For the Republican Party. So thats what were waiting for. Alaska made a point of order and there is a parliamentarian issue right now that theyre looking at, but when it comes to the votes needed, theyre there, and we saw that, obviously, in a dramatic moment right back there with Donald Trumps children, and his son in particular, donald jr. , putting in his name for the state of new york, which when you look at the numbers put him over the top. I think what is most interesting over the last couple of hours, wolf, on the floor is what has not happened coming into today. We heard so many rumors and concerns from the Republican Party officials and from Donald Trumps campaign about whether certain states that had a lot of antitrump forces and protest cruz forces, like colorado, like utah and like Even Minnesota and Washington State where they were going to go to a walkout or try to nominate ted cruz or do something and have some kind of public display of frustration. It didnt happen. It didnt happen. Part of that is because i saw with my own eyes the whip operation in the Trump Campaign and the Republican Party working very hard to stop it from happening and it was kind of remarkable. Also because a lot of people there was some discord, i should say, and this is a party that you saw is pretty happy right now with who they have. Not everybody, considering where we were, theres not as much discord as maybe you would have thought. And you see the speaker of the house, paul ryan and hes awaiting the final deliberations to go through and he will make the official announcement. Anderson, over to you. A procedural delay. Lets talk with the panel about this moment for donald trump. Gloria borger and david axelrod. I mean, it is extraordinary when you think about how this campaign for donald trump began and for him to be on this night getting the nomination of the party. You know, anderson, i guess it started june 15th, and over the course of the past year we have heard hes never going to get the nomination, started out with 17. It was improbable. It was hes never going to run. He was never going to release, you know, what Financial Information he did release. Exactly. Still hasnt released his tax retur returns, but it goes from that to this question of, okay, which one of the other boys are going to defeat him . That didnt happen. And then it went to contested convention. That didnt happen, and then it went to never trump, and today we just saw the death of never trump because as dana was talking about, all of these kinds of lastditch efforts turned into nothing more than mischi mischief, really, on the floor. I think the question maybe that we should ask of ourselves is how do we miss it . How do we miss all of this . And it speaks to the fact that this country is very much divided and that donald trump was speaking to an america that between new york and washington and boston, lots of folks dont hear and see, and so i think e e ought to make note of that tonight, that everyone thought was so improbable that kailey happened. How did the Republican Party miss it . I mean, yes, we missed it, but also the establishment and the Republican Party said you know what . This is never going to happen. In a sense, the Republican Party has paid a price because theyve had these differences and theyve papered them over by being the antiobama party. Right. Theyve been against and they havent been for and they havent united a bunch of positive principles, and you know, he will define the Republican Party and if he doesnt win the election the Republican Party will have to do soulsearching including the republicans not in this room. One of the things they tried to do tonight on top of the roll call which was my favorite part of this convention is they tried to show case some diversity, right . Yeah. Thats your favorite part . You saw Donna Martinez there putting his name from new mexico and you saw delegate voters and i understand a lot of black gop votes were doing a headcount of how many africanamericans were delegates and there was good news and bad news in terms of the numbers here. Back in 2002 there were 167 black delegates according to their headcount, there are 80, but thats up from 2012 when there were about 28. So thats some good news. If they can certify those numbers, but thats one of the things that i thought that was interesting tonight and well see some of that again tonight with ben carson. We should also those delegates may be the donald trump voters who were showing up in polls as the 1 or 2 supporting donald trump. We should also point out, michael, that this procedural delay could push some of the speeches back. Lets listen to paul ryan. Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, the chair will yield to the chairman of the Republican National committee for the purpose of explaining the rules. A all right. Well, this is a rule that affects only about four states. First of all, all of the states are bound by 16a2 and the secretary is required to read the bound vote, and so thats why in a few states there was a difference. In this particular case the state rules under the 16f filing says that the candidates that are submitted under the that run in the election, when they drop out the bound vote gets reallocated to the only candidate left thats running. So you understand . So under the rule, he is correct that that is how alaska originally voted. However, since there was only one candidate that was left running the bound vote gets shifted under the sameparty rule and thats yet secretary read it that way. So thats how the rules are interpreted. I hope you saw tonight that we allowed for other votes of other candidates that were running to be read. I know thats different than tampa, and i hope you all appreciated that. In any event, have a great night. [ applause ]. You are suant to rule 37b and the chairs earlier announcement the votes of the state of alaska shall be recorded as 28 votes, trump. This result differs from the results of the poll delivered to the secretary, but is necessary to reflect the president ial preference vote or to recollection of delegates as required under the rules. The chair the chair is prepared to announce the results. The following candidates received the following votes, 1,725, trump. [ cheers and applause ] 475, cruz. [ cheers and applause ] 120, kasich. 114, rubio. Seven, carson. Three, bush. Two, paul. [ applause ] accordingly, the chair announces that donald j. Trump, having received the majority of these votes entitled to be cast at the convention has been selected as the Republican Party nominee for president of the United States. [ cheers and applause ] and that, michael smerconish, is the moment donald trump has been waiting a long time for. For me, its reminiscent of many, many nights weve all spent together in the washington, d. C. , studio looking at john king in front of the magic wall and going through different scenarios as to whether donald trump could get to 1237. Well, he did, and then some tonight. Exactly. Ivanka trump, donald trump, jr. , eric trump, Tiffany Trump, barron trump. [ applause ] naming the Escort Committee for for for donald trump. Ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to the missouri leader of the United States senate, the honorable mitch mcconnell. Theyll be nominating for the Vice President , and governor mike pence. Jeffrey lord, from the beginning you were a lone voice early on in the media landscape. What are your thoughts upon this moment . Its amazing and its certainly a big moment in american history. I think of Barack Obamas nomination, want all nominations are historical, in a sense and theyre not always moment us and mean some particular thing. I think Ronald Reagans did, and i think Barack Obamas did, and i think this does. I think he stands for winning in november and how that plays out weve yet to see, and clearly there is a new movement afoot and hes won. David, how big a problem is it that theyre basically having trouble timing out this convention . I mean, last night, a lot of folks thought they should enter with mella kn ania trump and tht long. I think its a big problem. You are producing a Television Show and youre concentrating with the 10 00 hour when you have the maximum number of people watching and you want to put your best foot forward then. Joni ernst who could have been helpful to donald trump was pushed back in the program, but off of primetime television. Off of evening and speaking to an empty hall, Rudy Giuliani, we can argue as to whether he was helpful or not. I would suggest not, was in the big hour, general flynn who you could argue whether he was helpful or not was in the big hour. This wasnt the production that you wanted so the timing is very important. And already they they had planned to have speeches beginning already in the 8 00 hour. Obviously, theyre now delayed because theyre going through the process. This is a reflection. I dont want to beat the whole issue of melanias speech to death, but these are all signs of organizational stress. Donald trump got very far as an improvisational candidate, and he now has to build an organization and he has to have some discipline. These events require that and what weve seen in the early going is theyre not there yet. Which is so interesting because Donald Trumps early central message early on was i know how to build a great organization. I know how to hire all of the right people. God knows hes known for firing people. Its interesting. I look back to mitt romney in 2012 sorry, gloria, who was indisputably a brilliant businessman. He was a fine governor. He had problems in his campaign, and so it doesnt necessarily translate that if you have run a business you know how to run a political campaign, and he doesnt know very many people who have run political campaigns and hes basically been running it himself. Of course, the larger issues, and if you have problems with your campaign, what does that mean for you actually in your governments ability if you make it to the white house . It does. I think one of the things hell show case tonight is a bunch of people who could potentially end up in a cabinet of Donald Trumps to show you the seriousness of his endeavor, but the thing about donald trump is hes kept it so small, and now that hes on a larger playing field, not only at the convention, but also in the country, of course, the question is how quickly can he expand it, and does he have the machinery in place to compete with the behemoth of the campaign that is Hillary Clinton . I think its theres a little too much psychology going on here with trying to translate the production of a massive event and sort of make something of trumps character because the speeches are running late. I think the melania response this morning was a disaster. We didnt need to be talking about this all day had he just come out and said im firing someone over this. It was a mistake. That was a disaster and that, i think, we can try to divine some insight into his character and judgment, but, look, the rnc is putting this convention on. There will be hiccups. If there are hiccups at the dnc im not going to make that a Hillary Clinton character or judgment issue. Some of it is just thats how it goes. Its not a character issue. Im saying its a sign of organizational distress that there isnt the kind of infrastructure that you need to run a general Election Campaign in place yet, and i think thats whats reflected here, and youre right, what you call hiccups at the dnc, i think theyll be asking questions as to how that happened and my argument is it will run more smoothly. Many would argue that there were no hiccups, and many would argue that Rudy Giuliani had the appropriate spot and you had the man up there who was known to be a staunch ally of police come out and say we need to unite. We need one america. We dont need a black america or a white america. That was exactly the message dont you wish more people saw that moment . Because she was great and shes wonderful. Perhaps she should have had a different speaking spot, and Rudy Giuliani was the right spot and featuring heros and featuring everyday americans. It was the way that he did, it was a far more successful convention than that of romney and mccain. I agree. It was a great night. Think something really important just happened in the country, and i think we have two different responses. I think there are some people who are horrified that donald trump is the nominee, and you also have a lot of people feeling vindicated right now. There are a lot of people out there and democrats need to get square with this. Theyve not had a champion. They felt theyre havent had anybody to speak for them. Im talking about those workingclass white guys and places out like indiana who havent seen a raise in a long time, who worry about their kids and for a long time they have felt that the Democratic Party has been more interested in, you know, minorities and different language constructions than their lives. So this judgment not just on the Republican Party or the establishment and its a judgement on the entire Political Class that people got this far off the path and they say this is good for us. I just want to say that Something Big happened tonight in this country and we have to deal with that. There is more coming up. D delegates just nominated him and we have donald jr. And tiffany coming up. Tmobile covers your business in more places. So you can take your business just about anywhere. Plus, our extended range lte reaches twice as far and its 4x better in buldings. Get more done in more places. Switch your business to tmobile work today. vo you can pass down a subaru forester. dad shes all yours. vo but you get to keep the memories. Love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Those hot dogs look good. Oh yeah, hebrew national. Theyre allbeef like yours but theyre also kosher. Is that a big deal . I think so. Because not just any beef goes into it. Only certain cuts of kosher beef. I guess theyre pretty choosy. Oh, honey here, have some of ours. Oh when your hot dogs kosher, thats a hot dog you can trust. Hebrew national and welcome back live to the Republican National convention, day two. The second night of prime time coverage. A lot to look forward to tonight. We will hear from two donald trump children, from Tiffany Trump and also from donald trump, jr. It was donald trump, jr. , who actually put his father over the top in terms of the delegate count needed to get the nomination. Our dana bash was on the floor with the adult trump children and spoke to them right after the vote was cast. Reporter thats right. Im right here with the children, and i can just right next to ivanka. I vafrngvanka ivanka, youre getting emotional. Can you tell me how you feel . Its surreal. Im so proud of my father. We all are. Did you think you would be here nominating your father for the president of the United States . Its amazing. Hes the ultimate outsider and we are so proud of him and ive never underestimated my father, ever and hes amazing. Ive never underestimated him, and its an amazing night for our family. Tiffany, youre speaking tonight. Im so honored and the crowd sounds very excited for everything thats going on. Well see how it goes. We look forward to your speech. Don, jr. , we are live on cnn right now. That was quite a moment. You were able to nominate your father for president of the United States. I see that youre taking a deep breath. You know, it didnt get bigger than that, dana. Its incredible. One of the more surreal moments of my life other than perhaps the birth of my children. Ive watched him work so hard on this and speak to so many people that were feeling left out and left in the dark here in new york and all over the country and to be able to do that its historic and awesome. Im not so sure people can see, but youre tearing up right now. Its its pretty real. I have to speak later today and i have to get my composure. Its a surreal moment and a its a real movement. Hes had a track record of success and accomplishment and he wants to bring that to this country, and hes going to do that. Everyone talks about it in theory and hes actually done these things. Lets talk about how your dad is feeling. Did you talk to him before coming out here, before you were doing what you just did . Ive been running around a little bit like crazy today, so i havent had a chance to catch up with him all that much. Weve had a crazy day. I get to speak tonight, but im sure ill be hearing from him and my phone will be hearing from him in a few minutes and i couldnt be happier to be a part of this. Youre speaking tonight. A preview . Well see. Well see. It will be impassioned and ill talk about my father a little bit and also still talk about the severity of the situation that were in as a country because too many times ive seen the fluffy joking about the father thing and were just not in that situation. I would love to be able to deliver that speech, but were not there. You talked about the fact that youre not from a family of politicians. You have been in the public eye because of who your father is all of your life, but still, this is a different kind of moment, could you ever have imagined this moment happening right now . Not before he announced last june. The second he announced if there was one thing ive learned about my father and one thing i know about my father is never bet against him when he puts his mind to somethin