Months and months of this mobile having an immense fall from grace, he has ten civil suits again, him. Many of which include very disturbing allegations of sexual assault, of drugging. It's important to note that combs has denied most of these allegations, but you'll remember a few months ago when we broke that video of combs violently feeding his exgirlfriend, cassie, in the hallway of a los angeles hotel room, and that came after he had denied many allegations that we're in her lawsuit. I want to remind our viewers that that lawsuit came out in november of 2023. And ever since then, it has been a constant domino effect we heard the time that diddy was the target of an investigation. We learned that investigation was tied to sex trafficking and months later, we exclusively broke at cnn that a grand jury that this was presented to a grand jury and that they were pressing accusers my brand jury. Yeah, and we've seen what that grand jury has decided tonight. Elizabeth wagr, standby. I want to hand over the breaking news to abby phillip answers and questions about whether candidates are safe. Review this as extremely serious after another extraordinary ordinary turned in an unprecedented election plus donald trump's strikes a match by blaming his opponents for another apparent current attempt on his life. As assassinations become politicized, and if i have to create stories more schools and hospitals in springfield are forced to evacuate as j. D. Vance admits to being a teller of tall tales or even lie i've at the table, scott jennings elie moscow lydia moynahan, and hilary rosen welcome to a special edition of newsnight state of the race i'm abby phillip in new york. Let's get right to what america is talking about. An apparent second assassination attempt on donald trump. And this country is incapable of talking about this fivealarm fire. Instead of focusing on the crisis of violence in our politics, or how better to protect these candidates. This is being treated like any other political incident along partisan lines. Trump himself is blaming the rhetoric of president biden and vice president kamala harris. Despite zero evidence to back that up. A lot of rhetoric a lot of people think that the democrats, when they talk about threat to democracy and all of this and it seems that both of these people were radical left and trump's running mate is doing the same you know, the big difference between conservatives and liberals that we no one has tried to kill kamala harris in the last couple of months and two people now have tried to kill donald trump in the last couple of months, i'd say that's pretty strong evidence. Connect the left needs to tone down the rhetoric and needs to cut this crap out. Somebody is going to get hurt by it and it's going to destroy this country cnn presidential historian tim naftali joins us in our fifth seat. Tim, there is quite a lot of historical precedent. Unfortunately, for this kind of thing, including jeremy how ford, who faced two assassination attempts to near death experiences within less than a month of each other. And yet this is different because of the way that right now there's no sort of ability to see beyond the politics of the moment. This has just become another political incident in this country we talk about how there's a parallel to 1968 and there's no parallel to 1968 after dr. Martin luther king junior was assassinated the house passed the fair housing act, one of the three pillars, civil rights act, and that past because of a by partisan majority, the country came together the elites of both parties recognize that we were on a knifeedge and they did the right thing what we're what's unprecedented today is the ability of our elites to come together and realize that there's a red line that we're crossing and that's the difference. And that's what makes this moment, especially dangerous part of the reason for that is that the parties have sorted themselves out and they were philosophically more diverse. They weren't more diverse and other ways, but there were philosophically more diverse at the time so bipartisanship was much easier and much less politically costly. Cost, costly, but there's something else too, which is i think there is a lack of seriousness in our politics today that was not true back then. So many elected members of congress had fought together against fascism or against imperial they'll japan in world war ii. So many of them had, had shared the burden of the great depression. And so they recognize there were issues that this country could only take care of together. I don't think that sense of common purpose exists anymore among our elected officials. And so they use cheap rhetoric when today they should be talking about coming together after a second assault or attempted assault on a former president, you and i, tim were sitting on the set the day that donald trump was attacked that first time it's terrible and we talked about the sickness in this country that assassination attempts represent it's not about the politics of the individual. I mean, look at these people. The thing that they have in common is their complete lack of mental stability. Why is that not the conversation? why are we in this place of who's to blame? is that the democrats or the republicans, the republicans aren't trying to assassinate the democrats and a lot of talk of, they went exactly when it's not, it's just a person it's it's an it's an individual that's what i'm trying to parse through what you said, you know, so much about these issues, which is like this is america. We don't kill people because of their political ideology. It's just not something now at least in modern america, unfortunately, we have not in modern american, let's just say. So when you say people have crossed the red line, are you like agreeing with j. D. Vance? is the red line you're saying are rhetoric line. What's the red line? i'm not agreeing with someone who makes up stories about immigrants and i'm not accusing i don't know what i'm saying that i remember so well july 13 and i remember the conversations in the days that followed. I remember president biden's speech about toning down the rhetoric. And i saw the rhetoric tone down on both sides then 20 minutes into his acceptance speech donald trump turned up the volume i'm not blaming him for what happened. Of course, in our country, you do not decide political disputes through violence but the problem is that we have too much hate speech right now and we are creating and give me an example, what, what do you mean by hate speech? because i want to, because i want to specifically know because i think i know what it is, but i'm interested in what you think about this because i agree with you. I do think we have too much hate speech, but give me an example. I would say, when you use the term from fermin to describe your political opponents. So you think it's trump's fault that he got shot or got shot or what thank you scott i won't i won't step in that trap. That's not what i said there is no place in this country for violence but let's be honest about why we have so much tension in this country when you dehumanize people you are using a rhetoric of the 30s. I'm not using, i'm not going to say which country in the 30s, but when you dehumanize people, you make it easier for disturbed minds to do the right thing. And let me just remind you of something in 2019 donald trump said that the internet is a dangerous avenue. Okay? to radicalize disturbed minds he was right. Yeah. And he said reminder, none of this is new and i do think there is a level of tolerance when it comes to violence speech about trump since 2016, we had kathy griffith showing basically his head several. There were people putting on shakespeare in the park place where they had him his job. She was canceled after that. Wasn't all but i think there's a level of of violence has been normal or directed it in, but that's happened for ten years. It's been normalized but it's, but it's been normalized and adopted as part of one party's platform for president this year the country will cease to exist if donald trump wins, there will be no more democracy. Joe biden is that if the biden campaign listen i know what why don't want to finish everybody? go ahead. I'll let me let scott finish and then i have something to say, you know, the constitution won't exist. There'll be a blood bath he's going to be a dictator when you effectively radicalize millions of people into believing that if an electoral outcome doesn't go our way, they are no longer going to be living in the country. They thought they were. What do you expect to have an i agree with you. There is too much hate speech and total agreement with you. And i hear what you're saying. But i have to say when i see what democratic politicians say about donald trump, when i see what democratic commentator se, about donald trump and their platform is built on a bunch of lies, frankly, that are designed to radicalize a political base. It makes me wonder how much do they really care about the violence that you and i both agree is terrorists grab that same question for trump because you're talking about, okay, this is donald trump on september 10. That's six days ago. If she ever got elected, she'd change it. It will be the end of our country. She's a marxist he shared a social media video of joe biden tied up in the back of a pickup truck he's called his political opponents vermin. He's i mean, trump is not the best messenger for this, but isn't what he's pretty you're a pretty good messenger when you get shot in, nearly get shot again. I think fairly credible for what here's the conversation. I think that tim has tried to have, which is that this has been a political climate in the country, writ large for almost a decade of heightened political animosity. And a lot of people deserve blame for that. But trump is not without trump's hands are not clean in this i'm just asking mean, are you because bullet candidate would be the only one out here. There's not going to blame donald trump for his team nearassassination. I mean, honestly, it's not abused. The one being shot at, he's a target, he's not saying he can't even walk outside of his own helped me started this conversation yeah. His own peril that we started the conversation by saying that this is not about assigning political blame. Trump is the one today, assigning political blame he did hear signing political, i think he do you think he's earned any right to assign or ascribed blame to the two attempts on his life so that you can say that somebody should shoot my opponent's that's what that's that's the rule that just might you'd said you you can be like, oh, somebody to shoot at them because if you look at trump's tweet today, what he said today was that harris was an end and me from within and that she will destroy the country if he gets elected. Now, personally, i do not feel comfortable having yet another conversation about the horrible gun violence in this country without talking about the guns, because i agree with tim, i want this political violence to stop and to me, i would propose a solution to this. I call the protect trump at all costs, assault, weapons ban if we want to protect our political leaders, if we want to protect people who don't have an elite fighting force protecting them 2471 of the best things we can do, not just for trump, but for all potential victims of gun violence is to ban assault weapons, to ban they are 14 and to ban the weapons of terror that these crazy people use to menace not just started leaders, but everybody else in the country gun, guns don't have radical ideology, but human beings do ideologies he asks, and this guy is setting up shop in the bushes outside of a golf course. It wasn't the gun that made him do it yes. Something something got to this guy. He's really at believed to land, but he believed donald prevented them. Believe donald trump needed to be eliminated and he almost did it. Thank god. But the secret service, many more attempts are we going? how many more are we going to have? that's the thing we had guns for a long time. Unfortunately, there's always been a lot of mentally unstable people in the country. Yes. So what is it that's going on right now? a lot more. Now, it is an issue. There aren't that many morgan fencing year ago. When you look at where we are now that this is clearly a secret service issue. This is a failure, i think on their part to not identify and then blame labaree. I think that you're exactly right. Look that's that's such an important part of this conversation. Again there are issues here. There are issues at play, but i am actually genuinely baffled by the choice to within 24 hours of this thing happening, make it about blaming kamala harris and joe biden who immediately condemned it and saying that they put this crazy guy up to this week is a lot to get freaked out. He has thought out so much i'm okay with that. Of course, is allowed to be freaked out, but to blame, but to say without any evidence that this was going to shut up, right because that doesn't help and i think if you're being politically honest, the way i want to be politically honors right now. This has come from both sides of them when we talk about the enemy of the state, this country will never be the same you know, joe biden has done that just as many times as donald trump has done that. And they, and they both have said that the one thing about kamala harris is i would say that she's actually tried to bring a little more levity to country and to these conversations which i think is useful, but there's no question that trump actually should have shut up today. But we also have to give them a little space me because you brought up gerald ford after he was again shot at twice within a few weeks i don't i don't remember the microfiche the general for it start fundraising off of the assassination attempts within the hour of after he was afterwards, he didn't and to your point after george wallace was crippled, i mean, it wasn't killed, but he was, he was gunned down the congress of the united states past additional gun control legislation and an outlaw, the domestic production of saturday night specials after after rfk was killed in 68 they prevented the importation of saturday night specials. And then when yet another presidential candidate was attacked, they went a little further so congress, which included republicans thought we got, we have to do something this is dangerous. And so they said, let's do something rather than pointing fingers at each other and saying, well, clearly, he was shot by a vast or that, or what is it that back though when it comes to rhetoric obviously, violent rhetoric is something to be afraid of. We didn't want to encourage that. I'm society and yet still is rhetoric. There's something that happens between somebody encouraging it and fanning the flames and actually taking a gun out and started mental health. And look just to address your point about harris, i just don't agree. I mean, the underpinning of her campaign. I mean, she repeats it herself. Trump will be a dictator on day one. I mean, this it's not really fights dictators. That's what our history and we didn't he say if he'll be a dictator there'll be a blood bath. There'll be a blood bath that there would be a hell he wants to terminate the constitution. Say that there would be first thing she said which was true in second thing. Is the incident is said by every democrat working for or around her campaign every day on this this network and every other one, the bloodbath thing is stated every single day. Okay. Let me but my point there that eliminate constitutional on what fair this up. You're referring to trump's use of the word bloodbath when he was told was he talking about i'm going to explain it to people because i think there's confusion about this use of the word bloodbath when he was it's talking about vehicle manufacturing jobs in the united states. Vice president harris improperly an unfairly mischaracterized that, as i'm saying, there would be a blood bath if he were elected, however, she did not say that if trump were elected, there would be a bloodbath. She did not i know you have interviewed and had people out here and have watched the same coverage. I have the bloodbath, garbage isn't it is a pillar of the democratic campaign against trump, as a dictator, as is eliminate the u. S. Constitution does matter of stuff i told you need to. But if i told you all that about somebody doing which is disorder blamed democrats instead of saying, oh yeah, maybe i currently both of these guys are screwing. I feel sort of what i think the rest of us personally, i feel need to tell you all tonight that we can't even talk about the rhetoric moving forward because it's too late. Now, so many people, so many people tray for trump. It's too late. He can't even go outside so many people who have already been radicalized by this better bet for haley feels like it will never want clearly feels like he has an advantage from what happened by by virtue of what he's doing with anybody who twice thinks their advantage it's very scary. Now, believe me, he should defending him the coordinate should be tightening around him and he should be in as much of a bubble as he's willing to have and certainly should be protected. But scott on say it's too late to deradicalized the rhetoric. It's too late. You know why we think it's too late scott, maybe not saying sorry to interrupt. But this election appears to the close. Yeah mean someone's going to win and someone's going to lose. If we don't work hard to deradicalize the language god knows what kind of violence after a we can't give up or the first assassination attempt trump and his advisers said that he was a changed man. He was going to bring the country together. He he didn't try to tear the country apart for about four days. But there's clear it's clear he abandoned that mission i mean, wouldn't it be the thing to do right now to take that back up and say starting with me yeah, i think any i think any politician could go on tv tonight and say, i am going to take personal responsibility for my own language and my own actions. But this point about deradicalization, what i mean is look when you've had this kind of language about somebody be the underpinning of a campaign for years and intensely for the last several months. The only way to unwind it is for the people who've been saying it, chiefly the president and vice president to go on tv and say, you know what we went too far and what we said honestly is not true. The country will i democrats will tamp down their language about the moment. Trump tamps down on his language about the democrats, about immigrants, about people of color, about women and not a moment before, what about how many, how many times you're going to shoot at him which is your argument literally in a minute, but that you are not under threatened, less somebody directly takes that she was actually think what you're what you're saying. He praised, you have access to secret service files about how many threats harris and biden have received over the past year, how many threats barack obama, the first black president, received for eight years while he was in the white house. Do you have those secret service files or are you just out here talking because somebody was taught in the bushes on saturday. So you want if you want something done, if you want to get away from this violence and hatred, the clearest thing to do is to take away the weapons that these people are using to cause the violence and hatred rhetoric does not kill your guns, do. So you're ok with people being radicalized. You just want to arm them, but it's okay to continue to lie to them about what will happen to the country if your political oppo