFINE THEIR DESIGNS BETWEEN 10:00 A.M. AND 4:00 P.M. WE NEED A COMMANDER IN CHIEF WHO CAN LEAD 24 HOURS A DAY AND SEVEN DAYS A WEEK. AMERICA CANNOT AFFORD FOUR MORE YEARS OF A WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S PRESIDENCY. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] LET'S BE HONEST, LET'S BE HONEST HERE, BIDEN IS JUST A FIGUREHEAD, A TOOL FOR OPPOSING A LEFTIST AGENDA ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. MR. POET MIKE SUPPORT OPEN BORDERS BUT ALLOWING MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS TO POUR INTO OUR COUNTRY. DO NOT SEND ANY TO MARTHA'S VINEYARD, THEY GET REALLY UPSET. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] THEY HAVE UNLEASHED PROGRESSIVE PROSECUTORS ACROSS OUR NATION WHO CARE MORE ABOUT CODDLING CRIMINALS THAN ABOUT PROTECTING THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES. THEY USED THE UNELECTED BUREAUCRACY TO IMPOSE THEIR WILL ON US WITHOUT OUR CONSENT AND A WEAPONIZE POLITICAL POWER TO TARGET THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENTS LIKE THEY HAVE DONE TO OUR OWN NOMINEES. THEY WANT TO BAND GAS AUTOMOBILES, ELIMINATE SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS, AND IMPOSED GENDER IDEOLOGY FROM OUR INFANT TREATMENT TO KINDERGARTENERS. THEY STAND FOR DIA, WHICH MEANS DIVISION, INCLUSION, AND INDOCTRINATION, AND IT IS OFF. THEY MANDATED THAT YOU SHOW PROOF OF A COVID VACCINE TO GO TO A RESTAURANT, BUT THEY OPPOSE REQUIRING PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP THAT TO CAST A VOTE. THEY CANNOT EVEN DEFINE WHAT A WOMAN IS. NOW DONALD TRUMP STANCE IN THEIR WAY AND HE STANDS UP FOR AMERICA. DANIEL DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN DEMONIZED, SUED, PROSECUTED, AND HE NEARLY LOST HIS LIFE. WE CANNOT LET HIM DOWN IT, AND WE CANNOT LET AMERICA DOWN. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] IT IS THE VALUES OF THIS REPUBLICAN PARTY THAT REFLECT OUR NATION'S FOUNDING PRINCIPLES. WE BELIEVE SCHOOLS SHOULD EDUCATE, NOT INDOCTRINATE. WE STAND FOR PARENTS RIGHTS INCLUDING UNIVERSAL SCHOOL CHOICE. WE SUPPORT LAW AND ORDER, NOT RIOTING AND DISORDER. WE SEEK A STRONG FOCUSED, UNITED STATES MILITARY, NOT ONE DISTRACTED BY A SOCIALIST AGENDA. WE REJECT -- WE DEMAND TERM LIMITS FROM MEMBERS AND CON CONGRESS. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] WE STAND FOR FISCAL SANITY, LOW TAXES, AND REDUCED DEPTH. WE SEEK TO RECLAIM THE CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT AS ENVISIONED BY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS BY BRINGING THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE TO HEAL ONCE AND FOR ALL. WE WILL BELIEVE THAT YOU MUST BE A CITIZEN IN ORDER TO VOTE. AND THAT PHOTO I.D. SHOULD BE REQUIRED BEFORE CASTING A BA BALLOT. WE STAND FOR STRONG BORDERS AND BELIEF THAT OUR NATION IT MUST HAVE A SHARED CIVIC CULTURE. WE IMPOSE ANY IMMIGRATION THAT STANDS APART OR IN CONTRAST OF OUR AMERICAN VALUES. WE BELIEVE IN THE PRINCIPLES ARTICULATED IN THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE THAT OUR RIGHTS COME NOT FROM THE GENEROSITY OF THE STATE, BUT FROM THE HAND OF THE ALMIGHTY INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. NOW NONE OF THIS IS EASY. IT CAN BE DONE. FOR DECADES MY HOME STATE SAW ELECTIONS DETERMINED BY RAZOR THIN MARGINS. TODAY DUE TO BOLD LEADERSHIP. THE DEMOCRAT PARTY LIVES IN ROME. THE LEFT IS IN RETREAT. FREEDOM REIGNS SUPREME. FLORIDA IS A SOLID REPUBLICAN STATE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] NOW ELECTING DONALD TRUMP GIVES US THE CHANCE TO DO THIS ALL ACROSS AMERICA. WE HAVE RESPONSIBILITIES TO STEP UP AND MAKE IT HAPPEN. WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO PRESERVE WHAT GEORGE WASHINGTON CALLED THE SACRED FIRE OF LIBERTY. THIS WAS A FIRE THAT BURNED AND INDEPENDENCE HALL AND 7076. 56 MEN PLEDGED THEIR LIFE, FORTUNE, AND SACRED HONOR TO ESTABLISH THIS NATION. IT IS A FIRE THAT BURNED AT A CEMETERY AND GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, WHEN OUR NATION'S FIRST REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT PLEDGED THIS NATION TO A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM. IT IS A FIRE THAT BURNED AT THE FOOT OF THE BERLIN WALL AND IN 1987 WHEN OUR NATION'S 40TH PRESIDENT STOOD IN FRONT OF THAT WALL AND SAID MR. GORBACHEV TEAR DOWN THIS WALL. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] THIS IS NOT THE RESPONSIBILITY WE SHOULD FEAR. IT IS A RESPONSIBILITY WE SHOULD WELCOME. AFTER ALL, IF NOT US, WHO. IF NOT NOW, WHEN. LET'S MAKE THE 45TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED THAT YOU UNITED STATES THE 47TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. LET'S ELECT REPUBLICANS UP AND DOWN THE BALLOT. LET'S HEED THE CALL OF OUR PARTY'S NOMINEE TO FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT FOR THESE UNITED STATES. THANK YOU. GOD BLESS YOU, LET'S WIN IN NOVEMBER, THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> David: FLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DeSANTIS. A LOT OF WHAT HE SAID THERE WE HEARD ON THE SPEECH WHEN HE WAS RUNNING AGAINST DONALD TRUMP. UNDER THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION THE PULLOUT FROM AFGHANISTAN AND GIVEN WHAT BIDEN HAD SAID AFTER THE DEBATE PERFORMANCE THAT HE WAS DOING TOO MUCH, TOO LATE INTO THE EVENING. RON DeSANTIS WENT AFTER THAT TONIGHT. >> REPUBLICANS JUMPED ON THAT FOR WEEKS. RON DeSANTIS WENT RIGHT TO THE HEART OF IT. DO NOT CONFINE THEIR DESIGNS TO 10:00 A.M. AND 4:00 P.M., ENEMIES. WHICH IS WHAT PRESIDENT BIDEN HAD SAID. WE NEED A COMMANDER IN CHIEF THAT CAN LEAD 24 HOURS A DAY. AFGHANISTAN IS CLEARLY A WEAKNESS FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN. CHAOTIC AND DISASTROUS IN SO MANY WAYS. IT WAS PRESIDENT TRUMP WHO ALSO WANTED TO PULL OUT OF AFGHANISTAN AND HE STARTED THAT PROCESS. WE HEARD NIKKI HALEY TALK A LOT ABOUT FOREIGN POLICY. THAT WAS A TRYOUT FOR SECRETARY OF STATE. >> David: IF TRUMP IS SELECTED DO YOU THINK? >> SOUNDED LIKE THAT TONIGHT. >> A SPLIT SCREEN OF DONALD TRUMP WATCHING HIS FORMER RIVALS EMBRACE. ENTIRE TEAM IS WAITING TO JUMP INTO THIS. 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HERE AGAIN DAVID MUIR. >> David: SOME EXTRAORDINARY MOMENTS PLAYING OUT ON NIGHT TWO OF THE CONVENTION. YOU CAN SEE THE CROWD GATHERED HERE IN THE CONVENTION HALL. THERE YOU ARE MARTHA RADDATZ WITH THE REST OF US. WE ARE ALL HERE IN THE BROADCAST BOOTH. THE TEAM DOWN ON THE CONVENTION FLOOR. QUITE A NIGHT ALREADY. NIKKI HALEY WHO LASTED THE LONGEST IN THE PRIMARY. SAID IT WAS TRUMP WHO ASKED ME TO SPEAK TO THE CONVENTION AND THE NAME OF UNITY. I WAS GRACIOUSLY HAPPY TO ACCEPT THE INVITATION. SHE WENT AFTER KAMALA HARRIS. SHE SAID, SHE HAD ONE JOB, IMMIGRATION. IMAGINE IF SHE HAD TO RUN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY. >> IT MAY BE ON BEHALF OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WAS HEDGING THEIR BETS JUST IN CASE THE EVENTUALITY IS THAT KAMALA HARRIS BECOMES THE NOMINEE ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE FOR PRESIDENT AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET. IT IS INTERESTING. WE HAVE NOT HEARD ANY OTHER SPEAKER PRIOR TO NIKKI HALEY GOING AFTER KAMALA HARRIS. MENTION HER MULTIPLE TIMES. INTERESTINGLY, ALSO PRIOR TO NIKKI HALEY WE HAD NOT HEARD ANY BOOS IN THIS ARENA. FOR THE FIRST TIME WE HEARD SOME BOOS IN THERE AMIDST THE TEARS AS SHE FIRST CAME OUT ON STAGE. IT WAS INTERESTING WHEN SHE MENTIONED YOU DON'T HAVE TO AGREE WITH FROM 100% OF THE TIME TO VOTE FOR A TICKET FOR ME. I HAVE NOT AGREED WITH THE PRESIDENT. THERE IS A RECOGNIZED BY DISAGREEING WITH SOMEBODY, DEBATING WITH THEM, AND THE TESTING THEM. WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE PAST THAT SHE SAID HE IS TOXIC, OR ALL VENGEANCE AND NOVATION. YOU HAVE TO WONDER IF SHE WAS ABLE TO MOVE THE NEEDLE WITH THE CROWD. >> David: IF YOU WONDER IF THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN LOVED THAT LINE. GOING FOR THE TINY SLICE OF VOTERS THAT WILL SWING THIS ELECTION ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. REACTION COMING FROM THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN FROM THE SKI NIKKI HALEY VOTERS, VOTER BLOCK? THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN SAID THEY ARE NOT GIVING UP ON THOSE WHO DID SUPPORT HALEY IN THE PRIMARY. >> THEY ARE NOT GIVING UP. THEY SAID THERE IS A REASON WHY SO MANY OF THOSE REPUBLICAN VOTERS BACK TO NIKKI HALEY AND THE PRIMARY AND TURNED AWAY FROM DONALD TRUMP. TONIGHT RESPONDING, "NIKKI HALEY VECTOR CELL." SOMEONE WHO DOES NOT RESPECT OUR MILITARY AND SURROUNDS HIMSELF WITH CHAOS CANNOT BE PRESIDENT. THEY CONCLUDE THE STATEMENT BY INVITING THOSE NIKKI HALEY VOTERS. SAYING THERE IS A HOME FOR EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM. >> WITH WHAT THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN IS SAYING TONIGHT AFTER NIKKI HALEY GAVE THE SPEECH. DONALD TRUMP WATCHING HER IN THE CONVENTION HALL. FROM RYAN PREVIOUS. THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN HAS TO BE REALLY HAPPY WITH NIKKI HALEY TONIGHT. >> ABSOLUTELY. WHAT IS PERMEATING AROUND THIS HALL IS THE IDEA THAT ALL OF AMERICANS ARE TIRED OF HATING EACH OTHER. THERE CAN BE A NEW SLOGAN, MAKE AMERICA WANT TO AGAIN. SEEING NIKKI HALEY, RON DeSANTIS COME TOGETHER AS A BIG MOMENT. A VERY IMPORTANT FOR TO PARTY AND IMPORTANT FOR DONALD TRUMP. >> David: TOM COTTON IS SPEAKING. >> MANWELL TOLD HIS CONTRACTOR THAT THE CASTOR FIRST VOTE FOR PRESIDENT. FOR WHOM? DONALD TRUMP. OF COURSE. WHEN ASKED WHY. MANWELL ADJUSTED TO THE PARKING LOT AND SUGGESTED, HAVE YOU SEEN MY NEW PICKUP? DID YOU KNOW THAT MY BROTHER AND SISTER HAVE FULL-TIME JOBS. WITH TRUMP WE HAVE MORE WORK THAN EVER. THINGS ARE GOOD. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] MANWELL BECAME A CITIZEN LAST YEAR. HE IS EXCITED TO VOTE FOR THE FIRST TIME FOR DONALD TRUMP. BY CONTRAST, AFTER JOE BIDEN. THE BORDER CZAR KAMALA HARRIS REVERSE PRESIDENT TRUMP'S IMMIGRATION POLICY AND WELCOMED A THIRD WORLD INVASION GOOD I TRAVEL TO OUR BORDER. WHAT DID I SEE? THE BODY OF A MIGRANT DROWNED IN THE RIO GRANDE. HUMAN TRAFFICKERS ON THE SOUTHERN BANK TAUNTING THE BORDER CONTROL. MIGRANTS HUDDLED UNDER A BRIDGE. I ASKED THEM, WHY THEY CAME. NONE SAID PERSECUTION. MOST SAID FOR A JOB. A FEW ADMITTED BECAUSE THEY CAN GET IN. ANOTHER ANSWERED WITH ONE SIMPLE WORD, BIDEN. MY FLIGHT HOME THE NEXT DAY WAS FULL OF THESE MIGRANTS. AND YOU, ALL OF YOU PAID FOR THEIR TICKETS. THAT IS OUR CHOICE. A SECURE BORDER ANY IMMIGRATION SYSTEM THAT WORKS FOR ALL OF OUR SUBSISTENCE, WHETHER YOUR ANCESTORS BLED FOR GEORGE WASHINGTON. OR MANWELL LIKE FROM ARKANSAS YOU TOOK THE OATH FOR CITIZENSHIP. OR JOE BIDEN'S CHAOS. DONALD TRUMP SAID YOU CANNOT HAVE A NATION WITHOUT BORDERS. HE DEFENDED THOSE BORDERS. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] JOE BIDEN THANKS BORDERS ARE RACIST. DONALD TRUMP WILL SECURE OUR BORDERS ONCE AGAIN. >> David: SENATOR TOM COTTON ON THE FLOOR. WE ARE GOING TO PRIME TIME ON THE ABC NETWORK. A FEW MOMENTS FROM NOW. STAY WITH US WITH OUR LIVE COVERAGE ON ABC. that it's time to buy the right stuff. Yes. And save big time to the right stuff Fridays on GMA you're going to love it. 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REPUBLICANS COME TOGETHER AND MILWAUKEE TO MAKE THEIR CASE TO AMERICA AND STAND BEHIND DONALD TRUMP AND HIS NEW RUNNING MATE SENATOR J.D. VANCE TO TAKE ON PRESIDENT BIDEN IN THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE. THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. LIVE FROM WISCONSIN. NOW REPORTING DAVID MUIR. >> David: A LIVE PICTURE OF THE CONVENTION HALL. A PACKED HALL AND MILWAUKEE AND IN NIGHT OF MANY HEADLINES MADE. HERE IN THE BROADCAST BOOTH. GOOD EVENING EVERYONE FROM THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION AND MILWAUKEE. ALREADY TONIGHT A NIGHT OF UNEXPECTED AND SOME WOULD SAY IMPROBABLE MOMENTS. DONALD TRUMP MAKING AN APPEARANCE FOR THE SECOND NIGHT OF THE ROW. SOME OF THE SPEAKER IS GETTING A LOT OF THE ATTENTION TONIGHT. SOME OF TRUMP'S BIGGEST RIVALS ON THE STAGE RIGHT HERE BEHIND ME TONIGHT. FORMER GOVERNOR RON DeSANTIS. MOST NOTABLY, NIKKI HALEY WHO ARGUED CHAOS FOLLOWS TRUMP EVERYWHERE HE GOES. WE'LL HEAR WHAT SHE SAID RIGHT HERE TONIGHT. DONALD TRUMP COMING OUT TO THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE HERE. THE BANDAGE IS VISIBLE ON HIS RIGHT YEAR WHERE HE WAS WOUNDED DURING SATURDAY'S ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION IN PENNSYLVANIA. TONIGHT'S THEME IS UNITY. THE CLEAREST EXAMPLE OF THAT SO FAR NIKKI HALEY. TRUMP AND HALEY HAD DELIVERED BITTER BLOWS. CALLED HIM UNHINGED, DIMINISHED. TRUMP SAID AT THE TIME BECAUSE I WHY TAKES TO BE PRESIDENT. SECURE A SIZABLE VOTE AFTER DROPPING FROM THE RACE. LATER ENDORSED TRUMP AND RELEASING DELEGATES SO THEY CAN VOTE FOR TRUMP. DONALD TRUMP PICKED FOR RUNNING MATE J.D. VANCE IS BACK IN THE HALL TONIGHT. MAKING NEWS TONIGHT. NOW SITTING BESIDE THE FORMER PRESIDENT. MULTIPLE SOURCES TELLING "ABC NEWS" TONIGHT THAT HE HAS SPOKEN WITH VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS AFTER THE VICE PRESIDENT REACHED OUT LEAVING A VOICE MAIL TO CONGRATULATE AND WELCOME HIM TO THE RACE. TODAY WE LEARNED THEIR FIRST CONVERSATION AND A CALL SET TO BE BRIEF AND RESPECTFUL. VICE PRESIDENT, HARRIS AND J.D. VANCE, LOOKING FORWARD TO DEBATING EACH OTHER DOWN THE ROAD. NEW POLLING TONIGHT. TAKEN AFTER THE COURT THAT THE COUNTRY WITNESSED ON SATURDAY NIGHT. POLLING SHOWING THAT THIS RACE, DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT BIDEN IS A VIRTUAL TIE. THE SAME POLL THAT A HYPOTHETICAL MATCHUP DONALD TRUMP EVERSON, HARRIS. ALSO A HEAT AS WELL. ANOTHER HEADLINE MAKING NEWS. VIDEO EMERGING. DONALD TRUMP AN INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE ROBERT KENNEDY JR. TRUMP ASKING KENNEDY FOR HIS SUPPORT. IT WOULD BE VERY GOOD FOR KENNEDY TO DO SO. TRUMP AGREEING WITH KENNEDY'S NEWS ON CHILD VACCINES. THERE IS A LOT TO GET TO TONIGHT. I AM WITH MY POWERHOUSE POLITICAL TEAM. WE ARE GOING TO DIVE INTO IT ALL. THE FIRST THING WE WANT TO SHOW EVERYBODY AT HOME IS WHAT NIKKI HALEY CAME OUT ON THE STAGE AND SAID HERE JUST MOMENTS AGO. TAKE A LOOK. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> David: MANY ON HER FEET FOR HER, MANY BOOS AS WELL. LET'S LISTEN TO THE AMBASSADOR. >> MY FELLOW REPUBLICANS, PRESIDENT TRUMP, PRESIDENT TRUMP ASKED ME TO SPEAK TO THIS CONVENTION IN THE NAME OF UNITY. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] IT WAS A GRACIOUS INVITATION AND I WAS HAPPY TO ACCEPT. I WILL START BY MAKING ONE THING PERFECTLY CLEAR. DONALD TRUMP HAS MY STRONG ENDORSEMENT PERIOD. >> David: IT WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY MOMENT. NIKKI HALEY HAD BEEN ASKED AND SHE SAID SHE WAS NOT COMING TO THIS CONVENTION. SHE WAS NOT ON HIS SCHEDULE WHAT CHANGED? >> THERE IS A STANDOFF. NIKKI HALEY WAS SAYING SHE WAS NOT GOING TO COME AND THE TRUMP PEOPLE WERE SAYING THAT SHE WAS NOT GOING TO BE EVEN INVITED TO COME TO THE CONVENTION HALL. IT WAS JUST IN RECENT WEEKS THAT NIKKI HALEY RELEASED HER DELEGATES. TRUMP REACHED OUT AND INVITED HER HERE. AFTER WHAT HAPPENED ON SATURDAY WE SAW HER GET A VERY PROMINENT SPEAKING ROLE IN PRIME TIME. >> David: WE WERE WONDERING AFTER SHE WALKED OUT THAT STAGE WHAT THE RECEPTION WILL BE. SHE STAYED IN THE PRIMARY THE LONGEST. SHE GOT MORE VOTES MORE THAN ANYONE THAN DONALD TRUMP. PEOPLE STILL VOTING FOR HER. >> AS FAR AS THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAD COME ON STAGE TO GREET THOSE CONGREGANTS HERE. NO ONE HAS BEEN BOOED ONLY TIME WE HAVE HEARD THOSE IS WHEN JOE BIDEN THE KAMALA HARRIS WERE -- NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO'D BOOED. YOU HAVE TO SEE AS FAR AS THE PEOPLE WHO ARE HERE, DID SHE MOVE THE METER? SOME BELLS YOU CANNOT UNRING. WHEN SHE HAS CALLED HIM TOXIC, UNHINGED, YOU CAN PICK YOUR ADJECTIVE BASICALLY. YOU HAVE TO WONDER IF THE PEOPLE HERE ARE BUYING WHY SHE SANG. SHE HAD THAT QUOTE WHERE SHE SAID, WE DO NOT HAVE TO AGREE WITH TRUMP 100% OF THE TIME TO VOTE FOR HIM. TAKE IT FOR ME, I HAVE NOT ALWAYS AGREED WITH THE PRESIDENT. WE ALL HAVE TO DECIDE IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DISAGREEING WITH SOMEONE AND THE TESTING THEM. >> David: POLITICS IN 2024. NOT ENTIRELY NEW FOR A RIFLE TO COME FULL CIRCLE. FASCINATING SPLIT SCREEN WITH DONALD TRUMP RIGHT HERE IN THE HALL. YOUR REACTION TO WHAT SHE SAID TO THE SWING VOTERS. DON'T KNOW IF I LOVE THE PHRASE DOUBLE HATER. NIKKI HALEY ADDRESS THEM DIRECTLY TONIGHT WHEN SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT THOSE SWING VOTERS. THE PEOPLE THAT DON'T AGREE WITH EVERYTHING THEY SEE FROM DONALD TRUMP. TAKE A LESSON. >> THERE IS MORE TO IT THAN T THAT. WE SHOULD ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THERE ARE SOME AMERICANS WHO DID NOT AGREE WITH DONALD TRUMP 100% OF THE TIME. I HAPPEN TO KNOW SOME OF THEM. AND I WANT TO SPEAK TO THEN TONIGHT. >> David: MARTHA RADDATZ, WHAT YOU THINK? >> DIVIDERS THAT I HAVE SPOKEN TO. THEY WERE DIFFERENT. THEY WERE COMMITTED. THEY WERE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE DIFFERENT. SOMEONE WHO CARED ABOUT THEM OR REPRESENTED THEM. I THINK IT IS GOING TO BE TOUGHER THAN SHE THINKS. SHE REACHED OUT TO THOSE VOTERS. SHE WAS THE LAST ONE IN, BUT I THINK IT IS GOING TO BE DIFFICULT FOR THOSE VOTERS TO GO FULLY WITH DONALD TRUMP. NIKKI HALEY SPEECH WAS A BIT OF AI HAVE NO CHOICE HERE. I HAVE TO SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP. I WILL THROW MY WHOLEHEARTED SUPPORT. I FELT A LITTLE TENSION. VERY CAREFULLY WATCHING HIS FACE. THERE IS A LITTLE MOMENTS IN A SPEECH WHERE HE WINCED WHEN SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT I DON'T AGREE WITH EVERYTHING HE SAID. HE FINALLY AND THE END CAME AROUND AND SEEMED LIKE HE LOVED SPEECH. I THINK THOSE VOTERS WILL STILL HAVE A DIFFICULT TIME AND STILL NOT DECIDE. >> David: VOTERS WATCHING TONIGHT AND SOMEONE ELSE WATCHING THIS DIVIDING CAMPAIGN. I DON'T KNOW IF THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN IT YET PERSONALLY. FIGHTING CAMPAIGN WITH A REACTION. OUR CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT. THEY'RE NOT GIVING UP ON NIKKI HALEY VOTERS. LOOKING FOR SOME OTHER OPTION THAN JOE BIDEN OR DONALD TRUMP. >> THEY CERTAINLY ARE NOT AND THEY STILL THINK THEY CAN TURN THEM OVER TO THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN. AND A RESPONSE TONIGHT THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN QUITTING NIKKI HALEY BACK TO HERSELF. SHE SAID IT BEST. SOMEONE WHO DOES NOT RESPECT OUR MILITARY. CANNOT BE PRESIDENT. THEY GO ON TO SAY IN THE STATEMENT THAT THERE IS A HOME FOR EVERY SINGLE ONE OF HER VOTERS IN THE BIDEN/HARRIS CAMPAIGN. I'M TOLD IN THEIR CONVERSATIONS WITH NIKKI HALEY VOTERS THAT THE BIDEN TEAM IS FOUND THAT THOSE ARE VOTERS WHO ARE MOTIVATED MORE BY VALUES THAN A CERTAIN CANDIDATES. THEY FEEL THAT THEY ARE PUTTING MORE FOR HALEY AS A PROTESTER DONALD TRUMP THEN FOR NIKKI HALEY. THEY FEEL THAT A SPEECH AND ENDORSEMENT IS NOT GOING TO CHANGE THAT. >> David: THANK YOU AND LET'S GET BACK ON THE FLOOR. LIFE PICTURE. THE FAMILY OF RACHEL MOORE. SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF FIVE WHO WAS KILLED ON A TRAIL. SHE IS STILL ON THE STAGE. TALK ABOUT OPIOIDS. GETTING A STANDING OVATION INSIDE THIS HALL. A PART OF THE GROUP WHAT TRUMP CAMPAIGN IS CALLING EVERYDAY AMERICANS IMPACTED BY ISSUES IN THIS COUNTRY. LET'S LISTEN. >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU ANY TENS AND THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS, INNOCENT CHILDREN. FOR THAT ALONE, THEY SHOULD BE VOTED OUT OF OFFICE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] JOE MUST GO. ABSOLUTELY. WE HAVE SEEN THE HIGHEST NUMBERS OF FENTANYL DEATH DURING THE BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION. FENTANYL IS NOW THE NUMBER ONE KILLER OF AMERICANS 18-45. IT'S STRICTLY BECOMING A LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH FOR TEENS 14 AND UNDER IT BECOMING FASTEST GROWING DEMOGRAPHIC. WE NEED PRESIDENT TRUMP BACK IN OFFICE. WE NEED A PRESIDENT WHO WILL SEAL THE BORDER, AGGRESSIVELY PROSECUTE DRUG DEALERS, AND STOP COMMUNIST CHINA FROM POISONING OUR CHILDREN. THIS IS NOT A RED OR BLUE ISSUE. THIS IS A RED, WHITE, AND BLUE ISSUE. FENTANYL DOES NOT CARE IF YOU ARE BLACK OR WHITE. IT DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE. THIS IS AN AMERICAN ISSUE. WE NEED A RESIDENT WHO WILL CALL THE DRUG CARTEL WHAT THEY ARE, TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. THIS FIGHT IS NOT FOR ME. MY SON IS GONE. THIS FIGHT IS FOR YOUR CHILDREN. WE OWE IT TO OUR CHILDREN TO ELECT A PRESIDENT THAT WILL WIN THE WAR AGAINST FENTANYL ONCE AND FOR ALL. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] IT IS TOO LATE FOR MY SON, WESTON. SAY HIS NAME, JOE BIDEN. WESTON. THANK YOU. BUT WE CAN CHANGE THIS FOR YOUR CHILDREN. WE NEED PRESIDENT TRUMP BACK TO SAVE THE LIVES OF OUR KIDS. THANK YOU. GOD BLESS AMERICA. >> David: DEEPLY EMOTIONAL AND PERSONAL SPEECH. A CALIFORNIA MOTHER WHO LOST HER 15-YEAR-OLD SON TO FENTANYL. MOVING BACK EAST TO BE CLOSER TO HER FAMILY. SPEAKING ABOUT THEIR SON WESTON. FIGHT IS NOT FOR ME. MY SON IS GONE. WE ARE HEARING FROM MICHAEL MOORE. >> SHE WENT FOR A WALK AND ONE OF OUR FAMILY FAVORITE PLACES. THIS BEAUTIFUL TRAIL WAS TO US A SAFE PLACE WHERE WE PUSHED OUR BABIES IN STROLLERS. WHERE WE WALKED TOGETHER AS A FAMILY. WHERE MY WIFE AND I GOT MARRIED NEAR WHAT WOULD LATER BECOME THE SPOT WHERE MY SISTERS BODY WAS FOUND. RACHEL A JOYFUL, ACCOMPLISHED ATHLETE, AND MOTHER OF FIVE WAS RAPED AND MURDERED BY A SUSPECTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT. THIS WAS DESCRIBED AS AMONG THE MOST BRUTAL AND VIOLENT OFFENSES THAT HAS EVER OCCURRED IN HARTFORD COUNTY MARYLAND HIS HISTORY. OPEN BORDERS ARE OFTEN PRETRADE AS COMPASSIONATE AND VIRTUOUS -- PORTRAYED AS COMPASSIONATE AND VIRTUOUS. THERE IS NOTHING COMPASSIONATE ABOUT ALLOWING VIOLENT CRIMINALS INTO OUR COUNTRY AND ROBBING CHILDREN OF THEIR MOTHER. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] MY SISTER'S DEATH WAS PREVENTABLE. THE MONSTER ARRESTED FOR KILLING RACHEL ENTERED THE U.S. UNLAWFULLY AFTER KILLING A WOMAN IN EL SALVADOR. JOE BIDEN AND HIS DESIGNATED BORDERS ARE KAMALA HARRIS OPEN UP BORDERS TO HIM AND OTHERS LIKE HIM. EMPOWERING THEM TO VICTIMIZE THE INNOCENT. YET, TO THIS DAY, WE HAVE NOT HEARD FROM JOE BIDEN OR KAMALA HARRIS. [BOOS] THEY NEVER APOLOGIZE. BUT WHEN RACHEL WAS KILLED. PRESIDENT TRUMP CALLED MY FAMILY TO OFFER HIS CONDOLENCES. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] HE WANTED TO MEET WITH US. HE CARED. THAT IS LEADERSHIP. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] AND WE NEED REAL LEADERSHIP BACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE. WHAT HAS GOTTEN US THROUGH THIS UNTHINKABLE LOSS IS OUR FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] AND AS BRUTAL AS THE MURDER OF MY SISTER WAS I PRAYED THAT OUR KILLER WILL FIND JESUS CHRIST. FOR ALL OF THE AFFECTED BY SENSELESS TRAGEDY I PRAY FOR PEACE KNOWING THAT ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD. TO THOSE WHO LOVE GOD, TO THOSE WHO ARE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] I PRAYED THAT WE HOLD WORLDLY LEADERS ACCOUNTABLE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE. FOR INNOCENT PEOPLE. I PRAYED THAT WE MAKE OUR COUNTRY SAFE AND SECURE IN THE MEMORY OF MY SISTER RACHEL WHO LOVED LIFE. THANK YOU. GOD BLESS AMERICA. GOOD NIGHT. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> David: MICHAEL MORAN THE BROTHER OF RACHEL MORAN. THE 37-YEAR-OLD MOTHER OF FIVE. AUTHORITIES SAY A SUSPECT WHO HAD FLED EL SALVADOR UNLAWFULLY IN THE U.S. COMMITTED THE CRIME. >> MY SON, RETIRED VETERAN. HE RECEIVED ENEMY FIRE FROM THE TALIBAN ONLY TO BE MURDERED WITH A KNIFE ON THE STREETS OF NEW YORK CITY THE ASSAILANTS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS DEATH INITIALLY WERE FACING JUSTICE, BUT THAT CHANGED WHEN DISTRICT ATTORNEY ALVIN BRAGG WAS ELECTED. [BOOS] SUDDENLY, TWO OF THE HOMICIDAL MANIACS RESPONSIBLE FOR MY SON'S DEATH HAD GANG ASSAULT AND MURDER CHARGES COMPLETELY DISMISSED POINT [BOOS] ONE OF THEM RECEIVED 14 MONTHS' TIME TO SERVE. ALVIN BRAGG CHARGED HER WITH ASSAULT. ANOTHER ONE WAS SENTENCED TO SEVEN YEARS. I LATER LEARNED ALVIN BRAGG OFTEN DISMISSES AND REDUCES DANGEROUS CRIMINALS. HE WANTS TO RETURN VIOLENT -- THE INJUSTICE WAS DEVASTATING FOR ME AND MY FAMILY. I DO NOT WANT ANYONE ELSE TO EXPERIENCE THE SENSELESS PAIN THAT MANY OTHER VICTIMS ACROSS THIS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HAVE TO LIVE WITH EVERY DAY. I DECIDED TO USE THE VOICE THAT GOD GAVE ME TO BE THE VOICE FOR THE VOICELESS ACROSS AMERICA! [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] WE NEED JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS! AND WE NEED ACCOUNTABILITY FOR PROSECUTORS WHO FAIL IN THEIR DUTIES! SOFT ON CRIME PROSECUTORS LIKE ALVIN BRAGG IN NEW YORK, KIM FOX IN CHICAGO, AND IN LOS ANGELES HAVE TURNED OUR GREAT COUNTRY AND CITIES INTO WAR ZONES. POOR AND NEGLECTED COMMUNITIES LIKE MINE ARE SUFFERING. WHO ELSE IS SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED? [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, THE POOR MINORITIES HAVE BEEN LOYAL TO YOU FOR DECADES INCLUDING MYSELF, ALL RIGHT, THEY PRETRADE US, -- THEY BETRAYED US AND STABBED US IN THE BACK. JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS TO REPRESENT US HAVE ABANDONED US AND NEGLECTED THE POOR MINORITY COMMUNITIES ACROSS AMERICA. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] BUT MY EYES HAVE BEEN OPENED. JUST LIKE SO MANY OTHER POOR MINORITIES ACROSS AMERICA. DONALD TRUMP SHARES OUR VALUES, LOVE OF GOD, AND FAMILY, AND COUNTRY. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] HE HAS BEEN A VICTIM OF THE SAME CORRUPT SYSTEM THAT I HAVE BEEN IN MY FAMILY HAS BEEN. HE IS COMMITTED TO PROVIDING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES, HELPING THOSE SUFFERING FROM ADDICTION WITH LONG TIME INPATIENT DRUG PROGRAMS. ROLLING BACK THE VAN POLICIES THAT ARE GETTING OUR CHILDREN KILLED EVERY SINGLE DAY. AND SUPPORTING OUR POLICE. WE BACK THE NYPD, WE BACK THE BLUE! [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] BACK THE BLUE! NYPD! BACK THE BLUE! TRUMP WAS RIGHT WHEN HE SAID THEY ARE AFTER US. HE IS STANDING IN THE WAY. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] AND GUESS WHAT, HE ALWAYS WILL. THAT IS WHY I'M STANDING WITH HIM TODAY. LET'S MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN. AND REELECT OUR DONALD J. TRUMP. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] THANK YOU. AND GOOD NIGHT. >> David: MOTHER LOST HER SON. SHE IS AT THE HALL. SHE JUST LIT UP THE HALL. IT LIFTED UP ON ONE OF THE KEY THEMES OF THIS CONVENTION. THE DISORDER AT THE BORDER IN THE CRIME THAT THEY THINK IS OUT OF CONTROL. STATISTICS SHOW CRIME IS DOWN. THERE IS SOMETHING IN THE AIR IN THE COUNTRY PEOPLE FEEL HERE THAT IS OUT OF CONTROL AND AS SHE DESCRIBES WERE ORDEALS AND ANGER, HER SENSE OF BETRAYAL. THIS CONVENTION WAS LIT UP. >> David: THANK YOU. SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS. PUBLIC FACE OF THE CAMPAIGN AND THE EARLY YEARS. LET'S LISTEN. >> NOT EVEN AN ASSASSIN THE BULLET CAN STOP HIM. GOD ALMIGHTY INTERVENED BECAUSE AMERICA IS ONE NATION UNDER GOD. HE IS CERTAINLY NOT FINISHED WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP. IN OUR COUNTRY IS BETTER FOR IT. I AM HERE TONIGHT AS AMERICA'S YOUNGEST GOVERNOR. THE FIRST WOMAN TO LEAD THE GREAT STATE OF ARKANSAS. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, A MOM TO THREE AMAZING KIDS. WHEN I WAS PRESIDENT TRUMP'S WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY -- I GOT THE CHANCE TO TAKE MY 4-YEAR-OLD SON HUCK TO BRING YOUR KID TO WORK DAY. MUCH LIKE JILL NOW DRAGS JOE TO BRING YOUR HUSBAND TO WORK DAY. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] AND WHILE I WAS BRIEFING THE PRESIDENT ON THE UPCOMING EVENT IN THE OVAL OFFICE. ALL OF THE KIDS THAT WERE ATTENDING THAT THEY GATHERED IN THE ROSE GARDEN GETTING READY TO MEET HIM. AND WE WERE WALKING OUT ONTO THAT BEAUTIFUL PERFECT HOLIDAY. I SAW OUT OF THE CORNER OF MY EYE THAT MY SON HUCK WAS RUNNING FULL STEAM DIRECTLY AT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. BEING THE GRACIOUS PERSON THAT HE IS PRESIDENT TRUMP WENT DOWN TO GIVE HIM A BIG HUG. AND RIGHT IN FRONT OF EVERYONE, HUCK SIDESTEPPED THE PRESIDENT. COMPLETELY IGNORING HIM IN FRONT OF EVERYONE AND RAN STRENGTH THAT MIGHT STRAY MY ARMS AND RAN STRAIGHT INTO MY ARMS. FOR MY 4-YEAR-OLD SON. THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE WORLD HAD NOTHING BUT HIS MOM. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] BUT BECAUSE HE IS THE AMAZING MAN HE IS PRESIDENT TRUMP DID NOT MIND AT ALL. DAD AFTER ALL, HE IS A 25 UNBELIEVABLE KIDS AND WHILE THAT STORY IS CERTAINLY A SPECIAL MEMORY FOR MY FAMILY. IT IS A EVEN GREATER REMINDER WHY I SUPPORT PRESIDENT TRUMP, NOT FOR ME, NOT FOR HIM, BUT FOR MY KIDS AND FOR YOURS. UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP AMERICA WAS SAFER. THE WORLD WAS SAFER. AND IT FELT LIKE THE NEXT GENERATION WOULD HAVE A CHANCE AT THE AMERICAN DREAM. PRESIDENT TRUMP DID THE JOB THAT COME ALL OUT WOKE AND BIDEN SIMPLY CAN'T. -- KAMALA SIMPLY CAN'T. WHEN WE ARE HONEST, EVERY AMERICAN KNOWS THAT WE ARE SO MUCH BETTER OFF UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP. SO TONIGHT I DON'T WANT TO JUST SPEAK ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP'S SUCCESSFUL POLICIES WHILE THERE ARE MANY. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE MAN THAT I KNOW. WHEN THE PRESIDENT HIRED ME I WAS THE FIRST MOM AND ONLY THE THIRD WOMAN TO EVER SERVE AS THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY. AND IN THAT ROLE I ENDURED RELENTLESS ATTACKS FROM THE LEFT. I WAS INSULTED AS A GUEST AT THE WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS' DINNER. MY FAMILY WAS DENIED SERVICE AND KICKED OUT OF A RESTAURANT. [BOOS] AND APPARENT AND MY 3-YEAR-OLD SONS PRESCHOOL STEPPED ON MY C CAR. AND AT THOSE MOMENTS IT WAS PRESIDENT TRUMP THAT DEFENDANT ME. AND WHEN A MSNBC HOST AUTHOR. OF SEVERAL BOOKS ON EMPOWERING WOMAN SAID I WAS UNFIT TO BE A MOTHER AND ANOTHER MSNBC HOST SAID I WAS VILE. NOT EVEN HUMAN. AND THAT I SHOULD BE CHOKED, MSNBC AGAIN DID NOTHING. BUT OUR PRESIDENT PULLED ME ASIDE, LOOKED ME IN THE EYE, AND SAID, SARAH, YOU ARE SMART, YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL, YOU ARE TOUGH, AND THE ATTACK YOU BECAUSE YOU'RE GOOD AT YOUR JOB. NEVER LET THEM STOP FIGHTING. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] THAT IS THE DONALD TRUMP THAT I KNOW. AND THAT IS THE DONALD J. TRUMP I WILL ALWAYS RESPECT. THE LEFT DOES NOT CARE ABOUT EMPOWERING WOMEN. BY THEN AND HARRIS CANNOT EVEN TELL YOU WHAT A WOMAN IS. THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT EMPOWERING THEMSELVES. WE HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO BELIEVES IN EMPOWERING EVERY AMERICAN AND THAT OUR COUNTRY IS WORTH FIGHTING FOR. FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS HAVE BEEN LEADING THAT FIGHT AND DOING WHAT JOE BIDEN REFUSES TO DO. WE DEPLOY THE NATIONAL GUARD TO THE BORDER. WE CRACKED DOWN ON CRIME AND DRUGS. WE CUT TAXES TO GIVE HARDWORKING AMERICANS A BREAK FROM BIDEN INFLATION. AND WE EMPOWER PARENTS WITH UNIVERSAL SCHOOL CHOICE ACROSS THE COUNTRY. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] DONALD TRUMP WAS THE VERY FIRST PRESIDENT IN MY LIFETIME TO TAKE A HARD LINE AGAINST CHINA AND I AM PROUD TO BE THE FIRST AND ONLY GOVERNOR IN THE COUNTRY TO CAKE COMMUNIST CHINA OFF OUR FARMLANDS AND OUT OF UNITED STATES. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A LEADER. HE IS THE LEADER OUR COUNTRY NEEDS. AND IF THERE EVER WAS A DOUBT EARLIER THIS WEEK WE SAW JUST HOW TOUGH, RESILIENT, COURAGEOUS, AND DARING THIS MAN IS AND WE CANNOT GET HIM BACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE FAST ENOUGH. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] [CHANTING TRUMP] LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE ARE NOT CALLED TO STAND STILL IN THE FACE OF GREAT DANGER. YOU AND I WERE PUT ON THIS EARTH ON A MOMENT IN TIME TO CHARGE BOLDLY AHEAD. WE CANNOT KNOW WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS, BUT WE KNOW SURE WHO HOLDS THE FUTURE IN HIS HANDS. GOD IS NOT FINISHED WITH HIM Y YET. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] AND HE MOST CERTAINLY IS NOT FINISHED WITH AMERICA YET EI EITHER. WITH GOD AS OUR GUIDE AND PRESIDENT TRUMP BACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE WE WILL SHOW THE WORLD THAT AMERICA IS THE PLACE WHERE FREEDOM REIGNS AND LIBERTY WILL NEVER DIE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. [CHANTING "USA"] TONIGHT LET US NOT LEAVE HERE JUST EXCITED ABOUT A GREAT FEW DAYS, BUT LET US LEAVE HERE ENERGIZED AND COMMITTED TO MAKING SURE THAT WE PROTECT OUR FREEDOM AND WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO PASS IT ON TO THE NEXT GENERATION BECAUSE AMERICA IS THE GREATEST COUNTRY THAT THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN IN OUR KIDS AND GRANDKIDS DESERVE TO ENJOY THE WAY EACH OF US DID. AND WE WILL WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP BACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE. THANK YOU SO MUCH. GOD BLESS THE GREAT STATE OF ARKANSAS AND UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> David: GOVERNOR SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS OF ARKANSAS. THE FACE OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. PRESS SECRETARY DURING EARLY YEARS. YOU CAN SEE DONALD TRUMP REALLY ENJOYED. >> SHE HAD THE TOUGHEST JOB IN WASHINGTON. SPOKESPERSON FOR DONALD TRUMP IN THE WHITE HOUSE. SHE BATTLED ON HIS BEHALF. SHE GOT INTO THAT JOB. JUNIOR AID IN THE CAMPAIGN AND PRESS OFFICE. NOW SHE IS THE YOUNGER GOVERNOR IN THE COUNTRY. >> BIG SURROGATE FOR DONALD TRUMP. MAJOR STORY HERE TONIGHT HAS BEEN THIS OTHER STORY LINE. SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS. WATCH SOMETHING ELSE UNFOLD TONIGHT. FORMER REBELS COMING TO EMBRACE DONALD TRUMP WHOLEHEARTEDLY ON THAT STAGE. WE SHOWED YOU NIKKI HALEY'S. RON DeSANTIS WHO CHALLENGE DONALD TRUMP AND HIS REPUBLICAN PRIMARY CAME. HE TOOK ON JOE BIDEN AND TALKED ABOUT PRESIDENT BIDEN AFTER THAT THE BAY PERFORMANCE. ONE OF THE ANSWERS THAT THE PRESIDENT GAVE WAS HOW BUSY THE SCHEDULE HAD BEEN IN THE WEEKS LEADING UP TO THAT DEBATE AND TALKED ABOUT HOW THEY SHOULD PARE DOWN HIS SCHEDULE A BIT. HERE IS WHAT GOVERNOR DeSANTIS SAID ABOUT THIS. >> OUR ENEMIES DO NOT DEFINE THEIR DESIGNS BY 10:00 A.M. AND 4:00 P.M. WE NEED A COMMANDER IN CHIEF WHO CAN LEAD 24 HOURS A DAY AND SEVEN DAYS A WEEK. AMERICA CANNOT AFFORD FOUR MORE YEARS OF A WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S PRESIDENCY. >> David: ECD LAUGHTER FROM DONALD TRUMP WHEN RON DeSANTIS DELIVERED THAT LINE. TALK ABOUT HOW DEEP BY THE ADMINISTRATION HANDLED THE DEPARTURE FROM AFGHANISTAN. VERY DEADLY DEPARTURE. HE IS TALKING ABOUT THE PRESIDENT AND SCHEDULED THAT HE POINTED TO AFTER THAT DEBATE PERFORMANCE. >> MAKING A POINT ABOUT FOREIGN POLICY THAT A PRESIDENT HAS TO BE 24/7. I THINK PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS TRIED TO TEMPERED THAT A LITTLE BIT. DO NOT WANT TO DO LATE NIGHT EVENTS. AFGHANISTAN IS A REAL VULNERABILITY FOR JOE BIDEN. WHEN THEY GOT OUT IT WAS CHAOTIC. DEADLY. THERE WAS DONALD TRUMP WHO ALSO WANTED TO LEAVE AFGHANISTAN. HE IS THE ONE WHO STARTED THE CONVERSATION. STARTED DEALING WITH THE TALIBAN ON A COMPLETE WITHDRAWAL. >> David: SOMETHING ELSE TO GOVERNOR SAID. SOMETHING THAT COMES UP OVER AND OVER AGAIN. WE HEAR IT FROM GOVERNOR SANDERS AS WELL. EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THE SPEAKERS HAVE DISCUSSED THE HORROR WITNESSED ON THE NATION ON SATURDAY. THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. RON DeSANTIS STARTED BY TALKING ABOUT THE CULTURE DURING COVID DURING THIS COUNTRY. AND WHAT DONALD TRUMP HAD BEEN THROUGH THIS PAST SATURDAY. LET'S LISTEN. >> DEMANDED THAT YOU SHOW PROOF OF A COVERT VACCINE TO GO TO A RESTAURANT, BUT THEY OPPOSED REQUIRING PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP TO CAST A VOTE. THEY CANNOT EVEN DEFINE WHAT A WOMAN IS. NOW DONALD TRUMP STANDS IN THEIR WAY AND HE STANDS UP FOR AMERICA. DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN DEMONIZED. HE HAS BEEN SUED. HE HAS BEEN PROSECUTED. AND HE NEARLY LOST HIS LIFE. WE CANNOT LET HIM DOWN AND WE CANNOT LET AMERICA DOWN. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> David: THE SODA RIVALS THAT TOOK ON DONALD TRUMP DURING THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY. ONE PERSON THAT WAS NOT ON THAT STAGE IS GOVERNOR CHRIS CHRISTIE. WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF RON DeSANTIS IN PARTICULAR OF NIKKI HALEY WHO LASTED IN THE PRIMARY THE LONGEST. IT SAID THAT DONALD TRUMP WAS UNFIT TO SERVE, UNELECTABLE, THAT CHAOS FOLLOWS HIM EVERYWHERE. DID SHE CONVINCE VOTERS TONIGHT? >> LET ME START WITH GOVERNOR DeSANTIS. I SPENT A LOT OF TIME WITH HIM DURING THE CAMPAIGN. RON DeSANTIS DID WHAT HE DOES. I THOUGHT IT WAS FINE. AS FOR NIKKI HALEY. I JUST SAY THIS. WE HAVE AN ENORMOUSLY CHALLENGING TIMES IN OUR COUNTRY RIGHT NOW. WHAT WE NEED ARE LEADERS WHO HAVE THE COURAGE OF THEIR CONVICTIONS. WHAT WE SAW IN HER SPEECH TONIGHT WAS THAT ALERT OR CONVICTIONS. IT WAS TORTURED AMBITION. SHE WAS ON THE STAGE BECAUSE SHE IS TORTURED BY HER OWN AMBITION. SHE HAD TO GO UP THERE IF SHE WANTS TO RUN AGAIN IN 2028. THAT WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN HER STANDING UP FOR THE THINGS THAT SHE REPRESENTED TO BE VOTERS OF THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY ABOUT DONALD TRUMP BEING UNFIT, UNHINGED, JUST UNQUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. I THINK WHEN PEOPLE WHO ARE SUPPORTING NIKKI HALEY AND PLACES LIKE NEW HAMPSHIRE AND A WHILE LOOK AT THE SPEECH TONIGHT WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO LOOK BACK ON IT IS NOT TO BE PERSUADED BY NIKKI HALEY TO VOTE FOR SOMEONE, THEY ARE GOING TO BE ASHAMED THEY VOTED FOR HER IN THE FIRST PLACE. >> David: GOVERNOR CHRIS CHRISTIE TAKE ON NIKKI HALEY. LONGTIME RIVAL OF DONALD TRUMP. 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So much, amazing light streaming weekends on ABC, News live, your weekend, just got a little better with GMA light. >>> AND BY THE HAN >> BY THE HAND OF GOD. >> David: SENATOR MARCO RUBIO HAS JUST TAKEN THE PODIUM. >> THIS THING WE DO CALLED POLITICS MATTERS. IT IS NOT UNIMPORTANT. IT IS OUR PEOPLE WHO MUST ALWAYS MATTER THE MOST AND EVERYTHING WE DO. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] BY GIVING VOICE TO EVERYDAY AMERICANS. PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS NOT JUST TRANSFORMED OUR PARTY, HE HAS INSPIRED A MOVEMENT. A MOVEMENT OF THE PEOPLE WHO GROW OUR FOOD AND DRIVE OUR TRUCKS. PEOPLE THAT MAKE OUR CARS AND BUILD OUR HOMES. THE PEOPLE WHOSE TAXES FUND OUR GOVERNMENT. AND WHOSE CHILDREN FIGHT OUR WARS. AMERICANS LIKE CORY. HE WAS A FORMER FIRE CHIEF AND A LOVING HUSBAND. HE WAS DESCRIBED AS THE BEST DAD A GIRL CAN EVER ASK FOR. A MAN OF GOD WHO LOVED FIERCELY. I LOOKED AFTER MEMBERS OF HIS CHURCH. COREY WAS ONE OF THE MILLIONS OF EVERYDAY AMERICANS WHO MAKE OUR COUNTRY GREAT. HE WAS NOT RICH, HE WAS NOT FAMOUS. AND THE ONLY REASON WHY WE KNOW HIS NAME AND STORY NOW IS BECAUSE LAST SATURDAY HE SHIELDED HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER FROM AN ASSASSIN'S BULLET AND LOST HIS LIFE THE WAY HE LIFTED, A HERO. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] OR DOES STILL WONDERING AND MANY WATCHING AT HOME. THESE ARE THE AMERICANS WHO WEAR THE RED HATS AND WAIT FOR HOURS UNDER A BLAZING SUN TO HEAR TRUMP SPEAK. AND WHAT THEY WANT, WHAT THEY ASK FOR IS NOT HATEFUL OR EXTREME. WHAT THEY WANT IS GOOD JOBS AND LOWER PRICES. THEY WANT BORDERS THAT ARE SECURE AND FOR THOSE WHO COME HERE TO DO SO LEGALLY. THEY WANT TO BE SAFE FROM CRIMINALS AND FROM TERRORISTS. AND THEY WANT FOR OUR LEADERS TO CARE MORE ABOUT OUR PROBLEMS HERE AT HOME THEN ABOUT THE PROBLEMS OF OTHER COUNTRIES FAR AWAY. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING DANGEROUS OR ANYTHING THAT THIS IS ABOUT PUTTING AMERICANS FIRST -- DIVISIVE ABOUT PUTTING AMERICANS FIRST. THE [CHANTING "USA"] THOSE WHO ARE OFFENDED, ANYONE WHO IS OFFENDED ABOUT PUTTING AMERICA FIRST HAS FORGOTTEN WHAT AMERICA IS AND WHAT AMERICA MEANS. AMERICAN ISN'T THE COLOR OF OUR SKIN OR OUR ETHNICITY. AMERICANS ARE A PEOPLE AS DIVERSE AS HUMANITY ITSELF, BUT OUT OF MANY WE ARE ONE BECAUSE AS THE LIFE, STORY FOR NEXT VICE PRESIDENT J.D. VANCE REMINDS US, WE ARE ALL DESCENDANTS OF ORDINARY PEOPLE WHO ACHIEVED EXTRAORDINARY THINGS. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] WHO DO WE COME FROM? WE COME FROM PIONEERS WHO VENTURED WEST TO CHASE THEIR DREAMS AND WHO OVERCAME TO BONDAGE TO CLAIM THEIR RIGHT FOR THE PROMISE OF AMERICA. WE COME FROM EXILES WHO FLED THE TYRANNY AND SEARCH OF FREEDOM AND FROM IMMIGRANTS WHO LEFT BEHIND ALL THEY HAD AND KNEW BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT BE OR ACHIEVED GOD'S PURPOSE FOR THEIR LIFE, AT THE NATION AFTER BIRTH. THAT IS AN AMERICAN. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] AND PUTTING AMERICANS FIRST MUST BE WHAT THIS ELECTION IS ABOUT. WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS IN THE WHITE HOUSE AMERICANS HAD MORE MONEY AND LOWER PRICES. OUR BORDERS WERE SECURE AND OUR LAWS WERE ENFORCED. IRAN WAS BROKE THE TALIBAN STOPPED KILLING AMERICANS AND PUTIN DID NOT INVADE ANYONE. NOW UNDER BY THEN HIGH PRICES DEVOUR PAYCHECKS. CRIMINALS AND DRUGS ARE ALLOWED TO FLOOD INTO OUR COUNTRY AND TERRORIZE OUR PEOPLE. AND IRAN HAS MONEY TO SUPPORT TERRACE. CALIBAN HUMILIATED US IN AFGHANISTAN. TWO MAJOR WARS HAVE BROKEN OUT. MY FELLOW AMERICANS, THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE AMERICA WEALTHY, SAFE, AND STRONG AGAIN IS TO MAKE DONALD J. TRUMP OUR PRESIDENT AGAIN. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] OUR COUNTRY HAS BEEN INJURED. INJURED BY THE BAD DECISIONS OF WEAK LEADERS. BUT NOW JOE BLOODY BY OUR WOUNDS, WE MUST STAND UP AND WE MUST FIGHT. FIGHT NOT WITH VIOLENCE OR DESTRUCTION, BUT WITH OUR VOICES AND OUR VOTES. FIGHT NOT AGAINST EACH ALERT, BUT FOR THE HOPES AND DREAMS WE SHARE IN COMMON AND MAKE US ONE. AND FIGHT FOR AN AMERICA WHERE WE ARE SAFE FROM THOSE WHO SEEK TO HARM US ON OUR STREETS AND FROM ABROAD. AND WE WILL NOT BE ALONE IN THIS FIGHT. FOR LEADING US IN THIS FIGHT WILL BE A MAN THAT ALDO WOUNDED AND FACING DANGER HE STOOD UP AND RAISED HIS FIST AND REMINDED US THAT OUR PEOPLE AND OUR COUNTRY ARE ALWAYS WORTH FIGHTING FOR. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] IT IS TIME TO PUT OUR COUNTRY AND OUR PEOPLE FIRST AGAIN. AND IF WE DO, TOGETHER, WE WILL MAKE OUR PEOPLE WEALTHY AGAIN. IF WE DO TOGETHER WE WILL MAKE OUR COUNTRY SAFE AGAIN. TOGETHER WE WILL MAKE DONALD TRUMP OUR PRESIDENT AGAIN. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] AND TOGETHER, WE WILL NOT JUST MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREATER THEN IT ASKED EVER BEEN. THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS. >> David: FLORIDA SENATOR MARCO RUBIO WHO HAS BEEN ON THE SHORT-LIST FOR POTENTIAL VICE PRESIDENTIAL PICKS. DONALD TRUMP HAS SUGGESTED RUBIO IF TRUMP WAS ELECTED WILL HAVE A ROLE IN THE ADMINISTRATION. NEXT UP IS DONALD TRUMP'S DAUGHTER-IN-LAW. LET'S LISTEN. >> WELL I DO NOT FEEL LIKE I ACTUALLY HAVE TO ASK THIS QUESTION. IS ANYBODY IN THIS ROOM READY TO SEND DONALD TRUMP BACK TO 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE! [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] WELL, IT MAY NOT BE A SURPRISE THAT I ACTUALLY HAD A DIFFERENT SPEECH THAT I WAS PREPARED TO GIVE UP HERE TONIGHT. THAT ALL CHANGED AT 6:11 ON SATURDAY EVENING. NOTHING PREPARES YOU FOR A MOMENT LIKE THAT. OUR FAMILY HAS FACED OUR FAIR SHARE OF DEATH THREATS, MYSTERIOUS PATTERS SENT TO OUR HOMES. TASTELESS COMMENTS DIRECTED TO US ON SOCIAL MEDIA. NONE OF THAT PREPARES FOR YOU ON DAUGHTER-IN-LAW TO WATCH IN REAL TIME. THAT SOMEONE TRIED TO KILL A PERSON YOU LOVE. NONE OF THAT PREPARES YOU AS A MOTHER TO QUICKLY REACH FOR THE REMOTE AND TURN YOUR YOUNG CHILDREN AWAY FROM THE SCREEN SO THEY ARE NOT WITNESS TO SOMETHING THAT SCARS THE MEMORY OF THEIR GRANDPA FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIFE. THE PRAYERS AND WELL WISHES WE RECEIVED OVER THE LAST 72 HOURS HAVE BEEN OVERWHELMING, TO SAY THE LEAST. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] IN MY HEART GOES OUT TO THE FAMILY WHO LOST A HUSBAND AND A FALL OR BECAUSE OF THE SENSELESS ACT -- AND A FATHER. ALL OF YOU WATCHING TONIGHT MEAN THE WORLD TO US IN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN. IF DONALD TRUMP HAS SHOWN US ANYTHING IT IS THAT WHEN IT FEELS IMPOSSIBLE TO KEEP GOING, THOSE ARE THE TIMES WE MUST KEEP GOING. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] I DID NOT KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE HERE ARE WATCHING AT HOME HAS EVER BEEN TO A TRUMP RALLY, BUT IF YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN, LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THEM. SOME OF YOU HAVE BEEN. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] REGARDLESS OF HOW THE MEDIA HAS PAINTED THESE RALLIES WILL BE HARD-PRESSED TO FIND AND TO JOIN A HAPPIER GROUP OF PEOPLE COMING TOGETHER OVER THERE LOVE FOR THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PE.I DARE ANYONE TRYING TO LEADA TRUMP RALLY WITHOUT LEAVING WITH SOME NEW FRIENDS. YOU ALWAYS MAKE FRIENDS AT A TRUMP RALLY, RIGHT? VETERANS, TEACHERS, BLUE-COLLAR WORKERS, WHITE-COLLAR WORKERS, ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY, POLICE OFFICERS, FIREFIGHTERS, SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS, LATINO SUPPORTERS, CHRISTIAN SUPPORTERS, JEWISH SUPPORTERS, BLACK SUPPORTERS, WHITE SUPPORTERS, ASIAN SUPPORTERS, GAY CASE OF SUPPORTERS, REPUBLICANS, INDEPENDENTS, AND EVEN DEMOCRATS. AT A TRUMP RALLY YOU ARE NOT VIEWED AS YOUR PROFESSION, RELIGION, OR THE COLOR OF YOUR SKIN. YOU ARE VIEWED AS ONE THING, AN AMERICAN. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] LAST SATURDAY WAS A JARRING REMINDER THAT WE AS AMERICANS MUST ALWAYS REMEMBER. THERE IS MORE THAT UNITES US AND DIVIDES US. US. WE ALL WANT THIS COUNTRY TO BE GREAT, EVEN IF WE DON'T ALWAYS AGREE ON THE BEST WAY OF DOING THAT, AND WITH EVERY BONE IN MY BODY, I CAN TELL YOU THAT ALL DONALD TRUMP WANTS TO DO AND HAS EVER WANTED TO DO IS MAKE THIS COUNTRY GREAT AGAIN FOR ALL OF US. PROVERBS 28 IT READS, "THE WICKED FLEE THOUGH NO ONE PURSUES, BUT THE RIGHTEOUS ARE AS BOLD AS A LION." AND THAT TRULY EPITOMIZES DONALD TRUMP. HEHE IS A LION. HE IS BOLD. HE IS STRONG. HE IS FEARLESS, AND HE IS EXACTLY WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS RATES NOW. LET'S NOT FORGET WHAT LIFE ACTUALLY LOOKED LIKE UNDER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. TRADE DEALS AROUND THE WORLD THAT BENEFITED OUR ECONOMY. ALLIED COUNTRIES PAYING THEIR FAIR SHARE. A SAFE AND SECURE SOUTHERN BORDER. RECORD LOW UNEMPLOYMENT RATES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS, HISPANIC AMERICANS, ASIAN AMERICANS, AND WOMEN. RECORD INVESTMENT IN HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. THE CREATION OF THE UNITED STATES SPACE FORCE. THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE PRISM PRN REFORM IN DECADES. HOW ABOUT THE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST THAT THEY SAID WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN! [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] THE LARGEST TAX CUTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. OUR ENERGY INDEPENDENCE. MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF RED TAPE CUT. AND NO NEW WARS WHEN DONALD J. TRUMP WAS PRESIDENT. MOST IMPORTANTLY, YOU COULD FEEL IT IN YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE. YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO LOVE EVERYTHING THAT HE TWEETED, BUT YOU CANNOT DENY YOU ARE BETTER OFF WHEN DONALD TRUMP WAS IN OFFICE. AMERICANS WERE FINALLY ABLE TO START SAVING MONEY, HOME PRICES WERE AFFORDABLE, AND GAS HIT A LOW OF $1.87 A GALLON. AS I SPEAK HERE TONIGHT, MANY OF OUR FELLOW AMERICANS DON'T KNOW HOW THEY WILL PAY FOR THEIR NEXT TRIP TO THE GROCERY STORE, NEW CLOTHES FOR THEIR CHILDREN, OR THIS MONTH'S RENT. MANY OF OUR FELLOW AMERICANS WORRY THAT WE ARE ON THE VERGE OF A MAJOR TERROR ATTACK HERE ON AMERICAN SOIL. MANY OF OUR FELLOW AMERICANS DON'T THINK THEIR OWN CHILDREN WILL BE ABLE TO ESTABLISH A BETTER LIFE THAN THEY THEMSELVES CURRENTLY HAVE. MANY OF OUR FELLOW AMERICANS ARE RIGHT NOW SITTING AND WONDERING HOW ON EARTH THIS COUNTRY COULD HAVE MOVED IN THE WRONG DIRECTION AND SO QUICKLY. THE DEMOCRATS AND THE MEDIA KNOW THAT THEY CANNOT CONVINCE YOU, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, THAT YOUR LIFE IS BETTER OFF NOW BECAUSE IT IS NOT. SO WHAT WILL THEY DO? THEY WILL TRY TO SELL YOU ON AN OUTRAGEOUS NARRATIVE ABOUT THE THINGS THAT DONALD TRUMP WILL DO IF HE BECOMES PRESIDENT, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO IMAGINE WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS LIKE. I KNOW -- OH, YEAH. [CROWD CHANTING] I KNOW WHAT YOU HEAR OUT THERE ABOUT DONALD TRUMP. I KNOW WHAT YOU READ, WHAT THE RADIO TILL USE, AND WHAT OUT OF TOUCH CELEBRITIES ON THE LEFT SAY ABOUT THIS MAN. BUT WHEN I LOOK AT DONALD TRUMP, I SEE A WONDERFUL FATHER, FATHER-IN-LAW, AND, OF COURSE, GRANDFATHER TO MY YOUNG CHILDREN, LUKE AND CAROLINA. I KNOW THAT I AM LUCKY ENOUGH TO GET TO CALL HIM MY FATHER-IN-LAW AND SEE HIM A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY THAN ALL OF YOU, BUT IT IS THROUGH THAT LENS THAT I SOMETIMES WISH MORE PEOPLE COULD SEE HIM. THIS IS A MAN WHO HAS SACRIFICED FOR HIS FAMILY AND A MAN WHO IS TRULY SACRIFICED FOR HIS COU COUNTRY. DONALD TRUMP DIDN'T NEED TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT FOR FAME OR MONEY. TRUST ME, WE ALREADY KNOW HE HAD PLENTY OF THAT. LIABLE TELL YOU WHY HE DID IT AND WHY HE CONTINUES ON, EVEN IN THE FACE OF THE UNTHINKABLE. BECAUSE HE LOVES THIS COUNTRY. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] [CROWD CHANTING "U.S.A."] HE DID IT FOR HIS GRANDCHILDREN. FOR YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN. AND FOR THE GENERATIONS TO COME. I HAVE SEEN THIS MAN DRAGGED THROUGH HELL AND BACK, IN AND OUT OF COURT ROOMS, INDICTMENTS, MUG SHOTS, AND EVEN AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. AND YET HE HAS NEVER BACKED D DOWN. [CROWD CHANTING] I'LL NEVER FORGET WATCHING MY TWO CHILDREN RUN UP TO HIM WITH THEIR DRAWINGS AND HUGS FOR GRANDPA JUST MOMENTS BEFORE HE TOOK THE ELEVATOR DOWN AT TRUMP TOWER TO ADDRESS THE MEDIA AT THE DAY HIS WRONGFUL CONVICTION. DESPITE EVERYTHING ELSE HE HAD GOING ON, HE HAD NO OTHER FOCUS IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. JUST A MAN RELISHING TIME WITH HIS GRANDCHILDREN. IT IS A SIDE OF DONALD TRUMP THAT NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE GET TO SEE. MAYBE YOU GOT TO SEE A SIDE OF DONALD TRUMP ON SATURDAY THAT YOU WERE NOT SURE IT EXISTED UNTIL YOU SAW IT WITH YOUR OWN EYES. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ONCE FAMOUSLY SAID, "THE ULTIMATE MEASURE OF A MAN IS NOT WHERE HE STANDS IN MOMENTS OF CONVENIENCE AND COMFORT BUT WHERE HE STANDS AT TIME OF CHALLENGE AND CONTROVERSY." THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT SATURDAY WAS ONE OF THE MOST FRIGHTENING MOMENTS OF MY FATHER-IN-LAW'S LIFE. MILLIMETERS SEPARATED HIM FROM LIFE AND CERTAIN DEATH. AND YET IT WAS IN THE MIDST OF IT ALL, AS HE WAS JOSTLED OF STAGE BY SECRET SERVICE, THAT HE KNEW HOW DEFINING THAT WOULD BE FOR OUR COUNTRY AND HE HOISTED HIS FIST IN THE AIR. [CROWD CHANTING] IT WAS NOT JUST FOR THE AUDIENCE AT THE RALLY, NOT JUST FOR HIS SUPPORTERS TUNING IN, BUT FOR ALL OF AMERICA. AND AS A SIGNAL TO THE WORLD THAT, NO MATTER WHAT, AMERICA WILL ALWAYS PREVAIL. THOUGH IT HAS BEEN STRAINED AND ATTACKED, NO ENEMY, NO FORCE, NOT EVEN A BULLET IS STRONG ENOUGH TO BREAK OUR AMERICAN GRIT AND OUR AMERICAN SOUL. WE ARE THE COUNTRY WHOSE FOUNDERS GAVE THEIR FORTUNE, FREEDOM, AND LIVES TO PURSUE THE DREAM OF A FREE SOCIETY. WE ARE THE COUNTRY OF THOMAS EDISON, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, HENRY FORD, AND HARRIET TUBMAN. WE ARE THE COUNTRY WHO FOUGHT AND WON TWO WORLD WARS, AND WE ARE THE COUNTRY WHO ALWAYS RISES TO MEET THE MOMENT, NO MATTER HOW INSURMOUNTABLE THE TASK. AND IN THAT SPLIT SECOND ON SATURDAY, DONALD TRUMP REMINDED US ALL OF THAT VERY HISTORY AND WHO WE ARE AT OUR CORE AS A NATION. THAT IS THE DONALD TRUMP THAT I KNOW. HE IS AN AMERICAN, AN AMERICAN WHO CONQUERED THE BUSINESS WORLD, AN AMERICAN WHO MADE HIMSELF A HOUSEHOLD NAME, AN AMERICAN WHO WAS BELOVED BY POLITICIANS AND FELLOW CELEBRITIES FOR DECADES UNTIL HE RAN FOR OFFICE WITH A R NEXT TO HIS NAME. AND AMERICAN WHO EVEN BARACK OBAMA ADMITS PEOPLE CONSIDERED THE AMERICAN DREAM. AND INSTEAD OF SAILING OFF INTO THE SUNSET AFTER AN ILLUSTRIOUS REAL ESTATE AND TELEVISION CAREER, HE DECIDED TO GIVE BACK. HE DECIDED TO BRING SOME OF THE THINGS THAT HAD MADE HIM SO SUCCESSFUL IN LIFE TO ALL OF YOU IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF ALL AMERICANS, BLACK, WHITE, BROWN, GAY, STRAIGHT, BECAUSE THAT IS THE MAN THAT DONALD TRUMP IS. I CAN TELL YOU THAT MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH DONALD TRUMP HAS SHOWN ME HIS HARD. THERE WASN'T A SECOND THAT THEY MADE THIS SMALL TOWN GIRL WHO WAS WAY OUT OF HER ELEMENT IN NEW YORK CITY FEEL ANYTHING BUT WELCOMED AND PART OF THE FAMILY. AND IF NOT FOR THE SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF MY FATHER-IN-LAW, I WOULDN'T BE WHERE I AM TODAY. IT HAS BEEN SAID BY MANY THAT DONALD TRUMP SEES THINGS AND PEOPLE THAT THEY DON'T EVEN RECOGNIZE IN THEMSELVES. IN 2016, WHEN HE ASKED ME TO HELP HIM WIN MY HOME STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA -- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] [LAUGHS] I WILL BE HONEST, I WAS TERRIFIED. I HAD NO IDEA HOW I WOULD MAKE IT HAPPEN, BUT HE KNEW I WOULD, AND I DID. WHEN I WAS GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN A TELEVISION NETWORK AS A COMMENTATOR, IT WAS THE PUSH AND SUPPORT OF MY FATHER-IN-LAW THAT GAVE ME THE CONFIDENCE TO TAKE THAT JOB. ALWAYS THE FIRST ONE TO CALL OR TEXT ME AFTER A TEA HIT AND TELL ME, "GREAT JOB, KEEP GOING" -- CODE NOT BAD RIGHT? [LAUGHS] OR EVEN A FEW MONTHS AGO WHEN HE CALLED AND ASKED ME TO BE THE COCHAIR OF OUR PARTY -- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] HE SHOWED ME POTENTIAL IN MYSELF THAT I COULDN'T YET SEE. SO TONIGHT, TO MY FATHER-IN-LAW, I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR RESILIENCE. THANK YOU FOR CONTINUING ON. THANK YOU FOR RAISING WONDERFUL KIDS. THANK YOU FOR BEING AN AMAZING GRANDFATHER. THANK YOU FOR NEVER GIVING UP ON ME. AND THANK YOU FOR NEVER GIVING UP ON OUR COUNTRY. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] TONIGHT, I COME TO YOU NOT AS THE COCHAIR OF THE RNC. NOT AS THE DAUGHTER NOT OF THE CANDIDATES. TONIGHT, I COME TO YOU AS A MOM AND AS A CITIZEN OF THIS COUNTRY. FOR THOSE OF YOU WATCHING WHO HAVE NEVER VOTED FOR DONALD TRUMP, I KNOW WHAT THE MEDIA AND HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS HAVE TRIED TO TELL YOU ABOUT THIS MAN. BELIEVE ME, I HAVE SEEN AND HEARD IT ALL. BUT I HAVE ALSO SEEN THE TRUTH. I AM PROUD TO KNOW DONALD TRUMP, TO CAMPAIGN FOR HIM, TO VOTE FOR HIM, AND TO RAISE HIS GRANDCHILDREN. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] HE WILL DO WHAT IS NECESSARY TO PROTECT YOU, PROTECT YOUR FAMILY, AND PROTECT THIS COUNTRY, BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP WANTS US ALL TO BE SUCCESSFUL, TO BE SAFE, TO BE HAPPY, TO BE STRONG, AND TO BE GREAT AGAIN. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] TONIGHT, I AM ASKING YOU TO VOTE. NOT FOR THE DONALD TRUMP YOU SEE ON YOUR TV EVERY DAY SPLASHED AGAINST THE HEADLINES. TONIGHT, I AM ASKING YOU TO VOTE FOR THE DONALD TRUMP THAT LUKE AND CAROLINA CALLED GRANDPA. I AM ASKING YOU TO VOTE FOR THE DONALD TRUMP THAT MY HUSBAND, ERIC, IT CALLS DATA. I AM ASKING YOU TO VOTE FOR THE DONALD TRUMP THAT I CALL MY FATHER-IN-LAW. I AM ASKING YOU TO VOTE FOR THE DONALD TRUMP WHO CAN AND WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT ONCE AGAIN FOR ALL OF US! THANK YOU, GOD BLESS YOU, GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. WE LOVE YOU. >> ERIC TRUMP, COCHAIR OF THE OF PUBLIC AND NATIONAL COMMITTEE SINCE MARCH, MOST IMPORTANT, AS SHE SPELLED OUT, DONALD DONALD TRUMP'S DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, MOTHER OF HIS GRANDCHILDREN. JOHN SANTUCCI, YOU HAVE LEARNED OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS WILL BE HERE BY WEEKS END? >> SOURCES HAVE NOW TOLD ABC NEWS, COME THURSDAY, A BUNKO TRUMP AND MELANIA TRUMP WILL BE HERE, JUST IN ATTENDANCE, NOT SPEAKING. >> David: NIGHT 2 ALMOST COMPLETE. JOHN, THANK YOU. THE ENERGY ON THAT FLOOR, EVEN WHEN RIVALS TOOK THE STAGE TO SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP. >> YES, DAVID, LA REALLY SOLIDIFYING THE IMAGE THAT SHE HOPES WILL DEFINE THIS CAMPAIGN, THE FORMER PRESIDENT WITH HIS FIST UP AFTER BEING GRAZED BY THAT BULLET, AFTER HE SAID THE WORDS "FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT," THE CROWD ERUPTING IN THOSE CHANCE. LARA TRUMP SINGS IS NOT THE SPEECH SHE PLANNED TO GIVE, NOT THE SPEECH SHE WROTE, SO MUCH FOCUSED ON THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. WE KNOW THE FORMER PRESIDENT STILL REVAMPING HIS REMARKS TO FOCUS ON UNITY, AFTER THIS DIVISIVE COMPANION, WE WILL SEE IF THAT HOLDS. >> David: THANK YOU, RACHEL, JON KARL, CLEARLY A FAMILY AFFAIR. >> AND THE UNITY HE WANTS IS THE UNITY OF REPUBLICANS, AND SAW THAT WITH DeSANTIS AND NIKKI HALEY AFTER THAT BITTER PRIMARY. >> NIKKI HALEY PERHAPS THE HEADLINER OF THE NIGHT, MAKING THE MOST NEWS, PERHAPS, CAME HERE AND SAID, MAKE NO MISTAKE, I WILL VOTE FOR TRUMP. PEOPLE DON'T ALWAYS AGREE WITH HIM, WENT ON TO MAKE IT CLEAR SHE IS VOTING FOR TRUMP. >> YOU HAD TO IMAGINE THAT IT IS PROBABLY WHAT SHE PLANNED FROM THE BEGINNING. YOU HAVE TO IMAGINE OR WONDER WHAT SOME OF THESE ORIGINAL SCRIPTS WERE AFTER THAT REMINDER FROM LARA TRUMP THAT SHE SCRAPPED HER ORIGINAL ONE. STILL, WE HEARD SOME FIERY SPEECHES TONIGHT. THEY ARE SAYING THIS IS A MORE TONED DOWN OR CIVIL DISCUSSION THEY ARE HAVING. I TALKED TO ERIC TRUMP. HE SAID HE TOO HAS CHANGED HIS SPEECH WERE THURSDAY. >> TOLD YOU HE CHANGED HIS SPEECH WERE THURSDAY. DONALD TRUMP TOLD JON KARL YESTERDAY THAT THE PRESIDENT'S CHANGED HIS SPEECH AS WELL. AIMING TO SHOW A UNITED REPUBLICAN PARTY. >> A UNITED REPUBLICAN PARTY IN EVERYTHING THEY HAVE TALKED ABOUT SINCE THAT NO MAKE THIS BEGIN IS SOMETHING THAT AFFECTS PEOPLE, CRIME, GROCERY PRICES, THAT IS WHAT THEY WANT TO TALK ABOUT AND THEY'RE ALSO STILL TAPPING INTO PEOPLE'S FEARS. >> TAPPING INTO THEIR FEARS, DOING AT HOME EVEN WITH INFLATION NUMBERS RISING -- THE CENTRAL CHALLENGE OF MARY BRUCE, FOR THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, AS THEY MOVE FORWARD WITH THE CAMPAIGN. >> TONIGHT, DAVID, THE CAMPAIGN IS ARGUING THAT WHILE YOU HEARD SHARP ATTACKS AGAINST THE PRESIDENT AND HIS ADMINISTRATION, THEY SAY THAT WHAT YOU DIDN'T HEAR WITH SOLUTIONS, SPEAKERS NOT OUTLINING OR MAKING CLEAR WHAT DONALD TRUMP WOULD DO WITH THESE PROBLEMS. JUST NOW, IN A STATEMENT SHOWING THEIR FINAL THOUGHTS, THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE HAD THIS PARTING CHAP, IF REPUBLICANS WANTED TO FOCUS ON CRIME TONIGHT PERHAPS THEY SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT UP THEIR NOMINEE, A CONVICTED FELON, TO GIVE HIS KEYNOTE ADDRESS EARLY. >> GOING TO ELECT PICTURE OF MOUNT J.D. VANCE, REPUBLICAN TICKET A NIGHT 2, ENDING THE CONVENTION, THE BIG SPEAKER TOMORROW NIGHT AND WE WILL BE HERE FOR THAT. "ABC NEWS" COVERAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION, NATE 3, WE WILL SEE YOU, WE WILL SEE YOU TOMORROW NIGHT. GOOD NIGHT. ♪ ♪ somebody is killing young black women. The feared was just insane. I was not going to stop until I found out who did this knew all of his victims. He portrayed himself as a good friend now Friday the prison interview with the killer as I touch them and the first interview with the only surviving victim 2020 Friday night on ABC Let's go. The ship is incredible. It feels like living in a science fiction movie. We just saw where no one has seen before look at that. We are heading into the unknown. It doesn't get any more Cutting Edge and this There is a price to be paid every time a Survivor shares their story. I will not be silenced. Do you feel the church accepted abuse? And once he accepted it as so much pretended it didn't exist ready? Kyra Phillips with ABC News does your church protect sexual predators by Nightline secrets of the to buy to church. There's nothing pretty about hearing the now streaming on Hulu. >> AT TONIGHT'S AT NIGHT 2 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. THE PARTY FAITHFUL GATHERING ONE DAY AFTER NOMINATING J.D. VANCE, POTENTIAL REPUBLICAN LEADERS TAKING THE STAGE. >> AT THE YOUNG REPUBLICANS ARE FIGHTING TO MAKE THE ECONOMY GREAT AGAIN. >> AND OUR MESSAGE TO GEN Z IS THIS. YOU ARE GOING TO BE THE GENERATION THAT SAVES THIS COUNTRY. >> INNOVATION AND SECURITY, TONIGHT'S TOP ISSUES AS THEY HONE IN ON WHAT THE PARTY DESCRIBES HIS DONALD TRUMP'S GREATEST POLICY STRENGTHS WHILE BRINGING STORIES OF THE EVERYDAY MEN AND WOMEN TO MILLIONS OF VIEWERS. >> WE WANT TO LIVE IN A PLACE WHERE IT IS SAFE FOR CHILDREN, FAMILIES. IT IS NOT ONLY THE BORDER, THE CHAOS. >> A COUNTRY WITHOUT A BORDER IS NOT A COUNTRY. >> AS TRUMPS VANQUISHED REBELS ADDRESS CONVENTION GOERS JUST DAYS AFTER THAT ATTEMPTED TO SOSA NASH END. >> I WILL START BY MAKING ONE THING PERFECTLY CLEAR. DONALD TRUMP HAS MY STRONG ENDORSEMENT, PERIOD. >> LET'S SEND JOE BIDEN BACK TO HIS BASEMENT AND LET'S SEND DONALD TRUMP BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE. >> WE WILL HAVE THAT AND MORE ON THIS, NIGHT 2, OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. ♪ ♪ WELCOME BACK, EVERYONE, THANK YOU FOR TUNING INTO ANOTHER HOUR OF ABC NEWS LIVE'S COVERAGE. WE ARE AT THE MIDWAY POINT WITH REPUBLICANS ABOUT TO CLOSE OUT THEIR SECOND OF FOUR EVENINGS FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP, ONCE AGAIN IN ATTENDANCE, GRADING AND EVEN MORE JUBILANT CROWD OF WELL-WISHERS WITH FORMER OPPONENTS RIGHT WHERE HE WANTS . HERE AT HIS CONVENTION, NOW ON HIS SIDE, RON DeSANTIS AND NIKKI HALEY TAKING CENTER STAGE. >> I AM HERE TONIGHT BECAUSE WE HAVE A COUNTRY TO SAVE, AND A UNIFIED REPUBLICAN PARTY IS ESSENTIAL FOR SAVING HER. >> JUST MOMENTS AGO, LARA TRUMP, THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AND NOW REPUBLICAN PARTY CHIEF COMPLETING THE REQUESTING OF THE GRAND OLD PARTY AS THE PARTY OF TRUMP. >> IS ANYBODY IN THIS ROOM READY TO SEND DONALD TRUMP BACK TO 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE? >> LEADING US OFF NOW, GENERAL BRIAN. >> DATE TWO MARKED BY DRAMATIC QUESTION. WHAT WOULD NIKKI HALEY SAY? A MIX OF CHEERS AND BOOS GREETED TRUMP'S MOST BITTER RIVAL WHO SAID THEY ASKED YOU ADDRESS THE CONVENTION IN THE NAME OF UNITY. >> I WILL START BY MAKING ONE THING PERFECTLY CLEAR. DONALD TRUMP HAS MY STRONG ENDORSEMENT, PERIOD. >> SPEAKING TO SOME MODERATE REPUBLICAN'S STILL NOT SUPPORTING TRUMP. >> MY MESSAGE TO THEM IS SIMPLE. YOU DON'T HAVE TO AGREE WITH TRUMP 100% OF THE TIME TO VOTE FOR HIM. >> OTHER ONE-TIME TRUMP REBELS ALSO TAKEN TO THE STAGE AND THROWING THEIR WEIGHT BEHIND THE FORMER PRESIDENT TOO. >> LET'S MAKE THE 45TH PRESIDENT THE 47TH PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES. LET'S ELECT REPUBLICANS UP AND DOWN THE BALLOT, AND LET'S HIT THE CALL OF OUR PARTY'S NOMINEE TO FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT FOR THESE UNITED STATES. >> TRUMP WATCHING IT ALL FROM HIS BOX, MAKING ANOTHER SURPRISE APPEARANCE ALONGSIDE NEW VP PICK J.D. VANCE, STILL HANGING OVER THE GATHERING, THAT ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. >> AND LET ME START BY GIVING THANKS TO GOD ALMIGHTY FOR PROTECTING PRESIDENT TRUMP. >> IN THE CROWD, A TRIBUTE TO THE PRESIDENT'S EAR WOUNDED, ALSO ADDRESSING THE CONVENTION, A LINEUP OF SENATE HOPEFULS TRYING TO FLIP THE UPPER CHAMBER FROM DEMOCRATS IN NOVEMBER. >> THE PROBLEMS WE FACE OUR PROBLEMS CAUSED BY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, BUT THE SOLUTIONS ARE REALLY SIMPLE. FIRST OF ALL, STOP THE BIDEN INVASION AND BUILD THE WALL. EASY. >> BIDEN AND THE DEMOCRATS ARE DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO TEAR DOWN THIS GREAT COUNTRY AND REBUILD IT IN THEIR WOKE RADICAL IMAGE. THEIR DREAM IS NOT NEW. IT ISN'T ALL, EVIL IDEA THAT HAS FAILED EVERY TIME IT HAS BEEN TRIED. >> AMERICANS WANT A PRESIDENT WHO IS PROUD OF THEIR COUNTRY AND TO THEY CAN BE PROUD OF. JOE BIDEN IS AN EMBARRASSMENT. >> TUESDAY'S MESSAGE, "LAW & ORDER," MANY USING THEIR TIME AT THE PODIUM TO GO ON THE OFFENSIVE. >> IF YOU WANT TO SEAL THE BORDER, BOAT TRUMP. IF YOU WANT TO RESTORE LAW AND ORDER IN THIS COUNTRY, POACHED FROM. >> THE CRIME CRISIS, FUELED BY DEMOCRATS PRO-CRIMINAL SANCTUARY CITIES AND DEFUND THE POLICE POLICIES LIKE WE HAVE SEEN IN MY HOME STATE OF NEW YORK. >> HOUSE SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON PLEDGING A FULL INVESTIGATION INTO SATURDAY'S ATTACK AT THAT TRUMP RALLY. >> EVERYONE HEAR ME CLEARLY, MAKE NO MISTAKE, THE HOUSE IS CONDUCTING AN IMMEDIATE AND THOROUGH INVESTIGATION OF THESE TRAGIC EVENTS. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DESERVE TO KNOW THE TRUTH AND WE WILL ENSURE ACCOUNTABILITY. I PROMISE YOU THAT. I PROMISE YOU THAT. >> OUR THANKS TO JAY O'BRIEN FOR THAT. TO RACHEL SCOTT, ON THE FLOOR ONCE AGAIN TONIGHT. RACHEL, QUITE A NIGHT, NIKKI HALEY, ONCE A DONALD TRUMP FOE, NOW A FRIEND, ANY INDICATION OF HER SUPPORTERS ARE CONVINCED? >> IT WAS A MIXED REACTION, NOT ONLY FROM THE CROWD HERE, WHO BOOED AND CHEERED ALL THE SAME, ALSO FROM SEVERAL NIKKI HALEY SUPPORTERS WHO RESELL, SOME WHO SAID HER MESSAGE OF UNITY REALLY RESONATED, AND OTHERS WHO SAID THEY SIMPLY CANNOT GO WITH THE VALUES OF FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND HOW THEY WERE DEFINITELY APPRECIATIVE OF HER CALLS FOR UNITY WITH THE PARTY, THAT THE FORMER PRESIDENT HAS DONE THINGS THAT GO WAY TOO FAR, INCLUDING SOME OF THE ATTACKS HE HAS HAD A NIKKI HALEY HERSELF. REMEMBER, HE MOCKED HER HUSBAND, DEPLOYED OVERSEAS AT THE TIME. A VERY BITTER CAMPAIGN. BUT THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN ALSO VERY KEENLY AWARE OF THE HOLD NIKKI HALEY HAS. SHE DID VERY WELL AMONG MODERATES, INDEPENDENTS, THOSE ARE VOTERS THAT DONALD TRUMP WOULD NEED, EVEN AFTER SHE DROPPED OUT, LINSEY, LOOKING AT THOSE PRIMARIES, STILL PULLING IN A LOT OF SUPPORT. THE QUESTION NOW IS IF THE SUPPORTERS TURNED TOWARD BIDEN OR TRUMP. >> Linsey: WE MAY NOT KNOW THAT FOR A FEW MORE MONTHS. RACHEL SCOTT, OUR THANKS TO YOU, AS ALWAYS. I WANT TO BRING IN JON KARL JON KARL AND MARTHA RADDATZ. INTERESTING TO NOTE, J.D. VANCE'S BOOK, "HILLBILLY ELEGY," TODAY, NUMBER ONE ON THE BEST SELLER BOOK LIST. >> ON NETFLIX TOO. >> Linsey: I BET. JON, I WANT TO START WITH YOU, THE NIKKI HALEY AND RON DeSANTIS OF ADELE, YOUR THOUGHTS ON THESE PEOPLE WHO WERE FORMER FOES NOW SUGGESTING THAT THERE CONVERTS. >> IT SHOWS THAT DONALD TRUMP WANTS TO WIN, GAVE THOSE TWO -- NIKKI HALEY WASN'T EVEN INVITED TO THIS CONVENTION UNTIL A FEW WEEKS AGO. IT SHOWS THAT HE WANTS TO WIN, GAVE THEM PROMINENT SPEAKING SLOTS. IT ALSO SHOWS HOW MUCH HE LOVES TO HAVE SOMEBODY WHO HATED HIM COME OUT AND CONFESS THEIR LOVE FOR HIM. IT WASN'T JUST HALEY AND DeSANTIS. IT WAS TED CRUZ, MARCO RUBIO, ALL OF THEM HAVE SAID THE MOST VICIOUS THINGS ABOUT TRUMP AND HAD TO GO UP THERE TONIGHT AND TALK ABOUT HOW MUCH THEY LIKE HIM. THE NIKKI HALEY THING, SHE WASN'T SPEAKING TO THIS CROWD. IT WAS A MIXED RECEPTION. SPEAKING TO THOSE WHO ARE NOT SOLD ON TRUMP, THEY DON'T LIKE TRUMP, GIVING THEM A REASON TO VOTE. THEY VOTED FOR HER BECAUSE SHE WAS THE ANTI-TRUMP. THEY DIDN'T VOTE FOR HER BECAUSE SHE WAS NIKKI HALEY. NOW THAT SHE IS PART OF THE TRUMP CROWD, WE'LL SEE. >> Linsey: MANY HAVE SUGGESTED ALREADY THAT THEY WERE JUST PROTEST VOTES WHEN THEY WERE PUTTING IN HER NAME BY THE END WHEN SHE WAS NO LONGER IN THE RACE. MARTHA, WE DID HEAR SOME COMMON ISSUES THAT PEOPLE HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT DRUG OVERDOSES OR CRIME, POCKETBOOK ISSUES, AS WELL AS IMMIGRATION ON MULTIPLE COUNTS TONIGHT. YOU HEARD, "BUILD THE WALL" CHANCE. IT FEELS LIKE FEAR IS STILL A BIG ISSUE. >> I THINK IT IS. YOU HEARD THOSE FAMILIES WHO WERE SUCH POWERFUL SPEAKERS, WHO LOST LOVED ONES TO FEND FENTANYL, MURDER, SOMEONE IN THE COUNTRY ILLEGALLY. YOU HEARD THAT POWERFUL, POWERFUL VOICE OF THE AVERAGE AMERICAN. BUT THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IT DID, IT TAPPED INTO FEAR. AND THAT IS PART OF THIS CAMPAIGN, VERY MUCH SO. THEY WANT TO SAY HE WANTS TO UNITE PEOPLE, BUT IT IS FEAR. IT IS LIKE, LOOK, LOOK WHAT IS HAPPENING TO YOU EVERY DAY. NOT ONLY FEAR, BUT GROCERY PRICES, GAS PRICES. NO MATTER WHAT THE STATISTICS ACTUALLY SAY IT -- AND GROCERY PRICES ARE DEFINITELY HIGHER. IT DOESN'T MATTER. THEY AFFECT PEOPLE, THEY CAN RELATE TO THAT. IN SOME WAYS, DONALD TRUMP IS THIS NONINCUMBENT INCUMBENT. LARA TRUMP SAID TONIGHT, REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS LIKE FOR COAT YEARS AGO. PEOPLE DON'T REALLY REMEMBER. WHAT THEY ARE LIVING RIGHT NOW, THAT IS A DISADVANTAGE FOR JOE BIDEN RIGHT NOW, PEOPLE ARE FEELING THE BIDEN PRESIDENCY. TRUMP COULD SAY, I WAS PRESIDENT, BUT THAT WAS FOUR YEARS AGO, EVERYTHING WAS GREAT. >> Linsey: EVEN THOUGH THE DOW HIT RECORD YESTERDAY. >> ABOUT GOING TO THE GROCERY STORE, YEAH. >> MARTHA, JOHN, OUR THANKS, WE WILL SEE YOU RIGHT BACK HERE AGAIN TOMORROW, DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN. BACK WITH US NOW, ABC NEWS EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL PRODUCER JOHN SANTUCCI. I KNOW YOU ARE GETTING REPORTING ON WHAT WE CAN EXPECT FROM THE FORMER PRESIDENT ON THURSDAY, WHAT CAN YOU TELL US? >> NOT EVEN THE FORMER PRESIDENT, THE TRUMP OF FAMILY. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS, WE ARE GOING TO SEE THE ENTIRE TRUMP FAMILY UNDER ONE ROOF. SOURCES HAVE JUST TOLD ABC NEWS THAT IVANKA TRUMP AND MELANIA TRUMP WILL BOTH BE IN THIS HALL COME THURSDAY. LOOK, NEITHER ARE EXPECTED TO SPEAK, NEVERTHELESS, TO SEE ALL OF THEM TOGETHER HERE SUPPORTING DONALD TRUMP IS GOING TO BE A MOMENT. WE HAVE SEEN THE WAY THIS CROWD HAS REACTED SO FAR AS DONALD TRUMP ENTERED THE HALL MONDAY NIGHT. I CAN'T IMAGINE THAT REACTION ON THURSDAY WHEN THEY SEE EVERYONE TOGETHER, LINSEY. >> Linsey: YOU CAN ONLY IMAGINE. JOHN SANTUCCI, WE WILL BE HERE AND WATCH IT, WITNESS IT COME ALIVE WHEN IT HAPPENS ON THURSDAY. OUR THANKS. I WANT TO BRING IN MARY BRUCE, WHO IS IN LAS VEGAS TONIGHT. MARY, NIKKI HERE HALEY, CLEARLY ON THAT STAGE TONIGHT. NOT THE STATE SHE WANTED. SHE, FOR MONTHS, HAD ASKED DONALD TRUMP TO BE ON THE DEBATE STAGE WITH HER. TRUMP CAMPAIGN CLEARLY HOPING THAT SHE WAS GOING TO BE ABLE TO BRING HER SUPPORTERS ON BOARD. THE BITING CAMPAIGN ALSO HAS EYES ON HER FORMER BASE. WHAT ARE YOU HEARING? >> THE BITING CAMPAIGN IS VERY MUCH HOPING THAT HER VOTERS ARE UP FOR GRABS. IN A STATEMENT TO PUT OUT AFTER HALEY'S REMARKS, THEY QUOTED IT BACK, "SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T RESPECT OUR MILITARY DOESN'T KNOW RIGHT FROM WRONG AND SURROUNDS HIMSELF AND CAST," HOW NIKKI HALEY HAS DESCRIBED TRUMP. AT THE END OF THE STATEMENT, THE BITING CAMPAIGN SAYING THAT THERE IS A HOME FOR EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE HALEY VOTERS IN THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN. I AM TOLD THAT THEY HAVE BEEN REACHING OUT AND TALKING TO SOME OF HALEY'S SUPPORTERS AND THEY FEEL THESE ARE BOATERS WHO ARE MOTIVATED MORE BY THE ISSUES AND LESS BY AN ACTUAL CANDIDATE, MEANING THEY BELIEVE THAT THEY WERE VOTING MORE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP AND NOT FOR NIKKI HALEY, A SIMPLE SIGN THAT IT WON'T BE ENOUGH TO CHANGE ALL OF THEIR MINDS. STILL OPTIMISTIC THAT THEY WILL BRING IT BACK, TALKING WITH SOME OF THOSE VOTERS, IT IS A BIT OF A MIXED BAG, SOME SAYING THEY'RE GOING TO FOLLOW HALEY TO TRUMP, OTHER SAYING NOT. >> Linsey: MARY BRUCE, OUR THANKS, AS ALWAYS, MUCH MORE CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS TO GET TO ON THIS SPECIAL EDITION OF ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME, WE ARE IN MILWAUKEE ALL WEEK LONG FOR THE RNC, RIVALS SPEAKING TONIGHT, TRYING TO UNIFY THE PARTY BEHIND TRUMP AND HIS POLICIES. WILL IT WORK? STILL REMAINS TO BE SEEN. 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How did she survive 9 days of Terror the word accomplice came up Nobody Knows the real story The Beauty Queen Killer only on Hulu. >> AS PRESIDENT TRUMP RAISED HIS FIST AND GIVE A RALLY CRY ON SATURDAY, NOW IS OUR TIME TO FIGHT, AND WE WILL. >> Linsey: WELCOME BACK TONIGHT TO TRY AND OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IN MILWAUKEE. JOINING US NOW, ABCs D.C. BUREAU CHIEF RICK KLEIN, A NEW EPISODE'S RAIDERS POLL WAS PUBLISHED, WHAT DID IT SAY? >> FIRST POLL WAS SEEN TAKEN AFTER SATURDAY, AFTER THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT, HAS PEOPLE BUZZING ABOUT A POTENTIAL BOOST FOR DONALD TRUMP. IT DOESN'T TRANSLATE, AT LEAST IN THIS ONE POLL, TWO-POINT EDGE FOR DONALD TRUMP OVER JOE BIDEN, FOR CONTEXT, ARE POLL LACED LAST WEEK HAD A ONE POINT EDGE. THIS IS ALSO INTERESTING, THE HYPOTHETICAL MATCHUP OF HARRIS AND TRUMP A DEAD HEAT, HEAR US A LITTLE STRONGER THAN JOE BIDEN IN THAT HYPOTHETICAL MATCHUP. >> Linsey: 5% OF RESPONDENTS TO THAT POLL SAID THEY WOULD SUPPORT SOME OTHER CANDIDATE, ANOTHER 10% SAID THEY WOULDN'T OR DON'T KNOW WHO THEY WILL VOTE FOR. ARE THOSE NUMBERS SIGNIFICANT? >> THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE SUPPORTING THIRD-PARTY CANDIDATES HAS VARIED, GIVES YOU NEWS INTO THE ROBERT F. KENNEDY. KENNEDY JR. HAD THAT CONVERSATION. THEY KNOW THAT CANDIDATES VOTERS, THE THIRD PARTY VOTERS, COULD BE CRITICAL. THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT STILL DON'T WANT TO VOTE AT ALL, INTERESTED IN LOOKING AT THOSE NUMBERS. THE MESSAGING FOR THESE FIRST TWO NIGHTS HAVE BEEN VERY MUCH ON MESSAGE CONVENTION NIGHTS FOR DONALD TRUMP. I REMEMBER HIS PREVIOUS CONVENTIONS WERE NOT LIKE THIS. THIS IS A MUCH MORE SUBDUED, RALLY AROUND THE MEANT MESSAGE. >> ARE D.C. BUREAU CHIEF RICK KLEIN, WE THINK HE WAS ALWAYS FOR THE ANALYSIS. WANT TO BRING UP MIREYA VILLARREAL NOW, YOU HEARD SENATOR CRUZ, IT PIVOTED TO THE TOPIC FENTANYL, WHAT FACTS YOU HAVE ABOUT FENTANYL AND PEOPLE COMING TO OUR BORDER LOOKING FOR JOBS? >> YOU KNOW, LINSEY, WE HAD THE CONVERSATION OVER IMMIGRATION AND THE CRISIS AT THE BORDER BY A NUMBER OF THE SPEAKERS WHO TOOK THE STAGE TODAY. WHAT WE DIDN'T HEAR WAS THAT AGGRESSIVE CONVERSATION, THAT RHETORIC WE HAVE HEARD OVER THE LAST SIX TO EIGHT MONTHS FROM NOT JUST THE FORMER PRESIDENT BUT ALSO, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE THAT ARE LOOKING TO SUPPORT HIM IN THE FUTURE. THIS WAS A MORE SUBDUED, AS RICK MENTIONED, A MORE SUBDUED CONVERSATION WHERE WE ARE LOOKING TO PIVOT THE MESSAGE. OBVIOUSLY THERE IS STILL A LOT OF CONVERSATION ABOUT OUR BORDERS BEING OPEN COMING FROM THE CONSERVATIVE BASE, WHAT WE ARE SEEING IS A MOVEMENT TO SAY, LISTEN, IT IS NOT JUST ABOUT THE PEOPLE COMING ACROSS THE BORDER. IT IS ABOUT DRUGS, AND CROSS THE BORDER AND THE FACT THAT THEY ARE KILLING OUR AMERICAN PEOPLE HERE. A LOT OF THE REASON WHY WE ARE HEARING THAT RIGHT NOW, LINSEY, THE NUMBERS THAT WE ARE SEEING ALONG THE BORDER APPREHENSIONS AND ENCOUNTERS HAVE DECREASED DRAMATICALLY OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS. IN OPPOSITION TO FENTANYL, WHICH WE HAVE SEEN IN 2020 TO 2023, A 480% INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF FENTANYL SEIZURES, AND A LOT OF THAT IS COMING IN THROUGH TRAFFIC AND PORTS OF ENTRY. I THINK WE ARE GOING TO SEE A BIT OF A SHIFT NOW AND PEOPLE BEING BROUGHT IN TO EXPLAIN EXACTLY HOW THIS FENTANYL CRISIS IS AFFECTING FAMILIES IN THE U.S. >> Linsey: THE ISSUE OF AMERICANS MADE UP BY MIGRANTS ALSO CAME UP, AND THOSE STORIES WERE SUPER COMPELLING, OUR CONDOLENCES GO OUT TO THOSE FAMILIES WHO HAVE LOST LOVED ONES. WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THE CORRELATION BETWEEN MIGRANTS IN THE U.S. AND CRIMES COMMITTED BY THEM? >> YOU KNOW, LINSEY, AGAIN, THIS GOES BACK TO THE MESSAGING COMING FROM THE RNC RIGHT NOW. A FEW MONTHS AGO WE WOULD HAVE HEARD PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT HOW THIS WAS A MIGRANT CRIME WAVE, A TERM EMPLOYED BY THE FORMER PRESIDENT AND BEING USED IN A NUMBER OF HIS CAMPAIGN STOPS. TONIGHT, WE DIDN'T HEAR THAT RHETORIC. WHAT WE HEARD WAS THE IMPACT TO FAMILIES AND HOW THESE KINDS OF CRIMES COULD BE PERPETUATED ALL OVER THE COUNTRY IF WE DIDN'T CLOSE OUR BORDERS. AS WE HEARD BY JON KARL AND MARTHA TALKING ABOUT EARLIER, THIS IS ABOUT STRIKING FEAR IN THE VOTERS WATCHING THIS AND TELLING THEM, IF YOU DON'T GO TO THE POLLS AND YOU DON'T VOTE FOR FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, WE ARE GOING TO SEE MORE OF THIS. LET ME BE CLEAR, THERE ARE NOT STATISTICS RIGHT NOW SHOWING THAT THERE IS A MAJOR RISE IN CRIMES BEING COMMITTED BY MIGRANTS, WE HAVE ALSO SEEN A DECREASE IN CRIME ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY BASED ON FBI STATS. DEFINITELY A VERY DIFFERENT MESSAGE THAT WE ARE HEARING WHEN IT COMES TO THE BORDER AT THE RNC RIGHT NOW. >> Linsey: MIREYA VILLARREAL, OUR THANKS AS ALWAYS, WANT TO REACH ACROSS THE AISLE IN BRINGING KEVIN MUNOZ, A SENIOR SPOKESMAN FOR THE BIDEN-HARRIS CAMPAIGN. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TONIGHT. THE REPUBLICAN THEME TONIGHT, MAKE AMERICA SAFE ONCE AGAIN, PRESUMES IT IS NOT SAFE. WHAT IS THE CAMPAIGN'S RESPONSE TO THAT? >> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME ON, LINSEY. LET'S TAKE A STEP BACK. WHAT WE DIDN'T HEAR ONCE TONIGHT WAS ONE SOLUTION, ONE PLAN, ONE VISION TO CREATE A STRONGER COUNTRY, A MORE PROSPEROUS COUNTRY, OR A SAFER COUNTRY, BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP DOESN'T BELIEVE IN PLANS, DONALD TRUMP BELIEVES IN HIMSELF. HE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT CREATING SAFER COMMUNITIES, HE SEES THINGS DIFFERENTLY, THAT IS WHY WE ARE AT A 50-YEAR LOW FOR VIOLENT CRIME. HE HAS PUT IN RECORD INVESTMENTS TO ADDRESS LAW ENFORCEMENT, AND HE HAS PUT FORTH A BIPARTISAN BOARD A PLAN TO CREATE A SAFER BORDER FOR OUR COUNTRY, AND DONALD TRUMP -- OUR VIEW IS THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE ABOUT WHO IS FIGHTING AND GETTING THINGS DONE, AND JOE BIDEN HAS A GREAT RECORD AND A VISION FOR THE FUTURE. >> Linsey: REPUBLICANS HIGHLIGHTED CRIMES CREATED BY IMMIGRANTS, ADVOCATING SEALING THE BORDER, CARRYING OUT THE LARGEST DEPORTATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY, WE HAD A CHANCES OF "BUILD THE WALL" MULTIPLE TIMES, MAKING IT TOUGHER TO CLAIM ASYLUM AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER. HOW ARE YOUR CAMPAIGN'S PLANS BETTER? >> LOOK, I THINK WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THIS ISSUE, YOU DO NOT WANT LEADERS IN THIS COUNTRY POLITICIZING THEM. YOU WANT PEOPLE THAT WILL HONOR THESE TRAGEDIES, HORRIFYING STORIES, WITH ACTION. THAT IS WHAT JOE BIDEN HAS DONE. WHEN DONALD TRUMP KILLED THAT BIPARTISAN BORDER BILL, JOE BIDEN FIGURED OUT A WAY TO TAKE EXECUTIVE ACTION FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES. IT IS NOT ENOUGH. WE HAVE TO CONTINUE TO DO MORE. THAT IS WHY JOE BIDEN WILL CONTINUE FIGHTING FOR COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM THAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS. IT DOES NOT NEED TO COME AT THE EXPENSE OF ATTACKING IMMIGRANTS OR MASS DETENTION CAMPS OR SEPARATING MOTHERS FROM THEIR CHILDREN. THESE ARE NOT THE POLICIES THAT REPRESENT THE VALUES OF THIS COUNTRY AND THEY ARE ALSO NOT POLICIES THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SUPPORT. WE HAVE TO CONTINUE TALKING ABOUT THIS ISSUE AND ALL OF THE ISSUES THAT WE KNOW IT LATINOS AND VOTERS ACROSS THIS COUNTRY CARE MOST ABOUT. >> Linsey: "THE WASHINGTON POST" IS REPORTING THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN PLANS TO ENDORSE MAJOR CHANGES TO THE SUPREME COURT IN THE COMING WEEKS. IS THIS TRUE AND CAN YOU TELL US WHAT SOME OF THOSE MIGHT BE? >> I CAN'T GET AHEAD OF THE PRESIDENT. WHAT I CAN TELL YOU IS, HE HAS BEEN CLEAR THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME CHANGES AND EFFORTS TO THINK ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT THE SUPREME COURT CONTINUES TO BE A CHECK AND BALANCE SYSTEM. WHEN WE LOOK AT WHAT HAS HAPPENED WITH THE DOG'S DECISION, WHEN WE LOOK AT THIS RECENT IMMUNITY DECISION THAT LETS TRUMP ACT AS A WOODHAVEN BE KING, WE REALLY NEED TO RECONSIDER WHAT WE CAN DO TO MAKE SURE OUR DEMOCRACY IS STRONG MOVING FORWARD. >> Linsey: KEVIN MUNOZ, SENIOR SPOKESPERSON FOR THE BIDEN-HARRIS CAMPAIGN. WE APPRECIATE YOUR TIME AT THIS LATE HOUR. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. STILL MUCH MORE CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS TO GET TO HEAR ON THE SPECIAL EDITION OF ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME, THE G.O.P. CONVENTION, FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP MADE ANOTHER APPEARANCE ALONGSIDE HIS NEW RUNNING MATE, SENATOR J.D. VANCE, AND SPEAKERS PUT FORTH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY PLATFORM. LOOK AT A PICTURE OF THE PAINTING FOR THE FUTURE NEXT. Whenever Wherever news breaks, it's so important to always remember that lives are changed here in London in Buffalo Uvalde, Texas Edinburgh Scotland from Poland once again tonight. Thank you so much for streaming with us Ukrainian refugees here in Warsaw. 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AND WHEN DONALD TRUMP IS PRESIDENT, WE WILL FIX IT! >> Linsey: WELCOME BACK, EVERYONE. THAT WAS TEXAS SENATOR TED CRUZ TONIGHT IN MILWAUKEE SAYING FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP CAN FIX THE PROBLEMS AT THE BORDER AND BEYOND AS REPUBLICANS WRAP UP THEIR SECOND NIGHT HERE AT THE RNC IN MILWAUKEE. THANKS FOR STAYING UP LATE WITH US. AND ALSO STAYING UP WITH US AS FORMER GEORGIA REPRESENTATIVE TOM GRAVES AND CONTRIBUTOR CHRISTINA. WE THANK YOU FOR STAYING UP HERE CHRISTINA, I WANT TO START WITH YOU, MANY OF THE SPEECH IS FOCUSED ON CRIME AND SAFETY, AS WE HEARD FROM FAMILIES AFFECTED BY THAT VIOLENCE PERSONALLY, LET'S TAKE A LISTEN. >> COMMUNITIES LIKE MINE ARE SUFFERING! AND WHO ELSE IN HERE IS SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED! [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> Linsey: CHRISTINA, YOUR REACTION TO THAT, AND DO YOU THINK THIS WILL APPEAL TO URBAN MOMS AND BLACK VOTERS? >> YOU KNOW, I THINK YOU HAVE TO SEPARATE SOME OF THE CRISES IN THE CRIME, THERE IS A FENTANYL CRISIS, A DRUG ADDICTION CRISIS ACROSS THIS COUNTRY THAT THOUSANDS OF FAMILIES ARE SUFFERING FROM COMMENCING THEIR LOVED ONES DIE OR STRUGGLE WITH ADDICTION, AND THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED, AND THOSE STORIES ARE HEART-WRENCHING. WE SAW AT THE LAST DEBATE, WE DIDN'T EVEN REALLY GET AN ANSWER TO THAT, WHAT IS THE PLAN TO DEAL WITH THE FENTANYL CRISIS AND ACTUALLY LOOK AT HOW FENTANYL IS GETTING INTO THE COUNTRY, LOOK AT THE FACT THAT WHEN TED CRUZ SAID, YOU ARE LESS SAFE THAN YOU WERE BEFORE, OUR COUNTRY IS LESS SAFE THAN YOU WERE FOUR YEARS AGO, THAT IS PATENTLY FALSE. THERE IS NO DATA TO BACK THAT. IF WE ARE GOING TO ADDRESS THE CRISIS, WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THE FACTS, AND THE FACTS ARE THAT FENTANYL IS COMING INTO THE COUNTRY MOSTLY THROUGH TRADE, NOT THROUGH INDIVIDUAL MIGRANTS. WE CAN'T ACTUALLY LOOK AT WHY IT IS COMING HERE, THEN WE WON'T BE ABLE TO ADDRESS IT AND GET PEOPLE TO TREATMENT AND SUPPORT THEY NEED TO BREAK THE LAST THING I WANT TO SAY IS, I THINK, LOOK, REPUBLICANS WIN WHEN THEY SO FEAR AND DIVISION. DEMOCRATS WIN WHEN THEY PAINT A PICTURE OF THE FUTURE IT THAT BRINGS PEOPLE TOGETHER AND CELEBRATES OUR DIVERSITY AND TALKS ABOUT HOW WE CAN BE A STRONGER COUNTRY TO GET. IMMIGRATION IS THE BIG WEDGE ISSUE. I THINK DEMOCRATS NEED TO BE ABLE TO RESPOND. REPUBLICANS ULTIMATELY DIDN'T MOVE FORWARD ON ADDRESSING IMMIGRATION WHEN THEY HAD THE CHANCE JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO, THEY REFUSED TO ADDRESS IT BECAUSE THEY KNEW THEY WANTED IT AS A WEDGE ISSUE FOR THIS ELECTION. >> Linsey: TOM, PRESIDENT BIDEN ALSO SPOKE TODAY ABOUT SAFETY, IN PARTICULAR, TALKING ABOUT GEORGIA POLL WORKERS WHO RECEIVED DE DEATH THREATS AFTER ALLEGATIONS WERE MADE AGAINST THEM. WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE DEMOCRATS' APPROACH TO SAFETY AS PRESIDENT BIDEN IN PARTICULAR TRIES TO CONNECT WITH HIS BASE. >> IT IS CLEAR THEY ARE DISCONNECTED FROM AMERICAN PEOPLE. HEARD WHAT YOU JUST SAID, A JUSTIFICATION FOR A CRIME THAT IS OCCURRING, AND TO SAY THAT IS TWOFOLD HOW PEOPLE FEEL. PEOPLE REALLY DO FEEL THREATENED TODAY, PEOPLE FEEL CONCERNED, CONCERN FOR THE CHILDREN, THEIR COMMUNITIES, BUT THEY HEAR THE HEART-WRENCHING STORIES FROM THESE MOTHERS, AND TO JUST PUSH THAT ASIDE AND SAID, THAT IS FALSE, NO FACTS THAT BACK THAT UP, FOLKS ARE GENERALLY CONCERNED TODAY. I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT THAT REPUBLICANS PUT FOLKS OUT THERE SHARING STORIES THAT ARE COMMON THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY THAT EXPRESS HOW PEOPLE REALLY FEEL THROUGH PERSONAL EXPERIENCES. >> Linsey: REPUBLICANS LIKE TO LOOK AT THEMSELVES AS THE PARTY OF LAW AND ORDER. THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM A LITTLE BIT IS THE FACT THAT DONALD TRUMP IS EIGHT CONVICTED FELON. DO YOU THINK THERE IS A DOUBLE STANDARD THERE? >> THERE IS A PROCESS HE IS GOING TO, RIGHT, AND HE CLEARLY, AS WELL AS AND OTHER FOLKS FEEL THAT THERE WAS A THUMB PUT ON IT. BUT THERE IS A PROCESS WHICH HE GETS TO GO THROUGH AS A U.S. CITIZEN. WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT TODAY ARE THOSE WHO ARE TRULY ILLEGALLY ENTERING OUR COUNTRY. I THINK YOU HAD SOMEBODY ON EARLIER THAT WAS TALK ABOUT MIGRANTS, NOT COMMITTING ILLEGAL ACTS AS MUCH AS THEY USED TO. AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IS EMITTING AN ILLEGAL ACT AS SOON AS THEY ENTER THE COUNTRY. THAT IS ALREADY BREAKING THE LAW. THAT IS ALREADY SETTING A PATTERN FOR WHAT MIGHT BE FUTURE BEHAVIOR. BEING FROM GEORGIA, I CAN TELL YOU, FAMILIES HAVE BEEN IMPACTED BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS KILLING INNOCENT YOUNG WOMEN. >> Linsey: CRISTINA, PUT THIS TO YOU IN THE LAST 30 SECONDS, SUGGESTING THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS OUT OF TOUCH WHEN IT COMES TO THE FEARS AND CONCERNS WITH REGARD TO SAFETY OF THE AVERAGE AMERICAN. >> THE TRUTH IS, THE VAST MAJORITY OF AMERICANS WANT A SAFE AND LEGAL IMMIGRATION SYSTEM THAT HONOR HONORS HARDWORKING AMERICANS PICK IT WE HAVE IMMIGRANTS WORKING, FOR EXAMPLE, AN AGRICULTURAL, MAKE UP 70% OF THE WORKFORCE ESTIMATED TO BE UNDOCUMENTED, 50% OF THE WORKFORCE IN MY HOME STATE WHO BUILD HOMES ARE UNDOCUMENTED. WE MUST BUILD A SYSTEM THAT PROTECTS THEM, WE CAN, REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN BLOCKING US FROM BEING ABLE TO DO IT. >> Linsey: CRISTINA, TOM, WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME, APPRECIATE IT. AND THAT IS A WRAP ON NIGHT 2 OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 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