waiting and started shouting, fight, fight, fight >> delegates, even wearing bandages on their own ear tonight. but that's no surprise for a man who's made a career out of his image, even making seeming weaknesses into strengths with the series the apprentice. >> if you look at the opening of the apprentice and you see donald trump walking in slow motion from his helicopter as it lands, straightening his tie as he goes into an important meeting, that's no different than how we see our presidents coming into south lawn. >> donald trump over the course of his first term, and then the four years he's been out of office has constructed so many memorable images. when he came down the golden escalator the day he came back to the white house after having covid and takes the mask off his face, images like his mug shot, those

have been very carefully crafted and circulated, and i think that's a particular talent that he has. >> even after losing in 2020 to joe biden, the insurrection into this year after a jury convicted trump of 34 felonies in the stormy daniels hush money trial, his diehard supporters pledged to stand with him. >> there is a spiritual component to him being the nominee at this point. we all know it. we all feel it. >> we're ready for change. >> i just don't know that there's unity, available to be found here, the sides are so far apart. >> trump is truly a phenomenon. we are living in, whether we like it or not. the trump era. >> i think that the interesting question that we can't answer right now is, will it still be the party of trump in 10 or 20 years? >> god bless you, wisconsin, and god bless the united states of america, our great country. thank you very much, everybody. thank you.

>> we turn now to the other half of this unfolding political narrative, the mounting pressure on president joe biden to withdraw from the race and pass the torch to a new candidate, chief white house correspondent mary bruce, is in the president's home state of delaware. mary, what are you hearing tonight? >> well, byron, while donald trump and the republicans are eager to project unity tonight, joe biden's presidential campaign is really in crisis. we are seeing this cascade of warnings from top democrats, leaders in the party really upping the pressure on joe biden to drop out of this race leaders chuck schumer, hakeem jeffries, even the former powerful speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. we have learned, have all directly and bluntly conveyed to the president their party's concerns, concerns from the caucus members that if joe biden stays at the top of the ticket, he could actually be a drag for democrats. they could risk losing the house and the senate. now, tonight, there is no indication that the president has changed his mind. he's been adamant that he is staying in this race. but sources tell us

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>> welcome back. we're joined now by abc senior congressional correspondent rachel scott, global affairs correspondent

martha raddatz, and chief washington correspondent jonathan karl. jonathan, i want to start with you and watching the prime time special with you and the team there. i was struck by something that linsey davis said from grace to grievance. you spoke with trump on the phone earlier this week. he told you he rewrote his speech. he threw out the old one after the assassination attempt. what happened? >> well look he did write a new speech. it seems there were a couple of lines there early on. >> he said, i'm not running to be the president of half of america. i'm running to be a president of all of america. that is not the kind of line that you would normally have heard from donald trump. but then he went and it seemed like he gave both speeches. the unifying speech, a bit in the beginning. and then the speech that was as divisive as trump has ever been. and he he seemed to speak to the half of america giving a speech that was twice as long. it was rambling. and i think it's got democrats feeling who were depressed just a little while ago, feeling a little bit

more energized, saying, this is a guy that we can beat. >> rachel, i'm curious your perspective on this. you were with trump in pennsylvania when the assassination attempt occurred. you've been there all week. walk us through the emotional arc from saturday to now, and what the expectation was going into the speech and how the floor felt. by the time it was over. >> it was a roller coaster of emotions this week. and how striking was it on its face to see the former president of the united states accept the republican nomination for president? while walking through point by point, an attempted assassination with images? this was highly choreographed, and i was down there on the convention floor as the former president was opening with this sort of monologue of what happened to him, how he survived this attempted assassination by simply just the slight turn of his head. you could hear a pin drop. he had everyone on their feet. they were captivated, a glued to what he was saying. i will tell you, the more he went off script, the more that

started to change. >> byron and rachel, i'll follow up. do you do you think this speech will play well with independents around the country? it seemed listening to it from new york, that in the beginning he was talking to the nation, and by the end he was talking to the room. >> yeah, it depends on what part of the speech those independents and moderates watch. if they watch the first half of the speech, i think that, yes, that will be appealing. these call for unity to come together, rally behind the former president to put everyone's differences aside, move forward as one nation. but as you get further into the speech, the former president really resorted back to what he has said on the campaign trail. i mean, he made false claims about the 2020 election. at one point, he called former speaker of the house nancy pelosi crazy. he used an anti-asian word to describe the covid pandemic. he blasted the justice department. you had one point of the speech where he went off talking about hannibal lecter. i mean, this was really hard to follow at certain points, even for the person that was operating the teleprompter. i was watching them in the back of the room,

trying to figure out where the former president was going with these remarks. so, yes, the first couple of minutes of this speech, probably the unifying message that the former president intended to deliver and even though former president donald trump said he was not going to mention joe biden's name, byron, he just could not simply resist himself. he ended up saying it. >> martha, weigh in here. i'm mindful that you, my friend, you've traveled this country and this globe talking to more service members, more regular americans. any journalist i know. how do you think this speech will play across the country? >> well, i think all week we've heard this message of unity that president trump is going to come out and talk about unifying people on the floor here. that's what they wanted to hear. i mean, we've talked to people here. i've talked to people in other places that they will really looking forward to that message. so i'm not sure that that is really going to resonate. byron, this week he had an opportunity to show his

humanity after that horrific saturday night assassination attempt. other speakers did that. other speakers talked about donald trump as a as a grandfather and a and a kind man. he had his granddaughter out there. this kind of started taking a turn tonight when eric trump started talking and he gave a speech that was pretty negative as well. >> yeah, john, i want you to take us home on this and talk about the other big headline this evening. >> this week, president joe biden and all the pressure on him from different corners of the party. how do you think that calculation goes now after trump's performance this evening? >> well, look, there was such an opportunity for donald trump here. biden has had the worst few weeks that i think we've ever seen a major presidential candidate have during our lifetimes. there was goodwill for trump because of the horror of the assassination attempt and instead you look at this and

like i said, i think democrats are feeling buoyed as our old colleague nate silver put it, watching this speech, it looks like both parties are trying to throw the election. democrats are looking at this and saying, we really can win. the question is, can we win with joe biden? and i think that that effort is going to be intensifying. but joe biden might have watched this speech tonight and thought, you know what? why would i get out of this race? >> yeah. >> john, martha, rachel, my friends and colleagues, thank you for your great work this week. get a quick nap. i know you're traveling tomorrow. safe travels home and you get to do this again next month from chicago. all right. >> thank you byron. >> be there. >> grateful to you. we'll be right back. to help protect from hiv, i prep without pills with apretude. >> a prescription medicine used to reduce the risk of hiv. without daily prep pills with one shot every other month, just six times a year in studies, apretude was proven superior to

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life bringing supporters to tears. >> he also delivered familiar attacks and insults. a full report from milwaukee, plus new details on trump's would be assassin. >> also this morning, the mounting pressure on president biden as he suffers from covid. new reporting about him being more receptive to stepping down as another senator encourages him to drop out. >> plus, the breaking news overnight, the explosion rocking part of tel aviv early friday morning as officials race to find out what it was and a new world record set, one that could go very, very wrong. >> it's friday, july 19th. >> from abc news. this is world news now. >> good friday morning everyone. i'm andrea fujii in for rhiannon alongside andrew dymburt. did you see that guy chopping? >> yeah i cut my fingers just watching that video. that's how close it was. >> and that was garlic. so we're going to tell you what he was doing and what he was trying to do in that video, and got to

wash your hands after that procedure. >> i love the thin garlic, though. it's great for cooking pasta. pasta sauce. all right. what we want to begin this morning with former president trump wrapping up the republican national convention with a marathon of a message, trump was somber as he shared in gripping detail how a bullet nearly claimed his life, and he credited god for saving him. but the hour and a half long speech soon veered into his familiar grievances and false claims. abc's perry russom has the latest from milwaukee. >> i proudly accept your nomination for president of the united states. thank you. reporter >> overnight, former president trump delivering the longest televised nomination acceptance speech in history. speaking for 92 minutes. trump beginning the speech with a commitment to uniting the nation. >> i am running to be president for all of america, not half of america, because there is no victory in winning for half of america. >> then giving a minute by

minute recount of his assassination attempt, describing the moment a bullet grazed his right ear. >> there was blood pouring everywhere. and yet in a certain way, i felt very safe because i had god on my side. i felt that okay. >> reporter the now famous photo of his fist raised skyward, projected into the large screens on stage, trump paying tribute to the man who was killed that day, bringing his firefighter uniform on stage, kissing the helmet and holding a moment of silence. the highly choreographed sequence of events soon taking a turn, the rnc stretching into a fifth day as trump spoke past 12 a.m. eastern time, often going off script, falsely accusing democrats of stealing the 2020 election. >> they used covid to cheat. you're never going to let it happen again. >> touching on what could be considered divisive talking points. >> and you know who's being hurt the most by millions of people pouring into our country? the black population and the hispanic population, and using a

term some have criticized as anti-asian hate. 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. >> the former president also mentioning his rival's name despite previously saying he would not. 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. >> the biden-harris campaign. reacting to the speech calling trump's agenda the single biggest attack on our personal freedoms and way of life ever proposed in modern american history. in washington, d.c, just hours before trump's remarks, the department of homeland security announcing a third investigation into the secret service. this time focused on security at the former president's butler, pennsylvania, rally. abc news also confirming new details about the shooter, sources say thomas matthew crooks had two cell phones and an individual using his name signed up online to attend the trump rally, one week ahead of time. perry russom, abc news, milwaukee.

>> perry, thank you. now to president biden facing those mounting calls to end his reelection bid, montana senator jon tester, whose seat is among the most vulnerable, became the second senate democrat and 23rd member of congress to publicly urged biden to drop out. but a white house official is denying reports that it could happen as early as this weekend. abc's mary bruce has more. >> president biden isolating at his beach house recovering from covid as calls from democrats for him to exit the race reach a crescendo. >> the white house releasing a letter from the president's doctor saying biden is still experiencing mild upper respiratory symptoms and he does not have a fever and his vital signs remain normal. the president is taking paxlovid. we heard the toll of covid in his voice. this radio interview, conducted right before he tested positive. biden coughing as he tries to explain his disastrous debate performance. >> i have exhausted. i've been traveling around the world, i wasn't ready and i performed

terribly. and so people are now saying, well, that was only one thing. but he's 81 years old. what happened is 84 years old. what happens? excuse me when he's 85 years old? >> it comes as the country's top democrats pressure biden to quit the campaign. abc news first to report that senate majority leader chuck schumer, in a face to face meeting last week, made the case it would be best if biden dropped out of the race amid concerns the president's advisers aren't giving him the full picture. schumer presenting him with polling data showing he could drag down democrats in the house and senate sources tell u. former house speaker nancy pelosi, also delivering her blunt concerns directly. but a top white house aide tells me the president is as committed as ever to staying in this race. still, other sources say the president has absolutely been more receptive to hearing out calls for him to end his candidacy. top democrats know what comes next is entirely up to the president. >> president biden decides this is the toughest job in the

world. i don't think i've got the ability to do it. he's going to level with the american public about it because he always puts this country over himself. >> but for now, president biden isolating at home in rehoboth, delaware. first lady jill biden there, too, the decision his alone to make the source tells me the president has asked to see polling on kamala harris and how she would do. now. we don't know exactly what numbers he's looking at. but two days ago, out on the campaign trail, the president saying of harris, quote, she's not only a great vice president, she could be president of the united states. >> mary bruce reporting. thank you. we have breaking news from tel aviv, where an explosion shook the streets of the central district this morning, killing at least one man, an israeli military. the israeli military says it was caused by, quote, an aerial target. local police say the boom reverberated to nearby cities and injured at least ten people. witnesses say it felt like an earthquake and shattered their sense of security. abc's britt clennett was in the neighborhood immediately after the blast hit. >> the explosion going off just

here at this intersection, yards away from the us embassy. >> emergency services now cordoning off the area to investigate what happened. >> yemen's houthi rebels are claiming responsibility. and the city of tel aviv is on high alert. >> nasty storms have been pounding the south and it's not over just yet. accuweather meteorologist justin pavic joins us now with the forecast. good morning. justin. andrew. andrea, good morning. lots of heat. back with us here on this friday throughout the interior west boise blazing hot at 105. more steam and storms stretching from houston to charlotte. >> but boy, what a treat from new york city into chicago. lower humidity. that's going to continue right into and through this weekend. but the storms will also continue into the southeast beyond this weekend, right through next week. andrew andrea, back over to you. >> justin. thank you. the guinness book has named a new world record holder with quite a unique talent. >> canadian chef wallace wong, also known as the six pack chef,

cut the most garlic ever in just 30s 117 slices. the video has clocked more than 3 million views on instagram. a guinness book representative was, of course, there to monitor wong's feat and counted the slices after to confirm he broke the record. >> that's got to be an interesting job there to count all the little baby garlic. >> i know the garlic is so tiny. i have a machine. they just put it in and does the work for you. >> yeah, i just have one of those, garlic minsters. it's not quite a machine, but you just put a piece of garlic and boom! >> that is skill. >> congratulations. can always call this guy. he's the new world record. >> i hope they use that for food later. >> okay. coming up, it's friday, so that means we have a brand new polka. >> plus the computer issues overnight forcing airlines to ground planes and later how the nfl is grooming its new young talent this weekend in an event for both boys and girls, you're watching world news now. >> we are a law firm that only represents mesothelioma victims and their families. do you have

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