the, the, you're watching the news life from berlin, donald from survived in the patent assassination attempt. take a look what happens the former us president comes under fire at the campaign valley. he's enjoyed with says he's find the suspected shoulder has one kid clearly. and president joe biden condemn special king calling. it's 6 am saying that is no place for this kind of island in america. the white house that he has spoken to from the

i'm the massage as well as that into the program. former president donald trump has been wounded in what the f, b i is calling an assassination attempt. trump with the dressing of campaign valley in pennsylvania, when the shots were fired. that's take a look at what happened there. you could hear those thoughts ringing out on security for us and that was shouting of the former president and others to get down soon off to be confirmed that the post was clear. they brought the bloody trump back up to speed to lead him away. when he did this, the freezing his fist and the shouting, the words fight, fight that of wolf to so just choose from his supporters. and as you can see now, secret service fits the cube, the suspected shooter and the f. b. i is identifying him as

a 20 year old man from pennsylvania, a defiant trump that in those images as you could see. and in a statement on his social media, fax on to the social trump thing. so united states secret services for the rapid response trumpet said, i would start with a bullet, the fewest the upper part of my ideal. i knew immediately that something was wrong . i heard a whizzing sound shots and immediately felt the bullet tripping through the skin. must leading to place, so i realized then what was happening. that's good more on that story with dw corresponding to now do my lounge. she joins me now from washington, dixie. so that's good to have you with us again. what more do we know about the shooter as well? and then we saw the f. b i has released a name, but german media laws prevent us from saying that name on or air. so we're going to have to leave that detail out, but they identified a 20 year old from bethel park,

pennsylvania. so that is one hour away from butler, pennsylvania, where of course, this rally took place and this attempted assassination of former president donald trump. so he is a registered republican, although he has been known to donate to democratic campaigns that he wasn't carrying any id on him. so law enforcement officials identified him via biometric data and dna testing. now the f, b i n, it statement did not offer that much else by way of detail, but it did remind the public that this is an ongoing investigation that taught the pub, anybody in the public who might know something that is helpful to the investigation should come forward now that that name has been released into the public. uh, the investigation of course is focusing intensely on what might have been his

motive, but we don't know anything about that at the moment. we don't know if this was ideological. we don't know if this had anything to do with mental health. there are a host of, of other questions that they are trying to determine in relation to the suspect. they are not taking for granted that this was a lone wolf attack. for example. they're also not off, they're also trying to find out whether there are any more threats that are emanating from this particular attack. so the investigation, as they say, is ongoing support a lot less for the security services to on cargo. but i want to play this video outright now off the place where the value was being has. if i put off for the video to be pulled up, please that we have it. that was the site of the valley. you can see those vege buildings for of yours and in front of that was where the stage was set, which is where the support as well. but is that on a tom, forth and now towards the left, that white building near that water stand. this is where apparently,

according to multiple reports out there, now the shooter was positioned and that is where it seems of the on the rooftop the buildings are looking at right now. this is where he took his chart from jeanette. these do look like close quarters for the former president to be short from i imagine that the security services were granted about this at the briefing that they would add, what does this say or indeed, so present of that briefing or s b i officials who are taking the lead and they were indeed grilled on this. they were asked how it was possible that the shooter could have gotten so close. now they did say that they too were surprised at that, but also deferred that question to the secret service. the secret service, of course, of being responsible for the personal protection. a former president, donald trump, responsible for securing the venue security the perimeter and securing the radius

around the venue. we know that that shooter was outside the venue, but still quite close with a direct line, a line of sight to for bert president, a donald trump. so they are of course going to phase questions as to why they were not able to secure that roof. well, we do know that the i with us, the set of costs because of the supporters in the stands and some of them described what the sol, as the shooting was happening. that's nicholas and i was sitting there, a guy said, oh god, you had a gun. i looked up. there's a guy on top of the building right over there. and with an m. 16 with a blanket point and that the president he started shooting about about about, about, about $4.00 to $5.00 shots rang out there. it sounded like there are fireworks and everybody kind of hesitated like, what's happening before trump like swatted a z or you can see that he actually had that in. he dropped in. that's when everybody had the initial reaction to draw it to the ground and it was just,

it was just like people were just on top of each other like she was getting. she was getting very light on, on top of her and so it was crazy. were like, well, we heard all it's rattling around the grandstand, one hit this bigger tower and chaos around the 1st. well, after her just shots got fired and hydraulic line was spraying all around the drawing. soon. coming out of it, the speaker power star default or another shot here. you knew something was, i mean it wasn't the fact, right because i mean they weren't, they weren't super loud shots. the guys and secret service, they're just screaming. they were saying it was, wow, like everybody get down. and i heard 4 shots, and there was like a pause and one other shot. and people started lifting their head and they start screaming and they have to get back down, get back down. but i do think they go off the guy whenever the 2nd shot came out. i heard this rocks bar was far attractive to begin with somebody over there was

shot shot. so i made my way over. i said, i'm in mercy, department physician. let me help you, guy. his phone around was can read the benches. we had a head shot here. there's lots of blood brain. she knows i'm terrifying descriptions there and we don't know that one of the people actually used in the support amongst the support of lost their life. and how is the trump camp reacting to the seeming to school or indeed, the one supporter lost their lives to others. are injured and you can imagine that hours after this incident, there is still very much a feeling of shock there. but we've all seen those images of trump by now where he is being waste off to his motorcade and he faces as supporters. again, with his fist up in the air, the crowd, the crowd cheers in response. so this a,

this is also an incident where his supporters are also very fired off and after that happened, they also turned it to the median, started the 3rd year and started to say that the media was responsible for this. so there is a level of anger and blame seeking there. and in fact, from more official of a for more official republic invoices. i me, i mean, republican lawmakers here we are already starting to hear a lot of speculation. the top president biden might have orchestrated this on this attack on president on former president donald trump. this of course is completely baseless, but you can also imagine how statements, like of odds can serve to further inflame the positions that are emanating from the trump camp at the moment. a little sample walk which of the statements. but let's go to the other side of the aisle, you mention the kinds of things that are being said about president by it and without substance. but we do know that he spoke softly off of the database. so

let's see what he had to say. there's no place in america who is kind of sick. it's 6. it's one of the reason why we're here tonight. this country cannot allow for this to be happening. we cannot be like this. we cannot condones the bottom line. the re, trump rally is a reality that he should have an intellect can be conducted peacefully without any problem. but the idea, the idea that this political violence or violence in america like this system part of it is not appropriate. yvonne, everybody must condemn. everybody should know the form and emphasis, patrick words from a president facing on from century to the allegations from from for to us like you said will be behind this attack. what's the stance he's taking? what is expected to do what he is clearly trying to do. there is once again underlying that there is no room for political

violence in this country. that this is a democracy that donald trump should be allowed to have a rally and have that riley be peaceful. so what, what joe biden is trying to do in this instance is to restore home to make sure that he doesn't say or do anything that was in the flame, the tensions that are already running high at the moment. and he's taken steps within his campaign of, for example, he and his team have pulled his campaign as off the air. it is not seen at the moment to be appropriate to be attacking trump. and if you, if you understand anything about american attack as they can be really, really quite adversarial. and that's just not thought to be the correct to move at the moment from the bite income. now i, i have been mentioning this about, so just a few days ago, i was at a bite in raleigh where he really was a very, very provocative and very aggressive against trump. and because his point also

there was to highlights the threats of another trump presidency. but this is not a message that he will be able to deliver at this time. and what again he is trying to do is to appeal for call, appeal, for civility, and appeal for respect for democracy. exactly, for the democrats strikes done down the temperature. what do we do? north of this campaign has been so divisive as you point out. what can we expect for the board forward to be of the there are some who say that there is a very positive opportunity to be seen in the wake of what is obviously a tragedy. this idea that this could be a wake up call. this idea that sought after this tragedy the country could come together and understand how important it is to be able to live with diverse viewpoints peacefully. but there is also the other possibility that it could

further stoke these divisions that it could further inflame these tensions. and what is going to be very important of going forward is how donald trump will handle the messaging. so of course, we know that the republican national convention is about to kick off. all eyes will be on the r n c. and how donald trump will present himself at the r n c. and how he will address this incident. will he call? will he appeal to his followers to, to united, behind them, to, to set aside divisions will or will he use this incident and weapon i that will his message be less come together or will this message be my enemies are coming after me. you should go after that. so i think this uh, this will, this is the thing to watch what his message will be. and that will determine much of the outcome in terms of the way forward dw chanel dm allowing the thank you so

much for tracking that developing story for us us and our reactions to the shooting us coming in from around the world would lead to us expressing condemnation and offering sympathy. we know that the germans on slow olaf shows has caused the attack despicable seeing. such acts of violence touching democracy. we also have a reaction from british prime minister, cure style. mo was responded to what he called shocking scenes. sing political violence in any form has no place in our societies and my thoughts are with the victims of the attack. we also have a reaction from the ukraine here in preston, blocking me. zalinski was issued a statement. speaking of his release that trump is now safe and wishing that america images from the, from this. and we also have the un secretary general antonio quoterush, who was condemned, what he called an act of political violence. and he wished is donald trump

a speedy recovery. and that would be all something to national reactions from now, and the w is news team in the us and showed him, but then we keep you up to date on this pre king story. thank you so much for being with us. and we'll be back tomorrow at the top of the i will with mark. i'm gonna try to as well. thank you again. the can you see is what old cars tires have to do with the production? here's a hands on the real media. watch now on youtube the.