 Some advisors and some allies do acknowledge that they hope that this actually helps the former president stay on message because he won't have to play off the audience. He can control the message, control the narrative. But anybody that knows Donald Trump well knows that it will be up to Donald Trump. We don't necessarily know which version of the former president we are going to get tomorrow night on that stage. An American journalist detained in Russia appeared today in court for what the U.S. State Department is calling a show trial. And today, reaction to a promise made by the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Really?