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EDITION OF MEET THE PRESS NOW LIVE , AND THE MOST ANTICIPATED DATE OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. I AM KRISTEN WELKER. THIS IS AN EXTRAORDINARY MOMENT IN AMERICAN POLITICS. IN A FEW HOURS RESIDENT TRUMP WILL TAKE THE STAGE. HE WILL SPEAK PUBLICLY FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE SURVIVING AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. WE ARE WAITING TO HEAR FROM THE FORMER PRESIDENT, AS WELL AS WAITING TO SEE WHAT PRESIDENT BIDEN WILL DO. NBC NEWS IS REPORTING THAT EVEN SOME OF PRESIDENT BIDEN'S MOST VALIANT SUPPORTERS BELIEVE HE WILL STEP ASIDE AND NOT RUN FOR REELECTION. HERE IN MILWAUKEE, RIGHT NOW WHERE THEY ARE DOING A SOUND CHECK ON THE STAGE BEHIND ME, THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER, THE FORMER PRESIDENT SAID HE HAS REWRITTEN HIS SPEECH TONIGHT IN THE WAKE OF THE SHOOTING AND IT IS A CALL FOR UNITY. WHILE HE HAD SPOKEN PUBLICLY AT ALL SINCE THE INCIDENT HE DID ADDRESS HIS NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE AT A PRIVATE EVENT YESTERDAY. PART OF IT WAS FILLED BY AN ATTENDEE. >> GOD WAS WITH ME, I TELL YOU. THAT'S WHAT THEY CALL A CLOSE CALL. THAT WAS AN AMAZING, HORRIBLE THING, AMAZING THING. IN MANY WAYS, IT CHANGES YOUR ATTITUDE. >> GIVEN THE CIRCUMSTANCES, TONIGHT MAYBE ONE OF THE MOST CLOSELY WATCHED, HIGHLY ANTICIPATED AND FRANKLY, MOST IMPORTANT SPEECHES DONALD TRUMP HAS EVER DELIVERED. THE CAMPAIGN TELLS US HE PERSONALLY WROTE OR HATED HIS SPEECH FOR THIS EVENING. J.D. VANCE, INTRODUCED TO THE PUBLIC LAST NIGHT TALKED ABOUT HIS DIFFICULT UPBRINGING. >> I ACCEPT YOUR NOMINATION TO BE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. PRESIDENT TRUMP REPRESENTS A MIX --AMERICA'S LAST BEST HOPE TO HAVE WHAT WE HAVE ONCE HAD. >> MEANWHILE, STRETCH OF NEWS FROM PRESIDENT BIDEN, HE TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID, FORCING HIM TO RETURN TO DELAWARE TO ISOLATE IN HIS BEACH HOME AT THIS CRITICAL TIME IN THE RACE. AS MORE DEMOCRATS URGED HIM TO WITHDRAW FROM THE RACE, HE HAS BEEN DEFINED. IN A NEW INTERVIEW HE DID SPEAK ABOUT ONE SCENARIO THAT COULD CHANGE HIS MIND. >> MY MEDICAL CONDITION, IS A DOCTORS TELL ME I HAVE A PROBLEM, I AM ONLY THREE YEARS OLDER THAN TRUMP, OKAY? I AM IN A LITTLE BETTER PHYSICAL SHAPE THAN HE IS. >> COVID IS JUST THE LATEST SETBACK FOR A WEEK OR BIDEN CAMPAIGN. PUBLICLY, 20 DEMOCRATS NOW SAY HE SHOULD WITHDRAW OVER CONCERNS ABOUT HIS FITNESS FOR OFFICE. PRIVATE SOURCES TELL US THAT CHUCK SCHUMER HAD A BLUNT CONVERSATION WITH THE PRESIDENT ABOUT THE STATE OF THE RACE AND THE ASSOCIATE PRESS SAID NANCY PELOSI IS MAKING THE CASE THAT POLLS SHOW HE CANNOT WIN. LET'S GET RIGHT TO IT ON A VERY BUSY THURSDAY. NBC'S GARRET TAGUE IS HERE. GAVE GOOD TEARS IS WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN IN DELAWARE WHERE HE IS RESTING AND GETTING BETTER. GARRETT, I WANT TO START WITH YOU. THE CAMPAIGN IS SAYING PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS PERSONALLY REWRITTEN HIS SPEECH, HIMSELF OR DICTATED IT TO AIDES WHO ARE WRITING DOWN HIS WORDS. DO YOU HAVE ANY INDICATION OF WHAT THIS MESSAGE OF UNITY WILL LOOK LIKE TONIGHT? >> LOOK, KRISTEN, THE BEST INDICATION IS FOR DONALD TRUMP ON RECORD HERE. TYPICALLY, HE WILL TALK ABOUT THE SHOOTING EXPERIENCE ON SATURDAY AT THE TOP AND WE WILL HEAR A MORE POLISHED VERSION OF WHAT WE TYPICALLY HEAR FROM HIM ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. HIS VERSION HAS TENDED TO MEAN UNIFYING AROUND HIM. I DON'T EXPECT TO SEE DONALD TRUMP MOVE IN ANY SIGNIFICANT WAY TO MORE AGGRESSIVE POLICY POSTURES OR THINGS LIKE THAT. DEPORTATIONS AND ISSUES LIKE THAT THAT TEND TO DRIVE PEOPLE OUT OF THE REPUBLICAN CAMP. YOU MIGHT HEAR A TONE CHANGE, BUT THE SUBSTANCE WILL BE LARGELY THE SAME AS WHAT WE ARE USED TO. OTHER THAN, TRYING TO RALLY PEOPLE AROUND HIM AFTER THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON SATURDAY. HERE IS MY CONVERSATION WITH SOME OF HIS ADVISERS AND ERIC TRUMP THIS MORNING. THERE WILL ALSO BE AN EMPHASIS ON THE MOMENT WHEN HE STOOD UP WITH HIS FIST IN THE AIR AND ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO FIGHT. THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF TENSION HERE BEHIND THE UNIFYING MISSION--MESSAGE AND ALSO HAVING TO FIGHT. HOW YOU BALANCE THAT, TONALLY I CANNOT SAY. THAT IS WHY I AM NOT A PAID POLITICAL SPEAKER. >> GARRETT, YOU HAVE BEEN SIGNALING THAT FROM THE START. AND, RIGHTFULLY SO. THIS IS STILL DONALD TRUMP AND THOUGH THERE MAY BE A MESSAGE OF UNITY, BUT HE WILL NOT NECESSARILY, BACK AWAY FROM HIS OTHER RHETORIC. LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU AND I HAVE WITNESSED WITH THE SHOW OF UNITY. THERE ARE DIFFERENCES OVER POLICIES, ISSUES OF ABORTION, UKRAINE AND THE ECONOMY, AS WELL. AND YET, THIS WEEK, IT IS CLEAR THIS IS A PARTY THAT IS SOLIDLY BEHIND DONALD TRUMP. >> 100%. WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES. REMEMBER ABOUT THIS TIME A YEAR AGO WE WERE IN THE DAILY OF EXCITEMENT AND IT SEEMS LIKE EVERY OTHER WEEK THE PARTY WAS IN PANIC BECAUSE HIS NUMBERS WERE IMPROVING AGAINST HIS PRIMARY RIVALS AND REPUBLICANS WORRIED THEY WOULD BE SADDLED WITH AN INCUMBENT RUNNING AS A NOMINEE WHO COULD NOT WIN IN A GENERAL ELECTION. NOW, FAST FORWARD TO THE PRESENT AND THEY HAVE THEIR NOMINEE WHO FEELS LIKE IS VERY MUCH IN THE DRIVERS SEAT. I WOULD SAY NOTHING BREEDS UNITY LIKE VICTORY AND THE FEELING HERE AMONG DELEGATES AND REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS IS, IF THEY DON'T SCREW IT UP REPUBLICANS WILL BE IN POWER ACROSS THE BOARD NEXT YEAR IN WASHINGTON. THAT WILL MAKE ANY POLITICALLY INCLINED REPUBLICAN FEEL PRETTY GOOD AND FEEL PRETTY GOOD ABOUT THEIR NOMINEE. >> VERY QUICKLY, THE REACTION INSIDE TRUMP WORLD TO J.D. VANCE'S SPEECH, HIS BIG DEBUT LAST NIGHT AT THE NATIONAL CONVENTION, HOW WAS THAT QUICK >> EVERYBODY SEEMS TO BE PLEASED WITH J.D. VANCE'S SPEECH. THEY DON'T THINK HE DID ANY HARM AND HE DID A GOOD JOB INTRODUCING HIMSELF AND FOCUSED THE MESSAGE IN A TARGETED WAY TO THE MIDDLE OF THE COUNTRY, WHERE HE IS EXPECTED TO BE SUCCESSFUL. LAST NIGHT SPEECH IS A COMBINATION OF LACK OF EXPERIENCE AND HE DIDN'T EXACTLY HIT IT OUT OF THE BALLPARK, IN TERMS OF EXCITEMENT, BUT THERE IS TIME FOR HIM TO LEARN ON THE ROAD. >> THAT IS FOR SURE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR FANTASTIC REPORTING. WE WILL CHECK BACK IN WITH YOU THROUGHOUT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. GABE, LET ME TURN TO YOU NOW. YOU ARE THERE IN DELAWARE FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN IS RECOVERING FROM COVID. LET'S START WITH THIS INCREDIBLE REPORTING FROM OUR NBC NEWS TEAM. PRESIDENT BIDEN'S ADVISERS ARE STARTING TO QUITE FRANKLY, SEE THE WRITING ON THE WALL ABOUT HIS CAMPAIGN, AS YOU ALL REPORTED. ONE SOURCE SAID, WE ARE CLOSE TO THE END. THAT IS A PRETTY STRONG STATEMENT. >> CERTAINLY, KRISTEN. THERE IS ANOTHER QUOTE. IT IS NOT A QUESTION OF IF, BUT WHEN. WHAT A DIFFERENCE JUST A FEW DAYS MAKES. YOU WILL RECALL EARLIER THIS WEEK IN THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH OF THAT ATTACK ON FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP, IT REALLY SEEMED LIKE THE CALL FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN TO LEAVE HAD SUBSIDED OR SLOWED. THEY HAVE RAMPED UP CONSIDERABLY OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS AND REACHED QUITE A HEIGHT TODAY. AFTER WE HAVE BEEN HEARING ABOUT THESE MEETINGS BETWEEN PRESIDENT BIDEN AND FROM DEMOCRATS AND SHIFT YESTERDAY CAME OUT CALLED UPON PRESIDENT BIDEN PUBLICLY TO LEAD THE WAY. MULTIPLE PEOPLE THAT ARE AWARE OF THE INTERNAL DYNAMIC, YES THEY THINK THERE IS THE WRITING ON THE WALL. DONOR MONEY IS DRYING UP AND PROJECTED TO BE JUST 25% OF WHAT THEY EXPECTED IN JULY. BOTH THE WHITE HOUSE AND CAMPAIGN ARE AGGRESSIVELY PUSHING HARD ON THAT NARRATIVE. ONE SOURCE CLOSE TO PRESIDENT BIDEN SAID THAT THEY FEEL THAT SOME OF THIS ARE PEOPLE SECOND GUESSING THE CAMPAIGN AND THAT BACK IN 2015 WHEN PRESIDENT BIDEN WAS VICE PRESIDENT, THERE ARE SOME SCARS FROM WHEN TOP DEMOCRATS PUSHED HIM OUT IN EXCHANGE FOR HILLARY CLINTON. >> GABE, PRESIDENT BIDEN REMAINS DEFIANT, PUBLICLY. WHAT WE ARE BIG TAKEAWAYS FROM THAT INTERVIEW WHEN HE SAID THAT QUICK >> HE ASKED IF THERE WAS ANYTHING THAT COULD POTENTIALL , GET HIM TO THE RACE AND HE DID ACKNOWLEDGE, AT LEAST ALLOW OF THE POSSIBILITY IF HIS DOCTORS TOLD HIM HE HAD SOME SORT OF MEDICAL CONDITION BEFORE THE COVID DIAGNOSIS. WE ALSO HEARD TODAY IN ANOTHER INTERVIEW, A RADIO INTERVIEW AND HE WAS ASKED ABOUT WHETHER HE FELT BETRAYED I THE PARTY. LISTEN TO THAT. >> DO YOU FEEL BETRAYAL? >> NO, LOOKED. AFTER THE DEBATE NIGHT I WAS EXHAUSTED AND I HAVE BEEN TRAVELING AROUND THE WORLD AND I WASN'T READY. I PERFORMED TERRIBLY. SO, PEOPLE ARE NOW SAYING THAT WAS ONLY ONE THING, BUT HE IS ONLY 81 YEARS OLD. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN HE IS 84 OR 85? >> KHRISTON, YOU HEARD THAT CALL FROM THE PRESIDENT. THAT INTERVIEW WAS CONDUCTED JUST BEFORE HE WAS TESTED FOR COVID. WE HAVE TO POSIT IT, BUT YOU HEAR IN THE INTERVIEW THE RASPY VOICE AND HE WAS SPEAKING TO THE CONCERNS THE DEMOCRATS HAVE. THAT LEADS TO EVEN MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS HEALTH. >> YES, ABSOLUTELY. GABE, THANK YOU SO MUCH. ALLEY, LET ME TURN TO YOU. YOU HAVE BEEN ALL OVER THIS REPORTING THAT CHUCK SCHUMER, NANCY PELOSI HAD THESE BLUNT, FRANK CALLS WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN. DOES IT FEEL LIKE THE PRESSURE CAMPAIGN IS REACHING A CRITICAL MASS, LIKE SOMETHING IS SHIFTING? >> YES. I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE BEEN ALL OVER THIS AND WE ARE ALL REALLY WORKING THE PHONES AND TRYING TO GET AS CLOSE TO THIS AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE THE REALITY IS, ONLY TWO PEOPLE WERE IN THOSE ROOMS WHEN THOSE MEETINGS WERE HAPPENING, ESPECIALLY IN THE CASE OF CHUCK SCHUMER WHERE WE ARE TOLD IT WAS A BLACK CONVERSATION. THE SAME COULD BE SAID FOR JEFFRIES, THE TOP HOUSE DEMOCRAT IN NANCY PELOSI AND THE ROLE SHE STILL PLAYS, EVEN THOUGH SHE IS NO LONGER SPEAKER AND LEADER IN THIS HOUSE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, SHE IS STILL REVERED AS A THOUGHT LEADER AND SOMEONE WHO MEMBERS RESPECT THE OPINION OF. AT THE SAME TIME, HER PROMISE WAS TWO WEEKS AGO AND IT STIRRED THE POT ON CAPITOL HILL. FOLKS WERE ALREADY PANICKED ABOUT THE PRESIDENT POLITICALL , HEALTHWISE AND THAT ONLY SERVED TO FURTHER EXTEND THE PURGATORY PERIOD THAT WE HAVE BEEN IN FOR HOUSE AND SENATE DEMOCRATS OVER THE COURSE OF TIME SINCE THAT DEBATE. IT DOES FEEL THOUGH, KRISTEN LIKE YESTERDAY EVENING THERE WERE SOME LEAKS ABOUT THOSE BLOOD MEETINGS AND THEY REALLY DID TURN US TO A NEW PHASE OF THIS. MEMBERS HAVE ALREADY BEEN IN A SENSE OF PANIC, IN A SENSE OF BEING FRAUGHT ABOUT WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT. IT DOES FEEL LIKE NEXT WEEK TO BE A REAL MOMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE HERE AS MEMBERS COME BACK TO CAPITOL HILL. I AM PRETTY MUCH ALONE IN THE HALLS RIGHT NOW OF CONGRESS. THEY ARE HOME ON RECESS BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN THEY ARE NOT TALKING TO EACH OTHER. MEMBERS ARE HAVING SERIOUS CONVERSATIONS AND MAYBE, A LITTLE MORE DIFFICULT TO ORGANIZE THEMSELVES WHEN THEY ARE NOT PHYSICALLY IN THE SPACE. AT THE SAME TIME, THOSE CONVERSATIONS ARE STILL ONGOING AND A LOT OF MEMBERS ARE PAYING ATTENTION TO EACH MOVE THE PRESIDENT MAKES. THEY ARE READING THE SIGNS. AROUND THIS BUILDING, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT CONGRESS IN A THEORETICAL SENSE, THE ELECTRICS I TALKED TO SEEM TO HAVE A SENSE THAT IT IS NOT A MATTER OF IF, BUT WHEN HE STEPS DOWN. >> ONE SOURCE I SPOKE WITH DESCRIBED THIS AS A SAD MOMENT FOR THE DEMOCRATIC ARTIE. ALLEY, TRYING TO GET A LITTLE BIT OF REST. WE APPRECIATE IT. JOINING ME NOW IS NBC NEWS CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST, CHUCK TODD. CHUCK, WE HAVE COVERED SOME HEADLINES, BUT THIS HAS BEEN AN EXTRAORDINARY MOMENT IN WHICH WE FIND OURSELVES. CAN YOU SET THE STAGE? WHERE YOU THINK WE ARE AND WILL HE OR WON'T HE PASS THE TORCH? >> NOW, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR BIDEN TO STAY IN, EVEN IF YOU WANTS TO BECAUSE THERE ARE TOO MANY DEMOCRATS ON RECORD SAYING HE NEEDS TO GET OUT. THEY QUESTION WHETHER HE CAN SERVE ANOTHER TERM. HOW DO THEY SUDDENLY PUT THAT TOOTHPASTE BACK IN THE TWO? LET'S SAY THEY DO THAT AND THEY TRY TO PUT BIDEN OUT THERE? HOW DO THESE PEOPLE ANSWER THE QUESTIONS IN THEIR OWN INTERVIEWS AND POLITICAL DEBATES AND WITH PODCASTS AND WITH REGULAR VOTERS? THEY ARE SITTING HERE RIGHT NOW AND THE LEADERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ARE MAKING THE CASE TO THE COUNTRY THAT THIS MAN CANNOT SERVE ANOTHER FOUR YEARS, HEART STOPPED. MANY OF THEM SIMPLY THINK HE CAN'T SERVE ANOTHER FOUR YEARS. HOW DO THEY FLIP THAT? AT THIS POINT HE HAS BEEN FORCED, ESSENTIALLY OFF. I THINK WE ARE GETTING TO THE POINT WHERE I DON'T THINK YOU CAN WIN THE NOMINATION WITH THE RIGHT NUMBER OF DELEGATIONS. HE IS LOSING CONTROL OF THAT PROCESS. I CAN'T GET INTO HIS HEAD, BUT THIS HAS ONLY JOE BIDEN AND HUNTER BIDEN LEFT. IT IS CLEAR TO ME THAT MANY OF THE NON-RELATIVES HAVE COME TO A CERTAIN CONCLUSION. PEOPLE WITH THE LAST NAME OF BIDEN HAVE NOT. THAT IS WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT. >> ULTIMATELY, IT IS GOING TO BE THE CONVERSATION AND DECISION HE MAKES WITH HIS FAMILY, RIGHT? >> HE IS AT HOME. ALL OF THE FAMILY IS THERE. THIS IS UNSUSTAINABLE AND NOW HIS CAMPAIGN BELIEVES THAT. >> LET ME READ WHAT YOU WROTE IN YOUR LATEST COLUMN LAST NIGHT. YOU WROTE, "THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN ON BIDEN. HIS COVID GNOSIS WEDNESDAY AND HAVING TO ISOLATE DUE TO HIS AGE EXIT ONLY THAT MUCH HARDER FOR BIDEN TO TRY TO GET THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS TO ACCEPT IT WAS SIMPLY ONE BAD NIGHT AT THE DEBATE. THE QUESTION IS WILL IT DELEGATION TAKE MATTERS INTO THEIR OWN HANDS"? DO YOU THINK, CHUCK THAT THE PARTY IS SAYING THEY CAN DO THIS THE EASY WAY OR THE HARD WAY? >> THE TRY TO DO IT THE EASY WAY. IT LOOKS LIKE THIS CAMPAIGN TO TRY TO PERSUADE HIM TO DO THIS, PERHAPS HAS BEEN MONTHS IN THE MAKING OR DAYS OR WEEKS. WE ARE ALL STARTING TO WONDER, PERHAPS IF THERE WAS SOME INTENTION WITH THIS EARLY DEBATE. OKAY, I HAVE TO HAVE THIS CONVERSATION IN THE OPEN BECAUSE WE ARE NOT HAVING IT AND NOTHING IS HAPPENING BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. >> ONE OF THE THINGS WE HAVE BEEN STRUCK BY WATCHING THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IS THAT THEY ARE UNIFIED. IT IS A REMINDER OF THE CLOCK THAT IS TICKING. PRESIDENT BIDEN SAID IN HIS PRESS CONFERENCE, THE CAMPAIGN WILL RESTART AFTER LABOR DAY. I FEEL LIKE IT STARTED A LONG TIME AGO. >> IN SOME WAYS THE SUCCESS OF THIS CONVENTION HAS, I THINK ALMOST MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR BIDEN TO MAKE THE CASE. IT IS POSSIBLE, WE HAVEN'T SEEN ANY GOOD POLLING YET. BECAUSE YOU CAN'T. THE SATURDAY ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AND NOW VOTERS ARE DIGESTING THAT. I DON'T THINK YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THAT. THIS SPEECH TONIGHT, WE HAVE GONE FROM SIX WEEKS AGO, THE PUBLIC WANTED NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS PRESIDENTIAL RACE. NOW, HE HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TONIGHT. FOR THE FIRST TIME, I THINK PEOPLE WHO HAD NOT WANTED TO HEAR FROM HIM ARE GOING TO BE LIKE, ALL RIGHT I WILL SEE. HE DOES HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TONIGHT. IF THERE IS A NEW DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE, THAT CANDIDATE WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY. ALL OF A SUDDEN WE ARE GOING TO GO FROM A CAMPAIGN, AND WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT EXPANDING THE CHESSBOARD, ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU MAY HAVE A NEWLY ENGAGED ELECTORATE BECAUSE FRANKLY, THESE PLOT TWISTS ARE BETTER THAN WATCHING PRESUMED INNOCENT ON APPLE TV. >> WHO COULD'VE ANTICIPATED THIS MANY PLOT TWISTS? >> I LIKE TO READ THE OCCASIONAL POLITICAL NOVEL. IF YOU WITHDRAW THIS IN A STORY, I WOULD SAY, GIVE ME A BREAK. >> GIVE ME THE REALITY CHECK. THAT IS THE ONE THING THAT HAS ALLOWED BIDEN TO STAY IN IT. SO FAR, AND I'M NOT FACTORING IN THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP, BUT THIS HAS BEEN A REMARKABLY STABLE RACE IN A SENSE. >> FOR 25 YEARS, WE HAVE BEEN IN A REMARKABLE STATE. I DO BELIEVE NOW THAT ONE POINT SHIFTS ARE BIG DEAL AND WE HAVE TO START TO UNDERSTAND THAT. WHEN YOU SEE IT CONSISTENTLY, AND I THINK THE WORST THING TO DO IS TO COMBINE A POLL AND THE BEST THING TO DO IS TO WATCH TRENDS LIVES. WHEN YOU START TO SEE SIMILAR TRENDS IT IS WORTH SEEING THAT. COMBINING THEM IN THE BLENDER IS A TERRIBLE IDEA. UNFORTUNATELY, POLITICS RUINED THE POLLING INDUSTRY BY WHAT THEY HAVE DONE OVER THE PAST DECADE. ANYTIME ALL THESE PEOPLE WATCH, AND WHAT I WILL SAY IS THAT WE SHOULD RESPECT ONE POINT MOVEMENTS AS SIGNIFICANT. THEY ARE NOT INSIGNIFICANT. IN THE '90s WE HAD FIVE POINT SWINGS. WE WEREN'T AS POLARIZED. WE WERE PRETTY SET IN OUR WAYS. THAT IS WHY BOTH PARTIES HAVE HIGH FLOORS AND LOW CEILINGS. I WOULD LIKE TO SAY TRUMP HAS A HIGH TRUMP--FLOOR AND LOW CEILING. BUT BOTH PARTIES DO. >> YOU TALKED ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY TRUMP HAS TONIGHT. WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING ABOUT? >> IF HE TALKS ABOUT UNITY. WHEN WE HEAR IT WE WONDER IF HE'S GOING TO REACH OUT TO PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT REPUBLICAN. I THINK WHEN THEY SAY WE ARE UNIFIED, THEY MEAN NIKKI HALEY. SOME OF US ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE PARTIES ARE SINKIN --THINKING UNITY IS THE WHOLE COUNTRY. I THINK WE PROBABLY ARE MISINTERPRETING IT AND I THINK THEY DO MEAN UNITY IN A DIFFERENT WAY AND THEY HAVE BEEN UNIFIED AS A PARTY. I FULLY BELIEVE IF HE WOULD SHOW A LITTLE BIT OF HUMILITY ABOUT--BOTH PRESIDENTS HAVE FAILED THE COUNTRY IN BRINGING US TOGETHER. IF ONE OF THEM WOULD ADMIT IT I THINK THEY COULD BENEFIT. IF EITHER ONE WILL ADMIT THAT THEY HAVE FAILED TO BRING THE COUNTRY TOGETHER AND IF ONE OF THEM DID, YOU HAVE TO GIVE VULTURES WHO GIVE UP ON YOU ONCE , WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO DIFFERENTLY? IT IS LIKE WHEN YOU BREAK UP WITH SOMEBODY, WHY ARE WE GETTING BACK TOGETHER? I HAVE CHANGED. OKAY, HOW HAVE YOU CHANGED? >> THAT IS A GREAT ACKNOWLEDGMENT. >> I'M NOT SURE I'M GOING TO HEAR THAT. >> WE WILL BE LISTENI CLOSELY. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR BRILLIANT THOUGHTS. >>> ALL WEEK LONG WE WILL HAVE MUCH MORE NEWS TO GET TO, INCLUDING WHAT WE ARE LEARNING ABOUT THE TIMELY OF THOMAS CROOKS ATTEMPT TO KILL PRESIDENT TRUMP. INVESTIGATORS ARE STILL LOOKING FOR A MOTIVE. >>> FIRST, TAKING THE STAGE AND SETTING THE TONE, CONGRESSMAN BYRON DONELSON WILL JOIN ME NEXT AND WE WILL HAVE SPECIAL COVERAGE OF PRESIDENT TRUMP'S SPEECH TONIGHT AT 9:00 EASTERN AND STREAMING RIGHT HERE NOW. YOU ARE WATCHING A VERY SPECIAL EDITION OF MEET THE PRESS NOW LIVE FROM MILWAUKEE. STAY WITH US. THEIR >>> NOW IS REAL. NEWS FOR THE GENERATION OF NOW IS NBC NEWS NOW. >>> THIS IS MY FAVORITE TIP OF THE DAY. >> BRILLIANT. >>> WELCOME BACK TO MEET THE PRESS NOW, COVERAGE OF THE FOURTH AND FINAL NIGHT OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION LIVE FROM MILWAUKEE. HERE ARE A FEW OF THE SPEAKERS TONIGHT ON THE SCHEDULE, INCLUDING EVERYONE FROM FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE, MIKE POMPEO TO HULK HOGAN AND IT WILL ALL CULMINATE IN A SPEECH BY FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. JOINING ME NOW ONSET IS FLORIDA REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN, BYRON DONALDS WHO SPOKE HERE AT THE CONVENTION EARLIER. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE ON A BIG NIGHT. >> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME. YOU GUYS HAVE A GREAT SEAT. YOU HAVE ALL THE VIEWS FOUR YEARS VIDEO. >> WE DO. WE APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE. FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS SAI , IN THE WAKE OF THE HORRIFIC INCIDENT THIS WEEKEND, THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST HIS LIFE THAT HE HAS TORN UP HIS SPEECH AND REWRITTEN IT. IT IS GOING TO BE A MESSAGE OF UNITY. I WONDER WHAT YOU ANTICIPATE. WILL IT BE A MESSAGE AIMED AT REACHING OUT TO THE WHOLE COUNTRY, OR WILL THIS BE A MESSAGE TO REACHING OUT TO ALL REPUBLICAN VOTERS? >> IF I WAS GOING TO CUT--TAKE A GUESS AND YOU LOOK AT THE WAY THIS THREE NIGHTS HAVE UNFOLDED, IT WILL BE ABOUT ALL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. ON OPENING NIGHT, YOU HAD THE HEAD OF THE TEAMSTERS UNION ON THE STAGE AND THAT HASN'T OCCURRED IN MEMORY. YOU HAVE HAD GOLD STAR FAMILIES WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES IN AFGHANISTAN. EVERYTHING DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT ON THE TRAIL HAS BEEN ABOUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. I BELIEVE YOU WILL SEE THAT TONIGHT. THEN, IT WE WRAPPED IN THE FACT THAT WE ARE UNIFIED COUNTRY, AS AMERICANS THEN, WE COULD MAKE OUR COUNTRY GREAT AGAIN. >> MY QUESTION FOR YOU, AS YOU KNOW IN THE BEGINNING OF THIS CAMPAIGN FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP TALKED ABOUT THE IDEA THAT VOTERS WANT RETRIBUTION. DO YOU THINK HE WILL BACK AWAY FROM THAT AS A CAMPAIGN MESSAGE? >> PROBABLY, YES. I THINK EVERYTHING WILL BE ABOUT THE SUCCESS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND WE WILL PROVIDE FULL CONTEXT. WHEN HE TALKED ABOUT RETRIBUTION IT WAS IN THE VEIN OF SUCCESS FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. THAT IS WHERE DONALD TRUMP IS GOING TO GET HIS JOY, HIS PASSION, HIS ENERGY. NOT JUST FOR THE REST OF THIS CAMPAIGN BUT FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS, IS MAKING SURE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE SUCCESSFUL. >> TO BE VERY CLEAR, HE SAID, THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN WRONG AND BETRAYED, I AM YOUR RETRIBUTION. DO YOU THINK HE WILL BACK AWAY FROM THAT IDEA ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL? >> I THINK IT IS MORE ABOUT MOVING FORWARDS. THIS IS A RECIPE FOR SUCCESS. I AM A PERSON WHO WILL BRING THAT SUCCESS. I AM THE LEADER THAT CAN STEP INTO THAT OVAL OFFICE AND THE ARENA ON THE WORLD STAGE AND MAKE SURE OUR COUNTRY IS AS PROSPEROUS AND POSSIBLE FOR EVERYBODY. >> FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP DESCRIBES HIMSELF AS A SELF ACCLAIMED COUNTERPUNCH ARE. THAT IS SOMETHING HIS SUPPORTERS ANTICIPATE. DO YOU THINK WE WILL SEE THAT SAME INSTINCT AND FRANKLY, FIGHT IN HIM? >> I WILL TELL YOU THAT MY VIEW OF WHERE THE PRESIDENT IS RIGHT NOW, HE IS VERY CONTEMPLATIVE. I THINK HE IS REALLY TAKING THIS CONVENTION, ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF WHAT HAPPENED SATURDAY IN PENNSYLVANIA AND THE ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE, AND THAT GIVES ANYBODY A BROADER PERSPECTIVE. I TRULY BELIEVE THIS IS NOT JUST A CAMPAIGN OF REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. THIS IS REALLY, NOW ABOUT HIM USING THE MANTLE AFFORDED TO HIM BY REPUBLICAN VOTERS TO LEAD THIS COUNTRY FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. IT IS A DIFFERENT VIEW WITH A DIFFERENT FEEL. THAT IS HIS TEMPERAMENT RIGHT NOW. >> GIVEN THAT HAVE BEEN TALKING TO HIM AND YOU DO SEEM TO HAVE AN INSIGHT INTO HIM RIGHT NOW, DO YOU THINK THIS COULD LEAD TO POLICY CHANGES? COULD, FOR EXAMPLE HE EXAMINED HIS PLEDGE TO PARDON PEOPLE FOR JANUARY 6th? >> WHEN YOU GET TO THOSE DETAINEES, THE SUPREME COURT HAS ALREADY RULED THAT THE CHARGES USED IS A MISREADING OF THIS APPLICATION OF THE LAW. THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WILL HAVE TO GO BACK AND EITHER, REMOVE THOSE CONVICTIONS OR FIGURE OUT SOMETHING ELSE. >> BUT, AS YOU KNOW THERE ARE 132 ASSAULTED POLICE OFFICERS. >> THAT IS A DIFFERENT SITUATION, ALTOGETHER AND I THINK DONALD TRUMP WILL TAKE THE TIME TO GO THROUGH THAT. I WANT TO BE CLEAR ON WHAT I BELIEVE HIS INTENTIONS ARE GOING FORWARD. EVERY POLICY IS DESIGNED TO PROMOTE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. ALL-AMERICANS. HIS PHRASEOLOGY IN POLITICS MAY MAKE IT SEEM LIKE HE ONLY LEADS ONE WAY, BUT WHETHER YOU ARE RICH, MIDDLE INCOME, WHITE, POOR, BLACK, BUT WHEN EVERYBODY COMES TO GATHER WE ALL SUCCEED. >> JUST TO BE CLEAR, YOU ANTICIPATE TONE CHANGES ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU MIGHT REEVALUATE EACH OF THESE CASES. DO YOU THINK IT IS POSSIBLE HE PULLS BACK ON THAT VOW TO PARDON EVERYONE CONVICTED? >> I THINK EVERY CASE WILL BE REVIEWED AND LOOKED AT. WHEN YOU GO IN THERE HAVE TO MAKE THOSE DECISIONS WITH THE LEGAL TEAM IN THE WHITE HOUSE. IT WILL BE WITH THE FULL VIEW TO MAKE SURE THE RIGHT THING IS DONE, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU CONSIDER PREVIOUS RIOTS IN OUR COUNTRY WHERE THERE WERE EITHER LITTLE CHARGES OR NO CHARGES. AND WHAT HAPPENED TO PEOPLE WHO WERE CHARGED WHETHER THEY PLED GUILTY OR NOT. >> AGAIN, MORE THAN 130 PEOPLE AND HUNDREDS MORE PLED GUILTY TO DIFFERENT CAUSES ON THAT DAY ON THE ATTACK AGAINST U.S. CAPITOL. LET ME ASK YOU ABOUT ANOTHER BIG POLICY PROMISE IS HIS VOW AND CALLS FOR MASS DEPORTATION OF UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS. IS THAT SOMETHING YOU WOULD SUPPORT AND IT WOULD BE EVERY NONCITIZEN? HOW DO YOU SEE THIS PLAYING OUT? >> I DO SUPPORT IT, BUT IT IS NOT JUST ME. YOU HAVE A MAJORITY OF BLACK VOTERS WHO SUPPORT THIS POSITION. A MAJORITY OF HISPANIC VOTERS WHO SUPPORT THIS POSITION. LET ME EXPLAIN WHY. AMERICANS WANT TO HAVE AN IMMIGRATION PROCESS THAT IS LEGAL. OUR CITIES ARE OVERWHELMED BY MORE THAN 10 MILLION ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND IT IS NOT FAIR TO THE CITIZENS OF AMERICA. IT PUTS THESE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN OUR COUNTR -->>--JUST TO BE CLEAR-->>--WE WILL HAVE-->>--WHY DO PEOPLE SAY IT IS NOT PRACTICAL? >> PEOPLE WHO SAY IT IS NOT PRACTICAL ARE ALSO NOT ACKNOWLEDGING THE FACT THAT MASS DEALING WITH IMMIGRATION IS NOT PRACTICAL FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE PAST IS THAT YOU HAVE PEOPLE WHO HAVE SELF DEPORTED BECAUSE THEY DO NOT WANT TO GET CAUGHT AND THAT MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR THEM TO COME INTO THE UNITED STATES FOR ANOTHER 10 YEARS. >> I HAVE NOT SEEN THOSE SAME POLLS. IT IS WORTH NOTING PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS HAD SOME EXECUTIVE ACTIONS ABOUT ILLEGAL CROSSINGS AND THEY ARE NOW AT A THREE- YEAR LOW. LET ME ASK YOU WHAT IS HAPPENING ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE. THERE SEEM TO BE GROWING CALL FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN TO ACT. IT IS POSSIBLE, AS WE SIT HERE TODAY THAT FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP COULD BE FACING OFF AGAINST A DIFFERENT CHALLENGER IN NOVEMBER. WHAT IS YOUR REACTION? IS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY BRACING FOR THAT? >> I WILL TELL YOU THAT OUR GAME PLAN WILL NOT CHANGE. IT COULD BE JOE BIDEN, KAMALA HARRIS, GAVIN NEWSOM, IT DOESN'T MATTER. YOU PUT THE PERSON UP THERE AND IT DOESN'T MATTER. THE PROBLEM FOR THE DEMOCRATS IS THEY CANNOT EXPLAIN THEIR AGENDA. THEY CANNOT EXPLAIN THE FAILURES OF THEIR AGENDA. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO THEY RUN THEIR POLICY AGENDA IS THERE A POLICY AGENDA AND WE HAVE A RECIPE FOR OUR COUNTRY TO MAKE IT A SUCCESS. >> THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TODAY. >> THANK YOU. >> GOOD TO SEE YOU. >>> SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR, KIMBERLY CHEADLE IS REFUSING TO STEP DOWN EVEN AS SHE AND HER COLLEAGUES ARE FACING INCREASED SCRUTINY FOR HER ACTIONS BEFORE AND AFTER THAT A MAN OPENED FIRE ATTEMPTING TO ASSASSINATE FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. THIS IS NEW VIDEO THAT APPEARS TO SHOW THE SUSPECTED GUNMEN. THOMAS? WALKING OUTSIDE THE SECURITY PERIMETER AT THE RALLY IN BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA LAST WEEKEND. AFTER THE FBI AND SECRET SERVICE BRIEF THEM YESTERDAY WE GET A CLEARER PICTURE OF THE TIMELINE OF THAT DAY. I WILL WALK YOU THROUGH IT. THIS IS ACCORDING TO SOURCES FAMILIAR WITH THAT BRIEFING. THIS IS AT 5:9 P.M., MORE THAN ONE HOUR BEFORE THE SHOOTING. AT 5:51 POLICE NOTIFIED THE SECRET SERVICE OF A SUSPICIOUS PERSON WITH A RANGEFINDER. TWO MINUTES LATER THE SECRET SERVICE NOTIFIED SNIPERS AROUND THAT SAME TIME. THE SNIPER SPOTTED CRITICS --TRICKS AND NINE MINUTES LATER DONALD TRUMP TOOK THE STAGE AT THE RALEIGH. 6:09 SHOW THAT PROUD MEMBERS ALERTED THE POLICE ABOUT? ON WITH TAUGHT NEARBY. TWO MINUTES LATER HE OPENED FIRE. THE SECRET SERVICE IS ALSO FACING CRITICISM FOR HOW LONG IT TOOK TO REMOVE MR. TRUMP FROM THE STAGE AFTER THE SHOOTING. AND FOR FAILING TO FULLY SHIELD HIM. YOU SEE HIS HEAD EXPOSED IN THE AFTERMATH. JULIET JOINS ME NOW. WHAT ARE YOU TAKING AWAY FROM THIS NEW TIMELINE? >> THERE ARE MULTIPLE INVESTIGATIONS GOING INTO WHAT THE SECRET SERVICE DID OR DIDN'T DO PROPERLY ON SATURDAY WITH THIS NEAR ASSASSINATION OF TRUMP. THERE ARE THREE BIG QUESTIONS THAT SEEM TO BE CIRCULATING IN THE PRESS ARE ASKING AND WE ARE BEING TOLD IT IS ALL A MATTER OF THE INVESTIGATION. DID THE SECRET SERVICE KNOW HE HAD A GUN AT THE TIME? WE ONLY HAVE INDICATIONS THAT HE KNEW HE WAS SUSPICIOUS PERSON CARRYING A RANGEFINDER. THAT IS NOT A PROHIBITED ITEM. WHY WAS THAT ROOF NOT IN THE SECRET SERVICE SECURITY PERIMETER? THEY DELEGATED THAT TO LOCAL POLICE. OF COURSE THEY WANT TO LOOK AT WHAT THEY DID WRONG AFTERWARDS. YOU SHOW THAT FOOTAGE OF THEM TRYING TO GET TRUMP OFF THE STAGE. WHY WAS HE ABLE TO COME UP? I HAVE BEEN TOLD BY SECRET SERVICE PRESS IS THAT THEY HAD IN THEIR HEIRS, WE HAVE THREATENED HER LIFE, MAN DOWN. BUT, HOW COULD THEY RULE OUT QUESTION THAT OTHER FORMER AGENTS ARE ASKING, HOW COULD THEY RULE OUT THERE WASN'T ANOTHER ONE OR TWO GUNMEN IN THE AREA AS PART OF AN ATTACK? WAS IT TOO EARLY TO LET TRUMP STAND UP AND WALK OFF THE STAGE? A LOT OF QUESTIONS ANNOUNCING PRESSURE ON THE DIRECTOR, WHO IS STILL DIGGING IN HER FEET. THEY JUST PUT OUT A STATEMENT SAYING SHE WOULD STAY IN THE JOB. >> AND, GROWING JOBS FOR HER TO DO THE OPPOSITE AND RESIGN. DO WE KNOW ANYTHING MORE ABOUT THE MOTIVE AT THIS POINT? >> NO, THERE IS VERY LITTE --LITTLE THIS MAN, THOMAS CROOKS SHARED ONLINE. THEY WERE ABLE TO LOOK THROUGH HIS PHONE AND THEY FOUND HE WAS LOOKING AT THE SCHEDULE OF BOTH TRUMP AND BIDEN AND ALSO LOOKING AT WHEN BIDEN MIGHT BE HOLDING THE DNC. THEY WERE LOOKING AT WHEN THE RNC, WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW WOULD BE HELD. A LOT OF RESEARCH, BUT NOTHING THAT SEEMED OVERTLY POLITICAL OR ANTI-TRUMP. IN FACT, HE WAS A REGISTERED REPUBLICAN. >> ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU SO MUCH. LAST NIGHT A GROUP OF REPUBLICAN CENTERS CONFRONTED SECRET SERVICE DIRECT KIMBERLY CHEADLE: ON HER TO ANSWER QUESTIONS. TAKE A LOOK. >> YOU DID NOTHING. >> NORTH DAKOTA SENATOR, KEVIN KRAMER IS ONE OF THE SENATORS SEEN IN THAT VIDEO. HE JOINS ME NOW. THANK YOU SO MUCH, SENATOR. >> LET'S TALK ABOUT THE BRIEFING THAT YOU ALL HAD. CLEARLY, YOU DID NOT FEEL AS THOUGH YOUR QUESTIONS WERE ANSWERED. WHAT DID YOU LEARN AND WHY DID YOU COME AWAY FEELING LIKE YOU NEEDED MORE ANSWERS? >> WHAT WE LEARNED FROM THE DIRECTOR IS THE EXACT TIMELINE YOU HAVE ILLUSTRATED PERFECTLY. BUT, THAT RAISED THE OBVIOUS QUESTION THAT WE WANTED TO GET ANSWERED AND WE WEREN'T ALLOWED TO ASK AND THAT IS, WHY WAS DONALD TRUMP ALLOWED TO GO ON THAT STAGE WHEN THERE WAS A THREAT THAT WAS SERIOUS ENOUGH TO INFORM AND NOTIFY THE COUNTER SHARPSHOOTERS? WHEN WE HAVE THIS MOMENT LAST NIGHT WHERE WE LEARNED THAT THE DIRECTOR IS NOT ONLY IN THE BUILDING, BUT ON THE SAME LEVEL A FEW OF US THOUGHT THIS WAS OUR MOMENT TO ASK HER. HER HOSTILITY TOWARDS US WAS REMARKABLE. HER UNWILLINGNESS TO TALK. HER APPROPRIATE SUGGESTION THAT, MAYBE THIS ISN'T THE RIGHT PLACE TO DO IT LET'S GO SOMEWHERE ELSE. AND AS SHE WENT OUT THE DOOR SHE BEGAN TO RUN. IT WAS VERY FRUSTRATING. THE CONFIDENCE IN THE SERVICE IS LOW FOR UNDERSTANDABLE REASONS. THE ONLY WAY TO REBUILD THAT CONFIDENCE IS TO COMMUNICATE. IN FACT, DURING THE BRIEFING SHE WAS ADMONISHED BY A DEMOCRATIC SENATOR TO PLEASE, BE FORTHCOMING WITH INFORMATION ON A REGULAR BASIS BECAUSE THAT IS THE ONLY WAY WE WILL CALM PEOPLE DOWN. SHE SEEMED NOT JUST RESISTANT AND RELUCTANT, BUT SHE WOULDN'T DO IT AT ALL. >> JUST TO BE VERY CLEAR, YOU ARE SAYING YOU DO NOT THINK DONALD TRUMP SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO TAKE THE STAGE. >> I DO NOT BELIEVE HE SHOULD HAVE. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE TIMELINE AND YOU THINK THAT 5:51 THIS THREAT WAS SO SIGNIFICANT THAT THE SECRET SERVICE NOTIFIED THE COUNTER SNIPER UNIT, WHO THEN PUT THEIR EYES ON THAT ROOF. IF IT WAS SIGNIFICANT ENOUGH TO CALL IN THE COUNTER SNIPER UNIT WHY WASN'T IT SIGNIFICANT ENOUGH TO KEEP THE PRESIDENT FROM GOING ON STAGE? >> PUBLICLY, WE HAVE SEEN THE SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR SAY THINGS LIKE, THE LOCAL POLICE WERE SUPPOSED TO CLEAR THAT BUILDING. DID SHE REITERATE THOSE TYPES OF COMMENTS DOING YOUR BRIEFING? WHAT DID SHE SAY ABOUT IT? >> SHE OPENED IT UP AND THEN, GAVE A 30 -60/2 STATEMENT THAT INCLUDED ARTICULATING THE JURISDICTIONAL LINES. IT IS VERY UNSEEMLY BECAUSE WHY WAS THE DIRECTOR THROWING THEM UNDER THE BUS? IT WAS CERTAINLY IMPLIED. AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT IS ALL SET UP AND OVERSEEN BY THE SECRET SERVICE. WE KNOW THEY ARE ULTIMATELY, RESPONSIBLE AND SHE IS ULTIMATELY, RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SERVICE. >> DID YOU TAKE THAT RESPONSIBILITY IN YOUR BRIEFING? >> SHE DID NOT. IN FACT, SHE QUICKLY HANDED IT OVER TO HER DEPUTY, AND QUITE HONESTLY WE WOULD RATHER GET GOOD, ADEQUATE INFORMATION THEN HIGHER-LEVEL INFORMATION. I DON'T BEGRUDGE HER THAT. THE EXPERTS ARE PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR HER. SHE DIDN'T SAY, WE FAILED. SHE DID SAY MISSION IS THE NO FILL MISSION AND WE FELT ON THIS MISSION. BUT, DID WE FELT? NOT, I FAILED. WHETHER IT IS WE OR I, JUST TALK TO US. IT IS SO MUCH BETTER TO COMMUNICATE. CONSPIRACY IS THE BEST WAY TO APPROACH THESE THINGS AND SHE IS FAILING ON THAT FRONT. THAT IS WHAT I DO THINK SHE NEEDS TO STEP DOWN. LAST NIGHT SHE CONVINCED ME SHE IS INCAPABLE OF CARRYING OUT THIS JOB. >> DO YOU GET THE SENSE FOR THE CALLS FOR HER TO REMIND ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO ROLL OUT? >> I DO GET THAT SENSE AND I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF DEMOCRATS DON'T STEP UP, AS WELL. THIS ISN'T A GOOD LUCK FOR THE SERVICE OR THE ADMINISTRATION. WE NEED TO RESTORE CONFIDENCE IN OUR SECRET SERVICE. >> I NOTICED THE JUDICIARY COMMUNITY IS BACK TALKING ABOUT ONE FOLDED IN BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA. >> THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE HAS JURISDICTION OVER THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, WHICH INCLUDES THE FBI. THAT IS WHERE THE BIG INVESTORS SHOULD--INVESTIGATION WILL GO. FINDING A MOTIVE IS IMPORTANT. SO FAR, IT LOOKS LIKE IT IS A DISTURBED YOUNG MAN LOOKING FOR AN OPPORTUNITY TO REDEEM HIMSELF. THE SECRET SERVICE IS UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND I WOULD THINK THEY WOULD WANT TO HAVE A HEARING TO GET TO THE ISSUES YOU AND I ARE TALKING ABOUT, RELATED TO HOW THE PRESIDENT ENDED UP ON THAT STAGE WITH THE SNIPER GUN HUNDREDS OF YARDS AWAY. >> WE WILL HEAR FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP TONIGHT. HE HAS RIPPED UP HIS SPEECH AND WILL DELIVER A MESSAGE OF UNITY. WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT MEANS TO DONALD TRUMP? WHAT ARE YOU EXPECTING TO HEAR TONIGHT? >> WE WILL HEAR A MESSAGE OF UNITY, UNITY OF THE PARTY AND THE COUNTRY. IT IS GOING TO BE MORE EMOTIONAL. THIS HAS BEEN AN EMOTIONAL SITUATION FOR A LOT OF US. IT IS THE FIRST TIME WE HAVE SEEN HIM SINCE MONDAY NIGHT AND THAT WAS REALLY SPECIAL. WHEN HE STEPS ON THAT STAGE AS OUR FORMER PRESIDENT AND OUR NOMINEE I THINK YOU WILL HEAR AND SEE A RAUCOUS, WE HAVE THE LEAD IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF THE SUPER BOWL, AND WE ARE REALLY GRATEFUL YOU ARE ALIVE CROWD. I GET EMOTIONAL THINKING ABOUT IT. >> YOU ARE WATCHING THE DEVELOPMENTS OF THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE. DO YOU ANTICIPATE THAT THERE WILL BE A DIFFERENT DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE IN NOVEMBER? >> I DO RIGHT NOW. IT ALMOST SEEMS IRREVERSIBLE AT THIS TIME, QUITE HONESTLY. WE WILL SEE. EVEN IF IT IS ONLY FOR AN HOUR A DAY, HE IS TOUGH. >> AN EXTRAORDINARY MOMENT IN OUR AMERICAN POLITICS. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. >> COMING UP AFTER THE BREAK WE ARE DIGGING DEEPER INTO THIS EXTRAORDINARY MOMENT THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT POLITICS AS WE WAIT TO HEAR FROM FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THAT ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. >>> AND, FROM PRESIDENT BIDEN ON HIS WAY FORWARD. A LOT HERE TO STILL UNPACK AS YOU ARE WATCHING A SPECIAL EDITION OF MEET THE PRESS NOW LIVE FROM THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. BACK AFTER A QUICK BREAK. >>> THIS IS MY FAVORITE TIP OF THE DAY. >> BRILLIANT, BRILLIANT, BRILLIANT. >>> LESTER HOLT, AMERICA'S MOST TRUSTED NEWS ANCHOR. >>> WE LIVE IN THE NOW. NEWS FOR THE GENERATION OF NOW. IT IS NBC NEWS NOW. >>> WELCOME BACK. AS DONALD TRUMP WAVES--RIDES A WAVE OF POLITICAL SUCCESS, PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN IS FACING SOMETHING DIFFERENT. MANY ARE VOICING THEIR CONCERNS ABOUT BIDEN'S PATH TO VICTORY. THAT SPLIT SCREEN BETWEEN TRUMP AND BIDEN IS GOING MORE STARK WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN NOW SIDELINED AND OFF THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL AFTER TESTING POSITIVE FOR COVID. I AM JOINED BY MY FANTASTIC PANEL, STEPHANIE MURPHY, STEPHEN HAYES, AND VAUGHN HILLIARD. THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU FOR BEING HERE. LET ME START WITH YOU, VON. WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING FOR TONIGHT WHEN TRUMP SPEAKS? >> THE UNITY MESSAGE. WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? IS IT A LOT OF WORDS LIKE LET'S GO TOGETHER OR, IS HE GOING TO TURN TO ACTUAL AGENDA SPECIFICS? THERE WERE SIGNS YESTERDAY THAT CROWD CALLING FOR MASS DEPORTATION NOW. ARE THOSE WORDS GOING TO COME OUT OF HIS MOUTH IN PRIME TIME WITH A NATIONAL AUDIENCE? UNLIKE EIGHT YEARS AGO THIS IS REPUBLICAN PARTY THAT IS NOT AFRAID OF ITS OWN SHADOW. THERE IS NOT A CONCERN ABOUT WHO IS IN THE CROWD. YOU HAD PETER NAVARRO OUT OF FEDERAL PRISON ON THAT STAGE YESTERDAY. THIS IS REPUBLICAN PARTY IN A CONFIDENT POSITION. WHAT DOES DONALD TRUMP DO IN HIS OWN OUR, HOWEVER LONG HE GOES ON THAT STAGE, WHAT IS THE MESSAGE HE CONVEYS? >> WE WILL BE LISTENING CLOSELY. STEPHEN, IS IT GOING TO BE A MESSAGE ABOUT UNIFYING THIS ROOM , OR WILL HE TRY TO REACH OUT TO NON-MEGA VOTERS? >> EVERYTHING WE HAVE HEARD IS THAT HE DOES WANT THIS TO BE A UNITY MESSAGE. PEOPLE ARE PLANNING AND TALKING ABOUT WHAT THE SPEECH WILL LOOK LIKE. HE SEEMS TO WANT TO HAVE THIS KIND ARE, GENTLER, DONALD TRUMP. I AM SKEPTICAL OF THE LAST MUST BE ON THE SPEECH. BUT, I DON'T THINK HE CAN HELP HIMSELF. IF YOU LOOK AT HIS POLICIES THEY HAVE A HARDER EDGE AND THIS IS AMERICA RIGHT DONALD TRUMP. HE PICKED J.D. VANCE FOR A REASON. I DON'T THINK IT IS JUST MAGA PART TWO, BUT MAGA DOUBLED. >> SOME PEOPLE MIGHT BE WILLING TO GIVE HIM A SECOND CHANCE. DO YOU THINK DEPENDING ON WHAT HE SAYS TONIGHT, HE COULD START TO WIN OVER SOME INDEPENDENT VOTERS WHO WILL BE SO CRITICAL ON HIS WAY TO END THE WHITE HOUSE IN NOVEMBER? >> SO FAR, THIS CONVENTION HAS KEPT THE MAGA THING UNDER A LID. IT APPEARS THEY ARE TRYING TO GO AFTER SOME SWING VOTERS AND THEY TOOK A DIRECT SHOT AT LABORERS AND THE BLACK VOTE AND HISPANIC VOTE AND THEY VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN THIS CONVENTION. SO, IF HE CAN STICK TO THE TELEPROMPTER AND NOT DO THE NORMAL THINGS HE DOES ADD A RALLY, HE MAY DELIVER A MESSAGE THAT WOULD RESONATE WITH UNDECIDED SWING VOTERS BECAUSE SO FAR, THEY HAVEN'T HEARD THE NORMAL STUFF OUT OF THIS PARTY. >> OFFICE LEE, LAST NIGHT WE HEARD FROM TRUMP'S RUNNING MATE, J.D. VANCE FOR THE FIRST TIME. HIS MESSAGE, IN FACT HE TALKED ABOUT HAVING A BIGGER REPUBLICAN TENT. HE TALKED ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF OHIO AND MICHIGAN AND THE RUST BELT. REALLY, THE SENSE THAT THAT IS WHY THE CAMPAIGN PICKED HIM BECAUSE THEY DO THINK HE WILL RESONATE WITH THOSE CRITICAL VOTERS. >> I WAS TALKING TO A DELEGATE FROM TEXAS AND THESE ARE YOUR MOST DIEHARD ACTIVISTS WITHIN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. HE TOLD ME THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME HE HAD HEARD J.D. VANCE'S STORY. HE NEVER READ THE BOOK OR WATCH THE MOVIE. HE SAID, FOR ME THAT WAS MY OPPORTUNITY TO BEGIN TO HEAR SOME OF THAT BIOGRAPHY. THAT IS THE CASE FOR MOST OF AMERICA. THAT IS WHAT THEY TOOK IN LAST NIGHT. THE QUESTION IS, IF YOU LISTENED TO HIS SPEECH, PROBABLY MOST AMERICANS CAN IDENTIFY WITH AT LEAST PART OF THAT, WHETHER IT IS WAGES OR HOUSING COSTS IN A WAY THAT DONALD TRUMP, HIS OWN STORY DOESN'T REFLECT. J.D. VANCE FEELS THOSE VOIDS FOR THIS TICKET. >> AND, HIS STORY IS JUST REMARKABLE, AS HE LAYS IT OUT. LET'S TALK ABOUT THE OTHER POLITICAL HEADLINE WE ARE TRACKING, WHICH IS WHAT IS PRESIDENT BIDEN GOING TO DO? LET ME PUT UP A COUPLE OF THE HEADLINES THAT OF EMERGED IN THE RECENT HOURS AND DAYS. OUR TEAM JUST REPORTED, WE ARE CLOSE TO THE END. BIDEN WORLD BRACES FOR THE POSSIBILITY THE PRESIDENT STEPS ASIDE. THE WASHINGTON POST, OBAMA TELLS ALLIES BIDEN'S PATH TO WINNING REELECTION HAS GREATLY DIMINISHED. WHERE ARE WE WITH THIS? DO WE THINK THE DAM HAS BROKEN AT THIS POINT? >> UNFORTUNATELY, THERE IS NO SEIZURE BY WHICH ANYBODY, OTHER THAN PRESIDENT BIDEN CAN DECIDE TO STEP ASIDE. WHAT YOU ARE SEEING IS THAT PEOPLE GAVE HIM A COUPLE WEEKS TO LEAVE WITH SOME GRACE BECAUSE THEY RESPECT HIM AND HAVE WORKED WITH HIM FOR A LONG TIME AND THEY HAVE AFFECTION FOR HIM. IT WAS DONE BEHIND THE SCENES. THE FACT THAT IT IS LEAKING OUT INTO THE MEDIA IN THE WAY IT IS IS A SIGN THEY ARE TRYING TO APPLY GREATER PRESSURE FROM THE OUTSIDE. HOW THAT PLAYS WITHIN THE VERY SMALL BIDEN INNER CIRCLE RIGHT NOW IS UNCLEAR. HAVE WE MADE HIM MORE ANGRY AND MORE DUCK IN? OR, HAVE YOU MANAGED TO CONVINCE IN THE POLL NUMBERS ARE SO BAD HE SHOULD STEP ASIDE? IT IS UNCLEAR WHAT POLL NUMBERS THE INSIDERS HAVE BEEN SHOWING TO HIM. >> STEPHEN, HOW DO YOU THINK REPUBLICANS ARE WATCHING THIS MOMENT? I SPOKE WITH THE DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKER TODAY WHO SAID IT IS A SAD MOMENT. IT DOES FEEL LIKE THEY ARE LAYING OUT THE GROUND AND THAT IT IS SHIFTING. THE PARTY IS APPLYING A DIFFERENT LEVEL OF PRESSURE, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU SEE OBAMA INFORMATION. >> I WOULD SAY REPUBLICANS ARE LOOKING AT THIS WITH SOME TREPIDATION. THERE IS A SENSE OF UNITY AND PEOPLE ARE EXCITED BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP SURVIVED AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. THE PARTY IS MORE UNIFIED BECAUSE OF THAT, THEN ON ANY POLICY ISSUES. BUT IF YOU ASK WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT FACING A NON-BIDEN CANDIDATE? I TALKED TO ONE STRATEGIST WHO SAID, DONALD TRUMP CAN'T BEAT THAT. HE HAD A FEELING. HE HAD A GOOD WEEK, I THINK BUT HE TOPS OUT. IT IS HARD FOR HIM TO GO BEYOND THAT AND PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIKE HIM, REALLY, REALLY DON'T LIKE HIM. >> I AM IMAGINING A DEMOCRATIC CIRCLE WATCHING THIS CONVENTION AND IT IS A GIANT REMINDER THAT THE CLOCK IS TICKING. THERE IS NOT A LOT OF TIME. THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION IS IN AUGUST AND THE TAKE AWAY FROM THIS CONVENTION HAS BEEN THE UNIFIED PARTY. >> FOR 20 MONTHS NOW DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN RUNNING THE SAME CAMPAIGN. THERE HAS BEEN NO INTRIGUE STORIES. THIS IS A DIFFERENT CAMPAIGN OPERATION. THEY HAVE ALLOWED DONALD TRUMP TO BE DONALD TRUMP. THERE IS NO WESTON ABOUT THE BASE OF SUPPORT. IT IS JUST A MATTER OF WINNING OVER INDEPENDENCE, AND THEY MIGHT NOT EVEN NEED THEM, BUT THEY MIGHT AS WELL TRY. IT IS THE PARTY THAT HAS A LOT OF CONFIDENCE AND IS UNLIKE ANYTHING I'VE SEEN IN MY TIME OF COVERING REPUBLICAN POLITICS. THEY ARE WATCHING THIS AND SAYING WE DON'T CARE WHO WE FACE. THROW ANYBODY OUR WAY, WE FEEL GOOD. >> WILL HAVE ABOUT 30 SECONDS LEFT, STEPHANIE. TO THAT POINT, DO YOU ANTICIPATE IF PRESIDENT BIDEN PASSED THE TORCH THAT HE HAS TO PASS IT TO HARRIS? >> I THINK FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND THE HEALTH OF THE PARTY, IT SHOULD BE SOME SORT OF MINI PRIMARY. SHE SHOULD BE CONSIDERED, AND IF SHE WINS THE PARTY WILL UNIFY BEHIND WHOMEVER WINS. BUT, WE ARE IN THIS PLACE BECAUSE WE DIDN'T PROTEST OUR CANDIDATE IN THE PRIMARY AND WE CAN'T REPEAT THAT. >> WE WILL LEAVE IT ON THAT POWERFUL POINT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. IT WAS A GREAT CONVERSATION. >>> STILL TO COME, WE ARE LOOKING AT HOW FOLKS IN MILWAUKEE ARE LITERALLY, WEARING THE POLITICS ON THEIR SLEEVES. YOU ARE WATCHING MEET THE PRESS NOW, SPECIAL COVERAGE LIVE FROM MILWAUKEE. >>> THE WATERS ARE CERTAINLY RECEIVING NOW. >>> THIS IS LESTER HOLT REPORTING FROM GROUND ZERO. WHAT IS THE BIGGEST RISK RIGHT NOW? >>> I WANT TO WELCOME YOU TO THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. >>> WELCOME BACK. SILLY HATS AND OUTRAGEOUS OUTFITS ARE THE STABLE OF THE CONVENTION. THIS YEAR IS NO EXCEPTION. ALEX CABOT HAS A LOOK AT HOW SOME DELEGATES ARE DRESSED TO IMPRESS. >> JOY AND EXCITEMENT IN MILWAUKEE IS REPUBLICANS CELEBRATE THEIR PARTY'S PRESIDENTIAL TICKET. >> PRESENT TRUMP WILL MAKE AMERICA SPARKLE AGAIN. >> Reporter: MANY OF THE DELEGATES ARE DRESSING THE PART. ICONIC IMAGERY ALREADY EMBLAZONED ON T-SHIRTS. >> I WILL PUT IT RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF MY CHEST. I CAME HERE WITH 100 BUTTONS TO TRADE. >> Reporter: WISCONSINITES SAGES TO THE CAMERA AND THE TEXAS DELEGATION IS DIPPING THEIR HATS. >> I WORE A SHORT--SHIRT BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE THERE ARE NO POLITICIANS TALKING ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON. STATES PUT THE PARTY IN GRAND OLE PARTY. MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. THANKS TO ALEX FOR THAT. MY COLLEAGUE, HALLIE JACKSON IS STANDING BY AND PICKS UP SPECIAL COVERAGE. HALLIE, FINAL NIGHT. >> BIG STUFF, I AM GLAD TO BE ALONGSIDE YOU FOR THE RIDE. STAY RIGHT HERE OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE CONTINUES . >>> HERE WE GO, LIVE FROM THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION, GEARING UP FOR THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S SPEECH IN A NIGHT AND MOMENT IN POLITICS UNLIKE ANYTHING WE HAVE SEEN IN RECENT MEMORY. I WANT TO SHOW YOU THE STAGE HERE. THIS IS THE LEFT TURN THERE, YOU ARE LOOKING AT IT, FOR THE FIRST SPEECH SINCE THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST HIM. HIS NIGHT, HIS STAGE, HIS PARTY, TOO. THE GOP UNITED BEHIND THE FORMER PRESIDENT. IT IS A VERY DIFFERENT STORY FOR THE CURRENT PRESIDENT RIGHT NOW. HE IS BACK HOME ISOLATING WITH COVID AS OUR NEW REPORTING SHOWS HIS ORBIT IS BRACING FOR THE POSSIBILITY HE COULD DROP OUT. ONE PERSON CLOSE TO THE PRESIDENT WE ARE CLOSE TO THE END. A PERSON WHO SPOKE TO A CAMPAIGN OFFICIAL SAYING THEY ARE FINALLY REALIZING IT IS A WHEN NOT IF. >> THE CAMPAIGN IS ONLY BRINGING IN A QUARTER OF THE BIG DONOR MONEY THEY PLANNED ON. NANCY PELOSI, CHUCK SCHUMER HAVING BLUNT CONVERSATIONS WITH THE PRESIDENT. PELOSI TELLS BIDEN HE CAN NOT WIN. FORMER PRESIDENT, BRIEFED ON THE CALL TELLING BARACK OBAMA RAISING CONCERNS ABOUT HIS FORMER VP'S FUTURE >>> A SOURCE CLOSE TO BIDEN PUSHING BACK HARD SAYING THEY ARE ALL WRONG. MOAN WHILE FOR MR. TRUMP, A LOT GOING RIGHT, SUPPORTERS ARE FIRED UP IN THIS MOMENT FOR WHAT WILL BE A HISTORIC MOMENT. HE WILL BE THE FIRST CANDIDATE FOR RICHARD NIXON TO ACCEPT THE NOMINATION FOR THE THIRD TIME AND FIRST ONE AFTER BEING FOUND GUILTY OF A FELONY. OUR TEAM IS ACROSS THE FLOOR. KRISTEN AND CHUCK ARE HERE WITH ME AT THE BOOTH. I WANT TO START FIRST AT THE WHITE HOUSE, AARON, DRAMATIC MOMENTS FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. IT FEELS AS THOUGH THE FLOOD GATES OPENED NOW. TALK US THROUGH WHAT WE KNOW AND THE POSTURE THAT THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN PUBLICLY CONTINUES TO HAVE. >> WE KNOW THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN IS, AS NOTED, BACK AT HIS HOME IN DELAWARE WITH COVID, HIS DOCTOR SAYING TODAY THAT THE PRESIDENT IS STILL SHOWING SOME OF THE SYMPTOMS, COUGH, RUNNY NOSE, BUT HE IS DOING WELL. VITALS ARE NORMAL. AT THE SIM TIME WE KNOW THERE IS A SWIRLING CLOUD OF CALLS FOR HIM TO POTENTIALLY STEP OUT OF THE RACE OR STEP AWAY FROM THE RACE FOR PRESIDENT. POTENTIALLY OPENING THE DOOR TO SOMEBODY ELSE TO STEP INTO THE PROCESS TO EARN THE NOMINATION. THE CAMPAIGN THOUGH, VERY MUCH LEANING INTO THE NARRATIVE THAT WE HEARD BEFORE THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN IS AND WILL BE THE NOMINEE. WE HEARD THAT FROM THE DEPUTY CAMPAIGN MANAGER. PRESIDENT BIDEN BEFORE HE WENT HOME TO DELAWARE WITH COVID DID AN INTERVIEW WHERE HE WAS ASKED ABOUT SOME OF THE CALLS FOR HIM TO STEP DOWN. HE WAS ASKED HOW DO YOU FEEL WITH SO MANY PEOPLE WHO SUPPORTED YOU BEFORE NOW ASKING YOU TO STEP AWAY? DO YOU FEEL A SENSE OF BETRAYAL? A RADIO INTERVIEW. THE PRESIDENT TALKED ABOUT HIS DEBATE PERFORMANCE SAYING IT WAS A BAD NIGHT FOR HIM AND THEN OFFERED THIS IN RESPONSE TO THAT QUESTION. LISTEN. >> PEOPLE ARE NOW SAYING, WELL, THAT WAS ONLY ONE THING, BUT HEY 81 YEARS OLD, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN HEY 84 YEARS OLD, WHAT HAPPENS? EXCUSE ME, WHEN HE IS 85 YEARS OLD? I WAS SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW, WITH AGE COMES WISDOM, I KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRUTH AND LIES, I KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOOD AND BAD AND I KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT HAS TO BE DONE. >> YOU HEARD THE PRESIDENT COUGHING IN THE INTERVIEW, HE DID THERE, AGAIN, ONE OF THE SYMPTOMS HIS DOCTOR INDICATED WAS PART OF WHAT HE IS EXPERIENCING BEFORE THE COVID DIAGNOSE. AT THE SAME TIME THE CAMPAIGN'S DEPUTY MANAGER SAID ON TELEVISION ON MSNBC. THE PRESIDENT IS DOING WORK TODAY, ENGAGED IN OFFICIAL MEETINGS AND MAKING CAMPAIGN CALLS AS WELL, HALLIE? >> AARON, LIVE FOR US OUTSIDE OF THE WHITE HOUSE. AARON, AS WE LOOK FORWARD HERE THERE IS THIS QUESTION OF TIMING. AND IF THERE IS, IN FACT, AS WE ARE PUTTING HERE ON THE LOWER PART OF THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN, WE'RE CLOSE TO THE END OF THE BIDEN CANDIDACY. WE ARE SITTING HERE LIVE IN MILWAUKEE. THE DEMOCRATS TAKE THEIR TURN IN JUST A MONTH FROM NOW. THAT FEELS THAT IT IS IN MANY WAYS DICTATING THE TIME LINE HERE? >> THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION WILL START ON AUGUST 19th. OBVIOUSLY THE TALK ABOUT THE ROLE CALL, NOMINATING PROCESS HAPPENING AROUND AUGUST 1st, AUGUST 7th POTENTIALLY. YET THERE ARE STILL THESE CALLS, NAMED EOPLE WHO ARE STANDING UP SAYING THE PRESIDENT SHOULD STEP AWAY AND THE WHISPERS FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE ONLY DESCRIBED AS SOURCES WHO ARE SAYING THAT HE SHOULD STEP AWAY AS WELL. AT THE SAME TIME THE CAMPAIGN POINTS TO A LIST OF PEOPLE WHO ARE NAMED THAT SAYS THE PRESIDENT SHOULD STAY IN THE RACE. AS THE CALLS ARE HAPPENING, AS THERE IS TALK ABOUT BARACK OBAMA SOFTENING SOME OF HIS SUPPORT, SPEAKER PELOSI, LEADER SCHUMER REFERENCING THEIR CONCERNS OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS IN PARTICULAR, I WANT TO NOTE THERE IS ONE SOURCE THAT WE SPOKE TO THAT IS CLOSE TO PRESIDENT BIDEN WHO SAID THAT, CAN WE ALL JUST REMEMBER FOR A MINUTE THESE SAME PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO PUSH JOE BIDEN OUT ARE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO ALL GAVE US DONALD TRUMP? IN 2015, BARACK OBAMA, SCHUMER, PUSHED BIDEN ASIDE FOR HILLARY THEY ARE WRONG THEN AND ARE WRONG NOW. AS MUCH AS WE ARE HEARING THE STEPS AWAY. THERE IS ONE VOICE THAT IS PRETTY FORCEFULLY SAYING THAT THE SUPPORT FOR BIDEN IS NOT TOTALLY GONE. >> AARON, THANK YOU, WE GO TO CAPITOL HILL, REPORTING OUT WHERE THE DEMOCRATIC POSITION IS AT THIS POINT. NEW REPORTING THAT A STRATEGIST ARE TELLING OUR TEAM THERE ARE A NUMBER OF BLACK DEMOCRATS THAT THINK THE CANDIDACY IS LIKELY TO COME TO AN END. THIS IS A GROUP THAT BACKED HIM INITIALLY IN THE POST DEBATE. THEY HAD HIS BACK FOR YEARS FOR DECADES SO MANY WAYS, A KEY PART OF THEM. >> IT WOULD BE DEVASTATING FOR THEM TO LOSE THE BLACK CAUCUS ON CAPITOL HILL. THEY ARE CRUCIAL TO HIS NOMINATION IN THE FIRST PLACE IN 2020. POST DEBATE ASKING THE PRESIDENT TO STEP ASIDE THE CDC STRONGLY SHOWED THE SUPPORT FOR JOE BIDEN, STAYING IN THE RACE AND THAT TEMPORARILY SEEMED TO, YOU KNOW, KEEP THINGS GOING FOR HIM. DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST TOLD OUR COLLEAGUE THAT SEVERAL BLACK DEMOCRATS THAT SPOKEN WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN AND HIS AIDS IN RECENT DAYS BELIEVE HIS CANDIDACY IS NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD. AND MORE AND MORE DEMOCRATS ARE CALLING HAD IMTO STEP ASIDE. BLACK LAWMAKERS HAVE GROWN FRUSTRATED BY THE SITUATION. THERE IS A PERGATORY THAT HAS TO END. IN THE MOMENT. THEY BELIEVE THEY NEED TO BE DOING. AND PRESIDENT BID PEN'S POSTURE HAS BEEN, AGAIN AND AGAIN, INSISTS, EVERY TIME HE STOPS THE BLEEDING MORE DEMOCRATS COME OUT AND OPEN THE WOUND. >> PRESSURE, OF COURSE, COMING FROM HOUSE AND SENATE LEADERS IN WHAT FEELS LIKE A POTENTIALLY COULD BE SOMETHING WE DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS COORDINATED OR NOT BUT THE TIMING SEEMS INTERESTING. OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST 48, NOT EVEN, 24 HOURS WE HAVE SEEN ALL OF THESE DEMOCRATS, PELOSI, SCHUMER PUBLICLY OR MEDIA LEAKS COMING OUT AND MAKING THEIR POINTS. >> Reporter: THE FEAR THAT THESE DEMOCRATS HAVE IS NOT JUST THAT HE WILL LOSE TO TRUMP THAT IS TO THEM A HORRIFIC PROSPECT. I WILL NOT DOWNPLAY THAT, THE BIGGER FEAR IS IF JOE BIDEN STAYS IN THE RACE AND HE ENDS UP DRAGGING DOWN OTHER DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE. TRUMP CAN WIN BIG, REPUBLICAN TRIFECTA THAT THEY BELIEVE WILL BE SUBMISSIVE TO HIM GIVEN HOW LITTLE OPPOSITION HE IS FACING IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. THAT IS THE OTHER THING THAT HAS DEMOCRATS FREAKED OUT. BIDEN STAYS IN THE RACE IT COULD HURT DEMOCRATS DOWN THE BALLOT. LET'S SHOW POLLING IN SWING STATES. THAT SHOWS DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES OUTPERFORMING BIDEN. A MAJOR POINT OF RELIEF FOR DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE TIED OR TRAILING THE CANDIDATES. THEY ARE LEADING THEIR RIVALS. YOU SEE A SIMILAR SITUATION GOING ON IN ARIZONA, NEVADA AND EVEN THE RED STATE OF OHIO, THE SENATOR IS AHEAD OF HIS OPPONENT. THE FEAR THAT DEMOCRATS HAVE IS IT MIGHT NOT BE SUSTAINABLE, EVEN THOUGH THEY HOPE IT WILL BE. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >>> I WANT TO GO TO GARRET HICK NOW ON THE CONVENTION FLOOR TO GET THE VIEW FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE. AS DEMOCRATS ARE DEALING WITH THIS POLITICAL CRISIS NOW FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN IT IS QUITE LITERALLY A SPLIT SCREEN. SAW THE PRESIDENT COMING OFF OF THE PLANE LAST NIGHT AFTER BEING DIAGNOSED WITH COVID AT THE SAME MOMENT THE CONVENTION FLOOR WAS REACHING ITS PEAK DURING A SPEECH OF DONALD TRUMP JR. TALK US THROUGH THE DYNAMICS WHERE YOU ARE AND THE EXPECTATION NOW FOR MAYBE WHICH VERSION WE WILL SEE TONIGHT. >> REPUBLICANS AND THE FOLKS THAT HAVE BEEN IN THE ROOM THE LAST THREE NIGHTS SMELL BLOOD IN THE WATER. THEY UNDERSTAND THEIR PARTY IS UNITED BEHIND TRUMP. THE FLOOR JUST OPENED RIGHT NOW FOR THE DELEGATES HERE. THEY WERE RUNNING DOWN TO SECURE THEIR SEATS IN THE FRONT OF THIS ROOM LIKE AT A ROCK CONCERT HERE. A LOT OF ENERGY FROM THE PROSPECT OF WHAT YOU WERE DESCRIBING A REPUBLICAN WIPE OUT HERE. I THINK WHAT YOU ARE SEEING NOW IS THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN FIGURING OUT HOW TO USE THE ENERGY TO THE BEST ADVANTAGE. SOME OF IT WILL BE THE CANDIDATE SPEECH. THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN ADVISORIES PREVIEWING A SPEECH REWRITTEN BY TRUMP TO EMPHASIZE UNITY AND FOCUS ON THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON SATURDAY. WE HAVE TALKED OFTEN ABOUT WHAT UNITY MEANS TO DONALD TRUMP. THAT DOES NOT MEAN YOU WILL SEE SORING RHETORIC ABOUT UNITED THE COUNTRY AROUND BIG PICTURE CONCEPTS IT OFTEN MEANS UNITING THE COUNTRY AROUND TRUMP. YOU WILL NOT SEE HIM BACKING AWAY FROM THE FIGHT TO JOE BIDEN. THE SIGNS DISTRIBUTED INCLUDE FIRE JOE BIDEN AND THE UNDER CARD SPEAKERS INCLUDE BOTH A FAKE FIGHTER IN THE PRO WRESTLER, AND THE CEO OF THE FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP. THERE WILL BE A HUGE TONE TO TONIGHT. I THINK IN ADDITION TO THE EFFORT TO BALANCE THAT EMOTION OF THE KIND OF EMOTIONAL HANG OVER FROM SATURDAY, THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. STANDING BY DOWN THERE ON THE FLOOR OF THE CONVENTION. I WANT TO COME BACK UP HERE TO THE BOOTH. I AM JOINED BY REPUBLICAN SENATOR FROM OKLAHOMA. THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US HERE, APPRECIATE IT. TALK US THROUGH, YOU HEARD GARRET'S REPORTING, I THINK YOU MIGHT OF HEARD IT. >> A LITTLE BIT. WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IT. WE SPOKE TO SOMEONE CLOSE TO THE FORMER PRESIDENT AND HOW HE IS DOING AT THIS MOMENT. HE TOLD A GROUP OF PEOPLE HERE MOVIE SCREENING YESTERDAY THAT HE FEELS LIKE A MOMENT LIKE THIS CHANGES HIM, WOULD HAVE TO, YOU SPENT TIME WITH HIM YESTERDAY, YOU HAVE BEEN WITH HIM SINCE THIS. DO YOU NOTICE A DIFFERENCE OF TRUMP BEFORE SATURDAY AND NOW? >> WHAT I NOTICE IS HIS FAMILY AROUND HIM. I HAVE KNOWN PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR PLANE YEARS, CONSIDER HIM A FRIEND. HE ALWAYS HAS BEEN CLOSE WITH HIS FAMILY IN MAR-A-LAGO ARE AND PRIVATE SETTINGS. WHAT YOU ARE SEEING WITH HIS FAMILY COMING AROUND HIM LIKE I NEVER SEEN BEFORE. FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP . >> THAT IS INTERESTING TO ME BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT SEEN SOME OF HIS FAMILY HERE. WHAT IS THAT ABOUT? >> THEY ARE VERY, THEY ARE VERY PRIVATE. THEY WENT THROUGH A LOT AND NOT ALL OF THEM WANT THE SPOTLIGHT. BUT AFTER LAST NIGHT THEIR GRANDFATHER GETTING SHOT AT, ALMOST TAKING THEIR GRAND DAD FROM THEM. I THINK IT WAS SOMETHING DIFFERENT. YOU SAW A LOT MORE FIGHT IN THE FAMILY THE FIGHT MEANING HE IS NOT IN THIS FIGHT ALONE. THERE IS NOT A POLITICIAN THIS IS SOMEONE'S DAD, SOMEONE'S GRANDFATHER AND SOMEONE'S HUSBAND. SO THE FAMILY UNITY IS DIFFERENT. AS FAR AS PRESIDENT TRUMP, HE IS, HE IS, HE IS AS FOCUSED AS EVER. HE IS SEIZING THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SAY WE NEED TO BRING THE COUNTRY TOGETHER. LOWER THE TEMPERATURE OF THE DIVIDE, LEAVE THE LABELS TO THE SIDE. AND I THINK TONIGHT YOU WILL HEAR A LOT MORE ABOUT UNITY. A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PRESIDENT BIDEN AND PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THEIR LEADERSHIP FOR THE COUNTRY. YOU WILL HEAR THAT. NOT AS DIVISIVE IF IT HAPPENED A WEEK PRIOR TO THE ASSASSINATION. >> I COVERED THE FORMER PRESIDENT FOR A LONG TIME. THE IDEA OF A DONALD TRUMP PIVOT BECAME A CLICHI■ IT IS GOING TO BE A DIFFERENT TONE AND IT WAS NOT. >> EVEN WHAT JUNIOR SAID, LISTEN, HE MADE IT CLEAR, IF YOU THINK THIS COUNTRY CAN DO BETTER, IF YOU THANK THIS COUNTRY IS NOT WHERE IT SHOULD BE WE ARE A PARTY FOR YOU. YOU SAW THE YOUNG MAN THAT GOT UP AND SAID I VOTED FOR BERNIE SANDERS IN THE PAST. YOU MAY HAVE SEEN PEOPLE NOT POLITICALLY INVOLVED NOW ARE COMING TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY SAYING WE NEED A SAFE PLACE TO GO. YOU HAVE A DEMOCRAT PARTY RIGHT NOW THAT IS STARTING TO SAY HEY, WE GOT A CANDIDATE THAT CAN NOT WIN SO THE 14 MILLION PEOPLE THAT VOTED FOR HIM IN THE PRIMARY THEY DID NOT KNOW BEST BUT THE THREE OF US, CHUCK SCHUMER AND NANCY PELOSI AND ADAM SCHIFF IS GOING TO MAKE THE DECISION FOR YOU. THEY ARE NOT INCLUSIVE TO THE PARTY BASE. YOU HAVE A PARTY THAT THE ELITE SHOULD MAKE A DECISION. HERE WE ARE SAYING WE WANT EVERYBODY TO BE PART OF THE NEW AMERICA MAKE GREAT AGAIN. >> ONE OF THE THINGS THAT COME UP OFTEN WITH DELEGATES ON THE FLOOR, PEOPLE LIKE YOU, ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT OF COURSE ON SATURDAY T IS LOOMING OVER MILWAUKEE. THERE WAS THE CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS. ONE SENATOR TOLD ME HE THOUGHT IT WAS, I AM QUOTING HIM, A COVER YOUR ASS MOMENT THERE. WHAT QUESTIONS DO YOU HAVE FOR THE SECRET SERVICE? DO YOU WANT TO SEE THE HEAD DOWN? >> BUFFER ASK ANYONE TO STEP DOWN YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT TOOK PLACE. THIS IS A LINE OF WORK THAT I KNOW ABOUT. I UNDERSTAND THE PERIMETERS, THREE RINGS, OUTSIDE, PERIMETER, INSIDE PERIMETER AND YOUR DIAMOND THERE IS AN AIC IN CHARGE OF EVERY ONE OF THEM. AIC IS A AGENT IN CHARGE. WE WE GOT THE BRIEFING IT WAS A TIME LINE OF THE EVENTS. SERIOUS QUESTIONS THEY DID NOT TAKE THE TIME TO ANSWER. >> LIKE WHAT. >> THEY SAID THEY LOCATED THE BUILDING AS A POINT OF INTEREST THAT WAS OUTSIDE OF THE THIRD PERIMETER. THE THIRD PERIMETER IS USUALLY PROTECTED BY UNIFORMED, LOCAL POLICE OFFICERS, SOFT PERIMETER. THEY RECOGNIZE THIS BUILDING TO BE 150 YARDS AWAY. DIRECT LINE OF SIGHT TO THE PODIUM AS A POINT OF INTEREST. AS THAT POINT OF INTEREST DID THE AIC, DID SOMEONE MAKE THE DECISION NOT TO COVER THAT BUILDING? COVER IT DOES NOT MEAN YOU HAVE TO SOMEBODY ON IT BUT MAKE SURE IT IS PROTECTED WHERE NO ONE CAN GET ON IT. THEN THEY SAID THEY IDENTIFIED THE SHOOTER AT 5:09 AS A PERSON OF INTEREST. THE SHOOTING TOOK PLACE AT 6:11. A POINT OF INTEREST AND THE QUESTION WAS, WHY WAS HE A POINT OF STREFT? A BACKPACK AND A RANGE FINDER, WHY WOULD HE HAVE A RANGE FINDER WALKING AROUND AND THEN WHY DID NO ONE MAKE CONTACT AND 19 MINUTES BEFORE THE SHOOTING TOOK PLACE. THEY WERE ACTIVELY LOOKING FOR HIM AND COULD NOT FIND HIM. >> I HEAR FRUSTRATION IN YOUR VOICE. FOR GIVE ME FOR LOOKING AT MY PHONE WE GOT A STATEMENT FROM THE SECRET SERVICE SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE DIRECTOR. THE SPOKESPERSON IS TELLING US, LITELLY IN THE LAST 30 SECONDS THAT SHE HAS NO INTENTION OF STEPPING DOWN. SHE IS FIERCELY COMMITTED TO TRANSPARENCY, DO YOU BELIEVE THAT? SHE IS? >> PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING. IF WE DON'T HAVE TO SUBPOENA THE RECORDS OR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE AIC AND THE TOP BRASS OR THE, ALL OF THE MIKES SHOULD BE RECORDING. WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO HEAR THE COMMUNICATIONS THAT WERE TAKING PLACE. IF SHE WILL NOT BE TRANSPARENT WITH THAT, THERE IS A DIFFERENT PROSPECT GOING FORWARD. BEFORE I START SAYING SOMEONE NEEDS TO LOSE THEIR JOB OVER IT. SOMEBODY NEEDS TO LOSE THEIR JOB BUT WHO THAT PERSON IS? AT THE POINT OF FAILURE. ULTIMATELY THE PERSON AT THE TOP OF THE HEAD IS KIMBERLY. SHE IS THE ONE OVER SECRET SERVICE. RESPONSIBLE FOR TAKING CARE OF THE VENUE. IF SHE WAS NOT DIRECTLY INVOLVED, EVEN IF I MAY NOT AGREE WITH SOME OF HER DECISIONS I WILL NOT SAY SHE NEEDS TO GO BUT THERE NEEDS TO BE A CHANGE IN THE SECRET SERVICE AND THE DIRECTION THEY ARE GOING. >> J.D. VANCE WAS ON THE STAGE LAST NIGHT. >> YES. GREAT GUY. >> YOU HAVE TWO MEN LEADING THE PARTY THAT ARE CRITICS THAT DON'T WANT FURTHER AID TO UKRAINE. ARE YOU COMFORTABLE WHERE THE PARTY IS? >> YES AND COMFORTABLE WITH J.D. VANCE. HE IS A MAN THAT CAME UP FROM NOTHING AND VERY SUCCESSFUL. A MAN THAT CAN SHOW HE CAN ADAPT. HE ADAPTED THE IN FACT ONE TIME HE WAS NOT WITH TRUMP. ONCE HE GOT TO KNOW HIS POLICY AND UNDERSTAND THE MAN HIMSELF HE IS ON THE TICKET WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP. THE OTHER GUY THAT MAY NOT HAVE ALWAYS GOTTEN THE BRIEFINGS. ONE THING MAKING A DECISION FROM THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN AND THEN A REPORT AND RECEIVING DAILY BRIEFINGS AND UNDERSTAND THE CIRCUMSTANCES HAPPENING ON THE GROUND. NOT EVERY MEMBER OF CONGRESS GETS THOSE BRIEFINGS. YOU HAVE TO BE ON ON THE COMMITTEE TO GET THE BRIEFINGS. >> THE HOUSE VOTED TO OVERTURN THE 2020 ELECTION WILL YOU COMMIT NOW TO CERTIFYING THE ELECTION. >> CAN I STOP YOU THERE, DO YOU WORRY THAT KIND OF ANSWER INFLAMES THE RHETORIC THAT EVERYBODY HAS BEEN ASKING TO TONE DOWN? >> NO. I WANT A FAIR AND BALANCED ELECTION. I TONIGHT TO BE A VERY FAIR ELECTION THAT EVERYBODY'S VOICE GETS HEARD AND COULDN'T EVERYONE'S VOICE AND LET THE AMERICAN PEOPLE MAKE THAT DECISION. I WANT THEM TO MAKE THE DECISION. FOR ME TO SAY I WILL GUARANTEE I WILL CERTIFY IT. I CAN NOT SAY THAT F. IT WAS RIDDLED WITH FRAUD I CAN NOT SAY THAT. WE DON'T KNOW. IF IT IS A FAIR ELECTION AND THAT EVERYBODY'S VOTE GOT COUNTED I WILL CERTIFY WHATEVER THE RESULTS ARE. >> SENATOR, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND AHEAD OF HERE. APPRECIATE IT. KRISTEN AND CHUCK ARE WITH ME HERE. THANK YOU BOTH FOR BEING HERE. NEW THERE AS IT RELATES TO THE SECRET SERVICE WITH THE BREAKING NEWS COMING IN JUST THE LAST FEW MINUTES. WE WILL GET THE REPORTING. THERE IS, I TELL YOU THERE IS A WOMAN WITH A SIGN THAT SAYS FIRE. >> THE CALLS FOR HER TO STEP DOWN ARE GROWING, THE SENATOR WAS CAREFUL NOT TO CALL FOR HE DOWN. A LACK OF COMMUNICATIONIP FLAMED THIS. COMMUNICATION INFLAMED THE SITUATION. THE FACT THAT THE SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR APPEARED DEFENSIVE, POINTED THE FINGER AT LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT. WHEN ULTIMATELY, THE PRESIDENT'S SAFETY AND SECURITY IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE SECRET SERVICE. THE WAY SHE IS COMMUNICATING INFORMATION AND THE INVESTIGATION AND THE DETAILS OF THAT SHE HAS BEEN LEARNING. WE WILL HAVE TO SEE IF THAT PART OF THE POSTURE CHANGES. LOOK, THE CALLS FOR THESE BRIEFINGS ARE ONLY GOING TO CONTINUE AND THE CALLS FOR HER TO RESIGN LIKELY WILL ONLY CONTINUE TO GROW LOUDER >> I AM SHOCKED SHE IS IN THE JOB. >> YOU ARE? >> YES. >> THAT STATEMENT SURPRISES YOU? >> IT DOES. I AM SURPRISED. FOR A LOT OF REASONS INCLUDING THE ATMOSPHERE IN THE COUNTRY. I THINK THE PRESIDENT, PRESIDENT BIDEN, MADE A MISTAKE NOT FIRING HER. >> WE ARE ALL IN BUBBLES, SECRET SERVICE BUBBLES JUST TO BE CLEAR WHEN YOU ARE TRAVEL WITH ANY PRESIDENT, THREE FORMER WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS SITTING HERE YOU END UP IN THE SECRET SERVICE BUBBLE. SO YOU SEE IT. >> I WANT TO TAKE YOU A LITTLE BIT INSIDE HERE. STEVE HAYES AND I DID THIS ON THE PODCAST I THINK IT WAS HELPFUL. FACT OF THE MATTER IS, THERE ARE ALWAYS HOLES, WE ARE A FREE COUNTRY. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE AND WE ALL SEEN IT AND WHEN YOU ARE IN THERE YOU ARE LIKE WOW, YOU ALWAYS KNOW THERE IS HOLES THE PROBLEM THE SECRET SERVICE HAS AND THIS IS PART OF THE JOB, THERE IS NO MARGIN FOR ERROR. >> RIGHT. >> AND THAT IS WHY, YOU KNOW, WHAT LOOKS LIKE TERRIBLE MISSTEPS IN HINDSIGHT AT THE TIME YOU ARE LIKE, WELL, WE HAVE NOT HAD IT. AND THIS HAPPENS ALL OF THE TIME IN SECURITY. SO, I THINK THE SENATOR WAS THOUGHTFUL THERE. I THINK HE IS RIGHT. SHE HAS TO GET ALL OF THE INFORMATION. I THINK HER INITIAL SORT OF DEFENSIVE RESPONSE CREATED IT AND AT THE END OF THE DAY. UNFORTUNATELY. SOMEBODY SHOULD BE HEL ACCOUNTABLE. I JUST THINK IT WAS, I AM SURPRISED, IT DOES NOT MEAN IT IS HER FAULT BUT SOMEBODY HAS TO PAY THE PRICE FOR NEARLY ALLOWING A FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO BE KILLED. >> PARTICULARLY WHEN WE HAVE LEARNED ABOUT THIS TIME LINE. >> THE TICK TOCK OF IT ALL. THERE WILL BE GAPS BUT THE FACT THAT THEY IDENTIFIED HIM SUSPICIOUS AN HOUR BEFOREHAND AND ALLOWED TRUMP TO TAKE THE STAGE. LASAY BIG QUESTION. AND I THINK THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE TO BE ANSWERS FOR THAT AND ACCOUNTABILITY. JUST THE TWO OF YOU AND YOUR DECADES AND POLITICAL REPORTING HERE TAKE A MOMENT TO STEP BACK FOR A SECOND. WE ARE HAVING THIS BIG NEWS IN POLITICS ANY OTHER YEAR. AHEAD OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION WITH THE CURRENT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES FACING CALLS NOW, PRIVATELY AND PUBLICLY FOR SOME OF THE OTHER TOP DEMOCRATS IN THE COUNTRY AFTER HIS DECADES IN OFFICE TO STEP DOWN. IT IS AN EXTRAORDINARY MOMENT. I COVERED A LOT OF WILD STUFF. THIS IS SOMETHING ELSE. >> IF AARON WROTE IT AS A SCRIPT I WOULD LAUGH HIM OUT OF THE ROOM. >> IT IS NOT REALISTIC. >> YES. NO ONE WILL BELIEVE IT. >> YES. SEASON 11. >> HERE WE ARE. YES. HERE IS WHAT IT HAS DONE. SIX WEEKS AGO THERE WAS HALF OF THIS COUNTRY DID NOT WANT TO HEAR ANYTHING MORE ABOUT TRUMP AND BIDEN LITERALLY UNTIL A WEEK BEFORE THE ELECTION. FOR A VARIETY OF THE ELECTION. AND THE FACT THAT THERE COULD BE A NEW CANDIDATE. WE NOW HAVE A REENGAGED AMERICAN ELECTROTE. ATE. TRUMP WILL TALK TO PEOPLE TONIGHT THAT WOULD NOT HAVE NORMALLY TUNED IN TO LISTEN TO HIM. PREASSASSINATION. AND IT WILL BE A MINIMUM. I AM CURIOUS WHAT HE HAS TO SAY NOW. WHAT IS HE GOING TO DO. I HEAR THAT MAYBE HE CHANGED HIM. WE ARE ALL HUMAN BEINGS. SOMETHING THAT TRAUMATIC IN HIS LIFE. IT IS POSSIBLE. HE HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TONIGHT, HE WILL BE TALKING TO PEOPLE THAT TWO WEEKS AGO HAD NO INTEREST IN HEARING HIM SAY A WORD. THAT IS A BIG DEAL. ALL OF A SUDDEN THE DEMOCRATS MAY HAVE A NEW CANDIDATE. AGAIN, VOTERS WILL BE LIKE, HUH, I AM CURIOUS. LET ME LISTEN. SO, WE ARE JUST IN A MOMENT, I THINK, OF A REENGAGEMENT OF THE COUNTRY. GOOD, BAD, INDIFFERENT FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS. >> WE WILL FIND OUT >>AND YOU KNOW THE WORST THING TO BE RIGHT NOW SAY POLESTER. POLLSTER. WE ARE NOT REALLY GOING TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THE PUBLIC IS UNTIL SEPTEMBER. >> I HEAR THE WORDS OF OUR COLLEAGUE IN OUR EAR. YOU HAVE TO HAVE HUMILITY AS BROADCASTERS WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IT MEANS DOWN THE ROAD. >> WE DON'T. AND I THINK THE VERY NOTION THERE COULD BE A MINIDEMOCRATIC PRIMARY OR PRESIDENT BIDEN CAN PASS THE TORCH TO HIS VICE PRESIDENT AND THERE COULD BE A NEW NOMINEE HOWEVER IT WINDS UP PLAYING OUT. IT IS JUST SOMETHING THAT I KEEP THINKING ABOUT AND PAUSING TO THE BACKDROP OF WHAT IS HAPPYING HERE AND INCREDIBLY UNIFIED PARTY AND WHAT IS CHICAGO GOING TO LOOK LIKE? WILL IT FEEL UNIFIED AND WILL IT BE AN OPEN PRIMARY. IT WILL BE FASCINATING TO COVER. FROM A POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE BUT, I THINK IT TERRIFIES A LOT OF DEMOCRATICS, I THINK ANY WAY YOU SLICE IT, THERE IS GOING TO BE A STARK DIFFERENCE. >> REPUBLICANS WILL HAVE A HARD TIME BREAKING THROUGH AFTER THIS WEEK BECAUSE ALL OF THE FOCUS FOR THE NEXT 10 DAYS WILL BE ON THIS. >> ALTHOUGH THE QUESTIONS OF THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT WILL STILL BE NEWS WORTHY. >> NO DOUBT. WE ARE BACK, IT FEELS LIKE THE 2016 NEWS CYCLE IS BACK, RIGHT? THE AVALANCHE AND THE FIRE HOSE OF INFORMATION IS COMING AT PEOPLE. WHAT THAT USUALLY TRANSLATES INTO IS MORE ENGAGEMENT. THAT, TO ME SCRAMBLES EVERYTHING YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW ABOUT THIS ELECTION, THROW IT AWAY. YOU CAN DELETE ALL OF YOUR EMAILS, YOU KNOW, YOU GET TO START OVER. >> IT IS IMPORTANT TO COVER AND A PRIVILEGE TO DO IT WITH THE BOTH OF OU. >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU. >> FOR ALL OF YOU VIEWING AT HOME, ALSO, A PRIVILEGE. LISTEN WE HAVE MORE COVERAGE LIVE FROM MILWAUKEE. I WANT TO GET TO BREAKING NEWS RIGHT AS WE WERE COMING ON THE AIR. HUNTER BIDEN, PRESIDENT BIDEN'S SON IS TRYING TO GET THE CONVICTION IN HIS FEDERAL GUN CASE THROWN OUT, WHY? HIS ATTORNEYS ARE POINTING TO THE OPINION OF SUPREME COURT CLARENCE THOMAS AND THE RULING THAT DETERMINED THE APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL COUNSEL WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. THAT HAPPENED WITH TRUMP WHY ARE WE SAY THAT ABOUT HUNTER. HE SAID THOSE THAT STARTED THE INVESTIGATION INTO HIM WAS UNLAWFUL. OUR LEGAL ANALYST JOINS US NOW. DOES THAT VIEW HOLD WATER? >> IT HOLDS SOME WATER, OBVIOUSLY, BECAUSE THESE ARE TWO PROSECUTIONS THAT WERE BROUGHT FEDERALLY, BOTH BROUGHT BY SPECIAL COUNSEL UNDER THE SPECIAL COUNSEL REGULATIONS. SO, TO THE EXTENT THAT JUDGE CANNON THREW OUT THE CASE AGAINST TRUMP IT SNOT SURPRISING HUNTER BIDEN WOULD SAY MY SPECIAL COUNSEL IS APPOINTED UNDER THE SAME REGULATION. MY CASE SHOULD BE THROWN OUT AS WELL. THE DIFFERENCE IS, THERE ARE TWO DIFFERENCES, ONE DAVID WEISS FORMALLY A UNITED STATES ATTORNEY SO HE DID GO THROUGH, HE DID GO THROUGH SENATE APPROVAL AT SOME STAGE OF THE PROCEEDINGS. BUT THE REAL DIFFERENCE HERE IS THAT CANNON IS A JUDGE IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA, A DISTRICT COURT JUDGE, HER DECISION HAS NO BINDING EFFECT ON A FEDERAL JUDGE IN DELAWARE. NOT ONLY ARE THEIR DECISIONS NOT BINDING N EACH OTHER BUT THEY ARE IN DIFFERENT FEDERAL CIRCUITS. SO, THE FLORIDA CASE IN THE 11TH CIRCUIT, THE DELAWARE IS IN THE THIRD CIRCUIT, EVEN THE APPELLATE COURTS DON'T HAVE PRESIDENTIAL BINDING AUTHORITY OVER DISTRICT COURTS IN OTHER CIRCUITS. SO, THERE IS A LONG ROAD AHEAD TO SEEING IF ONE DISTRICT COURT'S OPINION IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA IS GOING TO HELP HUNTER BIDEN. >> I AM GLAD TO HAVE YOU WITH THAT DEVELOPING NEWS. AN AVALANCHE OF IT OVER THE LAST FEW HOURS, THANKS. >>> COMING UP, MORE ON THAT STORY JUST COMING IN. YOU HEARD US TALKING ABOUT IT, SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR HAS NO INTENTION OF STEPPING DOWN. THE LATEST ON THE INVESTIGATION, NEXT, AS WE TAKE YOU BACK HERE LIVE TO MILWAUKEE. THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION GEARING UP FOR THE GRAND FINALE AND THAT BIG BALLOON DROP A COUPLE HOURS FROM NOW, STAY WITH US . >>> SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR SAYING SHE IS NOT STEPPING DOWN. THEY SAID PUBLICLY, SAID IT TO ME, SHE SHOULD RESIGN BECAUSE OF SECURITY FAILURES AT THE RALLY. ALSO TODAY, HONORING THE MAN KILLED WHILE SHIELDING HIS FAMILY FROM BULLETS AT THAT RALLY. MEMBERS OF THE COMPERATORE FAMILY IN MOURNING. SHAQ, A DIFFICULT DAY FOR SO MANY IN AND AROUND THE BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA COMMUNITY AND FOR THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF CORY COMPERATORE WHO ARE ALSO, I WOULD IMAGINE, LOOKING FOR ACCOUNTABILITY. >> YOU HAVE SADNESS HERE, OF COURSE, HE DROVE MORE THAN FIVE HOURS TO COME HERE AND BE HERE FOR THIS VISITATION AND HE IS SOMEONE WHO WHEN YOU TALK TO FOLKS HE WILL BE REMEMBERED AS A HUSBAND, AS A FATHER OF TWO DAUGHTERS, AS SOMEONE WHO IS AN AVID SUPPORTER OF TRUMP, A VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER, A VETERAN, AND SOMEONE WHO IS ALWAYS IN CHURCH. I SPOKE TO A MEMBER OF THAT CONGREGATION JUST A COUPLE MINUTES AGO AND SHE TOLD ME THAT ALTHOUGH SHE WAS NOT CLOSE WITH THE FAMILY THEY DID NOT SAY THEY WERE CLOSE FRIENDS SHE KNEW EXACTLY WHERE CORY SAT EVERY SUNDAY AT THAT CHURCH SERVICE. HE WAS SOMEONE WHO WAS WELCOMING TO HER. I WANT YOU TO LISTEN TO A LITTLE BIT OF OUR CONVERSATION. SHE SAYS THE HARDEST PART FOR HER OF ALL OF THIS IS HEARING PEOPLE CAST DOUBT ON THE SHOOTING AND THAT SKEPTICISM WHEN SHE CAN SEE THE CLEAR PAIN IN THIS COMMUNITY. LISTEN HERE. >> Reporter: A LOT OF, THERE IS A LOT OF QUESTIONS THAT OBVIOUSLY ARE GOING TO NEED ANSWERED FROM THE EVENTS THAT HAPPENED. BUT PEOPLE THAT ARE SAYING THAT THE TRAUMA AND THE REALNESS OF THIS TRAGIC EVENT ISN'T REAL? IS PROBABLY THE HARDEST PART. IT IS VERY REAL T IS HAPPENING TO A FAMILY IN OUR COMMUNITY, IN OUR CHURCH. AND JUST THE REALNESS OF IT ALL. >> THE REALNESS OF IT ALL. NOT JUST CORY WHO WILL BE LAID TO REST TOMORROW. REMEMBER, THERE ARE STILL TWO PEOPLE IN THE HOSPITAL. THEIR CONDITIONS HAVE NOW IMPROVED, THEY ARE NOW IN SERIOUS CONDITN FROM CRITICAL CONDITION. YOU HAD ONE FAMILY IN A STATEMENT SAYING THAT ONE OF THE MEN WHO STILL IN THE HOSPITAL IS SUFFERING FROM LIFE- ALTERING INJURIES. THE IMPACT OF THIS SHOOTING, HALLIE, WILL BE FELT FOR MANY FOR A LONG TIME TO COME. >> SHAQ BREWSTER LIVE FOR US, THANK YOU. >> KEN. I THINK SHACK LAID OUT THE HUMAN FACE TO THIS DEVASTATING SHOOTING. AND BEHIND IT THESE QUESTIONS OF WHAT HAPPENED, WHO FAILED, WHERE WERE THE MISSTEPS AND STILL TOO MANY QUESTIONS AND NOT ENOUGH ANSWERS IN THE EYES OF LAWMAKERS THAT I HAVE BEEN TALKING TO HERE. >> YOU KNOW, HALLIE, THAT WAS A GREAT REMINDER IT DID HAVE A PROFOUND HUMAN COST EVEN IF THE FORMER PRESIDENT ESCAPED SERIOUS HARM. YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. THERE ARE HUGE QUESTIONS, THERE ARE DIFFERING ACCOUNTS, THERE WAS A BRIEFING, BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS LAST NIGHT THAT REALLY SORT OF RAISED MORE QUESTIONS THAN IT ANSWERED T. LAID OUT A TIME LINE WHEN THE AUTHORITIES FIRST BECAME AWARE OF THE SHOOTER ABOUT AN HOUR BEFORE THE SHOTS WERE FIRED AND THEY WERE LOOKING FOR HIM. THEN AT ONE POINT THEY SAW THAT HE HAD A RANGE FINDER. ALLOWED TRUMP TO TAKE THE STAGE, KNOWING THERE WAS A SUSPICIOUS PERSON WITH A RANGE FINDER. HE HAD A GUN AND YOU CAN SEE VIDEO OF MEMBERS IN THE CROWD, VIDEO COMING OUT WITH MEMBERS OF THE CROWD SCREAMING, HE HAS A GUN. YOU CAN SEE THE POLICE APPROACHING. THEY ALERTED THE SECRET SERVICE. THE QUESTION THEY DON'T HAVE ANSWERED IS WHAT IS THE ELAPSED TIME THEY RADIOED MAN WITH A RIFLE ON THE ROOF. DID THE SECRET SERVICE HAD TIME TO PULL TRUMP OFF OF THE STAGE? THE SNIPERS WERE LOOKING AND DID NOT FIND HIM IN TIME. THOSE KINDS OF QUESTIONS STILL UNANSWERED AND AFTER THE SHOTS WERE FIRED, BY MANY ACCOUNTS THE SECRET SERVICE DID NOT FOLLOW THEIR TRAINING, ALLOWED TRUMP TO LINGER TOO LONG, NOT KNOWING IF THERE WAS A SECOND SHOOTER AND PUT HIS LIFE AT RISK AND IT IS NOT HOW THEY ARE TRAINED TO DO IT, HALLIE? >> AMONG THE FOLKS REPORTING THIS STORY OUT FOR US. KEN, GLAB TO HAVE THANK YOU. >>> FORMER FIRST LADY TRUMP. WHERE HAS SHE BEEN? WHAT HAS SHE BEEN UP TO? WE WILL HAVE MORE COMING UP ON HER STATUS, AFTER THE BREAK . >>> IN MILWAUKEE, THE FLOOR IS FILLING UP. THROUGHOUT THE WEEK, ONE HIGH PROFILE PERSON MISSING FROM ALL OF THE FAMILY PHOTO OPS. THE FORMER FIRST LADY, NOT BY HER HUSBAND'S SIDE WHEN HE MADE THIS ENTRANCE ON NIGHT ONE. HIS FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE ON CAMERA SINCE THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST HIM. SHE IS EXPECTED TO BE HERE TONIGHT. THAT IS AFTER PRETTY HIT-OR- MISS STREAK. WHERE HAS SHE BEEN? HERE IS KATE SNOW. >> MAKE GREAT ONCE AGAIN. >> FAMILY AND PARTY FAITHFUL, RALLYING AROUND PRESIDENT TRUMP ALL WEEK. BUT ONE PERSON SO FAR NOTICEABLY ABSENT. MELANIA TRUMP STAYING OUT OF THE PUBLIC EYE SINCE LEAVING THE WHITE HOUSE. SHE WAS DRESSED IN HER DC OUTFIT WHEN THEY LANDED IN FLORIDA SHE WAS FAMOUSLY IN A CAPATA, N. PEOPLE FROM AFAR WERE READING SHE WAS DONE WITH HER PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITIES. >> Reporter: AFTER THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON HER HUSBAND SHE SPREAD SYMPATHY TO THE FAMILY OF CORY COMPERATORE. WHEN I WATCHED THAT BULLET STRIKE MY HEAD, I REALIZED MY LIFE AND BARON'S LIFE WERE ON THE BANK OF DEVASTATING CHANGE. DESCRIBING THEM GOING THROUGH THE BEST OF TIMES AND THE WORST OF TIMES. THE COUPLE HAS SEEN BOTH. CHOOSING NOT TO APPEAR BY HER HUSBAND'S SIDE DURING HIS HIGH PROFILE HUSH MONEY TRIAL IN NEW YORK. >> THAT IS A REAL CLOSE FOR HER TO PROTECT HER PRIVACY AND GUARD HERSELF AWAY FROM A TOXIC POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT. >> Reporter: DAYS LATER SPOTTED FOR THE FIRST TIME, HEAD DOWN, LEAVING TRUMP TOWER WITH BARRON. SHE WAS BY HIS SIDE WHEN HE ANNOUNCED HIS THIRD RUN FOR PRESIDENT BACK IN 2022. WITH THE PRESIDENT IN JAN AS SHE TALKED FOR HER MOTHER. >>> VIRTUALLY MISSING FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. >> ARE YOU GOING TO RETURN TO THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL WITH HER HUSBAND? >> STAY TUNED. >> LEAVING HER HUSBAND TO EXPLAIN. >> SHE IS A PRIVATE PERSON. >> SHE SAY HUGE SUPPORTER OF HER HUSBAND SHE DID NOT WANT THE SPOTLIGHT OR THIS ROLE. SHE HAS SHOWN ABOUT EMBRACING ELEMENTS ABOUT THE FIRST LADY POSITION. >> A FORMER MODEL SHE WAS THE SUBJECT OF MEDIA ATTENTION FOR WHAT SHE WORE. MOST FAMOUSLY THIS JACKET WITH THE WORDS I REALLY DON'T CARE, DO YOU? WARN DURING A TRIP TO A MIGRANT CENTER. IT WAS A MESSAGE. >> IT WAS FOR THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE LEFT WING MEDIA WHO ARE CRITICIZING ME AND I WANT TO SHOW THEM THAT I DON'T CARE. >> Reporter: MELANIA NOT ON THE LIST OF SPEAKERS. A BREAK WITH LONG STANDING TRADITION WITH SPOUSES TYPICALLY GIVING A KEY ADDRESS AS SHE DID IN 2016. >> YOUR WORD IS YOUR BOND. >> Reporter: GIVING AUDIENCES A SENSE OF. >> YOUR WORD IS YOUR BOND WITH A SPEECH THAT SOUNDED SIMILAR TO THE ONE THAT MICHELLE OBAMA DELIVERED EIGHT YEARS PRIOR. >> YOU WORK HARD FOR WHAT YOU WANT IN LIFE >> STAFFERS FOR TRUMP TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE LINES AND IN 2020. >> MY HEAD, YOU HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO WILL NOT STOP FIGHTING FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES. >> Reporter: TONIGHT, NOT SPEAKING BUT BY HIS SIDE. >> MELANIA SHOWS UP WHEN SHE HAS TO AND NOT A MOMENT MORE. >> AND THIS IS ONE OF THOSE MOMENTS? >> AND THIS IS ONE OF THOSE MOMENTS. >> KATE SNOW IS JOINING US NOW. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. THANK YOU FOR THAT REPORTING. WE REACHED OUT TO THE FORMER FIRST LADY'S TEAM AND HAVE NOT HEARD BACK. STILL, QUESTION MARKS ABOUT WHAT HER ROLE WILL BE ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL MOVING FORWARD AND POTENTIALLY IN THE WHITE HOUSE IF HER HUSBAND WINS AGAIN. >> I WOULD SAY BIG QUESTION MARKS. WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WILL LOOK LIKE, WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE THE FIRST TERM IF HE IS ELECT IF IT WOULD LOOK THE SAME. SHE HAS BEEN DOING PRIVATE FUNDRAISERS, RIGHT? BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. NOT LIKE SHE DOES NOTHING FOR THE CAMPAIGN. SHE HAS BEEN TO A COUPLE RECENTLY INCLUDING ONE FOR THE LOG CABIN REPUBLICANS WHICH IS A GROUP OF CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS. SO, SHE IS OUT THERE PRIVATELY, IT IS JUST WE DON'T SEE HER IN PUBLIC. AND I WANT TO SAY SHE IS A MOM, SHE HAS BARRON WHO JUST GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL AND WILL BE HEADED OFF TO COLLEGE. THERE IS THAT TIME IN THE SUMMER WHERE PARENTS WHO HAVE A COLLEGE BOUND KID THEY KNOW IT IS A REALLY BUSY TIME. YOU IMAGINE SHE IS DOING A LOT OF THINGS BEHIND-THE-SCENES. I WAS REMEMBERING, HALLIE, THAT IN 2016 WHEN THE TRUMPS WERE ELECTED WHEN SHE WAS GOING TO BE THE FIRST LADY AND IT WAS A SURPRISE, RIGHT? POLLING SHOWN THAT WE THOUGHT MAYBE HILLARY CLINTON WOULD WIN. THE NIGHT THEY WON I WAS ASKED TO DO A PIECE OF MELANIA TRUMP TO EXPLAIN WHO SHE WAS, SHE WAS UNKNOWN THEN BECAUSE SHE WAS INTENSELY PRIVATE AND STILL IS. >> KATE SNOW, HERE WE ARE EIGHT YEARS LATER, KATE, INCREDIBLE TO THINK ABOUT THE HISTORY HERE OF THE MOMENT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GREAT TO SEE YOU BACK HOME. APPRECIATE IT. >>> LISTEN, LIKE MELANIA TRUMP, HIS DAUGHTER AND SON-IN-LAW HAVE ALSO BEEN KEEPING A LOW PROFILE. WE ARE TOLD THAT IVANKA TRUMP WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE TONIGHT. SHE IS NOT EXPECTED TO SPEAK. SO, WHO WILL BE TAKING THE STAGE TODAY LEADING UP TO THE FORMER PRESIDENT? YOU GOT FIGHTERS LIKE HULK HOGAN AND TUCKER CARLSON, UFC PRESIDENT DANA WHITE AND MUSICAL INTRODUCTION FOR KID ROCK AT THE FOREFRONT OF SOME OF THE BIGGEST CULTURAL WAR ISSUES. LET'S START WITH THE FAMILY AND THEN THE CELEBRITIES, TALK ABOUT IVANKA TRUMP. YOU AND I KNOW, COVERED HER ON THE TRAIL AND THE WHITE HOUSE, A KEY PART OF HER FATHER'S ADMINISTRATION ALONG WITH HER HUSBAND. IN 2022, SHE DID NOT PLAN TO BE INVOLVED IN POLITICS IN THE FUTURE. WANTED TO PRIORITIZE HER FAMILY. WHAT IS THE DYNAMIC WITH A SECOND TRUMP TERM? >> THEY WENT DOWN TO FLORIDA, MOVED DOWN TO FLORIDA, THEY ARE HAPPILY DOWN THERE. THERE WAS A QUESTION MARK OF WHEN TRUMP NNOUNCED THE THIRD BID IN NOVEMBER OF 2022, DO WE SEE THEM? THE ANSWER WAS, NO. THERE WERE QUESTIONS ONCE HE WON THE PRIMARY, WOULD WE SEE THEM THEN? ONCE IT WAS CLEAR IT WOULD BE A REMARK AGAINST BIDEN. THE ANSWER WAS NO. UP LEAVING THE ADMINISTRATION, YOU NOTED HOW THEY WERE BOTH PLAYING ROLES AND SENIOR ADVISORIES TO THE END OF THE ADMINISTRATION, THEY LEFT THE WHITE HOUSE, JARAD STARTED UP THIS PRIVATE EQUITY AND INVESTMENT FIRM. ONE CONTRIBUTOR OF $2 BILLION FROM THE SAUDIS. SO, BY ALL ACCOUNTS IT APPEARS THEY ARE CONTINUING TO FOCUS ON THE PRIVATE ENDS OF THIS. THEY PLAYED ROLES IN THE WHITE HOUSE, AS YOU SAID, TRYING TO BROKER MIDDLE EAST DEALS, FOR THE NEXT TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IT IS A QUESTION MARK. I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT YOU COULD EXPECT THAT THE DOOR WOULD BE OPEN IF THEY DESIRE TO GO THAT ROUTE. >> GOT A COUPLE MORE QUESTIONS FOR YOU. FIRST, LET'S TALK THROUGH SOME OF THE BIGGER CELEBRITY NAMES HERE. I DON'T WANT TO OVERREAD INTO IT. YOU HAVE DANA WHITE, HULK HOGAN. THEY ARE FIGHTERS. THAT IS WHAT TRUMP'S MESSAGE HAS BEEN EVEN BEFORE THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST HIM AND KID ROCK, PEOPLE REMEMBER THAT INVOLVED WITH THAT BUDWEISER CONTROVERSY AFTER BUD LIGHT PARTNERED WITH A TRANSGENDER INFLUENCER AND KID ROCK FAMOUSLY TAKEN THE SIDE OF THE BOYCOTT INITIALLY THERE, TALK US THROUGH THAT. >> Reporter: RIGHT. I THINK, HUMANS ARE HUMANS. EVERYBODY HAS THEIR DIFFERENT INTERESTS. WE BOTH HAVE DIFFERENT MUSIC TASTES, RIGHT? I THINK WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE LINEUP YOU WILL HAVE FOLKS LISTENING TO KID ROCK AND OTHERS THAT ENJOY UFC. PEOPLE THAT ENJOY READING BOOKS LIKE HILLBILLY ELEGY. VANCE WAS THE AUTHOR AND ROSE THAT ROUTE AND BECAME THE NOMINEE. OF COURSE, TONIGHT, IT WILL NOT JUST BE ELECTED OFFICIALS COMING UP TO THE STAGE. YOU HAVE THE LIKES OF FRANK LINE FRANKLIN GRAND. IF YOU TOLD HIM THAT A CONVENTION WILL BE HULK HOGAN AND KID ROCK AND GRAM YOU WOULD WANDER WHO THE NOMINEE OF YOUR PARTY IS AND I THINK THAT MAN'S NAME IS DONALD TRUMP. >>> YOU AND I HAD A MOMENT WITH A FAMOUS BULLDOG. THAT IS NOT THE ONLY BULLDOG ROCK SOMETHING SWAG, RIGHT? >> BABY DOING. THE DOG OF GOVERNOR JIM JUSTICE. RUNNING FOR THE U.S. SENATE. THAT IS NOT THE ONLY DOG. IF YOU MAY, YOU CAN MEET CIDLE LATER. >> FROM MISSION, TEXAS. OUR TRANSLATOR ALBERT HERE. A DELEGATE THIS YEAR, RIGHT? >> NO, NO, SHE IS MY SERVICE DOG. I AM A DELEGATE. SHE SAY 2-YEAR-OLD GOLDEN DOODLE. THIS WEEK SHE IDENTIFIES AS A TRUMP-ADOODLE. >> ALBERT, THANK YOU AND WE ARE GLAD YOU ARE HERE WITH US. >> THANK YOU, THANK YOU, APPRECIATE IT. HALLIE? >> YOU ARE ALWAYS GETTING THOSE TOUGH INTERVIEWS, FRIEND, APPRECIATE YOU DOWN IN THE TEXAS DELEGATION. THANKS. >>> COMING UP, OUR COVERAGE OF THE FINAL NIGHT CONTINUES INCLUDING A CONVERSATION WITH A MEMBER OF MR. TRUMP'S 2020 CAMPAIGN ABOUT WHAT HE WANTS TO HEAR FROM THE FORMER PRESIDENT TONIGHT. WE WILL BE BACK LIVE FROM MILWAUKEE IN JUST A SECOND . >>> SO, AS TALKS INTENSIFY ABOUT POSSIBLY REPLACING PRESIDENT BIDEN AT THE TOP OF THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET, THERE IS THE ONGOING QUESTION ON WHO THE NOMINEE COULD BE. NOW, THE VICE PRESIDENT? KAMALA HARRIS WOULD BE THE OBVIOUS PICK, PERHAPS. THERE IS A COMPONENT OF PRAGMATISM. SHE CAN TAKE OVER THE CAMPAIGN CASH. SHE IS THE ONE THAT WOULD GET THE WAR CHEST, SHE IS THE ONE THAT WOULD BE INVOLVED IN ALL OF THAT. THERE IS ANOTHER QUESTION, TOO, OF COURSE, COULD THERE BE AN OPEN CONVENTION? CONTESTED IF IT WERE NOT TO BE KAMALA HARRIS? THAT IS ANOTHER QUESTION. THE QUESTION IS HOW WOULD A NEW NOMINEE SHAKE THINGS UP HERE IN THIS RACE. WHO WOULD MAKE DONALD TRUMP MORE NERVOUS? I HAD A CONVERSATION WITH A CLOSE ALLY OF THE PRESIDENT AND I ASKED THIS QUESTION. WE WERE TALKING AND I SAID, YOU KNOW, YOU GOT TO LOOK AT THE POLLING HERE. THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN CLEAR FROM PUBLIC POSTURING. SOUNDS LIKE THEY WOULD PREFER TO HAVE BIDEN STAY IN THE RACE. ARE THEY NERVOUS ABOUT GOING UP AGAINST A KAMALA? >> NO, BECAUSE THE POLICIES HAVE NOT CHANGED. HE WAS THE MOST UNPOPULAR PRESIDENT. I THINK IT IS THE POLICY, INFLATION, GAS PRICES, BORDER, FOREIGN WARS AND SO BECAUSE OF THAT, IT LED THEM TO HAVE THE EARLY DEBATE IT IS NOT LIKE HARRIS, NEWSOM, OR ANYONE ELSE WILL DO SOMETHING SERIOUS ABOUT THE BORDER. WHATEVER THE BIDEN POLICIES ARE, THE NEXT DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE, IF THERE IS A DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE IT IS STILL STUCK WITH BIDEN'S POLICIES >> GIVE ME A SENSE, NIGHT FOUR, I THINK, YES. >> I THINK SO. >> IT HAS BEEN 17 LIFETIMES. HOW DO YOU THINK IT IS GOING SO FAR AND WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? >> A HUGE AMOUNT OF . >> YOU KIND OF HAVE TO SAY THAT. >> I DO. OBVIOUSLY FROM AN ORGANIZATIONAL STANDPOINT IT LOOKS GREAT. SEEING SOMEBODY ON STAGE. REALLY, I WAS ON ANOTHER NETWORK WITH A FORMER DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSWOMAN, EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRATIC VOTING BLOCK IS REPRESENTED ON THAT STAGE WITH A MESSAGE TO WHY THAT VOTING BOX SHOULD VOTE FOR TRUMP. WE NEED TO RETHINK OUR COP VENS. >> THERE IS A DISCUSSION -- CONVENTION. THERE IS A DISCUSSION FOR WHO THEY ARE PUTTING ON, HUMANIZE TRUMP. YOU KNOW, IN THE WORDS OF SOME, TO SOFTEN THE ROUGH EDGES, WE SAW THAT FROM KAI, DONALD TRUMP JUNIOR ON THE STAGE TALKING ABOUT HIM AS A GRANDFATHER. ALL OF THAT IS THE CASE, AND THERE IS PLENTY OF RHETORIC FOR THE BASE. MASS DEPORTATIONS AND HE CAME AND HE FIRED UP THE BASE. DONALD TRUMP JUNIOR TALKED ABOUT THE WITCH-HUNT. MUCH MORE COMMON TRUMP-STYLE THEMES. DOES NOT FEEL LIKE THE RNC HAS FULLY SHIED AWAY FRATHAT PIECE OF IT. >> I WONDER HOW YOU SEE IT? >> YOU HAVE TO THROW THE RED MEAT TO THE BASS, THEY ARE THE ONES HERE AND CREATE THE ENERGY, DO THE APPLAUSE, YOU ARE, AND THEY ARE OUT THERE NOT IN THIS HALL AS WELL. YOU NEED TO GIVE ENOUGH TO THE SWING STATE VOTERS, THE UNDECIDED VOTERS. IF IT IS MAKE AMERICA WEALTHY AGAIN, MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN, THERE WAS DISCUSSION ABOUT THE BORDER, MAKING THINGS MORE AFFORDABLE AND THEN YOU ADD IN THE RED MEAT, SO TO SPEAK FOR THE FARYT FAITHFUL AND YOU ACCOMPLISH BOTH. THERE IS A BALANCING ACT I WOULD SAY FOR BOTH PARTIES. >> GOOD TO SEE YOU >> I AM SURE WE WILL SEE YOU 16,000 MORE TIMES. [ LAUGHTER ] >> WE WILL GET A VIBE CHECK FROM THE CONVENTION FLOOR FROM THE VIBIEST PERSON THAT I KNOW HERE. JACOB WILL JOIN US IN JUST A SECOND . >>> WE ARE BACK LIVE. WE ARE GETTING BACK TO THE FINAL NIGHT OF THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION SET TO KICKOFF IN THE NEXT HOUR. IT IS THE GRAND FINALE, TRUMP GETTING READY TO GET TO THE STAGE TO FORMALLY ACCEPT THE NOMINATION JUST FIVE DAYS AFTER SURVIVING THAT ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST HIM. WORKING THE FLOOR. OH, WE GOT IT. WE GOT CHEESE HEADS >> HAD TO DO IT. HAD TO DO IT. I HAVE DONE A LOT OF SERIOUS REPORTING OVER THE YEARS, THERE IS THE REPORT THAT I WILL BE KNOWN FOR, FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE, CHILLING WITH THE CHEESE HEADS HERE IN THE WISCONSIN DELEGATION. THIS LOVELY DELEGATE RIGHT HERE, WHAT IS YOUR NAME AGAIN? >> MARY PAT. >> TOLD ME, THE SECURITY, THE DOG OF SECURITY TRIED TO TAKE YOUR CHEESE HEAD AWAY. WAS IT THE SMELL? >> I THINK IT WAS LIKE A FAVORITE TOY POSSIBILITY. [ LAUGHTER ] >> THIS IS THE STATE TREASURE OF THE GREAT STATE OF WISCONSIN, HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU BEEN? >> MY FIRST TIME. >> HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE HERE AND WHAT DO YOU THINK, THE WEEK STARTED OFF HORRIFIC AND AWFULLY SERIOUS BUT THE TONE SEEMS TO HAVE LIGHTENED AND SOME OF THE INTERESTING THEMES ARE THE ONES WE ARE FAMILIAR WITH. >> IT IS REALLY A GREAT EXPERIENCE. EVERYONE HERE IS HAVING FUN AND IT BROUGHT US ALL TOGETHER. AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE. >> YOU WERE SAYING TO ME, AND IF I PUT A CHEESE HEAD ON IT MIGHT MESS UP MY HAIR. >> THAT IS WHY I DON'T WEAR MINE ALL OF THE TIME. [ LAUGHTER ] HALLIE, YOU KNOW WHAT I AM SAYING? [ LAUGHTER ] >> A COUPLE MORE SECONDS, I JUST WANT TO GET THESE GUYS IN. >> HOW ARE YOU FEEL SOMETHING. >> FANTASTIC. >> EXCELLENT. >> WHAT DO YOU WANT TO HEAR TONIGHT FROM FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AS HE TAKES THE STAGE AND MORE IMPORTANTLY WILL YOU BE WEARING YOUR CHEESE HEAD WHEN HE TAKES THE STATE? >> ABSOLUTELY. WE WILL REPRESENT WISCONSIN WELL. I THINK WE ARE EXCITED TO HEAR HOW HE IS GOING TO WORK HARD TO UNIFY AMERICANS AND I THINK IT WILL BE A UNIFYING MESSAGE AND HE WILL TALK ABOUT ALL OF THE WAYS THAT WE ARE GOING TO SAVE AMERICA. >> YOU KNOW, THAT IS SORT OF THE NAME OF THE GAME HERE, UNIFYING MESSAGE IT >> DO IT DO IT. >> I KNEW IT >> IT'S FOR YOU. >> I'M ONLY SHAGGED FOR TH CANOF HAIR MOOSE YOU HAVE WITH YOU AT THIS POINT. >> GET IT RIGHT OR PAY THE PRICE. >> JACOB SOBOROFF, LOVE IT FRIEND I WILL LET THEM TAKE THE SCREE GRAB, LEAVE IT UP. OKAY APPRECIATE YOU SEE YOU DOWN STAIRS IN A LITTL BIT. THAT DOES IT FOR US THIS HOUR. WE HAVE MORE COVERAGE LIVE FRO MILWAUKEE AND CHEESEHEADVILL COMING UP. WE WILL HAVE THE FINAL NIGHT O THE REPUBLICAN NATIONA CONVENTION >> OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE FINAL NIGHT OF THE REPUBLICA NATIONAL CONVENTION CONTINUES ON NBC NEWS NOW THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US. I'M HALLIE JACKSON >> I'M TOM LLAMAS. WE ARE JUST HOURS AWAY FROM TH BIGGEST MOMENT AT THE RNC, FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP STEPPIN UP TO THE PODIUM TO FORMALLY ACCEPT THE NOMINATION. THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE THAN ANY OTHER NIGHT. I NOTICED THE CRUSH OF PEOPL HERE PEOPLE ARE IN VERY GOOD SPIRITS, THE BEERS FLOWING, THEY AR HAVING A GOOD TIME A COUPLE OF THINGS I'M WATCHING, HULK HOGAN, I WAS A HUGE FAN KID ROCK, AND THEN TRUMP WHAT WILL HE SAY TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE >> THE CONVERSATIONS I HAVE HA WITH FOLKS CLOSE TO HIM, WE HAVE HEARD A LOT ABOUT HOW THIS I UNIFYING SPEECH BUT HE IS STIL TRUMP AND HE WILL STIL PROSECUTE THE CASE AGAINST PRESIDENT BIDEN. THERE IS LIKELY TO BE SOME RHETORIC IN HERE AND I DON'T THINK PEOPLE WILL BE SURPRISED ABOUT THAT HIS SPEECH COMING JUST FIVE DAYS AFTER THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMP AGAINST HIM. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME HE IS SET TO SPEAK PUBLICLY ON CAMERA. WE SAW HIM ON STAGE DOING A WALK THROUGH AND NBC NEWS CAN REPOR WITH DIRECT KNOWLEDGE OF THAT. HE CAME UP, LOOKED AROUND AND HE SAID THEY TELL ME I'M SAFE INSIDE HE CLEARLY HAD SAFETY ON HIS MIND >> I TALKED TO SOMEONE WHO HELPED WITH THE SPEECH AND THE SAY THE WHOLE STORY OF HIM RIPPING UP THE SPEECH AN WRITING A NEW ONE IS TRUE. >> AND HE WROTE IT HIMSELF >> I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT BUT THEY WORKED ON THE SPEECH AN THIS MORNING THEY WERE STILL WORKING THINGS OUT WE WILL SEE IF HE SURPRISES US HE HAS DONE IT BEFORE. THE TONE I'M LOOKING FOR BECAUSE THE TONE OF THE CONVENTION HAS BEEN DIFFERENT WE WILL TALK ABOUT THAT MORE WITH OUR PANELISTS IT IS A MAJOR SPLIT SCREEN MOMENT FOR THE RACE FOR TH WHITE HOUSE. PRESIDENT BIDEN IS ISOLATING A HOME AND THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN ON THE PRESIDENT AS TOP PARTY LEADERS ARE PLEADING WITH HIM TO STEP ASIDE REPUBLICANS MARCH ON WITH THEI CONVENTION AND CROWN THEIR LEADER OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THEIR NOMINEE DONALD TRUMP >> GOB GUTIERREZ SAID THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN IS FIGURE TIVL AND LITERALLY ISOLATED HIS POSTURE IS DEFIANCE BUT TH QUESTION IS AS THE CLOCK GET CLOSER WITH THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION BEGINNING, THERE IS AN END DATE TO WHEN PRESIDEN BIDEN WOULD NEED TO MAKE THE CALL AND WHEN WE MAY SEE THI COME TO A HEAD >> EVERY NIGHT I COME OUT HERE AND THINK WHAT WILL I TALK T HALLIE ABOUT AND WE SHOULD FOCUS ON THE CONVENTION BUT TH DEMOCRATS ARE WRESTLING BACK THE NARRATIVE BUT IN THE WORST POSSIBLE WAY >> WE ARE NEVER AT A LOSS OF THINGS TO TALK ABOUT FOR SUR THIS WEEK. >> OUR CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST CHUCK TODD IS HERE VOTERS AT HOME, THIS IS IS WHERE I WOULD LIKE TO START. VOTERS AT HOME ARE WATCHING THIS AND THEY ARE WONDERING, WAIT, IF DEMOCRATS GET RID OF PRESIDENT BIDEN, HOW DOES THE WHOLE THIN WORK OUR TEAM BACK IN NEW YORK HA PUT TOGETHER A GRAPHIC THAT NB NEWS PUT TOGETHER ABOUT IF H DROPS OUT. EXPLAIN THE STEPS TO US FOR TH VOTERS AT HOME >> FIRST OF ALL, PLEDG DELEGATES. IT IS JUST A PLEDGE, THE HONOR SYSTEM EVEN RIGHT NOW, THEY DON'T HAV TO VOTE FOR BIDEN EVEN THOUG THEY SIGNED A PLEDGE IT IS NOT BINDING. THAT IS DIFFERENT THAN WHA THESE GUYS DO. THEY ARE LEGALLY BOUND ON TH FIRST BALLOT IF YOU TRIED NOT TO VOTE FOR HIM, YOU WOULD BASICALLY B THROWN OUT THAT IS ONE BIG DIFFERENCE SO I TALKED WITH ELAINE CAMARK TODAY. SHE IS ON THE RULES COMMITTE AND SHE HAS WRITTEN BOOKS ON HOW THIS WORKS SHE SAID LOOK, THERE ARE A FEW THINGS TO KNOW AND ONE IS THAT A LOT OF IT DEPENDS IS IF HE DROPS OUT BEFORE THE CONVENTION. IF HE DOES, THERE WILL B ANOTHER ROLL CALL. SHE BELIEVES IT CAN'T BE A VIRTUAL ROLL CALL. THAT WOULD BE AN INSIDER PROCESS. YOU NEED TO SEE THIS SHE REMINDS PEOPLE THAT TH DELEGATES ARE ELECTED. SOMETIMES THEY ARE ELECTED, SOME DIRECTLY BY VOTERS AND SOMETIMES PICKED AT CONVENTIONS BUT IT I ALL OPEN TO THE PUBLIC ANYONE AS A REGISTERED DEMOCRA COULD HAVE BECOME ONE. >> YOU HAVE 4,000. >> YOU HAVE 4,000. THE SUPER DELEGATES, IT IS POSSIBLE THAT IF THIS IS OPENE BACK UP, AND THIS WOULD BE A CHANGE TO THE RULES BUT TH SUPER DELEGATES ARE NOT UH-U LOWED TO VOTE UNTIL THE SECOND BALLOT THEY COULD GET RID OF THAT AND GET THEM PART OF THE FIRST BALLOT >> YOU NEED 300 TO BE ON THE BALLOT >> AND NO MORE THAN 50 FROM ON STATE. >> SO NEWSOM CAN COME IN HER WITH ONE STATE >> CORRECT WHICH IS INTERESTING. BUT IT IS NO DIFFERENT THA GETTING ON THE BALLOT TO RUN FOR OFFICE, YOU HAVE TO GET PETITION SIGNATURES IT HAS TO BE WITH THE DELEGATES. REALISTICALLY, IT WOULD BE HARRIS >> YEAH. >> MOST LIKELY DO I THINK ONE OR TWO WILL ATTEMPT TO CIRCULATE DELEGATES I THINK SOMEONE WILL TRY >> HOW DOES SHE DO THE RUNNING MATE DOES SHE PICK IT OR TH DELEGATES? >> THE DELEGATES HAVE TO AFFIRM. >> BUT SHE WOULD DECIDE? >> SHE WOULD OFFER UP A NOMINE IS THE ASSUMPTION. AS MUCH AS WE WOULD ENJOY IF I WERE AN OPEN RACE, THEY DON' WANT THAT. >> RIGHT >> THEY ARE BUILDING AN AIRPLANE AS IT IS TAKING OFF. THEY WANT TO TRY TO BE AS CLEA AS POSSIBLE. SO YOU KNOW, WE WILL SEE HOW THIS PLAYS OUT YOU WILL NOT HAVE A VIRTUAL ROLE CALL IF HE ENDS UP DROPPING. >> CHUCK TODD, WHILE YOU WATCH THE NEWS AND WE ARE WATCHING THE CONVENTION BEHIND US WHAT IS YOUR TAKE ON TONIGHT WHAT ARE YOU EXPECTING FRO FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP >> I HAVE AN OPEN MIND NONE OF US KNOW, THANKFULLY NONE OF US HAVE HAD THE NEAR DEAT EXPERIENCE THAT HE HAD WHAT IS FASCINATING TO ME IS SIX WEEKS AGO, I WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU HALF OF THE COUNTRY HAD NO INTEREST IN HEARING WHAT HE SAID TO SAY THERE WERE PEOPLE THAT WERE NO INTERESTED IN WHAT THE DEMOCRATS HAD TO SAY WE HAD THE LOWEST RATED DEBATE IN THE HISTORY BUT AFTER WHAT HAPPENE SATURDAY, PEOPLE WILL TUNE I TONIGHT THAT SAID PREVIOUSLY THEY WERE NOT INTERESTED HE HAS A REAL OPPORTUNITY. I THINK WE WILL TALK TO VOTERS THAT HE HAS NOT TALKED TO IN A WHILE. HOW WILL HE HANDLE IT? >> ARE YOU SURPRISED OF THE TONE OF THE CAMPAIGN. YOU THINK OF THE LEAD UP INT THE CAMPAIGN, THINGS SAID ABOU JOE BIDEN, THINGS THAT WERE SAID ABOUT WHATEVER TOPIC, INFLATION, IMMIGRATION. WE WERE HEARING SPEECHES YESTERDAY ABOUT DONALD TRUMP I A GRANDPA. IT IS ALMOST A SOFTENING O TRUMP. >> I THOUGHT IT WAS INTERESTIN WHEN MARK MALOY TOLD HALLI JACKSON, PREASSASSINATION, THAT'S WHAT YOU WOULD HAVE GOT HE SAID EVERYTHING CHANGED HAVE YOU NOTICED THE GOLD? RED, WHITE AND BLUE, AND GOL BALLOONS SOME THINGS OF TRUMP DON'T CHANGE GOLD BALLOONS. >> WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST YEAR? >> 1992. >> IF I TOLD YOU IN '92 THAT YOU WERE GOING TO A CONVENTION THA HULK HOGAN WAS GOING TO SPEAK AT AND THE EQUIVALENT OF KID ROCK IN THE '90s WOULD PLAY HERE, I IS CRAZY HOW MUCH DONALD TRUMP HAS CHANGED THE GAME >> IT IS INTERESTING TO BRING UP HULK HOGAN BECAUSE WRESTLING I -- >> SHOWMANSHIP >> Reporter: IT IS MORE THAN THAT DONALD TRUMP GOT CLOSE IN TH '90s, MAJOR VENUES WOULDN' ALLOW WRESTLING TO USE THEIR ARENAS MADISON SQUARE GARDEN AT THA TIME, THEY WERE TOO SNOBBY FOR WRESTLING. ATLANTIC CITY WOULD. TRUMP THOUGHT, HIS CONNECTIO WITH WRESTLING, HE'S IN THE HALL OF FAME. IT GOES WAY BACK THIS WORKING CLASS BASE GREW U ON WRESTLING YOU AND I GREW UP ON WRESTLING WE HAD DUSTY RHODES AND TH FLORIDA CIRCUIT. >> I REMEMBER THAT >> WE HAD BLACKJACK MULLIGAN THOSE WERE MY GUYS THE WRESTLING CONNECTION WIT HIM REALLY IS HOW HE VIEWS --. >> ALSO THE POLITICS I REMEMBE 2016 WHEN HE CAME OUT WITH SLO MACHINES, WALKING THROUGH TH TUNNELS. >> HE HAS BEEN DOING IT TONIGH WITH THE TUNNEL WALK WRESTLING IS ALSO FAKE >> WE WILL LEAVE THA CONVERSATION >> YOU NEED TO KNOW ATHLETIC >> WHAT YOU CAN SAY ABOUT TH FAKE IS, REMEMBER HE EVEN VIEW RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE PRESS THE SAME WAY AS THE WRESTLIN RELATIONSHIP HE WOULD EVEN SAY TO ME AT TIMES. >> YOU ARE BLOWING MY MIND >> HE WOULD SIT THERE AND SAY, THIS IS ON BRAND, THIS IS GOOD FOR YOU. HE HAS ALWAYS VIEWED POLITICAL COMBAT AS WRESTLING. SO THIS IS NOT LIKE OUT OF THE BLUE FOR HIM >> GARRETT HAAKE IS DOWN ON TH CONVENTION FLOOR I THINK HE WRESTLED. >> HE IS LOVING THIS CONVERSATION >> I THINK THE VAN RYANS OR TH VAN DYKES? >> TALK TO US ABOUT WHAT W SHOULD EXPECT TONIGHT. >> I HAVE BEEN OBSESSED WITH THE WRESTLING ANOLOGY TOO. BECAUSE I THINK THERE IS A WEIRD RHETORICAL TIGHT ROPE THAT DONALD TRUMP HAS TO WALK BETWEEN THE UNITY PITCH HE WANTS TO GIVE AND HIS INNATE DESIRE TO SHOW UP LIKE A FIGHTER THE TELL HERE IS HULK HOGAN, DANA WHITE, HEAD OF UNC. HE WILL TRY TO KEEP BOTH AUDIENCES HAPPY AND THAT IS DIFFICULT THING TO DO IN A SPEECH I WILL EXTEND THE WRESTLIN MESSAGE FURTHER. DONALD TRUMP HAS ALWAYS LIKE BEING THE BAD GUY, THE LOVABLE BAD GUY, IN WRESTLING PARLANCE THE HEEL HE WILL TRY TO TURN TONIGHT TO BE THE GOOD GUY, TO BE THE GRANDPA, TO BE SOMEONE WHO A WIDER AUDIENCE CAN CHEER FOR THAT IS A VERY DIFFICULT THING TO DO IN WRESTLING AND POLITICS. WE WILL SEE IF HE HAS TH DEXTERITY OF A PERFORMER TO PULL THAT OFF THE TRUMP UNDERSTANDS THIS I THE CASE THAT IT IS DIFFEREN THAN HE NORMALLY GETS. >> GARRETT, BEFORE YOU GO, HOW UNUSUAL IT FOR THE FORMER FIRST LADY NOT TO INTRODUCE HE HUSBAND? SHE SPOKE IN 2016 AND WE KNO THAT WAS CONTROVERSIAL BECAUSE PARTS OF THE SPEECH WERE LIFTE FROM MICHELLE OBAMA'S SPEECH SHE HAS DONE A COUPLE OF EVENT FOR THE CAMPAIGN BUT HAS TAKEN A BACK SEAT. >> IT IS UNUSUAL IT IS A LONGER HISTORICA CONTEXT WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE THE FIRST LADY OUT HERE MAKING THE INTRODUCTION BUT NOT UNUSUAL I TERMS OF THIS TRUMP CAMPAIGN MELANIA TRUMP HAS BEEN ALMOS ENTIRELY ABSENT FROM THI CAMPAIGN SHE APPEARED WITH HIM ONLY A EVENTS HE HAS DONE A MAR-A-LAGO SHE HAS NOT TRAVELLED. NEITHER HAS IVANKA TRUMP ALTHOUGH SHE IS EXPECTED T APPEAR BY ALL ACCOUNTS, THE TWO OF THEM ARE EXTREMELY BURNED OUT O POLITICS AND THE TIME IN THE SPOTLIGHT AND THEY ARE TIRED O BEING ATTACKED ALL THE TIME. AND THEY STEPPED BACK FROM POLITICS I DON'T THINK IF THAT HELPS OR HURTS TRUMP TONIGHT OR IF IT MATTERS. A BREAK FROM LONG PAST TRADITIONS BUT NOT TERRIBL SURPRISING IN THE 2024 CONTEXT OF THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN. >> GARRETT HAAKE ON TH CONVENTION FLOOR, ALWAYS APPRECIATE YOU STANDING BY FOR US ♪ ♪ >>> THIS IS A LIVE LOOK AT THE CONVENTION FLOOR AND MUSIC FRO KID ROCK, A TASTE OF WHAT IS T COME WHEN HE PERFORMS HIS SONG AMERICAN BAD ASBEFORE THE CROWD. HULK HOLEN WILL BE SPEAKING. WE WILL HAVE A COLLISION O CULTURE AND POLITICS I WANT TO BRING IN OUR POLITICAL PROS HOGAN GIDDILY, FORMER WIDEHOUS DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY FOR DONALD TRUMP FISHER McLAUGHLIN AND FORMER ADVISOR TO COMMUNICATION DIRECTOR TO VIVACHE RAMASWAM AND COMOST OF THE WEEKEND AN FORMER CHIEF SPOKESPERSON FO VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS, SIMON SANDERS. SIMONE, I WANT TO START WITH YOU. DEMOCRATS HAVE WRESTLED TH NARRATIVE AWAY FROM TH DEMOCRATS FOR THE TIME BEING BUT IT IS FOR THE WORST POSSIBLE REASON THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN APPARENTLY ON PRESIDENT BIDEN. WE HAVE REPORTING AT NBC NEW AND OVER OTHER ORGANIZATION THAT THE DEMOCRATS AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL, I THINK WE HAVE A FUL SCREEN WE CAN SHOW VIEWERS, SOME OF THE TOP DEMOCRATS WHO HAV HAD CONVERSATIONS OR UNCERTAINTY ABOUT PRESIDENT BIDEN' CAMPAIGN HERE ARE JUST SOME OF THEM RIGHT HERE I DO WANT TO ASK YOU, IT IS NO A QUESTION OF IF BUT WHEN. >> TOM, I HATE TO TALK HONESTLY. I VACILLATE BACK AND FORTH BECAUSE HONESTLY, NO ONE KNOWS I HAVE BEEN ON THE PHONES AL DAY LONG I TALKED TO MY FORMER COLLEAGUES IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND FROM TH 2020 BIDEN CAMPAIGN, FOLKS WHO WORK WITH THE PRESIDENT AND DN MEMBERS, DELEGATES WATCHING THIS UNFOLD THE PRESIDENT IS STILL AT THIS HOUR, HE IS RESOLUTE IS MY UNDERSTANDING. HE IS IN THIS RACE THE OPPOSITION TO TH PRESIDENT'S CANDIDACY IS ALS RESOLUTE THERE IS A STANDOFF. THIS IS WHO IS GOING TO BLIN FIRST. IT IS MY GUT FEELING THAT AS LONG AS THE PRESIDENT CAN SWIM AGAINST THE TIDE, HE WILL SWIM AGAINST THE TIDE BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG HE WILL BE ABLE TO SWIM AGAINST THE TIDE. WHEN AND IF THAT TIME COMES, MAYBE WE ARE CLOSER TO WHEN THAN IF, I DO THINK THAT IF THAT TIME DOES MANIFEST ITSELF, PRESIDEN BIDEN WILL NOT ONLY SAY HE I NOT GOING TO CONTINUE TO SEE THE NOMINATION, I THINK HE WOULD ALSO NOTE THE TIDE AND PASS TH BATON TO VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS BECAUSE SHE HAS BEE LITERALLY DOING THE JOB. >> ALL RIGHT SIMONE, THANK YOU FOR THAT HOGAN, I'M OVER TO YOU YOU ARE A HUGE KID ROCK FAN AN LIKELY A HULK HOGAN FAN. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REPUBLICA PARTY? IS THIS WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT >> YOU GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WANT. YES, THE LESSER OF TWO HOGANS IF WE ARE BEING HONEST. AND KID ROCK, I WAS ON THE GOL COURSE MANY TIMES WITH HIM AND DONALD TRUMP AND THAT'S ALWAYS A SCENE. THIS GOES TO SHOW THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS UNITED AND THEY ARE TRYING TO EXPAND AMBER ROSE ON NIGHT ONE, THE HEAD OF THE TEAMSTERS UNION, HULK HOGAN, KID ROCK, BLAC WOMEN GOING STAGE SAYING HOW MUCH THEY LOVE TRUMP THEY USED TO HATE HIM AND NO THEY LOVE HIM. YOU ARE SEEING THEM UNITE AROUND AMERICA FIRST PRINCIPLES AND TRYING TO GO OUTSIDE OF TH TENT YOU GOT DONE WITH SIMONE AND THE LEFT IS TALKING ABOUT GETTIN RID OF THEIR NOMINEE THEY ARE IN DISARRAY I HAVE TO CLEAR WITH YOU, IT I NOT GOING TO LAST. THEY WILL GET THEIR AC TOGETHER RIGHT NOW, THIS IS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TONIGHT IT HAS BEEN AN OUTSTANDING WEE AND THE EXCLUIMATION POINT WIL BE DONALD TRUMP ON THE STAGE >> I'M GLAD YOU ARE HERE BECAUSE YOU WORKED WITH VIVEK RAMASWAMY. HE DID THROW THEM RED MEAT HIS WHOLE CAMPAIGN WAS RED MEA BUT THAT IS HOW HE GOT ATTENTION. THAT TONE IS NOT WHAT WE ARE HEARING TODAY. WE HEARD ABOUT HOW TRUMP IS GRANDPA. AND HUCK AEB TALKED ABOUT WHEN TRUMP WOULD CONSOLE HER WHEN THE MEDIA WENT TOO FAR WITH HER. WHY ARE WE TRYING TO SOFTEN? >> I THINK WE NEED TO GET TH SUBURBAN WOMEN BACK. THEY DON'T LIKE SOME OF TH RHETORIC I THINK TONIGHT WILL B ENTERTAINING WITH THE HULKOG HOGANS OF THE WORLD. I THINK IT WILL BE EMOTIONAL YESTERDAY WITH TRUMP'S GRAND DAUGHTER TALKING, IT IS DIFFERENT TRUMP. WITH MELANIA BEING HERE, EVE THOUGH SHE IS NOT TAKING THE STAMG, IT WILL BE EMOTIONAL. I THINK THIS IS GREAT THAT DONALD TRUMP IS GOING TO MEE THE MOMENT HE TORE UP THE SPEECH THAT WOULD GO AFTER BIDEN AND HE SAID W ARE NOT JUST THE NIKKI HALEY WING OF THE PARTY BUT UNITIN ALL OF AMERICA >> BUT IT IS A DIFFERENT TRUMP THAT THE COUNTRY SEES AT LARGE BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP DOESN'T LIKE THAT SIDE OF HIM TO B PUBLIC WE HAVE CONVERSATIONS ALL TH TIME THAT THIS IS WHAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE NEED TO SEE. WHAT YOU ARE SEEING NOW IS A RECOGNITION TO YOU KNOWITE BEHIND HIM YOU GOT TO SEE THAT STRENGTH AND YOU WILL SEE IT FROM THAT STAG TONIGHT. YOU WILL HEAR IT IN THAT SPEECH. YOU WILL ALSO HEAR A KINDLER GENTLER TRUMP THAT MANY PEOPLE DON'T KNOW BUT I KNOW VERY WEL BECAUSE I HAVE SEEN IT >> SIMONE, I WANT TO GO BACK T YOU. I KNOW YOU READ THE HEADLINES. ONE OF THE THINGS WAS PRESIDEN BIDEN WAS TRYING TO WRESTLE BACK THE NARRATIVE AND SHOW VOTERS HE CAN DO THIS. HE SAID SOMETHING THAT GOT A LOT OF HEADLINES I WANT TO PLAY FOR YOU AND GET WHAT YOU YOU THINK HE WAS TRYING TO SAY AND IF THE WHOITHOUSE NEEDS TO DO ANY KIND OF CLEANUP. LET'S ROLL THAT. >> I FOUND RELIEF IN YOU SAYIN YOU ARE NOT A POLITICA REPORTER THINK ABOUT THIS THERE'S A LOT OF REALLY GOOD REPORTERS OUT THERE BUT THEY HAVE NO LIMIT. I MEAN, THEY, IT'S VER DIFFICULT. THE ABILITY TO STEP UP AND - LET ME PUT IT -- THERE ARE N EDITORS ANYMORE. YOU SENATE SAY THAT, IT'S NO TRUE THEY DON'T SAY THAT ANYMORE. SO WHAT HAPPENED, WHAT DOE CONCERN ME THE MOST MAYBE IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND HO IT CAN BE ABUSED THAT'S WHY I BEEN WORKING SO HARD INTERNATIONAL TO GET TH WORLD TOOKING AT US, WHAT IT SHOULD BE, INTERNATIONAL STANDARD I GUESS ABOUT TWO MONTHS AGO, MY STAFF CAME TO ME WITH ME DOING AN INTERVIEW SPEAKING. >> THAT REALLY WASN'T THE RIGH SOUND BYTE APOLOGIES, HERE IT IT IS HERE. >> LOOK AT THE HEAT I'M GETTING. I NAMED SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, BLACK MAN. I NAMED KETANJI BROWN, BECAUSE OF THE PEOPLE I NAMED. IT IS ABOUT MAKING IT CLEAR. AMERICAN HISTORY IS BLAC HISTORY. BLACK HISTORY IS AMERICA HISTORY AND IT IS BEING BUILT BY IT AND IT'S STRONG >> SO HE HAD THE BLACK MAN THERE INSTEAD OF SECRETARY OF DEFENS LLOYD AUSTIN DO THEY HAVE TO CLEAN THIS UP? SHOULD THEY SAY SOMETHING? >> I WAS TRYING TO LISTEN HARD I THOUGHT I HEARD HIM SAY NAMED SECRETARY OF DEFENSE A BLACK MAN. I DON'T THINK HE SAID HIS NAME BUT I DON'T THINK THERE IS CLEAN UP HERE. I THINK THE PRESIDENT WAS SAYING HE IS GETTING HEAT BECAUSE O THE DIVERSITY AND THE FOCUS ON WORKING CLASS PEOPLE, MAKING THE COUNTRY AND THE CABINET WHO MAKE THE DECISIONS IN THE COUNTRY LOOK LIKE THE REST OF TH COUNTRY AND FOCUS ON WORKING CLASS VOTERS I MEAN, I FEEL LIKE WE GOT BIGGER ISSUES, HONESTLY. I THINK THERE ARE SOME OTHER ISSUES >> YOU HAVE BIGGER ISSUES, I GET THAT AND I DON'T WANT TO CUT YOU OF BUT THE POINT OF PLAYING THAT -- ACTUALLY THE OTHER SOUND BYTE, HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE MEDIA AND HE SEGUED INTO ARTIFICIA INTELLIGENCE >> THAT I'M CONCERNED ABOUT. >> HE IS TRYING TO SHOW AMERIC THAT HE CAN DO THE JOB AND HE IS HAVING MAJOR SLIP UPS WITH THE WALLS OF THE PARTY CRASHING DOWN ON HIM I GUESS MY QUESTION IS IS THIS JUST NOT WORKING >> I THINK THAT IS A FAI QUESTION I THINK IT IS WORKING. I REMEMBER WHEN I WORKED FOR JOE BIDEN AND EVERYONE CALLED HI THE GAFF KING IN THE FIRST ELECTION I WORKED IN 2019, 2020. SO I JUST THINK THAT THIS IS NORMAL I THINK IT IS NORMAL FOR JOE BIDEN. I THINK WHAT IT ADDS ON TOP IS THE AGE FACTOR AND THE PRESIDENT LOOKS OLD BECAUSE HE IS FRANKL OLD. WHAT I HAD HEARD FROM HIM IN THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS, HE HA TAKEN IT A LITTLE MORE HEAD ON AND TALKED ABOUT THE FACT THAT I'M OLD AND EXPERIENCED AND THAT HARKENED TO 2020 THE REALITY SITUATION FOR TH PRESIDENT NOW IS THERE ARE THESE THREE DIFFERENT THINGS PEOPL ARE LOOKING AT THEY ARE LOOKING AT MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, NANCY PELOSI, HAKEEM JEFFRIES SAYING WE ARE LOOKING AT POLLING HIM AND WE DON' THINK HE CAN WIN BUT YOU WIL DRAG THE REST OF US DOWN THEN THEY ARE LOOKING AT VOTER AND PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING NOT TO BE AT BIDEN HARRIS RALLIES SAYING WE ARE WITH YOU, MR PRESIDENT, WE DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT FOLKS ARE TALKING ABOUT AND THEN YOU HAVE JOE BIDEN WH IS LIKE, WELL, I'M HEARING THE PEOPLE IN THE STREETS BUT I' HEARING WHAT CHALK AND NANCY A HE WOULD SAY ARE SAYING TO ME. SO AT THE END OF THE DAY JOE BIDEN HAS SAID HE IS IN TH RACE AS LONG AS THAT IS WHAT HE BELIEVES, THAT'S WHAT IT I GOING TO BE. THE ONLY PERSON WHO CAN GET HI OF THE RACE IS BIDEN GIVEN THE TIDE, HE IS CURRENTL SWIMMING AGAINST THE TIDE. I DON'T KNOW IF HE CAN SUSTAIN SWIMMING AGAINST THE TIDE FO ANOTHER WEEK AND A HALF. >> THANK YOU FOR THAT. WE WANT TO BRING IT BACK TO YOU. THERE IS A NEW CBS POLL OUT. I THINK WE HAVE IT, LET ME PUT IT UP. IT SHOWS TRUMP UP FIVE POINT NATIONALLY I DO WANT TO ASK YOU, IT I WITHIN THE MARGIN OF ERROR THOUGH, I WANT TO ASK YOU WITH THESE POLL NUMBERS, THE HICCUP WE SAW, IS IT OVER DO YOU THINK IT IS OVE PRESIDENT BIDEN? >> NO. IT IS NOT OVER >> I KNOW YOU WANT TO RU AGAINST PRESIDENT BIDEN. >> I WOULD LOVE TO RUN AGAINST PRESIDENT BIDEN BUT HARRIS WOULD BE GREAT TOO THE POLICIES HAVE FAILED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. THERE ARE A MILLION LIFETIME BETWEEN NOW AND NOVEMBER I HAVE SEEN THIS HAPPEN MILLION TIMES. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAUGHT I BUT I MISSED THE RED WAVE. I HAD MY SURF BOARD OUT. SO MUCH GOES INTO WINNING AN LOSING BUT THE NUTS AND BOLTS, THE NOT SEXY STUFF HERE, THE BEHIND THE SCENES MOBILIZATION POLL WATCHERS, POLL WORKERS, ALL OF THE THINGS YOU HAVE TO DO THE DOOR KNOCKING TO GET PEOPL TO THE POLLS AND DEMOCRATS HAV A HUGE ADVANTAGE ON TH REPUBLICAN PARTY WE ARE CATCHING UP TO THEM AND THAT IS GOOD NEWS FOR TH REPUBLICANS BUT THAT IS FAR AWAY FROM NOW WE ARE LIVING IN THIS MOMENT WHERE REPUBLICANS HAVEN'T SEEN A TWO HOUR POSITIVE NEWS CYCLE I MY LIFETIME. WE HAVE HAD TWO WEEKS OF A POSITIVE NEWS CYCLE. IT WILL NOT LAST FOREVER DEMOCRATS WILL GET THEIR ATHTOGETHER AND WE WILL HAVE T FIGHT UNTIL NOVEMBER?A HOW COME REPUBLICANS LEAD LEAN INT THE DIGITAL RACE WITH DEMOCRAT ENOUGH I'M NOT SURPRISED THAT JUS BECAUSE THE REPUBLICANS WANT T RUN AGAINST PRESIDENT BIDEN, I THAT WHO THEY WANT TO RU AGAINST? >> THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF THAT BUT WHEN YOUR OPPONENT IS SELF IMPLODING, TAKE A STEP BACK AN LET IT HAPPEN. I HAVE BEEN IMPRESSED WITH TRUMP FOR THE PAST FEW WEEKS HE REALLY DIDN'T SAY A WHOLE LOT AND HE DIDN'T GET HIMSELF IN HOT WATER. THAT BEING SAID, IS IT OVER? I THINK BIDEN IS HERE TO STAY I FEEL LIKE WE SEE THIS MOVI TOO MANY TIMES WE GET REPORTING THAT OH, JO BIDEN IS STEPPING DOWN IT WILL BE KAMALA. BETWEEN THE DELEGATES AND TH MONEY, HE IS THE NOMINEE THE BOUT OF COVID COMES AT A VERY BAD TIME, ESPECIALLY AFTE DONALD TRUMP IS HERE HE JUST GOT SHOT AND HE IS TAKING THE STAGE JOE BIDEN IS GOING DOWN WITH COVID. IT IS NOT A GREAT JUXTAPOSITIO FOR DEMOCRATS. >> EXPLAIN WHY DANA WHIT INTRODUCING FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP? >> I DON'T KNOW. I'M JUST FIGURING IT OUT >> DANA WHITE RUNS THE USC AND PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS A TIGH RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM. >> WHEN DONALD TRUMP CAME INTO THE BUILDING EVERY NIGHT, HE DIDN'T COME UP ON THE MAIN STAGE, HE WALKED THROUGH THE CROWD EXACTLY LIKE HE DOES AT AN MMA FIGHT, HE LIKES THE WAY THAT LOOKS. DANA AND THE PRESIDENT HAVE LONG STANDING RELATIONSHIP HE APPRECIATES HIM FOR GROWING IT FOR WHAT IT IS. THEY ARE CLOSE FRIENDS HAVING SOMEONE LIKE THAT WHO YOU SAID CULTURE CLASHING WITH POLITICS, IT'S IMPORTANT SO MANY PEOPLE ASHD THE COUNTRY, AROUND THE WORLD FOLLOW MMA. YOU HAVE SOMEONE WHO RUNS TH ORGANIZATION SAYING I KNOW THI MAN, LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING ABOUT HIM, IT IS ANOTHER IMPACTFUL, FORNT MOMENT FOR TH PARTY. >> TRICIA, WHAT ARE YOU LOOKIN FOR TONIGHT IN THE SPEECH FROM FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP >> I THINK DANA WHITE WILL SAY TRUMP IS A FIGHTER AND VER HOPEFUL THAT TRUMP WILL SA TRUMP IS A UNIFIER FOR NOT JUS REPUBLICANS BUT AMERICANS. THE TONE FROM THE START OF THE CONVENTION HAS BEEN EXCELLENT. HE SET THE TONE IN THAT WE HAV TURNED DOWN THE RHETORIC THAT IS IMPORTANT. NOT JUST FOR THE BASE FOR TH GENERAL ELECTION VOTERS TO SEE IT IS NOT JUST -- NIKKI HALE VOTERS, JD VANCE WHO DIDN'T LIKE TRUMP IN 2016, YOU ARE WELCOME THIS IS NOT JUST A PURIST TASK >> VAUGHN HILLYARD HAS BEE TALKING TO SOME DELEGATES. TALK TO ME ABOUT THE SCENE DOW THERE AND HOW IT HAS BEEN AN WHAT PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FORWAR TO >> WE JUST MISSED RICHARD PETTY, THE NASCAR DRIVER OF COURSE WH IS A NORTH CAROLINA CAROLINA OFFICIALLY HE JUST WENT UPSTAIRS. I WAS TALKING TO OTHER DELEGATES WHO NOTED THEIR ANTICIPATION O DONALD TRUMP WAS AN ARENA FULL OF PEOPLE EAGER TO HEAR TH FIRST WORDS OF A MAN WHO HAS BECOME THE ELDER STATESMAN O THE PARTY. THAT IS DONALD TRUMP WHEN YOU LOOK HERE AT THE STAT OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, ONE I NOT FEARFUL OF ITS OWN SHADOW AT THIS POINT EIGHT YEARS AGO, THERE WERE SOME STILL WALKING AROUND WHETHER T ASSOCIATE WITH DONALD TRUMP AN THIS PARTY THAT'S NOT THE CASE ANYMORE. TED CRUZ, RON DESANTIS, NIKK HALEY ON THE STAGE CONTRAST TO THE DEMOCRAT PARTY WHO IS QUESTIONS WHERE IT IS WHO IT IS PUTTING IN AND THE BEST PATH FORWARD. THAT IS THE PLACE HERE, TALKIN DELEGATE AFTER DELEGATE AND IT IS NO LONGER A QUESTIONMARK FO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY THEY FEEL CONFIDENT WHERE THEY STAND AND WITH THE CONTRAST OF THE AGENDA THAT THE SECOND TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WOULD LOOK LIKE COMPARED TO A SECOND ADMINISTRATION UNDER JOE BIDEN >> TALK TO ME ALSO, THE CROW FEELS LIKE THIS IS THE MAI EVENT. FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL TAKE THE STAGE AND SPEAK. CAN YOU FEEL THE VIBE IN THE ROOM >> SAY THAT ONE MORE TIME? >> THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE HERE. IT'S LOUDER, THE FINAL NIGHT CAN YOU FEEL THAT ON THE FLOOR THE EXCITEMENT AND ELECTRICITY >> ABSOLUTELY. I THINK ESPECIALLY THIS WEEKEN WHEN WE WERE FLYING. I WILL FLY TO MILWAUKEE. THERE ARE SERIOUS QUESTION MARKS ON WHAT THE ATMOSPHERE WOULD B LIKE WOULD IT BE SOLEMN, ANGRY AN FRUSTRATED ALL OF THOSE ARE NORMAL HUMA EMOTIONS AFTER A SHOOTING, LET ALONE A SHOOTING OF THE WOULD BE NOMINEE OF A POLITICAL PARTY I CAN TELL YOU HERE THAT THE SENSE IS ONE OF UNITY AND OF PRIDE AROUND DONALD TRUMP AS THE LEADER OF THE PARTY. IT IS ALMOST A FOLK HERO TYP STATUS THAT HE HAS ENDURED $350 MILLION THAT HE AND THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION WENT THROUGH, TWO IMPEACHMENTS DURING HI PRESIDENCY DONALD TRUMP AND HIS REPUBLICA PARTY HAVE BEEN THROUGH A LOT. HERE THEY ARE, THREE MONTHS OU AND THEY ARE LOOKING AT NOMINEE WHO IS AHEAD NOT ONL NATIONALLY BUT EACH OF THE BATTLEGROUND STATES AND RECOGNITION THAT NOT ONLY TH DELEGATION FEELS ABOUT THE PROSPECT OF WINNING THE WHIT HOUSE BUT ALSO ABOUT TAKIN CONTROL OF THE SENATE AN MAINTAINING CONTROL OF THE U.S HOUSE. YOU HEAR PUBLICLY FROM DEMOCRATS RIGHT NOW AND FROM OUR OWN REPORTING PRIVATELY ABOU CONCERNS FROM CHUCK SCHUME ABOUT WHAT THE POLLING SHOWS I LOSING THE CONGRESS. THE FOLKS HERE UNDERSTAND THEY FEEL COMFORTABLE ABOUT THE LEADERSHIP AND THE DIRECTION O THE PARTY. YOU DON'T HAVE MIKE PENCE HERE HE WAS VACATIONING IN MONTANA. YOU DON'T HAVE LIZ CHENEY. THERE WAS TREPIDATION ON WHA WOULD LOSING SOME OF THOSE KEY FIGURES LOOK LIKE FOR TH REPUBLICAN PARTY AND HAVING CONVERSATIONS WIT THE DELEGATES THAT ARE HERE THAT MAKE UP THE KEY BACK BONE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TODAY THERE IS NONE OF THAT CONCERN OR TREPIDATION ABOUT WHO THEY ARE WHERE THEY STAND FOR AND WHA THEY MREEFB THE TRAJECTORY O THE PARTY IS IN A MORE MAGAIFIED VERSION. AND JD VANCE ONLY FURTHER HELP THE BRAND OF THE PARTY >> ALL RIGHT, VAUGHN HILLYARD, WE APPRECIATE YOUR REPORTING OUR COVERAGE IS JUST GETTING STARTED ON THIS THURSDAY AS THE CROWD WAITS FOR FORME PRESIDENT TRUMP TO TAKE TH STAGE. WE ARE FOLLOWING NEW REPORTING ON PRESIDENT BIDEN IS FORMER PRESIDENT OBAM JOINING THE LIST OF THOS CALLING FOR BIDEN TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE ? STAY WITH US >>> NOW IS RAW >> HOW HARD IS IT TO SEE I LIKE THIS? >> OUR HOUSE IS NO LONGER HERE BUT WE ARE HERE. >> NOW IS REAL >> LET'S BREAK DOWN WHAT W KNOW AND THEN THE BIG QUESTION STILL OUTSTANDING. >> NEWS FOR THE GENERATION O NOW IS NBC NEWS NOW. >>> LESTER HOLT, AMERICA'S MOS TRUSTED TV NEWS ANCHOR >>> WELCOME BACK TO OUR LIVE COVERAGE ON NBC OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION THIS IS THE FINAL NIGHT, NIGHT FOUR IN MILWAUKEE. A LOT OF EXCITEMENT AS THE DELEGATES GET READY. EVERYONE IS LOOKING TOWARDS TH STAGE BECAUSE IN A FEW HOURS THE MAN OF THE HOUR IN MILWAUKEE, FORMER PRESIDEN TRUMP IS GOING TO TAKE THE STAGE. THAT SPEECH TAKING ON ADDE SIGNIFICANCE BECAUSE OF TH ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. IT WILL NOT BE THE FIRST TIME HE SPEAKS TO A CROWD OR AUDIENC POST AASINATION ATTEMPT. HE SPOKE TO A SMALLER CROW EARLIER THIS WEEK BUT IT IS TH FIRST TIME HE SPEAKS DIRECTLY TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND WILL ADDRESS THE DELEGATION HERE. ALL OF THE REPUBLICANS I MILWAUKEE. AND HE UNDERSTAND THAT HE TORE UP THE SPEECH THAT HE WAS GOIN TO DELIVER, HE CALLED IT A HUMDINGERER. AND WE WONDER IF THIS NEW SPEECH WILL HAVE A DIFFERENT TONE WE SAW A DIFFERENT DONALD TRUM ON NIGHT ONE IT WAS TWO DAYS AFTER SOMEON ALMOST KILLED HIM. HE HAD A BANDAGE ON HIS EAR. THIS HAS BECOME A BADGE OF HONOR FOR SOME ON THE CONVENTION FLOOR, THEY ARE ALSO WEARING A FAKE BANDAGE OVER THEIR EAR. AND HE KIND OF TOOK IT ALL I AND LOOKED A LITTLE HUMBLE BY IT ALL. WE SAW HIM LAUGH AND CHEER A TIMES WITH THE SPEECHES. EVERY TIME HE COMES IN, TH WHOLE PLACE RISES TO ITS FEET. WE WILL SEE FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THE CONVENTION, HIS WIFE, FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP IN 2016 SHE DELIVERED A SPEECH HERE AND IT WAS CONTROVERSIA BECAUSE LATER IT WAS REPORTE THAT PORTIONS WERE LIFTED FROM MICHELLE OBAMA SHE HAS CHOSEN NOT TO SPOKE THIS TIME SHE HAS TAKEN A BACK SEAT IN THE CAMPAIGN SHE MADE IT CLEAR SHE DOESN' LOVE POLITICS, DOESN'T LOVE TH LIMELIGHT. SHE HAS FOCUSED HER LIFE ON HE ROLE AS A WIFE AND RAISING HER SON BARON. SHE DID START SOME INITIATIVES CALLED BE BEST WHICH WAS A ANTIBULLYING CAMPAIGN WHICH SOME PEOPLE THOUGHT IT WAS IRONIC WITH THE WAY HER HUSBAND HANDLES RIVALS WE ARE HOPING TO HEAR FROM HULKEN AND DANA WHITE WILL B INTRODUCING THE PRESIDENT HEAD OF THE USC WHICH TRUMP HAS HAD A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE USC. WE HAVE A COUNTDOWN CLOCK FO MILWAUKEE. A LOT OF ACTION AND EXCITEMENT HERE AS PEOPLE WONDER WHAT WIL FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP SAY TODAY WHAT WILL HE SAY TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HE WORD SENATOR VANCE TALK ABOUT HIS LIFE STORY AND HIS VISIO FOR THE FUTURE AND HIS INTRODUCTION TO AMERICA. HE LEANED INTO HIS WORKING CLASS ROOTS, GROWING UP IN APPALACHIA, OHIO, TALKING ABOUT HOW TH FORMATIVE YEARS MADE HIM WHO H IS AND SHAPED THE WAY HE SAW AMERICA AND THE POLICIES YOU WANT TO PERFORM AS A POTENTIAL VICE PRESIDENT WHEN I WAS SPEAKING TO DELEGATES AFTERWARDS, THEY TOLD ME THA ONE PART OF THE SPEECH THE CARED FOR IS WHEN HE SAID HE WOULD BE THE VICE PRESIDENT FO EVERY DAY AMERICANS IN EVERY CORNER OF THE COUNTRY, NOT ONL IN THE BATTLEGROUND STATES BUT ALL OVER THE COUNTRY ME ALSO SPOKE ABOUT HIS MOTHER AND HOW SHE OVER CAME ADDICTIO AND HARDSHIPS IN HER LIFE. IT WAS AN EMOTIONAL MOMENT I THE SPEECH WHERE HIS MOM STARTED CRYING AT ONE POINT, THE ENTIRE CONVENTION STARTED CHANTING JD'S MOM WHICH MAY BE A FIRST FOR A CONVENTION IN AMERICA. BUT THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAV COME OUT TO THE CONVENTION AND BLOWN THE ROOF OFF THE PLACE PEOPLE LIKE PETER NAVARRO AN VIVEK RAMASWAMY. VANCE'S SPEECH WAS A LITTLE MORE SUBDUED AND THE TONE WAS DIFFERENT. THAT MAY BE THE PLAN IF YOU ARE CONSIDERING TRUMP AND YOU ARE WONDERING, IS HE STABLE, WILL HE BE IN CONTROL AND YO LOOK AT SOMEONE LIKE JD VANC WHICH MAYBE THE MESSAGE WAS THAT HE IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT THA TRUMP. HE MAY SHARE THE SAME IDEAS AN PHILOSOPHIES ON GOVERNMENT, BU WE WILL SEE A DIFFERENT MAN. WE WILL TAKE A QUICK BREAK AFTER THIS WITH HIS TAKE ON VANCE' SPEECH, WHAT HE THINKS AND WHA WE CAN SEE ABOUT HIS FUTURE IN POLITICS, STAY WITH US >>> THE NBC MOBILE APP, GE CONNECTED TO YOUR FAVORITE NEW SHOWS. 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NOT BECAUSE YOU ARE ALL BA PEOPLE BUT BECAUSE YOU BROKE THE LAW AND THE UNITED STATES WA FOUNDED ON THE RULE OF LAW >> THAT WAS A CLIP OF FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE VIVEK RAMASWAMY DELIVERING A FIERY SPEECH AT THE RNC AND RECEIVIN A HUGE RESPONSE FROM THE CROWD VIVEK IS JOINING US NOW LIVE VIVEK, THIS IS YOUR FIRS REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION YOU BLEW THE ROOF OFF OF THI PLACE, WHAT WAS THAT LIKE? >> IT WAS GRATIFYING I HAVE BEEN TALKING TO THESE PEOPLE FOR THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF WITH A MESSAGE OF NATIONA UNITY BUT OF A DIFFERENT KIND. NOT A FAKE UNITY BUT A UNITY THAT SAYS WE WILL DISAGREE DEEPLY, NOT A LITTLE BIT, DEEPLY BUT A LOT OF THINGS BUT WE ARE STILL BOUND BY A COMMON SET OF IDEALS I DID GET A LITTLE PASSIONAT WITH THE MESSAGE BUT IT WA GRATIFYING TO SEE THE CROW RESPONSE >> WE WILL GO INTO THE IMMIGRATION POLICIES IN MOMENT JD VANCE DELIVERED HIS SPEEC AND IT WAS DIFFERENT THAN YOUR SPEECH IT WAS NOT ALL THAT RED MEAT IT WAS BIOGRAPHICAL. HE DIDN'T BLOW THE ROOF OFF TH PLACE. PEOPLE LOVED THE SPEECH IN A DIFFERENT WAY. HOW DO YOU THINK HE DID? >> HE DID WELL AND IT WAS A DIFFERENT CONTEXT IT WAS HIS INTRODUCTION TO THE COUNTRY. I THOUGHT HE HIT IT OUT OF THE PARK I COME FROM A BIASSE PERSPECTIVE. I'M A CLOSE FRIEND AND HIS WIFE DID WELL. AND SHE A FRIEND WE WERE ALL CLASSMATES IN LA SCHOOL I'M GLAD THE COUNTRY GOT TO SE A SIDE OF HIM THAT IS HARD T COME OUT ON THE STAGE. HE GAVE A NICE LONG STAGE AND THINK IT WAS GOOD TO SEE THE CONTOURS OF A PERSONALITY THAT DOESN'T ALWAYS COME OUT ON THE STAGE. >> I KNOW YOU ARE AN EMINEM FAN. WILL THE REAL JD STAND UP? >> WE HEARD FROM THE GUY YESTERDAY AND HE IS DEEPLY INTELLECTUALLY HE IS INCREDIBLY EDUCATED AND VETERAN. YOU WATCH HIM IN INTERVIEWS AN HE LEANS IN TO THE PARTY WHETHER IT IS PODCASTS OR RIGHT WING TALK SHOWS, HE IS A GOOD DEBATER. BUT YOU ARE SAYING THAT HE HAS DIFFERENT SIDES AND THAT WAS PART OF IT YESTERDAY >> EVERYONE HAS DIFFERENT SIDE OF THEIR PERSON. THE QUESTION IS WHAT COMES THROUGH IN WHAT CONTEXT. I GOT THIS QUESTION A LOT AS WELL IF YOU SIT DOWN FOR A TWO HOUR PODCAST, THAT IS A DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE THAN IF YOU HAVE A 30 SECOND CLIP ON A CABLE NEW NETWORK. SO YOU WANT A PRESIDENT WHO HA THE FULL OPTICATION. I THINK YOU WANT THAT IN A VIC PRESIDENT AS WELL. >> YOU CHOSE TO GO FULL RED BULL A LOT IN YOUR SPEECHES, ENERGY PASSION. WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO HEAR FRO FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP >> LOOK, I THINK THAT PART O THIS IS NOT EVERYONE SEE EVERYTHING THERE HAVE BEN SETTINGS WHERE HAVE ALSO GIVEN SPEECHES THA WERE EMOTIONAL SO I THINK TODAY IS A DIFFEREN CONTEXT. TRUMP IS COMING OFF OF A HISTORIC EVENT OF THE COUNTRY. LAST SATURDAY LITERALLY TOUCHE HIM IN A MOST PERSONAL OF WAYS IT WAS A NEAR TRAGEDY FOR HI AND HIS FAMILY AND THE COUNTRY AND I DO THINK HE HAS RETHOUGH WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HIS OTHERWISE APPROACH HOW COULD HE NOT I HOPE THE COUNTRY HAS A CHANC TO SEE THE MAN I KNOW WHO CARE ABOUT OUR AGENDA BUT CARES ABOUT UNITING THE COUNTRY THROUGH TH AGENDA I HOPE THAT IS WHAT WE SEE TONIGHT. >> DO YOU THINK IT WILL BE A SPEECH THAT SURPRISES PEOPLE O IT WILL BE CLASSIC DONALD TRUMP? >> IT WILL NOT SURPRISE THOSE OF US WHO KNOW HIM WELL WE KNOW THAT OTHER SIDE OF HIM I THINK IT WILL BE THE SPEEC WHERE PEOPLE SAY, THIS IS A SIDE OF TRUMP THAT I DIDN'T KNO EXISTED. IT IS NOT THAT HE PIVOTED OR SWITCHED BUT HE IS ABLE TO PUT A SPOTLIGHT ON THE SIDE OF HIM WHO HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN >> I DO WANT TO ASK YOU, YOU HAVE RISEN UP THE RANKS OF POLITICS AND GOTTEN TO KNO TRUMP AFTER THE PRIMARY. WHAT DID YOU KNOW ABOUT HIM THAT WAS SURPRISING >> I HAVE KNOWN HIM FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS AND I GOT TO KNOW HIM WELL AFTER THE PRIMARY AND HIS INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITY AND HIS INTEREST IN LEARNING ABOUT ISSUES THAT HE WAS NOT NECESSARILY FOCUSED ON WAS SOMETHING THAT DIDN'T COME ACROSS IN THE MEDIA APPEARANCES. BUT WE HAVE HAD GOOD CONVERSATIONS ON NONTRADITIONA ISSUES, DIGITAL CURRENCIES FUTURE OF CRYPTO CURRENCY AN BITCOIN, THE FUTURE OF A.I THIS IS A MAN WHO DESPITE NOT BEING THAT MUCH YOUNGER THAN JOE BIDEN, HE HAS A YOUNGER SPIRIT THAN SOMEONE WHO IS ADVANCED I AGE. >> LET'S TALK ABOUT TH IMMIGRATION. EXPLAIN YOUR VIEW ON BIRTHRIGH CITIZENS YOUR PARENTS WERE IMMIGRANTS . MY PARENTS WERE IMMIGRANTS WE WERE BORN HERE AND WE BECAM CITIZENS DUPLICATE THAT LAW TO BE THE SAME >> RESPECTFULLY, I WANT TO FOLLOW THE CONSTITUTION. THE 40th AMENDMENT, ALL PERSON BORN OR NATIONIZED IN THE UNITED STATES AND SUBJECT TO TH JURISDICTION THEREFORE ARE CITIZENS THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN INTERPRETED TO SAY THE KID OF DIPLOMAT HER LEGALLY DOES NOT ENJOY CITIZENSHIP. IN MY VOY, THE KID OF A PERSON HERE ILLEGALLY IS NOT CITIZEN. IT IS ONE THING IF OUR PARENTS CAME HERE LEGALLY, YES, THAT APPLIED. SOMEONE WHO ENTERED THE COUNTR ILLEGALLY. SAY THEY ARE SOLDIERS WHO INVADE IN THE SOUTHERN BORDER, NO ONE THINKS THAT PERSON HAS A RIGHT OF CITIZENSHIP THAT'S THE POINT I MADE. THAT IS AN INTERPRETATION OF THE CONSTITUTION THAT THE SUPREM COURT SHARES AT THE BORDER >> I KNOW YOU ARE SPEAKING O HISTORY, YOU BELIEVE IN ASYLUM CLAIMS AND WHERE DO YOU DRAW THE LINE ON ASYLUM CLAIMS? >> THE LAW HAS ASYLUM BUT WE NEED PROOF RIGHT NOW IF YOU CROSS THE SOUTHERN BORDER, YOU CHECK A BOX THAT SAYS YOU SEEK ASYLUM AN THEY SAY YOU ARE ENTITLED TO IT. IT IS A BASIC THING THAT EVERYONE SHOULD AGREE ON >> DOES IT EXTEND TO CRIME POLITICS, ECONOMY? DOES IT COME TO ANY OF THOSE THINGS OR DOES IT HAVE TO BE SEEKING ASYLUM BECAUSE YOU ARE SEEKING POLITICAL OPPRESSION >> I THINK IT HAS TO BE A DIRECT THREAT TO THE INDIVIDUAL THA CAN BE PROVABLE WITH A HIG BURDEN APPROACH WITH A HIG BURDEN OF PERSONAL CONSEQUENCE THAT WOULD BRING DOWN THE ASYLUM COMPLAMZ CLAIMS BY 90% >> WOULD YOU TAKE A JOB FOR TH ADMINISTRATION IT IS GETTING LOUD OUT HERE. WOULD YOU TAKE A JOB AT HOMELAND SECURITY >> PRESIDENT TRUMP AND I HAV HAD CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ROLE AND THIS HAS BEEN DEVELOPING THIS WEEK WITH JD VANCE. >> I WILL ASK YOU ABOUT THAT A WELL >> I WILL SEE MULTIPLE PATHS OPEN OUT OF THIS CONVENTION. I EXPECT TO HAVE GOO CONVERSATIONS WITH TRUMP I'M KEEPING AN OPEN MIND WHAT TRUMP AND I AGREE ON IT WILL BE LARGE IMPACT ON TH COUNTRY. >> IF YOU COULD WRITE YOUR OWN TICKET, WOULD YOU WANT TO SERV THE PEOPLE OF OHIO >> THE SENATOR IS REPRESENTING THE COUNTRY. I THINK THERE ARE MULTIPLE PATHS. ONE OF THE THINGS IS SHUTTIN DOWN THE --. >> THERE IS ROOM TO DO THAT FROM THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH AND MORE OF A FOUNDATION THAT NEEDS TO B LED FOR THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH I WILL GIVE THOUGHT TO THAT. IT HAS BEEN A CRAZY WEEK MY FIRST THOUGHT IS NOT WHAT I BEST FOR ME BUT WHAT IS BEST FOR THE COUNTRY. >> I KNOW ONE OF YOUR BIGGES PLAYERS, YOU ARE A TRUE GRINDER, PLAY FOR EVERY POINT YOU ARE A BELIEVER IN PUTTIN THE TIME IN. PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND JD VANCE HAD AN INITANT PATH TO POLITICS. YOU DIPD WORK YOUR WAY UP. YOU KIND OF EXPLODED ON TH SCENE. DO YOU THINK THAT IS BETTER? I ASK BECAUSE IF YOU WERE TO B A SENATOR, YOU HAVE ZERO EXPERIENCE IN THE SENATE AND THAT IS A KNOCK THAT REPUBLICANS HAD ON BARACK OBAMA. WHAT WOULD BE DIFFERENT THIS TIME AROUND? >> I THINK FROM THE FIRS PERSPECTIVE, IT WOULD BE A ASSET FOR ME I THINK IT IS GOOD TO HAVE PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF POLITICS NOT EVERYONE BUT A GOOD NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO COME FROM OUTSID OF POLITICS. IT WAS A TRADITION FOR OUR FOUNDERS THEY WERE NOT IN POLITIC EITHER ONE THING I LOVE ABOUT JD IS H BRINGS AN ENERGY AND COHEREN IDEOLOGY MINE IS NOT EXACTLY THE SAME A HIS IN EVERY RESPECT, BUT WE NEED MORE PEOPLE IN POLITICS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION WHO HAVE THEIR OWN VISION OF THE COUNTRY. >> GOVERNOR DEWINE WAS HERE AN DWR ASKED HIM ABOUT IT WHAT IS YOUR PITCH TO DEWINE >> I'M NOT IN THE BUSINESS O MAKING THAT PITCH. IF I'M ASKED TO SERVE, I WOULD HAVE TO CONSIDER IT. I HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO CONSIDER IT BUT TO COMPARE THAT TO THE OTHER PATH OF DRIVING A CHANGE AT HIGHER LEVEL >> WHY WOULD YOU BE A GOOD CANDIDATE? >> I WANT TO GIVE BACK TO TH COUNTRY. I HAVE A CLEAR VISION FOR WHAT I STAND FOR. IT IS NOT THE SAME AS WHAT EVERYONE ELSE IN THE SENAT WOULD AGREE WITH I WOULD BE A CLEAR VOICE FOR SHUTTING DOWN THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE. I THINK IT IS GOOD TO HAVE SENATORS WITH CLEAR IDENTIFIABLE VIEWS SO WE CAN HAVE A HIG QUALITY DEBATE WE MAY NOT AGREE BUT THE ABILITY TO ENGAGE IN A DEBATE IS SOMETHING WE NEED MORE WOULD YOU RATHER ONE AGAINST BIDEN OR HARRIS? >> I THINK IT IS BOTH. I HAVE A FEELING IT MAY NOT BE EITHER AT THE REPUBLICAN DEBATE, MY CLOSING STATEMENT LAST YEAR, I SAID BIDEN WOULD NOT BE TH NOMINEE. IT WAS DISMISSED AS CRAZY TALK AT THE TIME. IT LOOKS LIKE IT IS ON THE VERGE OF HAPPENING >> WE WILL HAVE TO SEE THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO TALK TO US >> OUR COVERAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IS UNDERWAY. NEW REPORTING OF PRESIDENT BIDEN AND HIS INNER CIRCLE BRACING FOR IF HE COULD STEP ASIDE WE ARE BACK IN MILWAUKEE, STAY WITH US. >>> GOOD TO HAVE YOU WITH US I'M JOE FRYER. >> I'M SAVANNAH SELLERS. DEVELOPING NOW ON MORNING NEWS NOW. >> GROWING FRUSTRATIONS OVER THE MIGRANT CRISIS >> REPORTS OF NEW DRONE ATTACK BY HOUTHI MILITANTS. >> THE STORM IS CREATING DANGEROUS CONDITIONS ACROSS TH REGION >> NOW LET'S GET TO FINANCIA HEADLINES. NEW RULES ARE COMING TO CA CREDIT CARD LATE FEES. >> TALKING TUITION, AS A NEW CLASS OF FRESHMEN GET READY TO GO TO COLLEGE. >> THIS IS A BIG DECISION FO FAMILIES >> DO YOU THINK THIS COULD IMPACT HOW PEOPLE VOTE >> 100%. >> MORNING NEWS NOW, STREAMING WEEKDAYS AT 7:00 >>> WELCOME BACK WE ARE LIVE FOR THE FOURTH AND FINAL NIGHT OF THE REPUBLICA NATIONAL CONVENTION. HALLIE JACKSON IS BACK FROM TH CONVENTION FLOOR EXPLAINING TH ENERGY DOWN THERE. >> IT IS BIG, THE FINAL NIGHT. PEOPLE ARE EXCITED AND DRESSED TO THE NINES I WILL TELL YOU THERE IS A LOT OF CONVERSATION WITH THE MICHIGAN DELEGATES, TALKING WITH THE TOP OFFICIAL THERE, TH QUESTION CAME UP, WHAT D DEMOCRATS DO NEXT. THIS IS ONE OF THE DRIVING STORY LINES AS DEMOCRATS ARE I POLITICAL CRISIS RIGHT NOW TALKING ABOUT IT ALL HOUR. WE EXPECT TRUMP TO TAKE TH STAGE IN TWO HOURS FROM NOW. HE WILL CLOSE OUT THE CONVENTION AND OFFICIALLY ACCEPT TH NOMINATION FOR THE THIRD TIME IN HIS POLITICAL CAREER NOW SOURCES SAY HIS SPEECH WIL HAVE A UNITY FOCUS I'M ALSO TOLD THAT DONALD TRUM WILL STILL BE DONALD TRUMP EXPECT HIM TO DRAW CONTRAST WITH THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION >> MEANWHILE, PRESIDENT BIDEN IS RECOVERING FROM COVID. WE ARE TOLD THAT FORME PRESIDENT OBAMA IS JOINING THE CALL FOR HIM TO STEP ASIDE FOR THE LATEST REPORTING O PRESIDENT BIDEN, I AM JOINED B JOP STRATEGIST MATT MOWER AN ALEX THOMPSON WHO HAS COVERE PRESIDENT BIDEN. I WANT TO PUT A GRAPHIC UP FOR OUR VIEWERS. THESE ARE SOME OF THE HIGHES LEVELS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THIS IS A STORY ON AXIOS FORMER PRESIDENT OBAMA, NANC PELOSI, REPRESENTATIVE, TO LAYERS REPORTING FROM NEW ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. THESE THREE ARE NOT REALLY WIT THEM RIGHT NOW WHAT MORE CAN YOU ADD TO THAT? >> PRESIDENT BIDEN IS TAKING THE WEEKEND OF SECLUSION IN DELAWARE WHILE HE HAS COVID-19 TO THINK ABOUT HIS FUTURE THERE ARE MULTIPLE MIND. THERE IS DIVISION IN THE BIDEN WORLD ON WHAT TO DO NEXT THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO SEE A PAT FORWARD. HE IS THE DEMOCRAT NOMINEE, AN IT IS MORE RISKY TO PUT IT I SOMEONE ELSE'S HANDS THAN HIS. HE DOESN'T WANT TO STEP BACK AND THEN SIT BACK ON ELECTION NIGH AND SEE DONALD TRUMP WIN ANYWA AND THINK, I DIDN'T DO EVERYTHING I COULD ON THE OTHER SIDE, THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO THINK, THIS I UNTENABLE. BEYOND THE OBAMA STUFF, NANC PELOSI, DONORS DRYING UP THEY COULD END UP HAVING A CRISIS JUST IN A MONTH HERE IF THEY DO NOT FIGURE OUT HOW T TURN AROUND THE SHIP THE NEXT WEEK AND A HALF ARE INCREDIBLY CRITICAL TO HIS FUTURE AND THE DEMOCRAT PART FUTURE >> BASED ON YOUR REPORTING WHERE IS JILL BIDEN ONTHIS >> SHE IS ONE OF THE ONES WH REALLY WANTED HIM TO RUN IN 2020 AND IN 2024. YOU SAW AFTER THE DISASTEROU DEBATE HOW SHE SORT OF TOOK HE WHEEL. IN THE PAST SHE WAS RELUCTAN POLITICAL SPOUSE BUT NOW SHE I ENTHUSIASTIC SHE WANTS TO KEEP GOING. >> I WANT TO BRING YOU INTO TH CONVERSATION WE HAVE BEEN HEARING A LITTL BIT ABOUT THE CONVENTION BUT W HAVE NOT HEARD A LOT YOU WOULD THINK AT TIMES TRUMP WOULD LEAN INTO HIS OPPONENT'S MISFORTUNE DO REPUBLICANS WANT TO RUN AGAINST JOE BIDEN? >> THEY KNOW IT WILL NOT B SUCCESSFUL HAVING JOE BIDEN, AND UNLIKELY TO BE SUCCESSFUL IS KAMALA HARRIS WHO HAS HAD LOWE FAVORABLE RATINGS THAN PRESIDENT BIDEN. ANY TIME SHE HAS BEEN IN THE SPOTLIGHT, MOST DISAPPROVE O THE HANDLING OF IMMIGRATION, YOU SEE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SA THANKS BUT NO THANKS >> BUT THERE ARE POLLS SHOWING HER BEATING TRUMP. >> VERY FEW. THERE IS NEW POLLING TODAY THA SHOW HARRIS IS UNDERPERFORMING JOE BIDEN RIGHT NOW IN A NUMBE OF STATES. THE ONE THING SHE DOES DO IS RESET A LITTLE BIT OF TH DEMOCRAT POLLS TRUMP IS POLLING WELL WITH AFRICAN AMERICAN VOTERS AN YOUNG VOTERS AND EVEN WITH HISPANIC VOTERS. I THINK KAMALA HARRIS MAYB RESETS SOME OF THAT COALITION. BUT HER ABILITY TO WIN OVE VOTERS IN THE MIDDLE, TH SUBURBAN VOTERS, WILL BE CHALLENGING. >> ONE THING THE VOICE PRESIDENT HAS DONE IS TAKE THE LEAD ON ABORTION ACCESS WHICH WILL B CRITICAL IN THE EYES O DEMOCRATS COME NOVEMBER. WE HAVE NOT HEARD MUCH ABOUT THAT AT ALL ON STAGE OTHER THA THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM THAT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN DECADES DOES NOT INCLUDE CALLS FOR A FEDERA BAN. TO BOTH OF YOU, HOW DO YOU SEE THE REPORTING AROUND THIS? IF THE PRESIDENT WERE TO TAK THE TOP OF THE TICKET HERE SHE HAS SOME JUICE WHEN IT COMES TOTHAT ISSUE >> AND PRESIDENT BIDEN DOESN'T LIKE SAYING THE WORD THE WORD ABORTION WAS PREPARED IN THE STATE OF THE UNIO REMARKS. SHE IS ALL IN ON THE ISSUE AND EVEN MORE THAN DEMOCRACY WHICH JOE BIDEN LEANS INTO >> I THINK DONALD TRUMP IN SOM WAYS SAID THE ISSUE. IT WAS NOT BY ACCIDENT THAT HE TURNED THE PAGE OF 2025, NOT HIS PROJECT, NOT HIS DEAL. >> DOES JD VANCE ON THE TICKET BRING THE ISSUE? >> I DON'T THINK IT DOES BECAUSE NOW IT IS THE NATIONAL PARTY PLATFORM AND IT GIVES VANCE SOMETHING THAT HE CAN SAY, THIS IS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY THAT I WA NOMINATED BY AND THIS IS WHAT BELIEVE. >> DO YOU THINK PRESIDENT BIDE IS THE NOMINEE >> I THINK IT IS 50/50 IT IS A REALLY SINGULA DECISION IN SOME WAYS THE OBAMA MAKES I MORE LIKELY TO STAY IN HE TRIED TO GET HIM OUT IN 2016. YOU ONLY GET ONE CHANCE TO D THAT >> VERY DIFFICULT AN COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THOSE TWO. THAT WILL DO IT FOR THIS HOUR. FORMER RUNNING MATES. THAT IS A FOR THIS HOUR OF OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE RNC. >> I'M TOM LLAMAS. STAY WITH US. MORE ON THIS HISTORIC NIGHT, JUST AHEAD. >>> THIS IS NBC NEWS SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. LIVE FROM MILWAUKEE. HERE IS TOM LLAMAS. >> WE ARE ALIVE TODAY FROM MILWAUKEE IS THE FINAL DAY OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION KICKS OFF. RIGHT NOW WE ARE JUST HOURS AWAY FROM THE GRAND FINALE. FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP IS SET TO ACCEPT THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION IN A PRIMETIME ADDRESS. A LIVE LOOK AT THE CONVENTION STAGE WHERE TRUMP WAS PICKED FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE. WE ARE TOLD THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS TEARING UP HIS PREVIOUS REMARKS, REMARKS HE CAUGHT A HUMDINGER, AFTER THE SHOOTING YOU WILL HEAR FROM A DIFFERENT PERSON THAN TRUMP, WHO WE HAVE NEVER HEARD BEFORE. THAT'S THE BIG QUESTION TONIGHT. IT COMES AS THE CURRENT STATE OF OUR POLITICAL PARTY IS MORE POLARIZED AS REPUBLICANS FALL IN LINE, UNIFIED, UNDER FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. DEMOCRATS ARE INCREASINGLY GROWING FOR THEIR PART. RIGHT NOW PRESIDENT BIDEN IS BACK AT HOME AND DELAWARE SELF ISOLATING WITH COVID. NOW FURTHER ISOLATED FROM HIS OWN PARTY. AN AVALANCHE BREAKING HEADLINE TODAY. THE INNER CIRCLE AND TOP DEMOCRATS TURN ON THE PRESSURE FOR HIM TO LEAVE THE RACE. ONE PERSON CLOSE TO THE PRESIDENT TELLS NBC NEWS, QUOTE, WE ARE CLOSE TO THE END. IT'S A DEVASTATING BLOW. AND FORMER PRESIDENT OBAMA REPORTEDLY TELLING THE VICTORY HAS DIMINISHED. I CAN MILWAUKEE -- RETIRED WRESTLER HULK HOGAN AND U OF C PRESIDENT DANA WHITE ADDRESSING THE CROWD THIS EVENING. ALSO SPEAKING, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE POMPEO. TUCKER CARLSON AND TRUMP SON, ERIC TRUMP. YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING WHERE FORMER FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP HAS BEEN. SHE HAS BEEN NOTABLY ABSENT DURING MUCH OF HIS CAMPAIGN. WE ARE TOLD SHE IS EXPECTED TO JOIN HER HUSBAND IN A RARE APPEARANCE TONIGHT. REPORTERS ARE SPREAD OUT ACROSS THE CONVENTION AND FOR THE. LOCAL EXPERTS ARE STANDING BY AS THIS HISTORIC EVENING UNFOLDS. WE'RE JOINED NOW FROM THE RNC FLOOR JUST ABOVE IT. GARY WALKER, WHAT CAN THEY EXPECT TONIGHT AND HOW WILL FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP INTRODUCE? >> Reporter: I APPRECIATE THE SMACK DOWN REFERENCE. WE WILL SEE A TONE FROM THE EARLY SLATE OF SPEAKERS. YOU MENTIONED FORMER PRO WRESTLER HULK HOGAN IS SET TO ADDRESS THE CROWD. SO TOO IS DANA WHITE, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE UFC. THE OTHER PERSON VERY INTERESTED IN TONIGHT IS TUCKER CARLSON. ONCE A HOST ON FOX NEWS, NOW RUNS HIS OWN MEDIA OUTLET. KIND OF A DE FACTO MEDIA SPOKESPERSON FOR THE MOVEMENT. MUCH MORE SYMPATHETIC TOWARDS RUSSIA AND UKRAINE. MUCH MORE POPULIST ON THE ECONOMY THAN TRADITIONAL REPUBLICANS. AS SOMEBODY WHO HAS BEEN A SUPPORTER OF DONALD TRUMP, ALTHOUGH HE HAS CRITICIZED HIM IN PRIVATE. AND VERY MUCH A PLAYER BEHIND- THE-SCENES OF THE MAGA MOVEMENT AND REPORTEDLY INSTRUMENTAL IN THIS ELECTION FOR JD VANCE TO JOIN THE TICKET. WE ARE GOING TO HAVE ERIC TRUMP, OBVIOUSLY THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S YOUNGER SON SPEAKING TONIGHT. HE HAS NOT TAKEN AS MUCH OF A POLITICAL ROLE AS DONALD TRUMP JR. OR JARED WHO SERVED IN THE LAST ADMINISTRATION. BUT HAS EMERGED RECENTLY IS MORE OF A PLAYER IN HIS FATHER'S ORBIT. AND OF COURSE, THE ACCENTED SPEECH FROM DONALD TRUMP TONIGHT, WHO DOES HAVE TO WALK THIS RHETORICAL TIGHT ROPE BETWEEN THE UNITY THAT HIS CAMPAIGN SAYS THEY PLAN TO ESPOUSE TONIGHT, TRYING TO CAPTURE THE CORRECT TONE AND FEELING IN THE COUNTRY IN THE WAKE OF THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE. BUT ALSO, TAKE IT TO JOE BIDEN. YOU CAN PROBABLY SEE THE FIRE JOE BIDEN SIGNS IN THE CROWD TONIGHT. I DO NOT EXPECT DONALD TRUMP TO PULL ANY. HOW HE BOTH WRAPS HIS ARMS AROUND THE COUNTRY AND THE DEMOCRATIC AGENDA IS A VERY DIFFICULT TASK FOR HIM. WE WILL SEE WHAT HE'S ABLE TO A COMPASS TONIGHT. >> TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT THAT A LOT OF AMERICA'S WATCHING FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. IT'S THE FIRST TIME HE ADDRESSES AN AUDIENCE THIS LARGE SINCE THAT ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE ASKING, ARE WE GOING TO SEE A CHANGE IN TRUMP? WHAT DO YOU EXPECT? YOU'VE BEEN COVERING THEM FOR A WHILE. HOW DO REPUBLICANS SORT OF MAKE SURE THERE'S STILL PRESSURE AND FOCUS ON THE DEMOCRATS AND THE DISORIENTATION HAPPENING IN THEIR PARTY WHILE ALSO SELLING THEIR MESSAGE? >> LOOK, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. WHEN IT COMES TO TRUMP HE'S A 78-YEAR-OLD MAN. MY INSTINCT IS THAT IT WILL BE VERY DIFFICULT FOR HIM TO CHANGE. I THINK THERE'S EVIDENCE THAT SHOWS THAT IS THE CASE. FOR EXAMPLE, ON HIS SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM, IF YOU LOOK AT HISTORY SOCIAL POSTS IN THE DAYS AFTER THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT IN THE DAYS BEFORE WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT DEMOCRATS, WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS, HE USES THE SAME KIND OF RHETORIC, THE SAME KIND OF NAME-CALLING, THE SAME NASTY TONE TOWARDS HIS OPPONENTS. MORE NOW THAN HE DID BEFORE. I DON'T THINK HE HAS ENTIRELY TURNED OVER A NEW LEAF. AS SEVERAL OF THE DELEGATES I'VE SPOKEN TO ON THE FLOOR, AND AS SOME OF HIS ALLIES HAVE TOLD ME IN THE HALLS AND COURT ORDERS HERE, IF ANYTHING CAN CHANGE A MAN ASSASSIN'S BULLET COULD BE THE THING TO DO IT. AS FOR HOW THEY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE DEMOCRAT SITUATION, IT'S VERY MUCH AN OPEN QUESTION. LEADING UP TO THIS CONVENTION IT HAS BEEN TO BASICALLY STAY OUT OF THE WAY AND NOT INTERRUPT YOUR ENEMY WHEN HE'S MAKING A MISTAKE. THE IDEA THAT DEMOCRATS WERE KIND OF FLAILING. THAT'S NOT A NIGHT THAT REPUBLICANS CAN MAKE ANY DARKER FOR THEM. I DO THINK, IN FACT I CAN TELL YOU FOR CERTAIN, THAT WE HAVE SEEN IN THE LAST SEVERAL WEEKS STEPPED UP ATTACKS ON KAMALA HARRIS, THE VICE PRESIDENT, SORT OF TRYING TO SOFTEN HER UP SHOULD SHE END UP AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET. BEYOND THAT, I DON'T KNOW THAT STRATEGY WILL CHANGE NOW. IF JOE BIDEN AND THE DEMOCRATS ARE STRUGGLING VERY LITTLE ON THE STAGE CAN MAKE THINGS WORSE. >> LEADING THINGS OFFICE OUR. WE APPRECIATE IT. MORE ON WHAT WE CAN EXPECT FROM FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP'S BIG SPEECH TONIGHT IN THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN LET'S BRING IN OUR POLITICAL POST FOR RECOMMENDATIONS DIRECTOR OF THE TRUMP 2020 CAMPAIGN AND JOHNSON, THE FORMER ADVISOR TO THE BIDEN 2020 CAMPAIGN. WE HAVE THIS GRAPHIC THAT I'VE BEEN ASKING FOR OVER THE LAST TWO HOURS. IT SORT OF, IF YOU WILL RIGHT NOW, THE MOUNT RUSHMORE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. IF YOU PUT THAT ON THE SCREEN THERE A LOT OF VERY BIG DEMOCRATS WHO THE REPORTS ARE BREAKING WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN. I ASKED SIMONE A COUPLE OF HOURS AGO, DO YOU THINK THE QUESTION IS NOT IF BUT WHEN PRESIDENT BIDEN DROPS OUT? >> I THINK THE QUESTION IS WHETHER PRESIDENT BIDEN IS ACTUALLY GOING TO LISTEN TO THE PARTY ELITES OR IF HE IS GOING TO LISTEN TO SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE HERE ON THE GROUND FROM VOTERS. LISTEN, I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE WAITING WITH BAITED BREATH FOR HIM TO MAKE HIS FINAL DECISION. BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I HAVE BEEN SAYING ALL OVER THE NETWORKS WHEN IT COMES TO THIS CONVERSATION IS THAT THERE IS A DISCONNECT AMONG THE PARTY. I HATE THAT OUR DIRTY LAUNDRY IS OUT HERE. THE DISCONNECT IS THERE ARE THOSE IN POSITION OF POWER AND THE PARTY, AS WELL AS THOSE WHO ARE IN THE MEDIA, LIKE MYSELF, THERE ARE ALSO ELITE FOLKS WERE TALKING ABOUT HOW HE SHOULD DROP OUT. AND YET, AT THE SAME TIME, YOU POINT AT ELECTED OFFICIALS, YOU SHOWED SOME ELECTED OFFICIALS WHO IT'S BEEN SAID THEY HAVE TALKED TO HIM ABOUT DROPPING OUT. BUT DO YOU KNOW WHO IS STILL STANDING WITH THEM? THE ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE PART OF THE CONGRESSIONAL CAUCUS, THE HISPANIC CAUCUS. HE ALSO HAVE A LOT OF PROGRESSIVE ELECTED OFFICIALS, SUCH AS SENATOR SANDERS, PRESLEY, AOC. THE LIST GOES ON. AS WELL AS A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF BLACK AND LATINO VOTERS WHO MAY NOT BE SUPER EXCITED ABOUT PRESIDENT BIDEN AS A CANDIDATE BUT THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THIS CHAOS IS ACTUALLY KEEPING US FROM DOING THE ACTUAL WORK WE NEED TO DO IN ORDER TO GET VOTERS TO TURN OUT. THE REALITY IS, IT'S NOT A CHOICE BETWEEN BIDEN AND TRUMP, IT'S A CHOICE BETWEEN BIDEN AND THE COUCH. THERE ARE SO MANY FOLKS CLOSE TO THE COALITION OF OUR VOTING BASE TO THAT ALL OF THIS TIME THAT WE ARE WASTING IS KEEPING US AWAY FROM DOING THE WORK THAT WE NEED TO, AND THAT IS TO GET THESE PEOPLE TO TURN OUT. SO IT'S A MATTER OF WHEN HE MAKES THE DECISION TO FIRMLY PLANT HIS FEET AND SAY, I'M THE NOMINEE, OR HE DOES NOT. >> THANK YOU FOR THAT. I WANT TO BRING INTO THIS CONVERSATION. THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN HAS ARTIE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF THIS. RIGHT? TRUMPS CAMPAIGN MANAGERS SAYING THAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN CAMPAIGNING ON DEMOCRACY. THEY SAY FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY. IS THIS A BIG PROBLEM FOR DEMOCRATS? >> ABSOLUTELY. AND THE FACT THAT THEY ARE STILL DOING THIS FOR HUNDRED 14 DAYS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT BEFORE THE ELECTION. AT TIMES HAS JOE BIDEN SAID HE IS THE NOMINEE? INCLUDING MONDAY IN LAS VEGAS. HE KEEPS REPEATING IT. PEOPLE ARE SAYING, LET'S MAKE A FINAL DECISION. SOUNDS LIKE HE HAS BUT THEY DON'T LIKE IT. AND I GET IT, THE POLLS ARE DISASTERS. I THINK DONALD TRUMP HAS PULLED AHEAD OF PRESIDENT BIDEN IN VIRGINIA IN THE POLITICS AVERAGE. THE MAP IS EXPANDING. IT'S NOT GOOD FOR DEMOCRATS. BUT NOT SURE IF CHANGING THE NAME ON THE BUMPER STICKERS GOING TO DO ANYTHING BECAUSE KAMALA HARRIS WILL RUN ON THE SAME POLICIES. >> YEAH. I DO WANT TO ASK YOU, WE HAVE SOME REPORTING ABOUT HOW THE BIDEN/HARRIS TEAM IS RESPONDING TO ALL THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS THAT ARE HAVING THESE CONVERSATIONS. IF WE HAVE THOSE QUOTES, IF WE COULD PUT THEM UP ON THE SCREEN. AND IF WE DON'T, JUST LET ME KNOW, GUYS. I WILL EAD YOU THROUGH THEM. HERE WE GO. THIS IS FROM THE BIDEN/HARRIS TEAM. CAN WE ALL JUST REMEMBER FOUR- MINUTE THAT THE SAME PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO PUSH JOE BIDEN OUT ARE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO LITERALLY GAVE US DONALD TRUMP. IN 2015 OBAMA, PELOSI, SCHUMER PUSHED BIDEN ASIDE IN FAVOR OF HILLARY. THEY WERE WRONG THEN AND THEY ARE WRONG NOW. THOSE ARE SOME TOUGH WORDS. AND THEY ARE ACTUALLY NOT WRONG, COMING FROM A SOURCE CLOSE TO PRESIDENT BIDEN THAT SPOKE TO NBC NEWS, DO YOU THINK THAT IS SORT OF THE MANTRA? AND THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE TELLING PEOPLE GOING FORWARD. >> LISTEN, THEY ARE NOT WRONG WITH THAT STATEMENT. BUT I WILL SAY THIS TONE AS PART OF THE FRUSTRATION THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE HAVING. IT IS THIS TONE OF, SHUT UP AND GET ALONG, VERSUS, WHY DON'T WE ACTUALLY ALL COME TO THE TABLE AND REALIZE WHAT ARE SOME OF OUR CONCERNS AS WELL AS WHAT ARE OUR SHARED GOALS? BECAUSE WE ACTUALLY HAVE MORE IN COMMON THAN WE DISAGREE ON. AND HOW DO WE CREATE, WHAT WE ALWAYS TALK ABOUT, THIS BIG COALITION THAT SUPPORTS DEMOCRACY WHERE PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO CRITICIZE THEIR ELECTED OFFICIALS, THEY ARE ABLE TO DISSENT, AND YET UNDERSTAND THAT THE WIN IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN BEING RIGHT. I UNDERSTAND THAT THIS POSTURING, THE WINS THAT THEY HAVE ON THE BOARD, THE PROOF IS HELPING THEM MAKE THIS DECISION. BUT IT IS THAT TONE THAT IS OSTRACIZING SO MUCH OF OUR BASE. AND AGAIN, NOT ALLOWING FOR US TO ACTUALLY MOVE FORWARD AND PUT FORWARD THE AGENDA THAT WE ACTUALLY HAVE TO MOVE THIS COUNTRY FORWARD. WE UNDERSTAND THAT WE CAN JUST TALK ABOUT BEING AGAINST PROJECT 2025 AND THIS ANTIABORTION UPRISE OR THIS MOVEMENT ON THE RIGHT. BUT, WE CAN TALK ABOUT WHAT WE WANT TO DO COLLECTIVELY AND NOT WITH THIS TONE THAT IS TURNING A LOT OF VOTERS OFF. >> WE ARE LOOKING OUT AT THE CONVENTION FLOOR NOW. DIANA IS A BUSINESSWOMAN. ONE OF THE EVERYDAY AMERICANS THAT REPUBLICANS WANTED AMERICANS TO HEAR FROM. YOU WILL HEAR FROM HULK HOGAN. KID ROCK IS GOING TO PERFORM. THIS IS NOT THE SAME REPUBLICAN PARTY THAT YOU PROBABLY GREW UP WITH. YOU KNOW A FEW CONVENTIONS. HULK HOGAN, ONE OF THE HEADLINERS, IS QUITE INTERESTED. >> I THINK THAT SHOWS THAT DONALD TRUMP IS EXPANDING THE BASE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. IT INCLUDES A LOT OF HARD- WORKING AMERICANS. UFC FIGHTS. THEY LOVE WWE. AS THIS PARTY IS GROWING, YOU CAN SEE IT REFLECTED THERE ON THE STAGE. WHETHER IT'S GROWING WITH BLACK COMMUNITY'S, HISPANIC COMMUNITIES, IMMIGRANTS, LABOR UNION MEMBERS. THAT'S DONALD TRUMP. THE POLLS ARE REFLECTING IT. >> DID YOU LIKE WHAT SENATOR JEANNIE VANCE DID YESTERDAY? HE DIDN'T EXACTLY BLOW THE ROOF OFF THE PLACE BUT YOU THINK YOU COMPASSED WHAT HE WANTED TO? >> I THINK YOU DID. WHEN HE WAS TALKING ABOUT HIS STORY, THE 19 GUNS AND ALL THAT I COULD SEE PEOPLE BEING DRAWN IN. I COULD TELL OBVIOUSLY BECAUSE OF HIS BACKGROUND TELLING HIS STORY THAT HE'S VERY GOOD AT THAT. I THINK IT WAS MEMORABLE AS AN INTRODUCTION. HE WILL OBVIOUSLY CONTINUE TO DO THE AND BE THE BREAD AND MEAT OF THE POLITICS AND THE POLICY IS COMING OUT TONIGHT RIGHT BEFORE THE BALLOONS. I THINK HE'S GOING TO BE A GREAT ADDITION TO THE TICKET. >> DANA WHITE IS NOT A PERSON THAT ALL OF AMERICA KNOWS IF YOU FOLLOW UFC YOU KNOW WHO HE IS. I WOULD ARGUE, THE MALE VOTERS WHO ARE PROBABLY IN LOVE WITH FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP, REPUBLICANS AND OR DEPENDENCE, I DO WANT TO ASK YOU, WHY DO YOU THINK DANA WHITE IS INTRODUCING THE SPEAKER FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP? >> I THINK HE'S A FIGHTER. THAT'S ONE OF THE THEMES THAT YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE. IT'S FIGHTING FOR AMERICA. FIGHTING FOR AMERICA FIRST. YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE KID ROCK. IT'S REALLY A BLUE-COLLAR, ANTI- ELITIST, BLUE-COLLAR INTRODUCTION TO THE BLUE-COLLAR BILLIONAIRE PRESIDENT. >> HE WORKED WITH FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. YOU KNEW HIM PRETTY WELL. HOW WOULD YOU JUST HIS DEMEANOR THE PAST FEW DAYS? >> I HAVEN'T ACTUALLY SEEN THEM IN PERSON. BUT I'VE SEEN THAT MY COLLEAGUES AND FORMER COLLEAGUES ARE TELLING ME THAT THIS HAS CHANGED IT. WHEN YOU COME A MILLIMETER OR TWO AWAY FROM THE END IT'S GOING TO HAVE THAT EFFECT. I THINK YOU'LL SEE IT TONIGHT. I HAVE SEEN REPORTED THAT THE NAME EMMA BIDEN, IS NOT EVEN USED IN HIS SPEECH. FORMER VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE, YOU KNOW HIM WELL. WHAT IS HE DOING THIS WEEK? >> US ON TWITTER THAT HE'S IN MONTANA FISHING AND HORSEBACK RIDING. >> OTHER LESSONS THAT YOU THINK SENATOR JD VANCE CAN LEARN? >> I HAVE NO QUESTION THAT AT SOME POINT, I DON'T KNOW IF JD VANCE REACHED OUT OR IF THE FORMER VICE PRESIDENT REACHES OUT THAT THEY WOULD CONNECT. WHEN HE WAS GOING THROUGH THIS HE TALKED TO ALL THE PREVIOUS REPUBLICAN NOMINEES WHETHER THEY WERE SUCCESSFUL OR NOT. THEY'VE GOT LESSONS LEARNED. OBVIOUSLY THERE'S A TRANSITION. ALL OF VICE PRESIDENT, DEMOCRAT AND REPUBLICAN, CAME IN AS HE WAS PREPARING TO ENTER THE WHITE HOUSE. I'M SURE HE WOULD BE THE FIRST ONE TO STAND IN LINE TO HELP JD VANCE AS A CANDIDATE AND ALSO AS THE INCOMING VICE PRESIDENT. >> YEAH. VALENCIA, GOING BACK TO YOU, YOU HAVE WORKED ON CAMPAIGNS THAT HAVE HELD PEOPLE TO THE HIGHEST OFFICES IN OUR COUNTRY. HOW DOES ALL THESE PROBLEMS WITH THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHANGE THE PROGRAMMING FOR DEMOCRATS WHEN THEY ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THERE CONVENTION? IT'S ABOUT A MONTH AWAY IN CHICAGO. TO THINK THOSE CONVERSATIONS ARE STILL BEING HASHED OUT? >> ABSOLUTELY. WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW IS, BEHIND-THE-SCENES, FOLKS ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IS THE BEST WAY FOR US TO ACTUALLY SHOW UNITY. ONCE WE GET THROUGH THESE PAST THREE WEEKS, WHEN I THINK WE WILL GET THERE, WE HAVE ANOTHER FOUR WEEKS UNTIL OUR CONVENTION. WE ARE GOING TO SHOW THE ACTUAL REAL DIVERSITY AND UNITY OF AMERICA. MARK MENTIONED IMMIGRANTS SUPPORTING DONALD TRUMP. I'M SORRY, THEY HAD UPSIDES LAST NIGHT THAT SAID, DEPORT THEM NOW. MASS DEPORTATIONS NOW. WE ARE ACTUALLY NOT GOING TO DO THAT. WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO BRING ALL FACTIONS OF OUR COALITION TOGETHER. I THINK WHAT WE SAW AT THE RNC WILL BE A STAR CONTRACT TO WHAT WE SEE AT THE DNC WITH UNIVERSITY OF THOUGHTS, OPINION, BACKGROUND AND AGE. THAT IS GOING TO COME TOGETHER AT THE CONVENTION. AND I HAVE A FEELING, IN THE WAYS THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO DO IN THE PAST, EVEN THROUGH ALL THE MESS THE PAST THREE WEEKS, WE HAVE BEEN BLE TO FIGURE THAT OUT AND PARTY LEADERSHIP IS THINKING ABOUT THAT, WHICH IS PART OF THE REASON THEY HAVE SEEN THE SOUNDINGS OF THE ALARM. >> FINAL NIGHT OF THE CONVENTION . TO THE CONVENTION STILL MATTER? >> FOR BOTH PARTIES. YOU BASICALLY HAVE EVERY MAJOR NEWS OUTLET, BOTH BROADCAST AND CABLE, ONLINE HERE. >> DO YOU THINK ANYTHING WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR THIS? >> PEOPLE WILL REMEMBER SOUNDBITES AND CLIPS. THEY WILL SEE ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND SEE OTHER STREAMING DEVICES. I THINK IT'S A GREAT CHANCE FOR BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES IN AMERICA TO PUT THEIR BEST FOOT FORWARD WITH WHAT THEY HOPE TO DO. ONCE DEMOCRATS CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT THEY WANT TO DO. I'M SURE THEY WILL GET FOLKS FOCUSING ON THEIR CONVENTION. >> DO YOU THINK WE WILL GET A VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE BETWEEN JD VANCE AND KAMALA HARRIS? >> KAMALA HARRIS IS THE VICE PRESIDENT SHALL NOMINEE, THEN YES. BUT IF IT'S SOMEONE ELSE THAT I THINK THEY WILL SCHEDULE IT AS SOON AS WE KNOW WHO THAT PERSON WILL BE AND THEY ARE NOMINATED. >> DO YOU THINK THAT THEY WILL WAIT UNTIL FURTHER DOWN THE CALENDAR? >> ONCE WE KNOW THAT KAMALA HARRIS IS GOING TO BE THE PRESIDENTIAL OR VICE PRESIDENT SHALL NOMINEE THEN THAT'S WHEN THEY WILL SCHEDULE THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. >> EVANS IS SPEAKING RIGHT NOW, ONE OF THE EVERYDAY AMERICANS THAT REPUBLICANS WANTED AMERICANS TO HEAR FROM. LET'S LISTEN IN. >> HE IS A PART OF THE SWAMP. HE'S GOING TO DRAIN THE SWAMP. THE DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO DO EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER TO STOP HIM. WE CAN'T REST FOR A MINUTE. IF YOU ARE NOT SURE HOW TO GET INVOLVED, REACH OUT TO YOUR LOCAL REPUBLICAN PARTY. AND MOST IMPORTANT, GET OUT AND VOTE REPUBLICAN ON NOVEMBER 5th. TELL 20 PEOPLE TO TELL 20 PEOPLE TO VOTE. THAT'S HOW WE CAN GET OUR LANDSLIDE. AND THEY CAN'T CHEAT OR RAKE THEIR WAY OUT OF A LANDSLIDE. I KNOW THAT TOGETHER WE CAN WIN. WE CAN ALL TAKE OUT THE GARBAGE IN WASHINGTON, D.C. AND WE CAN MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. GOD BLESS PRESIDENT TRUMP AND GOD BLESS TEAM TRUMP. AND THANK YOU SO MUCH. I WILL SEE YOU ALL OUT THERE. >> WE CAN SEE DIANE EVANS WITH THE EVERYDAY AMERICANS. IN ABOUT A MINUTE OR TWO WE WILL HEAR FROM LINDA. SHE WAS THE FORMER WIFE OF VINCE McMAHON WHICH TURNED FROM THE WWF TO WWE. SHE WORKS AS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF A SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATOR. SHE WAS SEATED NEXT TO YOU. FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP ANSWERED IN THE VIP BLOCK AS THEY WERE WATCHING. SENATOR JD VANCE'S SPEECH, A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE THE FORMER PRESIDENT. >> WE WILL TALK TO ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LINDA McMAHON AND FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. >> THAT GOES BACK WELL BEFORE HE GOT TO POLITICS WHEN THEY WERE BUILDING WWE INTO AN ICON. HE'S A HUGE WRESTLING FAN, AS WE HAVE SEEN. THE PRESIDENT STILL GOES TO UFC FIGHTS AND GOES TO WRESTLEMANIA TO A HUGE RESPONSE. LINDA WAS AN AMAZING SMALL BUSINESS ADMIN STRAIGHTER. IT STARTED AS A SMALL BUSINESS, WHICH GREW INTO A BILLION- DOLLAR ENTERPRISE. MULTIBILLION DOLLAR ENTERPRISE. SHE'S A GREAT SMALL BUSINESS PERSON. JUST TALKING, WHAT CAN WE DO TO MAKE YOUR SMALL BUSINESS SUCCESSFUL? >> SHE HAS TRIED TO RUN FOR SENATE A COUPLE OF TIMES. IT'S BEEN DIFFICULT BUT SHE'S BEEN RUNNING IN CONNECTICUT. >> WITH BILL KLEIN. >> SHE'S INTO POLITICS. >> CORRECT. SHE'S ACTUALLY ONE OF THE FEW SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATORS IS ACTUALLY A MEMBER OF THE CABINET. >> KRISTIN DAVIS JOINS US HERE NOW AS WELL. ONE OF OUR LIFE TEAM POLITICAL PROS IS TALKING ABOUT THE CONVENTION. WE WANT TO HEAR FROM FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. >> WHAT WE HAVE HEARD FROM THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS WHAT WE HAVE HEARD ALL WEEK. A LOT OF MOMENTUM, EXCITEMENT AND UNITY. YOU HAVE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IT WAS UNIFIED, EXCITED, HAS MOMENTUM. THEN HAVE THE DEMOCRAT PARTY, FRANKLY THE PARTY OF CHAOS RIGHT NOW. I'M EXCITED FOR THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH. I THINK IT'S VERY INSPIRING. I THINK IT WILL BRING A LOT OF PEOPLE. IF YOU'RE NOT ON THE PHONE RIGHT NOW IT WILL BE TONIGHT. >> KRISTIN, I'M GOING TO PAUSE RIGHT THERE. WE WILL GO TO THE STAGE AND LISTEN TO LINDA McMAHON. >> HELLO, MILWAUKEE. AND GOOD EVENING, AMERICA. LET ME TAKE ONE SECOND TO SAY HELLO TO MY FELLOW DELEGATES FROM CONNECTICUT. MY NAME IS LINDA McMAHON AND I AM THE CHAIR OF THE AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE. I AM PERHAPS ONE OF THE FEW PEOPLE WHO HAS BEEN PRIVILEGED TO CALL DONALD TRUMP A COLLEAGUE AND A BOSS. BUT HE IS ALSO A FRIEND. LET ME SHARE A LITTLE STORY THAT IS PROBABLY NOT THE TYPICAL DONALD TRUMP STORY. I HAD A MEETING SCHEDULED WITH HIM IN MAR-A-LAGO. AS HE WELCOMED ME HIS LITTLE FOUR-YEAR-OLD GRANDDAUGHTER RAN UP TO HIM. HE SCOOPED HER UP WITH DELIGHT AND ASKED HER, WHO IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN THE WORLD? SHE SAID, ME. THEN HE ASKED, AND WHO DO YOU LOVE THE MOST IN THE WORLD? AND SHE SAID, YOU, GRANDPA. AND HE KISSED HER ON BOTH CHEEKS. THEN SHE WHISKED OFF HIS HAT AND MUST HIS HAIR. AND HE SMILED WITH A LOVE THAT ONLY A GRANDFATHER COULD HAVE GIVEN. I FIRST MET DONALD TRUMP WHEN I WAS A CEO OF WORLD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT. FOR FUN, HE BECAME PART OF SOME OF THE MOST COMPELLING AND HIGHEST-RATED STORY LINES IN THE COMPANY'S HISTORY. WHEN HE BECAME PRESIDENT I WAS HONORED TO SERVE IN HIS CABINE , RUNNING A SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION. I TRAVELED THE COUNTRY, TALKING TO BUSINESS OWNERS AND JOB CREATORS. THEY KNEW THEY HAD A PRESIDENT WHO UNDERSTOOD THEM AND FOUGHT FOR THEM. HE KNEW THAT SMALL BUSINESSES ARE THE ENGINE OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY AND THE TRUMP TAX CUTS PROVE TO BE LIKE ROCKET FUEL FOR THEM. ALMOST EVERY BUSINESS OWNER I SPOKE WITH WAS USING THEIR TAX SAVINGS TO GROW THEIR BUSINESSES AND LADIES ANGELA MIN, THE U.S. ECONOMY WAS FLOURISHING. AT NO MOMENT DURING MY TIME IN THE GOVERNMENT WAS MORE POIGNANT FOR ME THAN ONE THAT HAPPENED IN 2018. I TRAVELED WITH THE PRESIDENT TO VIEW THE DESTRUCTION WHICH HURRICANE FLORENCE HAD LEVIED ON MY HOMETOWN OF NEW BERN, NORTH CAROLINA. I STEPPED OFF OF AIR FORCE ONE AND WALKED SIDE-BY-SIDE WITH THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES THROUGH THE HANGAR WHERE MY FATHER HAD BEEN A SHOP FOREMAN AND MY MOM HAD BEEN A BUDGET ANALYST. I WATCHED DONALD TRUMP WALK THROUGH NEIGHBORHOODS OF MY CHILDHOOD, COMFORTING THOSE WHO HAD SUFFERED SUCH GREAT DAMAGES. BECAUSE HE WAS A BUILDER. HE TALKED TO THEM ABOUT WHAT IT WOULD TAKE TO REBUILD, WHAT KIND OF MATERIALS THEY SHOULD USE. AND HE DIDN'T JUST SHOW A PERSONAL INTEREST, HE WAS ONE OF THEM. BUT NOW, JOE BIDEN AND THE DEMOCRATS WANT TO PENALIZE SMALL BUSINESSES AGAIN BY HIKING THE TAXES. WHEN HE IS REELECTED DONALD TRUMP WILL MAKE THOSE TAX CUTS PERMANENT. AND HE WILL ALSO OFFER NEW TAX CUTS, LIKE NO TAXES ON TIPS. INSTEAD OF TAXING AMERICAN COMPANIES, DONALD TRUMP AND TARIFFS ON CHINA TO RAISE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF PROTECTED AMERICAN INDUSTRIES. AND IF REELECTED, HE WILL DO IT AGAIN. PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A JOB CREATOR. AND THE BEST FRIEND AMERICAN WORKERS HAVE EVER HAD IN THE WHITE HOUSE. HE IS A CHAMPION OF THE FORGOTTEN MEN AND WOMEN, AS I HAVE EXPERIENCED FIRSTHAND. THE MEDIA DOESN'T LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT VERY OFTEN. DONALD TRUMP IS NOT ONLY A FIGHTER, LADIES ANGELA MIN, HE IS A GOOD MAN. HE HAS THE HEART OF A LION AND THE SOUL OF A WARRIOR. AND I BELIEVE, THAT IF NECESSARY, HE WOULD STAND AT THE GATES TO DEFEND OUR COUNTRY. HE LOVES THIS COUNTRY AND HE WOULD DO ANYTHING TO DEFEND IT AND TO PROTECT US FROM ALL HARM. I AM CONFIDENT THAT HE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. AND WHY? BECAUSE HE DID IT BEFORE. SO I ASK ALL OF YOU HERE TONIGHT , AND THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE WATCHING FROM HOME, TO REELECT DONALD J TRUMP AS THE 47th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. THANK YOU AND GOOD NIGHT. >> WE WERE JUST LISTENING THERE TO LINDA McMAHON, FORMER SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATOR UNDER FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. WAITING FOR THE FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE TO TAKE THE STAGE WHILE WE WAIT. CHRIS, I WANTED TO ASK YOU AGAIN , WHO ARE SOME OF THE MORE MEMORABLE SPEECHES? WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS DURING THE BREAK. >> I THINK EVERYONE HAS A GREAT JOB. BUT HUCKABEE SANDERS FROM ARKANSAS, I THINK SHE BROUGHT THE HOUSE DOWN. IT WAS A GREAT MIX OF PERSONAL CONNECTION WITH THE PRESIDENT AND ALSO JUST EXCITEMENT FOR THE FUTURE. I THINK CENTER TIM SCOTT, MARCO RUBIO, GOVERNOR DeSANTIS, GOVERNOR YOUNG CAN, EVERYBODY DID A REALLY GREAT JOB. ALL STICKING WITH THE THEME THAT EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT TODAY THAN IT IS LAST FRIDAY. REALLY LISTENED TO PERSPECTIVE. REALLY GRATEFUL THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS OKAY. I THINK THE RENEWED SENSE OF UNITY THAT OUR PARTY HAS IS SOMETHING THAT I DON'T THINK WE'VE SEEN IN MAYBE TWO DECADES. EVERY SPEAKER IS DOING A GREAT JOB OF REALLY PERSONIFYING IT FROM THE STAGE. >> TO THINK SENATOR JD VANCE DELIVERED FOR THE TICKET? TO THINK YOU DELIVER THE SPEECH THE FORMER PRESIDENT WANTED? >> I THINK HE DID. I THINK HE DID. PEOPLE ARE GOING TO GET TO KNOW SENATOR VANCE OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS. THEY WILL READ THE BOOK, THEY WILL WATCH THE MOVIE. HE GAVE US A LITTLE BIT OF THAT LAST NIGHT. IT WAS SUCH A MOMENT. I THINK EVERYONE IN THE COUNTRY THOUGHT OF THEIR OWN MOM OR GRANDMA. >> IT WAS FUNNY, WHEN PEOPLE STARTED CHANTING JD'S MOM, JENNY'S MOM. IT WAS FUNNY. SOMETHING THAT WAS A LITTLE DIFFERENT. ABOUT TODAY AND SPEAK TO FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP, THERE IS A SOFTENING, IF YOU WILL, OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT. WE SAW HIS GRANDDAUGHTER COME OUT. YOU MENTIONED SENATOR HUCKABEE SANDERS TALKING ABOUT THE SIDE A LOT OF AMERICAN VOTERS DON'T SEE, IF EVER. DO YOU THINK THAT'S INTENTIONAL? AND DO YOU THINK IT'S TO APPEAL TO SOME FEMALE VOTERS? OTHER STRATEGISTS HAVE MADE THAT POINT. >> I THINK IT IS. I THINK WE HAVE SEEN THIS ENTIRE CAMPAIGN, A DIFFERENT CAMPAIGN AND A VERY DISCIPLINED AND STRATEGIC CAMPAIGN. I THINK THAT IS PART OF IT. THE THING WITH DONALD TRUMP, EVEN BEFORE THE FIRST TIME, HE HAD BEEN IN EVERYONE'S LIVING ROOMS FOR YEARS. NOW SEEING HIM AS A GRANDFATHER, I THOUGHT HIS GRANDDAUGHTER STOLE THE SHOW LAST NIGHT. >> FOR YOU, DEMOCRATS ARE GETTING READY FOR THEIR CONVENTION IN A MONTH, WATCHING THIS CONVENTION HERE. IT CAN BE SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WE HAVE SEEN BEFORE IF THERE IS NO NOMINEE AND KAMALA HARRIS ENDS UP AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET. >> THE PROCESS IS GOING TO BE WILD. IT'S NOT SOMETHING WE HAVE SEEN SINCE THE 1960s, THE LAST TIME THERE WAS AN OPEN PARTY CONVENTION. IT'S GOING TO BE VERY INTERESTING TO SEE HOW THE VARIOUS FACTIONS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY COME TOGETHER. IN THE PROGRESSES, WHERE THEY GOING TO GO? OBVIOUSLY YOU HAVE THE BLACK COALITION, THE HISPANIC. YOU HAVE THE BERNIE BROSE. ARE THEY GOING TO COME BACK AND THINK THIS IS THEIR TIME? IS HILLARY GOING TO THROW HER NAME IN THE RING? >> YOU THINK FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A LOT MORE CAMPAIGNING? THE REASON I ASK, ONE, YOU HAVE A DEMOCRAT IN DISARRAY. TWO, HE ALMOST LOST HIS LIFE. YOU THINK THAT CHANGES THE TEAM STRATEGY AT ALL? >> WHAT I WOULD SUGGEST IS TO GO INTO THE POLICY SIDE OF IT. TALK ABOUT WHY WE DON'T HAVE A CANDIDATE, ASSUMING THE PRESIDENT REMOVES HIMSELF FROM THE BALLOT, GO TO THE GROCERY STORES, GAS STATION, THE BORDER. TWO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT TRUMP DOING THAT? >> ABSOLUTELY. TALK ABOUT THE ISSUES THAT MATTER. YOU DON'T HAVE AN OPPONENT TO ATTACK. TALK ABOUT THE THINGS THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ACTUALLY WANT YOU TO TALK ABOUT. >> SOME DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN MAKING THE ARGUMENT PRESIDENT BIDEN THAT IT'S HARD TO RAISE MONEY. YOU WORK FOR A SUPER PACK FOR GOVERNOR DeSANTIS. HOW IMPORTANT IS IT, AT LEAST ON THE STRETCH, TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO GET TO THE FINISH LINE? >> THERE'S AN OLD SAYING THAT WINNING CAMPAIGNS DON'T RUN OUT OF MONEY. RIGHT NOW I SEE THAT PLAYING OUT WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN'S CAMPAIGN. WE ARE SEEING THINGS ABOUT $96 MILLION ON LOCK BECAUSE OF THE CONFIDENCE IN HIM. A SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN, PEOPLE WANT TO SUPPORT IT. BOTH WITH THEIR VOTE AND WITH THEIR RESOURCES. RIGHT NOW, IF I'M A DEMOCRAT DONOR, I DON'T SEE A GOOD INVESTMENT TO INVEST IN THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN. WE WILL SEE, FRANKLY, IF BIDEN STAYS ON TOP OF THE TICKET. AS THOSE RESOURCES DIVERT. THEY WILL GET ON TOP OF THE TICKET AND VOTE ON SENATE RACES AND CONGRESSIONAL. THE PROBLEM THERE, THIS CANDIDATES ARE DOING IT EITHER. YOU CAN SEE DEMOCRAT INCUMBENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY PENNSYLVANIA, WISCONSIN, OHIO AND NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA. UNDERPERFORMING, ALL UNDER 50%. I THINK THAT DONALD TRUMP, RIGHT NOW, IS LEADING DOWN BALLOT ACROSS STATES. ARIZONA, NEVADA, NEW MEXICO, REALLY BUILDING OUT. WHEN YOU HAVE REPUBLICANS WINNING IN STATES LIKE NEW MEXICO AND VIRGINIA, AND MINNESOTA, THE ALARM BELLS SHOULD BE GOING OFF. IF I'M A DEMOCRAT DONOR I'M NOT GIVING FIVE DOLLARS TO THE CAMPAIGN. >> IF THE MAP IS EXPANDING IN NEW JERSEY AND NEW YORK ARE SITTING CLOSE, WASHINGTON, D.C. FOR VIRGINIA, THOSE ARE NOT CHIEF MARKETS TO PLAY DEFENSE IN. AND IF YOU'RE ALREADY STRUGGLING FOR CASH, IT'S A NIGHTMARE. >> YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT JEFFREY, WHO IS A HOLLYWOOD MOGUL WHO HAS BEEN RAISING MONEY FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN, TO THIS POINT THEY HAVE HAD THOSE HARD CONVERSATIONS WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN REPORTING, SAYING THAT'S GETTING HARDER AND HARDER TO RAISE MONEY. IF YOU ARE TRYING TO PHYSICALLY RAISE MONEY AND YOU ARE HAVING THESE PROBLEMS. >> HONESTLY, IF I'M FOR THE DEMOCRAT PARTY I WOULD SAY WE HAVE TO GO SAVE THE SENATE. I DON'T SEE RIGHT NOW HOW YOU CAN HONESTLY TELL A DONOR. AND FRANKLY, EVEN IF THEY CHANGE THE TOP OF THE TICKET, THEY HAVE PROBLEMS BEFORE THE FIRST DEBATE. IT IS BECAUSE REPUBLICANS ARE TALKING HUMAN TERMS AND KITCHEN TABLE ISSUES. BIDEN HAS BEEN LOOKING AT A CHART SAYING THAT BIDEN NYMEX IS WORKING FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS AND HASN'T BEEN. I THINK THE CASE IS VERY HARD TO MAKE FOR A DEMOCRAT. IF I WERE THEM I WOULD BE TURNING MY ATTENTION TO THE SENATE AND TO THE HOUSE. THEY HAVE PROBLEMS THERE TOO. BUT THIS IS A YEAR WHERE THEY ARE FACING A TOTAL LOSS. THEY HAVE TO TRY TO SAVE THEIR RESOURCES. >> JOHNSON WORKED ON THE 2025 BIDEN/HARRIS CAMPAIGN. THEY WERE VERY SUCCESSFUL. WINNING THE CAMPAIGN AND PUTTING PRESIDENT BIDEN IN THE WHITE HOUSE. YOU HEARD THE CONVERSATION HERE. IF PRESIDENT BIDEN STAYS THE NOMINEE HOW DOES HE TURN IT AROUND? >> I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF WAYS FOR DEMOCRATS TO TURN THIS AROUND. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS NOT BROUGHT UP IS THIS ISSUE OF ABORTION. AND ABORTION HAS BEEN A WINNING ISSUE FOR DEMOCRATS, EVEN IN RED STATES. EVER SINCE THE DECISION. WE ARE ALSO FINDING, AS MORE VOTERS ARE HEARING ABOUT PROJECT 2025, THAT IS GALVANIZING THEM AS WELL. THE SUPREME COURT'S EXTREME POSITIONS HANDING OVER COMPLETE, TOTAL AGENCY TO A PRESIDENT. RIGHT? GIVING HIM TOTAL IMMUNITY, THAT IS ACTUALLY GALVANIZING OUR BASE. SO DEMOCRATS HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT A LOT OF THE EXTREME POSITIONS OF THAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS TAKEN. WHETHER OR NOT THEY WANT TO TALK ABOUT THEM ON THE STAGE IT'S BEEN VERY INTERESTING TO WATCH. BUT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, PARTICULARLY JD VANCE, DIDN'T EVEN MENTION THE WORD ABORTION. AND THAT HAS BEEN THE ISSUE THAT IS DRIVING A WEDGE BETWEEN DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS AND HAS MADE DONALD TRUMP A LOSING TOP OF THE TICKET ENDORSER. >> EXCUSE ME, AFTER PAUSE. SECRETARY MIKE POMPEO. >> IT WAS MY GREATEST HONOR TO WORK WITH HIM EVERY SINGLE DAY TO SERVE YOU, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. NOW YOU ALL ARE PAYING ATTENTION. SEE YOU KNOW WHAT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ACHIEVED. BUT IT'S WORTH GOING THROUGH A FEW OF THESE ACCOMPLISHMENTS. LET'S START WITH THIS. THERE WERE NO NEW AMERICAN WARS. OUR BORDER, OUR SOUTHERN BORDE , CLOSED. IT MAY SEEM LIKE A LONG TIME AGO BUT ONE WE TOOK OFFICE THERE WERE PEOPLE'S HEADS BEING CUT OFF AT THE BEACHES. WE DESTROYED ISIS AND ITS CALIPHATE. AND YOU KNOW, HERE'S ANOTHER FUN FACT. WE NEVER LOST OUR SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR TWO WEEKS EITHER. YOU WILL REMEMBER, FOR THOSE FOUR YEARS, THE EVIL OF VLADIMIR PUTIN WAS HELD AT BAY. WHEN WE WALKED OUT, JANUARY OF 2021, THE IRANIAN REGIME WAS AFRAID AND THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL WERE STRONG AND SECURE. AND WE TREATED THEM LIKE THE FRIEND AND ALLY THAT THEY NEED TO BE. EVERYWHERE WE WENT, EVERYWHERE WE WENT, RELIGIOUS FREEDOM WAS PROTECTED. WE HELD THREE SUMMITS IN NORTH KOREA AND NORTH KOREA WAS QUIETED. WE HAD BEGUN TOO. WE HAD BEGUN AN HONORABLE EXIT FROM AFGHANISTAN AND NOT A SINGLE CHINESE SPY BALLOON FLEW ACROSS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN FOUR YEARS. HAD I BEEN THE SECRETARY OF STATE AND THE CHINESE SPY BALLOON FLEW ACROSS OUR COUNTRY I WOULD HAVE BEEN THE FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE, AND RIGHTFULLY SO. UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY, WHICH TO THIS DAY IS PERHAPS THE GREATEST THREAT TO OUR NATION FROM OUTSIDE OF OUR COUNTRY. WE CONFRONTED IT LIKE NEVER BEFORE. LOOK, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IN SHORT, WE PUT AMERICA FIRST EVERY SINGLE DAY. 42 MONTHS ON. WHAT HAS JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS DONE? WHAT HAVE THEY DELIVERED TO US FOR SECURITY AND PROSPERITY? ALMOST NOTHING. LET'S START WITH THIS. YOU SAW SOME OF THEM LAST NIGHT. 13 NEW GOLDSTAR FAMILIES FROM AFGHANISTAN. AS AN ARMY VETERAN I WANT TO SPEAK TO EVERYBODY WHO SERVED IN AFGHANISTAN. I AM DISGUSTED BY THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION'S INCOMPETENT PULLOUT FROM THAT COUNTRY. TO THOSE OF YOU WHO SERVED THERE, KNOW THIS. KNOW THAT YOUR SERVICE WAS HONORABLE, THAT YOU SAVED AMERICAN LIVES, AND THAT THE POMPEO'S LOVE AND ADMIRE YOU FOR WHAT YOU DID FOR AMERICA. THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU. EVERYONE OF YOU HAS SERVE IN UNIFORM AND THE FAMILIES DESERVE A PRESIDENT. A PRESIDENT WHO WILL NOT CHECK HIS WATCH WHILE HONORING OUR FALLEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS. THAT WAS INDECENT. AND OF COURSE, IT WAS THAT VERY WEAKNESS, THE VERY WEAKNESS WE SOUGHT AFGHANISTAN THAT PROMPTED PRUDENCE BUTCHERING IN UKRAINE. LAST WEEK WE SAW WHAT IT MEANT. A CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOMBED, INNOCENCE KILLED. IT DID NOT HAVE TO BE. AND NOW, OF COURSE, THE SECOND WAR IN GAZA. PRESIDENT BIDEN WON'T EVEN TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT AMERICAN WORKERS ARE STILL BEING HELD THERE BY THE IRANIAN REGIME. CONTRAST THAT, CONTRAST THAT WITH WHAT WE DID. RESIDENT TRUMP SENT ME TO NORTH KOREA TO BRING HOME THREE AMERICAN PASTORS. WE BROUGHT THEM HOME. WE BROUGHT THEM HOME, ALONG WITH DOZENS OF OTHERS. DOZENS OF OTHER HOSTAGES. AND WHEN WE DID SO IT WAS WITHOUT PAYING ONE SINGLE PENNY TO THE TERRORISTS. AND WHAT ABOUT IRAN TODAY? WHEN JOE BIDEN EASED UP ON PRESIDENT TRUMP'S MAXIMUM PRESSURE CAMPAIGN WE GAVE MONEY TO THE AYATOLLAH SO HE COULD CUT MORE CHECKS TO THE GENOCIDAL MANIACS WHO CONDUCTED BARBARIC ATTACKS IN ISRAEL. AND NOW, OF COURSE CLOSER TO HOME, A MASSIVE NATIONAL SECURITY CHALLENGE. OUR SOUTHERN BORDER IS A WELCOME MAT. IT'S A WELCOME MAT FOR ISLAMIST TERRORISTS, DRUG DEALERS, CHINESE SPIES, AND VIOLENT CRIMINALS. LADIES AND, PRESIDENT BIDEN SOLD OUT OUR CITIZENS, OUR SECURITY AND OUR SOVEREIGNTY. AND WE NEED TO GET BACK AND AM CONFIDENT THAT WE WILL GET IT BACK. I HAD THIS INCREDIBLE FOR LUNCH TO SERVE AS YOUR TOP DIPLOMAT. I SAW HOW THE WORLD ALWAYS LOOKS TO OUR NATION. AS THE UNRIVALED EXAMPLE OF WHAT A FREE SOCIETY SHOULD LOOK LIKE UNFORTUNATELY, UNFORTUNATELY, PRESIDENT BIDEN STRESSED THE GLOBAL STAGE. MAYBE I SHOULD SAY HE SHUFFLES THE GLOBAL STAGE. HE TALKS A BIG GAME ABOUT AMERICAN VALUES. BUT WHAT HAS HE DONE AT HOME? WHAT HAS HE SHOWN THE WORLD? WHAT HAVE HE AND HIS LEFTIST BASE ACTUALLY SHOWED OTHER NATIONS? HE CENSORED FREE SPEECH HERE AT HOME. HE'S PUT WOKE NTO THE MILITARY THAT I AND YOU SO DESPERATELY LOVE. WE MUST RECLAIM IT. HE PUT IN OUR SCHOOLS AS WELL. HE HAS WEAPON EYES TO THE JUSTICE SYSTEM AGAINST OUR POLITICAL OPPONENTS. AND EVEN TO THIS DAY, AS WE SIT HERE TODAY, HE AND VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS ARE PROVIDING APPEASEMENT TO THE PRO-HAMAS RADICALS ON OUR STREETS HERE INSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES. AND EVEN WORSE, TODAY THIS ADMINISTRATION TREATS ILLEGALS BETTER THAN OUR OWN CITIZENS. THAT IS INDECENT. AND THE ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION, THE ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION HAS FAILED TO TELL US THE TRUTH. THE TRUTH THAT WE ALL KNOW AND IS SO DANGEROUS TO OUR NATION. THE TRUTH THAT OE BIDEN CAN HANDLE THAT 3:00 A.M. PHONE CALL. INDEED, HE WILL TAKE A PHONE CALL AFTER ABOUT 4:00 P.M. MY CALL TO YOU TONIGHT IS REALLY STRAIGHTFORWARD. IT'S REALLY SIMPLE. WE CAN TRUST THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION. THAT MEANS THAT WE HAVE WORK TO DO TO UPHOLD AMERICAN VALUES. IT IS UP TO THOSE OF US IN THE ROOM TODAY AND THOSE OF YOU WATCHING TONIGHT. DONALD TRUMP WILL, EVERY DAY, I SAW FIRSTHAND, HE WILL PUT AMERICA FIRST. SO LET'S DO WHAT'S RIGHT AND WHAT'S IMPORTANT. LET'S ELECT A PRESIDENT WHO ISN'T ASHAMED OF OUR NATION AND WILL NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR OUR COUNTRY. AND WHEN WE DO, AND WHEN WE DO, WE WILL PUT A STRONG AMERICA FIRST LEADER BACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE. AND WE WILL MAKE AMERICA SPECIAL, EXCEPTIONAL, AND OF COURSE, GREAT AGAIN. GOD BLESS YOU, GOD BLESS OUR VETERANS AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THANK YOU ALL. THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> WE HAVE JUST EEN THE FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE, MIKE POMPEO, DOWN THERE ON THE CONVENTION FLOOR. LISTENING TO FORMER SECRETARY'S SPEECH. SECRETARY POMPEO IS SUCH AN INTERESTING FIGURE BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT. THAT NEVER MATERIALIZED. >> THERE'S A LOT OF ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS FROM THE FIRST TRUMP ADMINISTRATION THAT BROKE FROM DONALD TRUMP OVER THOSE FOUR YEARS. FROM GENERAL JOHN KELLY TO THE FORMER SECRETARIES OF DEFENSE. HIS INITIAL SECRETARY OF STATE. BUT WHAT YOU SAW IN MIKE POMPEO IS SOMEBODY WHO LEFT THE ADMINISTRATION AFTER SERVING INITIALLY AS CIA DIRECTOR. AND THE TWO HAD MAINTAINED A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP. HE HAD CONSIDERED RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT HIMSELF. ONE OF THE REASONS WHY SOME THOUGHT HE MAY HAVE SOME CREDIBILITY AND POTENTIAL TO PERFORM ALL RIGHT IN A REPUBLICAN PRIMARY WAS THE FACT THAT DONALD TRUMP HAD REPEATEDLY PRAISED HIM AND I EVER ATTACKED HIM UPON LEAVING THE DEMONSTRATION. WHEN DONALD TRUMP JUMPED TO THE RACE IT WAS QUITE CLEAR THE DIRECTION IN WHICH THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY WAS GOING TO GO. POMPEO DECLINED TO GO FORWARD WITH HIS OWN AMBITIONS AND HIS OWN RUN. CONSEQUENTLY, HE COULD VERY WELL EXPECT SECRETARY POMPEO, WHO HAS PUBLICLY SUGGESTED HE WOULD BE OPEN TO SERVING IN THE ADMINISTRATION AGAIN, REJOINING DONALD TRUMP IN JANUARY OF 2025. NOTABLY, AT THE BEGINNING OF RUSSIA'S AGGRESSION INTO THE WAR IN UKRAINE THIS IS SOMEBODY WHO HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN MORE OF A FORMER POLICY MILITARY . BUT SOMEONE WHO HAD CALLED VLADIMIR PUTIN SHREWD. IT WAS PLAYED ON RUSSIAN STATE MEDIA. AT THE BEGINNING OF THAT WEREN'T LED TO MUCH CRITICISM OF MIKE POMPEO. BUT I THINK THIS IS WHERE YOU SEE DONALD TRUMP AND HIM HAVE A VERY SIMILAR VIEW OF THE U.S. MILITARY ROLE OVERSEAS. AND WE WENT FROM THE SPEECH THAT YOU JUST HEARD, TOM, WHICH WAS NOT ONLY THE CRITICISM OF THE AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL IN WHICH 13 AMERICAN SERVICEMEMBERS LOST THEIR LIVES, FOLKS WILL RECALL THAT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WITH MIKE POMPEO WERE THE ONES THAT BEGAN TO MAKE THOSE INITIAL MOVES TO PREPARE FOR THE WITHDRAWAL. BUT IT WAS A CHAOTIC WITHDRAWAL THAT ULTIMATELY WAS A DEVASTATING VIDEO TO WATCH. IT WAS FRANTIC, CHAOTIC. THE STATE DEPARTMENT NOTED THE FAULTS OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION THAT LED TO THOSE 13 DEATHS. YOU ALSO HEARD FROM THE STAGE, NOTE THE ADMINISTRATION UNDER TRUMP WAS ONE THAT DID NOT SEE RUSSIA AGGRESSION INTO UKRAINE OR HAMAS MAKE THE SORT OF ALL HANDS ON DECK ATTACK ON ISRAEL THAT WE SAW HAPPEN IN THIS LAST OCTOBER. FOR MIKE POMPEO, HE IS SOMEONE WHO HAS REMAINED A LOYAL ALLY TO DONALD TRUMP AND HAS LEFT MUCH OF HIS CRITICISM OFF FROM THE PUBLIC SITE. I THINK THAT IS WHY HE SAW DONALD TRUMP CHOOSE TO HAVE HIM HERE JUST A MERE TWO HOURS BEFORE DONALD TRUMP TAKES THE STAGE HIMSELF. HIS FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE. AND PERHAPS A CABINET MEMBER IN 2025 BACK UNDER THE STAGE. >> STANDBY. I WANT TO DIP INTO THE CONVENTION FLOOR. PASTOR LORENZO IS GETTING A LOT OF APPLAUSE. LET'S LISTEN IN AND HEAR WHAT HE IS SAYING. >> I AM PRAYING IN THE NAME OF JESUS, IT CHANGES EVERYTHING. AND WHEN WE PRAY FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP ONLY GOD KNEW THAT 30 DAYS LATER THERE WOULD BE A MIRACLE BY A MILLIMETER. ONLY GOD KNEW THAT IF WE PRAYED FOR HIM DURING HIS BIRTHDAY THERE WOULD BE A MIRACLE BY A MILLIMETER. IF PRESIDENT TRUMP HAD MOVED ONE MILLIMETER HE WOULDN'T BE HERE ON MONDAY TO TALK TO US ABOUT HOW AMERICA WAS GOING TO BE MADE WEALTHY AGAIN. IF PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WOULD HAVE MOVED JUST A MILLIMETER HE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN HERE ON TUESDAY TO TALK ABOUT HOW HE WAS GOING TO MAKE AMERICA SECURE AGAIN. IF PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WOULD HAVE MOVED JUST A MILLIMETER HE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN HERE ON WEDNESDAY TO TELL US HOW HE WAS GOING TO MAKE AMERICA STRONG AGAIN. AND IF PRESIDENT TRUMP WOULD HAVE MOVED JUST A MILLIMETER WE WOULD NOT BE HEARING TONIGHT HOW HE IS GOING TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. >> BEFORE I TAKE MY SEAT I'VE GOT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT SOMETHING CALLED PROVIDENCE. GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY IS HIS ABILITY TO BE ABLE TO DO WHAT HE WANTS WHEN HE WANTS BECAUSE HE'S GOD. AND GOD'S PROVIDENCE, IT'S WHEN HE DOES WHAT HE WANTS, WHEN HE WANTS, FOR ALL OF YOU. DID YOU KNOW THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS SHOT ON 611? AND IT IS YOU KNOW THAT EPHESIANS CHAPTER 6, VERSE 11, SAYS TO BE STRONG IN THE LORD AND HIS MIGHTY POWER. TO ALL MY DEMOCRAT FRIENDS, I WANT TO ASK YOU ONE QUESTION. DO YOU KNOW ANYBODY THAT WAS THE 45th PRESIDENT, HE WAS CONVICTED OF 34 ACCOUNTS, HE RAISED $53 MILLION IN 24 HOURS AND COULD BE THE 47th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. DO YOU KNOW ANYBODY LIKE THAT? >> WHAT JUST LISTENING TO THE RELIGIOUS LEADER SPEAKING AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. WE ARE EXPECTING PRESIDENT TRUMP AT ANY MOMENT AND TO THE CONVENTION HALL AS WE LISTEN TO SOME OF THE SPEECHES HERE, INCLUDING SOME FROM PERSONAL FRIENDS. AND WE ARE JUST HOURS AWAY FROM WHEN HE WILL TAKE THE STAGE HERE. FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP UNTIL HIS MISSION AND VISION ON WHERE HE WILL TAKE THIS REPUBLICAN PARTY TODAY. RODDY DAVIS JOINS US LIVE ONSET. WE THANK YOU BOTH FOR BEING HERE. WHAT CAN YOU SHARE WITH OUR VIEWERS? >> I WAS TOLD THAT IT'S NOT A MATTER OF IF JOE BIDEN'S STEPS DOWN, IT'S WHEN. THERE'S A SUSTAINED CAMPAIGN GOING ON AND IT'S BEING LED BY SCHUMER AND PELOSI. NANCY IS ALMOST HISTORICALLY ALWAYS A FIRST MOVER LEGISLATION AND SCHUMER IS ALWAYS A CLOSER. IT'S GOING TO BE COLLECTIVE PRESSURE. IT'S UNSUSTAINABLE FOR JOE BIDEN TO STAY IN THE RACE. HE HAS HANDLED IN A TERRIBLE WAY. CHUCK SCHUMER MET WITH HIM LAST WEEK AND AT THE TIME THEY HAD THOUGHT THEY HAD BROKEN SOME GROUND. >> I WILL BRING IT OVER TO YOU. THERE'S A LOT OF BAD NEWS FOR DEMOCRATS RIGHT NOW AND FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN WHILE HE IS BATTLING COVID. YOU'RE HAVING A CONVENTION THIS WEEK. HOW DO YOU MAKE SURE YOU WRESTLE BACK THE NARRATIVE? >> FIRST OFF, I THINK THIS CONVENTION HAS HELPED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. THE REPUBLICANS ARE MORE UNIFIED. DEMOCRATS ARE CLEARLY NOT. NANCY PELOSI AND CHUCK SCHUMER ARE TRYING TO PUSH THE SITTING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OUT OF THIS RACE. HE IS NOT WELL ENOUGH TO BE A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT. HOW IS HE ONE OF TO BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES? AMERICANS ARE GOING TO STAND FOR BACKROOM DEALS. >> WHAT ARE YOU HEARING FROM REPUBLICAN SOURCES ABOUT THIS CONVENTION SO FAR? WHAT ARE THEY EXPECTING FROM FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP? >> OBVIOUSLY HE RIPPED UP THE ORIGINAL SPEECH. IT'S MORE POWERFUL SPEECH. HE DID JUST SURVIVE A NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE. WE ARE GOING TO HEAR LESS CROOKED JOE BIDEN KIND OF LANGUAGE. BUT IT'S GOING TO BE A CLEAR CONTRAST, AS MUCH AS THEY CAN, ON POLICY. AND EVENTUALLY AM SURE HE WILL FALL INTO THE ISMS. BUT FROM THE OUTSET IT'S A DIFFERENT TONE THAN WHAT WE ARE EXPECTING. LISTEN, EVERYONE IS EXCITED RIGHT NOW. I KNOW EVERYONE IS ALSO HOLDING THEIR BREATH. THEY HAVE A CAMPAIGN AROUND A CANDIDATE THAT IS NOT JOE BIDEN. I SPOKE TO THE DIRECTOR JUST TWO DAYS AGO. HE SAID, WE ARE READY FOR ANY CANDIDATE. WE ARE READY FOR ANY CANDIDATE THAT'S NOT JOE BIDEN. BUT IT'S HARD. >> I WAS LOOKING OVER BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT AT ANY MOMENT FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP WALK INTO THE CONVENTION FLOOR. AS WE TAKE LIVE PICTURES OF THE FLOOR, I HAVEN'T SEEN AT THIS PACKED YET. OBVIOUSLY HIS LAST NIGHT OF THE CONVENTION. IT IS FILLED TO THE BRIM. HOW ARE YOU DOING? WE ARE HERE IN OUR STUDIO OVERLOOKING THE CONVENTION FLOOR. IT SOUNDS LIKE HE'S ABOUT TO WALK IN. THERE WE GO. ♪ >> HILLIARD. ♪ >> WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP WITH TETRAS AND OTHERS WALK DOWN. WALK US THROUGH WHAT WE JUST HEARD RIGHT THERE. >> DONALD TRUMP, UPON WALKING IN, TOM, HE SHOOK THE HANDS OF THE INDIVIDUALS WHO WILL BE HIS KEY ALLIES IN THE U.S. SENATE HE SAW JOHN IN THE SECOND ROW BEHIND THEM. CURRENT SENATOR OUT OF WYOMING WHO IS ONE OF THE SENATORS WHO ACTUALLY CONFRONTED THE SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR. YESTERDAY, AND ALWAYS OF THIS VERY ARENA, ASKING HER FOR ACCOUNTABILITY AND EXPLANATIONS ABOUT HOW DONALD TRUMP COULD BE SHOT WHILE AT A CAMPAIGN RALLY. YOU ALSO SAW HIM SHAKE THE HAND OF TED CRUZ. BUT ALSO, YOU HAVE MULTIPLE SENATE CANDIDATES UP THERE. THOSE VERY REPUBLICAN SENATE CANDIDATES ARE TRYING TO WIN SEATS IN WISCONSIN AND NEVADA THAT ARE CURRENTLY HELD BY THE DEMOCRATS, TOM. >> LAVON, WE THANK YOU FOR THAT. THIRD CONVENTION THE FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS TO PUT ON. 2016, 2024, THE VIRTUAL ONE IN 2020. WE SORT OF FIGURED THIS OUT. RIGHT? >> THEY CERTAINLY HAVE. AND AFTER THIS ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AMERICA SEEING THERE'S BEEN A DIFFERENT DONALD TRUMP. THERE'S BEEN A CHANGE IN HIS TONE, A CHANGE IN HIS RHETORIC. I THINK HE HAS CHANGED. >> I HEAR YOU. I DON'T THINK YOU ARE COMPLETELY WRONG. BUT HE ALSO PUT ON TRUTH SOCIAL A PICTURE OF HIM WITH HIS FIST, BLOODY FACE AND THEN BIDEN TRIPPING ON THE STEPS. THE DONALD TRUMP WE'VE ALL KNOWN FOR YEARS IS STILL ALIVE AND STILL THERE. >> LOOK, I'M EXCITED BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOT BETTER MUSIC THAN I'VE EVER HEARD AT OTHER CONVENTIONS TOO. BUT IN THE END AMERICA SAW A UNIFIED REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THAT'S NOT WHAT WE HAVE SEEN SINCE 2004. >> YEAH. THIS IS THE IMAGE THAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT. MY LARGER POINT BEING, PEOPLE ARE HERE. YOU'VE HAD NO DRAMA. THE DRAMA IN 2016. 2020 WAS A VIRTUAL CONVENTION. SO FAR THIS HAS GONE ON WITHOUT A HITCH FOR PUBLICANS. >> IT CERTAINLY HAS. IT'S BEEN A UNIFIED MESSAGE. WE HAVE A MESSAGE ABOUT UNITY. THERE'S A LOT LESS CONTRAST MESSAGING WITH THE DEMOCRATS AND WE HAVE KIND OF TAKEN A STEP BACK AND STOLEN SOMETHING FROM THE DEMOCRATS PLAYBOOK. WE LET THEM DESTROY THEMSELVES. >> THE KNOCK ON THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN, ESPECIALLY IN 2016, THEY WERE NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME. THEY MADE SILLY, DUMB MISTAKES. A WEREN'T REALLY A CAMPAIGN SOMETIMES. PEOPLE SAID THEY WERE JUST A TWITTER ACCOUNT. THEY HAVE EVOLVED AND COME A LONG WAY FROM THERE. >> ABSOLUTELY. HE HAS TOTALLY DIFFERENT. THIS ONE FROM 2016 THAT'S ON HIS TEAM RIGHT NOW EXCEPT FOR DONALD TRUMP. HE HAS SOME TRUE CAMPAIGN OFFICIALS WHO ARE SOPHISTICATED. HE KNOWS WHEN TO STEP BACK, WHEN IT'S TIME TO BE QUIET. FOR EXAMPLE, HE'S BEEN MORE SUBDUED UNTIL OBVIOUSLY THIS LATEST TRUTH SOCIAL. HE HAS SUSIE ON HIS TEAM WHO HELPED RON DeSANTIS WHEN HIS GOVERNOR. -- CREATED THE SWIFT VOTES CAMPAIGN THAT PRETTY MUCH TOOK OUT CARRIE. HE HAS MORE SOPHISTICATED TEAM. AT THE END OF THE DAY TRUMP IS PLAYING A DIFFERENT GAME BECAUSE HIS FREEDOM IS ON THE LINE. LET'S BE HONEST. HE KNOWS THAT. HE HAS A TON OF LEGAL ISSUES AND HE HAS TO WIN. WHAT ELSE IS HE GOING TO DO? >> YOU ARE SAYING THAT IF HE DOESN'T HE HAS TO FACE THOSE LEGAL TRIALS X AND IF HE DOES WHEN THEY CAN BE DISMISSED? >> PRETTY MUCH. I'M SURE THEY WOULD PROLONG THAT OR ANY SORT OF PRESENT TIME THAT STILL HANGING OVER, WHICH COULD THROW THE ENTIRE RACE OFF. ESPECIALLY IF THERE'S A NEW CANDIDATE. LET'S NOT FORGET, WE HAVE A SENTENCING IN SEPTEMBER, RIGHT AROUND EARLY VOTING TIME. >> FORMER CONGRESSMAN FROM ILLINOIS. THE DEMOCRATS WILL HAVE THEIR CONVENTION THERE. DO YOU THINK THEY MADE A MISTAKE IN CHOOSING CHICAGO JUST BECAUSE THERE WERE SOME THE OTHER BLUE STATES OUT THERE THAT COULD BE COMPETITIVE OR BATTLEGROUND STATES THAT WILL POST THE CONVENTION? IS A SMART FOR THE PUBLICANS TO BE HERE IN MILWAUKEE, A BATTLEGROUND STATE? BECAUSE OF WISCONSIN. IT'S GOING TO BE BLUE. YOU KNOW IT'S GOING TO GO BLUE. WHAT YOU THINK THE PLAY WAS THERE? WHAT ARE THEY THINKING THAT? >> NUMBER ONE, IT'S A GREAT CITY. IT'S A GREAT CONVENTION CITY. THEY WILL FIGURE OUT WHERE THE MAJOR DOLLARS GO. REMEMBER, WE HAD OUR CONVENTION IN NEW YORK IN 2004. HOW THEY BECAME CLOSE PICK >> YEAH. THAT WAS CLEVELAND. IT'S MOVE FROM THERE. SO FAR THIS CONVENTION, THE WAY IT'S BEEN EXECUTED, YOU'VE BEEN TO A LOT OF CONVENTIONS. YOU THINK THIS IS ONE OF THE BETTER ONES? >> IT REALLY IS. I'M THE LAST PERSON WHO WOULD BE -- HE'S THE REASON I'M NOT IN CONGRESS ANYMORE. HE ENDORSED MY OPPONENT IN MY PRIMARY. BUT I'M WATCHING WITH THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN IS DONE UNDER THE LEADERSHIP. I THINK SUSIE AND CHRIS HAVE DONE A PHENOMENAL JOB IN KEEPING THE MESSAGING TOGETHER IN THIS CAMPAIGN. IN A LANDSLIDE. >> I APPRECIATE THAT. LET'S CONTINUE OUR COVERAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IN THIS HOUR. I'M TOM LLAMAS IN MILWAUKEE. STAY WITH US. HALLIE JACKSON WILL JOIN ME FOR MORE ON THIS HISTORIC NIGHT MY PRIME TIME, AND TONIGHT IS THE BIG KNIGHT, DONALD J. TRUMP WILL TAKE THE STAGE, AND WE WILL ALL BE WATCHING. STAY WITH NBC NEWS NOW. WE WILL CONTINUE OUR COVERAGE RIGHT AFTER THIS. >>> TONIGHT, THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION, DAY FOUR. ALL LEADING UP TO THIS. >> THEY NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, DONALD J. TRUMP. >> FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP TAKING THE STAGE AND SPEAKING PUBLICLY FOR THE FIRST TIME. >> GET DOWN, GET DOWN, GET DOWN! >> AFTER THE FAILED ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. >> WHAT HAPPENED, AND HOW HE WANTS TO MOVE THE NATION FORWARD. >> WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. >> FEATURED SPEAKERS TONIGHT, HULK HOGAN, HEAD OF UFC, WHILE THE PRESIDENT IS IN HIS OWN BATTLE. >> IS THE PRESSURE TOO GREAT FOR HIM TO STAY? >> WE ARE ON THE FLOOR. >> LET ME TAKE YOU FOR A WALK HERE. THE FLOOR IS PACKED, AND WITH THE NEWSMAKERS. >> YOU WERE WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP DURING THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. >> DONALD TRUMP MAKE HIS CASE FOR ANOTHER TURN. >> THIS IS NBC NEWS SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION , LIVE, FROM MILWAUKEE. HERE ARE TOM LLAMAS AND HALLIE JACKSON. >>> I'M HALLIE JACKSON LIVE FROM THE FLOOR OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION HERE IN MILWAUKEE. >> AND I'M TOM LLAMAS. IT'S A BIG NIGHT. FIRST TIME WE ARE HEARING FROM FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AFTER THE ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE. >> WITHIN THE LAST FIVE MINUTES, WE'VE SEEN FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP WALK IN. THERE ARE SO MANY QUESTIONS, FROM HIS MESSAGE TO WHAT HIS DEMEANOR WILL BE SO SOON AFTER THAT SHOOTING. THE THEME CANNOT MAKE AMERICA GREAT ONCE AGAIN, AND HIS TEAM HAS PROMISED A DIFFERENT KIND OF SPEECH. WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE FROM DONALD TRUMP? WILL HE CALL FOR UNITY? A SOURCE FAMILIAR WITH HIS WALK- THROUGH LAST NIGHT SAYS HE WAS SUBDUED WITH THAT SHOOTING AT THE FRONT OF HIS MIND AND THAT PRESSURE AND SECRET SERVICE PRESSURED TO STEP DOWN. WE EXPECT MELANIA TRUMP HERE AT THE RNC. SHE HAS LARGELY BEEN ABSENT FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, SO THAT'S ANOTHER DYNAMIC WE ARE KEEPING AN EYE ON. >>> AND ANOTHER MASSIVE STORY TONIGHT, FAR FROM WHERE I'M STANDING, PRESIDENT BIDEN, WITH A PERSON CLOSE TO HIM SAYING HIS CANDIDACY IS CLOSE TO THE END, A DEVASTATING QUOTE, A POTENTIAL FEVER PITCH AFTER HIS COVID DIAGNOSIS WITH MORE IMMIGRANTS WORRIED FOR HIS CANDIDACY, ONE OF THEM, FORMER PRESIDENT OBAMA. HE IS CONCERNED ABOUT HIS FORMER VP'S ABILITY TO STAY AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET, ONE OF THE SOURCES SAID IT'S GETTING HARDER. ANOTHER SOURCE SAYS BIDEN IS ON THE DEFENSE, AND HE'S PUSHING BACK ON DROPPING OUT. >> WE WILL HAVE SPEAKERS LIKE HULK HOGAN, KID ROCK DOING HIS SOUND CHECK . AHEAD OF THAT PRIMETIME SPEECH IN JUST THE NEXT FEW HOURS I AM HERE IN THE PENNSYLVANIA DELEGATION, I AM FROM PENNSYLVANIA, MY PEOPLE, I DIDN'T EVEN ASK THEM TO DO THAT, THAT WAS IMPROMPTU. LAST PRIMETIME SPEAKER NOMINEE JD VANCE, HOPES TO SUPERCHARGE TURNOUT AMONG THE REPUBLICAN BASE. LET ME SHOW YOU HERE, WE HAVE WISCONSIN RIGHT OVER THERE, AND WE HAVE MICHIGAN APPEAR TOO. THESE RUST BELT STATES HAVE A FRONT ROW SEAT, THEY HAVE GOOD VIEWS TO THE STAGE SHOWING IMPORTANT. I'M GOING TO ASK MY LOVELY FRIENDS FROM PENNSYLVANIA, THERE HE IS RIGHT THERE. THEY JUST ANNOUNCED HIS NAME IN THE CONVENTION HALL, YOU HEAR THE CROWD ROARING. YOU SEE HIM UP THERE, SITTING WITH FOLKS, WE EXPECT MELANIA TO APPEAR. TAKE A WALK WITH ME. IT IS PACKED HERE. WE SAW PEOPLE ARRIVING EARLIER THAN WE BICKLEY DUE, PARTLY BECAUSE THIS IS IT, THIS IS A BIG NIGHT, THIS IS AND EVERYBODY SHOWS UP AT ALL THE SENATORS, ALL THE OFFICIALS. THEY WANT TO KEEP US OUT OF THE AISLES HERE. WHEN IT COMES TO THE FORMER PRESIDENT, WHILE CAMPAIGN SOURCES-- ALL GOOD, WE'LL MOVE. WHILE SOURCES TELL US THE FORMER PRESIDENT WILL CALL FOR UNITY, AND THAT'S BEEN A MAJOR THEME, I'M ALSO HEARING, HE'S STILL DONALD TRUMP, HE WILL DRAW THAT CONTRAST BETWEEN HIM AND PRESIDENT BIDEN. I WILL BE LOOKING FOR THE POLICIES HE LAYS OUT FOR WHAT HIS TERMS WILL BE, AND HOW HE PLANS TO IMPLEMENT THAT MOVING FORWARD. NOT JUST THE TONE OR RECEPTION, NOT SPEAKING TILL NOW SINCE THAT ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. I'LL TOSS IT BACK TO YOU IN THE BOOTH. >> HALLIE, THANK YOU. MEET THE PRESS MODERATOR KRISTEN WELKER, NBC NEWS SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST CHUCK TODD. PRESIDENT OBAMA AND FORMER SPEAKER PELOSI, ADAM SCHIFF, HAKEEM JEFFRIES, CHUCK SCHUMER, THE LIST GOES ON AND ON BUT MY QUESTION TONIGHT, IS IT A QUESTION OF NOT IF BUT WHEN? >> ABSOLUTELY FEELS THAT WAY. DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKERS DESCRIBED THIS IS A SAD MOMENT FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. THE PRESSURE HAS BEEN BUILDING ON PRESIDENT BIDEN. THE CHOICES, HE'S GOT TO MAKE THAT FINAL DECISION WITH HIS FAMILY. AND LOOK, THE FACT THAT THIS HAS BEEN LEAKED INTO THE PUBLIC, THE CONVERSATIONS WITH FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI, CHUCK SCHUMER, JUST SORT OF UNDERSCORES, THEY ARE BASICALLY SAYING WE COULD DO THIS THE EASY WAY OR THE HARD WAY. WE STARTED WITH THE EASY WAY. NOW IT'S GOING TO GET TOUGHER BY THE DAY. I'M TOLD WE CAN EXPECT A NUMBER OF LAWMAKERS TO TELL HIM TO DROP OUT. WE TALKED ABOUT THIS YESTERDAY. CONGRESSMAN ADAM SCHIFF JOINED THE RANKS CALLING ON HIM TO STEP DOWN. CHUCK POINTED OUT INEVITABLY BY NANCY PELOSI, AND IT SPEAKS TO THE FACT THE PRESSURE IS BECOMING TOO GREAT IN SOME WAYS. >> WE WERE SURPRISED, COULD PRESIDENT BIDEN BE STUBBORN AND VOTERS COULD VOTE FOR HIM? >> I AM QUESTIONING WHETHER THE DELEGATES WILL SUPPORT HIM AT THE CONVENTION. THEY ARE NOT BOUND TO HIM. AT THE NATO PRESS CONFERENCE HE STATED THAT. THEY CAN VOTE FOR WHO THEY WANT. HE MAY PUSH THIS. HE DOESN'T HAVE THE SAME CONTROL OVER HIS OWN CONVENTION TODAY THAN EVEN A WEEK AGO. SUDDENLY THE VIRTUAL DEADLINE GOT MOVED. THE PARTY FELT THE PRESSURE FROM CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS TO MOVE IT. YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT PRAYING THE NOMINATION AWAY FROM HIM THE HARD WAY, HAVING TO DO IT THAT WAY, HUMILIATING HIM WITH HIS OWN DELEGATES, I JUST CAN'T IMAGINE, BUT HE'S GOING TO GET THERE. THE REAL PROBLEM IS HIS CLOSEST ADVISERS, GATEKEEPER, AND WHAT'S AMAZING HERE EVERYBODY IS POINTING THE FINGER AT MIKE DONELAN. THAT HE IS THE ONE THAT HAS IGNORED THE POLLING, AND HE IS BLEEDING INFORMATION. DEMOCRATS SAY HE IS MAKING A PRESIDENT SO STUBBORN. >> IT'S A STRANGE TIME WE LIVE IN. THE FORMER PRESIDENT WAS FACING CRIMINAL CHARGES, HE WAS ALMOST KILLED, HE HAD TO LIVE THROUGH A VERY PAINFUL MANHATTAN CRIMINAL CASE, AND NOW THE BALL IS IN HIS COURT. HOW DOES HE CONVINCE UNDECIDED VOTERS MAY BE THOSE 40,000 VOTERS AND WHAT ELSE DOES HE HAVE TO SAY TONIGHT? >> I THINK THE QUESTION TONIGHT IS, WHAT IS HIS DEFINITION OF A UNIFYING SPEECH? IS HE TRYING TO UNIFY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY? OR IS HE GOING TO REACH OUT TO THE COUNTRY? HE HAS CAMPAIGNED ON THE POLITICS OF GRIEVANCE FOR SO LONG. WE TALKED ABOUT RETRIBUTION, BUT I INTERVIEWED CONGRESSMAN BYRON DONALD, HE SAID WE ARE NOT GOING TO HEAR THAT RHETORIC, AND WE MAY NOT HEAR IT AS MUCH ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. WE WILL HAVE TO SEE IF THAT'S TRUE, BUT, IT IS CLEAR THAT SOMETHING SHIFTED FOR THE FORMER PRESIDENT, AND I THINK IT WILL BE FASCINATING TO SEE WHAT HIS DEFINITION OF UNIFYING IS. THIS IS SOMEONE, WHO CALLS HIMSELF A COUNTER PUNCHER. UNDOUBTEDLY HE WILL REFERENCE THE FIGHT SPIRIT. >> CHUCK, WHEN FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP EXPLODED ON THE POLITICAL STAGE IT WAS THE AMATEUR HOUR IN A OT OF WAYS. HE'S DONE THREE OF THESE CONVENTIONS NOW. HAVE THEY FIGURED IT OUT? >> YEAH, THEY FIGURED THIS ONE OUT QUITE A BIT. BUT IT'S INTERESTING, PART OF THE REASON THIS ISN'T A GRIEVANCE SPEECH, HE HAS NOTHING TO BE GRIEVING ABOUT. IT'S TOUGH TO MANUFACTURE IF THERE'S NOTHING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT, AT LEAST FOR HIS OWN PERSONAL GRIEVANCES AT THIS POINT. I THINK THERE'S SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE COULD SIX WEEKS AGO, THEY SAID WE WON'T PAY ATTENTION. I THINK EVERYTHING IS UP IN A YEAR NOW. THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO THREE WEEKS AGO WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU I'LL NEVER LISTEN TO A DONALD TRUMP SPEECH. I'M CURIOUS TO SEE HOW HE IS DIFFERENT, HOW HE HAS CHANGED, AND-- >> IMPORTANT TO REMIND OUR VIEWERS, 2020, 2016, 70,000 VOTERS, 2020, 40,000 VOTERS DECIDED THIS ELECTION. WILL WE STILL HEAR ABOUT IMMIGRATION AND THE ECONOMY? >> I THINK SO, BUT WILL HE DO IT IN THE SAME BOMBASTIC WAY? THAT'S THE QUESTION. THAT'S WHAT WE WILL BE LOOKING FOR. HE'S INDICATING HE'S NOT GOING TO, THAT'S WHY I THINK THIS IS SO FASCINATING. HOW WILL THIS MOMENT TRANSLATE? THERE IS OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE NEW VOTERS. THIS ATTEMPT TO REACH OUTSIDE TO HUMANIZE DONALD TRUMP, I THINK HE'S GOING TO TRY AND BUILD ON THAT TONIGHT AND REALLY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT. >> IT'S INTERESTING, BECAUSE A COUPLE MONTHS AGO THE ICONIC IMAGE OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUM , AND YOU HAD SPEAKERS HERE TALKING ABOUT GRANDPA, DONALD TRUMP, GOVERNOR SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, IT WAS A SOFTENING OF HIS IMAGE. >> HERE IS ANOTHER ASPECT, HIS WIFE. IT'S ONE OF THOSE, HOW COME SHE IS NOT SHOWING UP UNTIL TONIGHT? >> SHE DOES THINGS HER WAY, BUT YEAH, THAT IS THE ONLY-- AND-- >> SHE IS NOT SPEAKING, AND SHE HAS SPOKEN AT PREVIOUS CONVENTIONS. I THINK PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU RUN FOR PRESIDENT, BUT THAT'S BEEN ONE. >> IT'S BEEN A POWERFUL PARK RIGHT? TO NOT HAVE HER HERE, THERE IS A BIG ABSENCE. YOU FEEL IT. SO, SHE IS EXPECTED TO BE HERE. >> IT'S INTERESTING, I SPOKE WITH REPUBLICANS WHO ARE HERE, SHE DID A FUNDRAISER WITH THEM. HE SAID LISTEN, SHE WAS TOTALLY DIALED IN, AND SHE STILL HELPING THIS CAMPAIGN. INTERESTING TIMES. BACK TO THE CONVENTION FLOOR, WE HAVE HALLIE JACKSON THERE FOR US. >> HEY, TOM, TO PICK UP ON THE CONVERSATION YOU'RE HAVING, HAVING COVERED THE FORMER FIRST LADY AND THE WHITE HOUSE, THERE WAS PERHAPS DISTANCE BETWEEN HER AND HER HUSBAND, THAT MAYBE SHE WASN'T ON BOARD WITH SOME OF HIS VIEWS. ULTIMATELY WHAT BECAME CLEAR IS THAT MELANIA TRUMP WAS AS MUCH A PART OF THE MAGA MOVEMENT AS HER HUSBAND. HERE IN MILWAUKEE, HEAR FROM THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION, THE FORMER FIRST LADY, EVEN IF SHE IS ABSENT, PEOPLE ARE SAYING, THOSE CLOSE TO THE PRESIDENT, SAY THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH LACK OF SUPPORT FOR HER HUSBAND. IT'S A PACKED HOUSE. IT'S ALWAYS HARD TO MOVE AROUND, TONIGHT ESPECIALLY SO AS WE ARE LOOKING AHEAD TO THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S SPEECH. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT JARED KUSHNER AND IVANKA TRUMP. THEY VERY INTENTIONALLY STEPPED BACK FROM THE POLITICAL LIFE A COUPLE YEARS AGO, SENIOR ADVISERS IN THE WHITE HOUSE, JARED KUSHNER TOUTING THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS, TO BEING NEARLY INVISIBLE PUBLICLY ON BEHALF OF THEIR FATHER. >> THEY ESSENTIALLY DID THEIR FOUR YEARS OF SERVICE. UPON AD LEAVING THEY STARTED A PRIVATE EQUITY INVESTMENT FIRM, WHICH RECEIVED ABOUT $2 BILLION FROM THE SAUDI'S. THEY HAVE A LOT OF INTERESTS AT STAKE. SO FAR THE QUESTION MARK IN 2022 ONE DONALD TRUMP ANNOUNCED WOULD THEY BE THERE AT MARLOW? THE ANSWER WAS NO DURING THE TRIAL WOULD THEY BE AT THE TRIAL? THE ANSWER WAS NO. THEY HAVE NOT APPEARED ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL AT ALL WITH DONALD TRUMP. THIS WILL BE THE FIRST NIGHT WE EXPECT TO SEE JARED KUSHNER AND IVANKA TRUMP. THEY HAVE KIDS WHO ARE TEENAGERS, AND THEY'VE CLEARLY MADE THE DECISION . WHEN YOU SAY JARED KUSHNER'S FOCUS IS ON STRIKING MIDDLE EAST PEACE DEALS, THE GRAVITY OF IT, DOES THAT BRING THAT BACK TO THE TABLE? >> THEY ARE GETTING READY TO SHOW A VIDEO HERE FROM THE FORMER PRESIDENT, SO HE'S IN AN INTERESTING POSITION OF WATCHING HIMSELF ON THE SCREEN. IS IT BUSINESS CONFLICT? WOULD HE DOWNPLAY SAYING VOTERS DON'T CARE ABOUT THAT? THE TRUMP FAMILY OBVIOUSLY BARRELED ON, BUT WHEN YOU BRING UP THIS PRIVATE EQUITY FIRM, MONEY FROM THE SAUDI'S, JARED KUSHNER, DEMOCRATS HAVE TRIED TO PRESS ON THAT. >> THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION, LED BY ERIC AND DON JR. RIGHT NOW THEY CONTINUE TO EXPAND THEIR INTERESTS. THEY ARE WORKING ON A HOTEL CONSTRUCTION, AND THEY ANNOUNCED A NEW PROJECT OF NAMING RIGHTS ON A PROJECT, A RESORT PROJECT, IN SAUDI ARABIA. AND HAS BEEN PUSHED BACK OVER THE GOLF TOURNAMENT THAT WAS SAUDI-BACKED. BEFORE THAT MERGER TO POLICE, DONALD TRUMP WAS PUBLICLY SUPPORTIVE OF THE SAUDI-BACKED GOLF TOURNAMENT OVER THE PGA, EVEN HOSTED THOSE TOURNAMENTS AT HIS GOLF CLUBS HERE, IN THE U.S., I THINK FOUR OR FIVE OF THEM. SO THERE WERE SERIOUS QUESTION MARKS. DOES DONALD TRUMP REALLY WANT TO GET BACK INTO THE BALLGAME KNOWING HIS INTERESTS ARE ON THE LINE? HIS CIVIL FRAUD TRIAL, $350 MILLION, THAT ALL OF THIS COMES TO THE HEART OF DONALD TRUMP AND HIS FAMILY, THAT EVERYBODY CAN CRITICIZE THEM, BUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE ON HIS SIDE, AND THAT ALL THE CRITICISM, WE WON'T HAVE REPERCUSSIONS. AT LEAST RIGHT NOW, POLING SUGGESTED THEY MAY NOT BE WRONG. >> TO ROME, BE FREE. WE WILL HAVE A LOT MORE LIVE HERE IN THE ARIZONA DELEGATION, EVERYONE HERE IS READY FOR THE GRAND FINALE TONIGHT. AND BY THE WAY, YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS AT THE END? THE BALLOON DROP. LIVE FROM MILWAUKEE, WITH MORE CONTINUING COVERAGE PICKING UP NEXT. ♪♪ >>> DEMOCRACY IS HAPPENING NOW. >> WELCOME TO A BIG NIGHT THAT COULD HELP SHAPE REPUBLICAN POLITICS FOR YEARS TO COME. >> NOW NEVER STOPS. >> IT COMES DOWN TO TURNOUT. WHO SHOWS UP? THAT BIG BLOCK OF INDEPENDENCE? >> NOW IS WHERE IT COUNTS. >> WHAT DOES THIS DEBATE CHANGE FOR YOU? >> THEIR NUMBER ONE ISSUE IS THE ECONOMY. >> THE RACE IS ON NOW. >> THE COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN. >> NEWS FOR THE GENERATION OF NOW IS NBC NEWS NOW. ♪ >>> WE ARE BACK LIVE NOW AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IN MILWAUKEE RIGHT IN THE THICK OF IT HERE, ON THE CONVENTION FLOOR. WE'VE MADE OUR WAY TO THE KEY BATTLEGROUND STATE OF ARIZONA, TALKING ABOUT THOSE RUST BELT BATTLEGROUNDS, ARIZONA, GEORGIA, NEVADA, THEY WILL BE CRITICAL IN THIS NOVEMBER CAMPAIGN. WE ARE WAITING NOW FOR THE FORMER PRESIDENT TO SPEAK. ONE OF HIS REPETITIONS, ONE OF HIS SUPPORTERS, ALINA HABB . FORMER STAFFER, THANK YOU, JUST TRYING TO KEEP OUT OF EVERYONE'S WAY. THE DYNAMICS OF ART. THERE'S BEEN DISCUSSION PERHAPS OF AN OLIVE BRANCH TO BRING IN BRING IN NEW VOTERS, AND RED MEAT TO BOOST THE BASE. >> THERE IS SUCH A SLIM MARGIN OF PEOPLE WHO ARE UNDECIDED. SLIMMEST MARGIN OF UNDECIDED VOTERS AND WE HAVE TAMPED DOWN THE RHETORIC ON BOTH SIDES, AND WE TO NOT JUST DO NOT REPUBLICANS BUT AMERICANS AT LARGE. I THINK THEY ARE SETTING HIM UP TO BE THE GRANDFATHER, THE FRIEND, THE FATHER, TRUMP. I THINK IT WILL BE EMOTIONAL. MELANIA WILL BE HERE, HIS CHILDREN WILL BE HERE, IVANKA AND JARED , IT WILL BE INTERESTING. >> THE SLICE OF VOTERS WHO WILL BE CRITICAL IN THIS RACE, INDEPENDENT VOTERS. THAT IS WHERE ROUGHLY 39% BIDEN IS OVER TRUMP. WILL REPUBLICANS DO ENOUGH TO WIN THEM OVER? >> OLD STAR FAMILIES COMING IN YESTERDAY, THAT SPEAKS DIRECTLY TO WHAT A LOT OF WIDE CONCERNS, THOSE FAMILIES SPOKE DIRECTLY, AND I THINK UNDECIDED VOTERS ARE GOING TO RECOGNIZE THAT. DONALD TRUMP HAS REALLY HANDLED HIMSELF VERY WELL. HE HAS BEEN TRANSCENDENT, HE'S BEEN UNIFYING, I THINK MORE SO THAN THE LAST FOUR YEARS. >> TRICIA McLAUGHLIN, THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US. DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN WATCHING THIS REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION UNFOLD. YOU HAD VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL AS PRESIDENT BIDEN WRESTS UP AFTER THAT COVID DIAGNOSIS. THEY ARE TRYING TO PAPER OVER WHAT DEMOCRATS CALL EXTREME RHETORIC. THERE IS TOM LLAMAS, I AM NOT AT THE MOMENT SURE, I WILL TRY TO MAKE MY WAY OVER TO YOU. >> WE LOVE THAT, HALLIE, THANK YOU SO MUCH. A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT HULK HOGAN. WE HAVE ANOTHER HOGAN RIGHT HERE. TALK TO US ABOUT TONIGHT. IT IS A DIFFERENT CAST OF CHARACTERS, DANA WHITE, HULK HOGAN, KID ROCK. >> WE'VE DONE A GOOD JOB OF UNITY THROUGHOUT THE CONFERENC . I'VE NEVER SEEN PEOPLE SO HAPPY AND SO ENTHUSIASTIC. MORE THAN THAT I THINK THEY ARE FOCUSED ON MAKING SURE AFTER THIS THAT THE CLOSE OF TONIGHT'S SPEECHES, THAT'S THE START OF THIS, NOT THE END OF IT. NEWS SWIRLING AROUND JOE BIDEN, WHAT HIS FUTURE COULD LOOK LIKE, AND READY ARE? >> WE ALSO HEARD FROM THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S GRANDDAUGHTER YESTERDAY, IT WAS A SOFTENING OF THE IMAGE, EVEN THOUGH WE'VE SEEN IMAGES LIKE HIS MUG SHOT WE SAW THE SOFTER SIDE. WHAT IS THE STRATEGY DO? >> WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THOSE WHO HAVE WORKED WITH HIM FOR A LONG TIME, WE'VE SEEN THAT SOFTER SIDE, WE KNOW HOW MUCH HE CARES ABOUT THE AVERAGE AMERICAN, WE KNOW WHAT HE DOES THE SCENES-- >> WE'VE ALSO SEEN HIM DESTROY PEOPLE. >> WE'VE SEEN THAT ONE TOO. >> SUMMONED PEOPLE NEED TO SEE THAT SIDE OF HIM, SO THEY ARE BRINGING UP PEOPLE WHO KNOW HIM AS A GRANDDAD, WHO KNOW HIM AS A DAD, THEY HAVE TENDER MOMENTS TOGETHER BECAUSE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE GET SKEWED IMAGES OF POLITICIANS ALL THE TIME FOR GOOD OR BAD BECAUSE OF MEDIA COVERAGE. THIS IS WHAT DONALD TRUMP IS AND WHO HE IS, AND AFTER THE SHOT THAT ALMOST TOOK HIS LIFE THE ENTIRE TENOR CHANGES. >> HE WATCHES A LOT OF TV NEWS, HE WATCHES A LOT OF TV IN GENERAL, HOW IS HE FOLLOWING THIS >> I WOULD IMAGINE HE'S WATCHING PRETTY INTENSELY. HE IS FOCUSED THOUGH ON TONIGHT. THE WHOLE THING IS HIS SPEECH, HE IS ACCEPTING THE NOMINATION, SO WE WON'T KNOW MUCH FOR A WHILE, AND YOU'LL HAVE QUESTIONS, HE'S ALWAYS THINKING ABOUT WHAT ELSE IS GOING ON, BUT HE UNDERSTANDS TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT WHERE HE HAS TO EXTEND THE UNITY MESSAGE, BRING IT HOME FOR NOT JUST THIS CROWD BUT THE EYES AROUND THE WORLD. >> BETWEEN NOW AND 2016, THEY WERE LEARNING A LOT ON THE JOB, THE WHOLE FAMILY WAS UNITED, IVANKA AND JARED, MELANIA . WAS IT A MISTAKE IT TOOK THEM SO LONG TO GET BACK? >> HE WAS BRAND-NEW AT THE TIME, ONLY HIS FAMILY KNEW HIM CLOSE, AND HE DIDN'T TRUST MANY BUT THE FOLKS AROUND HIM AND HIS FAMILY. AFTER BEING PRESIDENT NOW HE HAS ARMIES OF PEOPLE WHO CAN SPEAK ON HIS BEHALF AND GIVE INTIMATE DETAILS ABOUT WHAT A GREAT MAN HE IS, WHAT A GREAT LEADER AND LEGEND HE HAS, AND THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE THAN 2016, HE HAS A RECORD TO STAND ON AS A PRESIDENT. >> IF YOU GO INTO PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING, HOGAN GIBLIN, THANK YOU. MUCH MORE FROM THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IN MILWAUKEE, RIGHT AFTER THIS. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> A REPORT LIVE FROM TEL AVIV, FROM JUAREZ, MEXICO. >> THAT BIRD HAS BEEN HERE LONGER THAN I HAVE BEEN ALIVE. IT STILL DOESN'T FEEL REAL. >> WHAT DID THE PEOPLE IN GAZA DO YOU THINK, WHAT DID THEY NEED MOST? A PLACE WHERE PALESTINIANS AND ISRAELIS HAVE FOUND COMMON GROUND. >> TOP STORY WITH TOM LLAMAS, STREAMING WEEKDAYS AT 7:00 ON NBC NEWS NOW . ♪ >>> WE ARE BACK NOW LIVE ON THE FLOOR OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION . I'VE MADE MY WAY OVER TO TOM. WE ARE AROUND THE TENNESSEE DELEGATION, TOM, WITH A GOOD VIEW OF THE STAGE BACK HERE. AS WE AWAIT FOR THE BIG SHOW TONIGHT, THE BIG SPEECH FROM DONALD J. TRUMP. >> HALLIE, YOU'RE RIGHT NEXT TO ME, AND I CAN BARELY HEAR YOU. I KNOW WHAT YOU SAID, BUT IT'S HARD TO HEAR. I THINK IT'S A SIGN THAT PEOPLE HERE ARE EXCITED, THEY ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS NIGHT. THE ENERGY IS THE HIGHEST IT'S BEEN. PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SINGING AND DANCING THE LAST FEW HOURS. LOOKING BACK AT 2016, THE VIRTUAL CONVENTION IN 2020, THIS IS THEIR THIRD CONVENTION. I THINK IT IS FAIR TO SAY THE REPUBLICANS HAVE FIGURED THIS OUT. TRUMP HIRED TWO VETERAN CAMPAIGN MANAGERS FOR THIS YEAR, AND YOU CAN SEE THE DIFFERENCE. THIS CONVENTION SO FAR HAS HAD NO DRAMA. >> INDICATION OF WHERE THE PARTY IS. THERE IS A DIFFERENT CAMPAIGN THIS CYCLE. EIGHT YEARS AGO, THEY WERE TRYING. YEAH. TALKING ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF THE PARTY. DONALD TRUMP GETTING THE CORONATION HE NEVER HAD. LOOKING AT OHIO SENATOR JD VANCE HE DESCRIBED HIMSELF AS A NEVER- TRUMP GUY. NOW HERE HE IS ON THE TICKET, TOM. >> IT'S QUITE INTERESTING, AND WE WILL SEE MELANIA TRUMP, FORMER FIRST LADY, FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THIS CONVENTION. IVANKA TRUMP IS HERE, AND IT APPEARS THEY ARE TAKING A BACKSEAT THIS TIME ON THE CAMPAIGN. THEY WERE VERY MUCH AT THE FOREFRONT BEFORE. CLEARLY FOR THAT SECTION OF THE FAMILY IT WAS NOT FOR THEM. BUT, OF COURSE EVERYONE WILL STAND FOR THAT SPEECH. WILL WE SEE A NEW TRUMP, OR THE CLASSIC TRUMP? >> AND I DO WANT TO BE CLEAR HERE, I THINK BASED ON THE CONVERSATION PEOPLE HAVE HAD I DON'T KNOW IF IT WILL BE ONE OR THE OTHER, I DON'T THINK IT WILL BE A CLEAN DIVISION BETWEEN A "NEW DONALD TRUMP," AS THIS IS SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN ON THE NATIONAL STAGE FOR EIGHT YEARS. A MORE OMINOUS TONE WARNING OF CRISIS, AT SOME OF HIS RALLIES. I THINK THE MESSAGE WILL BE LATER TONIGHT, BUT HE STILL WILL GO AFTER PRESIDENT BIDEN. DELEGATES FROM MICHIGAN, AND THE DIVISION INSIDE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY RIGHT NOW, PRESIDENT BIDEN HIMSELF, FACING POLITICAL CRISIS. >> THE COWBOY HATS ARE WAITING, AND I DO THAT, ONE OF OUR FAVORITE TEXANS, AND YOUR PEOPLE ARE THERE, GARRETT. DO YOU HAVE A 10- GALLON HAT? >>I DO, BUT IT'S NOT POLITE TO WEAR IT INSIDE. >> WHAT ARE YOUR SOURCES TELLING YOU IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY? >> MY SOURCES HAVE NEVER FELT BETTER ABOUT WHERE THEY ARE IN THE TRUMP ERA. THE CIVIL WAR WE HAVE REPORTED ON THE LAST EIGHT OR 10 YEARS APPEARS TO BE OVER. DONALD TRUMP AFTER HE LOST THE WHITE HOUSE, THERE WAS A MOMENT OF CRISIS FOR THE PARTY WHERE THE CONFIGURE OUT WHAT DIRECTION THEY WERE GOING. BUT, FRANKLY, EVER SINCE THE INDICTMENT IN NEW YORK OVER A YEAR AGO WHEN HE STARTED TO PULL AWAY IN THE PRIMARY RACE THERE'S BEEN NO MEANINGFUL DISSENT IN THE PARTY BUT THE DIRECTION THEY WERE GOING, AND DEMOCRATS HAVE ONLY HELPED THEM I THINK IN TERMS OF DETAILS ON THAT SIDE. PEOPLE IN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN FEEL THE ONLY WAY THEY WILL LOSE THIS IS IF THEY TRIP OVER THEIR OWN FEET. >> I'M CURIOUS BECAUSE OF THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. WHERE DOES THE CAMPAIGN GO FROM HERE? WILL HE SLOWED DOWN, WILL EVENTS GET SMALLER? >> I THINK WE'VE SEEN THE LAST OUTDOOR EVENT WE WILL SEE FOR THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN. I WOULD NEVER SAY NEVER WITH DONALD TRUMP, BUT IN GRAND RAPIDS, THAT WILL BE AN INDOOR ARENA. SMALLER EVENTS MY CAMPAIGN ADVISERS PREFERRED THE SMALLER EVENTS. THE HUGE RALLIES ARE EXPENSIVE. 5000 ATTEND FROM ILLINOIS OR INDIANA, OR THE DRIVE OVER, YOU MAY NOT HIT THE VOTERS YOU WANT TO, SO I THINK THE DESIRE IS TO BE SMALL, SAFER, SAVE SOME MONEY. WE MIGHT SEE HE'S NOT ESPECIALLY ACTIVE WITH THE CHAOS IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. BASICALLY STAYING OUT OF THE HEADLINES AND GOING GOLFING BEFORE THE CONVENTION POSTDEBATE. LET THE FOCUS BEYOND DEMOCRATS AND BIDEN AS THEY STRUGGLE TO GET TOGETHER. FOCUS ON RAISING MONEY, FINANCE EVENTS, LET JD VANCE CONTINUE, AND LET THINGS ROLL. TUCKER CARLSON IS TAKING THE STAGE AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. IT'S INTERESTING, AFTER JOB ITEM'S INAUGURATION I SPOKE WITH REPUBLICANS ABOUT MAYBE 20 OR 30 TO ASK WHO WAS THE NEXT PHASE OF THE PARTY? THEY ALSO MENTIONED TUCKER CARLSON, HE HAS HUGE QUALITY IN THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT. HE'S LEFT CABLE NEWS, HE'S DOING HIS OWN THING RIGHT NOW, TAKING A DIFFERENT TRACK, BUT STILL INCREDIBLY POPULAR. HE WAS ALSO, HE WAS ALSO IN THE VIP BOX WITH FORMER RESIDENT TRUMP ON NIGHT ONE. SO, TUCKER CARLSON HERE, AT THE CONVENTION, AND I THINK WE WILL HAVE MUCH MORE TO COME FROM THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IN MILWAUKEE, RIGHT AFTER THIS . ♪ ♪ >>> LESTER HOLT, AMERICA'S MOST TRUSTED TV NEWS ANCHOR. >>> THE NBC NEWS MOBILE APP. GET CONNECTED TO YOUR FAVORITE NEWS SHOWS, TOP STORIES, BREAKING NEWS, AND LIVE VIDEO, DOWNLOAD THE NBC NEWS MOBILE APP NOW. >>> THE PAPER TOWEL WILL ABSORB THE ACID. >> THAT'S CRAZY! >> THIS IS MY FAVORITE TIP OF THE DAY. >> BRILLIANT, BRILLIANT, BRILLIANT. >> YOU JUST SAVED ME 40 BUCKS. ♪ >>> WE ARE BACK NOW LIVE AT THE FLOOR OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. MY COLLEAGUE, JACOB SOBOROFF TO THE LEFT OF ME IN MILWAUKEE, SPEAKING WITH THE PRESIDENT A MOMENT AGO. JACOB, WHAT DID HE TELL YOU? >> I AM DIRECTLY BELOW THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S BOX. HE WATCHED A COUPLE OF THE SPEECHES AND GOT UP, AND HE WALKED OUT, AND I WAS ABLE TO QUICKLY SHOUT OUT A QUESTION. TAKE A LOOK. >> MR. PRESIDENT, HOW ARE YOU FEELING SIR? WHAT DO YOU WANT THE NATION TO KNOW AHEAD OF YOUR SPEECH SIR? MR. TRUMP FEELING GOOD AHEAD OF HIS SPEECH TONIGHT. >> TOM, IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I'VE SEEN FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP DISCLOSE ANYTHING SINCE THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. DOUBLE THUMBS UP, HE SAID GOOD. I HAVE TO SAY HE WAS MOVING WELL, QUICKLY, AND IN ALL LIKELIHOOD GOING TO PREPARE FOR THE SPEECH. THE HEADLINE THERE IS HE'S DOING GOOD AND FEELING GOOD AHEAD OF HIS SPEECH TONIGHT, TOM. >> JACOB, WHO IS HE AROUND TODAY? ANY NOTABLE PEOPLE COMING TO SIT WITH HIM IN THE VIP BOX? I KNOW THERE WILL BE FAMILY, BUT WHO ELSE? >> HE WAS NEXT TO JASON AL DEAN, AND THAT WAS NOTABLE, BECAUSE JASON WAS WEARING A HAT AND HIS T-SHIRT, HIS SIGNATURE LOOK. SENATOR TED CRUZ WAS ALSO IN THE BOX, MIKE LEE, JAMES LANGFORD FOR THE BEHIND HIM, AND I'M TRYING TO SEE IF I CAN GET A LOOK RIGHT NOW, BUT I'M HAVING A HARD TIME SEEING FROM THIS VANTAGE POINT. TUCKER CARLSON IS ON THE STAGE AS YOU KNOW RIGHT NOW, AND MANY FOLKS ARE TRYING TO LISTEN TO HIM. >> YEAH, THAT'S WHY WE ARE KIND OF USING THE "GOLF VOICE." JACOB, I WANT TO ASK, EXPLAIN TO OUR VIEWERS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE LAST THREE NIGHTS, AND TONIGHT, THE ENERGY LEVEL, THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE, AND HOW IT DEFINITELY LOOKS LIKE THE MAIN EVENT. >> THE ENERGY IS EXCEPTIONAL, TOM. GUESS? YES, SIR. THE FOLKS HERE ARE ASKING US TO MOVE. WE WILL COME BACK TO YOU IN A MOMENT. >> NO WORRIES, JACOB, WE WILL TAKE A QUICK BREAK. WE WILL COME BACK RIGHT AFTER THIS AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION . ♪ ♪ >>> NEARLY A DOZEN HOURS AFTER THE EYE ROARED ASHORE. >> ALL RIGHT, IT FITS ME, TOO. >> I LOVE THAT. >>> MORE AMERICANS TURN TO NBC NEWS THAN ANY OTHER NEWS ORGANIZATION. >>> THE NBC NEWS MOBILE APP. GET CONNECTED TO YOUR FAVORITE NEWS SHOWS, TO THE TOP STORIES, BREAKING NEWS, AND LIVE VIDEO, DOWNLOAD THE NBC NEWS MOBILE APP NOW. ♪ >>> WELCOME BACK. WE ARE ON THE FLOOR OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION ONCE AGAIN FOR NBC SPECIAL COVERAGE LIVE, IN MILWAUKEE. I WANT TO GIVE YOU A SENSE OF HOW BUSY THIS PLACE IS. WE CAN SEE IT IS PRETTY MUCH STANDING ROOM ONLY. THOUSANDS ARE HERE ON THE CONVENTION FLOOR, THOUSANDS ARE IN THE STANDS AS WELL. THE CROWD IS RIGHT NOW LISTENING TO TUCKER CARLSON. HALLIE JACKSON, WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO? >> I JUST RAN INTO NORTH DAKOTA GOVERNOR, DOUG BURGUM, WHO JOINS US NOW. THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US ON A BUSY NIGHT. >> THANK YOU, IT IS AN ELECTRIC NIGHT WITH THE FORMER PRESIDENT ONLY FIVE DAYS AWAY FROM THAT ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT, COMING OUT TO SPEAK TO THE CROWD. >> CAN YOU GIVE US A SENSE OF HE STATE OF MIND IN YOUR CONVERSATIONS WITH HIM? JACOB SOBOROFF JUST SPOKE WITH HIM, SAID HE LOOKS GOOD. IS HE THE SAME TRUMP BEFORE SATURDAY? >> HE IS THE SAME IN THE WAY THAT HE IS A FIGHTER, HE'S COURAGEOUS, HE'S STRONG, ALL THE THINGS HE WAS BEFORE. BUT, LAST NIGHT, I THINK EVERYBODY IN THE ROOM COULD SEE WHEN HIS GRANDDAUGHTER, KAI, WAS SPEAKING, AND YOU'RE SITTING THERE THINKING, FOUR DAYS AGO I WAS MILLIMETERS AWAY FROM DEATH, AND HERE I AM INSTEAD OF WATCHING MY GRANDDAUGHTER GIVE HER FIRST SPEECH EVER. I THINK HE'S FILLED WITH A SENSE OF PRIDE. OUR WHOLE COUNTRY COULD HAVE BEEN IN MOURNING AND CHAOS. INSTEAD WE HAVE UNITY, WE HAVE THE PARTY LINE, WE HAVE PEOPLE ON BOARD, AND I THINK WE THINK ABOUT DIVINE PROVIDENCE, WHETHER IT'S DOWN TO THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO TEACHERS FOR OUR COUNTRY I THINK HE'S ALSO FILLED WITH A LOT OF GRATITUDE FOR THE MOMENT. >> WE HAVE SPOKEN ABOUT UNITY BEFORE. DEMOCRATS SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE VERY DIFFERENTLY, KAMALA HARRIS , SUGGESTING REPUBLICANS ARE SEEKING TO PAPER OVER AN EXTREME AGENDA UNDER THE VEIL OF UNITY. HOW DO YOU RESPOND? >> I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANYTHING EXTREME ABOUT HAVING AN ECONOMIC PLAN THAT WOULD LOWER INFLATION FOR EVERY AMERICAN. THAT'S NOT A REPUBLICAN IDEA, THAT HELPS INPEPENDENTS AND DEMOCRATS, HELPS EVERYONE IN AMERICA. ENDING WARS ABROAD, THAT HELPS EVERY AMERICAN. I DON'T, I DISMISSED THE WHOLE HYPOTHESIS, OR THESIS THAT SOMEHOW THERE IS SOMETHING EXTREME ABOUT A SET OF POLICIES THAT RAISED EVERYBODY IN OUR COUNTRY UP. >> YOU'VE DEVELOPED A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE FORMER PRESIDENT. YOU SPOKE A LOT ABOUT ENERGY LAST NIGHT. SECRETARY OF ENERGY, IS THAT MAYBE IN THE WORKS FOR YOU? HAVE YOU HAD CONVERSATIONS ABOUT WHAT YOUR ROLE MIGHT BE? >> I THINK THE KEY THING IS WE NEED TO GET PRESIDENT TRUMP ELECTED. WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO HE WILL BE RUNNING AGAINST THIRD A LOT OF THINGS CAN CHANGE. THE POLLS TODAY LOOK FANTASTIC AND HE LOOKS UNBEATABLE AGAINST JOE BIDEN. >> WHAT IF IT WAS AGAINST KAMALA HARRIS? >> THAT DOESN'T CONCERN ME UNLESS THEY SOMEHOW, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS GOING TO ADOPT A NEW SET OF POLICIES, BECAUSE THEY'VE ANNOUNCED THEY WANT TO RAISE TAXES, THEY'VE DONE NOTHING TO SAY THEY WANT TO CONTROL THE BORDER, THEY DON'T HAVE A CLEAR PLAN ON HOW TO SUPPORT ISRAEL OR ALLIES ABROAD, AND THEY HAVE AN ENERGY POLICY WHICH IS GOING TO CONTINUE TO DRIVE INFLATION AND ACTUALLY FUND IRAN AND RUSSIA TO FIGHT WARS AGAINST US. SO, THIS PARTY IS COMING TOGETHER, I WILL CALL IT THE NEW REPUBLICAN PARTY. IT'S NOT EXTREMISM, IT'S COMMON SENSE. IF YOU READ THE PLATFORM PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS PUT TOGETHER IT'S HARD TO DISAGREE WITH ANYTHING ON THERE. AND IF YOU READ IT, REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLES. IT HELPS EVERYONE. >> ARE YOU EXCITED FOR THE BALLOON DROP? >> WE'VE NEVER HAD SOMEONE SURVIVE AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AND THEN COME TO ACCEPT A NOMINATION. WE HAVE KID ROCK, WE HAVE HULK HOGAN THIS IS MUST-CTV. EXPECT A COUPLE BRAWLERS, FOR SURE. >> YOU HAD A CHANCE TO SPEAK WITH FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP YESTERDAY. IS HE READY FOR HIS BIG PRIMETIME SPEECH? >> OF COURSE. BUT I LOVE THE FACT HE IS PERSONALLY REWRITING IT. I WAS COCHAIR OF THE PLATFORM COMMITTEE, HE EDITED FROM 80 PAGES DOWN TO 12. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS BEEN ON FULL DISPLAY. YOU'VE GOT AMBER ROSE, YOU HAVE HEAD OF THE TEAMSTERS, YOU HAVE A PRIEST HOLDING UP A CROSS, AND A WOMAN CHANTING IN HINDU, AND THAT WAS JUST NIGHT ONE. I WAS HONORED TO BE WITH THOSE FROM MB GAIT FROM THE AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL, TO SEE HOW FRUSTRATED AND ANGRY THEY ARE, NOT ONLY FOR QUESTIONS THEY STILL HAVE, BUT FOR SOMETHING THAT SHOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED. >> YOU WERE SPEAKING WITH THE FORMER PRESIDENT, HE SUPPOSED TO GIVE A NEW SPEECH AFTER HE RIPPED UP HIS LD ONE. WILL WE SEE A CHANGE DONALD TRUMP? >> WELL LOOK AS SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN IN COMBAT, HAVING BULLETS GO BY YOUR HEAD, GETTING WOUNDED, SEEING SOMEONE DIE IN FRONT OF YOU CHANGES EVERYONE. THAT'S ONLY HUMAN NATURE. BUT, AT THE SAME TIME, LOOK, I THINK YOU HAVE SOMEONE WHO IS A FIGHTER, CLEARLY THAT'S HIS PERSONA, BUT YOU'VE ALSO SEEN GRANDDAD TRUMP. YOU'VE SEEN WHAT I TALKED ABOUT WITH HIM SPENDING ENTIRE EVENINGS WITH GOLDSTAR FAMILIES, AND THEY CAME UP TO ME UP AFTERWARDS AND SAID THEY HELPED ME HEAL. OUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, OUR CONSOLER IN CHIEF. >> WILL PEOPLE BUY IT? THE MESSAGE THEY WERE SENDING WAS THE DONALD TRUMP MUG SHOT, NOW WE ARE SEEING GRANDPA TRUM . SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, WILL THIS STRATEGY CONNECT WITH VOTERS? >> AT THE SAME TIME YOU ARE SEEING EVERY DAY AMERICANS IDENTIFY THAT. THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ACROSS MINORITY COMMUNITIES DON'T THINK THAT JUSTICE SYSTEM IS FAIR, SO THEY ARE IDENTIFYING WITH HIM IN TERMS OF BEING TREATED UNFAIRLY IN THE MUG SHOT. AND THEN YOU HAVE JD VANCE, WHO I THINK HAD CONVERSATION AND TALKING ABOUT HIS VERY DIFFICULT UP BRINGING. THERE ARE FAMILIES ALL OF THE COUNTRY THAT DEALT WITH ADDICTION AND PARENTS AND LOVED ONES THAT JD TALK TO. I THINK IT RESONATES WITH PEOPLE, THEY CAN IDENTIFY WITH IT. >> A SENATOR OF MONTANA HAS CALLED ON PRESIDENT BIDEN TO STEP DOWN. DOES THE PRESIDENT SURVIVE THIS? >> IT'S A COMPLETELY HIS DECISION. HE HAS THE DELEGATES, HE HAS A CAMPAIGN BANK ACCOUNT. THIS IS HIS DECISION THAT MANY OF US HAVE THOUGHT THE WORLD WAS ON FIRE, THE ECONOMY IS NOT WELL, THE BORDER IS OUT OF CONTROL. WE WILL SEE IF HE DOES THE RIGHT THING FOR THE RIGHT COUNTRY. >> WE APPRECIATE IT, CONGRESSMAN. VAUGHN HILLYARD, SORRY, GUYS. TAKE IT AWAY, VAUGHN. >> THANK YOU. LEE GREENWOOD, HE PLAYS GOD BLESS THE USA. WHEN DID YOU FIRST MEET DONALD TRUMP? >> AFTER MY WIFE, KIM, SHE WORKED FOR DONALD TRUMP WITH THE MISS UNIVERSE ORGANIZATION. SHE DIRECTS TENNESSEE, GEORGIA, MISSISSIPPI, FOR MISS USA, STILL. WHEN DONALD TRUMP THE PRESIDENCY HE HAD TO SELL MISS UNIVERSE, SO WHEN I MET HIM WAS DURING THAT TIME, WE'VE BEEN MARRIED 32 YEARS, SO NOT QUITE A WHILE AGO. >> I WHAT POINT DID HE WANT TO WALK OUT TO YOUR SONG EVERY TIME HE COMES ON THE CAMPAIGN STAGE, ODDLY ENOUGH WE NEVER HAD THAT CONVERSATION. WHEN HE STARTED USING THE SONG I HEARD ON TV AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS INTERESTING. ANOTHER PRESIDENT BECAUSE WE WORKED WITH OTHERS WHO ALSO USED ABSCESS >> IF I'M NOT RUNG BACK IN THE '80s THERE WAS A CERTAIN PRESIDENT WHO ALSO USED IT. >> I'M HAVING THE RONALD REAGAN CUFFLINKS RIGHT NOW. >> DID YOU THINK 40 YEARS LATER AFTER RONALD REAGAN YOU WOULD BE THE ONE INTRODUCING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, THE FORMER PRESIDENT, AND THE MAN WHO WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT ONCE AGAIN? THE FIRST TIME PUBLICLY AFTER BEING SHOT AT BY AN ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION, YOU ARE THE ONE WHO INTRODUCED HIM TO THE ARENA. >> WE DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS GOING TO COME TO THE RNC AT ALL. YOU COME INTO THE ARENA I WANTED TO INTRODUCE ME, THAT'S A MATTER OF TRUST, BECAUSE THEY HAVE GIVEN ME THAT SPOTS ABILITY FOR THIS ENTIRE BUILDING. RNC ON OPENING NIGHT TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE KNOWS WE LOVE HIM. WE ARE HIS PEOPLE. >> WHEN YOU ARE SINGING AND INTRODUCING HIM WHAT WAS YOUR VANTAGE POINT? >> I WAS ON THE BANDSTAND, WHICH I WILL BE TONIGHT, AS WELL. I DID NOT KNOW WHO HE WAS GOING TO COME IN WITH. HE CAME IN WITH THE VP PICK, VANCE, IN THE BOX. THAT'S WHEN I STARTED SINGING, AND I TOOK MY LIBERTY TO SAY WHAT I SAID. IT WAS A LITTLE FROM THE HEART. >> WHAT ARE YOU EXPECTING TONIGHT? >> I EXPECT THE PRESIDENT TO BE GRATEFUL, I EXPECT HIM TO GIVE A MESSAGE OF UNITY AND TO SAY GOD BLESS AMERICA. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR MUSICAL WORK OVER THE YEARS. TOM, HALLIE? LEE GREENWOOD. QUITE THE INTERVIEW. CHUCK? >> SENATOR OF MONTANA ALSO CALLING FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN TO STEP DOWN, YOUR THOUGHTS ON THAT? >> I MEAN THAT'S WHAT HE'S FACING NOW IS IT'S GOING TO BE THIS CONSTANT DRIP DRIP I THINK SINCE THIS MORNING'S NEWS SITTING MEMBER OF CONGRESS WHO ALREADY BIDEN IS RUNNING 20 POINTS BEHIND TRUMP IN SOME POLLS, AND THIS IS WHY BIDEN CAN'T STAY IN THE RACE. HOW DOES TESTER DEFEND BIDEN IN ANY SORT OF DEBATE? >> GO AHEAD, YOU'RE AT THE CONVENTION, YOU ARE A DELEGATE. >> IS APPARENTLY ANGRY ABOUT HOW MUCH THE PYLON IS TAKING PLACE, THEY TRIED TO DO THIS QUIETLY, NOW IT'S GOING TO BE NOISY. >> DEMOCRATS HAVE ABOUT A MONTH UNTIL THEIR CONVENTION. IS THAT ENOUGH TIME? IS IT ALL UP TO THE CONVENTION? >> IF THEY LET THIS LOOK AT THE CONVENTION, THEN THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE A READ PETE. '68 WAS CHAOS, THERE WAS NOT A LOT OF TRUST, A LOT OF PEOPLE FELT AS IF HUMPHREY SHOULD. I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING THAT GETS AGREED UPON BEFORE HAND, AND THAT THE CONVENTION ITSELF BECOMES A RUBBER STAMP OF HARRIS AND WHOEVER SHE PICKS. >> DAVID, I DO WANT TO ASK YOU, WHEN YOU ARE THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD DO YOU STILL LISTEN TO OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO SAY WE WANT YOU TO STEP DOWN AND NO LONGER BE THE COMMANDER IN-CHIEF IN THE NEXT TERM? THAT'S GOT TO BE A TOUGH CONVERSATION. >> I THINK SO, IT'S PROBABLY THE TOUGHEST CONVERSATION PREDICATED ADVISERS, WORLD LEADERS, I THINK THEY TAKE THESE VERY SERIOUSLY. HE'S RIGHTLY PROUD OF HIS RECORD . THIS WILL BE THE HARDEST CONVERSATION TO HAVE, AND I HAVE WORKED ON A LOT OF RACES THROUGH THE YEARS, TOM, PEOPLE DON'T GENERALLY GET INTO THE ARENA UNLESS THEY THINK THEY CAN WIN EVEN WHEN THEY ARE BEHIND. I THINK THIS IS IN A DIFFERENT PLACE. >> DAVID? >> ALSO INSIDE. EXPECT DAVID? THE SAYING GO THE NUMBERS DON'T LIE. THERE'S BEEN DISCUSSIONS THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN THINKS THE POLLS AREN'T RIGHT. WHEN IT COMES TO FUNDRAISING THE NUMBERS WON'T FLY. IS THAT THE LAST STRAW THAT BROKE THE CAMEL'S BACK? WE KNOW PEOPLE LIKE JEFFREY KATZENBERG HAVE HAD TOUGH CONVERSATIONS WITH THE BIDEN HARRIS TEAM. >> I THINK THERE WILL BE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WILL COME BACK AND CONTRIBUTE, THAT'S THE ONLY THING STANDING BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND THE WHITE HOUSE. I THINK MORE IMPORTANT THAN FUNDRAISING, IS THERE A PATHWAY TO 270 ELECTORAL VOTES? IT DOESN'T TAKE A MIRACLE. >> GO AHEAD, SIR. I'M HERE WITH CHUCK TODD. AS WE CLOSE OUT OUR COVERAGE AT THIS HOUR PEOPLE ARE EXCITED AT THIS CONVENTION, PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SMILING FOR FOUR DAYS STRAIGHT, EVEN WITH THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. >> THERE'S ANOTHER REALITY IN AMERICAN POLITICS, THE PARTY THAT'S BORN UNITED USUALLY HAS A BETTER CHANCE OF WINNING, AND RIGHT NOW THE REPUBLICANS ARE UNITED, THE REPUBLICANS ARE THE ONES WHO ARE DIVIDED, AND THIS CONVENTION, I DON'T KNOW, IT MIGHT BE DIVINE INTERVENTION, I THINK THEY SEE IT AS DESTINY HE IS GOING TO WIN, AND THE ONLY QUESTION NOW, IF DEMOCRATS CHANGE CANDIDATES IT IS LIKE FLIPPING UP THE CHESSBOARD. EVERYTHING COULD CHANGE. I DIDN'T THINK PEOPLE WANTED TO HEAR ANYTHING ABOUT THIS PRESIDENTIAL RACE A FEW WEEKS AGO. THIS WILL BE A WHOLE NEW ENGAGEMENT JUST BECAUSE OF THE EVENTS OF THE LAST 20 DAYS. >> GO AHEAD, SIR, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GET THROUGH, THEY HAVE BEEN SO GRACIOUS TO US. I WANT TO MENTION PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THIS, WATCHING THIS, I DON'T WANT TO BE CYNICAL, BUT WITH THIS CONVENTION MATTER? >> I AM OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN EVEN HOW FAST EVENTS MOVE AND EVENTS CHANGE. LOOK, I THINK IT CERTAINLY IS A UNITED FRONT. I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH IT HOLDS, I THINK THE DEMOCRATIC STORY COULD BE SUCH A DOMINANT STORY IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS BUT IT MIGHT KIND OF OVERSHADOW AND THE QUESTION I HAVE IS WILL JD VANCE GET A CHANCE TO MAKE AN IMPRESSION? BECAUSE IT WOULD BE THE NEXT ONE THAT SAID HE WOULD. >> ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO TALK TO YOU, WE WILL WRAP UP THIS HOUR OF COVERAGE, ARE CONTINUOUS COVERAGE, FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL TAKE THAT STAGE RIGHT THERE, THE ENTIRE CONVENTION WILL BE WATCHING WE THANK YOU FOR WATCHING. >> TONIGHT A HISTORIC MOMENT FOR DONALD TRUMP. THE FORMER PRESIDENT TAKING CENTER STAGE. TO ACCEPT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY'S NOMINATION. FOR THE THIRD TIME. >> HAS FIRST PUBLIC ADDRESS. SINCE NARROWLY SURVIVING AND ASSASSINS ATTEMPT. >> THE REPUBLICAN TICKET IS SET. >> I OFFICIALLY ACCEPT YOUR NOMINATION TO BE VICE PRESIDENT. >> TRUMP, VANCE, OHIO SENATOR JD VANCE NOW VP NOMINEE, ELEVATED TO THE NATIONAL STAGE. >> STATING HIS CASE FOR A RETURN TO THE WHITE HOUSE. FROM NBC NEWS, LIVE FROM MILWAUKEE, THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. LESTER HOLT AND SAVANNAH GUTHRIE. >> GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE FOURTH AND FINAL NIGHT OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. AS WE COME ON THE AIR IN THIS PACKED ARENA IN MILWAUKEE WE ARE GEARING UP FOR A HISTORIC NIGHT FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND HIS FIRST MAJOR ADDRESS SINCE SURVIVING THATSPEL ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE. >> IN HIS SPEECH HE WILL FORMALLY ACCEPT THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT FOR THE THIRD TIME AND THEY SAID HE HAD REWRITTEN HIS SPEECH FROM'S SCRATCH AFTER THE ATTEMPT. CALLING FOR MORE UNITY IN THE COUNTRY. AND TWO DAYS OF REMARKS FROM HIS TOP SUPPORTERS INCLUDING HIS NEW VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE, OHIO CENTER, JD VANCE. >> TONIGHT ALSO PROMISES TO BE A DIFFERENT KIND OF NIGHT, EARLIER THIS WEEK WITH MOSTLY HEARING FROM POLITICIANS BUT TONIGHT WE WILL HEAR FROM MUSICIAN KID ROCKS, AND LEGENDARY WRESTLER HULK HOGAN TAKING THE STAGE IN A FEW MOMENTS. >> FIGHTING FOR AMERICA IS THE THEME AND IT WILL BE A REMARKABLE, UNIFIED REPUBLICAN PARTY HERE IN MILWAUKEE AND TONIGHT THE DEMOCRATS WHETHER OR NOT TO REPLACE PRESIDENT BIDEN AS THEIR NOMINEE. CLOSE TO THE PRESIDENT TELLING NBC NEWS QUOTE WE ARE CLOSE TO THE END. AS HIS TOP ALLIES BRACE FOR HIM POTENTIALLY STEP ASIDE. WE HAVE A LOT TO TALK ABOUT IN A MOMENT, LET'S BRING IN OUR PANEL. WE HAVE KRISTIN WELKER AND OUR SENIOR CORRESPONDENT HALLIE JACKSON WE WILL BRING THIS SPEECH OF HULK HOGAN TO YOU LIVE IN JUST A MOMENT BUT I THINK WE HAVE TO START WITH THIS BREAKING NEWS, BECAUSE IT'S BEEN A DAY OF RAPID DEVELOPMENT ON THE ISSUE OF WHETHER PRESIDENT BIDEN WILL BE THE NOMINEE OF HIS PARTY. >> YOU HAVE MULTIPLE TOP DEMOCRATS PUBLICLY OR PRIVATELY AS REPORTED BY MULTIPLE OUTLETS SUGGESTING THAT RESIDENT BIDEN CANNOT WIN COME NOVEMBER AND THE REAL SENSE THAT THE CLOCK IS TICKING AND THAT THE PRESIDENT IS ON THE CLOCK TO MAKE A DECISION SOON. >> WE HEARD FROM THE SECOND SENATE DEMOCRATS ONLY THE SECOND SENATE DEMOCRAT NOTABLE HERE JOHN HESTER WHO IS RUNNING IN A STATE OF MONTANA, WHERE HE WON BY 16%, 20% IN 2020 IT IS A VERY RED STATE AND JOHN TESTER REALLY IS IN A HUGE POLITICAL FIGHT HERE, IT IS NOT CLEAR, BUT HE IS ACKNOWLEDGING THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN, AND URGENT STONE THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS TO MAKE THIS DECISION SOON. MY CONVERSATION WITH REPUBLICANS HERE, IF IT WERE TO BE VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS TAKE THE TOP OF THE TICKET, I'VE NOTICED AN INTERESTING SHIFT IN THE DOB CONVERSATION AROUND THIS, IT IS LESS OF A COMMENT OF IT'S GOING TO BE PRESIDENT BIDEN AFTER WHAT WE SAW A FEW WEEKS AGO AND I'M HEARING MUCH MORE OF THIS DISCUSSION OF REPUBLICANS LOOKING TO LAST YEAR TO THE BIDEN AGENDA. >> YOU HAVE TO FIGURE THEY ARE DOING THEIR POLLING JUST AS MUCH AS DEMOCRATS ARE RIGHT NOW. >> IT KIND OF DEPENDS ON WHICH YOU LOOK AT TO SEE HOW VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS DOES AGAIN, FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP IN A HEAD-TO-HEAD MATCHUP THERE ARE SOME SURVEYS THAT SHOW SHE MAY BE COMING OUT A LITTLE BIT BETTER THAN PRESIDENT BIDEN. AND OTHER SAYING IT'S A DEAD HEAT, IT'S ALL HYPOTHETICAL UNTIL IT ACTUALLY HAPPENS AND VOTERS HAVE A CHANCE TO PROCESS IT. >> LET'S TALK ABOUT HERE IN MILWAUKEE TONIGHT. THEIR DESIRE AGAINST HEAR PRESIDENT BIDEN BUT LET'S TALK ABOUT HERE IN MILWAUKEE TONIGHT, WE WILL HEAR FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP HIS FIRST EXTENDED REMARKS FROM THE ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE. >> THIS IS A HUGE MOMENT FOR FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP, ARGUABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT POLITICAL SPEECH OF HIS LIFE. IT'S ALSO A HUGE POTENTIAL OPPORTUNITY, THINK ABOUT IT THIS WAY, PRIOR TO THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT, AMERICANS WERE SKEPTICAL OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP, MIKE NOT HAVE TUNED INTO THIS EVENT, THAT MIGHT BE DIFFERENT TONIGHT, HE MIGHT GET PEOPLE TUNING IN THOSE OF VOTERS, THAT SMALL SLIVER OF THE AMERICAN ELECTORATE THAT MIGHT BE CURIOUS AND MIGHT BE A LITTLE BIT MORE ENGAGED SO HE SAID HE RIPPED UP HIS SPEECH AND REWRITTEN IT AND HE WANTS TO DELIVER A UNIFYING MESSAGE THE QUESTION IS WHETHER UNIFYING MEANS, WE HAVE INTERVIEWED ERIC TRUMP AND HE ACKNOWLEDGED HIS DAD WILL ALWAYS BE A COUNTER PUNCTURE THAT WILL NEVER CHANGE BUT WILL WE SEE DIFFERENCES IN HIS TONE AND ONE THING I WILL LOOK FOR TO WHAT HALLIE WAS SAYING HOW OFTEN DOES HE NAME CHECK BIDEN? AND HOW OFTEN DOES HE SPEAK MORE BROADLY ABOUT THE ADMINISTRATION. >> HE MIGHT DO MORE KAMALA HARRIS. WE WILL LOOK FOR THAT AND LISTENING FOR THAT AS WELL, BECAUSE THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT YOU ARE SEEING A CAMPAIGN START HERE, OF COURSE AN ONGOING ONE AGAINST PRESIDENT BIDEN BUT WITH THE PRESSURE MOUNTING ON PRESIDENT BIDEN TO DROP OUT OF THIS RACE REPUBLICANS ARE TURNING THEIR SIGHTS TO THE VICE PRESIDENT. >> THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UNITY AND THE IDEA THAT YOU KNOW CHANGING TONE, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE ARE GOING TO HEAR, A DIFFERENT TONE OR WORDS. >> ABSOLUTELY, LET'S TAKE A STEP BACK AND THINK ABOUT WHERE WE STARTED THIS CAMPAIGN. FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP FACING FOUR INDICTMENTS. THE QUESTION WAS WOULD THAT BE A DRAG ON HIS POLITICAL CAMPAIGN? IT ONLY EMBOLDENED HIM IN THE PRIMARIES, DIDN'T STOP HIM IN THE GENERAL AND NOW MOST OF THOSE LEGAL BATTLES HAVE BEEN DELAYED. SO HE ADDRESSES THIS CONVENTION AND THE REPUBLICANS AND THE NATION TONIGHT. COMING FROM A VERY EMBOLDENED POSITION. >> JUST AFTER 9 PM EASTERN TIME SHOWING YOU IMAGES FROM THE FLOOR. COMING IN AT ANY MOMENT IT'S A PARTY ATMOSPHERE AND PEOPLE ARE GETTING THEIR A LOT OF US BOOGIEED WHA ON ULD FEELING GOOD ABOUT THEIR PROSPECTS IN NOVEMBER, I THINK A LOT OF US WONDER WHAT WOULD BE THE TONE HERE AFTER THIS SERIOUS ATTEMPT ON THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S LIFE BUT IT HAS BEEN JUBILANT AND INDICATING THAT THE DELEGATES FROM WISCONSIN AND I THINK WE HAVE TOM ON THE FLOOR TO GIVE US MORE, WHAT ARE YOU SEEING? >> I CAN TELL YOU THIS IS THE MOST ELECTRIC NIGHT SO FAR, THE ENERGY LEVEL HERE HAS BEEN THROUGH THE ROOF FOR THE LAST THREE OR FOUR HOURS, PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ON THEIR FEET DANCING AND SINGING OVER THERE, WAY OVER THERE IN THE TEXAS DELEGATION HAVE BEEN WAVING 10 GALLON HATS ALL OVER THE PLACE. PEOPLE HAVE THEIR SIGNS AND IT INTERESTING WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT POLITICALLY SPEAKING, HIS CAREER IN THE BEGINNING THEY GOT A LOT OF KNOX BECAUSE ESSENTIALLY THEY DIDN'T HAVE A CAMPAIGN. THEY'VE NOW DONE THREE CONVENTIONS, RIGHT? TWO REAL AND ONE VIRTUAL AND THIS IS THE THIRD ONE BY FAR THE BEST SO FAR THE REASON WHY I SAY THAT THEY'VE HAD NO DRAMA THEY HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY UNIFIED. EVERYTHING HAS GONE AS PLANNED. AND IT IS SOMEWHAT OF A RANDOM CONVENTION WE WILL HEAR FROM PEOPLE AS YOU MENTIONED LIKE HULK HOGAN AND KID ROCK AND AMBER ROSE EARLIER IN THE WEEK BUT WHEN YOU TALK TO REPUBLICANS THEY SAY THAT IS AMERICA, AMERICA IS MADE UP OF A LOT OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE AND THEY WANTED TO SHOW ALL THE FACES AND THAT THE REPUBLICAN TENT IS BIGGER. IS THAT TRUE? WE WILL HAVE TO CONVINCE A LOT OF VOTERS IF THEY WANT TO GET BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE ABOUT THEY'VE BEEN RIDING HIGH FOR TWO REASONS, NUMBER PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ARRIVED THAT HORRIFIC ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AND HAS COME HERE AND LOOKS LIKE HE IS IN GOOD SPIRITS BUT TWO THEY LOVE WHAT THEY ARE WATCHING ON THE NEWS WHEN IT COMES TO DEMOCRATS, IN DISARRAY, USUALLY AS REPUBLICANS IN DISARRAY, YOU'LL REMEMBER THE 16 EVEN IN 2020 THE NEVER TRUMPER DO YOU EVEN HEAR ABOUT THE PEOPLE ANYMORE? I INTERVIEWED SOMEBODY HERE WHO WAS A CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE DONALD TRUMPNST HIM. THAT GUY WON. HAD ENDORSED THE GUY WHO WAS RUNNING AGAINST HIM AND THAT GUY WON AND THIS CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE STILL CAME HERE BECAUSE HE LOVES DONALD TRUMP SO MUCH EVEN THOUGH HE ENDED HIS POLITICAL CAREER, THAT'S THE KIND OF ADORATION IF YOU WILL THAT PEOPLE HAVE FOR FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND AS YOU MENTIONED THERE WILL BE A COUPLE OF SURPRISES IN THE VIP BOX WAY IN THE BACK THERE, THE FIRST TIME HERE TONIGHT IT WILL BE AN EXCITING NIGHT AND IT WILL BE A GREAT NIGHT OF POLITICS, BACK TO YOU SAVANNA. >> HARD TO CATCH THAT, ROCK IN THE USA IS PRETTY LOUD. ON THE FLOOR FOR US AND THEY HAD A QUICK ENTERTAINMENT WITH THE FORMER PRESIDENT ANDG TO YO. A FEW MINUTES AGO, UNDER FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP'S BOX, HE WALKED I HAYOU CHANCE T HAVE MORE? >> GOOD EVENING JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO UNDER FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP'S BOX HE WALKED OUT AHEAD OF THIS SPEECH THIS EVENING I HAD A CHANCE TO HAVE A QUICK EXCHANGE WITH HIM LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THAT IF WE HAVE IT. >> MR. PRESIDENT HOW ARE YOU FEELING? >> WHAT DO YOU WANT THE NATION TO KNOW AHEAD OF YOUR SPEECH SIR? >> FORMER PRESIDENT SAID HE IS FEELING GOOD AND HE GAVE ME THE DOUBLE THUMBS UP, I HAVE TO TELL YOU WATCHING HIM WALK OUT HE WAS WALKING VERY WELL AND WAS WALKING RAPIDLY. AND HE HAD A SMILE ON HIS FACE AND IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE SEEN HIM THAT CLOSE SINCE THE ATTEMPT OF THE ASSASSINATION. AND HE LOOKED LIKE NORMAL PRESIDENT TRUMP. SO HE'S ON HIS WAY WE KNOW FROM THERE. OUT HERE TO THE STAGE. AND IT WILL BE A MATTER OF MOMENTS BEFORE WE HEAR THE ADDRESS TO THE NATION TONIGHT. >> GREAT REPORTING JACOB, AS WE WATCH THIS CROWD HERE, FIRED UP, YOU CAN ONLY IMAGINE THE KIND OF RECEPTION HE WILL GET. HE HAS BEEN HERE ON SUBSEQUENT NIGHTS BUT EXCEPTING HIS PARTY NOMINATION WITH THAT IMAGE OF HIM BEING GUNNED DOWN FRESH IN OUR MINDS, IT WILL BE LIKELY AN EMOTIONAL NIGHT AS WELL. >> NEVER FORGET THIS IS A REALITY TELEVISION STAR, WITH A FLAIR FOR DRAMATIC. WALKING ON 2016 AND IN THAT MOMENT KID ROCK IS READY TO PERFORM AND HULK HOGAN READY TO SPEAK WE WILL BRING YOU THAT LIVE, I BELIEVE WE ARE WAITING FOR JD VANCE AND HALLIE JACKSON WE WILL SEE THE FAMILY EXCEPT FOR HER BUT MELANIA TRUMP HAS NOT BEEN HERE YET. IVANKA AS WELL. LOOK AT THE FORMER FIRST LADY. SHE SPOKE THE LAST TWO CONVENTIONS. THIS IS THE THIRD TIME THAT FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS >> IT'S BEEN INTERESTING YOU LOOK AT THE FORMER FIRST LADY AND SHE SPOKE THE LAST TWO CONVENTIONS BECAUSE THIS OF COURSE IS THE THIRD TIME THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS ACCEPTING THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION AND POLITICAL CAREER. SHE IS SOMEBODY WHO HAS NOT BEEN A BIG PRESENCE ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. SHE'S DONE A COUPLE OF PRIVATE FUNDRAISERS BUT SHE CERTAINLY HAS NOT BEEN FRONT AND CENTER. THAT SAID SHE IS BEHIND HER HUSBAND 100%. AS FOR IVANKA TRUMP, THEY WENT FROM BEING SENIOR ADVISORS TO THEIR FATHER, FATHER IN LAW AND THE WHITE HOUSE WORKING ON POLICY IN VARIOUS WAYS DURING THAT TIME IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO INTENTIONALLY PULLING THEMSELVES AWAY FROM POLITICS, SHE WAS NOT AT HIS ROLLOUT IN 022 OR AT HIS TRIAL OR AT HIS CAMPAIGN TRAIL. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH WE WILL TAKE A BREAK RIGHT HERE BUT STILL AHEAD, WE WILL BRING YOU TONIGHT BIG SPEECHES INCLUDING FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP'S FIRST MAJOR OPERA ADDRESS SINCE SURVIVING AN ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE. MORE FROM THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION AFTER THIS. >> THE BIG ONE WILL ABSORB THE ACID. >> GREEN TEA TO CALM ACNE. >> WE CAN ZOOM IN. JUST SEASON AND THAT'S THE WAY TO GET IT OUT IS TO USE THE SHELL THAT IS LEFT OVER. IT WORKS EVERY SINGLE TIME. >> THIS IS MY FAVORITE TIP OF THE DAY. REALLY IT, BRILLIANT. PERSONAL FINANCE IS PERSONAL. >> YOU JUST SAVED ME 40 BUCKS, THAT IS A GOOD IDEA. >> WELCOME BACK, TO THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION HERE IN MILWAUKEE THE CROWD IS FIRED UP AND THEY WILL HEAR FROM THEIR NOMINEE, FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. HE WILL ACCEPT THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS FOR THE THIRD TIME AND WE ARE EXPECTING DIGNITARIES TO ENTER AT ANY TIME INCLUDING SENATOR JD VANCE AND OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS. >> ABOUT WHAT THE FORMER PRESIDENT WILL SAY BUT THE BIG CONVERSATION IN MILWAUKEE IS WHAT THE DEMOCRATS WILL DO WITH JOE BIDEN AND WILL HE COME OFF THE TICKET. IS DRIVING EVERYTHING HERE, YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE THAT THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN REALLY WAS NOT SURE WHAT IT WILL LOOK LIKE AND WHAT THE DEMOCRATS WILL DO. >> THIS IS WHAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT HERE LESTER, WHAT WILL PRESIDENT BIDEN DO? AND AS WE HAVE BEEN REPORTING THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT TO THE PRESSURE IS MOUNTING ON HIM TO DROP OUT, NOT ONLY HAS THE SECOND U.S. SENATOR NOW COME FORWARD CALLING ON HIM TO DO SO. BUT THE LEADERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI. CHUCK SCHUMER, HAVE ALL CONVEYED THE PRESIDENT BIDEN, THEIR CONCERNS. >> LET'S GET TO GAVE GUTIERREZ WHO WAS NEAR THE PRESIDENT'S HOME IN DELAWARE WHERE HE IS DEALING WITH COVID WHAT ARE YOU HEARING FROM THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN? >> WE WERE TALKING TO PEOPLE IN DELAWARE, FACING A LOT OF CALLS TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE AND THE WALLS CLOSING IN ON HIS CAMPAIGN. WITH MULTIPLE SOURCES ACKNOWLEDGING THE SITUATION AND MENTIONED A PERSON CLOSE TO THE PRESIDENT SAYING WE ARE CLOSE TO THE END AND ANOTHER PERSON WE SPOKE WITH SENIOR CAMPAIGN OFFICIALS SAYING WE ARE FINALLY REALIZING IT'S A WIN, IT'S A WIN, NOT IF. REACHING THE TOP OF THE PARTY, TWO SOURCES TELLING NBC NEWS, PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS CONCERNS ABOUT PRESIDENT BIDEN'S ABILITY TO STAY AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET. BUT FEELS PERSONALLY PROTECTIVE OF HIM. ONE SOURCE SAYING OBAMA SEES PRESIDENT BIDEN'S AND PATH TO WINNING IS GETTING HARDER. AND URGING HIM TO RECONSIDER HIS RUN AND COMPARING HIM TO A TIRED MAJOR LEAGUE PITCHER. THE WHITE HOUSE AND CAMPAIGN ARE AGGRESSIVELY PUSHING BACK AGAINST DEMOCRATIC LEADERS TRYING TO PUSH THE PRESIDENT OUT AND SOURCE CLOSE TO THE PRESIDENT TELLING NBC NEWS IN 2015, OBAMA PELOSI AND SCHUMER PUSHED BIDEN ASIDE IN FAVOR OF HILLARY, THEY WERE WRONG THEN AND THEY WERE WRONG NOW. AND WITH A RUNNING MATE SIDELINED WITH VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS WHO IS CAMPAIGNING IN PENNSYLVANIA EARLIER TODAY, ANNOUNCED THAT THE PRESIDENT REMAINS HERE IN DELAWARE AND SAYS HE HAS MILD SYMPTOMS AND NO FEVER. >> THANK YOU. WE ARE GOING TO GO TO STEVE NOW AT THE BIG BOARD, I THINK YOU HAVE A PERSPECTIVE OF WHY THIS IS ALSO CONCERNING IN A DIFFICULT MOMENT FOR DEMOCRATS RIGHT NOW, WHAT ARE YOU SAYING? >> WHY DON'T WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE NUMBERS THAT DEMOCRATS ARE LOOKING AT AND WE WILL START WITH WHAT YOU ARE SEEING RIGHT HERE, THIS IS THE NATIONAL PICTURE, THE BIG PICTURE AND A POLL THAT CAME OUT SIX HOURS AGO. FROM OUR FRIENDS AT CVS THIS IS A NATIONAL POLL AND LOOK AT THIS THEY HAVE DONALD TRUMP NOW OPENING UP A FIVE-POINT ADVANTAGE OVER JOE BIDEN, 52-47. ONE OBVIOUS SIGNIFICANCE IS THE FACT THAT TRUMP IS OVER 50% A COUPLE POINTS OVER 50% AND THE MAJORITY TERRITORY ALSO THIS LEAD OF FIVE POINTS IS THE LARGEST LEAD THAT DONALD TRUMP HAS HAD YET OVER JOE BIDEN IN THIS POLL. CBS HAS TAKEN EIGHT POLLS THIS YEAR THIS IS THE BIGGEST LEAD FOR TRUMP IN ANY OF THEM SO THAT'S THE BIG PICTURE, 30,000 BUT OF COURSE WE KNOW PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS ARE WON AT THE STATE LEVEL, THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. LET'S TAKE A LOOK HERE AT THE BATTLEGROUND STATES AND AGAIN THIS IS THE KIND OF LANDSCAPE IMMIGRANTS ARE LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW, WHAT YOU ARE SEEING IS A POLL THAT HAS BEEN CONDUCTED LARGELY SINCE THAT DEBATE AT THE END OF JUNE AND THIS IS THE AVERAGE OF THE POLL THAT HAVE COME OUT IN THESE STATES, SOME STATES HAVE BEEN MORE THAN OTHERS, SO TAKE THE NUMBERS WITH A BIT OF GRAIN OF SALT BUT AS YOU CAN SEE THERE IS A CLEAR PATTERN TO THEM. EVERY ONE OF THESE STATES EITHER THE SIX BATTLEGROUND STATES OR A CORE BATTLEGROUND STATE, SIX THAT JOE BIDEN CARRIED IN 2020 AND THE AVERAGE SINCE THE DEBATE DONALD TRUMP WITH SOME KIND OF ADVANTAGE A LITTLE SMALL THERE IN MICHIGAN BUT SOME KIND OF ADVANTAGE IN ALL SIX OF THEM. AGAIN ALL BIDEN STATES. IT'S NOT JUST THAT THERE ARE POLLS IN OTHER STATES THAT ARE NOT EVEN THOUGHT TO BE PART OF THE BATTLEGROUND BUT ARE CONCERNING THE DEMOCRATS FOR INSTANCE VIRGINIA, SEVERAL POLLS COMING OUT RECENTLY, THE AVERAGE OF THEM UTS TRUMP AHEAD BY ONE POINT IN VIRGINIA THAT WAS A BIG BLUE STATE. IN 2020, NOT ONE THEY THOUGHT WOULD BE COMPETITORS SO THESE NUMBERS AND WE ARE QUICKLY SHOWING YOU WHAT THEY ARE FEARING WHEN THEY SEE THESE NUMBERS THIS IS OUR ROGUE 270 MAP. THESE ARE THOSE SIX CORE BATTLEGROUND STATES AND TAKING YOU RIGHT THROUGH THEM, IF TRUMP WERE TO WIN GEORGIA AS THAT PULLING RIGHT NOW PUTS THEM AHEAD THERE, YOU COULD SEE RIGHT AWAY THAT JUMPED HIM TO 251, ARIZONA WOULD PUT HIM OVER TO 60. NEVADA WOULD PUT HIM ON THE CUSP OF VICTORY AT STATES WOULD PUT HIM OVER. YOU CAN SEE WHAT PENNSYLVANI 26 THEN ANY OF THESE THREE MIDWEST STATES WOULD THEN PUT HIM OVER AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT PENNSYLVANIA WOULD DO THEN HE WOULD JUST BE ADDING INSURANCE IF HE GOT MICHIGAN OR WISCONSIN, HE DOESN'T HAVE TO WIN ALL SIX OF THOSE, YOU CAN SEE LESS THAN THAT WOULD DO THE DEMOCRATS ARE LOOKING AT THOSE POLES AND THEY ARE FEARING THIS KIND OF AN OUTCOME AND THEN IF EVER, TRUMP WERE ABLE TO PUT THOSE OTHER STATES INTO PLAY AND START WINNING THEM LIKE A STATE LIKE VIRGINIA, IT WOULD START TO GET OUT OF CONTROL THEIR AND THERE ARE OTHER STATES EVEN LIKE NEW HAMPSHIRE, MINNESOTA THAT EVEN SOME DEMOCRATS ARE GETTING WORRIED ABOUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRATS ARE FEARING BASED ON THOSE NUMBERS NOW THE BIDEN FOLKS WILL TELL YOU HE IS STILL COMPETITIVE, HE CAN GET BACK IN IT THERE STILL A LOT OF NEGATIVES ABOUT TRUMP THEY AN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE BOTTOM LINE JOE BIDEN'S PARTY IS FEARING THIS KIND OF OUTCOME THAT WE SHOULD ALSO NOTE WHILE THESE ARE THE NUMBERS THAT HAVE BEEN NERVOUS ABOUT JOE BIDEN, THE SAME POLLING DOES NOT SHOW A CLEAR OBVIOUS ALTERNATIVE CANDIDATE WHO WOULD IMMEDIATELY REVERSE THIS RESULT. >> THAT'S WHY THERE HAS BEEN SO MUCH ON THIS, THANK YOU SO MUCH WE WILL BE BACK WITH YOU, A BRIEF PROGRAMMING HOLD, EVEN WE WERE EXPECTING HULK HOGAN TO ORGANIZERS HAVE NOT TOLD US WHY, WE WERE EXPECTING COLE KOGAN TO BE THE FIRST SPEAKER THIS HOUR. 15 MINUTES AGO, NOT YET BUT THE CROWD IS DANCING TO THE MUSIC THAT HAS GONE ON LONGER THAN EXPECTED WE WILL KEEP YOU POSTED ON THAT. LET ME TURN TO YOU HALLIE JACKSON ON WHAT STEVE LAID OUT BECAUSE HE SHOW THE MAP, IT'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE TIGHT IN THE BATTLEGROUND THAT'S WHY WE CALL THEM BATTLEGROUND BUT WHAT SENT A SHIMMER UP THE SPINE OF DEMOCRATS IS SEEING SOFTENING AND SOME OF THE STATES HAVE BEEN RELIABLY BLUE LIKE VIRGINIA AND NEW HAMPSHIRE AND MINNESOTA. THAT'S WHAT THE CONCERN IS. AND THESE ARE STATES THAT I'M THINKING BACK TO THE LAST ELECTION, THE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN TALKED ABOUT THIS. WE ARE TARGETING SOME OF THESE PLACES, YOU THINK WE HAVE A SHOT AND IT WAS ALWAYS THE WHITE WHALE IN SOME WAYS FOR THEM NOW, GIVING YOU SOME INSIGHT INTO WHY THERE IS THAT DEMOCRATIC ANXIETY, IT'S EXACTLY FOR THAT REASON, NOT ONLY BELIEVING IF HE STAYS ON THE TICKET HE COULD LOSE THE BATTLEGROUND STATES BUT MAYBE THE MAP GETS EVEN WORSE. AND WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR DOWN BALLOT RACES? BECAUSE REMEMBER CONTROL OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE IS AT STAKE AND AT PLAY IN THIS ELECTION. SO WHEN IT COMES TO VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS YOU ARE SEEING REPUBLICANS START TO TALK TO HER IN CASE IT BECOMES A RESPONSIBILITY AND ONE OF THE SENIOR ADVISORS CALLED HER FOR EXAMPLE TO GASLIGHT HER AND SHE IS SUGGESTING SHE HELD COVER UP PRESIDENT BIDEN IS HER OFFICE, REPUBLICAN, AND ON THE FLIPSIDE SHE IS NOT ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL TO AND SHE IS GOING AFTER WHAT IS HAPPENING SAYING IF REPUBLICANS WANT UNITY THEY HAVE TO DO MORE THAN JUST USE THE WORD SAYING THEY ARE ESSENTIALLY TRYING TO PAVE THAT OVER. >> THE LARGER QUESTION OVER ARCHING ALL THIS IS IF PRESIDENT BIDEN DECIDES TO COME OFF THE TOP OF THE TICKET, WHAT ARE THE MECHANICS AND THE OPTICS BECAUSE THEN IT WILL PLAY LIKE THIS THERE'S A DIVIDE WITHIN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. THAN PRETHE >> THIS HAS BECOME SO COMPLICATED, THERE IS A DIVIDE WITHIN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, IF PRESIDENT BIDEN COMES OFF THE TICKET SHOULD HE ENDORSE VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS? SHOULD THEY HIT THE GROUND RUNNING? WITH A PREPLANNED TICKET? OR, SHOULD THERE BE A MINI PRIMARY, I CAN TELL YOU DEMOCRATS SAY LET'S HAVE THAT DEBATE, LET'S HAVE AN OPEN PRIMARY THEY SAY IT WILL BE GOOD FOR OUR DEMOCRACY, I HAVE TO TELL YOU I SPOKE WITH ONE DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKER WHO DESCRIBED THIS AS A REALLY SAD MOMENT, DESCRIBING THE PRESIDENT AS REFLECTIVE RIGHT NOW, HE IS SPEAKING MORE ABOUT THESE ARGUMENTS ABOUT CONCERNS OVER HIS VIABILITY, BY THE WAY I AM TOLD HE DEEPLY RESENTS THIS PILE ON THAT IS HAPPENING. SO WE WILL HAVE TO SEE HOW IT PLAYS OUT BECAUSE HE IS IN THE PROCESS OF RECOVERING FROM COVID . >> THESE TRUMPET DELEGATES HERE MAKING IT THEIR OWN PARTY AS THEY CONTINUE TO DANCE THEIR WAY THROUGH BUT WE ARE TOLD IS A HOLD IN THE SCHEDULE WE DON'T KNOW FOR HOW LONG OR WHAT IS HOLDING THINGS UP BUT NOBODY HERE SEEMS TO MIND. LET'S GO TO VON WHO IS ON THE FLOOR I DON'T KNOW IF HE IS ON THE MOVE BUT HE HAS NEWS FOR US. >> THIS IS JERRY McDANIEL AND WE WERE TALKING I THINK IN THIS MOMENT AND I WANT YOU TO TELL ME WHAT DID YOU FIRST GET INVOLVED WITH POLITICS? >> BACK IN 2008. BACK WHEN McCAIN AND SARAH PALIN WERE GETTING READY TO RUN FOR OFFICE. FIRST OF ALL, WHEN I SAW SARAH PALIN COME ONSTAGE I WAS AMAZED. I LOVED IT. >> I HELPED START IT. >> AND NINE YEARS LATER HE IS ABOUT TO TAKE THE STAGE AGAIN FOR THE THIRD TIME, LESTER AND SAVANNA DONALD TRUMP IS BACK TO THE ARENA. >> THE CROWD WENT WILD BECAUSE FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS ENTERED AND IS IN THE BUILDING AND WALKING UP THE STAIRS ABOUT TO GO INTO THE FRIENDS AND FAMILY BOX AND GREETING HIS SUPPORTERS SO WHATEVER WAS ON HOLD SEEMS TO BE ON HOLD FOR NOT MUCH LONGER. AS THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS THERE. AND LET'S START TO RUN BACK TO OUR PANEL HERE AS WE CONTINUE TO WATCH, WHAT WE ARE WAITING FOR TONIGHT, HULK HOGAN IS EXPECTED TO SPEAK. HIS DAUGHTER TIFFANY, WE WILL SEE IVANKA FOR THE FIRST TIME WE WILL SEE JUST ABOUT ALL THE FAMILY MEMBERS TOGETHER, I DON'T BELIEVE WE HAVE SEEN MELANIA TRUMP YET. ANYBODY HAVE A GLIMPSE OF HER? BUT SHE IS EXCITED TO BE THERE AS WELL, IT WILL BE FAMILY NIGHT AT THE RNC AS THE PRESIDENT TAKES THE STAGE IN HIS OFFICIAL NOMINATED SPEECH SO WE ARE EXPECTING HULK HOGAN, DANA WHITE, A PERFORMANCE BY KID ROCK AND THE NOMINATING SPEECH. >> IT'S SO STUNNING TO SEE JARED AND IVANKA, HAVING COVERED THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WE CANNOT STATE HOW INTEGRAL THEY WERE, THROUGH THE ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION. AND HERE THEY HAVE NOT BEEN HERE FOR THE FIRST FEW DAYS. OF THIS CONVENTION BUT HERE THEY ARE TONIGHT, SHOWING A FORCE FROM THE TRUMP FAMILY. AND I BELIEVE THIS IS HULK HOGAN, LET'S LISTEN. >> I DO NOT SEE MELANIA TRUMP. ♪♪ ♪♪ >> WE HAVE NOT YET SEEN MELANIA TRUMP BUT THE SPEECH FOR HULK HOGAN IS A LITTLE BIT LATE BUT HERE WE GO. >> USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USAA. USA. USA. >> LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING BROTHER. YOU KNOW SOMETHING, WHEN I CAME HERE TONIGHT, THERE WAS SO MUCH ENERGY IN THIS ROOM, I FELT MAYBE I WAS AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN GETTING READY TO WIN ANOTHER TITLE. BUT MAYBE I THOUGHT, THE VIBE WAS SO INTENSE AND THE ENERGY WAS SO CRAZY IT FELT LIKE MAYBE I WAS GOING TO PRESS THAT NO GOOD STINKY GIANT OVER MY HEAD AND SLAMMED HIM THROUGH THE MAT BROTHER. BUT WHAT I FOUND OUT, WAS I WAS IN A ROOM FULL OF REAL AMERICANS BROTHER. AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, WITH OUR LEADER UP THERE, MY HERO, THAT GLADIATOR, WE WILL BRING AMERICA BACK TOGETHER. ONE REAL AMERICAN AT A TIME OF BROTHER.AN AT A TIME, BROTHER. YOU KNOW SOMETHING, I HAVE SEEN SOME GREAT TAG TEAMS IN MY TIME. HULK HOGAN AND THE MACHO MAN RANDY SAVAGE. BUT YOU KNOW SOMETHING. I SEE THE GREATEST TAGTEAM OF MY LIFE STANDING UPON US GETTING READY TO STRAIGHTEN THIS COUNTRY OUT FOR ALL THE REAL AMERICANS [ CH. RS AND APPLAUSE ] EVEN THOUGH YOU GUYS ARE REAL AMERICANS, YOU BETTER GET READY. BECAUSE WHAT DONALD TRUMP BECOMES THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ALL THE REAL AMERICANS ARE GOING TO BE NICKNAMED TRUMP-ITES BECAUSE THEY WILL BE THERE FOR ALL FOUR YEARS SO WITH THE POWER OF DONALD J. TRUMP AND ALL THE TRUMP -ITES RUNNING WILD, AMERICA WILL GET BACK ON TRACK AND LIKE DONALD J TRUMP SAYS AMERICA IS GOING TO BE GREAT AGAIN. YOU KNOW, I LOOK OUT AND I SEE ALL THE REAL AMERICANS. I THINK ABOUT HOW DONALD TRUMP, HIS FAMILY WAS COMPROMISED. WHEN I LOOK OUT THERE AND I SEE DONALD TRUMP, I THINK ABOUT HOW HIS BUSINESS WAS COMPROMISED. BUT WHAT HAPPENED LAST WEEK, WHEN THEY TOOK A SHOT AT MY HERO, AND THEY TRIED TO KILL THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ENOUGH WAS ENOUGH. AND I SAID LET TRUMP MANIA RUN WILD, LET TRUMP MANIA MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! >> USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. >> YOU KNOW SOMETHING TRUMPITES , I DIDN'T COME HERE AS A WHOLE HOGAN BUT I HAD TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE TASTE. YOU KNOW MY NAME IS TERRY AND AS AN ENTERTAINER, I LOVE YOU TOO. AND AS AN ENTERTAINER, I TRY TO STAY OUT OF POLITICS. HAPPENED TO OUR COUNTRY OVER THE PAST FOUR YEARS, AND EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED LAST WEEKEND, I CAN NO LONGER STAY SILENT. I AM HERE TONIGHT BECAUSE I WANT THE WORLD TO KNOW THAT DONALD TRUMP IS A REAL AMERICAN HERO. AND I AM PROUD TO SUPPORT MY HERO AT THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THIS UNITED STATES. YOU KNOW GUYS, I HAVE KNOWN DONALD TRUMP FOR OVER 35 YEARS. HOLD ON A SECOND, HOLD ON, I JUST HAD A FLASHBACK. I JUST HAD A FLASHBACK MAN, THIS IS REALLY TRIPPING. YOU KNOW THE LAST TIME I WAS UP ON STAGE, DONALD TRUMP WAS SITTING AT RINGSIDE IN THE TRUMP PLAZA AND I WAS BLEEDING LIKE A PIG AND I WON THE WORLD TITLE RIGHT IN FRONT OF DONALD J. TRUMP. AND YOU KNOW SOMETHING, HE IS GOING TO WIN IN NOVEMBER AND WE ARE ALL GOING TO BE CHAMPIONS AGAIN WHEN HE WINS. AND LIKE I SAID, I HAVE KNOWN THAT MAN FOR OVER 35 YEARS. AND HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE BIGGEST PATRIOT AND HE STILL IS. HE HAS ALWAYS TOLD YOU EXACTLY WHAT HE THOUGHT AND HE STILL DOES BROTHER. AND NO MATTER THE ODDS, HE ALWAYS FINDS A WAY TO WIN AND WHEN HE IS BACK IN OUR WHITE HOUSE, AMERICA IS GOING TO START WINNING AGAIN. [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> YOU KNOW GUYS OVER MY CAREER I HAVE BEEN IN THE RING WITH SOME OF THE BIGGEST AND SOME OF THE BADDEST DUDES ON THE PLANET. AND I SWEAR IT OFF AGAINST LAWYERS, SAVAGES AND LIKE I SAID, BODY SLAMMED GIANTS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RING. AND I KNOW TOUGH GUYS BUT LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING BROTHER, DONALD TRUMP IS THE TOUGHEST OF THEM ALL THEM ALL.. [ APPLAUSE ] THEY HAVE THROWN EVERYTHING AT DONALD TRUMP. ALL THE INVESTIGATIONS, THE IMPEACHMENTS, THE COURT CASES. AND HE IS STILL STANDING AND KICKING THEIR BUTTS. YOU KNOW, WE NEVER HAD A BETTER TIME THAN IN THE TRUMP YEARS, BACK THEN WE HAD A THRIVING ECONOMY, WE HAD STRONG BORDERS. WE HAD SAFE STREETS, WE HAD PEACE AND RESPECT AROUND THE WORLD. BUT THEN WE LOST IT ALL IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE. CRIME IS OUT OF CONTROL. THE BORDER IS OUT OF CONTROL. THE PRICE OF FOOD AND GAS AND HOUSING IS OUT OF CONTROL. AND THE ONLY PERSON WHO CAN CLEAN THIS UP IS DONALD TRUMP. YOU KNOW GUYS I REALLY LOVE THIS COUNTRY AND I HAVE LIVED THE AMERICAN DREAM AND I WANT MY KIDS, YOUR KIDS AND ALL THOSE LIDDY, LITTLE HULK A MANIACS TO LIVE THE DREAM TOO. THIS NOVEMBER GUYS, WE CAN SAVE THE AMERICAN DREAM FOR EVERYONE. AND DONALD TRUMP IS THE PRESIDENT WHO WILL GET THE JOB DONE. SO ALL YOU CRIMINALS, ALL YOU LOW LIVES, ALL YOU SCUMBAGS AND ALL YOU DRUG DEALERS AND ALL YOU CROOKED POLITICIANS, NEED TO ANSWER ONE QUESTION BROTHER. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WHEN DONALD TRUMP AND ALL THE TRUMP MANIACS RUN WILD ON YOU BROTHER? GOD BLESS YOU. AND THANK YOU. >> HULK HOGAN BRINGING THE FIGHT TO THIS CONVENTION AND THE MAN OF HONOR HERE TONIGHT, SEEMS TO LIKE IT VERY, VERY MUCH. THE TRUMP FAMILY IN POSITION NOW. AS WE AWAIT THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH. AND HALLIE JACKSON IT HAS BEEN INTERESTING BECAUSE WE HAVE SEEN AN EMPHASIS ON KIND OF THE SOFTER SIDE OF DONALD TRUMP, A LOT OF SPEECHES ABOUT GRANDPA DONALD TRUMP AND THE FATHER AND THEY ARE REVERTING TO FORM AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT APPEALS TO THE BASE OF THE PARTY. >> WE HAVE SEEN THAT THROUGHOUT THE FIGHTER DONALD TRUMP AND SOMETHING THAT CERTAINLY APPEAL TO THE BASE OF THE PARTY. >> WE HAVE SEEN THAT THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THE WEEK THERE HAVE BEEN SPEAKERS THAT TALKED ABOUT THAT RED MEAT SO TO SPEAK WITH RHETORIC THAT IS MORE ALIGNED WITH WHERE THE FACE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS. FREDERICK THAT THE DEMOCRATS SEE AS INFLAMMATORY, THIS IS A REAL WORKING CLASS ENERGY HERE WITH THE BRAWLER'S THAT ARE COMING UP THE STAGE HERE, UFC HEAD DANA WHITE SET TO COME OUT AS WELL, CLEARLY THERE IS AN EFFORT TO TARGET SOME OF THE VOTERS WHO DO MAKE UP A PORTION OF THE PRESIDENTS BASE AT THIS POINT, IT'S ALSO INTERESTING TO SEE THE DYNAMIC THAT PLAYS AND RELATES TO THE FORMER PRESIDENT REMARKS OVER AND OVER AGAIN, PEOPLE AROUND HIM HAVE SUGGESTED IT WILL BE UNIFYING AND MADE THE CALL TO UNITY BUT ALSO I HAVE HEARD THAT DONALD TRUMP WILL BE DONALD TRUMP AND AT MOMENTS OF BUSINESS IN THIS COUNTRY HE HAS NOT ISSUED THOSE CALLS FOR UNITY, YOU THINK BACK TO CHARLOTTESVILLE AND HIS RESPONSE AFTER 2020 BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT AND THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD, THOSE HAVE BEEN MOMENTS WHERE THE PRESIDENT HAS DONE ANYTHING BUT UNITE THE COUNTRY SO THERE IS A QUESTION OF HOW HE WILL WALK THAT LINE AND WHAT HE ACTUALLY WILL SAY TONIGHT. >> AND WILL HE MENTION THE ELECTION? >> WE KNOW THAT FROM THE MOMENT HE TOOK THIS NOMINATION TO CONVENTIONS AGO HE CAME OUT WITH A KIND OF OMINOUS AND DARK PICTURE OF WHAT AMERICA COULD BE AND HIS SPEECH IS TYPICALLY MARKED BY DEFIANCE AND GRIEVANCE THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE SEEN IN HIS NAUGURATION SPEECH IN 2017 REFERENCING AMERICAN CARNAGE AND EVEN MORE RECENTLY ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL TALKING ABOUT THIS NATION BEING IN CRISIS SO IT'S A REAL QUESTION TONIGHT, WE WILL FIND OUT. >> WE WILL TAKE A BREAK WE WILL HEAR TONIGHT'S BIG SPEECHES INCLUDING ERIC TRUMP AND FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP HIMSELF AS HE ACCEPTS THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE. MORE FROM THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION ON NBC NEWS AFTER THIS. >> NEWS LIVES IN THE NOW. >> LET'S BREAK DOWN WHAT WE KNOW. >> NEWS FOR THE GENERATION OF NOW, IT IS NBC NEWS NOW. >>> WELCOME BACK TO MILWAUKEE AND OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE FINAL NIGHT OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION SOON WE WILL HEAR FROM ERIC TRUMP SON OF THE PRESIDENT >> EARLIER THIS WEEK, WE PUT HI PRESIDENT OF COURSE THE EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION. >> EARLIER THIS WEEK WE PUT HIS FATHER OVER THE TOP DURING THE RNC'S ROLLCALL HAVING THE FORMER PRESIDENT THE DELEGATES NEEDED TO OFFICIALLY SECURE THE NOMINEES AND SEEING IF YOU ACCEPT THE NOMINATION DURING HIS SPEECH. WE ARE HEARING FROM FRANKLIN GRAHAM I WANT TO GO TO GARRETT HAAKE ON THE FLOOR AND TELL US WHAT YOU IN FACT IT MAY BE A MOMENT OF PRAYER BUT I WANT TO GO TO GARRETT ON THE FLOOR AND TELL US WHAT YOU ARE SEEING DOWN THERE WE WERE LOOKING FOR THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE JD VANCE BUT HAVE NOT SEEN HIM YET BUT I HEARD YOU HAVE A SIGHT OF HIM. >> A LITTLE BIT UNUSUAL THAT VANCE AND HIS WIFE DIDN'T SHOW UP WITH THE TRUMP AND TRUMP FAMILY. IT HAS TO BE VERY QUIET HERE GUYS BUT AS YOU CAN SEE VANCE IS UP ON THE STAGE NOW WITH THE FORMER PRESIDENT BEHIND US. >> YOU ARE UNDERSTANDING, WE UNDERSTAND YOU'RE IN A DIFFICULT SPOT, FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AS HIS PRAYER IS LED HERE. THE HALL. >> MAKE AMERICA GREAT ONCE AGAIN. WE >> WE PRAY, IN MY LORD AND SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST, AMEN. >> SO A PRAYER TO WRAP UP, THE EVANGELICAL COMMUNITY AKITA TRUMP VICTORY IN 2016, STRONG WORDS FOR HIM AND HAVE STUCK BY HIM THROUGH THICK AND THIN AND WE'VE HEARD A LOT FROM THEM THIS WEEK AS WELL. >> I AM STRUCK WATCHING HIM BY HIS CURRENT RUNNING MATE WHEN YOU LOOK AT HIS LAST RUNNING MATE AND THAT IS FORMER VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE TO BRING THE OLIVE BRANCH THE EVANGELICAL COMMUNITY. AND WE ARE ABOUT TO HEAR FROM ERIC TRUMP, SON OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT. >> THAT EVENING AMERICA. EIGHT YEARS AGO, MY FATHER SAT OUR FAMILY DOWN. HE SPOKE OF A NATION OF DREAMS SLIPPING AWAY, OF A SLIPPING AWAY, OF A FUTURE ENDANGERED BY FAILED LEADERSHIP AND BROKEN PROMISES. IT WAS IN THAT MOMENT I KNEW MY FATHER HAD MADE A DECISION THAT WOULD FOREVER CHANGE OUR LIVES. WE REALIZED HE HAD CHOSEN TO STEP INTO THE ARENA. TO FIGHT FOR THE SOULS OF AMERICA AND DECIDED TO LEAVE BEHIND THE COMFORTS OF AN UNBELIEVABLE BUSINESS EMPIRE. TO LEAVE BEHIND EVERYTHING HE HAD EVER BUILT. TO ANSWER THE CALL TO SERVE OUR NATION. UNLIKE HIS PREDECESSOR, IT WAS NOT A DECISION FOR AN OUT OF A NECESSITY. UNLIKE THE CURRENT PRESIDENT, IT WAS NOT A DECISION THAT WOULD ENRICH HIS FAMILY. RATHER HIS DECISION MADE OUR LOVE FOR THIS COUNTRY AND A DEEP CONCERN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE. FUTURE. >> MY FATHER SAID IT WOULD NOT BE EASY AND THAT THERE WOULD BE A HUGE PRICE TO PAY AND THAT THE ATTACKS WOULD BE VICIOUS, LOOKING BACK THAT WAS AN UNDERSTATEMENT, THE MADE UP RUSSIA HOAX, THE SHAM IMPEACHMENT, THE EFFORTS TO DESTROY AN UNBELIEVABLE COMPANY. THE COMPANY THAT I RUN TODAY. THE EFFORTS TO CANCEL US TO SILENCE HIM. TO GAG HIS FREE-SPEECH AND TO DRAG HIM THROUGH EVERY RADICAL LEFT HOUSE IN AMERICA, TO TAKE HIS LIFE. YET THROUGH IT ALL HE SHOWED UNWAVERING COURAGE AND DETERMINATION, NOT JUST IN PUBLIC BUT IN EVERY THE CONVERSATION WITH ME AND OUR FAMILY. >> HE STOOD TALL, FUELED NOT BY PERSONAL AMBITION, BUT BY A PROFOUND LOVE FOR THIS COUNTRY AND A LOVE FOR ALL OF YOU, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. THAT MAN IS MY FATHER. THAT MAN IS THE 45th PRESIDENT AND SOON-TO-BE 47th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, THAT MAN IS DONALD J. TRUMP. [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] [ CROWD CHANTING FOUR MORE YEARS ] >> EACH TIME I HAVE STOOD ON THIS STAGE AMERICA HAS BEEN IN A DIRE CROSSROAD, AND 2016 MANY PEOPLE BEGAN TO DOUBT AMERICA, OUR ECONOMY WAS STRUGGLING AND JOBS WERE SCARCE. OUR STANDING ON THE WORLD STAGE WAS WEAK AT THAT POINT, VETERANS WERE FORGOTTEN AND OUR MILITARY WAS IN SHAMBLES, OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM WAS BROKEN. RANKED 30th IN THE WORLD. HE COULD NO LONGER TOLERATE AND IT MINISTRATION I HAD $150 BILLION TO IRAN, A COUNTRY THAT SAYS DEATH TO AMERICA OR WITNESS CONTINUED ATTACKS ON OUR CONSTITUTION AND OUR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. OR SEE THE DISRESPECT SHOWN TO HER UNBELIEVABLE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WHO ARE BEING DISARMED, DEFUNDED AND PERSECUTED EACH AND EVERY DAY. HE COULD NO LONGER STAND TO SEE WORDS LIKE CHRISTMAS STRIPPED FROM PUBLIC USE OR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE REMOVED FROM OUR SCHOOLS. MY FATHER SAW POTENTIAL WHERE OTHERS SAW DESPAIR. DONALD TRUMP BUILT THE NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE. HE DID SO DURING A TIME, HE DID SO DURING A TIME WHEN BUSINESSES WERE TURNING AWAY FROM THE CITY HE LOVED. CRIME WAS RAMPANT, THE STREETS WERE DIRTY. BUT HE HAD THE MIGHTIEST TOUCH AND HE TURNED THE STREETS AND NEIGHBORHOODS INTO GOLD. HE FACED EVERY CHALLENGE WITH TREMENDOUS VISION AND GRIT. AS HE DID DURING THE 2016 ELECTION, HE ROLLED UP HIS SLEEVE AND REMAINED UNAPOLOGETIC. HE DID NOT CARE TO BE POLITICALLY CORRECT. HE DID NOT COMPARE TO BE -- HE DID NOT CARE TO BE POLITICALLY HE RESTORED HOPE AND RESTORED A VOICE TO MILLIONS OF AMERICANS WHO HAD BEEN IGNORED, HE RESTORED THE AMERICAN DREAM, UNDER MY FATHER'S LEADERSHIP THE ECONOMY CLIMBED TO RECORD HEIGHTS. JOBS WERE CREATED AS AN UNTHINKABLE PACE. UNEMPLOYMENT REACHED HISTORIC LOWS ACROSS ALL DEMOGRAPHICS. HE CUT TAXES FOR HARD-WORKING FAMILIES AND BUSINESSES AND/REGULATIONS. WE SAW THE GREATEST 401(K) INCREASE IN AMERICAN HISTORY. PEOPLE BOUGHT THEIR FIRST HOMES IN AN ENVIRONMENT THAT SAW 2 TO 3% INTEREST RATES AND STARTED THEIR FAMILIES. MY FATHER MADE T UNITED STATES ENERGY INDEPENDENT WITH THE LOWEST GAS PRICES IN DECADES LOWEST GAS PRICES IN DECADES. MY FATHER MADE THE UNITED STATES SAFE.. MY FATHER MADE THE UNITED STATES SAFE, OUR BORDERS WERE CLOSED AND THERE WAS PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. THE TERRORISTS WERE DEAD. MY FATHER MADE THE UNITED STATES RESPECTED AGAIN WITH THE CURRENT , THE COURAGE TO WALK AND CREATE TARIFFS ON CHINA AND EUROPE TRADE DEALS THAT COST AMERICANS THEIR JOBS THEIR JOBS. [ APPLAUSE ]. HE BROUGHT MANUFACTURING BACK TO AMERICA, SMALL BUSINESSES FLOURISHED, HE DID WHAT HE PROMISED, HE PUT AMERICA FIRST. WE WERE WINNING. DONALD TRUMP MADE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> BUT HE ALSO CREATED A MOVEMENT, A MOVEMENT THAT THREATENED A MOVEMENT THAT CAST A BRIGHT LIGHT ON THE INSTI THEONS SPECL INTERESTS IN THE POLITICAL ELITES. A MOVEMENT THAT CAST A BRIGHT LIGHT ON THE INSTITUTIONS WEAPON IS AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. YOU SEE IT IN OUR SCHOOLS. GOD BLESS THE MOMS WHO FOUGHT BACK. YOU SEE IT IN YOUR WORKPLACE AND YOU SEE IT ON EVERY NEWS STATION IN EVERY NEWSPAPER. YOU SEE IT IN THE MILITARY THE MOST ICONIC MILITARY INSTALLATIONS ON PLANET EARTH ARE STRIPPED OF THEIR IDENTITY AND RENAMED, FORT BRAGG, FORT BENNING, FORT HOOD, YOU SEE IT IN HOLLYWOOD AND SEE IT IN OUR JUDICIAL SYSTEM, THEY DON'T EVEN HIDE IT ANYMORE. MY FATHER HAS BEEN CENSORED, THE FORMER PRESIDENT RIPPED OFF TWITTER, INSTAGRAM AND FACE BOOK WHILE TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS REMAINED INTACT. MY FATHER HAS BEEN PERSECUTED. TARGETED BY FAR LEFT DEMOCRATS FUNDED BY SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS AND HAND-PICKED JUDGES. THE BALL MY FATHER HAS BEEN PULLED OFF THE BALLOTS OF STATES, RADICAL JUSTICES ATTEMPTING TO DEFY THE WILL OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS WHO ADORE WHO HE IS. AND WHAT HE STANDS FOR. MY FATHER EVEN BECAME THE TARGET OF AN ASSASSIN WHO ALMOST KILLED AMERICA'S SINGLE GREATEST HOPE, FOR OUR FUTURE. THE SWAMP IS TERRIFIED OF THIS INCREDIBLE MOVEMENT. THEY ARE TERRIFIED OF IT. THEY ARE TERRIFIED OF YOU AND THE TENS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WATCHING US ON TV RIGHT NOW. THEY HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING TO KEEP THEM FROM YOU, EVERYTHING, TO DESTROY HIS LEGACY AND TO DESTROY HIS FAMILY, THEY HAVE FAILED AND THEY WILL NOT WIN. >> I LOVE MY FLORIDA DELEGATION RIGHT HERE. [ CHEE >> THANK YOU. >> MY FATHER STANDS BEFORE YOU WITH THE MOST VOTES OF ANY REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE OF THE HISTORY OF OUR NATION. HE HAS DEFIED THE PREDICTIONS OF EVERY POLITICAL REPORT AND ENERGIZES AMERICANS TO THE ISSUES IN THIS NATION AND DOES SO WITH AND GARNISHED HONESTY, HE IS NOT A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY, HE IS A THREAT TO THOSE WHO DEFY OUR REPUBLIC, MANY OF WHOM ARE BOUGHT AND SOLD, ARRIVED AND COERCED, PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER AND HAVE BEEN DEPENDENT ON THE GOVERNMENT THEIR ENTIRE ADULT LIVES. AS IT WAS IN 2016 AMERICA IS AT THE CROSSROADS AGAIN, ENERGY PRICES ARE SOARING, EVERYTHING IS UNAFFORDABLE. THE U.S. DOLLAR HAS BEEN DIMINISHED AND INFLATION HAS MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR AMERICANS TO LIVE. TO SAVE FOR THEIR FUTURE. OUR INFRASTRUCTURE IS CRUMBLING AND OUR BORDER IS OUT OF CONTROL. MILLIONS ARE DISPLACED IN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE, A WAR THAT HAS NO END IN THE WAR THAT WE ARE FUNDING. THE MIDDLE EAST HAS BECOME A HORNETS NEST, OUR GREATEST ALLY, ISRAEL TOTALLY UNDER SIEGE. DEFENSIBLE IS KILLING OUR USE AND DESTROYING FAMILIES WHILE THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION STAND IDLY BY, HOPING THEIR INACTION WILL ENFORCE VOTES. CRIME IN OUR SUBURBS AND CITIES. MALE ATHLETES GUYS MY HEIGHT 6'5" ARE SWIMMING IN WOMEN'S SPORTS. DESTROYING THE DREAMS OF YOUNG GIRLS WHO HAVE TRAINED EVERY MINUTE OF THEIR LIVES WE NO LONGERWERUST OUR J NO IAL LONGER TRUST OUR ELECTIONS, WE NO LONGER TRUST OUR JUDICIAL SYSTEM, AND WE NO LONGER BELIEVE THAT OUR GOVERNMENT IS WORKING IN OUR BEST INTEREST [ APPLAUSE ]. IN SPITE OF WH IN SPITE OF WHERE WE ARE TODAY AS A NATION I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO EVERY AMERICAN. TO THE HOMELESS VETERANS, SLEEPING UNDER A BRIDGE. AS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE HOUSED IN THE MOST EXPENSIVE HOTELS IN NEW YORK. I AM SORRY, WE KNOW IT IS WRONG AND WE WILL FIX IT. [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> TO THE SINGLE MOTHER WHO CAN NO LONGER AFFORD HER RENT, AFFORD GROCERIES AND HAS BEEN FORCED TO WORK THREE JOBS, I'M SORRY, IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY. TO THE PARENTS WHO LOST A SON OR DAUGHTER TO FENTANYL, INCLUDING THE INCREDIBLE WOMAN THAT SPOKE THE OTHER NIGHT, WHILE THE ADMINISTRATION DOES ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. I AM SORRY. YOUR GOVERNMENT CAN DO SO MUCH BETTER. AND IT WILL. TO THE CHILDREN WHO ARE BEING BRAINWASHED INSTEAD OF LEARNING THE FUNDAMENTALS OF SCHOOL, I AM SORRY, THERE ARE TEACHERS WHO CARE AND MY FATHER WILL EMPOWER THEM. TO THE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND PATROL, SECRET SERVICE AGENTS THAT WERE EVERY SINGLE DAY TO PROTECT OUR COMMUNITIES KNOWING THAT THE SYSTEM WILL THROW YOU UNDER THE BUS, I AM SORRY, WE WILL STAND BEHIND YOU. [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> THE COMMUTERS OFTEN PETRIFIED TO TAKE A BUS, TAKE A TRAIN OR WALK THE STREETS IN CITIES ACROSS OUR NATION, I'M SORRY, THAT MAN RIGHT THERE WILL FIX THIS. TO THE CONSTRUCTION WORKERS INTO THE MIDDLE CLASS FAMILIES, THE FAMILIES WITH SHOULDER AND WITH DISABILITIES, FAMILIES WHO CAN NO LONGER AFFORD MEDICAL BENEFITS OR TO TAKE A VACATION, I AM SORRY, WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. AND TO MY FATHER, WHO HAS BEEN RUTHLESSLY SILENCED, SLANDERED AND ATTACKED BY CORRUPTED ADMINISTRATION, I AM SORRY, WE KNOW AND AMERICA KNOWS THAT THEY ARE NOT JUST AFTER YOU, THEY ARE AFTER ALL OF US AND YOU JUST HAVE TO BE STANDING IN THEIR WAY. >> FOR ALL AMERICANS WATCHING TONIGHT, THE GREATEST RETRIBUTION WILL BE OUR SUCCESS. SUCCESS OT JUST FOR OURSELVES BUT FOR OUR GRANDCHILDREN AND OUR CHILDREN UNDER PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP AMERICA WILL BE RESPECTED, OUR CITIES WILL BE SAFE, OUR STREETS WILL BE CLEAN. AND OUR BORDER WILL ONCE AGAIN BE SECURE. [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] WE WILL HAVE PEACE. WE WILL HAVE PROSPERITY. YOUR HARD-EARNED TAX DOLLARS WILL NOT BE SQUANDERED IN CORRUPT FOREIGN NATIONS. EDUCATION WILL BE HANDED BACK TO THE STATES. WE WILL NO LONGER BE 30th IN THE WORLD, WE WILL BE FIRST. >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] [ CROWD CHANTING ] USA! [ CROWD CHANTING USA >> OUR CHILDREN WILL UNDERSTAND FAMILY, OUR CHILDREN WILL HAVE VALUES, AND OUR CHILDREN WILL LOVE GOD. OUR COUNTRY WILL PRIORITIZE FREE SPEECH, RESPECT FREEDOM OF RELIGION, AND HONOR OUR CONSTITUTION. AS HIS SON, I'VE NEVER BEEN MORE PROUD OF A PERSON IN MY LIFE, A MAN WHO HAS DEFIED ALL ODDS MORE THAN ONCE, A MAN WHO BELIEVES IN THE PROMISE OF AMERICA WHEN OTHERS TURNED AWAY. A MAN WHO SAW A NATION IN NEED OF A CHAMPION AND ANSWERED THAT CALL WITH UNWAVERING DETERMINATION AND COURAGE. A MAN WHO SURVIVED A BULLET THAT WAS INTENDED TO ELIMINATE HIM PERMANENTLY FROM OUR FUTURE, AND FROM OUR FAMILY. NEVER HAVE I BEEN MORE PROUD TO BE A TRUMP. >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] NEVER HAVE I BEEN NEVER HAVE I BEEN MORE PROUD TO STAND BY MY FATHER'S SIDE. I REMAIN INCREDIBLY HONORED TO BE PART OF THIS JOURNEY, A JOURNEY WITH ALL OF YOU. TO SAVE THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH, A JOURNEY WITH THE MOST INCREDIBLE PEOPLE I HAVE EVER MET. DAD, FIVE DAYS AGO, LARA, LUKE, CAROLINA, AND I, HELD OUR BREATH AS WE SAW BLOOD POUR ACROSS YOUR FACE. BY THE GRACE OF GOD DIVINE INTERVENTION, AND YOUR GUARDIAN ANGELS ABOVE, YOU SURVIVED. >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] [ CROWD CHANTING ] [ CROWD CHANTING ] WE LOVE TRUMP! [ CROWD CHANTING WE LOVE TRUMP ] YOU ARE THE GREATEST FIGHTER I HAVE EVER SEEN. YOU ARE STRONG. YOU ARE FULL OF LIFE. >> YOU ARE THE GREATEST FIGHTER I HAVE EVER SEEN. YOU ARE STRONG. YOU ARE FULL OF LIFE, AND YOU ARE UNAPOLOGETIC. YOUR OPTIMISM IS CONTAGIOUS. YOUR BACKBONE IS UNBREAKABLE. YOUR CONVICTION TO FIGHT FOR WHAT IS RIGHT, AND AGAINST ALL THAT IS WRONG, IS TRULY NEXT LEVEL. >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> THE WHOLE WORLD SO YOUR STRENGTH AS YOU STOOD UP, YOU WIPED THE BLOOD OFF YOUR-- FACE- - AND YOU PUT YOUR FIST IN THE AIR, IN A MOMENT THAT WILL BE REMEMBERED AS ONE OF THE MOST COURAGEOUS ACTS IN HISTORY OF AMERICAN POLITICS, YOU SHOUTED FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! >> [ CROWD CHANTING ] FIGHT! >> I AM HONORED TO E YOUR SON. I'M HONORE LEADER.D TO SPEAK TO YOU EPIT GREAT NATION TONIGHT. YOU ARE A TRUE LEADER. YOU EPITOMIZE A STRENGTH, OUR COUNTRY LOVES YOU. OUR COUNTRY APPRECIATES YOU IN OUR COUNTRY MISSES YOU, AND ON NOVEMBER 3rd FIFTH HOUR PRESIDENT WILL BE ELECTED, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. GOOD NIGHT, MILWAUKEE! GOD BLESS YOU ALL! ♪ >> ERIC TRUMP, DELIVERING THAT SPEECH, DELIVERING MUCH OF THE RED MEAT WE SAW FROM HIS BROTHER, YESTERDAY, IGNITING AN ENERGIZING CONVENTION. FOR THOSE OF YOU JUST JOINING US WE JUST HEARD THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S SON, ERIC, SPEAK, ON THIS FOURTH NIGHT OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. >> WE WILL BE HEARING FROM THE FORMER PRESIDENT, THERE WILL BE A PERFORMANCE BY KID ROCK. DANA WHITE WILL BE INTRODUCING THE PRESIDENT. HALLIE JACKSON, AS ALWAYS, IT'S ALSO INTERESTING, THEY LAST NIGHT, IT IS DONALD JR. AND ERIC TRUMP WHO HAVE REALLY BROUGHT OUT THOSE GRIEVANCE ISSUES THAT DONALD TRUMP TALKED ABOUT ALL THE TIME AND THE RALLIES THAT WE HERE A PERSECUTT AND PROSECUTED.THE CONVENTION HAVE HEARD, THAT HE'S BEEN PERSECUTED, PROSECUTED, THIS CROWD LOVES IT. >> AND THAT'S THE BIG QUESTION NOW, THE AUDIENCE BACK AT HOME IS GOING TO WAIT FOR THE BIG SHOW AND DONALD TRUMP'S SPEECH, BUT IT'S SO NOTABLE, BECAUSE HIS SONS, DON AND ERIC, THE ATTACK DOGS, TYPICALLY WHAT WE SEE FROM THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE, AND THEY DIDN'T HOLD BACK, TALKING ABOUT HOW WE NO LONGER TRUST OUR ELECTIONS, AND THERE HAS BEEN AN EROSION OF FAITH IN OUR INSTITUTIONS AND OUR ELECTIONS IN PART BECAUSE FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS YET TO CONCEDE THE LAST ELECTION, AND THERE HAVE BEEN QUESTIONS RAISED ABOUT THE LAST ELECTION EVEN THOUGH ALL OF THE LEGAL CHALLENGES-- >> PEOPLE ARE QUESTIONING IT, BECAUSE HE'S BEEN FEEDING THAT NARRATIVE FOR FOUR PLUS YEARS. >> REPUBLICANS ARE DOUBLING DOWN TRYING TO SAY, WE GOTTA GET OUT LOW TURNOUT IN THE MIDTERMS, SO REPUBLICANS ARE SAYING WE'VE GOT TO DOUBLE DOWN AND GET OUT EARLY IN THIS NEXT CYCLE. TRUMP TRIED TO REDEFINE RETRIBUTION, HE SAID OUR RETRIBUTION WILL BE OUR SUCCESS, A SLIGHTLY WAY. >> AT ONE POINT MANY OF YOU WATCHING ME BE WONDERING WHO THE LITTLE GIRL WAS SITTING IN THE LAP OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT, CAROLINA TRUMP, SHE IS THE DAUGHTER OF ERIC TRUMP. >> YES, SHE WAS SITTING ON HER GRANDFATHER'S LAP, SHE'S 4 YEARS OLD. SORT OF THE PRINCE LOUIS VIBES. EVERY SHONE ASLEIS RIGHT NOW. MIXING G ON THE CONVENTION FLOOR, RUNNING A BIT BEHIND SCHEDULE RIGHT NOW, BUT EXPECT THE MARQUEE EVENT, FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP, TO TAKE THE STAGE. FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID HE RIPPED UP HIS SPEECH, WE WEREN'T HEARING THAT SAME SORT OF PERSECUTION. THERE ARE CALLS UNCHARACTERISTIC INCLUDING A LINE IN THERE ABOUT SAYING I DON'T WANT TO BE IN PRESIDENT POSITION AND HALF OF AMERICA BOUGHT THE WHOLE OF AMERICA. >> COMING FROM HIM, THAT'S THE LINE I WAS LOOKING AT, SAVANNAH, AS WE HAVE THESE EXCERPTS WE CAN SHARE WITH PEOPLE, HE SAYS AS AMERICANS ARE BOUND BY A SINGLE FATE AND SHARED DESTINY HE STRIKES SOME PRETTY OVERTLY RELIGIOUSAVED HIM OVERTONES TALKING ABOUT HOW GOD SAVED HIM, HE BELIEVES, AND DIVINE INTERVENTION IN THAT MOMENT, HE'S EXPECTED NOW BASED ON THIS REPORTING TO CLEARLY LAY OUT HIS ACCOUNT OF WHAT HAPPENED. HE SAID SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES OF I'LL TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED, AND I'LL NEVER TELL YOU A SECOND TIME. IT WILL BE INTERESTING-- >> RIGHT NOW, MELANIA TRUMP IS STEPPING OUT TO THE ROAR OF THE CROWD. I CAUGHT JUST A GLIMPSE OF HER. ♪ ♪♪ >> A MUSICAL INTERLUDE RIGHT NOW AT THE RNC, IN WALKIE, AS THE CROWD IN MILWAUKEE. WE ARE SEEING FORMER FIRST LADY, MELANIA TRUMP, ENTER THE BUILDING, TO APPLAUSE READ >> WE HAVE NOT SEEN EACH OF HER IN THIS CAMPAIGN, SO THIS IS SOMETHING A BIT DIFFERENT. >> THERE WAS AN EMOTIONAL STATEMENT ON SUNDAY AFTER THE SHOOTING, AT THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT OF HER HUSBAND, FOR HER TO BE HERE ON THIS NIGHT IS NOTABLE. IS NOTABLE. >> AND, KRISTIN, WHAT WE HAVE SEEN IN TERMS OF INVOLVEMENT IS DIFFERENT. >> IN 2016 HIS FAMILY WAS A STAPLE ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, MELANIA WAS A STAPLE BY HIS SIDE. I HAD A CHANCE TO INTERVIEW THE FORMER PRESIDENT IN SEPTEMBER, LAST YEAR. WE HAVE NOT SEEN MUCH OF HER, AND HE NOTED SHE IS A PRIVATE PERSON BY NATURE. >>> WE ARE GOING TO SQUEEZE IN A QUICK BREAK. WE ARE BACK RIGHT AFTER THIS. NOTE ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >>> WE ARE TALKING POSSIBLY 1 TRILLION GALAXIES? >> YES. >> THAT IS SO HARD TO COMPUTE. >> WHETHER IT'S THE MOON, WHETHER IT'S MARS, IT FEELS LIKE WE ARE ON THE CUSP OF SOMETHING BIG. >>> MORE AMERICANS TURN TO NBC NEWS THAN ANY OTHER NEWS ORGANIZATION. >>> WELCOME BACK TO OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE FINAL IGHT OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION . SOON FROM THE RNC WE WILL SEE A PERFORMANCE FROM THE MUSICIAN, KID ROCK. LATER WE WILL HEAR FROM DANA WHITE, AND FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. RIGHT NOW THEY ARE WATCHING A VIDEO MONTAGE OF DONALD TRUMP OFFICE CAREER. >> SOME GREATEST APPEARANCES. LET'S GO TO TOM LLAMAS ON THE FLOOR TO SEE HOW THE DELEGATES ARE ENJOYING THE SHOW TONIGHT. >> YEAH, THERE IS THIS SECTION, I CALL IT THE DONALD TRUMP MOVIE SECTION. LOOKS LIKE EVERYONE IS WATCHING HERE ON THE FLOOR OF THE CONVENTION HALL IN MILWAUKEE. THE PEOPLE WHO ARE PRODUCING THIS CONVENTION, ON PAPER IT MAY HAVE LOOKED A LITTLE STRANGE, A LITTLE CRAZY, YOU TALK ABOUT PEOPLE LIKE HULK HOGAN, HULK HOGAN GAVE WHAT I THINK HAS BEEN THE BEST SPEECH AT THIS CONVENTION SO FAR, AND THERE HAVE BEEN OME AMAZING SPEECHES HERE. HE WAS ALSO JUST ENTERTAINING, HE WAS FUNNY, HE MADE PEOPLE LAUGH, AND EVEN IF YOU DON'T CARE FOR THE POLITICS HE MAY HAVE ENTERTAINED YOU. LET'S TALK ABOUT THE FORMER FIRST LADY, RIGHT? THE WHOLE FAMILY WALKS OUT EXCEPT MELANIA TRUMP. THEY ADD A LITTLE DRAMA, THEN SURE ENOUGH THE WHOLE PLACE PAUSES, MELANIA TRUMP TAKES A SEAT IN THE VIP BOX NEXT TO HER HUSBAND. SHE WILL NOT SPEAK AT THIS CONVENTION, SHE SPOKE IN 2016. SHE HAS DECIDED NOT TO SPEAK HERE. SHE HAS TAKEN A MAJOR STEP BACK WITH ONLY DOING TWO EVENTS WITH THE LOG CABIN REPUBLICANS, AN LGBTQ SUPPORT GROUP ORGANIZATION. TONIGHT PEOPLE ARE STILL WATCHING THIS VIDEO. I'LL SEND IT BACK TO YOU. >> ALL RIGHT, TOM, THANKS. GARRETT HAAKE JOINS US NOW. >> YES, I WAS RIGHT ON THE FENCE LINE HERE AS MELANIA TRUMP CAME IN, AND IT WAS A RAUCOUS WELCOMING FOR HER. PEOPLE AROUND ME WERE CHEERING HOW MUCH THEY LOVED HER BASICALLY WHEN SHE WAS WAVING TO THE CROWD IT LOOKS LIKE A ROYAL RECEPTION FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN LESS IN THE SPOTLIGHT >> ALL RIGHT, WE SEE ERIC TRUMP TAKING HIS SEAT AFTER DELIVERING HIS SPEECH, SETTING UP WE ARE SEEING THE VIDEO. THE NI PRESIDENT TRUMP. WE ARE SEEING THE BIOGRAPHICAL A VIDEO. THERE IS MELANIA WATCHING THE VIDEO ALONGSIDE ERIC. >> HIS SON REALLY SMOOTHED THE TRAIL WITH THAT RED MEAT SPEECH. >> I THINK THERE WILL BE SOME OF THOSE UNIFYING THEMES IF NOT ALL OUT RED MEAT, THE OTHER WHITE MEAT. THE FORMER PRESIDENT WHO HAS A FLAIR FOR THE DRAMATIC AND SHOWMANSHIP LAID OUT A SCENARIO, WE ARE ABOUT TO GET A PERFORMANCE FROM KID ROCK, AND DANA WHITE, CEO OF THE UFC. THE THEME MAKE AMERICA STRONG AGAIN. NOW FROM THE CONVENTION FLOOR, LET'S LISTEN. >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> WHAT'S UP, AMERICA, ARE YOU READY FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP TO TAKE THE STAGE? I NEED EVERYBODY TO STAND UP AND I NEED EVERYBODY TO PUT A FIST UP IN THE AIR. EVERYBODY GET A FIST UP IN THE AIR. NOW FOLLOW ME. FOLLOW ME. SAY FIGHT, FIGHT. SAY FIGHT! FIGHT! SAY FIGHT! FIGHT! EVERYBODY SCREAM! SOMEBODY SCREAM. ♪ THE DEVIL, 30 PACK OF STROH ♪ ♪ I'M THE LIVING PROOF ♪ ♪ I DID NOT START ♪ ♪ I'M GOING BACK ♪ ♪ I GUESS BECAUSE ONLY GOD KNOWS WHY ♪ ♪ WHY ♪ ♪ THEY CALL ME COWBOY ♪ ♪ FIST IN THE AIR ♪ ♪ SAY FIGHT, FIGHT ♪ ♪ SAY FIGHT, FIGHT ♪ ♪ SAY TRUMP, TRUMP ♪ ♪ LIKE AC/DC ♪ ♪ NO SHOW JONES ♪ ♪ ROCK DETROIT ♪ ♪ STRAIGHT DETROIT ♪ ♪ I DON'T PLAY WITH THAT ♪ ♪ WATCH ME ROCK ♪ ♪ BOY BANDS ARE TRASH ♪ ♪ I LIKE JOHNNY CASH AND GRAND MASTER FLASH ♪ ♪ THEY CALL ME COWBOY ♪ ♪ FIST IN THE AIR ♪ ♪ SAY FIGHT, FIGHT ♪ ♪ SAY FIGHT, FIGHT ♪ ♪ SAY FIGHT, FIGHT ♪ ♪ SAY TRUMP, TRUMP ♪ ♪ I AM AMERICAN BAD-ASS ♪ ♪ I'M ULTIMATE ♪ ♪ I'M ROCK AND ROLL ♪ ♪ ROCK THIS PLACE ♪ ♪ BRING IT BACK ♪ ♪ HERE TO REBEL YELL ♪ ♪ ROCK FOR FREEDOM AND ROCK FOR TRUTH ♪ ♪ I KNOW TRUMP IS THE SH -- ♪ ♪ THEY CALL ME COWBOY ♪ ♪ FIST IN THE AIR ♪ ♪ SAY TRUMP, TRUMP ♪ ♪ SAY TRUMP, TRUMP ♪ ♪ SAY TRUMP, TRUMP ♪ LET ME HEAR YOU LOUDER THAN THAT, ONE MORE TIME. ♪ I'M A COWBOY ♪ ♪ SAY TRUMP, TRUMP ♪ ♪ TRUMP, TRUMP ♪ ♪ DETROIT CITY ♪ ♪ WE SAY TRUMP, TRUMP ♪ ♪ KID ROCK IS IN THE HOUSE, THIS IS WHERE I'M AT ♪ LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, GET READY FOR THE MOST PATRIOTIC AMERICAN BAD-ASS ON EARTH, PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP. FIRST, ANOTHER MAGA BAD-ASS, MY BROTHER, DANA WHITE. GOD BLESS AMERICA. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >>> OKAY, THIS IS NOT YOUR GRANDMOTHER'S REPUBLICAN PARTY. SOME PEOPLE HERE ARE LOVING THAT MOMENT, AND SOME LOOK LIKE THEY MIGHT HAVE TAKEN A WRONG TURN, THIS IS NOT THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION THEY REMEMBER FROM THE BUSH REAGAN YEARS. >> WHEN IT COMES TO THE WORD FIGHT, WHEN IT COMES TO THE RAISED FIST BEFORE KID ROCK CAME ONTO THE STAGE YOU SAW THEM PUT UP THAT PICTURE THAT HAS BECOME SO SYMBOLIC AS HE WAS BEING RUSHED OFFSTAGE PEOPLE ARE SELLING AND BUYING SHIRTS WITH THAT PICTURE ON IT, SOME DELEGATES ARE WEARING FAKE EAR BANDAGES IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE FORMER PRESIDENT. THEY HAVE REALLY SEIZED ON THIS IMAGERY. >> DANA WHITNTLEMEN. I AM DANA WHITE.E TAKES THE POD EXPECT GOOD EVENING, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! I AM DANA WHITE, I AM CEO AND PRESIDENT OF THE ULTIMATE FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP. TWO WEEKS AGO I GOT A CALL FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP ASKING ME IF I WOULD BE WILLING TO SPEAK TONIGHT. AS USUAL THERE WAS NO SURE, NO DEMAND, HE ASKED ME AS A FRIEND, AND OF COURSE I SAID YES. THEN, AFTER I ACCEPTED HIS OFFER, HE SENT ME A TEXT MESSAGE, AND I JUST WANT TO READ TO YOU A LITTLE PIECE OF WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP WROTE TO ME. DANA, I AM SO HONORED THAT YOU WILL BE DOING THE INTRODUCTION AT THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. THINK OF IT AS THE BIGGEST FIGHT YOU EVER HAD A FIGHT FOR OUR COUNTRY AND EVEN THE WORLD. I ONLY WISH YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO INTERRUPT YOUR FAMILY TO, BUT I HOPE THEY UNDERSTAND THEY LOVE YOU AND THEY KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS. >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> NOW THINK ABOUT THIS, THIS MAN IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, HE'S FIGHTING FOR THE FUTURE OF THIS COUNTRY AND IS CONCERNED ABOUT INTERRUPTING MY FAMILY TRIP. THAT IS THE PRESIDENT TRUMP THAT I KNOW, A MAN WHO TRULY CARES ABOUT PEOPLE THE . INSTREAM MEDIA LIKES TO THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA LIKES TO PUSH THE NARRATIVE THAT HE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT ANYONE BUT HIMSELF. I KNOW THAT'S NOT THE TRUTH, BECAUSE I'VE BEEN FRIENDS WITH THIS GUY FOR 25 YEARS. AND FOR THE PEOPLE WHO KNOW ME STILL KNOW THIS IS TRUE I JUST WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING VERY CLEAR. NOBODY IN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN HAS EVER TOLD ME WHAT TO SAY, NOBODY TELLS ME WHAT TO SAY, AND I AM NOBODY'S PUPPET. >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> AND I'M NOT TELLING YOU WHAT TO THINK, I'M TELLING YOU WHAT I KNOW, AND I KNOW PRESIDENT TRUMP. I KNOW PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A FIGHTER. I'VE BEEN SAYING THIS SINCE 2015. NOW LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENED OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS. WE HAVE ALL SEEN IT WITH OUR OWN EYES RESILI. T HUMAN BEING THAT I I AM IN THE TOUGH GUY BUSINESS, AND THIS MAN IS THE TOUGHEST, MOST RESILIENT HUMAN BEING THAT I HAVE EVER MET IN MY LIFE! >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> THE HIGHER THE STAKES THE HARDER HE FIGHTS, AND THIS GUY NEVER GIVES UP. SO WHAT IS AT STAKE HERE? THE ANSWER, AN COUNTRY.D I QUOTE, A FIGHT FOR OUR COUNTRY. I KNOW WHY HE'S RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT AGAIN, WHY ELSE DID HE PUT HIMSELF THROUGH EVERYTHING TO GET HERE? WE KNOW THIS GUY DOESN'T NEED THIS. HE HAS A GREAT LIFE, A BEAUTIFUL FAMILY, AND HE HAS ACHIEVED EVERYTHING YOU POSSIBLY COULD IN LIFE. I KNOW PRESIDENT TRUMP IS LITERALLY PUTTING HIS LIFE ON THE LINE FOR SOMETHING BIGGER THAN HIMSELF, AND HE'S WILLING TO RISK IT ALL, BECAUSE HE LOVES THIS COUNTRY. [ CHEERS AND A >> AND I KNOW HE WANTS WHAT'S BEST FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, ALL AMERICAN PEOPLE. I KNOW HE IS RUNNING TO SAY THAT OUR AMERICAN DREAM. I AM LIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM, AND I KNOW THE AMERICAN DREAM IS VERY REAL, WHETHER YOU WERE BORN IN THIS COUNTRY OR CAME HERE FROM SOMEPLACE ELSE, THIS IS THE LAST REAL LAND OF OPPORTUNITY. PRESIDENT REAGAN ONCE SAID GOVERNMENT'S FIRST DUTY IS TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE, NOT RUN THEIR LIVES. AND IF RED TAPE, HOW WILL YOU START YOUR OWN BUSINESS? IF YOU A YOUTRUGGLIN ARE PAY TG GOVERNMENT RED TAPE HOW WILL YOU START YOUR OWN BUSINESS? IF YOU ARE STRUGGLING TO PAY YOUR BILLS HOW CAN OU AFFORD TO START A FAMILY? AND IF YOU DON'T FEEL SAFE IN YOUR OWN TOWN, WHY WOULD YOU EVER BUY A HOUSE? I KNOW THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS FIGHTING TO SAVE THE AMERICAN DREAM, AND THAT'S WHAT'S AT STAKE IN THIS ELECTION WE ARE CHOOSING WHO WE WANT TO WE ARE CHOOSING WHO WE WANT TO LEAD US IN THIS FIGHT. I KNOW PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A PROVEN LEADER, A FEARLESS LEADER, AND THIS COUNTRY WAS IN A MUCH BETTER PLACE WHEN HE WAS IN THE OVAL OFFICE. IN MY MIND THE CHOICE IS CLEAR, BUT THIS ELECTION WE ALL GET TO CHOOSE. I KNOW I AM GOING TO CHOOSE STRENGTH AND SECURITY. I KNOW I AM GOING TO CHOOSE OPPORTUNITY AND PROSPERITY, I KNOW I AM GOING TO CHOOSE REAL AMERICAN LEADERSHIP, AND A REAL AMERICAN BAD-ASS. AND I'M NOT TELLING YOU WHAT CHOICE TO MAKE, AND I'M NOT TELLING YOU WHAT YOU SHOULD THINK. I'M TELLING YOU WHAT I KNOW. AMERICA NEEDS A STRONG LEADER, AND THE WORLD NEEDS A STRONG AMERICA. I KNOW DONALD J. TRUMP IS THE BEST CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. MY FELLOW AMERICANS, IT IS MY HONOR TO INTRODUCE THE 45th AND SOON-TO-BE 47th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, DONALD J. TRUMP! >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ IF TOMORROW ALL THE THINGS I WORKED FOR ALL MY LIFE ♪ ♪ AND I HAD TO START AGAIN WITH JUST MY CHILDREN AND MY WIFE ♪ ♪ THANK MY LUCKY STARS TO BE LIVING HERE TODAY ♪ ♪ BECAUSE OUR FLAG STILL STANDS FOR FREEDOM, AND THEY CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY ♪ ♪ AND I'M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN WHERE AT LEAST I KNOW I'M FREE ♪ ♪ AND I WON'T FORGET THE MEN WHO DIED WHO GAVE THAT RIGHT TO ME ♪ ♪ AND I GLADLY STAND UP NEXT TO YOU AND DEFEND HER STILL TODAY ♪ ♪ BECAUSE THERE AIN'T NO DOUBT I LOVE THIS LAND ♪ ♪ GOD BLESS THE USA ♪ ♪♪ ♪ FROM THE LAKES MINNESOTA ♪ ♪ TO THE HILLS OF TENNESSEE ♪ ♪ ACROSS THE PLAINS OF TEXAS, FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA ♪ ♪ FROM DETROIT TO HOUSTON, AND NEW YORK TO L.A. ♪ ♪ THERE'S PRIDE IN EVERY AMERICAN HEART, AND IT'S TIME WE STAND AND SAY ♪ ♪ THAT I'M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN WHERE AT LEAST I KNOW I'M FREE ♪ ♪ AND I WON'T FORGET THE MEN WHO DIED WHO GAVE THAT RIGHT TO ME ♪ ♪ AND I GLADLY STAND UP NEXT TO YOU AND DEFEND HER STILL TODAY ♪ ♪ BECAUSE THERE AIN'T NO DOUBT I LOVE THIS LAND ♪ ♪ GOD BLESS THE USA ♪ ♪ I'M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN WHERE AT LEAST I KNOW I'M FREE ♪ ♪ AND I WON'T FORGET THE MEN WHO DIED WHO GAVE THAT RIGHT TO ME ♪ ♪ AND I GLADLY STAND UP NEXT TO YOU AND DEFEND HER STILL TODAY ♪ ♪ BECAUSE THERE AIN'T NO DOUBT I LOVE THIS LAND ♪ ♪ GOD BLESS THE USA ♪ ♪♪ [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] [ >> DONALD TRUMP ABOUT TO ADDRESS THE CROWD. YOU ARE SEEKING THE FIRE FIGHTER'S KIT, THE GEAR OF THE MAN WHO LOST HIS LIFE AT THE RALLY IN PENNSYLVANIA ON SATURDAY. >> [ CROWD CHANTING ] USA! >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH. WOW-- THANK YOU, DANA. THANK YOU, KID ROCK, YOU ARE SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS BOB. AND THANK YOU, LEE, RIGHT FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. WHAT A TALENT! THANK YOU. FRIENDS, DELEGATES, AND FELLOW CITIZENS, I STAND BEFORE YOU THIS EVENING WITH A MESSAGE OF CONFIDENCE, STRENGTH, AND HOPE. FOUR MONTHS FROM NOW WE WILL HAVE AN INCREDIBLE VICTORY, AND WE WILL BEGIN THE FOUR GREATEST YEARS IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY. TOGETHER WE WILL LAUNCH FREEDOM FOR CITIZENS OF EVERY A NEW YEAR OF SAFETY, PROSPERITY, AND FREEDOM, FOR CITIZENS OF EVERY RACE, RELIGION, COLOR, AND CREED, DIVISION IN OUR SOCIETY MUST BE HEALED, WE MUST HEAL IT QUICKLY. AS AMERICANS WE ARE BOUND TOGETHER BY A SINGLE FATE AND A SHARED DESTINY. WE RISE TOGETHER OR WE FALL APART. I AM RUNNING TO BE PRESIDENT FOR ALL OF AMERICA, NOT HALF OF AMERICA, BECAUSE THERE IS NO VICTORY IN WINNING FOR HALF OF AMERICA. SO, TONIGHT, WITH FAITH AND DEVOTION I PROUDLY ACCEPT YOUR NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. THANK YOU. >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU, VERY MUCH. >> [ CROWD CHANTING ] TRUMP! >> THANK YOU, VERY MUCH. AND WE WILL DO IT RIGHT. WE ARE GOING TO DO IT RIGHT. LET ME BEGIN THIS EVENING BY EXPRESSING MY GRATITUDE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR YOUR OUTPOURING OF LOVE AND SUPPORT FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AT MY RALLY ON SATURDAY. >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> AS YOU ALREADY KNOW THE ASSASSIN'S BULLET CAME WITHIN A QUARTER OF AN INCH OF TAKING MY LIFE. SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE ASKED ME, WHAT HAPPENED, TELL US WHAT HAPPENED, PLEASE. AND THEREFORE I WILL TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED, AND YOU'LL NEVER HEAR IT FROM YOU SECOND TIME, BECAUSE IT IS TOO PAINFUL TO TELL. IT WAS A WARM, BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE EARLY EVENING IN BUTLER TOWNSHIP, IN THE GREAT COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA-- >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> MUSIC WAS LOUDLY PLAYING, AND THE CAMPAIGN WAS DOING REALLY WELL. I WENT TO THE STAGE, AND THE CROWD WAS CHEERING WILDLY. EVERYBODY WAS HAPPY. I BEGAN SPEAKING VERY STRONGLY, POWERFULLY, AND HAPPILY-- BECAUSE, I WAS DISCUSSING THE GREAT JOB MY ADMINISTRATION DID ON IMMIGRATION AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER, WE WERE VERY PROUD OF IT. >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> BEHIND ME AND TO THE RIGHT WAS A LARGE SCREEN THAT WAS DISPLAYING THE CHART OF BORDER CROSSINGS UNDER MY LEADERSHIP. THE NUMBERS WERE ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. IN ORDER TO SEE THE CHART I STARTED TO, LIKE THIS, TURN TO MY RIGHT-- AND WAS READY TO BEGIN-- A LITTLE BIT FURTHER TURNED, WHICH I'M LUCKY I DIDN'T DO WHEN I HEARD A LOUD, WHIZZING SOUND AND FELT SOMETHING HIT ME REALLY, REALLY HARD, ON MY RIGHT EAR. I SAID TO MYSELF, WOW, WHAT WAS THAT? IT CAN ONLY BE A BULLET. I MOVED MY RIGHT HAND TO M MY HAND Y S COVERE EAR, FURTHER DOWN THERE WAS BLOOD IN MY HAND, BLOOD ALL OVER THE PLACE. I KNEW IT WAS SERIOUS, THAT WE WERE UNDER ATTACK, AND IN ONE MOVEMENT PROCEEDED TO DROP DOWN TO THE GROUND. BULLETS WERE CONTINUING TO FLY AS VERY BRAVE SECRET SERVICE AGENTS RUSHED TO THE STAGE, AND THEY REALLY DID, THEY RUSHED TO THE STAGE. >> [ APPLAUSE ] >> THESE ARE GREAT PEOPLE, AT GREAT RISK I WILL TELL YOU, AND POUNCED ON TOP OF ME, SO I WOULD BE PROTECTED. THERE WAS BLOOD POURING EVERYWHERE AND YET IN A CERTAIN WAY I FELT VERY SAFE, BECAUSE I HAD GOD ON MY SIDE. >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> THE AMAZING THING IS THAT PRIOR TO THE SHOT IF I HAD NOT MOVED MY HEAD AT THAT ERY LAST INSTANCE THE ASSASSIN'S BULLET WOULD HAVE PERFECTLY HIT ITS MARK, AND I WOULD NOT BE HERE TONIGHT. WE WOULD NOT BE TO GET APPEARED MOST INCREDIBLE ASPECT OF WHAT TOOK PLACE THAT TERRIBLE EVENING IN THE FADING SUN WAS ACTUALLY SEEN LATER. IN ALMOST ALL CASES AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW, AND WHEN EVEN A SINGLE BULLET IS FIRED, JUST A SINGLE BULLET, AND WE HAD MANY BULLETS THAT WERE BEING FIRED-- CROWDS RUN FOR THE EXITS OR STAMPEDE, BUT NOT IN THIS CASE. IT'S VERY UNUSUAL. >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> THIS MASSIVE CROWD OF TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE STOOD BY AND DIDN'T MOVE AN INCH. IN FACT MANY OF THEM BRAVELY BUT AUTOMATICALLY STOOD UP LOOKING FOR WHERE THE SNIPER WOULD BE. THEY KNEW IMMEDIATELY IT WAS A SNIPER. AND THEN BEGAN POINTING AT HIM. YOU CAN SEE THAT IF YOU LOOK AT THE GROUP BEHIND ME. IT WAS JUST A SMALL GROUP COMPARED TO WHAT WAS IN FRONT. NOBODY RAN, AND BY NOT STAMPEDING MANY LIVES WERE SAVED, BUT THAT ISN'T THE REASON THAT THEY DIDN'T MOVE. THE REASON IS THEY KNEW I WAS IN VERY SERIOUS TROUBLE. THEY SAW ME GO DOWN. THEY SAW THE BLOOD, AND THOUGHT I WAS DEAD. THEY KNEW IT WAS A SHOT TO THE HEAD, THERE WAS BLOOD, AND THERE'S AN INTERESTING STATISTIC. THE EARS ARE THE BLOODIEST PART. IF SOMETHING HAPPENS THE EARS BLEED SO MUCH. FOR WHATEVER REASON. SO YOU LEARN SOMETHING, BUT JUST--UST -- THIS BEAUTIFUL CROWD, THEY DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE ME. THEY KNEW I WAS IN TROUBLE. THEY DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE ME. T BEAUTIFUL E THCROWD E WR DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE ME. THEY KNEW I WAS IN TROUBLE. THEY DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE ME, AND YOU CAN SEE THAT LOVE WRITTEN ALL OVER THEIR FACES. INCREDIBLE PEOPLE. THEY ARE INCREDIBLE PEOPLE. BULLETS WERE FLYING OVER US, YET, I FELT SERENE. BUT, NOW THE SECRET SERVICE AGENTS WERE PUTTING THEMSELVES IN PERIL. THEY WERE IN VERY DANGEROUS TERRITORY, LET'S WERE FLYING OVER THEM, MISSING THEM BY A SMALL AMOUNT, INCHES. AND THEN IT ALL STOPPED. OUR SECRET SERVICE SNIPER, FROM A MUCH GREATER DISTANCE, AND WITH ONLY ONE BULLET USED, TOOK THE ASSASSIN'S LIFE. TOOK HIM OUT. >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE TONIGHT. I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE. >> [ CROWD CHANTING ] YES YOU ARE! >> THANK YOU. BUT, I'M NOT. AND I'LL TELL YOU, I STAND BEFORE YOU IN THIS ARENA ONLY BY THE GRACE OF ALMIGHTY GOD. >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> AND WATCHING THE REPORTS OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS, MANY PEOPLE SAY IT WAS A DIVINE INTERVENTION. THE CROWD WAS CONFUSED, BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT I WAS DEAD, AND THERE WAS GREAT SORROW, I COULD SEE THAT ON THEIR FACES AS I LOOKED OUT. THEY DIDN'T KNOW I WAS LOOKING OUT, THEY THOUGHT IT WAS OVER, BUT I COULD SEE IT. I WANTED TO DO SOMETHING TO LET THEM KNOW I WAS OKAY. I RAISED MY RIGHT ARM, I LOOKED AT THE THOUSANDS WHO WERE WAITING AND STARTED SHOUTING FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT. >> [ CROWD CHANTING ] FIGHT! >> THANK YOU. ONCE MY CLENCHED FIST WENT UP, AND IT WAS HIGH INTO THE AIR, YOU'VE ALL SEEN THAT-- THE CROWD REALIZED I WAS OKAY AND ROARED WITH PRIDE FOR OUR COUNTRY LIKE NO CROWD I HAVE EVER HEARD BEFORE. >> FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE, I WILL] >> NEVER HEARD ANYTHING LIKE IT BEFORE. FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE I WILL BE GRATEFUL FOR THE LOVE SHOWN BY THAT GIANT AUDIENCE OF PATRIOTS THAT STOOD BRAVELY ON THAT FATEFUL EVENING, IN PENNSYLVANIA. TRAGICALLY, THE SHOOTER CLAIMED THE LIFE OF ONE OF OUR FELLOW AMERICANS, COREY COMPERTOR, UNBELIEVABLE PERSON, EVERYBODY TELLS ME. UNBELIEVABLE. >> [ APPLAUSE ] >> AND, SERIOUSLY WOUNDED TWO OTHER GREAT WARRIORS. I SPOKE TO THEM TODAY. DAVID DUTCH AND GREAT JAMELE. I ALSO SPOKE TS ALL THREE COPENHAVER. I SPOKE TO THE FAMILIES OF THESE WONDERFUL PEOPLE. WE WILL NEVER FORGET THEM. THEY CAME TO A GRADE RALLY, THEY WERE SERIOUS TRUMPSTERS, AND STILL ARE, AND UNFORTUNATELY WE HAVE TO USE THE PAST TENSE WITH COREY. HE WAS RESPECTED BY EVERYBODY, TWO PRECIOUS DAUGHTERS. HIS WIFE, HELEN, IS WONDERFUL, I SPOKE WITH HER. HE ACTED AS A HUMAN SHIELD TO PROTECT THEM FROM FLYING BULLETS, THEY WENT OVER THE TOP OF THEM AND HIT HIM. WHAT A FINE MAN HE WAS! >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] [ CROWD CHANTING ] COREY! [ APPLAUSE ] >> I WANT TO THANK THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IN THE FAMILY FOR SENDING HIS HELMET. HIS OUTFIT, AND IT WAS JUST SOMETHING. THEY ARE GOING TO DO SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL WHEN THEY GET IT. IT CANNOT MATCH WHAT HAPPENED, NOT EVEN CLOSE, BUT I AM PROUD TO SAY THAT OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS WE HAVE RAISED $6.3 MILLION-- >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] FOR THE FAMILIES OF DAVID JAMES, AND COREY, INCLUDING FROM A FRIEND OF MINE WHO SENT ME A CHECK RIGHT HERE, I GOT A, $1 MILLION- - DAN NEWLAN, THANK YOU, DAN. AND AGAIN WHEN I WAS SPEAKING TO THE FAMILY I WAS SAYINGNG, YOU ARE RIGHT. WE APPRECIATE SO MUCH WHAT YOU M GOING TO SEND A LOT OF MONEY, BUT IT CAN'T COMPENSATE. THEY SAID YOU'RE RIGHT, SIR, WE APPRECIATE WHAT YOU ARE DOING, BUT NOTHING CAN TAKE THE PLACE OF COREY. AND BY THE WAY, THEY WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED, BUT THEY ARE GOING TO BE OKAY. THEY ARE DOING VERY WELL. THEY ARE WARRIORS. SO, NOW, I ASK THAT WE OBSERVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE IN HONOR OF OUR FRIEND, COREY. THERE WAS NO GREATER LOVE THAN TO LAY DOWN ONE'S LIFE FOR OTHERS. THIS WAS THE SPIRIT THAT FORGED AMERICA IN HER DARKEST HOURS, AND THIS IS THE LOVE THAT WILL LEAD AMERICA BACK TO THE SUMMIT OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT AND GREATNESS, THAT'S WHAT WE NEED. DESPITE A HEINOUS ATTACK WE UNITE MORE DETERMINED, I'M MORE DETERMINED THAN EVER. SO ARE YOU. >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> [ CROWD CHANTING ] >> THANK YOU, VERY MUCH. >> [ CROWD CHANTING ] WE LOVE TRUMP! [ CROWD CHANTING WE LOVE TRUMP ] OUR RESOLVE IS UNBROKEN, AND OUR PURPOSE IS UNCHANGED TO DELIVER >> OUR RESOLVE IS UNBROKEN, AND OUR PURPOSE IS UNCHANGED, TO DELIVER A GOVERNMENT THAT SERVES THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BETTER THAN EVER BEFORE. NOTHING WILL STO RIGHTEOUS AND OUR CAUSE IS PURES MISSION, BECAUSE OUR VISION IS RIGHTEOUS, AND OUR CAUSE IS PURE. NO MATTER WHAT OBSTACLE COMES OUR WAY WILL NOT BREAK, WE WILL NOT BEND, WE WILL NOT BACK DOWN, AND I WILL NEVER STOP FIGHTING FOR YOU, YOUR FAMILY, AND OUR MAGNIFICENT COUNTRY. NEVER. >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] AND EVERYTHING I HAVE TO GIVE WITH ALL THE ENERGY IN MY HEART AND SOUL I PLEDGE TY HEART AND SOUL I PLEDGE TO OUR NATION TONIGHT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, I PLEDGE THAT TO OUR NATION, GOING TO TURN OUR NATION AROUND, AND WE ARE GOING TO DO IT QUICKLY. THANK YOU. THIS ELECTION SHOULD BE ABOUT THE ISSUES FACING OUR COUNTRY AND HOW TO MAKE AMERICA SUCCESSFUL, SAFE, FREE, AND GREAT AGAIN. >> [ APPLAUSE ] >> IN AN AGE WHEN OUR POLITICS TOO OFTEN DIVIDE US, NOW IS THE TIME TO REMEMBER THAT WE ARE ALL FELLOW CITIZENS. WE ARE ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> AND WE MUST NOT CRIMINALIZE OR DEMONIZE POLITICAL DISAGREEMENT, WHICH HAS WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING IN OUR COUNTRY LATELY AT A LEVEL NOBODY HAS EVER SEEN BEFORE. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SHOULD IMMEDIATELY STOP WEAPONIZE IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM AND LABELING THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENTS AS AN ENEMY OF DEMOCRACY. ESPECIALLY SINCE THAT IS NOT TRUE. IN FACT, I AM THE ONE SAVING DEMOCRACY FOR THE PEOPLE OF OUR COUNTRY. >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> I HAVE VERY BIG NEWS, AS YOU PROBABLY JUST READ. ON MONDAY A MAJOR RULING WAS HANDED DOWN FROM A HIGHLY RESPECTED FEDERAL JUDGE IN FLORIDA, EILEEN CANNON, FINDING THE PROSECUTOR AND FAKE DOCUMENTS CASE AGAINST ME WAS TOTALLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL, AND THE ENTIRE CASE WAS THROWN OUT OF COURT. THROWN OUT OF COURT. IF DEMOCRATS WANT TO UNIFY OUR COUNTRY, THEY SHOULD DROP THESE PARTISAN WITCHHUNTS WHICH I'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH FOR APPROXIMATELY EIGHT YEARS. AND THEY SHOULD DO THAT WITHOUT DELAY AND ALLOW AN ELECTION TO PROCEED THAT'S WORTHY OF OUR PEOPLE. WE ARE GOING TO WIN IT, ANYWAY. >> [ APPLAUSE ] >> ON THIS JOURNEY I AM DEEPLY HONORED TO BE JOINED BY MY AMAZING WIFE, MELANIA . >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> MELANIA, THANK YOU , VERY MUCH. YOU ALSO DID SOMETHING REALLY BEAUTIFUL, A LETTER TO AMERICA CALLING FOR NATIONAL UNITY. AND IT REALLY TOOK THE REPUBLICAN PARTY BY SURPRISE, I WILL TELL YOU, THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL. >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> IN FACT SOME VERY SERIOUS PEOPLE SAID WE SHOULD TAKE THAT LETTER AND PUT IT AS PART OF THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM, THAT WOULD BE AN HONOR, WOULDN'T IT? RIGHT? MR. CONGRESSMAN? THAT IT CAPTIVATED SOME MONEY SO MANY. I WANT TO THANK MY ENTIRE FAMILY FOR BEING HERE DON, KIMBERLY, ERIC, TIFFANY MICHAEL, AARON. WE LOVE OUR BARRON. AND OF COURSE, MY 10 WONDERFUL GRANDCHILDREN YOU SAW A FEW OF THEM UP ON MY LAP BEFORE. >> [ APPLAUSE ] >> AND HOW GOOD WAS DANA? WAS DANA GOOD? YOU KNOW, HE WAS ON PROBABLY THE ONLY VACATION HE'S HAD IN ABOUT MAYBE EVER. 10 YEARS, WITH HIS WIFE, SOME PLACE I WANT SAY, VERY FAR AWAY. HE SAID THIS IS MANY YEARS I PROMISED MY WIFE I CAN'T DO IT, AND THEY SAID DANA WON'T BE ABLE TO DO IT. HE WAS MY FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD CHOICE. I SAID WELL, YOU KNOW, THAT'S TOO BAD, BUT I UNDERSTAND HE'S AWAY, AND THAT'S GOOD. IT'S A GOOD FOR HIM. ABOUT 30 MINUTES LATER SHE CAME BACK IN. SIR? DANA JUST CALLED, HE'S GOING TO DO IT. AND HIS WIFE, SHE SAID YOU CAN'T TURN HIM DOWN, YOU HAVE TO GO. THAT'S A GOOD WIFE. >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> HE GOT HERE WHILE AGO, NOW HE'S GOING TO GET ON THE LANE AND ALL WHILER AND HIM ANE THEIR FAMILY.AND GO HOME TO HIS WIFE, BUT THEY ARE GREAT, AND I JUST ANT TO THANK HER, AND HIM, AND THEIR WHOLE FAMILY, BECAUSE THAT'S NOT EASY. KID ROCK, SAME THING. HE SAID I WANT TO BE A PART OF IT. I WANT TO BE A PART, BECAUSE YOU KNOW KID DOES THIS GREAT BIG MONSTER SONG. HE BECAME A FRIEND OF MINE OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS, AND SHE IS AMAZING. EVERYONE LOVES HIM. I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW HOW BIG HE WAS BEAUTY NOW HE HAS RALLIES TWO 40,000 PEOPLE HE GETS EVERY TIME HE GOES OUT. I THINK IS MAKING SO MUCH MONEY HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL TO DO WITH IT. AND THEN WE HAVE MY OTHER FRIEND, AND WE TOOK THAT SONG, AND IT WAS A BIG SUCCESS. I SAW A CHART OF GREAT SONGS TO AMERICA, THAT WAS NUMBER-ONE ON THE CHART. LEE IS A SPECIAL, BEAUTIFUL PERSON, A BEAUTIFUL MAN. BUT THEY ALL WANTED TO BE HERE. AND HOW ABOUT THE HULKSTER. HOW GOOD WAS HE? BOY OH BOY! BOY, OH, BOY. >> YOU KNOW, THEY MAY CALL THAT ENTERTAINMENT. I KNOW ABOUT ENTERTAINMENT, BUT WHEN HE USED TO LIFT A 350-POUND MAN OVER HIS SHOULDERS AND THEN BENJ PRESSED HIM TWO ROWS INTO THE AUDIENCE, I SAID IT MIGHT BE ENTERTAINMENT, BUT HE IS ONE STRONG SON OF A GUN. THERE AREN'T A LOT OF ENTERTAINERS THAT CAN DO THAT, RIGHT? YOU WERE FANTASTIC. THANK YOU SO MUCH. FOLLOWED BY ERIC. WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT? BOY THAT WAS GOOD! I DIDN'T REALLY WANT TO COME APPEAR HE WEN. THROUGH A LOT OF BUT, HE WAS SO GREAT. AND HE'S SUCH A GOOD YOUNG MAN. HE WENT THROUGH A LOT OF TROUBLE, AND DON LAST NIGHT WAS INCREDIBLE. HE WENT THROUGH SO MUCH TROUBLE. THEY GOT SUBPOENAED OR THAN ANY PEOPLE IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. THEY HAVE ANOTHER SUBPOENA FROM THE DEMOCRATS' CRAZY NANCY PELOSI. THIS WHOLE THING. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. THEY'VE GOT TO STOP THAT, BECAUSE THEY ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY. WE HAVE TO WORK ON MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN NOT ON WE BEAT BEATING PEOPLE. WE BEAT THEM ON IMPEACHMENTS, INDICTMENTS, BUT THE TIME YOU HAVE TO SPEND, THE TIME THAT YOU HAVE TO SPEND, AND THEY WOULD DEVOTE THAT GENIUS TO HELPING OUR COUNTRY. WE HAVE A MUCH STRONGER AND BETTER COUNTRY. AND BETTER COUNTRY. [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] JASON, THE BIGGEST STAR IN COUNTRY MUSI IN COUNTRY MUSIC. JASON, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. JASON. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. JASON ALDEAN. HE'S GOOD. I LIKE HIS WIFE EVEN BETTER, BY THE WAY. SHE'S HERE. THANK YOU, JASON. BUT I'M THRILLED TO HAVE A NEW FRIEND AND PARTNER FIGHTING BY MY SIDE. THE NEXT VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, THE CURRENT SENATOR FROM OHIO, J.D. VANCE AND HIS INCREDIBLE WIFE USHA. [ APPLAUSE ] >> HE'S GOING TO BE A GREAT VICE PRESIDENT. HE'S GOING TO BE GREAT. WITH HIS COUNTRY AND THIS MOVEMENT, GREATEST MOVEMENT IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. WHEN THEY CRITICIZE IT, THEY SAY, WE'RE GOING TO TRY AND STOP MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. I SAY WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO STOP? MAGA IS A MOVEMENT, AND THEY SAY, OH, THAT'S RIGHT. IT'S AN HONOR. GREAT, GREAT STUDENT AT YALE. HIS WIFE IS A GREAT STUDENT AT YALE. THEY MET AT YALE. THESE ARE TWO SMART PEOPLE. SO, J.D., YOU'RE GOING TO BE DOING THIS A LONG TIME. ENJOY THE RIDE. [ APPLAUSE ] AND A VERY [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]SPECIAL THANK YOU TO THE EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE OF MILWAUKEE AND THE GREAT STATE OF -- THERE THEY ARE. THERE THEY ARE. YOU ARE SO EASY TO SPOT. AND GREEN BAY IS GOING TO HAVE A GOOD TEAM THIS YEAR, RIGHT? THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE A GOOD TEAM. THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE A GOOD TEAM. MOST OF THE AUDIENCE DOESN'T LIKE IT, BUT IT'S TRUE. YOU HAVE A VERY GOOD TEAM. AND BY THE WAY, WISCONSIN, WE ARE SPENDING OVER $250 MILLION HERE CREATING JOBS AND OTHER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALL OVER THE PLACE, SO I HOPE WILL YOU REMEMBER THIS IN NOVEMBER AND GIVE US YOUR VOTE. I AM TRYING TO BUY YOUR VOTE. I'LL BE HONEST ABOUT THAT. [ APPLAUSE ] [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] I PROMISE WE WILL MAKE WISCONS . WE'RE GOING TO MAKE WISCONSIN GREAT AGAIN. WE'RE GOING TO MAKE IT. THANK YOU, THE GOVERNOR, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I'M HERE TONIGHT TO LAY OUT A VISION FOR THE WHOLE NATION TO EVERY CITIZEN, WHETHER YOU'RE A YOUNG OR OLD, MAN OR WOMAN, DEMOCRAT, REPUBLICAN, INDEPENDENT, BLACK OR WHITE, ASIAN OR HISPANIC, I EXTEND TO AWE HAND OF LOYALTY AND OF FRIENDSHIP. TOGETHER WE WILL LEAD AMERICA TO NEW HEIGHTS OF GREATNESS LIKE THE WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN BEFORE. WE WERE RIGHT THERE IN THE FIRST TERM. WE GOT HIT WITH COVID. WE DID A GREAT JOB. NOBODY KNEW WHAT IT WAS, BUT NOBODY'S EVER SEEN AN ECONOMY PRE-COVID, THEN WE HANDED OVER A STOCK MARKET THAT WAS SUBSTANTIALLY HIGHER THAN JUST PRIOR TO COVID. NEVER GOT CREDIT FOR THAT. WE GOT CREDIT FOR THE WAR AND DEFEATING ISIS, THE BIGGEST TAX CUTS EVER, THE BIGGEST REGULATION CUTS EVER, THE CREATION OF SPACE FORCE, REBUILDING OF OUR MILITARY. WE DID SO MUCH. WE DID SO MUCH. RIGHT TO TRY. RIGHT TO TRY'S A BIG DEAL. WE GOT RIGHT TO TRY. THEY WERE TRYING TO GET THAT FOR 52 YEARS. SOMEBODY'S TERMINALLY ILL, AND HOPEFULLY THERE'S NOBODY IN THIS AUDIENCE, BUT IT DOES HAPPEN A LOT. THEY'RE TERMINALLY ILL AND THEY CAN'T USE OUR NEW SPACE-AGE DRUGS AND OTHER THINGS THAT WE'RE AWARE. WE HAVE THE GREATEST DOCK TARNS WORLD, THE GREATEST LABORATORIES, AND THEY HAVE BEEN TRYING TO GET THAT APPROVED FOR 58 YEARS. THE INSURANCE COMPANIES DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT. THEY DIDN'T WANT THE RISK. PEOPLE ARE PRETTY FAR DOWN THE LINE TOWARD DEATH. THE DOCTORS DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE IT OP' RECORD, SO I GOT EVERYBODY IN AN OFFICE, 52 YEARS THEY TRIED IT. SOUNDS SIMPLE, BUT IT'S NOT. I GOT THEM TO AGREE THAT SOMEBODY THAT NEEDS IT, INSTEAD OF GOING TO ASIA, EUROPE, SOMEPLACE, OR IF YOU HAVE NO MONEY, GOING HOME AND DYING, JUST DIE, WE GOT THEM TO SIGN AN AGREEMENT, AGREE TO THE WHERE THEY'RE NOT GOING TO SUE ANYBODY. THEY'RE GOING TO GET ALL OF THIS STUFF. THEY'RE GOING TO GET IT REALLY FAST. WHAT'S HAPPENED IS WE'RE SAVING THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF LIVES. IT'S INCREDIBLE. RIGHT TO TRY. GREAT FEELING. UNDER OUR LEADERSHIP THE UNITED STATES WILL BE RESPECTED AGAIN. NO NATION WILL QUESTION OUR POWER, NO ENEMY WILL DOUBT OUR MITE. OUR BUILDINGS WILL BE SECURE, OUR ECONOMY WILL SOAR. WE WILL RETURN LAW AND ORDER, PATRIOTISM TO OUR SCHOOLS, AND WE WILL RESTORE PEACE, STABILITY AND HARMONY ALL THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. BUT TO ACHIEVE THIS FUTURE, WE MUST FIRST RESCUE OUR NATION FROM FAILED AND EVEN INCOMPETENT LEADERSHIP. WE HAVE TOTALLY INKOCH TENT LEADERSHIP. THIS WILL BE THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY. UNDER THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION, WE ARE INDEED A NATION IN DECLINE. WE HAVE AN INFLATION CRISIS THAT IS MAKING LIFE UNAFFORDABLE, RAVAGING THE INCOMES OF WORK AND LOW-INCOME FAMILIES, AND CRUSHING, JUST SIMPLY CRUSHING OUR PEOPLE LIKE NEVER BEFORE. THEY'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT. WE ALSO HAVE AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION CRISIS, AND IT'S TAKING PLACE RIGHT NOW AS WE SIT HERE IN THIS BEAUTIFUL ARENA, THE MASSIVE INVASION AT OUR SOUTHERN BORDER THAT HAS SPREAD MISERY, CRIME, POVERTY AND DISEASE AND DESTRUCTION TO COMMUNITIES ACROSS OUR LAND. NOBODY HAS SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT. THEN THERE'S AN INTERNATIONAL CRISIS THE LIKES OF WHICH THE WORLD HAS SELDOM BEEN PART OF. NOBODY CAN BELIEVE WHAT'S HAPPENING. WAR IS NOW RAGING IN EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST. A GROWING SPECTER OF CONFLICT HANGS OVER TAIWAN, KOREA, THE PHILIPPINES, AND ALL OF ASIA, AND OUR PLANET IS TEETERING ON THE EDGE OF WORLD WAR III. AND THIS WILL BE A WAR LIKE NO OTHER WAR BECAUSE OF WEAPONRY. THE WEAPONS ARE NO LONGER ARMY TANKS GOING BACK AND FORTH SHOOTING AT EACH OTHER. THESE WEAPONS ARE 0 BLIGHTER RACING. IT'S TIME FOR A CHANGE. THIS ADMINISTRATION CAN'T COME CLOSE TO SOLVING THE PROBLEMS WE'RE DEALING WITH VERY TOUGH, VERY FIERCE PEOPLE. THEY'RE FIERCE PEOPLE. AND WE DON'T HAVE FIERCE PEOPLE. WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT ARREST LOT LESS THAN FIERCE, EXCEPT WHEN IT COMES TO CHEATING ON ELECTIONS AND A COUPLE OF OTHER THINGS, THEN THEY'RE FIERCE. SO TONIGHT I MAKE THIS PLEDGE TO THE GREAT PEOPLE OF AMERICA. I WILL END THE DEVASTATING INFLATION CRISIS IMMEDIATELY, BRING DOWN INTEREST RATES AND LOWER THE COST OF ENERGY. WE WILL DRILL BABY DRILL. [ APPLAUSE ] >> CAN YOU BELIEVE WHAT THEY'RE DOING? BUT BY DOING THAT, WE WILL LEAD A LARGE-SCALE DECLINE IN PRICES. PRICES WILL START TO COME DOWN, ENERGY -- THEY TOOK OUR ENERGY POLICIES, THEN DESTROYED THEM, THEN THEY IMMEDIATELY WENT BACK TO THEM, BUT BY THAT TIME SO MUCH WAS LOST. BUT WE WILL DO IT AT LEVELS NOBODY HAS EVER SEEN BEFORE. WE'LL END LOTS OF DIFFERENT THINGS. WE'LL START PAYING OFF DEBT AND START LOWERING TAXES EVEN FURTHER. WE GAVE YOU THE LARGEST TAX CUT. WE'LL DO IT MORE. YOU KNOW, PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE I BROUGHT TAXES WAY DOWN, WAY, WAY DOWN, AND YET WE TOOK IN MORE REVENUES THE FOLLOWING YEAR THAN WE DID WHEN THE TAX RATE WAS MUCH HIGHER. MOST PEOPLE SAID, HOW DID YOU DO THAT? BECAUSE IT WAS INCENTIVES. EVERYBODY WAS COMING TO THE COUNTRY. THEY WERE BRINGING BACK BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS INTO OUR COUNTRY. THE COMPANIES MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO BRING IT BACK. THE TAX RATE WAS TOO HIGH, AND THE LEGAL COMPLICATIONS WERE FAR TOO GREAT. I CHANGED BOTH OF THEM, AND HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS BY APPLE AND SO MANY OTHER COMPANIES WERE BROUGHT BACK INTO OUR NATION, AND WE HAD AN ECONOMY THE LIKES OF WHICH NOBODY, NO NATION HAD EVER SEEN. CHINA, WE WERE BEATING THEM AT LEVELS THAT WERE INCREDIBLE. AND THEY KNOW IT. THEY KNOW IT. WE'LL DO IT AGAIN, BUT WE'LL DO IT EVEN BETTER. I WILL END THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION CRISIS BY CLOSING OUR BORDER AND FINISHING THE WALL, MOST OF WHICH I'VE ALREADY BUILT. OUR BORDER AND FINISHING -- [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] THE WALL, MOST OF WHICH I ON THE WALL, WE WERE DEALING WITH A VERY DIFFICULT CONGRESS, AND I SAID, OH, THAT'S OKAY, WE WON'T GO TO CONGRESS. I CALL IT AN INVASION. WE GAVE OUR MILITARY ALMOST $800 BILLION. I SAID, I'M GOING TO TAKE A LITTLE OF THAT MONEY, BECAUSE THIS IS AN INVASION. AND WE BUILT -- MOST OF THE WALL IS ALREADY BUILT, AND WE BUILT IT THROUGH USING THE FUNDS. WHAT'S BETTER THAN THAT? WE HAVE TO STOP THE INVASION INTO OUR COUNTRY THAT'S KILLING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE A YEAR. WE'RE NOT GOING TO LET THAT HAPPEN. I WILL END EVERY SINGLE INTERNATIONAL CRISIS THAT THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION HAS CREATED, INCLUDING THE HORRIBLE WAR WITH RUSSIA AND UKRAINE, WHICH WOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED IF I WAS PRESIDENT. AND THE WAR CAUSED BY THE ATTACK ON ISRAEL, WHICH WOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED IF I WAS PRESIDENT. IRAN WAS BROKE. IRAN HAD NO MONEY. NOW IRAN HAS $250 BILLION. THEY MADE IT ALL OVER THE LAST TWO-AND-A-HALF YEARS. THEY WERE BROKE. I WATCHED THE OTHER DAY ON A SHOW CALLED "DEFACE THE NATION." HAS ANYBODY SEEN IT? AND THEY HAD A SENATOR SAID IRAN WAS BROKE. I TOLD CHINA AND OTHER COUNTRIES, IF YOU BUY FROM IRAN WE WILL NOT LET YOU DO ANY BUSINESS IN THIS COUNTRY, AND WE WILL PUT TARIFFS ON EVERY PRODUCT YOU DO SEND IN OF 100% OR MORE. AND THEY SAID TO ME, WELL, I THINK THAT'S ABOUT IT. THEY WEREN'T GOING TO BAY ANY OIL. AND THEY WERE READY TO MAKE A DEAL. IRAN WAS GOING TO MAKE A DAILY WITH US. AND THEN WE HAD THAT HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE RESULT THAT WE'LL NEVER LET HAPPEN AGAIN. THE ELECTION RESULT. WE'RE NEVER GOING TO LET THAT HAPPEN AGAIN. THEY USED COVID TO CLEAT. WE'RE NEVER GOING TO LET IT HAPPENING A GAME. AND THEY TOOK OFF ALL THE SANCTIONS AND THEY DEFERRING POSSIBLE FOR IRAN. AND NOW IRAN IS VERY CLOSE HAVING TO A NUCLEAR WEAPON, WHICH WOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED. IT IS A SHAME WHAT THIS ADMINISTRATION -- THE DAMAGE THAT THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS DONE. AND I SAY IT OFTEN. IF YOU TOOK THE TEN WORST PRESIDENTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, THINK OF IT, THE TEN WORST, ADDED THEM UP, THEY WILL NOT HAVE DONE THE DAMAGE THAT BIDEN HAS DONE. ONLY GOING TO USE ONCE. BIDEN. I'M NOT GOING TO USE THE NAME ANY MORE. JUST ONE TIME. THE DAMAGE THAT HE HAS DONE TO THIS COUNTRY IS UNTHINKABLE. UNTHINKABLE. TOGETHER WE WILL RESTORE VISION, STRENGTH, CONFIDENCE, AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A THING CALLED COMMON SENSE, MAKING MOST OF OUR DECISIONS ACTUALLY. IT'S ALL COMMON SENSE. [ APPLAUSE ] JUST A FEW SHORT YEARS AGO, UNDER MY PRESIDENCY, WE HAD THE MOST SECURE BORDER AND BEST ECONOMY IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY, IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. WE HAD THE GREATEST ECONOMY IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. WE HAD NEVER DONE ANYTHING LIKE IT. WE WERE BEATING EVERY COUNTRY, INCLUDING CHINA, BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS. NOBODY HAD SEEN ANYTHING LIKE. WE HAD NO INFLATION, SOARING INCOMES WERE GOING. NOBODY CAN BELIEVE IT. YOU CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED FOUR YEARS AGO. IT'S HAPPENING NOW IN REVERSE. AND THE WORLD WAS AT PEACE. INFLATION HAS BEEN A KILLER FOR OUR COUNTRY. NO MATTER WHAT YOU MAKE IT, IT DOESN'T MATTER, BECAUSE INFLATION IS EATING YOU ALIVE. PEOPLE THAT WERE PUTTING AWAY MONEY, MAKING GREAT WAGES, THE HIGHEST THEY HAVE EVER MADE, BUT THEY WERE PUTTING AWAY A LOT OF MONEY. NOW THEY ARE JUST BEING DESTROYED. THEY'RE NOT PUTTING AWAY ANYTHING. THEY'RE BARELY LIVING. THEY'RE GOING INTO SAVINGS ACCOUNT, THEY'RE TAKING OUT MONEY TO LIVE BECAUSE OF INFLATION. INFLATION, REMEMBER, IT'S CALLED A COUNTRY BUSTER. YOU CAN GO BACK TO GERMANY FROM A HUNDRED YEARS AGO. YOU CAN GO BACK TO ANY COUNTRY THAT SUFFERED GREAT INFLATION. WE'VE SUFFERED THE WORST INFLATION WE'VE EVER HAD. BUT GO BACK AND SEE WHAT'S HAPPENED TO THOSE COUNTRIES. WE'VE HAD THE WORST INFLATION WE'VE EVER HAD UNDER THIS PERSON. BUT IN LESS THAN FOUR YEARS, OUR OPPONENTS HAVE TURNED INCREDIBLE SUCCESS INTO UNPARALLEL TRAGEDY AND FAILURE. IT'S BEEN A TREMENDOUS FAILURE. YOU TODAY OUR CITIES ARE FLOODED WITH ILLEGAL ALIENS. AMERICANS ARE BEING SQUEEZED OUT OF THE LABOR FORCE, AND THEIR JOBS ARE TAKEN. BY THE WAY, YOU KNOW WHO'S TAKING THE JOBS, THE JOBS THAT ARE CREATED? 107% OF THOSE JOBS ARE TAKEN BY ILLEGAL ALIENS. AND YOU KNOW WHO'S BEING HURT THE MOST BY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE POURING INTO OUR COUNTRY? THE BLACK POPULATION AND THE HISPANIC POPULATION, BECAUSE THEY'RE TAKING JOBS FROM OUR BLACK POPULATION, OUR HISPANIC POPULATION, AND THEY'RE ALSO TAKING THEM FROM UNIONS. THE UNIONS ARE SUFFERING BECAUSE OF IT. THANK YOU. I LIKE YOU, TOO. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. INFLATION HAS WIPED OUT THE LIFE SAVINGS OF OUR CITIZENS AND FORCED THE MIDDLE CLASS INTO A STATE OF DEPRESSION AND DESPAIR. THAT'S WHAT IT IS. IT'S DESPAIR AND DEPRESSION. WE CANNOT AND WILL NOT LET THIS CONTINUE. LESS THAN FOUR YEARS AGO, WE WERE A GREAT NATION, AND WE WILL SOON BEA GREAT NATION AGAIN. WE'RE GOING TO BE A GREAT NATION AGAIN. WITH PROPER HEEDERSHIP, EVERY DISASTER WE ARE NOW ENDURE WILLING BE FIXED, AND IT WILL BE FIXED VERY, VERY QUICKLY. SO TONIGHT, WHETHER YOU'VE SUPPORTED ME IN THE PAST OR NOT, I HOPE WILL YOU SUPPORT ME IN THE FUTURE, BECAUSE I WILL BRING BACK THE AMERICAN DREAM. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO. YOU DON'T EVEN HEAR ABOUT THE AMERICAN DREAM ANY MORE. [ APPLAUSE ] >> WITH GREAT HUMILITY, I AM ASKING YOU TO BE EXCITED ABOUT THE FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY. BE EXCITED. BE EXCITED. BE EXCITED. [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] AND BY THE WAY, THE NEWS REPORT, LOOK AT ALL OF THOSE BIG NETWORKS, LOOK AT THEM, THEY'RE ALL HERE. BUT EVERY ONE OF THEM HAS SAID, THIS COULD BE THE MOST ORGANIZED, BEST RUN AND MOST ENTHUSIASTIC CONVENTION OF EITHER PARTY THAT THEY HAVE EVER SEEN. EVERY SINGLE ONE. IT'S TRUE. IT'S TRUE. IT'S TRUE. THERE'S LOVE IN THE ROOM. THERE'S GREAT LOVE IN THE ROOM. SO I BETTER FINISH STRONG. OTHERWISE, WE'LL BLOW IT, AND WE CAN'T LET THAT HAPPEN. NO, THIS IS GREAT. ALL OF THE GREAT PEOPLE THAT SPOKE AND EVERYBODY HIT A HOME RUN. I MEAN, THERE'S NOT ONE THAT I CAN THINK OF WHERE I SAID, OH, GEE, THAT WASN'T GREAT. EVERY SINGLE PERSON. I REFUSE TO BE THE ONLY ONE. DON'T DO THAT TO ME. THEY'RE ALREADY GETTING READY. SEE, I GAVE THEM AN IDEA. THIS WAS A GREAT CONVENTION. I THINK WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO GO HOME AND MISS IT. FIRST OF ALL, LOOK AT THESE CROWDS. YOU NEVER HAVE THIS AT A CONVENTION. LOOK AT THIS CROWD. LOVE. IT'S ABOUT LOVE. THIS WEEK THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS FORMALLY ADOPTED AN AGENDA FOR AMERICA'S RENEWAL. YOU SAW THAT AGENDA. IT'S VERY SHORT COMPARED TO THE LONG, BORING, MEANINGLESS AGENDAS OF THE PAST, INCLUDING THE DEMOCRATS. THEY WRITE THESE THINGS THAT ARE HUNDREDS OF PAGES LONG, AND THEY NEVER READ THEM AFTER THAT. IN THEIR CASE, FORTUNATELY THEY DON'T READ THEM, BECAUSE THEY'RE PRETTY BAD. IT'S A SERIES OF BOLD PROMISES THAT WE WILL SWIFTLY IMPLEMENT WHEN YOU GIVE US A REPUBLICAN HOUSE, AND MR. SPEAKER, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE HAVE OUR GREAT SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE WITH US TONIGHT. MR. SPEAKER. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. A REPUBLICAN. >> WE HAVE MANY SENATORS HERE. AND SEND ME BACK TO OUR BEAUTIFUL WHITE HOUSE JUST A FEW SHORT MONTHS FROM NOW. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT JUST MONTHS. IT CAN'T COME FAST ENOUGH. WE HAVE TO GET IT DONE. FIRST WE MUST GET ECONOMIC RELIEF TO OUR CITIZENS, STARTING ON DAY ONE WE WILL DRIVE DOWN PRICES AND MAKE AMERICA AFFORDABLE AGAIN. WE HAVE TO MAKE IT AFFORDABLE. IT'S NOT EVER AFFORD AFTERNOON. PEOPLE CAN'T LIVE LIKE THIS. UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION, OUR CURRENT ADMINISTRATION, GROCERIES ARE UP 57%, GASOLINE IS UP 60 AND 70%, MORTGAGE RATES HAVE QUADRUPLED, AND THE FACT IS, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THEY ARE, BECAUSE YOU CAN'T GET THE MONEY ANYWAY. CAN'T BUY HOUSES. YUCK PEOPLE CAN'T GET ANY FINANCING TO BUY A HOUSE. THE TOTAL HOUSEHOLD COSTS HAVE INCREASED AN AVERAGE OF $28,000 PER FAMILY UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION. REPUBLICANS HAVE A PLAN TO BRING DOWN PRICES AND BRING THEM DOWN VERY, VERY RAPIDLY BY SLASHING ENERGY COSTS WE WILL IN TURN REDUCE THE COST OF TRANSPORTATION, MANUFACTURING, AND ALL HOUSEHOLD GOODS, SO MUCH STARTS WITH ENERGY. AND REMEMBER, WE HAVE MORE LIQUID GOLD UNDER OUR FEET THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY BY FAR. WE ARE A NATION THAT HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE AN ABSOLUTE FORTUNE WITH ITS ENERGY. WE HAVE IT, AND CHINA DOESN'T. UNDER THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, JUST THREE-AND-A-HALF YEARS AGO, WE WERE ENERGY INDEPENDENT. BUT SOON WE WILL ACTUALLY BE BETTER THAN THAT. WE WILL BE ENERGY DOMINANT AND SUPPLY NOT ONLY OURSELVES, BUT WE WILL SUPPLY THE REST OF THE WORLD, WITH NUMBERS THAT NOBODY HAS EVER SEEN, AND WE WILL REDUCE OUR DEBT, $36 TRILLION. WE WILL START REDUCING THAT. AND WE WILL ALSO REDUCE YOUR TAXES STILL FURTHER. NEXT -- AND BY THE WAY, THEY WANT TO RAISE YOUR TAXES FOUR TIMES. IN ALL MY LIFE I'VE WATCHED POLITICS. THEY WERE ALWAYS TALKING, WE WILL GIVE YOU A TAX CUT, WE WILL GIVE YOU A TAX CUT. MY WHOLE LIFE I WAS WATCHING, WE WILL GIVE YOU A TAX CUT. THAT'S ALL THEY TALKED ABOUT. THIS IS THE ONLY ADMINISTRATION THAT SAID WE'RE GOING TO RAISE YOUR TAXES BY FOUR TIMES WHAT YOU'RE PAYING NOW. AND PEOPLE ARE SUPPOSED TO VOTE FOR THEM? I'VE NEVER HEARD. YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH, WE'RE GOING REDUCE YOUR TAXES STILL FURTHER. WE GAVE YOU THE BIGGEST ONE. WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU MORE. IT'S GOING TO LEAD TO TREMENDOUS GROWTH. WE WANT GROWTH IN OUR COUNTRY. THAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO PAY OFF OUR DEBT. AND NEXT, WE WILL END THE RIDICULOUS AND ACTUALLY INCREDIBLE WASTE OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS THAT IS FUELING THE INFLATION CRISIS. THEY SPENT TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS ON THINGS HAVING TO DO WITH THE GREEN NEW SCHOOL. IT'S A SCAM. AND THAT'S CAUSED TREMENDOUS INFLATIONARY PRESSURES IN ADDITION TO THE COST OF ENERGY. AND ALL OF THE TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT ARE SITTING THERE NOT YET SPENT, WE WILL REDIRECT THAT MONEY FOR IMPORTANT PROJECT LIKE ROADS, BRIDGES, DAMS, AND WE WILL NOT ALLOW IT TO BSPENT ON MEANINGLESS GREEN NEW SCAM IDEAS. IDEAS. AND I WILL END THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE MANDATE ON DAY ONE, THEREBY SAVING THE U.S. AUTO INDUSTRY FROM COMPLETE 0 BLIGHTER RACING, WHICH IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW, AND SAVING U.S. CUSTOMERS THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS PER CAR. RIGHT NOW AS WE SPEAK, LARGE FACTORIES ARE BEING BUILT ACROSS THE BORDER IN MEXICO. SO WITH ALL THE OTHER THINGS HAPPENING ON OUR BORDER, AND THEY'RE BEING BUILT BY CHINA TO MAKE CARS AND SELL THEM INTO OUR COUNTRY NO, TAX, NO NOTHING. THE UNITED AUTO WORKERS OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED FOR ALLOWING THIS TO HAPPEN. THE LEADER OF UNITED AUTO WORKERS SHOULD BE FIRED IMMEDIATELY. EVERY SINGLE AUTO WORKER, UNION AND NONUNION, SHOULD BE VOTING FOR DONALD TRUMP, BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO BRING BACK CAR MANUFACTURING, AND WE'RE GOING TO BRING IT BACK FAST. FAST. THEY'RE BUILDING SOME OF THE LARGEST AUTO PLANTS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. THINK OF IT. IN THE WORLD. WE'RE GOING BRING IT BACK. WE'RE GOING TO MAKE THEM. THOSE PLANTS ARE GOING TO BE BUILT IN THE UNITED STATES, AND OUR PEOPLE ARE GOING TO MAN THOSE PLANTS. [ APPLAUSE ] AND IF THEY DON'T AGREE WITH US, WE'LL PUT A TARIFF OF APPROXIMATELY 100 TO 200% ON EACH CAR, AND THEY WILL BE UNSELLABLE IN THE UNITED STATES. WE HAVE LONG BEEN TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF BY OTHER COUNTRIES. THINK OF IT. OFTENTIMES THESE OTHER COUNTRIES ARE CONSIDERED SO- CALLED ALLIES. THEY HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF US. WE LOSE JOBS, WE LOSE REVENUES, THEY GAIN EVERYTHING AND WIPE OUT OUR BUSINESSES, WIPE OUT OUR PEOPLE. I STOPPED IT FOR FOUR YEARS. AND WE'RE REALLY READY TO MAKE CHANGES LIKE NOBODY HAS SEEN. REMEMBER, THE U S F T A, I GOT RID OF IT. PROBABLY THE BEST DAILY I MADE WAS WITH CHINA WHERE THEY BAY $50 BILLION WORTH OF OUR PRODUCT. THEY WERE BUYING NOTHING. THEY BUY $50 BILLION WORTH. THEY HAD TO. BUT I DON'T EVEN TALK ABOUT IT BECAUSE OF COVID. I DON'T EVEN MENTION IT, FRANKLY, BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE CHINA VIRUS. WE WILL NOT LET COUNTRIES COME IN, TAKE OUR JOBS, AND PLUNDER OUR NATION. THEY COME IN, THEY PLUNDER OUR NATION. THE WAY THEY WILL SELL THEIR PRODUCT IN AMERICA IS TO BUILD IT IN AMERICA. VERY SIMPLE. BUILD IT IN AMERICA AND ONLY IN AMERICA. AMERICA. >> USA! USA! USA! >> AND THIS VERY SIMPLE FORMULA, AND CONGRESS HAS TO GO ALONG WITH US, AND THEY WILL, THIS VERY SIMPLE FORMULA WILL YEAH HE ATE MASSIVE NUMBERS OF JOBS. WE WILL TAKE OVER THE AUTO INDUSTRY AGAIN, AND MANY, MANY -- HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF JOBS. WE LOST SO MANY JOBS OVER THE YEARS. IF YOU GO BACK 20, 25 YEARS, GOING TO CHINA AND MEXICO, ABOUT 68% OF OUR AUTO MANUFACTURING JOBS. WE'RE GOING TO GET THEM ALL BACK. WE'RE GOING TO GET THEM ALL BACK, EVERY ONE OF THEM. [ APPLAUSE ] >> AT THE CENTER OF OUR PLAN FOR ECONOMIC RELIEF ARE MASSIVE TAX CUTS FOR WORKERS THAT INCLUDE SOMETHING THAT'S VERY POPULAR. HERE IT'S VERY POPULAR, ALL THOSE HOTELS. I'M STAYING AT A NICE ONE. IT'S CALLED NO TAX ON TIPS. NO TAX ON TIPS. >> NO TAX ON TIPS! NO TAX ON TIPS! >> I GOT THAT BY HAVING DINNER RECENTLY IN NEVADA, WHERE WE'RE LEADING BY ABOUT 14 POINTS. HELLO. I'LL SEE YOU THERE VERY SOON, EVERYBODY. HAVING DINNER AT A BEAUTIFUL RESTAURANT IN THE TRUMP BUILDING ON THE TRIP, AND IT'S A GREAT BUILDING. WAITRESS COMES OVER, HOW'S EVERYTHING GOING? REALLY NICE PERSON. HOW'S EVERYTHING GOING? OH, SIR, IT'S SO TOUGH. THE GOVERNMENT IS AFTER ME ALL THE TIME ON TIPS, TIPS, TIPS. I SAID, THEY GIVE YOU CASH. SHE SAID, VERY LITTLE CASH IS GIVEN, IT'S ALL PUT RIGHT ON THE CHERKS AND THEY COME IN AND TAKE SO MUCH OF OUR MONEY. THEY DON'T BELIEVE ANYTHING WE SAY. THEY'RE JUST TIRED, AS YOU KNOW. 88,000 AGENTS TO GO AFTER THEM EVEN MORE. AND I SAID, THIS SHOWS THE LEVEL OF -- MY PEOPLE THEY HIRE CONSULTANTS, THEY PAY THEM MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, BUT I SAID TO HER, LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION. WOULD YOU BE HAPPY IF YOU HAD NO TAX ON TIPS? SHE SAID, WHAT A GREAT IDEA. I GOT MY INFORMATION FROM A VERY SMART WAITRESS. THAT'S BETTER THAN SPENDING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. AND EVERYBODY LOVES IT. WAITRESSES AND CADDIES AND DRIVERS. EVERYBODY. LARGE GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT ARE BEING REALLY HURT BADLY. THEY MAKE MONEY. LET THEM KEEP THEIR MONEY. I'M GOING TO PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE. DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO DESTROY SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE BECAUSE ALL OF THESE PEOPLE BY THE MILLIONS, THEY'RE COMING IN. THEY'RE GOING TO BE ON SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE AND OTHER THINGS, AND YOU'RE NOT ABLE TO AFFORD IT. THEY ARE DESTROYING YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY AND YOUR MEDICARE. UNDER MY PLAN, INCOMES WILL SKYROCKET, INFLATION WILL VANISH COMPLETELY. JOBS WILL COME ROARING BACK, AND THE MIDDLE CLASS WILL PROSPER LIKE NEVER, ARE EVER BEFORE, AND WE'RE GOING TO DO IT VERY RAPIDLY. BUT NO HOPE OR DREAM WE HAVE FOR AMERICA CAN SUCCEED UNLESS WE STOP THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT INVASION, THE WORSE THAT'S EVER BEEN SEEN ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. THERE'S NEVER BEEN AN INVASION LIKE THIS. THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES WOULD FIGHT WITH STICKS AND STONES NOT TO LET THIS HAPPEN. THE INVASION AT OUR SOUTHERN BORDER, WE WILL STOP AND WE WILL STOP QUICKLY. YOU HEARD TOM HOMAN YESTERDAY. PUT HIM IN CHARGE AND JUST SIT BACK AND WATCH. BRANDON JUD, BORDER PATROL. HE'S INCREDIBLE. THESE GUYS, REALLY, THEIR JOB IS A LOT EASIER IF THEY DON'T HAVE TO HAVE DO ANYTHING, BUT THEY WANT TO. BRANDON JUD, BORDER PATROL. ACE GOES OUT. YOU HAVE TO SEE WHAT ACE DOES WITH MS-13. THESE ARE PROBABLY THE WORST GANGS, AND I.C.E. GOES IN THERE. I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE. THEY'RE VERY TOUGH. BUT THEY GO IN AND THERE'S PROBABLY THE WORST GANGS IN THE WORLD. I MOVED THOUSANDS AND THOUS SONDES OUT IN MY FOUR YEARS. I.C.E. WOULD GO RIGHT INTEREST A PACK OF THESE KILLERS, AND YOU SEE FISTS FLYING, YOU SEE EVERYTHING FLYING, AND THEN THEY TAKE THEM. THEY PUT THEM IN A PADDY WAGON. THE OTHER COUNTRIES WEREN'T ACCEPTING THEM BACK. I CALLED THEM AND SAID TELL THEM WE'RE NOT GIVING THEM ECONOMIC AID ANY MORE. THE NEXT DAY I GOT CALLS FROM ALL OF THESE COUNTRIES. BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WE'VE SPENT ON ECONOMIC AID. THE NEXT DAY I WAS CALLED BY EVERYBODY. I COULDN'T TAIG ALL THE CALLS. SIR, SIR, WHAT'S THE PROBLEM ANY SAID, YOU WON'T TAKE YOUR KILLERS BACK THAT YOU SENT IN KARA VANS INTO AMERICA, YOU WON'T TAKE THEM BACK. WELL, SIR IF YOU'D LIKE US TO WE WOULD GIVE VERY SERIOUS CONSIDERATION TO DOING THAT. AND WITHIN 24 HOURS, THEY WERE BEING TAKEN BACK. FOR YEARS AND YEARS WHEN I FIRST CAME IN, THEY SAID PRESIDENT OBAMA TRIED TO GET THEM TO GO BACK, AND THEY WOULDN'T ACCEPT THEM. THEY'D PUT PLANES ON THE RUNWAY SO YOU COULDN'T LEAVE. THEY'D CLOSE THE ROAD SO YOU COULDN'T TAKE THE BUSES. THEY'D HAVE TO TURN BACK. AS SOON AS THEY SAID NO MORE ECONOMIC AID TO ANY COUNTRY THAT DOES THAT, THEY CALLED BACK AND SAID, SIR, IT WOULD BE A GREAT HONOR TO TAKE MS-13, WE LOVE THEM VERY MUCH. WE LOVE THEM VERY MUCH, SIR. WE'LL TAKE THEM BACK. AT THE HEART OF THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM IS OUR PLEDGE TO END THIS BORDER NIGHTMARE AND FULLY RESTORE THE SACRED AND SO VERN BOARD VOICE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. WE'RE GOING TO DO THAT ON DAY ONE. THAT MEANS TWO THINGS ON DAY ONE, RIGHT? DRILL BABY DRILL, AND CLOSE OUR BORDERS. AND BY THE WAY, AND I THINK EVERYBODY AS A REPUBLICAN, AS A PAT TRIOUT IN THIS ROM, AND MOST DEMOCRATS, WE WANT PEOPLE TO COME INTO OUR COUNTRY, BUT THEY HAVE TO COME INTO OUR COUNTRY LEGALLY. [ APPLAUSE ] >> LEGALLY. LESS THAN FOUR YEARS AGO I HANDED THIS ADMINISTRATION THE STRONGEST BORDER IN AMERICAN HISTORY. BUT YOU CAN SEE ON THE CHART THAT SAVED MY LIFE, THAT WAS THE CHART THAT SAVED MY LIFE. I SAID LOOK AT IT. I'M SO PROUD OF IT. IT WAS DONE BY THE BORDER PATROL. ONE OF THE GREATEST CHARTS I'VE EVER SEEN. YOU KNOW THE CHART. OH, THERE IT IS. THAT'S PRETTY GOOD. WOW. LAST TIME I PUT THAT UP CHART, I NEVER REALLY GOT TO LOOK AT IT. BUT WITHOUT THAT CHART, I WOULD NOT BE HERE TODAY. [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] [ CHEER GOT TO LOOK AT IT. I SAID, YOU'VE GOT TO SEE THIS CHART. I WAS SO PROUD OF IT. AND BY THE TAME I GOT TO THERE -- I NEVER GOT TO THESE DAY, BUT I'M SEEING IT NOW. IF YOU LOOK AT THE ARROW ON THE BOTTOM, THAT'S THE LOWEST LEVEL. HEAVY RED ARROW. THAT'S THE LOWEST LEVEL OF ILLEGAL I AM GRANTS EVER TO COME INTO OUR COUNTRY. RIGHT THERE. AND THAT WAS MY LAST WEEK IN OFFICE. AND THEN YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENED AFTER I LEFT. LOOK AT THE REST. AND IF YOU GO OUT A LITTLE BIT FURTHER, IT'S GETTING TO BE A LITTLE BIT OLD, BUT I LOVE IT ANYWAY, RIGHT? BUT YOU CAN GO MUCH HIGHER WITH THOSE NUMBERS. LOOK WHAT HAPPENED RIGHT AFTER THAT. THE INVASION BEGAN. WE HAD THE OPPOSITE. WE STOPPED THE INVASION. BUT THE INVASION THAT WE STOPPED WAS PEANUTS BY COMPARISON TO WHAT HAPPENED AFTER I LEFT. LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED AFTER I LEFT. THEY TOOK OVER OUR COUNTRY. BENDED ALL CATCH AND RELEASE. WE SHUT DOWN ASYLUM FRAUD. WE STOPPED HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND FORGED HISTORIC AGREEMENTS TO KEEP ILLEGAL ALIENS ON FOREIGN. SO I WE WANT THEM TO STAY ON THEIR SOIL. TURNED TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, IF YOU CAME IN ILLEGALLY YOU WERE APPREHENDED IMMEDIATELY AND YOU WERE DEPORTED. YOU WENT RIGHT BACK. THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION TERMINATED EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE GREAT TRUMP POLICIES THAT I PUT IN PLACE TO SEAL THE BORDER. I WANTED TO SEAL THE BORDER. AGAIN, COME IN BUT COME IN LEGALLY. SO MANY PEOPLE, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WORKING FOR YEARS TO COME INTO OUR COUNTRY. AND NOW THEY SEE THESE PEOPLE POUR INTO OUR COUNTRY AT LEVELS THAT ARE UNPRECEDENTED. SO UNFAIR. AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO DO IT. WE'RE NOT GOING TO STAND FORT. THEY SUSPENDED WALL CONSTRUCTION, ENDED REMAIN IN MEXICO. YOU THINK THAT WAS EASY TO GET FROM THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT? I SAID YOU MIGHT WANT TO GIVE IT TO US. IF YOU DON'T THERE WILL BE PER CUSHIONS. CANCELED OUR AGREEMENTS, DEMOLISHED TITLE 42, IMPLEMENTED NATIONWIDE CATCH AND RELEASE. THAT'S WHERE WE CATCH THEM AND RELEASE THEM INTO OUR COUNTRY. I HAD WE CATCH THEM AND RELEASE THEM INTO MEXICO. SLIGHT DIFFERENCE. AND TACK 93 -- THIS IS THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION. 93 EXECUTIVE ACTIONS TO THROW OPEN OUR BORDER TO THE WORLD. THE ENTIRE WORLD IS POURING INTO OUR COUNTRY BECAUSE OF THIS VERY FALLISH ADMINISTRATION. THE GREATEST INVASION IN HISTORY IS TAKING PLACE RIGHT HERE IN OUR COUNTRY. THEY ARE COMING IN FROM EVERY CORNER OF THE EARTH, NOT JUST FROM SOUTH AMERICA, BUT FROM AFRICA, ASIA, THE MIDDLE EAST. THEY'RE COMING FROM EVERYWHERE. THEY'RE COMING AT LEVELS THAT WE'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE. IT IS AN INVASION INDEED, AND THIS ADMINISTRATION DOES ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO STOP THEM. THEY'RE COMING FROM PRISONS, THEY'RE COMING FROM JAILS, THEY'RE COMING FROM MENTAL INSTITUTIONS AND INSANE AS SILE LUMS. THE PRESS IS ALWAYS ON ME BECAUSE I SAY THIS. HAS ANYONE SEEN "SILENCE OF THE LAMBS"? THE LATE GREAT HANNIBAL LECTER. HE'D LOVE TO HAVE YOU FOR DINNER. THAT'S INSANE AS SAIL LUMS. THEY'RE EMPTYING OUT THEIR INSANE AS SILE LUMS, AND TERRORISTS ARE COMING IN LIKE WE'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE. BAD THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN. MEANWHILE OUR CRIME STATISTICS ARE GOING UP BECAUSE THEY'RE TAKING THEIR CRIMINALS AND PUTTING THEM INTEREST OUR COUNTRY. A CERTAIN COUNTRY, AND I HAPPEN TO LIKE THE PRESIDENT OF THAT COUNTRY VERY MUCH BUT HE'S BEEN GETTING GREAT PUBLICITY BECAUSE HE'S A WONDERFUL SHEPHERD. THEIR CRIME RATE IS DOWN. HE SAID HE'S TRAINING ALL OF THESE ROUGH PEOPLE, THEY'RE ROUGH, ROUGH, ROUGH, HE'S TRAINING THEM. I'VE BEEN READING ABOUT THIS FOR TWO YEARS. OH, THAT'S WONDERFUL, LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT IT. BUT THEN I REALIZE HE'S NOT TRAINING THEM, HE'S SENDING ALL HIS CRIMINALS, HIS DRUG DEALS, HIS PEOPLE THAT ARE IN JAIL, HE'S SENDING THEM ALL TO THE UNITED STATES. AND HE'S DIFFERENT IN THAT HE DOESN'T SAY. HE'S TRYING TO CONVINCE EVERYBODY WHAT A WONDERFUL JOB HE DOES IN RUNNING THE COUNTRY. WELL, HE DOESN'T DO A WONDERFUL JOB. BY THE WAY, IF I RAN ONE OF THE COUNTRY, MANY, MANY COUNTRIES FROM ALL OVER, I WOULD BE WORSE THAN ANY OF THEM. I WOULD HAVE HAD THE PLACE TOTALLY EMPTIED OUT ALREADY. BUT WE'VE BECOME A DUMPING GROUND FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD, WHICH IS LAUGHING AT US. THEY THINK WE'RE STUPID. THEY CAN'T BELIEVE THAT THEY'RE GETTING AWAY WITH WHAT THEY'RE GETTING AWAY WITH BUT THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE GETTING AWAY WITH IT FOR LONG. THAT'S WHAT I CAN TELL YOU. THAT'S WHAT I CAN TELL YOU. IN VENEZUELA, CARACAS, HIGH CRIME, HIGH CRIME. CARACAS, VENEZUELA. REALLY A DANGEROUS PLACE. BUT NOT ANY MORE. BECAUSE IN VENEZUELA, CRIME IS DOWN 72%. IN FACT, IF THEY WOULD EVER WIN THIS ELECTION, I HATE TO EVEN SAY THAT, WE WILL HAVE OUR NEXT REPUBLICAN CONVENTION IN VENEZUELA, BECAUSE IT WILL BE SAFE. OUR CITIES WILL BE SOWN SAFE, WE WON'T BE -- WITH WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HAVE IT THERE. IN EL SALVADOR, BURGERS ARE DOWN BY 70%. WHY ARE THEY DOWN? HE WOULD HAVE YOU CONVINCE THAT BECAUSE HE'S TRAINED MURDERERS TO BE WONDERFUL PEOPLE. NO. THEY'RE DOWN BECAUSE THEY'RE SEND FLAG AMURDERRERS TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THIS IS GOING TO BE VERY BAD. AND BAD THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN, AND YOU'RE SEEING IT HAPPEN ALL THE TIME. THAT'S WHY TO KEEP OUR FAMILIES SAFE THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM PROMISES TO LAUNCH THE LARGE EVENT DEPORTATION OPERATION IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY. EVEN LARGER THAN THAT OF PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. FROM MANY YEARS AGO. YOU KNOW, HE WAS A MODERATE, BUT HE BELIEVED VERY STRONGLY ONBOARDERS. HE HAD THE LARGEST DEPORTATION OPERATION WE'VE EVER HAD. RECENTLY I SPOKE TO THE GRIEVING MOTHER OF JOCELYN NUNGARIA, WONDERFUL WOMAN. A PRECIOUS 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL FROM HOUSTON WHO LAST MONTH WAS TIED UP, ASSAULTED, AND STRANGLED TO DEATH AFTER WALKING TO THE CONVENIENCE STORE JUST A BLOCK AWAY FROM HER HOUSE. HER BODY WAS DUMPED NEAR THE SIDE OF THE ROAD IN A SHALLOW CREEK FOUND BY SOME ONLOOKERS WHO COULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT THEY HAD WITNESSED. CHARGED WITH JOCELYN'S HEINOUS MURDER ARE TWO ILLEGAL ALIENS FROM VENEZUELA WHO CAME ACROSS OUR BORDER, WERE IN CUSTODY, THEN RELEASED INTO THE COUNTRY BY THIS HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE ADMINISTRATION THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW. I ALSO MET RECENTLY WITH THE HEARTBROKEN MOTHER AND SISTER OF RACIAL MORIN. SHE WAS A 37-YEAR-OLD MOM OF FIVE, BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN WHO WAS BRUTALLY RAPED AND MURDERED WHILE OUT ON A RUN. SHE WANTED TO KEEP HERSELF IN GOOD SHAPE. IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT. SHE WAS MURDERED. THE MONSTER RESPONSIBLE FOR HER KILLING, AT MONSTER, THIS WHITE HOUSE LET THEM IN. HE THEN ATTACKED A NINE-YEAR OLD GIRL AND HER MOTHER IN A HOME INVASION IN LOS ANGELES BEFORE MURDERING RACHEL IN MARYLAND. DOING TREMENDOUS DAMAGE. RACHEL'S MOTHER WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. I SPENT TIME WITH HER. SHE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. I'VE ALSO MET WITH THE WONDERFUL FAMILY OF LAKEN RILEY, THE BRILLIANT 22-YEAR OLD NURSING STUDENT. SHE WAS SO PROUD OF BEING FIRST IN HER CLASS, WHO WAS OUT FOR A JOB ON THE CAMPUS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA WHEN SHE WAS ASSAULTED, BEATEN, AND WHO RIFLY KILLED. YET ANOTHER AMERICAN LIFE WAS STOLEN BY A CRIMINAL ALIEN SET FREE BY THIS ADMINISTRATION. THESE WERE INCREDIBLE PEOPLE WHO DIED. TONIGHT AMERICA, THIS IS MY VIEW. I WILL NOT LET THESE KILLERS AND CRIMINALS INTO OUR COUNTRY. [ APPLAUSE ] I [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] WILL KER SONS AND DAUGHTERS SAFE AS WE BRING SECURITY TO OUR STREETS WE WILL HELP BRING STABILITY TO THE WORLD. I WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT IN MODERN TIMES TO START NO NEW WARS. YOU KNOW, WE WERE THE TOUGHEST, WE WERE THE MOST RESPECTED. AND YOU SAW THOSE. HUNGARY, STRONG COUNTRY, RUN BY A REALLY TOUGH GUY. PRESS DOESN'T LIKE HIM BECAUSE HE'S TOUGH. HE CAME OUT RECOMMEND. THEY WERE ASKING HIM IN AN INTERVIEW, THE WHOLE WORLD IS EXPLODING, WHAT'S HAPPENING, WHAT'S GOING ON? VICTOR ORBON, PRIME MINISTER OF HUNGARY, VERY TOUGH MAN. HE SAID, I DON'T WANT PEOPLE COMING INTO MY COUNTRY AND BLOWING UP OUR SHOPPING CENTERS AND KILLING THEM. BUT THEY SAID TO HIM, WHAT'S GOING ON, WHAT IS IT? HE SAID THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY YOU'RE GOING TO SOFT. YOU'VE GOT TO BRING PRESIDENT TRUMP BACK TO THE UNITED STATES, BECAUSE HE KEPT EVERYBODY AT BAY. HE USED A WORD I WOULDN'T USE, BECAUSE I CAN'T USE THAT WORD. YOU WOULD SAY IT WAS BRAGIDOCIOUS. BUT CHINA WAS AFRAID OF HIM, RUSSIA WAS AFRAID OF HIM, THE WHOLE WORLD WAS AT PEACE, AND NOW THE WORLD IS BLOWING UP AROUND US. ALL OF THESE THINGS YOU READ ABOUT WAS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. UNDER PRESIDENT BUSH, RUSSIA INVADED GEORGIA. UNDER PRESIDENT OBAMA, RUSSIA TOOK CRIMEA. UNDER THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION, RUSSIA IS AFTER ALL OF UKRAINE. UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP, RUSSIA TOOK NOTHING. TOOK NOTHING. [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]WE DEFEATED 100% OF ISIS AND SYRIA AND IRAQ, SOMETHING THAT WAS SAID TO TAKE FIVE YEARS, SIR. IT WILL TAKE FIVE YEARS, SIR. WE DID IT IN A MATTER OF A COUPLE OF MONTHS. WE HAVE A GREAT MILITARY. OUR MILITARY IS NOT WOKE. IT'S JUST SOME OF THE FOOLSZ ON TOP THAT ARE WOKE. [ APPLAUSE ] >> I GOT ALONG VERY WELL, NORTH KOREA, KIM JONG-UN. THE PRESS HATED. HOW COULD YOU GET ALONG WITH HIM? IT'S NICE TO GET ALONG WITH SOMEBODY THAT HAS A LOT OF NUCLEAR WEAPON, OR OTHERWISE. IN THE OLD DAYS THEY WOULD SAY, THAT'S A WONDERFUL THING. NOW THEY SAY, HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY DO THIS? BUT, NO, I GOT ALONG WITH HIM. WE STOPPED MISSILE LAUNCHES. NOW NORTH KOREA IS ACTING UP AGAIN, BUT WHEN WE GET BACK, I GET ALONG WITH HIM. HEED LIKE TO SEE ME BACK, TOO. I THINK HE MISSES ME, IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH. OUR OPPONENTS INHERITED A WORLD OF PEACE AND TURNED IT INTO A PLANET OF WAR. WE'RE IN A PLANET OF WAR. LOOK AT THAT ATTACK ON ISRAEL. LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH UKRAINE. THE CITIES ARE JUST BOMBED OUT. HOW CAN PEOPLE LIVE LIKE THAT? MASSIVE BUILDINGS ARE FALLING TO THE GROUND. IT BEGAN TO UNRAVEL WITH THE DISASTROUS WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN. WE HAVE NEVER HAD A HUMILIATION LIKE THAT. 13 HEROIC U.S. SERVICE MEMBERS WERE TRAGICALLY AND NEEDLESSLY KILLED. 45 OTHERS WERE WHO RIFLY WOUNDED. NOBODY EVER TALKS ABOUT THAT. NO ARMS, NO LEGS. FACE EXPLOSIONS. HORRIFICALLY WOUNDED. BY THE WAY, WE HAVE A MAN IN THIS ROOM WHO'S RUNNING FOR THE U.S. SENATE, FROM A GREAT STATE, NEVADA, NAMED SAM BROWN, WHO PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE. THANK YOU, SAM. THANK YOU, SAM. THANK YOU. HE PAID THE BIGGEST PRICE PROBABLY EVER PAID BY ANYBODY THAT IS RUNNING FOR OFFICE, AND I THINK HE'S GOING TO DO GREAT. HE'S RUNNING AGAINST A PERSON THAT IS NOT GOOD, NOT RESPECTED, A TOTAL LIGHTWEIGHT. BUT SAM, REALLY, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, SOME OF THE SENATORS THAT ARE WORKING SO HARD FOR SAM, BUT HE PAID THE BIGGEST PRICE BY ANYBODY EVER TO RUN FOR THE SENATE. HE'S A REAL HERO, A REALLY GREAT PERSON. I HOPE THAT EVERYBODY GETS OUT AND VOTES FOR SAM BROWN. [ APPLAUSE ] AND[ CHEERS AND AP BEHIND $85 BILLION WORTH OF MILITARY EQUIPMENT, ALONG WITH MANY AMERICAN CITIZENS WERE LEFT BEHIND. MANY, MANY AMERICAN CITIZENS EMBOLDENED BY THAT DISASTER, RUSSIA INVADED UKRAINE. GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT WERE INCOMPETENT. WE TOOK THE SOLDIERS OUT FIRST. NO, NO, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE THE SOLDIERS OUT SECOND. IF THEY WOULD HAVE FOLLOWED MY PLAN. BE WE HAD A GREAT PLAN. BUT THE PLAN ONLY KICKED IN IF THEY DID EVERYTHING PERFECTLY. YOU KNOW, 18 MONTHS IN AFGHANISTAN WE DIDN'T HAVE ONE -- THEY WERE KILLING THEM LEFT AND RIGHT, SNIPERS. AND I SPOKE TO THE HEAD OF THE TALIBAN. YOU'VE HEARD THIS STORY. ABDUL, STILL THERE, STILL HEAD OF THE TALIBAN. THE PRESS GOT ON ME. WHY WOULD YOU SPEAK TO THEM? BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE KILLING IS. AND I TOLD HIM, DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN. DON'T EVER, EVER DO THAT AGAIN. YOU'VE GOT TO STOP, BECAUSE DURING THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, MANY GREAT PEOPLE AND SOLDIERS, LOT OF PEOPLE WERE BEING KILLED FROM LONG-DISTANCE. I SAID, IF YOU KEEP DOING THAT, YOU'RE GOING TO BE HIT HARDER THAN ANYBODY HAS EVER BEEN HIT BY A COUNTRY BEFORE. [ APPLAUSE ] [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] AND HE SAID, I UNDERSTAND, YOUR EXCELLENCY. HE HE CALLED ME, YOUR EXCELLENCY. I WONDER IF HE CALLS THE OTHER UNDERSTAND, YOUR EXCELLENCY. I WONDER IF HE CALLS THE OTHER GUY "YOUR EXCELLENCY"? I DOUBT IT. IRAN IS ONE OF THE LARGEST SELL VERSE WEAPONS IN THE WORLD. THEY'RE SELLING THE BRAND-NEW BEAUTIFUL WEAPONS THAT WE GAVE THEM. BUT THINK OF THIS. HE ACTUALLY SAID TODAY, BUT WHY, BUT WHY DO YOU SHOW ME A PICTURE OF MY HOME? I SAID, YOU'LL HAVE TO ASK YOUR PEOPLE OR ONE OF YOUR WIVES. BUT KEY FIGURE IT OUT. AND FOR 18 MONTHS, WE HAD NO ONE ATTACK ON AN AMERICAN SOLDIER BY THE TALIBAN. 18 MONTHS. AND THEN WE HAD THAT HORRIBLE DAY WHERE SOLDIERS WERE KILLED. I WAS NOT THERE, BECAUSE OF A RIDICULOUS ELECTION. BUT WE HAD THAT HORRIBLE ATTACK, AND THEY ALSO GAVE UP BAGRAM, ONE OF THE BIGGEST AIR BASES IN THE WORLD, LONGEST RUN WAY, MOST POWERFUL HARDENED, THICKENED RUNWAY. THEY GAVE IT UP. I LIKED IT NOT BECAUSE OF AFGHANISTAN, BUT BECAUSE OF CHINA. ONE HOUR AWAY FROM WHERE CHINA MAKES ITS NUCLEAR WEAPONS. YOU KNOW WHO HAS IT NOW? CHINA HAS IT NOW. WE WERE KEEPING THAT. AND NOW CHINA IS LIKEWISE CIRCLING TAIWAN AND RUSSIAN WARSHIPS AND NUCLEAR SUB MORE LEANS ARE OPERATING, 60 MILES OFF THE COAST. YOU KNOW THAT? THE PRESS REFUSES TO WRITE ABOUT IT. IF THAT WERE ME RUNNING THIS COUNTRY AND WE HAD NUCLEAR SUBMARINES IN CUBA, I WILL TELL YOU THAT HEADLINES EVERY DAY WOULD BE, WHAT'S WRONG WITH OUR PRESIDENT? YOU DON'T EVEN HEAR. THIS YOU'RE NOT HEARING ABOUT THIS. RUSSIA HAS NUCLEAR SUBMARINES AND WARSHIPS 60 MILES AWAY, MR. CONGRESSMAN FROM MIAMI. BY THE WAY, HAPPENS TO BE HERE. CORRECT? IN CUBA. AND THAT WOULD NOT BE STOOD FOR IF IT WERE SOMEBODY ELSE. THEY DON'T WANT TO MENTION IT, BUT NOW MAYBE THEY L. AND THE ENTIRE WORLD, I TELL NEW, WE WANT OUR HOSTAGES BACK, AND THEY BETTER BE BACK BEFORE I ASSUME OFFICE, OUR WILL BE PAYING A VERY BIG PRICE. [ APPLAUSE ] >> WITH OUR VICTORY IN NOVEMBER, THE YEARS OF WAR, WEAKNESS, AND CHAOS WILL BE OVER. I DON'T HAVE WARS. I HAD NO WARS, OTHER THAN ISIS, WHICH I DEFEATED, BUT THAT WAS A WAR THAT WAS STARTED. WE HAD NO WAMPLETS I COULD STOP WARS WITH A TELEPHONE CALL. I COULD STOP WARS WITH JUST A TELEPHONE CALL. IF PROPERLY STATED, WATT NEVER START. WE WILL REPLENISH OUR MILITARY AND BUILD AN IRON DOME, MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM TO ENSURE THAT NO ENEMY CAN STRIKE OUR HOMELAND, AND THIS GREAT IRON DOME WILL BE BUILT ENTIRELY IN THE USA. WE'RE GOING TO BUILD IT IN THE USA. IN WISCONSIN, WISCONSIN, JUST LIKE I GAVE THAT YOU MASSIVE SHIP CONTRACT, AND YOU'RE DOING A VERY NICE JOB, GOVERNOR, RIGHT? THANK YOU, GOVERNOR. AND THEY'RE DOING A GREAT JOB. IN FACT, I HAD AGENT DESIGN CHANGE. WE GAVE THEM ESSENTIAL WHAT WE USED TO CALL DESTROYERS. THESE ARE NOW THE MOST BEAUTIFUL -- WE HAVE TO TAKE THE BOW AND WE HAVE TO MAKE IT A LITTLE NICER AND A LITTLE POINT AT THE STOP INSTEAD OF A FLAT NOSE. THE PEOPLE AT THE SHIPYARD SAID THIS GUY SORT OF KNOWS WHAT HE'S DOING. WE HAVE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SHIPS, RIGHT, GOVERNOR? EVERYBODY SITTING OVER THERE. IT WAS A BIG CONTRACT. I GAVE IT TO WISCONSIN. BUT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A LOT VIEW THAT BUILT HERE IN THE STATE OF WISCONSIN AND ALL OTHER STATES. ISRAEL HAS AN IRON DOME. THEY HAVE A MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM. 342 MISSILES WERE SHOT INTO ISRAEL. ONLY ONE GOT THROUGH. IT WAS BADLY WOUNDED. IT FELL TO THE GROUND. RONALD REAGAN WANTED THIS TECHNOLOGY YEARS AGO. I REMEMBER THEY CALLED IT STARSHIP, ANYTHING TO MOCK HIM, BUT HE WAS A VERY GOOD PRESIDENT. BUT NOW WE HAVE UNBELIEVABLE TECHNOLOGY. AND WHY SHOULD OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE THIS AND WE DON'T. NO, NO, WE'RE GOING TO BUILD AN IRON DOME OVER OUR COUNTRY, AND WE'RE GOING TO BE SURE THAT NOTHING CAN COME AND HARM OUR PEOPLE. AND AGAIN, FROM AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STANDPOINT, WE'RE GOING TO MAKE IT ALL RIGHT HERE. NO MORE SENDING IT OUT TO OTHER COUNTRIES IN ORDER TO HELP. IT'S AMERICA FIRST. AMERICA FIRST. WE WILL UNLEASH THE POWER OF AMERICAN INNOVATION. AS WE DO WE WILL SOON BE ON THE VERGE OF FINDING CURES TO CANCER, ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE, AND MANY OTHER CANCERS. WE'RE GOING TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF IT. YOU REMEMBER THIS GENTLEMAN THAT I DON'T WANT TO MENTION, I HAD TO, BECAUSE WHEN YOU SAY YOU'RE THE TEN WORST, I HAD TO DO. BUT THIS MAN SAID, WE'RE GOING TO FIND A CURE FOR CANCER. NOTHING HAPPENED. WE'RE GOING TO GET TO THE CURE FOR CANCER AND ALZHEIMER'S AND SO MANY OTHER THINGS, BUT SO CLOSE TO DOING SOMETHING GREAT. BUT WE NEED A LEADER THAT WILL LET IT BE DONE. WE WILL NOT HAVE MEN PLAYING IN WOMEN'S SPORTS. THAT WILL END IMMEDIATELY. [ APPLAUSE ] [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] AND WE RESTORE AND RENOVATE OUR NATION'S ONCE GREAT CITIES MAKING THEM SAFE, CLEAN, AND BEAUTIFUL AGAIN. AND THAT INCLUDES OUR NATION'S CAPITAL WHICH IS A HORRIBLE KILLING FIELD. SO MANY THINGS. THEY LEAVE FROM WISCONSIN, THEY GO TO LOOK AT THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT, THEY END UT UP GETTING STABBED, KILLED, OR SHOT. WE WILL BE VERY SOON VERY PROUD OF OUR CAPITAL AGAIN, WASHINGTON, D.C. [ APPLAUSE ] AMERICA'S ON THE [ APPLAUSE ] CUSP OF A NEW GOLDEN AGE, BUT WE WILL HAVE THE COURAGE TO SEIZE IT. WE'RE GOING TO BRING THIS INTO A GOLDEN AGE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEWN BEFORE. REMEMBER THIS CHINA WANT TO DO IT, JAPAN WANTS TO DO IT. ALL OF THESE COUNTRIES WANT TO DO IT. WE HAVE TO PRODUCE MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF ENERGY IF WE'RE GOING TO PRODUCE THE NEW -- IF YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN DONE, AND SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE GOING TO DO, BUT A.I. NEEDS TREMENDOUS -- LITERALLY TWICE THE ELECTRICITY THAT'S AVAILABLE NOW IN OUR COUNTRY. CAN YOU IMAGINE? BUT INSTEAD WE'RE SPENDING PLACES WHERE THEY RECHARGE ELECTRIC CARS. THEY BUILT EIGHT CHARGERS AT A CERTAIN LOCATION TOWARD THE MIDWEST. EIGHT CHARGERS FOR $9 B. THINK OF THEM AS A TANK ARE FOR FILLING UP YOUR GAS. THINK OF IT. THEY SPENT $9 BILLION ON EIGHT CHARGERS, THREE OF WHICH DIDN'T WORK. AND IF YOU WERE GOING TO DO THIS ALL OVER OUR COUNTRY THIS CRAZY ELECTRIC MANDATE, IF YOU'RE GOING TO DO THIS -- AND BY THE WAY, I'M ALL FOR ELECTRIC. THEY HAVE THEIR APPLICATION. BUT IF SOMEBODY WANTS TO BUY A GAS-POWERED CAR, GASOLINE POWERED CAR, OR A HYBRID, THEY'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO IT, AND WE'RE GOING TO MAKE THAT CHANGE ON DAY ONE. [ APPLAUSE ] [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> SO, TO CONCLUDE, JUST A FEW SHORT DAYS AGO MY JOURNEY WITH YOU NEARLY ENDED. YOU KNOW THAT. AND YET HERE WE ARE TONIGHT ALL GATHERED TOGETHER, TALKING ABOUT THE FUTURE PROMISE AND A TOTAL RENEWAL OF A THING WE LOVE VERY MUCH. IT'S CALLED AMERICA. WE LIVE IN A WORLD OF MIRACLES. NONE OF US KNOWS GOD'S PLAN OR WHERE LIFE'S ADVENTURE WILL TAKE US. I WANT TO THANK FRANKLIN GRAHAM FOR BEING HERE TONIGHT. HE'S AN OUTSTANDING MAN. [ APPLAUSE ] HE WROTE ME A NOTE RECENTLY. I HAVE A LOT OF RESPECT FOR HIM. SIR, I LOVE YOUR STORY TELLING, I THINK IT'S GREAT, IN FRONT OF THESE BIG RALLIES, BUT SIR, PLEASE DO ME ONE FAVOR, IT WON'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE, PLEASE DON'T USE ANY FOUL LANGUAGE. I WAS A LITTLE EMBARRASSED. HE SAID, IT WON'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE. ACTUALLY, THE STORY IS NOT QUITE ASG BUT I'VE BEEN VERY GOOD. THE STORY IS NOT QUIT AS GOOD, TO BE HONEST. I'VE GOT TO HAVE A LITTLE TALK WITH FRANKLIN. BUT HE WAS GREAT. HIS FATHER WAS SO INCREDIBLE. BILLY GRAHAM. MY FATHER USED TO LOVE TAKING ME TO SEE BILLY GRAHAM. MY FATHER WOULD TAKE ME TO SEE BILLY GRAHAM AT YANKEE STADIUM. HE HAD THE BIGGEST RALLIES YOU HAVE EVER SEEN. HE WAS A BIG RALLY GUY, TOO. HE GOT UP AND HE WAS FANTASTIC. MY FATHER LOVED BILLY GRAHAM. BUT I LOVE FRANKLIN GRAHAM. I THINK FRANKLIN'S BEEN FANTASTIC. I'M WORKING SO HARD TO ADHERE TO HIS NOTE TO ME. I'M WORKING HARD ON IT, FRANKLIN. BUT IF THE EVENTS OF LAST SATURDAY MAKE ANYTHING CLEAR, IT IS THAT EVERY SINGLE MOMENT WE HAVE ON EARTH IS A GIFT FROM GOD. [ APPLAUSE ] WE HAVE TO MAKE THE MOST OF EVERY DAY FOR THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE COUNTRY THAT WE LOVE. THE ATTACKER IN PENNSYLVANIA WANTED TO STOP OUR MOVEMENT, BUT THE TRUTH IS THE MOVEMENT HAS NEVER BEEN ABOUT ME. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT YOU. IT'S YOUR MOVEMENT. IT'S THE BIGGEST MOVEMENT IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY BY FAR. CAN'T BE STOPPED. IT CAN'T BE STOPPED. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT THE HARD WORKING PATRIOTIC CITIZENS OF AMERICA. FOR TOO LONG OUR NATION HAS SETTLED FOR TOO LITTLE. WE SETTLED FOR TOO LITTLE. WE'VE GIVEN EVERYTHING TO OUR NATIONS, OTHER PEOPLE. YOU'VE BEEN TOLD TO LOWER YOUR EXPECTATIONS AND TO ACCEPT LESS FOR YOUR FAMILY. I AM HERE TONIGHT WITH THE OPPOSITE MESSAGE. YOUR EXPECTATIONS ARE NOT BIG ENOUGH. [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] IT IS TIME TO START EXPECTING AND DEMANDING THE BEST LEADERSHIP IN THE WORLD. LEADERSHIP THAT'S BOLD, RELENTLESS AND FEARLESS. WE CAN DO THAT. GREATNESS IS OUR BIRTH RIGHT. AS LONG AS OUR ENERGIES ARE SPENT FIGHTING EACH OTHER, OUR DESTINY WILL REMAIN OUT OF REACH. THAT'S NOT ACCEPTABLE. ENERGY AND USE IT TO REALIZE OUR COUNTRY'S TRUE POTENTIALTHR AND WRITE OUR OWN THRILLING CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN STORY. WE CAN DO IT TOGETHER, WE WILL UNITE, WE ARE GOING TO COME TOGETHER, AND SUCCESS WILL BRING US TOGETHER. IT IS A STORY OF LOVE, SACRIFICE, AND SO MANY OTHER THINGS, AND REMEMBER THE WORD, IT'S UNMATCHED DEVOTION. OUR AMERICAN ANCESTORS CROSSED THE DELAWARE, CROSSED VALLEY FORGE, OUR CHERISHED REPUBLIC, THEY PUSHED THOU THEY FOUGHT SO HARD, THEY LOST SO MANY, THEY PUSHED THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF MILES ACROSS THE DANGEROUS FRONTIER, TAMING THE WILDERNESS TO BUILD A LIFE AND MAGNIFICENT HOME FOR THEIR FAMILY, THEY PACKED THEIR FAMILIES INTO COVERED WAGONS, TREKKED ACROSS HAZARDOUS TRAILS, SCALED TOWERING MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, REP IT'S GOING TO STICK THEIR CLAIM ON THE NEW AND VERY BEAUTIFUL FRONTIER. WHEN OUR WAY OF LIFE WAS FRED AND THREATENED AMERICANS RACED INTO STRONGHOLDS, STARED DOWN DEATH, AND STARED DOWN THOSE ENEMIES TO KEEP ALIVE THE FLAME OF FREEDOM. AT YORKTOWN, GETTYSBURG, MIDWAY, THEY JOINED THE ROLLCALL OF IMMORTAL HEROEST, GREAT PEOP WE HAVE TO CSORISH THOSE MANY E. HEROES, SO MANY GREAT, GREAT PEOPLE, AND WE HAVE TO CHERISH THOSE PEOPLE. WE CANNOT FORGET THOSE PEOPLE. WE HAVE TO CHERISH THOSE PEOPLE. AND BUILDING MONUMENTS TO THOSE PEOPLE IS A GOOD THING, NOT A BAD THING. THEY SAVED OUR COUNTRY. NO CHALLENGEDS WASWAS TOO GR TA. NO HARDSHIP WAS TOO GREAT. NO ENEMY WAS TOO FIERCE TO GET TOGETHER THESE PATRIOTS SOLDIERED ON AND ENDURED -, SOLDIERED ON ATHEYREVAILED PREVAILED, BECAUSE THEY HAD FAITH IN EACH OTHER, FAITH IN THEIR COUNTRY, AND ABOVE ALL, THEY HAD FAITH IN THEIR GOD. >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> JUST LIKE OUR ANCESTORS, WE MUST NOW COME TOGETHER, RISE ABOVE PAST DIFFERENCES, ANY DISAGREEMENTS HAVE TO BE PUT ASIDE AND GO FORWARD UNITED, AS ONE PEOPLE, ONE NATION, PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE TO ONE GRADE, BEAUTIFUL, I THINK IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL-- AMERICAN FLAG-- TONIGHT I ASK FOR YOUR PARTNERSHIP, FOR YOUR SUPPORT, AND I AM HUMBLY ASKING FOR YOUR VOTE . AGAIN. WE ARE GOING TO MAKE OUR COUNTRY GREAT AGAIN. EVERY DAY I WILL STRIVE TO HONOR THE TRUST YOU HAVE PLACED IN ME, AND I WILL NEVER EVER LET YOU DOWN. I WILL NEVER, EVER, LET YOU DOWN. TO ALL OF THE FORGOTTEN MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE NEGLECTED, ABANDONED, AND LEFT BEHIND, YOU WILL BE FORGOTTEN NO LONGER. WE WILL PRESS FORWARD, AND TOGETHER, WE WILL WIN WIN WIN. >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> [ CROWD CHANTING ] >> WIN! WIN! WIN! NOTHING WILL SWAY S. NOTHING WILL SLOW US, AND NO ONE WILL EVER STOP US. APPLAUSE] NO MATTER WHAT DANGERS COME OUR WAY, NO MATTER WHAT OBSTACLES NO MATTER WHAT DANGERS COME OUR WAY, NO MATTER WHAT OBSTACLES LIE IN OUR PATH WE WILL KEEP STRIVING TOWARD EVER SHARED AND GLORIOUS DESTINY, AND WE WILL NOT FAIL. WE WILL NOT FAIL. TOGETHER, WE WILL SAVE THIS COUNTRY. WE WILL RESTORE THE REPUBLIC, AND WE WILL USHER IN THE WRITTEN WONDERFUL TOMORROW'S THAT OUR PEOPLE SO TRULY DESERVE, AMERICA'S FUTURE WILL BE BIGGER, BETTER, BOLDER, BRIGHTER, HAPPIER, STRONGER, MORE FREE, MORE GREAT, AND MORE UNITED THAN EVER BEFORE. >> [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> AND QUITE SIMPLY PUT, WE WILL VERY QUICKLY MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. THANK YOU, VERY MUCH. THANK YOU, VERY MUCHESS YOU, WI. GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, OUR G. AT COUNTRY. GOD BLESS YOU, WISCONSIN. AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED TATES OF AMERICA, OUR GREAT COUNTRY. THANK YOU, VERY MUCH, EVERYBODY. >> PRESIDENT TRUMP ADDRESSING THE CONVENTION, AND IT IS AFTER MIDNIGHT ON THE EAST COAST. COVERING A TERRAIN OF TERRITORY AS HE HAS ADDRESSED THE DELEGATES. A FAMILIAR CAMPAIGN, AND YES HE WENT OFF SCRIPT, TIME AND TIME AGAIN, THIS PLAYED OUT LIKE OUR RALLY SPEECH . TO SOME EXTENT, STARTED OFF COUNTING HIS VERSION OF THE HARROWING EVENT FROM THIS WEEKEND, BUT HE QUICKLY SHIFTED INTO RALLY MODE. THERE WERE SOME LINES AIMED AT BEING UNIFYING, BUT THE SPEECH AS A WHOLE, WE COULD GIVE A LITTLE CONTEXT TO WHAT YOU JUST HEARD FROM THE FORMER PRESIDENT, ELECTION INTERFERENCE, TALKED ABOUT CRIME BEING RAMPANT, THE A LOT OF FOLKS WOULDN'T SAY THEY FEEL THAT. HE TALKED ABOUT THE INVASION AT REALITY IS CRIME IS AT A 50- YEAR LOW, EVEN THOUGH FOLKS WOULDN'T SAY THEY FEEL THAT. HE TALKED ABOUT THE INVASION OF THE SOUTHERN BORDER, SOMETHING WE HEAR AT A LOT OF HIS RALLIES. IF YOU LOOK AT THE FACTS, AND THE CROWD, THEY OBVIOUSLY ATE ALL OF THIS UP THERE WAS A LOT OF DEBATE ON GETTING A BIPARTISAN BORDER DEAL, HE OPPOSED, SO IT'S COMPLICATED. >> HE CHALLENGED DEMOCRATSVESTI. THAT WAS HIS CHALLENGE TO DEMOCRATS. >> THAT'S RIGHT. TO DROP INVESTIGATIONS, I THINK HE CALLED IT THE WITCHHUNT, BUT THAT WAS HIS CHALLENGE TO DEMOCRATS. >> A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL HEAR THAT CERTAINLY IN THIS ROOM, AND THE CROWD WENT WILD. WHERE WE STARTED THE CONVERSATION TONIGHT, THOSE WHO MAY HAVE BEEN SKEPTICAL OF DONALD TRUMP, HEAR AND WHAT HE HAD TO SAY TONIGHT, WILL THAT APPEAL TO THEM? I THINK THAT-- >> IT IS AFTER MIDNIGHT, IT IS FRIDAY MORNING, THE SPEECH BEGAN THURSDAY NIGHT, IT IS OFFICIALLY THE LONGEST CONVENTION SPEECH, 93 MINUTES, BY THE WAY, RECORD HOLDERS , TH BY TRUMP, 76 MINUTES CHUM, 76 MINUTES, AND 70 MINUTES RESPECTIVELY. WE ARE SEEING THE BALLOONS DRO , AN ICONIC CONVENTION MOMENT. TRYING TO PRESENT A DIFFERENT SIDE OF DONALD TRUMP, BUT THIS IS WHO HE HAS BEEN FOR THE PAST EIGHT YEARS. >> HE NODDED AT SAYING HE WANTED TO REPRESENT ALL OF AMERICA, BUT HE TALKED ABOUT PARTISAN WITCHHUNTS, ACCUSING DEMOCRATS OF BEING A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY FOR UNDERMINING CONFIDENCE IN THE LIES AFTER THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST MY PUBLIC AND THE PENNSYLVANIA, YOU HEARD CALLS FOR THE RHETORIC TO BE TONED DOWN, HERE IS TRUMP TALKING ABOUT CRAZY NANCY PELOSI AND MORE. HE MAY SAY HE WANTS UNITY, BUT HE WANTS UNITY ON HIS TERMS. >> I THINK WHAT'S DIFFERENT IS THE TONE. HE MIGHT SEE DOWNWARD IN TERMS OF NM AS MUCH YELOW-G. ENERGY AT TIMES, IT WAS TO TONE DOWN THE ENERGY. >> THE RHETORIC WAS-- TOM LLAMAS ON THE FLOOR AS THE BALLOONS DROP AS THIS CONVENTION COMES TO A CLOSE. HI, TOM. >> I WAS WATCHING WITH ALL THE DELEGATES, ALL THOSE ON THE CONVENTION FLOOR IN THE ARENA HERE. AT THE BEGINNING HE HAD THEM HANGING ON EVERY SINGLE WORD, THEY WERE LISTENING TO THE ENTIRE STORY OF THAT ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT THEY WERE FOLLOWING ALONG, THEY WERE ENTHRALLED AS TO WHAT HE WAS SAYING. IT WAS A LONG SPEECH AS YOU SAID, THE LONGEST OF ANY MODERN CONVENTION, AND AT TIMES PEOPLE HAD TO SIT BACK DOWN PEOPLE PEOPLE ACKNOWLEDGE PEOPLE SAT DOWN. THEE WERE P SPEECH A WAS LONG, SOME FELL ASLEEP, SOME SAT DOWN, BUT THERE WERE MANY WHO STOOD UP THE ENTIRE TIME, THE FULL 90 AND IT'S WATCHING HIM EVERY STEP OF THE WAY HANGING ON EVERY WORD, SHOOTING CELL PHONE VIDEO. THEY WERE EXCITED. HE HAD THEM MEMORIZED THAT FIRST PART OF THE SPEECH AND BY THE END HE BROUGHT IT HOME TO PEOPLE, LAST 10 MINUTES OR SO PEOPLE WERE EXCITED ABOUT WHAT WAS HAPPENING. YOU CAN SEE THE BALLOONS ARE FOLLOWING, PEOPLE ARE TAKING THEIR SELFIES, THEY ARE ENJOYING THEIR TIME IN MILWAUKEE, AND THE PEOPLE STAYED WAITING A LONG TIME DURING THAT SPEECH FOR THIS MOMENT. BACK TO YOU GUYS UPSTAIRS IN THE CONVENTION HALL. >> TOM, THANK YOU. WE ARE LOOKING ON THE STAGE THE ENTIRE TRUMP FAMILY EXPECT, EXCEPT ERIC TRUMP, WATCHING THE BALLOONS FALL, AND GREETING THE CROWD, HOPING THEY ARE STEERED TO VICTORY IN NOVEMBER. >> GARRETT HAS A DIFFERENT VANTAGE POINT. HOW WAS IT FROM WHERE YOU WERE SITTING? >> WE ARE DEEP IN BALLOONS HERE. THE FIRST HALF OF THE SPEECH I SAW A LOT OF WET EYES. IN THE SECOND SECTION I SAW A LOT OF CLOSED EYES. WHAT AFFECTED YOU IN THE FIRST HALF? >> HONESTLY IT WAS THE MOST AMAZING SPEECH I'VE HEARD FROM HIM.ORMATION. I THINK THE SPIRIT OF THE LIVING SUBDUED AFTER LAST WEEK. I THINK THERE'S BEEN A TRANSFORMATION. I THINK THE SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD IS ON HIM, AND THE PEOPLE HERE FEEL THAT PETE FRANKLIN GRAHAM CAME OUT AND GAVE AN INCREDIBLE PRAYER FOR HIM AND OUR NATION, WHICH IS WHAT WE NEED, RESTORATION IN AMERICA, AND THAT IS WHAT DONALD TRUMP WILL PROVIDE. >> WILL THIS VERSION OF TRUMP CONVINCE NORTH CAROLINA? >> I THINK SO. I HAVE SEEN NORTH CAROLINA THAT WE WILL HAND IT TO DONALD TRUMP HANDILY. AND I THINK SURPRISED TO SEE DEEP BLUE STATES ARE GOING TO GO FOR DONALD TRUMP, BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHY? THEIR BUDGETS HAVE BEEN HURTING, THEY KNOW THEY HAVE BEEN LOSING JOBS, THE TSUNAMI OVER OUR BORDER HAS BEEN AFFECTING NOT JUST THE HISPANIC AND BLACK COMMUNITIES BUT EVERY COMMUNITY IN THE UNITED STATES, AND AMERICANS ARE TIRED OF THAT, WE ARE TIRED OF WATCHING OUR CHILDREN BE KILLED BY FENTANYL. WE ARE TIRED TO SEE OUR JOBS GO AWAY TO ILLEGALS, AND WE ARE TIRED OF THE CRIME ON OUR STREETS. >> DONALD TRUMP TONIGHT TALKED ABOUT THE IDEA TURNING HIS HEAD SAVED HIS LIFE. BIG TAKE AWAY FOR YOU FROM THIS CONVENTION? >> ABSOLUTELY, GARRETT. THIS LAST WEEK HAS BEEN THE MOST INCREDIBLE TRANSFORMATION ON HIM AND THE PEOPLE AROUND HIM. FAMILY, MY PRAYER IS LISTEN IF YOU REMEMBER FROM 2012, DNC BOO'D GOD. WE'VE BEEN PRAISING GOD AT THIS PARTY ALL WEEK LONG, PRAISING THE NAME OF JESUE TO THROW IT B UPSTAIRS.S CHRIST. THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN AT THE DEMOCRAT-- >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO TALK TO US. LESTER AND SVEN-- >> GARRETT, THANKS VERY MUCH AS WE WATCH THE TRUMP FAMILY TAKING IN THIS MOMENT. GOD BLESS AMERICA, PLAYING IN THE ARENA HERE. BEFORE WE GO. HALLIE? FINAL THOUGHTS? >> THE TRUMP FAMILY ONSTAGE HERE COMING OUT IN WHAT IS IN MANY WAYS THE LAST STRETCH OF THE CAMPAIGN. I HAVE TO THINK OF WHAT THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION WILL LOOK LIKE. THIS IS HIS PARTY, THIS IS HIS STAGE, MADE THAT CLEAR, AND THOSE CALLS HE SUGGESTED CONTINUE TO HAVE THAT CATCH. >> UNITED, REPUBLICAN BASE IS READY TO GO. IS THIS AN ELECTION OF PERSUADING THOSE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, THE VOTET MENTION, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY RIGHT NOW, AND WHO WILL BE ON THE BALLOT, IT'S VERY MUCH AN OPEN QUESTION RIGHT NOW. >> INDEED. IT WILL BE OVER THE SMALL MAYBE 10% OF AVAILABLE VOTERS. YOU DIDN'T REALLY HEAR HIM TALK ABOUT PRESIDENT BIDEN, HE MENTIONED HIS NAME ONCE. WHAT'S NOTABLE ABOUT THAT, WE DON'T KNOW IF PRESIDENT BIDEN WILL BE AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET, AND I THINK THAT WAS STRATEGIC TO SOME EXTENT. YOU ARE SEEING A CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATION, WHETHER KAMALA ARRIS OR BEING AT ANOTHER DEMOCRAT IF HE DROPS OUT. >> I SPOKE TO PRESIDENT BIDEN EARLIER THIS WEEK IF THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT WILL DRIVE THE TRAJECTORY OF THIS ELECTION, HE WASN'T SURE. I THINK SEEING HOW IT'S WOVEN INTO THIS SPEECH IS A VERY CLEAR. >> NO DOUBT. >> THANK YOU FOR WATCHING THIS YEAR'S SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. >> MORE STREAMING ON NBC NEWS NOW AND NBCNEWS.COM. I WILL SAY TOMORROW MORNING, BUT IT IS THIS ORNING. THE TODAY SHOW. HAVE A GOOD NIGHT. SPEECH, DELIVERING MUCH OF THE RED MEAT WE SAW FROM HIS BROTHER YESTERDAY, IGNITING AND ENERGIZING THIS CONVENTION. >>> PAST THE TOP OF THE HOUR NOW FOR THOSE OF YOU JOINING US WE HEARD HARRY SPEAKERS ON THE FINAL NIGHT OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. >> WE WILL SEE PERFORMANCE BY KID ROCK. WE HAVE VIDEO OF MR. TRUMP, AND DANA WHITE WILL BE INTRODUCING HIM, CEO OF THE UFC. KRISTEN WELKER JOINS US NOW. IT'S BEEN INTERESTING, THEY'VE BEEN TRYING TO HAVE THIS GLOSSY IMAGE OF TRUMP LAST NIGHT AND TONIGHT IT'S DON JR. ND ERIC TRUMP WHO HAVE REALLY BROUGHT OUT THOSE GRIEVANCE ISSUES THAT DONALD TRUMP TALKED ABOUT ALL THE TIME IN THE RALLY, THAT WE HAD NOT HEARD MUCH ABOUT. WE DON'T PERSECUTED AND PROSECUTED. BRINGING UP ALL OF THOSE TRUST OUR FATHER HAS BEEN PERSECUTED, PROSECUTED, TRYING TO BRING UP THOSE GREATEST HITS TO THE CROWD. BUT, THIS CROWD LOVES