they fill in there every night. for now our coverage continues o with the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle, which starts right now. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. welcome to our continuing coverage of the republican national convention. with 113 days until the th election, today the rnc opened with a historic backdrop. the classified documents case against donald trump was dismissed in florida and it has been just over 48 hours since the assassination attempt on the former president. we ll have more on that later in the hour but now, all eyes are on milwaukee as the republican presidential nominee made a surprise appearance after he was injured on saturday. earlier this evening delegates from all 50 states officially selected trump. he then took to social media to announce that jaidee vans would be his running mate. vance is the junior senator from ohio and author of hillbilly elegy. used to trash donald trump all over town before becoming a trump super fan, an
thank you for watching and on that note i wish you a very good night, from all of our colleagues and the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late, we will see you at the end of tomorrow. we are coming up on 9 pm local time. in milwaukee which will mark the start of the final hour of the first night of the republican national convention you see the crowd going mild here a lot of images of donald trump on screen over the course of the day today this is donald trump actually at the arena the first view we have had of him with the bandage on his ear. after the assassination attempt on saturday which injured him. it s good to see that he is well and able to be participating in things unaided we did see a shot of him coming down the stairs from his airplane. when he left pennsylvania and went back to new jersey after the shooting this is the first time we have seen him since and the first time we have seen the bandage on his ear. i don t think that we are expecting to
doing a moderated conversation with republican women in michigan and then i think another one on thursday in north carolina. to talk about abortion and reproduction rights. reproduction rights. the president is very happy th with how she has been his emissary on that. it is certainly a weak spot for jd vance if you talk about national public opinion on reproductive choice, so the fact that they are putting the vice president out at this ce moment on this issue as her opponent is making his grand debut. and it is her with republican women. including olivia troy who will be familiar to msnbc viewers because they can make some inroads there. very interesting counterprogramming there. we will be watching over the l course of the week as the republican national convention continue through thursday night in milwaukee. it is happening under very unusual circumstances, in the wake of the shooting, the attempted assassination of the republican now nominee donald trump on saturda
political debates room policy and differing visions for the country. he told jiving him at the end as they were saying there thank youse and good nights, he wanted to have him back for another interview and they could talk about what really matters, talk about e issues. former president trump has reportedly changed his plans beach weatr republican national convention. saying he will now focus on, quote, ringing the country togeer. we shall see. at the same time, the former president has moved forward with his own campaign plans anuncing that ohio senator j.d. vance will be his running mate. of all of the purported shortlist contenders for trump s running mate, j.d. vance widely considered to be e most radical choice in terms of his ideological, his ace on the ideological number line and what he s ticulated about what he thinks the powers of the president are and should be and what trump should do . he is talked openly about a president defying a ruling from the preme court. h
the republican national convention in milwaukee. that came just hours after trump announced his running mate for november s election. meanwhile, the former president also picked up another legal victory with a judge he appointed while he was in the white house who tossed out his classified documents case in florida. we ll bring you expert legal analysis on that ruling and what could be next for that case. plus, we ll show you the big moments from president biden s wideanging interview with nbc s lester holt. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, july 16th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we have a very, very busy show for you this morning,nd we begin here. two days after an assassination attempt during a rally in pennsylvania, former president donald trump made his first public appearance doing so at the republican national convention in milwaukee last night. trump s right ear was visibly bandaged as he entered the conventio