security detail tackling the suspect. a local resident in his 40s. the gun he used appears to have been handmade, a motive not known at this time. as brianna said abe was japan s longest serving prime minister and was still a towering figure in japanese and international politics. he had crucial working relationships with both president obama and president trump. this assassination causing shock waves around the world this morning. let s get right to cnn s blake essig who is in tokyo with the very latest. blake, what can you tell us? reporter: brianna, john, devastating news here in japan. doctors at nara medical university hospital have confirmed that japanese former japanese prime minister shinzo abe has died after being shot twice, once in his chst and once in his neck. doctors treating former prime minister said that his heart had actually stopped by the time that he reached the hospital, they said that he was bleeding profusely and that the bullet that killed abe w
political rise and we were all following him carefully because as will suggested before, he came out of this political family that had a huge leg acy o it. his grandfather was considered to be a war criminal by the united states but ultimately got elected as prime minister, his father was the form minister for many years and the minister of international trade and industry, an enormously powerful position, and he came up as his father s aide. what was i think most remarkable about him, john, was that he really had twin goals, one was the economic revival that will discussed, but the second was that he was determined to get rewritten the japanese constitution which had been written by the united states essentially so that japan could contribute far more to the defense of asia. and this was supported in washington because they needed japan to be more active in
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