It was a major week in American politics with former President Donald Trump

formally accepting the Republican nomination after his assassination attempt and

with President Biden vowing to stay in the race for the White House. We'll discuss it all

now with the analysis of Brooks and Kapart. That is New York Times columnist David

Brooks and Jonathan Kapart, Associate Editor for the Washington Post. Great to see you both.

I feel like I haven't seen you for a long time.

Hours.

Yeah.

Listen, we were both, we were all together,

every night of the Republican National Convention,

you were there as night

after night, Jonathan, people would say,

Mr. Trump has been changed.

He's a more contemplative man now,

after that attempt on his life,

that he's going to deliver a unity message that turned out not to be true

when we heard his speech what did you take away from his remarks in the end?

Well what we heard last night in Milwaukee was his stump speech. Now, most people probably didn't realize that was his stump speech

because the convention is the one time

when maybe more people than usual are watching.

This was an opportunity for Donald Trump to represent

himself to the nation certainly after the attempted assassination

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