FRIEDMAN DAY 2 OF THE CONVENTION IS WRAPPING UP IN MILWAUKEE WHERE PUBLIC SAFETY AND IMMIGRATION IN PARTICULAR TOOK CENTER STAGE AS DID MANY OF FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP'S PRIMARY RIVALS.

WE WILL HEAR FROM AMANDA BEEN OKAY.

SHE IS INSIDE THE CONVENTION IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS.

BUT FIRST WE'RE GOING TO START OUR TEAM COVERAGE WITH NICK BLOOMBERG IS COMING TO US LIVE FROM OUTSIDE THE AUNT OUT BAR.

THAT'S NEAR THE CONVENTION CENTER WHERE ILLINOIS REPUBLICANS ARE EXPECTED TO HAVE A LATE NIGHT RECEPTION SHORTLY.

JUST WRAPPED UP, OF COURSE, THE SECOND NIGHT OF SPEECHES AT THE RNC.

WHAT WE'VE BEEN HEARING.

WHILE BRANDIS, WE HEARD FROM A PARADE OF TRUMP'S FORMER GOP CHALLENGERS WHO HOPE TO UNSEAT HIM IN HIS BID FOR PRESIDENT FOLKS LIKE NIKKI HALEY, RON DESANTIS AT ONE TIME, BITTER RIVALS OF HIS.

ALSO HEARD FROM SOME OF THE PERHAPS LESSER KNOWN CANDIDATES LIKE THE ROUTES AROUND THE SWAMI.

OF COURSE, THE REAL STAR OF THE EVENING AS ANYONE WHO'S WATCHING EARLIER IN THE DAY NOSES GOVERNOR JIM JUSTICE IS BULL DOG, BABY DOG.

BUT WE ALSO, YOU KNOW, HEARD A LOT ABOUT IMMIGRATION, THE SOUTHERN BORDER CRIME TYING IN WITH TONIGHT'S THEME OF MAKING AMERICA SAFE AGAIN.

SPEAKERS LIKE SENATOR TED CRUZ DESCRIBED THE ASYLUM SEEKERS ARRIVING IN THE UNITED STATES AS AN INVASION HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER STEVE SCALISE MAKING THE UNFOUNDED CLAIM THAT THE BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION HAS, QUOTE, OPENED THE BORDERS.

THOSE SORTS OF CLAIMS HAVE, OF COURSE, BEEN ECHOED BY ILLINOIS POLITICIANS.

WE ARE WITH THE ILLINOIS DELEGATION EARLIER TODAY AND WE HEARD CONGRESSWOMAN MARY MILLER MAKING ACCUSATIONS WITHOUT OFFERING SIGNIFICANT EVIDENCE THAT LARGE NUMBERS OF MIGRANTS COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES ARE HERE TO TRAFFIC DRUGS RATHER THAN TO FLEE VIOLENCE OR PERSECUTION.

NOW, WHILE THERE WEREN'T MANY ILLINOIS POLITICIANS WHO TOOK THE STAGE TONIGHT, WE DID HEAR FROM CHICAGO IN PASTOR COREY BROOKS WHO JUST DELIVERED THE CLOSING PRAYER.

BROOKS IS WELL KNOWN FOR SPENDING NEARLY A YEAR ON THE ROOF OF HIS CHURCH TRYING TO RAISE MONEY FOR A COMMUNITY CENTER.

AND NIC, YOU KNOW, TALKING ABOUT MAKING AMERICA SAFE.

IT SOUNDS LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE MAJORITY OF THIS HAS BEEN FOCUSED ON IMMIGRATION TONIGHT.

BUT CHICAGO HAS ALSO BEEN TARGETED DURING THE CONVENTION FOR BEING UNSAFE WHEN IT COMES TO VIOLENT CRIME.

WHAT KIND OF REACTION HAVE YOU HEARD?

THOSE CLAIMS?

ABSOLUTELY.

THERE WASN'T QUITE AS MUCH MENTION OF CHICAGO TONIGHT, BUT COOK COUNTY STATE'S ATTORNEY KIM FOXX DID GOT CALLED OUT BY NAME BY ONE OF THE SO-CALLED EVERYDAY AMERICANS WHO THE RNC IS FEATURING EACH EVENING.

YOU KNOW, SHE WAS LISTED IN A LAUNDRY LIST OF WITH THE PROGRESSIVE BENT THAT REPUBLICANS HAVE TARGETED FOR WHAT THEY SEE IS NOT APPROPRIATELY PROSECUTING VIOLENT CRIME.

SHE WASN'T TARGETED TONIGHT FOR ABANDONING MINORITY COMMUNITIES.

NOW, AS WE TALKED ABOUT LAST NIGHT, SOUTH CAROLINA SENATOR TIM SCOTT TOOK SOME JABS AT CHICAGO TALKING ABOUT ITS VIOLENT CRIME RATE.

IT'S UNDERFUNDED SCHOOLS.

SCOTT ALSO SPOKE AT AN EVENT WE WENT TO EARLIER TODAY.

IT WAS A GATHERING OF BLACK REPUBLICANS CONVENED BY AURORA MAYOR RICHARD IRVIN WAS UNDER THE AUSPICES OF AN ORGANIZATION THAT IRVING HAS FOUNDED CALLED BLACK REPUBLICAN MAYORS ASSOCIATION.

AND WE ASKED URBAN FOR HIS TAKE ON SCOTT'S COMMENTS ON CHICAGO.

URBAN TOLD ME THAT WHILE HE WISHES MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON WELL, HE THINKS THAT DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP IS FAILING.

CHICAGOANS.

BLESS OUR GREAT NATION.

FROM PROJECT GOOD ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO TO ALL 4 CORNERS OF THE GREAT NATION.

FROM THE HEELS OF WEST VIRGINIA AND TENNESSEE TO BEVERLY HILLS IN CALIFORNIA.

ALL THE WAY.

TO THE HOMIES IN LOS ANGELES.

AND THAT WAS, OF COURSE, PASTOR COREY BROOKS.

WE'VE GOT A LITTLE BIT OF BENEDICTION AT THE END IN THERE FOR YOU.

NOW, LET'S LISTEN TO WHAT MAYOR RICHARD IRVIN HAD TO SAY ABOUT SENATOR SCOTT'S COMMENTS ON CHICAGO.

ON THE SOUTH SIDE WEST SIDE AFTER AMERICANS STILL STRUGGLING AND STRUGGLING FOR GENERATIONS.

A MATTER OF FACT, JUST JUST RECENTLY HAD MIGRANTS COMING TO COMING COME INTO THE COUNTRY MAY SPEND MORE MONEY.

HYBRIDS 100 MILLION DOLLARS IN IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY THAT HAVE BEEN THERE FOR GENERATIONS.

YOU MIGHT REMEMBER URBAN'S EVENTUALLY UNSUCCESSFUL BID FOR THE GOP GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARY IN 2022.

IN THAT RACE, HE EVENTUALLY CAME IN 3RD DESPITE HAVING 50 MILLION DOLLARS IN FUNDING FROM HEDGE FUND BILLIONAIRE KEN GRIFFIN.

NOW DURING THAT RACE, URBAN WAS SLAMMED BY SOME CRITICS AS BEING INSUFFICIENTLY CONSERVATIVE FOR HIS PAST SUPPORT OF BLACK LIVES MATTER AND ROARS.

PRIDE PARADE.

AMONG OTHER THINGS.

NOW AT THAT WBTW NEWS OBTAIN TAX WHERE URBAN DESCRIBED PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AS BIGOTED AND IDIOT.

WE ASKED URBAN TODAY ABOUT HIS PREVIOUS CRITICISM OF TRUMP AND HIS STANCE ON THIS UPCOMING ELECTION.

AND HE SAID, LOOK, THE CHOICE IS CLEAR DESCRIBING PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN HAS AN ELDERLY MAN AND SAYING THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS STRONG AND POWERFUL.

IT'S CLEAR CHOICES.

AND ALTHOUGH I'VE A CRITICAL OF MANY OF OUR LOOK THIS IS THAT I THINK RIGHTLY SO.

DECIDED OPEN HIS EYES THE ALL TIME.

DON'T MEAN I DON'T BELIEVE WE HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO GO FORWARD.

NOW, GIVEN THAT HE'S LAUNCHED AN ORGANIZATION BRINGING TOGETHER BLACK ELECTED OFFICIALS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY AND GIVEN THAT PREVIOUS RUN FOR HIGHER OFFICE, WE ALSO ASKED URBAN ABOUT HIS FUTURE POLITICAL PLANS, HIS TERM AS MAYOR IS UP IN SPRING OF NEXT YEAR.

AND BRAND IS HE TOLD US RIGHT NOW SERVING AS MAYOR OF AURORA IS