Well, good evening, everyone, welcome to nbc news live coverage of night one of the Republican National convention. As with the democrat last week, this convention will look a lot different than the ones in the past, of course, due to the pandemic. The republicans make their case to hit back at joe biden and the democrats. We will be hearing from a variety of speakers over the next four nights, office holders, family member, trump loyalists. We start with the headliner governor and United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley. We will also hear from the president s oldest son, donald trump, jr. And republican senator tim scott. We expect to hear from President Trump. On each of these four nights, including in a video with american hostages freed during his administration earlier in charlotte, north carolina, where the entire convention was originally scheduled. They will renominate donald trump and mike pence for president and Vice President. We will start with chuck todd and andrea mitchell.
Than 300 candidates gather to kick things off. Any moment now, the president will appear with six american hostages. During his time in the white house, held captive. Tonight, the famed land of promise, speakers include the former ambassador to the u. N. , nikki haley, the president s son, and one of the leading voices on Race Relations in the Republican Party. They all have a prompt and position this evening. We have reporting from senior Political Correspondent mike emanuel standing by there in washington and analysis from dan heninger and marie harf. Good evening to all of you. We will get a comment in a moment here, and i want to bring our audience up to speed, a video at the moment is about to play out called bring them home that goes directly to the lives of those held captive overseas. I thought i had been forgotten. I nearly gave up hope. I was so afraid. I believed i would die here. American hostages. For cotton and wasting away in faroff prisons. Wrongfully detained foreign g
Positivity that is up lifting some far much of what we herd are sustained attacks on the Democratic Party and joe bride in. But i will say this, we have seen a number of every day americans, just like democrats did last week, we herd from a nurse, we lettered from front line workers, we herd from a Small Business owner, really answering the question, is your life better than four years ago. And all of them had said yes. And the way they are addressing it are special Education Services particular to the coronavirus, economic downfall. So we also have herd from a number of President Trumps staunchest supporters, we will see some of this speak later, former un ambassador nikki haley, tim scott the only black republican senator at that level. So there are a number of things we are going to hear, but the theme has really been to characterize joe biden, the democrats as socialists, and that has been the theme last week and counter programming that we saw. But also trying to defend President
Progress on u. S. china trade talk as the worlds biggest economies discuss technologies consumption, investments and exports fall sharply during the height of the pandemic President Trump accepts the Republican Party nomination taking aim at the democrats accusing them of, quote, trying to steal the election. We have to be very, very careful. This time they are going to try to do it in the whole post office scam. You can see them setting it up watch them carefully we have to win this is the most important election in the history of our country. Some breaking news coming out of germany this morning. From the eve o from t from the ifo data. 92 92. 6 versus the forecast of 92. 2 you may recall back in april when we saw many lockdowns the data started to cross then and we are seeing recovery in those numbers. The ifo Current Conditions is 87. 9 in august forecast was lower and what we are also seeing in the ifo Expectations Index is up to 97. 5 in august versus a forecast of 98 so slightly
Pres. Nixon mr. Chairman, delegates to this convention, my fellow americans, four years ago, standing in this very place, i proudly accepted your nomination for president of the United States. With your help and with the votes of millions of americans, we won a great victory in 1968. Tonight, i again proudly accept your nomination for president of the United States. [applause] let us pledge ourselves to win an even greater victory this november in 1972. I congratulate chairman ford. I congratulate chairman dole, Anne Armstrong and the hundreds of others who have laid the foundation for that victory by their work at this great convention. Our platform is a Dynamic Program for progress for america and for peace in the world. Speaking in a very personal sense, i express my deep gratitude to this convention for the tribute you have paid to the best campaigner in the nixon family, my wife pat. [applause] in honoring her, you have honored millions of women in america who have contributed in