the, the, you're watching dw news live from building donald trump defiant, following a shooting at a campaign rally. the full me, us presidency is evil, will northwind and calls on america just a united. take a look. what happened? trump is william good in what the f b i is cooling and attempted assassination. the secret service killed the suspect former 1st lady, maloney, a trump has called the attack of a monster and president joined, wide and coals. the shooting stake, saying there is no place for this kind of violence in america. leaders around the will join him in condemning the attack

the welcome to the program. i'm john read, read. donald trump has issued a defined cold for america to remain united off to surviving a shooting other campaign. raleigh. now the f. b, i is cooling the incident in pennsylvania and attempted assassination. the secret service killed the 20 year old suspect at the same authority side. i found ball making equipment at his time and inside his car, the former 1st lady, maloney, a trump, has described the street as a monster. and you know that this is the moment former us president donald trump was shot at a rally in pennsylvania. take a look what happened of a bullet breezes his right ear secret service agents, the former shield around him rises

the patience site, signs his supporters, the floor being taken to safety the f b. i says it was an assassination attempt. a spectator was shot in the head and died instantly, according to an eye witness. to other people were hit and are in critical condition . trump later posted this message on his social media platform. it was god alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening. we will see or not, but instead remain resilient in our face and defiant in the face of wickedness. our love goes out to the other victims and their families. a witness

told bbc news that he saw the suspect and informed law enforcement moments before he pulled the trigger. we noticed the guy crawling the army. you know, they are throwing 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, crowing up the roof and he had a gun right. he had a rifle. right. we could clearly see what the rifle. absolutely. we're pointing out them. the police are down there running around on the ground where like a man, this guy on the roof with a rifle in the police are like hall work. you know? like like any know what's going on. you know, we're like a raise you and what we can see if i'm right here, we see him. there is he's calling. and next thing, you know, i'm like, i'm thinking myself, i'm like, why is trump still speaking? why have they not pulled him up the stage? i'm standing there pointing at him for, you know, 2 or 3 minutes secret service was looking at us from the top of the barn. i'm

pointing at that roof. just standard or like this. and next thing, you know, by transferring out, authorities killed the suspect 20 year old thomas matthew. see he was a registered republican from pennsylvania. the secret service is under pressure to explain what led to this major security breach. trump was targeted just days before he will be confirmed as the republican presidential nominee and election year that was already turbulent, has now taken a dark turn in america. a and u. s. presidential biden spoke again about an hour ago from the white house, and during that press conference, he outlined the next steps as this investigation continues. here's what we're going to do 1st. mr. trump is

a former president. you're nominated. republican party already receives a heightened level of security and i've been consistent in my direction of the secret service to provide him with every resource capability and protective measure necessary to ensure is continued safety. second, i've directed the head of the secret service to review all security measures for all security matters for the republican national convention, which is scheduled to start tomorrow. and 3rd, a direct and independent review and national security. yesterday's rally to assess exactly what happened. and we'll share the results of that independent review with the american people as well. a nearly rise liquid, dw correspondence defense. simon's he was standing outside the white house and he says, security forces are on high list. now let me say the following. it is really imperative to understand that all the local, state and federal agencies, security and safety agencies from the f b i, georgia,

department of homeland security, and so on secret service they are knowing the higher gear already and elevated security policy. you can see it actually here, right? the army. we won't be able to be way down there at the white house and do this here for you talk to you. but we're pushed back and source pushed back now across the lafayette park here. and that is just the middle thing, but this is the implementation of a different safety and security posture, which is already here implemented and which will be of course, implemented in milwaukee. you will see that in the next couple of days. lots of lots of police, lots of secret service, lots of prevention and monitoring behind the scenes and visible for anybody who is there and to viewers on tv. and that's where we are right now. in america. the president has to come out to make sure that everybody stays kind of home and that anybody who is involved in campaigning for one or the other party is cooling down

the language are less. and i'm also the less hate. if you really seen what you say against the other person would be a political contender, but do not be enemies, steph, and simon's day, well, i'm joined now by the w. washington bureau chief unit paul who's in milwaukee for the republican national convention, which gets on the way on monday. and this is great to see you. we just hood job. i didn't speak a 2nd time off to the trump's using how are these remarks going down with the republicans? republicans where you are yeah, i'm the president biden. of course, try to do the same thing. what you tried to do last night, immediately off to the news broke. uh that uh, president. trump was a shot, a tier we talked to many republican borders and also the delegates who are here a to nominate president, a former president. trump is the presidential candidate. and they of course say

that they don't trust to buy it, and many of them go even further saying that he and his white house is behind the attendant, attempted s o c nation, saying that because he biden wouldn't have any other chance to beat donald trump. therefore, they kind of hired this shooter. i'm of course, just quoting those republicans. we talked to, but i tell you many, many things like that here in milwaukee. certainly, some conspiracy theories going around in this. there is a lot of scrutiny on how the shooting on trunk could have happened. i'm interested . can you just give us a sense of the security situation where you are at the convention today? yeah. is the stuff on just uh sides uh, what is going on in washington dc is obviously also happening here. i mean, this is the 1st convention i'm covering for dw, and security is always high, of course, because there's always

a presidential candidate and other high end lawmakers. but this time you have a feeling there is something else going on. we talk to security folks here on the streets are all very, very nice, but of course the always taking extra level of measurement. also, you know, we are here in the convention center where the delegates will gather a tomorrow for a couple of days. and then to elect, finally donald trump, you'll hear some music probably. there are some sound checks going on and it was also extra hard to get in here. unix extra pauses to be allowed to, to get into this building. now in this donald trump is called the unity and resilience off to the shooting. now you personally have covered trump for quite some years. what do you make of this statement? well, i think um, he knows exactly what he's doing. he knows that there's a time to destination,

give some really some kind of leverage. if i can say that on to you, a choice to be even more presidential. but he sometimes does. he tries to tell the worlds to kind of convince the americans that she is the opposite of spreading hades, that she's really able to take the white house to go back into the white house because he wants unity. so he will definitely do everything to present themselves as very presidential and being able to fulfill the task of a president for the coming years. that was the w. washington bureau chief in his poll from the republican national convention in milwaukee. that gets underway on monday. eunice, thank you for that. so we'll place an allen ease with the rice groups the think tank in washington, and i asked him whether he thought to us democracy is now under the trees. i don't believe democracy is under threat. no, i think this is rather a symptom of

a law or running issue and you asked which is that basically the us is that the only major democracy that has a high degree of distrust among his own viruses. it's very difficult for you to, for the restaurant election is not disputed or not. so there's some degree of skepticism by at least a portion of the electric. i'm sure i think that this is also an addict of the increasing political polarization and division that we see in our country. i don't think that the suggest that democracy itself is at risk, but rather this is the most egregious and most obvious symptom of a long running issue, increasing whores. ition, are you talking about distrust and polarization? do you think this you're seeing on the back of that is going to change how politics in the us is done? i don't think this will change your politics, but if anything, i think that this forces on each side maybe a little bit further into his own form, but we saw republicans and democrats alike. speaker johnson and president bind, does come out and condemn violence. is sort of in every form. however,

we've also seen comments that from j. d. vance in terms got that reiterate some of the more aggressive into this measure night messaging that we've seen and recently . so i think unfortunately, this pushes each sy further into its own sort of partners in the corner, rather than bringing a moment of unity in our political environment. trump himself reacted. i guess within seconds of this happening, he raised his fist in a signal of defiance and strength. that's of course, really going around around the world. how do you think this quote impacts the upcoming election? the with the images for president trout raising his fist framed by an american flag over him, secret service agents trying to protect him. bloodied from this attack is going to be the defining image of the selection that will be the image that is played ad nauseum when you discussed the 2024 election. what the effect of this was attacked was, was to strengthen trumps position. she leads, binding in most polling is gonna be very difficult for president binding to make a ground as this removes or notifies democrats and major attack or chris trump,

which is the he was a threat to democracy. trunk can now claim very legitimately that the threat to democracy, the threat to our way of governance comes from both sides. some people like you, i guess, believe that it will benefit trump, but could americans perhaps fear a possible vengeful president and possible violence and choose not to vote for him because of that you don't think that that's the reaction that you're going to see. i think the president trump's approaches is claims of uh, you know, the threats of retribution gets this political allies were in place long before this attack. i think if that was of the year that was going to motivate their behavior, it's already motivated. so i don't know that this changes the background dynamic. they can solidifies from supervisor space. maybe the on the not obvious outcome of this attack is it also strengthens present, binds position witness 40. the attack overshadows are actually uh no biased. any calls from with the democratic party and bind to step down. so if anything,

i think the business that this attack at the effective strengthening sort of binds position is the democratic nominee, but also trump strips and the overall race. speaking of president biden, he has called the unity, he's suspended, he's campaign. what do you think we can expect from democrats in the upcoming days and weeks? and i think for president biden, you're seeing exactly what we'd expect it whether or not this attack occurred, present by the spacing increasingly uh, sort of widespread calls move democrats of want him to withdraw. he survived those who spilt enough with the coalition to push back against them, respected that he would probably go dark during the republican national convention this week. this really reinforces it by and not being in the spotlight really helps his efforts to try it sort of build up or repair his intro position and the party from other democrats. i think the only thing you can expect is universal condemnation of political violence in all shapes and forms to do otherwise would be to play directly into republican messaging as was to undermine different press,

longstanding message of opposing any sort of political violence where the machine was quite an island from the rice of group in washington, dc. quite and thank you very much for your insights. today is a reminder of our top story that way. following for you, us presidential i bought and says he's ordered us do a swift and start investigation into the shooting of donald trump's speaking at the white house bite and said he'd had a sort of a good conversation with trump. following the incident in pennsylvania more on d, w dot com, thanks for watching the the, the job for the.