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' night, 'night, she made hight, she made that ' night, she made that entrance, other night, she made that entrance, she made that entrance, she made a lot of entrances, she has something. she walked in, i don't have the other night, i said, how good was i? this was at a rally couple of weeks ago? you were really good, but not great. well, it showed that you didn't know how to get off the stage. well, iwas didn't know how to get off the stage. well, i was imitating didn't know how to get off the stage. well, iwas imitating biden. so, what they do is they show the imitation of biden, they said trump didn't know how to get off the stage, that is our fake news, didn't know how to get off the stage, that is ourfake news, so didn't know how to get off the stage, that is our fake news, so we have to do —— we have to be careful. i'll do it again but maybe not right now. darling, you were great. i mean, i get these crowds, 50, 60, 70,000, in newjersey, we are leading in newjersey by four points, by the way. we are leading michigan by six points.
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and a reportjust came out, actually, we are leading everywhere and nationally, and we have to keep it that way. got to make sure they don't cheat. got to make sure they don't cheat. got to make sure they don't cheat. got to make sure they don't cheat. i took on china like no administration in history, bringing hundreds of billions of dollars pouring into our treasury when no other president had gotten 10 cents. china never gave us 10 cents. i got hundreds of billions of dollars from china. and i got along very well with president xi. he wrote me a beautiful note the other day when he heard about what happened. most of the leaders do. a lot of them didn't like what i was doing to them, but they knew it was about time, the jig
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was up. it was about time. almost all of them wrote to me, it was nice. i have a good relationship with most of them, that is good. the press say, he gets along with kim jong—un. it is a good thing, not a bad thing. i used to say, why don't you do something else? all he wants to do is to buy nuclear weapons. i said, chill, you have enough nuclear weapons. just relax, go to a nice, let's go to a baseball game, i will show you what baseball is. we will go watch the yankees or come and watch michigan at its home opener, 0k? how about that? are you going to have a good team this year, i think, right? i heard good. i heard good, but who the hell knows? a guy drops a pass and that is the end of that
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season, it is a risky business. i proudly impose 27.5 tariff on chinese auto imports to keep china and chinese cars out of america. you don't sell a lot of chinese cars and if you did, it would be fewer cars you made. we are going to bring back the auto industry. we are going to bring it back. if they want to come in and sell as cars, they can, but they have to build plants here and to hire our workers and that is fine and nobody can say anything about it. underthe and nobody can say anything about it. under the radical democrat policies, the us auto industry is being decimated. we lost 64% of our industry over the years, 64%. we were a giant. a lot of them are made in mexico. mexico has taken 35% of the auto industry and we did something very strong, we did something very strong, we did something very strong with mexico. but when i was building the wall, i said, you have to give us 28,000
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soldiers. and they laughed at me. i hate when people laugh at me. i hate it. it was so disrespectful. they laughed at me. we won't do that, why would we do that? i said, because you have to. we are building the wall. people are flowing in through the country. we went 28,000 soldiers to protect as well we build the wall. they said, no. —— we want. i said, here is a story. if you don't do it, we will charge a 25% tariff on every car that you send into america. and then it is going to 50% next month. then it is going to 75%. and then it is going to wonder hundred percent and then i.. and the gentleman representing the president who is a great guy who is no longer president —— to 100%. he was a great guy, he still is. he said, i would like to discuss this with the president. i say, five minutes and i have got to go. i have something much more important to do. he came
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back and said, mr president, we would love to give you soldiers to protect your wall. free of charge, of course. that is howl protect your wall. free of charge, of course. that is how i got those great numbers on that beautiful, beautiful graph we talk about. they gave us everything i wanted. i got everything from mexico. and then the stupid person with low iq, he is a low iq individual. take his iq, stupid person with low iq, he is a low iq individual. take his i0, i guarantee you it is in the low 50s or 605. and guarantee you it is in the low 505 or 605. and he is negotiating against putin, president xi of china. you've been watching live coverage of former president donald trump at his first campaign rally since last saturday. almost exactly a week ago, at 6:11 pm local time, the republican presidential nominee narrowly survived an assassination attempt when a bullet pierced his upper—right ear. trump told delegates at the republican national convention this week he feels as if he's not
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supposed to be here. hello, welcome to bbc news, i'm sophie long, in washington. supporters have gathered by the thousands for donald trump's speech in grand rapids, michigan. a queue stretched about three miles outside the arena. today's speech is at an indoor venue, after a lapse of security at last week's outdoor rally allowed a gunman to open fire on donald trump from less than 150 metres. after going into detail this week about his experience surviving the shooting at the republican convention, he addressed the situation again tonight. he has also prompted the crowd to boo the media several times, and mocked joe biden over inflation. live now tojenny kumah, our correspondent outside the van andel arena in grand rapids, michigan. jenny, this is the first speech of this kind we have had from him. i just wonder what the atmosphere was like there. thousands of supporters queued for hours to see him. yes. queued for hours to see him. yes,
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when i walked _ queued for hours to see him. yes, when i walked up the _ queued for hours to see him. yes, when i walked up the road - queued for hours to see him. 1313 when i walked up the road behind me to get to this venue, there was a long queue stretching back at least a mile or so behind me. very buoyant. you got the sense of that in the speech. apparently, a rule was raised inside as donald trump came out to make his speech. i would definitely say the atmosphere is full of confidence and buoyancy —— a roar. in michigan is a key battleground. donald trump won here in 2016 by some 10,000 votes. it flipped to the bank —— to the democrats in 2020, joe biden won by around 150,000 votes. today, we heard from donald trump about how he says the republican party is more unified than ever. he described the convention earlier this week is a big, beautiful, four day lovefest in his speech earlier. but he did also touch on the tragedy of last week
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and he mentioned corey comperatore, who died during that assassination attempt. and there were also, despite him saying after that shooting that he wanted to bring a message of unity, there were several attacks on the democrats. he carried out a live poll asking the audience who they would prefer to stand against him, whether it would bejoe biden or kamala harris. they said that they wanted it to be joe biden or kamala harris. they said that they wanted it to bejoe biden. and he seemed to be agreeing with that. and he made to the point that he felt the democrats were not being very democratic becausejoe biden has been chosen as the candidate. some 1a million people have voted for him in primaries. and he was saying it is almost hippy to critical the democrats are not being very democratic about this, given some of them have called for him to stand aside —— hypocritical. he
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described the democrats as the enemies of democracy. and he said that he took a bullet last week and he took a bullet for democracy. michigan is a state he will need to win. the man he hopes will help him do thatjd vance has also been on the stage tonight. what did he have to say? jid the stage tonight. what did he have to sa ?, , . . , the stage tonight. what did he have tosa? ,, ., to say? jd vance is seen as someone who can help — to say? jd vance is seen as someone who can help them _ to say? jd vance is seen as someone who can help them win _ to say? jd vance is seen as someone who can help them win that - to say? jd vance is seen as someone who can help them win that rust - to say? jd vance is seen as someone | who can help them win that rust belt vote. he very much has been stressing in the convention speech his working—class background. the fact he comes from a poor family. his mother was a drug addict, yet he was able to rise to go to yale university. there was very much this intention of having jd vance in that position so he can be somebody that would appeal to working—class voters. forthe
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would appeal to working—class voters. for the moment, thanks very much indeed. joe biden says he's "looking forward to getting back on the campaign trail next week", after being isolated with covid. pressure is growing on the us president to quit his run for re—election. a democratic congressman, who described mr biden as a friend, said he didn't seem to recognise him at a d—day event last month. let's get some more insight with amie parnes, senior political correspondent at the hill. thank you forjoining us. a very different atmosphere in the two campaigns. he is under pressure to make a decision, butjoe biden has made that decision, it is just not the one some people want to hear. i know it, and so far, it is a stalemate and that is angering and frustrating a lot of democrats. they see former president trump at these rallies, at the convention. his party is behind him. they are unified and the democratic party is not. so i think right now, they are
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trying to break the stalemate. both sides are very dug in. you have the president defiant and saying, you know what? i beat donald trump less time in 2020, i am going to do it again. he thinks he's the only candidate who did this —— you can do this and that's why he is so dug in. you have the lawmakers and donors on the other side and pundits and everybody piling on. and the pressure will only mount. i am hearing from democrats they expect more lawmakers to come out in the coming days. so it is not going to get easierfor the coming days. so it is not going to get easier for the president. coming days. so it is not going to get easierfor the president. the? get easier for the president. they are in a difficult _ get easier for the president. they are in a difficult situation - get easier for the president. they are in a difficult situation at the moment because on the republican side, they have someone who seems to have survived an attempt on his life. and the biden camp is asking people to put their faith in a frail and diminished man. well you have senior democrat saying he is neither frail nor diminished. —— senior democrats. where do you see this
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going? in democrats. where do you see this auoin ? democrats. where do you see this oiiin ? . ., democrats. where do you see this uuoin? , democrats. where do you see this ioini? , democrats. where do you see this oiiin? ., going? in the coming days, it has to come to a head. _ going? in the coming days, it has to come to a head. we _ going? in the coming days, it has to come to a head. we are _ going? in the coming days, it has to come to a head. we are nearing - going? in the coming days, it has to come to a head. we are nearing the| come to a head. we are nearing the 100 day mark before election day. i think democrats are really feeling the need to make a move here. if they are going to go to vice president harris, if they are going to have an open convention, they need to start moving on this quickly because of the ground game. it takes a long time to establish a ground game, organising, testing if a vice presidential candidate is new, they will want to test this person. all of this is going to take a lot of time and time is not on their side right now. do time and time is not on their side riiht now. ,, time and time is not on their side riiht now. i. , time and time is not on their side riihtnow. , , right now. do you see them becoming an more right now. do you see them becoming any more unified? _ right now. do you see them becoming any more unified? several— right now. do you see them becoming any more unified? several people - any more unified? several people coming out today to say they are behind the president and even if he does decide to step aside, they have a brilliant person in kamala harris who can step up. do you see them coming behind her at this stage? i coming behind herat this stage? i think that is where the stalemate is
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because a lot of people say, ok, let's say the president steps down, then what? is kamala harris ready for this? and there is disagreement there. if not kamala harris, who is it? an open convention will further divide the party. and so i think a lot of the next steps are almost scarier to democrats more than what they are facing right now. so i think it is going to be a rough, bumpy 100 days. find think it is going to be a rough, bumpy 100 days— think it is going to be a rough, bum-100da s. �* ,,,. ., ., bumpy 100 days. and this speculation of will he, won't _ bumpy 100 days. and this speculation of will he, won't he _ bumpy 100 days. and this speculation of will he, won't he has _ bumpy 100 days. and this speculation of will he, won't he has been - bumpy 100 days. and this speculation of will he, won't he has been going i of will he, won't he has been going on for three weeks, what will be breaking point do you think? i think a lot of lawmakers _ breaking point do you think? i think a lot of lawmakers are _ breaking point do you think? i think a lot of lawmakers are careful - breaking point do you think? i think a lot of lawmakers are careful to . a lot of lawmakers are careful to give him his space. he is recovering from covid. this is the biggest decision of his political career and he's doing it while he is sick, so a lot of people are being respectful of that. they are also trying to give him time in recent weeks to recover from the give him time in recent weeks to recoverfrom the dismal give him time in recent weeks to recover from the dismal debate that he had from that performance. they
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wanted him to prove almost that he is able to do this and he did in certain moments, like in the moment in detroit last week where he had a rally, a fiery rally and voters urged him not to quit. his supporters. but democrats wanted to see more of that in the last few weeks. they feel like the president hasn't delivered. find weeks. they feel like the president hasn't delivered.— weeks. they feel like the president hasn't delivered. and when you look at data surrounding _ hasn't delivered. and when you look at data surrounding this, _ hasn't delivered. and when you look at data surrounding this, can - hasn't delivered. and when you look at data surrounding this, can he - at data surrounding this, can he come back from this, is it possible he can get back on the campaign trail this week and put this behind him? i trail this week and put this behind him? ~ , trail this week and put this behind him? ~' , ., trail this week and put this behind him? ~ , ., ., , ., him? i think it is going to be an u-hill him? i think it is going to be an uphill battle. _ him? i think it is going to be an uphill battle. maybe _ him? i think it is going to be an uphill battle. maybe he - him? i think it is going to be an uphill battle. maybe he can, i him? i think it is going to be an| uphill battle. maybe he can, but him? i think it is going to be an l uphill battle. maybe he can, but i think the tide is against him at some point. i don't think it is turning. he is going to have to really show people day in and day out he is capable of doing this. even his silence in the past few days, democrats have said he has covid, but let's see him. he can do videos and other things. the fact he is not is kind of proving their point. so i think they want to see
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him out and about, they want to see him out and about, they want to see him put this behind him, but i don't know if he can at this point. thanks so much. of course. transportation providers, businesses, governments and hospitals are rushing to get their systems back online today, after disruptions following a widespread technology outage. microsoft says that the it chaos — caused by a flawed cybersecurity update — affected 8.5 million windows devices. the glitch came from an update rolled out by the cybersecurity firm crowdstrike. travellers across the world continue to face disruption, as airlines try to recover. airlines cancelled thousands of flights on friday, and flight—tracking services list at least 25,000 current flight delays. 0ur correspondent and technology editor zoe kleinman has more. yesterday, the global it outage caused worldwide chaos. today, we're still dealing with the aftermath. thousands of flights were grounded, and while airports are getting back to normal, there are still many travellers who are stuck.
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my flight got cancelled while i was coming out of my, um, aeroplane, and i've been stranded for around over 24 hours by now, i think, um, i've been on my feet for four days by now, i think. and no—one can really help me right now. now the children are napping. on the floor, so we had no help. so we found another flight, - but it's not on the same company, and it's only tomorrow morning, so we have to find _ a room for tonight. queues quickly built up at dover this morning, with people trying to find other ways to get abroad. the port's advice is not to arrive without a ticket. we can offer a turn—up—and—go service down here. what we do ask you to do on the busy days is please book before you come. so if you book before you come, and then we can anticipate when you're going to arrive, that helps us with everything. gps were forced to cancel
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appointments and some patients struggled to get hold of vital medicines. pharmacists had difficulties issuing prescriptions, including for themselves. in terms of pharmacy workload, it has impacted how the interaction has been with patients because, obviously, those electronic prescriptions and that sort of more seamless service hasn't been available. and then personally, i've also been unable to access my electronic prescription, so i really feel for the patients because i am one of them. however, workarounds are possible for those with urgent medicine needs. they were able to take my nhs number and look me up in their system to see that i have been prescribed this before, so the pharmacist will be able to dispense it today. when i saw that it systems were down, i thought, well, i'm glad i'm not flying anywhere today, but it didn't occur to me that something like getting my prescription would be impossible. will anyone be liable for the cost of all this turmoil? the us cybersecurity firm crowdstrike has apologised for its disastrous software update,
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but it was only microsoft—powered computers which crashed. there's also the companies themselves, who don't seem to have had back—up systems. it shows just how dependent we are on a small number of big tech companies to run our digital lives, and how vulnerable this leaves us when something goes wrong. zoe kleinman, bbc news. israel lauched a series of retaliatory airstrikes on sites in yemen linked to the iran—backed houthi militia. it's their first direct attack on the group following months of escalating conflicts outside of gaza. israeli fighterjets hit oil and gas facilities on the red sea port of hodeidah on saturday evening. it comes just a day after a residential area in tel aviv was hit by what israel claims was an iranian—made unmanned aerial vehicle, which was modified to fly long distance. in a televised address,
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israel's prime minister said, "anyone who harms us will pay a very heavy price for their aggression". a spokesman for the houthis vowed to respond to what they described as �*brutal agression' from israel. officials said at least 80 people were injured, mostly with severe burns. the head of the idf spokesperson's unit, daniel hagari, said israel was fighting a war on multiple fronts. in the area of the port, the israeli air force struck dual—use infrastructure, used for terrorist activities, including energy infrastructures. israel's necessary and proportionate strikes were carried out in order to stop the houthi terror attacks. however, this threat goes far beyond israel. the houthis target other countries in the middle east, the united states of america, and the world with their attacks on international shipping in the red sea. and notjust the red sea. who is behind the houthis?
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0ne country — iran. the iranian regime funds arms and directs the houthi terror activity. israel is fighting a multi—front war against iran's aggression proxies — hamas in gaza, hezbollah in lebanon, iranian militias in syria and iraq, and the houthis in yemen. 0ur diplomatic correspondent paul adams sent this update from jerusalem. well, this is the first time israel has retaliated against the houthis for their repeated attempts to target israel both with drones and ballistic missiles. the israeli say at least 220 drones and ballistic missiles have been fired towards israel in the last few months. ., ., . ., ., months. none of them did much damage and none of them _ months. none of them did much damage and none of them killed _ months. none of them did much damage and none of them killed anyone. - months. none of them did much damage and none of them killed anyone. that - and none of them killed anyone. that changed in the early hours of friday morning, when a drone somehow made its way through israel's air
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defences, landed right in the middle of tel aviv, close to the american embassy and killed one civilian. it was absolutely clear following that incident that israel would retaliate and they have done so quickly. as for the choice of target, well, hitting the port city of hodeidah, a port which israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu said is not an innocent port, it is the place where israelis believe the houthis bring in weapons smuggled from iran. but also, hitting these oil storage dams and setting up this vast inferno with huge flames leaping up into the sky and a vast black clouds drifting over the city, i think was designed to send a very symbolic, emphatic message around the region. in fact, israel's defence minister yoav gallant essentially said that. a message to iran's, israel's opponents around the region that israel will not hesitate to launch
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attacks even as far away as distant yemen if israeli lives are at stake. we have had repeated moments over the past nine or ten months at which the past nine or ten months at which the war in gaza has threatened to spill over into some wider conflict. the main one, of course, among those various other fronts as lebanon, where israel and the hezbollah militia also supported by iran continue to wage sometimes very ferocious fighting. and yemen has been part of this wider regional dimension, too. does the latest tit—for—tat exchanges between israel and yemen amount to a new escalation? well, we will see. probably not. but it is worth remembering that the americans and british have been mounting similar air strikes against the houthis for months now and none of that has so far deterred them. pauli months now and none of that has so far deterred them.— far deterred them. paul adams re iortini far deterred them. paul adams reporting from _ far deterred them. paul adams
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reporting from jerusalem. - tensions remain high at the israel—lebanon border. just hours ago, israel's military struck a depot storing ammunition linked to the hezbollah militia group. earlier this week, hezbollah's leader, hassan nasrallah, warned that they would hit new targets in israel if more civilians were killed in israeli strikes. reports say that at least 104 civilians have been killed in lebanon since october. let's turn to some other important news around the world. a bridge has partially collapsed in northern china killing twelve people. chinese state media said that sudden downpours and flash flooding in shannxi province caused the collapse with many cars and trucks falling into the river. at least 31 people are still missing. large parts of northern and central china have been battered in recent days by heavy rains. bruce springsteen, the american singer, songwriter and guitarist, has officially reached billionaire status. according to a forbes estimate,
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mr springsteen is now worth $1.1 billion. in 2021, springsteen sold his music catalogue to sony for an estimated $500—550 million, marking the biggest transaction ever struck for a single artist's body of work. and in 2023, mr springsteen sold more than 1.6 million concert tickets, generating an estimated 380 million dollars in revenue. just before we go, let's take you back to the trump rally, in grand rapids, michigan. even larger than that of president dwight d eisenhower many years ago. it was a big deportation. under the radical left democrats, michigan communities are being overrun with migrant crime. you know that better than anybody, right? does everybody agree? it has been unbelievable. in
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oakland county, criminal squads of illegal alien gang members are hiding in the trees and breaking into michigan homes after dark, looting them forjewelry and purses, they are taking the purses of women right out of their bedrooms. electronics, money, they are stealing from houses. earlier this yearin stealing from houses. earlier this year in kent county, does anybody live in kent county here? sounds good to me, but you are not going to like this. a sadistic illegal alien, of which there are many, criminal was sentenced for executing... former president trump still speaking in grand rapids michigan. he has been on his feet for more than an hour, still not the 92 minutes speech he gave at the rnc last week. much more for you at the top of the hour. see you then.
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saturday saw some more sunshine towards eastern england in particular. it was warm and humid still here, with some of our temperatures rising again into the high 205 in celsius, whereas further west it was a wetter story. plenty of thick clouds, fresher feeling conditions developing here were all coming into that cooler feeling air as we head through sunday. there'll still be some sunshine around for most of us at times, but also some wet weather in the form of showers. and overnight tonight, we've been seeing some rain moving northwards and eastwards, showers following on behind. most of the rain by dawn on sunday will be across the northern isles. still, that hang—back of cloud towards eastern england and still that warm, muggy feeling. temperatures, 16 to 18 celsius to start off the morning. now, many of us will get off to a sunny start to the day, but cloud will thicken as we head through the late morning into the afternoon, mostly from the west, and there'll be a scattering of showers for western stretches of the uk as well, with heavier rain moving into northern ireland later on through the afternoon, eventually to south—west scotland.
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temperatures will be more or less the seasonal average, 16 to 23 c, so quite a drop for eastern areas of england in particular. staying in that cooler air on monday, a whole host of weather fronts bringing some more wet and some windy weather at times too. most of the rain, will tend to be out towards the north and west. a few sharp, thundery showers across scotland. down through north—west england, a scattering of showers, but also some sunny spells for northern ireland. and it's blustery in the south, where the brisk westerly wind a few isolated showers, but also some sunshine. the sunshine will help to boost the temperature, perhaps for south—east england. we could see 2a or 25 degrees in the best of that. and then on tuesday, high pressure starts to build in, so the sunshine will be making a return across pretty much the whole of the uk. a few showers to start off the day and a few isolated showers developing as we head through the middle part of the day as well. more of a north—westerly wind, so it's quite a cool wind direction, but temperatures will be boosted by the sunshine, so rising a little higher again as we head through the day on tuesday.
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the high pressure too lasting into wednesday. so if we take a look at our outlook for the capital cities as we head through the rest of the week, it's warm and it's mostly dry again. on wednesday, temperatures rising a little further, but more showers on thursday and friday. bye— bye.
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hello and welcome to the media show with me, katie razzall, and ros atkins. well, on this week's edition, we're focussed on one subject — the attempted assassination of donald trump and how the media covered the story. and we're also looking at the questions raised about the intersection between the media and politics in the united states. take a look at what happened. let's begin the programme by speaking to three journalists who were at the trump rally where the attempted assassination took place. in a minute, we're going to hear from the bbc�*s gary o'donoghue. from the bbc�*s gary o'donoghue, also anna moneymaker, a photographer with getty images, but first of all, from hadriana lowenkron from bloomberg. i was standing among the crowd, the crowd who had been waiting for several hours in anticipation of hearing the former president speak. for me, what was important was speaking with the people around and the hours leading up,
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hearing how excited they were.

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