Welcome back to cnn special live coverage of the republican national convention on board sanchez coming to you live from milwaukee. Brianna keeler. My good friend and coanchor is live for us in washington, dc day two of the rnc convention has kicked off. And at any minute, donald trump s newly minted running mate, freshman senator jd vance of ohio it s expected to do a walkthrough of the convention center ahead of his big speech all of this happening as we re learning of an iranian plot to assassinate former president so didn t donald trump a plot with no known connection to saturday s assassination attempt now, cnn s evan perez is going to have more details on that plot in just a moment. But first, we want to go to kaitlan collins, who s on the convention floor and kaitlan what are you seeing now? what s coming later tonight? yeah. Boris, it s a little bit calmer right now. We re not paying it totally crammed. Hear the floor which it typically is the case when the delegates are actual
His campaign in limbo, president biden insists he s the nominee as he is taking this fight directly to the voters we have exclusive new audio from inside his campaign meeting that included a few f bombs dropped along the way. Meanwhile, 72 hours out from the republican national convention, donald trump has yet to name his running mate as he s comparing the vice president so race to, you guessed it, the apprentice. And rudy giuliani s million dollar homes luxury watches, and yankees world series rings are all up for seizure tonight. When and what the two election workers that he was found guilty or liable for defaming can start collecting. I m kaitlan collins, and this is the source there are new signs of life tonight from president biden s campaign as he insists, he isn t going anywhere in front of a roaring crowd of supporters and to detroit where he made clear over and over and over again that he will be the democratic nominee a lot of speculation like, what is joe biden going to do?
His dreadful debate and two days after his highstakes news conference how much trouble is. Joe biden still in then the clock is ticking washington and the political world still wondering who will donald trump pick as his vp and check it out targets new policy which does not make me happy. The panel is here and ready to go. So sit back, relax, and let s talk about up first, president biden is spending the weekend with family at his beach home as doubts continued to cloud his political future despite an all out effort this week to answer democrats concerns. There are still questions about his fitness and some in his party keep pushing him to drop out then another candidate would give us a much better chance to win. Democrats still divided over whether joe biden should keep running, should that conversation continued no, it shouldn t. He s earned that, right and i am going to give him that much respect. The president s still firm. He s staying in i believe remember the best qualified to g
The president said it was a bad night he talked about it. He had a cold, right? he talked about his schedule. Right? being abroad and so we ve spoke about what that night was like for him and we understand what the american people saw, what you all saw okay. Into that and i also would say, and i think, you know, this peter, you ve covered a couple of administration at this point. Administrations at this point that the president, every president has a white house medical unit that is with him 24/7 that is available to him 24/7. That is unlike any other american that is not the norm, that is uncommon. Just down on the other side of the colonnade is where the medical unit is and i did share in that the president checks in while he s exercising with his doctor on a couple of times a week and so he has he has something that most majority of americans, all americans, i would probably argue, don t have, which is a full medical unit that is with him at all times and he gets the full full full
the latest from that briefing as we get it. right now we re following the urgent battle to defend voting rights. senate democrats eyeing a rule change to pass a voting bill without requiring 60 votes. ahead, the exclusive nbc news reporting about republican dark money and how they are trying to sway one democratic senator in particular. we ll give you one guess who that could be. and then i ll talk to the mayor of tucson, arizona who signed a letter to the senate urging them to pass legislation. also happening right now in capitol hill, the chief of the u.s. capitol police testifying about changes they have made since the attack on the capitol almost one year ago. so far he says that of the more than 100 recommendations made by the inspector general, they have implemented or are addressing 90 of them. more on that in a few moments. we are also following some breaking news in philadelphia. a devastating fire. we just heard officials give us an update. 13 people killed includ