live from the fourth and final night of the republican national convention here in milwaukee. donald trump is taking center stage tonight after nearly being killed just five days ago. and we re also talking to his son don jr. ahead of this emotional return. plus, vivek ramaswamy, speaker mike johnson, we are loaded up. but, first, let s go straight to the floor where bill hemmer co-anchor of america s newsroom is standing by. bill, it s all 80 s in the room tonight. it s like back to the 80 s with the music so i love it. how is the energy in the room ahead of the big speech? bill: yeah, i think the house man has undefeated. 6-foot out of nashville. donald trump loves the show and loves nothing more than putting on a show. i think you are going tote go that tonight. a bit of a hit. opera singer warming up here. main stage off to my left. saw j.d. vance last night. going to swing on over here. these are the three states he was going for the blue wall. we got pennsylvania
sir richard branson. they went to the very lowest part of what is considered space where they were briefly weightless for a few minutes and then they returned which, you know, that s cool. this is not that though. this is actually a genuine honest to god actual space mission. spacex rocket is going to launch four amateur astronauts although one does include a billionaire. don t you worry, we re getting another billionaire into space. they re going to go into orbit 360 miles above earth. the crew is composed entirely of civilians. there is a billionaire who funded the trip, a physician s assistant from saint jude research center, data engineer and geo science professor. got a very cool second chance. those don t usually happen. what we re going to witness basically is the closest thing that we ve ever seen here in the u.s. at least to the kind of dream that we were sold as children, right? the futuristic dream of space travel available to normal people, nontrained astronauts,
brass to refuse orders from anyone including the president unless milley himself was involved. this reporting is from the new book peril by legendary journalist bob woodward and washington post reporter robert acosta. an early copy of the book was obtained and jamie joins us now. incredible to have you. let s start with the secret meeting that happened on january 8th. what have you learned about that? first of all, the book contains just chilling details of trump s final days in office, but what we know is that chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mark milley was he took secret action to limit trump s ability to order a dangerous military strike or use nuclear weapons. let me just set the stage from the book. it is january 8th, two days after the assault on the capitol, and woodward and costa reveal milley is so deeply shaken by the attack that he believes that trump has become increasingly unstable and unpredictable. they also write that milley believed trump wa
troops killed in kabul was vandalized. doesn t matter if you are the right or the left. these are for the 13 slain u.s. troops. and i think that s why it hits a cord. he is going to be remembered for a long time whether he makes this one or misses it. win it. with the stars and stripes and the eagle flies. there s a lady that stands in a harbor. brian: great shot of the freedom tower as we pan over to the left. you hear that song, not only appropriate because it was written and inspired by 9/11 and the attacks, aaron tippin wrote it, but little bit later on a.j. hall came up with this great idea and i was able to do some stand-ups and front the package. i don t deserve any of the credit. toby keith, aaron tippin, bret michaels some of the artist on a package as they talk about songs that were written to inspire and reflect on 9/11. later in the show. that s one of them. steve: aaron tippin sang that song on this program and there has been a lot of music dedicate
yeah. an important moment for you and important moment for people to see. i m glad we were able to see your photo. thank you for being here to share your story. we are grateful for your service and time today. i appreciate it. we ll think about you tomorrow. thank you. thank you for watching. our special coverage live from the pentagon here. we will have more from the same spot tomorrow. i ll anchor here with andrea mitchell. i ll have more on msnbc reports. we continue with craig melvin live from shanksville, pennsylvania right now. this field is the site where the passengers and crew of united flight 93 wrestled control of the hijacked planes on september 11th, 2001 and crashed it into the ground. craig melvin picking up friday coverage from sacred ground in shanksville, pennsylvania. the site where we lost 40 american heroes and sacrificing their own lives and likely saved thousands more. that plane was bound for the u.s. capitol. where i m standing, litera