Today’s biggest stories:
- The Republican National Convention kicked off in Cleveland; things quickly got a lot more interesting than they usually do on the first afternoon of a party convention as several minutes of shouty #NeverTrump chaos broke out over a rules vote.
- The national Young Republican leader who spoke Monday is 38, lives and works in the suburbs, and has three kids.
- Tonight’s speakers include such noted political minds as Melania Trump and Scott Baio.
- Before the convention even started, Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort went on TV to insult popular Ohio governor John Kasich.
- The investigation into the former Marine who killed three police officers in Baton Rouge on Sunday continues.
- Another police officer was acquitted of charges related Freddie Gray’s death.
- It sounds like Roger Ailes really is done at Fox News.
- VP nominee Mike Pence believes that “smoking doesn’t kill.”
- The section of Pence and Trump’s 60 Minutes interview about Pence’s Iraq War vote was insane.
- The former journalist who ghostwrote The Art of the Deal on Trump’s behalf says Trump is a sociopath who might cause a nuclear war.
- And click here to watch the RNC house band play a David Bowie song about cocaine.
