BEEN ANOTHER BUSY DAY AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IS AND THAT IS ON TOP OF THE NEWS TODAY THAT PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID.

AND HERE TO TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IS, OF COURSE, SPOTLIGHT POLITICS TEAM.

WELCOME ONCE AGAIN, THE TEAM FROM MILWAUKEE AND VICKI HAD A SHARON NICK BLUMBERG AS WELL AS OUR GUEST AGAIN HERE IN STUDIO, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY'S ERIC NESBITT.

THANKS, EVERYBODY.

SO HEATHER, TEXAS GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT TOOK THE STAGE THIS EVENING.

LET'S LISTEN TO WHAT HE SAID.

WHEN JOE BIDEN KAMALA HARRIS REFUSE TO EVEN COME TO TEXAS AND TO THE BORDER CRISIS THAT THEY CREATE IT.

I TOOK THE BORDER TO THEM.

I THINK AGAIN, BUSTING TO WASHINGTON, D.C. WE CONTINUED BY SAYING MY LIST.

SANCTUARY CITIES ACROSS THE ENTIRE COUNTRY.

AND THOSE BUSES WILL CONTINUE TO ROLL UNTIL WE FINALLY SECURE OUR BORDER.

ALL RIGHT.

NOT BE ASLEEP.

CHICAGO IS ONE OF THOSE CITIES THAT GREG ABBOTT SAYS HE PREFER BELIEVES UP SENT THE BORDER TO, QUOTE, UNQUOTE.

HEATHER, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR CHICAGO?

WELL, IT MEANS THAT GREG ABBOTT IS TO PREPARED TO SEND AS MANY BOSSES AS POSSIBLE TO CHICAGO.

OF COURSE, ONLY ABOUT A MONTH AWAY FROM THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION AND EVERYBODY AT CITY HALL HAS BEEN EXPECTING SORT OF A NEW SURGE OF BUSES TO ARRIVE IN THE CITY JUST IN TIME TO MAKE GETTING READY FOR THE CONVENTION.

MUCH MORE DIFFICULT.

HOWEVER, IT'S NOT CLEAR WHETHER THAT WILL HAPPEN FOR SEVERAL MONTHS.

THE NUMBER OF MIGRANTS MAKING THEIR WAY TO CHICAGO HAS BEEN STEADY AND THE NUMBER OF MIGRANTS IN CITY SHELTERS HAS BEEN DROPPING SIGNIFICANTLY.

SO THERE IS ROOM FOR MORE PEOPLE TO COME.

IF THEY MAKE BUT CHANGES MADE BY PRESIDENT BIDEN HIMSELF THROUGH AN EXECUTIVE ORDER MAY MEAN THAT THERE AREN'T AS MANY PEOPLE GETTING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN BORDER REQUESTING ASYLUM AND BEING ALLOWED TO STAY IN THE COUNTRY WHILE THEIR CASES FINALIZE.

THAT I THINK IS ONE OF THE BIG QUESTIONS FACING US AS PREPARE TO WRAP UP THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION AND PREPARED TO COVER THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

YEAH, WE'LL BE WRAPPING IT UP TOMORROW NIGHT.

OF COURSE OF IT.

TONIGHT, HEATHER, THERE WERE ALSO DEPORTATION.

IN THE CROWD ARE SIGNS THAT WERE CALLING FOR MASS DEPORTATIONS.

WHAT DO YOU TAKE AWAY FROM WELL, THIS IS AN EXPLICIT PROMISE IN BOTH PROJECT 2025 WHICH WE TALKED A LITTLE BIT LAST NIGHT FROM THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION AND THE THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM ITSELF.

DONALD TRUMP HAS PROMISED TO DEPORT ALL UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS FROM AMERICA.

AND HE HAS SAID THAT IF YOU CAN'T MANAGE TO GET THEM BACK TO THEIR COUNTRY, HE WILL HOLD THEM IN TENT CITIES ALONG THE BORDER UNTIL THAT'S POSSIBLE.

NOW, THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF PEOPLE SORT OF SAYING THIS WOULD BE A MASSIVE UNDERTAKING.

IT WOULD BE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE JUST IN CHICAGO ALONE AND THAT IT IS LIKELY NOT SOMETHING THAT HE COULD FOLLOW THROUGH.

IT'S CLEAR THE SIGNS WERE PRE PRINTED BY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY FOR THE DELEGATES TO WAIVE.

AND IF THAT'S NOT A SIGN OF SERIOUSNESS, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO TELL YOU.

ALL RIGHT, NIC, EARLIER TONIGHT, A FORMER ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN PROBABLY KNOWN TO OUR AUDIENCE, MADE HIS CASE AGAINST TRUMP'S RE-ELECTION BID.

WHAT THAT'S RIGHT.

FORMER CONGRESSMAN JOE WALSH IS ONE OF THE ANTI TRUMP REPUBLICANS WHO'S MADE HIS WAY TO MILWAUKEE ESSENTIALLY TO PLEAD WITH MODERATE REPUBLICANS PACK ANYONE HE CAN CONVINCE WHO MIGHT BE VOTING FOR TRUMP.

I WOULD IMAGINE NOT TO CAST THEIR BALLOT FOR THE FORMER PRESIDENT.

HERE'S SOME OF WHAT WALSH HAD TO SAY.

YOU WANT IN THIS MOMENT THAT A THREAT TO OUR DEMOCRACY OR DON'T.

STOP THERE.

THERE'S TO SPEAK ABOUT.

SO CLEARLY WALL SEES THIS IN SORT OF EXISTENTIAL TERMS FOR THE FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES.

OUR COLLEAGUE MATT MASTERSON WAS THERE REPORTING ON SOME OF WALSH'S COMMENTS WHO CALLED TRUMP QUOTE, A JACK.

HE SAID IF YOU'RE CONCERNED ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION ABOUT THE RULE OF LAW, ABOUT PRESERVING OUR DEMOCRACY SIMPLY CANNOT VOTE FOR TRUMP.

IT'S INTERESTING, YOU KNOW, ALONG THOSE LINES, WE HEARD A LOT IN TONIGHT'S SPEECH IS ABOUT THIS IDEA OF PUTTING PUT LAWFARE, YOU KNOW, A FORMER TRUMP ADVISER, PETER NAVARRO, SPEAKING ONSTAGE HOURS AFTER BEING RELEASED FROM PRISON AND ESSENTIALLY ACCUSING, YOU KNOW, THE THE JUSTICE SYSTEM OF THE UNITED STATES OF BEING WEAPONIZED AGAINST CONSERVATIVES.

NOW, WALSH IS ONE OF JUST A FEW ANTI-TRUMP REPUBLICANS WHO'VE ACTUALLY STUCK TO THEIR GUNS.

YOU KNOW, NIKKI HALEY, RON DESANTIS, FORMER BITTER RIVALS OF HIS WHO ESSENTIALLY, YOU KNOW, BENT THEIR KNEE LAST NIGHT AND MADE THEIR PEACE, MADE THEIR SPEECHES AT THE RNC.

SO IT'S CERTAINLY INTERESTING TO SEE EVEN FOLKS LIKE NORTH DAKOTA GOVERNOR DOUG BURGUM, WHO, YOU KNOW, NOT NECESSARILY AN ENEMY BUT WAS PASSED OVER AS A POTENTIAL VP YOU KNOW, HE WAS MAKING A SPEECH TONIGHT TALKING A LOT ABOUT ENERGY INDEPENDENCE.

OBVIOUSLY, NORTH DAKOTA, A HUGE ENERGY PRODUCER, PERHAPS AUDITIONING FOR A CABINET POSITION.

THING OR THE OTHER.

SO AND HOW WHILE SHES CERTAINLY MAKING A FIERY CASE AGAINST TRUMP, WILL IT TAKE DOESN'T SEEM ESPECIALLY LIKELY.

ALL AND MOVING OVER TO YOU BECAUSE SOME MEMBERS OF THE ILLINOIS DELEGATION, THEY TURNED THEIR BACKS TONIGHT ON CONGRESSMAN MATT GAETZ DURING HIS SPEECH.

TELL US ABOUT THAT.

SO THIS WAS NOT ENTIRE DELEGATION BY ANY MEANS.

REALLY JUST A FEW MEMBERS.

AND COMES, OF COURSE, AFTER THE REPRESENTATIVE HAD BEEN UNDER INVESTIGATION BY THE HOUSE ETHICS COMMITTEE FOR POSSIBLE MISCONDUCT.

AND SO THE PEOPLE FROM THE DELEGATION THAT I TALKED TO SAY THE BELIEVE THEY KNOW THE TRUE STORY OF WHAT HAPPENED THERE AND THAT THEY BELIEVE CONCERT WITH THAT, THAT GATES IS UNFIT HER OFFICE, THAT HE SHOULDN'T BE SERVING TURNING THEIR BACKS ON HIM DURING THE ENTIRETY OF HIS SPEECH WAS THEIR TIME AND THEIR WAY OF DEMONSTRATING THAT WITH THEIR WAY OF SHOWING IT QUIETLY, THEY SAY THAT THEY DIDN'T TRY TO BRING A TON OF PEOPLE ON BOARD OR MAKE ANY THING LOUD ABOUT IT.

BUT THEY THEY WANTED IT TO BE BIT OUT OF RESPECT FOR THE INSTITUTION THAT THEY BELIEVE IS THE U.S. CONGRESS THAT HE SHOULD NOT BE SERVING.

I THINK THAT TRUMP'S DETRACTORS WOULD, OF COURSE, POINT OUT CONCERNS ABOUT ANY POTENTIAL ABUSE PROPAGATED BY REPRESENTATIVE GAETZ.

ALSO COME AS PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE AND FORMER PRESIDENT THAT THESE VERY SAME DELEGATES ARE CHEERING FOR BEEN AN ACCUSED OF IS COURT ACTIONS TOWARD WOMEN.

THAT IS NOT EVIDENTLY ANYTHING NOR A AND INDICTMENTS ARE EVIDENTLY MAKING THE RIGHT HE HASN'T.

PRESIDENT TRUMP UNFIT FOR OFFICE IN THEIR YOU ALSO SPOKE TO ILLINOIS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, GOOD TONIGHT'S EVENTS.

YOU KNOW, SPEECHES THAT WE AS WELL AS OF COURSE, SENATOR JD VANCE.

WHAT DID YOU HEAR FROM THEM BRIEFLY?

AGAIN, TONIGHT WAS REALLY FOCUSED ON THIS ISSUE SAFETY AND THE NOTION OF AMERICA FIRST, WHEN IT COMES TO ENERGY POLICY, WHEN IT COMES TO NOT SPENDING MONEY ON THE WARS OVERSEAS.

AND REALLY THAT IS WHAT THE DELEGATES SAY.

THEY WANTED TO HEAR MORE OF THEY SAY IN IF YOU HAVE CRUMBLING BRIDGES IN AMERICA, IF YOU HAVE POVERTY IN AMERICA, DON'T BE SPENDING IN SENDING THAT MONEY OVERSEAS.

THEY BELIEVE I KNOW THIS IS SOMETHING HE'S BEEN TALKED ABOUT, BUT THEY THE ONES THAT I TALKED TO SAY.

THEY BELIEVE THAT AMERICA WOULD NOT BE AT WAR OR NOT SHOULD NOT BE HELPING UKRAINE THAT RUSSIA PERHAPS WOULD NOT HAVE INVADED UKRAINE HAD IT BEEN A TRUMP ADMINISTRATION VERSUS A BIDEN WON AND THAT IS THE SORT OF NOTION THAT THEY EMBRACE THAT THEY'RE CHEERING ON TRUMP WHOLEHEARTEDLY FOR BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE THAT IF THERE'S A CHANGE IN THE WHITE HOUSE THAT WILL BE RESTORED.

I WANT TO GET YOU BACK IN HERE, ERIC NESBITT, BECAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE EVENTS OF TONIGHT AND ONE OF THEM.

ONE MOMENT THAT I THINK PROBABLY STANDS OUT IN ALL OF OUR MINDS IS THE VIDEO THAT PLAYED RIGHT BEFORE THE GOLD STAR FAMILIES TOOK TO THE STAGE.

SOME ABOUT THAT.

THAT VIDEO IS VERY POWERFUL VERY EMOTIONAL TALKING ABOUT THE LOSS OF THOSE SOLDIERS IN AFGHANISTAN.

I'M TALKING SORT OF REALLY THAT WHOLE SEGMENT WAS TO SHOW THAT JOE BIDEN IS NOT UP TO BEING COMMANDER IN CHIEF.

AND THAT TRUMP UNDERSTANDS THEM.

HE AND THAT I THINK WOULD RESONATE WIDE RANGE OF PEOPLE BECAUSE THAT WAS SUCH AND IT'S SORT TIED INTO A SUMS.

A STATEMENT THAT BIDEN SAID IN THE DEBATE RIGHT?

TALK ABOUT THAT.

IT WAS MISCONSTRUED.

IT WAS TALKING ABOUT THERE'S NOT SOLDIERS IN WARS EVERYWHERE.

IT WAS MISCONSTRUED AS SOME SAY THAT NO SOLDIERS HAVE DIED UNDER HIS WATCH.

AND THAT WAS WHEN THE CLAIMS YOU SAW HERE TONIGHT THAT THEY WERE SAFE.

AND SO THAT THAT I WILL BE A POWERFUL MESSAGE.

AND ONE OF THE KEY TAKEAWAYS FOR TODAY AND AS FAMILIES TOOK TO THE STAGE AND WE'RE SPEAKING OF BE A LOT OF, YOU KNOW, WET EYES IN THE AUDIENCE.

A LOT FOLKS ON THEIR FEET CHEERING HIM AT A CERTAINLY A FOR THOSE EVERY DAY.

TYPE STORIES ARE TRYING TO WEAVE INTO THE CONVENTION YES, YES, LOTS OF EVERYDAY PEOPLE, FAMILIES WHOSE, YOU KNOW, WHOSE LOVED ONES HAVE SERVED AND GIVEN THEIR LIVES FOR OUR COUNTRY.

THAT IS WHAT WE'LL HAVE TO LEAVE.

IT