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burnett outfront starts right now cnn breaking. news and good evening. i m erin burnett. we have a special edition of outfront on this sunday evening with the breaking news, the assassination attempt on donald j. trump. we have some new video just into outfront and this is video of the moment that the shooter begins firing from that rooftop. the distance is just about 400 feet away from trump. i want to play it for you in full n this one should the shooter with a gun they re lying down, then you hear the gunshots and complete chaos. now, then i want to show you just to slow this down for a moment. the first direct glimpse of the shooter at the moment he fired the shot. so right there, as you can see, we put the spotlight on it so you can see him lying there and you see him holding holding the gun, lying on that rooftop. and then this taken just moments after the officer shot the gunman dead there he is. and that their officers are up there. he has at that point, been ....
now and ask about the bosley guarantee your house solomon in new york is cnn this is cnn breaking news hello, i m jake tapper live at the site of the republican national convention in milwaukee, wisconsin, where the state of our union is deeply shaken. we begin this morning with our breaking news. former president donald trump is safe and a 20-year-old shooter is dead after a shocking assassination attempt on the former president in pennsylvania yesterday afternoon, former president trump described the attack in his own words, revealing that a bullet had ripped through the upper right part of his ear saying, quote i knew immediately that something was wrong in that i heard a whizzing sound, shots and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. much bleeding took place unquote. this morning, former president trump added quote, it was god alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening. he added, it is more important than ever that we stand united. this was t ....
god alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening. and just moments ago, the former first lady, melania trump reflected on how our family was on the brink of a quote, devastating change adding a monster who recognize my husband is an inhuman political machine attempted to ring out downs passion, his laughter, his ingenuity, love of music, and inspiration as you can see from this new video, overnight, trump is okay as he arrived in new jersey where he spent the night his bedminster golf club. he says a bullet pierced part of his year as you were speaking to a crowd filled with thousands of supporters? they said, take a look at what happened as it was quickly rushed offstage and taken to the hospital authorities said a personal crowd was shot and killed two others critically injured, and the shooter is dead. overnight, the fbi identified the suspect is 20-year-old thomas mathew crux from bethel park, pennsylvania. investigators say he fired multiple shots from an ....
was on the top of a building which is approximately, according to the reporting of the new york post, 130 yards from the stage. we mentioned an ar style rifle, meaning 130 yards is well within the range, well within the range of that type of rifle. an attendee behind the former president was also killed, and the fbi has taken the lead on this investigation, although they still have not set up a briefing that we know of, which is unusual in a high profile case like this. the shooter, who at this moment remains unidentified, was seen by eyewitnesses crossing a field outside the rally confines. and this is what they told the bbc watch. we noticed a guy crawling arm. you know, bear crawling up the roof of the building beside us, 50, 50ft away from us. so we re standing there, you know, we re pointing. we re pointing at the guy crawling up the roof, and he had a gun, right? he had a rifle, a rifle. we could clearly see him with a rifle. absolutely. we re pointing at him. ....
activity this specific response of the support of the after action but yes, law enforcement was responding to check on several suspicious occurrences. or the other suspicious occurrence? what will be part of the investigation. you said you re close to identifying the shooter. could you at least confirm he is from butler county, pennsylvania? is there anything else? did he have any affiliation with that company do you know? again we are not prepared at this time to provide the identity of the potential shooter we are in the process of doing the confirmation but once we have a confirmation we will lease the name official each of the press. but at this time we cannot give any further information on the potential. what else needs to be done question. it is a matter of doing biometric confirmations there was no identification on the individual as an example. and so we are looking at photographs right now we are trying to run his dna and get biometric confirmation. ....