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This is on point, I'm Meagnachachrabardi.

It's been two days since a gunman attempted to assassinate

former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

And today, the Republican National Convention gets underway in Milwaukee.

In this hour, we'll get the latest from Pennsylvania

and also talk about the near unanimous bipartisan call for the country to step back from political

violence and violent political rhetoric. Is that even possible, given how violent political

speech has been so thoroughly normalized in the past decade.

And by the way, given how details continue to change from hour to hour, a note to all our

listeners everywhere, this live conversation is happening at 10 a.m. Eastern time on Monday, July 15th.

So of course things could change.

Well let's start right at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

Anita Kumar is senior managing editor at Politico. She's at the

RNC. Anita, welcome to Onpoint. Thanks for having me back. So first of all,

Anita, tell us how much has security changed or been heightened in Milwaukee since a Saturday?

Well you've been you've you may be surprised to hear that they say you know we don't

know all the details but they say they have security,

secret service, that they have everything under control. But for those of us who are here,

we're not hearing actually a lot of changes. To be clear though, there were always going to be,

there was always going to be heightened security here and the Democratic National Convention,

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