Trumps wife melania thats getting much of the attention this hour. Donald trump making his First Official comments about the plagiarism scandal as the full story behind melanias mistake, which turned out to be not her mistake is revealed. Plus will cruz control . Well be watching to see if mr. Trumps main rival during the primaries fully endorses the partys nominee or not. Senator cruz expected to take the big stage tonight and some of cruzs fellow senators hoping trump at the top of the ticket will be a winning one. Senator rodger is in charge of ensuring that the senate days in republican control. He is joining us live along with the cleveland attorney who works ten full years to put together the rock bid that finally brought the grand ol party to cleveland. On wall street, what do i tell you . Were exactly one week away from a Federal Reserve announcement on interest rates, but the market doesnt mind at all. Day seven of record highs for the dow, as the s p and the nasdaq hit new highs for the year. I ask dow 19,000, anyone . Too soon . I can ask. Were less than an hour to the closing bell. Lets start the countdown. Liz u. S. Markets racing to yet another day of record. Look at this. The dow currently on track for its seventh Straight Record close. A reminder, 225 in japan had seven and then derailed. I dont know but we do have the s p up nine, thats a record for 2016. The dow jones up 50, thats an alltime record. One point higher today and that would be an all time higher, nasdaq up 54 and investors can thank tech overall for taking off because weve got green on the screen here. Microsoft reported quarterly revenue that came up above wall street expectations, that is lifting most of the stocks out there. Microsoft is a dow component as well. Its up nearly 6 . The tech abou shares right now stand at 56. 10. The gold bug getting squished today. Threeweek lows for gold itself, gold corp. New montgomery mining are all moving lower and not just by 1 . Youve got baric down 6 , gold corp. Down 5 , so big chunks coming out of those stocks. To Cleveland Donald trump at his friends and family event, indiana governor mike pence, this is the first public event trump and pence have held together since the Vice President ial announcement last week. Todays Convention Theme because theres a different theme every day, well, today its make America First again. Yesterday trump officially clinching the official republican nomination followed by a parade of speeches focused on the economy, putting america back to work and a couple of other topics, which youve watched all day long here. But tonight things could get really interesting. Thats when arguably one of the most highly anticipated moments former bitter rival texas senator ted cruz speaks. Supposedly his speech tonight will not be vetted. Will he board the trump train . You know anything kidnap. Former House Speaker newt gingrich, we bring in all the developing stories with a backdrop of a huge market rally here. Blake burman at the trump event at the great science center. Peter barns is on the floor of the quick and loans arena for a look ahead to tonights rnc agenda. Jeff flock is in Public Square this afternoon in cleveland, its the communists expected to march march in moments and lori rothman on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange of whats driving this day in wall street. But first lets start with blake burman because hes at the great like sign center but first we had a day of donald trump believe inner circle and the his wifes melania speech and the plagiarism, now we have clarity at this hour. What are they saying on the ground there . Well, i just spoke with one republican congressman, peter king in new york, liz, he was here at the trump event, and i asked him about the response that the Trump Campaign just put out, and he said to me very simply over and done with. Over and done with. That is kind of the feeling that you would think republicans have about this issue that has bubbled up here in the last day and a half. The focus should be on this convention. Amike pences speech coming up tomorrow but they want this over and done with, so much so that there was a statement put out this afternoon trying to clear the air in all of this. Keep in mind the Trump Campaign has been pushing back on this hard. That statement came from meredith who identified herself as a writer for the trump organization, she said that she had been working with Melania Trump over this speech and said the following. Im quoting here. Over the phone, speaking of Melania Trump, she read me some passages from mrs. Obamas speech as examples. I wrote them down and later included some of the phrasing in the draft that ultimately became the final speech. She says i did not check mrs. Obamas speeches. She went on to say no harm was meant. Also said she tried to submit her resignation to donald trump, trump would not accept it, and she said it was her fault for not doubling back and checking those speeches. Donald trump did have have reaction of his own just before that statement was put out. Trump was tweeting, and he said the following of all of this that has surrounded Melania Trumps speech. Quote good news is melanias speech got more publicity than any in the history of politics, especially if you believe all press is good press. He went on to another tweet that he feels the media should be spending more time focusing on Hillary Clintons emails and not his wifes Convention Speech from monday night. In the meantime we all know by now that donald trump is here, what a spectacle about an hour ago, he landed on helicopter. Was then met by his family mike pence, mike pences family, they both gave a very brief statement here. But this is the Trump Campaign trying to go forward saying trump is here, hell speak tomorrow night, and of course pence later tonight, liz. Liz big day in cleveland. Big night in cleveland. Blake burman, thank you so much. Back at the quick and loans arena, tonight because were ping ponding around the location, tonights theme as i mentioned make America First again speakers focusing on how donald trump business ackman might help what he calls restore america to the first on stage. So senator ted cruz has largely spent his time at the convention trying to get his own name in for nomination. Theres also no indication cruz has any plans to endorse donald trump tonight. Will cruz change his tune . Or will he continue to bring chaos to the convention . Or try . Because peter barns, youre on the floor, and i dont want to overstate this. A couple of skirmishes. But youre the one whos there. But it really doesnt look to me like theres a lot of traction that theyre getting. No, theyre not. Listen, this thing is over. I talked to some cruz supporters yesterday. One of them said were going to stop pushing the train. Were going to start helping to pull the train. This is over and done and so now youre going to see all of these delegates and Party Officials unify around donald trump and mike pence and cruz tonight, theyre hinting that the delegates will be pleased with what he has to say, whether thats a full endorsement is not clear. But we do expect him to serve up a heavy dose of criticism of Hillary Clinton and her Foreign Policy and National Security record. But today, cruz is in town, and he had a meeting this morning with his supporters to thank them. Heres what hesaid. But i will confess to you guys one of the things that im sorry about. One of the things that i most regret is after suspending our campaign. There were a group of volunteers who had traveled the country who had bled, and i am to this day upset with myself. And, liz, you mention some of the speakers here tonight but of course the keynote is going to be from the Vice President ial nominee mike pence and the Trump Campaign is hinting that there might be an appearance by donald trump after pences speech. I think that might be a good visual to see the trump and pence up there together waving to the delegates; right . Liz yeah, which is usually saved for the final night, which i find interesting, but this is not a conventional convention. Peter, thank you very much. Peter barns and you guys see hes standing right there on the floor. So anything that happens, he has peter, you have full ability to interrupt my show if you see anything that happens because were about the news so thanks a lot. Any time. R barns. The dow how big that . Boldly going where it has never gone before again adding to its recent string of record highs. Right now just off highs of the session but up 48 points, thats good enough for a quarter percent of deigns. And the vix or the volatility backseat in the trunk. Down at 2 right now at 11. 71. Nothing. Not even close to 14, which is one of the more recent highs that we had seen. But this level is the lowest in nearly a year. New highs for stocks, calmer investors. Are we headed for a crash . Typical media, lori rothman. Were always looking for the bad angle. No, were not, were trying to keep our viewers honest but whats going on when you look at the traders at the posts . Traders are chill. The best quote i got from the traders, liz, today, is the world is too big to fail. Too many people have too much skin in the game, Central Banks all over the world are at the ready with any kind of stimulus thats needed, the market according to peter who works right behind me has so much momentum, its driving itself. He pointed out when you get to these high, high levels, you need a catalyst to move it up or down, and the next catalyst is the fed meeting and what it decides to do about interest rates. Check the fed future rates and basically youre looking at a 40 chance of hike in december. Thats up quite a bit. It was just less less than 20 a couple of weeks ago. There you have it. Thats what were looking at. This rally looking like the seventh consecutive day of lifetime high for the dow. Its intact. Liz 40 chance of rate hike in november but lets not forget the Federal Reserve. By the way, lori is going to be back later to gives us a preview of the Big Companies reporting earnings after the bell. Who are they . Do you own these intel, ebay, amex, david and melissa will take you inside the numbers and reveal them the second they come out 4 00 p. M. Eastern. Closing bell 49 minutes away. Forget a dollar shave. How big a billiondollar shave . Unilever, 3com as. 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Lets bring in republican senator from mississippi. Rodger whitaker who is also the care of the national senatorial committee. Sir, i need to ask you what do you have enough money to hand out to some of these campaigns to hold onto the seats that you would like to see . Well, i think we will have enough money, and clearly the public is out there right now, and i could go ahead and make an appeal. We are going to need to take our message to 24 states to defend those, and then we think we can pick up two or three democrat seats. We had Great Success six years ago. And when you do well six years ago, youve got a lot of seats to defend here in 2016. But on balance, we feel good, we are still raising money, and we think in the end, we are going to have the resources we need. Liz i know its tempting to talk about ohio, florida, and pennsylvania. But the gop incumbents lead there. Lets talk about the other states where obama, president obama won twice. Those states are up for reelection. Youve got illinois, iowa, New Hampshire, wisconsin, those ones are important and what do you need to do and how much money down to win those states . Well, without getting into details about what exactly the budget is, i feel good about all of those states. You mentioned wisconsin. Ron johnson came to the convention, took time away from his campaign yesterday, made an outstanding speech. I think helped himself quite a bit. Iowa, i think chuck is in really good shape. You know, pennsylvania is a state that i think will be competitive in at the top of the ticket. But pat tumi is strong there. Hes also leading in the polls, and i think he will continue to lead. Theyre going to throw a ton of money at us there. New hampshire looks very, very good. And the reason is that shes just an outstanding, excellent accomplishmentdriven member of the United States senate. And i think that the type of person that people in New Hampshire want to keep on the job. Liz we were earlier showing some pictures of rob portman of ohio. Rob portman, marco rubio, and theyve all kept their distance from the rnc. Theyre spending a lot of time campaigning in their states. Look, i guess the question is, is this perceived at all as keeping their distance from donald trump so that they can win those states from perhaps centerrist voters who dont really attach themselves to what appears to be a harder and harder line during this convention . Let me tell you, liz. I think at the end of this week were going to see a trump bounce. Probably be ahead in the polls by the end of the week. And so im comfortable saying donald trump has a real good chance of being the next president of the United States. That said, its okay if you run your own race like a sheriffs race state by state. And i think the thing for rob portman to do is run on his record. Run on the ability to get an opioid bill passed as we left for the summer recess, get it passed for republican and democrat votes. Get it sent to the white house where it will be signed. He is he is an excellent senator and somebody that has accomplishments to point to. So if i were rob portman, i would run on my accomplishments, and thats exactly what hes doing. I think there was in florida, there was a great cry for marco rubio when he wasnt advanced to the general election to the president ial level to come back and be our senator again, and i think that thats the reason hes leading in the polls against either of the democratic challengers. So we feel very, very good about that. Liz well, you know a little bit about running. Youve been reelected seven times. Youve been elected seven times, ill tell you. Looking at what youve done in your life, having served in the u. S. Armed forces, i find it so interesting always that people like you could go off and be really successful business people. Were a Business Network obviously. Youve decided to give your time and so much of your life to this nation. The tone because im a Firm Believer that much of america is centerrist. Perhaps they lean socially left, but they definitely are fiscally right. What do we need to do to get more people together and get more movement and success for this great country . Well, you know, youre kind to say that. Actually i was elected a number of times to the house of representatives. Twice now to the United States sen