we also have the cleveland institute of arts here, and the cleveland institute of arts trained some of the best in the country, and some of the graduates out of the cleveland institute of art have been known to go on and designed the corvette body design, and they have worked on things like the so it is also a lot of the design that is coming out of cleveland now, and really, i think the city is trying to build on that and move that forward. announcer: our cities towards staff recently traveled to cleveland to learn about its rich history. learn more about the city and other stops on our two -- on tour. you are watching american history tv, every weekend on c-span3. >> each week until the 2016 election. road to the white house rewind brings you coverage of presidential races. up next, president johnson. he criticizes the republican party for running a campaign of what he calls "fear and smear." he also refers to the legacy of fallen president john f. kennedy, assassinated just four months before the convention. president johnson went on to defeat senator barry goldwater in the general

rear book room of the cleveland history center, one of the sites in cleveland. what we are looking at today is some of the artifact we will be using an upcoming exhibition called power and politics. ohio is a swing state. it is said that wherever ohio goes, so gs the nation. it is changed a little over the years. basically, ohio has a large population, not quite as dominating as 100 years ago, but it was a large population. it was really a microcosm of the nation. you had a large population of ethnic minorities. you had industry, farming, agriculture. you had a little bit of all the nation in ohio. the exhibit will have several major components. there will be one dollar he that is dedicated to cleveland -- gallery that will be dedicated to cleveland. we will have a gallery called "political fashion statements." we will also have a gallery of ohio presidents. ohio has produced eight presidents. we will have artifacts for each one. when william mckinley ran for president, it was organized in cleveland. we have a photo of the organizer right here. basically, it chan

it also impact the cleveland economically. it brought money into the city, but also the ability of rockefeller to be able to pay his employees a decent wage and allow them to live a good life here in cleveland. it was just another one of those industries in cleveland at the time that was doing so well, like the auto industry, that the veryens of cleveland had a good quality of life in the city at the time thanks to these major industries. be at the auto industry or the petroleum industry that standard oil was in. bringing that wealth into the city. >> our cities tour staff recently traveled to cleveland to learn about its rich history. learn more about the city and other stops on our tour at c-span.org/citiestour. you're watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3. >> i had a rough upbringing. i got involved in the streets and met some friends. they were selling drugs. it was like the thing to do and i started selling drugs, marijuana, mescaline, cocaine, and crack cocaine came out and we started to sel

20-minute film shows the importance of electricity in everyday life and argues that the cleveland area is the best location in the nation [captions copyright national cable satellite corp 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> the motion picture you're about to see is the story of northern ohio. i think you will find ate fascinating story. certainly it concerns a fascinating area. no geographical region of comparable size anywhere in the world is more abundantly blessed with the ingredients for pros territory and progress than is this 1,700 square mile strip of land stretching along the south shore of lake erie from avon lake on the west to the east. here in northeast ohio, possibilities are unlimited. possibilities which we've tried to emphasize, fact that this is the best location in the nation. >> so this then is the story of people. the people of northeast ohio. and the people at the illuminating company. more than 4,000 of them, who devote their skill and talent to provi

millionaires' row was basically the elite of cleveland, about the top 400 families. and they all were millionaires. interesting statistic, 1885 cleveland was the home of over one-half of the world's million theirs, a -- millionaires, a little known fact. but it's a testament to how great our cleveland was. so they wanted an exclusive street. when you were successful and you became a millionaire, most people on the avenue were known throughout the world. people like rockefeller and mather and hanna. so this was a genuine neighborhood of about 200 mansions, and they partied together, they went to school together, their churches all belonged together. they traveled together all over the world. and they intermarried, so that perpetuated the four to five generations that it lasted. and there were some rivalries. one wanted a bigger house bigger than the next, so the mansions kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger, some approaching 50,000 square feet. and the beauty of our avenue, unlike other avenues, is they were all on very large lots, three, times up to six acres. so

from the cleveland plain dealer, rnc visitors are receiving the red carpet treatment from the moment ey stepped off planes and into downtown hotels, conventioneers making their way into cleveland saturday were treated to northeast ohio's version of red carpet. even live music. a says here it is ordinarily -- price. a two-person rap group regaled passengers while clearly identified volunteers shouted welcome to cleveland when they weren't answering questions. you mention some of the facts and figures about this convention, i want to share this from politico. a couple more facts and figures. 50,000 visitors are coming to .leveland for this convention of them, only 2472 are delegates. people have registered to protest at this convention. 30 plus groups have paid permits rallies and marches. cleveland received $50 million in federal grants to help offset convention costs. $9 million and that has been spent on an insurance policy that will protect city employees in the case of lawsuits filed during the convention week. about 570 cleveland police officers are working specifically for the co

new public auditorium in cleveland, host to thecan national convention. >> calvin coolidge strongly advocated for cleveland because warren g. harding, who had recently died, was an ohioan. >> reporter: john grabowski is author of "the encyclopedia of cleveland history." >> cleveland is also a great place at this time. it is fifth largest city in the nation, and it has a relatively new public auditorium. >> reporter: so the delegates attending the 19 24 r.n.c. were visiting a city on the rise? >> on the rise. if they went out to the east, they could have seen built. they would have looked around and seen all the construction for the cleveland union terminal. >> near the inland waters, this driving terminal of trade and transportation... >> reporter: since that heydey it's been a long nine decades for cleveland, with some ups -- >> just after world war ii, it is the best location in the nation. >> reporter: -- and a lot of downs. ♪ the cuyahoga river goes smoking through my genes ♪ perhaps none more unfortunately symbolic than when t

that's why the site is so important. cleveland is at the mouth of the cuyahoga on lake erie and when colonial land speculators were looking for a place that could grow water for transportation, that was there. the other thing cleveland had going for it was the fact that george washington had been close to the ohio country in the 1700s. that's at the beginning of what would become the french and indian war and you looked at them off of the ohio country and wondered if there would be a way to create a water route from the river systems from the great lakes down to the ohio river which would then taken to the gulf of mexico. and that route was eventually realized in northeastern wild with the construction of the ohio and erie canal. when that was created in 1832, cleveland is not just a spot on the land, it's a place on a water route that stretches back to europe via the lake erie canal, the hudson river and the ocean and stretches westward if you will, you go south of the ohio river to the mississippi and gulf of mexico, suddenly wh

, as well, the real living and breathing cleveland that exists outside the convention hall. mo rocca will be our guide. >> reporter: in 1924 when it hosted its first republican national convention, cleveland was a boomtown. since then, not so much. ♪ oh, the cuyahoga river. goes smoking through my genes ♪ but now things are looking up. cleveland, it's on fire, and, no, i'm not talking about the river, ahead on "sunday morning." >> pauley: the summer screen is about to be graced by a superb actress in the role of a not-so-superb singer. the actress is meryl streep, and she's been talking to anthony mason. >> the story was helped by my singing really badly in this. >> reporter: in her new film, meryl streep plays the real-life florence foster jenkins and the ear-splitting amateur opera singer who somehow sold out carnegie hall. so many of the great singers of her time are now remembered, but she is. >> well, that's a tragedy actually. >> reporter: later on sunday morning, meryl streep and the story of the soprano who couldn't sing. >> pauley: for the record, the band kno

in the film "the power to serve" produced for the cleveland electric company. it shows the importance of electricity in everyday life and argues that the cleveland area is the best location in the nation. fess, elmer l lynn president of the illuminating company. >> how do you do? seemotion you are about to is the story of northeast ohio and the part electricity plays in the lives of all of us that live here. i think you will find it a fascinating story. certainly it concerns a fascinating area. no geographical region of any size anywhere in the world is more abundantly blessed with the ingredients for prosperity and progress then is this 1700 square mile surface of land stretching along the south shore of lake erie to the west. ohioin northeast possibilities are unlimited. possibilities which we at the illuminating company have tried to emphasize to bring to the attention of all of america the fact that this is the best location in the nation. this activity is but one expression of the partnership that has existed between the area and the company for more than 7

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

the convention in cleveland. i've not seen the application for this year's convention. i have been told it would fill this room easily. in 1936, this is all it took. i want to open it up for you here. it is describing the weather in cleveland. let's see here. monthsople in the summer , because it is summer resort weather in cleveland -- again, it only took about 30 minutes -- 30 pages to convince the republican convention to come back to cleveland. the same people that organized the convention in 1924 were still available to do it in 1936. it was a very smooth transition. it also did not hurt that the men that drafted this, the chairman of the committee, was very high up. he was in cleveland. that she was from cleveland. -- he was wrong cleveland. theas very high up in republican party, so we had a lot of push to get the convention back in cleveland. this is one of the great things we have in the collection. these are some of the tickets in the 19 -- from the 1936 convention. it features william mckinley on the ti

on monday, the republican national convention kicks off in cleveland. on tuesday, we'll see how the real estate market is shaping up with june's housing starts. wednesday is the anniversary of the moon walk. back on july 20th of 1969, neil armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon. on thursday we'll be getting existing home sales numbers for june. and calling all you boys and girls, the first day of comic-con held in san diego. when his finance career left him in the cold, making ice cream in his kitchen with some unusual ingredients. and now, it has led him to a recipe for sweet success. >> i was in corporate finance for six years. i was let go from my job in august of 2011. i had some time on my hands. i dusted off my ice cream maker that my wife gave me eight years ago. >> i bought him an ice maker a year after we got married. we had some time off to relax. i said, you know what, i'm going to make some ice cream. >> i always thought it was a great ingredient for ice cream, so i made the first batch. >> i'm not an ice cream fanatic. >> i tr

the informatation was s not reld to the officers. clevelandls agreed to pay $6 millioion to settle a lawsuit by the family. at the beginning of this week when we firstst came to clevela, i spoke to former ohio state .enator nina turner i asked her to talk about what happened. turner: a gentleman made a phone call, sitting under this breezeway here, and he made a call because he saw tamir rice walking back and forth with what appeared to be a gun, and he said to the dispatcher clearly that it might be a toy gun, and the person i am describing might be a child, but he is scaring the hell out of people was how he framed it on that day. the police officers came here, and it appears they slid up because of the ice and snow, they saw what they thought was a real gun, and they opened fire in less than 10 seconds of them getting on the scene. what makes it so gutwrenching despite the fact that tamir rice was 12 years old, if you look at the video footage, tamir rice never had a chance to respond to the police being there. there was no put up your hand

the movie? >> "final hello to cleveland. ng to be here every single day, monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday. >> morning, noon, and night. >>> welcome back to "cbs this morning." >>> coming up is governor mike pence prepared to tell donald trump he shouldn't have said that? hear the answer from the presumptive gop running mate in their "60 minutes" interview. >> major garrett and nancy cordes are here in cleveland. they will talk about the trump/pence relationship and how hillary clinton will try to pull voters' attentions away from the republicans. time to show you some of the morning's headlines from around the globe. >>> "usa today" reports on melania trump's speech tonight, the highlight of the convention's opening night. trump's third wife has rarely spoken on the campaign trail. this morning, donald trump offered insight into what melania will speak about. he said his wife will talk about her love of the country as an -- trump ahead melania has worked hard on her speech and he is very proud of her is her speak in perso

>> the governor will be in cleveland. are doing an event to honor him at the rock and roll hall of fame. we are proud of him as our governor and proud of the campaign he ran for president. he has said he doesn't want to be a distraction. so he's not going to do anything to disrupt. but we're going to be focused on winning ohio. as you mentioned, with two of the three states, no republican has ever won the white house without carrying ohio. so it will be critical for us to get that effort going here this year and that's what we're going to do. >> but blaze, it's a sign of consternation within the gop. some of the 5,000 delegates are just not cool with top of the ticket. what do you hear from the florida delegation on that. >> well, the florida delegate is totally united in this and a lot of people did support other people in primaries but that's what primaries are for. at the end of the day everyone comes together to rally for the nominee. that will tell you firsthand that almost every one of the 99 delegates of florida are

. >> reporter: the republic national convention opens today in cleveland. the head of the cleveland police union wanted the state law allowing the opening carry of weapons suspended but the governor john kasich says he doesn't have that authority. as chris boswell reports, rallies and protests are already on way. >> reporter: police officers looked on as anti-protests looked on. >> donald trump has to go the republican parody as a whole has to go. >> reporter: cleveland is prepared for all kinds of demonstrations around the republican convention. they have ramped up security on land and on the water. cars entering the vicinity of the quicken loans arena are being checked and officers ranging from local police to the secret service are out in force. >> we have planned for anything and everything that could happen. >> reporter: 500 cleveland police officers will patrol the convention this week. people will pass through security on the way in. donald trump and his running mate, indiana governor mike pence, gave their first joint interview to "60 minutes." >> i

what the convention is for the cleveland economy. the heat wave continues to sizzle across the country. fox meteorologist maria molina will tell us if there's any relief in sight. checking in on u.s. stock index futures. dow futures higher by 71 points. they close at their sixth record high in a row yesterday, up nine days in a row. we haven't seen a winning streak like this since march 2013. s&p futures and nasdaq futures higher by 31%. you are watching "fbn:am," a look at your money market and breaking news. ♪ [announcer] is it a force of nature? or a sales event? the summer of audi sales event is here. get up to a $5,000 bonus on select audi models. or building the best houses in town. or becoming the next highly-unlikely dotcom superstar. and us, we'll be right there with you, helping with the questions you need answered to get your brand new business started. we're legalzoom and we've already partnered with over a million new business owners to do just that. check us out today to see how you can become one of them. legalzoom. leg

the cleveland polka hall of fame. motto for cleveland style polka. just upstairs is, you guessed it, the greater cleveland area slow pitch softball hall of fame. allow me to introduce the all-time home run hitter, the babe ruth of softball, mike mucinko. >> i don't think you want me to hit this. i'll blow it through the wall. >> reporter: cleveland is a town of more than sports heros. it's home to the original super hero. superman was created by cleveland teenager jerry segal, along with his buddy joe shuster right here in this house 1933 and if superman jumped over the tallahassee building in cleveland, he had to jump over 708 feet which is the home for the movie avengers. one of the most famous movie to come out of cleveland was "a christmas story" intermediate here on the tree mont neighborhood. ho ho ho! hungry? pretty much anything you can think of eating can be found here at cleveland's more than century old west side market. potato pierogi? or jalapeno bake and cheese pierogi? look at that. the world's largest s

cleveland. >> life in the 26th 10 republican national convention in cleveland, ohio, a special edition of "mornings with maria." maria: good monday morning, everybody. welcome. monday, july 18th, coming to you live this morning in the 2016 republican national convention in cleveland. top stories at 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. tragedy in louisiana. three officers killed yesterday. three others wounded in the latest deadly attack on law enforcement. president obama condemning the massacre. >> regardless of motive, the deaths of these three are if officers underscores the danger that police across the country confront every single day. we as a nation have to be loud and clear that nothing justifies violence against law enforcement. >> the shooter killed by police have been identified as for marines, 29 to gavin launder kansas city, missouri. the latest attack grazing pressures at the convention. the cleveland police union has called for suspension of the city's open carry laws during this event. governor john kasich has addressed the arrest is a descendent. hillary clinton is in the lead over donald

that's the motto for cleveland style polka. cleveland area slow pitch softball hall of fame. allow me to introduce the all-time home run hitter, the babe ruth of softball, mike masenco. >> i don't think you want me to hit this. i'll blow it through the wall. >> of course cleveland is a town of more than just sports heroes. it's home to the original super hero. superman was created by cleveland teenager jerry segel along with his buddy joe shuster right here in this house in 1933. and if back then superman were to jump over this city's tallest building in a single bound, he would have to jump a skosh over 708 feet, the height of cleveland's terminal tower which incidentally is the set piece in the film avenger. one of the most famous movies to come out of cleveland, a christmas story" filmed on 11th street in the treemont neighborhood. ho, ho, ho. hungry? pretty much anything you can think of eating can be found here at cleveland's more than century old west side market. ♪ potato pero gi. hall pain owe bacon cheddar cheese pierog

his plane is coming over lake erie and into the cleveland area with mike pence. the reason for this outing this afternoon is to bring mike pence back for his speech this evening, which is going to be a big night obviously for the vice president. he's been in the hall throughout the course of -- he was there last evening for about an hour. you can see coming into view the trump name emblazoned. that's one of the reasons they've been able to keep the overhead plane down. he's now going behind where the cleveland browns play. coming across lake erie once again. as he's going to land -- there it goes. we didn't think it could get into this airport behind me here, but they seem to have room. as the trump campaign comes landing into cleveland this afternoon and then helicopter over to a friends and family event that we can see just across the way from us here, which is by ground stadium that is closed to the press, but they're going to be welcoming friends and family, and i would say there's at least a couple hundred people over there gathered at this point. another big

the record. good night from cleveland. the . >> this is a fox news alert, coming to you, tonight, from cleveland, i am bret baier, the cleveland convention from is less than a mile from the republican national convention starting tomorrow. we will have the political news in a moment. first, another multiple killing of police officers. >> officer down. officer down. officer down. a city officer is down. shots fired. shot fired. why know where they are shootin' from. >> that was 9-1-1 call this morning in baton rouge, that larks the site of the fatal police shooting of an african-american man less than two weeks ago, but, today three officers are dead, three others are woundeds one critically. one gunman has been killed and authorities say no others are believed at large. this latest aaction comes as the subjects of race relations, gun control, law and order, terrorism, all are playing part in the republican effort to regain the white house and storm hillary clinton as politics plays into this. we have team coverage, and mike

the african-american culture. when langston came here, cleveland was starting to change. because you had waves of eastern european migrants here, immigrants coming here for factory work for the war, and you had the wave of african-americans who were coming here also seeking employment. prior to that there was a small african-american population in cleveland, primarily successful, and cleveland was always an integrated city. but with that second migration, that's when you started to see a shift in the racial relations in the city. during langston hughes' time here, he lived in about five different residence cans. he said he -- residences, he said he lived in a lot of basements. he enrolled in central high school which was one of the first public high schools in the country, first in the city. and he wrote for the belfry owl which was the student newspaper there. and in 1928 they did a compilation of some of the poetry that students had written while at central, and this is a book of verse. he wrote introduction to it, and he also contributed two of his early poems. and it w

the open carry state of ohio. connell mcshane has more from cleveland. reporter: the streets of of cleveland were quite of cleveland required of cleveland were quite bad at times and gave one the republican national convention. but they were from the protesters be observed, 95. protesters of restrictions placed upon them by police. they move through the downtown area. outside the quicken loans arena in downtown cleveland we did observe the debate over ohio is an open carry state to play out in real time. two young gentlemen, trump supporters with red hats for sporting their weapons. came here with guns to make a statement is one of them told us. >> it's a conversation i'm willing to start. most of it was more dangerous than it really is. it is one of those things where we watched videos around the country and it seems trump supporters. >> the conversation the young man's best friend actually took face between the two of them in the chief of police, calvin williams, called out in person to do with how these two young men were carrying their guns. i spoke t

the calls. charles in cleveland. an independent. ller: to the end lady, i think that what the aclu needs to do going forward is look at how cleveland put this together. just as there is voter suppression, there appears to be a lot of first amendment variousion organized by groups within the city. rights, youmendment cannot infringe that by creating these type of suppression mechanisms. we are recognizing that the whole notion of putting together groups away from some of the activity is one thing, but that should not override the constitutional right to assembly. lastly, i wanted to say that on -- the wholeic notion in cleveland about how do you make america safe? police need to be safe . in cleveland, the biggest issue has been the police unions and the unchecked power of police unions. thank you, young lady. good luck. host: ok, charles. a couple of issues. guest: i think that is exactly right. one of the rights that we hold most dear is the right to speak and express ourselves. it is our responsibility to advocate for that right an

in the film "the power to serve" produced for the cleveland electric company. it shows the importance of electricity in everyday life and argues that the cleveland area is the best location in the nation. >>

the security measures being taken. plus our mo rocca takes us on a quirky tour of cleveland and we will speak with the ownership of the team's nba championship win. >> that's all ahead on "cbs this morning." that is the "cbs morning news" for this monday. thanks for watching. i'm meg oliver. >> live from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning. >>> first dallas now baton rouge a gunman ambushes several police officers killing three of them. now we're learning more about that gunman. >>> the stage is set for the republican national convention in cleveland, taking no chance when is it comes to keeping its guests safe. >> and septa makes more room for riders. learn how it could make your commute a little easier this morning. today is monday, july 18th, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm brooke thomas. a check on weather and traffic with justin and meisha off today. thanks for joining us. justin, great to see you, happy as always, yep, septa, updates, a lot of construction this morning, mondayng

amy: from the republican national convention in cleveland, ohio, this is democracy now! >> this happened on the heels of dallas and what happened to sterling and test deal. my son is an young african-american man in america. he could have been sterling or castile. he could have been those dallas police officers, and my god, today, he could have been those officers in baton rouge. it goes beyond what i can put intoto words. amy: as three police officers are shot dad in baton rouge, we speak to former ohio state senator nina turner. her son is a police officer here at the republican national convention. then we look at saudi arabia's role in the september 11 attacks. >> i think the declassification of the 28 pages is way more significant than mainstream media is making it out to be. i think the lobby is getting mainstream media to pretend it is nothing. name after name of people are identified with the hijackers who have some kind of position in the saudi government. to codepink speak founder about saudi arabia and why she is protesting the republican national convention. a

the republican national convention. coming up, a live report from cleveland. when you're the parent of a disabled child, you realize that the world can be a harsh place. but you also realize it can be a really loving, wonderful place. when i saw donald trump mock somebody who was disabled, i was appalled. you gotta see this guy... ahh, i don't know what i said, ahh, i don't remember! that reporter suffers from a chronic condition that impairs movement of his arms. it told me everything i need to know about his heart and what he believes deep down. priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. >>> welcome back. cleveland is ready to start the republican national convention and nbc 10 is there for all of the action including a special breakfast that is happening today for delegates. tracy davidson is live in cleveland. so who will be at that breakfast? >> reporter: well, every single delegation has a breakfast in the morning and they have key note speakers. and we found out just yesterday that pennsylvania delegation will hear from hou

today. >> fox news is following the heightened security live for us from cleveland. let's get right to baton rouge this morning with the latest there, leland. >> ladies, good morning on what can only be described as a day of abject addness here in baton rouge. the flag is at half staff here behind me. the police department as it is here across this city. there may not be words to describe the as a sadness after the early morning peace and calm of a sunday morning was broken by the unmistakable sound of a running street battle at about 9:00 a.m. sunday as officers responded to a 911 call of a man with a rifle. they arrived there at that scene and then began a fierce gun battle with this suspect and then came the chilling reports of a number of officers wounded. >> the police, they're shooting at the police. he has a mask on. he is military. i don't know who this man is. >> six officers would end up being brought down by gunfire. three of those killed as they screamed over the radio for help. >> shots fired. shots fired. officer down. got a city officer down. >> we hav

this was the big night of donald trump. these young clevelandivist gathered at the public square talking about their concerns about their city and how it has been decimated. economic policies have left in its wake. cleveland is one of the most segregated cities in the u.s. a police force that is known around the country as the one two years ago where to officers came to a local recreational park and one shot dead a a 12-year-olold boy named tamir re within two seconds of pulling up as he played with his toy gun. protesters held aloft their posters that featured tweets decrying these policies. >> my name is amanda king. my sign basically says that we are tired of being an afterthought for safety. platform was "make america safe again" but some of us are not safe. i'm holding this sign for young people who are gunned down in the street. i'm holding the sign for young clevelanders who don't have a voice at the rnc. these are twitter discussions we have been having all week. in my tweet, i said, how do you make america work when you are lining your

loom is both a detective in the cleveland city policeity department, but also the president of the cleveland police pba. what he had said is this, there are two zones here, the event zone and the protest zone. right now under ohio law any one is available outside of theof event zone, that secured lockk down area to carry a firearm. loom is says in the event of an emergency like we saw in dallass last week it would be virtually impossible for police responding to that situation outside the republican national convention to in a split second automatically decipher who was the good guy and who is the bad guy. now, that has angered theed national rival association, but we should also tell you thatt loom is had very pointed to say about president obama as well today. he said that president obama,ma, quote, had blood on his hands in loom isn't words foreigneign couraging an warranty police movement in this country. now, that has not been backed up by mayor frank jackson, the democrat who runs the city of cleveland. these are very provocative comments on the part of the police department pba. make

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the premiere here in cleveland. ome the michael moore of the right. he already is. in fact, far more effective than michael moore. his box office hit, "2016, obama's america" is more best selling than moore's. this starts with dinesh d'souza in jail. >> it all began when the obama administration tried to shut me up. >> what are folks going to see? >> they're going to see american politics traded away in a way they have never seen it before. the democratic party purports to be the party of equal rights and the little guy and the little man, and this movie blows it out of the water. >> the democrats support slavery. >> there's a sordid strain of oppression, subjugation. gangsterism from the beginning. >> the democrats went from slavery to enslavement. >> corrupt big city bosses that's how you get corrupt unions. >> so hillary clinton is simply the par excellence, the latest manifestation of this sordid tradition. >> we'll go check it out. the film is about to play right now. >> [ indiscernible ]. ♪ >> i knew some of th

once known as the mistake by the lake, cleveland is rebranding itself as the remake on the lake. >> 20 years ago i would say don't come to cleveland because it's bad and they turned the whole city around. >> i'm excited to see people downtown. just look around the ohio city neighborhood it's hip it's happening with all kinds of bars and restaurants. cleveland is emerging as a leader in the biomedical world and young people are moving here. >> i come in contact with a lot of people moving from places like new york and philadelphia and chicago. they're moving here because our rents are still relatively low compared to most places and we're -- we are a city that's growing and we have so many amenities now. >> reporter: and now the republicans are in town. yes, clevelanders are anxious about protests but convinced their police can handle it. >> i'm not saying nothing will happen but even if it does it will be land in a classy way. >> reporter: the they agree the convention will be good for their city. the people of cleveland are less sure if donald trump will be good for the nation. >> i l

but the people of cleveland, largely, this effort was led by the mayor of cleveland who is a democratf cleveland welcome the political world and welcome all the eyes on cleveland. they have a good story to tell in cleveland and want the world to see it. >> and they have a big banner in cleveland that says world champion cleveland cavaliers, welcome everybody to cleveland. i know it's a great story. what are your concerns about the convention in the coming days? >> well, you know, as an ohioan, i just want to make sure that cleveland puts on a good show. and i also want to make sure that everybody is safe. i know that the security forces, the police and otherwise have been planning for this. but i also know that the people of cleveland want to make sure that their guests are safe. and you're going to have millions of eyes and ears out there helping law enforcement make sure that things are safe on the ground in cleveland. >> yeah, and it's a good question because you know, you look around and if you have done some homework, if i'm sure your city has, and you have witnessed these trump

, bad week for the protesters. as a clevelandative, i would agree with your winners on that one. i may be biased, that doesn't mean i'm wrong. and herllary clinton campaign didn't take the day off. last night alone her team sent out a barrage of counter messaging, filled with 17 press releases criticizing and fact checking trumps a dress -- trump's address. they sent surrogates to cleveland, including the chair of the democratic party and top research -- opposition research director of the clinton campaign. howdy you think what happened in cleveland is going to impact the democratic convention in philadelphia next week regarding how both parties conduct themselves? democrats seem giddy, they can barely contain their excitement over having their convention next week in philadelphia right on the heels of the republican convention. they are eager to display their party unity behind hillary clinton. certainly solid compared to what is happening in the republican party. anything that is halfway organized, halfway according to lookcrip

the security concerns here in cleveland. i have a great panel. gin and maria cardona and amanda carpenter and then john phillips for kabc radio talk show host. let's start with josh. the theme is making america safe again from nice, from dallas, from baton rouge. plenty of material for team trump. >> sure. we will see a host of national security officials layout broad and big themes why they think donald trump is better than hillary clinton on foreign policy. he is strong. he is hard nosed. he is tough. he will restore leadership. after that, that is where most republicans on the foreign policy and the trump campaign ends. they will not talk about the fact that trump and his candidate disagree with whether or not they should have got to war in iraq or foreign trade or whether or not donald trump doesn't want to support ukraine and get closer to putin. the goal here is to project unity in the republican party. that doesn't really exist and paint hillary clinton as a problem. that means focusing on benghazi. >> i want to listen to a little bit. we s

next week for the republican national convention. >>> the city of cleveland, ohio is about to be in the spotlight again after becoming the winning city where the nba will shine next week where the republican party will announce their candidate for president. >> reporter: protesters are on the move in cleveland, at this point their numbers are small. that will change. the city has spent months preparing for them and any other security risks. >> black lives matter! >> reporter: in downtown cleveland, protesters marched in the name of black lives matter. dozens of police officers followed closely behind video taping their every move. police departments from accuracy the country sent in 2500 officers to assist the 500 cleveland police dedicated to the convention. federal agencies will help. >> we have within dhs some 3,000 personnel that will be dedicated to the security of the republican national convention and the democratic national convention each. >> reporter: fencing is going up, barricades are ready to go. roads will be closed. air monitors are in place, s

the gp convention. a live report from cleveland in a few moments. nicole: a new national poll finds hillary clinton leading donald trump by five points. the latest wall street posts if clinton gets 46% support while trump has 41%. numbers are unchanged from a month ago. the poll was good before trump picked mike pence as his running mate. clinton has the big advantage among african-americans. 84% to 7%. lauren: crowds gather in support of president tran alive then. lauren: an estimated 6000 people have been detained so far. erduon supporters wanted to penalty for the leaders of the attempted coup. nicole: three more people have been arrested in france as the investigation can listen to last week's truck attacks and nice. i'm albanian man and woman only supplied the weapons to the attacker. a 31-year-old man from to venetian printer process and is believed to have received a text message telling him to bring more weapons. lauren: another american is among the dead. initially after the attack. now identified among the 84 people killed. when you make li

and the media love unscripted stuff, as we saw in cleveland. these act. sometimes things like melania's speech keeps the story alive. sometimes a moment is so dramatic, ted cruz sticking it to trump and getting booed big-time, that the narrative is irresistible, but it drowns out other moments like the mike pence speech as the vp. what concerns me going to cleveland is all the media stories. and some media may have played that up. will they apply the same standard to hillary's convention here, especially now that those leaked dnc e-mails have reopened old wounds between the hillary and bernie forces? we'll be carefully watching the media coverage and so, i bet, will you. that's it for this special convention of media buzz, special convention edition of media buzz here in philadelphia. i'm howard kurtz. hope you like our facebook page. check us out, give it a like. write to us at mediabuzz@fox news.com. meanwhile, bill and martha coming up behind me. they were gracious enough to join us this hour. i'll be out here all week. and we'll be back in d