good morning or evening, depending on where you are joining us frumpy welcome to msnbc s coverage of the final night of the republican national convention. i am alicia menendez with alex anderson and michael steele. tonight, trump made a meandering speech filled with lies that struck two very different tones. one that is a softer side that came out when the ex-president read verbatim office teleprompter and made statements we know that he does not believe, like when he said we should not criminalize political disagreements, despite frequent promises to jail his opponents. the other time was one that we all know well, the tone that immediately came back when trump went off script, like when he told the audience he was trying to buy their vote. while referencing his 2020 election loss, he said, quote, we are never going to let that happen again. we do not have the ability to place on for audience. do you want to do your interpretation of the speech? i stand before you this
terms of how strange so much of this week has been. not just in terms of what it has been like in terms of the proceedings, what it has been like in context, what this night means. tonight, the republican convention comes to its conclusion as the republican party presidential nominee gives his acceptance speech. he is given the acceptance speech, i think it cannot be overstated, he is giving the acceptance speech in truly unique, even bizarre circumstances. there is no nicer way to say this, he is a felon, recently convicted of 34 felony criminal charges, now awaiting sentences for those charges facing up to four years in prison. he is also under indictment in other jurisdictions, multi- count r.i.c.o. criminal indictment under georgia state law but multi- count federal criminal indictment in d.c. district court in washington. happily, for the nominee, just adding to the weirdness of it for the rest of us, at this moment, he is no longer facing multiple additional felony fede
day two is well under way, as you can hear behind me the crowd and the atmosphere is that an excited level here with the new vice president shall nomineejd vancejust the new vice president shall nominee jd vance just arriving in the arena and we expect the arrival of the candidate himself, former president to donald trump, shortly. some of his former most travel allies have been addressing the crowd of supporters here, including the speaker of the house mike johnson who promise an immediate congressional investigation into the shooting that happened at the donald trump rattle in pennsylvania on saturday. 424 write house challenges florida governor ron desantis and former us ambassador to the un at nikki haley will also speak and we will bring you those remarks live as they happen. the theme of tonight is making america safe again, and during his speech in the last hour, the house majority of leader steve gillies he promised to lockdown the border, drawing quite a crowd reacti
this is ingraham angle live from the republican national convention day one here from wisconsin. new calls for unity and calm by president biden, which he undercut in a new interview with lester holt. i didn t say crosshairs. focus on. i didn t say crosshairs. i bullseye focus on it. laura: that s his answer? i told you this guy was one of the most stubborn and self-unaware people in modern day american politics has ever seen. eric trump will respond in his first interview since the attempt on his father s life. and disturbing new details of the security break june that allowed auto would be assassin to spend almost 30 minutes getting into position to shoot president trump. get to the bottom of it and see what occurred and see what happened and get answers. laura: and a new york baby boomer chooses a midwest millennial and the left is apoplectic. they picked someone who has quite a lot less experience. j.d. vance, a rookie. this is old donald trump. he is doubli