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him, i'll walk into the program. well, we're covering the breaking news story coming in from the u. s right now and an apparent assassination attempt. former president donald trump has been injured as a raleigh in pennsylvania. trump was addressing the crowd at the riley when gunshots rang out. let's take a look at exactly what happened. the secret service officers rushed onto the stage and whose trunk to the ground after trump grabs his ear. trunk was kept on the ground until he could be taken away. but he did then raise his fist into the air in an apparent act of defiance, shouting the words right. susan, led off the stage and taken away in a via cold. sorry to say the shooter has been utilized. and a person in the crowd was also killed. secret service is investigating it as an

apparent assassination attempt. well, in a statement on trump social media platform, truth, social trump has facts the united states secret service for their rapid response. trump has said, i was shocked with a bullet that peers the upper part of my right ear. i knew immediately that something was wrong. i heard a whizzing sound shots and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. much bleeding took place. so i realized then what was happening and us president joe biden has also issued a statement after the attack at the rally. i've been fairly brief. my, all the agencies of the federal government has some situation based on what we know now. i have tried to get ahold of donald, he's versus doctors they apparently he's doing well. i plan on talking now shortly . i hope when i get back to the telephone book,

there's no place in america for this kind of violence. it's sick. it's sick. it's one of the reason why we have to unite this country. we cannot allow for this to be happening. we cannot be like this. we cannot condone this. well, for more on this story, let's bring in w, washington, bureau chief, anus paul, who's joining us now from washington, d. c. as this is not being investigated as an attempted assassination attempt by the secret service. what more can you tell us, but what's going on? the present national security division of the justice department is also expected to open an investigation into the attend to show to donald trump media reporting a right now. so this is obviously a significant indication that the department regards the shooting not as in kind of isolated the act of violence, partisan s as in the s estimation attempt was

a national security implications. we also hear that the f b, i is also being highly and involved and that comes at the moment when, you know i liked the 1st shock of, if this is possible, is kind of maybe not over, but it's slowly overtaking a by the discussion how this was possible that someone came so close to a former president and to some to 2 person who's also running again for president. reach us to hear that it was like, uh, uh, football field in the hospital way. this is a top where the shooter was apparently lying until the president and also killed at least one visits or one that's in the of the rally and injured to other people. seriously. so the question out here is, of course, how this could have happened and why no one was clearing this rule,

stick so close to donald trump. exactly, because we have heard some reports not confirmed per se, but that the secret service had eyes on that sniper on the roof and didn't shoot to him before trump was then shot. if that's true, it's certainly going to be a huge talking point in a country that's already very divided politically with this presidential campaign. what does this mean for america right now? a guy. so it's a very difficult and actually really dangerous situation in this country. you know, we always have to bear in mind that here in the united states of america are more weapons. and then people, many, many people have not only one like rifle, but a couple and like also these wide ranging

a half off of automatic or send me automatic weapons. we hear all about it. so often about all these killing. and now in this really highly polarized election come pain and the next selection only a couple of months away. there's a lot of more reality or that this really might kind of spark um, some major other attacks or outrages here in this country. and in that regard, i think it is interesting to um, to remind ourselves how donald trump reacted right off to the secret service. brought him down and then he got up still behind this podium on the stage, he immediately raised his fist and we couldn't see. and you don't need a lot of breathing here seem like shouting, fired, fired fight. and the audience also reacted immediately to this to his

call. so yeah, it's going to be interesting where we will be in a couple of days or weeks from here because we know that of course not all people who support donald trump, but that there is a certain group of trump supporters who are more than willing to use violence kind of to fight for their candidate. well, let's actually take a look at what some of his and support has had to say. we'll come back to you in just a moment, anus. but we do have features from eye witnesses who were standing directly behind from the scene. let's take a look. a pretty kind of froze for a 2nd time to take in and realize what actually happened. and then everyone in the bleachers we often tried to hover the kids. yeah, we heard you could hear like ricocheting through the bleachers almost like maybe

software setting off the bleach your area. so we tried to cover all the kids that were near. there were actually extra people around us that jump on top of the kids also to protect the kids and they cut their self into like a shield, which is pretty cool. so there was no doubt right from the start, what was going on. i feel like people are questionable at 1st and then everybody. but he did reach up and drove it here and the name on the stage so so you know, so let's talk about these supporters and their reaction there because that acts of what will be seen as strings and defiance from trump. his fist in the air. he also apparently said that he was at, he wanted to know where his shoes, where so he, you know, very switched on for the fact that he just basically missed desk by inches high, where his supporter is going to view this,

especially with his presidential campaign in mind of the yeah, i mean, i think this picture, you know, we also showing throughout the night we see him raising his fist in this, the american flag in the background and secret services surrounding the former president and the presidential candidate of the republican party in blood their blood spots in his face. i'm pretty sure this will be the dominating a picture of this come pain. donald trump loves to kind of show himself as a, as a person who is strong and this indeed, anyhow. and especially now as the sitting president, this job, i didn't had this really a bad performance during the debate with him and the job i it in the sitting president again, is really struggling to convince even his own a party members that he's strong enough in sit for office,

so donald trump will of course a very experienced tv personality immediately kind of grab the moment and on the thoughts that he can show his followers, his supporters, that he is fully fully in charge even in a situation like that. even only seconds of to someone tried to kill himself. this is kind of really like an immediate reaction of his which shows a how, how it goes. he is in a kind of presenting himself as a strong and fully in charge. it was certainly quite a reaction to see, i mean, no one's going to be talking about, but i didn't in his age right now after this has happened. this is definitely going to take the, the spotlight. but let's talk about president biden because he has condemned the

shooting. and he's also reached out to donald trump was you know, the way that he spoke about president trump, in his statement he referred to him, has as donald, i mean, how likely is this going to affect the campaigning from both sides in general? is there going to be a bit of a change of tone here, or is that wishful thinking on this night? so this afternoon, rather, it's a booby, a total of a game changer. i mean, we will see this very important rise a country. i fear more violence and we will see some supporters and maybe even himself kind of using this incidence to portray him as a victim of a bite and compared another bite in white house was which is even willing to use violence against him, against whom i already heard you'd gingrich a former speaker of the house,

a very well known republican and one actually can say that he's kind of the brain behind the mugger movement. this movement to make america great again and and he said, and i quote him here. i always knew and the legal below nice have failed. they've build use violence and was they? yeah, of course is referring to vide and divide and why tell us, and this is just the beginning. others are jumping in here, the twitter and to a social, a full of these extra sessions that biden is behind. this assess the nation and binding of course, is also a kind of experienced email so that he understood that right away. and in his 1st statement, he said, i'm praying for donald trump and is his family. he referred to donald trump as donald, even. so we all know that he really doesn't like his opponent and

uh what, what fight and try to do. he is read, each kind of tried to call a calm down the situation he also told has to have that they are not allowed to put out any personal tags on social media. his stopped his campaign right away, but had not to be quite frank. i fear that will only help little because people are already or is, let's put it that way. this debates here, the political discourse is already sold toxic. and these images from tonight a donald trump face was blood spots all over. this will make the situation even worse. a name is just briefly now. this has happened just days before the republican convention is due to take place. what kind of impact is it going to have on? that's correct. so tomorrow, the republican national convention starts and we just hear actually from the

organizer said it will start tomorrow in milwaukee. and on thursday, donald trump is expected to hold his acceptance speech. this is kind of the end of a 4 day long car, a nation party, if you want to say, if you want to put it like that and to tell the interesting and how this event tonight will be used by his supporters and also by him and of course, we will fly out to milwaukee a tomorrow and we'll keep reporting from there as well. so thank you so much for all of your coverage so far. and here's a reminder of that story that we are covering. former president donald trump has been injured in what the secret service is calling and a part assassination attempt. a gun man and fired shots at trump. campaign riley in pennsylvania. authorities say they killed the shooter, and that a member of the crowd is dead. president joe biden has condemned the shooting,

calling at 6. he said there is no place in america for that kind of island. and that he plans to retire and even dw news teams in the us here in breland. well, keep you up to date on this breaking story. i kind of him out in berlin and thanks for watching. the each tells my story. of the people who planned me build dedicated van lines to me. i am not too dumb depending on the outline may in the centuries they billed me, they created something and had to watch as i work destroyed. i have month my city's days for centuries and accompanied my country hours

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