the the this is dw news life from berlin. gunshots fired us with donald trump. raleigh. take a look. what happened? the former us president comes under fire and then assess the nation the time he's injured but says he's fine. fairly re president joe biden condemns the shooting, calling it's sick. he says he'll try to reach out to trump soon. the him out. welcome to the program and we're following the breaking news story coming

out of the us right now. and what do you and what the f b i is calling an assassination attempt. former president donald trump has been injured to riley in pennsylvania. trump was addressing the crowd at the riley when gunshots rang out. let's take a look at what happened. secret service officers rushed onto the stage and pulled trunk to the ground after he wrapped his ear. trump was kept on the ground until he could be taken away, but we can actually see him in these pictures. raise his fist into the air and an act of a pint defiance appearing to sight the words fights using the legs off the stage and taken away in his vehicle. oh sorry, so you say the shooter has been neutralized but that a person in the crowd was also killed. are in

a statement on trump social media platform, truth social trump has bank to the united states secret services for their rapid response. trump has said, i was shocked with a boot that peers the upper part of my right ear. and you immediately that something was wrong. i heard a whizzing signed 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 of the raleigh. 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 with his doctors. they apparently he's doing well. i plan on talking now. surely. i hope when i get back to the telephone book, there's no place in america with this kind of violets. it's sick. it 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, i'm drawing nearby dw correspondent, janelle jamal on, who john, who joins us now from washington, d. c. janelle, this is being investigated as an assassination attempt by the f b. i. what more can you tell us by that, or indeed, hanover, also seeing reports that the national security division of the justice department is preparing to open an investigation into what's now being called an assassination attempt. on former president, a donald trump indicating to us that they're treating this as a matter with national security implications. but what we don't know for sure is that the f b i is leading a multi agency efforts in order to investigate this. in fact, f, b, i or visuals are in the middle of giving a press briefing in a butler punts,

pennsylvania, where this incident at that trump rally occurred. and they did run down a few facts. they say that the f b, i has deployed considerable resources in conducting this investigation. they have agents on the ground, they have evidence response teams. they have intelligence, intelligence analysts. so looking into every possible motive for why this they have occurred, they also release a public, a call for witnesses or just for anyone who may know anything. and they are still considering that area around that rally as a very active crime scene. there are a number of agents on the ground. they also said that they are close to identifying the shooter, but are not prepared to release details of the identity of that shooter just yet. they have not at this stage, established a mood. but as i said earlier, this is

a multi agency efforts, the f b. i is working also with the pennsylvania police. and you can imagine what uh, an enormous undertaking. this will be, they will come through every 2nd of footage. they will go over every eye witness accounts. they will examine every 2nd in that timeline. but so, so that we do expect some answers in the next hours. but it could be quite a while still hanging out until really the full picture of what happened really does emerge. of course, it will definitely take some time for all of those details to become clear. but we have seen video online of people trying to point site to police and secret service that there was a shooter on a roof nearby. what more can you tell us, but that indeed, there have been several indications that quite

a few spectators at that riley were trying to call the attention of law enforcement of officers on the ground pointing to that shooter on the roof. i sons, i saw even one interview, i believe it was conducted by a b, b. c correspondent, where uh the man who was being interviewed said that he kept pointing to the man on the roof. he kept trying to call the attention of the police, but the police for not reacting appropriately. and what tells the in the, in a situation where there's simply a lot, we don't know what's over going to be seeing now in the next hours is very intense scrutiny. of the security services and what potential flaws in the system there might be, you know, security can be quite tight of these rallies. we know that we know that for certain, i know that from personal experience, having been to several rallies myself, secret service conduct this week before during after. we've been the premier

perimeter. uh, a certainly certainly a wide radius beyond the perimeter. it is not clear why secret service had not secured that roof where the shooter had shot from. so those are the questions that are going to be that are going to be at the forefront of many people's minds as the story develops. what we do actually have the clip of the eye witness telling the bbc that they can see the gunmen. so let's just take a look at that quickly. now. we noticed the guy crawling army you know, bare for rolling up the roof of the building beside us. 5050 feet away from us. so we're standing there. you know, we're pointing, we're pointing out the guy krohn up the roof and he had a gun right. he had a rifle, right. we could clearly see him with the rifle. absolutely. we're pointing out them . the police are down there running around on the ground. we're like, hey man,

this guy on the roof with a frightful, in the police, are like hard work. you know, like, like any, know what's going on, you know, where like a ratio and what we can see it from right here. we see him, you know, he's, he's calling. and next thing, you know, i'm like, i'm thinking of myself. i'm like, why is trump still speaking? why have they not pulled him off the stage? i'm standing there poignant at him for, you know, 2 or 3 minutes secret service was looking at us from the top of the barn. i'm pointing out that roof just standard or like this. and next thing you know, by transferring out. so now what has the actual reaction being from trump supporters in the aftermath of this, i mean, we've all seen these images of trump with his fist defiantly in the air, they must have triggered a certain kind of response. yes, we have all seen those images. we saw a tron being taken away by secret service to be,

to be put back into his motorcade. and then there is that defining moment where he raises his face and he says, the words fight, fight, fight his supporters. of course, thoughts here, as soon as they hear that. now i've been that moment has, has really struck with me because, you know, the question that i would have then is fight whom fight what and the most sort of sober and excited analysis that i can come up with is maybe it's not a call to action maybe what he's trying to do there is display strengths the in a moment of obvious vulnerability. but so we don't know that his supporters will, will take that as such. they might take it as a call to action, especially given that reaction that i already talked about within seconds, they also turned or towards the media jeering and saying, this is your fault,

the you made this happen. so displaying an obvious anger and resentment there. now in terms of more official responses, of course, there has been an outpouring of support for president trump. lots of prayers, lots of lots of thoughts are going out to him and his family from his supporters. but we are also seeing somewhat darker reactions. one uh, republican lawmaker, marjorie taylor green us, tweeted something to the effect of the may god have mercy on our enemies because we won't have mercy on them. i'm paraphrasing a little bit. but that was, that was the gist of that social media posting. and you have to, again, you have to ask yourself, what, what, what does she mean by saying not having mercy on on enemies? there's one other law makers said that he wants to investigate joe biden, for an attempt to insight an assassination against president donald

trump. so these are not messages, the 2 supporters will take as a, a message to remain calm, to not rush the to not rush into on potentially contentious actions. so it really does feel like we've arrived at a tense moments and i think what will be very important is what donald trump frontier on. tell us his supporters what, what he tells them to do, and how he tells them to behave and what sort of message emanates want. will it be? um, will it be a piece maintaining comb, restoring message or will be or will it be a message of action that could constitute vengeance? we don't know that yet. here we certainly seen some pretty device that as language being used by some republicans on the flip side,

president biden has condemned the shooting. he's halted his campaigning and his campaign ads in this moment of time. and when he spoke by president trump, he referred to him as donald very friendly compared to the campaign. rhetoric has been used so far. do you think we can expect the general tone of the presidential campaign to change or is that maybe wishful thinking? yes uh i realize uh, the last uh you're the last things i said were quiet, were quite dark and gloomy, and pro provide perhaps a more negative picture of things to con. there is certainly the hope that if the, the likes of president joe biden set an example, then this could serve as a wake up call, a return to civility, or return to perhaps, or coming together as opposed to as opposed to the further entrenched extremes that

perhaps will become the breeding ground then for political violence, and that you can really see, uh, you mentioned that the steps of the to the biden side has tried to take, so they've taken down campaign ads. now, in, in the us, of course, very adversarial campaign ads are a very common political tool attack ads or something that you see here every day. this is not necessarily true in other countries by taught the biden comp did not feel it was appropriate to error. those kinds of attack ads at a time where, where his competitor and this present presidential race saw nearly got shot. but in terms of just how far not will establish the tone. it's, you know, it's, it's really hard to say because along with perhaps the well meaning wishes of a politicians on from, from both from both sides. saying that so saying that political violence should

never be condoned. saying that donald trump should be able to conduct a rally and have that rally be peaceful. you also have many, many voices out there that follow the lines of what i had described earlier, more divisive, more inciting. and there's also that other facet of misinformation. now i'm not, i'm not, i'm not going to repeat like some of the wildest ferries i've seen. but like this idea that this idea about this assassination attempt that was orchestrated by how do we figures on demand. that is all not helping. okay, well to now to milo and in washington. thank you so much for your analysis there. a and a reminder of the story that we're following for you at this, our former president donald trump has been injured. and while the f b i is hauling and assassination attempt, a gun man fired shots that trump campaign, riley, and pennsylvania authorities say they killed the shooter and that

a member of the crowd is dead. and dw news teams in the us on here in berlin. we'll keep you updated on this breaking story. thanks so much statement and the people in trucks in judge was trying to see the city center the straight pieces the around the world, more than 150000000 people of.