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i am chris hayes here with alex wagner for night two of the republican national convention. we expect a number of high- profile speeches including from steve scalise, himself the survivor of an attempted assassination. speaker of the house johnson will also be in this hour. we are also covering the announcement on the first day of the convention, the first time in decades the announcement was made at the convention of j.d. vance, the junior senator from ohio, quite junior, less than two years a senator and former never trump her who will be his running mate. there s a lot going on. including the conviction of democratic senator bob menendez in new jersey. i m here with my good friend, alex wagner. it s good to have you here. it s good to see you, my friend. i do think that the menendez case is interesting because of the theme of the weaponize department of justice and the doj doing the unexpected, playing checkers, getting his son and now also getting a very promine ....
law enforcement today faced increasingly tough questions about saturday s assassination attempt against him. cnn was the first report today and nbc news has confirmed that the secret service it actually ramped up security around trump in recent weeks after they received intelligence about a plot by iran to attack trump. iran has singled out a number of different american officials in recent years for potential attempts on their lives. nbc news reporting that three different trump administration officials, john bolton, former secretary of state mike pompeo, brian cook, all were provided u.s. funded security teams because of threats from iran with congress approving the funding for those added layers of protection in the case of each of those guys. trump, as the republican nominee, is just the latest u.s. official, former official, to reportedly be threatened by iran. now what is interesting here in terms of sort of news of the day and pressing concerns about what happene ....
good evening, and welcome to our special coverage of night two of the republican national convention in beautiful downtown milwaukee, wisconsin. super glad to have you here with us tonight, i have rachel maddow here with my beloved, indefatigable, cheerful, well hydrated colleagues, joy reed, jen socket, lawrence o donnell, we have nicolle wallace stuffed in a cubby nearby were we talking with her shortly. i promise you we will be here any minute now we are expecting the republican party s residential nominee, donald trump, to be entering the hall at the rnc in milwaukee. so if i look shifty and like i am not making eye contact with you, it is because i m trying to keep an eye on the monitors to know when that happens. i will let you know when it does. both the secret service and local law enforcement today face some increasingly tough questions about saturday s assassination attempt against trump at a rally in pennsylvania this past weekend. cnn was first report today. ....
good evening and welcome to our special coverage of night two of the republican national convention in beautiful downtown milwaukee, wisconsin. super glad to have you with us tonight. i am rachel maddow here with my beloved, cheerful, well hydrated colleagues joy reid, jen psaki, ari melber, lawrence o donnell. we will be talking with her shortly. we will be here, any minute we are expecting the presidential nominee donald trump to be entering the hall at the rnc in milwaukee. if i look shifty and not making eye contact, i m trying to keep an eye on the monitors to know when that happens. both the secret service and local law enforcement pay some increasingly tough questions about saturday s assassination attempt against trumpeter rally this past weekend. cnn was first to report that nbc news has confirmed that the secret service had ramped up security around trump in recent weeks after they received intelligence about a plot by iran to attack trump. iran has singled ou ....
donald trump will return very soon to this arena tonight. it s already very, very lively. how to get even more exciting former president. he ll be in the hall for at least two of the most anticipated speakers tonight is former republican primary opponents the former un ambassador nikki haley, who was the last bit drop out after a very bitter race, and the florida governor ron desantis, also coming up this hour, republicans will focus on their fight to retake the u.s. senate. featuring candidates from he valid drug states that will decide the presidential election, including among others, kari lake in arizona, a day before ms in pennsylvania, who s remarks are straight ahead. erin i didn those of course are going to be crucial. we see what they will say if mccormick running in pennsylvania was of course, at that trump rally on saturday evening, let s go to boris sanchez now, boris, you ve got a prime spot for tonight s major speeches. you are understand right near ....