collapsing on the street. police arrested a man in his 40s on suspicious or the alleged shooter was quickly wrestled to the ground. it appeared to be a hand made gun in the attack. officials say that abe was in a state of cardiopulmonary arrest after collapsing. he was air lifted to a hospital and right now is undergoing emergency treatment. blake essig is joining us from tokyo. what is the latest information on the former prime minister s condition? reporter: shock and sadness really. the yoverwhelming sense here, former prime minister abe, you heard the gun shots, shot twice once in the chest and also once in the neck. the shooting happened while delivering a speech around 11:30 friday morning local time here in the western city of nara. several hours after the shooting current prime minister fumio kishida held a press conference to update the world about abe s condition. take a listen. translator: first of all in the morning today in nara prefecture, i ve received th
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his family. in 2012, he declared japan is back. he tried to raise japan s profile on a global stage, developing allies in europe, india, and southeast asia, trying to mend frosty relations with china. abe made history in 2016, appearing alongside former u.s. president barack obama in hiroshima and later pearl harbor. abe was one of the first world leaders to form an alliance with donald trump, taking the u.s. president out for a hamburger in tokyo. shinzo abe leaves behind a vibrant and popular first lady and his wife of more than three decades. again, an assassination in japan of the former prime minister, power broker and longest serving prime minister. i want to bring in selina wang and also josh rogen. josh first just your reaction.
and the few shootings there are usually criminal gang-related. josh, let me ask you about what this says as a threat to democracy. the current prime minister before the news that he was killed but after the shooting had said this was an attack on democracy in the country. he was campaigning for his party in the upper parliament and that election is sunday. right. well, it is not clear that this will have any dekt effect on the elections themselves. i mean, his party the ldp has had a majority for and controlled power for much of the post-war period and is expected to do so. but i think that the point that you made is a good one. he was not just a leader of japan, he was seen as a senior states man on the world stage. i covered prime minister abe when he developed a good relationship with president obama and also when he goedeveld
a time of discontent and t deflation and soul searching towardsrejuvenation of sorts. strong sense of japan s emergence on the international stage, a country that believes in democracy, freedom, human rights, world based order and strong u.s./japan relationship. and i think that that is part of the regular citylegacy that he remembered. and overnight we were getting messages of condolences from world leaders. no question here that they are all processing this information. selina wang, josh has talked about the u.s. and japanese alliance, right, how important that was, those strong ties especially in the region, right? this was seen as a move by the united states and japan to strengthen their ties in the face of arising china. reporter: absolutely. that is one of his key lasting