New information emerges in the Jacob Blake shooting. The RNC begins with a bang as Republicans

hit on crime, COVID and communism, and Nikki Haley and Tim Scott compete for speech of the night.

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Well, we'll get to the opener of the Republican National Convention, which was really well

produced. I mean, much better produced than the DNC, which had all sorts of sort of technological

hiccups. The RNC actually ran very smoothly, which you would expect from President Trump.

I mean, the fact is that there's one thing President Trump knows and that thing is reality TV. And so the convention was actually quite well produced. We'll get to everything convention related in just one second. First, I need to give you an update on the Jacob Blake case. So I suggested yesterday that perhaps we should wait for more information, you know, because we needed more information. And all we had was a grainy piece of footage

that was taken from across the street, the first seconds of which were completely cut off, and which

showed Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old black man, walking away from police whose guns were drawn on him,

and then he reaches into a car, and then they shoot him. And this prompted the likes of Joe Biden

to issue awful statements on this whole

thing, jumping to the conclusion that this was once again systemic American racism against black

Americans and unjustified shooting of an unarmed black man caught on camera, that nothing had

preceded it. Everything just happened the way that Benjamin Crump, the attorney said. Remember,

Benjamin Crump's claim was that Jacob Blake, Benjamin Crumps' claim was that

Jacob Blake was a good Samaritan who basically had gone to break up a fight between two women,

and then had walked away. And the cops for no reason just decided to follow him and shoot him.

Well, it turns out that shock of shocks, that was not, in fact, the case. First of all, it turns out,

as we knew yesterday, that Jacob Blake, there's an open warrant out on Jacob Blake for things including sexual assault and domestic violence. And

none of this stopped Joe Biden from putting out the statement. Yesterday, Joe Biden put out the

following statement about the Jacob Blake shooting in the absence of any surrounding evidence,

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