Hello, a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the u. S. Canada and Around The World, im Max Foster in london. We are continuing our breaking News Coverage this hour. As the fbi investigates apparent Assassin Nation Attempt on Donald Trump, the former us president , wasnt harmed in Sundays Incident at his Golf Club in florida, which comes just two months after an Assassination Attempt at a rally in pennsylvania, a 58yearold man identified as ryan Wesley Routh has been detained a source says the Fbi Investigation has now gone, global as officials look into his background, weve learned ralph has criticized trump on Social Media in the past sources say trump had been playing golf at the time of the incident, moving between holes five and six and his outing was a Lastminute Decision. The Palm Beach County sheriff says the Secret Service fired shots at a man with a rifle in the bushes along the perimeter of the trump international Golf Club. A witness Who Saw the person flee in a car or
Individual because of Drone Footage. Credit for that. But why did he have any access to that distance with that rifle around the president . That has to be asked. That has to be answered. Boxes are excellent questions we need to have answered this is our continuing coverage of todays Breaking News. Everyone hello i i am Arthel Neville alongside eric shawn. We are reporting shots were fired in the vicinity of former President Trump as he was playing golf in West Palm Beach, florida happened around 2 00 p. M. Eastern time. We are expecting to hear from the palm be beach sheriffs offe in the moment to provide an update. Sean hannity has been reporting along with us, this entire hour. Sean was actually invited to play that round of golf with the president this morning but he declined, he just wanted to take the day off as he deserves it. But eric is here, sean is here for go ahead. I happen to go to breakfast with the President S golfing partner, i am friends with them, steve Wit Cough Dev
Development linking trumps legal team to a Voting System breach in a rural georgia county. Zach, what can you tell us . Reporter fred, coffee county, georgia is heavily republican where trump won over 70 of the vote there. But after the 2020 election, allies of donald trump and his attorneys tried to get access to a Voting System there and ultimately were successful in that. And these new Text Messages are in the possession of prosecutors now lay out that plan and connect trumps attorneys like sydney powell, Rudy Giuliani to this Planning Process and effort to get access to Voting Systems. It lays out how in the days before the breach, even before 2021, the attorneys were trying to get written information from a local official there. Connecting some of the dots showing this was more of a topdown effort to get access from machines rather than just a sporadic random oneoff. Trumps attorneys now more connected to this breach than we knew previously. So how are spinks expected to play out
the fbi director on defense. the lead starts right now. are you protecting the bidens? absolutely not. the fbi does not hold on. you won t answer the question. the fbi, christopher wray on the hill questioned by some of his harshest republican critic. calling for a culture shift at the fbi. and more promises for ukraine but president zelenskyy is not getting the thing he really wanted, entry into nato. why not? plus, taxpayer beware. it s not just uncle sam getting your data, the report out today on who else can see your most sensitive tax information. welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. we start with that explosive battle on capitol hill. republicans released a tsunami of accusations and attacks against the fbi and its trump-appointed director christopher wray accusing wray of weaponizing the bureau against conservatives, lambasting the bureau s participation in last year s search of trump s florida home. american speech is censored, parents are call t
asking about was deeply dist disturbing. we had an individual wearing a tactic call vest and gun and nail gun who tried to attack the cincinnati field office. a subsequent review of the subject s devices and online postings identified a pretty striking anti-f.b.i., anti-federal law enforcement hostility. he was calling on others to kill federal law enforcement claiming he felt he was fighting in his words a civil war. it is unfortunately part of a broader phenomenon that we have seen not just against the f.b.i. this is important to add, but against law enforcement all across the country. not just against law enforcement professionals themselves, which is appalling enough, but calling for attacks against their families, which is truly despicable. that man was captured and eliminated, was he not? yes. a few days later was the arizona f.b.i. department subject of armed violence armed protestors? well, i know that our phoenix field office has had a number of very concer