Can tell you the security has not let up. Earlier today, we heard Law Enforcementda crediting the qui actions of Aed Witness Who Spotd the suspect right away, before 2 00 this afternoon when the incident played out. Officials are saying that this Witness Saw the man jump out from thema brush, the shrubbery that surrounding this Golf Course and was quick to actually write down the License Plate Number of the suspects getaway vehicle. It was a black nissan, and this witness not yet identified, apparently shared the information with local Law Enforcement Rightwi away. Andri thats where local Law Enforcement on the ground was able to track down the suspect along thedo interstate. But thee interstate, as you ca imagine was pretty chaotic. Even getting to this location today, they were blocking off different ramps and roadways surrounding the Golf Course as the investigation pressed ahead but they wereat able to get the suspect. We heard earlier that this individual was pretty compliant and
By a convicted felon, and possession of a weapon with an obliterated serial number. He has an extensive criminal history including possessing a weapon of mass destruction, a machine gun. Just Yesterday Routh was able to get within 500 yards of mr. Trump, armed with a semiautomatic rifle, just two months after the former president was shot in another attempt on his life. All that is raising big questions about the level of security around the former president. Hes not the sitting president. If he was, we would have had the entire Golf Course surrounded. Because hes not, security is limited to the areas the Secret Service deems possible, but the Secret Service did exactly what they should have done. They provided exactly what the protection should have been, and their agent did a fantastic job. Mr. Trump was unharmed after the Secret Service spotted the Rifle Scope hidden in the bushes while trump was on the Golf Course. This was in the perimeter, the bushes on the perimeter, the agent o
It is set for 4 00, well go there toward The End of the show. But first up to speed on what we know right now. The suspect, 58yearold ryan Wesley Routh was in Court Today charged with two federal counts. Routh has a long, long history with Law Enforcement. With more than 100 criminal counts filed against him in North Carolina. Including a 2002 conviction for possession of a fully automatic machine gun. In todays criminal complaint, the fbi said routh might have been waiting for former President Trump in the bushes next to the Golf Course for more than 11 hours. When agents spotted him and took shots. They say routh fled leaving behind a soviet style semiautomatic weapon with the serial number scratched off. And cops pulled him over on i95 and have just released Body Cam Footage of this moment. Driver take a step to your right. Driver, come straight back. Keep walking. Nbc news has obtained more exclusive Body Cam Footage. Well show you that in just a second. On the Social Media in 2020
Lower one. Thank you so much for joining me this sunday. Im Fredricka Whitfield and we begin this hour with a new glimpse at where americans are leaning with just 51 days until the president ial election, a new Abc News Ipsos Poll released today shows Vice President Kamala Harris with 52 support among leading likely voters to a former President Donald Trumps 46 . That margin unchanged from the last Abc News Poll taken at The End of august before they are debate with roughly seven weeks until the general election campaigns are racing to secure undecided voters in several key battleground states. But while these events will focus on voters, trumps mind seems to be elsewhere at this critical moment in the race, a former president posting to his truth social account today, i hate Taylor Swift following the pop Singers Endorsement of harris last week, cnns Sunlen Serfaty is at the White House for a sunlen, what more are these latest polls telling us about the state of the race fred, it show
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