this is an epic may not describe fully and that's how fox reports this saturday, july 16th, 2016. i am trace galla ghhad er. >> that man convinced me to be a republican. you don't want my vote? >> it is a campaign season. some wondered if they made a mistake. some worried about violence. >> i listen to the people. you better get a gun. i hear people saying, i am getting a gun. >> and most can't wait to celebrate their man. >> the hippies had woodstock. we'll have trump stock and we'll have it in cleveland.

>> and we have the man himself. donald trump in an exclusive interview on the eve of his nomination. the never trump movement is nonsense. >> alternative is hillary clinton. super liberal judges and our country becomes venezuela. >> what is the story will you tell in the convention? >> i will tell a lot of stories. >> behind me is cleveland's celebrated rock and roll hall of fame. continuing numerous exhibits that show the development of hundreds of influential artist. but the biggest rock star in town will be a billionaire businessman who is no singer, but quite a performer. and as thousands converge on cleveland for the republican national convention, many of them are not conventional

republicans. chris cox makes his living by creating chainsaw sculptures. >> as long as i have logs and gas chain i can turn it into something. >> donald trump untied the tongues of america. i jumped on board after i hear him talking about standing up to it isis. i would bomb the [bleep]. >> i stood up when he talked about vetting syrian refugees and building a wall. >> if you don't have a border, we don't have a country. >> as founder of biker ares for trump cox headed to cleveland to express his support. >> bikers for trump are blowing up and pushing 50,000 members.

>> trump gets the backing. >> i would like to see a nominee. >> anybody but trump. >> he's got plenty of people who question the new followers. >> it is i jacketed from people who don't care about our platform. that is the tool to hold the candidate accountable. >> she is longest serve issing republican delegate. and having attended the last seven gop conventions. >> we in the past have been sent to coordinate the nominee and basically we are back dropped. we are to play nice and act nice and have decorum. >> this time may be different. some conservative republicans are appalled by trump. she questions his policies. >> you cannot put a 35 percent tariff on to items coming in to

the nation and expect this nation to be prosperous. >> free-trade is wonderful if you have smart people. but we have people that are stupid. >> what he is proposing is going to make america broke. >> are you you asking me to support the donald trump that believes in assault rifle bands or nran endorsement because he believes in the second amendment. >> are you surprising the donald trump that he agreed with partial birth abortion or the one that is pro-life. >> i have evolved on many issues. >> she questions his conservativism. >> he told them they would penalize the company if they move out of the country. >> 35 percent tax. >> does that not concern everybody that somebody is trying to dictate where a private company operates?

>> always someone who disagrees with what you say. when is the last time you saw political rallies with 35000 people cheering and remain standing the whole time. >> he's not using persuasion tactics. supporters are sphere based. and used demagoguery to get that support. >> another skeptic is former attorney general of virginia. >> i don't think he cares about a lot of things that the republican party stood for, for a long time traditional values. he doesn't really care about how big government agencies are or any notion of shrinking government. i never heard him talk about that. that is a problem. >> but voters like chris cox argue that trump is speaking to the people's concerns.

>> donald trump is turning the republican party in a working america party. people want jones and a sense of accomplishment and donald trump gave them a hope to a chief that. >> mr. cox's message to the republican establishment is simple. watch out. he will say do your job or you're next and you will be out of here and pack your bag ps and your legacy is that you are fired. >> it is donald trump an anomaly or a beginning of the change of the republican party? >> that's one of those things that time will tell. >> i am on the rules committee. >> kennedra planned on trying to stop trump from becoming the nom no at the convention. >> ultimately i don't want donald trump as our nominee. >> chris cox disagrees and

donald trump is what the doctor ordered. >> he will give us dignity and a sense of direction. this is a move sxment it is happening right now. the establishment will come on board and we'll see who holds out. they better fall in line and make things happen and representing the people who put them there. >> this is the clash that republicans are bracing themselves for here in cleveland. it is always one that no surprise to anybody who is paying attention. when we return, early fireworks that led up to this week's explosion and preconvention conversation with donald trump. clean food.

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the republican party as it meets here in cleveland. the sparks are flying long in the most contentious campaign season. sometimes there are shouting matches. >> we don't care. irrelevant. join me to vote this down. >> such as on the floor of the virginia republican convention. they are deveeing up the delegates. >> a lot of people don't understand what comes in to place when it comes to the nomination. >> zach hill is a prom nept member of the virginia party. >> your leader created the nomination. >> trump voters are so frustrated with the party instruct and you are finding out how the party works first time in their lives and it is frustrating. >> jack morgan is in charge of

the trump campaign. morgan and the trump camp were fearing being outmaneuvered by the cruz supporters. and they came to cruz because p that was the last one to stop trump. >> and the voters chose trump but his people feared cruz would get more delegates. it is spiralling ill will. >> we want a true unity. >> that's what we are. >> we for a interview. >> wow, thanks. i know, but let us finish, yeah. so we are looking for a true unity. we gave zach hill his chance to speak. nmr. trump has been in five different parties and given over

700000 for the. >> that man convinced me to be a republican. who gives a [bleep]. you don't want my vote? i am a republican and you say if you grew up as a republican you are are better than me as a democrat. >> that trump supporter was cheryl, a nurse who works for the department of defense. >> i was a 30 year democrat and motivated by what was going on in the republicans. they want to hijack the vote is disgusting and absolutely inappropriate. the fault line exposed in virginia runs through the party. ndonald does well with voters that have low information and not that engaged and angry and see him as an angry voice. >> low educated voter?

that was beyond the pal of a statement. >> former prosecutor is an alternate delegate for trump and on the look out for more back room deals. >> common sense ashes parentally left the political process when no one was watching and that's kind of why i am a trump support isser. i think it is time to come back. i plan on making sure i understand the rnc rules and virginia's rules. they do intertwine in july in cleveland. >> i make some of the worst decisions when i am angry. for president of the united states, i need to see somebody who has a track roeshd. mr. trump doesn't have a track record. >> people who out spent 20 years working with telling you how to grow the party are now upset that we are growing in the

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>> the excitement is growing by the republican national convention. it is unlike any ever seen.

hippies had woodstock and we'll have trump stock in cleveland. the convention is lasting four days. and we went to the quicken loans arena to see how it is coming long. >> there is butter flies. we have a lot going on today. ha what we is here the upper screen and we are trying to project out to the audience and the speech is a critical element and we have concave screen. there is official proceedings and production. our job is to support them and come up with ideas to help support what they are trying to do. >> it is a big p undertaking. >> and greg lane is the convention project director and

though the convention only lasts a few days, he's worked on it for years. >> i have been involved since 2014 and doing the site selection process and here preparing for the convention since january of 2015. it is it a long time. tasks are huge. >> we had to remove 6000 to make way for the staging and podium and probably a couple of hundreds miles of electrical and low voltage signal cable and camera that are temporary. >> and the to do list is endless. brings in tons of equipment and hanging lights and running checks and so on. and if that was not enough. when the cleveland cavaliers made it to the nba finals the

gop had to only four weeks to transform the arena. >> normally you have six weeks to build it out. >> shaun spicer is the direction. >> taking that venue and pulling out seats and taking a luxury box and making it a broadcast both for all of the networks, it is it a huge deal, right. >> and the construction goes beyond the a ren a. >> we are in the garage. >> lindsay works for a committee on arrangementes. we for the media row that is central hub. and we have drywall in here and put down carpet and new lights and painted the walls. when people walk in here now. they will be surprised to feel it is not a parking garage. >> it is for the technical side to take a back society to the

politics. >> conventions are are important in the party. one time to get your message out with minimal medium filter. >> alex conan was the secretary in the 2008. >> it is hours of coverage in the living room to tens of millions of americans. >> and this is where donald trump with tv experience hope to capture the imagination of the american people in this convention with a different theme each night. first night will be how to make america safe. how to put america back to work. and third night putting america first. and final night. bringing america together. with one final message adding up to, you may have heard it before. how to make america great again. line up has political names like mitch mcconnell and paul ryan and mayor guiliani and

ambassador john bolton. and vice-presidential candidate hike pence. and tv stars and military heroes and regular folks with their own stories to tell. above all, there will be trump, trump and more trump. every night at least one trump will speak. milana and don. and john and eric and ivanka. he has a big family and personal friends and all leading up to the moment. >> and who will be be here are is who will not. >> the media will point out where are the bushes and romney and connedi rice and all of the candidates? >> some of the folks that are in cycle and not going to convention. >> priebus is not concerned. >> it is not uncommon for that to happen. i understand more of it now. but in the end it will work out fine.

>> donald trump said it will not be be a boring convention like in the past, but isn't what he calls boring a good thing from your perspective as the republican chairman? >> yes, we tend to not like drama. but i do agree with him, people want more entertainment and more fun. >> if a convention is one long infommercial. what is the republican product sold in >> take america back and put america first. npriebus acknowledges their nominee who shoots from the help. >> political correctness is deadly. >> he said that is not a bad thing. >> we tried the button-down approach. i think people are encouraged he will fire back. he's not the conventional candidate. that has not worked for us. >> if priebus is threatening

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turkey's president stronger. the prime minister wants to it ask the united states for the extradition of the muslim cleric. 165 people died in the chaos. fox news is now reporting. have a great night. >> as we've seen, donald trump's candidacy created furious opposition in his own party and desperate people often take desperate measures. >> i am getting on the phone and calling other rule's members and convincing them we can do this. >> we'll try to get as much support as possible. nkendall was prepared to do the unthinkable. kick out the presumptive nom no.

get the republican rules to it agree to a conscience clause starting from the first ballot. >> it boils down to a strong personality. do you love your country more than hillary clinton. and saving the republic to get the rules pass ped. >> we spoke to unruh and her alloys. >> i am appalled by the lack of character we see with donald trump. >> i think i can't ask my constituents to wave the sign. >> that party is just a vehicle for ideas and they have been hijacked and we need to look for an alternative. >> every day there is something in the news of mistakes and how

unpresidential his behavior has become p. >> they are fully aware there could be chaos in the big show in cleveland. >> what the officials told me yesterday. there will be a revolt if you do something with the rule's committee. >> i am facing a revolt if we don't do something. they are not sympathetic with mr. trump. >> and dangers of the strategy however, are something they will be willing to change. to the do ied in the wool republicans, it is not trump. >> i am concerned about the branding of the party and what he will attempt to do to the platform. >> we caught up with her in cleveland as she was about to meet with the rule's committee and she had not changed her mind. >> she said it is a republican party and boshinger's party. let's go out and win without us.

>> if they have a problem with trump. most believe depend or bad, the issue was settled in the primary season by voters. >> donald trump is not who i would have been for and the people chose that. like it or not. you have to abide by it. >> any effort to free the unbound delegates has no chance to suck sowed? >> i hope not. we would have perpetrated a fraud on 32 million voters. snrns priebus is definitive. >> i believe the convention will be smoother than the chatter would have you believe. it is unfoyed and i think that donald trump will brick more flair. >> the effort to thwart trump

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took to the streets to celebrate their team's championship. this week in the place they call home, some fear others will take to the streets and the results will not be worth celebrating. republicans are gathering in cleveland's quicken loans arena to nominate donald trump. >> i am one of couple of thousand plus people will be casting a vote for the next presidential candidate. >> jim worthington is owner of newtown athletic club in pennsylvania and a enthusiastic trump delegate. donald trump wins and we go and come home and had a great experience. >> i will be reached out to. it is a dream come true. >> party faithful congregate inside of the arena, many are concerned about with the violent protest that doged the trump campaign and exploding outside.

>> we talked to a whole range of people in cleveland and indicating that violence in the streets in cleveland is a possibility. does that worry you. >> when you see the way some people are riotous, attacking people, you can't help but be be concerned. >> many in the business community hope that the convention will help them introduce cleveland. a city and place on the upswing. >> we are having fun. it is a great place to live. >> runnedon ring is owned of the club night town. >> it is brilliant for cleveland. and a lot to do here. cleveland cavaliers and belon came home and entertaining and

fun. >> one of the city's oldest pubs. we welcome new happy visitors and nice people are welcome to come here and enjoy themselves. >> many worry that if the convention is defined by upheaval, their city will have drawn the short straw yet again. commentses i hear. why do we get the mreep bleep convention. it is like we could have had any going back. and cleveland got this one. >> and is the city up to handling the turmoil. >> i believe the police will do their utmost and i hope they get it right. and i do believe they will be tested. >> i thought about a situation where the police come up to me and tell me to get down on the ground. i don't plan to get down on the ground. >> jeff nixon, founder of the

chapter of black lives matter. >> we have a police force here in cleveland, i wouldn't trust to your average gang banger. >> nixon is no fan of trump either. nfew of the words that i hear to describe trump. crazy, unstable, racist, and masos gianist. and warmonger. and not fond of the party about to nominate him. the fact that donald trump is the presumptive nom no gives a black lives movement a greater sense of urgency. we are getting to the point where things might be be more dangerous for us. so make no mistake protest is certain, but violence, nixon tells us if there is, he will blame the cleveland police. >> i expect to see pepper spray

and handcuffed and thrown to the ground and see people beent and some of them will see no choice but fight back. and people are preparing to do just that. >> i listen to people who say jeff, you better get a gun. i hear people saying, i am getting a gun. >> black lives matter is one of many groups that is targeting cleveland. >> there has to be somewhere that they know it is about justice. >> we taken a meeting in which two dozen local left wing groups got together to plan opposition. >> donald trump is playing on people's emotions and cynicism and anger. >> deborah is with cleveland justice. >> we need people opposing trump and come out and raise their voices so that we don't end up

with the orange billionaire as our next u.s. president. >> they emphasized they protest in a nonviolent matter. but there are others who have the cleveland business community losing sleep. >> i am concerned that we will have left wing anarchist groups coming to town to stir up trouble. let's face it. wherewhere donald is, you will draw the crowd. >> your message will get lost if you turn to violence. >> some p will deem with trouble that comes that way. >> i am a god loving christian fairing man and try to turn the other cheek. but if not. we have the big p mix stick here. >> and many are not sit issing still. >> if they disrupt us.

we'll do whatever it takes. and we'll not play footsies. >> we are building an army. and you rest assured when the army is finished it will be deployed and we'll deploy it in cleveland. you can count on us standing our ground and count on us being there in numbers and what happens remains to be seen. >> even trump delegates are ready for action. jim worthington doesn't just own the club. he traps in it hard and knows what to do when push comes to shove. >> i can defend myself well. i will not welcome anything. but i will deal it and in the mean time training and get in shape. >> trump's people are ready to fight in necessary. but the question that political inside inners are say issing,

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>> no one would denotice that donald trump is his own man. some say he's a law unto himself. the individual finds himself in a possibility of leading millions of others and how will that affect him? >> in the weeks heading in to the convention, trump realized that a presidential campaign unusual as his, need a sense of order. and so speck outed why he fired his controversial campaign manager corey lewandowski and

replaced him with paul manafort. >> creature of washington and known around the city. and he has a world of staffers. >> and party regoutors hope that he would impose a measure of discipline and a sense of greater commune with the party and as the convention neared, the trump campaign chipped away at some of the problems. fund-raising numbers were up and rnc leaders signalled acceptance. >> i see a bin pary choice. hillary clinton or donald trump. donald trump is far better than hillary clinton. she will not do what she need to do to gettet country on track. >> what is the most important message to come out of the rnc. >> we are unified and want a safe and stable and secure country and put money in

people's pockets and get people back to work. and that our nominee is the person that can best deliver that. >> the question is, was the party adapting to the cand uponidate or vice versa? >> free-trade and market economy and peace through strength. those are the principles of the republican party that people united behind after 1980. when i was party chairman in the mid'90s. that was clear and universally accepted. >> but with the rise of donald trump tis clear that many republicans are rethinking free-trade. >> we have lost our manufacturing and furniture. it is lost to china and they are looking for somebody to stop the bleeding. >> jack morgan, the trump operative we met early saw bad trade agreements caused wide spread harm.

>> we are losing our nation and can't worried with preferal issues. >> he's not alone. >> we need someone to take a sledge ham tore the [bleep]. >> no other way around no othe >> reporter: cody directs low-budget horror films. ♪ he considers himself a reagan man but also says donald trump is the only candidate he trusts to take action on the economy. >> none of them want to change trade policy. they all want to sell out the average working man so that their buddies can make more money. is he the best messenger? no. but he's the only messenger we got. >> hillary clinton unleashed a trade war against when she supported one deal after another. the trump administration will get a fair deal for the american people and worker. >> reporter: win or lose, dnt

se donald trump seems to have redirected the path of the republican party or at least is hoping to. >> as far as the size and scope what we've built here -- >> the reince. >> reporter: i asked reince priebus is the gop is changing into what some call the more populist country. >> donald trump said five years from now it will be a different party. you're going to have a workers' party, a party of people who haven't had a real wage increase in 18 years. >> we've got to be for the welders and the guys making tools, and the union shops and construction workers. that's what the republican party is and should be. that's the only way you grow. you have to. >> reporter: i spoke to senate majority leader mitch mcconnell about the gop in the air rather -- era of trump. >> i don't think the republican party are going to start standing for things we haven't in the past. we are america's conservative party. >> reporter: there's a split.

when they talks it, terrorists and not what you've supported in the republican party bland stil don't. >>? split there? >> yes. if you think america can do better taking a different path, donald trump represents a different path. we may have some discussions inside the party about exactly what that path ought to look like, but believe me, it will be very different from the last eight years. >> reporter: after talking to so many people about the meaning of donald trump, we thought we'd give the last word to the man himself. i spoke with trump as he was preparing to come lehere to cleveland, to find out his latest thinking on his campaign and where he stands. first off i asked if there's a new trump in the offing. you're giving speeches off the teleprompter more. some people noticed that your tone changed a little bit in recent days. is this the turn that everybody

talks about, that you're pivoting now to become this more controlled presidential candidate? >> i'll give you a terrible answer. i don't think so. i want to be myself. you know? it got me here. >> reporter: he dismisses the movement against him within his own party. >> this never trump movement is nonsense you understand. >> reporter: you're not worried about it? >> not even a little bit. by the way, there always are, bret. you can look back at ronald reagan, look back at anybody. there's never been a convention, even if somebody was extremely popular. look, here's a simple answer, though. i went through a period of almost a year where i got more votes than anybody, by far. we increased the vote total for republican primaries by 67%. it's an unheard of number. now, you're going to take the person that did that and in one day with a couple of loudmouths you're going to say, oh, forget about the last year. forget about the fact trump got

know votes in the history of party, let's put something else in there. put in somebody that didn't wane state. >> reporter: you said it couldn't hoop? >> not going to happen. the alternative is hillary clinton. >> reporter: what do you think the gop will look like in five years after the first term of what you say will be a trump administration? >> well, it's going to be changing. look at the platform right now, the platform is largely a trump platform. strong on trade. look at the wall, and you look at the borders and you look at all's things. a few people said it's like a donald trump speech. >> reporter: on the other issues you've talked out about, that you've said there is some kind of middle ground. are you concerned about social conservatives and making sure they are -- >> i am. i am. >> reporter: in the tent? >> i am a representative of the party. we're doing something for the e

eevangelicals, we're going to do something to help the evangelicals, the christians, give them their voice back. what's happening with the platform is very good. do i agree with everything? nobody ever has. >> reporter: what's the story you're going to tell at the convention. >> law and order story. a lot of stories at the convention. >> reporter: and in the wake of the latest attacks in france, one of trump's story, about the need to confront terror. >> you have to knock isis out. we have an obligation to the world to knock them out. >> reporter: finally, one thing i had to know. make america great, again. the slogan that -- >> again. >> reporter: people identify with. i wonder when in your mind was america great? >> you know, at the turn of the century, if you look we did with the great factories and the great -- with the steel and with all of what was happening, that was an amazing time. now, every time has weaknesses. because it wasn't inclusionary.

it was you know, lots of different things. i thought ronald reagan, i disagreed with him on trade very much, disagreed with him on trade but thought he was a cheerleader in an elegant way. in many ways a great time. >> reporter: reagan's last time? >> i would say that ronald reagan was special. he was special. that was a time, i felt, we felt good about ourselves. >> reporter: as shakespeare writes, what's past is prologue. everything we've seen up to this point, no matter how extraordinary, no matter how unparalleled, has simply set the stage for what's to come. but we can guess, based on what we've seen so far that donald trump will continue to surprise. that may mean he'll keep on being his quite singular self or it may mean he'll really shock us and become a more conventional candidate. where mr. trump goes next and where his party goes next are open questions.

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