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Week with a different break from tradition, bringing brand new meaning to a timeworn political cliche. The rose garden strategy. Its more than a metaphor now. Thats where First Lady Melania Trump will deliver her speech tonight. The site of President Trumps acceptance speech on thursday. Well see him from the iconic east room tonight. Mike pompeo will become the first secretary of state in modern times to give a political speech to a Party Convention when he beams in on a Diplomatic Mission to the middle east. Mary bruce is at the white house and mary, all president s try to capitalize on the trappings of the office when they run for reelection. This convention taking it to a whole new level. George, this is a familiar setting but we have never seen anything like this before. A first family using the white house, the peoples house, as the backdrop for a political convention. Critics say it crosses a moral line, but the president is intent on using the trappings of the incumbency to mak
With it the best campaign for the next four years and before that well hear from the president and a mom as he takes part in the naturalization ceremony to highlight legal immigration. That earlier today President Trump pardoned a convicted bank robber. Tonight we heard from that man a bond with the fbi agent who arrested him. The theme of the night land of opportunity, take name speakers including the secretary of state mike pompeo who addressed the from jerusalem which is not gone without mostly democrats and the president s other son eric trump will speak and Daniel Cameron kentuckys first black attorney general wanted bring in James Freedman assistant editor and a fox news contacted her and james welcome to the program tonight. Good evening to you. We are told the first lady will begin the speech which will be one of the longer she has ever given. What is her challenge tonight james . Well i think we are probably going to hear more of what we have been hearing in terms of so far th
We had a very, very strong economy, and then we were hit with the virus that knocked everything. He reacted quickly. He closed the border from china. Then he closed the border of those coming in from europe. And he went right to work setting up the task force to study the virus. This virus was perplexing. No one knew what to do at first. We did close the country. We shut things down because we tried to get a handle on it and didnt want to overwhelm our medical systems. And once we got that under control and started to change the curve on the virus, the president realized and he knew that the economy would be killed if we didnt start to reopen. So he worked the scientists to get regulations or suggestions to the governors on both sides of the aisle on how to open up and get the economy back on track. You are seeing that working. With the past three months we have created almost 9 million jobs. We came out of a great recession. By comparison, it took four years to create 9 million jobs i
Odonnell 70 days until election day, and what the president calls the most important election in our history. Good evening, from the nations capital. Im norah odonnell. And welcome to cbs News Coverage of the night two of the Republican National convention. Already drama tonight before the event kicked off as a Convention Speaker was bumped from the program for retweeting an antisemitic conspiracy theory. Who we will hear from tonight President Trumps son eric, as well as secretary of state mike pompeo. His speech has drawn criticism and sparked a congressional investigation, even before it airs. The headlineronht is first lady melanie trump. She will deliver her speech from the white house rose garden, weather permitting, which has just been renovated, a project mrs. Trump oversaw. We begin our coverage with paula reid who is at the white house tonight. Paula, what can we expect to hear from the first lady tonight . Reporter good evening, norah. Well, this will be the most highprofile