they need to look at thepolitic. i mean, anyone who calls this former president ex he extend el threat has blood on their hands. that's president biden. that would include former president obama. anyone else who he demonizes someone in the manner he's been demonized has put a bull's-eye on his back for every little 20-year-old, every wing nut out there who is driven, whipped into a frenzy by that sort of rhetoric. >> this is a stunning time in american history. there's was already going on with the presidential election before this. the landscape has completely changed in the aftermath of yesterday's events. chris, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> fox and friends weekend starts right now. >> we begin with a fox news alert. it is a historic morning in the

united states of america. overnight, former president donald trump arriving in new jersey after an attempted assassination on his life during his rally last night in pennsylvania. >> trump says a bullet pierced the top of his right here as he ducked to the ground before standing back up. moments later, one rally goer was killed in the shooting, two others were critically hurt overnight. the fbi identifying suspect shoot her as 20-year-old thomas matthew crooks of bethel park pennsylvania. there is a photo of what you appears to be him dead on the roof top. >> investigators say crooks took position on a roof 130 yards from the podium and opened fire before being shot and killed can. we're going to show you the full unedited version of the moment shots rang out. watch. >> take a look at what happened -- >> get down, get down, get d

down. >.[screaming] >> on the ready. on you. move! move. go. >> are we ready? >> we're good. shooter's down. >> we're clear. >> let's move, let's move. >> we're clear. >> come on, sir. come on. >> i got you, sir. >> let me get my shoes.

>> sir, we've got to -- >> let me get my shoes. >> wait, wait. >> usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! usa!

>> two minutes unedited that tells a story that we'll be talking about for the history books. there are many ways to go about this discussion. we will throughout the next five hours this morning, there's an important discussion to be had about the secret service, their response, their preparation ahead of time. there's an important conversation to be had about the environment, the climate in the united states of america that led to this moment right here playing out on your television screens. but perhaps where we can start is with the two minutes you just you saw unedited, shocking, sad, and iconic from donald trump. and his response to an assassination on his life. defiant and strong. >> incredible. it will be one of those you will remember where you were moments. i was watching this in real-time. i looked down and if you were watching it, you heard pops, which were unlike anything -- so i looked up. and when i looked up, he had already dropped to the ground.

and so at that point, anybody -- i mean, you're thinking the worst of the worst. and then you see the blood which could have -- that could have been one spot where he was shot. yeah, think about it. one inch, half inch, a grazing of an ear by the grace of god. it's a miracle of the turn of a head. it's a 130-yard shot that we now learned got seven or eight shots off is what it sounds like. if that banner's right, narrowly escaped death. yet, he was defiant to the fist pump to the crowd. that was the moment you exhaled a little bit and said okay he's capable enough to walk and to do that, then he survived this. but it had this moment of oh, my goodness, we thought something like this could help happen and it. >> you're so right. it's just a millimeter probably of a difference. he's an animated speaker so he

moves around. he was referencing something on -- he had a big screen up, talking about immigration and the terrible numbers that have changed in the wrong direction since he was elected and i think it was that kind of movement but there was something else that if you're a believer and there are a lot of people who pray for this man. i've actually talked to him about it. we talked to him about it in our interview. i talked to him off camera once about i he told me he has always welcomed the prayers of so many, how many people come can up to him and pray for him. i don't know if any president has had more photos of laying hands over him and praying, you have to wonder if those prayers -- i personally believe that's what protected him in that moment and history would absolutely have been change inned that moment. let's not forget there's somebody in that crowd who died, that there are two people who are critically injured and that everybody in that crowd went in

there with hope for the future and i just can't imagine how they felt in that moment but again, how reassured felt by that. >> donald trump did start a gofundme for the individual who lost their life in the crowd. there was one critical injury, one person lost their life in the crowd. there is a gofundme to help the family who is dealing with a loss this morning. donald trump did post on truth special last night. he -- truth social last night. he said i want to thank secret service and all of law enforcement for their rapid response. i want to extend don co-lens toss the -- condolences to the person at the rally who with was caged the family of another person who was badly injured. it's incredible such an act can take place in the country. nothing is known at this time about the shooter whos was dead. the bullet pierced the upper part of my right here. i knew immediately something was

wrong, i heard a whizzing sound, shots, felt the bullet ripping through the skin. much bleeding took place. i knew what was happening. god bless america. here is a link i president put up on the screen of the link to the gofundme. >> eric trump was commenting on this. he said he called up the hospital and spoke to the medical professionals there and said how's my dad doing and they said we've never seen anyone tougher than this man. you just believe it. >> yeah. i mean, the presence of mind, he did everything right in that moment and kept his wits about him in a way that most of us -- this is a military training type thing to have your wits that way. but it also has this eerie sense of being something that, i don't know, not that you felt like was going to happen but you felt like could happen. >> i think a lot of people felt

that. >> we said this from the couch a long time. what should trump do? he should double his security. they've gone after him in every single way attempting to vilify him, arrest him. >> i don't think there there's a sense of foreboding, i think there's a sense of inevidence stability that something like this would -- inevitableity that something like this would happen. he's in giant crowds at rallies and also ufc fights. we know the climate, the high hyperbole, the exec layings. the speculation. there was a sense of inevitableity this would come. for the grace of god, a millimeter and we would live in a different time line in history. >> 100%. yesterday we were talking about what disarray the democrat party is in right now because of the

condition of joe biden. if something had happened to donald trump, that little millimeter, what would -- we would be in the same position as the political party, the republicans would be in that position. i think it's scary. and the other thought i had as i was watching that video, while i love the d the defiance and thet up and the wherewithal that comes from the fact that i think he knew this moment was inevitable. i expected secret service to completely cover his body as he was coming off the stage and i was really surprised by that. >> that's another angle, will, as you opened of this with, looking at t the reaction of secret service, of their capabilities. we'll have secret service agents on the show throughout the morning who can give us color on was it done right, was it rapid enough? is this department distracted by other things, are they focused on other things? did they have the man power they

should have with the overwatch, the line of sight that was allowed to happen, a is that standard practice? a roof top 130 yards away uncovered, outside the bounds. i know you can't -- when he goes to a bodega in new york city, you can't cover every window of an elevated position in new york, you can't cover everything all the time but on a fair ground field where you've got a line of sight, is that the type of risk you normally take? all of these are questions that are going to have to be answered. you're right, the climate we live in, the secret service, but ultimately god spared the former president yesterday and imagine the world we would be in if that shooter had tragically been affected. >> he said let me get my shoes. so his shoes came off in the scuffle there? >> i would imagine, yeah. >> let's get more details. cb cotton is live in butler, pennsylvania where the rally was

last night and has more information on the suspect. cb. >> reporter: good morning, will, rachel, pete. like you were just talking about, there are so many unanswered questions especially for the secret service. meanwhile, we are less than half a mile away from the scene of what the fbi is calling an you attempted as as as as a medicate former president, president trump. the moodi mood iso somber. you can see him walking down the plane unassisted. the injuries are out of the camera's view. trump described the physical pain he endured on social media, as you mentioned, writing in part, quote, i was shot with a pull let that pierced the upper part of my right ear and the fbi saying this during a late night press briefing.

>> this evening we had what we're calling an an assassinatn attempt against our former president be, donald trump. there will be an investigation into what took place and how the individual was able to get access to the location remarks type of weapon he had. all that is days, weeks and months of investigation. >> reporter: the secret service which was responsible for securing the rally perimeter releasing a statement after the assassination attempt that the shots came, quote, from an elevated position outside the rally venue. people across the country are now left wondering how the named shooter, 20-year-old thomas ma had through crooks of bethel park, pennsylvania, was able to access a roof top so close by, leaving the former president and rally goers ducking for their lives. >> a lot of people thought someone stuck fireworks in.

there was no cell service because everyone was on the phones. it's all rumor in the crowd. there's no actual information. >> complete chaos. we all went to the ground and we didn't know what was going on. >> i was nervous that the shooter could possibly veigh out into the crowd, he doesn't like the president, he doesn't like us. >> they're crawling up the roof of the building beside us, like hey, man, there's a guy on the roof with a rifle. i'm like why is trump still speaking, why have they not pulled him off the stage. i'm pointing at him for two, three minutes and next thing you know, five shots rang out. >> reporter: what happened there? we're all wondering. law enforcement sources confirm to fox that an ar style rifle was recovered from the scene. back to you. >> thank you, cb. >> thank you very much. >> that man also said, you guys, that for two to four

minutes, he said it's hard to recall, he's in the moment, right, he's trying to alert law enforcement and secret service. there's a guy on the roof with a rifle. unbelievable that it would take that long. >> the question -- this was outside the secure perimeter is where the guy was yelling but if there were law enforcement there and there's someone yelling someone's got a gun next to the president of the united states, the fact it would take any amount of time is staggering. were they under-resourced? we don't know. >> was it the b team? not the a team? >> and there's a lot of confusion in these moments too. >> of course. >> there is. but not before. not before. you should be reacting before. there's no confusion then. there's standard operating procedure before that. has everything been secured, are we responding to something, see something, say something. if someone's seeing something and saying something, you should be responding. >> if you're in an urban environment with multiple roof

tops and multiple windows,difficult to secure the location. this is more difficult to understand. this is a rural area. outside of the buildings behind donald trump where the rally is taking place -- >> where the counter snipers were. >> where the counter snipers were exactly to to your point. thrnt really only -- there's really only one other roof top. the counter sniper team above on your screen right now you think would be exclusively trained on the roof tops right they so why is someone allowed to go onto that roof top? were they allowing people to to view from that location? i don't think so. maybe there were a lot of people on the roof. i don't know. but is secret service counter terrorism really careful? okay, does that person have a rifle, double, tripl triple che, because of the thoughts with law

enforcement. why was that not secured before the event? why was there someone on the roof. >> let's not underestimate this. this president, president trump, is the most famous man in the world. as we have talked before, the most likely person if you had to pick a public figure who could have assassination attempt on him, most people would pick president trump. he has upset all the right people in the power structure so of course the things you're talking about, will, should have been done in advance. the other question i have, i can't wait to get our guests on, i mean, where are the drones overseeing and catching a guy on top of a roof top? >> let's go to the next guest and get some of the questions answered. he was the case handler when president reagan was shot in 1981. retired secret service agent jeff james, he joins us now. jeff, thanks for being here. really go anywhere you want.

i mean, was standard protocol missed here? was it followed hear? what was your perspective of the sort of before, during and after? >> well, one of the things i want to say about the commentary regarding the sniper teams is i think it's an easier task when you're looking at that picture that we're all seeing that just encompasses that small part of the fair grounds. the secret service sniper teams train out to 1,000 yards. that's the targets they look for. so i think if you would expand that picture out to cover 1,000-yard pie and then realize that one sniper team has 180 degrees of responsibility in that pie, there's probably a lot more targets that they're eyeing than just those buildings that are right there in that short distance. there's tree line. there's elevated natural features. there's homes. so that's the one thing i would say is they're looking at a lot more than just those buildings sitting right there in front of

them around again it's not just near, it's far away also so that is a tough mission. >> so i think that's very fair, jeff. i appreciate that bit of context. if we zoom that a picture out maybe there is many more potential roof top environments that they're monitoring as well. that being said, still, does it not surprise you that is certainly the most -- that is certainly the closest proximity roof top to president trump's location. does it not surprise you that someone was allowed on that roof top during his rally? >> it does. but i also -- the other thing i don't know is where the secure perimeter ended. you know, when you look at these outdoor events -- the reasons the candidates love the outdoor events, if there were in pittsburgh they can get 18,000 people. these outdoor events, they can

get 30,000 people. there's so many more faces. but you have to say there's a stopping point and when you get beyond that, it's tough to secure this unending amount of land regardsless of how big the outdoor evid event is. i'll be curious to see as time goes where the secure perimeter ended. i know they're saying this is outside of it. and maybe there could have been assets used like local law enforcement to say, all right, this is your responsibility, all you do is worry about this and let us know -- don't let anybody up there and let us know if you see anything that you think shouldn't be there. >> given what we're saying, that donald trump is the most likely candidate maybe in the world to have an assassination athe tempt tried on him and you're looking at the images and the number of secret service and law enforcement that you could gather, do you feel like that's enough agents on the scene for somebody who is such a high

value target as president donald trump? >> well, it's funny, throughout my i career, i never thought we had enough people around any attendee. you always want more man you power. i think when you look at the reaction and, look, i don't know about the person who worked in the outer perimeter, the middle perimeter, when you look at the reaction right around him, how many people came in and enveloped him and created that wall of body armor and flesh around him and then even more when he got down the stairs and they were pushing him toward the truck, i think that was a pretty significant response of manpower. the one criticism -- >> when you talk about them surrounding him and the amount of flesh, his head was visible and he was able to fist pump which the crowd loved but if there was another shooter somewhere, that looked like a very dangerous situation. i've always seen -- maybe i'm just watching movies. i remember the ronald reagan

case where it was like full coverage. >> whisked off. >> whisked off. you never saw him. so how standard was what we saw there? >> that's the one thing i've said throughout this, since it occurred. the one thing i would have liked to have seen done differently is once they get to him, they should have grabbed him and gone, look, he wants to wait for his shoes, that's great. but no, we're going. so if i had one criticism, that would be it. i would have liked to have seen him off the stage and into armored vehicles more quickly. once you get in the armored vehicles and you're locked down you're pretty safe and you can get moving at a pretty high rate of speed, quickly if you had to. that is the one chris civil i had. >> if you're training this, how quick should it happen? this took over a minute. what's the standard? should that have happened in 20 seconds? should sh have been moving the minute they you touched him. >> if it's me, once i realize he can get to his feet, the feet

are moving. it would be hard to put a stopwatch on it but if it's me, yeah, we're getting to our feet and we're going. we know where the cars are, they're close by. let's go. >> i want to stick with that two minutes for a moment or what happened on the stage. if that is your one concern if you removed the material, you said that took too long, in your estimation, what went wrong? as rachel said we all see this moment, it's iconic of president trump saying wait, wait, wait. raising had his fist to the crowd. why did it take so long. president trump has a commanding presence. he's going to be in charge of many situations but you have to wonder is this a situation where he shouldn't have been in charge, where someone in charge of his life should have been commanding the situation? why did it go in a way that right now your gut instinct is, that's not the way it should have gone in this moment? >> well probably simply is

because that moment of confusion and things aren't clear -- from what i heard, and i can't confirm this, by that point they had already heard a communication saying the shooter's down. >> yes. >> but rachel mentioned recall yesterday, what if that was just a distraction and the real attack was coming and there's four more guys with guns. >> exactly. >> so yeah, again, it just coms back very simply to me, we're moving and you don't -- sir, you don't get a say. we'll get your shoes later. we're going. >> yeah. how will this change security going forward? i mean, the rnc starts tomorrow, huge gathering of people. does this -- would this change protocol, in your mind? >> well, the rnc plans have been in place for that, they started working on that, secret service started working on that over a career ago. that's pretty much locked down. all the barriers are already up. when they say the outer

perimeter, here's how big it is. when they say an outer perimeter, they're talking six or seven blocks away. there may be changes made in the outer perimeter to maybe something as simple as more barriers so cars can't -- unwanted cars couldn't access but you can guarantee that people aren't walking along beside the building, right beside the building with a handgun or especially a rifle. because that's how secure it is. so i don't know that much is going to need to change there because it is -- the perimeter for that is just tremendous. >> jeff james, thank you for your background, your service and your time, giving us insights this morning. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> all right. former president trump and president biden spoke on the phone last night. let's turn to madeleine rivera live in washington. >> reporter: good morning, guys. the general feeling from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle is that this is not the time for partisanship.

the president making this statement saturday night. >> look, there's no place in america for this kind of violence. it's sick. it's sick. it's one of the reasons why we have to unite this country. >> do you think this was an assassination attempt? >> i don't know enough to -- i have an opinion but i don't have any facts. i want to make sure we have all the facts before i make some comment, anymore comments. thank. >> reporter: the president is back at the white house cutting his weekend trip to rehoboth beach short. president obama saying we don't know exactly what happened we should all be relieved that former president trump wasn't seriously hurt and use this moment to recommit ourselves to civility. bush stating laura and i are grateful that president trump is safe following the you cowardly attack on his life and we commend the men and women of the secret service for their speedy

response. robert f kennedy junior whose father was shot and killed during his presidential campaign saying this as well. >> my prayers go out to president trump and a his family and we all -- i think every american whether you like president trump or not can have a prayer of gratitude that this was not worse. and also a prayer for his recovery and for healing in our country. >> reporter: former president trump is gaining some new endorsements in the wake of the incident including from elon musk. meantime, house republican leaders say they want answers regarding the security measures that were implemented at the event. the chair of the oversight committee, congressman james comer, is planning to hold a hearing on july 22nd. he's asking the secret service director, kimberley chetle. to y appear. >> a lot of questions for the secret service, for assets that were deployed, given to this.

there have been atempts to reduce, to negate donald trump's secret service detail. if you're a convicted felon, they talked about removing secret service protection, add ad to that the continued denial for secret service protection for robert f wendy junior. there's a lot of talk about the politicization of this. >> i wrote a book about what's happening inside the military. same thing happening inside the secret service, whether dei, gender quotas, what is the institution focused on, is it the core purpose or other distractions? moments like this, it's laid bare, what are your capability as, how d how good are you at y? >> you're not just speculating or assuming that because of research you've done about what's going on in the military. the head of the secret service who is a woman was on cbs saying

that her goal, her stated goal for the agency was to have a 30% female force. that is a very unbelievable mission goal for something that is so important, because it's not just protecting donald trump's life but if people are a afraid to run for office, that is a disservice to the entire citizenry. talk about undermining and threatening democracy. this happens in latin america all the time. good people don't run because they're afraid they're going to get killed. we can't have that in america. >> you know who i want in that moment, i want a big dude. i want a big dude that can lift me up, carry me off the stage, block my body. donald trump is 6'2", 6'3", he's a big dude. you want big guys around. >> if that was my dad, my husband, i would be really upset

right now. >> our next guest was standing in the front row, feet from trump when shots rang out. pens p pennsylvania delegate, me mcmullen joins us now. >> i've got to catch a flight to m milwaukee to the convention in 20 minutes. >> we'll keep it quick. what did you see, what was it glike repeat the question, please. >> walk us through what you saw, you were right there, your reaction. >> yes, i was right there. i was to the left if you're looking at the podium. i was at the left of the president if you're looking center stage at the podium. 20 feet with our u.s. senate candidate, abe mccormick and congressmen and we heard a p pop, pop, pop, and we're like what the heck is going on and there were other military people around us. we said hilt the decks it's gunshottings. we all hit the deck.

i was 20 feet from the president. we saw his -- him swatting his ear and after that, there were about 10 to 12 secret service agents pounce on him. to protect him. and we were just in shock and. ainawe, what just happened.i wat straight ahead. i've been to most trump rallies, eight or nine in pennsylvania since 2020, 2016. i've never seen anything like this. >> ism curious about the -- i'm curious about the state of confusion. in the moment, was it possible for you to understand not just where it happened but maybe where it was coming from. if you were stage left, i think that was the same direction where the shots came from. >> we weren't really sure. we just heard pop, pop, pop. we all hit the deck and a everybody said -- i heard six to

eight shots. of other people around me, five to six. i heard six to agent. it was like pop, pop. it was another burst again. we didn't know where they were coming from when they swooped onto the president. they all had their guns drawn like there was an active shooter in the crowd. i don't think they knew where its waitwas, where the shooter . >> you've had time to digest this. what are your thoughts about the response from law enforce glnt the law n for enforce inment n a great job. pennsylvania state police swooped in on the far left. one of the gentlemen behind me he was ultimately killed by the gunman. he was probably -- i was on the ground still. we stayed on the ground for at least 10 or 15 minutes. we hunkered down because that's what we were told to do by the

secretservice, like get down, gt down. there were military people in the group saying get down. the gentleman behind me was one of the ones shot and killed ultimately, unfofortunately. law enforcement did a great job of swooping in right away on the president. they hunkered him down, formed a prim tar around him. looked like 10 or 12 that jumped on him and got him down and the guys in tactical in machine guns were aiming, looking for something to shoot at, so -- >> the crowd, trump famously now pumped his fist. the crowd stood defiantly. it's almost as if there was a sense -- you've been to lot of rallies, i have too. something like this was going to happen. i mean, it just -- being there in that moment, did it feel like surreal? unreal? or almost like oh, my goodness

it's finally -- it's tragically happened? >> it was -- i mean, i didn't go to bed last night. by the time i got home, i had to pack for the convention, i've been up all night, still trying to digest this and like i said, law enforcement did a great thing, talking to a lot of people afterwards. people are in shock and awe that this happened. i was 11 years old when reagan got shot in 1981 and i'm 54 now and this is my sixth republican national convention, representing the disricht in pennsylvania. -- district in opinions vein ya. anyone of us could have been shot. unfortunately, the gentleman about 10 feet behind me, he ultimately perilled. there was a lot of blood looking behind and there was a lot of blood. it was so chaotic but it is what it is, folks. >> can i ask you one last question before we let you go and ca catch your flight?

you were very close to where president trump was. give us your thoughts on just his reaction to all of this based on your eyewitness account. >> i mean, when we were still hunkered down and when he got back up and i guess the secret service made a point to say i guess it was all clear, he was so energized. he got up and did the little fist pump, thumbs up and they whisked him away and the motorcade, i guess he went to the hospital afterwards. i mean, he was very positive, if you look at his quotes afterwards, he's not -- he's going to fight on. i think he's going to the ufc fight tonight in vegas if i recall or he's going somewhere like that. >> well, mike, not only do we appreciate you being with us this morning, we appreciate you being here, i know it was close last night. >> thank you very much. sorry for the -- i'm at the airport. sorry for the maybe technical difficulties or noise in the background but i really

appreciate your time, thank you very much for having me on. >> no apologies necessary. thank you for being with us this morning. >> if you've been to these events, the stage, you've got, i don't know, 15, 20 feet between the stage and the first person, right. there's always that gap. on tv you don't see it. there's 15, 20 feet, in case someone wants to rush the stage. if he's front row, someone is shot 10 feet behind him, that means one of the shots by the shooter was highly inaccurate. the first shot was clearly aimed. aafter that, whether counter snipers or of whatever, it became erratic fire. if you're hitting someone that far back in the crowd, you're no longer accurately aiming at trump. >> what's interesting is -- will asked such a good question. did you know where it was come g from? being there, you don't know which direction it's coming from.

you see the guy behind you getting shot, the president's getting shot, it must have been terrifying. >> i can tell you from having been shot at, you don't -- right away, the first instinct, you don't know necessarily. you start to develop a sense but six or eight shots like that, plus you've got counter sniper bees,s there's too much confusion for anyone to dial in. >> are you surprised that so many people remained standing? >> yeah. i think probably a lot of it's confusion. you hear him say we were on the ground for 10, 15 minutes which may sound surprising. that's protocol. what else are you going to do? i think there was -- there is a sense of defiance. there's a sense of they're not shooting at me, they're shooting aat him. >> the reaction of the crowd is interesting to analyze. you can hair a it on the video. the secret service says shooter

down, shooter down. this is all taking place feet from open microphones so you wonder how much of that is going out over to the crowd and they're analyzing essentially secret service commands in real-time over the microphone p. >> fascinating. more questions than an answer as the fbi takes over the investigation. >> tom homan joins us now. you've seen the tape just like us. what sticks out at you? >> first of all, his detail are the best of the best. look, i've been with the president many times, you know that. i've been the last few years been with him at mar-a-lago, on the road. i know the detail. they know me. they're the best of the best. what they did last night was miraculous. they did what they were trained to do, they got to the president quickly, protect him like they should. even though the president knows me by first name, when i

approached the president regardless of where it is, he calls me over, i make eye contact with the detail, to get the hi sign, it's okay to approach. these guys are good. they proved it last night. there's a fail from the sniper being on a direct line to the president. i want to recognize the men and women who put themselves in harm's way, got on the president between them and they didn't know at the time the shooter was down, these are brave men and women who did an excellent job, so god bless them. >> really quick question. can you help us understand the chain of k3457bd? command? secret service, is that under homeland security. >> it is under homeland security which is a concern for me because who oversees homeland security. >> alejandro mayorkas. >> i've been down there many times. the threats against the president come in daily. they come in daily. i understand that. when i was i.c.e. director under president trump i had death threats against me and my family. i had 20 of u.s. marshals

joining me and my family. i couldn't go to dinner with my wife and kid without being in a bulletproof limousine to have dinner. i'm tom homan. i'm nobody. this comes for president trump every day. knowing the dangers and threats coming in every day you would think they would never be denied additional secret service security. this is what he needs. and i guarantee you'll see an uptick in security apparatus. i think things in m milwaukee is going to change. this guy is in extreme danger of people hurting him. >> i want you to stay with us for anyone just waking up, we're going to watch the whole unedited video one more time. stay with us, tom. >> take a look at what happened. >> get down, get down, get down. >> what are we doing?

[screaming] >> hold, hold. on your ready. on you. move! move. go. >> clear. >> are we ready? >> we're good. >> shooter's down. we're good to move. >> are we clear? >> we're clear. >> let's move! >> we're clear. >> come on. >> let me get my shoes. >> i've got you, sir. >> let me get my shoes. >> hold onto your head. >> let me get my shoes.

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version of what took place. with us is tom homan, former i.c.e. a director. you've been to so many rallies, in so many situations. as you watch that take place gone, what are your thoughts? >> well, look, i have been on stage at his rallies. i've been on stage shoulder to shoulder with him at rail a liss. rallies.people questioned shoulf the stage quicker? first of all, they came quickly and covered the president. they all have ear pieces in. they're in direct communication with incident command. was incident command telling them to stay down the escape vehicle isn't quite there yet. there's a lot of communication going on that people don't understand. you look at the video, you don't know the communications within secret service command going on at that time. i think they did a great job, putting themselves in harm's way without hesitation, covering the president. the president is still the boss.

he has some decisions on how to handle him. i don't particularly agree with that. i think secret service agents should have command of the situation. there's a lot missing pieces that will come out during the investigation. when did they decide to leave the stage? was that based on a command through the ear pieces that it's now safe, the escape vehicle is there? we just scanned, we don't see additional shooters. we'll have to see the investigation roll out on this. there's hundreds of agents investigating every incident within this command decision. >> tom, sadly does any of this surprise you, considering the rhetoric, considering how he's been described an existential threat, bad as hitler, dictator? people have been characterizing him in a certain way. it made something like this -- almost like felt like this tragic calli cally could be

inevitable. >> i want surprised. when this happened yesterday -- i've been saying for a long time i'm concerned with the safety of the president. i was an i.c.e. director, the things me and my family dealt with, times by a thousand for this man. the left hates this man. even secretary mayorkas and the white house want to say maga is an tan extreme threat to the country. they fired people up to take take action against the president. the rhetoric is bad. i've been in the federal government for 40 years. i've never seen the rhetoric like this, the personal attacks against this man and his family. whether it's lawfare, the constant negative press in the media every day, saying this guy is a threat to seam sigh, we need to -- democracy, we need to get this guy out of the contest for the presidency, we need to get rid of this guy, over and over and over again. so i was not surprised. i've been worried about his safety for a long time.

i still am. this is another example of this administration concentrating on the maga people, the maga supporters being a danger to the country. no, look what happened with thousands of riots where officers were killed, hundreds of law enforcement officers were seriously injured. yet, the vice president, kamala harris looking to bail these people out. that's the real threat. the real threat are those in this country that want to eliminate this man because they're afraid he's going to be president again and change what they've got put in place so i'm concerned for him today. i will be concerned for him this week. i'll be with him you couple times this week. i'm concerned every day for the safety of this man because there are people in the world that hate him and want him dead. that's just a stone cold fact. >> yeah. you know, tom, i've been equally worried about donald trump and about this moment coming which has come to pass. i thought about it a lot as well. just like you have. you mentioned secretary

mayorkas, the head of homeland security at the top, that doesn't inspire a lot of confidence. you also mentioned the investigation that of course is going to come because of this building 130 feet away, how did somebody get up there. it seems egregious and negligent. we will see. there will be an investigation. that investigation, tom, is going to be done by the fbi, the same fbi that couldn't find the j6 pipe bombers, the same fbi that raided mar-a-lago. how confident are you in an fbi investigation? >> i'm very confident in the street officers. i know a lot of these guys. they're in it for the right reasons, they put their lives on the line every day for the right reasons. i'm concerned about the leadership. there will be several investigations. there will be an investigation on the incident itself. what could have done better? what worked, what did not? every incident i commanded, after the incident, everybody

gets together, what could have been better, what could have been faster, what didn't work. the whole incident, the security of the incident will be investigated. there's going to be another team of investigators looking at the shooter, who is this guy. go through social media, go through the computer, search his home, talk to his family, the talk to his friends, why did he do this? who else knew about this and failed to notify law enforcement. that's a separate thing going on. the third thing going on, i guarantee you, there are hundreds of men and women sitting down today figuring out how are we going to adjust add the security apparatus around president trump to make sure he stays safe. it won't be the same today as it was yesterday. i guarantee it. someone like me, i have a close relationship with him, i'm sure there's new rules put in place when i approach him. i think you're going to see three different things going on at the same time. i think the ground, the agents on the ground who most of them -- i never met an fbi agent or secret service agent that didn't love this guy and they're law

enforcement to the core. ground guys i have faith in. the leader pshship i have concen with, such as secretary mayorkas. >> thanks for being with us and your insight. >> thanks for having me. >> you got. right now, former president trump is recovering in new jersey after he was released from the hospital pretty quickly last night. >> fox news medical contributor dr. marc siegel joins us now. dr. siegel, welcome and good morning and i'm so sorry -- >> good morning, guys. >> we're happy to see you but sad to see you under such circumstances. you know the president as well. what is your take-away from the medical perspective of what you saw and what your concerns are based on the video footage we've been showing all morning long? >> you know, rachel,s there's two issues, one is the psychological, the other is the medical. i'll start with the psychological. i think pete having been in war, will, i think agree with this.

this immediately became a war like situation with bullets flying and note that the president first knew instinctively to get down. not everybody would do that. i mean, he act ad ed like you wd if you were in a war, hit the ground. when he had been there for a minute or two, he rose up, put up a fist and a told america i'm strong, i have courage, you should have courage too. what a stirring moment of leadership. from a medical point of view, that bodes very, very well for a full psychological recovery because it's variable. pete will tell you it's variable. i've treated many gunshot victims in the emergency room over the years, hundreds, but it's all different. when you initially respond like that you recover psychological. 25% inches didn't of post traumatic stress after being shot or shot at. with that response, you recover.

really stirring. second point is medical, rachel. which is the ear is a very vascular area a so he had a lot of bleeding from that. they got him to the local emergency room. we don't know if he had sutures or not. i would suspect he probably did. there's a nerve in the ear. i bet that was missed. but there's an artery there. he probably lost blood. i'm positive that they covered that up right away, that they put pressure on it, that they closed it. but so he'ses perfectly fine from that point of view. he may have lost hearing temporarily in that ear. i don't know that for a fact. i have been monitoring it. i have sources at the scene. everybody that was really shook up, that almost got shot, or people that did, obviously, we lost people but he set an example of courage in the face of that, that people rally to. the last point is, you know, the temporal bone is like an inch away from where that hit. if he had literally been looking

slightly differently, a little bit more towards the crowd, he probably -- 70% death rate from the temporal bone, if the bullet enters the brain you're gone in that particular part of the brain. so we are so lucky. we're looking at a medical miracle here which i don't think anyone has out it that way yet. this is a medical miracle that it grazed his here and didn't go into the brain. unbelievable and such a stirring sign from god that he recovered from this. >> amen to that. medical miracle. >> dr. siegel, i think we're down to a few seconds so i apologize if this is something we have to bail out very quickly here but one more question i would love to ask you on the medical side. obviously we had a lot of conversation cans over the past three weeks about the vigor or physical abilities of the sitting president of the united states. getting shot is only part of the story, it's the most important part but president trump went to the ground, was covered upper, tackled by five or six secret service agents, carried off the

stage, rushed off the stage. this was a physical event from start to finish that i would think from a medical perspective shows a great amount of strength. >> he's tough. showed he's tough. you know, medically we know he has low blood pressure, we knowes hardy, doesn't sleep a lot, plays a lot of golf. he is tough. carried off, thumbs up, fist up, but he went to the hospital and i was monitoring this local hospital, t butler memorial where he was in the er, he was discharged. you talk about tough. he wasn't like aren't you guys going to observe me overnight or anything? he was out of there in a matter of a couple hours. i agree he with your point, will. he's in really top shape. he'ses in good health. that shows under a situation like this, when you're shot, when you get up and then when you go home to new jersey from

the hospital, that's amazing. >> yeah. he was clearly fighting off the agents so that he could show his defiance. this is physical stamina, physical strength. as you pointed out, it's also a sign of his psychological mental strength as well to have the wherewithal to do that. great insight. great analysis. thank you, dr. siegel. we always love having you on. >> thank. rachel: well, our next guest nose all about the tragic costs of a divided political climate. will: joining us now with her message of peace and unity, alveda king. thanks for being with us this morning. your family -- >> thank you, my friends. will: -- has been through an incident that, sadly, did not turn out quite with the same ending. you have personal and, of course, historical perspective on a moment like this.

we'd just love to the hear your thoughts this morning. well, i say thank you, god, for the medical miracle that that it wasn't worse. and for those who have lost a family member, we are just grateful, god, that you still with us -- you're still with us. and and i'm just very grate ifful, father, in jesus' name. now, listen, it's very important for the family of president trump to remain encouraged, and i know they are. and, yes, he has courage. we here in america and humanity everywhere, take heart, take courage. fear not. turn that fear into prayer. that's what we had to do when my grandmother was shot, my uncle, martin luther king jr., was shot, when our homes were bombed. turn that fear to to prayer. don't be afraid -- turn that anger to prayer. be encouraged. pray for the families that have

actually lost today as well. i'm so grateful, yes, president trump is strong and we are praying for him and his family. pray for america, pray for humanity. and i'm trauma oohtizedded myself. it takes me back. it triggers me, of course, and so my if immediate response is for a peace, for unity, for forgivenesses, for repentance. that is what we must do at this hour. pete: time is short, we've got to the leave it there, but what a perfect way to round out this hour, with historical per if spective, with prayer. you're speaking and praying in realtime which i think is speaking for a lot of people in this moment. alveda king, god bless you. rachel: thank you, alveda. >> thank you. will: our breaking news coverage continues next. ♪ ♪ led me t o ancestry. it was amazing to see all the traits that i've gotten from my mother in my dna.

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