Donald Trump picks Ohio Senator JD Vance as his running mate
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Donald Trump is in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, two days after he survived an assassination attempt. We hear from our correspondent on the ground in Milwaukee and from Donald Trump's former chief of staff Also on the programme: Counting is under way in Rwanda's presidential and parliamentary elections.; and scientists say they've found the first cave on the moon that could be a natural spot for a future research base. (Picture: Ohio Senator J.D. Vance is endorsed by former U.S. President Donald Trump Credit: REUTERS/Gaelen Morse)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome and thanks for joining us on News Hour on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm Celia Hatton. The former President Donald Trump remains in this spotlight on |
| 0:12.0 | Monday. |
| 0:13.0 | This convention will come to order. |
| 0:17.0 | Delegates and alternate delegates, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the |
| 0:26.6 | 2024 Republican National Convention. |
| 0:30.0 | Well in the first hour of the convention kicking off in Milwaukee the Ohio |
| 0:37.2 | Senator JD Vance was announced as Mr. Trump's running mate. This news, just 48 hours after the former president survived an attempt |
| 0:46.4 | on his life. He's also celebrating a major legal victory today. A judge in Florida has thrown out the classified documents case against him. |
| 0:55.0 | It's a groundbreaking decision which erases a major legal threat that had been loaving over Mr. Trump, |
| 1:01.0 | the charges that the former US President had mishandled top secret documents. |
| 1:06.2 | Judge Eileen Cannon, who was appointed by Mr. Trump, says the Justice Department violated |
| 1:10.9 | the U.S. Constitution by appointing special prosecutor Jack Smith to the case. |
| 1:16.0 | Well let's speak to the BBC's Neda Tophic who joins us live from the Republican Party Convention. |
| 1:22.0 | Neda, the news... from the Republican Party Convention. |
| 1:23.0 | Netta, the news of an early announcement for Mr. Trump's vice presidential pick, |
| 1:28.8 | JD Vance. |
| 1:30.0 | That's right. |
| 1:32.0 | And originally the news broke on his social media site saying that JD Bans was best suited to the position after a lot of thought |
| 1:40.0 | And then on the convention a, the floor of the hall here, people started chanting |
| 1:45.2 | J.D. |
| 1:46.2 | You know, Mr. Trump, his statement kind of nodded to what he was looking for here. |
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