Extremely serious as new details emerge about the alleged crime. And the state of the former President S security also this hour, how this new threat to trump may impact the president ial race as he tries to blame it on the rhetoric of president Joe Biden and Vice President kamala harris. Its a new level of uncertainty tonight. In the already volatile 2024 Election Welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. Im Wolf Blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room the skis, cnn Breaking News we just learned that president Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump had what is being described by the White House as a cordial conversation on the phone. That conversation just a short while ago were told the president conveyed his relief that trump is safe after so the apparent attempt to assassinate him. And this comes as we are breaking down all the new information from a briefing by federal and local authorities, just a little while ago cnns Randi Kaye is on the scene for us
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
Moment. Today s attempt occurred as the former president and a donor were golfing at his club in west palm beach, florida. Specifically, authorities say they were walking between holes five and six which we re going to show you on a map the palm beach county sheriff s office says it received calls of shots fired by the secret service at about 1:30 p. M. Secret service spotted the engagement. They ve now detained as an agent was walking the course ahead of the former president agent that was all the course did a fantastic job. What they do is they have an agent that jumps one whole ahead of time toward a president was at and he was able to spot this rifle barrow sticking out of the fits and immediately engaged that individual at which time the individual took off well, authorities say that a secret service agent fired at the man. Unclear at this moment whether the man they ve detained fired any shots. The man was later apprehended after help from a witness. This who saw the person drive
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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