Calls, emails and beats. We will kick it off right now. Republicans, 202 7488001. Emocrats, 202 7488000. Ndependents, 202 7488002 you can go to facebook. Com cspan. Republicans will open their National Convention here in this city for their 41st attempt to win the white house which theyve accomplished 23 times starting with abraham lincoln. Folks are arty starting to arrive. From the cleveland plain dealer, rnc visitors are receiving the red carpet treatment from the moment they stepped off planes and into downtown hotels, conventioneers making their way into Cleveland Saturday were treated to northeast ohios version of red carpet. Even live music. A says here it is ordinarily price. A twoperson rap group regaled passengers while clearly identified volunteers shouted welcome to cleveland when they werent answering questions. You mention some of the facts and figures about this convention, i want to share this from politico. A couple more facts and figures. 50,000 visitors are coming to. Leveland for this convention of them, only 2472 are delegates. People have registered to protest at this convention. 30 plus groups have paid permits rallies and marches. Cleveland received 50 million in federal grants to help offset convention costs. 9 million and that has been spent on an insurance policy that will protect City Employees in the case of lawsuits filed during the convention week. About 570 Cleveland Police officers are working specifically for the convention. That is alongside local, state and federal Law Enforcement. A spokeswoman he city of cleveland would only say that one third of cleveland 1700 officers would be working the convention in addition to support from other lawenforcement agencies. 56 delegations, all 50 states plus territories. Booked, 39ave been of them are outside of cleveland. 15,000 credentialed media personnel. About a hundred of them are happening in 1200 of them are happening in cleveland. One more story, several hundred lawenforcement officers from across the country have been sworn in a special Police Officers for the republican National Convention. Werethan 300 officers sworn in on saturday afternoon at Case Western Reserve University in cleveland. Lets get to some calls here. Nick is up first in tennessee. An independent. Good morning to you. Share your thoughts as we are one day away from the republicans opening up their convention here in cleveland. Pence, hopefully he will motivate the evangelicals. Good people, they baffle me. They wouldnt vote for romney because they were mormon. Bandit of getting a president , its hard to figure out whether hes a socialist or an islamic socialist. Another thing, are these protesters. Some of them will be peaceful, but there is a hardcore liberalsof radical that are downright barbaric. They instigate. It goes back to the 60s with the sts. ,ow we have black lives matter which according to one reliable got 33 million from george soros. I think mike pence strikes me as dull, but they have to unify the party. That might work as well. My big thing is the evangelical side. Christianity and judaism is attacked all the time. Ive talked to these good people and i love them. They dont know what host that is no. That is nick. Calls from near cleveland. We will be here throughout the week. You can let us know what you think about the process and how it unfolds here for the nominating convention of for the republicans. The phone numbers, republicans 202 7488001, democrats 202 7488000, independents 202 7488002. Another independent. Howard in florida. Good morning to you. I am a lawabiding citizen and at foremost, an american. I only want whats best for our country, i want to live free. I want to be happy and they want to love my neighbor. I dont understand why so many people want to follow the bad path. I have done a lot of research on to a lot of situations in the last eight years and without saying anything that im not supposed to say, which is wrong, i shove the right to say anything am want to say. I should be able to voice my opinion. Really honestly believe all the information of come to that there are a lot of things happening that are not supposed to be happening. It is all to take over our take globals all to government and global policing in america. Host how does that relate to the convention here in cleveland . Caller because this has been going on for decades and its still going on and a lot of the people in the media arent covering it because they signed a disclosure form also not to say anything. That was howard in fort lauderdale, florida. On your screen, you can see in the rockveland n roll capital city. Over our shoulders, we have the can arena where the convention will be taking place. Tomorrow around 1 00 p. M. Eastern time. The speaker lineup has been released. The details are still forthcoming of who will speak when. Will bedonald trump speaking the last night. As a first caller mentioned, his Vice President running mate mike. Ence will also be speaking the two of them were in new york yesterday. The new york billionaire made that announcement in new york that his first choice, mike pence for the vp slot. We are taking your calls this morning on the eve of the convention here in cleveland. We will go to our next collar in maryland, a republican. What is your name . Caller hello . Host you are on the air. Whats your name . Go ahead. What you think about the convention in cleveland . And everything that happening here . Caller i am concerned about the security. Many people dont my donald trump. Host so youre worried about security here . Caller yes. Many people dont like donald trump. A lot of people dont like him. O be president i cant stand him. Host ok. A little bit about the security here from the cincinnati enquirer. On days out, this is written saturday from the official start of the republican National Convention, security and downtown cleveland appeared ready with heavy metal barriers blocking streets. Officials and residents hope for a peaceful and successful furtheron would help clevelands reputation as a city on the rise. Traversing downtown became a challenge with barricades staffed by Ohio National guard members blocking and restricting traffic on street surrounding Police Headquarters in the Cleveland Convention center where many of the credentialed media will be working. Undert security perimeter control the u. S. Secret service around the convention venue, that is the quicken loans arena, was also in place yesterday. They did a security sweep last night. We are taking your thoughts on the convention as it is about to get underway. One of our callers mentioned mike pence, the indiana governor and Donald Trumps choice of him as the Vice President ial running mate. Two them sat down after the announcement in new york with 60 minutes. Cbs releasing a little bit of the interview ahead of its airing tonight. Here is what the two them had to say about negative campaigning. Negative campaigning is wrong. Demonstrateught to the basic decency of the campaign. With that in mind, when you think about your running mates campaign and the tone and negativity of it . I think its a good man who was been talking about the american issues that people care about. But namecalling . I said campaigns on the that something more important than just one candidate selection. Candidates election Donald Trumps campaign has been about the issues that Americans Care about. They see america in decline at home and abroad. Youre saying it hasnt been negative . A Congress Unable to balance its budget or deal with illegal immigration. They want a leader, they want leadership in washington dc wash d. C. That will strengthen our country . What about the negative side question mark he apologized for being negative. , iHillary Clinton is a liar was just proven last week, Hillary Clinton is a liar. Thats negative. I called her crooked hillary. , but it ask him to do it dont think he should do it. Host in their first joint appearance on 60 minutes, donald trump and indiana governor mike pence talking about what to expect from the indiana governor as he will begin campaigning. Ith donald trump their first stop will be the Republican Convention here in cleveland. We are getting your thoughts on this. In southto the eli carolina. Independent. Caller good morning, how are you . Host doing well. What do you think about the convention . Caller i dont think about the convention to be honest. My call is geared towards the individual who called to talk about black lives matter. When it was going to understand beenthe black people have this world on credit . The minute we Say Something, three symbols were three simple words like black lives matter. Most people to comment on the violence and hatred at those rallies are sitting back and looking at talking points. We want justice. Our brothers and sisters get murdered by police. We dont care about the convention, we dont care about anything other than people not dying. Protesters here in cleveland and many other protesters are expected. The aclu will kick off theres later today. Cornered offrea are protesting to happen around the quicken loans arena. Well be talking about that on the washington journal. Lets go to elizabeth in louisiana, democrat. Caller i would just like to make a comment. I think that most of these candidates should be drug tested. They sound like a bunch of addicts, they talk like it and sound like it. , whichsters for drugs are new employer might request. I think all of them should be tested for drugs. Host who are you going to vote for that such a thing . Caller i will vote for hillary. Trump is just too out of this world. Example of aprime drug addict. Ok, all right elizabeth. Lets go back to peter who has more details on the protesting happening here around the Republican Convention. You mentioned this yesterday, National Convention about 100 people marching through downtown cleveland. 10,000 protesters have registered. West insee dr. Cornel the center of that picture. He is a big Bernie Sanders supporter. We are also following some of the delegates as they come into cleveland. Is one sent out by reginald grant, who is a delegate from taxes. You can see his on an airplane to cleveland. He says keep us all in prayer. Senatorthis is from patrick, the state senator in michigan. He says looking to seeing the premier of dinesh desousas movie in cleveland. One of the sites that will be that the sights greeting delegates is this poster. Back to our calls here this morning, we are getting your thoughts on the Republican Convention. Unable to, if you are watch the convention on your tv tomorrow when they kick off at 1 00 p. M. , or in the evening time for the rest of the week, you can get the cspan radio app. You will be able to listen to the whole thing, you wont miss a minute of it. You will get scheduling information. It is free and easy to download onto whatever mobile device you have. You can watch on cspan. Org and on cspan. Go to cspan. Org for more details on what we will be covering. Independent in gary, indiana. You are next. I like the donald trump choice. I really want to talk with this issue. Wherever tackles this will be the next president. Illinois. Was in me and my girlfriend got into a fight, she said i raped her. Host utica, michigan. Independent caller. Good morning to you. How are you going to vote this november . These calls are little bit bizarre. Mike pence scares the crab out of me. Im not voting for trump. I think he made a poor choice on his part. He will take us back 100 years. And is part of the establishment. About theng libertarian, johnson. Im still up in the air on what to do. Up, trumpy cracks me says all of you Bernie Sanders supporters, come on board with me. How do you think Bernie Sanders supporters will come on with this vp choice . Host why does mike pence scare you . Caller he is going to take womens rights back 100 years. He is part of the establishment, ive heard hes not very popular in the state he is from. Remarks and his voice on not only womens rights, but about everything else. He is also part of the establishment, thats what were trying to get away from. Thats why i was initially for trump. Host so you were going to go for trump, but that when he picked the indiana governor, your changing . Caller im either going to vote clinton i dont like clinton, but i feel like im being forced to chose choose. Or ill vote for gary johnson, i like him. Be ank theres going to lot of people, especially women, who are going to be set against this guy. I think its a bad choice in my opinion. Reporting earlier that Gary Johnsons numbers have gone up, that he is approaching 9 . Speaking of pulling, the inquirer notes in a headtohead race, the two candidates, Hillary Clinton a donald trump are tied at 41 each in the buckeye state. According to the quinnipiac university. An nbc wall street journal poll puts them each at 39 , with the remaining voters undecided or supporting someone else. Virginia republican, your next, steve. Caller good morning. Im concerned about the epa and the huge waste of money they are doing. They deserve it of the volkswagen thing was a complete fraud. Diesels cannot pollute. Solar collector 1. 6m in the desert, it is billion wasted. We spent 1. 5 trillion a year on Global Warming, i have not been able to find 100 scientists who believe in Global Warming anywhere on the planet. I can find 30,000 that dont believe on his very easily. I have a copy of their petition in my library. Let me ask you then, is is the reason you are republican . Ler the other thing was one of these environmental ddt wasaid that banning a good way to give to those brown people. Organizationracist. , as they are putting party doing enough . Caller for what . Epa . To get rid of the what you want to happen . Caller i really dont know. I do know if it necessarily has to begotten rid of, but i would transfer a lot of the regulations to where it would go through a court of law rather than just being a dictatorship. It is not constitutional. Host you might be interested in what happened last week here in cleveland. Committee got together and they decided the different policy planks for the Republican Party, its the principle that will guide their seasonnto this election and the next four years. We cover here on cspan, go to cspan. Org. You can hear what those in the committee had to say about edit amendments that were offered later in the week. Republicans turned their attention to the rules. For the convention in the years after that. That was also two days proceedings. We covered that as well. Go to cspan. Org to watch that. Over our shoulder, the quicken loans arena. That is where the Convention Begins and goes directly week. Weeks to go that game six. Cavaliers arena, five steel beams will be added to support the weight of the grid they need inside, which is 140,000 pounds and holds 836 lights, debt. 1800 signs. The screen is the highest resolution available. Suites line the queue, three locker rooms will be changed into office space. Staff will work throughout the week to transform. On thursday night after the speech by the present of nominee, balloons will drop as well as confetti, 100 25,000 red white and blue balloons, thousands of pounds of confetti will fall in the nominee is announced. In northto steve carolina, a democrat. Good morning to you, you are on the air. What your thoughts about the Republican Party as they head into this weeks convention . I did of the money are, please tell me i am. Host you are on the air. Caller im in North Carolina and im a retired marine. Convention is a wonderful thing, i think the process is a wonderful thing. I am also a columnist, i read a column for a local paper. Process is important, but integrity is important as well. Clinton has been less than truthful. That troubles me, it troubles me we would have such a percentage of our population that would not value that integrity as important. Will go to jeffrey in greensboro, North Carolina. A democrat. Caller good morning. How are you . Host doing well. Caller thank you for having me. I would been listening to some of the viewers and there is such a debate going on. A couple things i want to say, i just hope and pray that our childrens children come into a better world, whatever president is elected. Person should be able to be voted in. Whatis disturbing today, the so many troubling issues between life itself between africanamericans and white americans, it is sad. For people in financial and political power to not really put a stand and stop to the me, because beyond you have the control and you have the money and resources to reach out to help or communities. If anybody can really say from state to take that state editor and you knowh you have a Poor Community and to do nothing about it. We want to work and we wants jobs, is very biased and unfair to have you overlooked for a judgment for your heritage or skin color. More important what i see today is the unnecessary of spending financial money the taxpayers pay, the general before talking to the epa. , thee get it correct climate change. The nothowed long long ago in nasser program that spent billions of dollars on a probe is going to jupiter for five years, its been up there. What is the point of spending billions of dollars like that when it is never going to benefit the human existence or this earth . That money can go host let me ask you. Given everything you just said, have you ever thought or youre calling on the democrats line. Have you ever thought about voting for republican . Caller yes. Absolutely. Mr. Trump bears some principles that i do agree with him. It will sound ma