where this evening s convention program is already in full swing at 8:00 p.m. eastern here, delegates anticipating donald trump s expected return to the arena tonight with his running mate, senator jd vance of ohio. we re watching it all from our anchor position above the convention hall. this is cnn special live convention coverage jake tapper, along with my friend and colleague anderson cooper and anderson and former trump rival nikki haley is among the most highly anticipated speakers as even without a doubt, she was trump s lie asked the most bitter primary opponent and took her time before finally supporting him. we re told she ll make the case to uncertain voters. though, why she s now voting for trump republicans united front offering a stark, perhaps intentional contrast, and the democrats frayed public divisions over president biden s candidacy. right now jake, before haley s remarks, there are some closure we watched teachers coming up, of course, in this hour as we
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and that starts right now welcome to day two of the republican national convention. hi, i m jake tapper, live here in milwaukee in battleground wisconsin behind me last night, former president donald trump emerged in public for the very first time since that bullet came within an inch of ending his life, the image was striking. mr. trump wearing a bandage on his ear, a emotion on his face he is now officially the republican presidential nominee for the third time but this time was unlike any other, as the crowd cheered him with chants of fight, fight, fight thanks, words that he mows after surviving that shooting. we still do not know how that 20-year-old gunman came so terrifyingly close? to killing the former president, especially in light of brand new cnn reporting that the u.s. secret service had actually increased security in recent weeks after getting intelligence of an iranian plot to assassinate tonight former president trump, we re going to have the latest on that
to put on its primetime show after their presidential nominee, he pulled off a big surprise with the 11th hour reveal of his running mate, senator jd vance of ohio. vance making his debut as trump s vp pick just a short time ago on the convention floor for his formal nomination. and welcome to all to this special edition of outfront. i m erin burnett along with wolf blitzer and his post over overlooking the convention floor and wolf, it s been only two days since president trump s survived that terrifying assassination attempt. and but he did not go late to the convention. he made it clear it must go on and it is going on. erin big time. we saw the gop officially hand. donald trump his historic third presidential nomination and now they re getting ready to drive home. his agenda leading off with the issue then uppermost in the minds of many voters of course, the u.s. economy headlines speakers tonight include one of trump s most loyal allies of the u.s. senate. and in the afr
what are they saying? and do they deserve to be able to lead us thanks to our panel, thanks to you for joining us. i m kasie hunt. don t go anywhere. cnn news central starts right now hello from milwaukee, wisconsin, i m kate bolduan and the republican national convention is kicking off today and right now, donald trump is here in milwaukee, and this is less than 48 hours after surviving an fascination attempt we re standing by right now to find out when you may see him today and who you may see him with. he could be announcing at introducing his running mate as soon as this morning. there s also a lot of developments into the investigation into that tragic shooting saturday at his rally in pennsylvania, trump is talking in detail about what happened and the impact and the fbi is still searching for a motive behind this shooting in a new interview here is some of trump s first reaction to what he lived through. i m not supposed to be here. i m supposed to be dead trump also