Speaker 1: Hey, guys, have a lot of breaking news to bring
Speaker 1: you this morning. As you likely already know, an ISS
Speaker 1: soccer brought you yesterday, a would be assassin attempted to
Speaker 1: take the life of President Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: leading to horrifying scenes and one rally goer killed, two
Speaker 1: others in critical condition. We have a lot of updates
Speaker 1: for you this morning that I wanted to bring to you,
Speaker 1: including statements from Trump, statements from Biden. We now know
Speaker 1: who the shooter has been identified as We've got some
Speaker 1: photos and some you know, reading the tea leaves of
Speaker 1: his political history, which is confused, to say the least.
Speaker 1: So I'll bring you all of those details. Also mounting
Speaker 1: questions about the state of security at this rally and
Speaker 1: how this individual was able to get these shots off,
Speaker 1: how he was able to come within inches of taking
Speaker 1: the former president's life. So I'm going to go through
Speaker 1: all of this. I want to start, though, at the beginning,
Speaker 1: with what unfolded at the rally. Of course, this is disturbing,
Speaker 1: so just a warning before we get into any of this,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you the full video. It's about a
Speaker 1: minute and forty five seconds. You can see the moment
Speaker 1: when former President Trump realizes that something is going on.
Speaker 1: You can see him duck. You can see the Secret
Speaker 1: Service come in and take action. You can see president
Speaker 1: former President Trump striking a defiant pose and telling the
Speaker 1: audience to fight, fight, fight. Let's take a listen to
Speaker 1: all of this.
Speaker 2: Take a look at what happened. Oh, I'm already.
Speaker 3: I'm you ready? Hawks here?
Speaker 1: Ready? Good? Ready?
Speaker 2: Are you ready?
Speaker 4: Dollar?
Speaker 1: Shoot dollar? You're good? Down?
Speaker 3: Shoot us down?
Speaker 2: Are you good to move?
Speaker 5: Were come up?
Speaker 3: Let me get my shoe.
Speaker 5: Let me get to my shoe.
Speaker 4: I'm goys, say, I got you.
Speaker 3: To Let me get my shoes.
Speaker 5: Hold your head, good body, So we gotta go to
Speaker 5: the clutch.
Speaker 2: Let me get Okay, let's let's tell.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 1: Just an unbelievable image to watch there. And as you
Speaker 1: could see, you could see blood on one of his ears.
Speaker 1: We since have indication from him and by the way,
Speaker 1: some extraordinary images have come forward that I'll share with
Speaker 1: you in just a moment. But that a bullet did
Speaker 1: graze his ear. That is what caused that blood that
Speaker 1: you see splattered across his face. He has been seen
Speaker 1: in public since then walking unaided and the officials are
Speaker 1: saying he is safe. So but when you're talking about
Speaker 1: obviously grazing a bullet, grazing his ear, you are talking
Speaker 1: about inches away from taking his life. And as I said,
Speaker 1: let me just show you this image that was captured
Speaker 1: by a I believe this was a New York Times photographer,
Speaker 1: White House Press Corps colleague Doug Mills. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you can see in this photograph this that they
Speaker 1: have circled here, that is the bullet coming right at him.
Speaker 1: This same photographer captured moments after this when Trump feels
Speaker 1: something on his ear, and then a moment after that
Speaker 1: and he looks at his hand and he sees blood,
Speaker 1: and then after that that's when he gets down. But
Speaker 1: just look at that image capturing a projectile a bullet
Speaker 1: aimed right at the former president's head. Just absolutely astonishing.
Speaker 1: So of course, immediate questions raised about how the hell
Speaker 1: this could happen. You have, Trump has Secret Service protection.
Speaker 1: Everyone has to go through a MAGNETI coometer going into
Speaker 1: these rallies, So how was someone able to get in
Speaker 1: with a gun While we now know the shooter was
Speaker 1: actually positioned outside of the rally area on a rooftop,
Speaker 1: and in fact, and I'm going to show you this
Speaker 1: later in the segment, there were people who saw him
Speaker 1: who were just outside the rally, Locals who were standing
Speaker 1: nearby who wanted to hear what the former president had
Speaker 1: to say, who saw this man walking through a field,
Speaker 1: climbing up on this roof, bear crawling across the roof
Speaker 1: with a gun. And we're trying to get anyone's attention
Speaker 1: possible to indicate, you know, there's this sky with a gun,
Speaker 1: bear crawling on a roof. This is an incredible security threat.
Speaker 1: So he was spotted beforehand. Let me just show you
Speaker 1: a map of the scene so you can get a
Speaker 1: sense of where the shooter was in relationship to Trump.
Speaker 1: So you can see this is the approximate area of
Speaker 1: this stage they say where Trump was shot. This is
Speaker 1: the whole area is called the Butler Farms Showgrounds. This
Speaker 1: is a county that's just north of Allegany County in Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: so just north of Pittsburgh. And this rooftop here is
Speaker 1: the location of the suspected gunman's position. So what I've
Speaker 1: seen has indicated this is about one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: yards away, which may sound like a lot, but if
Speaker 1: you are a trained marksman, is apparently not a very
Speaker 1: far distance. So just incredibly fortunate that with whatever security
Speaker 1: lapse has occurred here, that the President was not seriously injured.
Speaker 1: Horrifyingly though, of course, you do have a rally goer
Speaker 1: who was killed in two others whose condition remains unknown,
Speaker 1: who was described as being in critical condition. Let me
Speaker 1: show you next some of the footage that has just
Speaker 1: emerged of people who were there at the rally before
Speaker 1: the shots ring out on the ground spotted, uh, this shooter,
Speaker 1: this would be assassin, and are screaming he's got a gun,
Speaker 1: He's got a gun, and then you hear the chaos
Speaker 1: on Sue and Sue as he begins to fire. Me
Speaker 1: pull this video up for you so you can see
Speaker 1: what this was like on the ground, just sheer chaos.
Speaker 1: Take a listen, and so again, I know this is disturbing.
Speaker 1: This is what we know at this point. So you
Speaker 1: can hear them say he's got a gun. He's on
Speaker 1: the roof. They're screaming trying to get someone's attention, and
Speaker 1: then you hear the shots ring out and we know
Speaker 1: what unfolds from there. So since this event. We have
Speaker 1: a statement from former We actually have a couple of
Speaker 1: statements from former President Trump. Let me go ahead and
Speaker 1: reach both of those and put this first one up
Speaker 1: on the screen. He sat on True Social I want
Speaker 1: to thank the US Secret Service and all of law
Speaker 1: enforcement for their rapid response on the shooting that just
Speaker 1: took place in Butler, Pennsylvania. Most importantly, I want to
Speaker 1: extend my condolences to the family of the person at
Speaker 1: the rally who was killed, and also to the family
Speaker 1: of another person that was badly injured. It is incredible
Speaker 1: that such an act can take place in our country.
Speaker 1: Nothing is known at this time about the shooter, who
Speaker 1: is now dead. We do have some details now that
Speaker 1: we can bring you. I was shot with a bullet
Speaker 1: that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I
Speaker 1: knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard
Speaker 1: a whizzing sound shots and immediately felt the bullet ripping
Speaker 1: through the skin. Much bleeding took place, very trumpy in
Speaker 1: turn of phrase, so I realized then what was happening.
Speaker 1: God bless America. His later statement, I can bring to
Speaker 1: you as well. Let me go ahead and put this
Speaker 1: one up on the screen. This one occurred after that one.
Speaker 1: This one was from this morning. He says, thank you
Speaker 1: to everyone for your thoughts and prayers. Yesterday it was
Speaker 1: God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening. We will
Speaker 1: fear not, but instead remain resilient in our faith and
Speaker 1: defiant in the face of wickedness. Our love goes out
Speaker 1: to the other victims and their families. We pray for
Speaker 1: the recovery of those who were wounded, and hold in
Speaker 1: our hearts the memory of the citizen who was so
Speaker 1: horribly killed. In this moment, it is more important than
Speaker 1: ever that we stand united and show our true character
Speaker 1: as Americans, remaining strong and determined and not allowing evil
Speaker 1: to win. I truly love our country and love you all,
Speaker 1: and look forward to speaking to our great nation this
Speaker 1: week from Wisconsin, signed DJT, referring there to the fact
Speaker 1: the rn C is hours at this point away from beginning.
Speaker 1: We have gotten word from the rn C and from
Speaker 1: the campaign it will go on as planned, So no
Speaker 1: change is there. But obviously I mean just an insane
Speaker 1: moment in history, a horrifying one that has really shaken
Speaker 1: the entire And we also have the first video that
Speaker 1: was released by Trump's team of him walking unaided down
Speaker 1: from his from his plane. Can take a look at them,
Speaker 1: so you can see just him walking down, no problem
Speaker 1: handling the stairs. And so this put out, you know,
Speaker 1: also as a statement of defiance and also just to
Speaker 1: show that he is okay physically, he is fine. Let's
Speaker 1: take a look now. President Biden put out an initial
Speaker 1: statement on Twitter, and then he gave a short statement
Speaker 1: he was at his beach house in Rehoboth, Delaware when
Speaker 1: this all occurred, and gave some brief comments just condemning
Speaker 1: as everyone else has political violence. And we do know
Speaker 1: also a couple other things. His campaign has suspended their
Speaker 1: advertising and a show of the gravity of the situation.
Speaker 1: And we also know that former President Trump and current
Speaker 1: President Biden spoke yesterday evening. We don't have any details
Speaker 1: on that conversation, but let me give you a little
Speaker 1: bit of what current President Biden had to say yesterday evening.
Speaker 4: So what we know now. I have tried to get
Speaker 4: a hold of Donald. He's with his doctors. Apparently he's
Speaker 4: doing well. I plan on talking them, surely, I hope
Speaker 4: when I get back to the telephone. Look, there's no
Speaker 4: place in America for this kind of violence. It's sick.
Speaker 4: It's sick. It's one of the reasons why we have
Speaker 4: to unite this country. We cannot allow for this to
Speaker 4: be happening. We cannot be like this. We cannot condone this.
Speaker 4: And so I want to thank the Secret Service and
Speaker 4: all the agency, including the state agencies that have been
Speaker 4: engaged in making sure that the people who and we
Speaker 4: have more detail to come relative to other injured, other
Speaker 4: people may be injured in the audience. I don't have
Speaker 4: all that detail, will make that available to you. I
Speaker 4: may be able to come back a little later tonight,
Speaker 4: but we'll put out a statement if we don't, if
Speaker 4: I'm not able to give it, if it's not a
Speaker 4: comedian for you all. But the bottom line is that
Speaker 4: the Trump rally a rally that he should have been
Speaker 4: able to be conducted peacefully without any problem. But the idea,
Speaker 4: the idea that there's political violence or violence in America
Speaker 4: like this is just unheard of. It's just not appropriate,
Speaker 4: and everybody, everybody must condemn it. Everybody. I'll keep you
Speaker 4: informed and if I am able to speak to the
Speaker 4: to Donald, I'll I'll will let you know that as well.
Speaker 4: But so far it appears he's doing well. Number one.
Speaker 4: Number two, that there's thoroughly investigating what happened to anyone
Speaker 4: else in the audience. I have, we have some reports,
Speaker 4: but not final reports, and every agency in the federal
Speaker 4: I'm and I'm going back into my phone to speak
Speaker 4: with the federal agencies that are being put together again
Speaker 4: to give me an updated prefeen as anything happened. They
Speaker 4: learning more in the last couple hours. So thank you
Speaker 4: very much, and I hope I get to speak to
Speaker 4: the tonight and I'll get back to you if I do.
Speaker 1: He did take one shout out question about whether this
Speaker 1: was an assassination attempt. He had demurred at the time.
Speaker 1: Now we have, you know, an official determination that it
Speaker 1: is being investigated as an assassination attempt. I know this
Speaker 1: seems obvious, but they want to wait and make sure
Speaker 1: and all those things to try not to speak out
Speaker 1: of turn, which listen, when something like this unfolds, obviously
Speaker 1: there is wild rampant speculation. There are all sorts of
Speaker 1: things floating around online that are untrue. So, you know,
Speaker 1: sticking to the very specific details of what we actually
Speaker 1: know in a moment like this, I think is in
Speaker 1: fact incredibly important. All right, So let's talk about what
Speaker 1: we do know, because at this point they have released
Speaker 1: the name of the shooter and we can have gleaned
Speaker 1: some details because of course everyone wants to know. Okay,
Speaker 1: who is this person. We still don't know what a
Speaker 1: motive was, but this individual summed up some of the
Speaker 1: reporting that is out there, and this, you know, this
Speaker 1: is consistent with what New York Times and others are reporting,
Speaker 1: even though this is just some random guy on Twitter.
Speaker 1: He just happened to sum it up.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: So the shooter is Thomas Matthew Crooks. He is a
Speaker 1: local Pennsylvania resident. He is twenty years old, just graduated
Speaker 1: from high school two years ago, so he donated fifteen.
Speaker 1: In terms of political activity, he has no social media
Speaker 1: profile that anyone has been able to turn up so far.
Speaker 1: I saw some speculations he may have a discord, but
Speaker 1: none of that has come up. We don't know what
Speaker 1: was going on there, if such a thing even exists.
Speaker 1: Donated fifteen dollars to Act Blue the day of Bind's
Speaker 1: inauguration when he was seventeen. That went to a some
Speaker 1: sort of progressive pack that says they're fighting to restore democracy,
Speaker 1: so very sort of you know, standard liberal progressive type
Speaker 1: indications there. On the other hand, eight months later he
Speaker 1: registered to vote as a Republican. One of the photos
Speaker 1: that has emerged, he's wearing a I say, I believe
Speaker 1: of him at the when he is at the rally
Speaker 1: getting ready to shoot the president, he's wearing a T
Speaker 1: shirt of a gun YouTuber. What others are saying is
Speaker 1: that this gun YouTuber happens to be very a political
Speaker 1: but certainly indications that he's the gun enthusiast. Reports are
Speaker 1: that he used an AR fifteen rifle to commit this
Speaker 1: attempted assassination. And then this person says somehow the only
Speaker 1: twenty year old on Earth without social media. So that's
Speaker 1: what we know at this point about the shooter. We
Speaker 1: also have a few images that I can bring you
Speaker 1: as well, so you can see this person. Oh well,
Speaker 1: first let me show you. Let me show you this.
Speaker 1: This is footage that has emerged of him opening fire,
Speaker 1: and let me put this up on the screen. There
Speaker 1: isn't a lot to it, but you can see you
Speaker 1: can see him here in this part and so you
Speaker 1: can just see him there on the roof. And then
Speaker 1: when the shots ring out, you know, the camera jolts
Speaker 1: and you can't see a lot more after that, but
Speaker 1: that just to give you a sense of his position
Speaker 1: and where he was. So this has opened up, obviously
Speaker 1: a whole hell of a lot of questions about how
Speaker 1: this was able to happen, and as I mentioned previously,
Speaker 1: a lot of questions about people who had seen him
Speaker 1: before and were trying to get the police's attention, trying
Speaker 1: to have something done. How was this allowed to unfold.
Speaker 1: Here are the photos that I was referencing before from
Speaker 1: the New York Post. I also want to say there
Speaker 1: are a lot of photos and videos that are circulating
Speaker 1: online that are not Thomas Matthew Crooks. These are the
Speaker 1: only ones, these three that I've seen, that have actually
Speaker 1: been verified of this individual. This would be assassin who
Speaker 1: killed a rally goer, injured to others, and shot the
Speaker 1: former president of the United States. So those are the
Speaker 1: images that we have. One of the most stunning videos
Speaker 1: to come out was an eyewitness that I mentioned before
Speaker 1: who had he lives locally. They wanted to come out
Speaker 1: Trump supporter, wanted to hear what the former president had
Speaker 1: to say, and they spotted this individual with a gun,
Speaker 1: bear crawling up the roof. Gave an interview to the
Speaker 1: BBC after this all unfolded. Let's take a listen to
Speaker 1: this and what he had to say say, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Carl, We've been talking to a number of people as
Speaker 3: they've been coming out of this horrific event. A lot
Speaker 3: of people very emotional, a lot of people very upset,
Speaker 3: as you can imagine, a lot of people very very frightened.
Speaker 3: Greg was someone who was here. You weren't inside the event,
Speaker 3: but you were just outside. Tell us what you saw.
Speaker 5: So we had a party here all day. You can
Speaker 5: see behind us at the Brinkle's Farming greenhouse here. We
Speaker 5: had a party and we all decided, hey, you know,
Speaker 5: when we hear Trump up there, we're going to walk
Speaker 5: up through the field, stand by the trees up there
Speaker 5: under the shade and watch them and listen to the rally.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 5: We couldn't see them, but we could hear them. So
Speaker 5: we walked up in probably five to seven minutes of
Speaker 5: Trump speaking on estimating here. I have no idea, you know,
Speaker 5: but we noticed a guy crawling army you know, bear
Speaker 5: crawling up the roof of the building beside us. Fifty
Speaker 5: fifty feet away from us. So we're standing there, you know,
Speaker 5: we're pointing. We're pointing at the guy crawling up the roof,
Speaker 5: and he had a gun, right, he had a rifle.
Speaker 5: We could clearly see him with a rifle. Absolutely, we're
Speaker 5: pointing at him. The police are down there running around
Speaker 5: on the ground. We're like, hey, man, there's guy on
Speaker 5: the roof with the rifle. And the police are like,
Speaker 5: huh what, you know, like like they didn't know what
Speaker 5: was going on. You know, We're like, hey, right here
Speaker 5: on the roof, we can see it from right here.
Speaker 5: We see him, you know, he's he's crawling. And next thing,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm like, I'm thinking to myself, I'm like,
Speaker 5: why is Trump still speaking? Why have they not pulled
Speaker 5: him off the stage. I'm standing there pointing at him
Speaker 5: for you know, two three minutes, Secret Services looking at
Speaker 5: us from the top of the barn. I'm pointing at
Speaker 5: that roof, just standing there like this, and next thing,
Speaker 5: you know, five shots ring out.
Speaker 3: So your son, the shots came from not going on
Speaker 3: the r one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: So that's in essence what he had to say. Of course, Welson,
Speaker 1: I'm no security expert. I don't know what goes into
Speaker 1: planning for an event like this, planning for the protection
Speaker 1: of a president and former president. But of course you
Speaker 1: have to ask if random individuals this guy, people who
Speaker 1: were at the rally who I showed you the video
Speaker 1: earlier were screaming, he's got a gun and he's on
Speaker 1: the roof. If they were able to spot this threat
Speaker 1: with a gun, why was the rally allowed to continue?
Speaker 1: Why was how did this unfold? How did such a
Speaker 1: stunning security failure unfold? Notably, a law enforcement gave a
Speaker 1: press conference yesterday evening. Notably, there was no representative from
Speaker 1: the Secret Service there. Secret Services come under fire, by
Speaker 1: the way, from all sorts of directions recently about their competence.
Speaker 1: Will reserve judgment. We're working to book a security expert,
Speaker 1: by the way, for the full show tomorrow to talk
Speaker 1: through some of these things, to get an expert perspective
Speaker 1: on what could have gone wrong and whether it is
Speaker 1: possible to fully prevent these sorts of threats on the
Speaker 1: life of the former president current presidential candidate from occurring.
Speaker 1: So we'll save some expert analysis from that. But very noteworthy,
Speaker 1: the Secret Service was not represented at that press conference.
Speaker 1: And also noteworthy what the FBI representative had to say
Speaker 1: indicating that they were surprised that this shooter was able
Speaker 1: to get so many shots off. Let's listen in part
Speaker 1: to what they had to say, from what sounds.
Speaker 2: Like there until shots were fired, is that what you're hearing,
Speaker 2: So that that is the assessment of this time.
Speaker 5: Sniper was able to fire off dampol shots.
Speaker 3: As a former.
Speaker 2: President, again, we're still still working through the security apparatus
Speaker 2: that the Secret Service had in place, what potentially happened.
Speaker 2: That there's going to be a long investigation into exactly
Speaker 2: what took place and how the individual is able to
Speaker 2: get access to the location, what type of weapon he had,
Speaker 2: all that it is really days, weeks, and months of investigation.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 2: It is surprising, but but again to get the truth
Speaker 2: to all the details of that will come out later
Speaker 2: an investigation. Again, the Secret Service really needs to answer
Speaker 2: that question. They conduct the initial site survey, they do
Speaker 2: the initial security assessments and determine where the different security
Speaker 2: location should be, and they're the one who are in
Speaker 2: charge of securing the scene. We along with other state
Speaker 2: and local assets, are there to support the Secret Service
Speaker 2: and their mission.
Speaker 1: So a lot that's very noteworthy about that answer. First
Speaker 1: of all, him saying, yes, I am surprised that this
Speaker 1: sniper was able to get this many shots off, to
Speaker 1: come within inches of killing former President Trump, to kill
Speaker 1: a rally goer, to injure two others. Yes, I'm surprised
Speaker 1: by that number two. When asked how was this area
Speaker 1: not within the secure perimeter given that it's a an
Speaker 1: ideal vantage point to perpetrate such an attack, he says,
Speaker 1: that's really on the Secret Service. They need to answer
Speaker 1: those questions. Were there to support along with local law enforcement,
Speaker 1: but this is really their show, and which of course
Speaker 1: becks the question, Okay, well, why isn't there a representative
Speaker 1: of the Secret Service there to answer these questions? I
Speaker 1: think that in and of itself is noteworthy. So there's
Speaker 1: going to be a lot more that we learn today.
Speaker 1: This is an extraordinary, extraordinary situation, and you know, I
Speaker 1: think these security questions are going to be some of
Speaker 1: the huge topics of conversation over the coming days, weeks,
Speaker 1: and months. As I said before, we're headed into the
Speaker 1: RNC this week. Of course, this is a time of
Speaker 1: great tumult on the democratic side of the equation with
Speaker 1: President Biden facing all of these calls for him to
Speaker 1: drop out of the race given his level of decline
Speaker 1: and in capacity, so his response being very very closely
Speaker 1: monitored and continuing. You know, high level of political tension
Speaker 1: in the country and an incredibly tumultuous and fraught political
Speaker 1: environment overall. So it's the very latest that we have
Speaker 1: for you this morning. If anything major breaks today, we'll
Speaker 1: bring that to you as well. Otherwise, sogarn I will
Speaker 1: both be in the studio tomorrow to break down every
Speaker 1: single thing that we know and are working hard to
Speaker 1: you know, bring on experts and such to fill out
Speaker 1: the show as well. So thank you guys as always
Speaker 1: for trusting us with this kind of coverage, and we
Speaker 1: will see you all very soon.