The GOP’s Unconventional Convention

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New details are emerging from Miami International Airport, and Apple thinks different by revisiting 20-year-old vibes. Kind of like two phones meshed together with a hinge, but a folding phone isn't the only wrinkle faced by their new CEO. From ABC News, this is Start Here, I'm Brad Bilke. Yesterday was the start of what Republicans are calling their first ever "national midterm convention". Welcome to the historic Republican convention in the Great State of Texas. Summer is calling it "Trumpa Palusa", since it largely does seem to revolve around celebrating the Trump administration, which, of course, is not up for election this November. And to Democrats, this is all fine. President Trump is facing some of the worst job approval ratings he's ever seen. They'd love to have him more involved. But considering how much of the Republican Party platform does revolve around Trumpism, perhaps it's the only way to get conservative voters truly excited about the fall. "And I'm asking you to let us finish the job we began with the greatest two years in the history of the presidency." If you believe in omens, though, you might have been concerned yesterday to see Air Force One with the president on the way, stopped on the tarmac with an emergency slide billowing out the side. That only began to encapsulate some of the controversy swirling around the White House yesterday. Let's start today with ABC Senior Political Correspondent Rachel Scott, who's on the ground in Dallas. Rachel, first off, President Trump, he's okay, plane is all right, everything's okay. Yeah, he's fine. The president ended up flying the plane here, but Brad, I gotta tell you, I fly a lot around the country. I fly pretty often with President Trump. I have never seen an emergency slide being deployed as you're sitting on the tarmac, let alone waiting for the President of the United States to board the plane to fly across the country. So, as you can imagine, things did not start very smoothly. The president's flight was delayed after that emergency slide, and it had been deployed on the new Air Force One. And of course, we're talking about that $400 million gift from Qatar. All of a sudden, we see the old Air Force One, a backup, kind of roll up on the tarmac, right behind this new jet. Well, President Trump offered up his own explanation. Mr. President, do you know why they're checking the slide, is there a security turn at the plane? Well, they were checking it before, and they just wanted to make sure, so they've, I guess they've already put it up. They want to make sure everything works perfectly. He said everything was perfectly fine, but sources later told us that military personnel accidentally triggered the slide. Anyway, Brad, after that delay, the President did board the plane, and he arrived here in Dallas. Okay, so then you're in Dallas. President Trump spoke in Dallas last night, but I'm wondering more generally about the convention. Like, what is the vibe outside of the President himself? Are there candidates whose stock could rise or fall because of this? Yeah, Brad, it's a little strange. This is unusual, right? We haven't seen a political convention in a midterm election year before. When a number of cabinet secretaries were speaking inside of the Serena, there were several empty rows inside, as well. And they're all delivering this message, talking about President Trump, talking about his record on the economy, also talking about his record on immigration, his record on crime. Taxpayers were protected. Federal benefits were cut off for people who were never entitled to them. It was striking to see the current Attorney General of the United States addressing a political group. But Brad, look, you said it. President Trump is not on the ballot, and what is notable here is that there are some Republicans that are running in very competitive races, Dan Sullivan in Alaska, Susan Collins in Maine, who are not here. And there's questions about just how far this message can carry. President Trump, of course, is looking to energize voters, and they certainly have a lot of energy about him. There are a lot of Republicans who love President Trump, who defend President Trump. But there's also a lot of voters out there that are dealing with the realities of his economic agenda, this trade war with Canada, and also the ongoing war with Iran that's raising gas prices across the country. So how does the President respond to all this? Right after the election, oil prices are going to be tumbling downward. He's essentially telling voters to hang on tight. He says that those gas prices are going to come down after the midterms, Brad. Well, and it's interesting because obviously this whole event seems geared to kind of court, you know, MAGA Republicans, right? Like get excited. Trump is here, JD Vance is here, like get excited about whoever's running in your district. And it also seems like the White House is reaching out to even moderate Democrats, and some of them sound willing to play ball to a point. It's almost like the President realizes that he might need a little bit more if he's trying to hang on to both the Senate and the House this midterm election. Yes, I'm Senator John Fetterman, Pennsylvania. Yes, I'm a Democrat. Why am I here talking to you today? And so, enter John Fetterman. I'm always going to reject the extremes and socialism and that anti-American way of life. A video was played in the arena full of Republicans who were listening to a Democratic Senator talk about President Trump, and not just talk about him, praise him, and also praise the Republican Senator Dave McCormick. That's something that is definitely unusual and that we don't traditionally see at any type of political convention. And yet there are also candidates like Ken Paxton running for Senate in Texas. We've been told from sources that there are Republicans saying he might need $100 million to compete with somebody like James Taylor. We go, the Democrat. It's not a great sign for Republican in Texas. Whether that money gets doled out to him from the sort of Republican establishment. And Trump apparently spending rather freely himself when it comes to White House aides getting gifts worth tens of thousands of dollars. What's going on here? Yes, so this is the president's personal financial disclosures which revealed that he has given $155,000 in gifts to White House aides. And there are some familiar names on here that have been in the news recently. The president gave $45,000 each to Natalie Harp, who around Washington is known as the human printer because she carries around a printer. Even on the plane, on Air Force One, to print things for President Trump. She's a very close aide to the president. He also gave $45,000 to Margot Martin. She's often seen filming social media videos for the president at events. And also to Chamberlain Harris, who is the president's personal assistant. Well, not a long time ally of President Trump's known as his body man, he received a $20,000 gift. Now, in these documents, it's described as cash gifts for the holidays. Sounds like a good Christmas present, Rachel. Yeah, well, in these aides, Brad, they make $150,000 to $175,000 a year. And that's the concern from a lot of legal experts. Whether or not this is adding to their salary, whether or not these gifts are intended to give. These are intended to keep them around in these public service jobs. Brad, I will tell you, we do see a lot of turnover in any administration, people serving for a little bit of time. Then they leave and maybe get a job in a private company. But a lot of people see this as very unusual that the president is giving this much money and personal gifts to these White House aides. Really interesting, because again, he's also the richest, personally wealthiest president we've had in a long, long time. And yet, if these are public jobs that are supposed to be funded by taxpayers, we want to know that that's the only duty is to the taxpayer. What happens when the president is also personally supplementing your salary? All right, Rachel Scott, thank you so much. Thanks, Brad. Next up on Start here, aviation authorities have some prime questions for the crew on this Amazon plane. We're back in a bit. This show is sponsored by Quince. You know, those pieces in your claws that you find yourself wearing on repeat? Like the sweater that goes with everything. Or that t-shirt that you always seem to put on right when it comes out of the dryer. These clothes are the sorts of things Quince does best. 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Question around Miami International Airport this week continues to be, why did an Amazon cargo flight carrying thousands of pounds of contact lenses touched on the runway and then not slow down? Overran runway 30, unlanding, struck navigational aids and equipment, then impacted a 2012 white Ford Econoline van. The resulting crash killed five people on the ground. I would describe it in one word of devastating. Other devastation. Well, this week investigators say they've uncovered some key evidence that could tell us what exactly went wrong here. ABC Sam Sweeney covers aviation, Sam. What are you hearing from authorities? Brad, we've just gotten new information from the National Transportation Safety Board that indicates that one of the pilots told the other pilot as they were approaching about a minute before this incident occurred that they were going too fast and that they had to fix something. Well, the plane continues inbound. The autopilot disengages. They try to continue this approach and landing. And you look at the videos you can see the plane comes in. It's very fast, but it's not stable and it doesn't land on the back two tires like you normally see and then the nose gently comes down. You see one of the main landing gear down, but the left main landing gear kind of dances down the runway and that prevents the main reverse thrusters, one of the main braking systems from activating. Final ground speed was 65 knots. No indication in the recorded data that speed breaks or thrust reversers were deployed. That system can't activate unless all of the wheels are firmly planted on the runway. So there was no chance of that plane, they're almost putting the engines in reverse as you're coming down the tarmac. Exactly. And without that system in place, it's almost impossible for that plane to slow down and stop in time. And they realized that at this point, they were far past this point and they needed to go back up. So they put the engines all the way back up at full throttle to try to get back in the air, but they quickly realized they weren't going to have enough power. They weren't going to have enough runway to get back up. So they then tried to slow down again, but it was too late. That plane then barrels through that four to connoline van with seven people inside, goes through the airport fence and then finally makes a stop in a parking lot across the street. But that's interesting what you're saying, Sam, about the idea that they could just take off again. Because I was reading recently about how like back in the day, planes landing on aircraft carriers, you'd only really have one shot to land. And then the British invented the whole like diagonal system where if like you don't get caught, then you can really just take off and get like let your wheels touch and then take right back off. Is that the thing that they would have done here and how usual is that at airports? Go around are quite common. It is a tool in a pilot's toolbox, if you will. It happens dozens of times around the country every single day. And you know, sometimes can be scary for those in the back. You come over the runway. You think you're just a second or two from landing and then you go back up and it can be scary. And they do that when they are too fast. This were released at a ground speed of 120 knots, throttle increased to values consistent with go around thrust. When the aircraft is unstable, if there's another aircraft in the way, that happens from time to time. It's not a big deal. This is what pilots are trained for, but you have to do it at the right time. You have to have enough power and enough runway to get back up. So then going forward, what are investigators still looking at and what is the reaction of the families of these victims now that they might know a little bit more about what happened? Investigators are going to still look at everything. They're going to look at the maintenance records. They're going to look at the pilot history. They're going to look, you know, what time did the pilots wake up that morning? What were they saying in the cockpit? What were they thinking? They're going to do interviews with them, possibly multiple interviews with them. They're going to interview the air traffic controllers. So that will help us to determine what was going on in the tower, what communications were occurring with each other, and then getting a transcript will help us with communications. They're going to look at the wind and the weather conditions. Was there a tailwind that was pushing this plane forward and it was beyond what it should have been during a landing with this sort of a tailwind? That's what they're going to look at. Then of course you mentioned the lawsuits. We felt it was important based off the information that was available at this time about what we believe is a very preventable tragedy to file the lawsuit now. Several of the families have already filed lawsuits against Amazon and the air company that was operating this particular airplane, calling this avoidable. The speed that they were approaching at was grossly over the speed that they should have been attempting a landing at. You'll often hear the NTSB chairwoman say, "All accidents, all crashes are avoidable." We actually heard from one of the lawyers from the van driver say that that driver was killed instantly as he drove that van with seven people inside in front of that airplane. We felt very confident in the fact the negligence on the fact on the part of the pilots as well as the owners and lessors of the airplane and their training and safety. But was there negligence here? What more can they learn? It is very early to file a lawsuit. This will be a very lengthy process. Like tech is a really good example. The other day I was listening to a podcast ad and someone said, "If you're using the same bank as when you had a flip phone, it's time to change," which is perfect advertising because it does conjure up images in my self in college. And yes, I did have an LG flip phone, silver with a little mirror, so I guess I could check myself out if I needed to very weird. Anyway, if flip phones were supposed to remain in the early odds, no one told Apple. Because yesterday at a big anticipated event, their biggest product launch of the year appeared to be a very sleek, very foldable phone, but this event was huge for a lot of reasons. So let's unfold them all with ABC's Mike DeBusky, who covers tech. Mike, I thought flip phones were supposed to be like a cheap old-school option. Please tell me that Apple is not really asking $2,000 for a phone that flips shut. Brad, they are absolutely asking for $2,000, and that's just to start. That's like the base-level storage for the new iPhone Duo, which is what they're calling this thing. The convenience of iPhone Duo is combining the utility of two products into one. The largest display for an iPhone in an incredibly compact, pocketable form. And there's a clue in the name as to why this thing is so expensive. When you think about it, a folding phone in this world is kind of like two phones mesh together with a hinge, right? When you go back a year and you think about the big launch from last year's iPhone event, it was the iPhone Air, this ultra-thin version of the iPhone. Well, many speculated at the time that if you put two iPhone Airs next to each other, you join them with a hinge and you fold them over, well, that kind of creates like one normal phone. That's exactly what we got to look at on Wednesday. As you move between displays, the software gracefully expands and transitions from the outer to the inner display. It's a little squatter and wider than your average iPhone. They say that creates a better aspect ratio for movies and for editing spreadsheets and for doing zoom calls and what have you when it's unfolded. Of course, when it's closed, you can operate it like a normal phone and it's designed to kind of fit in your pocket, pop in your purse a little easier than something that is a little bit more bulky. Well, and the other reason this was a big event was also because of who was doing the introducing, right? Apple has a new CEO. For the first time, it's not Steve Jobs, it's not Tim Cook. What does all this mean for the direction of the company? Yeah. John Turnis is the new CEO. He's been on the job for a little more than a week at this point. However, he does come from the world of hardware, right? He ran Apple's hardware division for years under Tim Cook before taking over that CEO role. In fact, at the very beginning of this presentation, Brad, we actually heard from Tim Cook and he approached the camera and he was like, "Actually, no, it's not about me today. It's this guy. This is your guy now." And he introduced John Turnis. And Turnis started by talking about how gratefully he was, of course, to Tim Cook, but within the first couple lines, he started talking about artificial intelligence and how Apple sees that as a way to improve things like productivity. As we look ahead, we see a future filled with enormous discovery and transformation. AI makes entirely new kinds of experience as possible. Apple is often kind of looked at as somewhat behind in the AI race. They've recently struck major deals with Google and others to sort of spruce up their AI efforts. But hearing that early on from Turnis really means that AI is not going away. in Apple's strategy by any stretch of the imagination. >> An AI can become even more useful when it brings together your life with the apps, services, and products you use every day. >> This is designed to be kind of your sort of centralized digital life, bringing together, you know, social elements from, you know, platforms like Meta, bringing together work elements from, you know, platforms like Microsoft, leisure with things like, you know, photography, apps, and games and things like that. That all goes on your phone, right? And what he sees as the potential of AI is bringing all of that stuff together in a way that's a lot more comprehensive and easy. >> These products will help people create, communicate, and be more productive and entertained, while staying healthy and active in ways that are more personal and intelligent than ever. >> We will have to see exactly what that looks like in practice. Apple, as I said, kind of perceived to be behind in the AI race, you know, some have said that they've also avoided some of the embarrassing negative headlines of the AI race by kind of putting that technology at arms length. >> Well, this is the thing about AI. I mean, you mentioned embarrassing moments yesterday. We saw some startling comments from those at other AI companies, an artificial intelligence researcher at Anthropic, that's one of the big chatbot makers, said that he has decided to leave the whole industry and then went on the social media tirade, basically accusing companies, he said he worked at both Anthropic and OpenAI, and says, these guys are gambling with our lives. He said these advancements could lead to mass death and that these companies basically did not even care about it. I'm scared, Mike, what's going on? >> Yeah, it's a good question. And obviously a pretty eye-opening headline there, Brad, that researcher Jacob Coxon, as he's known, did work at OpenAI before jumping over to Anthropic, and then this week, resigning from that position, he even went so far as to say that within the next 10 years, there is a 10% chance of AI killing all humans. Obviously, everyone's gonna perk up and pay attention to that. But I think it's also worth taking a step back, Brad, and just talking about where we're at with artificial intelligence right now. These internal labs, they are working on these models that haven't been released to the public yet, they're seeing stuff that we don't necessarily see. And I think from our outsider's perspective, we need to treat all of this with a little bit of a grain of salt because at the end of the day, Jacob Coxon, Sam Altman, Dario Amade, all these figures who are issuing these major warnings about the future of artificial intelligence, they're also betting that AI is going to be the next big thing. They're working on the assumption that this is life-changing stuff. There's also the possibility, maybe it's not, and they're just living in this insular world. >> Right, exactly, you have to buy into the narrative that AI is going to be a cultural and a technological, a political and a business revolution on the order of the industrial revolution. Or if you listen to Sundar Pachai, the CEO of Google, a revolution that is as transformative as the discovery of fire. He has actually said that. You gotta believe that if you buy into this. And that's not to minimize the cybersecurity concerns. Certainly, a lot of the potential disruption to the employment sector. I do think it's worth just taking a beat before we totally buy into the notion that 10% of us are going to be dead because Skynet rose up and killed us all. Like, I just think that that needs to be couched in kind of this larger context that these guys are ultimately invested in this industry. And they want to see some version of it succeed in a weird way by issuing all these warnings. That also is an advertisement for how powerful this technology is. >> Well, that's the thing though, is it sounded like this peaked behind a curtain at this guy's perception of the AI employee culture. He said specifically, he said open AI does not care what happens to humans as a result of all this. Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, his repeatedly said, he cares very much. Of course, about the ethics of developing this technology. But then this engineer said anthropic does care, but they feel the need to be first to advance things. If we're gonna actually shape the industry. And therefore, they're abandoning a lot of their caution lights as they kind of go on this race. Anthropic, of course, also says that they are paying close attention to the effects of artificial intelligence. Mike DeBusky, thank you so much. Of course, take care. (upbeat music) Okay, one more quick break. When we come back, good day mate or good night mate. One last thing is next. You know, when you have to call a customer service line, and you just know it's gonna be a nightmare. They got the automated system that tells you to press four for billing and then type in your account number. And then when you finally get on the phone with someone, you just have to repeat it all over again, like what do we do this for? It takes forever and leaves you feeling frustrated with a business you had no problem with half an hour ago. Well, that system is long overdue for a rethink. That's where 11 agents comes in. 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But what's interesting about tonight's game is it's taking place in Melbourne, Australia for all the millions of dollars these players are paid, the team's travel schedules have sparked a very universal debate how exactly should you plan for jet lag? If you've ever flown long distances, you know the problem. Take a red eye flight, you've barely gotten any sleep, take a regular flight, you might get a nice nap, but now your body clock is all messed up. You might be able to stay awake for your big meeting, but you're basically sleepwalking for days at a time. It's even more pronounced when you're going to the literal other side of the world than Australia. When I look at my clock and it says the time, and then I try to see my family's time and this says the time, but it says yesterday, I don't even get how that's possible. So I feel like I'm in the future. The 49ers have employed the traditional approach, flying early, get your body adjusted, so you can be as close to your best as possible on the big day itself. It's their first game of the season, so they had time to bring the families, check out the scenery, go to an Aussie rules football match, and maybe learn about some basic geography. I mean, how far are we from Antarctica? That's what I've got eggs. Yeah. So like, I mean, we're like right on top of it, huh? However, our partners at ESPN spoke to sleep experts who said, honestly, it takes weeks to fully adjust to a time difference this extreme. In fact, they say, even if you do adjust, you would still have a heck of a time adjusting back to the West Coast in time for next week's game, which is why the LA Rams are trying something totally different. Instead of taking time to adjust on the ground, they're not adjusting at all. They flew into Australia last night. They will spend the next several hours living on LA time, meaning they'll have breakfast this morning as if they were in the States while the rest of Australia is around them enjoying dessert. They'll stay up through Australia's nighttime as it's lunchtime for us so that then when they kick off at 10.35 AM local time, everything will feel like a standard night game, except the bright sun. They said not to nap, so I'm going to be right to sleep on that flight and sleep as much as I can until they're getting ready to serve breakfast. I probably won't peek an eye. Sleep doctors say there are trade-offs here either way. It's tough to trick your body into thinking it's nighttime when it's not. It's probably easier to head right back to the US the following day though, but there are also other considerations. For instance, this is technically a Rams home game. They're the ones allegedly trying to get more fans in Australia, but it is the Niners who are now being invited to sausage sizzles and crock wrestling parties. Sometimes in work and in life, the adventure takes precedence over healthy sleep. The 49ers tied in George's Kettle was asked to be a considered doing a shoeie, which apparently is filling a boot with beer and drinking it. He seemed right at home when he learned about that. More on all these stories on ABC News live, review a stream live news. I'm Brad Milky. See you tomorrow. I'm Shannon Maldonado. I'm from Artesaan and I'm here to meet Jaui Lakhja Kaupan-Perusta. I was a shopkeeper when I was working at a restaurant at the beginning of the summer. I was working at a shopkeeper at the beginning of the summer. I had been working at a shopkeeper in the summer. I was working at the shopkeeper at the beginning of the summer. The only thing that was the worst was the dust. 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