The Republican Convention, can donald trump unify a divided party . Woodruff good evening and welcome to our special pbs p newshour coverage of the Republican National convention in cleveland, ohio. Im judy woodruff. Dr ifill im gwenn ifill. Were joined from our regular contributors, mark shields and david brooks. Vi woodruff also with us, nprs laura along with amy cook from the political report. Down on the floor, we have newshour correspondents Lisa Desjardins and nprs susan davis. Ifill tonight is the culmination of the Republican National Convention Week here in cleveland where donald trump will speak to the delegates. Well be right back to start it all off after a short break. B stay with us. Funding stay witus. Funding funding for this program has been provided by lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your financial futuren woodruff at the pod yim right now is past podium right now is pastor mark burns. R he gave the benediction to this convention. Hes a telev
Odonnell. Tonight donald trump reaches the pen cull of an improbable political rise. In his first run for office, he will accept the republican nomination for president. The last man to do that was Dwight Eisenhower and not until world war ii. Were going to see trump introduced by one of his most trusted advisors his 34 year old daughter ivanka. Shes the married mother of three, executive Vice President of the Trump Organization and the fourth of trumps Adult Children will address this convention. It all begins in less than a minute. Back now from cleveland where ivanka trump has begun her speech to introduce her father. He sacrificed greatly to enter the political arena as an outsider, and he prevailed against a field of 16 very talented competitors. [cheers and applause] for more than a year, donald trump has been the peoples champion. And tonight, he is the peoples nominee. [crowd cheering] like many of my fellow millennials, i did not consider myself categorically republican or dem
The public is welcome to address the commission on items not on tonights agenda and please rise for the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Commissioner president loftus id like to call roll commissioner president loftus commissioner turman commissioner marshall commissioner dejesus is in route and commissioner mazzuco commissioner wong commissioner melara commissioner president loftus we have quorum and with use it police chief tony and for the decoration of office of citizens complaints sam. Thank you sergeant. Good evening and welcome. To the monday, may 31, 2016, First Police Commission well begin with the secretary of commission gloss the rules of order the public is welcome to address the commission on items not on tonights agenda but within the jurisdiction of the commission. With respect to agenda items, please direct your questions to the commission as a whole which are the jurisdict
Podium to the convention floor, as mr. Trump accepts the nomination and outlines his vision for america. His daughter, ivanka, about to introduce him, but first let me introduce our panel. Chuck todd, savannah guthrie, tom brokaw and nicolle wallace. Good to have you all here again. If i could get a sentence of what youre looking for tonight. Instill confidence, look like a president not a celebrity. Chuck. Can he speak outside the arena. He always feeds off a crowd inside the arena, but the audience outside matters more tonight. Tom. All those prominent senators and congressmen who are republicans and stayed away have been waiting for him to pivot. Well see if theres a pivot tonight. And nicolle wallace. He has passed the strong leader test as well as the test of whether he relates to people, normal people. I want to see if ivanka and donald trump can pass the test of softening some of Donald Trumps rough edges. And lets not forget there are two audiences watching. The audience here i
Campaign. The convention, his political life. This is the Republican National convention, live from cleveland. Now reporting, george stephanopoulos. Good evening from cleveland. This is it, the fourth and final night of the republican convention. The question now, can donald trump define this convention with the speech of his life . There you see him coming in with his wife melania, his 10yearold son barron. And moments, his daughter ivanka will come on to introduce her dad, just like when he launched his improbable bid in manhattan. This is the arena that the ev its like the coach came in, and said youre not playing together, and the team said, just give the ball to lebron james in the fourth quarter. And now the ball will go to ivanka trump, daughter of donald trump. Lets watch. Ladies and gentlemen, please give a very warm welcome to ivanka trump. Its all right [ cheers and applause ] good evening. [ inaudible ] thank you. One year ago, i introduced my father when he declared his ca