>> we're awaiting the arraignment of sean diddy combs in new york city. we saw the unveiling that became unsealed, all the charges in that indictment. the arraignment is at 2:30 p.m. eastern. he's set to be charged with racketeering, conspiracy, sex trafficking and threatening and physically abusing his victims, recording many of their sexual encounters and using the recordings against them so they wouldn't speak up. all of that alleged in this now unsealed indictment. soon the white house press briefing for the first time since the second attempt on former president trump's life. "america reports" is right now. >> john: thanks, harris.

an alert to this. hundreds of pagers exploding across lebanon. targeting members of the iranian backed hezbollah regimes. the region remains on the brink of all-out war. i'm john roberts in washington. if you had that on your bingo card, you're the big winner today. welcome. >> jacqui: good to be with you. i'm jacqui heinrich in for sandra smith. this is "america reports." hezbollah members were carrying the booby trapped pagers, thousands of people are said to be injured as a result of these explosions. iran's ambassador to lebanon among them. >> john: all of this instigated by the brutal october 7 attack on israel from hamas. >> jacqui: nate foy is live in tel aviv. has israel said anything about these explosions? >> so far they haven't, jacqui.

hezbollah has put out two different statements. they say they hold israel fully accountable for injuring fighters and civilians. according to lebanon's health minister, eight people have been killed and 2,700 injured after you mention it, pagers carried by hezbollah fighters spontaneously exploded when they received a message. this happened in beirut as well as southern lebanon. take a look. you can see this from a grocery store in a beirut suburb. the pagers that exploded were reportedly a new model brought in by hezbollah in recent months. hezbollah official speculates to reuters that malware may have caused the pagers to heat up and explode. so far israel has not said anything about these explosions. they happened in several different locations. so the medical response is vast. the lebanese red cross has

deployed 130 additional ambulances and over 500 medical workers. this happened after israelly officials said they're turning their attention to the northern border. the explosions happened as far as beirut, which is 260 miles north of where we are in tel aviv right now. so we do know, jacqui, that the chief of hezbollah is not injured as part of these explosions. the son of a hezbollah member of the lebanese parliament has been killed. according to iranian media, the iranian ambassador to lebanon is injured. his condition is reportedly good and he's expected to survive while hezbollah is already vowing revenge saying israel will receive what they call retribution for these explosions. back to you. >> jacqui: wow. incredible. thanks, nate. appreciate it. he is the most threatened man in the world right now.

president trump absolutely needs more protection. i think all americans would agree with that. again, it's up to the democrats, the onus is on them to turn down the rhetoric in this country. they're repeating that talking point because they have nothing else to run on in this election and it's shameful. >> john: we're awaiting two major live events at this hour. j.d. vance is holding his first campaign rally since former president trump faced an apparent second attempt on his life. we're expecting reaction from karine jean pierre. now the state of florida investigating the suspect's motives and movements leading up to the incident. we'll spoke with lauraleage sta. peter doocy is at the white house. first to the justice correspondent david spunt on where the investigation stands

at this hour. who do we know? >> from florida to the commonwealth of virginia where investigators in quantico are looking through routh's cell phone, his gopro camera and his car is being searched in florida. agents in north carolina and hawaii where he lives are talking to his friends, family and colleagues where they are trying to piece things together. right now, it doesn't appear anyone else was involved in his plans. plans that included camping out for almost 12 hours in the middle of the night sunday from 1:59 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. along the fence of the golf course. location data from the cell phone gave them that time frame. merrick garland in an unrelated event at the justice department spoke about what happened briefly. watch. >> we're grateful that he's safe. we will all work together to tirelessly to determine accountability in this matter. we will spare no resource in

this investigation. >> he is expressing gratefulness the former president is safe. ronald rowe yesterday afternoon, the secret service head, said he commend his team who saw the gun sticking through the bushes. there's still time to overwrite the playbook. today "the washington post" argues that trump should have the exact same protection as the sitting president, joe biden. rowe was laughing and looking around while talking to his tout. he has a detention hearing monday. there's more federal charges likely. the two gun charges were quick and guaranteed to keep him in custody than the meteor charges are expected to come down from the federal government. john? >> john: thanks, david. thank you. >> jacqui: continuing coverage

now. the white house is responding to the second apparent assassination attempt of former president trump. let's go to peter doocy live at the white house. >> jacqui, a few minutes ago in the oval offers, i had a chance to ask president biden if democrats need a new talking point. you'll see in this clip i'm about to show, i'm 99% sure that he fully heard and understood the question. this is how he responded. >> thank you, press. >> should people stop calling trump a threat with all of these attempts? >> nothing but it's been a lot of this for the last couple years in the biden-harris instruction administration. kamala harris said that donald trump is a threat to our democracy and fundamental freedoms. with your vote we'll stop him this november. trump allies say that's the talk that unstable people are taking the wrong way. >> you eventually have to

conclude the overwhelming majority people say we have to vote against this guy. there's enough nut jobs out there that will take the next step and say this guy is truly evil and dangerous if our democracy and system of government will be wiped out if this guy wins. i need to take this guy out. >> later on this afternoon, vice president harris will be interviewed by a panel of journalistics in philadelphia. so if she plans to chart a new course with her trump talking points, trump rhetoric, we will know very soon. jacqui? >> jacqui: thanks, peter. peter doocy. >> john: let's bring in florida republican congress woman laura lee. she's a member of the bipartisan task force investigating the first attempt of assassination at donald trump. i expect you'll include the most recent assassination attempt in your investigation as well. the "wall street journal" said this in an editorial about the security surrounding the former president. "donald trump needs president level security. a second apparent assassination

attempt called for biden level security." joe biden said to the secret service to give him the full package. jared moskowitz said if this is the highest, we need more. it's inadequate. there's not a single american that has faith in the secret service. what do you think about this? >> i think that's right. president trump needs a more elevated level of protection. i don't think he's all the way to the level that joe biden has right now. it's clear it's warranted in light of the seriousness of these threats against him. one thing that is a common theme is the perimeter of the protection. in both cases clearly that perimeter needed to be larger to keep the president safe. >> i want to ask you about the rhetoric coming out of the democratic party and peter's question to the president. does the party need a new line

of attack in this campaign? compared to the last attempted assassination, neither candidate with this one pause the campaigning. it resumed the day after. yet you do have the florida attorney general speaking out today about what kind of cause and effect this kind of campaigning language has had. let's play that for you real quick. >> at worst, this is an administration that has said some terrible things in terms of this president and its safety and we're seeing the results of that. >> yet, hillary clinton just last night continues it. listen to this. >> we can't go back and give this very dangerous man another chance to do harm to our country and the world. >> jacqui: your take on that. >> that kind of rhetoric is just appalling. it's what we've seen levied against president trump not just in recent weeks and months but for years. it's really time for democrats

to take responsibility. it's one thing to disagree about policies or disagree about their direction for america. but the way that they talk about president trump and the fact that they would do so even in the hours and the days immediately following an attempt like this is just shocking. they absolutely need to take responsibility for this kind of rhetoric and what it could do in the minds of somebody that maybe isn't mentally well or healthy. clearly we need to take this seriously, take the threat seriously and tone down that rhetoric as we go forward. >> john: so let's go to the bipartisan investigation in to the first assassination attempt. senator josh hawley released a whistle-blower's report. the lead agent responsible for the butler visit failed a key examination during training to become a secret service agent and known to be a low caliber agent. the hospital that trump was

taken was poorly secured. that whole day is an utter and complete breakdown of even the most basic security tenants. >> there's no question that that day was a breakdown of their entire operation. the planning, the coordination, the communication on the day of the event. that much is absolutely clear. so what we have been doing as a bipartisan task force is getting that minute by minute of the days leading up to understand how those failures happened and also how we can prevent them from happening again. of course, there's been discussion that there's not an adequate number of agents available in this heightened environment. we're hearing about that. one question that we have as a task force is, what about the rest of the department of homeland security? that is a massive agency. while we may need more secret service agents, it doesn't follow that we need to put more money on the problem. we may just need to have a bet area natural cyst of how to use those resources and how to use the agents and law enforcement personnel that we already have

in the federal government. >> jacqui: as i understand it's, senator hawley has submitted to your committee before other information that he got from whistle-blowers. what does it say to you that you're getting information from whistle-blowers and not necessarily from the agencies? are they being as forthcoming as they should be and to that point, is that why governor desantis is launching a state probe? >> to this point, the secret service haas been responsive to our request for documents from them, our request for briefings from them. we have a long way to go. on the state investigation, it's entirely appropriate that the state would have a parallel investigation of state crimes and attorney general moody would be doing that. that is also happening in pennsylvania. the state police in pennsylvania are investigating crimes there. our job here in congress is very separate and apart from that. we have a responsibility of oversight of secret service investigation of the event in butler, pennsylvania. at the end of the day, we have a responsibility to consider funding and resource questions

that may flow from this. >> john: have you surprised that we have not heard from mayorkas on this event? >> absolutely. it's a stunning failure. >> john: i pushed a button. >> at the end of it, it's his responsibility. he's been silent, he's not come out and vocally called for an increase in resources that they will do everything conceivable to make sure that we keep president trump safe. that's exactly what needs to happen from secretary mayorkas. >> john: thanks for joining us. good for you to come in today. >> great to see you. >> john: hope to see you soon. we have a stacked line-up of guests with analysis out of florida. ashley moody will be joining us with paul mauro and rand paul. stay tuned for that. >> jacqui: vice president harris is in route to philadelphia. she will sit down with an interview with black journalists. harris faulkner was on a stage with trump's interview with that

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>> john: the fbi and the u.s. postal service investigating a series of suspicious mailings sent to election officials. the bureau says some of the letters contain unknown substances.

the agency is working to determine how many letter whose were sent and who is responsible for sending them. they're urging the public to exercise care in handling mail, especially from unrecognized senders. >> the indictment alleges between 2008 and the present, combs abused victims to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation and conceal his con digit. >> jacqui: sean diddy comes is accused of running a sex racketeering empire. today the case was laid out against combs who is set to make his first appearance in court next hour. alexis mcadams has more. really something in that indictment. >> yeah, it took months of investigating to get to this

day. the attorneys said there was a lot that went into it. he will be in that courtroom behind me in a short time from now. investigators say that he abused women, not just physically but emotionally and sexually for more than ten years and got away with it because the people around him hid things. the prosecutors here in new york city say more charges could be coming. >> this investigation is ongoing. i encourage anyone with information about this case to come forwardnd to do it quickly. >> do it quickly as this continues to develop here on the ground. this stems back to 2016. a video was recorded in a hotel room. this was in 2016 inside of a los angeles hotel where diddy walked out wearing a towel when he found out his girlfriend was trying to leave. what did he do? he kicked her, threw her to the ground and grabbed her by the hair and pulled her back in the

hotel room where we don't know what went down. the music mogul though, it's not the first time investigators say he did something like this. it's a pattern that the feds have continued to find. watch here. this is a direct quote here from the documents this morning. combs among other things hit, kicked, threw objects at and dragged victims at times by their hair. these assaults resulted in injuries that took day or weeks to heal. diddy has been at the sender of the investigation for months. the feds raided his house in l.a. he was spotted in central park hours before he was taken in custody, walking around and relaxing, if that was at all possible when he knew what was coming. his lawyers said diddy came to the big apple because he knew this was on the horizon. >> he's going to plead not guilty. he's going to fight this with all of his energy and all of his might and the full confidence of his lawyers.

i expect a long battle with a good result for mr. combs. >> so did did's later also saying jacqui, that he's not perfect but he's not a criminal. we'll keep a close eye on this. >> jacqui: a jury will decide that. alexis, thank you. appreciate it. >> john: vice president kamala harris is on her way to philadelphia for an interview with members of the national association of black journalists. it comes a few weeks after former president trump's sit down with the same group that turned combative. let's bring in harris faulkner. you saw her on the stage during the former president's nabj interview in july. harris, i want to play a moment from that appearance at the nabj and get your take. listen to this. >> mr. president, i want to get into how you address some of the issues with black communities. i say that plural because we list in communities of color

that are different. we don't vote the same. it's not monolithic. as you come here today, i want to talk about something that bursts. this is the weight of the inflation on this country right now. how do you turn it around? >> the inflation is absolutely destroying our middle class, our working class, virtually every class. inflation is a disaster in our country. inflation is a country buster. it breaks every country. we had in my opinion the worst inflation we've had. people can't buy houses. they no longer have the american dream. young people, young black people, they don't have the american dream anymore. they can't buy a house. >> so what do you do? what is your plan? >> we have to bring down the costs of energy and that will bring down the costs of inflation. >> john: you were the one person on the stage that seemed interested in talking about the issues. how do you expect today's appearance of kamala harris at

the organization will be better? >> it better be better. it felt like an ambush with abc in july. either it seems like an ambush for kamala harris or they raise all votes with a high tide and make this whole thing better. it needed to be. being a lone voice to ask about real issues, it's not hard to do in the room i was in. this one i think will look decidedly different. i looked at the journalists that were there. i think they'll ask tough questions. we're hopeful. one journalist from politco will be there and another person that is a radio host on a the local public radio station in philadelphia. that's where there is taking place. of course, we can't miss the fact that this is a swing state where she's gone to go finally do an interview at nabj. they asked her to do this before

trump. what trump said, he was promised that she would be there. >> john: and she wasn't. >> no. >> john: going back to july 31, it got contentious at times. >> good, we have it. >> if i came on to a stage like this and i got treated so rudely as this woman treated me and i'm fine with it because it -- she was very rude, sir. very rude. it was a nasty -- it wasn't a question. she gave a statement. that wasn't a question. >> john: right out of the box, it was combative. you think it will be the same with kamala today? >> i want to put this in to context. now we've had two attempts on his live. that was days after the first one, the end of july. they didn't even start on that stage with glad you're okay. let's have a good conversation. going to hit you with a lot of tough questions, mr. president. glad you're well. couldn't start with a humanity and civility of things.

abc news again in the debate. still couldn't start off in that manner. didn't even mention it. he brought up his own assassination attempt on his life during the debate. so this one today, i don't see abc news on here. but i can't tell you what it's going to be like at the nabj. i was trying to figure out why the first one didn't have great questions. this has to. they better be fair and treat kamala harris the way they treated former president trump. meaning if somebody doesn't answer your question, you go again. if somebody doesn't answer, you go again. they didn't do it at the debate. they did it with trump at the debate and previously at nabj, but i want them to do it with kamala harris. by the way, viewers have known donald trump through a presidency already. they have known her as the sort of invisible woman as the vice president under biden until it came to the border. he put her front and center. she failed. other than that, we don't know much about her policies.

so it's incumbent upon these three journalists today, move the ball forward. the next interview is with oprah on thursday. >> john: that will be a hard one for sure. ken lemon is the president of the nabj. >> i've spoken with him many times. >> john: here's what he said. "as we have always stated, nabj does not endorse political candidates. this event will not be a campaign rally, but will be handled with respect to journalistic principles. yet look at how today's appearance is listed on the white house's official schedule. at 2:30, the vice president will participate in a campaign event. this event in philadelphia will be pool press. the nabj might not think this is a campaign event but harris does. >> jacqui: they have close reins on everything.

abc news and others that were pulled from legacy media were writing questions for the abc news reporter. they pop up in the prompter. continue on. spare me. nabj knows what's going on with this event. can they control what the campaign does? obviously not. would they have preferred that they didn't say that? no. but they could put out a side by side statement saying they think it's a campaign rally. we know it's for journalists. i haven't seen that. let's hold our breath. one last moment on this, if you will, john. allow me to say this. without the fairness at the national association of black journalists conference, without the fairness today at the second bite before the nabj conference and its journalists in the room, their legitimacy takes a hit. we want to be seen as black communities. people coming from all over who can ask good questions irrespective of our skin color. we come together.

trump walked in to an ambush and he stayed. he never got out of his seat. i don't care about the reports of as the journalists started off from abc news, a lot of people didn't want you to be hear today. he didn't care about that. i don't care about that. we're there to do our jobs. he stayed. you treat kamala harris like that, it's a hot potato of her getting out of the seat. you know it's going to be different. i'm asking the difference be that they act like they're supposed to acted and be respectful. i fully expect them to. it's kamala harris. but they also do what the they're supposed to do as journalists and follow up when she dodges questions. they've said that they're going to study reparations. that's not the same thing as paying people. if people vote for her for that, that's on them, too. she's not committing to anything. >> john: we'll be watching this afternoon to see how it goes. we'll take the event when it

happens. i still can't figure out that comment. a lot of people didn't want you to be here. they're journalists. they should be curious about having him there. thank you. good to talk to you. >> john: pleasure to be with you. >> jacqui: we go live to sparta michigan with j.d. vance. >> doesn't want to tell the truth about this race and kamala harris but we have people power on the side of donald j. trump and that will carry the day on november 5. you know if you have seen, but kamala harris continues to run and hide from the media. i think she's given two interviews now. she's been the presumptive democrat nominee and gives two interviews. it's funny. when you give them, you pay attention to what she's saying. she doesn't answer the question. they'll say kamala, what is your plan to lower inflation. when i worked at mcdonalds, i

liked making hash browns. they'll say, kamala harris, how are you going to lower energy and housing prices for american consumers? she said did you know i grew up in a middle class family? that's cool, but can you answer the question about how you're going to make the lives of the american people better? the answer is she can't because her policies have caused every single problem we have seen in this country over the last 3 1/2 years exploding, exploding inflation. that's on kamala harris. groceries you can't afford, that's on kamala harris. housing that is unaffordable for young american families, that's on kamala harris. a wide open border, that's on kamala harris, too. so let's say to kamala harris, you're fired. we're not sending you to the white house. get out of washington d.c. and go back to san francisco because she's a san francisco liberal at

heart and that's clearly where she ought to be. the thing is, the american people even though kamala harris talks to them like they're children, donald trump and i talk to the american people in a different way. we talk to them like they're our fellow citizens that deserve to be persuaded by the person that wants to be their next president and vice president. let's talk about public policy. before that, i want to address the elephant in the room here, which is a couple days ago, my running made and dear friend was nearly assassinated again. two attempts in as many months. i think that it's time to say to the democrats, to the media, to everybody that has been attacking this man and trying to censor this man for going on ten years, cut it out or you'll get somebody killed. now, i actually of course heard about the news before almost

anybody else. i was sitting at home with my son. we were doing what we always do when my wife is not around. we were playing video games. we get that one hour. all right. we can play video games. before mom comes back, we have to cut that crap out. sorry, honey. i just told on myself. we're sitting there and i get a phone call. don trump. said you won't believe it. they tried to do it again. they tried to shoot me again. what? no way. i couldn't believe it when he first told me. i say oh, my gosh, i'm so glad you're okay. are you okay in all the ways that matter? he said yeah, i'm doing fine. that's who he is. he gets almost shot a second time and he's totally fine. he was a little annoyed about one thing. he was mad. he was on the sixth hole and about to make a birdie putt. he said i'm kind of pissed off they wouldn't let me finish my birdie. i was having to round of my

life. okay, sir. it makes sense that they got you off the golf course. but it goes to show there's a difference in leadership style. there's a guy who takes a bullet to the head and stands up and says fight, fight, fight! there's a guy that takes a second almost assassination attempt and responds with grace and good humor and a woman who is terrified of the american media. who do we think ought to be the president of the united states? donald j. trump. [chanting]. >> that's right. how nice is it, by the way, to have a presidential candidate and of course a former president that we can be proud of, that we can believe in and that is tough enough to take the slings and arrows but still be fighting every single day for the

american people. that's what he's done and that's what he will continue to do. so let's talk about exactly what that will look like. look, we all know that the reason why groceries are unaffordable, the reason why americans can't afford to buy a home is because kamala harris has refused to do her job. my friends, i was actually yesterday with my dear friend, katie britt, senator from alabama. both of us have been in politics for all of two years. we talked about how shameless these poll sititicians are wher you've been in office for 30 years like kamala harris, you can stand up and without an ounce of shame and look at american people and say on day one i'm going to lower grocery prices. that's a what kamala harris says. on day one we're going to lower the price of housing. day one we're going to close down that southern border. it's like kamala, day one was 1400 days ago. what the the hell have you been doing the whole time? stop talking and get to work.

let's just compare and contrast the specific policy. the american people deserve to have people that are going to talk about the public policies that will make their life better. kamala harris cast the deciding voted on the inflation explosion act. the biggest driver of inflation in the united states today. kamala harris cast the tie-breaking vote for it. of course, when donald j. trump was up, inflation was 1.5% and wages were going up. when kamala harris became the vice president and the border czar, she said we're going to suspend all deportations. we're going to decriminalize all illegal immigration and we're going to stop donald trump's wildly successful remain in mexico policy. that flooded the united states with a ton of illegal immigrants and you know what those illegal immigrants did? they compete with americans for scarce homes. the donald j. trump plan, is

american housing ought to go to american citizens, not people that shouldn't be here to begin with. [cheers & applause] because that deportation, deporting those illegal immigrants, it's not just about law and order. it's about lowering the cost of housing for american citizens. that's what we have to fight to do. you have young people in this country today that are paupers in their own nation. they have a ton of debt. they're borrowing a lot but they have no chance of owning a stake in their own country. the american dream of homeownership is out of reach for millions of young americans. when donald j. trump is president, we'll stopped that. we'll fight for people to buy a home and stop sending american homes to foreigners. we know in the great state of

michigan, the most important driver of inflation is energy. right? you make energy more expensive, you make gas at the pump and food more expensive. if truck drivers are paying more for gasoline and diesel, all of us are paying more for food. if they're paying more to send constriction materials, we're all paying more for housing. the number one thing we've got to do to get control of this crazy inflation and drive down the cost of everything is to unleash american energy, drill, baby, drill! [cheers & applause] and of course, thanks to kamala harris, we are going to war against american energy instead of the ten-pot dictators that we're buying oil and natural gas from. think about this. think about what we have in the united states of america. we have natural resources that

russia and china and every other nation in the world would die for. they would love to have the abundant american energy that we've got right here in our own territory. so why don't we say in november to kamala harris, let's stop buying oil and gas from ten pot dictators all over the world. let's buy it from our own people here in michigan, pennsylvania and the united states of america. [cheers & applause] here's what donald trump will do on day one. we're going to unleash american energy once again. on day one, we're going to start building more homes again so young people can afford the american dream of homeownership. on day one, we're going to implement a very, very simple tax policy. kamala harris, she wants to raise taxes on american workers

and reward companies that ship american jobs overseas. i think that gets it exactly upside-down. donald trump and i will cut taxes for american workers and we're going to raise tariffs on companies that are shipping jobs overseas. [cheers & applause] all of think will do so much to lowter cost of goods. it's going to make our country more prosperous and make our country more free. we have to get out of this mindset that we can rely on other countries to make the things that we need. you go to a grocery store, a pharmacy, it's shocking how much everything that we buy in this country is very often made by people, some people that don't even like us, by the way. 95% of the ibuprofen that we take in this country, you know where it's manufactured? china. a lot of the antibiotics that we put in the bodies of our children are manufactured? china. kamala harris is trying to make

us buy more and more chinese-made electric vehicles. this is the greatest auto producing state in the whole country, which makes it the capitol of the great american automobile. let's buy more cars in michigan, not in some foreign country. of course, we know when we buy american, when we make american, it leads to higher wages, leads to lower prices and it leads to more self-reliance. donald trump wants young americans to work. kamala harris wants to ship everybody's job off to china and turn them in to welfare dependents. it's a path to slavery and it's what kamala harris has been doing for 3 1/2 years. so we're going to take some questions from the media in a second. i want to send a message to everybody in this room, to everybody who is watching on television, to those of you that

will see the clips afterwards. we're going to make this country more prosperous again. we're going to make the american dream more affordable again. we're going to make america great again and it's going to start right here in the state of michigan. god bless you guys. thanks for having us and thank you for doing what you're doing. [cheers & applause] thank you all. please, please. we'll take a few questions from reporters. i always do this. because i think that american political candidates ought to talk to the media unlike kamala harris. but what i like to do is to start with the local michigan reporters. we'll have some folks back there pointing them out. if we have time after wards, we'll take questions from the

national pool. i have one question there in the back. >> quick question. i know you mentioned that we're too reliant on chinese made electric vehicles. what do you think about bringing some of that manufacturing back to michigan, some of the incentives recently for the ford marshall project, they're saying they're trying to accomplish that. how do you a dress that or respond to it? >> i think the most important thing that we want to do, we want to manufacture in the united states of america but we want american workers and american companies to do it. that's part of the problem with the goshan facility. what kamala harris did in the green energy legislation, they put hundreds of billions for subsidies for electric vehicles but didn't do anything to guarantee the electric vehicles would be made in the united states of america. think about how little sense this makes. we're going to tax american citizens and give a bunch of money away to rich people to buy

electric cars made in china. it's the dumbest economic policy in the history of this country and we've done a lot of stupid things the last 40 years. [applause] but the crazy thing here is you could have a totally different approach to economic policy. that's what donald trump did. that's why his economic policies work so well and that's his plan for what to do again. kamala harris, it's so funny to me. she keeps talking about how she's got a plan to fix these problems. like i said, the obvious question is if you have this great plan, why not do it right now? do something with that power that the american people gave you. the second point is, she said she has all of these great plans. what are they? every time she talks with any detail, which is very rarely about her policy, she just sounds like donald trump. she copies -- it's like she went on president trump's website and

copied every single one of his viewpoints even though she's governed the exact opposite. this is a person that said she wanted to ban fracking. now she supports fracking. this is a person that wants a secure border even though her policies opened up the american southern border. she wants to support american energy. she's gone to war against american energy. kamala harris and what she says and how she's governed are two totally different people. we've never had a faker, more fraudulent person run for president of the united states and we have to remind people of that every single day. so to put it simply, we want to cut taxes on american workers, we want to reward companies that are making things in the united states of america. if you want to make something in china, using chinese slave labor, you'll have to pay a big fat tariff before your products come back in to the united states of america.

next question. >> hi, j.d. this is autumn with news channel 3 out of kalamazoo, michigan. with the former assassination attempt, have you considering having campaign events move inside moving forward and was this event inside today because of that? >> i believe this -- we'll follow up afterwards. i believe this was already planned to be inside. i don't think there was a change in security. close to 500 patriots in the state of michigan in this building right now, i'd like to see an assassin come in this room. they would come in to wrong place if you came in here right now. [applause] while we're on that topic, we have a couple hundred people outside. i want to give them a shout out. sorry you couldn't make it. god bless you guys. i know you can hear me. you can't see me.

i'm grateful to you. look, i mean, fundamentally, there's some risk inherent in this. the president has showed this. i'm trying to follow his example, which is when an assassin tried to take him down in butler p.a. six weeks ago, he didn't hide in the basement, he didn't run away from the american people. he said you know what? i want to be the people's president so i have to talk to them. that's what i'm going to keep doing. yes, there's some risks related to that. i've got a great secret service detail. i thank them every day for what they do. god bless you. but we're going to keep on getting out there, talking to the american people. that's what they deserve. if you are too afraid to talk to a friendly media reporter, then you shouldn't be the people's president of the united states. it's the story of kamala harris' campaign. she wants to lead the united states of america. she wants to be in a private

room with jinping and putin but terrified of the friendly american press corps. it's a total disgrace and i'm never going to follow her example. i'm going to follow donald trump's example. get out there and talk to people. now, since you asked the question, i do want to say one other thing about that, which is number 1, there's been two attempts on his life in a couple months. donald trump ought to have the same detail as joe biden. that's a policy choice that our federal government has decided that donald trump decides a lesser level of protection. maybe with any normal formal president, that makes sense. it clearly doesn't meet the challenge of what donald trump is dealing with. we ought to bump up his security. we want to be as careful as possible and make it so that we cut out the ridiculous rhetoric that i think has put a giant target on donald trump's back. now, it is -- i have to say this because look, all of us, whether we're republicans, democrats or

independents, all of us can do a better job at showing respect at trying to debate our differences without going in to personal attacks. the media, trying to both sides this issue after two people have taken a swing at donald trump's life is ridiculous. don't lecture donald trump about softening his rhetoric after two people tried to kill him. it's ridiculous. tell -- tell kamala harris, tell joe biden, tell all of her surrogates that are saying things like donald trump needs to be eliminated. they need to cut that crap out or they'll get somebody hurt. they did get somebody hurt. corey coparatory lost his life. i don't believe in censorship. i don't believe in trying to shut people up. i believe in debating people. what these guys have tried to

do, every single time that they get an opportunity, they want to throw them in prison. they want to kick them off of social media. they want to do everything that they can to silence donald trump and send that signal with every action that they take. if you're trying to silence donald trump and you're sending the message we have to do everything that we can to silence donald trump, a crazy person will take that message to heart. thank god nothing truly tragic has happened to donald j. trump's life but we're real close. democrats have to cut this crap out, respect fellow americans, debate our differences. don't try to get your -- [cheers & applause] don't try to censor your political opponents because censorship will lead to political violence. we've seen that twice. and i hope the democrats learn the question. >> john: a very strong message

from j.d. vance. it's time to say to the democrats in the media attacking trump, cut it out or you're going to get someone killed. we'll continue to monitor this q&a. we have other important stuff to move on to as well. >> jacqui: the florida governor, ron desantis, said his stated will launch their own investigation in the second apparent assassination attempt on donald trump. he says florida, not the feds can charge routh. we have florida's attorney general here. i just want to first get you to react to what we've been listening to. that was a very strong message urging people to knock it off or you're going to get someone hurt. your reaction. >> a sobering statement by j.d. vance and how they're approaching this. the people deserve to hear from us. we are courageous. we are brave.

we'll be out there. we're not going to back down. we're not afraid of assassination attempts that are afraid to be in front of the media. that was a stark comparison. what i thought he illustrated well, they're promising over and over about what kamala harris will do on day one. day one, she's going to strengthen that border. on day one, she's going to slash grocery prices. day one, day one that. what he's saying and everyone should realize this, she's in office right now. i think people are starting to see this play out in what has been happening to former president trump. now, remember, after the first assassination attempt, everyone said oh, let's come together. president biden said we need to get them resources. our president should be safe. now we've just had a second assassination attempt and his

response was, and i quote, "they're going to tell us if they need more resources and congress should respond to their needs." that is the head of the executive branch, the president that oversees these agencies. it starts to make you wonder, are these just promises? are they doing anything or just going to keep say we'll do it, we'll fix it and tell others or blame others for not addressing the needs of the secret service. >> john: we know the investigation has been bumped up to a state level now. the governor, ron desantis, announced that earlier. i want to get back to the rhetoric now. the day after this happened, hillary clinton said we can't give this dangerous man another chance to do harm to this country and the world. no attempt to soften the rhetoric there. listen to what kamala harris and joe biden and tim walz have been saying about donald trump over the last few weeks. listen here. >> he's genuine danger to

american security. >> don't give them the power? are they going to take our rights away? yes. >> our fundamental freedoms are on the ballot. so is our democracy. that says something. we're fighting for a democracy. donald trump is an existential threat to our democracy and our most fundamental freedoms. >> john: that's the rhetoric out of the white house and the harris-walz campaign. at the same time, the former president was meeting with officials and deputies from the martin county sheriff's department to thank them for chasing down ryan routh. they got him on interstate 95 and put him behind bars. look at what this former president is doing and the current administration is doing in tones of turning down the rhetoric and supporting law enforcement, what are you thinking? >> i think when this president was elected, along with kamala harris, they abandoned the sense that they are leading an executive agency charged with

enforcing our laws, responsible for protecting our people. they abandoned those rules a long time ago and broke down the security of the nation. whether that means the border or enforcement of the laws in our cities that were once thriving and now abandoned because people are moving to florida. there's no surprise to see president trump who has always stood with law enforcement out there thanking them for saving his life. let me put this out there. a couple of days before the first assassination attempt, president biden himself said president trump should be put in a bulls eye. he had to walk back those remarks after that assassination attempt and apologize to them. 39 days later when he stood at the convention and national television, he said the threat is still very much alive. 25 days later, we saw another assassination attempt. again, it's not an understatement to say that they have amped up this rhetoric. we've had a representative say

that trump should be eliminated. we've had a representative say that trump should be shot. so the reaction by folks, where they may be questioning this administration's ability, not just their will, but their ability to push forward with a strengthened secret service, strength and protection, the american people are questioning that as they should. >> jacqui: we will continue to seek answers on that as well. florida attorney general, ashley moody. thank you. >> john: appreciate it. >> great to be with you. >> john: formatter president trump gearing up to make his first appearance in battleground michigan following that second attempt on his life. we'll talk with senator rand paul about what he thought about the response coming up next. at'. with the chase ink card, we got up and running in no time. earn unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase with the chase ink business unlimited card from chase for business. okay everyone, our mission is to provide complete,

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