The beat with Ari Melber starts right now. Happy monday. Happy monday and thank you, i appreciate it. I welcome everyone to The Beat and we begin the program covering the developments in the terrible, Near Miss Type Incident at Donald Trumps Golf Course on sunday. The secret Service Opening Fire after seeing a gun that was pointed inside the course, inside the area where the former president was. More details on exactly that exchange of gunfire and what happened and i can tell you with the most recent information, federal authorities are treating this as a second Assassination Attempt. The first occurred at the Pennsylvania Rally with shots fired, agents killing the shooter, and a Rally Attendee being fatally shot. Here, authorities have apprehended the suspected gunman, alive. 58yearold Ryan Routh charged with two federal counts of gun possession. The authorities are stressing how the investigation for determining the motive, thats an ongoing investigation and they also praised the re
He was playing with a contact of his, a friend. It s understood secret service agents opened fire on a suspect, who then fled the scene by car. Donald trump s campaign released a statement in which the former president says: there were gunshots in my vicinity, but before rumours start spiralling out of control, i wanted you to hear this first: i am safe and well. It wasn t long after that we got more comments from him as well, and a fundraising campaign note he sent to his supporters. He says he s never going to slow down, he s never going to slow down, he s never going to slow down, he s never going to give up, and he says his resolve is only stronger after another attempt on my life. Lots of images coming tine us from the scene and what happened afterwards. An image of the moment when security services surrounded the suspect has been released. He was detained in martin county by the sheriff s office on the northbound area of interstate 95, following an alert which told officers to be
Ayman mohyeldin. And i am ali velshi. We are continuing our coverage of the reported gunfire and your president donald trump today in florida. We are learning details about what the fbi is now calling an apparent attempted assassination of the former president s golf course in west palm beach. Florida police can now identify the man who shot. The individual s name, ryan wesley routh, born february 18th, 1966, according to three senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter. The suspect is in custody. A short while ago, the west palm beach sheriff s office describe the scene where they found him. No, in the bushes where this guy was is an ak47 style rifle with a scope, two backpacks, which were hung on the fence, that had ceramic tile in them, and a gopro, which he was going to take pictures with point it is shortly after the incident, the trump campaign issued a statement saying that donald trump is safe and unharmed. Abc is reporting that he departed maralago shortly after th
HavIng CeramIc TIles on them, and a Go Pro, whIch he was goIng to take pIctures of. Those would be a process rIght now to stop the secret ServIce Agent that was on the course dId a fantastIcjob. What they do Is they have an agent that jumps one hole ahead of tIme where the presIdent was at. He was able to spot thIs rIghtful stIckIng out of the fence and ImmedIately engage that IndIvIdual, at whIch tIme the IndIvIdual, at whIch tIme the IndIvIdual took off. That Is what we know about the InvestIgatIon. We have somebody InvestIgatIon. We have somebody In custody rIght now that Is a potentIal suspect. We have a lIttle bIt more work to do on It, but as we usually do, as soon as we decIde we are goIng to book In the countyjaIl and the charges he wIll be put Into It, we wIll get those to you and we wIll get a PIcture Of hIm and we wIll get you hIs background. I wIll doubt character wIth a representatIve of the Secret ServIce and he wIll make a brIef statement. Good afternoon. IfIrst wIll mak