One year ago today, one of the most shocking moments in American political history took place in Butler, Pennsylvania, when an assassin's bullet tore through Donald Trump's ear, nearly ending his life and his quest for the White House.

In today's episode, we're joined by political journalist Selena Zito, who was in Butler to interview the president and was sitting just in front of the

stage when that happened. I'm Georgia Howe with Cabot Phillips. John is off this week. It's Sunday,

July 13th, and this is a weekend edition of Morning Wire. Joining us now is Selena Zito, who documents

what she witnessed in Pennsylvania in a new book called Butler, the untold story of the near assassination of Donald Trump and the fight for America's Heartland.

Selena, thank you so much for coming on.

Oh, my goodness. Thank you guys so much for having me. I'm really honored to be here, and I'm really excited to talk about the book.

You had probably the best, closest seat to one of the most memorable moments in political history,

just in living memory. And now you've written a book about it. You wrote this book,

Butler, the untold story of the near assassination of Donald Trump, and the fight for America's

Heartland. Tell us a little bit about what that was like and what your book is about.

Being there in that moment, right? When you're a reporter, it's really interesting. You tend to

turn off what would be natural instincts to get yourself out of danger, which is what I did.

That day started with me, what the plan was I was going to interview President Trump for

five minutes before the rally. That soon changed to five minutes after the rally. That then changed to a call from

Susie Wiles asking me if I would fly to Bedminster and do the interview on the plane, and then

they would get me back home. So when you're a reporter, you sort of have to adapt to those

kinds of things. Usually it means

you're not getting the interview, but it just turned out to be better that day. And if listeners

aren't familiar with me, I grew up in Western Pennsylvania. My family was one of the founding

families of Butler County in the 1750s.

So I really have an understanding of place and rootedness.

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