Visit otter. Ai. Ai or download the app. I m natasha bertrand at the pentagon. And this is cnn this is cnn breaking news hello, i m kaitlan collins live in milwaukee, wisconsin this hour the site of the republican national convention. Welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, we are covering some grave news and a call for unity from the white house president biden addresses the nation after that s shocking assassination attempt. A former president donald trump. He spoke from the white house just a few moments ago and said he was joking humanly, grateful that his predecessor in that office survived that shooting attempt to last night, and also offered his condolences to those who were killed. Kori can been tour and also the two are critically injured during that shooting in butler, pennsylvania there s no place in america for this kind of violence or any violence for that matter. An assassination attempt is contrary to everything we stand as a nation. Everyt
Cnn breaking news you are in the cnn newsroom. I m wolf blitzer in washington and i m erin burnett in new york. And we continue to follow the breaking news for you today, less than 24 hours after he survived a stunning assassination attempt, foreign president trump is headed to the republican national convention in milwaukee. And we are continuing to learn more about what happened yesterday in butler, pennsylvania sylvania. We now know that local law enforcement spotted the shooter outside the rally before it started they actually thought he looked suspicious and then wolf, they pass that information to the secret service. Still aaron, he was able to take a rooftop position roughly about 150 yards or so away from the podium where the former president was speaking. Donald trump in two other spectators were injured when he began firing. One spectrum spectator died as he tried to shield his family and two hours ago, president biden addressed the nation and called for unity as the fbi inve
Good to be with you. I m katy turk. Continuing our special coverage on the attempted assassination of donald trump. We just learned the former president will leave for milwaukee as planned in this hour. He considered delaying his trip by two delays, but he s not going to allow, in his words, a shooter to change his plans. In the last hour we heard remarks from president biden who said he was briefed by national security officials in the situation room. He ordered an independent review of yesterday s shooting to assess on exactly what happened and he s called on americans to come together and not to rush to judgment. We re also learning more about the shooter himself, identified by law enforcement officials as 20yearold thomas matthew crooks, who lived near the site of the rally. Today, one of his form consider classmates told nbc news, crooks had a difficult time in high school. Yeah. He was bullied almost every day. In what way? can you explain? he would sit alone at lunch. He was jus
on that part of the country. i m coming to you from steel city, so this is very important here. i ve always supported the steel industry and i support our steelworkers and our steelworkers can compete with anybody in the world, as long as the playing field is level but that playing field has been slanted. president trump s just trying to restore some balance to the playing field here and i want to help him. i m ready to go down there and be his wing man and help i m implement that agenda. julie: molly is in moon township, pennsylvania where the president is about to speak minutes from now. molly, i can tell the crowd is getting pretty excited. reporter: there are a lot of great america great hats here, julie. this is the 20th rally in pennsylvania, his fifth outside of the pittsburgh area since he started driving toward the white house in june of 2015. this is a pretty special appearance specifically for a
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running the trump organization. it worked that way in the campaign and in the white house. people like gary cohn, one of his chief economic advisers, peter navarro, he would have them battle it out about tariffs. navarro s side ended in winning. that s also been trump s long-held view about tariffs. gary cohn later resigned, mostly because of that decision made by the president. but he is someone who, in our reporting, shows in recent weeks he s grown more and more frustrated with some of the advice from his straf. he s also grown more and more frustrated more of his staff is leaving, but at the same time, he feels a little liberated, he s been telling people close to him that he wants to trust his instincts, trust his gut. he thinks that s what won him the election in 2016 and that s what he waunnts to rely on more and more in the white house, and we re seeing that this week in particular, the decision on tariffs and the surprising decision on north korea. how much does that thri