And we have the man himself. Donald trump in an exclusive interview on the eve of his nomination. The Never Trump Movement is nonsense. Alternative is hillary clinton. Super liberal judges and our country becomes venezuela. What is the story will you tell in the convention . I will tell a lot of stories. Behind me is clevelands celebrated rock and roll hall of fame. Continuing numerous exhibits that show the development of hundreds of influential artist. But the biggest rock star in town will be a billionaire businessman who is no singer, but quite a performer. And as thousands converge on cleveland for the Republican National convention, many of them are not conventional republicans. Chris cox makes his living by creating chainsaw sculptures. As long as i have logs and gas chain i can turn it into something. Donald trump untied the tongues of america. I jumped on board after i hear him talking about standing up to it isis. I would bomb the [bleep]. I stood up when he talked about vetting Syrian Refugees and building a wall. If you dont have a border, we dont have a country. As founder of biker ares for trump cox headed to cleveland to express his support. Bikers for trump are blowing up and pushing 50,000 members. Trump gets the backing. I would like to see a nominee. Anybody but trump. Hes got plenty of people who question the new followers. It is i jacketed from people who dont care about our platform. That is the tool to hold the candidate accountable. She is longest serve issing republican delegate. And having attended the last seven gop conventions. We in the past have been sent to coordinate the nominee and basically we are back dropped. We are to play nice and act nice and have decorum. This time may be different. Some conservative republicans are appalled by trump. She questions his policies. You cannot put a 35 percent tariff on to items coming in to the nation and expect this nation to be prosperous. Freetrade is wonderful if you have smart people. But we have people that are stupid. What he is proposing is going to make america broke. Are you you asking me to support the donald trump that believes in Assault Rifle bands or nran endorsement because he believes in the second amendment. Are you surprising the donald trump that he agreed with partial birth abortion or the one that is prolife. I have evolved on many issues. She questions his conservativism. He told them they would penalize the company if they move out of the country. 35 percent tax. Does that not concern everybody that somebody is trying to dictate where a private Company Operates . Always someone who disagrees with what you say. When is the last time you saw political rallies with 35000 people cheering and remain standing the whole time. Hes not using persuasion tactics. Supporters are sphere based. And used demagoguery to get that support. Another skeptic is former attorney general of virginia. I dont think he cares about a lot of things that the Republican Party stood for, for a long time traditional values. He doesnt really care about how Big Government agencies are or any notion of shrinking government. I never heard him talk about that. That is a problem. But voters like chris cox argue that trump is speaking to the peoples concerns. Donald trump is turning the Republican Party in a working america party. People want jones and a sense of accomplishment and donald trump gave them a hope to a chief that. Mr. Coxs message to the republican establishment is simple. Watch out. He will say do your job or youre next and you will be out of here and pack your bag ps and your legacy is that you are fired. It is donald trump an anomaly or a beginning of the change of the Republican Party . Thats one of those things that time will tell. I am on the rules committee. Kennedra planned on trying to stop trump from becoming the nom no at the convention. Ultimately i dont want donald trump as our nominee. Chris cox disagrees and donald trump is what the doctor ordered. He will give us dignity and a sense of direction. This is a move sxment it is happening right now. The establishment will come on board and well see who holds out. They better fall in line and make things happen and representing the people who put them there. This is the clash that republicans are bracing themselves for here in cleveland. It is always one that no surprise to anybody who is paying attention. When we return, early fireworks that led up to this weeks explosion and preconp . P . H we have seen the undercurrents running through the Republican Party as it meets here in cleveland. The sparks are flying long in the most Contentious Campaign season. Sometimes there are shouting matches. We dont care. Irrelevant. Join me to vote this down. Such as on the floor of the Virginia Republican convention. They are deveeing up the delegates. A lot of people dont understand what comes in to place when it comes to the nomination. Zach hill is a prom nept member of the virginia party. Your leader created the nomination. Trump voters are so frustrated with instruct and yot how the party works first time in their lives and it is frustrating. Jack morgan is in charge of the Trump Campaign. Morgan and the trump camp were fearing being outmaneuvered by the cruz supporters. And they came to cruz because p that was the last one to stop trump. And the voters chose trump but his people feared cruz would get more delegates. It is spiralling ill will. We want a true unity. Thats what we are. We for a interview. Wow, thanks. I know, but let us finish, yeah. So we are looking for a true unity. We gave zach hill his chance to speak. Nmr. Trump has been in five different parties and given over 700000 for the. That man convinced me to be a republican. Who gives a [bleep]. You dont want my vote . I am a republican and you say if you grew up as a republican you are are better than me as a democrat. That trump supporter was cheryl, a nurse who works for the department of defense. I was a 30 year democrat and motivated by what was going on in the republicans. They want to hijack the vote is disgusting and absolutely inappropriate. The fault line exposed in virginia runs through the party. Ndonald does well with voters that have low information and not that engaged and angry and see him as an angry voice. Low educated voter . That was beyond the pal of a statement. Former prosecutor is an alternate delegate for trump and on the look out for more back room deals. Common sense ashes parentally left the political process when no one was watching and thats kind of why i am a trump support isser. I think it is time to come back. I plan on making sure i understand the rnc rules and virginias rules. They do intertwine in july in cleveland. I make some of the worst decisions when i am angry. For president of the united states, i need to see somebody who has a track roeshd. Mr. Trump doesnt have a track record. People who out spent 20 years working with telling you how to grow the party are now upset that we are growing in the party. He brought in more republicans than in your life time and that is a bad thing. You look at where he stands today on key Critical Issues and the most important issues today. He is the most conservative person out there. Ncurtain up and hit the lights. Republicans are ready to start the show. But p will they be ready for prime time . The excitement is growing by the Republican National convention. It is unlike any ever seen. Hippies had woodstock and well have trump stock in cleveland. The convention is lasting four days. And we went to the quicken loans arena to see how it is coming long. There is butter flies. We have a lot going on today. Ha what we is here the upper screen and we are trying to project out to the audience and the speech is a critical element and we have concave screen. There is official proceedings and production. Our job is to support them and come up with ideas to help support what they are trying to do. It is a big p undertaking. And greg lane is the convention project director and though the convention only lasts a few days, hes worked on it for years. I have been involved since 2014 and doing the Site Selection process and here preparing for the Convention Since january of 2015. It is it a long time. Tasks are huge. We had to remove 6000 to make way for the staging and podium and probably a couple of hundreds miles of electrical and low voltage signal cable and camera that are temporary. And the to do list is endless. Brings in tons of equipment and hanging lights and running checks and so on. And if that was not enough. When the Cleveland Cavaliers made it to the nba finals the gop had to only four weeks to transform the arena. Normally you have six weeks to build it out. Shaun spicer is the direction. Taking that venue and pulling out seats and taking a luxury box and making it a broadcast both for all of the networks, it is it a huge deal, right. And the construction goes beyond the a ren a. We are in the garage. Lindsay works for a committee on arrangementes. We for the media row that is central hub. And we have drywall in here and put down carpet and new lights and painted the walls. When people walk in here now. They will be surprised to feel it is not a parking garage. It is for the technical side to take a back society to the politics. Conventions are are important in the party. One time to get your message out with minimal medium filter. Alex conan was the secretary in the 2008. It is hours of coverage in the living room to tens of millions of americans. And this is where donald trump with tv experience hope to capture the imagination of the American People in this convention with a different theme each night. First night will be how to make america safe. How to put america back to work. And third night putting america first. And final night. Bringing america together. With one final message adding up to, you may have heard it before. How to make America Great again. Line up has political names like Mitch Mcconnell and paul ryan and mayor guiliani and ambassador john bolton. And vicepresident ial candidate hike pence. And tv stars and military heroes and regular folks with their own stories to tell. Above all, there will be trump, trump and more trump. Every night at least one trump will speak. Milana and don. And john and eric and ivanka. He has a big family and personal friends and all leading up to the moment. And who will be be here are is who will not. The media will point out where are the bushes and romney and connedi rice and all of the candidates . Some of the folks that are in cycle and not going to convention. Priebus is not concerned. It is not uncommon for that to happen. I understand more of it now. But in the end it will work out fine. Donald trump said it will not be be a Boring Convention like in the past, but isnt what he calls boring a good thing from your perspective as the republican chairman . Yes, we tend to not like drama. But i do agree with him, people want more entertainment and more fun. If a convention is one long infommercial. What is the republican product sold in take america back and put america first. Npriebus acknowledges their nominee who shoots from the help. Political correctness is deadly. He said that is not a bad thing. We tried the buttondown approach. I think people are encouraged he will fire back. Hes not the conventional candidate. That has not worked for us. If priebus is threatening unconventional. Others want to replace the nominee and well hear from that nominee on that threat. More on all of this when we return. Reporting. Have a great night. As weve seen, Donald Trumps candidacy created furious opposition in his own party and desperate people often take desperate measures. I am getting on the phone and calling other rules members and convincing them we can do this. Well try to get as much support as possible. Nkendall was prepared to do the unthinkable. Kick out the presumptive nom no. Get the republican rules to it agree to a conscience clause starting from the first ballot. It boils down to a strong personality. Do you love your country more than hillary clinton. And saving the republic to get the rules pass ped. We spoke to unruh and her alloys. I am appalled by the lack of character we see with donald trump. I think i cant ask my constituents to wave the sign. That party is just a vehicle for ideas and they have been hijacked and we need to look for an alternative. Every day there is something in the news of mistakes and how unpresident ial his behavior has become p. They are fully aware there could be chaos in the big show in cleveland. What the officials told me yesterday. There will be a revolt if you do something with the rules committee. I am facing a revolt if we dont do something. They are not sympathetic with mr. Trump. And dangers of the strategy however, are something they will be willing to change. To the do ied in the wool republicans, it is not trump. I am concerned about the branding of the party and what he will attempt to do to the platform. We caught up with her in cleveland as she was about to meet with the rules committee and she had not changed her mind. She said it is a Republican Party and boshingers party. Lets go out and win without us. If they have a problem with trump. Most believe depend or bad, the issue was settled in the primary season by voters. Donald trump is not who i would have been for and the people chose that. Like it or not. You have to abide by it. Any effort to free the unbound delegates has no chance to suck sowed . I hope not. We would have perpetrated a fraud on 32 million voters. Snrns priebus is definitive. I believe the convention will be smoother than the chatter would have you believe. It is unfoyed and i think that donald trump will brick more flair. The effort to thwart trump was killed in the rules committee. It is the Unprecedented Convention in history. Opposition from outside groups threaten to make it the most unrowely as well. Thats next. A few weeks ago cleveland took to the streets to celebrate their teams championship. This week in the place they call home, some fear others will take to the streets and the results will not be worth celebrating. Republicans are gathering in clevelands quicken loans arena to nominate donald trump. I am one of couple of thousand plus people will be casting a vote for the next president ial candidate. Jim worthington is owner of Newtown Athletic Club in pennsylvania and a enthusiastic trump delegate. Donald trump wins and we go and come home and had a great experience. I will be reached out to. It is a dream come true. Party faithful congregate inside of the arena, many are concerned about with the violent protest that doged the Trump Campaign and exploding outside. We talked to a whole range of people in cleveland 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 cant 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 citys 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 believe they will be tested. I thought about a situation where the police come up to me and tell me to get down on the ground. I dont plan to get down on the ground. Jeff nixon, founder of the chapter of black lives matter. We have a police force here in cleveland, i wouldnt trust to your average gang banger. Nixon is no fan of trump either. Nfew of the words that i hear to describe trump. Crazy, unstable, racist, and masos gianist. And warmonger. And not fond of the party about to nominate him. The fact that donald trump is the presumptive nom no gives a black lives movement a greater sense of urgency. We are getting to the point where things might be be more dangerous for us. So make no mistake protest is certain, but violence, nixon tells us if there is, he will blame the cleveland police. I expect to see pepper spray and handcuffed and thrown to the ground and see people beent and some of them will see no choice but fight back. And people are preparing to do just that. I listen to people who say jeff, you better get a gun. I hear people saying, i am getting a gun. Black lives matter is one of many groups that is targeting cleveland. There has to be somewhere that they know it is about justice. We taken a meeting in which two dozen local left wing groups got together to plan opposition. Donald trump is playing on peoples emotions and cynicism and anger. Deborah is with cleveland justice. We need people opposing trump and come out and raise their voices so that we dont end up with the orange billionaire as our next u. S. President. They emphasized they protest in a nonviolent matter. But there are others who have the cleveland Business Community losing sleep. I am concerned that we will have left wing anarchist groups coming to town to stir up trouble. Lets face it. Wherewhere donald is, you will draw the crowd. Your message will get lost if you turn to violence. Some p will deem with trouble that comes that way. I am a god loving christian fairing man and try to turn the other cheek. But if not. We have the big p mix stick here. And many are not sit issing still. If they disrupt us. Well do whatever it takes. And well not play footsies. We are building an army. And you rest assured when the army is finished it will be deployed and well deploy it in cleveland. You can count on us standing our ground and count on us being there in numbers and what happens remains to be seen. Even Trump Delegates are ready for action. Jim worthington doesnt just own the club. He traps in it hard and knows what to do when push comes to shove. I can defend myself well. I will not welcome anything. But i will deal with it and in the mean Time Training and get in shape. Trumps people are ready to fight in necessary. But the question that political inside inners are say issing, will they be able to make peace with the fellow republicans. We speak to the man himself, coming up. I thought i married an italian. Did the ancestrydna to find out im only 16 italian. So i went onto ancestry, soon learned that one of our ancestors was eastern european. This is my ancestor who i didnt know about. No one would denotice that donald trump is his own man. Some say hes a law unto himself. The individual finds himself in a possibility of leading millions of others and how will that affect him . In the weeks heading in to the convention, trump realized that a president ial campaign unusual as his, need a sense of order. And so speck outed why he fired his Controversial Campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and replaced him with paul manafort. Creature of washington and known around the city. And he has a world of staffers. And party regoutors hope that he would impose a of discipline and a sense of greater commune with the party and as the convention neared, the Trump Campaign chipped away at some of the problems. Fundraising numbers were up and rnc leaders signalled acceptance. I see a bin pary choice. Hillary clinton or donald trump. Donald trump is far better than hillary clinton. She will not do what she need to do to gettet country on track. What is the most Important Message to come out of the rnc. We are unified and want a safe and stable and secure country and put money in peoples pockets and get people back to work. And that our nominee is the person that can best deliver that. The question is, was the party adapting to the cand uponidate or vice versa . Freetrade and market economy and peace through strength. Those are the principles of the Republican Party that People United behind after 1980. When i was Party Chairman in the mid90s. That was clear and universally accepted. But with the rise of donald trump tis clear that many republicans are rethinking freetrade. We have lost our manufacturing and furniture. It is lost to china and they are looking for somebody to stop the bleeding. Jack morgan, the trump operative we met early saw bad trade agreements caused wide spread harm. We are losing our nation and cant worried with preferal issues. Hes not alone. We need someone to take a sledge ham tore the [bleep]. No other way around no othe reporter cody directs lowbudget horror films. He considers himself a reagan man but also says donald trump is the only candidate he trusts to take action on the economy. None of them want to change trade policy. They all want to sell out the average working man so that their buddies can make more money. Is he the best messenger . No. But hes the only messenger we got. Hillary clinton unleashed a trade war against when she supported one deal after another. The Trump Administration will get a fair deal for the American People and worker. Reporter win or lose, dnt se donald trump seems to have redirected the path of the Republican Party or at least is hoping to. As far as the size and scope what weve built here the reince. Reporter i asked Reince Priebus is the gop is changing into what some call the more populist country. Donald trump said five years from now it will be a different party. Youre going to have a workers party, a party of people who havent had a real wage increase in 18 years. Weve got to be for the welders and the guys making tools, and the union shops and construction workers. Thats what the Republican Party is and should be. Thats the only way you grow. You have to. Reporter i spoke to Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell about the gop in the air rather era of trump. I dont think the Republican Party are going to start standing for things we havent in the past. We are americas conservative party. Reporter theres a split. When they talks it, terrorists and not what youve supported in the Republican Party bland stil dont. . Split there . Yes. If you think america can do better taking a different path, donald trump represents a different path. We may have some discussions inside the party about exactly what that path ought to look like, but believe me, it will be very different from the last eight years. Reporter after talking to so many people about the meaning of donald trump, we thought wed give the last word to the man himself. I spoke with trump as he was preparing to come lehere to cleveland, to find out his latest thinking on his campaign and where he stands. First off i asked if theres a new trump in the offing. Youre giving speeches off the teleprompter more. Some people noticed that your tone changed a little bit in recent days. Is this the turn that everybody talks about, that youre pivoting now to become this more controlled president ial candidate . Ill give you a terrible answer. I dont think so. I want to be myself. You know . It got me here. Reporter he dismisses the movement against him within his own party. This Never Trump Movement is nonsense you understand. Reporter youre not worried about it . Not even a little bit. By the way, there always are, bret. You can look back at Ronald Reagan, look back at anybody. Theres never been a convention, even if somebody was extremely popular. Look, heres a simple answer, though. I went through a period of almost a year where i got more votes than anybody, by far. We increased the vote total for republican primaries by 67 . Its an unheard of number. Now, youre going to take the person that did that and in one day with a couple of loudmouths youre going to say, oh, forget about the last year. Forget about the fact trump got know votes in the history of party, lets put Something Else in there. Put in somebody that didnt wane state. Reporter you said it couldnt hoop . Not going to happen. The alternative is hillary clinton. Reporter what do you think the gop will look like in five years after the first term of what you say will be a Trump Administration . Well, its going to be changing. Look at the platform right now, the platform is largely a trump platform. Strong on trade. Look at the wall, and you look at the borders and you look at alls things. A few people said its like a donald trump speech. Reporter on the other issues youve talked out about, that youve said there is some kind of middle ground. Are you concerned about social conservatives and making sure they are i am. I am. Reporter in the tent . I am a representative of the party. Were doing something for the e eevangelicals, were going to do something to help the evangelicals, the christians, give them their voice back. Whats happening with the platform is very good. Do i agree with everything . Nobody ever has. Reporter whats the story youre going to tell at the convention. Law and order story. A lot of stories at the convention. Reporter and in the wake of the latest attacks in france, one of trumps story, about the need to confront terror. You have to knock isis out. We have an obligation to the world to knock them out. Reporter finally, one thing i had to know. Make America Great, again. The slogan that again. Reporter people identify with. I wonder when in your mind was America Great . You know, at the turn of the century, if you look we did with the great factories and the great with the steel and with all of what was happening, that was an amazing time. Now, every time has weaknesses. Because it wasnt inclusionary. It was you know, lots of different things. I thought Ronald Reagan, i disagreed with him on trade very much, disagreed with him on trade but thought he was a cheerleader in an elegant way. In many ways a great time. Reporter reagans last time . I would say that Ronald Reagan was special. He was special. That was a time, i felt, we felt good about ourselves. Reporter as shakespeare writes, whats past is prologue. Everything weve seen up to this point, no matter how extraordinary, no matter how unparalleled, has simply set the stage for whats to come. But we can guess, based on what weve seen so far that donald trump will continue to surprise. That may mean hell keep on being his quite singular self or it may mean hell really shock us and become a more conventional candidate. Where mr. Trump goes next and where his party goes next are open questions. But very soon well be getting answers. And the biggest answer will come from the American People in november. Thats our show. Thanks for watching. Hillary clinton and donald trump is at war. Plus, the massive crowd, precious snow flakes smearing on our nation. Later, trump surpasses clinton for the first time. Thanks for joining us tonight, lets do this america. [ applause ] it is been a rough