[Hala Gorani, Cnn Anchor:] Tonight, Trump's crowning moment, the Republican presidential candidate is set to become his party's official nominee, but his big day was being overshadowed by controversy over his wife Melania's speech. The Trump campaign denies that it's plagiarized from Michelle Obama. We'll let you be the judge. Also, ISIS releases a video purporting to show a teen who unleashed an axe attack on a train in Germany. We'll get to the bottom of that. And CNN gets a tour of the damage in Ankara after an attempted coup in Turkey. Hello, everyone. I'm Hala Gorani, we are live from the Republican National Convention here in Cleveland, Ohio. This is a special edition of "The World Right Now". After a long, hard fight that deeply divided his own party, Donald Trump is now just a few hours away from officially becoming the Republican presidential nominee. We will not be calling him presumptive anymore if everything goes according to plan. Let's get you up to speed on a busy day at the RNC. A state-by-state roll call vote on Trump's nomination will get underway soon here in Cleveland. Day two of the convention is focusing on the economy. You remember yesterday was "Make America Safe Again", today is "Make America Work Again". Some highlights of the speaker line up include two of Trump's children, Tiffany, whom he had with Marla Maples, his second wife and Donald Trump, Jr. Two of his former presidential rivals, Chris Christie and Ben Carson will also make an appearance. If you were expecting drama on the opening night of the convention, Donald Trump did not disappoint.
[Gorani:] Ever the showman, he made a grand entrance, his silhouette back lit as he walked onstage to the song "We are The Champions". By the way, Queen has said they don't want Trump to use that song anymore. Trump made a brief appearance to introduce his wife, Melania, who was the headline speaker. There is no doubt that she stole the show, perhaps not though in the way intended. Phil Mattingly tells us about a plagiarism controversy now dominating the headlines.
[Phil Mattingly, Cnn Correspondent:] These similarities are startling.
[Michelle Obama, U.s. First Lady:] You work hard for what you want in life.
[Melania Trump, Donald Trump's Wife:] That you work hard for what you want in life.
[Obama:] That your word is your bond, that you do what you say you're going to do.
[Trump:] That your word is your bond and you do what you say and keep your promise.
[Mattingly:] Melania Trump's big moment on the national stage overshadowed by an unexpected moment. Trump delivering a speech with plagiarized passages of Michelle Obama's speech from the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
[Obama:] We want our children and all children in this nation to know...
[Trump:] Because we want our children in this nation to know...
[Obama:] ... that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them.
[Trump:] ... that the only limit to your achievements is the strength of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.
[Mattingly:] And that's not all.
[Obama:] That you treat people with dignity and respect even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.
[Trump:] That you treat people with respect.
[Mattingly:] Under a firestorm of criticism online, the Trump campaign issuing this statement overnight, saying, "Melania's team of writers took notes on her life's inspirations and in some instances included fragments that reflected her own thinking." But the statement doesn't acknowledge the allegations of plagiarism, mention who helped Mrs. Trump write her speech or explain where those fragments came from. In an interview shot before her big speech, Melania seems to take most of the credit for the content of her remarks.
[Trump:] I wrote it and with a little help as possible.
[Mattingly:] Donald Trump's "Apprentice"-like entrance to introduce his wife onstage. Yet another moment that has everyone talking about this unconventional convention.
[Gorani:] Trump's campaign does not plan, they say, to fire anyone or take any kind of disciplinary action over Melania Trump's speech. It just wants the story to go away. But campaign manager, Paul Manafort, has had to answer repeated questions about the controversy. Here's what he told us here at CNN.
[Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's Campaign Manager:] There's no cribbing of Michelle Obama's speech. These were common words and values and she cares about her family that things like that. I mean, she was speaking in front of 35 million people last night. She knew that. To think that she would be cribbing Michelle Obama's words is crazy. I mean, it's so I mean this is, once again, an example of when a woman threatens Hillary Clinton, how she would try seeks out to demean her and take her down. It's not going to work.
[Gorani:] All right. Paul Manafort there. Let's bring in Dylan Byers, the CNN Senior Reporter for media and politics. We're also joined by CNN Political Analyst and Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Beast John Avlon. Thanks for being with us. John, you were a speechwriter for Rudy Giuliani when he was mayor. Is it not speech writing 101 that you don't copy and paste entire paragraphs from the speeches of well-known former or current first ladies?
[John Avlon, Cnn Political Analyst:] Yeah, this violates speech writing 101, it also violates speech writing 201 and 301. And...
[Gorani:] Right.
[Avlon:] ... this is plagiarism...
[Gorani:] Yeah.
[Avlon:] ... pull up, straight up. And Paul Manafort this morning tried to deny it but he's asking us to deny what we're seeing with our own eyes and ears. This clearly was a copy and paste job by somebody, who then edited the remarks subtly. They thought they'd get away with it, they didn't. I think it's significant that the campaign is saying they're not going to fire someone, given that that's Trump's default public reputation. And it has been a major destruction from the row out to the first.
[Gorani:] It was a very bad day one for the Trump campaign here at the Republican National Convention. But would it be as big a story if we had not heard Melania Trump tell Matt Lauer of NBC, "I basically got as little help as possible from other writers, I don't really need to practice that much because these are my words."
[Dylan Byers, Cnn Senior Reporter For Media And Politics:] Yeah. That obviously adds fuel to the fire, but I would say this would be a big story no matter what. I mean, plagiarism is a really big deal. And I think the Trump campaign's theory of the case, every time a sort of controversy or scandal comes up and has come up over the last year, theory of the case is, look, deny, deny, deny, it'll go away, say you didn't do it, whatever, it doesn't matter, sweep it under the rug and the news cycle will move on to something else. That doesn't apply here because what plagiarism about, it's about honesty, it's about credibility. Trump's entire campaign, so much of his campaign, has been based on calling Hillary Clinton a liar. The whole point of bringing Melania Trump out onto stage was to have her sort of speak to her, you know, the personal side of her husband, his credibility, that he's a good person. And yet if she can't even come up with words to do that on her own...
[Gorani:] But she didn't really come up with any personal stories about how he seduced her, how he romanced her, et cetera, et cetera, that's what you want. You want those kind of stories that humanize the candidate, right? We didn't get that.
[Avlon:] Absolutely. No, and that's one of the things that's very strange about the speech, the plagiarism-gate aside is that, normally when someone speaks from the heart, you know, that by definition doesn't need to be scripted.
[Gorani:] Right.
[Avlon:] But this is an opportunity to say, "Look, you all know my husband from "The Apprentice," you know him from a bruising primary campaign, let me tell about you him about you as a husband I know, the father, the man." And there were no anecdotes and the kind which are typical to a speech like this that really bring alive the human being. And that itself is incredibly odd.
[Gorani:] But let me ask you also about the denial from the campaign. Because it is very difficult to understand how a strategy that it basis itself on denying something that is right in front of your face can work. But it has worked in the past. Why?
[Byers:] Well, it's worked in the past oftentimes because it's a matter of piece that she said or because we've been able, you know...
[Gorani:] Yeah. But here you have two paragraphs that we've compared word for word.
[Byers:] It's not just that you have two paragraphs. What's really powerful here and we've been running it on CNN all day and all night last night is the two videos side by side, cut to one statement, cut to another statement. And that's why when, you know, Sean Spicer, the spokesperson for the Republican National Committee, goes on and says, "Look, they didn't plagiarized, they just borrowed ideas, you can borrow ideas from anywhere, these are familiar scripts." It's like no. When you look at it face-to- face, any American president, I don't care if you're a Republican or Democrat or an independent, you see that, you know that's plagiarism.
[Gorani:] But Katrina Pierson who's on our air a lot, who's a surrogate, a supporter of Donald Trump said, this concept that Michelle Obama invented the English language is absurd.
[Byers:] She didn't use the word imagine and not attribute it to John Lennon.
[Avlon:] Yeah.
[Byers:] She took entire paragraphs that were subtle, I mean, not she, but the speechwriter.
[Gorani:] Yeah.
[Byers:] But there were subtle, you know...
[Avlon:] Moreover, she said that she'd taken the laboring word in the speech and maybe that's just affection that gets perpetrated. But, what the Trump campaign is trying to do is dismiss this despite what we see with our own eyes. The way Katrina Pierson said in that comment is fundamentally disingenuous. And the fundamental truth of any campaign in any organization is the tone comes from the top. The impulse was to lie about this, the impulse remains to lie.
[Gorani:] The big question is, what impact will it have. We know that in a state like Ohio, there are there's a big chunk of undecided voters. But today, of course, the and they're rehearsing now, they're doing audio checks, the campaign is really hoping that people will move on from this. They've got Paul Ryan, the House Speaker, Chris Christie, the New Jersey Governor. We have Tiffany Trump, the daughter he had with Marla Maples, Donald Trump, Jr. his oldest son, and Ben Carson. What to expect?
[Avlon:] Well, the theme of tonight is "Making America Work", would strike to me is that there are a lot of congressmen and professional politicians on the stage. They need to cast a vision for the Republican Party under Donald Trump that can build off his reputation as successful businessman and build on the edge she has in some polls of Hillary Clinton on being someone who could steward the economy. They need to shift to policy beyond just empathy to actually actionable items. That is something that is ground the campaign has not dared to tread to date. They've been very policy-light.
[Gorani:] But this could help them, right, yesterday because even before the Melania Trump speech yesterday, every single speaker addressing the crowd here and the millions and millions of people at home was essentially saying, "You must be afraid, we're under constant threat, every minute of every day." In this case, today, they might be capitalizing on Donald Trump's success as a businessman.
[Byers:] Right. There was no morning in America yesterday or last night, it was all sort of it's midnight or 3:00 a.m. in America and you need to be very terrified.
[Gorani:] Yeah.
[Byers:] I mean, John's point politically about when this happen tonight is spot on. But from a media perspective, when he's when we're thinking about the Melania Trump speech and that controversy, someone, probably Christie, some because it's not going to be Paul Ryan, someone needs to come out and deliver like a headline speech.
[Gorani:] Yeah. I mean, even maybe make a, you know, a less significant controversy to get out and sort of put this plagiarism issue... It's the whole point of the convention is to introduce the candidate on another level and on a more personal level. Do they have anyone in this lineup who can do that because some of the speakers, Rick Perry, for instance, of Texas, didn't even mention Donald Trump by name. Yeah.
[Byers:] But I think I mean, Ivanka I mean, they're looking to Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka, to speak...
[Gorani:] Yeah.
[Byers:] ... to be...
[Gorani:] But they have Tiffany and Donald Jr. tonight.
[Avlon:] Right. And look I mean, they can actually just saw the unfinished business from last night which is talk about their dad as a dad, by all intent, by all reputation, a very loving, supportive father. But they also need to go further. This is about winning over, not only solidifying the base, but winning over swing voters in swing states. That means reaching out beyond the base. And last night's comments which have been overshadowed by the speech were so hitting the fear card, you know, call and responses from the crowd saying Hillary Clinton ought to go to prison. That's not normal, just a reality check, folks, that is not within the normal rounds...
[Gorani:] In U.S. politics.
[Avlon:] ... of American politics.
[Gorani:] All right, John Avlon, Dylan Byers, thanks to both of you, I really appreciate it. Thanks for being on the program. We'll have more politics in a moment. This story, though, we're getting more details about the man who attacked several passengers with an axe and a knife on a train in Southern Germany Monday. A news agency linked to ISIS released video, it said showed the attacker. German prosecutors say they're investigating the clip and trying to confirm the identity of this young man whose picture you see there on your screen. Bavaria's interior minister has confirmed that the attacker was only 17 years old, originally from Afghanistan. Now, he was shot and killed by the police. But he did seriously injure four passengers on the train. Let's get more now, we course over to our Atika Shubert, who's been following the story live from Germany. What more can you tell us, Atika?
[Atika Shubert, Cnn Senior International Correspondent:] Well, Hala, two of those passengers are actually still fighting for their lives. It was a brutal attack. But as you point out, investigators are still trying to piece together exactly what happened, and how apparently this young refugee was able to make contact with ISIS. He's a 17-year he was a 17-year-old Afghan refugee, arrived here about a year ago, was living with a host family when he carried out the attack. You know, he was described as a quiet loner, didn't really stand out in any way and certainly didn't express any extremist views. But clearly, as we've seen from this video, he was somehow in touch with ISIS. In the video, he brandishes a knife. He also claims to be a soldier of the caliphate on a "martyrdom mission". Now, investigators are looking at that video. They also went into the home and in his room, they found a hand paint of flag of ISIS as well as letters written to his family in Pashto, in Arabic, and even some Latin text, basically saying farewell and that he would be carrying out this mission, as he calls it. So the bigger concern here for investigators is that they are now treating this as a terrorist attack, they see a clear political motive. That is what the director of criminal investigation said. So they've got to now look at whether he contacted ISIS online or whether there is a wider network here in Germany.
[Gorani:] All right. And Atika, I know you were just in this reporting on the attack there. This, now authorities are saying, attack was carried out by a refugee originally from Afghanistan. I wonder, is this altering the mood at all, altering public opinion in terms of how people in Germany who've taken in so many refugees over the last year, with how they are reacting toward this refugee influx?
[Shubert:] Hala, taken in more than a million refugees in the last year alone, I think this plays into those fears of more terror attacks, of a possible rise in crime. But I think that's also why officials here have been very cautious before defining it as a terrorist attack. They're really trying to make sure that they take careful steps to figure out what the motivation was, whether or not he had a wider network. I think there's a different mood here than we saw in France, for example, where the anger on the streets is very palpable, especially during the memorial. I really felt a difference there in France. But it's interesting to note that in that video, the attacker apparently cited the French attack. He said, you know, "I will carry out an attack that will make the French attack pale in comparison," essentially. So, it's interesting that he said that he also cited that. We aren't getting the same public reaction here as you're seeing in France.
[Gorani:] All right, Atika Shubert in Berlin, thanks very much. There is a lot more to come from Cleveland this hour. Trump supporter and former David Cameron director of strategy, Steve Hilton, will join me live. Also ahead, today's other news, including a shocking story from India as a woman who says she was gang raped says the same men had raped her three years earlier. Much more on that report coming up in a few moments.