 security for this republican national convention in the wake of the assassination attempt against the former president in pennsylvania yesterday in fact the word from the secret service and from milwaukee police was the the idea that this is a national special security event the highest order of security that the american government can put in place and so as a result of that the downtown core of the city was already planned to be locked down all of the delegates will go through magnetometers and their police all over the place inside and outside of this arena