1 00:00:04,519 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: Hi, this is news and I'm reporting on the second 2 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:11,239 Speaker 1: night at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Let me 3 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: start by saying, Callista and I will be giving a 4 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 1: talk tonight, and we're both very excited about the opportunity. 5 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 1: She will be talking about religious liberty and freedom, and 6 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 1: I'll be talking about foreign policy and national security. The 7 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: second day was interesting, of course, people were still buzzing 8 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 1: about what Trump seemed to be like when he came 9 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:34,839 Speaker 1: in Monday night. He was more subdued, a sense that 10 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 1: he had, in some ways I think, been deeply affected 11 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:41,800 Speaker 1: by the shooting. He was a little bit more of 12 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:46,560 Speaker 1: a states He enjoyed himself. I talked to speaker Mike Johnson, 13 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: who had been sitting with him for most of the evening, 14 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:51,199 Speaker 1: and he said it was really remarkable and that he 15 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 1: had the sense that Trump felt that there was a 16 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:58,639 Speaker 1: providential thing that the bullet missed, killing him by literally 17 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 1: a fraction of an inn had a chance to talk 18 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 1: with Ton Jr. He was deeply affected. He'd actually was 19 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: out fishing with his daughter and somebody called and said, 20 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:11,400 Speaker 1: your father's been shot, And they didn't know anything more 21 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 1: than that, so they didn't if his dad was dead 22 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 1: or what until he got to Shore and they, he said, 23 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 1: took about ninety minutes to finally get through to him 24 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 1: on the phone. That was still the big impact on 25 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 1: Tuesday morning was the sense of Trump having survived, in 26 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 1: the sense of excitement that he had come to the 27 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 1: convention floor with JD. Vance, who, of course was the 28 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 1: second big story with picking Vance was strategically a very 29 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 1: big decision, and it was a decision not to go 30 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 1: to the traditional old guard but instead to really create 31 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: a new future for the party. Vance's thirty nine, the 32 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: same age as Richard Nixon was when President Eisner picked 33 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 1: him to be vice president, and Nixon of course played 34 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 1: a major role in American politics for over twenty years 35 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: after that. So you may be looking at a big 36 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 1: factor in the future of the Republican Party with the 37 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 1: picking events. And that I think was also a signal 38 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:14,640 Speaker 1: from Trump that he intends to be very explicitly Trump, 39 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,799 Speaker 1: he's not interested in compromising with the old order. He's 40 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: not interested in appeasing people who don't agree on make 41 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 1: America great, Ganner, who don't agree about putting America first. Frankly, 42 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 1: he totally owns the convention I've never seen the depth 43 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 1: of commitment that exists for President Trump at the present time. 44 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 1: It's really pretty remarkable. There were a couple of things 45 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:41,520 Speaker 1: that were really interesting about programming on Tuesday. One, of course, 46 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 1: which has been widely seen. Micky Haley, who had said 47 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:46,640 Speaker 1: at one time she wouldn't even vote for him, ended 48 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 1: up giving a good speech and endorsing him and clearly 49 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:55,239 Speaker 1: committed to taking on Biden. Governor DeSantis was there again, 50 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 1: somebody who at one point was pretty estranged and pretty bruised, 51 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 1: but kim backing was very positive at that level. It 52 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:06,519 Speaker 1: was interesting to watch the parade of people who had 53 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 1: run against Trump at one point or another, Ted Cruz, 54 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,639 Speaker 1: who'd run against him in twenty sixteen, for example, Vi 55 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 1: Vaked Bramswami. I mean, it was really sort of a 56 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:18,639 Speaker 1: gathering of the folks that Trump had defeated and the 57 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: fealty to the new leader, and a sign of how 58 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 1: much he dominated the party. The second big thing was 59 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 1: the extraordinary emotional impact of everyday folks who came and 60 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:34,240 Speaker 1: talked at the convention. When you hear a mother talk 61 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 1: about her son having risked his life for America in 62 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 1: Iraq and then being killed in New York and his 63 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: murderer not being tried because of the district Attorney Alvin Bragg, 64 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: who of course is the district attorneys going after Trump. 65 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: The emotion, the power of the sense of anger was 66 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: really compelling, and I think there were several witnesses to that, 67 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 1: particularly people who whose children had been killed by illegal immigrants, 68 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 1: that I think the audience found very powerful, very different 69 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 1: than traditional conventions. Somebody pointed out this morning that there 70 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 1: were probably more African Americans speaking at the convention yesterday 71 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 1: than had spoken in the last three Republican conventions. So 72 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:25,039 Speaker 1: there's a real effort here at outreach to the Latino 73 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:28,040 Speaker 1: and the black communities all over it along the lines 74 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 1: in terms of ideas that are totally compatible with Trump 75 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 1: and with the concept of MAGA. But nonetheless it's a 76 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:40,679 Speaker 1: much broader Republican party. It's a Republican party, for example, 77 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 1: which has an African American candidate for governor in North 78 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 1: Carolina who has a very good chance of winning. You 79 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 1: just looked around, you saw, wow, this is certainly not 80 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 1: the party that I first became active in back in 81 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:56,720 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty in Palmbus, Georgia. That had changed very dramatically. 82 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:00,680 Speaker 1: The other big thing I thought was is what a 83 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:05,040 Speaker 1: great job Lara Trump did. She is a remarkable person. 84 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 1: Her speech was tremendously effective at every level. It was 85 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 1: effective personally as she talked about her father in law 86 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:16,479 Speaker 1: and the grandfather to her children. It was effective. She 87 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:20,000 Speaker 1: talked about the impact of Saturday shooting on the family 88 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 1: and explaining things to kids. It was effective as she 89 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 1: talked about what had gone wrong in America and what 90 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 1: President Trump would do to fix it. Kliston and I 91 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 1: watched and were really struck with how attractive, how intelligent, 92 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:37,719 Speaker 1: how photogenic, and she really reacted well with the crowd. 93 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 1: You know, when you're standing up there and you're largely 94 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: reading from a teleprompter, which virtually everybody does, and you've 95 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 1: got several thousand people, you've got to really have a 96 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:52,359 Speaker 1: good message and a good delivery, or you'll lose the 97 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 1: audience and they'll start talking to themselves. And she managed, 98 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:58,159 Speaker 1: I think for I don't know how long she was up, 99 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 1: it looked like fifteen or twenty minutes. She managed to 100 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 1: be just very effective at reaching out to people, getting 101 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,040 Speaker 1: the entire audience to pay attention. It was also interesting 102 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 1: to watch in a number of these cases, because we 103 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 1: had President Trump sitting in the presidential box with JD. 104 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: Vanson with some friends, and he was clearly paying attention. 105 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: They would cut Dahn occasionally and you'd see that somebody'd 106 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 1: made a really good point. He'd be nodding yes. When 107 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 1: the appropriate times were there, he'd jump up and applaud. 108 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 1: So he was really into listening to the people who 109 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 1: had come to talk to America. Now I had a 110 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: very good chance person. I ran into Speaker Johnson and 111 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 1: his wife, and we had a very good conversation about 112 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:41,479 Speaker 1: what's going on, about what needs to be done. I 113 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 1: really very much am impressed with how much he knows. 114 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 1: We talked a little bit about the concept of Trump 115 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 1: having had a providential experience on Saturday. You can't really 116 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:56,279 Speaker 1: explain that he turned his head at just the right 117 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:58,919 Speaker 1: moment to be hit in the air rather than hitting 118 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,279 Speaker 1: the brain. As we were discussing it, Johnson just pulled 119 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 1: up that famous story of George Washington, who Johnson pointed 120 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 1: out was ambushed with General Braddock about forty five miles 121 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 1: from Butler, Pennsylvania. Washington on that particular occasion had two 122 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 1: horses shot out from under him and four bullet holes 123 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 1: and his coat and felt that I wrote to his 124 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 1: brother two days later and said that this was a 125 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:27,679 Speaker 1: providential moment. He clearly thought he should have been killed. 126 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 1: And so this whole sense that there are moments when 127 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 1: you sense God's hand changing what could otherwise have happened. 128 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 1: But I thought it was interesting that Speaker Johnson could 129 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 1: just pluck that out and knew all the details headed 130 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:44,080 Speaker 1: down pat He's a very bright guy, and that was 131 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 1: a fun part of the whole experience. One of the 132 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:49,360 Speaker 1: other things I should say is that this is like 133 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 1: a giant family reunion. Kriston and I kept running into 134 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 1: people who he campaigned with, had been involved in our 135 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 1: two thousand and twelve presidential campaign, people that had known 136 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 1: us back on Capitol Hill. You really renew an amazing 137 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 1: number of acquaintances in a very short time because they're 138 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 1: all in this one building and the only thing they're 139 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 1: doing is walking around talking to each other. So it 140 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 1: begins to be a really nice time to get caught 141 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 1: up again and to have a sense of what's going on. 142 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: I think that the most recent polls, I don't know 143 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 1: how valid they are, and I don't know whether it's 144 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:32,440 Speaker 1: just a temporary jump after the assassination attempt, or whether 145 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:35,320 Speaker 1: it's a real breakthrough. But I know there was one 146 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:39,320 Speaker 1: set of polls today in which in every single key 147 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 1: state Trump has now had So there's Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona, 148 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 1: North Carolina, Georgia, and every one of those states he's 149 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 1: now ahead, but in some cases by a pretty significant margin. 150 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 1: Now that's again all going to continue to evolve, and 151 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:01,480 Speaker 1: historically each party gets a little bit of a bounce 152 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 1: in the polls coming out of their convention, so you 153 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 1: have to also factor that in. You've had huge amounts 154 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:11,840 Speaker 1: of television coverage, and of course with the assassination attempt 155 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 1: on Saturday and Trump's courageous response to it, He's had 156 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:19,680 Speaker 1: an unusual level of attention and that will and doudly 157 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:21,959 Speaker 1: have some effect. I should say, by the way, from 158 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:25,560 Speaker 1: what I'm seeing, I think that it's very likely that 159 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 1: Biden is going to be the Democratic nominee and he 160 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 1: controls the machinery. And what this has done, in part 161 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: is it's taken away the time and the opportunity for 162 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 1: the Democrats who really want to get rid of him 163 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 1: to build momentum because they're sort of smothered by the 164 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:46,559 Speaker 1: news coverage about the assassination attempt and the coverage about 165 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:50,680 Speaker 1: President Trump and the Republicans having a convention. The last 166 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:53,720 Speaker 1: thing want mentioned is we had a very very interesting 167 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:58,640 Speaker 1: America First Policy Institute meeting yesterday morning. Somebody said, you know, 168 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 1: we really need something like the kind with America, and 169 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 1: I pointed out that the platform, which I urge all 170 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 1: of you to read. The Platform is the shortest platform 171 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:11,720 Speaker 1: in modern history. It dropped from about thirty seven thousand 172 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 1: words in twenty sixteen to about forty six hundred words now, 173 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 1: so dramatically smaller, very clear, written to be understood by everybody, 174 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 1: and personally edited by Donald Trump. I mean he went 175 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 1: through that platform line by line, changed things, had them 176 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:34,559 Speaker 1: rewrite things, and so. And I've been told by John McLaughlin, 177 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 1: who does polling for both Trump and he does polling 178 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 1: for America's New Majority Project, which we run, and McLaughlin says, 179 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:45,560 Speaker 1: you can take that platform, lay it right next to 180 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:50,280 Speaker 1: our polling data, and virtually everything in the platform is 181 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 1: sixty percent plus approval by the American people. I think 182 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 1: this is a very important document, and I'm going to 183 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:58,440 Speaker 1: do everything I can to get them to send it 184 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 1: out nationwide and get people to truly understand this is 185 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:05,199 Speaker 1: a roadmap for the future. It is what Donald Trump 186 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 1: intends to do. It is his personal document, he personally 187 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 1: edited it. And don't remember any time in modern times 188 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: you've had this level of intense commitment by a president 189 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 1: to a platform. So I recommend to all of you 190 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: to build to the Republican National Committee website, get a 191 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 1: copy of the platform and take a look at it. 192 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 1: And I hope you'll both watch Glissa and I speak 193 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 1: this evening. Callista is the former Ambassador of the Vatican 194 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:31,320 Speaker 1: and she will be discussing religious liberty starting at seven 195 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 1: twenty four Eastern time six twenty four Central time, and 196 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 1: then I'll be speaking right after her. So please tune in, 197 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:40,559 Speaker 1: listen to the speeches, and enjoy the convention.