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
sing his praise. [ laughter ] while he drank a diet coke made out of a goblet of chris christie s skull. then we heard from one of those crushed souls nikki haley who said this i ll start by making one thing perfectly clear i hate myself. [ laughter ] there s no other explanation. thank you. thank you. thank you. [ applause ] i know that a lot of you want to meet my little buddy. so, if baby doll could come on out here. [ applause ] you fools! you can t have a dog in a same convention as kristi noem, run. run. [ applause ] stay away. night two of the republican national convention was about party unity. we ll show you the remarks from donald trump s former rivals. plus, we ll have the latest on the investigation into saturday s assassination attempt with new reporting on where police snipers were. while the shooter was on the roof. also ahead, the fallout from democratic senator bob menendez s corruption conviction, as top members of the party call on hi
and i am grateful he is doing well, andjill and i keep him and his family in our prayers. we also send our deepest condolences to the family of the victim who was killed. corey was a husband, a father, a volunteer firefighter and a hero sheltering his family from the bullets. we should hold his family and all those injured in our prayers. earlier today i spoke about an ongoing investigation. we do not know the motive of the shooter yet, we do not know his opinions or affiliations. we do not know whether he had help or support or if he communicated with anyone else. law enforcement professionals as i speak are investigating those questions. tonight i want to speak to what we do know. a former president was shot, an american citizen killed while simply exercising his freedom to support the candidate of his choosing. we cannot and must not walk down this road in america we have travelled before in history. violence has never been the answer, whether it is with members of congres
returned fire, killing the shooter, who has been identified by the fbi as 20 year old thomas matthew crooks. stunning photos showed mr trump with with blood streaming down his face underneath the scrum of secret service agents who swarmed to protect him. trump later confirmed he a bullet hit his right ear. after being raised to his feet, trump raised his fist in the air, gesturing to the crowd. questions are being asked about how the secret service failed to stop the suspect firing shots. on the eve of the forthcoming republican national convention here in milwaukee, the secret service says there will be no change to their security plan. we to their security plan. are confident in the current plan we are confident in the current plan we have. it is based off a technical assessment, protective intelligence, and we are continuously monitoring information related to events, so we are confident in the plans we have and are moving forward with those plans. we have new details to
the first covid-19 vaccine to pass this final regulatory hurdle. the approval was the fastest in the agency s history, coming less than four months after pfizer filed for licensing. and the fda s announcement started a number of new vaccine mandates with more to come. new york city now requiring all department of education employees to get at least one dose of the covid vaccine by tend of september. the effort to fully reopen the country s largest school district next month is expected to set a standard for many districts across the country. it affects more than 148,000 public school employees the deadline for staff to get at least one dose is september 27th. mayor bill de blasio will be our guest later this morning to discuss this announcement. plus the pentagon moving ahead with vaccines for all service members now that they have the fda approval. they said a time line for when service members must receive the shot will be in the coming days. it ll be mandated for active