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 consequences of that are unthinkable. but the thoughts of the whole british government, i m sure the whole country of britain are with the american people and president trump s family and those affected today. politically motivated violence is farfrom unknown here in the uk. jo cox, a member of parliament, was murdered in 2016. hersister, kim leadbeater is now an mp. she said democracies are not making progress in tackling the problem. she was speaking on sunday with laura kuenssberg. we are back again having that conversation about what democracy looks like, what our politics looks like. there is absolutely no place for violence in a decent, civilised democracy and society and those scenes are deeply shocking. i think it s also important to acknowledge i understand one person has lost their life, others have been injured. i m very pleased that president trump is ok, but there have been other casualties. we ve got to have that conversation about what a civilised democracy
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
and hold in our hearts the memory of the citizen who was so horribly killed. in this moment, it is more important than ever that we stand united, and show our true character as americans, remaining strong and determined, and not allowing evil to win. i truly love our country, and love you all, and look forward to speaking to our great nation this week from wisconsin. let s show you the moment donald trump was shot. take a look at what happened. gun shots get down! screams the fbi says 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 off stage with blood on his face. in a social media post, mr trump said a bullet 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 it shows the exact moment the shooter who