palm beach. if you've been in the area, it's an island and then it's a bridge to get to west palm beach. that's where his golf course it's actually located, it's not in palm beach where mar-a-lago, the beach club is actually on the ocean front and so this is the first time that we're actually getting a look at the former president and his motorcade, albeit since we found out that this happened earlier this afternoon just before 2:00, cnn's kristen holmes is also with us, and is following all of this and kristen, just to let her know, are the key players are that's donald trump's motorcade were watching it closely and waiting to see if he actually speaks to the camera that there's a pool of reporters that go with him. j.d vance, the running mate, is also at the airport. he's about to leave cincinnati, so we do have eyes on both of the members of their republican ticket. that's donald trump's motorcade going over. that palm beach bridge again, kristen, we did just hear from trump himself for the first time in his own words, since this happened, what did he have to say? >> here's to be a fun

we see at mo it motorcade rightw going over the bridge from palm beach over the bridge to west palm beach pickle is not a far trip. i former president spoke to bret baier and bret's court in the former presidents" tell everybody i am fine. the secret service did a great job. in light of the new reporting the secret service did what it is supposed to do. saw a threat to the present a potential threat amount and ak-47 within the vicinity of the former president on the street a few hundred yards apparently away from the fifth hole. the secret service agent did what they are trained to do, check out the service revolver their weapons and tried to stop this apparent suspect this now with a gun and the shots were fired and now he is in custody. we do not know if he was shot we do know this man is in custody. so at least in this case right now it appears the secret service protection worked. but as a sean hannity was saying there's certainly a lot of question why was i was an ak-47 why was he allowed on that street in the vicinity closed so this could not have happened in the first place questio

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and of course, we're waiting to hear from the palm beach county sheriff's office, also, the west palmch sheriff's office. so pardon me, in a situation like this, of course, all hands on deck. anytime you have any incident, even though we're not sure if this was directly directed at the former president, but definitely in the vicinity. and again, we were just talking with sean hannity saying just that nerves are on edge given what happened on july 13th in butler, pennsylvania. again, we cannot directly connect those dots at this time. but, you know, lots of questions that are are need to be answered. and we are going to keep you posted. of course, right here. but, you know, again, we're waiting for these for everything to come out. we certainly don't want to jump to any conclusions like you said, paul, but you know, it's concerning and you know, we heard sean tell us that the former president, he made sure that his people, steve witkoff, who he was playing golf with, in fact, sean was supposed to join them where he was invited to, to join them on that golf game. but he he said no, but

full in west palm beach. well, in an address to an african american student conference in pennsylvania, u. s. presidential button to announce the apparent attempt on donald trump's life. let me just say there is no, and i mean this in the bottom are those, you know, we, many of you do know place it in political violence for political box in america. non 0 never have always condemned political bonds. were always willing america in america. we resolve our differences peacefully, the ballot box, not the end of a gun. for the justice department s b i u. s. secret service in palm beach county sheriff's office. so now holding a press conference, generally on that's apparent assassination attempt on donald trump. let's listen in . okay, we're here today to give an update on the investigation. uh, in regards to the incident at the trump international. with me is the us attorney, the f b i. and the secret service. just to give you a little information as your well know the road down there on the summit and still block

on sunday at trump international golf club at west palm beach. the u.s. secret service opened fire on a gunman near the property line and this matter is under investigation. >> reporter: the authorities brought a man into custody and we confirmed the name is ryan routh in his late 50s. trump was playing a round of golf at the time of the incident. it comes two months after a gunman attempted to assassination a former president during a rally in pence peps. he posted a message on social media assuring them he is safe and well saying nothing will slow him down. >> a male was seen with a high-powered rifle near trump international golf club. >> he was aiming the gun where trump was playing at the time. they engaged the suspect firing shots as he tried to flee on foot >> in the bushes where this guy was is a ak-47-style rifle with a scope. two backpacks which were hung on the fence that had ceramic tile in them and a go-pro. >> reporter: the white house said president bidden and vice president harris were briefed on the situation. cbs news has learned that th

palm beach. mar-a-lago is in palm beach. this is the trump international golf course in west palm beach where this allegedly took place.hedule was today, how long he has been out? anyone know who he might be playing? i know a lot of this is kept under wraps. >> reporter: that is exactly right, alex. i was just speaking with a campaign source and i asked if they knew who exactly was there in that moment when this incident took place. they say they do not know who he was with. we do know the campaign, the trump private plane landed in west palm beach yesterday evening after campaign events and a fundraiser that trump had so we know he has been there since last night in the area. today he was supposed to be down from any campaign public events. we know he is apparently taking a couple meetings here and there. of course, he was also on the golf course, as well. we do not know of any specific names or individuals. we are working right now to learn who exactly he was with golfing when this incident took place. >> yeah, do you know when he went out, how long he had been out on the golf course? >> reporter: that is something w

national convention in chicago, the visit of prime minister netanyahu to washington, d.c., and west palm beach, which the west palm beach county sheriff's office supported, and then we go into the presidential debate in philadelphia last week. for those in the media that have to our national security event, if you saw the national constitution center last week, what you saw is pretty much a mini national special security event with the number of assets along the perimeter. so our folks are rising to this moment. but it requires all of us to be able to have good conversations and make sure that we are getting the secret service where it needs to be. and i am confident we will achieve that. because we don't have an alternative. success, we have to happen every day. can i have failures. in order to do that, we will have tough conversations with congress, and we will achieve that. mr. bradshaw: last question. one more. yes, sir. at this point, we are still exploring that, investigating that. our investigation will determine that. we do not have information that he has been acting with anyone else.

fbi is leading the investigation after an apparent assassination attempt at his west palm beach golf club on sunday. >> 1:30 this afternoon, the call came out, shots fired. and former president donald trump is safe and unharmed, following a protective incident shortly after sunday at west palm beach. the u.s. secret service personnel opened fire on a gunman located near the property line. this matters on their investigation. >> reporter: authority hads brought a man in custody who is a possible suspect in the incident. the fbi released a statement, saying they have responded to west palm beach, florida, investigating what is an attempted assassination. and it comes about two months after a gunman attempted to assassinate the former president during a rally in pennsylvania. he posted a message on social media, assuring he is safe and well, and saying nothing will slow him down. he wrote, "i will always love you for supporting me." two people familiar with the matter told cbs news that a male was seen with a high-powered rifle near trump international golf club. the man was pointing the

you know, palm city about 45 minutes drive away from a valid reports from west palm beach. in florida. donald trump is playing golf here at the trump international golf club in west palm beach and the secret service that they spoke to the government in the flushes at the edge of the course. an open flyer were sent over us secret service personnel opened fire on a gunman located near the property line. and this matters on the secret service agent. that was all the course did a fantastic job. what they do is they have an agent that jumps one hole ahead of time to where the president was that and he was able to spot this rifle bureau sticking out of the fence and immediately engaged that individual. at which time the, the individual took all police say the suspect escaped the seat and an s u v. i d by witness and apprehended lights, that without additional violence is being named locally. as ryan ralph richard as high profile selling off the street as is possible, we did it safely and nobody else was moving in full since the officials said they found that a k 47 rifle with a sk

>> cristian benevides in west palm beach. thank you so much. >>> new fallout and new threats in springfield, ohio, as former president trump and his running mate j.d. vance continue to amplify the baseless conspiracy theories about haitian immigrants eating pets. the latest threat targeted clark state college which is now shutting all of its campuses this week and making classes remote. cbs' skyler henry is covering the latest from the campaign trail. >>> donald trump and his extremist allies intend to take our nation backward. >> reporter: vice president kamala harris slammed her political opponent at a gala in washington saturday night. she joined president biden on stage where she also spoke about protecting health care access. >> they will give tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations, cut social security and medicare, and end the "affordable care act." >> reporter: her tone follows the republican presidential ticket amplifying baseless rumors about haitians in springfield, ohio. many of whom are in the u.s. legall

but the investigation continues in the p palm beach west palm beach area fbi's asking the community ifrt of the investigation they need your help to understand more about this mail suspect. they also stress the surrounding areas will be closed and if you do live in this area the police will be working with the people here to make sure they are able to get to and from. as you see this is an active crime scene will be gathering the latest and send back to you. molly: danamarie mcnicholl thank you for this latest were this attack on former president trump there in and west palm beach is underway. the suspect identified as ryan wesley routh. were still waiting for more information on that a dramatic amount of information about everything investigators are learning about him, about the vehicle, but his home, all the things unfolding. still waiting on all of that information to come in and we will be right back with more as we are getting it. ll your device duckduckgo comes with a built-n engine, like google, but it's r and doesn't spy on your searchs and duckduckgo lets you browsel but it b

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that is what separates west i palm beach from palm beach proper. they say it is a 10 minute drive or so under normal circumstances for mar-a-lago property to the trump international golf course there in west palm beach. in this ch case, it was suggested they would have gone, the former ha president, they would've gotten him into a secure vehicle and brought him immediately to mar- a-lago in about five, six, seven minutes. i am not sure what we are seeing here, some sort of motorcade, obviously. that looks like an official motorcade. unfortunately, that has frozen. give me a sense of why we would be seeing an official motorcade, um, because we understand it is the palm beach county sheriff that is having this news conference in about n 20 minutes. this may be something going towards the airport. would this be the type of motorcade that might be conveying the former president towards palm beach international?pa presumably his plane is parked there. >> i would want to know where is my threat? is my location safe? although mar-a-lago might be the defaul

didn't have the same protection because if he did, the golf course would have been secure in west palm beach. can you tell people what's going on with that? >> director rowe: so with respect to west palm beach, what i can tell you that getting into our ttp's, techniques and tactics, procedures, but i can tell you is on that day there were counter sniper elements that were present with the former president on the golf course, in proximity. there was an entire counter assault team that was there in proximity. there was also a jump team in proxim the advance agent who is part of the first element, whose goal was to sweep ahead, did his job. that young man is a very young agent, early in his career. his vigilance, his reaction, is exactly how we train and exactly how we want our personnel to do. he identified a threat, and individuals a long gun, and he meets with decisions and took a swift action to be able to mitigate that. no shot was fired at the former president. the former president was not exposed to where he was on the golf course. and what i've said, and i said this monday, that the pro

was in west palm beach, florida. so filled the suspect has appeared in ports. are you getting any more clarity on who he is and maybe the motives? yeah, we're getting guys some details as they come. yeah, i mean these are coming out live as we speak. he's facing 2 federal charges, not state charges, federal charges. that's why the guy was involved in that price where they say and got to firearms offenses, as you just alluded to. one of them is possession of a firearm by a felon. the other is possession of a firearm. with an a rated serial number. doesn't say all these details are just coming through as we speak, but we understand that he was apprehended in a vehicle that had been reported stolen yesterday. and he was previously convicted of being in possession of a weapon of mass, death and destruction. we're going to take you just a quick step by step before we go into what's happening right now and just explain how it is that we got here just a little over. what was on the 24 hours ago. donald trump was playing golf here at the trump international golf club i

and west palm beach which the palm beach county sheriff's office supported. then the presidential debate in philadelphia last week. for those in the media who have been to a snacial special security event if you saw the constitution center last week what you saw was a mini national special security event with the number of assets on that perimeter. so our folks are rising to this moment but it requires all of us to be able to have good conversations and make sure we're getting the secret service where it needs to be. i'm confident that we will achieve that. we don't have an alternative. success, we have to have it every day. we cannot have failures. and in order to do that we're going to have some hard conversations with congress and we're going to achieve that. >> last question. one more. reporter: have you got some kind of help? >> at this point we're exploring that, investigating that our investigation will determine that. we do not have any information that he's been acting with anybody else at present. our investigation is still determining that >> that'

just one on west palm beach. busy public road that is adjacent to that 6th hole where the suspect was hiding is a well-known blind spot on that specific golf course. why did no one within the u.s. secret service sweep behind that fence line for threats? >> they were sweeping -- they were sweeping ahead, nicolle. what i just explained is that element, that lead element was going ahead sweeping. >> reporter: but was there anyone behind the fence where the road was, sweeping there to see if anyone was in the bushes? >> having been there and seen the vantage point, whether they were on the public side or the private side, the bottom line is the individual was detected. >> reporter: on butler, you testified before congress that all assets requested for the butler rally by trump's detail were approved, but there are secret service assets that may have prevented the tragedy on july 13th, most notably a counterassault advance team that would have surveyed the site ahead of time or enhanced counter-drone protection that m

witnesses to whatever shooting, this was and the police are also going to look at the fact that west palm beach is not immune to gang violence. gang activity and in fact, there's at least one prominent gang in west palm so those kind of things indicate that there could have been a shooting unrelated to the people on the golf course still you're going to have to watch that just completely search that golf course to make sure that there was nobody in some kind of hide with a rifle yeah. >> and we are also now hearing as steve as you were talking, we're hearing from the u.s. secret service spokesperson on twitter, and they write this quote, the secret service in conjunction with the west with a palm beach county sheriff's office. is investigating a protective incident involving former president donald trump that occurred shortly before 2:00 p.m. the former president is safe and of course, palm beach sheriff office will have more details soon that statement on their accounts. so charles ramsey to you, of course, this is a great concern for a variety of reasons, but it also comes following the attem

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have long been concerned about how porous, in particular the trump international golf course in west palm beach is. of course we do know now that the secret service director, the current director, ronald rowe, is heading down to palm beach to assess the situation, to talk to personnel on the ground there. and it is interesting, roe beginning and his career as a police officer in west palm beach. so certainly he knows this area well and will want to get the lay of the land as he heads down there today all right. >> kevin liptak. thank you very much. over at the white house. we appreciate it joining me now, are former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe, former secret service agent paul ii cloth, and former philadelphia police commissioner general charles ramsey andrew, let me start with you first. what's your reaction to what the president said about the secret service? i mean, this has been a conversation in washington for some time now that the secret service does not have enough resources jim, you know, as well as i do from your time at the white house, the secret service has been underfunded f

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en west palm beach. soy miguel santiesteban, telemundo.or su parte, el presidente joe biden habló con los medios de comunicación y expresó que el servicio secreto necesita más ayuda, por lo que pidió al congreso que tome medidas y que precisamente esto será un tema central para hablar con los legisladores. en el el belden bonta. miles de mexicanos se dieron cita esta mañana en el zócalo para izar la bandera de méxico en el asta ubicada en el centro de la plaza. con esto continuaban así las celebraciones con el tradicional desfile cívico militar. además del despliegue de las fuerzas armadas, también se contó con presentaciones musicales, discursos, espectáculos aéreos y el desfile de varias carrozas. el grito de independencia en la ciudad de méxico lo realizó por última vez el presidente saliente, andrés manuel lópez obrador. entre sus invitados estuvo su sucesora, claudia sheinbaum y miles de personas quienes a pesar de la fuerte lluvia, se quedaron para acompañarlo. jazive pérez estuvo ahí. tiene el reporte completo. ella da cunha como es

and to west palm beach, west palm beach, county sheriff's office supported and then we go into the presidential debate and philadelphia last week. and for those in the, in the media that have been to a national special security event. if you saw the national constitution center last week, what you saw was pretty much a mini national special security event with the number of assets that were on that perimeter. and so our folks are rising to this moment, but it requires all of us to be able to have good conversations and make sure that we're getting the secret service where it needs to be. and i am confident that we will achieve that because we don't have an alternative success. we have to have it every day. we cannot have failures. in order to do that, we're going to have some hard conversations with congress and we're going to achieve that last question more. yes, sir. at this point, we're still exploring that, investigating that, our investigation will determine that we do not have information that has been acting with anyone else have present. oh, you smoke one of our investigation is still d

cbs's robert costa is going to kick off our coverage tonight from west palm beach and a lot of new information coming out tonight. >> we are learning many ne >> we are learning many new details tonight including the suspect never had a direct line of sight of former president donald trump but the investigation continues in both campaigns in this historic presidential race remain on edge tonight with two assassination attempts this summer. >> walked straight back! >> reporter: new video shows authorities taking suspected gunman ryan routh into custody, a dramatic rest on interstate 95 with traffic shut down in both directions. >> former president trump should be able to breathe a sigh of relief this guy is off the streets. >> reporter: routh a north carolina man with a criminal record who has criticized trump on social media appeared in court today on two federal gun charges. former president trump unharmed in the incident and spoke with the acting director of the secret service with new questions raised about how someone could get so close to the former president with a firearm. >> coming out

didn't have the same protection because if he did, the golf course would have been secure in west palm beach. can you tell people what's going on with that? mr. rowe: with respect to west palm beach, what i can tell you, without getting into our t.t.p.'s, our techniques, our tactics, our procedures, what i can tell you is that on that day there were countersniper elements that were present with the former president on the golf course. in proximity. there was an entire counterassault team that was there in proximity. there was also a jump team in proximity. the advanced agent who was part of the first element, whose goal was to sweep ahead, did his job. that young man is a very young agent early in his career. his vinl lens, -- vigilance, his reaction is exactly how we trained and exactly what we want our personnel to do. he identified a threat. an individual with a long gun. and he made swift decisions and took a swift action to be able to mitigate that. no shot was fired at the former president. the former president was not exposed to where he was on the golf course. and what i've said, and

we are following breaking news out of west palm beach.t this hour, former president donald trump's mar-a-lago resort remains on high alert following the fbi is calling an apparent assassination attempt on former president donald trump. earlier today trump e-mailed this campaign message to supporters saying, "there were gunshots if my vicinity. but before rumors start spiraling out of control, i wanted you to hear this first. i am safe and well. nothing will slow me down. i will never surrender." one person is in law enforcement custody after the incident. he's identified as ryan wesley routh. he's 58 years old. according to three senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter. an ak-47 and scope were recovered at the scene. earlier today at a press conference in palm beach county, the sheriff, rick bradshaw, had some insights into the investigation. >> we're going to make these pictures available to you. it will show you a picture of the backpack and rifle. and there is also a ego pro where there was an attempt to film what was go

situational awareness earlier today, we know that they did at least for some time, put those west palm beach offices, donald trump's campaign headquarters have moved west palm beach on lockdown as well as that golf course at donald trump it was on it's not that surprising after the assassination attempt in butler, pennsylvania, they put all of the campaign headquarters outside of washington, dc as well as in west palm beach onto a lockdown. they encouraged people not to go into work as they were trying to figure out exactly what the scope of all of this looks like now in terms of where donald trump is we know he was held at the west palm beach golf club for several hours without scene was cleared. he was put under security surveillance. they made sure everything was safe, then they move him for at least some period to mar-a-lago. now, there are questions as to whether or not he remains at mar-a-lago. it does seem to indicate we saw a motorcade or at least parts of it a motorcade leaving that mar-a-lago property, but i had been told at least few hours ago that he was expected to be at mar-a-l

the incident took place at trump's golf course in west palm beach. a witness sold a gunman and managed to take photos of his. com offices, vince, both of the vehicle on the i 95 highway and apprehended the suspect in mountain county. net palm city. around the 45 minute drive away to meet tree method and co reports. donald trump was playing golf here at the trump international golf club in west palm beach. when the secret service said they spotted a gun in the bushes at the edge of the course. and opened fire at all they use equal service personnel open fire on a government located near the property line. and this matters on the rest of the secret service agent. that was all the course did a fantastic job. what they do is they have an agent that jumps one hole ahead of time to where the president was that and he was able to spot this rifle barrels sticking out of the fence and immediately engaged that individual. at which time the, the individual to police say the suspect escaped the scene in an s u v i d by witness and apprehended late to without any

here in west palm beach, florida. we deployed a number of resources, including investigative teams, crisis response team members on technicians. the evidence response team members as well. what we need right now is for the public to avoid the area around the golf course. we will continue to support this investigation with the full resources of the guy alongside our partners with the united states secret service in the palm beach sheriffs office as well as martin county sheriffs office in state and local law enforcement. i would ask that if anyone has any information that may assist with this investigation, to contact our tech line, 1800, call f b i or at tips that's t i p s dot f beyond dot gov. thank you. i am dave aaron burst state of the train from palm beach county. i wanna thank sure, bradshaw in our partners, the local state federal levels. i'm here because our prospers are currently working up warrants and a motion for pre trial detention for the suspect. and that way he will be kept in custody, but our filing

let's be gain with kathy park in west palm beach, florida. >>> tonight, the fbi investigating what appeared to be an assassination attempt to former president donald trump. >> shortly before 2:00 p.m. sunday at golf international golf club at west palm beach. the u.s. secret service personnel opened fire on a gunman located near the property line. >> as a precaution, agents rushed the former president to safety. according to sources trump was between the 5th and 6th hole when the incident took lace. >> what they do is they have an agent that jumps one hole ahead of time where the president was at, and he was able to spot this rifle barrel sticking out of the fence and immediately engaged that individual at which time the individual took off. >> reporter: officials say two backpacks and a rifle were found in the bushes. >> there was also a gopro on the fence where he was attempting to film what was going on. we were able to locate a witness that said hey, i saw the guy running out of the bushes. he jumped into a black nissan, and i took a picture of the vehicle and the tag. >> reporter: the

paula reid is live outside the federal courthouse in west palm beach, florida. paula, what else happened during this hearing today of. >> course, as you know, there are no cameras in federal courts. so our colleagues were inside described to us how ryan wesley ruth was wearing sort of these dark prison scrubs. he was shackled, both his hands and his feet for this initial appearance before a magistrate judge. now he was asked a series of questions our colleagues say that he nodded and said yes, judge. a few times. but this hearing was also boar's the first time that he learned the charges that he is facing including these two counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and receipt of a firearm with it literally did serial number. and of course, this investigation is barely 24 hours old, so it is highly possible that additional charges will be filed against him, though it's unclear exactly what those charges will be. now as of now, the government is arguing that they want him to continue to be detained ahead of a possible trial. they argue that not only

a short while ago, the west palm beach sheriff's office describe the scene where they found him. >> no, in the bushes where this guy was is an ak-47 style rifle with a scope, two backpacks, which were hung on the fence, that had ceramic tile in them, and a gopro, which he was going to take pictures with point >> it is shortly after the incident, the trump campaign issued a statement saying that donald trump is safe and unharmed. abc is reporting that he departed mar-a-lago shortly after the incident. he has since returned. joining us now, john, nbc news law enforcement and intelligence correspondent. i know you have been working this very hard since the news broke bread we now have the name of the suspect. tell us what we know about the suspect and how this went down and what we know about this apparent assassination attempt. >> apparently, this happened at approximately 1:30 p.m. today. the local sheriff's office gets a phone call from the secret service saying shots had been fired near the golf course in west palm beach, florida. local sheriffs said that they sealed off that area and

have identified as 58-year-old ryan wesley routh is making his first court appearance here in west palm beach. he was arrested yesterday afternoon on interstate 95 about 40 miles north of the trump golf course there and while trump was golfing a secret service agent spotted that suspect concealed in the bushes behind a fence and opened fire. trump was whisked away to safety and was not hurt. this incident comes just over two months after trump was wounded during an attempt on his life during a rally in pennsylvania. >> and with us now nbc's garrett haake here in west palm beach, florida. nbc news national law enforcement and sent dense correspondent tom winter in new york and chuck rosenberg an msnbc legal analyst and former u.s. attorney and senior fbi official. garrett, let me start with you. good morning, welcome to florida. what more have we learned about what happened here yesterday? >> well, we understand that the president was keeping up with his usual activity of golfing on the weekends, he was five or six holes into the course and secret service agents who regularly kind of operate a

that for at least some time period after this assassination attempt, they did close down the west palm beachat least locked down the west palm beach? campaign offices. they had done the same thing after the assassination attempt in butler, pennsylvania. there clearly trying to make sure that everyone around donald trump is safe. but also you hear them. there are encouraging and urging people to remain vigilant to keep their eyes open they believe there is potentially an ongoing security threat, but again, a big a huge notable event here we are now talking about the second assassination attempt in roughly two months. but on top of that, lots of questions still as to how exactly and why exactly this happened. again kristen holmes, cnn, washington u.s. >> president joe biden says he used relief that donald trump was unharmed in sunday's apparent assassination attempt. in a statement he says, i have been briefed by my team regarding what federal law enforcement is investigating as a possible assassination an attempt to former president trump. today a suspect is in custody, and i commend the work

and joining us now from west palm beach, msnbc anchor, my colleague, jose diaz-balart. jose, you've been watching, you've been all over this story. you're there where this terrifying incident occurred. what are you hearing from local officials there? >> reporter: andrea, we've heard from martin county sheriff who described how the suspect was apprehended on i-95. and, andrea, and i just want to bring us all into just how difficult this situation is for officials to protect, to provide protection in an area like where we are right now. so this is the entrance to trump international golf club, right? right behind me -- in other words, in front of me, i should say, is a parking lot, a public parking lot. and just maybe 50 yards away is the palm beach county public library. you can easily park your car here overnight, and no one would see or ask anything. and if you go right out the entrance here, andrea, and you take a left, you're going to bump into 809, and that takes you directly to palm beach international airport. it's 1.8 miles away. and if you keep going on this sum

chances are if he is from the west palm beach or palm beach area local law enforcement. if he has had previous encounters would know who he is. they're trying to make sure of who he is. then they're going to start working backward. from the moment that he was on that golf course where that long rifle, they're going to start retracing his steps. what was he doing. they have to get search warrants for his phone. they're looking at who did he talk to. what were those conversations about. did he act alone or were there others involved in this attempted assassination attempt. so they are going to be backtracking with a light looking at everything to determine how he ended up on the golf course with a long gun threatening the former president of the united states. >> reporter: congresswoman, let me ask one more question about another piece of evidence that the local law enforcement shared which is that there were backpacks found near the site of the fence. and when you kind of talk about the former president's schedule. a very tightly guarded you know set of information if you

before or a planned a press conference with the secret service end of the sheriff's county in west palm beach. well, i can tell you this happened just about 2 hours ago. well, we believe the president was golfing and his golf course in west palm beach. as you mentioned. again, i should point out that this is very early. the 1st reports are always always wrong, but what we know so far is that the campaign put out a statement. as you mentioned, that shots were fired near in the vicinity of the president as the that's the beginning. it seems like, well, that doesn't mean necessarily a new or shooting out the former president because it is america. and it's not that unusual. well, it's not, not unusual to see or to hear gunshots. and depending on what area you're in, that said, we are here and hearing now from others like the new york times the associated press. that perhaps secret service may have it. again, it's early. may have seen someone on the edge of the golf course on the tree line with a god. no, we don't know if that person was able to take a shot at the former president or anyone else

so that's everything we're learning over in west palm beach just before we head over to the white house for kimberly how it gets reporting there. this is how the vice president come to a harris reacted. she said, quote, i am deeply disturbed by the possible assassination attempt, the former president donald trump. today, as we gather facts, i will be clear, i condemn political violence violence. we all must do our part to ensure that this incident does not lead to more political violence. so kimberly, how could is our white house correspondent, kimberly, what is the, how is the by the ministration handling of the well uh, before i get to how the binding ministration is handling this, i should tell you that donald trump has given an interview to the fox network digital of arm, and if he is directly blaming campbell, a harris, the vice president and his rival in the upcoming election, as well as president joe biden, for this latest attempt on his life. he says in this interview that he believes the rhetoric of the bible harris a team is what caused the 2nd attempt on his life. he says tha

we do not know if you someplace within the trump international golf course, located in west palm beach but that is in close proximity to mar-a-lago which is in palm beach proper. he may have had access to an armored vehicle. and traveled back to his home. certainly over the years, they have established safe rooms for the former president, both during his tenure as president and since. were not sure of his whereabouts we know that secret service says he is safe and that he was not harmed. again we have to reiterate that we do not know if he was an intended target to. we do not know what kind of a gun was used. frank figliuzzi, formerly of the fbi and now is national security analyst with us, suggest the fbi will certainly be able to figure out what it is but the secret service agent might be trained well enough to know if this is a rifle, if it is a gun, there is no description yet differentiating gap between the two. we are going to try to get to the bottom of all of this. we have the palm beach county sheriff will be having a news conference at some time soon to inform us on what they

b, i is now saying that it has responded to the west, palm beach, florida, and is investigating what appears to be an attempted assassination of a former president trump. so the day of this stage believe that the man that has been taking the person i should say that has been taken into custody by the miami, died police department was attempting to assess the nice the former president, trump, that clearly changes this rice. once again is were only 50 days. well, so i out from the election petty to the and that's interesting the, the, the f b, i say there was an attempted assassination. attempt to the assassination attempt would imply that somebody was in fact had shot at the former president. but again, this is very much, it's sunday. and on sunday, the top communications people are necessarily in the building. i'm sure they're there now or on their way. does it change the race? no, i really don't think so. um other than he will likely use it to try and fundraise it worked for him. when he, there wasn't actual attempt to uh, to assassinate him in july, his fundraising went up by 24 pe

ron rowe in florida who is in west palm beach was a police officer in west palm beach and took over the agency two months ago when kimberly cheatle resigned at the end of july days after the former president was shot in the ear at the pennsylvania rally. he was supposed to release the agency findings about this shooting this week. unclear if that's been clad because of what happened in florida yesterday. the secret service, justice department and f.b.i. all taking different pieces of this case. the f.b.i. investigating the suspect himself ryan routh, his background, potential motive. d.o.j. is looking at the charges and secret service looking in the mirror this morning and doing some self-reflection how this happened. several u.s. officials told fox the service is not staffed to handle trump the way they handled joe biden or kamala harris. that's a fact. the reason joe biden the sitting president with nuclear launch codes. kamala harris the second in line to that position. trump is a former president in a unique situation as a candidate who wants his old job back is still a former presi

visit of prime minister netanyahu to washington dc and to west palm beach, which palm beach county sheriff's office supported then we go into the presidential debate in philadelphia last week. and for those in the media that had been to a national special security event, if you saw the national constitution center last week, what you saw was pretty much a mini national special security event with the number of assets that were on that perimeter and so our folks are rising to this moment but it requires all of us to be able to have good conversations and make sure that we're getting the secret service where it needs to be. and i'm confident that we will achieve that because we don't have an alternative success we have to have it every day. >> we cannot have failures and in order to do that, we're going to have some hard conversations with congress and we're going to achieve that last question on more, special agent in charge at the fbi? yes, sir did he act alone to the out some kind of help at this point? we're still exploring that, investigating that our investigation will determine that we