al: i'm al hunt. mark: i mark halperin. with all due respect connecting rich, putting him on the ticket with donald trump was a was kind of a moonshot. and with all due respect to chris christie, putting you on the ticket with donald trump was always a bridge too far. al and i are here all week. welcome to a very special vee pstakes edition. john heilemann spent the day in consideredth many

clinton's top bbq dinner, tim kaine. tohole lot of signs point indiana governor mike pence as donald trump's choice. tomorrow at a press conference trouble announces decision. is news is reporting pence the choice for trump. some are saying it is all but certain that that is who trump will choose. trump telling bloomberg that no final decision at this hour has been made. however, a local indiana reporter, very respected journalist, tweeted late this afternoon, "confirmed. pence heading to airport in new jersey. video on the air this hour." he picks the hoosier governor. is pence a good choice? al: it's a safe choice.

not going to do any harm and that is important. newt gingrich or chris christie would have been a more exciting .nd explosive choice mike pence this study come he is reliable, not going to embarrass the candidate. helps a little bit with the social right, who is suspicious of trump. mark: helps with the social right and members of congress, where he served, big donors including the koch brothers. the thing that is a risk about pence is that the one time of late he was in the national spotlight, he didn't do well. al: he choked. mark: and he is better than that. very steady guy, good politically. if trump is going to make the race from he will make the story hillary clinton. gingrich wereen christie, it would not have been about hillary a lot of days. pence has good people around him. if he is the choice from he will be good at the convention with the speech, good in media

interviews. and then the debate will largely disappear and that is largely why he was kicked, to take the focus -- put the focus on trump and clinton, which is where trump wants it. al: i agree, can you imagine under newt gingrich or chris christie to make the case against clinton on bill clinton's personal transgressions and ethics. it would have been laughable and counter productive. mark: pence is clean harbors. it al -- al: vice presidents, we get excited. lbjhave got to go back to to find one that really made a big difference. mark: the other thing about pence is that he is a steady influence, policy guy, opposite of trump in a lot of ways, and that will assure people. afort, will they choose somebody who is qualified to be president? he said absolutely. pence will clear that bar, just

like cheney did and joe biden did. that are he has taken like trump -- he voted against the prescription drug bill, the bailout for the financial industry that he has some antigovernment poseable fit in nicely with the top coalition. al: he will have to adjust on things like his pro-free-trade position. he is not as heavy as his predecessor mitch daniels. this is not a heavyweight but it is a perfectly acceptable choice. mark: mike pence, governor of indiana, has been around politics for decades. from a constant, radio host, has cast some populist votes in favor small government. the opposition research team at the dnc, they are preparing and have pence in their site. where will they go after pence?

al: opposition research from the hillary campaign, they say he will be in real trouble because he has joined donald trump. they had a huge litany on newt gingrich and chris christie and they couldn't use it. i don't think there will be a lot. some of his socially conservative views. he will be depicted as anti-gay. he got in great trouble with the so-called religious liberty issue out there sometimes he is not been the best politician. he ran against john boehner for gop leader one-time got clobbered. nothing that will really cut. mark: they will say he is too conservative on social issues. areasill to highlight where they disagree although i don't think they will do trade very hard. the thing i think he is the local on is his position in indiana. andpopularity has gone down is in danger -- if he doesn't get out and he is in danger of losing his to a democrat in a republican state. i will point to the fact that he has not govern in a way that has

increased his popularity. after next week, there will not be a lot of discussion of mike pence. al: i saw joe donnelly, democratic senator from indiana, pretty able politician. he said "i think democrats are going to win the governor's race in indiana." not blowing smoke you really thought that. mark: a lot of democrats like him. , inas good relationships this polarized nation pretty good relationships with democrats. you will have a hard time getting democrats trashing members of congress including from indiana. and i think republicans recognize that people rally around him. this is not a guy who if the attack will not have defenders. he has good relationships with a lot of house members during his time there. even if democrats come after him, he will not be again fail deer in headlights on anything . al: i'm guessing she chooses tim

kaine or tom. s. elizabethack v ward. mark: the 2 finals we believe were eliminated were chris christie and newt gingrich. christie sat down with nicole wallace for the q&a discussion, and king richard logged on for facebook q&as. ingrich: i said he had a choice between two pirates on the ticket or a pirate and a more stable person. some people say no one has taken more for backing him when he did that you could do you feel that way? governor christie: no. i'm not owed anything in that way at all and if you view it that way you don't have your eye on the ball. the eye on the ball is when the race first and then be the person who can help the

president be the best president he can be. mark: both of those guys seem to be taking it ok. for christie there was some exquisitely bad news. the timing couldn't have been worse. david samson, a longtime associate of christie, pled guilty to a felony conspiracy charge that he used his position as the head of the port authority in new york and new jersey to set up a nonstop united airlines flight to an airport in south carolina that happens to be near his vacation home. he was chairman of the port authority when christie allies caused traffic gridlock on the george washington bridge in 2013, a.k.a. bridgegate. al, we both know that christie and gingrich have lots of baggage. if it is pence, why do you think trump went that way? what was wrong with the two other guys? is he was inclined

to go for one of those because they are great attack dogs. but he saw the real downside inaccurate newt gingrich, -- downside in that it newt gingrich, i'm glad he confessed he wasn't normal. newtst had lunch with gingrich, i'm not sure you were born, july of 1974, when he said the party had to get away from ronald reagan. and chris christie, we will talk about this plea today, but bridgegate has not gone away. mark: i think left to his own devices trump would have chosen one of those two. but we will talk to kelly o'donnell -- he was getting advice from some people but the main advice was that those guys are too volatile personally and in terms of their background. like i said before, you will not going to put newt gingrich were chris christie on the national stage for several months and not have days where they create the story from where they are the story. and not in a way that is advantageous to trump pick

picking them seems to be too big a risk. but the upsides are great. his mike pence going to help trump get elected? probably not. al: he won't, but neither will chris christie or newt gingrich. going after clinton on ethics -- when dominican what is bridgegatge? or imagine newt gingrich tried to attack her on the personal behavior of her husband. mark: he tried that before. all the water is not flowed under the bridge for chris christie. we will talk about this david samson cleat and the christie relationship with the trump campaign after these words from our sponsors. ♪

al: we called in a pro to shed more light on today's guilty jersey porter new authority chairman david samson and the political applications for governor chris christie. msnbc political correspondent and garden state native steve kornacki is with us. steve, i know samson's lawyer michael chertoff. he is a smart lawyer. this sounds like some kind of a deal because samson was going to deliver more goods to the prosecutor. is that an unfair application? is a questionhere of whether he did to deliver something because the surprise nobody saw coming necessarily is that samson put his guilty plea in and that story broke and an hour later prosecutors charged another veteran of new jersey politics, secretary of transportation under christie, previously under a democratic governor, somebody

very well known in trenton. they charged him with conspiracy to commit bribery, basically saying he's part of this scheme with samson. fox is fighting the charges, going to court to contest it. sampson obviously not going to be doing that. more of an open question about what david samson's role is going to be going forward. there were two reports today that david samson wasn't going to be cooperating and of course, if that is true, that is great news for chris christie in terms andeople looking at samson saying he would be a threat to chris christie because potentially he could give up something, you would have to give up somebody bigger than himself. there are very few people in the political world of new jersey bigger than their senses so reasonably that would be chris christie good that would ask the question with what we saw with jamie fox earlier. mark: this plea comes out with thegate -- with bridgegate, port authority and there are pending trials there, main

defendants in bridgegate wobbler. is it your sense that whether it is smoke, fire, or some, nation, trump veterans would have looked at us and said it is too risky to pick somebody who could be indicated? -- implicated? steve: what we know is that the trial is scheduled to go this fall. they are playing out during the presidential campaign. the odds are that even if he is not directly implicated, chris christie's name will come out during that file an awful lot. that will be hanging over the campaign. and the two people who will be standing trial this fall, i get the sense that all of them or at least some of them are just waiting for all of the legal drama to end here to be able to come out and say publicly what has been on their minds about chris christie for the last few years. if you are chris christie, you also have that prospect if you are running for national office, these people saying very pointed

things about you potentially. steve, you know how they have played politics in jersey. it is tough. whoever did this ridiculous thing, it is just human nature suggest you want to tell the boss, hey guess what we did. why would you do it and not brag about it internally? well, that is the question, too. there is the basic question of did christie know, did you find some kind of document proving christine you? -- christie new? that didn't turn up and will never turn up as far as we know it but the culture of administration -- did christie create a culture and the administration that basically told everybody that driving up the margin in the 2013 reelection as a way of being a springboard into the presidential campaign, did driving up that margin at any and all costs was the most

important thing they could do anything we can do to squeeze a few extra votes to make the margin that much higher and more impressive to national political observers, they should do. did something like this, going after a local mayor who refused to endorse, did it grow out of a culture that said that? al: nobody knows more about that political culture than you, steve kornacki. thank you for joining us. when we come back, the republican rules committee off to a messy start in cleveland. we will talk about that and more right after this. ♪

mark: an update for you on donald trump's veepstakes search. jonathan karl of abc's reporting mike pencehas asked to be his running mate. let's get to the business taking place in cleveland that first day of the republican rules committee started out this morning ahead of the convention, and things got off to a bit of a rocky start. rnc officials and the anti-trump leaders on the rules committee were trying to figure out a way to unbind delegates so they could vote however they wish, huddled behind closed doors, postponing most of the activity today. they have come in after a long delay. they blamed it, al, on a faulty copier. i'm not sure why they are using a copy of it there for this for several days. -- we have heard this for several days. they don't believe they are in danger of losing control of the floor and trump losing a vote in

terms of unbinding the delegates, but they don't want minority report. is this potentially something that could distract next week? al: i think it is probably a small problem. on platform and rules, they don't want any kind of messy floor fight. there is a lot of frustrated delegates out here who really aren't with trump but there is a limit as to what they can do. i think that between preibus, the rnc, and trump, they are marching in lockstep on this and they will control the outcome. mark: there are a couple of things crosscutting. lee,s likely come -- mike senator from utah, on the committee, has been silent. it was a big supporter of ted cruz and not a big supporter of trump. al: his chief of staff was the top guy on the platform committee. mark: we have got to see where mike lee ends up. i do think this is an area where

pence will help. there are a lot of rnc members who like pence. to the extent that they have a macro message of unity, and in paul manafort and the people manafort has brought into this campaign, working hand in glove ibus,the reince pre you have guys who understand how to control a convention. i-- blame it on the copy o copier. mark: still playing out. the rnc released a partial list of people speaking in cleveland. some of them we already knew -- scott walker, ted cruz, members of donald trump's family. and a cast of nontraditional characters including employees of donald trump, big names from business, and some sports stars including nfl quarterback tim tebow, ultimate fighting temperature president dana white. also an astronaut, a former

underwear model or two. as does this roster, vaired it is, suggest that they have the rolling box for a successful convention? al: we don't have convicted rapists like mike tyson speaking. mark: no clint eastwood. "dirtyhough i love harry," but you are right. it should have some of the interesting new members of congress -- arbor -- barbara mostock, mia love -- the popular governors in america, charlie baker. none of them will be there. john kasich will be down the street. mark: an oppressive bench, more diverse bench -- impressive bench, more diverse bench, on display with the main speakers could but this convention was always going to be about trump

and his family and people he knows and trump knows how to put on a show. there are missed opportunities and people i heard from today who are heartbroken about what they believe trump is doing to the brand of the party can with a look at this list and say it is the codification of trump taking over the party and with his friend and replacing the republican brand. al: interesting to see who he couldn't get when the nfl star bow, he couldn't make the nfl. that's not tom brady. it's ok. i don't think there's anybody probably who will embarrass him. but it is not something you say, boy, that is impressive. mark: not having condoleezza rice at the republican convention, that alone is disappointing to people. the clinton campaign has a new tv ad today, pretty negative and getting rave reviews. it is called "role model,"

highlighting donald trump's more controversial statements while children watch with melts again. mr. trump: and you can tell them to go [bleep] themselves. i could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and choose somebody and not lose any voters. when mexico brings its people they are bringing drugs and crime and they are rapists. you can see there are blood -- there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her whatever. you see this guy -- "oh, i don't know what i said, i don't remember!" mark: that ad is part of what we are told is an eight figure buy that will air in several red states. democrats are praising the spot, saying it is a powerful attack on the republican nominee, and some republicans feel that at is potentially pretty quickly. why is there so much buzz about

this spot when there is so much is out there? al: in a bloomberg poll we asked some issues trump did well on. we asked two questions -- who would be a good role model for your children? clinton, 54-25. that is what they are playing too. mark: playing on his weakness. al: and the super pac says the up they have done on him mocking people with disbelief, which he plainly did come the most effective they've ever seen. mark: helps with suburban women and independents. i've got to say, i believe if a republican used kids in an ad like that they would face criticism. that is a questionable call to use kids like that. later in the spot they should deliver content -- they showed hillary clinton speaking and kids listening to her. we have the intuition as to whether the ad is effective or

not. you can bet a focus grouped that. that will run for a good long time and trump has to figure out how to rebut that. al: he has problems. take the disability issue. he will deny, as he did to "the washington post," he was making fun of that report appeared that is a lie. -- that reporter. that is a lie. mark: we have not seen the tempo of the -- tableau of the pence family and the trump family standing side-by-side. pence can perhaps remediate this for trump. we have questions about the new running mate. we will talk to a trump senior advisor who knows mike pence better than donald trump. kellyanne conway joins us after this.

john: it has been an eventful day for the republicans and

their party. there was a rules committee meeting out in cleveland, and of course, everyone -- and i mean everyone -- is talking about donald trump's looming veepstakes decision. joining us to talk about both is .elly and conway i'm looking at my twitter, and it says that a reporter is reporting that donald trump has offered the vp spot to mike pence. is that true? i cannot confirm that. the campaign is saying if you want to know, you have to show atat the hilton or tune in 11 :00 a.m. tomorrow. john: you're someone who is very familiar with donald trump's shortlist. .ive us the case for mike pence what does he bring to the ticket? >> a couple of things. he showed the other night at the rally that one can attack the hillary clinton candidacy,

challenge her fitness to be surgically,ut passionately, methodically. he took a comment she made, promising to put the coal industry out of business and travel that comment westward through pennsylvania, ohio, wisconsin,linois, iowa. does not mean you win although states, but you make them competitive. he also has a surplus in indiana. large charter school expansion program. a lot of infrastructure development. the economy is going very well in indiana, and he has created manufacturing jobs, which is something donald trump has said he would like to do as president, and many people are skeptical. he also checks the washington box. he spent 12 years in congress, 10 on the foreign affairs committee. in congress before

he successfully went home to run for governor, he spent as the communications person in leadership for the republican party. he was on tv ubiquitously, the face of the party. has a great line -- i'm a conservative but not in a bad mood about it. i think the republican party could really use more positive, uplifting, inspiring spokespeople. talk about mike pence's personality, which is underrated in terms of his sense of humor and how outgoing he is. a lot of people who only view only thelly through national prison look at him as kind of a stiff, which he is not. kellyanne: he is not a stiff. he refers to himself as rush limbaugh on decaf because he is a little bit more measured and laid-back. others of us in the east coast cannot always relate to someone -- at least i cannot -- to someone who is reflected and not

reactive, who thinks about it. recently, he made a couple of comments about the state of the race that seemed to be much more measured and unique in their .ontent also, i think mike pence will help on the policy part. donald trump is moving into you saw theicy -- 10-point plan to reform the veterans administration this past monday in virginia beach. very specific, concrete. i think he is someone who can help with that. he is also someone who is very well respected. and people missed a comment by senator jeff blake in the newspaper today where he was very glowing about his friend and former colleague in the house, mike pence. he was the senator from arizona last week who was pretty salty when he had his meeting of the senate. some people thought it was a bit

disrespectful, but it definitely was confrontational. you get someone like mike pence on the ticket, and i think it's window toward party unity. donors are longtime friends and supporters of governor and congressman mike pence, so the question to them now is this is the first major decision by the nominee in terms of personnel. what say you about someone you have worked with and trusted for a very long time? us a little bit -- and continuing with my feature interview because the country will have to get to know this guy starting tomorrow. talk about the family. kellyanne: i love the pence family. karen and mike have been married have 30 years and they three children. michael, who is recently engaged served his country.

the children are all in their mid to early 20's. and they are a very close family, a very tightknit family. they make decisions together. i think it was reported that their one daughter was with them when they came out to meet the several weeks ago. also, i think they made the decision with -- i think his children were ages 4, 5, and six when they got to congress, and they made the decision to be together as a family in the washington suburbs, to raise the children there so that they had dinner together every night. i think that is very sweet and very much for they are. karen pence as first lady of indiana has really cut her own very popularbeen a speaker, very popular personality and individual leader in indiana. as the country gets to know them, they will very much enjoy them and like them. that's also why, as has been

reported in many places, the official vetting of governor pence was fairly clean. john: it has been a lot of activity even outside the veepstakes drama today. the campaign is obviously monitoring that pretty closely. some like efforts to force kind of compromise have broken down. what can you tell us about what is going on in terms of something that will get you guys what you want and get a relatively peaceful convention? as you say, the conversations are ongoing. that is precisely the function of the committee and the week. i think these conversations are healthy. democrats obviously had conversations like that and orlando where the sender's people got an awful lot of what they wanted and he is not even the nominee. these conversations are healthy. there are people who would seem

disappointed today because they but may actually be looking to make a difference for 2020 and not 2016. that is something else i want to .ay about mike pence this is an everyman's story. my party was veering dangerously close to becoming the party of the elite, and i appreciate that donald trump has brought the republican party more to the party of the worker through a lot of his plans and ideas. hypothetically again since you're asking me about him, a trump-pence ticket would fulfill that. ago,ather died many years mother is the matriarch of the family. people can relate to somebody who is not ivy league educated, comes from a blue-collar background, has known what it's like to lose a job and wait for the next paycheck, something mitt romney tried to pretend he

knew about a pink slip in 2012. nobody believed it. mike pence has faced a pink slip. i'm happy for my party, too, because i do not want the republican party to be the party .f the elite i think it is a really positive step forward, especially when it seems at a time when hillary clinton is having a difficult time gaining trust and projecting herself as a person of the people. mark: positive step forward if he is choosing mike pence. kellyanne: right, hypothetically. you are like the zelig of american politics, very close to donald trump, very close to mike pence, very close to ted cruz, whose super pac you helped direct when he was a candidate. kellyanne: i'm thrilled senator cruz is speaking at the convention. he will have a lot to add. i'm thrilled mr. trump asked and senator cruz agreed to speak.

mark: why has he not endorsed? kellyanne: everybody is so tired of that word. what does it mean? he is going to the convention. he will inspire lots of folks there. he came in second. he won the silver in a very tough year when so many odds were against them. they got the gold and silver in a talented field. -- senator cruz being there is important. governor walker. so many conversations and reporting have been about who will not be at the convention, but we will have to start forcing ourselves to really atrt looking at who will be the convention. a little bit unconventional, and i can tell you back at headquarters, everybody is very excited about the convention that is coming together. they are going -- you will see a great deal of the same kind of enthusiasm and confidence and grassroots bottom-up type of all through the

primary, and that will continue into cleveland. in a place like the adelphia, hillary clinton runs the risk of twog overshadowed by presidents that are more popular than her -- in a place like philadelphia. this is going to be donald trump's convention. to be recordgoing ratings. cannot wait to see you there. conway, the only person i know who can spin the presence of two presidents who are quite popular into a negative. next, we will talk to kelly o'donnell right after this. ♪

hillary clinton: i have to say, a great,w "hamilton," great musical. i saw it for the third time if you don't tell anybody. and i hope you all listen to the soundtrack. travel probably around the country for the next century. but it tells us some important lessons. you look at our founders -- virginia gave us a bunch of them . mark: that was from this afternoon. hillary clinton's appearance with a man said to be one of her top -- maybe her top vp

contender, former governor there, tim kaine. john is with us now where we are talking about both the and thean veepstakes democrat. i watched a little bit of that on tv. the body language seemed to me to be ok. not super, but ok. john: we have seen hillary clinton do this kind of addition thing that donald trump did with some of his potential picks now with tim kaine and elizabeth warren. the war in -- the warren event, by all accounts, was electrifying, but tim kaine is not really an electrifying kind of guy. he was the way he is, which is to say lighthearted, genial -- rogers-y, a little mr.

on the stage. not someone who was going to light up a room or make any part of the party go crazy, but as those thingse of are assets. obviously, he is going to clear the ready to be commander-in-chief test given his time as governor, mayor, and senator and foreign affairs experience, and he would be the clearest example of a do no harm pick, some of they could put on the ticket, that would get through the thing, and turn to a they really want to do in this race, which is making about donald trump. no distractions. mark: the reality is there is no way to do this as a controlled experiment. to see what they are like in front of a crowd, you have to put them in front of a crowd. i gather some senior campaign officials came along today to watch the tires be kicked. jim paul mary was there. there was a rumor that podesta was around. i did not actually lay eyes on

podesta. i think they were all checking it out. she is very familiar with tim kaine. in trump's case, some of these people he was auditioning are people he did not know very well even a couple of months ago, like the person who will almost certainly be his selection, mike pence. he does not really know these people. tim kaine and hillary clinton go back a pretty long way, so there's no surprises or revelations. there's more taking of the temperature, and they will want to see how it looks on television. not an electrifying tableau, but andseemed happy to be there he seemed happy to be there, and you can imagine the fitting together in a relatively comfortable and friendly way going forward. mark: let's bring in our colleague from nbc news who has been expertly covering the republican veepstakes and knows mike pence from her time covering him on capitol hill. you said something important and smart this morning -- or afternoon, i guess -- actually it was this morning, about the

veepstakes that pretty much starts now and goes to the convention, and then everything else. talk about mike pence as a first and how he will be after that and where his strength lies. kelly: first impressions matter and everything including politics, and the expectations are that his name on the ticket rings a certain sense of resturance to some of the of the conservatives who are uneasy about how donald trump would govern. steadying force to the ticket? would he be able to generate some of the donor interest that has been lagging because some of those big-money donors who typically bankroll republican candidates have been holding theirsome directing interest to senate or house races instead? couldt first phase, that be well-received.

the other challenge would be how would mike pence do under the white house spotlight of the day in day out data love this campaign if donald trump, true to form and so far what we've seen this year, is unpredictable, at times incendiary, at times provocative. will mike pence, who is a much more controlled figure, the able to take that on every day? he would be put to that test, and it would not be an easy thing for anyone on the ticket. it's the kind of thing that takes us through different phases from the initial greeting to how he would go day-to-day. the vice presidential debate in october, how he would perform a future hillary clinton partner, and in governing, if they were to win the election. are definitely strength at different points in the timeline, but perhaps not all of them. you've also done a lot of

good reporting on what is going on within the trump high command, largely made up of his family. kelly: from my reporting, i'm invankamelania and pro-pence. part of the dynamic that has emerged is something the person described as sort of a personal issue with the son-in-law of donald trump. they are so close to donald trump, so involved in his campaign, and there is a campaign that he has been resistant to overcome, and that is governor christie has been a prosecutor, u.s. attorney for hisjersey years ago, and father, a democratic philanthropist and donor, was prosecuted and sent to prison over tax evasion and some other charges.

that is a big thing for a son to get past. that has been part of the resist. mark: thank you both. we will tell you about some quick news overseas right after this. ♪

mark: breaking news overseas at a time when the world is still braced for terror attacks. in nice, france, a truck .eportedly ran into a crowd the mayor said on twitter there appear to be dozens of deaths according to the ap -- i believe it is the ap. cnn is reporting 10 dead now.

but that is a big, evolving story. again, not clear it is terrorism, but loss of life and we will continue to monitor that story for you. also monitoring governor pence, who is reportedly on a private plane headed from indiana to the new york area for what is expected to be an announcement tomorrow morning with donald trump in new york city at the hilton hotel, not a trump property, to join the ticket just a few days before the convention. and is late for mike pence the family. obviously they have known they have been under consideration for a bit, but there is a lot .or him to do john: i will say a couple of things. first of all, it's not very often when i can speak for millions of americans, but i think it's fair to say that we have gone today, if you think about what we have seen today -- at one point, there was a possibility of a gingrich or christie debate with elizabeth

moran -- elizabeth warren, with the more likely outcome of mike pence versus tim kaine i think is a little bit disappointing. what you can say is they have played on the national stage. serious person who has had a serious career but has never been in the spotlight in the way he is about to be. he has a lot of work to do to familiarize himself with a lot of issues and get himself ready for what will be some white-hot light. he has never experienced anything close to this in his career so far. : the speech i saw him give the other day with trump is a good template for what he will be like, and i think he will be just fine. ♪

news, as we told you -- the latest out of france is at least 10 people are dead who were at a bastille day celebration. gunfire wasg that exchanged. we will have all the latest news here on tv and on the web. coming up, "bloomberg west." we'll be back tomorrow with donald trump announcing his running mate, mike pence of indiana. for john and for me, thanks for watching. we will see you tomorrow. bat channel., same sayonara. ♪

mark: you are watching "bloomberg west." in nice, france, there are reports of dozens of deaths after a van rammed into a crowd

during a best deal day celebration. no word on if the crash was an accident or deliberate. the incident comes the same day president francois hollande announced france's state of emergency would be lifted on july 26. likely presidential nominee donald trump close to naming his running mate. multiple media reports say it is indiana governor mike pence, although the campaign will not confirm this. "the indianapolis star" says governor pence has dropped his reelection bid. trump will make his announcement tomorrow will live in new york. bloomberg will have live coverage. hillary clinton was joined by former senate colleagues and potential vice presidential candidates including tim kaine, who later joined mrs. clinton at a rally in virginia. u.s. secretary of state john kerry held talks in moscow with russian president vladimir putin. he reportedly offered