INTERNATIONAL MEDIA MEMBERS SPENT THE DAY IN MILWAUKEE. ANOTHER MAJOR BENCHMARK IN THE CITY HOSTING THE 2024 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 12 NEWS POLITICAL DIRECTOR MATT SMITH WAS THERE FOR IT ALL. HE IS LIVE OUTSIDE PFIZER FORUM TONIGHT. MATT, PREPARATIONS IS WELL UNDERWAY RIGHT NOW. AND KRISTEN, TONIGHT, A FIRST GLIMPSE OF WHAT THIS CONVENTION WILL LOOK LIKE. 50,000 PEOPLE EXPECTED HERE IN THE CITY OF MILWAUKEE AND THE ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE RUNNING DIRECTLY THROUGH PFIZER FORUM. GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE. WELCOME TO MILWAUKEE. ON THE FLOOR OF PFIZER FORUM. IT REALLY LAUNCHES THE NEXT PHASE OF THE CONVENTION. A FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE MAJOR PLANNING UNDERWAY TO TRANSFORM THE ARENA NEXT SUMMER TO HOST THE 2024 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. I WANT YOUR EXPERIENCE IN MILWAUKEE TO BE SPECTACULAR. MILWAUKEE MAYOR CAVALIER JOHNSON, A DEMOCRAT, ONE OF THE CONVENTION’S BIGGEST BACKERS. I WANT LOCAL SMALL BUSINESSES TO PROFIT. THE MAYOR WELCOMING HUNDREDS OF MEDIA MEMBERS TODAY FOR A BEHIND THE SCENES WALK THROUGH AND THE MAJOR LOGISTICAL PLANNING UNDERWAY. ANNE HATHAWAY, CHAIRWOMAN OF THE RNC COMMITTEE TASKED WITH PLANNING THE SHOW. HOW CLOSELY AT THIS POINT ARE YOU, AS THE RNC WATCHING THE PRIMARIES, THE POLLS, WHAT’S HAPPENING ON THE GROUND IN THIS RACE? WE’RE ALL WATCHING AND, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY, OUR POLITICAL TEAM IS LASER FOCUSED ON WHAT GOING ON. BUT BUT WE’RE FOCUSED ON WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THIS ARENA IN THIS COMMUNITY. WE MADE A COMMITMENT TO TAKE MILWAUKEE TO THE WORLD, AND WE WANT TO MAKE GOOD ON THAT COMMITMENT AND THAT THE CONVENTION WILL BE A FOUR DAY EVENT BEGINNING JULY 15TH. IT WILL IT’LL END HERE BEGINNING IN JUST WEEKS AWAY WITH THE FIRST PRIMARY CONTESTS IN JANUARY, THE IOWA CAUCUSES, JANUARY 15TH. FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WITH A DOMINANT LEAD AT THIS POINT, WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN IOWA AND NEW HAMPSHIRE WILL PAVE THE WAY TO MILWAUKEE. COMING UP SUNDAY ON UPFRONT, AN EXCLUSIVE LOOK INSIDE WITH OUR NEW CONVERSATIONS, INCLUDING WITH ANNE HATHAWAY AND REINCE PRIEBUS. THOSE MUST SEE INTERVIEWS COMING UP SUNDAY MORNING AT NINE RIGHT HERE ON WISN 12. POLITICAL DIRECTOR MATT SMITH. WE’LL SEE YOU THEN. THANK YOU. AND AGAIN, THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION WILL BE IN MILWAUKEE BEGINNING JULY 15TH. DEMOCRATS WILL HOLD THEIR CONVENTION IN CHICAGO A MONTH LATER, STARTING AUGUST 19