HELLO AND THANK YOU FOR JOINING US FOR OUR SPECIAL CHICAGO TONIGHT.

COVERAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION AND BRANDIS FRIEDMAN.

THE RNC OFFICIALLY COMES TO A CLOSE AS DONALD TRUMP ACCEPTS THE GOP NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT WITH A MARATHON OF A SPEECH WE KICK OFF OUR TEAM COVERAGE WITH AMANDA VICKY, WHO IS LIVE AT PFIZER FORM IN MILWAUKEE WHERE DONALD TRUMP JUST WRAPPED UP HIS SPEECH.

AMANDA.

FRIEND NEWS YOU CAN SEE BEHIND DELEGATES THAT TRUMP BITES THEY'VE BEEN NAMED BY HULK HOGAN ARE CELEBRATING THE BIG BALLOON DROP HAPPENING.

BAND PLAYING.

WE JUST HAD OPERATION NOW.

AS FOR THE SPEECH, DONALD TRUMP HAS MADE A LOT OF THEM OVER HIS LIFETIME.

BUT THIS REALLY WAS A MAJOR ONE.

AS FOR THE 3RD TIME, OFFICIALLY BECAME REPUBLICANS NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT.

AM RUNNING TO BE PRESIDENT FOR ALL OF AMERICA, NOT HALF OF AMERICA BECAUSE THERE IS NO VICTORY IN WINNING.

FOR HALF OF THE MAN.

SO TONIGHT.

WITH A AND DEVOTION, I PROUDLY ACCEPT YOUR NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT.

IT WAS ALSO POTENTIALLY REDEFINING SPEECH FOR HIM.

IT WAS FIRST PRESS AFTER THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OVER THE WEEKEND.

TO THAT END, TRUMP BEGAN UNCHARACTERISTICALLY SUBDUED AND THEN HE SPENT MORE THAN 10 MINUTES TELLING THE STORY THAT IT'S SO PAINFUL THAT PEOPLE NEVER REALLY TELL IT ALL OF HIS NARROW ESCAPE IN ORDER TO SEE THE CHILD.

I STARTED TO LIKE THIS.

TURNED TO MY RIGHT.

AND WAS READY TO BEGIN.

A LITTLE BIT FURTHER.

TURN, WHICH I'M VERY LUCKY.

I DIDN'T DO.

WHEN I HEARD A LOUD WHIZZING SOUND AND FELT SOMETHING HIT ME REALLY, REALLY HARD.

ON MY RIGHT EAR.

I SAID TO MYSELF, WOW, WHAT WAS THAT?

IT CAN ONLY BE A BULLET.

NOW THOUSANDS OF INDIVIDUALS AT THE CONVENTION, GOT QUIET, HELD A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR THEM.

AND THE FIREFIGHTER WHO WAS KILLED IN THAT ATTACK WITH TRUMP ANNOUNCING THAT MILLION HAS BEEN RAISED FOR HIS FAMILY.

THE FIREFIGHTER'S JACKET AND HELMET WERE ON STAGE DURING THE ADDRESS.

SO IT'S TYPICAL IN MANY WAYS, FOR EXAMPLE, FROM SPAN TAKING ISSUE WITH SOMETHING HE SAID WHAT HE I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE TONIGHT.

THEY SHOUTED BACK.

YES, YOU ARE IN KEEPING WITH THE BUILDUP FROM TERMS TEAM THAT WAS GOING ON TO PROJECT A MORE UNIFYING MESSAGE MODE THAN USUAL.

DID GET THAT AT LEAST AT THE START.

BUT THEN TRUMP REVERTED TO COMMON BUT TO ACHIEVE THIS FUTURE, WE MUST FIRST RESCUE OUR NATION FROM FAILED AND EVEN INCOMPETENT LEADERSHIP.

WE HAVE TOTALLY INCOMPETENT LEADERSHIP.

THIS WILL BE THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY.

UNDER THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION.

WE ARE INDEED A NATION IN DECLINE.

MORE CLASSIC FROM RAILED AGAINST ILLEGAL ALIENS TO TALK ABOUT HOW IMPRESSED HE WAS BY THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT ATTEND KID ROCK CONCERT WITH PROPER COURSE OPENING FOR HIM.

CLAIMS THAT RUSSIA NOT GET TAX UKRAINE HAD HE BEEN PRESIDENT AND HE WENT ON TO MAKE A LOT OF PROMISES.

HE ALSO REFERENCED HIS LEGAL WOES AND HIS MORE RECENT LEGAL WIN, INCLUDING THE DROPPING EARLIER OF THE FEDERAL CASE THAT ACCUSED HIM OF ILLEGALLY KEEPING CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS.

AND WE MUST NOT CRIMINALIZE DISSENT DEMONIZE POLITICAL DISAGREEMENT, WHICH IS WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING IN OUR COUNTRY LATELY AT A LEVEL THAT NOBODY HAS EVER SEEN BEFORE.

IN THAT SPIRIT, THE DEMOCRAT PARTY SHOULD IMMEDIATELY STOP WEAPONIZING THE JUSTICE SYSTEM LABELING THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENT.

AS ENEMY OF DEMOCRACY.

ESPECIALLY SINCE THAT IS NOT TRUE.

IN FACT, I AM THE ONE SAVING DEMOCRACY FOR THE PEOPLE OF OUR COUNTRY.

FROM SPENT A LOT OF TIME.

YES, COMPLAINING ABOUT DEMOCRATS AND THEIR POLICIES WITH ONLY ONE PREFERENCE, PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN, AND IT WAS ACTUALLY BY HIS NAME.

INSTEAD OF THAT, THEY OFTEN USED WRITING NICKNAMES.

IT WAS PERHAPS AN ATTEMPT TO BRING ON NEW INDIVIDUALS TO THE FULL.

HIS TEAM HAD BEEN A LOT OF TIME BUILDING UP THIS MESSAGE OF UNITY AND TRUMP DID.

HE MADE A DIRECT ASKING PEOPLE.

HE WHETHER YOU SUPPORTED ME IN THE PAST WERE NOT PLEASE VOTE FOR ME.

HE SAID SO I CAN BRING BACK THE AMERICAN DREAM.

FRIEND US BACK TO YOU.

ALL RIGHT, AMANDA, THANK YOU.

WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN A LITTLE BIT LATER IN THE PROGRAM.

BUT FIRST WE GO TO HEATHER SHARON, WHO IS OUTSIDE MILWAUKEE'S PFIZER FORM.

HEATHER TONIGHT KEPT THE FOUR-DAY CONVENTION IN UNUSUAL FORGOING SOME SERIOUS PAGEANTRY FOR SOMETHING CLOSER TO A ROCK SHOW IN A WRESTLING MATCH.

WELL, GRANDE IS YOU DO NOT NORMALLY SEE THE MOST FAMOUS WRESTLER OF THE 1980'S AND THE MAN WHO CREATED A MUSICAL GENRE ALL OF HIS OWN TAKE THE STAGE AT UP POLITICAL NOMINATING CONVENTION.

BUT THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE SAW TONIGHT WITH HULK HOGAN AND KID ROCK.

LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE HULK HOGANS UNIQUE APPEARANCE.

WHEN TOOK SHOT MY HERO.

TOO.

FROM NEXT ROSE, ANOTHER UNITED STATES.

SO THAT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN AT ANOTHER CONVENTION.

HOGAN WAS PROBABLY BEST KNOWN AFTER HIS WRESTLING CAREER FOR RAUNCHY REALITY SHOW THAT AIRED FOR 4 SEASONS STARTING IN 2005.

AND THEN HE WAS FOLLOWED BY KID ROCK, WHO, OF COURSE, HAS A HISTORY OF USING RACIAL EPITHETS PERFORMING IN FRONT OF THE CONFEDERATE FLAG.

AND HE CERTAINLY GOT THE CROWD INSIDE THE FISERV FORUM GOING WITH HIS RENDITION OF THE SONG.

I DON'T THINK I CAN SAY ON THE NAME OF ALL ON THE AIR, BUT HAD OF COURSE THAT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FOR TRUMP, WHICH IS PART OF WHAT WE HEARD FROM THE CROWD ALL NIGHT TONIGHT.

AND THE FORMER PRESIDENT HIMSELF HEATHER, IF NOTHING THE MAN KNOWS HOW TO PUT ON A SHOW.

SO TONIGHT WAS NOT THE ONLY NIGHT THAT WAS FILLED WITH CELEBRITIES.

WHY?

THAT'S NOT.

SO IT'S CLEAR THAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WANTS PEOPLE TO THINK THAT THIS IS NOT YOUR FATHER'S REPUBLICAN PARTY AND CERTAINLY NOT YOUR GRANDFATHER'S PARTY.

THEY WERE REALLY PAINTING A PARTY OF HIP.

PEOPLE, PEOPLE OF COLOR, INCLUDING AMBER ROSE.

WRAPS STAR PERHAPS BEST KNOWN FOR HER RELATIONSHIP WITH WEST AND THEN OF COURSE, INTRODUCING THE PRESIDENT, THE FORMER PRESIDENT, I SHOULD SAY TONIGHT WAS DANA WEISS, WHO FOUNDED THE ULTIMATE FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP.

HE, OF COURSE, PERHAPS IS BEST KNOWN RECENTLY FOR SLAPPING HIS WIFE DURING AN ARGUMENT.

OKAY.

AND HEATHER, LET'S FOCUS ON THE NON CELEBRITIES THAN WHO SPOKE TONIGHT.

WHO THAT'S RIGHT.

SO PART OF TONIGHT, WHAT THEY WERE JUST JARRING, TONAL SHIFTS EVEN BEFORE THE PRESIDENT TOOK THE STAGE AFTER KOGAN TOOK THE STAGE.

WE HEARD FROM FRANKLIN GRAHAM, THE SON, OF COURSE, OF FAMED EVANGELICAL PREACHER BILLY GRAHAM.

AND THEN WE HEARD FROM ERIC TRUMP, THE SON OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT WHO REALLY DELIVERED A SPEECH THAT WAS FULL GRIEVANCE AND THAT FOCUSED ON SORT OF THE HARM THAT THE POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT HE SAID HAD DONE TO HIS FATHER BEFORE.

FINALLY, DONALD TRUMP HIMSELF TOOK THE STAGE.

ALL RIGHT, HEATHER SHARON IN MILWAUKEE.

THANKS, HEATHER.

OF COURSE.

WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN A LITTLE BIT LATER ON IN THE PROGRAM UP.

BUT FIRST, MORE ANALYSIS OF THE FINAL NIGHT OF THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION IN FOR THAT.

WE'RE JOINED BY SANTANA JACKSON, A POLITICAL COMMENTATOR AND HOST OF THE SANTEE TO JACKSON RADIO SHOW AND ERIK NISBET, A PROFESSOR OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND COMMUNICATION AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY.

THANKS TO BOTH OF YOU FOR STICKING AROUND WITH SO ERIC, LET'S START WITH YOU.

WHAT IS THE BIG MESSAGE BEEN OVER THE COURSE OF THIS WEEK AND, YOU KNOW, HOW DID?

HOW DID THE FORMER PRESIDENT SORT OF RESPOND TO WHAT THE REST OF THE CONVENTION HAD TEED UP FOR HIM?

I THOUGHT OVERALL WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION IT IT IS NOT YOUR FATHER'S OR GRANDFATHER'S PARTY RIGHT?

THEY PUT ON A GREAT SHOW.

IT WAS A TRUMP SHOW.

THE OVERALL MESSAGE WAS STRENGTH.

I AM STRONG BIDEN AS WEAK.

A LOT OF FOCUS ON IMMIGRATION OVERALL DURING THE COURSE OF IT.

AND BUT TONIGHT, I THINK THE WEEK AS PART OF THE CONVENTION WAS ACTUALLY TRUMP SPEECH, RIGHT?

START OFF STRONG.

STORY WAS GREAT.

AND THEN THAT ME AND OR CAN.

BOY, DID IT MEANDER BECAUSE EVERY WE JUST FINISHED A LITTLE WHILE AGO, WE SPOKE FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF, LONGEST WE JUST YOU DO TO DO THAT.

YOU KNOW, IT'S WHAT STOCK THAT EVEN PREACHES ON TALK THAT LONG, SANDY, TO WAS THIS MODERATED TONE THAT SOME PEOPLE EXPECTED EXPECTED HIM TO BE REFLECTED BECAUSE HE HAS HAD HE'S LOOKED CONTEMPLATIVE.

LOOK, THIS IS SOMEONE WHO, AS HE SAID FOR QUITE SOME TIME, HE DESCRIBED THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AND THAT DOES CHANGE IT TO SHAPE YOU.

BUT I WAS STRUCK BY JD VANCE SHOT BY HIM BECAUSE HE'S A FUTURE.

HE'S YOUNGEST VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.

WE'VE HAD MORE THAN 60 YEARS SINCE RICHARD NIXON BACK IN THE 50'S AND WHAT HE IS TELEGRAPH YOU IS WHAT IT WAS INTERESTING TO ME WAS ECONOMIC POPULISM, WHICH WAS POKING ECONOMIC IN THE CHEST.

AND THIS IS SOMEONE WHO'S NOT SUPPORT UNIONS, THE SLIDE A SON, NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, SOMEONE WHOSE OWN COMMUNITY.

AND NOT IN TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.

BUT THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, THE MEDIAN INCOME IN MIDDLETOWN, OHIO IS GOING $42,000 A YEAR TO $63,000 YEAR.

HE'S SOMEONE WHO ALSO SPONSORS.

SHARE CROPPING IN HIS VENTURE INTO VENTURE CAPITAL, LISTEN.

AND SO I THINK WE NEED TO LOOK AT THAT.

BUT I THINK THIS WAS A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION.

I FELT THAT WHAT TRUMP GAVE TONIGHT, THE FORMER PRESIDENT LET ME RESPOND FOR CHAMBER SPECIALLY BECAUSE I THINK YOU SHOULD DO THAT.

HE GAVE YOU THE UNEXPECTED, WHICH IS WHAT YOU DO IN MARKETING.

I BUSINESS MAJOR, BUT I DO KNOW THAT WHAT HE DID DO WAS GIVE US WHAT WE DID NOT EXPECT HE GAVE US SOME WAS MOTION SOMEONE WHO'S MORE HUMANIZED.

AND THAT'S JUST HOW HE CAME OFF.

I'M NOT SAYING THAT.

THAT'S WHAT I THE 1ST HALF THE SPEECH CAME ABOUT.

KNOW, HE DIDN'T GET YOU.

LET ME SAY THIS WEEK WE KEEP TALKING ABOUT UNITY.

HE DID GIVE UNITY.

HE JUST DIDN'T GIVE UNIFORMITY.

AND I THINK WE'VE GOT TO BE VERY, VERY CLEAR ON THAT BECAUSE UNITY DOESN'T MEAN THAT PERRY 2, ALL IT MEANS WELL, LET'S COME TOGETHER AMERICA.

BUT LET'S COME TOGETHER ON MY AGENDA.

AND THAT'S ALWAYS THAT'S WHAT HE'S SELLING, THAT THAT'S FAIR.

BUT HE STILL THERE WAS STILL THE OLD TRUMP THAT IT GRIEVANCE WELL MISINFORMATION.

PAINTING DEMOCRATS, IF NOT BY NAME, BUT FOR ALL THE COUNTRY'S ILLS.

AND OBVIOUSLY, YES, WE NEED TO HAVE POLITICAL DIFFERENCES IN POLITICAL DEBATE.

THAT WAS THERE WAS ENOUGH OF THE OLD TRUMP THERE THAT THIS NEW TRUMP WILL THAT LAST RIGHT?

A LOT LIKE I DO NOT EXPECT TO THIS NEW TONE DOWN TRUMP TO LAST ANY SERIOUS BOUT OF TOOK A NEW TRIPLE WORK.

THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE ARE BUYING.

PEOPLE SELLING TOLD TRUMP HE JUST HAD TO BE PACKAGING PUT A BOW ON IT THAT SOME PERFUME COLOGNE, ITS NEW COKE.

THAT WILL NOT LAST VERY LONG.

CLASSIC COKE WILL BE BACK AS SOON AS KNOW.

BUT CLASSY COPENHEFER LEFT AND THAT'S OKAY.

BUT THAT'S WHO HE IS.

HE WAS NOT COMING HERE TO GIVE US.

IT'S A COLD HE'S STILL TRUMP.

WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT SOME SOME CHECK IN WITH BOTH YOU AGAIN IN JUST A BIT.

BUT WANT TO GET BACK TO AMANDA VICKI AT MILWAUKEE'S PFIZER FORM, WHO IS JOINED BY ILLINOIS, ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE MAN, RICHARD PORTER.

AMANDA, THAT AND YOU KNOW, HAVE A BANK'S, NO, NOT YET.

YES, MIAMI IS OUTGOING FROM THAT POSITION.

AS SOON AS THE GAVEL.

IS IT DOWN FROM THE CHAIR OF THE RNC?

YOU'RE NO LONGER IN THAT POSITION.

SO POTENTIALLY CURRENT OR POTENTIALLY I'M GOING I'M NOT ABLE TO WATCH MIND.

THINK YOU EITHER WAY, RICHARD PORTER, THIS IS YOUR 5TH, EVENT OF THE YEAR THAT ENDED WHAT MAKES OH, MY GOODNESS.

WHAT FIRST OF ALL, THE ENERGY WAS SO ELECTRIC BECAUSE OF THE EVENTS OVER THE WEEKEND.

AND THERE IS SO MUCH UNITY HERE ALREADY.

BUT EVEN MORE THAN THAT, I MEAN, THERE'S A REAL SENSE WE'RE LEAVING.

THIS IS GOING TO REALLY HAPPEN IN A LOT OF THE OTHER CONVENTIONS.

WE SEEM TO BE BEHIND.

SO THIS IS ONE WHERE WE'RE THING HERE UP BY A FEW TOUCHDOWNS.

THEY STILL HAVE A GAME LEFT TO THIS GAME OUT.

STRONG SENSE OF RESOLUTION SETS OF GETTING THINGS BUT REAL EXCITEMENT JUST BEEN FABULOUS.

BEEN A GREAT CONVENTION.

YOU SEE ANYTHING DIFFERENT IN PRESIDENT TRUMP.

WE HEARD A LOT ABOUT HOW HE'S GOING TO REWRITE HIS FOUND THINGS DOWN FOLLOWING SATURDAY.

YOU KNOW, HE WAS SO MOVED.

I WAS SO CLEAR YOU CAN SEE IN HIS FACE IS WORDS.

HE STARTED VERY GENTLY TELLING THE STORY.

HE'S VERY CONVERSATIONAL.

HE CONNECTS WITH PEOPLE THAT ARE WAY YOU'RE TALKING LIVING ROOM WITH ANY BUILT OVER THE SPEECH.

HE HADN'T HIS MOMENTS WHERE HE WAS CALLING UP PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE WITH ANY BILL TOWARDS THE END INTO A MORE CLASSIC TRUMP.

REVEREND PERFORMANCE IT WAS ENDS WITH HIS OTHER CONVENTIONS, IT ENDED WITH THEM AT TOP ARE SAYING THAT SOAKS ARE SYMBOLIC OF DRAMA THAT HE BRINGS TO POLITICS.

WAS EMOTIONAL ANYWAY, GIVEN THAT THERE WAS AN ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE FOR YOU OR FOR A VERY IT WAS VERY EMOTIONAL, VERY TOUCHING.

HIS IS HIS MEMORIAL TO THE GENTLEMAN WHO WAS KILLED, PROTECTING HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTERS WAS INCREDIBLY AND SO I YOU KNOW, PEOPLE AROUND US WERE TEARING ANY MOVE ON FROM THAT.

BUT YOU CAN JUST SEE HOW THAT IT TOUCHED HIM.

AND YOU KNEW THE FRANKLIN GRAHAM.

YOU KNOW, WAS LISTENING TO FRANKLIN GRAHAM IN A WAY THAT HE'S NEVER LISTEN TO FOR THIS.

THE MAN HAS FOUND GOD, BUT I THINK REALLY DOES HE'S BEEN PROTECTED BY END OF GOD.

AND SO I THINK IT'S A SHAPING HOW HE'S THINKING ABOUT HIMSELF IN THE RACE AND THE MISSION.

I WAS REALLY INTERESTING TO SEE YOU KNOW, HE PROMISED ON REALLY WANT KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, MASSIVE DEPORTATION DAY ONE PERSONALLY STOPPING ONGOING WARS WITH PHONE IS THAT WELL, I MEAN, A LOT OF THINGS YOU CAN DO RIGHT OFF THE BAT.

SO, FOR EXAMPLE, HE CAN CLOSE THE BORDER.

THERE ARE THINGS LIKE THAT.

YOU CAN KIND OF GET DONE IMMEDIATELY BY ROLLING BACK SOME OF THE EXECUTIVE ORDERS THAT BIDEN PUT INTO PLACE.

SO THINGS LIKE NEGATIVE ACTION.

PULL THINGS OFF THE TABLE.

THOSE ARE THE EASY TO DO WITH POSITIVE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION.

GOING OUT TO FIND PEOPLE.

WE ALWAYS EMPHASIZE ABOUT THE DEPORTATIONS IS THE FOCUS CRIMINALS.

FIRST TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE COMMITTING CRIMES THE FIRST ONES OUT THE THAT'S WHEN THINGS WE NEED TO ADDRESS MY SANCTUARY CITIES.

CAN HAVE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WORKING IN OPPOSITION TO THE CITY'S.

WE HAVE TO ALL WORK TOGETHER TO ADDRESS THIS PROBLEM.

LET'S GET IMPORTANT PART OF THIS NEW PROCESS WILL BE TO WORK WITH CITIES TO GET THAT DONE.

SOME OF THAT RHETORIC, DON'T WE JUST HAVE ABOUT 10 SECONDS LEFT, SIR.

VERY FRANKLY, SOME OF RHETORIC STILL TOO OVER THE TOP 3 WELL, I I DON'T KNOW.

I THINK HE'S TOUCHING PEOPLE WITH COMMON SENSE.

THINK THAT'S WHAT THE REAL ISSUE IS.

THIS.

THIS ELECTION IS THE LEAGUE'S FIRST OF THE COMMON MAN.

IT'S COMMON SENSE.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

AND AGAIN, CONGRATULATIONS.

THANK YOU YOUR OUTGOING POSITION REPORTER AND THANK YOU FOR THANK YOU.

AND OF COURSE, THANKS AGAIN TO RICHARD PORTER AS WELL.

SO THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION, IT'S OFFICIALLY COME TO A CLOSE.

SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR THE ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THIS YEAR'S U.S. PRESIDENTIAL WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THAT WHEN WE COME RIGHT BACK.

CHICAGO TONIGHT IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART WHY THE ALEXANDER AND JOHN NICHOLS FAMILY.

THE GYM AND K MAYBE FAMILY.

THE POPE BROTHERS FOUNDATION.

AND THE SUPPORT OF THESE ALL RIGHT.

THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION HAS OFFICIALLY COME TO A CLOSE.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR THE ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THIS YEAR'S U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

JOINING US ONCE AGAIN LIVE FROM MILWAUKEE.

WE'VE GOT OUR SPOTLIGHT POLITICS AND OF IN A KEY HEATHER SHARON AND NICK BLUMBERG AND HERE IN STUDIO WITH A POLITICAL COMMENTATOR, SANTANA JACKSON AND NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR ERIC NESBITT.

THANKS FOR STICKING AROUND WITH US.

HEADER STARTING WITH YOU, PLEASE.

WHAT MESSAGE DID TRUMP WANT VIEWERS TO TAKE AWAY FROM HIS SPEECH AND WAS HE SUCCESSFUL AT THEM?

WELL, CONFUSING SPEECH REALLY BRAND AS SO.

THE FIRST 20 MINUTES WAS ESSENTIALLY MINUTE BY MINUTE RECOUNT ATION OF THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON SATURDAY.

AND THEN IT REALLY BECAME A STANDARD TRUMP RALLY SPEECH THAT FAR OFF OF THE TELEPROMPTER AND THE PREPARED SPEECH THAT INCLUDED GRIEVANCES.

IT INCLUDED PROMISES TO CONTEST AN UNFAVORABLE ELECTION RESULTS.

IT MIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS AS BEING LIKE HANNIBAL LECTER.

I'LL HAVE TO CHECK THE HISTORY BOOKS.

I DO BELIEVE THAT'S THE FIRST TIME HANNIBAL LECTER HAS EVER BEEN REFERENCED IN A CONVENTION SPEECH.

AND I THINK THAT THERE WAS NOT A LOT OF SORT POLICY.

WE DID NOT HEAR ANYTHING ABOUT ABORTION.

WE DID NOT HEAR ANYTHING REALLY OTHER THAN TO SORT OF HIS PREFERRED CULTURE WAR ISSUES.

WE HEARD A LOT OF ANTI TRANSGENDER PROMISE IS WE ALSO HEARD SORT OF PROMISE IS TO KEEP INFLATION DOWN WITHOUT ANY SPECIFICS ABOUT HOW ALL OF THAT IS GOING TO WORK.

AND IT, YOU KNOW, TO HEATHER'S POINT IS TRUMP'S SPEECH, IS THAT MUCH OF A DEPARTURE FROM WHAT WE'VE HEARD FROM HIM IN THE PAST?

IT REALLY WASN'T.

IT CONVENTIONAL HEARD FROM ITS UNCONVENTIONAL, A TEA FROM REGULAR POLITICAL SPEECHES, BUT REALLY IS HEATHER KNOW BEYOND BEGINNING I DON'T KNOW IF EVER AGAIN HAD PRESIDENT CANDIDATE REFERENCE THE BLOODIEST PART OF THE BODY HE WAS TALKING ABOUT HIS HERE.

YOU KNOW, I WENT IN A CLASSIC, I GUESS, SORT TRUMP MEANDERING SEND.

IT WENT FROM VERY SERIOUS AND SOMBER TO SORT OF ALMOST.

JOKING ABOUT WHAT HAD HAPPENED THERE I HEARD LAUGHTER FROM THE FOLKS THAT WERE SETTING BY IT.

AND I WAS STANDING ALONGSIDE WERE OTHERWISE WRAPS AND HANGING ON EVERY WORD FROM SAID AND SHOUTING BACK AT HIM.

I LOVE YOU.

WE LOVE YOU.

HOW I WANT ADD, BY THE WAY, I THINK THIS IS INTERESTING BECAUSE EARLIER WE HAD AN INTERVIEW AND WITH CONGRESSMAN I'M SORRY.

8 SPOKE WITH CONGRESSMAN MIKE BOST.

HE HAD SAID, YOU KNOW, EVEN IF YOU HEAR A DIFFERENT TONE, REMEMBER, THIS IS THE SAME AND A LOT OF CONJECTURE.

WILL HE BE DIFFERENT FOLLOWING AN ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE THAT COULD CHANGE A PERSON, BUT IT REALLY SEEMS IS NO MATTER IS IS CONGRESSMAN POST NOTED YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR TOWN.

STILL THINK I AS WE WERE JUST SAYING HERE IN STUDIO IS IN NEW COKE OR OR CLASSIC COKE.

IT'S STILL TRUMP IS WHAT IT NICK, HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THE BROADER IMPACT OF THE CONVENTION?

YOU KNOW, WHO ARE CONVENTIONS REALLY FOR?

WELL, I MEAN, THESE CONVENTIONS ARE ESSENTIALLY A GRAND SPECTACLE.

THE FOLKS WHO ARE GOING TO MAKE THE TRIP TO MILWAUKEE FROM NEAR AND FAR, THESE ARE FOLKS WHO ARE ALREADY ALL IN ON DONALD TRUMP.

YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN TALKING ALL WEEK ABOUT THIS MESSAGE OF UNITY, BOTH WITHIN THE ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY AND NATIONALLY, YOU KNOW, EVEN IF YOU LOOK BACK AT 2016 WHEN TRUMP, YOU KNOW, VERY HANDILY WON THE NOMINATION, EVENTUALLY IT WAS STILL A FIGHT.

THERE WERE DIFFERENT FACTIONS WITHIN, YOU KNOW, THE HALL THERE.

THERE ARE DIFFERENT PEOPLE WHO ARE STILL PUSHING BACK.

THERE WERE SOME MORE RESILIENT, NEVER TRUMPERS AT THIS POINT, BOTH WITHIN ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY AND CERTAINLY NATIONALLY, EVERYBODY'S ALL IN.

SO IF YOU'RE HERE, YOU'RE WILLING TO LISTEN TO WHATEVER THE MESSAGE IS.

I WILL SAY WE DID START TO SEE SOME FOLKS WALKING OUT OF THE YOU KNOW, AS THE SPEECH KIND OF DRAG ON AND ON.

BUT THESE CONVENTIONS ARE MESSAGING.

THEY ARE THEATER.

AND AT THIS POINT, THEY VERY MUCH ARE PREACHING TO THE CHOIR WHEN IT COMES TO THE GOP.

THIS IS THE PARTY OF TRUMP.

SO ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO WAS IN THE AUDIENCE TONIGHT, I WANT TO TALK FORMER FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP APPEARED FINALLY WAS WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE NOT SEEN HER AT ALL THIS AND SHE FINALLY GOT HER SORT HEROINES, YOU KNOW, WALKING UP TO HER SEAT.

IS IT STRANGE SANTANA FOR A CANDIDATE SPOUSE TO BE SO ABSENT FOR SO LONG FROM THE CONVENTION?

IT DOES THAT MAKE ANY INDICATION ABOUT HOW INVOLVED OR WHAT KIND OF FIRST LADY SHE MIGHT BE IF HE'S REALLY IF HE'S ELECTED AGAIN, I THINK HE'S BEING CONSISTENT WITH HOW SHE'S HANDLED BEING FIRST LADY ALL ALONG.

AND QUITE FRANKLY, THAT IS HER BUSINESS SHE HAS HAD SON TO RAISE AND SHE'S HAD A FAMILY TO KEEP TOGETHER.

AND I RESPECT JUST WITH MY OWN BACKGROUND.

I GET THAT THAT HAVING BEEN SAID ONE WONDER THAT THE HOPEFULLY SHE WILL USE THIS PLATFORM EVEN NOW TO SPEAK TO MATERNAL MORTALITY.

THAT'S A VERY REAL ISSUE FOR US TO SPEAK FOR WOMAN'S AGENCY.

THAT'S A VERY REAL ISSUE FOR US.

I'M NOT ASKING HER TO BE A PROPONENT OF ABORTION OF THE TERMINATING PREGNANCY, BUT TO FOR WOMEN, TOO, RECEIVE THE CARE AND RESPECT THAT WE DESERVE.

I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT.

BUT IT IS ULTIMATELY HER DECISION.

A WOMAN'S AGENCY TO HANDLE TO HANDLE A SELFISH, LET YOU KNOW WHAT KIND FIRST LADY SHE WOULD BE IF HE'S ELECTED AGAIN, WE CAN'T DETERMINE THAT.

I MEAN, AND I'M NOT HERE TO TO TEMPERATURE GAUGE ON HER MARRIAGE AND HOW SHE DOES HOW SHE LIVES HER LIFE.

THAT'S NOT ERIC, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT BEFORE.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'VE NOTICED THAT I'VE HEARD FROM THE GOP THIS WEEK, THE GOP PIVOTING TO TELL VOTERS TO VOTE EARLY, WHICH IS TYPICALLY A DEMOCRATIC TALKING SO I WAS A LITTLE SURPRISED TO HEAR THAT FROM FROM THE TRUMPS IN PARTICULAR THIS WEEK.

LARA TRUMP MENTIONING IT YESTERDAY AND DONALD TRUMP IN A VIDEO THAT WAS PLAYED DURING THE CONVENTION.

THAT HAS BEEN A KEY ADVANTAGE THAT DEMOCRATS HAVE HAD OVER REPUBLICANS VOTING EARLY MEANS YOUR BANKING VOTES, RIGHT?

YOU'RE PUTTING THEM IN THE BANK.

DAY OF VOTING.

YOU KNOW, IF IT RAINS, WE KNOW THERE'S LESS TURNOUT RIGHT?

TRAFFIC.

SO DEMOCRATS HAVE REALLY MOBILIZE VOTERS.

THEY HAVE EDUCATED VOTERS.

YOU SEE THE MINING UP.

THERE THE AND THIS IS BEEN A BIG ADVANTAGE.

AND REPUBLICANS NOW REALIZE IT.

AND SO THEY'RE PIVOTING AND WE'VE GOT ABOUT 45 SECONDS LEFT.

THE DNC IS COMING TO CHICAGO IN ABOUT A MONTH.

THIS WHOLE TEAM WILL BE WORKING ON IT.

THEN TO, OF COURSE, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO BE KEEPING YOUR EYE ON AS WE GET CLOSER TO THAT?

RELIEF OR FIRST, IT'S WHO THE CANDIDATE IS GOING TO BE A.

WILL IT BE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN RUNNING AGAIN FOR A SECOND TERM.

ARE WE GOING TO HAVE SOMEONE ELSE IN HIS STEAD?

THAT IS THE KEY QUESTION.

OF COURSE, YEAR COMING OFF OF 4 DAYS OF COVERING THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION WITH CHICAGO BEING THE HOST CITY FOR THE DNC.

WHAT LESSONS IS CHICAGO GOING TO LEARN?

NO MATTER WHO THE NOMINEE MAY BE IN TERMS OF SECURITY, WHAT IT MEANS FOR LOCAL BUSINESSES.

THERE ARE A LOT OF LESSONS, PERHAPS FOR THE DNC TO TAKE AWAY FROM THE RNC AND ENSURE THEY'VE BEEN WATCHING A CLOSE WATCH.

I WILL MAKE UP THAT RIGHT NOW UP WHOEVER IT IS, IT IS GOING TO END SIMILAR COMPASSION.

IS THIS WITH A BIG BALLOON DROP?

OKAY, OKAY.

I'M NOT TAKING THAT BACK BECAUSE I THINK I THINK I'M ON YOUR SIDE ON THAT AND OF IN A KEY HADASH ROENICKE LUMBER.

GREAT JOB OUT THERE.

THANKS SO MUCH, T TO JACKSON IN ERIC NESBITT, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING HERE.

COME ON TO CHICAGO.

DOWN THE THAT IS OUR SHOW FOR TONIGHT.

PLEASE BE SURE TO JOIN US TOMORROW NIGHT FOR THE WEEKEND REVIEW.

NOW FOR ALL OF US HERE IN CHICAGO BRANDIS FRIEDMAN, THANKS FOR WATCHING.

STAY HEALTHY AND SAFE AND HAVE A GOOD NIGHT.

CLOSED CAPTIONING IS MADE POSSIBLE BY ROBERT A CLIFF AND CLIFFORD CHICAGO PERSONAL INJURY AND WRONGFUL DEATH THAT HE'S PROUD TO RECOGNIZE ITS FOUNDER AND SENIOR PARTNER ROBERT CLIFF, WHO RANKED NUMBER ONE IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS BY SUPER