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

second oldest son, eric trump, leading up to donald trump's diplomatic speech himself, his wife, melania, is here. his daughter ivanka, expected to also be in the hall. they will be making their first appearances at this convention. let's go right now to kaitlan collins on the convention floor, trump is in the room. kaitlan. tell us what the mood is like. where you are. >> yeah, jake, it's very clearly the last night and everyone here is obviously looking forward to what donald trump is going to say when he finally addresses the convention tonight, he is seated in his box right behind me right now. i saw him to center a few moments ago, but he'll leave that box and not too long from now to go backstage. as he prepares to deliver what we are told is going to be about an hour an hour and ten minutes. of remarks from the former president. i should just note that as we're in the room, they've been there have been signs every night to kind of fit that thieves where it was safety, immigration tonight, there are signs that say bring back common sense, fire, joe biden is really popular, one that we've seen tonight. and of course, no surprise, make america great again, not a ton of trump vance signs. i saw a

few of them earlier, but it just speaks to obviously the message of this room is trying to send and what is happening here though this has also being scripted for those who are at home and jake, we saw donald trump go into his box. two things i do want to note. acidic wife behind him among the lawmakers who are here is oklahoma senator james lankford well that's, notable because it wasn't all that long ago. the james lankford and some other lawmakers painstakingly crafted end immigration bill. one that was ultimately sold combined donald trump, when he came out against it, and then that gave that permission structure for other republicans to then subsequently come out against it. it did not actually pass that was because they wanted him be able to run on immigration in this campaign, which they have been having a slew of speeches revolve around that also another person who is in the box is one of his campaign aides, but also his attorney on his legal team. it's epshteyn, who is an aide who as we know, was indicted in arizona recently on efforts to overturn the election there. and those allegations along

with a slew of other eight. so obviously watching all that closely, jake, as trump is preparing to take the stage not very long from now. >> alright, kaitlin collins on the floor looking at the super box there with senators and at least one country music star, dana bash, were told. and i guess you know, the proof will be in the pudding. we'll see when he actually delivers the speech, but we're told that president trump's speech will be focused on unity we shall see, we shall see look, he has said multiple times in multiple venues since the assassination attempt on saturday that he was ripping up a speech and he was going to give a very different kind of of address and message that he had planned to do. >> we plan to do a rip roaring speech against joe biden and the current administration? >> it's hard to imagine that he's not going to do any sort of a flick to that. >> but it's going to be

interesting to see how much he leaned into that. i ran into eric trump, his son earlier today, who's going to be introducing the former president, his father who said that he is going to give kind of a similar frame that we heard that we heard from his wife, laura last night, and that we heard from donald trump junior, maybe even more personal then donald trump junior as he introduces his father, he said he's been working on the speech very, very carefully and that we might be a little bit surprised in what he says, not sure what that not sure what that means. but look, i mean, we are used to the trump kids, especially being the pit bulls on behalf of their father, political pitfalls but they like everyone else in their family, had big homeless tragedy. >> well, yeah, that was a horrible day yesterday. chris, what do you think well it'll be fascinating. >> there's been a lot of talk.

it's going to be more personal that he's got the unity top. that'll be interesting to see today. i thought what better way to prepare for tonight than to read his acceptance speeches at the last two conventions in 2016 he talked about the forgotten people of america and said, i am your voice. he talked about the rig system in america and sad, i alone can fix it. and interestingly enough, in 2021 of the strongest lines he was talking at one point and he said it old trojan born and unborn have a god given right? to life, which made me reflect on the fact that there has been almost no talk at all at those convention about life and about choice. and the whole abortion flight. obviously, trump has had a huge victory there in the sense that his three supreme court justices were, part of a majority that overturned roe v. wade, but they have seen the

political threat of that because of the fact that other around the country groups support a right to try so it'll be very interesting to see. i'm curious whether he's going to talk about life, whether we're going to hear these i alone can fix it or whether sounds strange to say where they're going to see a kinder, gentler donald trump tonight on betting against it. but that's the front of covering these things will see what we say. >> absolutely. anderson. >> thanks very much here looking over the floor we're kasie, what do you expect tonight from donald? >> well, i think exactly what i jake dana and chris were outlining that. i don't expect an a source tells me that he is not planning on mentioning president biden's name. he is not expected to do that now, of course, we know that donald trump doesn't always stick to the script that he has planned. but at the outset, that's what we're looking at. i think we also can expect to see a source tells me that he may walk through his experience on

saturday in some detail, more detail than we have heard him walk through it before. which again, i think may underscore the broader seems that we are talking about here. yes, of course, unity among, with the republican party, but also this idea that he seems to, and the thing that i think going to be listening for tonight is how he describes whether this was some sort of spiritual experience for him because we have seen him reference that in some of the interviews that he did right afterward. we saw his face look quite different on that monday night, whether it lasts, whether it has changed a man who has been on our american stage for however many decades. we're still learning as we go along. but i am told to expect something dramatically different than anything we've seen from him in public before well, i mean, i think that this is going to be an attempt by the campaign by donald trump to reset the narrative and public we should all take that with a grain of salt though, right?

>> because this is a man who has a long history in public. i think what he says on that stage is going to be important in that it tells us how the campaign wants the country to see him but there's a lot of other data points that matter too, including what he's done and what he plans to do. so just to put that on the table, but i do think the real question will be talked about unity is going to be what does he say to the american people, not just to people in this room? but to the rest of the country. there's more than half of the country that believes he's a divisive figure that is concerned about what he might mean for american democracy. what does he say to those people and does he backtrack on some of his own previous incendiary language depicting the other ideas article side of the aisle as the enemy of his supporters. so these are all look, i think that with trump, what he says on a teleprompter is always worth taking into

consideration, but it would be foolish of us not to take the fact that when he is off the teleprompter, he often says something completely different. and the pictures that they are painting this poll week has to be added to all the things that have come before it and all the things that will come out. >> you i'm sorry i was just going to say, look, let's give the presumption of grace here. >> the guy you almost got killed a few days ago, i think he is perhaps a changed person and i can't imagine you get shot in the head and you don't come out different. you that experience is a very profound experience. so i think let's listen to his words as some already says, i don't have i don't have the wreck. >> i just i don't have the requisite degrees to climb and through his head and understand that you said. make a different point. just a practical political point in focus groups of swing voters, one guys said he voted for trump before he's not sure he can vote for him again because living with trump as president was like having a

neighbor who ran his leaf blower 24/7 that's the that's the image that people have of trump. he has a chance to address those people tonight. an era and a large audience and play against type. very clear, they're signaling that that's what he wants to do. >> x i think it's important context to understand that right now in america, we only have one ascent and then dominant political figure it's donald trump, but present united states is diminished reporting is he may be considering being on his way out week not since george w bush grabbed the bullhorn. after 911, has anybody had a chance to capture the imagination of the country? with a moment like he's got, he just almost got shot in the head. there signaling something new tonight he's for all intents and purposes, this man tonight has the entire nation's attention and yes, abby, half the country has said were skeptical of him but that's the bet. he can he rise above it and be something different and just leave this

campaign behind the polling suggests he's on his way. he could cement yeah, i guess my only point is scott, i think you're totally right. >> but with trump, i mean, we were not operating in a vacuum. he's not a newbie on the scene. with trump. it is always words against actions. and tonight it's going to be words. but for the rest of the campaign, it's going to be actions and we will take what he says today and we have to compare it against what he will do, maybe in 24 hours on truth social, and that's always the challenge for his own campaign as, as you know, scott, you're going to hear from the candidates tonight who was told was told today, this is yours to lose. >> yes. >> you are winning this race, go out there knowing you were running this race on election night in 2016, his old people were texting recrimination saying, we're going to lose. they didn't think they were going to win in 2016 and 2020, they knew they were going to lose, which is why the president came out and tried to stop the count and say they were cheating and everything else because he knew he was going to he's going to stand on that stage tonight in a commanding lead in this race by every hour, his position is getting better and his team has told him, mr. president, this

is yours to lose. keep that in your head now is trump, which is the granddaughter out there to try to get suburban women shore but that's not what they're looking for they know the third party candidates are in the race. they know the president's poll numbers are tanking. they know if donald trump can get to 47%, he's the next president united states in the swing states and so yes, they're trying to sandy edges and smooth out a little bit, but that's not their main goal at this convention. their main goal at this convention with jd vance and with the other speakers and what they're doing on social media and how they're targeting and the non traditional media is to turn out their voters, period because they think if they do that they win 11 quick issue van before you go, i just to on john this is the first time donald trump's ever been a hit. he was never ahead in 20, he was never ahead and 16. this is the first time in his life he's ever had truly politically had to tiger by the tail. that's why to me the speech is so fascinating because he's usually an a defensive position and tonight, he's going to dominate well,

not only the lead, but he also has the party behind him, in 16 as john alluded to, the party was 16 then the night of the election, the party was making about not the campaign. they are trying to undercut it wasn't just the rnc, wasn't just wasn't fan. >> has still waters run deep i think he's going to be an important speech and i think what abby is saying is very important depending on who you are. this is a very different event, is a very different moment i mean for the people who are here this is not just a political figure. he is a movement leader who was almost martyred. and you're going to see that receptivity i think for half the country, this is a very troubling moment because we see potentially an authoritarian threat that is rising and is becoming more popular in his using kind of circus and bread and all sorts, of sort of stuff to make it cool. to be a part of something that we don't trust where it's going and so the question

for donald trump and we don't know, you know, what will be on teleprompter is going to be whatever it is but he's literally hanging between having almost lost everything and on the brink of gaming everything i don't know. >> i don't know what that does to a person there's very few people in human history that literally almost lost everything. >> and at the same time, almost gain everything. something could rise at him i'm not convinced yet well i think i think there's a hope that people have so 78 i just hope that people shed a certain point. maybe if who i think is a hope that people have and i understand it that something this monumental might have something rise in him that is different. can i say i don't think that half the country believes it and have a good gun to believe at the end of the speech, i do. >> my reporting suggests that even donald trump's staff has been surprised by the way that he has been processing the events of saturday. now that could be spin it's entirely

possible. but the sort of way in which they are approaching it and talking about it suggested to me that they were a little bit taken aback that this guy that they had worked for that they understood, they understand how pugnacious he is and how he wanted to change himself, what he's going to say tonight, surprise some people that have worked for him for a long time now we'll see if that actually plays out. >> but this quasi-religious question as well, i think is very important. and what you said about how he is a now a martyr to this movement. donald trump is also very, very good at putting his finger in the wind, understanding what is supporters want and need from him in doing that. and honestly this approach would line up with both things. >> just ahead more from the final night of the republican national convention as we await donald trump's acceptance speech, florida senator marco rubio joins my colleague jake tapper. that's next what he said the president of the united states america's

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>> cnn's five things with kate bolduan, streaming weekdays on max he does the fourth and final night of the republican national convention is underway. >> we're counting down to donald trump's acceptance speech here in milwaukee. the former president and went backstage to greet his wife, former first lady melania trump, who will be here this evening. my panel is here with me as well as florida senator marco rubio, republican of florida. as i said, senator. so good to see you. thank you so much. thank you. >> first of all, you're actually here live we are here live just as opposed to some other networks that just have a big led, who shall remain nameless. >> so you spoken with president trump since the horrific events of saturday, the attempted assassination, what are you? hoping and what are you expecting to hear in his speech this evening? well, look, i don't i don't want to speak for the president. >> obviously, anybody he said to me what i think he said publicly, and that is i'm not supposed to be here. it's a pretty shocking moment i think,

at least in my view of it is sort of reminds us that the this is not we're not in the entertainment business, right wing politics thing we do is really about people and about the lives of people in the future of our country and it is my sense and we'll see how it plays out tonight. and i certainly have done it. have any insights with the speeches about, but it's my sense that the president views this as an opportunity to define what it's movement is about that at the end of the day, besides all the noise, people that don't like him people that obviously do like him, but he ran for president because he felt that there were millions of americans whose government was not responsive to what they were saying. they were angry about being left behind by globalization. they were upset that the country seemed to care more about what was happening. and other countries and what was happening here. and he gave voice to that and i think you will have a chance. i hope tonight to hear that articulated in the voice of a person who realizes he's probably on the verge of becoming the president united states again. and it's an

enormous responsibility and he knows that because he's been there before yeah. >> at year the vice chair of the senate intelligence committee on the matter of what happened saturday. can you give us any sort of update in terms of anything having to do with the investigation, the motive of this twisted killer would be able against a killer and also what went wrong with the protection of the wound and obviously the intelligence agencies operate in international rahm, not domestic. there's no evidence of any sort that i've seen or heard public or otherwise that this had any sort of foreign linkage. the threats from iran against president trump and other us officials that they blame for the soleimani strike that's been going on for a while and people know about it. it's a very serious, it's a very significant threat i believe the iranians, i think it was about a couple of years ago, actually put out a video of them assassinating trump on a, on a, on a golf course. but i don't think that's related to this. my perception of this from the calls we've had with the fbi and otherwise, is that clearly there was massive error committed irrespective of the

secret service is in charge of the protection. and that regional they may outsource some piece of it, but ultimately they are responsible for it. there is no way that's in 20-year-old guy should be able to walk around, crawl on a roof, and get off. how many, three or four shots? >> that literally came within a millimeter of a live execution of the leading candidate for president at this moment should never have happened my question is, is this part of a systemic internal organizational problem or was this an example of somebody made a big, big mistake in advancing the event, but i will say the secret service has handled this about as bad as you can handle it. >> they should be doing press conferences every day. the absence of consistent and clear information is what opens the door for conspiracy theories and all kinds of other things to take off. it's already hard enough to fight against those things. i don't know why they haven't been more forthcoming with all the information they have. and they should be doing it on a regular basis. >> we just turn back to the

politics of what the president's goal, the former president's goal is tonight he is so well-known and opinions of him are so engrained, both very positive and both very negative and we've heard for so many years, as he has campaigned that his advisers want him to try to expand beyond his base and they're trying clearly with this convention in so many ways, trying to soften his edges, tried to give a perspective of him as a family man what do you, as somebody who wants him to be elected, want to continue to do from here on out in order to try to reach out to those voters who turned against him or whenever with him yeah, look like anything in politics there there are people that are never going to be with you no matter what you do. and that's fine. that's absolutely appropriate. that's part of the political process. i think in the case of the president, in some cases, he's been character church to a level demonized by some to level has really been unfair

but at the core of his message, if you distill down his message, his message is this, americans want better jobs that pay enough to afford life. they want lower prices. they want the border to be secure. they want the people who come here to this country to come here legally, and they want to be involved in less wars around the world and to really be more judicious about how us foreign policy is deployed. none of these are radical ideas, these are majority positions in the country and i think reminding people at the end of the day that's at the core of all of this is a key opportunity that i think he has tonight for people that are going to be listening, that are going to be willing to give them a second look. it's not the sympathy because of a near-assassination it's a reminder that this guy doesn't have to be in politics. you really doesn't. he was already a celebrity. he was a very, very wealthy, he could have lived a very good life he didn't have to get into politics. he's paid a huge price or politics, his family certainly has and when you look at a guy that in the midst of all of that stands up and doesn't run off the stage

before he does. he has the instinct show the ability to stand up. and because he feels like the people that are in the crowd are here to see him and he wants them to know he's okay and he wants them to keep fighting. i think that was a reminder to a lot of people but this is a man that's in politics because he loves the country, whether you agree with them or not. >> senator, you were part of the veepstakes as to who was going to be his running mate and you were one of the top three so you were the first or second? lunden rob. there's a lot of talk now that jd vance is the inheritor of maga, that he is the person that donald trump has chosen to be. his vice president for over the next four years. if he wins and then also kind of the inheritor of this entire movement. do you view jd vance in that way that he's kind of moves to the top of the line of the post-trump. >> first, we haven't even finished this convention, but he looked jd was going to be that whether he got picked or not, he's incredibly intelligent very i've been working with ad since 2018 on public policy before. he's

elected to anything, even for years before he ran, i was already interacting with him. and because i'm very impressed, he is very curious guy. i mean, he really loves to learn about it probes and asked a lot of questions. he has that in common with trump, by the way, if you ever sit down with trump just off, he will ask you nine questions before he gives you one state and he's very probing. he likes to talk to people and makes decisions on the basis of this ongoing dialogue that he has with people on jd has that similarly for quality, he likes to learn a lot about things. obviously very smart comes from a very unique background. it's amazing the road he's traveled to get to this point. i'm a huge fan of his and always will really work very well together. they're close william, the senate. and i think he's, i think he's a very good choice for him. i really do. i think they have a lot of chemistry between them as well. so i think he's going to be a really good vice president and as well for the president and you guys should not make, just think back where we are today. six weeks ago, such a different race because it looks happened the last six years or ten years. so to predict anything

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the campaign, even as we're here republican convention that this is a new moment in this decision-making process for president biden. this is still his decision to make, but a democratic governor said earlier, today in a conversation that was relayed to me that he said the next 72 hours or big. this can't go on much longer. >> so a variety of people both inside and out outside the campaign acknowledged the president has been consuming all of this information. >> of course, hearing calls from democratic lawmakers to reassess his candidacy. >> why? >> they believe that he simply cannot win in november. >> of course, that's an open question, but they are worried about their seats as well. >> they're worried about being branded as dishonest by trying to keep rationalizing his arms so interested in the next three days will be significant. we'll be watching them. >> of course but the president in delaware is increasingly isolated and he's also

isolated from his democratic party. >> of course, he's recovering from covid-19, but vice president kamala harris was in for carolina. today, she picked up the mantle really trying to draw a contrast with the trump vance ticket. >> but all that's been taken away in overshadowed by president biden's and decisions. >> so keep your eye on what they are doing. again, this democratic governors said the next 72 hours are critical to checking throughout the night will bring back my panel. start with john king. we john. >> there's a lot of theories, a lot of thoughts. i mean, people's commenting swirling around not no names attached to do we know i mean, is this information coming from the close inner circle to jeff zeleny is saying that this is a very tight circle. >> the entire democratic party is having a conversation, a family conversation, and then there are groups within the democratic party talking within their groups. let me go through several different things. not to jeff's point about the governor's i'm told the democratic governors have had another phone call. remember

they had the meeting at the white house with the president that they've had another strategy call among themselves, since essentially making the point that what are we going to do if he doesn't get out? what next steps should we plan? if he doesn't take the hit to get that, that's one. and that's a big one. number two, i'm told the first lady has canceled an event planned on sunday and anne arbor, michigan. now, the president is home sick with covid connecting dots. there might not be the right safe thing to do, but that's a fact that big event in michigan and arbor student area where the president is struggling, the first lady he's not going to do that event fundraisers. i'm now told him not only told the biden campaign where done, were not raising any more big money for you, but now they have told the democratic house and senate campaign committees, we are not raising any more money for you. it was put to me they believe if joe is at the top of the ticket, the house and the senate are gone to they don't want to throw good money after bad as senior house democrat told me a few moments ago, yes, that car has been played. donors essentially saying get him to leave the race or we're not giving you any money at all. and i just want to show you look at this graphic on the

screen right now. this is what don't, this is just the last it's one week ago today, the biden campaign has spent 8.8 million on television. donald trump's campaign has spent $33,000 on television nearly $9 million to $33,000. and donald trump has gone up in the polls every single day for the donors are saying, why are we going to give you more money when you're spending money at that rate, the poll say what they say and you cannot this is a hard one for the president. i spoke to a democrat today who spoke to the president several days ago, said he was digging in and defiant kind of talk with one of the three or four people closest to the president today. he says, now there's a sense of inevitability. but if you don't have money anderson, you can't run a campaign so you're the president united states are not at that conversation happening outside of the president and his inner circle and the conversation happening inside president's mind and in his inner circle is quite different.

>> president biden, this is according to multiple democrats that i've spoken to today. he is feeling a sailed obviously by his own party. he is not convinced by any of this. he's not convinced by the poll numbers that john has reported on and talked about that he's seen from from democrats, including according to our reporting from nancy pelosi we'll see he's unconvinced that the alternatives that are being talked about are realistic. and he is still in a place where he does not see a reason for him to leave this race. but at the same time, what john is talking about with the donors is very real and it's actually, in some ways seems to be working against the purposes of people who want joe biden to step aside. the donors are upping their pressure. they are frustrated. they are angry, they feel misled. they are telling individual races and the party committees that they don't want to spend any more money. but president biden, i'm told, feels like that is donor pressure. he's looking at the grassroots of his party he's saying they're still

with me. he saying my delegates or so with me and nobody can take my delegates away from me. so they are in a bind, right now. everybody is in a waiting game because there's only still, as we sit here right now, pressure, the pressure is what it is, but everyone knows only one person can make that decision. and all at even as inside of his campaign a lot of his aides have they've moved toward joe biden needs to step out. joe biden is still not there yet. >> i would just say briefly i mean, i take all of abby's points and no one can know definitively accept the people in the room with him. what's in joe biden's head exactly right now. i will say there has been a noted shift in posture among the immediate circle that is around him. people are that are reaching out to that inner circle, are receiving replies and kind of responses that are just notably different than the ones that they have and have received in previous weeks. and i don't think we can suppose what that means. but any shift like that in this kind of an

environment is really nowhere them that kinda what i've hung with some of these people for a very long time general senses that this thing is on a trajectory. >> i'm sure what abby listen job, but biden is a very strong and defiant guy. he believes deeply in himself. he's defied the odds before. and, but the confluence of things that are coming in right now are very hard to overcome. and yes, you can deny the polls and say, well, i don't believe two thirds of democrats want me to drop out. you can deny fundraising numbers until the plane can't get gassed. up and i don't think anybody wants it to come to that point. >> i think this weekend he's going to hear not from not just from people outside his camp, but inside his cabinet by the one last point about this we talked about the fact that the president isn't going to mention joe biden tonight and yes, that may serve his purposes in terms of softening his approach. but it also is it

reflects the fact as i've said here the last few nights, they don't want to knock joe biden that grace and there's a reason for it. >> i want to play something that senator jeff koons sorry, chris coons is said to wolf blitzer earlier today on our air is he even considering it leaving look, i think he weighs very seriously the input of those. >> he trusts and admires those who served with him. and beyond that, i'm not going to get into the details, wolf, i think he deserves the respect of being able to reflect on this moment, this even concern sidner ring leaving the leaving the race well, if i haven't spoken to him in the last few days, i shouldn't speak to that without direct knowledge. junking i just want you because we just ran a graphic and it's based on this reporting from mj lee saying that senior most west wing advisers to the president tells cnn thursday night they have had no discussions amongst themselves or with biden about the president it's been dropping out of the race how do you that

sounds like they're not talking about. >> that's what the campaign is saying on the record, looked at, obviously, the president is a candidate for president gets this, how deeper those conversations, house he was the pushback. i mean, just to give you a little context, you, chuck schumer's office to this day, but the other night unless your sources, joe biden or chuck schumer but it's speculation. that's the way of saying it's true. we're just not going to say it's true. look, of course one of the questions we've all had for three weeks now since the debate is how candid are the three or four people closest to the president being with him about this? and when he repeatedly, as you've seen in public interviews, abby's right in private conversations, he's saying i can still do this. i've been counted out before. i can come back. i'm still stronger than any other democrat out there that's what he says back to them. what we don't know is what they're saying back to him. but one of the things they are telling him now because they're hearing words is that people aren't going to show up at your convention. they are publicly going to go out there next we can say you have to go. do you want to you're not going to have any money and so it can you yes. it looks joe biden,

stubbornness and resilience has been his greatest cares of trade. he has been told he lost in ad 70 loss in 2008, 88 remedies he's been told he was never going to be president. he's the president united states, right? and so tip, tip your hat to this man's resilience. but sometimes what a lot of people are saying is sometimes your greatest strength stubbornness becomes your weekend. >> vance no dreams become nightmares and nightmares depend dreams. you're watching a nightmare become a dream for donald trump. he had a nightmarish summer with you know convictions and indictments and all kinds of stuff almost got shot is becoming a dream for him binds the opposite. the dream that he had for himself as a young man to stand up you can rescue host country and move it in a positive direction. he actually delivered on that. he delivered on that. he did beat all those odds. he has done extraordinary things. he is extraordinary man but by holding onto long is becoming a night and the donors who have written huge checks for him, the biggest checks are the ones who are stepping back

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kristen, tell us what you're learning it's not just what he's saying when it also what he's going to do when he takes the stage is going to have both a firefighter's helmet and jacket that belonged to corey comperatore, who was killed in that assassination on donald trump in butler, pennsylvania on saturday comperatore was a former fire chief. >> his viewing was today, donald trump was not able to make it and speaking tonight, but obviously this goes to what we know that donald trump is going to talk about this focus on what happened on saturday it's not just walking through event step by an assassination attempt, but it's also focusing on the fact that he feels lucky to be alive, that he believes that there's some form of divine intervention. donald trump is not a religious man. he is not even a spiritual man, but we are told by people around him that he has said for an over again that the only reason he believed that he survived something like this was because he turned his head and those looking at a chart and he believes that that was because some things some higher

barrett encouraged him to do so. again, this is what we are told he is going to really doubled down on in the speech tonight, we actually heard a clip of him earlier today talking about how an experience like this brings you closer to god, makes you feel like you understand god more. obviously, we'll wait and see what donald trump does when he takes the stage. >> our kristen holmes. thanks so much, and we are of course covering the republican national convention here, but there is a lot of drama on the other side. >> of the aisle as well with so many democratic elected officials coming forward and telling president biden dade, do not think he should be seeking reelection most of them are conveying the message privately or thinking it but not saying it publicly. >> but increasingly, there have been republican elected officials willing to come forward. and tonight we just got news that senator jon tester or democrat from montana to senior senator. he is up for reelection. he is in a tough reelection battle, and he has come forward. he has issued a

statement that says montanans have put their trust in me to do what is right. and is it a responsibility i take seriously, i've worked with president biden when it is made montana stronger and i've never been afraid to stand up to him when he is wrong. and while i appreciate his commitment to public service and our country i believe president biden should not seek reelection to another term. that is only the second democratic senator to say such a thing. publicly. >> but dana bash and chris wallace he assuredly is not only the second democratic senator to think that that's right. and he is the first who is in a very tough reelection battle. he will be on the ballot. justice joe biden, right now is in november. and jon tester is from one of the most conservative red states. in the nation. he is kind of a name-brand there, which is why he has been able to survive and thrive even though he is a d in front of his name but obviously, even he thinks that it is too much into detrimental

maybe not just for him, but for the country and for the presidency. he is one of three democratic senators that we reported a couple of weeks ago in a private meeting among senate democrats who said already, he did not think that joe biden could win the white house. so it is significant. i mean, jake, at this point, it is death by 1,000 cuts. >> what's so interesting, jake, is that clearly there was a huge feeling on the part of democratic officials with typically on capitol hill that they wanted this to happen in a graceful way. they wanted joe biden to go, but to go with dignity. and so they tried so hard to do this behind the scenes in private meetings, whether it was hakeem jeffries, the democratic leader in the house, or chuck schumer, the democratic like later in the southern, nancy pelosi. but joe biden refuses to get the best village. and so the fact that you're beginning to see more and more people, adam schiff yesterday, very important. democrat in the house and a

close ally of nancy pelosi, jon tester in a key race this november my guess is that once this convention. ends, if the word from delaware is the joe biden is still digging in his heels. you're going to start to see a a murmur and then a porous and then i flawed people going out in public and saying joe must go, which is of course, what are the lines here at this convention? there if he's not going to go with dignity, they just are gonna want them to go. i wonder if that ship has sailed. i mean, the idea of going with dignity, the way the democrats, democratic, elected officials describe it to me president biden is like the bruce willis character in the sense, he's he's the only one who doesn't know of his demise he does the only one who doesn't know it's over. but speaking of godly things, let's turn back to kristen holmes. is reporting a second ago when she was talking about how president trump

apparently and will hear what he says about this in just a few minutes believes that perhaps there was some sort of divine intervention. that's i'm paraphrasing, but the idea that he turned his head at that last second and that's the only the reason why he wasn't killed. it is remarkable and obviously near-death experiences have profound effects on it. >> yeah, absolutely. it is. so interesting to hear those words you heard him speak about it. i think it was today or yesterday, a little bit as crazy alluded to, given the fact that when he was in the white house, he was certainly in our lifetime the president who went to church the least he was never a particularly spiritual person and really privately, i wouldn't say he had disdained before, but he didn't understand it, which has always been odd given the fact that in recent years, some of his most ardent supporters are not only sort of evangelical both deeply

religious, and i have talked to many of them in various states where they were going out for a minute, still going out for him. >> they genuinely believe that he was sent here by dod and so the fact that he is now, seeing that is going to make that connection, i can't even imagine how the room here and the delegates here are going to eat that up. you know, each going get a jury receptive audience for that as dana mentioned it's been so much better a few speakers at this convention who have said they came out from that ride to bankrupt him. they put him in jail. they even tried to kill him without zhang who they is. but the vast majority of the speakers in the sense you get on the floor is exactly what dana says, which is that as this is divine providence. this was an act of god and, and several of the most people who i think have the greatest impact said, god isn't finished with donald trump and wants him to be the president. and that's why he intervened

in that field on, in pennsylvania on saturday i love the idea of him out here with the firefighter who's died helmet. this is going to be an extraordinarily emotional and powerful scene. and it will get a very receptive audience the particularly to the degree that he weighs into the spiritual aspect of it will be interesting. no doubt we're about to hear from a woman named annette albright. >> she's it's an eda that's what we call here. every day, americans and eda, that's what the campaign and the republican national convention is calling the media. and that albright she is former teacher, somebody who's frustrated with how democrats have failed the african american community and she is, it's interesting how they have sprinkled these etas through brown the convention, let's listen from north carolina thank. you. thank you

so much. good evening my name is nick albright i grew up in the small town of mount airy, north carolina not carolina like my parents and my grandparents. i was a lifelong member of the democrat party don't worry, the story gets better from here after complete a degree in criminal justice i started a career working with the naacp, carolina department of corrections. i left my job in the criminal justice system he work for charlotte, mecklenburg school district to a gauge. are ru before they got stuck in the system it didn't

take long for me to realize that public schools are a part of the problem sadly too many of our schools are more like prisons, then places of learning bat, must change and one public high school eyewitness, i full-blown riot i saw many violin altercations between students and physical attacks on staff during my 40 years working with an apartment of public safety of fenders, never laid a hand on me yet i

was violently assaulted by a group of students in a public high school the uptake in school violence was related to we'll an obama biden policy that directed schools to reduce suspension rates. and keep dangerous students in the classroom president trump reversed the obama policy and put the safety of our kids first violence on public school campuses should not be a

democrat issue. it should not be a republican issue. it is an american people issue sadly, i repeatedly seen that the democratic party cares more about appeasing the teachers union did they do about prioritizing the needs of our kids they champions safe spaces. is instead of safe schools. this is completely wrong little by little, i began to see the truth while democrats spend more money on a broken system republicans are

in power in paris and fight it for school joe is while democrats, days school resource officers are threat to our students republican. know that they protect our kids while democrats won't admit that our schools are felon, republicans will fix the system and make our schools safer. that's why this year flood the first time in my life. >> i am registered as a republican thank you thank you

in november, i will proudly cast my vote for donald j only together we can make america's scholes great game thank you. >> and god bless america. >> democrat is going to be registering as a republican we gave collins is on the floor of the convention. are some members of the new york delegation, kaitlan waiting for

president trump, but i'm here with two house republicans is they are watching this. nick lalota, mike lawler. what are you hoping to hear from? >> president. the former president tonight in his speech that could be helpful in november au guy, think americans are ready to be united and get behind president can trump to address the issues facing them from affordability crisis to the crisis at our southern border, to the challenges around the globe. >> the world that's attack tender box under joe biden. from there russian invasion of ukraine to the terrorist attack on israel, to the threats emanating in the indo-pacific from china. and i think president trump has an opportunity tonight after the assassination attempt on his life on saturday to really unify americans and inspire them. >> yeah, and obviously russia's invasion of ukraine in the attack in israel, they were not president biden it's all but you don't like the way he's handled the response to that. but when you look at this from someone who said they have

a lot of momentum right now inside the trump campaign to the question is, how do you mean? hey, nat, until november, obviously it's still july. what does that look like over the next several months? it can make races like yours better and stronger for you i'm looking forward to a continued positive policy-oriented patriotic message coming from president trump to provide solutions on the border and the economy well now there's want new yorkers want americans want, americans want the president to be inclusive, to be a good communicator, to bring us all together. >> i'm confident president trump is going to get that done and hope was when these elections in november, but more importantly, to govern the right way and put america back on the right track in january thank you both joining me from the house why the new york delegation side over there, anderson, obviously you can really feel the energy on the floor tonight. >> i should know. i mean, i've been here every single night is we're waiting for these speeches. but it does feel a bit more amped up as they are waiting for the former president to come out for the first time since to be onstage

in front of a big crowd like this one since saturday thanks very much here with the team. >> scott jennings. >> there's a lot of discretion obviously for for the president's yeah. >> this convention is energized. they are unified, they are defiant in some way they're optimistic is the first time we've been hit since july of presidential, since the year 2024 years. and let me say something else. i've been saying this van and acts know this is a vibes election were always doing a vibe check. and let me just reassure the american people. one of our two major political parties is functioning properly it's the republican party and the vibes on the floor here are simply outrageous and we're about to have a hell of a lot of fun because holt, the mania is about to run wild in milwaukee. anderson cooper. >> what are you going to do with the largest in the world? come out on this stage and ask all americans to participate in democracy itself is outrage. it's exciting for everybody i

want to know what's in jennings cup can i have some it's a big cup of freedom. >> david thanks so interesting. >> know what we've been seeing on the stage behind his playing. john king? no to this, there's some videos that donald trump is but previously, right. so some of them, you know, where we're going to hear a nicer more softer edge, donald trump, some of the videos that are playing are pretty hard edge. and one of the videos that play interestingly with something that's very important than republican party, a very important upcoming election voting by mail. donald trump has not really been a big proponent of voting i mean, i'll not really statement. >> okay. it's another stay be actively discouraged however but corrupt i think. >> well, but let's stingley, a video about a five-minute video rant on the screen for these delegates to see what donald trump espousing, how important it was to vote by mail, get

home, vote by mail. early bike your votes, that the tv audience may not have seen that in this crowd did it and it's very important in that same video let's talk about unity and a softer, kinder, gentler in that same video, he said, we're going to kick them out of the government, we're going to look for them, but we're going to kick them out. we're going to find them, the liberals, the leftist and the communist. and we're going to kick him out of the gate of bile that you members at the new york delegation just sad they want an inclusive message. >> they want them to be a good communicator. they want him to focus on poloche. >> i'm talking about the vote-by-mail. let's focus on what they know on pressing go that those guns as we're here, because those are swing district republican at lawler. >> sure. and they are here because they're making a judgment that he will not that hurt them. >> but in terms of your unity party, i keep having to remind you it's it's moving its striking to see but they did boo your guy, right? rina extra right literally going to come over their bodies on this set

tonight i'm not holding back should explain to me david taxable, ron exactly where you've got a chance to meet. >> hold hogan and he cannot come down axelrod, david, bring me david democratic party watch. folks at home who are democrats watching this and wondering about what happened this next. whenever the president biden makes a decision of whatever his decision is going to be, assuming it's him getting out of the race what. happens then? well, i think there's a lot of there are a lot of people thinking about that and what that process should be whether he will endorse the vice president and somehow there will be seamless handoff to the vice president, or whether there'll be some sort of process whereby candidates compete we had this discussion a little bit yesterday there are a lot of people i'm one of them who believe that it actually would strengthen her to participate in a process

that's actually ask you a question, david, because i've heard it some different thinking on this because i'm there is clearly some concern among corners of the party that kamala harris might have a difficult time winning a national election so quickly then there are other people who turned around and say, of course she's the vice president, she's on the ticket. >> it's way easier. but for the people who might also be in the arena like that's what i'm most interested in. like if you are a josh shapiro and you are the governor of pennsylvania and everybody's talking about how you can be president of the united states someday. he is it in your interests to try to challenge kamala harris? because i had somebody pretty convincingly argued to me. like, absolutely not the question the party should ask itself is and van said this yesterday. >> if you actually believe that donald trump represents a great threat than shouldn't you do. the thing that you think you need to do to win and the practical point is, there's only one path for democrats. and that's through pennsylvania, michigan, and

wisconsin in the question is, who gives you the best chance to do it if it is the vice president who running in with her would help. i mean, there are a lot of calculations that are very practical that have to be marking about if you're josh shapiro, your very strong candidate in 28 years? the jump in the pool now with 100 days left for being, they need a common-law harrison probably doesn't hurt josh shapiro begun thought if they lose in becoming one of the biggest divides in the democratic party right now, whether there's going to be an open process for the convention or whether kamala harris is going to be the nominee. >> i spent a lot of time talking about this what person i talked to suggested to me that the idea to your point, kasie, that josh shapiro or gretchen whitmer or anybody else hinges okay. into the dnc and say, hey, pick me. is not going to work because the democratic national committee is comprised of real people like the delegates are real

people and many of those real people are black people. many of those real people are women and it was suggested to me, it's not just a political problem in the media. it would be like an actual problem. a convention or a man that's one of the big issues that they're worried about it. >> actual people were actual voters who had a chance to talk about the dalit you are captive back that's all i'm saying. >> actual democratic black voters had a chance to pick tom harris and picked joe biden we skipped over joe biden and as vice president to get hillary clinton. so this is going to have to get worked out and i think that the most important question is who can win what combination could win? and i think the case to be made for camila has to be a winability argument. it can't be as used by thread that you got to give it to her, that it worked for joe biden. joe biden got passed over hillary we can't be if you don't like her if you don't go with her because you're a racist or sexist or if you don't like josh shapiro's

because you're anti-semitic. we got to have an honest conversation about who can win guys. not. >> just pecker will let me make one point though it's our little thinner democratic having said that debate i mean whether we have the vice president be the nominee or an open process and assumption that you're making is that somehow if there's an open process, the vice president won't be selected. >> and i'm saying, yeah, i think she very well may be a strong laminae of that that's that's a really important point because what i am hearing is that the people there, the reason there's so much anger about this idea of an open process is because there's a sense that the subtext of an open process is that at the end of it, the people who want the open process do not want kamala harris, i'm not saying this is what i believe is just what people are telling me is that the subject? is that the open practice so that's why people are so mad about it. >> we are minutes away, right away from the hole cogen? yes. dana white and donald trump

want to run it i i was an academic as this spirit that this guy has, guys think, discuss, he's drunk, he's not this thing is like this and it wasn't going to pay guys the last time i was in the commission of belt like this was obama 2008 there's there's, there's something happening where headline a headline but just fama. >> and just cycle is there a difference between 2008 now is that obama was actually popular? >> outside of his own party. if and that's not the case same as lady melania in the convention hall for the first time, phil mattingly is keeping an eye in the trump family box. phil, what he said i'm actually going to bounce off what you said about the 2008 convention. i've talked to several delegates, including one just

about three people away from me. have asked me when was the last mr. hur how many conventions of event two and a by ever seen one as energized, is this. the only one that is a close analog for me at least was 2008 at least one republican you mentioned perspective, maybe 2004, but this is something that i just haven't seen in several cycles in the delegates. keep saying the same thing delegates that have been here for they go after cycle convention african mentioned that the energy level is just different and it's not happening in isolation. obviously guys have been building to this moment throughout the course of this week. and the next group the speaker as scott jennings. so eloquently and energetically identified, particularly with all hogan coming up are part of that bill to be biggest moment of the night? with the former president giving his third convention speech. but as it is just underscores right now that yes, the unity is there. yes, the reality of this moment in terms of the energy, is very real no, but also what's going to set this place on fire and that's literally what he delegate told me just a little bit ago. is that family box right behind me? you'll notice

that there are still senators up there, but there are several seats that are now empty. the former president left about an hour ago. he's obviously going to be speaking tonight that everybody is waiting for those seats to be filled by trump family members. we have seen eric trump. we have seen don junior, but tonight we will see melania trump for the first time we're likely to see your expecting to see ivanka trump for the first time, guys, that family always so central but once again can be center stage in just a matter of moments, jake alright, so thanks so much phil boris sanchez is somewhere out there. boris, tell us where you are and what you're seeing yeah, jake, i'm actually on the podium position just to the left of the stage and this crowd is very raucous right now, boats and jansen prevented, what, the next speaker, i believe it's going to come out is someone that i know scott jennings has been eagerly anticipating hearing from their berbers in the crowd that he's been walking around back next stage. and that is pull hogan, the former world

wrestling entertainment world champion. he's wearing a signature red bandana and he was flanked are american flags different convention used to you're not talking about a former republican governor when you're talking about breast linked to. donald trump, not only from trump's experience with the world wrestling entertainment group, but also through peter teal. obviously peter teal the cylinder can valley entrepreneur, billionaire donor to republican politics. >> he ruled hogans lawsuit against this tabloid websites some years ago, he's also a big donor to the vice presidential nominee, jd vance, and he spoke at the 2016 republican convention. >> so ruled sort of colliding. hear the message we can expect he's going to echo what we heard from donald trump after he was shot on saturday. he's going to call on his supporters to fight. jake. all right? >> boris, thanks so much. and we should note in addition to

hold cogen, this evening's festivities will also include kid rock as well as dana white the ceo and president of ultimate fighting championship, also the owner of howard slap slap fighting championship chris, what? well theme or we discerning here with this cast of characters, is that a trick question? >> that's tossed around a lot of just tossed around tonight it's i mean, when you think about them, the people that this is a real prawn slot, the people just before the nominee is going to accept the this will nomination of the party. and in this particular case of former president hulk hogan dana white and kid rock, and then donald trump and it's not just the donald trump likes fighting and rough line. but this is very much fits into the theory of this campaign, which is that they very much see it as strength versus weakness

masculine versus a hyper masculinity and, you know, you'd say, well, they've got a problem with women interesting, gender gap that you see in the polls right now is not among women. there biden and trump won relatively close among women. biden's ahead, but only by about a half dozen points the real gender gap is among men were where trump is far ahead, double digits ahead of biden. and so i think there's relaying that they can lean into this increase the gender kept. also donald trump says, interesting stuff. >> we're going to squeeze in a very quick break we are expecting president trump's acceptance speech this evening. we're also expecting hulk hogan, kid rock, dana white, a whole bunch of other in keeping with the testosterone one theme of this evening, testosterone,

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the republican convention in milwaukee in battleground, wisconsin, we expect to see members of the trump family entering the hall soon as we can get closer to donald trumps big speeches, acceptance of his party's nomination for president in 2024, kaitlan collins is on the floor talking to delegates caitlin who's with you? yeah, jake, i'm standing here with pam paula, she is a delegate from the great state of oklahoma were standing with the rest oklahoma delegation and pam and i were just talking as we are waiting speaking to see someone that we have not seen yet at this convention, jake, and that is the former first lady melania trump, who is here and she'll be out shortly. we're told she's going to be sitting in that box right there. i just wonder, you know, as a republican and a delegate, what it means to you the significance seeing the former first lady come years and she hasn't been your earlier and the other days this week i think it's wonderful that she's here. >> i didn't know if she was going to come or not because i note he's been taking care of baron a lot of other things in

our family. so i'm so happy she's here and you know every every family member ought to support each other. i'm very, very proud she's here to support her husband and part of her family. >> and what do you make of the children that we've heard from donald trump junior last night will hear from eric trump tonight and how bonk and trump is also expected it'd be on hand. what happened the children's speeches have stood out to you so far you know, especially the granddaughter. i think it just really shows that no matter who we are, no matter running for president, former president, you're still somebody's husband, father grandpa. >> and i think that's important for americans to look at our candidates as human beings. >> so i'm glad that they've brought that part into the convention and pam, before we yes, i have to show our viewers your footwear for tonight because it is amazing these are slippers that you designed. is that right and i was in part of a slipper contest. >> so i made uncle sam and betsy ross elephant shoes and pollard. thank you for your

time tonight. thank you very much. jake, back to you alright. >> kaitlin collins, thanks so much. appreciate it and be sure to get a pair of those slippers for yourself while you're down there. >> this is we haven't seen melania trump and we should note, i'm not judging, but it's ics gets out of the ordinary for a presidential spouse or presidential nominee spouse could be so visible yeah so absent she were told that she's here that she's going to come out and sit with the president. >> usually, by the way, a spouse speaks. that's right. i mean, she spoke at the 2016 convention that didn't go so great as some of her speech to been plagiarized from michelle obama, we heard jd vance's wife speak, introduce malonic trump is apparently not going to speak all of humanizing donald trump has been filled by his daughter-in-law and his granddaughter, but not the white yeah. it's a family affair when it comes to his children but not a what you

need to know about my husband moment that that ship has sailed for melania trump. it's fair to say she made no secret about the fact that the sheet she did her job, which as much as as she could would should a young son in the white house. >> but since 2020 and since that election, she has made pretty clear that she has almost no interest in politics at all. and that is based on reporting and some images from backstage at here he is where he comes back the 45th president of the united states donald j. >> trump, he is trying to become the 47th president of the united well he is coming out there has done from junior, i assume those are some of the grandkids as well as the trump family making him appearance. donald trump still has the and he joins hear from awful assassination attempt on his

life saturday seems to be a good spirits. he's a mugging to the crowd, applauding again these are his children and his grandchildren, which that's important to sort of soften him and to show him from the perspective of years wonka trump and jared kushner are also two people who have not been visible or much a part of the trump political world at all. this cycle, two people while in the case of jared kushner who ran him it's campaign in 2016. they are much controversy went into the white house and since then, particularly since the events of january 62020 they have checked out of politics largely. >> yeah. the family much of the family moving to florida as president trump also moved his place of residence from new york to florida. a much more welcoming state of three solidly republican state right

now you see donald from junior are again, i see ivanka and jared tiffany trump, his daughter from marla maples baraka it's wife right next to him the other night, still no sign of either former first lady melania trump or sun with her barron trump? >> yeah. not yet. >> just back to the sort of the wonka and jared appearance here. >> i mean, we obviously saw on social media ivanka reacting as a daughter to the assassination attempt of her father and we understand that she went up to bedminster be with him. but again, just a politics, they were so incredibly involved and really instrumental in his not just campaign, but administration here's how hogan, i believe let's listen in well tell you something,

brother you, don't something when i came here tonight there was so much energy in this room. >> i felt maybe i was in madison square garden getting ready to win another world title or maybe i thought the fire was so intense, the energy was so crazy. it felt like maybe i was going to press that no goods sticky giant over my head and slam him rather but

what i found out was i was in a room full are real well americans, brother the end of the day, with our leader up there. my hero that gladiator we're going to pray america back together, what real american time brother? you know, something i've seen some break tags, teams and my time. hulk hogan in yeah, the macho man, randy savage what's, you know, sunken i see the greatest tag team of my life standing upon us, getting ready to straighten this country, honor, for all the real americans you,

know even, though you guys are real americans you better get ready because when donald j. trump becomes the president of the united states, all the real americans are going to be nicknamed trump-bites because because all the trump-bites are going to be running wild for four years so with a power of donald j. trump in all the trump-bites running wild america is going to get back on track. them like donald j. trump said, america is going to be great again when 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 is business was compromised? but what happened last week when may took a shot at my hero tried to kill. go next rosen, other united states oh, brother ou know, something

trump-bites i didn't come here as halt hogan, but i just had to give you a little taste you my name my name is terrible there's an, entertainer i love you too and as an entertainer, i tried to stay out of politics. but after everything, that's happened to our country over the past four years and everything that happened last weekend i can no longer stay silent i'm here tonight because i want the world to know that donald trump is a real american hero i'm proud

to support my hero. that's next, president of united states no guys. i've known donald trump for over 35 years your hold on a second. hold on. i just had a flashback just had a flashback, man. this is really tripping, you know, the last time i was up on stage donald trump was sitting at room side of the trump plaza, was bleeding like a pig and i won the world title right in front of donald j. trump and you know, something he's going to win in november. and we're all going to be champions again when he wins like i said i've known that man for over 35

years and he's always been the biggest patriot and he's still is he's 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's back in our white house, america is going to start. what are your again? no guys over my career. i've been in the rain with some of the biggest some of the baddest dudes on the planet and i've squared off against warriors. new yes, savages you're not even 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 a toughest of a ball they thrown everything at donald trump. all the investigations the impeachments, the court cases, end. he still standing and kicking their bots you know we never had a better than 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 a 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 could clean this up is donald trump no guys. i really, really love this country. and i've lived the american dream and i want my kids your kids, and all those little teeny hole he maniacs out there to live the american dream to this november guys, we can say the american dream for everyone and donald trump. is the president who will get the job done so all you criminals all you lowlifes, all you scum bags, au, you drug dealer in all your crooked politicians need to answer one question. brother

what should or to warn donald trump and all the trouble maniacs run wild or new brother and thank you ladies and gentlemen. >> please welcome the president and ceo of the billy graham evangelists stick association and president of samaritan's purse. the reverend franklin graham good evening i've got

the hardest job and i'd have to follow hogan when i stand here tonight as a private citizen who loves this country i've been asked to say a few words and then to pray and we're going to do that last saturday and butler, pennsylvania president trump had a near death experience no question. >> but god spared his life and when we go through those experiences it changes us it can cause us to examine our lives into re-evaluate our priorities. as you should when president trump rose from that platform he rose with his fist,

raised in strength showing america his unshakable resolve. to fight for them in this nation i cannot explain why god would save one life and allow another one to be taken i don't have the answer for that but one thing i do know is that god loves us and he wants us to be with him in heaven one day and that's through faith in his son, jesus christ you see the bible says that god so loved the world that he gave his only the gotten son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but should have everlasting life for his lung as long as i've known the president trump, i found him to be a man of his word things that he said he'll do. he did

when he told me and our country in 2016 that he was going to appoint conservative justices. guess what he did? in 2016, he said he would defend religious liberty yes, one he did in 2019 hours with him at the united nations when the first president of history of this country stood there to advocate for religious liberty worldwide when american citizen and pastor andrew brunson was being held in a turkish jail on false accusations president trump demanded that he be released and he applied economic pressure and sanctions until they did that i'm grateful.

>> and thankful for what he did is a 45th president of the united states and i know that is the 47th president he will keep his word to the american people to make america great once again it's an honor for me to be asked the prey or donald trump this evening and so what i'd like to do, i'd like us to pray, but i'd like us all to stand as we call upon the name of the god of heaven our heavenly father we come before you this evening with grateful hearts thank you for saving the life of president donald j. trump and his own words, it was, you and you

alone who saved him we pray for the others that were injured on saturday. for the family who lost their loved one but your loving arms around them comfort them. and may they, since your presence, we stand before you tonight. we say thank you for the revisions you have given to the united states of america. you have blessed this country more than any country in the world. sadly, as a nation, where forgotten, who is responsible for all the freedoms, the liberties, and the bounty that we enjoy it has all come for you. thank you. this evening. our nation is in trouble were divided politically, racially economically with millions of people seeking refuge and hope in our dry and thirsty land. the only one who can fix the complexity of problems that we face today. we pray for

president trump that you would give him wisdom strength and a clear vision for the future of this nation. and the task that is at hand continued to protect him from his enemies i pray that your it's around him with men and women who will give him sound counsel and guidance we pray for him, alanya for barron, and for all the president at trump's children and grandchildren. we pray for senator jd vance, his wife -osa along with their young family, we're thankful for his strong stand for defending life as your word instructs, we also pray for the leaders of our nation, whether the republican, democrat, or independent. we know that all authority comes from you you are a great god and we ask that if it'd be shy, will that you will make america great once again and we ask

that you will unite our hearts, bring us together. one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. and we pray this in the mighty name of my lord and savior. jesus christ, the king of kings and the lord of lords. amen ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, businessman and executive vice president of the trump organization eric trump

good evening, america. eight years ago. my father sat her family down he spoke of a nation in decline of dream slipping away. au the 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 soul of america he 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 born out of necessity

unlike the current president, it was not a decision that would enrich his family rather his decision made on love for this country and a deep concern for america's future my father was clear it would not be easy that there would be a huge price to pay and that they attacks would be vicious looking back, that was an understatement. >> the made-up russia hoax, a sham impeachments, the efforts to destroy an unbelievable company a 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 courthouse in america to take his life yet through it all, he's shown unwavering courage and

determination not just in public, but in every private conversation. me and our family he stood tall, fueled, not buy personal ambition well 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 each

time i stood on the stage, america has been a dire crossroads. >> in 2016, many people began to doubt the promise of america our economy was struggling. jobs were scarce, are standing on the world stage was weak at best. veterans were forgotten, our military was in shambles. our educational system was broken ranked 30th in the world he could no longer tolerate and inept administration. the handed $150 billion. so i ran a country that chants death to america or witness and continue to attacks on our constitution and our religious liberty. or see the disrespect show into our 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 well, my father saw potential where others saw disparate 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 midas touch. and he turned those streets and neighborhoods into gold he faced every challenge with tremendous vision and gray as he did during the 2016 election, he rolled up his sleeves he remained unapologetic. he did not care to be politically correct he restored hope he restored a voice to millions of americans

who had been ignored he restored the american dream under my father's leadership, the economy climb to record heights. >> jobs were created at an unthinkable pace unemployment reached historic lows across all demographics wage growth sore. he cut taxes for hardworking families and businesses. he slashed regulations we saw the greatest horror one k increase in american history people bought their first homes in an environment that saw two to 3% interest rates. they started their families my father made the united states energy independent with the lowest gas prices in decades my father made the united states safe. our borders were closed. there was peace in the middle east

soleimani al-baghdadi, the terrorists were dead my father made the united states respected again with the courage to walk into countries like north korea, with the courage to impose tariffs on china and with the courage to tear up trade deals that cost americans their jobs 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 but he also created a movement a movement that threaten, threatened the special interests and the political elites a movement

that cast a bright light on the institutions weaponized against the american people you see it in our schools. >> god bless the mom, fought back you see in your workplace, 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 benning board hoodie you see it in hollywood, you see it in are two tiered judicial system they don't even hide it anymore my father has been censored. the former president ripped off to twitter instagram, and facebook while the terrorist organizations remain intact my father has been persecuted targeted by far-left democrats, funded by special interest groups, and handpicked judges

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 single greatest hope for our future the swamp is terrified of this incredible moment movement there terrified of it they're terrified of you. and the tens of millions of people watching us on tv right now they've tried everything to keep him from you everything to destroy his legacy, to destroy his family. they have failed and they will not win i love my florida

delegation right here thank my father stands before you with the most votes of any republican candidate in the history of our nation? >> he has defied the predictions of every political pundit he feels stadiums across our country he energizes americans to the issues facing this nation and does so with unvarnished honesty he is not a threat to democracy. he is a threat to those who despise our republic. many whom are bought and sold bribed and coerced. people who have never signed the front of a check and who have been dependent on the government in their entire adult lives today as well.

let's in 2016, americans at that crossroads again energy prices are soaring. interest rates are crippling everything is unaffordable. the u.s dollar has been diminished. inflation has made it impossible for americans to live to save for their future our infrastructure is crumbling, our border is out of control. millions are dead in displaced in russia and ukraine. a war that has no end in a war that we are funding the middle east has become a hornet's nest. our greatest ally, israel totally under siege. fentanyl is killing our youth and destroying families while the current administration stance idly by hoping their inaction will import illegal votes crime terrorizes our cities and our suburbs as far left policies, handcuff police male athletes, guys my height six-foot-five are swimming in women's sports

destroying the, dreams of young girls who have trained every minute of their lives we no 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. it's plight of where we are today as nation. i'd like to speak to every american to the homeless veteran sleeping under a bridge as illegal immigrants are housed in the most expensive hotels in new york i'm sorry. we know it's wrong. >> and we will fix it 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. did the parents who lost a son or daughter to fentanyl and crazy, including the incredible woman that smoke the other night while i didn ministration does absolutely nothing i'm sorry. your government can do so much better and it will the children who are being brainwashed instead of learning the fundamentals of school. i'm sorry there are teachers who care and my father will empower them the law enforcement officers are brave border patrol, secret service agents who work every single day to protect our communities

knowing well that the system will throw you under the bus. i'm sorry. >> we will stand behind you to commuters, often petrified to take a boss, take a train or walk the streets in cities across our nation. i sorry. that man right there. we'll fix this to the construction workers, to the middle-class families, to the families with children with disabilities, families who can no longer afford medical benefits are to take a vacation i'm sorry. we will make america great again it to. my father, who has been

ruthlessly silenced slandered, and attacked by a corrupt administration i'm sorry. we know in america knows that they're not just after you thereafter. all of us and you just happen to be standing in their way now all americans, washington all right the greatest retribution will be our success success, not just for ourselves, but for our grandchildren and our children. under. president donald j. trump, the swamp will be drained america will be respected. our cities will be safe, are streets will be clean, and our border will once

again be secure. we will have peace. we will have prosperity. your hard-earned tax dollars will enrich a better america, 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 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 the sun i've never been more proud of a person in my life man who has defied all odds more than once. >> a man who believed in the promise of america when others turned away a man who saw a nation in need of a champion, an answer 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

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 a journey to save the greatest country on earth a journey with the most incredible people. i have ever met dad five days ago laura, 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 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. you're backbone is unbreakable. your conviction to fight for what is right. and against all that is wrong is truly next level the whole

world saw your strength is 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 the history of american politics. >> you shouted i'm honored to be your son i'm honored to speak to our great nation tonight you are a true leader. >> you updated my strength our country loves you our country appreciates you our country misses you and on november 5, our country will reelect you as the 47th president of the

united states of america. >> good night, but walking god bless you all this son, eric trump, the executive vice president of the trump organization giving a red meat speech to the delegates. >> and in some ways, setting up his father to give at least based on the excerpts we've been given a more positive speech than we're used to hearing from former president trump at events like this dana bash we have from these excerpts and chris wallace and kasie hunt are with me here too as well. donald trump saying

that the disk port and division in our society must be healed as americans we are bound together by a single fade in a shared destiny, we rise together, where we fall apart. i'm running to be president for all of america, not half of america, because there is no victory in winning for half of america. this is at least according to these excerpts, white, different from what we're used to hearing from donald trump. and one could credibly argue it's not how he particularly governed in his first administration. >> yeah, that's a far cry from american carnage. >> which is what he talked about in his inaugural address. >> in 2017. and yes, he clearly did change speech as he promised he would. it seems as though his old speech was just reworked for his son, eric. >> eric giving a speech that was i list of grievances. >> it was very dark. it was it

was very dark. i mean, he he told me that he was going to it was going to be warm and there was going to be some more my fuzzy parts that did happen at the end. but before we got too warm and fuzzy, there was a lot of dark and stormy and it was it was pretty grievance-filled but it's very clear that they felt that they needed somebody to deliver that classic trump message whether it is about the issues of the border or culture war issues which we actually haven't heard for a lot about. certainly not in prime time about trans kids in sports and things of that nature. >> he did it all and that was a far departure from the from the tone and tenor that the party and the campaign said that they wanted to put across, particularly on the ultimate but night what things are struck me beyond that paragraph that you mentioned jake, is he never at least from the excerpts of my guesses and the whole speech, never mentions

president biden or vice president harris why name, not a single time in the entire speech. >> now he does draw policy contrasts but i'm i my guess is that the campaign will say this was their attempt to take down the heat a little bit by not personally going after his opponent. see other thing that is clearly going to be the emotional highlight of the speech is the president says that people have been asking about the shooting and what he went through. and he's such we're going to tell you, we don't get the details that's not in the excerpt but he says i'm going to tell you and i'm never going to say this again because it's too painful. so my guess is because that's going to be the emotional highlight of the speech and we're told he's going to carry out the fire jacket in the fire helmet of a fireman volunteer iran men who was killed on saturday. but that'll be a very powerful part of this speech at one of the thing i noticed some of the excerpts at

one point he talks about who melody a un, another point he says, humbly, which are not to words that wasn't usually associated with donald j. trump indeed, that moment i, we are all right. >> we got a little preview of these excerpts where he does say, i'm only going to tell this story once you're not going to hear it from me again about what happened to him that day is something that the sources that i talked to him ahead of the speech were very focused on and they described it to me as expect that we will hear a pretty detailed account of that, that it will be a significant me interrupt for one second. >> apologize, introducing melania trump obviously the former first lady. they are just introduced her as the next first lady. melania trump. we have not seen her yet at this event. we have not really seen her on the campaign trail with her husband much at all

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her husband's new running mate, senator jd vance, republican of ohio vice presidential nominee. >> and there she is among the other members of the trump family, ivanka and tiffany and eric and don junior to kasie what were you saying about meloni? i'm sorry. >> i know while as we were watching at millennia step onto the stage and i think sort of big picture it also underscores when she has barely been out on the campaign trail trail as we know, she has not really appeared with her husband. but chris just kind of picking up on what you were saying about the different tone of the speech and how it's a different moment for the former president

donald trump. he is winning this campaign. he is ahead. she is coming into your in here getting introduced as the as the possible future first lady in situation it's entirely plausible and he's not fit in this situation before that's that's absolutely true i just want to note that it's not we haven't seen them together still. he left that box before she got in it's interesting stagecraft given the fact that we haven't seen her in a long time, she had her moments. >> but there was no greeting maybe we'll see it later on the stage with the balloon drop and everything else. >> right? it was that say that would be the moment i would be looking fled. >> she she did issue a statement after her husband after the attempt on her husband's life in which she said, quote, when i watched that violent and bullet strike my husband donald, i realized my life and barons like are on the brink of devastating change and she went into say, a monster who recognized her husband is an inhuman political

machine attempted to ring out donalds passion. >> his laughter, ingenuity, love of music and inspiration. >> before facets of my husband's life, his human side were buried below the political machine. donald degenerate president caring man who i've been with through the best of times in the worst of times a very personal statement, the kind of thing we're not really used to hearing from the first lady and we're not actually going to hear from her this evening as far as we know, anderson let's come out and dana white and then interests do seeing the former president donald trump for his remarks. >> i mean, one of the things scott jennings clearly stands out is the u.s non-traditional here at the convention. certainly hulk hogan dana white i mean, dana white introducing the former president is something you would not see. even they are reaching outside of political culture it's not just a bunch of elected

officials and party types. they are reaching a whole group of people who may be basically disconnected from our normal civics and this is how you change the composition of the electorate. and remember, a big part of donald trump's strength in the polls is that he does very well. he does very well among people who are low propensity voters, people who aren't political and only occasionally show up. my guesses. these guys, these guys are going to be very impactful for that audience. >> given just a split-screen of looking at melania trump right now sitting in that box is remarkable. we have hardly seen her at all on the campaign trail this time around obviously different than 2020 when she was first lady am very different than 2016 when she was speaking keen on that stage at the conventions, i was told by sources, they tried really hard to get her to give a speech tonight. they personally, several people personally appealed to her and she had no interest in doing so. of course, a lot has changed since 2016. donald trump was his victory in new york. and the hush money case, something that became a real

point of division between he and the first lady when that story broke, when they were in the white house and so it's notable to see coming out as launia trump is known for doing her own styles in our own way, coming out by herself to sit in this box, is it clear to you what role she would have? >> i don't think it would look i don't think it would look like a traditional first lady role. i mean, it's hard to know until it actually happens. and if he's reelected. but what we've heard from people is that the first lady role may look different than it typically does. it was already different, you know, when she was the first lady of the time before she would go away and have extended periods of absence without explaining it typically, first lady's, you see joe biden out a lot and she was just kind of someone who never felt the need to fit the mold that he did visit before and kind of did her own thing with that position and it's interesting because tobacco she used to say barron trump was the reason. now barron trump, you actually see him on the campaign? hey, trail while she's absent. >> so i have the texts and printed text from donald trump.

what he can say about the shooting. >> you want me to read it? >> it says so this is the part that he says too painful than it submitted since the order to see the chart, i started to turn to my right and there's ready to begin a further turn, which i'm lucky, i didn't when i heard a loud whizzing sound felt something hit me really hard on my right ear. i said i said to myself, wow, what was that? it could only be a bullet and moved my right-hand to my ear, brought it down in my hand was covered with blood hi immediately knew it was very serious that we are under attack in one moment proceeding that dropped to the ground holds continued to flies the book very brave secret service agents russian stage, had pounced on top of ethan protection. >> there was blood pouring everywhere. and yet in a certain way, i felt very safe because i had god on my side. bullets are flying over us and yet i felt serene. but now the secret service agents are putting themselves in peril. >> and then it all stopped our secret service sniper from a much greater distance. >> one board took out the assassin. i'm not supposed to be here tonight, but i stand

before you in this arena only by the grace almighty god. that's going to come from donald trump. a very different donald trump than we've ever heard before. >> of course, one of the only times we have heard from melania was a statement that she issued on that we haven't heard from her we on camera, but she put out a lengthy statement talking about how deeply that affected her because she's talked about how her i'm barons life was almost irreversibly changed. if that bullet had been an inch closer to to donald trump and she kind of talked about in her statement, which is rare for her to have the delink these statements about the personal nature of what they could have on that she has not been on the campaign hasn't been any running a massive 40s at mar-a-lago celebrating when he does go she has attended a few fundraisers that she's now, but they're private fundraisers she had a rock

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will be dana white will be then introducing former president trump it's got david was talking about him earlier a chance to review a pretty good chunk at donald trump's speech and acts. i hate to be the i told you so god, but if you read this and donald trump delivers that he is going rise to the occasion tonight, and he has been given by this convention. to address the american people about unity. and he's not going to mention joe biden and his mental lay out something i think she's going to meet the moment if you read it, and i'm looking forward to i just want to set as before acts acts are sitting here. >> john came over, were not kind of bumped port anymore. >> okay formats. >> yeah. this isn't this isn't the 41 president mitt romney's party. >> this is donald trump's party. kid rocks here to start at any here, and it's different well, and this is more of here continuing. yeah. >> i mean i'm the ceo and

president of the ultimate fighting championship so two weeks ago i got a call from president trump asking me if i'd be willing to speak tonight as usual. >> there was no pressure, no demands. >> you 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'm 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 trip. but i hope they understand they love you. and they know how important this is. now, think about this, this man is running for president united states, who's fighting

for the future of this country and is concerned about interrupting my family trip that's the president trump that i know on man who truly cares about people the mainstream media likes the personal narrative that he doesn't care about anyone but himself absolutely. no, that's not the truth because i've been front with this guy for 25 years and for the people who know me, they'll 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'm nobody's puppet telling you what the thing 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 ten years. we have all seen it with our own eyes avon the tough guy business in this fans that toughness. most resilient human being ever met in my life so hardly in this guy never, ever give up so what's at stake here? the answer is in president trump's tax. and i quote, a fight for our country i know why he's running for president again. why else? >> what do you put himself through? >> everything he's dealt with just to get back here, we all know he doesn't need this. this guy has got a great life. he has a beautiful full family, and he has achieved everything that you could possibly achieve 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 and i know he wants what's best for the american people american people i know he's running for president to save our american dream living the american dream. and i know the american dream is very real whether you were born in this country, are came here from someplace else. this is the last real land of opportunity president leg and once said not the first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives and if you're belly to government red tape, how will you ever starts wrong business? if you're struggling to pay your bills, have been you ever 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 the president trump is fighting to save the american dream and that puts it stake in this election we are two things we want to lead us in this fight i know president trump is a proven leader of fearless leader in this country was in a much better place when he was in the oval office and my the choice the choice is clear but this election, we all get to choose i know. i'm going to choose strengthened security no, i'm going to choose opportunity and prosperity i know. i'm going to choose real american leadership and a real american badass. telling you what twice to make that telling you what the thing i'm telling

you what i know i know america needs a strong leader in the world, needs a strong america donald trump is the best choice for president of the united states my fellow americans. it is my honor to introduce the 45th yes for all my life and i had this again, just not

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hank you very much thank you very, very much. wow thank you, dana thank you. >> kid rock sometimes referred to as bob thank you. >> lee. right from the beginning. thank you very much. what a talent, what a beautiful, beautiful soul brands delegates, and fellow citizens i stand before you

this evening with a message of confidence, strength, and hope for months from now, we will have an incredible victory and we will begin before greatest years in the history of our country. >> together, we will launch a new era of safety, prosperity, and freedom for citizens have every race, religion, color, and creed the discord and 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 where we fall apart i am running to be president for all of american 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 very much thank you very much and we will 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 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 me a second time because it's actually too painful to tell it was a warm beautiful day in the early evening in butler township in the great commonwealth of pennsylvania music was loudly playing and

the campaign was doing really well i went to the stage and the crowd was cheering wildly. >> every body was happy i began speaking very strongly, powerfully and happily because i was discussing the great job by administration did on immigration at the southern border we were very proud of it behind me and to the right was a large screen that was displaying a 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 turn, which i'm very 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 and moved my right hand to my ear, brought it down my hand was covered with blood just absolutely blood all over the place i immediately knew it was very serious that we were under attack and in one movement proceeded to drop 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 store it's a great people at great risk. i will tell you and pounced on top of me so that 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 i felt the amazing thing is that prior to the shot if i had not moved my head at that very last instant the assassin's bullet would have perfectly hit its mark and

i would not be here tonight. we would not be together the most incredible aspect of what took place on that terrible evening in the fading son 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 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 that 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 that they knew i was in very serious trouble. >> they saw they saw me go down. they saw the blood and thought actually most did that i was dead they knew it was a shot to the head. they saw the blood and there's an interesting statistic. the ears of the bloodiest part, if something happens with the years they bleed more than any other part of the body for whatever reason, the doctors told me that live said, why is there so much blood? he said it's the years they believed bohr so we learn something, but they just they just as

beautiful crowd. they didn't want to leave me. they knew i was in trouble. they did didn't want to leave me in you can see that love written all over their faces credible people they're incredible people. bullets were flying over us. yet i felt serene. but now the secret service agents were putting themselves in peril, they weren't very dangerous territory, bullets were flying right over him, missing them by a very small amount of inches and then it all stopped our secret, service sniper, from a much greater distance. and with only one bullet used took the assassins life, took him out i'm not supposed to be here tonight.

not supposed to be here thank you but i'm not and i'll tell you i stand. before you and this arena only by the grace of almighty god and watching the reports over the last few days, many people say it was a providential moment probably was when i rose surrounded by secret service the crowd was

confused because they thought i was dead and there was great, 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 ai wanted to do something to let them know i was okay i raised my right arm, looked at the thousands and thousands of people that were breathlessly waiting and started shouting, fight fight, fight thank once my pledge first one 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.

>> never heard anything like 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 compare it to her unbelievable person. everybody tells me unbelievable and, seriously wounded two other great warriors, spoke to them today. david dutch, and james copenhaver great people i also spoke to all three families of these tremendous people are love and prayers are with them.

>> and always will be. we're never going to forget them. they came for a great rally. they were serious trump stares. i want to tell you there were serious trump's to lose and still are but corey, unfortunately, we have to use the past tense. he was incredible. he was a highly respected former fire chief respected by everybody was accompanied by his wife, helen credible woman i spoke to her today devastated and two precious daughters he lost his life selflessly acting as a human shield to protect them from flying bullets. he went right over the top of them and was hit what a fine man, he wa s

i want to thank the fire department and the family for sending his helmet is outfit, and it was just something that they're going to do, something very special when they get it. but we did something which cannot match what happened, not even close. but i am very proud to say that over the past few days, we've raised $6.3 million for the families of

david james and glory including from a friend of mine just called up, be sent me a check right here. it just got it $1 million from dan nolan. thank you. dan and again when speaking to the family, i told them, i said, well, i'm going to be sending you a lot of money, but it can't compensate. they all said the same thing. you're right, sir. we appreciate so much what you're doing, but nothing can take the place in the case of cori and the other two, by the way, they were very, very seriously injured, but now they're doing very well. they're going to be okay be doing they're warriors so now i ask that we observe a moment of silence in honor of our

friend, cory there is no greater love than to lay down one's life for others this is 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. >> this is what we need despite such a heinous attack, we unite this evening more determined than ever i am more determined than ever. and so are you so is everybody thank you thank you

very much our resolve is unbroken and our purpose is unchanged to deliver a government that's there was the american people better than ever before nothing will stop me in this mission because our vision is righteous and our cars is pure no matter what obstacle comes our way. >> we 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. and everything. i have to give with all of the energy and fight in my heart and soul. i

pledge to our nation tonight. thank you very much. i pledge that to our nation and it turned our nation around and we're going to do it very quickly. thank you this election should be about the issues facing our country and how to make america successful, safe, free, and great again, 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 and we must not criminalize dissent or demonize political

disagreement, which is what's been happening in our country lately at a level that nobody is has ever seen before in that spirit that democrat party should immediately stop weaponizing the justice system and labeling their political opponent 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 very big news as you probably just read on monday, a major ruling was handed down from a highly respected federal judge in florida aileen cannon finding that the prosecutor and the fake documents case against me we're totally, unconstitutiona

l and the entire case was thrown out of court with all of that publicity thrown out. >> if democrats want to unify our country they should drop these partisan witch hunts, which i have been going through for approximately eight years and they should do that without delay and allow it election to proceed. >> that is worthy of our people. we're going to win it anyway but worthy of all on this journey, i am deeply honored to be joined by my amazing wife melania and

malatia thank you very much. >> you also did something really beautiful letter to america calling for national unity. and it really took the republican party by surprise. i will tell you it was beautiful fact some very serious people said that we should take that letter and put it as part of the republican platform that would be a non her wouldn't right mr. >> congressman but it captivated so many. so i also want to thank my entire family for being here. don kimberly, ivanka, and jared eric, and lara tiffany and michael barron were logged are buried and of

course my ten wonderful grandchildren, you so few of them up there on my lap before then how good was dana was dana good you know, he was on probably the only vacation is adding about maybe ever works, but about ten years with his wife very far away. >> i won't tell you where, but very, very far away. beautiful place and my people called and he said, i won't be able to do at this is many, many years. i promised my wife i can't do it and they came in, they said dana won't be able to do it because he was my first, second, and third choice i said, well, you're now that's too bad, but i understand he's away and that's good. it's

good for him. and that was at about 30 minutes later, she came back in, sir, dana just golf. he's going to do it and his wife, she said, you can't turn him down, you just can't do it. you have to go. that's a good wife so he got an a plan. >> he got here a little while ago. now he's going to get on the plane and it a little while and he's going to go back home to his wife. but they're great and i just wanted to thank her and him and their whole family because that's not easy. and kid rock same thing called, he said he said i want to be a part of it i want to be a park because, you know, kid does his great song, big, big monster song. i had no idea unit became a friend of mine over the last ten years. and he's amazing. everyone loves him. i didn't even know how big he was. you

know, he has rallies 35, 40,000 people. he gets every time it goes out i think he's making so much money. he doesn't know what the hell to do with it. you want and then we have my other friend and i've known him so long and we took that song and it was a big success, but we made that i saw a chart of great songs to america that was number one on the charter is certainly number one fell let's lee greenwood, very special, beautiful person is a beautiful man. >> but they all wanted to be here. they call them, how about the hoaxed are how good was he boy oh, boy you know, they may call it, he may call that

edutainment. i know about entertainment, but when he used to lift a 350 pound man over his shoulders and then bench press him to rose into the audience i say may be entertainment, but he is one strong set of a gun. i will tell you i've watched it many times. there are a lot of entertainers that could do that, right? you were fantastic. thank you very much followed by eric. what was that all about? boy, that was good. i didn't want to really come up here but he was so great any such a good young man, he went through a lot of trouble and don last night was incredible. they went through so much trouble. they got subpoenaed more than any people, probably the history of the united states it's every week they get another subpoena from the democrats, crazy nancy pelosi to whole thing. just boom, boom, boom they've got to stop

that because they're destroying our country. >> we have to work on making america great again, not on beating people. and we won, we beat them in all we beat him on the impeachments. we beat them on indictments, we beat him but the time that you have to spend that time that you have to spend if they would devote that genius to helping our country we'd have a much stronger and better contrary and jason, the biggest star in country music jason, thank you for being here. >> jason thank you very much. >> jason aldean is good. i like i like his wife even better by the way, she's here thank you, jason what 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. that is incredible one boucher he's going to be a great vice president. he's going to be great, will be with this country and with his movement, greatest movement in the history of our country make america great again when they criticize that, they said we're going to try and stop mag. i said maga is make america great again, what are you going to stop? does nothing to stop? >> did they say, oh, that's right. it's very tough to fight. it and all of the people that did dry invited her failed but he's going to be with us for a long time and it was an honor to select him great,

great student at yale. his wife was a great student at yale. they met at yell. these are two smart people so j, d, you're going to be doing this for a long time. enjoy the ride and a, very special thank you to the extraordinary people of milwaukee and the great state that's 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 gun. hey, going to have a good you're gonna have a very good table 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 you will remember this in november and give us your vote. i am trying to buy your vote i'll be honest about that and i promise we will make wisconsin great again, we're going to make you say governor, thank you very much. thank you 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, or independent, black or white, asian, or hispanic i extend to you a hand of loyalty and 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. and then we handed over a stock market that was substantially higher than just prior to covid coming in, did a great job, never got credit for that. we got credit for the war and defeating isis. and so many things are great economy, the biggest tax cuts ever, the biggest regulation cuts ever the creation of space force, the rebuilding of our military. we did so much we just so much right to try, right to try is a big deal. we got right to try. they were trying to get that for 52 years. somebody who is terminally ill and hopefully there's nobody in this audience, but it does happen a lot that terminally ill and they can't use our new space age drugs and other things that we aware ahead where the greatest doctors in the world, the greatest laboratories in the world, and you can't do

what they've been trying to get that approved for 52 years, was it that easy? the insurance companies didn't want to do it, they didn't want the risks, the labs didn't want to do it because if it didn't work, people are pretty far down the line toward death they didn't want to do it. the doctors didn't want to have it on their records, so i got everybody into an office 52 years. they tried sounds simple, but it's not and i got them to agree that somebody that needs it will instead of going to asia, europe, or someplace, or if you have no money going home and dying, just die we got them to sign an agreement, agreed to it, 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 it's great feeling under our leadership, the united states will be respected again no nation will question our power. >> no enemy will doubt our might our borders will be

totally secure, or economy will soar we will return law and order to our streets. patriotism to our schools. and importantly, 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 incompetent 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 on affordable, ravaging the incomes of working and low-income families, and crushing just simply crushing are 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, some massive invasion at our southern border that has spread misery, crime, poverty, disease, and destruction to communities. all across our land. nobody's ever seen anything like it. then there's an international crisis, the likes of which the world has seldom been part of. nobody can believe whatsapp, but a 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 three. 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 obliteration 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, their fears, people and we don't have fierce payable. >> we have people that are a lot less than fierce, except when it comes to cheating on elections and a couple of other things, then there are fears then there fears. 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 can you believe

what but by doing that, we will lead a large scale decline in prices, prices will start to come down. >> energy raised it, they took our energy policies and destroyed them, then they immediately went back to them. but by that time so much was lost but we will do it at levels that nobody's ever seen before and will end lots of different things. we'll start paying off debt and start lowering taxes even further, we gave you the largest tax cut well, what more? now, people don't realize i brought tax is 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 incentive 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 to 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 would work 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 will 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 on the wall way we're 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 i said, i'm going

to take a little of that money because this is an invasion or we built most of the wall has already built and we built it through using the funds because what's more, 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 add to 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 or ran, had no money now around 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 anyone seen it and they had a

congressman who was a democrat say, well, where the like him or not iran was broke dealing with dropped by deloitte, 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 buy any oil and they were ready to make a deal or ran was going to make a deal with us and then we had that horrible, horrible result that will never let happen again. the election result would never going to let that happen again, they use covid to cheat and never going to let it happen again and they took off all the sanctions and they did everything possible for a rant and now around is very close to having a nuclear weapon which would have never happened. this is a shame. what's what this administration that damage at this administration has done? an 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 the term wants biden. i'm not going to use the name anymore just one time the damage that he's done to this country is unthinkable unthinkable together, we will restore vision, strength, competence, and we're going to have a thing called common sense, making. >> most of our decisions actually it's all comments 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 would beating every country including china by leaps and bounds. nobody had seen anything like it we had no inflation soaring incomes who are going nobody's

nobody can believe it. you can't believe what happened four years ago is 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 they were making great wages the highest they've ever made, but they were putting away a lot of money now they are just being destroyed. they're not putting away anything there, barely living. they're going into savings accounts that taken out their money to live because of inflation. inflation, remember? it's called a country buster. you can go back to germany from 100 years ago. you can go back to any country that suffered great inflation and 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 unparalleled tragedy and failure. it's been tremendous value 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 the jobs from our black population are hispanic population. and they're also taking them from unions the unions are suffering because of it thank you. >> thank you. i like you to thank you very much. inflation is wiped out the life savings of our citizens. enforce 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 be a great nation again, we're going to be a great nation thank with proper leadership every disaster we are now enduring will be fixed and it will be fixed very, very quickly. so tonight whether you've supported me in the past or not, i hope you will support me in the future because i will bring back the american dream that's what we're going to. you don't even hear about the american dream with great humility. >> i am asking you to be excited about the future of our country. be excited and by the.

way the news reports or we're looking 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 summer and it's true it's true. >> and there's love in the room, there's great love in the room so i better finished strong otherwise will blow it and we can't let that happen now this is great. >> all of the great people that spoke and every but he 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 refused to be the only one don't do that to me. >> they're already getting racy. >> i gave him an idea now, we had this was a great convention. this was i think we're actually going to go home and miss it. you know, usually we're the first of all, look at these crowds, you'd never have this other i mentioned, look at this love it's, about law this week. the entire republican party is formally adopted. an agenda for american renewal. and you saw that agenda and it's very short compared to the long boring meaningless agendas of the past, including the democrats say, right, these things at a hundreds of pages long and they never read them after they're done in their case. fortunately, they don't read them because it pretty bad.

>> it's a series of bowl 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 senate, 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 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 affordable 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, young 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 nation that has the opportunity to make an absolute fortune with its energy we have it and china does 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. >> think of it in all my life, i grew up watching politicians. i always loved politics, i guess i was on the other side, i'd watched the pilot and they were always talking about we will give you a tax cut. we will give you a tax cut my whole life, i was watching. i will give you a tax cut, right? mystik, congressman, 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 it you're paying too much. we're going to reduce your taxes. still further, we gave you the biggest one, as i said, we're going to give you more and it's going to lead to tremendous growth. we want growth in our country. that's what 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 news scam. 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 projects like roads, bridges, dams, and we will not allow it to be spent on meaningless green new, a scam ideas and i

will end the electric vehicle mandate on day one thereby saving the u.s. auto industry from complete obliteration, which is happening right now and saving us customers thousands and thousands of dollars per car and right now as we speak, large factories just started are being built across the border in mexico. so with all the other things happening, our border and they're being built by china to make cars and to sell them into our country, no tax know anything the united auto workers ought to be ashamed for allowing this to happen. and the leader of the united autoworkers should be fired immediately and every single auto worker union and non union

should be voting for donald trump because we're going to bring back car manufacturing and we're going to bring it back fast the building some of the largest auto plants anywhere in the world. think of it. >> in the world, and we're going to bring it back. >> we're going to make them we don't mind the we don't mind that happening, but those plants are going to be built in the united states and our people are going to man those plans and if they don't agree with us, will 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 and think of it oftentimes he's other countries are considered so-called allies. >> they've taken advantage of us for years. we lose jobs, will lose revenue and they

gained everything and wipe out our businesses. what out our people. i stopped it for four years. i stopped it and were really ready to make changes like nobody had seen before. remember usmca, i got rid of nafta, the worst trade deals ever made and replace it with usmca, which is they say the best trade deal oh, ever been actually probably the best trade deal was the deal i made with china where they by 50 billion worth of product they were buying nothing. they by $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 into the, they plunder our nation the way they

will sell their product in america is to build it in america. very simple belden and america at only in american and this very simple formula in congress has to go along with us and they will this very simple formula will create 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 2025 years, they've assaulted going to china and mexico about 68% of our auto industry you manufacturing jobs we're gonna get them all back. we're going to get them all back. every one of them at the center of our plan for economic believe our

massive tax cuts for workers that include something else that stood out to be very popular actually here it's very popular in this building and all those hotels that i saw that a so nice, i'm staying in a nice one it's called no tax on tips. know no tax on 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 au were having dinner at a beautiful restaurant in the trump building on the strip and it's great building and a waitress comes over. how's everything going really nice

person. house, everything au sara so tough the government's after me all the time on tip step steps i said, well, they give you cash, would they be able to find him? she said actually, i didn't know that. she said very little cash has given it's all put right on the check and they come in and they take so much of our money, it's just ridiculous and they don't believe anything we say and they've just hired as you know, 88,000 agents to go after him even more and i said this shows the level of my most people that they hire consultants, they pay millions of dollars but i said to her, let me just ask you a question. would you be happy if you had no tax and tips? he said, what a great idea i got my information from a very smart waitress that's better than spending billions of dollars and everybody everybody loves it waitresses and caddies and drivers and everybody is a

large large group of people that are being really hurt badly. they make money, let them keep them 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 that are 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 medicare under my plan, incomes will skyrocket inflation will vanish completely. jobs will come roaring back and the middle-class will prosper, like never, ever before. and we're going to do it very rapidly. >> but no hope for dream. we have for america can succeed unless we stop the illegal immigrant invasion. >> the worst it's ever been seen anywhere in the world has never been an invasion like

this anywhere. third world countries would fight with sticks stones, not to let this happen the invasion at our southern border, we will stop it and we will stop at quickly. you heard tom homan yesterday, tom homan put him in charge and just sit back and watch brandon judd the border patrol is incredible. these guys that you know, they really their job is a lot easier if they don't have to do anything, but they want to, they're patriots, brandon judd, border patrol, ice ice goes out. you have to see what is does with ms 13. you have these probably the worst gang and ice goes in there and i know a lot of people in these rows here and there are very tough people, but they don't want to do this job they'll go into a pack of ms 13 killers. there the worst probably the worst gangs in the world. we have thousands of i moved thousands and thousands out in my four years. we moved amount and it was a pleasure, but ice would go right into a pack of

these killers and you see we fists flying, you see everything can fly it and then they take them. they put them in a paddy wagon they take them back and they get them out of our country and the other countries weren't accepting them back. and i called up, but i said tell them that we're not giving them economic aid anymore. the next day i got calls from all of these countries that were terminated billions of dollars we spend on economic aid to countries that does us frankly, no good the next day i was called by everybody, couldn't take all the goals. sir. sir, what's the problem? i said, you won't take your killers back that you sent in caravans into america. you won't take them back. well, sir, if you'd like us to, we would give very serious consideration to do her there 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 him that put planes on the runway so you couldn't lead the plane. they close the road. she couldn't

take the buses at all, have to turn back as soon as i said, no more economic aid of any kind to any country that does that they called back and they said, sir, it would be a great honor to take ms 13. we love them very much. >> we love him very much, sir, will take at the heart of the republican platform is our pledge to end this border nightmare and fully restore the sacred and sovereign borders of the united states of america. we're going to do that on day one. that means two things than day one, right drill, baby drill, and close our borders. >> and by the way and i think everybody has a republican the patriot in this room. >> and most democrats we want

people to come into our country, but they have to come into our country legally 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 it up so proud of it. i think it's one of the greatest it was done by the border patrol, one of the greatest charts i've ever seen. it showed everything just like that. you know, that chart oh, there it is. that's pretty good wow last time i put up that chart, i never really got to look at it but without that chart, i would not be here today never got to look i said

you got to see this chart. i was so proud of it. and by the time i got to there i never got to see it that day. but i'm seeing it now and i was very proud. if you look at the arrow in the bottom, that's the lowest level, the one on the bottom, heavy red arrow that's the lowest level of illegal immigrants ever to come into our country. recorded history, right there and that was my last week in office and then you see what happened after i left. look at arrest, and if you go out a little bit? there was 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 we ended all catch and release we shut down asylum fraud, stopped human trafficking, and forge a historic agreements to keep illegal aliens on foreign soil. we want them to stay on this soil under the 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 and i put in place to seal the border. i wanted to seal border again, come in, but come in legally, you know, how unfair it is 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 for it. they suspended wall construction, ended remain in mexico policy. remain in

mexico. you think that was easy to get from the mexican government, but i said you must give it to us if you don't give it to us there will be repercussions and they gave it to us but not easy. canceled our safe third, agreements demolish title 42 implemented nationwide catch and release. that's catch and release while we catch them and release them into our country. i had we catch them and release them into mexico. there's a slight difference and took 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 foolish 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 he'd 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 asylums i you know, the press is always on me because i say this. has anyone seen silence of the lambs the late great hannibal lecter he loved to have you for dinner that's insane asylums. they're emptying out there and saying this alums and terrorists are coming in at numbers that we've never seen before. bad things are going to happen meanwhile, are crime rate is going up, while crime statistics all over the world are going down because they're taking, they're criminals and they're putting them into our country a certain country, and i happen to like the president of the

country very much, but he's been getting great publicity because he's a wonderful shepherd of the country. he says how well the country is doing because the crime rate is down and he said he's training all of these rough people that were up for us, rough he's training them and i've been reading about this for two years. i think. oh, that's wonderful. let's take a look at it. but then i realized he's not training them. he's sending all of his criminals. his drug dealers, his people that are in jails he's sending them all to the united states and he's different and that he doesn't say that he's trying to convince everybody what a wonderful job he doesn't running the country while he doesn't do a wonderful job and by the way, have i ran one of the country's many conscious, many, many countries from all over. ai would be worse than any of them. i would have had the place totally emptied out already. >> but we become a dumping ground for the rest of the world, which is laughing at us because they think we're stupid

and 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. in venezuela caracas high crime, high crime caracas, venezuela really dangerous place, but not anymore. >> 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 our cities will be so unsafe. we won't be able, we will not be able to have it there in el salvador burgers our down by 70%. why are they down? now? he would have you convinced that because he's trained murders to be wonderful people know

they're down because they're sending their murderers 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 largest deportation operation in the history of our car even larger than that of president dwight d. eisenhower from many years ago. he was a moderate, but he believed very strongly in borders. he had the largest deportation operation we've ever had. just recently, i spoke to the grieving mother of jocelyn nungaray, a wonderful woman a precious twelve-year-old girl from houston who last month was tied up assaulted, and strangled to death after walk into the convenience store just a block away from our 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 is heinous murder or to illegal aliens from venezuela who came across our border. we're in custody and were 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 rachel morin rachel was a 37-year-old mom of five beautiful children who was brutally raped and murdered while out on runs. you wanted to keep herself in good shape. au is very important to her. she was murdered the monster responsible first killed another woman in el salvador before he was led into america. by the white house is white house. let them in he then attacked a 9-year-old girl and her mother in a home invasion in los angeles before murdering rachel and maryland traveled to

all throughout the country doing tremendous damage rachel's mother will never be the same. i spent time with their 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 jog on the campus of the university of georgia when she was assaulted, beaten and horrifically killed. yet another american life was stolen by a criminal aliens set free by this administration. and these were incredible people were talking about. these were incredible people who died tonight, america. this is my vow. i will not let these killers and criminals into our country i will keep our sons

and daughters say as we bring security to our streets, we will help bring stability to the world. ai was the first president in modern times to start no new wars, you know, we were the toughest, we were the masters back and you, you saw this hungry, strong country run by very powerful, tough leaders, deaf guy, press doesn't like him because he's stuff and he came out recently. they were asking him about it into view the whole world is exploding. what's happened and what's going on victor orban, the prime minister of hungary, very tough map he said, i don't want people coming into my country and blowing up are shopping centers and kept like people but they said to them, tell us what's going wrong, what's happening, what is it he said there's only one way you're going to solve it. you got to bring president trump

back to the united states because he kept everybody at bay he used the word, i wouldn't use because i can't use that word because you'd say it was braggadocious. the press would say he was a braggart. i'm not a braggart. >> but viktor orban's said, he said russia was afraid of him. >> china was afraid of him. everybody was afraid of him. nothing was going to happen the whole world was at peace and now the world is blowing up around us all of these things that you read about, we're 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 we

defeated 100% of isis in syria and iraq something that was said to take five years, sir, and will take five years, sir we did it in a matter of a couple of months. we have a great military or military has not woke, it's just some of the fools on top that a woke i got along very well. north korea, kim jong go and i got along very well with them. the press hated when i said that, how could you get along with him? well you know, it's nice to get along with somebody has a lot of nuclear weapons or otherwise is the old days. they say that's a wonderful thing now, they say, how could you

possibly do that? >> but no, i got along with him and we stopped the missile launches from north korea. now, north korea is acting up again, but when we get back, i get along with them he'd like to see me back to i think he misses me if you want to know that our opponents inherited a world at peace and turned it into a planet of war were to 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 where buildings, massive buildings falling to the ground? it began to unravel with the disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan, the worst humiliation in the history of our country. we have never had a humiliation like that. >> 13 heroic us service members were tragically and needlessly kill 45 others were horrifically wounded. >> nobody ever talks about them no arms, no legs face

explosions horrifically, horrifically wounded and by the way, we have a man in this room who's running for the us center 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 the person that is not good, not respected at total lightweight but sam, i think paid really we're talking about it with some of the senators that are working so hard for sam. but he paid the biggest price aubenny

senator ever to run for the senate. i don't think anybody's ever what he did. he was a real hero, a really great person. and he's running and i hope that everybody gets out and votes for sam brown. >> and we also left behind $85 billion worth of military equipment but along with many american citizens were left behind many, many americans citizen emboldened by that disaster, russia invaded ukraine. >> they saw this group of people that weren't competent. we took the soldiers out first, don't know. we're going to take the soldiers out second if they would have followed my plan, we had a great plan. but the plan only kicked in if they did everything perfectly and they weren't doing things perfectly. so we said it doesn't kick in, you know, 18 months in afghanistan we didn't have one, so 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 and still ahead of the taliban. the press got on me. why would you speak to him? i said because that's where the killing is. >> i don't have to speak to somebody that has nothing to do with it. >> and i told him, don't ever do that, don't ever do that again, don't ever, ever do that again, you're going to stop because during the obama administration, many great people and soldiers, a lot of soldiers are 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 and he said, i understand your excellence eco me, your excellency i wonder if he calls the other guy your excellence the other guy gave him everything. i mean, what kind of a deal was that he walked out, gave him everything you know, that right now afghanistan is one of the

largest sellers of weapons in the world, is selling the brand new, beautiful weapons that we gave them. >> but think of it he actually said to me, but why but why do you showed me a picture of my home i said you'll have to ask your people or one of your wives but he could figure it out. >> and for 18 months we had not one attack on an american soldier by the taliban 18 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 basis anywhere in the world, air bases, anywhere in the world, the longest runways, most powerful hardened, thickened runways.

>> we gave it up and i liked it not because of afghanistan. >> i liked it because it china, it's one hour away from with china makes it nuclear weapons and you know, has it now, china has it now. >> we were keeping that and now china is likewise circling taiwan and russian warships and nuclear submarines are operating 60 miles off the coast in cuba, you know that the press refuses to write about it. if that were me running this country and we had nuclear submarines and 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 that would not. be

stood for for somebody else, they don't even they don't want to mention it, but now maybe they will and the entire world i tell you this, we want our hostages back and they better be back before i assume office. while you will be paying a very big price we're that victory in november the years of war weakness and chaos we'll 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 wars. i could stop wars with a telephone call i could stop wars with just a telephone it properly stated it would 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, were going to build it and wisconsin wisconsin, just like guy gave you that 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 a little design change and we gave them a tremendous for essentially what we're used to call destroyers. these are now the most beautiful. they look like. yes, i said we have to take the bow and we have to make it a little nicer in a little point that the top words that above flat nose and the people that they shipyards at this guy. knows what he's doing and where most beautiful ships, right? governor and everybody sitting over there and it was a big contract that everybody wanted. i gave it to

wisconsin, but we're going to have a lot of that built right here. >> 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 and only one got through a little bit. it was badly wounded, it fell to the ground, but most of them are and ronald reagan wanted this many years ago, but we really didn't have the technology many years ago. remember they called its starship spaceship anything to mock him. but he was a very good president, very, very good but now we have unbelievable tech dallas and why should other countries have this? and we don't know now, we're going to build an iron dome over our country we're going to be sure that nothing can come in harm our people. and again, from an economic development standpoint, i'm going to make it all right here. no more sending it out to other countries in order to help its america first, america

we will unleash the power of american innovation. and as we do, we will soon be on the verge of finding the cures to cancer or alzheimer's disease he said many other diseases we're going to get to the bottom of it they remember this gentleman that i don't want to mention other than one time i had to because when you say you the ten worst, i had to do it, i didn't want anybody to be confused. but this man said we're going to find a cure to cancer and nothing happened we're gonna get to the cure for cancer and alzheimer's and so many other things were 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 the media

and we will restore and renovate made 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 for wisconsin. they go to look at the washington monument. they end up getting stabbed, guild are shot we will be very soon, very proud of our capitol. >> again washington, dc america is on the cusp of a new golden age, but we will have the courage to seize it. >> we're going to take it, we're going to make it a current. i mean, we're going to bring this into a golden age like never seen before. remember this, china wants to do at 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 ai needs tremendous trump, 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 charges at a certain location, poured the midwest aid charges for $9 billion? think of them as a tank, fulfilling up your gas think of it. they spent $9 billion on eight charges, three of which didn't work and if you are going to do this all over our country, this crazy electric band-aid. 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. so to conclude just a few short days ago, my journey with you nearly ended. we know that yet here we are tonight all gathered together talking about the future promise and a total renewal everything we love very much scrawled america we live in a world of miracles. >> none of us knows god's plan or aware lives adventure will take us i want to thank franklin graham for being here tonight is an outstanding man he wrote me a note recently. have a lottery back for sir. >> i love your storytelling. >> 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 as a little embarrassed, i said you said it won't make any difference. actually, is the story is not quite as good, but i've been very good sorry is not quite as good to be honest. >> i've got to have a little talk with frankly, but he was a great it's a great gentleman. >> his father was so incredible. billy graham my father used to love taking me to see billy ground my father would take me to see billy graham at yankee stadium. he had the biggest rallies ship ever seen. he was a good rally guy too. >> but he'd get up and he was a fantastic guy. >> my father loved billy graham but i love franklin graham, i think franklin has been fantastic and i'm trying i'm just 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. >> we have to make the most of every day for the people and for the country that we loved. >> 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 movements. the biggest moment in the history of our country by far can't be it can't be stopped it has always been about the hardworking, patriotic citizens of america for too long. our nation has settled for too little. we settle for two little. they've given everything to other nations, to other people you have been told to lower your expectations and to accept less for your families. i am here tonight with the opposite message your expectations are not big enough that bag it is

time to start expected acting and demanding the best leadership in the world. leadership that is bold, dynamic, relentless, and fearless. we can do that we are americans ambition is our heritage, greatness is our birthright. but as long as our energies are spent fighting each other our destiny will remain out of reach and that's not acceptable. we must instead take that energy and use it to realise our countries true potential and right, 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 devotion. it's unmatched devotion our american ancestors crossed the delaware, survived the icy winter at valley forge and defeated a mighty empire to establish our cherish republic. they fought so hard, they lost so many they push thousands and thousands of miles across a dangerous frontier, taming the wilderness to build a life and a mac difference in home for their family they pack their families into covered wagons, trekked across hazardous trails scaled, towering mountains and brave rivers and rapids to stake their claim on the wide wide-open new and very beautiful frontier when our way of life was threatened american patriots marched onto the battlefield raced into enemy strongholds and stared down death and stared down those enemies to keep alive the flame

of freedom at yorktown, gettysburg, and midway, they joined the roll call of immortal heroes. so many horror, just so many heroes, so many great, great people. and we have to cherish those people. we can't forget those people. we have to cherish those speaker building monuments to those great people is a good thing, not bad thing they saved our car no challenge was too much, no hardship was too great. >> no enemy was too fierce together, these patriots soldiered on and endured and they prevailed because they had faith in each other, faith in their country, and above all, they had faith in their guide 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 great, 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 what do you have make our country great again every day i will strive to honor the trust you placed in me and i will never ever let you down. >> i promised that i will never let you down to all of the forgotten men and women who have been neglected abandoned, and left behind. you will be forgotten, no longer. we will press forward and together, we will win, win, win when, when,

win, win, win, win nothing, will sway us nothing will slow us, and no one will ever stop us no matter what dangers come our way, no matter what obstacles lie in our pet we will keep striving toward our shared a 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 rich and wonderful

tomorrow's that our people. so truly deserve america's future will be bigger, better, bolder, brighter, happier, stronger, three or greater and more united than ever? before and quite simply put we will very quickly make america great again. >> thank you very much. thank you very much. i auwisconsin, god bless you god bless you. is constant and god bless the united states of america. a great country. thank you very much, everybody. >> thank no president trump

accepting his party's nominee haitian for president joined on the stage here in milwaukee, wisconsin by his wife hania. his children, their spouses and partners, and also some grandkids, i think are in there as well as also joined by jd

vance, the senator sure. from ohio and his wife, usha. jd vance's new running mate, been in the senate for about a year-and-a-half already on the fast-track president trump spoke for one hour and 32 minutes, which i'm told is the longest speech for a nomination acceptance by a major party figure in modern american political history for those wondering, is 2016 speech was an hour, 15 minutes. 2020 was an hour, ten minutes. this one one-hour, 32 minutes it started off with what we were told was the new tone of unity city and he relayed his harrowing experience during the fascination attempt in butler township, pennsylvania on sand but then and i hope this doesn't sound harsh, but then it's pretty much became the

kind of speech generally hear from donald trump rallies where he went off script and rift and ad lib we were told he wasn't good, even mentioned president biden's name pension it at least twice very much the same donald trump that we are used to and i will just one word before throw it to dana, to get your thoughts senator marco rubio told us earlier that donald trump had told him this was the biggest balloon drop in the history of balloons he said something like 18,000 of them. i maybe i've heard that figure wrong. >> know he did say that daniel deal, i hope will be able to fact check this, if not tonight than maybe tomorrow. >> although i guess nobody really cares that much about whether or not the biggest balloon drop, but that is what's going on or we have some giant gold balls, also beach balls. anyway, dana bash back to the contents but the speech, it was except for the top of it pretty pretty pretty much donald trump, greatest

hits if you'd like it, which all the people in this room do, then you're happy and if you don't, then you've heard it before already republicans, some of whom i've been texting with who are here at the convention are taking solace in the fact that because it is so late at night, east coast and even midwest that the majority of people likely paid attention to in tuned into the beginning of this speech, where he did a called for discord and division of the society to be healed. >> and then as you said gave a detailed way the narrative and the story of what happened. the harrowing moment that he was almost killed on saturday night. and of course, the tribute to the gentlemen who was killed and two who were severely injured. but just

going back to that line which is very early on, according to the teleprompter, like the fourth line in the speech, that discord and division in our society must be healed he was then the ditch donald trump going after nancy pelosi talking about cheating on elections saying that people use to covid, to cheat even though he had said that he wasn't going to or at least his people said he wasn't going to use biden's name you've had joe biden by name, talked about the immigration invasion weapon, weaponized justice department and so on and so forth. so so much of the preview of what we got was this is a changed man. this is somebody who's going to be different more a little bit more it was, but, but,

certainly we have all seen rallies of donald trump where he has given in his words are more rip roaring speech. >> but there was a lot of that in there there's something a phenomenon in this campaign called trump amnesia and that's the idea that a lot of people have forgotten what they either liked or low about trump during his four years as president. >> and over the courts this hour and-a-half, you were reminded of what you liked or load about donald trump and you're you're exactly right. dana, what part of the i have to say for me, disappointment in their speech is because the trump campaign had talked so much about our we were going to see a softer, more reflective, donald trump and he had a line early on, it's on, i want to be president for all americans because there's no object to re, in winning for half of

americans. i thought, well, we're off to the races here, and this is really going to be a different donald trump, as you say, he then went in very reflective, somber on trump, like detail of trucking about how god saved, saved his life and, and it seemed genuinely reflective. but then for all of that, and it seemed as if he couldn't keep up the app so we started hearing about crazy nancy pelosi and cheating on elections. and talking about biden frankly, it was a long speech. it was rambling page. it was a speech by an older man and i couldn't help but think the people that are going to be happy yes, tonight are not the people at trump headquarters, but the people the democrats, maybe a biden headquarters, maybe at the headquarters of other people who think i got to replies, joe biden. but jake, we have ourselves a presidential campaign again. >> yeah.

>> anderson cooper, just a note. the average film is one hour and 31 minutes. >> this was one hour and 30 minutes longer than the average movie. >> anderson by donald trump's standards, is was the longest gop convention speech he has given jake as you pointed out, i just want to get some quick tapes. takes from the panel. david urban, speech expected. i know. look, it's it started out incredibly strong and thought in terms the president's emotional journey when he got shot, you heard from a lot of really big zigzag, a little subdued to begin with. >> i think the crowd what more. and so i think he given he had to do here, delivered delivered, red meat to those who wonder red meat delivered a little you know, there's a lot this conventions about love a lot of love, a room. before we've never had a unified party like this. so party is unified behind a lot of lebanon. >> david axelrod so my friend scott jennings on were some on, hop, hop hopping out of his

seat before the speech because he held up the excerpts and said, this you you wondered whether he could drives to the moment. >> well, he's going to rise to the moment. it just turns out that he owned he read the words on these pages and then spent probably an hour an aggregate riffing and so people i'm sure responded very positively to his appeals to unity that were written on a teleprompter and then he just riffed the bejesus out of everybody. that he was all as political enemies and so on. i have to tell you that, you know, chris wallace said this. this is the first good thing and that's happened to democrats in the last three weeks. i mean, this, this really reminded everyone why donald trump is fundamentally unpopular. outside this room. >> kaitlan, you know, that's interesting, is that a lot of people have not been to a trump rally. they've never seen what a trump rally is like. i've been to dozens of them. this is what a trump rally they is like. what obviously this is built out was a totally free

speech focused on unity. there's no denying the beginning was certainly compelling. you were accounted in now what it was like to be on stage in butler, pennsylvania on saturday night, any spent about ten to 15 minutes doing that. then we got to the middle and it sounded like a normal typical trump rally that would have happened or saturday, he called nancy pelosi crazy nancy pelosi. he talked about they are trying to destroy our country. he called the 2020 election ridiculous. >> cheating on elections he exemplified murray's authoritarian strongman leader who has scaled back democratic norms in that country. >> and a lot of that was exactly as a typical from speeches it's interesting is a lot of people don't normally watch that. they all did tonight i got a lot of saying this is a great reminder of why a lot of people exhausted by the end of the first top and we'll be having second thoughts about whether they want to go through that again i

mean, it was a trump rally is kaitlan that the american people are supposed they are tired. >> it was a long, rambling speech at the aydos of it. we're all auby in-between unify excerpts the part where he at what he really wanted to say all of those were things that were filled with they're free was very problematic that is what it sounds like. >> a lot of his rally but you get lost just the monotone made nature of what he was saying. in this moment when he could have lifted this very energetic grew up in a really rousing short tight speech that was not what this was that was a mess those are the big mess dodged a bullet on saturday, and

democrats dodge a bullet tonight he had a whole world in his hand. he if he had just stayed with that unity message, you might have caused some property, just could not help himself. if biden had given a speech that incoherent, that rambling, that undiscipline, democrats when it hit biden would attract was a dark rag them off. so we're now back into a normal but campaign dynamic, where trump took what was the most energetic, convinced and he was born. he took the most disciplined convention with undiscipline. he basically was the worst part of his own convention. and so that actually is the first good thing has happened for democrats. the other thing i'll say is this ten minutes. a unity talk off the teleprompter, followed by rabbit attack on nancy pelosi, on joe biden and talk about hannibal lecter that is not an if they made a big mistake by by, by overselling this transformation there has been

no transportation. this is donald trump and welcome back to the campaign now, he's got, it was a review of some of the stuff we got used to hearing during the white house years the love for kim jong own viktor orban and others yes, some of it was the old greatest hits, but the most telling part was the new part, the part of the top. >> when he told the story about being shot at, you could have heard a pin drop in this place. it was extremely riveting. i mean, look x man it was a long speech i no doubt he used the prepared remarks. he also used the unprepared remarks, the part that mattered most though he nail and that's the part that i think people are going to remember. i think that message sinjin tone for basically fine. he hit the issues he's got to hit. on inflation and immigration. that's over the target. the national unity stuff was with the campaign tells me what we got what we want it. >> they're fine with it. >> the convention served its purpose the vibe was good in here. the vibe is good, right now. >> the republican party, epp for one week ban and is still

the party of fun in the party of democracy is down the street plotting a political coup against the sitting president united states. there's a lot of trump skeptical republicans who came into this week going. i don't know if i want to do this again. and i think they're going to leave this week thing and you know what it's going to be fine. i think this was mission accomplished for the convention we the convention was great and the candidate was not john was. >> it was foolish for anybody to think that one speech going to evolve. donald trump good to this blowout in an election. number one, we don't live in a country that will have a law on election that's not the way the elections divided. number two, there is not majority support in the country for trump or for trump there simply isn't all the data says that however, however he doesn't need majority's. he needs to give 46, 47, 48% in the swing states he'll get over 50% in the red states. look down on that floor was it a great speech? >> of course not. they love it and they love him. they're unified and they're going home. the money is flowing in if the republican party. they're leading in the polls

in all this key states democratic donors are saying no more money to president biden right now. now we'll see if that holds is a month to go before the democratic convention. they get a month to plan their rebuttal but we're not even positive if the president will be their candidates. he didn't help himself. there is not one line in here that it's kind of get him to voters meet the most successful parts of this entire week we're real people talking about. i mean, those gold-star families williams guy and everybody in this room saying the names of those gold star family members who were killed in afghanistan. and even tonight i mean hulk hogan of all people probably reached an audience, which hasn't paid a lot of attention, hasn't listened to trump's speeches for ended in an extraordinarily compelling way. i mean, i'm not a devotee like god. >> wrestlemania. >> that you just hit the nail on the head. it's week of stuff in totality this week, it

was well-produced. the real people were compelling. >> the hoka, the holster, good run wild in milwaukee, but so did all kinds it's of other folks who had messages about inflation and immigration. >> all in. >> this was a good convention and the democrats one rocket struck scott there's no doubt that this has been, in fact with the whole campaign has been it's been a very disciplined campaign in a very undisciplined candidate. and that's what we saw again, and the reality is that it's the undiscipline candidates who is unpopular and who has driven people away jamin right? >> i mean, this may be enough that if he just motivates the base, there, i don't question that, that he may have accomplished some of that. >> he's started what they were probably on top, they were going to something else tonight with this unity appeal. >> they were trying to say, he's learned he's grown, he's not going to be the guy who you au here last time. and

then he read the lines off the prompter and then through the whole concept of the way it's always important to watch donald trump covering him. it's not just what people tell you is going to do. you have to watch what he actually does because i think those of us who have covered him for a long time were skeptical of that. but you know what they also have is several days of stories saying that donald trump was shamed by, doesn't it would be a unifying and it was it would the exception of the beginning of course, we've noted typical of what you see, the question is, what do people see who weren't necessarily watching tonight? what's going to see the highlights? they can packaged is what he did say at the beginning, which was the word counting of his assassination question also, it was donald trump is, what is he going to do is very easy to diagnose. >> that's the problem of the biden administration as seen through the eyes of republicans but trump is not running as some kind of fresh face on the political scene he is basically an incumbent so he's coming in with people already knowing what he's like as a leader,

what he's done in his presidency and he has said, he does have to answer the question, what is he going to do? >> this speech didn't really answer that question, at least he said he's going to me immediately. he's going to inflation and on the seventh day attempt at a lot of ways to paper over what their agenda is going to be for the trump presidency and problems, the problem for the trump campaign. >> but it's not the problem with the trump campaign is that the speech as written? was the version that. they wanted the american people to hear. but donald trump stood there and he adlibbed about 30% of speech and he added killed in all the plates is it relates to the agenda in the blanks in a way that i think we're not helpful. his campus, but it's not true that he didn't lay out issues and it's also not true that the convention didn't produce a winner very clear and concise policy agenda came out at the beginning of the week. >> and so coming out of this, it's obvious what they're running on and it's not all

that complicated. immigration inflation, crime the national security we're cooking with the president. >> former president needs to do shorten the dam rally you go to raleigh like caitlin says, you go to a rally there too long that people would envy re-rally. they're leaving for the exits because it's like a football game with a scores or not, they want to get it back to the car, get out before the crowd leaves. the donald trump needs to cut down about 30, 40 minutes. go back to the old days that's the big critique of this speech to law. but a big shooting, a big chunk of edition of the shooters shoot. >> great. no one, no one nobody but it's just dense. >> the other stuff it could get a dense it would have been a home right right now, you've got three generations of trump on that stage. >> and the convention was good. the speech was terrible. the candidate is, remains to be seen. but this is a remarkable moment that this family has suffered now managed to survive a whole bunch of stuff, including a near death experience, to be at the center of american life. what they, what they do with that. i'm

terrified some people are hopeful, but you know, i think that what we saw with the convention itself where the elements of something that goes beyond the campaign which you begin to see, it looks like more of a movement. it reminds me of but 2008 where you started having cultural elements. you know, will.i.am. came out with you guys, acts and suddenly there was a cultural element of the obama campaign. you saw a bunch of cultural elements here the mixed martial arts and rock and country. there was a spiritual, the melt that dimension to the obama campaign that was very, very present you hear a lot of evin jellico christianity kind of spiritual stuff. and then this, this nationalist political agenda, you start putting together spiritual stuff, cultural stuff, political stuff starts to go more like a movement. movements are harder to beat and that's what democrats have to look at this thing to look, trump just i don't know what he's doing today, but he's got the elements now that democrats need to get serious stopping a movement is not the same as stopping the candidate. and we've got a cell phone ban. >> he is the apex of the

movement. and if he's if he is defective yes. now and he may motivate the base, but the problem tonight is he should, he showed the qualities that americans are weary i want to go back to jake on floor, jake thanks so much. anderson and the party is still going on here in the arena, delhi goods are starting to leave and the family is obviously starting to leave as well. but let's go and check in with our correspondents and anchors, droughts the arena who can give us take on what's going on. first of all, phil mattingly so the longest nomination acceptance speech in modern american history in one hour, 32 minutes? how did the delegates take that i think the best way to capture it was walking back up over here to get ready for the balloon drop in to confirm there are a lot of balloons on the florida was a delegate decided it's a good

speech. >> it was just really, really long. well, that sounds somewhat simply i think the reality is is when you talk to trump supporters, they knew this was such a good convention and there is the unity was so total in real and there was a bill to this moment that we're in hanging on every word as the president described, a first-person account of the attempted assassination an awful, a traumatic event. and then i think people just driving to follow along. >> there were several delegations that stood the entire time. there's no question about that. wisconsin, florida, texas, every member of their delegation was standing drought, but there are several more actually that were seated kind of waiting for the moment to get riled up to get excited, to be like they are oftentimes that his rallies, there's no question that his rallies, the dedication and devout our nature of his supporters in large part channel through the former president himself. and there were many moments that i could also say i was watching with teleprompter throughout. and while this is not a shock that the former president would go off teleprompter. it was quite obvious when he left the teleprompter and what obvious

when he went back on, you can know for sure because i was much in the prompter that the stories about kim jong un and the stories about cheating the election, things like that. we're not in the script in any way, shape, or form. but it seemed to be kind of toggling back and forth, trying to figure a way to connect with the crowd, but also give the speech that he knew he should give and his advisers wanted him to get jake. >> yeah. and that desire instead of being disciplined in sticking with the speech written for him we know who won that struggle internally. i want to bring bring in our cnn fact fact-checker, senior reporter, daniel dale dan gangel. you've listened to quite a few trump's speeches, and i know that the challenge of being a fact check in this modern era, especially if president trump is one, he tells so many says so many things that are not accurate within a short period of time. but two, it's quite frequently you say the same lies are misstatements over and over and over how did tonight's speech

match up it was a remarkably long acceptance speech shake and a remarkably dishonest acceptance speech. >> i counted at least 22 false claims from donald trump on first listen, let's start with one of the wildest claims he made. listen to what he said about the state of the world when he was president the world was at peace. our opponents inherited a world at peace and turned it into a planet of war were to planet the war, the whole world was at peace. and now the world is blowing up around us. this is false trump did not achieve world peace when he was president certainly wasn't a peace when he left office, there were active wars are armed conflicts in dozens of nations, in 2020, a 51 by one research institutions count. and then 51 and again in 2021, trump handed president biden ongoing civil wars in yemen and syria. of course, an unresolved israeli palestinian conflict, israeli, iranian conflict of warrant ethiopia i could go on for awhile, but i don't have time because there were so