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
during several years of abe s tenure as prime minister. abe was elected as prime minister for a second time in december of 2012, just weeks after then vice president joe biden and then president barack obama were reelected to a second term. president biden at the time as vice president met several times with the japanese prime minister both in the united states and in japan, they also held several phone conversations together. this was, of course, at a time when the u.s./japanese alliance was critical, when there were steps towards improving trade and economic relations as well as security arrangements. that u.s./jap nina lyons has been critical and shinzo abe was a central figure in trying to make that relationship more critical and stable over time. he was one of the reasons why we now have this quad summit between japan, the united states and australia. abe back in 2007 initially
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