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Speaker 1: Hey, guys, have a lot of breaking news to bring

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Speaker 1: you this morning. As you likely already know, an ISS

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Speaker 1: soccer brought you yesterday, a would be assassin attempted to

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Speaker 1: take the life of President Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 1: leading to horrifying scenes and one rally goer killed, two

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Speaker 1: others in critical condition. We have a lot of updates

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Speaker 1: for you this morning that I wanted to bring to you,

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Speaker 1: including statements from Trump, statements from Biden. We now know

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Speaker 1: who the shooter has been identified as We've got some

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Speaker 1: photos and some you know, reading the tea leaves of

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Speaker 1: his political history, which is confused, to say the least.

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Speaker 1: So I'll bring you all of those details. Also mounting

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Speaker 1: questions about the state of security at this rally and

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Speaker 1: how this individual was able to get these shots off,

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Speaker 1: how he was able to come within inches of taking

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Speaker 1: the former president's life. So I'm going to go through

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Speaker 1: all of this. I want to start, though, at the beginning,

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Speaker 1: with what unfolded at the rally. Of course, this is disturbing,

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Speaker 1: so just a warning before we get into any of this,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you the full video. It's about a

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Speaker 1: minute and forty five seconds. You can see the moment

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Speaker 1: when former President Trump realizes that something is going on.

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Speaker 1: You can see him duck. You can see the Secret

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Speaker 1: Service come in and take action. You can see president

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Speaker 1: former President Trump striking a defiant pose and telling the

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Speaker 1: audience to fight, fight, fight. Let's take a listen to

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Speaker 1: all of this.

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Speaker 2: Take a look at what happened. Oh, I'm already.

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Speaker 3: I'm you ready? Hawks here?

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Speaker 1: Ready? Good? Ready?

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Speaker 2: Are you ready?

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Speaker 4: Dollar?

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Speaker 1: Shoot dollar? You're good? Down?

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Speaker 3: Shoot us down?

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Speaker 2: Are you good to move?

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Speaker 5: Were come up?

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Speaker 3: Let me get my shoe.

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Speaker 5: Let me get to my shoe.

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Speaker 4: I'm goys, say, I got you.

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Speaker 3: To Let me get my shoes.

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Speaker 5: Hold your head, good body, So we gotta go to

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Speaker 5: the clutch.

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Speaker 2: Let me get Okay, let's let's tell.

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Speaker 4: So.

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Speaker 1: Just an unbelievable image to watch there. And as you

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Speaker 1: We since have indication from him and by the way,

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Speaker 1: some extraordinary images have come forward that I'll share with

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Speaker 1: you see splattered across his face. He has been seen

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Speaker 1: in public since then walking unaided and the officials are

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Speaker 1: saying he is safe. So but when you're talking about

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Speaker 1: obviously grazing a bullet, grazing his ear, you are talking

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Speaker 1: let me just show you this image that was captured

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Speaker 1: by a I believe this was a New York Times photographer,

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Speaker 1: White House Press Corps colleague Doug Mills. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you can see in this photograph this that they

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Speaker 1: This same photographer captured moments after this when Trump feels

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Speaker 1: So of course, immediate questions raised about how the hell

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Speaker 1: Everyone has to go through a MAGNETI coometer going into

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Speaker 1: So he was spotted beforehand. Let me just show you

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Speaker 1: Horrifyingly though, of course, you do have a rally goer

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Speaker 1: what unfolds from there. So since this event. We have

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Speaker 1: God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening. We will

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Speaker 1: and look forward to speaking to our great nation this

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Speaker 4: So what we know now. I have tried to get

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Speaker 4: But so far it appears he's doing well. Number one.

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Speaker 1: He did take one shout out question about whether this

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Speaker 3: Carl, We've been talking to a number of people as

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Speaker 1: So that's in essence what he had to say. Of course, Welson,

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