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Transcripts For FOXNEWS Americas Newsroom 20240918

Be in Court Today arrested in the lobby of a new York Hotel last night facing Arraignment Today on Federal Charges after a grand Jury Indictment that could be unsealed at any moment. Attorneys for the Music Mogul believe he is charged with Racketeering And Sex trafficking. Well give you the latest updates unfolding this morning when it comes to us here. Any moment also the florida governor, ran desantis, gives an update on the States Investigation into the Assassination Attempt against former President Donald Trump. Second one just over two months time as we learn stunning New Details about the suspect and what he told the Judge Yesterday. Good morning. A big couple of hours coming up. Im bill hemmer. Dana im Dana Perino and this is Americas Newsroom. We have Election News to tell you about as well. A big day. The former president already back on the Campaign Trail following the foiled shooting at his Golf Club sunday afternoon. For his part, the former president remains undaunted as he describes the moment the Shots Rang Out. It was quite something but it worked out well. Secret service did an excellent job. And they have the man behind bars and hopefully he will be there for a long time. A dangerous person, a very dangerous person. Bill we get new Body Cam Video. Have you seen this from Martin County North of Palm Beach showing the arrest of the suspected would be assassin and startling New Details emerging. One of the bigger headlines the feds revealing the gunman may have been lying in wait for 12 hours. Dana Senator Marco Rubio is standing by. Dana Marie Mcnicholl has more on the suspect and the investigation. Good morning. Good morning, dana. As you mentioned, governor Ron Desantis getting ready for a Press Conference. He said he doesnt think federal agencies trying to prosecute the former president here in South Florida are the people to turn to to get answers about what happened on sunday which get clarification about the State Investigation coming up. Lets get to the newly released Body Cam Video showing, it shows the man moments after being arrested on the highway after he fled the Golf Course, when Secret Service spotted him. We also learned his Cell Phone records show routh was camped outside before the agents confronted him. F. B. I. Did Confirm Yesterday he never had a line of sight to the former president. F. B. I. Also said they are determined to provide answers. They have interviewed seven civilian witnesses as well as speaking with people close to routh to determine a possible motive. Routh previously lived in North Carolina moving moving to hawaii this year. Police said they had over 100 interactions with routh who constantly broke the law. It was almost like blatantly saying here i am and it doesnt matter. So he would be constantly pulled over. He barricaded himself inside his business with a fully automatic rifle after being pulled over in 2002 and charged with possession of a weapon of mass destruction. Social Media Presence called out politicians including trump. Last year in a selfpublished book he called for iran to assassinate the former president. Routh is facing two federal firearm charges, possession of a firearm by convicted felOn And obliterated serial number. They are initial charge. More may be added later. The Palm Beach County Sheriff said the security at maralago a 15 Minute Drive from where im standing here is at the highest level it possibly can be. Road closures, checkpoints. Also waiting to hear from governor Ron Desantis on the state of florida investigation about what happened. Were standing by on that. Dana thank you. Bill the neighbors of routh are describing his past behavior saying the writing was on the wall for this kind of violent incident. Here is some of that. A strange guy. Behaviors were really strange. He would walk past quickly before, kept pace with me for no reason. Jumpy, reserved. Didnt speak out loud too much. Didnt come off as a political person at all. Seemed very like kind of dangerous. Were you surprised . I really didnt no, i wasnt surprised. Bill the Rap Sheet is a mile long. His scrapes with the law go back for decades including dozens of runins with police throughout his time as an adult. Dana his life spiraled downward. Trumps Golf Partner speaking with Sean Hannity was only 15 feet away from the former president when Shots Rang Out and describes what it was like being there. Got to see a man who was stoic, courageous, cared about his Friends Safety first before his own life. He was an inspiration to everybody who was around him. The Secret Service were exceptional. They were they had the president secured in my estimation, because i was five yards away from him, in my estimation, maybe after the first shot. Certainly after the second shot. So by the time the fourth shot Rang Out the president was on his way with that detail. It was as if they had practiced it 500 times before. Dana as trump said, the Golf Carts are very fast and he was praising the Secret Service and kept that up yesterday. Bill Yesterday Fox digital had an interview with the former president blaming the other side for the rhetoric going on. A sample of this going back to midjuly. Donald trump is an extension all threat to our democracy. He is a genuine danger to american security. Were fighting for a democracy. We have to preserve our democracy. Bill just so you know, it has noted on Social Media this would be assassin had posted similar about a threat to democracy. Want to bring the Marco Rubio with us now. Good morning. We played that clip. That was going back to July 24th through saturday. Here is Hillary Clinton Yesterday and then last evening. If you were really a leader, he should be doing what he can to calm the waters, not try to just continue to throw, you know, Red Meat out there to get people riled up. We cant go back and give this very dangerous man another chance to do harm to our country and the world. Bill there it is. Its right there on your screen for you to make a Decision And Judge it for yourself. How do you judge all that, senator . Well, i think repeatedly saying something. Going to be hitler, american dictator. Publications that have put out front page stories that depict trump looking like hitler. You have to conclude the majority of people that see that we need to vote against this guy. Enough Nut Jobs and take the next steps and say this Guy A Truly Evil and dangerous. If our democracy is wiped out, i need to take this guy out. Again, we need to learn more about this individual and how he got there, how that perimeter wasnt secured, who he was, what was behind it. I think we know about some of the things he posted that he clearly was influenced in some way by this rhetoric about trump being this dangerous dictator in waiting. Dana senator, the Washington Post Editorial Board said that Donald Trump should be protected as if he were a sitting president. I bet you agree with that. How do we make that happen . I do. Secret service decision. If they need more resources i bet they find support to do it. There is a reason why. He is not just a candidate, he is a candidate that has been a target of two, not threats, really a tempts on this guy. The second thing is we also know, this has been publicized now, we have a Nation State in iran seeking the assassination of Donald Trump in retribution for the soleimani strike. Those two things alone. Two Assassination Attempts in the heat of the campaign combined with the known threat of foreign agents seeking his assassinatiOn And have said so publicly i think in and of itself raises the level of security he needs to be having beyond just that of a candidate. Bill on this, you mentioned the threat from iran and we have covered that quite a bit. Well see where that goes. With regard to this incident on sunday. He told a Judge Yesterday he has no money, he told the Judge Yesterday he owns two trucks and both in hawaii and both valued at 1 Thousand each. So we just heard from some of the neighbors in North Carolina, they are well familiar with him where he grew up. I think this picture is confounding is what im driving at here. He was either living on debt or a Credit Card or he was getting help. He had the money to buy the tiles that were there like a shield. He had the money to travel to florida and apparently sustain himself for some period of time. He had the money to find a car that right now we dont know whose car it is and we know it had stolen tags but how he got ahold of it and money to buy weapons. All of these things ask these are questions that need to be answered. I think it is good the state of florida will be involved. The more eyes on this the better and we have a second set of investigators to look at the potentially same set of facts and maybe discover new facts. A lot of questions to answer relevant to two things. How did this happen . Was he working with someone . We dont know but we need to learn that. The other is the Copycat Problem and that is as i speak to you now and i say this with no great joy, there are potentially dozens of people that given the opportunity may do the exact same thing and they watch this sort of coverage about this and try to replicate it somewhere down the line and so i think its quite possible that even as i speak to you now there is someone plotting to do the exact same thing to Donald Trump or somebody else. We need to learn how these people work and need to understand the Warning Signs to get ahead of this. Imagine if somebody would have noticed Somebody Hiding in the bushes eight hours before trump got there. He would have been apprehended a lot sooner. Dana can i ask you about tron tron. Governor abbott talked about a crackdown yesterday. Listen to him here. History has shown they first flood the countries with military age venezuelan men. Next they begin to establish a base of operations. Finally, tda begins a spree of violent and bloody criminal activity. I am officially declaring tda a foreign terrorist organization. We will bring the full weight of the government against the tda. Dana im sure you track some of this closely. Well show a map that shows the spread of tda across the Person Part of the states including to chicago and new York City. But there is some confusion as to who not who they are but what they are doing and how severe it is. Weve been going back and forth with aurora, colorado. What should people understand . Im the first person in washington or American Politics that warned about this gang in january and february of this year. The reason why is venezuelan migrants were telling me about it. A Prison Gang inside of venezuela, they spread to ecuador, chile, neighboring countries and joined up with other gangs targeting venezuelan migrant communities in those countries and inevitable. A matter of time before they joined the Migrant Flow and entered the united states. They are in communities in the united States Murder for hire, extortion, Human Trafficking, drug running. They are a criminal organized Criminal Organization and a very violent one. Now their members are coming into the united states. More money to steal here and more people to go after here. This has been a threat thats been building since february. And we know it. Initially when we raised it we were told it wasnt true. We are seeing it play out in realtime in places you wouldnt expect. Aurora, colorado. We saw this in New York and in chicago as well. But i think it will continue to spread wherever there is targets of opportunity. They particularly like to target migrant communities with lots of migrants. Thats where they first like to target. Those crimes spread beyond that. The Purse Snatching and anything else they can make money off of. Dana thank you for being with us this morning. Bill thank you. Dana well have more on the Texas Crackdown on the violent venezuelan gang when Governor Greg Abbott joins us later on Americas Newsroom today. Bill more Breaking News now in new York City. Sean diddy combs set to appear in Court Today after months of investigations and lawsuits accusing him of Sex Trafficking and abuse. Moments ago his attorney spoke outside the courthouse here in New York. No, no, not planned certainly. Not planned by us. He came here to surrender at a time agreeable to the u. S. Attorneys office and then they arrested him last night. I spent the evening with him. His spirits are good. He is confident. He is dealing with this head on the way he has dealt with every challenge in his life and he is not guilty. He is innocent of these charges. We know what the charges are going to be without seeing the indictment. It will be racketeering, Sex Trafficking, things along those lines. This is what weve been expecting since the searches in march. To his credit he voluntarily came to New York, not a lot of defendants do that. He came to New York to basically engage the Court System and start the case and it will start today and he will plead not guilty obviously and fight this with all of his energy and all of his might and the full confidence of his lawyers and i expect a long battle with a good result for mr. Combs. Do you think he will be released . I will fight like hell to get him released and he should be released with all that he has done and coming here voluntarily. Thank you all very much. Ill keep you all posted. Bill that from a moment ago. Alexis mcadams picks up the reporting live outside the federal courthouse. Why now . What changed . He has been under investigation, Sean Diddy Combs, for months and as his attorney said he came to new York City being prepared to taken into federal custody and it is what happened hours ago in the big apple. We can show you on the screen. Video into our newsroom of diddy spotted in Central Park before he was busted in new York City at a hotel. The rapper came here in anticipation of this detainment and cooperating with the feds. This arrest comes as diddy has been at the center of a federal investigation for month. Something weve been talking about here. Back in march remember this Federal Agents raided his house in Los Angeles and in miami beach. They even stopped him at an airport and took all of his phones and Electronics Part of a Human Trafficking case. The feds have been delivering subpoenas and interviewing witnesses trying to build up the case theyre ready to unveil today. As the lawyers said, they expect Racketeering Charges and Human Trafficking charges. Diddys lawyer telling fox this. These are the acts of an innocent man with nothing to hide and he looks forward to clearing his name in court. We can tell you as well diddys attorney said he is not perfect but not a criminal. Well have to see if he shows up to Court Today. Authorities here in new York City and the court saying they will unseal that indictment later this morning. Well have to take a close look and keep you posted. Bill good to have you down there and get Breaking News from you when it comes to us. Thank you for that. Dana. Dana a Fox News Alert here. Waiting for governor Ron Desantis there in west Palm Beach, florida will do a Press Conference how the state of florida is going to do an investigation. As the governor said last night many federal laws florida laws were broken when the attempted assassin, i guess we can call him that, the suspect, routh, in west Palm Beach. A lot of things the state wants to handle and maybe get you information how Andy Mccarthy thinks it is appropriate that the state even take the lead here. We have him walking out now. Lets get ready for that. Any thoughts before he starts . Bill one of the things he said to jesse last night. If you have the f. B. I. And d. O. J. Investigating Donald Trump now on appeal now, trying to reinstate an indictment already dismissed, they are the best people to turn around. He was questioning that last night and see if he brings it up today. Good to be back in Palm Beach county. I will assign the case involving the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump to the office of statewide prosecutor under the supervision of Attorney General ashley moody. The suspect, ryan routh, is believed to have committed State Law violations across multiple judicial circuits in this state. Palm beach judicial circuit. Judicial circuit in Martin County and perhaps the judicial circuit represented by broward county. The state of florida has jurisdiction over the most serious straightforward offense, which is attempted murder. Ive directed State Agencies to move expeditiously and provide full transparency to the public. In my judgment, its not in the best interest of our State Or Nation to have the same federal agencies seeking to prosecute Donald Trump leading this investigation, especially when the most serious straight forward offense constitutes a violation of State Law, but not federal law. In addition to holding the suspect accountable, the public deserves to know the truth about how this assassination came to be. I have directed allState Agencies to work expeditiously to be able to uncover the truth in addition to holding this suspect accountable. We are going to hear from some folks that will be involved in this starting with our Attorney General, ashley moody. [applause] thank you, governor, thank you for all who are joining us today. Im the Attorney General of the great state of florida. Really proud, as always, to stand with a leader like governor desantis who always appears to meet the moment, whatever that may be. Whatever challenge may be upon us and he certainly not one to sit on his hands. Today is another demonstration of that incredible lead

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