And welcome to all of our viewers watching here in the u. S. And Around The World. Im Jim Sciutto in washington, cnn, Breaking News continues this hour. The fbi is investigating an apparent Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump two months after the former president was shot got in the ear at a rally in pennsylvania, trump is safe, was not harmed in Sundays Incident at his Golf Club in West Palm Beach, florida . A 58yearold man identified as ryan Wesley Ralph has been detained. Hes pictured there you had weighed in on politics, on Social Media in the past. And at times had criticized Donald Trump, the Palm Beach County Sheriff says the Secret Service fired shots at a man who had a rifle in the bushes along the perimeter of the trump international Golf Club. A source says that trump had been playing golf at the time moving between the fifth and six holes the secret Service Agent that was all the course did a fantastic job, what they do is they have an agent that jumps one whole ahead of
happening at the same time, whether one is a diversionary one or other plans to happen simultaneously. so, whether this was an errant explosion, and the explosions were heading elsewhere, we don t know what the intended targets may have been, if this was not the target they selected. gillian: bill, obviously when you look at a situation like this, it s way too early in the process to talk about motivations, but do you have any sense based on just the geography, the very bare phones facts we have here, the fact this was likely a car bomb, that they were going from the u.s. or trying to go from the u.s. to canada. does that speak to you and your background expertise about what types of terror organizations might be interested in conducting something like this? yeah, it s very difficulty point to kind of come to any of those assumptions. certainly we know that the fbi director wray just over the past few days has reiterated concerns about potential terrorist activities, eman
normally you might be looking at the geopolitical situation in a region and using analysts with expertise in that region, and that s what they re used to. to bring this into an area of the virus, science, medicine, you need a different kind of background expertise, so that s what i think they re kind of trying to bring in and focus it more. like i said, china has been promoting a disinformation narrative that the virus originated in the u.s., as a u.s. government weapon, which has echoes of what the soviet union did in the 1980s with the aids virus, highly successful disinformation campaign and damaging to our long-term public health efforts because where the disinformation took hold, for example, in africa, where whe were trying to combat aids, people didn t trust the u.s. government. so we want to combat that. the other thing that s unusual, jessica, the fact this is being
this was a plan that was hatched by the president s son-in-law, jared kushner, who to my knowledge, has no background expertise on immigration, and by stephen miller. and we know that he was the architect of the family separation policy along with jeff sessions. there really was nothing that from which we could start, i don t think. it is interesting that daca was not even mentioned. the president, remember he held that bipartisan meeting one time at the white house, and he seemed to be siding at first with democrats saying that, you know, he wanted comprehensive immigration reform, and then he was reminded by republicans that that s not really a term that he s supposed to be using because it has a different connotation than perhaps he understands. but to not include daca in any speech, obviously it s going to be a non-starter for democrats. they made it clear that daca has to be part of comprehensive immigration reform. trump talked about that very early on as you mentioned, and
10,000 daca recipients and tps holders. so it doesn t even address that issue. so i think it s going to be a non-starter for someone like me. that s just in my district. but looking at the larger issue, if you re going to really try to address the issue of immigration, you need input from both republicans and democrats. i don t think they got input from anyone. certainly not anyone on the democratic side, and not even any republicans. this was a plan that was hatched by the president s son-in-law, jared kushner, who to my knowledge, has no background expertise on immigration, and by stephen miller. and we know that he was the architect of the family separation policy along with jeff sessions. there really was nothing that from which we could start, i don t think. it is interesting that daca was not even mentioned. the president, remember he held that bipartisan meeting one time at the white house, and he