Let's return to the Republican National Convention where a number of candidates

as well as lawmakers up for re-election are slated to speak this evening.

Representative Anthony D. Esposito of New York is a former police officer and is re-election this

November is key to the Republican Party's efforts to maintain the House

majority. The Congressman joins us here now. Welcome, thanks for joining us.

Good evening. Thanks for having me.

I want to start with the overall tone here at the convention which you have seen and in the wake of that

assassination attempt on former President Trump, you echoed what we heard from

President Biden, Speaker Johnson, others, you said,

it's time for everyone to unite against political violence.

What do you want to hear from Republican leaders here that you think helps to do that?

I think that the message needs to be unification that we

are putting the rhetoric aside that we want to talk about the issues the issues

that matter most of the American people, the ones that I believe the Republicans are on the right side of.

We want to talk about solutions to the problems that the people back in my district, when they sit

around their dinner table that they talk about, the border, the economy, what we are doing

on a global scale.

The fact that right now under Joe Biden's failed leadership,

we look weak.

Those are the things that I want to talk about.

Those are the things that the Republicans need to focus on

and show that they're unified in not only the problems but finding

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