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it's wednesday, july donald trump, back to the white house foes, uniting behind their nominee at the republican national convention. and a move from the dnc to virtually nominate president biden ahead of their convention reignites that growing dissent inside his own party plus us officials learn of an iranian plot to try to assassinate former president trump in the weeks before saturday's shooting and the rivalry between two former colleagues flares up on the floor of the rnc here in milwaukee read it's 5:00 a.m.

here in milwaukee, wisconsin 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. >> a live look at the fiserv forum. >> as we get ready for day three of the republican national convention. good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt. >> it's wonderful to have you with us from challengers to cheerleaders in milwaukee, a string of trump's former opponents in republican primaries, going back to 2016, take the stage to bend the knee let's make the 45th president of the united states, the 47th president of the united states. the only way to make america wealthy and safe and strong. again, it's to make donald j. trump our president again god bless donald j. >> trump. >> you heard first there from ron desantis. or is that ron desanctimonious? >> that was trunks trump's nicknames for him. you heard

from marco rubio. >> trump called him little marco, disgusting, nervous basket case and then there was ted cruz during the 2016 election, donald trump retweeted a post that implied cruz's wife, heidi, was an attractive. >> that's a understatement. and then he falsely hinted the cruz's father was somehow involved in the assassination of president kennedy source told me that trump made a point to early up his planned appearance in the convention hall last night to make sure that he would be there to listen to his former rivals, compliment him and his vision for america. and we showed you ron desantis, but really the heart of the night was nikki haley his former trump's former un ambassador, who also spoke longer speaking slot than ron desantis. actually, the crowd inside the rnc seemed to not have entirely forgiven haley for challenging and insulting trump throughout the 2024 primary election. let's take a look at how she was initially received nikki haley you can

hear though, bear those mics, cheers and some of those boos. haley was trying to speak to those republicans who have hesitated to support trump, even after she dropped out of the race in march. she continues to receive hundreds of thousands of votes in states across the country, including over for 12% of the vote right here in wisconsin, haley told the crowd that trump had asked her to speak, quote in the name of unity my message to them is simple you don't have to agree with trump 100% of the time to vote for him take it from me i haven't always agreed with president trump but we agree

more often than we disagree all right joining me. now, lawn, he can former policy director for mitt romney's presidential campaigns, stephen collinson, cnn politics, senior reporter matt gorman, the former senior adviser to tim scott's presidential campaign, and karen finney, former spokesperson for hillary clinton's 2016 campaign. >> welcome to all of you. and matt gorman, i want to play for you this is a moment we were touching on earlier in the show, but for those who are just waking up at 6:00 a.m. on the east coast, we have that moment where nikki haley described what brought her there tonight, namely this invitation from donald trump. let's play what she said and then we're gonna get a chance to look at trump's face, right? right after watch president trump asked me to speak to this convention in the name of unity

it was a gracious invitation and i was happy to accept i don't think you can hear the reaction. >> i said when we saw that. >> but matt, don't need our friend fully brains do the trepid impression of if you actually wanted to speak, at least edwards lip reading amateur lip reading sought to me. but yes. and look, i will say that that was the first part of the speech. >> she was smart. she got the endorsement out of the way. she didn't try to make the crowd or anybody work for it. is that with the crowd got her side? it was a good speech and it also touched on desantis to an extent i'm keeping america safe, right? foreign policy or experience, the trump administration as a safe place for her to be politically and so it was a good speech overall, i thought she she did the job really well. but when he can you arguably and feel free to correct me on in terms

of where you stand now. but this the nikki haley wing of the republican party he is one that you find yourself. i'm sure pretty comfortable in. you advised mitt romney, you've done a lot of high-level thinking about foreign policy issues, kind of her space. how do you think she did last night in terms of clearly, she had to do this if she wanted to maintain her viability as a future republican presidential candidate? but how would you assess how she was able to potentially try to reach out to more voters yeah. >> i mean, i agree with matt. i thought she did a great job and i think given her assignment, which was to endorse down, i mean, that was her assignment. let's not mince words about that i thought she did well, and i think she does sort of carve out a path for herself electorally in the future that's what she wants to do if she wanted to find her way into national security position again, in the trump administration part to what we could potentially see that happening and the challenge, of course, is still the question of whether her voters follow her. i think that is the big

unanswered question. how much of the support for nikki haley was about nikki haley? or separately, what she represented in this campaign and i think that's something that we will discern as we go on. i mean, the trump campaign reports that they've got support from 94, 95% of republicans. if that's the case, then all of those, many of those nikki haley, republican voters will vote for donald trump. i think the question then becomes how about, those independents? maybe that supported nikki haley and open primaries like new hampshire. so we will see where it goes. but i thought she did great last night. >> yeah, i'm not sure if i have new hampshire here, but i want to tick through some of these both boards guys just put up these graphics that we have that kind of show you where nikki haley's support was here in wisconsin, donald trump's 79, nikki haley really 12% michigan, 68.1% for donald trump, 26.6% for nikki haley, pennsylvania, donald trump at 1.9%. nikki haley, 16.4%. georgia, 84% for donald trump, 13% for nikki haley indiana

78%, trump, 21% for nikki haley, indiana is actually kind of an interesting one, although it's not going to be on the map for biden for sure. >> stephen collinson, this is a significant chunk of people. however, the thing that seems to me to be the game changer here, as fascinated as i have been by those voters. and to see what they were going to do so is joe biden's complete collapse on the debate stage. and the way that it has become so much harder for democrats to plausibly argue that he is a better choice than donald trump in the fall to people who maybe voted republican their whole life? >> exactly. and a lot of these voters that are voting for nikki haley were republicans who are disaffected with trump in 2020. they were looking for somewhere else to go. and the president, joe biden was very successful in getting a lot of those voters. i think you're right. i think the presence debate performance hurt him with this group these are important voters. they're suburban voters. all of the events that haley was holding

in iowa and new hampshire, south carolina, there were on the edges of the big cities, lots of female voters. so although she only won a couple of primaries, this is a potentially important vote in an election where you could see a handful of states and a few thousand votes decided. but i think just talking to republicans here so far there's a strong sense in this party that trump is going to win the unity that, that breeds, i think will make it a lot easier for some of those voters who still have reservations about the former president to jump to him this time. >> and i have to say karen finney, if you had told me that here in july at the republican convention, we would be talking about delay my crowds being divided. i would have asked you, what are you smoking because that's clearly not going to be the case in this party. the republican party has been divided for the last, you know, quite frankly, eight years that i haven't covering a washington under trump and then joe biden, but the reality is, there still is this big question hanging over your party? >> well, but it's june fly.

and i think what we've learned in the last week, every day is about a month. so there's a lot that can happen with it's going to go bridge will hear him friday. forget about here in august. right? >> and there's a couple of things. >> i think one of the most important things to remember the issue landscape has not changed if you are worried about a national abortion jim ban that has not changed for you, and you are more likely to say, i will vote for 50% of joe biden over 100% of donald trump, because that is a fundamental concern for me. and so when we talk about how democrats are going to continue to do outreach to these voters and try to make the case a lot of it's going to be around on the issues that are driving this election. and the very different visions of the country. they don't like hearing demonizing immigrants. they don't like they care about climate change. they see that inflation is coming down. they don't like trickle-down economics may again there are some issues that i think really driving this campaign that have not changed that if that is

what you care about, you're not going to all of a sudden just say, well, now that nikki haley likes him and he seems like he's a nicer guy. i'm going to i'm going to go with project 2025. >> i'm i'm flashing back to donald rumsfeld and his like you go to war with the army that you got because i you got you do have some issues that are potentially potentially places where you can motivate folks, but candidly, it's an uphill battle, right? we actually going to talk much more about this in our next block still to come on cnn this morning, that growing revolt inside the democratic party over plans to speed up joe biden's official nomination, plus more details on an iranian threat against the former president trump and his donald trump. now what changed man after his near brush with, after his actual brush with death getting shot in the face changes of man is your father a changed man i think actually, yes i feel like they lose, track of at least $500.

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karen finney, you of course, are very familiar with the rules that august 7 date is important because it is the date by which the state of ohio says you have to have a nominee if you want to be on the ohio ballot. this push is to actually do this virtual roll call well, before august 7, potentially take us behind the scenes and help us understand like what the options actually are here. >> well, this decision was made back in may. we should start with that because they realized that in order to make sure we did not face legal challenges, you had to essentially do it virtually but here's the thing. we're talking about. a whole committee of people. so what happens is an email goes out and says, now you may begin voting and you have to have a certain number of days to vote. so it's not i think the way it's been characterized is that it some sort of in the middle of the night, people are going to jump online and vote. and that's really not it. but it then genuinely is about making sure that our nominee is able to be on the ballot in ohio in the fall. but this can

i just say this goes back to something two weeks ago when members of congress started talking about this fantasy land replacing joe biden on the top of the ticket, i kept saying on our network, they do not know the rules. they did not understand the rules of our party. they do not understand they didn't. none of them were paying attention to the very fact that the date was moved up because of again, it was in the new york times, by the way, nobody was hiding it. not to mention the fact that by getting 14 million votes during the primary, joe biden got the 3,900 of the 4,000 delegates he needed each of those people ran in their local communities to become delegates. and members of congress. the way are voting works. they get to vote on the second round. so that means 39 hundred regular folks in our party vote before members of congress have a vote. again, they were sort of at my mother used to say when i was a child

negotiating with power, they don't have to steal that like, you're so right but again, you know, they didn't understand the rules not to mention many of them don't understand the challenges. if we were even to consider removing president biden and from our ticket in terms of what that means financially, what that means logistically, what that means for ballot access in the fall are the problem with things like stephen collinson, congressman adam schiff running for senate warning in a private meeting, his party would suffer overwhelming losses in november if president biden remained at the top of the ticket, and if you look at some of these, we're going to talk more about this later, but some of these senate races it's just devastating and this conversation has flared back up. >> yeah. >> i take your point about the rules and the way that millions of people who voted for the president, i think a lot of people outside politics, one day is there was, i think it's fair to say a growing sense of

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east coast philadelphia, dc, richmond in new york damaging gusts of wind and large hail, a possibility not much going on right now, but there's certainly the potential for some flash flooding. flood watches in effect for parts of missouri and arkansas two to four inches of rain locally for this area the good news is that there's a cold front that's going to bring some relief. so one more day of the heat along the east coast before things cooled down, kasie all alright. >> our derek van dam for us, derek, thank you very much. appreciate it coming up next here. donald trump's former national security adviser, john bolton, is going to join me next to talk about that threat from iran against the former president, plus the verdict in, for senator bob menendez and his corruption trial. that and more in our morning round-up

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about a plot from iran to try to assassinate donald trump. a development that led the secret service to increase security around the former president. and this was a head ahead of that saturday rally. it's important to note that there is no indication that there would-be assassin who attempted to kill trump on saturday was connected to this iranian plot. but the existence of the intelligence threat from a hostile foreign agency and enhanced security raises new questions about the security lapses at the rally in butler, pennsylvania and how a 20-year-old man managed to get access to a nearby rooftop and fire those shots that injured the former president joining me now to discuss the former un ambassador trump's former national security advisor, john bolton, who also was the subject of an alleged iranian assassination plot mr. bolton, good morning. >> good morning. glad to be with you ambassador, can you just bring us inside as you

absorb this news what you think this means, why the iranians would be doing this and give us some insight into what it's like to have the iranians after you in this way well, a lot of fun. >> what can i say? look, it's been pretty clear, i think since the trump administration quite correctly sent the head of the quds force qassem soleimani to an early exit he deserved that he was a terrorist. he had killed americans he deserved exactly what he got the iranians in response decided that they were going to take some measure of retaliation. they've specifically mentioned trump and a number of others of us since since soleimani's executed fusion in january of 2020. so this is this has been a continuing problem it's kind of surprising to me at least that it's arisen now, but i can tell you, i don't have any more insight into whatever the

information was about donald trump in this particular case, then anybody else watching the news but given your understanding of the landscape, we talk a lot about how sometimes foreign actors have been trying to interfere in american elections. >> and that wreaking havoc is something that could potentially benefit, say, the russians or the chinese these at depending on how you think through it, your understanding given how the iranians look at it and think about the world, is that this would be directly related to soleimani and is unlikely to be related to sewing more general chaos, or how do you think we should be thinking about it in those terms? >> well, it certainly could be related to more general chaos, but the iranians do have a fixation on soleimani and we know this. i'm in the somewhat unusual position that a lot of the facts and circumstances regarding at least one iteration of the, threats against me are on online at the justice department in the

criminal charging documents against fellow named shaman poor safi of the iranian revolutionary guards corps, where they were trying to hire a hitman to take me out. and unfortunately for them fortunately for me, they were talking to a confidential human source for the fbi so this is these threats by iran or not the internet chat or this is, this is the real thing. and it is something to be concerned about. and i do think a iran, north korea, russia, china, and others would like nothing better then to the cause, disarray and an already highly conflicted us political season while we're very glad that you are, in fact, okay, and that it was the confidential human source. >> and i really appreciate the insight you're able to bring to us because of all of that, i will say considering the outcome was fine. let me turn to ask you about the horrible attack against former president trump at his rally on saturday that us secret service has been

i should say, the director of the u.s. secret service has not been terribly direct in the wake of that in terms of trying to account for the failures. i'm wondering, where are you think the agency so you did fail here and whether the top the director of the agency should resign, given what happened well, it was obviously with respect to donald trump and tragedy avoided not not avoided in the case of one of the rally goers. >> look, i'm i'm a protectee of the secret service. i have been before. i am now. that doesn't make me a security expert. i'm sure that the review that the president it has ordered into this whole affair will turn up a lot of information they're going to be congressional hearings. i just assumed leave it at that for the moment yeah considering you are a protectee. one thing we have heard from some corners of the right is a denigration

of some of the agents that you could see in that frame, ai carrying, helping get donald trump off that stage, they threw themselves in front of any potential additional bullets that might have been coming his way. some of them right-wing commentary is around the women agents in particular is it your experience that that has any bearing on a secret service agent's ability to do their job? on your behalf or anyone else's know. >> look, i've as i say, i've been been a protectee before an m now and i've never once seen anything other than the highest professional behavior from all of these people as in the case of the fbi agents that i've been in contact with and have been with the fbi over many, many years and a number of different capacities. look, these people work long hard hours in unforgiving circumstances with their lives on the line. it's easy for

people who sit and watch television to critique them as if they know what they're talking about. i'm not going to be one of them as i say, i think we wait for the investigation and see what the real facts are as opposed to what can be illusory in a couple of second clips on television camera yeah. >> briefly before i let you go, i be another former un ambassador to the united nations, nikki haley addressed this convention here. she gave her full-throated endorsement to donald trump. were you surprised and do you think that's what she should have done? >> well. look her political futures up to her. i think donald trump is unfit to be president. needless to say, i'm not in milwaukee, but the battle goes on and i think ultimately for the sake of the country and certainly for the republican party people are going to do what they want. i am unalterably could pose to trump and that, that may or may not eventuate and him being

defeated. i don't favor joe biden either. let me make it very clear because i don't think he's fit to be president either. it's going to be a bad for years for the united states, whichever one of them wins are you going to vote for joe biden even after that debate performance of course not. >> i didn't vote for him in 2020. i wrote in dick cheney because i wanted to write, i wanted to vote for a real conservative republican and i'm inclined to vote for dick again this november hi, ambassador john bolton. thank you very much for your time this morning. i really appreciate it all right. >> new this morning, another troubling sign for the biden campaign, democratic funded polling obtained by cnn shows biden losing ground to donald trump in a number of key states, including the five that biden flipped against trump in 2020 polling some other different new polling also looks at certain democrats chances in a matchup against trump in battleground states, sorry, this is the same polling for those democrats, arizona senator mark kelly, maryland governor wes moore, pennsylvania governor josh shapiro, michigan governor gretchen whitmer. >> all outpacing. biden at

panel is back. stephen collinson there also are the this is pulling from democratic donors. we don't normally report on it, but i have to tell you the overwhelming amount of internal data that i've seen from various campaigns and people. some of it is we know stanley greenberg, for example, john king has reported for trying to get this data to the president that just shows this massive a gap in the wake of his debate performance. it doesn't necessarily seem to be reaching him. and then even when you look at the senate, candidates that are up here in arizona, nevada, michigan, pennsylvania. you can see this is from the times and the yougov polling. these are actual numbers here. i mean, these gaps are enormous, like sometimes over ten points this is typically, i mean this is not normally goes and it shows you just just why democrats are so concerned that the president is going to be a massive drag on their chances of retaking the house, keeping the senate, which is basically gone at this point. but where

are we in this conversation? we were talking a little bit about this earlier like it's clearly stuck. the president doesn't want to engage in it anymore. in fact, he has been pushing back aggressively on privately for people with people on capitol hill. but the data just keeps getting worse. >> yeah. i think we have to have a little bit of humility. >> we don't know how voters is going to end up working king but i can't remember an election where the numbers have been this bad for an incumbent president, this close to an election. the approval rating is low to mid to high 30s. that's historically an area where presidents never win reelection the. thing about the president though, is he has always overcome the odds. so that may be something that's playing into his own psyche when he sees this and his belief that he can still be trump. and the other thing to say is that trump nationally is also very unpopular. it's not like there is a younger new

republican candidate that is surging to public attention everybody knows what it was like to have donald trump as presence. so i think that maybe some of the things are factoring in, but this, this closely election ai looks terrible. >> lawn hear a lot of my republican sources are starting to talk about minnesota, in particular, is one that is floating to the top of the list. basically, they're talking about expanding the map, minnesota, new hampshire is kind of the next one on the list. virginia further down, new mexico seems to be a wildcard. then there's nevada, which frankly sources both sides of the aisle are telling me is likely to go for donald trump at this point how realistic do you think that is and where are the conversations that you're a part of well, look, i think it's realistic. >> i think if you're talking about minnesota and new mexico and virginia, that tells you everything you need to know about where the election is. it's almost immaterial at this point because the pathways for the president or so limited versus the pathways for the former president, donald trump so i mean, i just think about this in terms of optionality

and the trump campaign's challenge in my view, is going to be figuring out where do they allocate resources. there's so many places. if you look at the polling now where they could put points on the board versus for the biden campaign, it really does still come down to those midwestern states of pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, if they're unable to clear through those states, i just don't know where else they can go at this point. so the conversation about places like minnesota is interesting. but ultimately, whether they wouldn minnesota or not is not the issue. because if they're winning in minnesota so that they're winning everywhere else so i just think it's about pathways and right now, trump has many more pathways and biden does in real quick also even get the down-ballot that split where you have biden say at 42% and jacky rosen at 47. the era, at least it seems of a presidential race going one way and a state and a senate candidate winning of a different party. that era has really come to an end in 2000 or ten of them in the last two cycles, there's been one, susan collins and maine. so

it's very unlikely that suddenly all across the country you're going to have trump win these states in the presidential level. but jacky rosen sherrod brown, and all these other democrats survived. it just, it really doesn't have much anymore very briefly georgia, we did have republican governor re-elected and democratic senator win, but runoff when i would say though, is look, it was always give me any a tough map for democrats. >> one of the things though that i think we're in a cycle where democrats is becoming a life fulfilling prophecy the more we talk about how frayed we are of losing instead of how we were going to win. voters are seeing us as losers. they're looking at our candidates and saying, and i don't win them in the donald trump way, but in the if you don't believe in yourself that you can win, owners are saying, well then why am i going to? >> why should i, why should i vote for you? >> so you know, i keep saying to my democrats have to believe you can win. to even get on the

board and the attempt to win. >> so fair enough. all right coming up next here, a former trump white house adviser about to be released from prison, heading straight to milwaukee to speak here at the rnc? plus we're going to speak with trump campaign senior adviser, jason miller about what we can expect from the former president when he speaks tomorrow night. and on that note, we thought we'd take this occasion to remind you about one of the more surreal moments in rnc history. remember this? >> clint eastwood at the 2012 convention in tampa, florida oh, i remember what do you want me to tell romney? i can't tell him to do that. chant do that to himself you're absolutely crazy you didn his bad is biden

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your words the expression of friendship and yes, love meant more to watch than you can ever know. >> you have given us a memory that we will treasure forever and you have provided, provided an answer to those few voices that were raised saying that what happened? was evidenced that ours is a sick society the society we heard from is made up of millions of compassionate americans and their children from college age to kindergarten that was shortly after an assassination attempt on his life. ronald reagan thanking his fellow americans for their message of support. and communicating a message of unity this is one that former president donald trump has also embraced in the days after saturday's assassination attempt against him, his son, donald trump jr. are now telling axios that saturday is near near-death experience has changed his father for good

getting shot in the face changes a man is your father a changed man i think actually, yes, i think we're trying to you know, certainly deescalate some of that rhetoric. >> i think it lasts i think at last, i think those are events that change you for a couple of minutes and there's events that change you permanently and joining me now to talk more about this is trump campaign senior adviser, jason miller. jason, good morning to you. thanks so much for being here. good morning. i you have worked for the former president donald trump for quite some time now, and i just want to put the same question to you that mike allen they're put to donald trump junior, which is do you think that donald trump is? changed, man, after what happened on saturday when somebody tries to kill you, you have an assassination attempt, of course, is going to change your life, is going to change your outlook. and i think we've seen that from president trump ever since saturday. you look at the truth, social posting that he put out sunday morning where he talked about the resilience and our faith and our defiance in the face of wickedness this is a different country that we're we're in right now. we literally when you're putting

an attempt on somebody's life, this is going to change everything in american politics has become such a tinderbox. it's so negative, so nasty. somebody has to take that step forward and say, this isn't the way to do it, doesn't mean we don't have serious issues that we don't have to tackle. the tone has to change. >> is this what we saw on president trump's face? it's the first night of the republican national convention because when he did come in, i mean, he obviously had a hero's welcome from the crowd when they face saw him for the first time. after this attempt, but you could see emotion on his face and i have to say on all these years of covering him, it struck me as something we don't normally see when you walk into a room with some 10,000 people and everybody's cheering and literally pleads with within 48 hours. >> i'm going attempt on your life. that's going to impact you. and i think that's even what you're going to see with the president's speech tomorrow. i think he's going to talk about his firsthand experience, but also how this applies to what's going on in society today. these challenges we have with people who are suffering from the economy or from the open border, all these things we've seen so many of these everyday voices, they've been the first two nights the convention we'll see it tonight with additional

everyday voices and obviously with senator vance. but that's president trump, i think is kind of a very powerful message tomorrow. >> so can you tell us a little bit more about the speech he has in some interviews that he's done with pronouncements on the phone. he has talked about how he previously had he prefers to ms crockett good. joe biden, and he was going to go very hard after the democratic president, but that he has decided to tone that down. can you give us a little bit more of a sense of what was changed, what is out and what's in well, again, we're still going to talk about those important issues, but the tone of it, the approach is going to be notably different. >> president trump has spent much of the light last several days dictating what he wants that speech to look like really in real terms, saying i want to say this and i want to go into the following because what i've really been upset by, what i've seen in many places in the media are many places of political pundits and such where there's a talk about this need to unify within this immediate pivot to what about ism? i don't think that has a place either side right now. it doesn't matter who it is. we cannot have a country where

they're literally attempts on people's life. if you're running for office, i mean, we are not some banana republics, some third-world country that might be normal place in certain countries, but not in the u.s. >> i think we can all agree that political violence has no place. the way we saw on saturday in our in our discourse, we have unfortunately it's a country a sad history of it. but i completely understand where you're coming from. let me ask you, as we wrap up here there has been some recent criticism on the right of the secret service agents that swarmed president trump. some people noting that there were a lot of women secret service agents on his personal detail hale and calling into question whether or not they were up to the job and eric trump actually was on with my colleague defending them because one of them in particular was apparently a member of his detail. i want to show you what eric had to save them alaska about it i've been very outspoken in terms of the people on that stage. i've probably said this ten times now. the people on that stage

love him. they would take a bullet for him and dangerously they ran right in front of the demonstrators that one of the females on the stage who's with me for three years. i know every thing about her she would take a bullet for me. she would take a bullet for him as courageous as they come. same with everybody else who was around him. the head of his detail was on that stage, believe me, the last thing that they wanted was that to happen and they did all the right things so he says that she would have taken a bullet for eric. she would take a bullet for him. what do you what would you say as the person speaking on behalf of the trump campaign to people who are criticizing that detail, those women and men who swarmed the president. >> that's what echo what eric was saying and what eric was saying really reflects what president trump has been saying both publicly and privately. everyone who's a part of his detail, they put their life on the line anytime for anyone to make sure to protect them. and there shouldn't be any criticism you saw the way that they pounced literally on top of president trump within seconds, putting their own bodies and the way you can criticize people fled all right. >> jason miller, thank you very much for joining us this morning. appreciate your time. thanks for getting up early to

i know you've had a lot of late nights all right. it is 55 minutes past the hour here. here is your morning roundup i have never ever been a foreign agent. >> and the decision rendered by the jury today would put at risk every member of the united states senate in terms of what they think before an agent would be democratic senator bob menendez responding to the news of his guilty verdict, a jury found the new jersey senator guilty on all 16 counts in his federal corruption trial. i'll he says he plans to appeal police shot and killed a man yesterday, about a mile away from the rnc here in milan say that the man killed had knives in both hands and was trying to attack someone today, former trump white house adviser peter navarro is expected to be released from prison and his plan goes straight from lockup, right? to hear in milwaukee and

the republican national convention, where we expect him to speak all right. now there's this story. a long simmering feud between congressman matt gaetz and kevin mccarthy boiled over again here at the rnc yesterday, and it resulted in this awkward moment captured during a live cnn interview. let's watch look. >> one who's not coming back and then the other part that you have and the other part you have is one person who raised the issue. he's got an ethics complaint about paying sleeping with their 17-year-old that's the way they go. so that's the biggest challenge we have. >> so that angle ai, obviously mccarthy has the microphone in that in that angle and he powers through it the social media has sort of angle kind of shows you a little bit what was out of that frame, which is gaetz walking right up there. matt gorman, i mean, this is very this is very personal

personal. two men but it also i mean, it also puts on display you know, some of the broader themes we've been talking about to i disagree in that part. >> i think this is a very personal feud between these two guys about when it next up with gaetz and how that kind of went with your words statement of the morning communicator, i ask you leave it there and it is, you know, it is personal to say the least and yeah, bubbled over on the floor, got to give mccarthy credit because he was hit those talks he points, even with somebody in his line of sight yeah. >> yes. >> he well, he's had some experience with it so briefly, let's just go run right. we're expecting jd vance tonight on stage lawn. he can what are you looking for tonight? >> i'm looking for a full articulation of this sort of populist agenda of the

republican party, particularly some of the things that on which he and president trump agree. whether it's issues like trade or the embrace of unions. i think it is a direct turn and economic policy and foreign policy as well. so i think we're gonna see that stephen collinson, this is a big moment when this is somebody that's going to be at the center of our political lives for the next four years and probably many be on that if he doesn't, he's still he's already at the top of the list for potential maga candidates. in a future republican race the energy, the people aren't going to probably remember ten years from now, or even ten months from now. >> what he said exactly. but if he brings a youthful energy to this stage, could usher in a new era. >> i mean, he could also put a chair next to him and talked to a chair and then we might not how many years after 2012 we are now tampering a dog that's been done. right? good luck most of the tone what not just the policy differences, but what is the tone? because his tone on sa