Week with a different break from tradition, bringing brand new meaning to a timeworn political cliche. The rose garden strategy. Its more than a metaphor now. Thats where First Lady Melania Trump will deliver her speech tonight. The site of President Trumps acceptance speech on thursday. Well see him from the iconic east room tonight. Mike pompeo will become the first secretary of state in modern times to give a political speech to a Party Convention when he beams in on a Diplomatic Mission to the middle east. Mary bruce is at the white house and mary, all president s try to capitalize on the trappings of the office when they run for reelection. This convention taking it to a whole new level. George, this is a familiar setting but we have never seen anything like this before. A first family using the white house, the peoples house, as the backdrop for a political convention. Critics say it crosses a moral line, but the president is intent on using the trappings of the incumbency to mak
With it the best campaign for the next four years and before that well hear from the president and a mom as he takes part in the naturalization ceremony to highlight legal immigration. That earlier today President Trump pardoned a convicted bank robber. Tonight we heard from that man a bond with the fbi agent who arrested him. The theme of the night land of opportunity, take name speakers including the secretary of state mike pompeo who addressed the from jerusalem which is not gone without mostly democrats and the president s other son eric trump will speak and Daniel Cameron kentuckys first black attorney general wanted bring in James Freedman assistant editor and a fox news contacted her and james welcome to the program tonight. Good evening to you. We are told the first lady will begin the speech which will be one of the longer she has ever given. What is her challenge tonight james . Well i think we are probably going to hear more of what we have been hearing in terms of so far th
Odonnell 70 days until election day, and what the president calls the most important election in our history. Good evening, from the nations capital. Im norah odonnell. And welcome to cbs News Coverage of the night two of the Republican National convention. Already drama tonight before the event kicked off as a Convention Speaker was bumped from the program for retweeting an antisemitic conspiracy theory. Who we will hear from tonight President Trumps son eric, as well as secretary of state mike pompeo. His speech has drawn criticism and sparked a congressional investigation, even before it airs. The headlineronht is first lady melanie trump. She will deliver her speech from the white house rose garden, weather permitting, which has just been renovated, a project mrs. Trump oversaw. We begin our coverage with paula reid who is at the white house tonight. Paula, what can we expect to hear from the first lady tonight . Reporter good evening, norah. Well, this will be the most highprofile
Trump and mike pompeo from jerusalem. Just before things got started tonight, we got word that one of tonights speakers had been pulled from the program. Maryann mendoza was scheduled to appear in i a video. She shared an antisemitic video today. Chuck todd is at his post. Youve been listening for about an hour and a half now, the second night of the republican convention. What themes are emerging. I would say theres a little less red meat so far. Tonight youre seeing another similar theme. Theres another focus, particularly show casing what President Trump has done with criminal justice reform. You know, both campaigns, guys, tell me that there is a chance that donald trump could overperform with africanamerican men. A its a concern of the Biden Campaign and its a focus of the trump campaign. A lot of this targeting here is something we talked about last night, trying to cut against this narrative that the president has been stoking racial tensions. Theyve been trying to heal this bec
Here is a live picture of the convention right now. This is Lieutenant Governor from florida that our political reporter, greg lee is with us monitoring the speeches and proceedings. Greg, anything jump out at you so far . I think a couple of things that we have heard from a lot of speakers as you and julie mentioned. We have heard a lot of different approaches and topics including faith, the economy, trade, the Opioid Crisis and in talks about a lot of normal everyday American People about why they believe President Trump should remain in office for another four years. We have heard some sustained attacks on joe biden and his family as well as several attacks on the media. Not only from Tiffany Trump but from Nicholas Sandmann who you referenced in the introduction and that has been the tone of both supporting President Trump in talking about the good they believe he has done as well as creating a bleak picture if democrats are elected as well as attacking the media. That has been a t