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 joint Reed Jen sake Ari Melber and 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 has 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,

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