nikki haley. >> i'm nikki haley and it is great to be back at the republican national convention.will start with a little story. it is about an american ambassador to the united nations and it is about a speech she gave to this convention. she called for the reelection of the republican president she served and she called out his democratic opponent. a former vice president from a failed administration. quotembassador said and i -- democrats always blame america first. the year was 1984, the president was ronald reagan and ambassador jean korpatsch's words are just as true today. joe biden and the democrats are still blaming america first. donald trump has always put america first and he has earned four more years as president. a lifetime tor of serve as the united states ambassador to the united nations. now the u.n. is not for the faint of heart. it is a place where dictators, murderers, and thieves to announce america and then put their hands out and demand that we pay their bills. well, president trump put an end to all of that. with his leadership, we did what barack obama an

yeah me and i i see in nikki haley the only thing that. brown that she brings to the table is you know just what's on the exterior i don't see that she is connected to her roots one she made in that speech the other day and she just fascinated by what part of her indian identity that she feels authentically engaged with so yeah that was interesting her well. please go ahead i think it's a very rich to who you know say that someone embraces that even if we don't know i think right what women have embraced their identity and i'd i don't think it's fair to save that nikki haley didn't earlier she actually has quite a good record as governor and if you remember that she took down the confederate flag this is something people don't remember still or you know as an international of us sitting equal distance from both women i would say that. you know one shouldn't undermine nikki haley's record just because you're a democrat let's go to your each of these very busy right now suit for instance says i take it as they are trying to woo indian vote i

nikki haley the former u.s. ambassador to the u.n., he was also effective in telling her personal story, the daughter of immigrants from india who came to south carolina with not much, and all of a sudden one day she winds up the governor of south carolina and later the ambassador to the united nations. she told a powerful story, both scott and nikki haley trying to show some diversity in the republican party. at the same time a lot of the other speakers were simply not that effective. but those two i think made some strong points. >> there was a moment in the 2016 campaign when scott and nikki haley both endorsed marco rubio there was a photograph and thinking this is a very different republican party we have grown up with. diverse and certainly acknowledging some of the past sins of the united states. and paving a conservative way forward, obviously, marco rubio did not win. and nikki haley and tim scott has had to negotiate their way through the trump era. and the awkwardness of that i thought could be seen t

ambassador nikki haley, the president's oldest son donald trump, jr. and tim scott. throughout the week i will be joined by our contribute ares and analysts, cbs news senior political an liss and 06 mince correspondent john dickerson, cbs news contributor maria elena salinas, president trump's first chief of staff and rnc chierm reince preebus and for hillary clinton's clinton's 2016 campaign joel payne, welcome to all of you, so good to you have, let me start with you, john, president trump will appear any minute now, we will take that, and he will appear every night as will a member of his family, is the party of lincoln now the party of trump? >> you won't be able to forget that this is donald trump's party it is almost like one of his buildings with his name on it, and it is not just because will be there every night, is he in everybody's mouth, this is not about the republican party t is about the party of donald trump. in our most recent poll almost 60% of voters identified as trump voters before they identified as republican. and the feel of the night so far a

trump america first foreign policy which what nikki haley calls the blame america first policies of joe biden and barack obama. some of president trump's most influential black supporters declaring at the gop convention

i would say haley and scott really tried to paint a more optimistic future and a more

what was your reaction to nikki haley's speech?ign policy by a republican who is thought to be a possible 2024 candidate. you just heard her defending what the president has done with a number of things in the middle east. destroying isis by the way, other accomplishments. also you did hear reminders of what happened in american foreign policy when barack obama was the president and joe biden the vice president? if you remember, early on in president obama's first term he went on what was called a an apology tour. seemed to go around the world apologizing for bad things the united states had done in the past. this is something that did not sit well at all with republicans and probably a number of independents as well. so it was no accident that nikki haley reminded people of that last night. elizabeth: you know, our defense and intelligence officials deserve a lot of credit too for what is going on in foreign policy as well because let's go through it. before president trump, we had the ascent of al qaeda, we had 9/11. we had catas

it was no accident that nikki haley reminded people that last night.it for what is going on in foreign policy as well, let's go through, before president trump we had al-qaeda, 9/11, the catastrophef of iraq, what was going on inn, afghanistan, america's longest war, the collapse of u.s. authority of syria and libya and the rise of isis and we had russia pushing into eastern europe and the rise of china, your take on what analysts are saying the president has reformed u.s. policy on the middle east, china and what is going on in europe. >> obviously the president hope for a big breakthrough in trade with china and that is in tatters at the moment after the coronavirus issue and some other issues in trade. that's a real problem right now. but in other areas, as far as europe is conferring the president has stood up to nato in a way that i think a lot of americans would've wanted to do but didn't do but nato should pay his fair share that was remarkably controversial early on in the president's term, if it's entirely with where his foreign-policy is and

all eyes will be on nikki haley.hat has gotten buzz as a potential candidate in 2024. she is going to speak to president trump's foreign policy bonifi bonifides. of course, it is a checkered record, particularly when you think about north korea, president trump met with jim congress eun a number of times, still no dpeem for nuclear disarmament. she is going to make the case she is a strong leader. that itself the type of argument that appeals to president trump's base. we've talked a lot about who the president is trying to reach out to, through this convention and, particularly, on this first night. it is a convention that is largely aimed at trying to energize the president's base, trying to make sure he is not losing any key republican voters, including in the suburbs. issues like foreign policy matter a lot. nikki haley a former u.n. ambassador here. a female serving in his administration. she helped as well. >> many argue in this convention, she is a rising star. as you noted is seen as a potential candidate the

donald trump junior for instance but you hear people like nikki haley, those folks will be stars in a way they haven't been going into this so you're going to see them reach out to people who want to feel good about the republican party. want to feel good about donald trump's management of covid and want to raise questions about joe biden. do see a reason maybe joe biden is the reason they would switch to the republican party. this night reminds me of the state of the union addresses that donald trump often gives. he's very much on script. he gives shoutouts to regular americans. that's what it seems over the next four days we'll see that sort of atmosphere. listen, off camera, away from the convention i think donald trump will have problems maintaining this message but from these four days, i think they will have a pretty contained and upbeat convention that will probably start to get him back into this race and close sop of the polls we've seen so far. >> david axelrod -- >> he -- go ahead. >> in 1988 michael decaucus was 17 points up from george h.w. bush after his convention. and

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i'm nikki haley. great to be back at the republican national convention. i'll start with a little story. it's about an american ambassador to the united nations and about a speech that she gave to this convention. she called for the re-election of the republican president she served. she called out his democratic opponent. a former vice president from a failed administration. that ambassador said and i quote "democrats always blame america first." the year was 1984. the year was ronald reagan. and the words are just as true today. joe biden and the democrats are still blaming america first. donald trump has always put america first. he has earned four more years as president. it was an honor of a lifetime to serve as the united states ambassador to the united nations. the u.n. is not for the feint of heart. it's a place where dictators, murders and thieves denounce america. and then put their hands out and demand that we pay their bills. president trump put an end to all of that. with his leadership, we did what barack obama and joe biden refused to do. we

prior to that, nikki haley talking about the u.s. work in progress so work on it was her mind tonight. we have about four minutes here before senator scott comes out. dan, what do you think so far of the evening we have been watching? >> well, bill, it's a political convention. they have got four nights and about eight hours to define themselves. the democrats went first last weekend we watched that and i think the republican convention is a large part a reaction to that. the democratic convention was almost entirely about defining donald trump, defining him as obnoxious arch villain in large part because that was the opinion polls were suggesting a lot of people felt about him. they barely talked about the republican party at all, now the republicans are deciding they will do a couple of things. human eyes donald trump, and is while they're going to talk about the issues that democrats did not which was the protest. the protest in the streets, the democrats have accused donald trump evan bocce his handling of the coronavirus. republ

but nikki haley, i mean, he tells the world what it needs to hear, nikki haley says. just wondering rick tyler, what you think about that when you consider the insults against germany, our closest ally during the cold war. the attacks on nato and the ignorance in claiming that nato is not paying its dues. what he says about putin, what he says -- even said last night with a political prisoner next to him about erdogan, the man who imprisoned this person, he embraces autocrats, attacks democratically elected allies. gives cover to kim jong-un to expand his nuclear program in an unprecedented way most likely. and nikki haley stands up and says, he tells the world what it needs -- i mean, how desperate are these people? >> i think my favorite speeches are those given by politicians who think they're going to be president but will never be president because nikki haley has jumped into a car that has no engine and she's not going anywhere. look, i -- the convention to me is so unremarkable because it is -- it was so predictable. it was boaring. most of it was boring. it wa

nikki haley was walking a tightrope. knows that. marco rubio, there is a host of republicans who want to be the next president following donald trump at some point. but i think this selection is going to determine the future of the republican party and we have seen so many republican party and we have seen so many republicans come out against donald trump in the lincoln project and so many others. i think it is going to be fascinating whether donald trump remains in the white house for four more years not and what the republican party does to try and reconstitute grapple with all things donald trump because this doesn't seem to be the republican party. this is the trump party and you have seen it all week long with his family and others speaking at this. he owns this party. the republican party as we have all noted, the three of us all theseis all noted, the three of us all these is really gone. i want to move these is really gone. i want to m ove o nto these is really gone. i want to move onto a new point to. one thing

i'm talking with ambassador nikki haley. stay with us. where you're headed this summer. think about how you'll get there. ♪ and now that you can lease or buy a new lincoln remotely or in person... ♪ discovering that feeling has never been more effortless. ♪ it's the final days of the lincoln summer invitation sales event. where you can find games, news and highlights. all in one place, right on your tv. the xfinity sports zone. use your voice to search every stat and score. follow the teams you love. and, even get notifications with breaking news alerts and more. with the xfinity sports zone everybody wins. now that's simple, easy, awesome. say xfinity sports zone into your voice remote today. maria: welcome back. we are back with u.s. ambassador to the united nations and former south carolina governor, nikki haley. before we went to the break we were talking about foreign policy. in your speech last night you said joe biden is good for iran, good with isis, great for communist china. want to ask you about this recent partnership that ira

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nikki haley trying to make the case that america is not racist. as you point out, andrea, there are some who are saying, look, while she certainly has the experience of someone who has lived here as an immigrant, someone who is of color, can she speak for all black and brown people and make that strong pronouncement. but the bottom line is what we heard from nikki haley, the former u.n. ambassador, a rising star in the republican party, what we heard from tim scott, you played those very powerful words from him, an attempt to reach out to some of those voters of color, as president trump is facing an uphill battle with them. polls show that right now, joe biden is earning more than 80% of their support. president trump notching in the single digits. so he's trying to peel away at some of those voters. it's also a message, andrea, so some of those voters who live in swing districts and swing areas, trying to essentially argue that, look, president trump is on the right track and is listening at this moment of racial strive. so that was part of what

katie, nikki haley.want to start calling american politicians communist, think that takes you back to a different era. let me go to katie. katie, let me ask you about nikki haley. i'm not going to stop you from answering anything you want to answer but i think nikki haley said wait a second. biden's bosses will be pelosi, bernie sanders, and the squad. i thought to myself as a democrat listening, wait a minute. pelosi and the squad and bernie sanders, these people don't agree on everything. what is she talking about? >> katie: this is actually a perfect segue from mr. alvarez who did compare what he's hearing in the united states on the major party platform for the democrats to the communist party in cuba because you know who joe biden did a unified platform with? bernie sanders who prays fidel castro as a humanitarian and said he has done some bad things but at least he has a reading program for people. last night mr. alvarez laid out that he watched people who look exactly like him starve and die as a

on the same day nikki haley addressed the united nations. i spoke to the president this morning and he said if the syrian regime uses this poisonous gas again the united states is a lot and loaded. when our president draws a red line our president enforces the red line russia and denied all the allegations blaming the syrian rebels for staging the poison gas attack to prompt the u.s. to attack assad their main enemy. while russian american relations were put to the stress test the world was eyeing the 3rd meeting of the 2 presidents this time it was held in finland. just to go buddy. as far as the russian leadership goes i think every question attempts to organize a top level meeting was he found that with great hope. until the meeting in hell think what she meant i give them and i will do she if. the 2 presidents talked for over 2 hours. then appeared before the media. our relationship has never been worse than it is now however that changed as of about 4 hours ago. i really believe. as usual a journalist asked a question regarding trump's

first of all by nikki haley trump's new ambassador to the united nations haley's 1st appearance in february 27th team marked a tougher stance i consider it unfortunate that the occasion of my 1st appearance here is one in which i must condemn the aggressive actions of russia the dire situation in eastern ukraine is one that demands clear and strong condemnation of russian actions. contrary to all of trump's previous comments ambassador haley confirmed that u.s. sanctions would remain in place until russia withdrew from annexed crimea. the us government's anti russian tactic continued. in march f.b.i. director james comey confirmed that his oath orators would be conducting an official investigation into the allegations that the russian government interfered in the 2016 u.s. election campaign. and that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the trump campaign and the russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russia's efforts. in april un ambassador haley once again condemned russia's complicity with the syria

nikki haley is. she never mentioned confederate. >> no. >> she didn't talk about the r hardship that people are facing now. grievan grievance? the history of this country and the president of this country, and the story that you just covered with laura, why is that grievance? why is telling the truth grievance? while is leveling the plain field so-called reversed racist? there is no such thing -- what is reversed racism mean? >> that would mean inequality. >> i hate it when people say that, that's the dumbest and stupidest thing, just because the plain is being levelled or race is opened up for other people. they are finally understanding what it is like to really have the quality as americans. i don't understand why nikki haley would say grievance. it really annoys me and i don't understand it. >> i wish there were more spaces being made and more opportunities. >> has there? >> no. >> what phase are we in now? we are in grievance phase which we need to change. this is embarrassing to us as a country

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people looking for hope heard it with tim scott and nikki haley and mr. alvarez of miami.tears. the power of his personal story. you have these magnificent moments with herschel walker and otherses. you think these are the kind of people i would love to sit down at waffle house and have the star special with. >> martha: the democrats talked about how dark they thought it was. i saw cardinal doll an speak in the beginning and we heard from father james martin at the democratic national convention at the beginning of the evening. the democrats have really drawn a line on pro-life. they said anyone who is pro-life is not welcome. we won't embrace the candidate. it doesn't work for us. there has been a line drawn. when i was growing up you would see catholic pro-life democrats. lots of them. the line on religion has become clear despite the fact that joe biden said he is a practicing catholic and president trump is not a church goer. >> i think that the contrast is dramatic. it's genuine. it's real. joe biden has gone from a practicing catholic who was pro-life and now says ta

tonight, nikki haley, donald trump jr. and senator tim scott make the case for why there should be a trump second term. live from new york city and across the country, the republican national convention. now reporting, chief anchor george stephanopoulos. >> good evening and welcome to our special coverage of the republican national convention. coming off the democrats virtual convention last week, it's the gop's turn to take the stage and they are coming from behind. joe biden holds a stable lead nationwide and in those key battleground states. it's been that way for weeks. the big question for the president and his party, can they shake up the race in these four nights of prime time, cast a new light on trump, raise new doubts about biden? one thing is clear, the president will do it his way, appearing day and night all through the convention. he's given three speeches already today, the first after the roll call of states in charlotte, officially making him the nominee. >> michigan, the great lake state, is going to cast

former south carolina governor nikki haley.he significance of their speeches and their mess messages tonight. >> i think it is notable they were chosen to lead in the second hour, that is the hour that republicans have said would more prominent speakers beholden to the primetime hour to have network news coverage. just to start with senator tim scott who wrapped up the first night of the convention. he gave a very powerful speech on race and given he is the only black republican senator, he is very poised to speak at this and he was the lead behind the police reform bill that the senate republicans had put forth following the george floyd protests. a very powerful speech from him. he also shows that the trump campaign and the administration and republicans in general really see him as a future leader of the party. that was a big scene tonight and we'll see that carry on through the rest of the week. at the convention they are going to be highlighting the rising stars in the party, tim scott is definitely one of those and then t

speaking tonight commit nikki haley, the former u.s. andki basinger to the un to launch a presidential bid possibly of he4 own in 2024. donald trump jr. one of the most outspoken members, a vigorous campaign or on behalf of his dad. senator tim scott, south carolina will close out the night with an address he says is focused on hope and opportunity. >> let's begin with a recap of the night so far. watch this. >> i am here tonight to tell you to warn you, that this election is a decision between preserving america as we know it, and eliminating everything that we love. >> president trump fights for what is right, he won't back down. his courage gives great teachers renewed hope. >> i've seen racism up close. i know what it is, and it isn't donald trump. >> the days of blindly supporting the democrats are coming to an end. >> they will disarm you, lock you in your homes, and invite ms 13 to live next door. >> the democratic party does not want people to leave their mental plantation. they've been forced to be there for decades and generat

nikki haley, scott, herschel walker.at's what you saw last night. ainsley: lee out from the hamptons, thank you for joining us. >> any time. ainsley: ripping democrats during remember convention speech. >> much of the democratic party it's now fashionable to say that america is racist. that is a lie. ainsley: she is going to join us live next. ♪ ♪ ♪ book two separate qualifying stays and earn a free night. the open road is open again. and wherever you're headed, choice hotels is there. book direct at choicehotels.com. tools, cattle, grain, traded goods. and wherever you're headed, choice hotels is there. even shells represented value. then currency came along. they made it out of copper, gold, silver, wampum. soon people decided to put all that value into a piece of paper, then proceeded to wave goodbye to value, printing unlimited amounts of money as they passed the buck to the future. that's why it's time for digital currency and your investment in the grayscale funds. go digital. go grayscale. >> quote, americans alwa

former south carolina governor nikki haley. the significance of their speeches and their mess messages tonight. >> i think it is notable they were chosen to lead in the second hour, that is the hour that republicans have said would more prominent speakers

from ambassador haley and senator scott.hey able to connect in a way that americans appreciate because they gave it with true passion, personal story, that is what the independent freethinking voter wants to know. that -- what did donald trump do and how has this policy impacted me and was would it be like under a biden administration that would articulate it? jillian: let's talk about vernon jones, lifelong democrat making the case for republicans as the party for everyone. >> i have news for joe biden. we are free, we are free people with free minds. i am part of a large and growing sentiment of the black community who are independent thinkers and we believe donald trump is the president america needs to lead us forward. >> reporter: how much will that resonate in the african-american community? >> it will resonate quite well because representative jones is a democrat who is not changing his party but still supporting donald trump. he talked about how the cancel culture tried to get him kicked out of office, he knew that s

nikki haley, a lot of people are thinking of nikki haley as a candidate in 2024. a lot of people are probably going to be likely. but she came out and she gave a full throated endorsement of the president and shared her own personal story and a lot more. watch. >> joe biden and the democrats are still blaming america first. donald trump has always put america first. and he has earned four more years as president. in much of the democratic party, it's not fashionable to say that america is racist. that is alive. america is not a racist country. america isn't perfect. but the principles we hold dear are perfect. >> laura: another great turn of phrase going directly, tom, at the democrat's message of last week. does that win any converts or are the battle lines already drawn and race already? >> it hard to say. definitely one of the fault lines of this election is boiling down to do you love or hate america? what is your view? do you think this is a great country, one of the greatest countries in history or do you think this is a country that was flawed in its incept

former south carolina governor nikki haley. the significance of their speeches and their mess messages tonight. >> i think it is notable they were chosen to lead in the second hour, that is the hour that republicans have said would more prominent speakers beholden to the primetime hour to have network news coverage. just to start with senator tim scott who wrapped up the first night of the convention. he gave a very powerful speech on race and given he is the only black republican senator, he is very poised to speak at this and he was the lead behind the police reform bill that the

i am thinking of former ambassador nikki haley and senator tim scott of south carolina.hey sounded presidential, but will that play with the audience the president is trying to reach? dan: it might, jonathan. i thought those speeches were markedly different in tone, not necessarily in substance. both had some harsh things to say about biden. nonetheless in the totality of the way the speeches were put together and the delivery, i think they were different from the others. i think the challenge for president trump is that there is so much known about him and the judgments about him have been made for such a long time that i don't know a surrogate or validator can do much to change that. we will see. i suspect we will hear some more speeches like that through the course of the week. they did stand out from being different in the way they sounded. anne, let me end on a different subject. there is a new book coming out by stephanie winston walkoff and a couple of weeks. she used to run -- he ran the inaugural committee -- she ran the trump inaugural committee. she is an old

today, former ambassador nikki haley expected to speak.he is expected to be a republican candidate in 2024, regardless of who wins. tom: i believe that is at 10:00 p.m. tonight. again, the data is very up.rtant, up 28, . 268 what is the significance -- up 268. what is the significance of a higher yield reviewed? lisa: people are looking for the jackson hole convention that will be held remotely for the first time since the 1920's or something insane like that. what it shows two people is that yields are not going to rise, and that is pegging some of the equity valuations, that seem pretty frothy. tom: lisa abramowicz back with us today, and that is a beautiful thing. james athey with us as well, of aberdeen standard investment. we still have this continued equity surge, but i don't see yields setting higher, bond prices lower. the relationship, it is not that it is broken, but it is a nontraditional relationship between equities and bonds, isn't it? james: absolutely, it really is. it is probably more pronounced at the moment because we've

then congressman tim scott and governor nikki haley. and they were representative of the field of candidates that we wanted to put out before the country that talked about our values, that talked about the things that mattered certainly to republicans, but more importantly and more broadly, to every citizen. you didn't really hear that tonight. it was almost this sense of, you know, sort of talking about how bad it was, and while, you know, it's that bad and therefore you need to come over to us. well, tell me what you're going to do to transform my community. what policy are you looking to put on the table? you can talk about, you know, opportunity zones and things like that, but you should know also that the black community has other things in the economic piece in mind. they want to know seriously how you're going to approach policing. they want to know seriously how you're going to approach redlining. that would have been a nice topic to talk about. the gentrification of black neighborhoods for example. how do you help a family, a b

does the party turn to people like nikki haley or mike pompeo or tim scott or even some republicans who have fallen away during the trump era? we've never seen as many members of opposition party endorse the candidate on the other side, with republicans and former republicans endorsing joe biden. du the gop manage to get those officials and those former officials back? we don't know. >> it could turn to the jim jord jordan, or matt gaetz or the ron desantis of the republican party. >>> mike pompeo will address the republican convention with jerusalem as his backdrop, why this is sparking outrage among american diplomats, current and former, we'll tell you about that. you're watching msnbc. c. you say that customers make their own rules. let's talk data. only xfinity mobile lets you switch up your wireless data whenever. i accept! 5g, everybody's talking about it. how do i get it? everyone gets 5g with our new data options at no extra cost. that's good. next item: corner offices for everyone. just have to make more corners in this building. chad. your wireless. your rules. only with xfin

nikki haley is an absolutely fascinating character.er post, of her goodwill. she was fired by tweed. she is seen as a potential leader and possibly a future vice president, possibly a presidential candidate in her own right. it is hard not to draw a parallel between her and comer harris. in that, she has been appearing at the republican party convention as the daughter of immigrants, as, in her words, a brown person, a brown child being brought up in america, the daughter of indian immigrants so she's talking from a very personal place. she has her own personal narrative. she is also defending donald trump is foreign—policy platform, defending his decision to bring the us embassy to jerusalem, defending his decision to tear up the iran nuclear deal, both of which were very very controversial and remain controversial. so as well as being a woman, she would go or the republicans would hope would go some way to addressing some of the claims by the democrats and other critics that the trump administration is sexist, is not kind to women an

nikki haley is a very important player for the republicans, and i suspect we may have seen the beginningbid. she has been the highlight of tonight, i think, without question. of course the other person who featured dominantly was donald trump himself. he didn't make the anticipated live experience, but he appeared in a pre—recorded interview, with himself, interviewing ordinary americans. and i think that was the other key feature of this first night of the republican party convention. unlike the very slick, highly produced virtual extravaganza we saw last week with the democrats, the focus tonight was on ordinary americans. the americans that donald trump appealed to in 2016 when he said that he would speak for those who had been left behind, and those other people that he be counting on again in 2020 to ta ke be counting on again in 2020 to take him to victory. —— he will be counting. whether or not he can turn out his base, and sues them after four years and bring wavering voters into the fold, thatis wavering voters into the fold, that is of course the big question. —— enthuse them.

i mean nikki haley, what a great story. and senator scott, this is going to be portraying a broader vision of america than what people are ued to seeing. and it is very important, that message of the american story about broadening our base and about racial healing as well which i hope will be part of that message tonight. >> woodruff: do you believe president trump isending the right signals, saying the message in the way would you like to see it said, spoken now when it comes to racialng heali? >> well, he doesn't express things always in the way i would like to see it expressed. but whenever you look at the needs of our country, we do need to speak out against institutional bias, whether it is-- or other institutions of government. the president has to ba healer. you can be a healer at the same time that you are supporting our law enforcement and i don't think those are con tra dik other at all. and we need to show bridge thosa . the president i believe in this convention will try to do it in his own way. anit will be th

but you did have, like you said, senator tim scott from south carolina, former ambassador nikki haleybut then you also had people like the mccloskeys who as you know were brandishing their weapons, exercising their second amendment rights, you know, before peaceful protesters who they characterized tonight as an angry and violent mob. and so that was somewhat a dissonant message. and you had that kind of dissonance happening throughout the evening. so i don't know that that was a message that was necessarily about expanding an electorate so much as shoring up his supporters and his base. i think most of the messaging you that heard tonight despite maybe a difference in optics was not unlike what his supporters have been seeing on fox news and hearing on conservative talk radio really for the past four years. >> and francesca, here was former ambassador haley in her speech tonight. >> this president has a record of strength and success. the former vice president has a record of weakness and failure. last time joe's boss was obama. this time it would be pelosi, sanders, and the squad. t

nikki haley, some of her speech, not most of it. tim scott. what was interesting, it's like donald trump is the weight. so him this morning, i think even the stilted illegal episodes he had from the white house, kimberly guilfoyle, don junior, anyone dating a trump, sets it back, and that's the question. throughout this week, i think you're going to have good videos. i'm sure you will. that's pretty easy to do. and you'll have some speakers make a compelling case on the economy. they seem to be ignoring covid for the most part. but trump, if he's going to be this omnipresent, just reminds people that they want to turn the page. and i don't think he can help himself. he wants to be front and center. this is not the republican convention. this is the cult of trump. everybody must bow to him and talk about what an awesome leader he is. and i think at the end of the day to win this election where trump's trailing, where he has to find more suburban vote, more senior vote come home to him, not just strengthen his base, i didn't see anything tonight

you had nikki haley and tim scott telling their personal stories.hen you had kimberly guilfoyle shouting. listen. >> don't let the democrats take you for granted. don't let them step on you. don't let them destroy your families, your lives, and you future. don't let them kill future generations because they told you and brain washed you and fed you lies that you weren't good enough. >> get that? get that? speak up a little bit next time. ryan nobles, you're here because you're cover the trump campaign. even donald trump, the president yesterday, when he spoke at the charlotte gathering he, too, wasn't as bright and hopeful as they had promise. what does the campaign want and did they get it out of night one? >> well, one thing is clear, john, after what we saw last night is that all subtlety is gone when it comes to the trump campaign and the republican message during this particular campaign. i did think that the campaign was hoping to frame each and every night under a certain topic and deliver a very specific message, which they inattempted to do

what do you find significant, haley, in this? >> right.his is captured pretty immediately after the first shooting, when he's fleeing the scene. several people start chasing him, saying "stop him, he's the shooter!" and he trips and falls to the ground. we see three people kind of rush him and attempt to -- one person kind of attempts to kick him and runs off. he fires two shots then and misses that person. the person who's shot in the chest appears to be almost attempting to disarm him, and that's when the third shot is fired by mr. rittenhouse, and he shoots that man in the chest. and unfortunately, he is now dead. the third person never gets his hands on mr. rittenhouse, but he runs up to him, and we do know he's holding a handgun, and that's when this fourth shot is fired and he hits this man in the arm. so, there's a lot of chaos in this scene, but it is very -- it's clear that this other person is armed, that mr. rittenhouse is armed, and that he's firing four shots in the moment. >> and finally, rittenhouse gets on his feet. we've g