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
Republicans have just wrapped up republicans have just wrapped up the first day of the National Convention, describing donald trump as the bodyguard of western civilisation. Crowds crammed into Conference Calls for a four day event. Instead of crowds cramming into Conference Calls for a four day event, this years pandemic means it is a much more scaled back affair. Unlike the Democratic Partys Virtual Convention last week, key figures are appearing in person including america is not a racist country. This is personalfor me. Iam country. This is personalfor me. I am the proud daughter of indian immigrants. They came to america and settled in a small southern town. My father wore a turban. My mother wore a sari. I was turban. My mother wore a sari. Iwasa turban. My mother wore a sari. I was a brown girl in a black and white world. We faced discrimination and hardship. But my parents never gave into grievance and hate. My mum built a successful business. My dad taught 30 years at a histor
Im nikki haley. It is great to be back at the Republican National convention. I will start with a story. It is about an American Ambassador to the united nations. It is about a speech she gave to this convention. She called for the reelection of the republican president xi served. She called out the republican president she served. She called out the former Vice President from a failed administration. Blame americaays first. The year was 1984. The president was ronald reagan. Kirkpatrickse words are just as true today. Joe biden and the democrats are still blaming america first. Donald trump has always put america first. He has earned four more years as president. It was an honorable lifetime to serve as the u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. The u. N. Is not for the faint of heart. It is a place where dictators, murderers and thieves denounce america and then put their hands out and demand we pay their bills. President trump put an end to that. With his leadership, we did what barack obama
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
About the campaign and the federal judiciary. And tony perkins looks at evangelical voters in the november election. We will also take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. 550 for president donald j. Trump. President trump and Vice President mike pence were officially renominated for the gop ticket this november. We will get your thoughts on the first day of the Republican Convention, from rollcall call to the speeches last night, and a preview of tonights lineup. Here are your lines. If you are supporting the president this november, dial in 202 7488000. If you are supporting joe biden, your line is 202 7488001. If you are undecided, please call us at 202 7488002. Your first name, city, and state at 202 7488003. Or facebook tor join the conversation. We will begin with one of the keynote speakers, the president s son, donald trump, jr. [video clip] after eight years of slow growth, trumps policies have been rocket fuel to th