You're watching Republican National Convention Coverage from Milwaukee.
I'm Frederica Freiber.
We will stay with NewsHour coverage.
But we want to check in now with here now senior political reporter Zach Schultz, who
comes to us from Milwaukee and Hizak.
So day one of the Republican Convention there in Milwaukee certainly takes on heightened
security concerns.
Has that been an evidence?
Yeah, we saw that already yesterday.
I went to a prayer vigil that was kind of spontaneously popped up in response to the
shooting of Donald Trump last Saturday.
And I spoke to some people who said they were not concerned at all.
They're absolutely happy and thought that Milwaukee would be very safe to be.
And because of that, because they knew that the Secret Service and the Almanna police
here would be in a large presence.
But on the other side, there are some people that I know that were planning to come to
Milwaukee that scrapped those plans over the weekend because of that.
They just didn't feel it was worth the risk or that their people would feel safe and secure
being here in the city.
So the Wisconsin delegation of course proceeded as planned.
And you heard from some important players today, among them, to kick things off, including
state Republican Party chair, Brian Chimming.
I get a lot of questions about the security situation in Milwaukee because of what happened.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin right now is the safest place on the face of the planet.
Well, that is reassuring to be sure.
We do know that there were planned protests today, Monday.
What can you tell us about those and how those went down?
There were a lot of protesters here representing all different walks of life and all different
feelings on what issues they were protesting, Republicans in the RNC about.
And there were some pretty loud counter protesters of them, those that were strong anti-abortion
advocates with megaphone shouting them down.
There was heavy police presence around them.
But nothing got violent.
And as far as we know, there were no arrests related to any of those protests.
Because it really does sound as though people have tried to kind of deal with the assassination
attempt and lower the rhetoric.
Absolutely, the word here in Milwaukee is unity.
That's what all the delegates and all the Republicans are preaching.
They want to bring the Republican Party together, and they're trying to put out this message
that they will take this moment and move forward to unify both their party and the country.
And we will see if that happens and whether that happens in words indeed will only be
tested down the line.
But that is definitely the message today.
Indeed.
Thank you, Zach.
We look forward to talking with you tomorrow night.
And we will be here at the same time tomorrow with latest updates from day two of the RNC
in Milwaukee.
On Friday, join us at here and now at seven o'clock for full coverage of the convention
and what it means for Wisconsin.
I'm a little jerky there.
Because of my...
Was I supposed to pause or something?
Okay.
Because this is going to be a full screen, right?
No.
Oh, no.
We need you to take the camera.
Oh.
Okay.
We're actually going to start a little bit sooner, but we'll be here at the same time.
We will be here at the same time tomorrow with latest updates from day two of the RNC
in Milwaukee.
On Friday, join here and now at seven for full coverage of the convention and what it means
for Wisconsin.
Okay, Zach, I think that is good.