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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 con ....
saturday s assassination attempt. the fbi has failed to find t gu. scrutiny intensifies on the failure that allowed him to be so close. in milwaukee, 39-year-old j.d. vance of ohio, outlining his role in the campaign to come on fox news. donald trump can t be everywhere. you have to be a person he can trust, he can rely on to actually advance the agenda. that s the most important job. president biden back on the trail today in battleground nevada, after an exclusive interview with lester holt, pushing back on calls from members of his own party to exit the race. who do you listen to on deeply personal issues like the decision whether to stay in the race or not? me. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington with special coverage of the 2024 republican national convention. the party s presidential ticket is set with donald trump officially nominated as the party s candidate, and in the opening session ohio s first-term senator j.d. vance unveiled as ....
right now. good to be with you. what does the future hold for the republican party? donald trump has had a lock on the gop since 2015, turning them on immigration, the national debt, trade in china. foreign policy and russia. bucking the long standing tenants of what it means to be a republican. but the question has always been what happens after donald trump. now it seems we might have an answer. trump and the gop seem to be mapping out the future of maga and how are they going to do that with jd vance. the campaign has already announced the first joint appearance saturday in grand rapids, michigan. what that tells us about how the campaign envisions his appeal in a moment. there s also his age. vance is 39 years old. and he is entering a presidential race that is defined by age. and on that subject, there is news among the democrats, my colleague ali vitali confirming that a letter is being circulated by democrats on the hill asking the dnc to delay the nominating p ....
a newspaper i m supposed to be deadfl he s now arrived in milwaukee for the republican national congress, where he ll be confimed as the party s presidential candidate this week. he says he s re written his keynote speech to call for national unity after the shooting. our north america correspondent nada tawfik is there. nada, what s happening today? from the pop of gunfire that nearly killed him to the pageantry here at the republican national convention, it has only been two days about donald trump is insisting that a shooter and potential assassin will not force any changes to the plans here. donald trump is set to formally accept his party s nomination at a speech on thursday. he said he threw away his original speech which attacked the biden administration because he wants to focus on unifying the country. though he acknowledged that that might be hard to do with people so divided. as the party seeks to galvanise voters here, perhaps nothing has done so more than ....
that s like blaming the victim a little bit here, right? like so somebody gets assaulted, you blame the victim. we shouldn t have been wearing that outfit. are that man deserve to being being hit by a car or whatever he s not saying that, you know, it s early indirectly is we ve got to condemn actually going to condemn it outright, right? there s no justification, david, i ve condemned it from the very beginning. i abhor that, but you don t place for that, but you can i don t think it s also really can t say january 6 is the reason the president almost got killed yesterday. did i say that? it i said the speaker said we have to lower our noise and i m suggesting that he should speak to his own camp and we should speak to lots of democrats, lots of republicans. the president united states at rhetoric, heated rhetoric. well, let s start, let s do this. let s start by not putting words in my mouth. okay, well, i m not i m just saying he s saying for one second, but i don ....