national convention, but the trump national convention. his fingerprints are all over this agenda. >> all over this, because this is now donald trump's republican party. and if there are republicans around the country, official capacity or otherwise, they have to get right with that. and this is an opportunity for trump to do something he has not done up until now, which is really unify the party. that's a lot of what this convention is about. and the other opportunity he has, as you well know, wolf, is to command the stage, as he will do over the next few days, to kind of reset the image, the proposals that he wants to put forward. >> all right. reince priebus about to call to order. >> this convention will come to order! delegates and alternates, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 2016 republican national convention. before we end the official business of this convention, i'd like to take a moment to

recognize the fallen police officers in baton rouge, dallas and elsewhere. the men and women who protect our safety and well-being, who put their lives on the line every day. they're our jen heroes. we also want to recognize all of the families who have lost loved ones during these troubling times. our nation grieves when we see these awful killings. will you join me in a moment of silence? thank you. would everyone please rise for the presentation of colors? the colors will be presented by the cuyahoga county veterans, including two world war ii veterans. let's give them a warm welcome. [ cheers and applause ]

>> left, left, left, right, left. left, left, left, right, left. left, left, left, right, left. left, left, left, right, left. march time march! detail halt! left face! left arm! >> please remain standing for the pledge of allegiance, the national anthem, and the invocation.

thank you. it is my privilege to introduce students from northeast ohio, who took the cuyahoga county gop red, white and blue challenge, t. williams, celia head, thomas wuertz, jasmine taurz and jeff umvarski will lead us in the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [ cheers and applause ] >> all right. performing the national anthem, please welcome the singing

angels! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ o say can you see by the dawn's early light ♪ ♪ what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? ♪ ♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight ♪ ♪ o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? ♪ ♪ and the rockets' red glare

the bombs bursting in air ♪ ♪ gave proof through the night that our flag was still there ♪ ♪ oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave ♪ ♪ o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> offering today's invocation, please welcome rabbi ari wolf. rabbi?

>> please join me as we pray for god's blessings, for our success of our mission. [ speaking foreign language ] our heavenly father, we acknowledge your grace and your beneficence. ke ask your blessings upon this republican national convention and all those gathered here. we ask for your blessings of our country and our people, and we seek your guidance and continued protection. lord god, we live in perilous and dangerous times. today, our beloved country is under attack, our family values, our moral principles, and even our very democracy is threatened. we beseech you for your

continued watchfulness and protections as we renew our covenant of faith with you and with each other. lord, protect our leaders, protect the members of our armed forces who serve so valiantly. bring them home when their noble missions are done. lord god, watch over and safeguard our police officers and all our first responders who work each day and night in every city, town and hamlet of our great nation to protect us and our freedoms. we ask you of this, o lord, not because we have merit, but because we rely upon you and your merciful grace. lord, please bless all those engaged in this convention and that thy will be done in their

deliberations. [ speaking foreign language ] may god bless you and keep you. may god shine his confidence upon you and be gracious to you. may god lift up his face to you and give you peace in a world of peace and let us say "amen." >> amen! >> thank you. [ applause ] >> please remain standing while the colors are retired. >> right face!

>> forward march! left, left, left, right, left. left, left, left, right, left. left, left, left, right, left. [ applause ] ♪ ♪ imagine me and you, i do ♪ i think about you day and night, it's only right ♪ ♪ to think about the girl you love ♪ >> all right, so, the republican national convention has been called to order. there's a little musical interlude right now. it's official, the republican national convention here in cleveland is getting down to business right now. we're here at the convention hall with all of our analysts and our guests. and you can see them with us right here. let's talk a little bit about

what we anticipate during the course of this day. trina pearson is here. she is the spokeswoman for the donald trump campaign. how does it feel to be here at this moment when this convention has officially been called to order? >> i think it's fantastic. the campaign is really excited. mr. trump's excited. we've been able to achieve something that no one's really ever done before outside the system with an insurgent candidate who's been controversial at times but still managed to captivate enough vote to break the record in the republican primary. and here we are for him to accept the nomination. >> there's going to be some surprises tonight, or do we basically know what's going to happen? his wife, melania's going to be speaking. that's the big speaker. is ha going to introduce her? >> he may. this is a tough event, so i think anything's possible. this is not going to be your typical convention. he wants to entertain people. he wants to bring in more viewers. and again, as you mentioned opening the show, this is going

to be an event for people who may be on the fence or want to know what mr. trump is really about, without that media filter. and this is what we're going to find. >> kevin madden is one of our cnn contributors, a republican strategist, not excited about donald trump being the republican nominee. but it's official now, this campaign, this convention is down to business. >> right. yeah, and i think katrina makes a good point. the focus of this campaign, i think first and foremost, has to be addressed, that unity issue. there are a lot of republicans out there who are here today in attendance, but many are conflicted. so, i think addressing those that are here in the room, but also those millions around the country right now, that's going to be key to positioning donald trump for success in the general election. >> mike shields, our cnn delegate analyst, former republican national committee chief of staff, has he managed to bring that republican base around? has he united the party going forward, at least enough to potentially get himself elected?

because as you well know, a lot of republicans are not very happy with this nominee. >> well, the polling would say no, he still has work to do. and i think what you're watching here with the delegates on the floor, this is the business of the convention. this is where the unbind vote would have taken place that would have threatened his candidacy when we thought we would have an open convention. that's over. so, we've mechanically gotten to the point of bringing everyone together. there is still work to do to bring people together. picking mike pence is part of that. there is still work to do and they could do it from the stage this week. >> bacarri sellers, hillary clinton supporters, you're here in enemy territory right now. what do you think of the mike pence, from a democratic perspective, from the democratic party perspective, what do you think of mike pence as the running mate? >> well, i think mike pence doesn't put any fear in any of the hearts of democrats. could free hillary clinton up to choose tom choose thomas vilsack and not

take pressure from any of them. but inside the convention, it's a lot of excitement, but outside, once we go outside the security perimeter, we see how tense it is. we understand we had minneapolis, baton rouge, the cop shooting in dallas and another in baton rouge. so, donald trump has a moment. this is his moment. this convention is his moment to show that not only can he describe that the world is in chaos, but show that he can be a unifier. i'm not sure if he can do that, but we'll see this week. >> sara murray has been covering the trump campaign for almost a year. melania trump is going to be speaking tonight, the wife of donald trump. they really want, the republicans and the viewers out there, and there will be millions of them, to get her perspective on who her husband is. >> right. and in some ways, they learned a lesson from romney in 2012, which is it's great to have all these speakers designed to make your candidate seem softer and have glossy videos, but that doesn't happen on prime time. it doesn't happen on television. so, that's why you'll have a trump speaking every night in prime time to try to soften those edges. i was just talking to paul manafort who said when we asked

melania if she wanted to do this, we sort of expected her to say no. she doesn't really like the campaign trail, and i have been out with donald trump for over a year and we don't see her much, but he said she jumped at the opportunity. it's similar to how ann romney felt in 2012, where she just felt like people did not know the man that she knew privately, and she wanted to take that to the stage and make it clear that i know my husband best, let me tell you what he's like. and we're expecting a lot of that in fr melania tonight. >> he will be speaking tonight, ron brownstein, melania trump, the wife, but the kids are going to be speaking tuesday, wednesday and thursday, including tiffany, the youngest daughter who just graduated from the university of pennsylvania. she's going to be speaking as well about her dad. and the sons and ivanka, the daughter, they'll all be speaking, giving a personal reflection of who their father is. >> people prioritized by -- [ inaudible ] >> -- more than to drive a policy message. first of all, you can't game say

what he's done to this point. this is an enormous achievement to be standing here from a year ago, from where he started, to be the nominee. but he is facing a difficult environment. had he has the highest negatives of any general election nominee from either party, and the key one is that 60% of americans in the abc/"washington post" poll this week say he is not qualified to be president. if they can't deal with that this week, whatever else they do, they're going to be facing an uphill climb the rest way. >> mark reston, our cnn politics executive editor, there will be some other surprises here. donald trump is a showman. he wants to make this republican convention a bit different. >> he is a showman, and he has done very well over as a reality television star. i think, though, what he said he was going to do and what he's going to deliver are two different things. the guest that we anticipated he would have here are probably not going to be here from what we can tell from what they have sent us out. tonight we'll see scott baio, who was a star back in the '70s

and the '80s. he's considered a big star. an lpga golfer who in her own right is a great athlete, but again, not known by a lot of people. so not really the a-list a-list that we thought he would bring. >> what were you vaying? >> i think he was supporting actor in the '70s and '80s. >> but iconic nonetheless. >> what ron was talking about, there's obviously a risk voters see with a president trump potentially. he's got speak to the risk, saying to voters who are persuadable, it's worth taking the risk because of the environment we're in. so, i think it starts with him. this is an effort to ratchet up this opposition to hillary clinton with the benghazi theme, national security, to talk about the environment around the world and offer him as a kind of strong man, law-and-order kind of solution. >> there are big speeches thursday night when he accepts the nomination, but tonight he'll presumably be speaking as well. katrina, stand by. i'm going to come back to you in a moment. we've got to take a quick break. much more from the republican

national convention, including my interview with a key republican congresswoman, marsha blackburn. she's here as well and she'll be speaking. much more right after this. donald trump : i love the old days;

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the republican convention here in cleveland is now officially opened against the backdrop, though, of racial tensions. black lives matter protests, ambush killings of police officers. one of the themes of the convention going forward is making america one again. that's the focus thursday. and aggression woman marsha

blackburn of tennessee is one of the prime time speakers thursday night. she is joining us now live. congresswoman, thanks very much for joining us. >> sure. >> you'll be speaking thursday night during the 8:00 p.m. eastern hour. that's a good time slot, prime time for you. make america one again. what is your message? what does that mean? >> my message is going to be unity, looking at the things that have made this country great. that should be what unites us. opportunity. you know, gop is the great opportunity party, and that is part of the message that we have to communicate this week. >> you know, there's a new poll that came out, a cnn/orc poll, and it asks the question, will the republican party unite, will unite by november? back in may, only 48% thought so. now it's up to 68%. but 68% still isn't, you know, a large number among republicans, is it? >> well, you know, i think it's better than the democrats' numbers. and when you look at -- >> well, the democrats seem to be uniting now that bernie

sanders has endorsed hillary clinton. >> well, here's the thing, though. when you look at the turnout in the primaries, republican turnout is up, democratic turnout is down. we realize that it's an opportunity for us to get our message out and focus on the things people are talking about -- national security, jobs and economic security, and also for women, a big issue is retirement security. so, it's a great week for us to turn that focus. and i think that you're going to see that number continue to increase. >> was mike pence, the indiana governor, your first choice to be the running mate? >> mike pence is a great choice. and the first choice for me was to say who does mr. trump think will balance him best on this ticket and help us win? and whomever that is, that's who the nominee should be. >> do you worry, though that they disagree on some really sensitive issues like -- >> not at all. >> -- like trade. >> not at all. >> the war in iraq, some of these issues. >> here's the reason why it's

not a concern, because you're always going to disagree with individuals, and nobody is going to agree with you 100%. i like the fact that they are not in lockstep on everything, because it allows for that discussion and debate. how do you reach consensus and a great resolution to solving problems? you have people around you who are not yes men but who bring a new set of ideas and a diversity of opinion to the debate. >> i want to play a clip. this is donald trump this morning speaking about president obama and president obama's reaction to the killings of those police officers in baton rouge yesterday. listen to this. >> i watched the president, and sometimes the words are okay, but you just look at the body language. there's something going on. look, there's something going on. and the words are not often okay, by the way. >> what does that mean, there's something going on? >> there's just bad feeling and a lot of bad feeling about him. i see it, too.

>> all right, he says "there's something going on." he's implying that there's something sinister going on with the president of the united states. what was your interpretation? >> i couldn't hear all of clip -- >> he said the president showed body language was wasn't appropriate. >> yeah. i think what people want to see from the president, they're waiting to see, is for him to say, look, i am standing with our police. i'm supporting the police. i'm supporting our local elected officials. and we have to get this under control. and i did not hear the clip that was playing very well. music's kind of loud back here. >> it's loud here. >> but what people want is leadership on this issue. tell us, mr. president, what you're going to do, how you're going to support our local police. tell us that you're going to stand with them, and let's get this stopped. >> congresswoman marsha

blackburn of tennessee, thank you very much for joining us. >> good to be with you. >> we'll look for your presentation thursday night at 8:00 p.m. >> thank you, wolf. >> thank you. up next, six officers ambushed by a gunman looking to kill police officers. the latest on the investigation in baton rouge. that's next.

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rouge, louisiana. that's a city still in shock over the killing of three police office officers, 72-year-old montrell jackson, 41-year-old matthew gerald, and 45-year-old brad garafola. just moments ago, hillary clinton speaking to members of the naacp at their conference in cincinnati, addressed the killings. >> and today there are people all across america sick over what happened in baton rouge and in dallas, but also fearful that the murders of police officers means that vital questions about police-community relations will go unanswered. now, that is a reasonable fear, isn't it? and all of this tells us very powerfully that we have to change. many police officers across the

country agree with that. but it can only happen if we build trust and accountability. and let's admit it, that gets hard eer every time someone els is killed. >> cnn is learning more about the killer and the attack. the killer, a 29-year-old former u.s. marine. sources telling us the video evidence right now is pointing to a meticulously planned attack. brian todd is following the investigation for us. he's joining us live from baton rouge right now. brian, you're at the scene of that shooting. give us some new information that you're learning. >> reporter: wolf, sources telling us they do believe at this point this was a carefully planned confrontation by the shooter. this is where the standoff occurred and ended. this is the gas station here in baton rouge where right here, a makeshift memorial has been set

up to the fallen officers. people placing flowers, cards and balloons here. one gentleman just placed this bouquet of roses here just a moment ago. what really strikes you about this scene, wolf, is how dangerous this was and how just incredibly catastrophic is conceivably could have been with even much more loss of life. why? because look how busy this section is. our photojournalist, tony, is going to move with me this way over here. this is an incredibly busy section of baton rouge. look at how congested the traffic here. now, it is midday on a monday. early sunday morning at about 8:40, it was probably considerably less busy, but still pretty congested here. you've got a large shopping center over here, businesses lining up and down this street, traffic everywhere. and of course, we believe, according to sources, that this general area is where the confrontation occurred, where the standoff ended with the shooter, gavin long, being killed, but also with three officers being killed. wolf, sources telling us today that they believe at least at this moment that he planned to lure the officers to him, that

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welcome back to the republican national convention here in cleveland. the mayor of cleveland, a democrat, frank jackson, is speaking right now. interesting that he has decided to welcome all these republicans to his beautiful city.

the republican governor of ohio has decided he is not going to be attending this convention. that's caused quite a bit of stir among republican circles, but this is the democratic mayor of cleveland who's speaking right now. hillary clinton's e-mail controversy, the benghazi killings, will almost certainly be major lines of attack during this republican convention. so, how will the democrats respond? what else will they be doing this week? congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz is the chair of the democratic national committee. she happens to be here in cleveland with me right now. >> just a coincidence. >> you're supposed to be in philadelphia getting ready for the democratic convention, but you and a whole team from the dnc have come here to make hillary clinton's case. >> yes. the democratic national committee and hillary for america have come for this entire week to the republican national convention to make the case that everything you'll hear on this stage, the american people know that we are better than this, better than the divisive, unqualified,

unprepared, racist, bigoted rhetoric that you've heard from donald trump throughout this campaign. and we're going to focus on making sure that we can draw that contrast leading into our convention next week. >> and the republicans, the rnc will be well represented in philadelphia next week. >> i'm quite sure. >> this is a relatively recent tradition over the years. democrats show up, like you, your team -- >> i went in 2012 as well. >> yeah, and the republicans will be in philadelphia next week. so, how are you going to respond? because we're going to be hearing tonight a lot about benghazi, hillary clinton's failures, hillary clinton's failures in libya, hillary clinton's failures with her private e-mail server. those are going to be major themes, there's no doubt about that. >> well, what there's no doubt about, as i said, is that donald trump is the most divisive, bigoted, unprepared, unqualified major party candidate that has ever run and needs to get nowhere near the white house. and that's the contrast that we're going to draw. whatever is said on this stage tonight and through this week,

donald trump can't run away from his horrific personal and business record. >> hillary clinton's, you know, numbers as far as honesty and trustworthiness, they're not very good either. >> donald trump has been bankrupted several times, has abandoned employees, has discriminated against his own employees, has caused thousands of students from trump university to face economic hardship by his fraudulent university. the list goes on and on of donald trump and how he's cheated everyone he's ever dealt with. >> presumably, benghazi, the e-mails, libya, other failures of hillary clinton will be major themes this week in cleveland. what will the major themes going against donald trump in philadelphia at the democratic convention next week? >> well, we're certainly going to outline why hillary clinton is the most qualified and prepared candidate for president of the united states that we've had, and that she's going to

continue to help us move forward and help the middle class and build on the economic progress we've made, but that will be a stark contrast to the divisiveness, to donald trump, who has said throughout this campaign that he would ban an entire religion, preventing muslims from coming into the country. he began his campaign, wolf, if you remember, by declaring mexicans rapists and drug dealers. he said that he would consider developing a database to register muslims. i mean, this is a man who has really no concept of what american democracy or any concept of the constitution and fairness. >> bernie sanders has come aboard. he's endorsed hillary clinton. >> yes. >> he says he's going to campaign for her. he wants to make sure that donald trump is not the next president of the united states, but a lot of the supporters are not yet on board. they have no great love, many of them say, for hillary clinton. some of them saying they're going to vote for a third-party candidate or they're not going to vote at all. >> well, i think the overwhelming majority of our supporters of both hillary clinton and bernie sanders are

coming together. we were thrilled to have senator sanders join us endorsing hillary clinton last week. his supporters are already being incorporated into our campaign as organizers and as neighborhood team leaders and field staff. and we are a united party. we'll be united, unlike where here in cleveland you have the governor, and for example, none of my south florida republican colleagues are here. i'm actually the only federal official from florida here in cleveland at the republican national convention because my three colleagues had no interest in being anywhere near this convention or associating themselves with donald trump's toxic brand. >> a lot of republicans have decided they did wa decided they didn't want to attend, including governor kasich. >> and both former presidents and republican nominees from recent times. >> we'll look forward to philadelphia next week, as well. >> thank you. >> debbie wasserman schultz, thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> we'll show you live pictures,

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welcome back to our coverage of the republican national convention here at the quicken loans arena in cleveland, outside what they call the "q." the city is bracing for protests. some actually got under way over the weekend. we're hearing there are some demonstrations going on right now. our sara sidner is on the streets. she's in cleveland with us. sara, how are things going right now? >> reporter: yeah, it's wild. there are several hundred people here, and they jumped over a barricade that was set up to try to keep people in the public square.

>> whose streets? >> our streets! >> whose streets? >> our streets! [ inaudible ] >> whose streets? >> our streets! >> reporter: now i got you. okay. what's happening is -- [ inaudible ] ♪ >> all right, unfortunately, we can't really hear sara there. protesters, obviously, very, very loud on the streets. i didn't get a sense of how many there are there, but i do know this, having been now in cleveland today, yesterday, over the weekend, there are a lot of security personnel around the "q," the quicken loan arena here in cleveland. there's a lot of police, law enforcement. they've actually been brought in from all over the country. we'll have much more on this part of the story. that's coming up as well. also coming up, we're going to turn to the chaos in turkey right

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welcome back to our special coverage of the republican national convention that just got under way in cleveland a little while ago. we're here at the quicken loans arena, they call it the q. we'll continue our coverage here in just a moment, but right now i want to get us up to speed on two major international stories that we're following, the terror attack in france. a french prosecutor says the man responsible for killing 84 people in nice on bastille day searched for propaganda on the day of the attack but the interior minister says no ties have been established between the attacker and isis, no formal ties. right now six people are in custody in connection with that terror attack. we're also watching the fallout in turkey after a failed military coup over the weekend.

the violence killing ing 232 pe in turkey. more than 7,000 people suspected of having a role in that plot have been arrested. listen now to the turkish president, president erdogan, speaking exclusively to cnn's backy anderson through his translator commenting specifically about the calls for the death penalty to be imposed against the coup plotters. >> translator: there is a clear crime of treason and your request can never be rejected by our government. but of course it will take a parliamentary decision for that to take action in the form of a constitutional measure. so the leaders will have to come together, discuss it. if they accept to discuss it, as the president i will approve any decision to come out to the parliament. >> president erdogan of turkey speaking exclusively to cnn's

becky anderson. the former house intelligence committee chairman reimike rodg is with us as well. this is turkey, a key nato ally with important geography in europe. all of a sudden the world is stunned friday when there was this coup. no one anticipated -- i don't think there was any intelligence suggesting a coup was about to take place. >> no intelligence directly, wolf, but there was lots of analytical product so back in about 2011 erdogan s.t.a.r.tartg after military leaders. in april, about 275 military officers were -- from the courts were let out of jail, basically, for a previous coup, what they claimed was an attempt, what many said was not really an attempt. so you have all this turmoil within the military ranks and by constitution -- people forget this -- the turkish constitution

says that the army is in charge of keeping islamism out of the government. and so there was all of this brewing turmoil, erdogan knew that he had to keep pushing back the army if he was going to continue down the path he was doing so there was a conflict stage. i think what you saw here was they felt that they were getting uncovered by intelligence and police agencies and felt that they had to move quickly. "they" being the -- >> and thousands of these coup plotters have been arrested. you just heard president erdogan saying he's not ruling out the possibility that some will be executed for their role in this attempted coup. what's going to be the reaction among other nato allies, especially in europe, if there's executions? >> well, there's already been a bit of turmoil over his comments saying if you bring back the death penalty you can't get in the eu, that would be impossible. i think what you saw there from the prime minister was the determination -- >> the president. >> excuse me, yes, the president of the turkey, recep tayyip erdogan. this was his opportunity to clean out and have a military

that's very pro-erdogan. for a while there was not so the plotters were more secular and so he's been targeting those more secular military officers for some time. what you saw was a reaction to that, didn't go -- went very badly. the biggest loser, wolf, is going to be maybe a secular turkey. >> what about the u.s. military which relies on this nato ally, incirlik, the air base, it's a launching pad for a lot of u.s. air strikes against isis targets in syria and in iraq as well. >> i don't think that's going to go away. as a matter of fact, a lot of those operations have been kicked back in. erdogan understands the value of having the united states there and attacking folks who, by the way, have also been responsible for suicide attacks in istanbul. so he'll see the value in that. he probably won't risk it but remember -- and i happened to be there at the start of the iraq war, i went to turkey with a few members to try to talk the president at that time prime minister newly elected not

serving yet into allowing the fourth infantry division to go through. so he's had a long kind of conflict with the u.s. military. >> a very tense situation right now. critically important. mike rogers, thanks very much. >> thanks. that's it for me. i'll be back 5:00 p.m. east american the situation room. later we'll be here throughout the night as this republican national convention unfolds. in the meantime, the news will continue right here on cnn in 60 seconds.

i'm john berman live in baton rouge. sources now saying a videotape proves the attack on police officers here was "planned and meticulous." in minutes we're expecting a news conference from baton rouge authorities. their first since yesterday, we could learn a great deal of new information. three officers killed, three others hurt including one still clinging to life. after weeks here of protests against baton rouge police for the death of alton sterling, now many people