breaking hour ahead. we have just gotten the message that president biden is going to release a statement on the now former secret service director kimberly cheatle so we ll bring you that. we don t anticipate seeing him, of course. we haven t seen him since july 17th. we know that biden is headed back to the white house and we have some confirmation of that. as soon as he departs rehoboth beach, delaware, set to happen in 90 minutes, we ll continue to track his whereabouts. we haven t seen him in days. the breaking news, the pressure was unsurvivable. minutes ago the secret service director kimberly cheatle resigned. secret service director cheatle never went to the site where former president donald trump was nearly assassinated ten days ago. her testimony on capitol hill yesterday was anemic and she was not informed and apparently not too curious. that came off as unprofessional and incompetent as one lawmaker put it. she was not curious enough to prepare for the house ove
they suspended wall construction. we have policy, remain in mexico. you think that was easy to get from the mexican government? i said you must give it to was and if you don t there will be repercussions and they gave them to us. canceled our agreements. demolished title 42. implemented nationwide catch and release. catch and release where we catch them and release them into our country. we catch them and release them into mexico. and took 93, this is the previous administration, 93 executive actions to throw open our border to the world. the entire world is pouring into our country because of this very foolish administration. the greatest innovation and histories take a place right here in our country. they are coming in from every corner of the earth, not just south america but africa, asia, the middle east. they are coming from everywhere. they are coming at levels we have never seen before. it is an invasion,
achieve the extraordinary vision that you have for this country. now, i pledge to every american no matter your party, i will give you everything i have to serve you and to make this country a place where every dream you have for yourself, your family, and your country will be possible once again. from never trumper to running mate, senator j.d. vance accepted the nomination for vice president last night at the republican national convention and gave the evening s keynote address. we ll have more of his speech straight ahead. plus, we ll bring you the latest on president biden s health following his covid diagnosis yesterday and how the illness could impact the growing concerns about his campaign. and also ahead we re learning more about the time line of the assassination attempt on donald trump as well as some new details about the gunman. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, july 18th. july 18th, happy birthday. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for s
east coast. good morning, everyone. i m kasie hunt. it s wonderful to have you with us. we are joined this morning by some georgetown hoyas from the institute of politics to watch our show this morning. you may have seen a few more people here last night with laura coates live. but hey these students made it up early and we re grateful to have them. donald trump is now officially the republican nominee for the third consecutive time triumphant. the former president received a hero s welcome. it was quite a moment as he entered the arena in mawasi the last night my life lucky star three they can the crowd in the arena chanting, fight, fight, fight. the same words that the former president told the crowd in pennsylvania. in the moments after saturday s assassination attempt, that white bandage over trump s right ear. a constant reminder of just how close he came to death. trump appeared subdued, almost emotional at times as he joined his newly announced pick for vice president,
welcome back to cnn special live coverage of the republican national convention on board sanchez coming to you live from milwaukee. brianna keeler. my good friend and co-anchor is live for us in washington, dc day two of the rnc convention has kicked off. and at any minute, donald trump s newly minted running mate, freshman senator jd vance of ohio it s expected to do a walkthrough of the convention center ahead of his big speech all of this happening as we re learning of an iranian plot to assassinate former president so didn t donald trump a plot with no known connection to saturday s assassination attempt now, cnn s evan perez is going to have more details on that plot in just a moment. but first, we want to go to kaitlan collins, who s on the convention floor and kaitlan what are you seeing now? what s coming later tonight? yeah. boris, it s a little bit calmer right now. we re not paying it totally crammed. hear the floor which it typically is the case when the deleg