From washington tonight it. Is a busy news evening so let s jump right in. My angle in moments. First, trump is back out on the campaign trail after the second assassination attempt on him in of course just two months. He should be stepping out on the stage at any moment in flint, michigan. You see sarah huckabee sanders standing there. Fox s aishah hasnie standing by. Aishah? hey there, laura, good evening to you. We got a packed crowd here in flint, michigan as you see the governor from arkansas behind me. She just said something. [crowd boos] she said a few weeks ago in milwaukee. She said god is not done with president trump. She said that a few days after that first attempt on him. That first assassination attempt. I m told by the campaign this was told a few moments ago that the former president will address what happened on sunday. He will start off this town hall with that he will detail the events of what happened on that golf course and then he will pitt to the economy and th
President donald trump. Lots of details coming to us in the past few hours about what happened but shots were fired quite close to the former president. He was playing golf with a friend at one of his golf clubs and there were shots fired. This is at a palm beach golf course and we had a news conference room at secret service officers saying that they were ahead of the president and they spotted an ak47 president and they spotted an ak47 rifle poking up out of the bushes and then they took aim at that suspect. The president was some way back, the former president, at the time, obviously the attacker then dropped the weapon and tried to get away in a car and rather remarkably, lots of praise for a witness who actually saw this happen and took a photo of the suspect and his car stop he was then pursued by the local police and stopped and we have had just from us media confirmation of the name of the suspect. He is ryan ralph, a 58yearold man from hawaii. Quite quickly after this happens
So, obviously, my immediate question was, can we go? can we get there? setting it up with the ukrainians was not the hard bit. Actually, it was convincing my editors and, you know, layers of management back at the times that this was a safe thing to do, or that we could mitigate the risks involved in it. Because they weren t just about the danger there. They were also these legal risks about. . . . . The legal consequences of illegally crossing into russia, which is how the russian government have perceived the trip. But you obviously persuaded them, cos you went. Just to explain, then, who you did speak to and what the terms were. I suppose the question is, whether you were changing names to protect russians, because getting people, presumably, in russia to speak candidly to western journalists must be very hard? well, yeah, these are people who lived in a very quiet corner of russia, and probably had never had anything to do with a journalist, even a russian journalist, never mind a
To protect russians, to protect russians, because getting people, presumably, in russia to speak candidly to Western Journalists must be very hard . Well, yeah, these are people who lived in a very quiet corner of russia, and probably had never had anything to do with a journalist, even a russian journalist, never mind a foreign one. I gave them their choices. I used first names only. And, you know, gave them the choice. I also made. I made very sure to speak to them out of the earshot of ukrainian journalists as much. Ukraine and had taken aggressive action there. And you attended something that sounded very fascinating, which was that ukraines civilian Military Liaison Officers were showing films to local people about the invasion. And i wonder what the reaction was to the films as you were there . Yeah, i mean, that was extraordinary, and one of the most extraordinary things to watch. There was a small audience of older people who were watching it. I spoke to one of them afterwards,
Catherine philp is world affairs editor at the times. She s reported from war zones for decades, and recently accompanied ukrainian forces across the border into kursk. So, i was coming into ukraine for. . . I ve been coming on and off since before the invasion, and this was a longscheduled visit. Itjust so happened that it came at a time when ukrainian forces had crossed the border into russia. So, obviously, my immediate question was, can we go? can we get there? setting it up with the ukrainians was not the hard bit. Actually, it was convincing my editors and, you know, layers of management back at the times that this was a safe thing to do, or that we could mitigate the risks involved in it. Because they weren t just about the danger there. They were also these legal risks about. . . . . The legal consequences of illegally crossing into russia, which is how the russian government have perceived the trip. But you obviously persuaded them, cos you went. Just to explain, then, who you