SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.

BRANDIS FRIEDMAN DELEGATES ARE IN PLACE IN MILWAUKEE WITH BIG NEWS ALREADY FROM THE CONVENTION.

AS WE KNOW, OHIO SENATOR JD VANCE WILL BE DONALD TRUMP'S RUNNING MATE ALSO WE MORE REACTION TO THIS WEEKEND'S ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP.

NOW WE'LL HEAR FROM AMANDA INSIDE THE CONVENTION CENTER IN A FEW MOMENTS.

BUT FIRST, WE WANT TO START OUR TEAM COVERAGE WITH HEATHER SHARON COMING TO US LIVE FROM THE BAIRD CENTER IN MILWAUKEE.

A PART OF THE CONVENTION COMPLEX, THE FIRST NIGHT OF REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

IT DID REACH A CRESCENDO TONIGHT, HEAD OVER THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SINCE HE SURVIVED THAT ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ALONGSIDE HIS NEWLY MINTED RUNNING MATE, OHIO SENATOR JD WDW NEWS REPORTER HAD A SHARON WITH MORE.

HEATHER?

I'M A LITTLE MORE THAN 48 HOURS AGO PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS SHOT IN THE EAR BY A 20 YEAR-OLD PENNSYLVANIA MAN.

TELL US WHAT HAPPENED WHEN HE STEPPED ON THAT STAGE TONIGHT.

MILWAUKEE.

WELL, YOU COULD SEE THAT HE WAS WEARING A LARGE WHITE BANDAGE COVERING NEARLY ALL OF HIS RIGHT EAR AND INDICATION OF JUST HOW CLOSE HE CAME TO THE WOULD-BE ASSASSIN'S BULLET.

NOW HE FIRST APPEARED TO THE CONVENTION HALL ON THE BIG SCREEN AND THEN HE APPEARED TO TAKE A LONG, DELIBERATE WALK ONTO THE STAGE WHERE HE WAS GREETED WITH LOUD, LOUD CHEERS, WHICH AMANDA VINIK HE SAYS WERE DEAFENING INSIDE THE CONVENTION HALL.

IT WAS SOMEWHAT MORE MUTED ON TELEVISION, PERHAPS BECAUSE SO MANY OF THE DELEGATES WERE TRYING TO CAPTURE THIS MOMENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY WITH THEIR CELL PHONES FOR THEMSELVES.

THEN WALKED TO THE PRESIDENTIAL BOX AND HE CREATED HIS NEWLY MINTED RUNNING MATE, JD VANCE, SENATOR FROM OHIO.

AND HEATHER IN THE WAKE OF THE SHOOTING.

OF COURSE, THERE HAVE BEEN WIDESPREAD CALLS FOR EVERYONE TO SORT OF RATCHET DOWN THE RHETORIC AND TO UNITE AS AMERICANS.

DID WE HEAR ANY EVIDENCE OF THAT TONIGHT?

WELL, THERE IS CERTAINLY AN ATTEMPT BY SOME SPEAKERS TO TRY TO UP TO THE BETTER ANGELS OF AMERICANS.

NATURE.

IT DID NOT ALWAYS SEEM TO BE AN EASY FIT BECAUSE, OF COURSE, THIS IS A CAMPAIGN BY DONALD TRUMP KNOWN FOR HIS SLASH AND BURN POLITICS.

IN FACT, WISCONSIN SENATOR RON JOHNSON, OF COURSE, GREETING HIS HOMETOWN CROWD HERE IN MILWAUKEE.

HE CALLED THE DEMOCRAT CRADDICK AGENDA IN THEIR POLICY.

A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO AMERICA, OF COURSE, INVOKING THE LEGAL STANDARD THAT SOMETIMES ALLOWS LAW ENFORCEMENT TO USE DEADLY FORCE.

AFTERWARDS, HE TOLD OUR FRIENDS OVER PBS NEWS HOUR THAT THAT WAS THE WRONG SPEECH THAT HE HAD NOT PLANNED TO SAY THAT THAT THE OLD SPEECH GOT LOT LOT LOADED INTO HIS TELEPROMPTER AND HE WASN'T SURE HOW TO PIVOT THAT.

I THINK IT TELLS YOU A LOT ABOUT JUST HOW MUCH THIS ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT HAS CHANGED THE WAY REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS ARE NOW APPROACHING THIS CAMPAIGN, COURSE, HEADED THAT.

HE IS, OF COURSE, GOING FEEL CLEAR WITH THAT EXPLAINING WHAT HAPPENED.

THIS IS ALSO VANCE'S FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE AS THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR VICE PRESIDENT.

WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT HIM?

WELL, VANCE IS A POLITICAL MEAL FIGHT ELECTED.

ONLY 2 YEARS AGO TO THE UNITED STATES SENATE.

BETTER KNOWN AS AN HILLBILLY ELEGY, OF COURSE, A MAJOR HIT AS PEOPLE SOUGHT TO UNDERSTAND EMERGING WORLD URBAN DIVIDE JUST A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, YOU MAY HAVE SEEN THE NETFLIX MOVIE STARRING AMY ADAMS AND GLEN CLOSE.

BUT NOW HE IS SET TO BE DONALD TRUMP'S RUNNING MATE, OF COURSE, REPLACING VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE WHO BROKE WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP AFTER THE JANUARY 6 CAPITOL INSURRECTION AND LAUNCHED HIS OWN UNSUCCESSFUL BID FOR PRESIDENT THIS YEAR.

AND OF COURSE, HEATHER, THE FOCUS TONIGHT WAS ECONOMICS.

THE SO-CALLED BIDENOMICS AND PRESIDENT BIDEN'S ECONOMIC PLAN.

WHAT CASE DID THE REPUBLICANS MAKE AGAINST HIM?

WELL, A LONG SERIES OF SPEECH OR HAS TRIED TO MAKE THE CASE THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN HAD ESSENTIALLY PRESIDED OVER AN ECONOMIC CATASTROPHE WITH HIGH INFLATION HIGHER THAN NORMAL UNEMPLOYMENT AND REALLY JUST DEPICTING AN AMERICA IN DECLINE.

NOW, THAT WAS NOT ALWAYS TRUE.

FOR EXAMPLE, THERE WERE SEVERAL SPEAKERS WHO SAID THAT THERE JUST WAS SO MUCH INFLATION.

BUT AS WE'VE REPORTED, INFLATION HAS MODERATED AND IS NOW SORT OF BACK TO HISTORICALLY APPROPRIATE LEVELS, ACCORDING TO THE FEDERAL RESERVE.

THERE'S ALSO A LOT OF TALK ABOUT BUSINESS GROWTH.

IN FACT, THE NUMBER OF BUSINESSES CREATED UNDER PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN IS UP SIGNIFICANTLY SINCE HE TOOK OFFICE.

AND OF COURSE SENSE DONALD TRUMP LEFT OFFICE IN 2020 AT THE HEIGHT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.

SO THEY TRIED TO MAKE THEIR CASE.

IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHETHER SWING VOTERS IN STATES LIKE WISCONSIN.

WELL, BY THAT MESS, HEATHER, SOMETHING ELSE THAT THEY TALKED ABOUT A LOT TONIGHT.

YOU KNOW, OF COURSE THERE'S ECONOMICS, BUT WE ALSO HEARD A LOT ABOUT IMMIGRATION THIS EVENING.

WHAT KIND OF A PARALLELS?

HOW ARE THEY USING THEIR THAT IMMIGRATION IN THEIR ARGUMENT ABOUT ECONOMICS?

WELL, SO EVERY NIGHT HERE AT THE CONVENTION HAS ITS OWN THEME TONIGHT WAS VERY MUCH FOCUSED ON ECONOMICS.

BUT THERE WAS A LOT OF TALK OF SORT OF THINGS BEING OUT OF CONTROL.

AND ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT REPUBLICANS REACH FOR MOST QUICKLY IS IMMIGRATION.

THIS WHOLE NOTION THAT PERHAPS THERE ARE, YOU KNOW, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CROSSING THE BORDER WITHOUT PERMISSION COMING HERE AND TAKING PEOPLE'S JOBS.

WE HEARD THAT FROM A LOT OF SPEAKERS.

THAT WILL BE A THEME THAT THEY