Will he. President ial. The man that a majority of americans want to entrust with their lives and their futures. Or, will he choose door number two . Critics say his convention has too often been derailed by missed opportunities and errors. And last night, when a boomerang shaped like texas senator ted cruz smacked trump on the head. The Republican Party, of course, they fear that all of this discord only further fuels those undecided voters skeptical of mr. Trump. Can he quell the concerns . What is he going to say tonight . Joining me now to talk about this all is former republican president ial candidate dr. Ben carson. Good to see you as always. What do you think he is going to say . Have you seen the speech . No, i have not. What do you want him to do . Can he be magnanimous . Many people dont think he has the temperament that is necessary, but just look at what happened this week. People attacking his wife. Others when their wife is attacked they go bezerk. It shows he has the correct fiber. Im expecting him to really talk about some of the real policies that will help pit us on the right track. The things that threaten us are fiscal irresponsibility. On the issue of fiscal responsibility, i have not heard any big proposals from trump or his campaign talking about getting ahold of safety net programs, or addressing the debt and deficit in any way. Behind closed doors he presented this to you . He has some excellent ideas. In turms erms of the entitlemen not necessarily going after them first, because encouraging capital investment. Then you can concentrate more on the entitlements. Lets talk more about ted cruz since you mentioned him, i think it is fair to say. He said republicans should vote their conscious. Today he said he would not back somebody that insulted his wife and father. Take a look. Im not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father. And is that pledge was not a blanket commitment that if you slander and attack heidi that im going to come like a puppy dog, thank you for maligning my wife and father. Some people are unable to take the personal out of it. Those were person attacks from donald trump. There were personal attacks on me as well by mr. Trump. It is about so much more than me. Our children, our grandchildren, and the future of our country. What kind of country are we going to have . Let me ask you how you got over it. The attacks on you by mr. Trump were vicious. He suggested you have a pathological temper. He said child molesters are pathological. You have spent your life saving children, and trying to uplift the children of baltimore of the whole country. The whole country, but specifically in baltimore, talking about how you would do that, and he compared you to a child molester. I know its not true, everybody else knows its not true, its a nonissue. 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Get back to great with the right gear. From the place with the experts. Office depot officemax. Gear up for school. Gear up for great. Welcome back to the lead here in cleveland. Donald trump is just hours away from formally accepting the nomination for president. In a day or two, were going to learn the name of hillarys running mate. Short listers include tim kaine and tom vilsack. One man still remains on the short list, senator cory booker from new jersey, and look at that. I found him. What are you doing here. Tell me the truth, you discuss ne ways you cant talk about on air. You have been one of the blessings to my senate career, you send me good Text Messages and try to get me on the show. Thats true im a naked booker. I have to ask you about this speculation. I have been told by somebody who knows that you are on the short list. And you are, you might get picked. And i know youre not going to tell me, but do you know who the nominee is . I dont know, but she has tremendous choices, really quality people within our party. A strong bench, but it is really about who our nominees are. Today this week we have seen such a stark contrast between the darkness and negativity spewed at this convention. Something like i have never seen before. What have you not liked . What do you object to . Everything, from her being referred to as if she is in a league with lucifer, to the chants. One this morning was hang the witch. The fact checkers, looking at everybody from the washington post, the New York Times, the blatant lies. This is one of the darker and meaner spirited conventions of my lifetime. That is why i came to cleveland to object to that. Its not even the best of the Republican Party. Over 20 of my colleagues are staying away from this speck t spectacle. It has also attracted millions of americans and the polls show her and trump neck and neck. What does that say that somebody could possibly beat her for president. I have seen people reject this. You have everybody from paul ryan, calling what is coming out of trumps moat textbook racism. And people like john mccain who is a war hero. People programming into this, seeing this Campaign People are programmed in. They are watching the debates are getting record viewership. According to a New York Times poll, 67 of registered voters find Hillary Clinton dishonest or untrust worthy and that number went up after the fbi investigation. And it is after what you have seen in this convention. Unrelenting attacks on things that independent sources are saying lie after lie after lie on her record. She is getting blamed for things the Bush Administration did. Disbanding the republican guard, creating an environment where terrorists like isis can spring. They are happying it upon her like theyre trying to reinvens history. Again, you heard the chance. They are sitting next to the arena. It is a call that we have not heard since the days of segregationists Holding Course in the party. Im not saying it to you this is the party of trump in is a guy that offers a bounty on people if you take physical violence. This is someone, if you have a disability, if you latino, africanamerican, has systematically insulted and demeaned parts of our culture and aspects of our country. That even Newt Gingrich that spewed lies about her last night. But this is what democrats do, you ask a question about Hillary Clinton, and issues that she might have, and you change the subject to how horrible donald trump. Im not saying because he bear any responsibility. She said things that the fbi director said were not true. She admitted she made a mitts take and that admitted that it was a mistake. More than the jfk association, than the 9 11 attacks. Every time secretary clinton is involved in something, it gets drawn out, infused with conspiracy theories. When she says im not perfect, i made a mistake, we now have folks that will not only not allow that to go on, but that twist it into a perversion that has no semblance of the truth whatsoever. Abstractly, theoretically, if someone was almost exactly my age, and his job resume looked like seven years of mayor of a major city, three years in the senate under his built, would that person have the qualifications to be Vice President . I think that this hypothetical hurts and the reality is i trust this morning i forgot stanford, university. The fact that you didnt exaggerate my football rear hurts. We have someone who is incredibly qualified, paying close attention to detail. She will pick a qualified and great person. I think we will go into the convention ready to elevate the country, appeal to our higher angels, not the darker ones, and talk about how we will get greater under her leadership. If she picks you, you called yourself a great person. You just called yourself a great person. When will you shave your head like me. I dont have a skull like that, its hideous. Stay with us, senator cory booker, it all comes down to tonight, Donald Trumps big speech. Big day . Ah, the usual. Moved some new cars. Hauled a bunch of steel. Kept the supermarket shelves stocked. Made sure everyone got their latest gadgets. Whats up for the next shift . Ah, nothing much. Just keeping the lights on. laugh nice. Doing the big things that move an economy. See you tomorrow, mac. See you tomorrow, sam. Just another day at norfolk southern. Donald trump i could stand in the middle of 5th avenue im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. And shoot somebody and i wouldnt lose any voters, okay . And you can tell them to go f themselves you know, you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. You gotta see this guy. Ahh, i dont know what i said, ahh. I dont remember. Hes going like i dont remember mr. Ingalls, hes not studying over here hes streaming my games. You cant get away with that. Woo oh, dont worry about it. They cant hear me, im just in your head. announcer vo no matter how you use your data, verizons got your back. Now get 30 more data. No surprise overages. And keep the data you dont use. Switch to verizon now and get up to 650 to cover your costs. Only on americas best network. Real is touching a ray. Amazing is moving like one. Real is making new friends. Amazing is getting this close. Real is an animal rescue. Amazing is over twentyseven thousand of them. Theres only one place where real and amazing live. Book a seaworld vacation package and eat free. Welcome back to the lead. Were live in the land of cleveland. At the Republican National convention. Donald trump the man of the night here in cleveland. Were getting te tails about his big speech and what he is going to say. Dana, what are you hearing about the republican nominee . Those who have been paying attention for the last 13 months will hear a familiar theme. They said dont expect him to pivot off of what he as been saying over and over again, but it will be written in a more structured organized way. Build a wall, china is beating us, crooked hillary. Those are the kinds of things you will hear. I was told the theory is that trump has been pretty consistent for the past 13 months since he first aspounsed about those broad themes. He veered in and out of different specific issues based on the news, but those have been the core structures of what his message as been. Im told he had his first real practice run this past seasoned, and his children, especially his soninlaw had a lot of contribution for it. I really am, it crystallized last night when i was standing in the texas delegation. Ted cruzs home state. The people working tirelessly for him for years and years and years saying it is time for him to move on, even we support donald trump. I heard that across the board. People who are reluctant, but they say the time has come, having said that, this is a self selecting crowd. You know a lot of people, i know a lot of people, who are die hard republicans, they didnt want to show up or come. For the grass roots, the party chairman, theyre more behind him than i expected. The theme tonight was make america one again. Lets go live to jim acosta on the convention floor. Trump now has ground to make up, i think, in terms of the narrative of the convention after that speech last night by mr. Truz. All of those people last night were yelling at ted cruz to get off of the teenage. We were watching all of it and it was amazing to see Something Like that unfold at a convention. I can tell you from the people inside the campaign and what we have been hearing all day long, they just feel that ted cruz had the opportunity, and that he just flat out broke that pledge that all of the candidates signed at the beginning of the process. No love lost there. I can tell you from talking to convention sources, they feel like they got the sort end of the deal because they gave ted cruz an extra eight minutes. He got 20 minutes and what happened as a result is he divided the convention, resulting in a lot of boos being rained down from the rafters and it pushed mike pence off of the radar screen and out of prime time into they are furious with him. Donald trump does that v that chance tonight to hit the reset button. Im told he will be speaking tonight and he will be using a teleprompt t teleprompter. Now trump allies are saying he committed political suicide. Well ask our panel what they think, next. Standing together for shared values. Each and every one of them [ audience boos ] welcome back to the lead. Were live from the rnc. Ted cruz getting heckled off of the stage last night. Lets get to our guests. Katrina pearson, carly sellers, lets get to that speech last night, that nonendorsement. Here she trying to explain why he did what he did. Im not going to get into criticizing or attacking donald trump, but i will just give you this response. Im not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and my father. And that pledge was not a blanket commitment that if you slander and attack hidy, that im going to come like a servile puppy dog and thank you for maligning my wife and my father. Katrina, there you have it from senator cruz. Was it worth it . That retweet that donald trump made that was insulting heidi cruz . Was it worth it going on fox and friends and spewing that nonsense about Lee Harvey Oswald and his dad . I will also say this as a simple excuse. If you go back to Thomas Jefferson and john adams, there are way far attacks. Cruz pledged to support the nominee, and the fact that he wants to use this excuse to get out of it is absurd. In march, donald trump appeared on a cnn town hall, and he discussed it. Lets roll that tape. He doesnt have to support me. Do you pledge to support whoever the republican nominee is . No. You dont . No, well see who it is. How can the campaign claim there is an important pledge when donald trump said he would not honor it. He didnt care if ted cruz supported him. I have seen many primaries come and go. When you get to the convention, youre supposed to rally. Go back in history and, you know, all sorts of people were called all kinds of things. That is absolutely correct. So this is the time to unify. Ronald reagan stood up there in 1976. He was not happy, he did use the word endorse in that famous speech from the podium that night. He called on republicans to support the platform. He went out there a champion. I think ted cruz blew a big arent. Carly, your name has been invoked i think he gambled on himself last night. He did what he does best. Many senators in his own party do not like him. He put himself first. If donald trump is president of the United States, ted cruz is still powerful. But it donald trump does not win, ted cruz is the last person that stood up to trump. He is now a conservative icon. He put all of the chips on ted cruz. And he is the most compelling figure to come out of this. If you look at those that were mike pence was overshadowed by everybody. Marco rubio did what marco rubio tends to do is play both sides. So i think he did himself some good. I think in that way, he did emerge as Something Different in this entire process. Were having a conversation today, donald trump or ted cruz . This is supposed to be the turning point. We wont know until after the election. Donald trump wins, donald trump loses, that will play itself out. Ted cruz a hero let me put a word in for the conservatives that felt like smin who was speaking for them. Look at where we started. The idea that you can erase any normal way at these events i dont think applies this year. There is sesm interest for sure here, but donald trump is a candidate that crosses every line, and then does the bare minimum to make up for it. He didnt ask for an endorsement, he didnt take the tweet down. A little magnanimity would go a long way. So here is my point. Why didnt cruz do what kasich did. Why not just not come . Because he got a national tv platform. And hundreds of delegates. But i think he wanted the national platform. He is making a bet that donald trump will lose. If he loses, he will be the conservative who kept himself pure. On the other hand, lots of republicans, particularly those trump supporters, might blame him for the loss. This is a real gamble. Can i say, was it a good thing that ted cruz did that haultly . I think not, he can say he maintained his virginity in this respect, but i think he did a favor. I think he did a favor for donald trump. I think he looked sour. Trump vanquished him. It was like being at veteran stadium in the old days and we could not see is there a fight or whats going on. Trump came in right at the critical moment he knew when it was time to take the spotlight away from cruz, and he thrived with managed chaos. Every time he makes a