Welcome to the news hour. We are here at the Republican National Convention in

Milwaukee where Ohio Senator JD Vance has been tapped as the Vice

Presidential nominee just days after a failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump,

and as Republicans are cheering, the sudden dismissal of the classified documents case against the former president.

Quite a busy day in the 2024 presidential campaign.

Our Lisa Desjardan is here with us in the middle of it all from the convention floor.

Just two days after the attempt on his life,

former President Donald Trump in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the start of the Republican National Convention.

Defiant and lifted by good news from his legal battles.

A federal judge in Florida dismissed Trump's

classified documents case saying that Special Counsel Jack Smith was

illegally appointed by the Justice Department. For the greatest president that's

ever lived and that's Donald J. Trump.

The decision can be appealed, but it handed Trump a win, the same day as he formally became

the party's presidential nominee and officially began his bid to return to office.

And he wasn't alone. Alongside him at the top of the ticket, his much anticipated

choice for Vice President, Ohio Senator JD Vance, formerly a critic of Trump's. Vance once referred

to Trump as America's Hitler back in 2016. Now he's one of Trump's most vocal

defenders taking to social media after former President Trump was

nearly killed and pointing a finger of blame at the Biden campaign. Just one way

that the shooting is hanging over the RNC which began today as as scheduled but for the delegates there was

enthusiasm about the party and their beliefs coming together I feel great I think

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