Speaker 1: Already and this is the Daily This is the Daily OS. Oh,
Speaker 1: now it makes sense. Good morning, and welcome to the
Speaker 1: Daily OS. It is Monday, the fifteenth of July. I'm Billy,
Speaker 1: I'm Sam. Yesterday there was an assassination attempt on the
Speaker 1: former US President Donald Trump. It was the first time
Speaker 1: a current or former US president has been wounded from
Speaker 1: an assassination attempt in more than forty years. There has
Speaker 1: been a lot of commentary about this attempt and what
Speaker 1: it means for the future of Trump's campaign and the
Speaker 1: state of US politics more broadly. But one thing has
Speaker 1: been clear, and that's that all official authorities and the
Speaker 1: political community have condemned this act of political violence. We'll
Speaker 1: tell you exactly what you need to know in today's podcast,
Speaker 1: But first, Sam, what is making headlines today?
Speaker 2: Well, Billy, I know that we're gonna some time talking
Speaker 2: about it, but it's impossible to start their headlines without
Speaker 2: talking about yesterday's assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: After the events of yesterday, Trump's campaign released a joint
Speaker 2: statement with the Republican National Convention Body to say that
Speaker 2: he will still appear at the convention in Milwaukee this week.
Speaker 2: Where he will formally accept the nomination as the Republican
Speaker 2: presidential nominee. Trump is also expected to announce his pick
Speaker 2: for vice president at that event. There's expected to be
Speaker 2: heightened security at the four day convention, as well as
Speaker 2: increased security at the White House and any public appearances
Speaker 2: by Trump's likely opponent, President Joe Biden. We're going to
Speaker 2: break all of that down in just a minute.
Speaker 1: New South Wales Premier Chris Mins has announced its long
Speaker 1: awaited drug Summit will begin this October. Leaders are expected
Speaker 1: to discuss prevention and harm minimization strategies over two days
Speaker 1: of talks in regional New South Wales. The summit will
Speaker 1: continue in December, where a two day fourum will be
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Speaker 1: for its first pill testing trial this summer. Queensland and
Speaker 1: the Act are the two other jurisdictions where the practice
Speaker 1: is allowed.
Speaker 2: At least ninety people have been killed in air strikes
Speaker 2: that targeted a Hamask commander in Gaza. The IDF strikes
Speaker 2: on al Mawassi, a designated safe zone in the Strip,
Speaker 2: injured at least three hundred others. Hamask commander Muhammad Daif
Speaker 2: has been described as the mastermind behind the October seven
Speaker 2: attacks that killed twelve hundred people. It has not been
Speaker 2: confirmed if he was killed in this strike.
Speaker 1: And today's good news, Scientists have used a fifty two
Speaker 1: thousand year old specimen to create a full three D
Speaker 1: model of a wooly mammoth. The well preserved mammoth was
Speaker 1: discovered in Russia's Siberian region in what's known as a
Speaker 1: quote freeze dried state. This allowed researchers to use some
Speaker 1: of the wooly mammoths chromosomes to figure out its genetic structure.
Speaker 1: It is the first time scientists have been able to
Speaker 1: create such a full picture about the makeup of the
Speaker 1: animal which went extra two thousands or years ago.
Speaker 2: Okay, so Billy, It was a massive day of news yesterday,
Speaker 2: one of those days that I think we'll all remember
Speaker 2: as people who read the news all day every day,
Speaker 2: and here in Australia, we woke up on Sunday morning
Speaker 2: to this remarkable event that kind of was spilling out
Speaker 2: on social media almost before traditional media, and that was
Speaker 2: an assassination attempt on the former US President Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: who was running again in the upcoming presidential election in
Speaker 2: the US. I want to start this by coming in
Speaker 2: clean to this conversation. What exactly do we know happened,
Speaker 2: and talk me through the timeline of all of this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, an absolutely historic day in US politics. Like I
Speaker 1: said in the intro, it is the first time a
Speaker 1: US president has actually been wounded by an assassination attempt
Speaker 1: in more than forty years. So I'll go through the timeline.
Speaker 1: On Saturday, Trump was holding a campaign rally in Butler
Speaker 1: in the US state of Pennsylvania in the lead up
Speaker 1: to the Republican National Convention, which he talked about in
Speaker 1: the story Sam. So, just minutes into this rally, he
Speaker 1: kind of started at six oh five, and at about
Speaker 1: six fifteen pm local time, several gunshots were heard, and
Speaker 1: the footage, which I'm sure many of us have seen
Speaker 1: by now, shows that Trump kind of immediately grabs his ear.
Speaker 1: We can see blood coming out, he realizes what is happening,
Speaker 1: and then he immediately ducks to below the microphone and.
Speaker 2: The stand take a look at what happened.
Speaker 1: The Secret Service then pretty quickly moved to protect him,
Speaker 1: and they kind of form this human barrier around him
Speaker 1: before moving him to get him off stage, and you
Speaker 1: could see in the footage that there was all of
Speaker 1: this blood around his ear as he was being rushed.
Speaker 2: Off and so the Secret Service members come from everywhere.
Speaker 2: There's immediately armed offices all over the stage, and that's
Speaker 2: where this really iconic now moment happened.
Speaker 1: Right yeah, just before he was rushed off stage, there
Speaker 1: was this five to ten second moment that I think, well,
Speaker 1: you know, not only become one of the defining images
Speaker 1: of this presidential election, but likely become one of the
Speaker 1: most iconic images in US political history. And that was
Speaker 1: of Trump popping his head up above the scrum of
Speaker 1: Secret Service offices around him, and you know, putting his
Speaker 1: fist in the air in this defying gesture as he
Speaker 1: assures the crowd that he was okay, and he seemed
Speaker 1: to mouth we couldn't hear the audio, but he seemed
Speaker 1: to mouth fight, fight, fight. And right after that is
Speaker 1: when he gets rushed off stage and bundled into a car.
Speaker 1: I think you can also hear in the audio the
Speaker 1: crowd starting to chant. I think there was this moment
Speaker 1: of complete shock where everyone kind of goes silent. You
Speaker 1: can hear screams. But then as soon as Trump put
Speaker 1: his fist in the air, you could then hear them
Speaker 1: starting to chant.
Speaker 2: Usa, Usa is the chant. Yeah, it was a really
Speaker 2: remarkable spectrum of emotion, like so quickly it went from
Speaker 2: ten and screaming to defiance, defiance, and yes, I think
Speaker 2: you're right. This is one of those snapshots that you'll
Speaker 2: just see in textbooks for the rest of the next
Speaker 2: couple of hundred years. Maybe there was also another time
Speaker 2: he did that, just before he was almost pushed into
Speaker 2: the car by the Secret Service. Remarkable from somebody who
Speaker 2: had just survived an assassination attempt. In that footage that
Speaker 2: you're talking about, The thing that struck me was just
Speaker 2: how much security there is around the president at all times,
Speaker 2: both former and sitting. How could this actually have happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this has been a big conversation in the aftermath.
Speaker 1: So I'll go through what we know about what the
Speaker 1: Secret Service has said. So they said that the shooter
Speaker 1: fired shots, quote from an elevated position outside of the
Speaker 1: rally venue. So we know that the shooter was not
Speaker 1: inside the rally, so he didn't have to go through
Speaker 1: all of the security checks that everyone going into that
Speaker 1: rally has to do. But he was on a rooftop outside,
Speaker 1: and that has been a big question about how this
Speaker 1: could have happened, because it's a job of the Secret
Speaker 1: Service to prevent attempts exactly like this. This is what
Speaker 1: their entire job is. This is exactly what they do
Speaker 1: all of their training, for sure, and they execute extensive
Speaker 1: security checks on every venue that Trump goes into. And
Speaker 1: so for a person to be on top of a
Speaker 1: rooftop in the direct line of side of Trump with
Speaker 1: a gun, I think that fact has donne so many
Speaker 1: people who know just how extensive security checks are on
Speaker 1: presidents and presidential candidates and the venues that they all
Speaker 1: go into.
Speaker 2: I even read something that said that normally the Secret
Speaker 2: Service should have somebody on every rooftop around a venue.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's why people are stunned about how this happened.
Speaker 1: There was also an interview that an eyewitness did with
Speaker 1: BBC where he explained that he was trying to warn
Speaker 1: police that there was a gunman about to shoot right
Speaker 1: before it actually happened. Here's some of that interview.
Speaker 3: We're like, hey man, there's guy on the roof for
Speaker 3: the rifle, and the police are like, huh, what you know,
Speaker 3: like they didn't know what was going on. You know,
Speaker 3: We're like, okay, right here on the roof, we can
Speaker 3: see him from right here, we see him, you know,
Speaker 3: he's crowing. And next thing, you know, I'm like, I'm
Speaker 3: thinking to myself, I'm like, why is Trump still speaking?
Speaker 3: Why have they not pulled him off the stage. I'm
Speaker 3: standing there pointing at him for you know, two three minutes.
Speaker 3: Secret Services looking at us from the top of the barn.
Speaker 3: I'm pointing at that roof, just standing it like this,
Speaker 3: and next thing, you know, five shouts ring out.
Speaker 1: So there will of course be an extensive investigation into
Speaker 1: exactly what happened here. And just quickly to mention, you know,
Speaker 1: this conversation, we're not trying to undermine the importance of
Speaker 1: what the Secret Service did and the fact that they
Speaker 1: did run towards where a bullet had hit Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: I think it's just a big part of the conversation
Speaker 1: about how could something like this be prevented in the future.
Speaker 1: Is needing to understand how this happened in the first place.
Speaker 2: Well, definitely, And I think especially when we're in a
Speaker 2: cycle for the next five months at least of daily rallies,
Speaker 2: this almost has a sense of urgency about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but there has been a lot of appreciation for
Speaker 1: what the Secret Servers did and how quickly they did respond.
Speaker 2: Sure, and officials are now really focused on who this
Speaker 2: shooter is and this is obviously now the number one
Speaker 2: priority for law enforcement in the US. This is happening
Speaker 2: very quickly, this investigation. As we're recording this billy, what
Speaker 2: do we know about the shooter?
Speaker 1: So the first thing we know is that he is
Speaker 1: now dead. Secret Service said that they quote neutralize the
Speaker 1: shooter before he did then die. So at the time
Speaker 1: of recording, the FBI is saying that they do know
Speaker 1: the identity of the shooter, and it's understood he is
Speaker 1: a young man who is twenty years old, so really
Speaker 1: quite young. We know that he lives in Pennsylvania in
Speaker 1: a local town there, and they are just in the
Speaker 1: process right now of confirming more information about what exactly
Speaker 1: his motive was. At the time of recording, we don't
Speaker 1: know what that motive.
Speaker 2: Was, and I'm sure stuff like his social media profiles
Speaker 2: and whether he talked publicly online about politics before will
Speaker 2: form a key part of all of that. But the
Speaker 2: shooter wasn't the only who died.
Speaker 1: Right, No, so we also know that one spectator was
Speaker 1: killed and that two other spectators have been critically injured.
Speaker 1: There's not too much else we know at this stage
Speaker 1: about the person who died or the identity of those
Speaker 1: who were injured.
Speaker 2: Okay, So Trump gets transported immediately to a hospital in
Speaker 2: the area. You know, with the motorcade, it was a
Speaker 2: big line of cars streaming towards there. He gets into
Speaker 2: the hospital and pretty soon after he actually releases a statement.
Speaker 2: What did that say.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he released a statement in just a couple of
Speaker 1: hours after it all happened. In that statement, he thanked
Speaker 1: the Secret Service, and he sent his condolences to the
Speaker 1: family of the spectator who was killed and to those
Speaker 1: who were injured. But he also detailed exactly what happened
Speaker 1: in that moment from his perspective. So I'll read out
Speaker 1: a bit of what he said. He said quote, I
Speaker 1: was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part
Speaker 1: of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was
Speaker 1: wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound shots and
Speaker 1: immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding
Speaker 1: took place. So I realized then what was happening, and
Speaker 1: he ended that statement with God bless America.
Speaker 2: Which is how he ends most of his statements. So
Speaker 2: that statement came out and we immediately kind of understood
Speaker 2: that this was not a life threatening injury to the
Speaker 2: former president. And from that point we started to hear
Speaker 2: from other really senior political leaders in the US, including
Speaker 2: the president. What was the response in a few hours
Speaker 2: after this assassination attempt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the current US President, Joe Biden, he held a
Speaker 1: press conference shortly after the incident, and he was very
Speaker 1: clear in condemning violence and saying this never should have happened.
Speaker 4: Look, there's no place in America for this kind of violence.
Speaker 4: It's sick. It's sick. It's one of the reason where
Speaker 4: we have to unite this country. We cannot allow for
Speaker 4: this to be happening. We cannot be like this. We
Speaker 4: cannot condone this.
Speaker 1: And all previous US presidents who are still alive have
Speaker 1: also put out a statement, and they were all pretty
Speaker 1: similar in their sentiment. They all said that they are
Speaker 1: glad that Trump is safe and that he is alive,
Speaker 1: and all of their statements also condemned violence in politics.
Speaker 1: And Vice President Kamala Harris put out a similar statement
Speaker 1: and called it quote a senseless shooting. We also heard
Speaker 1: yesterday from Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanizi, who showed similar
Speaker 1: concern for the former president, and notably he used the
Speaker 1: opportunity to continue his calls for a general lowering of
Speaker 1: the temperature in politics, and he actually said that we
Speaker 1: should be expecting a global increase of election related violence
Speaker 1: in the coming months and years, including he said possibly
Speaker 1: here in Australia.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was quite interesting his comments yesterday. He coupled
Speaker 2: that with an appreciation for the fact that he can
Speaker 2: go to the supermarket and still buy dog food. That
Speaker 2: was the example he used, and that the US president
Speaker 2: can't do that, and he was using that to highlight
Speaker 2: the difference in safety in Australia versus the US. But
Speaker 2: if we zoom out of all of this, how do
Speaker 2: you think yesterday's events will actually change the campaign?
Speaker 1: I think that's the key question because there has been
Speaker 1: a lot of rhetoric about if this will soften the heat,
Speaker 1: and you know the extreme anger that is so present
Speaker 1: in the attacks between Biden and Trump, but also between
Speaker 1: Democrats and Republicans more broadly, and the question is will
Speaker 1: this be a watershed moment to dial down just how
Speaker 1: he did this lead up to the election in the US?
Speaker 1: Is we know that in the immediate aftermath, Biden's campaign
Speaker 1: is pulling down its television ads temporarily and suspending any
Speaker 1: campaign events. And the thinking there is that these moments
Speaker 1: in politics is, you know, not the time for usual
Speaker 1: political point scoring. So any ad criticizing Trump's presidential campaign
Speaker 1: is they think inappropriate at the moment. And there are
Speaker 1: definitely a lot of Republicans as well who are calling
Speaker 1: for calm right now. For example, Senior Republican Mitch McConnell
Speaker 1: I think it's worth noting that there are some Republicans
Speaker 1: who have used it to continue attacks on Biden. For example,
Speaker 1: one Republican congressman said Biden was actually responsible for quote
Speaker 1: inciting an assassination. Some very strong language there, but mostly,
Speaker 1: you know, the rhetoric is definitely wanting to dial down
Speaker 1: the heat of politics in the US at the moment
Speaker 1: and wanting to prevent any further attacks.
Speaker 2: And Bill you mentioned at the start of this podcast,
Speaker 2: this is the first time in forty years that a
Speaker 2: president of the United States has been injured by an
Speaker 2: assassination attempt. There surely haven't been that many presidents who
Speaker 2: have been killed in an assassination. I know we probably
Speaker 2: all know jfk in the sixties, but what's the history
Speaker 2: of assassinations and assassination attempts in the US.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this is interesting because in the US
Speaker 1: there are shootings all the time in public, but even
Speaker 1: those shootings are relatively common. That doesn't take away from
Speaker 1: just how historic this is for presidents and presidential nominees, who,
Speaker 1: like we have said, are surrounded by extreme security twenty
Speaker 1: four seven. So the last president injured from an assassination
Speaker 1: attempt was Ronald Reagan in nineteen eighty one. He survived
Speaker 1: that attack. But there have been four US presidents who
Speaker 1: have been assassinated. So they are Abraham Lincoln in eighteen
Speaker 1: sixty five, James Garfield in eighteen eighty one, William McKinley
Speaker 1: in nineteen oh one, and also John F. Kennedy, who
Speaker 1: I'm sure we've all seen the footage of that in
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three. And then as well as Reagan, there
Speaker 1: was Theodore Roosevelt who was injured from an assassination attempt
Speaker 1: in nineteen twelve, and as well, on top of all
Speaker 1: of that, there have also been several other plots that
Speaker 1: have been foiled.
Speaker 2: Almost one for every president, to be honest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think what is historic about this is
Speaker 1: that it's one of the few times that the bullet
Speaker 1: has actually hit the president of presidential nominee.
Speaker 2: Well, most of these plans get foiled at kind of
Speaker 2: the planning stage, so they'll discover documents on someone's computer
Speaker 2: or something.
Speaker 1: Yes, and knowing that these kind of things can happen,
Speaker 1: the US law does actually mandate that all former presidents
Speaker 1: receive Secret Service protection for the rest of their lives.
Speaker 2: And that's when you see even you know, former US
Speaker 2: President Barack Obama coming to Australia last year surrounded by
Speaker 2: as much security as if he was the president. Because
Speaker 2: this is such a historic trend, Billy, before we go,
Speaker 2: I want to go back to the commentary around that photo.
Speaker 2: And it's a photo that you can see on our Instagram.
Speaker 2: You probably have seen it everywhere by now. Trump's fist
Speaker 2: in the air just after an assassination attempt, and if
Speaker 2: you listen carefully to the audio, you can hear him
Speaker 2: say wait and take that as a moment. Tell me
Speaker 2: about your observations of what that moment will mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the commentary around this has been extremely interesting because
Speaker 1: it's the fact that even in an assassination attempt, Trump
Speaker 1: had that state of mind to not want the photos
Speaker 1: of him holding his ear and being hurried off. But
Speaker 1: he won to that image, like we talked about earlier,
Speaker 1: to be one of defiance, and he wanted to show
Speaker 1: strength in this moment where he had just been shot.
Speaker 1: And that image of him pumping the air is being
Speaker 1: used by his supporters to show just how what they're saying,
Speaker 1: how strong he is. For example, his son posted the
Speaker 1: photo with the caption quote, this is the fighter America needs.
Speaker 1: The New York Times also commented about this in an
Speaker 1: op ed. They said, quote the moment epitomized his visceral
Speaker 1: connection with his supporters and his mastery of the modern
Speaker 1: media age. And I think it was interesting that in
Speaker 1: our comments on the Daily Ohs, like you said, we
Speaker 1: posted the photo Sam, and there were a lot of
Speaker 1: comments about which photos they thought that we should use,
Speaker 1: and whether we should have showed that one of defiant strength,
Speaker 1: or whether we should have just showed the one of
Speaker 1: him being hurried off. And it just speaks to how
Speaker 1: political every single decision is, not only that Trump and
Speaker 1: Biden do, but also as a media company, which photo
Speaker 1: do you choose to show your audience really interesting? And
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I know what the right answer to
Speaker 1: that is.
Speaker 2: Well, I think it's really symbolic of where we're at
Speaker 2: with politics that the structure of a photo that's used
Speaker 2: can hold so much meaning so quickly after an event happens.
Speaker 2: It's almost unprecedented.
Speaker 1: Sam, I know you also are absolutely obsessed with US politics.
Speaker 1: What are your observations about this moment?
Speaker 2: Well, when something like this happens and I hear the
Speaker 2: words unprecedented and historic and unforgettable moment being thrown around,
Speaker 2: my first gut instinct is always to try and find
Speaker 2: historical parallels. So when as something like this happened, and
Speaker 2: you took us through other times where US presidents have
Speaker 2: had assassination attempts, either successful or unsuccessful, and I went
Speaker 2: back and had a look at what happened after the
Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan assassination attempt in nineteen eighty one, and the
Speaker 2: big lesson that historians have taken from that is just
Speaker 2: how popular he was after that attempt. He had almost
Speaker 2: a twenty two percent jump in approval polls when he
Speaker 2: had gone through an assassination attempts. Come out the other
Speaker 2: side and that message of defiant and you know, we're
Speaker 2: bringing back strong rule to America. It really resonated with Americans.
Speaker 2: In fact, there's some Democrats who voted against Reagan who
Speaker 2: then expressed their support for him after that assassination attempt.
Speaker 2: So it does funny things to the political cycle. There
Speaker 2: was also this year in nineteen sixty eight where both
Speaker 2: Martin Luther King Junior and Robert F. Kennedy, So John F.
Speaker 2: Kennedy's brother, we're both assassinated. They were both killed, and
Speaker 2: that was seen to really give birth to the platform
Speaker 2: that Nixon used to win the presidency and his message
Speaker 2: there was we need to bring law and order back
Speaker 2: to America. And I think what you'll see in the
Speaker 2: coming months is Trump used this event as a way
Speaker 2: to frame the lawlessness of America and the need for
Speaker 2: a strong leader to be in the White House. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure how Biden is going to use this, probably
Speaker 2: to call for carm as we've heard from the statements
Speaker 2: from Democrats today, It's going to be really interesting.
Speaker 1: It's interesting though saying that Trump will use this as
Speaker 1: a mobile meant to stop lawlessness in the country when
Speaker 1: Trump is more pro guns than Biden is.
Speaker 2: Well, I think that's a really interesting point. But the
Speaker 2: key argument that Republicans will use now is that the
Speaker 2: thing that protected their presidential nominee was another person with
Speaker 2: a gun, and that's a typical line used by gun
Speaker 2: lobby in the US. I mean, this just keeps getting
Speaker 2: more dramatic and almost more American by the week.
Speaker 1: A historic moment for US politics. There is a lot
Speaker 1: to digest there. As we have mentioned, there is a
Speaker 1: Republican convention coming up this week, so we are expecting
Speaker 1: for Trump to announce who his vice presidential pick will be.
Speaker 1: A lot to keep our eyes on. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for listening to this episode of The Daily os.
Speaker 1: We will be back again tomorrow.
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