An assassination attempt: what next for America?
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4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
After the shocking attempt to kill former President Donald Trump, how will America respond? Though leaders have called for calm, the risk is that an already hate-filled campaign could take a darker turn (11:06). Our correspondents consider the consequences for the two candidates, the presidential race and America at large
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| 1:19.6 | I'm your host, Rosie Bloor. |
| 1:24.3 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world. |
| 1:32.5 | And you know, that's a little bit old that chart. |
| 1:34.0 | That chart's a couple of months old. |
| 1:37.1 | And if you want to really see something that said, |
| 1:38.3 | take a look at what happened. Go ahead, get down, get down, get down, be down. It had been doing. |
| 1:45.0 | It had been doing. |
| 1:56.0 | It had been more than four decades since America last saw a president or former president |
| 2:02.4 | wounded by a would-be assassin until this weekend. |
| 2:07.2 | On Saturday at 6.15, at a rally in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump escaped death by a hair's breadth. |
| 2:15.6 | A bullet intended to kill Trump instead pierced the upper part of his right ear. |
| 2:21.4 | As security officers dragged the former president from the stage, |
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