Campaignb smith on 2020 and the role of military voters and young americans. Plus your emails, tweets, and phone calls. Washington journal starts now. First Lady Melania Trump closed out day two of the Republican National convention with a speech from the white house last night where she called on voters to support her husband for a second term claiming he will fight for them. Yourll continue with comments and reactions to the Republican National convention with a look ahead at tonights lineup. Here is how we are dividing the line. If you support the president dial in at 202 7488000. If you are supporting joe biden 202 7488001. If you have a thirdparty candidate or are undecided dialing that dial in at 202 7488002. You can also text us with your first name, city, and state at 202 7488003. Join the conversation on facebook and twitter. While we wait for your calls, here is a little bit from the first lady. As you have heard this evening, i dont want to use this precious time attacking t
The Republican National convention, politico talked with mark meadows, discussing the confluence of the Trump Administration and the campaign as well as negotiations to that covid economic responsible. Lets get started. Lets give a warm welcome to white house chief of staff, mark meadows. Think you for joining us. Thank you for joining us. It is great to be with you this morning. It is 69 days until election day. Ing isesidents poll lagging in every swing state that we see. Give us a sense, if the president wins on november 3, it will be because he did what over the next 69 days . I think it is not just what he does over the next 69 days. Let me just be clear. I am going to talk in my personal capacity as we talk about some of these things so that we dont get everybody tweeting at me that i am hatch act. He from a political standpoint, if i put on my political hat, here is what i see. Its not just what he does the next 69 days, but building on the years prior to that, but taking the ne
Order to help save it. That is what always a soldier is about. Me pressing through basic training, getting to know so many different types of people, and then i get out of the military. I was a leftist for a few years in new york city. A couple of years ago i came out as conservative and got a lot of blowback about that. It is all about loving america and fighting for america as the republican i am now. Host you served for five years in the army. During iraqi freedom you are awarded the Commendation Medal and the combat infantry badge. You have this military experience. Did that shape you becoming a conservative . Talk about the evolution. Guest having military experience does shape you into becoming conservative, at least it did for me. Not only military experience, but Law Enforcement officers. People in some sort of service in that way, i think in terms a lot of us conservative because you really do realize the need for law and order. When i was patrolling the streets of iraq when i
They had . Saw is aat we continuation of this trend of unconventional convention. We had [indiscernible] this conflation of the president S Administration and his campaign. I think the messages they wanted to get across was they wanted to humanize this president somewhat. We had his wife talking about ,im, referring to him as donald talking about his record and what he has done in the white house. I think there was a continuation of outreach to minorities. Theyw on the first night showcased the depth of their bench in terms of having there and nikki haley there. Lets not come obese outreach to women as well as immigrants through the naturalization ceremony we saw. Host what was the goal of secretary of state pompeos address from israel . Caller that is what guest that is one of the that happened. The consternation before the broadcast, he was in israel on official business. The he addressed to the convention was [indiscernible] there were issues of whether they potentially violated the
Book about the Vice President. , in the research for this book, what did you learn about why mike pence wanted to serve as Vice President under this President Donald Trump . Meeting ire is a report on in the book, back in july 2016, his meeting with trump. In this meeting at the governors residence of indiana, this is where he sealed the deal to become his running mate, he says he wants to help make America Great again and ghost through a list goes through a list of where he agrees with trump on policy. The other thing i report on in the book, and you see this machinations of folks i talked with, he is also setting up his own president ial run. That is something he has been doing in earnest since the end of 2008. He is playing a long game. I do not think those two things are mutually exclusive. You can do both. He certainly continues to do both. Host what do you make of him delivering his remarks from fort mchenry in baltimore . Guest good stage for him. Bossi come up the maryland rnc