we're getting ready for a special report this morning, as donald trump is expected to introduce his running mate for vice president. indiana governor mike pence has accepted trump's offer for a spot on the ticket. pence tweeted he is honored to join trump and work to make america great again. this is a live picture from new york right now, where mr. trump will make the announcement. abc news chief anchor george stephanopoulos is in cleveland where the republican national convention will be held next week and he'll anchor the report coming up at any moment. it's saturday, july 16th. i'm chris nuquen. francis, good morning. >> i'm starting to see clearing around parts of the bay, showing you some clouds along the coast. filling into parts of the bay, but clear inland already.

and here's a live look at the golden gate bridge where we see the marine layer giving us the cooler conditions that we'll see this afternoon. right now, in santa rosa, 53 degrees. napa, 56. novato and fairfield, 59. concord and livermore, where there's sunshine, already in the low 60s. and plenty of clouds this morning, but by noon, the clouds will go back to the coast, and then this afternoon, temperatures inland are going to hit the upper 80s, which is much cooler compared to yesterday, where we even saw a few triple digits in some inland areas. tonight, the sunset will be at 8:30. comfortable and mild around the bay. enjoy this saturday. we have a cooler trend that's going to continue over the next few days. chris. >> thank you. >> this morning, isis has claimed responsibility for the deadly attack in nice, france. the french prosecutor's office says five people are in custody. 25 people are on life support this morning. 84 people were killed by a driver. ten of them children.

reporter clayton is in nice and has more about the suspects. >> this morning, new details about the man who committed the rampage that killed 84 people. among the victims, american sean copeland and his 11-year-old son brodie, from lake way texas. they were on a family vacation. >> it's heartbreaking that that wonderful child is not going to finish what his dreams were. >> this man, 31-year-old mohammed bouhlel was behind the wheel. more than 200 injured and now an urgent search under way for university of california student nicklaus leslie. the school telling abc news the college junior and 84 other students were traveling across europe. among that group, three suffering injuries. other americans also witnessed the carnage. >> we were just turning down alleys and kind of looking for somewhere that might be safe. >> you see blood and bodies everywhere. >> police say bouhlel drove this

20-ton freezer truck into the crowded seaside boulevard. for 1.2 miles, the truck plows through the dense bastille day crowds when officers close in on bouhlel, these images showing the shootout. bullet holes left in the windshield. the driver dead in the passenger's seat. with an automatic pistol, four fake guns and a malfunctioning grenade. french prosecutors say bouhlel had no know links to terror. overnight, authorities now digging into the tunisian native's past, taking his ex-wife into custody for questioning and searching his home in nice. >> and that was clayton sandell reporting. as you mentioned, a cal student who was part of a study abroad program remains missing. the daily beast reported a friend saw 20-year-old nick leslie run away safely from the truck, but he has not returned to student housing.

three other cal students were hurt in the attack. 21-year-old darius medora broke his leg. he remains at the hospital. a 23-year-old also broke his leg. he and 20-year-old diane huang who broke her foot, have been released. cal administrators sent out an e-mail to students about the attacker where many look to social media to find out if friends were among those wounded or killed. >> i have friends who are in nice, in france. several people provided facebook updates that they were doing fine, were doing safe. >> a total of 85 students were in nice as part of the program. so far, seven of them say they will return to the united states by the end of the weekend. the program finishes off on july 24th. >> abc 7 news was outside the french counsel general's office in san francisco yesterday as a mourner paid respects to those who died. several flowers had been placed outside the consulate. the manager of french restaurant is headed home to france on sunday. he says this is a time to remain defiant.

>> we cannot stop traveling. we cannot stop going back to france. i think we have to do it, keep going. >> the french counsel general will host a memorial to remember the lives lost later this afternoon at 3:00. >> you can show your support for the victims by sharing this image from our abc 7 news facebook page. you see the # there, pray for nice. >> in turkey, several hours of unrest and uncertainty after the military tries to stage a coup. we saw military forces surrendering. you can see soldiers walking away from a tank with their hands up. turkey's state-run press agency reports more than 2800 military members have been arrested for taking part in the coup attempt. the turkish president arrived in istanbul's airport where he addressed his supporters. he declared he will not compromise the coup forces and said military members who took part in the attempt to oust him have committed treason. >> across the country, people took to the streets to foyt off

the military. in one instance, protesters climbed on top of a tank. the death toll has climbed to at least 160 people. president obama is closely monitoring the situation and has been in close contact with secretary of state john kerry. here's abc news reporter alex marquardt with more. >> it was chaos overnight across turkey as part of the country's military attempted to seize power in a coup which this morning appears to have ended in failure. more than 100 who helped stage the insurrection were killed as well as more than 160 others. turkish president irdewon, woo was on vaelcation quickly flew istanbul. he blamed it on the followers of an exiled turkish cleric and called on his supporters to take to the street. this crowd answering the call, confronting the soldiers and climbing on their tanks. hours earlier, troops in camknowledca

camouflage had shut down the iconic bridge which connects the european and asian sides of istanbul. a statement by coup organizers declared martial law. as tanks took up positions at the entrance to istanbul's airport. driving alongside cars on highways, jets and helicopters buzzing overhead. >> very noisy, and so many of them. >> explosions were heard in the two biggest cities. istanbul and ankora where there's a blast at the turkish parliament, shattering glass and door s ripped off their hinges. according to state media, the insurgents used whatsapp to communicate. this video released this morning. the u.s. watching the sudden uprising with concern. turkey is a key nato member and u.s. ally in the fight against isis. they host an air base used by american war planes that bomb isis targets in next door syria. by day break, turkey's government had said it had taken back control, arrested around

3,000 connected to the plot. turkey's president calling it an act of treason. >> and that was alex marquardt reporting. the unrest in turkey caused scenes like this one across that country. people lined up outside atms to get cash following fears banks in the country may have to close because of the coup attempt. a plane full of passengers took off toward the uncertainty in turkey last night and landed in istanbul about an hour ago. we have the details from sfo. >> for passengers waiting to board turkish airlines flight 80 to istanbul, there was uncertainty. >> i have got a lot of friends on twitter and facebook, and everyone is telling me that you're not going to land anywhere in turkey. >> many were monitoring their phones. waiting to learn new developments. some decided this was not a good time to fly. >> there were saying some bombings were happening, so it's literally like we don't know what's going on. we didn't want to send my mom back. >> his mother came here for a wedding a few days ago. she'll stay a few more days

until they feel things have calmed down. passengers arriving from istanbul, learned about the coup on the plane. >> the person next to me had a live feed on his screen, and he nudged me and pointed to it. and i was just shocked. >> wi-fi on the plane as well. i started to get text messages from my friends because they knew i was in turkey. >> one of the first places taken over by the military was ataturk airport, which has now reopened. the same place where suicide bombers attacked just weeks ago. none of which is comforting to passengers. >> well, it's not fun. you hear all the news. so you've got, you know, a family here and been a lot of planning. >> in san francisco, abc 7 news. >> the head of the turkish studies program in san francisco state university is in istanbul right now. we spoke with david via skype. he said some in the country believe that the military coup would have brought turkey more in line with the interests ofinaof nato and the united states, and

the coup failing to take control will just increase the president's power. >> it might crack down against anybody, also down to the level of journalists, academics, et cetera, et cetera, and might crack down against everybody whom the state led by the president erdogan perceives to be an enemy. that seems to be the direction in which things are going right now. >> he becauwas safe during the crashes. he couldn't exactly see what was going on, but he did hear military choppers and fighter jets overhead. >> this coup attempt hits close to home for many people right here in the bay area. reporter melanie woodrow explains. >> he moves to san francisco 18 years ago. during that time, he says he has watched turkey change significantly from afar. >> things are tense in turkey right now. my mom until two years ago, she would always call me, like how

are you doing? and now in the last few years, i'm calling her. >> bert said the images on the news don't seem real. >> i don't think it's ever good for any country for the military to be taking over. i think our government is kind of like a few steps behind the turkish people because we have a really young generation. >> the type of generation that's especially active on social media. for a time today, citizen journalists found it challenging to get on facebook and twitter. >> the isps were swaddling the traffic to make it so slow as to render the websites and services almost completely unusable. >> electronic frontier foundation's global policy analyst says it's a move used to control the narrative about what's happening on the streets, though she says censorship is so common, many people know how to sicircumvent it, leaving bert t work through his worry with no shortage of updates from his family back home. in san francisco, melanie woodrow, abc 7 news.

>> stay on top of the coup attempt in turkey with the abc 7 news app. you can download it for free and enable push alerts to get updates as they happen. >> getting a check of the weather. waking up to mild temperatures across the bay area. we're tracking the forecast. >> hi, chris. good morning. if you don't like the triple digit heat, i have good news for you. we have low clouds over part of the bay and a stronger onshore flow will mean some cooler numbers inland. i'll have your complete seven-day forecast coming up. >> thank you. also ahead, protesters clash with police in san francisco. how the situation unfolded. >> plus, the rush to get a busy south bay road back open for commuters.

right now he is in new york for his first appearance with his running mate indiana governor mike pence. >> isn't that nice? we will have an incredible convention. it is really going well. we are going to get things solved and we are going to do lots of wonderful things for our

country most importantly. so i'm here today to introduce the man who will be my partner in this campaign and the white house to fix our rigged system. we are in a rigged, rigged system. and to make america safe again and to make america great again. i want to also address the islamic terror attack in france. we've witnessed horror beyond belief, no matter where you look. and now it is happening more and more and it is never going to stop. we need new leadership. we need new thinking. we need strength. we need in our country law and order. and if i am elected president that will happen.

[ applause ] i want to express our unyielding support for the people of france and we mourn their loss as a nation. and as far as turkey is concerned, so many friends in turkey, great people, amazing people. we wish them well. it looks like they are resolving the difficulty but we wish them well. a lot of anguish last night but hopefully it will all work out. now, as hopefully the next president of the united states i want to refer back to what has happened over the years. the middle east today is more unstable than ever before, never been like this, out of control. after four years of clinton who really led the way and led obama down a horrible path because i don't even think he could have made these decisions so badly.

she led him right down a horrible path. he didn't know what he was doing. iraq, syria all into chaos and iran is on a path to nuclear weapons. and on top of that we gave them back $150 billion and we didn't get our hostages until the end. now we are seeing unrest in turkey, a further demonstration of the failures of obama clinton. you have to look. every single thing they touched has turned to horrible, horrible death defying problems. we also need to bring back in this country because we see what happened, our industry. our manufacturing, our jobs. they have been taken away like we are babies, taken away. and we are going to bring them back. i found the leader who will help us deliver a safe society and a really prosperous society for

all americans. indiana governor mike pence was my first choice. i have admired the work he has done especially in the state of indiana. and i'm going to go over some of those accomplishments in just a minute. but i also admire the fact that he fights for the people and he is going to fight for you. he is a solid, solid person. [ applause ] governor pence served indiana with distinction in congress. he rose to leadership and served as chairman of the entire house republican conference. he's really got the skills of a highly talented executive leading the state of indiana to jobs, growth and opportunity in

spite of the relentless obstacles put in his way and every state's way by the obama administration. it's horrible out there. high taxes and regulations. and it is out of control. mike pence is a man of honor, character and honesty. we know that. hillary clinton is the embodiment of corruption. she is a corrupt person. what she has done with her e-mails and so many things. i see the ads up all the time. she is totally bought and paid for by wall street, special interests and lobbiests 100%. she is crooked hillary. [ applause ] and i think that while she got away with murder -- in fact, i think it might be her greatest

accomplishment escaping the recent scandal and her lies and the loss of 33,000 e-mails. it wasn't a loss. she discarded it. that in itself is a major crime. other people have been paying tremendous prices for what they have done which is peanuts compared to what happened with hillary clinton. 33,000 e-mails are missing and that's okay? didn't give them to the fbi. didn't give them to the attorney general and that is okay? wipes her server clean. that's okay? these are crimes. these are crimes. and how she got away with it, i think i understand it but i think a lot of people don't. i do believe while she didn't pay the price she should have paid she is going to pay that

price when november 8 rolls around. she is going to pay it at the polls. i believe it. [ applause [ applause ] on top of everything else hillary made $21.6 million giving speeches to special interests in a short period of time. she is totally owned by wall street. we believe in americanism. she believes in globalism. it's not that she believes in it, the people that give her the money believe in it and she will believe in whatever they want her to believe. believe me, that's it. [ applause ] what a difference between crooked hillary clinton and mike pence. [ applause ] mike pence will never be afraid to speak the name of our enemy. radical islam, radical islamic

terrorism. you saw it the other day with the truck screaming out the window. you heard what he was screaming out the window. you saw it in san bernardino. you saw it at the world trade center. you saw in it orlando. how horrible was that? you saw it in paris. you see it all over. and hillary is a weak person. we are the law and order candidates. and with the law and order party we are going to change things around. there is going to be respect again for law and order. [ applause ] hillary clinton's foreign policy helped launch isis. she is talking. i see the ads she puts up. if i make one statement which is

fine she will take that statement and put on a totally dishonest ad because she has a lot of money because it is given to her by the special interests. i see the ads talking about donald trump doesn't have foreign policy experience. of course not, i have been a very, very, very successful business person. but if you look at my calls i said don't go into iraq. nobody cared because i was a business person. i was a civilian. take the oil. many, many calls i have made, i said in scotland and in the uk that was going to happen. i was the one that predicted it and everybody said he is wrong, he is wrong. president obama said if it happens they are going to get to the back of the line which probably is one of the reasons they lost. of course, i consider it a win. i think it was a win for them actually because they don't want to be told what to do. they don't want to be told that when people pour into the

country they have to take them even if they are not qualified and don't have paperwork and have no idea where they come from. and i said that brexit is going to happen. i said that they are going to break away and everybody laughed at me. and the odds were 20%. and then when it happened she took an ad saying donald trump said this or that. i'm the one that said it was going to happen. and some of the more fair reporters, about 30% of them, said he was right . i appreciate that. 70% didn't. mike pence will never be afraid to speak the name of our enemy. so important. now, i think if you look at one of the big reasons that i chose mike and one reason is party unity. so many people have said party unity. because i'm an outsider. i want to be an outsider.

i think it is one of the reasons i won in landslides. i won in landslides. this wasn't close. [ applause ] no, this wasn't close. in the history of the republican party, history, with 17 people running -- you have to understand. other people ran against one, two or three. with 17, we got -- i say "we" because i'm a messenger -- we got almost 14 million votes more than any other person in the history of the republican party in the primary system running for president. that's more than ronald reagan, more than richard nixon. more than dwight d. eisenhower.

more than the bushes. that means our message is unbelievable. i want to thank all of the loyal people because i have such loyal unbelievable people and they displayed that just yesterday in cleveland which will be so amazing. it was on display where we had this group of people who many of whom i have known. and i won't say because for party unity i will say they are wonderful people. never trump they say. never trump. they got crushed and they got crushed immediately. because people want what we're saying to happen. they are tired of a country that has horrible trade deals, that has no borders, that has taxes that are through the roof, highest taxed nation just about in the world. that has regulations that don't allow you to start a business

and destroy your business if you do start. speaking of destroying businesses, we are going to take care of the minors and take care of the steel workers. we are going to put them back to work. so they are very tired of it. i want to thank all of those people, delegates that were on the different committees because boy was that something. did we show them something. unfortunately, the vote was very late, but essentially we had 112 to 12. this was the vote that was going to put it on the floor. we are not going to have a fight. people agree -- they want the wall. they want the borders. they want the things to happen. what we are doing that i'm so proud of -- nobody else would even think about it, i fought very hard for it -- we will call it the johnson amendment. where he took away from the

evangelicals. i want to thank the evangelicals because without the evangelicals i could not have won the nomination. a lot of people were surprised. they say he is not perfect. you know what? they know i'm going to get the job done and they are really smart. and i said for the evangelicals that we are going to do something that nobody has tried to do. you have the johnson amendment passed by lyndon johnson and his group. he knew how to get things done. he got bogged down in a world that was a disaster and it destroyed him. he was a powerful president. we call it the johnson amendment where you are just absolutely shunned if you are evangelical f you want to talk religion you lose your tax exempt status. we put into the platform we are

going to get rid of that horrible johnson amendment. and we are going to let evangelicals, christians and jews and people of religion talk without being afraid to talk. i saw this. i had so many great leaders to my office. the absolute top evangelical leaders, christian leaders, jewish leaders, believe it or not some muslim leaders. i had top leaders to my office. i said why is it you are so powerful as an individual and yet when you get out there you are sort of timid? they didn't know how to answer the question. it took two or three meetings before i figured it out. one great, great gentleman that everybody knows but whose name i will not reveal said we live in fear in our churches and our

synagogues. we live in fear that we are going to lose our tax exempt status if we say anything that is slightly political. and i looked out the window. i was in trump tower and i pointed to people walking down the street. i said they have the right to speak but you don't. that means they are more powerful than you are. we have to do something about it. how did it start? how did it start? and they said it started because of lyndon johnson and he actually had a problem in texas with a certain religious leader and he did this and got it done. we are going to undo it so that religious leaders in this country and those unbelievable people -- not because they backed me in such large numbers -- so that religion can again have a voice because religion's voice has been taken away. and we are going to change that. [ applause ] back to mike pence.

so one of the primary reasons i chose mike was i looked at indiana. i won indiana big. remember indiana was going to be the firewall. that was where trump was going down. they agreed i would win new york and pennsylvania and these places. indiana was going to be the firewall. i got to study indiana and i got to study new york and a lot of other places. and i saw how nafta signed by bill clinton has drained our manufacturing jobs, drained us like never before. nafta signed by bill clinton. nafta is the worst economic deal in the history of our country. manufacturing down in some states 55%, 60%. it is a horror show moving to mexico and other places. i have a friend who is a great builder. what he builds is plants.

he doesn't build buildings. he builds plants, biggest in the world from what i hear. i said how is business. he goes unbelievable. i said really, i'm surprised. why? i think of him as building in this country. he said donald, what we are doing in mexico you won't believe. i said what about this country? not much. that's the expression. he said exactly that. not much. i said mexico. he said you have never seen anything like it. it's incredible. folks, that's going to stop. we are going to go reverse it. we are going to bring our jobs back to this country. we can't be the stupid people anymore. he was better than a pollster, better than a consultant.

i say how are you doing and get a big report that cost millions of dollars. me i give $10,000. cost other people millions to get a report. i'll tell you what, a guy like this is better than anybody you can hire to do a report. he said it not from the standpoint of he is upset about it. just fact. how are we doing? unbelievable in mexico. he said i have never seen anything like it. if you look ford is building massive plants there instead of michigan. we want them to build in michigan. you know that i know how to do that. they are not going to take advantage of us without retribution. there are consequences when you fire thousands of people and move to another country and think you are going to make your product and sell it in here.

there are consequences. the consequences will keep companies in our country. i am much more interested right now in mike. indiana's unemployment rate. this is the primary reason i wanted mike other than he looks very good and has an incredible family, incredible wife and family. karen is amazing. [ applause ] incredible family. highly respected, expected to go for another four years. he would have won very easily in indiana. indiana, their unemployment rate has fallen when he was there 8.4% when he was governor to less than 5% in may of 2016. since january 2015 indiana's labor force has increased by

more than 186,000 jobs. i have gone around to all these things. i have gone to all of them. every time i have statisticians and i say give me the stats. it is always bad, down, down, down. down 40%, 50%. here is somebody where it has gone up. private sector job growth is up by more than 147,000 jobs since 2013. that's like very unusual. governor pence balanced the budget. can you imagine a balanced budget? our budget is so out of whack in this country we don't know what we are doing. we are going to owe soon $21 trillion. he balanced the budget. they don't know what that means. governor pence balanced the budget, produced a surplus and maintains a $2 billion reserve fund in the state of indiana. it's also rated aaa, their bonds

are rated aaa. very few states have that. aaa, the best, as good as you can get. aaa. indiana was recently recognized by chief executive magazine as the number one state in the midwest for business. number one. and it's not even close. there are approximately 34,000 fewer hoosiers on unemployment insurance now than they were when mike pence took office. so you have fewer hoosiers, fewer people from indiana. bobby knight, my friend who really didn't he help me. indiana has the second lowest unemployment rate in the nation for veterans where nobody is

fighting for the veterans like i'm fighting for the veterans. the veterans have been left behind. if you remember a few months ago hillary clinton said they are doing much better, the v.a. is doing much better, doing a much better job. people are dying in line waiting for doctors. people can't even see a doctor. it is a scandal. take a look at what is happening with the v.a. in arizona. take a look at what is happening with the veterans administration. it's a scandal. it's corrupt. it's incompetent. it's a scandal. and hillary clinton thought it was just fine. boy, am i going to win big with the veterans. we know that the for a fact. [ applause ] so it's now 2.4% for veterans. in 2013 when mike pence took

office the rate was 6.7%, very first in the nation, one of the bad ones and now it is almost the best. got them jobs. indianapolis is ranked second in top ten metro areas for young college graduates. they are going to stay there. that's a great thing. mike worked hard on that. he was telling me that was not easy. under governor pence's leadership indiana enacted the largest education funding increase. you're balancing budgets and giving more money to education. isn't that a great thing? indiana has just about the largest school choice program in america. school choice is where it is at. you want to get your schools better got to get rid of common core fast. governor pence enacted the largest income tax cut in the state's history.

we are cutting taxes and balancing budgets. and along with corporate tax reform just about number one in the country. cnbc ranked indiana first in the nation for its infrastructure. so with all of these cuts and all of these balancing budgets we are spending more money on education and the infrastructure is kept up. that had so much as a builder in the history of the country nobody has known as much about infrastructure as donald trump. i build infrastructure. do i know how to build a wall? do i know how to build infrastructure? it's very interesting. we are building -- i won the right to have the old post office building on pennsylvania avenue right near the white house.

it's amazing probably best location, one of the most sought after projects in the history of general services. we are going to have an opening very soon. ivanka and don did a great job. we are under budget and about -- actually more than a year, a year ahead of schedule and under budget substantially and the quality of the work is better than we were originally going to do. and when i explain to government representatives that we are under budget and ahead of schedule they almost fell off because they never heard those words before. when i see what happened to indiana, which was having tremendous problems, when i see what happened to indiana under mike's work, also his

predecessor did a great job by the way who is now a duke -- when i see what happened with respect to the numbers, the state and everything else that to me was probably the single most important point because it is something that hasn't happened, almost has not happened in this whole country. the turn around and the strength of indiana has been incredible. and i learned that when i campaigned there and when i won that state in a landslide. and i learned that when governor pence under tremendous pressure from establishment people endorsed somebody else but more of an endorsement for me, if you remember. he talked about trump and then talked about ted who was a good guy who will be speaking at the convention, ted cruz, good guy. talked about trump, ted and then

donald trump. even though he was under pressure because i am so outside of the establishment it was the single greatest nonendorsement i have had in my life. i will tell you. [ applause ] with that, i would like to introduce a man who i truly believe will be outstanding in every way and will be the next vice president of the united states, governor mike pence. thank you everybody. thank you. >> introduction from donald trump to indiana governor mike pence who approaches the podium. [ applause ] >> on behalf of my family here and looking on, would you join

me in thanking donald trump, milania and his family for the sacrifices that they are making to make america great again? [ applause ] and i thank donald trump for the confidence you have placed in us and i accept your invitation to run and serve as vice president of the united states of america. i come to this moment deeply humble and with a grateful heart, grateful to god for his amazing grace, grateful to my wonderful wife, karen, and our three incredible kids, michael, charlotte and audrey.

and grateful to this builder, this fighter, this patriotic american who has set aside a legendary career in business to build a stronger america, donald j. trump. [ applause ] and let me say that i had the privilege to spend time with this man and his family out of the limelight. i know what all of america will soon know even better, these are good people. donald trump is a good man and he will make a great president of the united states of america. [ applause ] donald trump understands the frustrations and the hopes of the american people like no leader since ronald reagan. the american people are tired. we are tired of being told. we are tired of being told that

this is as good as it gets. we are tired of politicians in both parties in washington, d.c. tell us we will get to those problems tomorrow. as ronald reagan said we are tired of being told that a little intelectual elite can plan our lives better for us than we can plan them for ourselves. donald trump gets it and he understands the american people. i truly am humbled to be at his side today. when i got this call last wednesday i could only think of that ancient question. who am i, oh lord. who is my family that you have brought us this far? so let me try to answer that question for a few minutes. people who know me well know i'm a pretty basic guy.

i'm a christian, conservative and a republican in that order. [ applause ] and while i'm currently -- i currently have the privilege of serving the state that i love, i am really just a small town boy. grew up in southern indiana with a big family and a corn field in the backyard. like donald trump my father immigrated to this country and in many ways i grew up with a front row seat to the american dream. i watched my mom and dad grow everything that matters. i started in politics in the other party. when i came of age i was inspired by the ideals and the eloquence of our 40th president and i became a republican. the most important thing in my life is 31 years ago i married

the girl of my dreams, karen pence, who will make a great second lady of the united states of america. [ applause ] and while this office is an extraordinary office to which to aspire, the highest role i will ever play is d-a-d. and i am a proud father of college student, graduate and turned writer and a united states marine. [ cheers and applause ] you know, my career i ran for congress before the republican revolution led by newt gingrich. i wasn't successful. by the time i got elected to washington, d.c. sometimes i felt like i was elected after it was over. from almost my first day in

congress i found myself battling big spenders in both political parties whether opposing no child left behind, wall street bailout, i fought every single day for taxpayers and fiscal responsibility when i was a member of the congress of the united states. after the republicans lost the congress in 2006 i was actually unanimously elected to serve in leadership. and we fought back against the nancy pelosi congress, we opposed obama care, opposed tax increases. i was part of the team that won the congress back from democrat control in 2010. [ applause ] and all that happened before i went back home again to indiana. i want to say i answered this call for two reasons.

first, because i know from first-hand experience that strong republican leadership can bring about real change just like we have seen in the hoosier state. secondly, because hillary clinton must never become president of the united states of america. [ applause ] on the first i know what i'm talking about. in indiana we prove you can build a growing economy, balance budgets, low taxes while making record investments in education, roads and health care. we like to say indiana is a state that works. and it does. [ applause ] indiana works because republican

principles work every time you put them into practice. today we have a $2 billion surplus and highest credit rating in the nation. since i became governor hoosier businesses have created more than 150,000 net new jobs and we have more hoosiers going to work than ever before in the 200-year history of the great state of indiana. that's what republican leadership gets you. and let me say from my heart that is what the no nonsense leadership of donald j. trump will bring to washington, d.c. lessons a lessons -- elections are about choices. the choice could not be more clear. the stakes could not be higher. americans can choose a leader who will fight to make america safe and prosperous again and

bring real change or we can elect someone who literally personifies the failed establishm barack obama and hillary clinton's policies have weakened america's place in the world and stifled our nation's economy. terrorist attacks at home and abroad, grim and heartbreaking scenes from france just a few short days ago, the attempted coup in turkey, all attest to a world spinning apart. history teaches us that weakness arouses evil. hillary clinton and barack obama's foreign policy of leading from behind, moving red lines, feigning recess with a resurgent russia and the rise of isis is a testament to this truth of history, and we must

bring a change to america's stand in the world. we cannot have four more years apologizing to our enemies and abandoned our friends. america needs to be strong for the world to be safe, on the world stage, donald trump will lead from strength. he will rebuild the arsenal of democracy, stand with our allies and hunt down and destroy the enemies of our freedom. and at home, and at home, the choice is just as clear. for donald trump wants to cut taxes, hillary clinton plans to raise taxes. on working families, small businesses, and family farms. where donald trump is committed to repeal obamacare, lock, stock, and barrel, hillary clinton looks at obamacare as a

good start and wants to take bernie sanders' path down to single payer socialized medicine. where donald trump supports an all of the above strategy and will end the war on coal, hillary clinton actually promised an energy plant they would close american coal mines and put coal miners out of work. where donald trump wants to build a wall and temporarily suspend immigration from countries compromised by terrorism, hillary clinton plans to ignore the supreme court reimpose executive amnesty and would increase, increase our refugee program by more than 500%. and where donald trump will appoint justices like the late antonin scalia, who will uphold our constitution, hillary clinton will appoint supreme court justices who will legislate from the bench, abandon the sanctity of life, and rewrite our second

amendment. to every american who shares our convictions, i say to you join us. for the sake of our security, for the sake of our prosperity, for the sake of a supreme court that will never turn its back on our god-given liberties, let's come together. as a party and a people and a movement, to make america great again and that day begins when donald trump becomes the 45th president of the united states of america. thank you for the honor. thank you for your support. and god bless the united states of america. >> there you have it. indiana governor mike pence alone on the stage in new york after being introduced by donald trump. here comes donald trump, i think, right now. there he is. hand shake between the running mates right now. and i want to go to tom, a lot

to talk about, tom. you can been covering the campaign for a long, long time. kind of an unusual though very much in character donald trump speech introducing mike pence. donald trump always does things his way. one of the things he said, though, was that mike pence was always his first choice. and then when pence gets up there, he said he got the call from donald trump on wednesday night. yet as we watch them on the stage now, flanked by their families as well, donald trump's daughter ivanka trump along with her family, her husband jared kushner, we heard mike pence say he got the call on wednesday. thursday night, donald trump was on tv saying he hadn't made his final decision yet. this was a somewhat tortured process. >> that's right, george. this was a vp rollout like we have never, ever seen before. not only that, as governor mike pence was walking into a midtown manhattan hotel, donald trump, as you mentioned, was on television, national television, saying he had not made his final

decision. pence here tonight saying he got the call on wednesday. so definitely very unclear. sources did tell us that there was a moment where trump questioned his decision before today. this came after the attack in france, but also because of all the leaks that pebs was going to be the selection. some put out a tweet this morning saying presenence was h first choice. he spoke for nearly 30 minutes before introducing governor pence. he talked about brexit. he talked about his hotels in washington, d.c., and he says one of the reasons he chose mike pence is because he looks good. george. >> he also gave the reason, though, tom, and stick with me here, he gave the reason of party unity. there's noquestion that is something mike pence is going to bring donald trump this week. mike pence is admired and respected by social conservatives. admired and respected by the party establishment. has already been endorsed by the speaker of the house, paul ryan, the republican leader in the senate, mitch mcconnell, and

donald trump definitely buying a lot of peace at the convention and that party unity he called for by picking mike pence. >> that's true, george. in fact, one of donald trump's biggest critics during the primaries and somebody who won't be at the convention, senator marco rubio, calling governor mike pence rock solid. that's something we heard donald trump echo on the podium, calling him rock solid. he made a joke because pence endorsed senator ted cruz in the indiana primary, and trump, of course, won that primary. trump came out here and gave the line that got the biggest line, the best nonendorsement he had ever received, but pence had endorsed cruz because cruz is a real conservative in the primary race, but now they're joining forces here, and it's interesting. we're already seeing governor presence change some positions. he was against the muslim ban, but last night, he sort of alluded to the fact he was moving on that decision. same with tpp and building the wall, pence now saying he does support trump's decision or

proposal to build a wall with mexico. >> okay, tom, thanks very much. let's go to new york, covering the clinton campaign for us as well, and the clinton team wasting no time in trying to define this ticket. they say that mike pence is, quote, the most extreme choice in a generation. >> in a generation. that's right, george. and not just the campaign. her surrogates are now on fire. elizabeth warren, a potential hillary clinton vp pick, went on a tirade, calling two secure insecure weak men. this rapid response, the clinton campaign put out a video this morning bashing pence for his stand on immigration, on abortion, on gay right. sources are telling me we can expect the campaign to hit hard on those very issues over the next four months, over the course of this campaign. particularly because this was no surprise that trump's selection process was such a public one, the clinton campaign was armed and ready to go. we also know now that hillary

clinton of course is knee deep in her vp selection process. she has some high-profile meetings yesterday at her home in washington, d.c. where she hosted senator elizabeth warren. she hosted hud secretary julian castro. we're told from the campaign, well, from people familiar with the selection process that a decision could be made as soon as next week. of course, that would come before the democrats take to philadelphia for their convention. >> you would expect that. okay, thanks very much. mike pence will speak on wednesday night. donald trump thursday. that's all for us today. we're going to be here all week long in a big way. i'll see you tomorrow right here for this week. special edition of world news tonight with david muir sunday night and then robin and i will be here all week for good morning america. special editions of nightline, and our primetime coverage every night at 10:00 p.m. eastern, and live streaming all week long on abcnews.com. i'll see you tomorrow.

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