had pierced his ear. he is now in newjersey, where he plans to spend the night at his private golf club. here are pictures obtained by entertainment news outlet tmz, which shows the exact moment the shooter, who is lying who is lying on his stomach, lines up his shot from the roof. there are questions about how he was able to do that without being stopped. and the government was shot moments after that happened. the gunman was shot. so this is what we know about what happened. the attempt on the life of the former president took place as mr trump was speaking to crowds in the state of pennsylvania. gunshots were heard and trump was led to safety with blood on his face. he appears to have been struck on the outside of his ear. he wasn t seriously hurt. the attacker killed one spectator at the rally and two others are critically injured. the fbi and local police said the attacker was killed at the scene. agencies are investigating his identity and motive. the fbi have named
is just unheard of, not appropriate. everybody everybody must condemn it. everybody. you may recall our correspondent gary o donoghue spoke to an eyewitness who says he tried to alert the secret service about the shooter before the bullets were fired. we put the isue to robert mcdonald who is a retired supervisory secret service agent and led the team that protected then vice presidentjoe biden. he expressed concern that security did not react sooner to this report. he was speaking to my colleague lukwesa burak. this is what the secret service trains for and practises for every day. any type of an attempt on the life of one of our protectees. many times, we go through the advanced process and it seems to be going through the go to our checklist and checking out hospitals and checking at the motorcade route and nothing happens. here is a situation where a whole serious situation took place yesterday, there will be a lot of monday morning quarterbacking and after action repor
the gunman, who was on a nearby roof, killed a spectator and wounded two others before being shot dead by snipers. and as you can see, security agents rushed to protect the former us president and hurried him offstage with blood on his face. he could be heard asking for his shoes before being led off the stage. he was also seen from this moment, which you will see shortly, realising he had to communicate to the audience, he lifted his arm in the audience, he lifted his arm in the air and started pumping his fist. but essentially, the security service lifted their arms to form a chord in trump. he is shouting fight, fight, fight. he was rushed off in a motorcade and taken to hospital, later he went on to travel back home to new york. in a social media post, mr trump said a bullet had pierced his right ear. he is now in newjersey, where he plans to spend the night at his private golf club. so this is what we know about what happened. just to confirm, that assassination attempt
had pierced his ear. he is now in newjersey where he plans to spend the night at his private golf club. this image obtained by the entertainment news outlet tmz shows the exact moment the shooter, who is lying on his stomach, lines up his shot from the roof. clearly questions about how we was able to do that without being stopped. the gunman was shot dead moments after this. and what you just heard there was some of the reaction from the distressd crowd after he was killed and the panic which followed. speaking at a press conference, fbi special agent kevin rojek gave this update. this evening, we had what we re calling an assassination attempt against our former president, donald trump. it is still an active crime scene. as i mentioned, we have a number of agents on scene. we are also working closely with other federal agencies, our state partners and our local police partners as well. we do not currently have an identified motive, although our investigators are working tire
on his case later. # walk on, walk on. and tributes to gerry marsden, the singer of ‘you ll never walk alone‘ who s died at the age of 78. hello and welcome to our viewers in the uk and around the globe. a recording has been released which appears to show president trump trying to persuade a senior republican official to find enough votes to overturn joe biden‘s victory in georgia. the washington post says the audio is from an hour long phone call with georgia s secretary of state. according to the newspaper mr trump alternately flattered, berated and threatened brad raffensperger to get him to recalculate the vote in his favour. 0ur reporter paul hawkins has the details. impeachment, the russia scandal and catching covid in the middle of a pandemic. the trump presidency has been a rollercoaster ride, so on one level, perhaps we shouldn t be surprised. after all, donald trump himself said. losing is never easy. not for me, it s not. but on another level, no one could