Good afternoon everyone thank you so much for being here at the National Constitution center. My name is jenny parker and im the Vice President of communication. Before we begin, i would like you to take a few moments to share some basic housekeeping. We will begin, we will take audience questions at the conclusion of our program today. Please jot down your . The note card provided to you and they will be gathered from one of our staff members. If you are on twitter, and encourage you to follow us at at Constitution Center and you can also and submit questions, comments comments and them with americas town hall. We will have a book sale and book signing opportunity after words. Please join us in the lobby to get your signed copy of the book. I would like to thank any members here for joining us today. The center is a private nonprofit and our work relies heavily on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional education and de
Belongs. And third, it fixes the constitutional due process issue by removing the hearing from the v. A. To the judicial system. And the last thing i will note is something that i wholeheartedly agree with senator durbin on. He said yesterday quote we need to find a reasonable way to identify those suffering from serious Mental Illness who would be a danger to themselves or families and others and to sort out those that dont fit in that category. Well, senator durbin, i have made clear my amendment does exactly that. Thats why, then, are the democrats refusing to fix this problem if they admit the problem exists. This is an outrage. We all know that veterans are being treated unfairly. My amendment fixes the problem, yet democrats object. What is dangerous is that democrats are allowing veterans to be subjected to a process that casts their Second Amendment rights aside. All of this smells of hypocrisy. For months the democrats and their allies have been attacking me and the republican
Gov. Pence on behalf of my family here and looking on, would you join me in thanking and hisrump, melania, entire family for the sacrifices they are making to make America Great again . [applause] gov. Pence and i thank donald trump, the confidence you have placed in us, and i accept your invitation to run and serve as Vice President of the United States of america. [applause] gov. Pence i come to this moment deeply humbled, but with a grateful heart. Grateful to god for his amazing grace. Grateful to my wonderful wife. And our three incredible kids, michael, charlotte, and audrey. And grateful to this builder this fighter, this patriotic , american who has set aside a legendary career in business to build a stronger america, donald j. Trump. [applause] gov. Pence and let me say, having had the privilege to spend time with this man and his family out of the limelight, i know what all of america will soon know even better. These are good people. Donald trump is a good man, and he will m
Calls, emails and beats. We will kick it off right now. Republicans, 202 7488001. Emocrats, 202 7488000. Ndependents, 202 7488002 you can go to facebook. Com cspan. Republicans will open their National Convention here in this city for their 41st attempt to win the white house which theyve accomplished 23 times starting with abraham lincoln. Folks are arty starting to arrive. From the cleveland plain dealer, rnc visitors are receiving the red carpet treatment from the moment they stepped off planes and into downtown hotels, conventioneers making their way into Cleveland Saturday were treated to northeast ohios version of red carpet. Even live music. A says here it is ordinarily price. A twoperson rap group regaled passengers while clearly identified volunteers shouted welcome to cleveland when they werent answering questions. You mention some of the facts and figures about this convention, i want to share this from politico. A couple more facts and figures. 50,000 visitors are coming to
Trump comes the 45th president of the United States of america. [applause] pence thank you for the honor. Thank you for your support and god bless the United States of america. [applause] right now]es all [playing Rolling Stones tell me] tellying Rolling Stones me] heartg Rolling Stones of stone] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] the Republican National convention from cleveland starts monday. Watch live every minute on cspan. Listen live on the free cspan radio app. Live or ondemand anytime at cspan. Org on your desktop, phone or tablet, where you will find all of our Convention Coverage in the full convention schedule. Follow us on twitter and like us on facebook to see video of newsworthy moments. Do not miss a minute of the 2016 Republican National Convention Starting monday at 1 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. The cspan radio a