smaller outlets that may not normally get the opportunity to interview the vips. can you give some perspective as how it has changed the >> absolutely. on the digital front, i think google. and add you do. they were not considered media in 2012. now, we see them as one of the hard hitters of news, and distributing news to the millennial generation. that is one of the biggest changes. this was not have ever happened back then. and now people are saying, you set the bar so high, we have to do this moving forward. everyone is pleased with the outcome. >> and you would not know this is a parking garage. >> that was our goal. originally, people were dismayed and thought, what are you doing? but i think we made it a nice

accommodation and nice place to be. > as we take a walk around, how long did it take to transform this plays into media row, and then to tear it all down? >> it took about three weeks for construction, and one week for the design element. four weeks altogether. it will probably take about four days to break down. >> lindsay from the republican national convention, thank you for your time. >> thank you, appreciate it. >> that was steve scully visiting media row, where some are coveringlists the convention. we will introduce you to another one of those. alex altman is a writer for time magazine. they have done a cover story about donald trump. alex has a piece about the trunk children, and their relationship

with their father and the role in this campaign. tonight, you are going to be hearing from donald trump junior. let's start with him. what has donald trump junior's role been in the campaign overall? he has been playing a very interesting role as a conduit of information. he began the campaign as sort of a second amendment advisor. he is an avid outdoorsman, fishermen and hunter. that overtime extended into a roll of liaison to skeptical factions from the party, skeptical congressmen, even rival campaigns. he spends a lot of time every day on the phone with people, father.back to his it is sort of a unique role within this interesting space of the trump kids that they have carved out, as some of their fathers closest advisers. >> your piece focuses on the three children who are most involved in the campaign. the children of eve on a trump, mr. trump's first wife. one speakinger tonight, tiffany trump. >> graduated college.

she was not one of the focuses of the peace, because she has not played an active role in the campaign. one of the gold at the trump campaign is to introduce all types of republicans, two more interest -- intimate elements of mr. trump that they have not seen. the trump campaign is hoping that tiffany trump, the fourth trump child, could speak to that. susan: what did you learn about the children's relationship with mr. trump? >> one of the things that struck me was how close they are. i can only imagine how strange it must the to see your father splashed across every newspaper headline, every television show, all the time, many of it incredibly negative. one of the things i wondered was, how do you grow up in this kind of gilded fishbowl, so to speak? and instead of turning to your

own business career, they all flocks back to trump tower very quickly after graduating college. it is really an incredibly close relationship that began as mentors in business, and has now basically been inverted. they are now helping to navigate him through this campaign, it in a way that has -- campaign conflict in a way that has been helpful to him and his advisers. susan: but you write in the piece that the children, the adults they grew up to be, might have been largely as a result of the influence of their mother, ivana. what did you learn? >> one thing that was serious to me is the work ethic.they are all executive vice president of the trump organization. they have all works from a young age. one of the things i was is goingd in is, there to be an impulse for any kind of child of privilege to potentially strike out on their own. many fall into wayward patterns.

that has not really happened with any of the trump kids. one of the reasons they told me was their mother was rather strict with them. she grew up in communist czechoslovakia. now the czech republic. she instilled in them a sense of discipline, a sense of worth access -- work ethic, that would keep them on the right path. ren of divorce.d susan: what kind of father was donald trump? >> one of the interesting phrases shared with me, from a financier who dealt with trump for a long time, was tender discipline. toughcribed it as he was with them, he expected them to adhere to certain standards. he was very aggressive about ensuring that they avoided the pitfalls of drugs and alcohol and cigarettes, but that he was a more loving person then you might infer from some of his campaign appearances, where he

strives to betray himself as a pretty tough guy tender discipline was. one of the phrase in my reporting process. susan: we are talking about trump family dynamics. mr. trump has children with all three of his wife's, including a 10-year-old son. is this a successfully blended family? interestingn question. my reporting focused on the three eldest adults, who are all in the 30's. i did not want to probe too deeply into the family dynamics of his family with melania trump, his current wife. they have a 10-year-old son. i'm actually not sure how often the five children from three different wives end up getting together, but certainly the three who are the eldest, who spent the most time with mr. trump and his business and the campaign, they spend an inordinate amount of time together. they were together all week. they have this additional

informal huge role with the campaign. even vacation together. in that sense, as evoke.com told tump told me, family businesses are binary. they can go badly. clearly, they have found a formula that works with them. susan: we will be back to talk more about the trump family and how it has been involved in the campaign, and what it might mean for a trump white house. let's go back to steve on the convention floor. >> those speeches by the trump family members, right behind me is the podium. a roll call is getting underway in about 20 minutes. one constant, covering conventions since 1984, has been this gentleman. mike miller, covered his first convention in 1964. he has been with the republican national committee since then. you say this is your last convention, but we don't believe you. >> no one has believed me when i

have said it many times. i had three retirement parties. but this is the last one where i'm going to work here it i might come back to be an observer or volunteer, but that's all. showing theameras, security apparatus. i want you to give us a sense of how this has changed from the early conventions you covered to the post-9/11 world. >> way back when, we just showed up could -- credential and locked in the hall. then there was a phase when you had security at the door. now we have got to where we have know,er perimeter, as you which is in some places to our three blocks away from the building. you go through the magnetometers there. it is a much more sophisticated and intensive security system, but i will say this. it was tough in an urban environment to set it up, but it is working. >> we have been showing a lot of the archival convention speeches, including richard

jerry ford and ronald reagan. what is different is how the podium is much more approachable, not the high-rise we have seen in the past. in 1996.tarted we started putting in stairs to give it a more open feeling, and we also lowered the podium. this is about six feet. i can remember when it was about 10 feet, and you look down, it was like a battleship. or then 1968 in miami beach, was that 1972? the front row of delegates could not see the speakers. they had to put televisions along the road. now, it is more open. >> tell me, do you have one favorite over the years? >> i have several favorites. one of my favorites was 1984, when ray charles closed out the convention.

-- psted a baby grand pno saying -- sang at the end. circumstances put me shut up against one side of the piano, and the other side was president and mrs. reagan, and the other side was ray charles and mrs. charles. tonight, we will be focusing on the trump children and their role in the campaign. over the years, you have dealt with a lot of family members from the republican nominees. >> i have, and they have all been very gracious. i have several pictures in my memoir bank, with candidates, and candidates' wives. they come around and visit the staff, and we appreciate that. >> is it still fun for you? >> it is still fun. but there is one thing i want to say in reverse. forve done this primarily the media since i came with the

party in 1972. you started in 1980. over that. thi -- over that period of time, i have dealt with thousands of journalists. i want to say, you stand at the top. you are a class act. we appreciate it. >> mike miller, the feeling is mutual. we will see you in four years and we will come back for another interview. >> that's the deal. >> i don't think you can top that, susan. thank you very much. think youve scully, are blushing a little bit. we are talking with alex ullman, from the washington bureau of "time magazine." they have a cover story about the republican soon-to-be nominee. he has done a piece called, "the about the trump children and their key role in the campaign. donald trump selected his to introducenka,

him for his acceptance speech. were you surprised? >> i was not at all surprised. if you talk to anybody who is close to donald trump, they will tell you there is nobody, a business colleague or anyone else, whose input he respects more than his daughter's. she has been an invaluable advisor to him. she has pushed him during the course of the campaign to take unusual positions for a republican, including speaking out of -- in support of the work planned parenthood does. obviously, that breaks with republican orthodoxy. she has been by himself -- by his side for many things. i'm not surprised she has lighted up with this prominent role in the campaign convention. >> how old is she? >> i believe she is 34. you have to double check the story for that. susan: and she is the mother of three children? >> that is ivana.

ivanka is the daughter. excuse me, she is also the mother of three children. hadn: yes, i thought she three young children. you talk about the importance of her spouse and the campaign. what role has he played? >> that's right. he has taken on an increasingly expensive role as the campaign goes on. he is an orthodox jew. he has helped reshape trumps policy as it relates to israel. he also has expressed concerns about the professionalism of the campaign, has tried to tighten up assets of income including the digital operations and fundraising efforts. like the trump children, played a pivotal role in the selection of donald trump's running mate, indiana governor mike pence. susan: how about the whole

kerfuffle with corey lewandowski? >> kushner is someone from the beginning who had concerns with the way their campaign was in run. was alewandowski proponent of uncorking trump and letting him rip. kushner is a more buttoned up guy. he and his father-in-law get along very well. they sort of shot -- share a kindred spirit, and the sense that they are both sons of successful real estate developers, who went on to carry the family business to greater heights. he was not a fan asserted this freewheeling approach, and has moved behind the scenes quietly to impose discipline on what has been times of raggedy operations. susan: this whole concept of whether or not to let trump be trump, you do write about the difference stylistically among the second generation of trumps,

and their father. what are the differences and how will they play out in the campaign? >> think they have pushed them within the parameters of his political beliefs, to try to express his views in a way that will to some degree avoid offending as many people as they have. when you speak to them in conversations, they are more polished, more disciplined, more on message. has done a lot of media in her time, and she is a very practiced and polished speaker, which we will see on display during her keynote thursday night. who seems is somebody to have inherited the political bug the most. he mentioned it his father wins the white house, he has his eye on potentially becoming secretary of the interior, given his interest in outdoor issues. i think that they have pushed him to be a little less freewheeling, and to impose a little bit of rigor in the way he articulates his police. susan: -- beliefs.

susan: you talk about the fact that this campaign, whether or not it is successful in his bid for the white house, will be in the history books because of its uniqueness. the trams are political neophyte. you talk about how they really learned as they went along. -- the trumps our political neo fights. you talk about how they really learned as they went along. >> trump was getting outmaneuvered in the bid to get favorable convention delegates by ted cruz. at one point, eric trump, will freely say i very much know little about politics. i build hotels and golf courses. he was inquiring in the media about the way that delegates were appointed, to the rnc here in cleveland. and then, spent the better chart -- part of a day and a half calling everyone of 54 unbound delegates in pennsylvania to

say, the family would appreciate your vote. let me tell you a little bit about my father, developing relationships. it is a practice he repeated in subsequent states, and he had some impact. he was able to reverse the tide z campaign outmaneuvering the trump campaign. one of the most unorthodox campaign, ishis that some of the closest aresers to the candidate, his children, who have never spent a day in politics in their life. susan: i want to close with ivanka trump. on the democratic side, we also have a very involved first water -- first daughter in chelsea clinton. interestingly, they have been friends for a long time in new york. it is interesting to speculate what role either of these first daughters might play in an eventual white house.

what have you learned about ivanka's possible aspirations? >> she is the only one of trumps eldest children who has built her own solo brand. my hunch, and this is what she told me when we were chatting, is that she intends to stay and run the company. she is obviously highly involved in negotiations and acquisition of big business deals, so i would not expect her to all of a key jobined up with a in the west wing. but there is nobody who trump hisens to more than children, who he trusts implicitly. whether she went up and the trump tower or in the white house, she will have a tremendous impact and be shaping all of the actions of any potential trump administration. lots more about donald trump and the trump family and the trump campaign in this week's edition of "time

magazine." find it in your newsstand, or online at time.com. our guest has written a piece on the trumped children. thank you very much for setting the stage. we will be hearing from two of the trumped children, and children, -- trump and throughout the week from all of them. it is about 10 minutes before the devil comes down. let me tell you some of the major highlights of tonight's session, which you will cn here in its entirety on the c-span network. it will begin first with rollcall of the states, always colorful and interesting. we understand mr. trump's home state, is the tradition, new york, will be the state to put him over the top for the nomination. you can see coverage begat -- beginning somewhere after 5:30 eastern. also tonight, senator mitch mcconnell, the majority leader, will be speaking.earlier, we had a profile of some of the most

contested senate races, as mr. mcconnell hopes to hold onto his seat. also paul ryan, the speaker, will be talking to the delegates. governor chris christie, republican from new jersey, early endorser of donald trump, and a longtime advisor to him, will be speaking tonight. also, two of donald trump's children. trump, the daughter of marla maples, and donald trump junior, the son of ivana trump, will be speaking to the session. finally, dr. ben carson, a onetime gop aspirational himself, will be giving an address. it is about 10 minutes before the devil comes down.we will be looking -- before the gavel comes down.

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