this, choose your own adventure, right? like if you if you want to believe that donald trump is the kindly grandfather, there's that you want to go to this? yeah cnn special convention coverage continues. >> right now the final, night of the republican national convention is underway in milwaukee speakers, setting the stage for the grand finale for the republicans, which is donald trump to delegates, and of course to the nation tonight, just days after surviving an assassination attempt on former president at a moment of triumph for suing one of the most, stunning comeback and political history you are watching a special edition >> mission of outfront and welcome to all i'm erin burnett along with wolf blitzer, of course, and will, no matter how voters view donald trump,

right? and gosh, knows one of the most polarizing times in our history is political journey is unparalleled you're absolutely right. erin trump's speech later tonight may give us a sense of how he plans to move forward in that journey. sources now, telling cnn, the former president has been personally and very intensely involved in crafting what he'll say tonight, energizing, un, emphasizing unity after the attempt on his life, instead of the more familiar and divisive rhetoric he has offered used in the past. we'll be listening, of course to every word that's coming up later tonight than when trump accepts his third presidential nomination and delivers his remarks in primetime, we'll get a better sense of what's, what's, what's, what's about to happen this son, eric trump, also is speaking tonight and will help tie up his father's speech. we expect former first lady melania trump to be in the hall making her first appearance at

this convention. erin. >> all right. and cnn's phil mattingly is near the trump family box in the convention hall and phil, yeah, you've seen family members there throughout the week and melania trump will be there tonight so what more do you expect to see from the trump family? >> what's been fascinating about the course of the last several days is there has been two real main stage. it's the convention stage and then center stage right behind me. you can see ringed and outlined in red. that is the vip box the family box were just around 8:00 p.m. every single night, the former president walks into raucous of laws and then it's as one senior republican official put it, a mini mar a-lago of sorts, where you have republican lawmakers, republican candidates top players in the trump inner circle, cycling through seeing who can sit next to him, who can get his attention, who can talk to them, whether his son moves his chair or moves down to more cheers. jd vance's mom was there last night this is very powerful moment in his remarks and it has become a place where everybody is

looking to throughout the course of the night, not just to see who's up there and it's certainly a who's who of trump world and trump world adjacent. but also to see the reaction, how the former president is doing certainly in the wake of the traumatic events of the attempted assassination, but also how he responds to people like it you, haley or ron desantis, former opponents, or his new vice presidential selections, will be dramatically different. and one really particular sets and that is, as you noted, alanya trump, donald trump's wife will be in attendance, will be sitting up there. ivanka trump is expected to be here as well. and these are going to be things they haven't seen before. and all eyes will certainly be on them. eric and i certainly well, as we watch this evening, phil, thank you very much. >> let's go to kaitlan collins now on the convention floor and kaitlan, i know you just spoke to the house speaker a short while ago. >> yeah, erin, i'm standing in front of the louisiana delegation down here on the floor. everyone is getting ready for tonight's speakers to come out. you can see house speaker mike johnson actually mingling with members of his delegation right now from his home state. i just spoke to him a few moments ago about what he

is expecting to see in his party's leaders tonight. and this is what he told me president trump in his speech tonight, i think he's going to be inspiring and uplifting and he wants to talk about unifying the country that's what the country needs right now. >> and we're really looking forward to that message. wait, there's a lot of anticipation as you can tell out here, lot of energy and i think that's true across the country everywhere we've been in recent weeks that that has been building but after the assassination attempt, i think there's an emotional aspect to this that just can't be discounted. so it's going to be a big night for it. >> what do you think unity means to donald trump? >> what's that? >> do you think how do you think he defines unity? >> i think when he says america first that comes from a deep, sincere place in his heart and he loves this country. i had been with him all over the place and all different kinds of settings. you know, we've talked about it. he loves the american people. he loves what america stands for. and i think he's going to articulate that tonight and have a clear vision for where we're going. and i think he's going to resonate with the american people just like jd vance's speech did last night. >> thank you, speaker johnson

speaker. know erin, i will say one thing we have been hearing from all of our sources is about this speech tonight from the former president that he personally helped rewrite after what happened on saturday is going to revolve around unity. but i think there is a question of what that looks looks like donald trump's view, how he projects that from the stage compared to how someone else might define unity. it's kind of one of those stay tuned and wait and see speeches to see how he articulates that and what that looks like on stage. and i'll tell you, i've been hearing from his political advisers who don't want that to just be a theme of tonight that won't they won't got to be something that resonates the route the rest of this campaign for the next 100 days or so until november. of course, the big question is whether or not again, it's still very early and there are still a lot of time to go, but everyone will be watching closely as a speaker said, to what donald trump says when he addresses this convention. but also the nation tonight all right, kaitlan. >> thank you very much and you, its interesting what kaitlan talks about. shermichael, the people close to him want, you know, the message again, maybe

it will, maybe it won't, but we've had this conversation countless times before. in fact, after the horrific events of saturday you know, when when he posted a concern general, generous tweet at first, it wasn't even 24 hours later when there was a tweet about throwing out all the cases in witch-hunt, right? just i'm just went wasn't a tweet. it was a truth social post. >> so what we here tonight doesn't really mean anything about what we're going to hear down the road. i mean it doesn't air, but there is an opportunity for people who don't typically engage in this process to hear what the former president has to say after what happened this past saturday. i'm thinking about a guy named paul tillich. you wrote a book titled morality and beyond. and in that book, tillich talks about the church. he says the church has to figure out a way to adapt to the issues of today where donald trump has to figure out a way to adapt to the issues of today beyond just his base. and this is an opportunity for him to do that for those skeptical, independent but right leaning voters who want to potentially vote for him this november what

i'll be interested in seeing is donald trump is known for using rallies as message testing, right? >> he likes to try things out see how the crowd responds if they like it, they'll keep doing it. so immediately after he was shot, he stands up and says, fight, fight already tonight. the theme of this convention. really is already being introduced by the headlight is trump is a fighter. i mean, exactly. and so i would imagine that that's going to be the message he drives and he's going to see how it plays and the whole what lines work the real issue though is that the people in the hall are already voting for him. does he have the discipline to realize just because something works in the hall doesn't mean it's winning those swing voters. can he go beyond that? >> yeah. like i'm a longtime critic of the obsession with unity in american politics are system was not set up for a unit for unity, divided government, separation of powers checks and balances. the founding fathers believed to paraphrase senate guston in essentials, unity in all else, liberty. that's why we have federalism in this country and

what we need to paraphrase by my colleague at the american enterprise institute you've all live in, is we need to be better at how we disagree with with each other, not try to impose this false notion that we're going to all unify and rally around some one politician, particularly donald trump, the idea that donald trump can be a unifying figure in american politics is preposterous, and that's not really a criticism on me. he's simply an avatar of the culture war. now, presidents are avatars in the culture war and the idea that you're going to get a tribalized country that is so deeply polarized and full negative and partisanship to see him as some sort of unifying figure is just literally important. >> yeah, alyssa in that room. okay. he's going to come out and i don't know whether he's bandage will be on or what you've got people in that room wearing a bandage in solidarity with him. he is going to come out at a moment like that. none of us have ever seen before, right? the last time he came out, it was a big moment for him. okay. let's just play it. this is how trump walked out in 2016. last time there's a person in-person convention all

right. >> we all remember that most in that room that was there was incredible but it seems like in the room i mean, that's going to look like nothing compared to what you're going to get tonight. well, this is obviously guy who's in the wwe hall of fame. he knows showmanship, you knows how to play to his audience. it's going to be ten times more electric tonight in that room. i mean, we heard i talked to people who are there the first night that he came out and they said you could palpably feel the emotion, but i want to point out one thing i've just been observed bring his face as he's been in the box, he's actually spent a lot of time at the convention hall he is on cloud nine. there's this bit of him that i do see sort of a soberness coming off of the assassination attempt. >> but let's also think he announced his reelection. >> no major figures showed up. i think matt gaetz was one of the only sitting congressmen. it basically was seen as he was so weekend 2.5 years ago, we

thought it was me the summer of a january 6 trial of a documents case, a fulton county, none of that appears to be happening now, he's got the supreme court immunity ruling. i mean, he could not have had a better saved for the terrible events of last weekend, last year of his life. and i think he's sinking in and he's really realizing this is literally better than i could have jumped up. how much people are rallying around, you know, we've seen them a lot just heard it. maybe he's been in a good mood. i also watched him during jd vance's speech last night, rohit and scowled practically the entire time he went, fans gave maybe one of the most boring convention speeches i've seen, and i've seen a lot of convinces me. it was long and it was boring but he can call them, jd boring, if i was able to get all be i'll be peter navarro exactly. his people come out but this does strike me that trump is going to do something that is not unifying, which is that they are really trying to go after a very narrow slice of the american public. this is, this is vertical marketing, not holes. they are trying to get every single person that

already agrees with him to try to come out. i don't think they're appealing to many suburban women. i don't think they are appealing to that many african-americans and latinos, maybe the ones who are watching wwe or whatever, but they're not going to go. i don't think after the broad swath of the country. and so that means he might be defying in some flowery language. but the substance is going to be the same. >> but it's how confident he is. i think that he's realizing we'll have long said that this race is between joe biden and the couch. i think he realized like he just needs to fight against the couch if he can activate the core people who've been with him in the past, then he's going to win this thing just based on all the public polling we have. yeah. i mean, i think this point about he's running a base race is important because you you know, yes, he may adjust the speech tonight to kind of appeal to unity, but we know deep down, he's animated. i mean, the theme tonight as trump is a fighter, he's animated by the literal and we had an economic night. we. have a trump is a fighter know there is a fundamental tension between, i'm a fighter i'm a unifier, and i think, the other key thing is that his base

knows him as a fighter and he knows that's what they like about him so i just think as he's moving forward in this campaign, it's hard to see him abandoning that kind of like fundamental visceral view of who he is and his belief that that's why people like him but it's going to be hard for him to maintain this notion of unity you know that, i actually think that there has to be a view that being a fighter and being a unifier have to be opposite. so it just depends on what you're fighting against. if you're fighting for america, that can be very unifying. so they to be a tension there. but we'll see if donald trump, but how an area where we're some air out of trump but unifying the unifying hi thread of the trump era is that this is about trump and his family it's not really about that because from an operational perspective, this campaign is the best ran campaign the former president has ever had. for sure, chris lacivita, susie, those are very serious people. brian jack, who is now running for congress in georgia for political director. i know these folks, they know they're doing. and so if you would want to say, oh, he's

only placating to the base. he's only trying to turn his base that's an aiif position. he recognizes that he has to turn out some latinos. they recognize that the turnout, some african american young men. they recognize that the turnout, some young white men, and they're making those efforts. >> so okay. but earlier there was reporting that he would not say you said bear would not say joe biden's name during the speech. okay. now, i'm sure that that was in maybe maybe because you don't even want to give it you don't even want to deign to do that. but now, even in these past hours, if anybody's watching the headlines about joe biden more closely than joe biden sell trump, right? and he sees that whole tide turning. so he's looking at a world. well, maybe it shows biden, maybe it's not joe biden. how does that impact him tonight? >> well, i just all i think it's actually brilliant if he doesn't mention him because he's kind of projecting. i'm so far ahead. that would almost be punching down to like, bring his name to this speech and to make it more about him. he's had this line that frankly as powerful as much as i hate it, but like they're trying to, i'm the only thing standing between them and you if he wraps that into the story of the attempted assassination,

that's powerful to a lot of americans who are watching. so i think it would actually be a wise call, but i do think that there's a part of him that may be bothered how much of his convention week is being eclipsed by joe biden. this will, he will he not is it kamala harris but tonight, all eyes will be on him i mean, he could be debating kamala harris, september. i mean, i'm just say this is a worldview that even for him, it's a precise mix shift in days. >> yeah. no. look, i mean, it's got to be very frustrating into alyssa's point is it's traditionally, there's a rule that the opposite party goes quiet during the conventions and let's the other party make its case i think joe biden would very much like that to be the situation here, right? it's not like you can say, oh, were their tampering or the stealing our news coverage? but this is not the way joe biden would want it still the news coverage, right? and so it's kind of brutal. it's like you switch for covering the best-case republicans can make to the dire straits of the

democrats. and donald trump is the only one who doesn't like. >> all right, let's hit pause for just a moment. mj lee has some breaking news. she's at the white house right now. so what are you learning mj well, erin, my colleagues and i have spoken with dozens of sources, both inside and close to the white house and the campaign. and this much is clear right now, many senior most officials inside the white house and the biden campaign privately believe at this point that the president does need to drop out. they've simply see the current political situation and as being completely untenable as one senior democrat put it to us, everyone is saying it privately. people see and feel the walls are closing in. this comes as sources have said that the president has become exceptionally insulated, an isolated in recent days that everyone is familiar with the fact that the president has for you here's relied on a small circle of advisers about what we are seeing, in the picture that has been painted for us since the debate is that that group of the most loyal aides

that are really dug in with the president has become stunningly small chief among them, of course, mike donilon and steve richetti, both of whom have of course worked with the president for a number of decades and know him very well. now, many democrats, as a result of all of these dynamics, they have been alarmed as they have not really been sure whether the president is getting sort of realistic data from the people that are closest to him. some of the sources said that many meetings and phone calls where people would be going to the president bearing bad news at those appear to have largely stopped multiple sources. also, interestingly said that the president's recent response when presented with bad polling has been to cast doubt on whether anybody else can actually perform stronger than the president. that of course is not the first anecdote that we have reported on over the last few days of the president being defensive and dug-in when it comes to data and polling so look, there's a lot of reporting coming out about who knows what, who is close to the

president. and i think all of this just serves as a reminder that very few people actually have an insight into the president's mind right now, erin, right. >> mj. thank you. you very much. one person who does have insight, the most worked with him and knows him. kate bedingfield. so kate, what's your reaction? i'm days reporting. look, one thing i will say about campaign leaks like this. >> this is not honorable. this is not helpful to the candidate you're working for. i think for people across the party who are raising their concerns, it's it's a conversation but i would argue needs to be had. i'm not i don't question that. but if you are working for joe biden's campaign and you were going out right now while the president is clearly, as we've seen from some of his top closest confidants like chris coons reflecting on what he wants to do moving forward, if you were working on his campaign and you were going out and leaking like this? put your name on it and resign because that is just that is not an honorable honorable way to behave. >> all right. i will leave it on that all right. >> we're getting closer to donald trump's night at the

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now we're back here at the republican national convention and linda ban, the 25th administrator of the small business administration, has just started speaking. >> i want to listen to the light and asked her who's the most beautiful girl in the world that she said me then he asked in who do you love the most in the world but 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 the love that only a grandfather could have given i first met donald trump. well, i was the 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 cabinet running the 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 who's using their tax savings to grow their businesses. and ladies and gentlemen, the u.s economy was flourishing but 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 newborn, north carolina i stepped off a very force, one and walk side-by-side with the president of the united states through the hanger 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 their taxes but when he's 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, put tariffs on china. that raise billions of dollars and protected american industries and if reelected he'll do it again president trump has a job creator and the

best friend american workers have ever had in the white house he is a champion of their forgotten men and women but as i have experienced firsthand but the media doesn't like to acknowledge that very often donald trump is not only a fighter, ladies and gentlemen, he is a good man. he has the heart of a lion and the soul of a warrior. and i believed that if necessary, he would stand at the gates of hell 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 you could die so very have a big van speaking one of the early speakers on this final night of the republican national convention is still ahead, we're keeping an eye on the trump family box just ahead of the arrival of the former president and his closest relatives. >> and it's all leading up to his acceptance speech. that's coming up later today. let's take a quick break. much more of our special coverage right after us i won't prevent history who paid you? house of

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donald trump has arrived. i'm told he is here. he has not actually made it into the floor yet. of course, when that happens every night, dirty, they show him on this greene, there's a big audience reaction and he goes up to the vip box, but i am told that he is here on the property. and so we should expect to see him any moment we'll be watching closely. and erin, one thing to note oh, how closely involved donald trump has been with really the weight is entire convention has been scripted. i'm told by sources that he's been heavily involved in who is speaking and when they are speaking and just looking let's just speakers were set to introduce him tonight. obviously, he will be the finale tonight, closing out this convention. with his speech, that's slated to go a little over an hour. but you'll see his son, eric trump, dana white ever carlson, all of them coming out to speak beforehand, and that is all by design. he has had a role and a direct role in that selecting every single person who was coming out, it really just speaks to obviously, donald trump is a showman. you hear a lot about visuals and so it's not

surprising he's been intimately involved in every aspect of this. we are waiting to see him enter the actual delegation floor. we should expect to do rather her soon erin. >> all right. kaitlan. thank you very much. and you know what kaitlan pointing out, it wasn't the trump's been involved in who speaks and wet. now we've been sitting here sort of in the four hours until too late pm every night. and you have seen some of the maga heavy people, whether it's marjorie taylor greene or matt gaetz in the earlier slide thoughts nikki haley, some of the more you would think reaching out voices have been later, but not tonight. not tonight. tucker carlson, alina haba, dana white, obviously a ufc. i mean, this is the leading to trump is very maga tonight, it's a choice and it should jos that the party is maga right now. why am not super bullish on this idea of a change trump in this unity message is someone like a tucker carlson is the lead up to this is somebody who recently traveled to the kremlin, met with president with putin. he's a spouse

dangerous conspiracy theories. the great replacement theory. this is not somebody who anyone would say is a unifying force within american politics. now, i do expect that the tone and tenor of trump i'm speech will be different than the campaign speech or not expecting for sharks and lasers and hannibal lecter tonight. but i think that this speaks to where the party is, that pretty much as soon as he's back? upon the campaign trail, we're going get hold trump, and it's an hour long speech yeah. i expect the nudity to be tasteful and integral but no nearly sure. >> i heard you know what i think what we're going to see tonight is one prediction i. think. tucker carlson has gotten in his head. a long time that he's going to be the pattern cannon and 19. >> all right. well, i'll get back to you after this brief message, which is mike pompeo's for all americans, it is great to be with you as message shout out to kansas over there. >> and my good friends from

kansas you know, i had the incredible privilege to serve as president trump cia director and secretary of state it was it was my greatest honor to work with him every single today to serve you the american people now now you all are paying attention. so 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 border closed it may seem like a long time ago, but when we took office, there were people's heads being cut off of the at the beaches. we

destroyed isis and its califate and you know, you know, here's another fun fact. we never lost our secretary defense for two weeks either. you'll 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 like the friend and ally that they need to be everywhere we went everywhere we went. religious freedom was protected we held three summit in north korea and north korea was quieted we had begun to

weed, begun an honorable exit from afghanistan and not a single chinese spy balloon flew across the united states of america for years had i been the secretary state and the chinese spy balloon flew across our country, ai would have been the former secretary of state. and rightfully so you know under president trump, the chinese communist party, which to this day presents the greatest threat to our nation from outside of our country. we can fronted it like never before. look, ladies and gentlemen, short we put america first every single day 42 months on what joe biden and kamala harris done and their leftist handles, 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 gold-star families from afghanistan as an army veteran, i want to speak to everybody who served in afghanistan i'm disgusted by the biden ministrations and competent pullout from that country to those of you who serve their know this know that your service was honorable, that you saved american lives, and that the pompeos love and admire you for what you did for america. thank you. and god bless each and every one of you every one. >> of you. has served in uniform and the families of those you deserve a president a president who will not check his watch while here is honoring our fallen brothers and sisters it was indecent and

of. >> course it. was that very weakness, that very weakness. we saw in afghanistan, the prompted putins butchery 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, a second war in gaza president biden won't even talk about the fact that americans are still being held there by the iranian regime contrast that contrast that with what we did, what americans were wrongfully held president 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. >> a dozens of other hostages, and we did so 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 maniac who conducted the attacks barbaric attacks in israel now of course closer to home a massive national security challenge, our southern border is a welcome mat. it's a welcome mat for islamize terrorists drug dealer there's chinese spies and violent criminals ladies and gentlemen, president biden sold out our citizens and our security and our sovereignty. and we need to get it back and i am confident that we will get it back. >> i i had this incredible privilege to serve as your top diplomat i saw i saw how the world always looks to our nation as the unrivaled example

of what a free society should look like but 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's he done at home? what's he's shown the world, what of he is leftist base actually shown other nations? he's censored free speech here at home he's put woke into the military that i and you so desperately love we must reclaim it he put it in our schools as well he's weaponized 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 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 as so dangerous to our nation. the truth that joe biden can't handle that 3:00 a.m. phone call indeed, he won't take a phone call after about 4:00 p.m. my call michael to you tonight is really straightforward. it's really simple we, can't trust the biden administration and that means we have work to do to uphold american values it is up to those of us in the room tonight and those of you watching tonight? donald trump will every day, i saw it firsthand. he will put america first so let's 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 will reelect donald j. trump, and we will make america special, exceptional and of course, great again, thank you. god bless you. god bless our veterans and the united states of america. thank you all. >> thank you so much. >> former secretary of state cia director and jim aos. easy. we're gonna take a brief break as we await the foreign president entering that convention hall, we'll be back this election season. stay with cnn with more reporters on the ground. and the best political team in the business follow the voters, follow this us, follow the facts follow cnn oh my god

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have moved just 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 in if president shrunk would have moved just millimeter we will not be hearing tonight how he was going to make america great again before i take my seat. i

just got to talk to you about something called provenance and something called sovereignty. got sovereignty is his ability to be able to do what he wants when he wants because he's gone 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 the sixth 11 a.m. do you know that ephesians chapter number six? verse number 11 says very strong in the lord and in his mighty power so all my preference 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 read a 47 president of the united states and america. it was shot once how do you like so all my friends back in detroit who are democrats, i'm going to ask you just one simple question you can't and not the power of god on this man's life you can't, deny that god protected whom. you cannot deny that it was a millimeter miracle that was able to save this man's life could it be that jesus christ preserved him for such? a time?

>> is this? >> could it be could it be that what we prayed for him when he came to the wrong table in detroit, that jesus and he received that was sought him and then he found protection. could it be specter king of glory the lord gusts strong, get my god, who is mic? and back? hurts? donald trump because they will say such as this that cut off right i protected him. the message from pastor suo, where trump could

actually campaigned at tools church in june and detroit. >> all he did campaign a sewell church. it was billed as an african american outreach event. it turned out when the cameras turned the other direction, the entire church, all the pews were filled with white people which is fine. you can have could be the case, but that's not an african american outreach event. i got to tell you i was in detroit last weekend with my family and friends and i talked to a lot of people. i have did not and i was at a church because you're from detroit. i'm from detroit. we were at a church and i will tell you i didn't detect it anybody who's thinking about voting for donald trump in the services that i was in. fact, many of them still supported president biden, but they were also okay with kamala harris. their idea was whatever the democrats want to do, solve the problem, get it on with, let's get back to talking about donald trump. >> but there but there are african-american you are willing to vote for donald trump and we should not be naive about that, nor should we dismiss, overlook that. >> we always love to say in our community, we're not a monolith, but anytime a black person decides to vote for republican, that we want a cascade them. and so you can no

longer come to the quote, unquote cookout. people are looking at trump for economic opportunities and other things that they may find a treatment we should acknowledge it, we should respect it, and we should study why those individuals are moving towards republicans generally speaking, which is something air that did not occur with mitt romney. i worked on this campaign. it did not occur but with john mccain and we didn't even see these numbers with george w bush. that's a phenomenon that we should not descend. dismiss. >> another thing that sticks out to me about what we just saw is the religious fervor of this convention. i mean, political conventions are always a little bit of a tent revival, but the explicit use of such spiritual language to talk about donald trump. it's a reminder that he doesn't just have voters. he has followed course. he is effectively leading the congregation tonight with his speech. >> i mean, that was wasn't even there was something veil there was nothing insinuating that was god protected him god chose him on saturday and you know where i think there are a lot of people in that room who very much believed. i think folks that it will resonate within the evangelical community. and i would expect you're not going to hear that direct and interests remarks, but i think you are going to hear him

allude to very it walking hang out right now obviously, he's not speaking at this very moment. >> he is speaking this evening entering the actual convention floor now and he's going to be going to his box, the red box where his family has been sitting day after day. he has appeared there every single night and also jonah why you're trump. is going to be there tonight ivanka trump's going to be there tonight. ivanka trump actually, someone that i know saw her at a restaurant at the jury sure. on monday. right. she was she was doing other things earlier this week with his convention began, but she is going to be there tonight. we understand as well. here he is walking up to the bottom this is the bandage is on. he's going to be speaking. obviously later tonight, but he's now going to be there, jonah to see what we're about to watch close friend of his is golf pro ben tucker carlson, alina habba, his lawyer one of his lawyers. >> right. this is these are the people he wanted right ahead of him tonight, right. so part of

the theory of donald trump's colon question is to get these low propensity voters who are not the typical white working class or even like the sort of african american men that we've been talking about it's the get the people who i mean, talk about a catch and we're play video games, watch wwe who wouldn't occur to them to vote under normal circumstances. but this sort of reality show, tent revival thing. things about for the excitement. >> all right, so we see that box. now you see ted cruz there harkening back to the last in-person convention and how that went different time. now, phil mattingly, you're right outside the box. what do you say? >> it's been fascinating. we've talked about this couple of times there. who's in the box as the president arrives. but before we get to that, let's just about the energy to'f republicans throughout the course of the week brought the unity about other party is very much not just behind trump, but trump at this point in time. it's also the energy tonight

is just different. it was expected to be this bled went to build to this moment in the president coming in about an hour-and-a-half early, but he's been coming in over the course of the last several nights. you certainly heard it in the crowd. a lot of expectation for the speech or show you the box right now and kind of walk you through who's actually entered with the former president, just sitting down to his right, you see jason aldean, brittany alday in the country music star and his wife also performing. it's kinda must go to party of the evening after the events are done this evening here on the convention floor and then around him, you have a lot of us senators, republican senators, including republican candidates, as well as steve daines, the nrsc chair that i'm told was intentional. the senators were told if they were here to be ready to be in the box with the former president. we've talked about how where people sit, who's in the box at which time is actually supposed to send a message. certainly the case now, but the senate, senate candidates, the people well around him also, i believe we've one more thing. i just want to say we've been waiting to see who the family would bring in as well because this is a big moment for melania trump. she has not walked in yet. we didn't expect her to

do so. eric trump is expected to speak tonight. he's there also the former president's lawyers including todd blanche, emil bove, a alina habba, who is expected to speak tonight. they've been with him most of the week. we've seen them walking as well it's just fascinating. >> shermichael -asco, jason aldean being there and his wife, jason aldean, of course, was performing in las vegas when there was that horrific mass shooting. obviously, he is no trump supporter forming but, you know, when you talk about the importance of the night and obviously trump is appearing speaking for the first time since the attempted assassination that connection can't go on with this noise, certainly can't go unnoticed. >> and look, you saw the past are talking about the millimeter difference i was looking at twitter, seeing where people were posting about it, and a bunch of my republican, conservative friends were saying how people in that that crowd were standing and cheering because to alyssa's point earlier, there is a religiosity to this and a lot of those evangelicals they do believe that trump is somehow ordained by god, whether you agree with that or not, that is the belief of millions of americans. and i think trump may play in to that a little bit tonight. >> it almost in a religious

way. >> i mean, how does that, how does that poll obviously we know how that goes in the room, you know how that works with the base of maga. >> but more broadly, when you're talking about unity and enlarging your voter base. >> well, it's, it creates the notion that donald trump is somehow different and he has always thrived on the idea that i'm not just your average politician. and so while i don't expect that a majority of americans look at him as a sort of messianic figure. the idea that he is somehow different. and even if you don't like him, he certainly had a string of luck that definitely resonates and obviously an intensity on his face right now as he is watching the head golf blow for trump international, who chose johnny aborted two introduce, not to introduce him to be speaking here in these moments before his actual address, which is later this evening. >> and of course, we will all be there for that. cnn's convention coverage continues right now.

>> we are live in milwaukee, wisconsin where donald trump just entered the convention hall. good evening. thanks for joining us. is he? appears to formally accept his third nomination for president from taking center stage and opening a new phase of an unprecedented, unpredictable presidential election. trump insiders suggested the former president's speech could be different than any speech he's given since entering the political arena, in nearly a decade ago. this is cnn special coverage in the fourth and final night of the republican national convention. i'm anderson cooper along with jake tapper and jake, everything that has happened to this convention over the past few days has been leading after this night and dade, i understand. and donald trump grip on the republican party appears tighter than ever before as he heads into his big speech after a turbulent few weeks bookended by the criminal conviction of him by a prosecuted by attorney general mr. district attorney, rather alvin bragg, not to mention, of course, his survival of an

assassination attempt just on saturday, a shocking and horrific moment. we're told that mr. trump has been hands-on writing and remarks writing his remarks until the last minute. and with a focus on unity, we're told that's the message he is said to be embracing since the shooting in contrast, of course, with a darker and more boisterous tone, he has taken in past beaches and pleading crass convention speeches, whatever. the 45th president of the united states says tonight, the show of support he's getting here in milwaukee is quite different. i think it's fair to say then what's going on. on the other side of the aisle with the democratic party. cnn is reporting the top white house and campaign officials now privately believe the president biden must abandon his reelection bid mid high level calls for him to exit with the next 72 hours being pivotal to his decision-making. we're following it all as we count down to the big finish other republican convention featuring remarks by trump's