From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro. This is the Daily. Today, on the first day of the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump makes his choice of a running mate.

We watched it unfold in real time from Milwaukee. It's Tuesday, July 16th.

Tuesday, July 16th. You okay? I'm getting from interference. Oh no, maybe that's from your phone. There's like 16 phones in this car.

I'm a house of order. Okay. It is 9.35 a.m. on Monday morning and we are driving into downtown Milwaukee to the

headquarters of the Republican National Convention and it's day one the opening hours of what will be the Republican parties crowning of their

nominee, former President Donald Trump.

And the singular event that hangs over this entire convention is the one that none of us expected,

which is the attempted assassination of the presumptive Republican nominee.

And the news is just flying at us this morning.

We just got word that he's going to be announcing his running mate today,

his choice of a VP.

So this is a pretty extraordinary day already

at the before 10 a.m.

and we're gonna try to make sense of it all. We just went through the first round of Secret Service asking to see our badges.

We are now stopped at a giant metal pop-up wall and in front of us cars are being

slowly and very thoroughly inspected by bomb sniffing dogs and security teams.

Hi.

Hi, you guys are good.

You just have to get the screen through the checkpoint.

Okay, thank you. Thank you.

Secret service.

Open the trunk. The engine off,

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