But we begin with john roberts, who has moved a few blocks from the white house to the location where the rnc will get underway i guess tonight, you could argue. John, good afternoon. Where we are now is just outside of the auditorium in downtown washington. That is the washington, d. C. , headquarters for everything that is going on with the campaign. Even though the Main Convention is going on in charlotte. What the president is doing again today, as he did last week is really try to draw a sharp contrast between himself, biden, and the dnc in terms of just being out there. Unlike joe biden who spend most of the week cooped up in his home in wilmington, delaware. The president is following a more traditional route of Campaign Event sort of on a path to the convention, culminating with his speech on thursday night to the splendor of the south lawn of the white house. This afternoon, the president dropping into the Convention Site in charlotte, where the nomination was underway. The president slamming North Carolina governor roy cooper, whom the president said would not give the green light for the republicans to hold a full convention there. Listen to what the president said. The president said that he wanted to thank the people of North Carolina because to be honest with you, he says, he has an obligation to be here, sing the North Carolina has a governor in total shutdown mode, guaranteeing that on november 4th, it will all open. He believes that they want to keep things shutdown because they want to make the numbers look as bad as possible. The Trump Campaign today releasing what the agenda will be for a second trump term that includes jobs, 10 million new jobs in ten months, creating 1 million new small businesses, cutting taxes, trade deals, promising to eradicate coronavirus with a return to normal, and reliance on china, bring back 1 Million Manufacturing jobs, health care reform, education, defend the police, and protect American Workers and in America First foreign policy. The president warning again about mass unsolicited mail and voting continuing warnings that it could rig the election, accusing democrats of using coronavirus to try to steal the election. We are going to hear from the president , bill, at least two more times today at this event in North Carolina. And then tonight, the president will have an event with frontline workers in the coronavirus prices to say thank you to them, and there maybe Something Else that happens as well. Wwe will see. Bill we certainly will tonight when it happens. Going to make a speech in a matter of moments. About 30 minutes due south. So really on the western part of that state. I want to bring in Jacqui Heinrich now. Joe biden says he can win the presidency from his house. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, bill. The former Vice President spend the weekend at his beach house and remained here today, but the campaign is pumping out virtual counter programming. Underway right now is at town hall for the North Carolina youth vote, including a message from senator Kamala Harris. Painting the rnc as the tram convention, saying President Trump wont be able to reach struggling americans. Showcasing as many trump family members as republican speakers. Another significant endorsement today. Joining more than two dozen former g. O. P. Lawmakers, supporting biden for president. Facing questions of whether it is really possible to be President Trump from the comfort of his home. Including an in person event today, trying to build energy, but biden says his way has worked so far. I will toss it back to you. Bill jacqui, thank you for that. President trump but i want to just say this is some little gathering. From the heart. This is from the heart. So you know, we worked out a program where all the food that is being wasted goes to people and helping people during the pandemic, and you people produce the food like nobody produces the food, so we took care of it. We are actually doing today a one milliondollar program that is going to help everybody. Its going to be great. We are getting new records on the stock market. We just had new employment records. 9 Million People, jobs. [cheers and applause] we reduce taxes, we reduce regulations. Its all coming back so fast. You will see it. And the pandemic goes away. The vaccines are going to be, i believe, announced very soon. Last evening, we announced a very, very big therapeutic therapeutic something that really has been an incredible thing. This would have taken i wouldnt say years, maybe not many years, but it would have taken a long time to have got it approved. We got the fda to do and very quickly, so now we have another therapeutic, and it is really impressive. Convalescent do you know what that is . Hopefully you wont need it, but we have it. So many others are coming out now. The jobs they have done, the job our country has done has been amazing. We will talk about it on thursday. Is anybody going to be watching television on thursday . [cheers and applause] so we will be talking because really the jobs that we have done is incredible. Its incredible. None of us get any credit for it, and thats okay. As long as we have the end result, and the end result is we have to make people safe. We have to make our country safe. We have to build up our military, and now it is at a level its never been out before. Weve rebuilt our entire military. The wall, as you know, will soon be finished, and our border is secure. And i heard somebody on the other side say that they want to tear down the wall. Do you believe this . They want people they will say let the people come in. Well, we cant do that. We have a great country. Weve never done we are going to be prior to the plague coming in from china, the likes of which have never been seen, employment numbers, the stock market is just about said. All the things that were doing. To me, that is like a leading indicator. The economy is going to come back here next year, we are going to have one of the best years economically that we have ever had before. [cheers and applause] so, watch on thursday night. We just accepted the votes, and i guess the official acceptance is on thursday, but we just got a great delicate count. Mark meadows, is that right . [cheers and applause] from a wonderful state known as North Carolina, mark meadows. And he is going to have a great young man taking his place. But mark has been great. Our chief of staff, so i just want to thank everybody. This has been a real lovefest between North Carolina and trump. Its been incredible. Weve had tremendous success here, so last year you have the most successful year you ever had, and youre going to break the record again next year. They have been fantastic. And i think youre going to break your record from last ye year. So coming from china to be behind us. We will have the vaccine very soon, but it will be fading. Florida is getting much better. California is getting much better. You look at all of the different states. And we are going to be comparing that. The tremendous success that we have had compare to other plac places. So i just want to thank all of the people from North Carolina. You know, as you know, because of the shutdown, we wanted to have their convention here. And you have a governor that basically didnt want to play ball. Didnt want to do it. [boos] and by the way, dan forrest, hes great. And i think is going to do very well. But hes really a terrific guy, and hed be a terrific governor. I felt really an obligation to come here today to say hello to the people of North Carolina, and we appreciate your love, and i love you right back. Thank you all very much. Thank you very much. Take care of yourselves. Bill a most unconventional convention. The president has been seeing hour after hour today and will again. Corey lewandowski with me now. We dont have a ton of time now, as we watch every move the president makes, but what will america see . We are going to see the vision of the republicans have laid out, and what we want to continue to achieve. This president laid out some promises, and we will talk about the success that we have had. The deregulation, people who came here and succeeded. Why people flee those countries to come to the greatest country in the world. We want to talk about la whas the driver of this country, that when you have more money in your pocket, the government doesnt need to make decisions that you should be able to make for yourself. Americans are going to have a choice this november if they want to continue Going Forward or if they want to go backwards. Bill he has a record on the economy and on covid. If americans blame him for covid, how can he win . I dont think anybody blames the president for covid, but he acted swiftly at the beginning, he banned flights from mainland china. They called him a racist, xenophobic. Joe biden said it was a terrible decision. There is a way of being a leader and a way of being a follower. Joe bidens solution is to talk to the socalled experts and close the economy again. You have to have personal responsibility. If you are in a highrisk environment, dont put yourself in that category where you might contract the disease. Wash your hands, take personal responsibility. We cant be deciding as a government which businesses survive and which ones fail. The states that stayed open have done much better. Bill its how do you plan on winning suburban voters back . I think suburban voters want exactly what the urban voters want. Safety and security. They want their children to have the opportunity to go to school and learn. They want to make sure their businesses and homes are saved. Thats a complete contrast to what the democrats want. They want to defund the police and let individuals run through with complete accountability. We are a line order society. Bill what is the effect of losing Kellyanne Conway for this campaign . Kellyanne has been a big part of things from the time she joined us and manage the campaign. She has been such a great voice for the president. She will be missed, and our heart goes out to her. Both stepping back from their respective jobs. I understand that because our children should be our priority. Bill we will see you there. Corey, thank you for your time. Meanwhile, powerful storms that developed over the weekend could deliver a onetwo punch over the gulf coast. Stay tuned for more on that. Coming up. At philadelphia, we know what makes the perfect schmear of cream cheese. The recipe we invented over 145 years ago and me. The worlds best, and possibly only, schmelier. Philadelphia. Schmear perfection. Three thousand dollars thats how much veteran homeowners can save every year by using their va benefits to refinance at newday. Record low rates have dropped to new all time lows. With the va streamline refi theres no appraisal, no income verification, and no money out of pocket. One call can save you 3000 a year. Bill we are going to see him in a moment here. A small portion of the convention today. We want to bring in Chris Wallace for some analysis. How are you doing, my friend . I am going to show you the boa board. Everything in gray we think is a tossup right now, but this was North Carolina, chris, four years ago. New hampshire was Hillary Clinton and won the votes. You can forget about that. This is North Carolina four years ago. Out of 2. 5 million cast. 46. 2. As of today, chris, here is where the polling put all of the averages together. They are neck and neck. Lets call it what . 0. 6 . How do you see it breaking right now . What is your sense of that remark well, North Carolina, obviously, is a tossup. I think you would say joe biden is ahead. He has had a steady lead. Sometimes it goes to double ts. More often it is more around where it is now, around sevenpoint. So biden is leading, but this race is absolutely up for grabs. Youve got the Republican Convention. You got president ial debates. Who knows what happens to the coronavirus and the economy over the next 71 days . So you know, this is going to be fasten your seat belts. A bumpy ride. Bill just about everything that we have covered here. I was watching this throughout the day. You know it it reminded me of . Hes been popping up about every two hours. There are going to be surprises every night. Remember in cleveland 2016 . Ted cruz was on stage delivering a speech. I dont think it was the most flattering speech directed towards the nominee, trump, but he walked into the arena, and every head turned away from ted cruz, and they looked at President Trump in that arena, and thats kind of what were seeing again today. He is the trump show, hour after hour. I agree. We just saw a few moments ago, when he gets off the helicopter North Carolina, and he was supposed to deliver a short speech at the Convention Site in charlotte. He ended up speaking for an ho hour. It is clear that having watch the Democratic Convention for the last week, that donald trump is supercharged. As barack obama used to say, fired up and ready to go. Weve heard him several times, we will hear him one more time. Hes making at least two appearances tonight during the convention, and he may show up more than that. I think donald trump things, and the reason he shouldnt, that the best weapon donald trump has and the thing that appeals most to the trump base, is donald trump. If he is the top talent, the top star, why not put him on the stage as often as you can . Bill trump second term opening, democrats focus on character but ignored an agenda for workers. Chris, thank you, sir. Talk to you real soon. Nice to see you on a monday. Thats like special for us. We will take you there live in just a moment. House democrats meanwhile grilling the postmaster general over concerns about mailin voting. How they responded to that tod today. Taking aim at the gold coast. 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Now in front of those doors are sandbags. Of all of the windows here on this couple blocks, we only found two stories that were open, including the pepper palace. Its stressful. There is a point where we are going to break. Hopefully it doesnt happen soon. How close are you . I think we can hang on. New orleans is a pretty resilient city. We are survivors here. Speak of the big concern in louisiana is the concern of flooding and storm surges. You will have one storm dropping water, and then the other storm right behind it. There will be no chance for those waters to receive. That means sandbagging. People have been prepared to stay in their homes were 72 hours once marco hits this evening. Bill leland, thank you. Heaping track of these storms now. Youve got marco out there. Who knows what laura does after that. What are you seeing now . Beginning with the good news, marco is out there, but really a lot of the heavier rain has kind of shifted off to the north and to the east, so parts of the Florida Panhandle seeing the worst of this. When we do eventually see laura run over some of these areas, maybe they are not as soggy as they could have been. It just isnt all that large. Only at 40 miles per hour. Going to continue to weaken. Laura now that we have to Pay Attention to, this will be the stronger of the two systems. Just south of cuba. This is going to lift up to the gulf of mexico, and those waters are warm. That is what fuels a system like this, and it is going to have an opportunity to really strengthen currently forecast to go up to a category two storm before making landfall wednesday into early thursday morning. 105 miles per hour. So the winds will be stronger. It will be a bigger storm. With that, we will see the potential of more rainfall. Maybe widespread in the forecast, about an inch of rain. This one is going to bring a whole lot more rain than that. This could shift on where ultimately this lands. We are seeing closer to 68 inches. Makes this move again. We are talking about Late Wednesday into early thursday. Bill that did not do too much to slow down laura. Something significant could be brewing there. Awaiting an update, meanwhile, on the breaking news out of wisconsin. Caught on camera, spark protest last night. Now saying that the National Guard will be there before and nightfall. We are live in kenosha for the latest there. What should we expect on law and order . We will take that on next. [narr. He used to have gum problems. Now, he uses therabreath healthy gums oral rinse with clinicallyproven ingredients and his gum problems have vanished. crowd applauding therabreath, its a better mouthwash. At walmart, target and other fine stores. Now every bath fitter bathbath fis installed quickly, its a better mouthwash. Safely, and beautifully, with a lifetime warranty. 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The hearing underway for the shooter who killed 51 worshipers in new zealand about a year ago. Families have the chance to confront him in court. He could be the first person in new zealand to face the sentence of life without parole. Waiting for an update now. Video of Police Shooting a black man in the back as he got into his suv. Setting a car dealership on fire. Though shooting happened sunday. A warning. The video is graphic, so we positive fo before the officer opens here. You can hear what sounds to be seven gunshots. [gunfire] bill Police Say Jacob blake is in the hospital in serious condition. Bill, this is the spot where it all went down just after 5 00, Kenosha Police were called to this location. For whatever reason, the initial reports say that jacob blake got involved. He ended up getting shot before it was all over. What followed was writing. You mention the car dealership where a number of cars were set on fire. Windows were smashed at particular businesses. Particularly disturbing video appeared to show a Kenosha Police officer hit in the head with a brick. He is knocked unconscious. Curfew went into effect. Governor tony evers has called out the National Guard in case the protest and a become violent again. He also says there will be a special session of the wisconsin legislator. He called for that to discuss Police Accountability and transparency. And as he does not, evers has expressed the position very empathetic with the demonstrators. We also stand against excessive use of force and immediate escalation when engaging with black wisconsinites. We must offer our empathy. We must see the trauma, fear, and exhaustion of being black in our state and in our country. But equally important to our empathy is our action. Now what you can see from the video is that blake and the officers around the passenger side of the vehicle. They draw their weapons, and early accounts that he was days, but it is not clear that anyone had a taser out. They follow him, and one blank attempts to get into the drivers side, you can see one of the Police Officers tugging at his church. You hear the shots rang out. We have had a highprofile democrats like joe biden, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren all weighing in their statements are over social media, all with physicians empathetic of the demonstrators out last night. The department of criminal investigation, part of the Wisconsin Department of justice has said that any definitive results could take as long as 30 days. Bill. Bill thank you, mike. We will bring our viewers there. And we are going to make it clear that this president , this Vice President , and this party will always stand with the men and women who have served on the thin blue line mc law enforcement. Bill Republican National convention today, putting focus on law enforcement. More so the democrats did last week. Former state Department Spokeswoman for president obama and former speechwriter for president bush. Hello to both of you. We might have to see what happens with the president store in North Carolina. I thought it was interesting, how he chose to answer the question about suburban voters who seem to drift away from the Trump Administration about the concerns that they have when it comes to a law and order. Marie. Bill, we have actually seen suburban voters move away from President Trump in part because he refuses to acknowledge the black lives matter movement, and this push across the country for racial justice. This morning, we woke up to yet another video of another young black man shot by police, and we dont know all the facts yet. Hopefully, you will pull through this and will not die from it, but you didnt hear you havent heard President Trump address the fact that yes, he cant talk about law and order, but why hasnt he paired that with comments about how to have a more just policing system in this country . In this mornings tragic video just underscores so many independent, so many suburbanites across this country are looking to the president for leadership on this, and he just keeps on saying law and order, law and order, without engaging on the broader subject, bill, and thats why he is losing so many voters. Bill i am just trying to push to another topic. I want to get your call on the law and order theme. Perhaps the point that marie is making. Every democrat put out a statement. Nobody had a word to say when that guy was kicked in the head in portland, oregon. Joe biden, in his convention speech, he referred to the violence three years ago in charlotte. He didnt say a word about portland. If you watch that convention, you would think that there was no violence or writing taking place in american cities. Democrats dont talk about it because although cities are run by democrats, including minneapolis were george floyd was killed. The choke hold was permitted by Democratic Leaders in the city of minneapolis. I think that the democrats need to get their house in order. 59 of americans say that criminal violence is going to be very important to their vote. That is just behind covid with 63 , so this is a hugely important issue. Bill the rejection of mail ballots where the primaries that were held in the summer. This is extraordinary. If all these days are going to start doing this, the number of rejections in an election that could be razorthin yet again, think about states like michigan. New hampshire decided by 2700 votes. They rejected 534,000 mailin ballots. That is just mindblowing. Its almost like you can put all the lawyers in the minivan and drive them to the battleground states to set up shop. What are we going to do . This is a logistical challenge, to be sure. There are a number of states that dukes widespread mailin voting, and they do it very successfully, so we need state boards of election right now to figure out how theyre going to do this, but you will also hear much more from democrats. You will keep hearing it. Voting early. If you get a mailin ballots, in many places, you can drop it off at the board of election. So democrats are going to really hammer home but however you can. Have all of your ducks in a row. We also need states should be preparing right now. Bill the focus has been on the post office, but i really dont see that is the issue. The issue was at the local level because they are not staffed for it. They are not prepared for it. Thats right. Those ballots had nothing to do with donald trump. Had nothing to do with postal manipulation. This new Conspiracy Theory that the democrats have been pushing. People waited too long to vote or send their ballots in order to do didnt fill out correctly. So there is an mit study, 21 failure rate of mailin ballots. Its the most unreliable way to vote, so why are democrats pushing so hard . They dont think they can win without it. They know that donald Trump Supporters will walk over burning coals, but they are afraid their people wont leave home. Bill they should be pushing to make sure that there is an option for in person voting. , mark . Dr. Fauci says that voting in person is as safe as going to the grocery store. There is no reason why you cant, unless you are immunocompromised, you want your vote to be counted. And also, the state election board has to change their laws. It is not donald trump in the postal service. It is the state election board. Bill this is going to take a long time to get through. I hope you both come back very soon. The president continues for convention week. Popping up just about every hour today. Will we see joe biden on the campaign trail this week, or when . 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Covid cases shot up. They are going to listen to the experts. And you will see them a lot more. Bill it doesnt sound like hes ready to leave delaware at all. Lets see where that goes. And that abc interview, he said 500 Million People have watch what i have done out of my basement. Is that 500 million hits, or how is that i think hes talking about views. One of the most exciting that i can remember. It features people from all over the country. Democrats in all 50 states. The message that was looking forward, was optimistic. And a platform with the republicans cannot do this week. We will see. Bill i think that storm is moving through your area because the signal is a bit scratchy. I apologize for that, but thank you for your time, and i hope you come back. I think we heard most of it. Thank you, lily. Watching now the scene from North Carolina. In a moment here, we will be live there. He will deliver remarks. The president well. Farmers for families and a food box program. Earlier he had been there accepting the nomination. The delegates that were necessary to get that, so standby for that. We heard him earlier this hour. He will be no stranger to the tv monitor starting today and going on all this week, so standby. Fda approving the use of plasma therapy. Alex azar on that, and the race for a vaccine in a moment, next. Book two separate qualifying stays and earn a free night. The open road is open again. And wherever youre headed, Choice Hotels is there. Book direct at choicehotels. Com. Bill President Trump announcing Emergency Operations for the use of convalescent plasma to treat covid19. The most effective a country with more than 5. 7 million cases and more than 176,000 deaths blamed on covid. Thank you for being here today. A member of the task force. I appreciate you being on. Thank you for having me. Bill the fda playing politics, was that the case . What President Trump is demanding is that we cut all bureaucratic red tape out of the way. He is demanding that we get therapies and vaccines to the American People as soon as we meet fda safety and regulatory standards. That is what happened yesterday. The fda granted emergency authorization to use the plasma who comes from people who have recovered from covid, because it shows a significant benefit in terms of the severity of disease as well as mortality. Bill heres what he sent out earlier today. Plasma may provide a benefit. We need more evidence to prove it. The data fda supports an authorization for emergency use, the standard is may be affected. We need better studies that confirm preliminary findings. What about that judgment . Is it possible that this is not ready for prime time . Its been used in 118 years. It was used in the 1918 flu. The data has shown it has been safe. Over 70,000 americans have benefited from plasma as a result of the president s right to try initiative. That is the data that we had that the fda basis determination on. It is an emergency authorization. It is based on that data. We are still running the full normal Clinical Trials on it that could support a permanent license or it. Thanks to President Trump, we now have data on plasma which no one has ever had before. It has just been used in medical practice. Bill if you feel that way, what held the fda back . We were continuing to gather and analyze the data. What we wanted to be able to show looking at the data is what we call a dose response. That means that a more concentrated the antibodies that somebody had in their plasma, the better the response you would see. And that is what the data indicated that is at a statistically significant level. The higher antibody content for people under age 80 who are not on medical respiration and are admitted within three days of hospitalization saw the greatest benefit. Not at all. Fda is going to call these balls and strikes straight based on science, evidence, and their regulatory standards. That is what the president expects of them. He expects no bureaucratic red tape that is unnecessary. Bill another thing from helping human services. This program will allow health plans to contact recovered plans for those who have recovered from covid19. They go through hhs to their health care plan. You might get a phone call or an email suggesting or requesting you to donate plasma . Yes, what were doing is authorizing the contact with people who have recovered from covid to say, would you consider donating . If you recovered from covid19, go to the website and you can find information there on how to donate or contact the american red cross. You literally could save a life from that donation. Bill that would suggest some desperation. Do you need this healthy of a supply . We need people to donate, because we have a good number of people that are infected. We have individuals who are hospitalized. And so, we need people who have had covid recently to come in and donate plasma. It is very somewhat similar to what you would do for donating blood. It is donating plasma. We encourage people, please step up and do that. You could save a life. Bill is good to see you again. We hope for progress on this as always. Thanks. We are here monday through friday 3 00 eastern. Set the dvr and never miss a report. Coverage in prime time later tonight from the rnc in charlotte. Here is neil, on a monday and your world. Neil thank you very, very much. The relief that has been talked about by the white house is one of the reasons we are jumping today. Well get into that and a second. The president speaking in North Carolina. The Republican Convention as formally kicked off. The nominee plans to speak every single day of the convention. No surprise on thursday and thursday only. The big event of course when the president except that nomination at the white house with the followup of fireworks. John roberts following all of these fastmoving developments for you as your world kicks off. Its about 4 00 p. M. Eastern time, everybody