The Good evening and welcome to our special coverage of night two of the Republican

National Convention in beautiful downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Super glad to have you here with us tonight.

I'm Rachel Maddo here with my beloved indefatigable, cheerful, well-hydrated colleagues,

Joy, Regen-Saki, Ari Melver, Lawrence O'Donnell.

We've got Nicole Wallace stuffed in a cubby nearby,

but we will be talking with her shortly.

I promise she will be here. Any minute now we are expecting the Republican Party's presidential nominee

Donald Trump to be entering the hall at the RNC in Milwaukee. So if I look shifty and like I'm not making eye

contact with you, it's because I am trying to keep an eye on the monitors to

know when that happens. I'll let you know when it does.

Both the Secret Service and local law enforcement today faced some increasingly tough questions about Saturday's assassination attempt against Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania this past weekend.

CNN was first to report today, NBC News is now confirmed that the Secret Service had actually ramped up

security around Trump in recent weeks after they received intelligence about a

plot by Iran to attack Trump.

Iran has singled out a number of different American officials in recent years

for potential attempts on their lives.

NBC News reporting that three different Trump administration officials,

National Security Advisor John Bolton,

former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,

former Iran envoy Brian Hook, all were provided US-funded security teams because of

threats from Iran with Congress approving the funding for those added

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