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Ira Spitzer: FSN Correspondent ahead of the selection of Donald Trump's running mate · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The Republican National Convention starts today in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. And
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  Speaker 1: this comes just a couple of days after the former
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  Speaker 1: President Trump was shot at in an assassination attempt. A
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  Speaker 1: couple of things happening that you need to be aware of. Today.
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  Speaker 1: He is tipped to pick his vice president, well not
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  Speaker 1: his vice president, but his running mate to be vice president.
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  Speaker 1: So he's tipped to pick his and announce his vice president. Also,
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  Speaker 1: this classified documents case that has been plaguing the former
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  Speaker 1: president has just been dismissed by a Florida judge joining us.
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  Speaker 1: Ira Spitzer, the FSN correspondent, Ira, Great to have you
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  Speaker 1: on the program. Let's start with the VP pick. When
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  Speaker 1: do we think this is going to happen? What do
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  Speaker 1: we know?
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  Speaker 2: Well, here in Milwaukee, there's definitely a real palpable sense
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  Speaker 2: of excitement today with that news revealed by Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: himself earlier in the day that he will name a
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  Speaker 2: running mate for upcoming campaign. We don't know exactly when
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  Speaker 2: that's going to happen. The convention will proceed into the
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  Speaker 2: sort of later hours of the evening, so at some
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  Speaker 2: point we will expect to hear who that person is.
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  Speaker 2: He's apparently narrowed it down to four finalists, so presumably
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  Speaker 2: it will be one of those four people. Jd Vance,
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  Speaker 2: the Senator from Ohio with so many a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people are talking about that he could be a likely pick.
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  Speaker 2: He's one of those four finalists as well as Senator
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  Speaker 2: Marco Rivio from Florida, Senator Tim Scott from North Carolina,
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  Speaker 2: and Governor Doug Burgham from North Dakota. So yeah, is
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  Speaker 2: going to be a huge, huge news of course when
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  Speaker 2: that happens. And there's just been huge news of course
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  Speaker 2: for the last few days with the attempted assassination of
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  Speaker 2: course just a couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: Ago, and now we've got this classified documents case being
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  Speaker 1: dismissed by far to judge. Does say have a big
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  Speaker 1: impact on the election campaign, particularly for Biden who's been
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  Speaker 1: wanting to run this line that Trump is above the
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  Speaker 1: law and he's a threat to democracy. Does this have
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  Speaker 1: a big impact.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's definitely good news for Donald Trump both legally,
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  Speaker 2: although there was this this case was almost certainly not
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  Speaker 2: going to go to trial before the election. But I
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  Speaker 2: think you kind of hit on something there which is
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  Speaker 2: from a perception standpoint, the fact that this judge in Florida,
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  Speaker 2: Eileen Cannon, who was appointed by by by Trump. The
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  Speaker 2: fact that she sort of threw out the case, saying
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  Speaker 2: that the you know, the appointment of the special prosecutor
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  Speaker 2: who was investigating this by the Justice Department, thing that
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  Speaker 2: was unconstitutional. So from the perception of you know, Trump,
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  Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, it was you know, the
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  Speaker 2: convicted felon was was the tagline that a lot of
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  Speaker 2: Democrats were using for Trump. But now I think having
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  Speaker 2: this case at least thrown out shift narrative in a
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  Speaker 2: way that is favorable for Donald Trump. So it's been
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  Speaker 2: a you can say, a good few days for Trump,
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  Speaker 2: although the fact that he was almost killed makes it
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  Speaker 2: hard to truly say that. But in terms of just
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  Speaker 2: just a momentum here for Donald Trump, surviving that attack,
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  Speaker 2: having that that historic photo op that that came after
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  Speaker 2: the bullet narrowly missed him or didn't even miss him,
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  Speaker 2: it hit his ear apparently, but surviving that attack, and
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  Speaker 2: then now having some legal problems resolved at least for now.
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  Speaker 2: There will be an appeal, but resolved for now is
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  Speaker 2: certainly good news for the former president.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to iras Spitzer, who's if it's in correspondent
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  Speaker 1: at the Republican National Convention in Wisconsin. Just before you
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  Speaker 1: go a security wise, is it a safe place for Trump?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's there's it's certainly a tremendous level of security here,
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  Speaker 2: as you would would always have been the case with
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  Speaker 2: the Republican National Convention. One significant difference between the proceedings
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  Speaker 2: here and that rally in Western Pennsylvania where where he
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  Speaker 2: was almost assassinated. As to even enter these grounds you
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  Speaker 2: have to be vetted. So anyone with some sort of
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  Speaker 2: plot would have had to have been planning this for
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  Speaker 2: a while. It's not something that somebody would easily be
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  Speaker 2: able to just come to with the intention of carrying
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  Speaker 2: out some sort of harm or attack. So hopefully it
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  Speaker 2: is a safe place to.
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  Speaker 1: Be our Thanks for you, Tom Iras Spitzer, if this
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  Speaker 1: send's correspondent at the Republican National Convention and Wisconsin this morning.
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