The 2020 Republican National convenon. Good evening, im judy woodruf and welcome to our special pbs newshour live coverage of the repu National Convention. This years political conventions are like none any us can remember. Welong with thousands of others have planned to be in thcharlotte, north carolin week. But because of the pandemic, this gathering will be almost entirely virtual. Speakers w are the thethe republicans am im here in the studio with amy walter and amna that. Warner right around the corner. Both df them sociallytant. We have reporters and analysts across the country. We plan to bring you the same depth of coverage and analysis ering this critical time in an historction year. This week President Trump will years. He case for another four and we will be here to hear all of it. Lets turn first to our newshour reporters am that nawaz as i say is in thstudio just around the corner from me to give us a guide on whato expect and key moments to look out for. Hi judy, like the
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
A chance to spread. Heros are celebrated and the good guys win. You can have it. That is the life. That is the country. That is the world that donald trump and the Republican Party are after. And yes, you can have it. Because unlike joe biden and the radical left democrats, our party is open to everyone. It starts by rejecting radicals who want to drive us into the dark and embracing the man who represents a bright and beautiful future for all. It starts by reelecting donald j. Trump president of the United States. Thank you and god bless america. Good evening. Im senator tim scott from the great state of south carolina. All of you tuning in, god bless you. This is not how i pictured tonight but our country is experiencing something none of us envisioned from a Global Pandemic to the deaths of george employed breona taylor. Regardless of the challenges presented to us, every four years, americans come together to vote. To share stories of what makes our nation strong and the lessons we
You in the mirror effect the park overnight. More than 170000 emerged in the dark. A blistering attack on donald trump by the new official democratic candidate for president joe biden. We begin with breaking news out of libya where rival factions have called for ceasefire both the u. N. Recognized government in tripoli and they to book a parliament to allied with warlord holy faffed are of called on their forces to stop fighting they said the move was aimed at ending foreign interference and libya of the us campaign to take the capital tripoli was pushed back by Government Forces with support from turkey russian mercenaries have been fighting on hostile side. Both sides really statements with agreement on several key issues they both want Foreign Forces to withdraw from libya tripoli is being backed by turkey while half 1000 forces are being supported by russian mercenaries theyve agreed that Oil Production needs to be resumed all revenues will be held by Libyas National Oil Corporatio