News Wrap: FBI investigates apparent assassination attempt on Trump in West Palm Beach
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🗓️ 15 September 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Lisa Desjardin. John Yang is away. The FBI says former |
| 0:06.1 | President Donald Trump was the subject of an apparent assassination attempt |
| 0:10.1 | today at his golf club in Palm Beach, Florida. |
| 0:13.0 | Secret service agents opened fire on a person with a gun near the spot where Trump was playing golf. |
| 0:18.0 | His campaign says the former president is safe and back at Marilago. |
| 0:22.0 | After speaking with the former president, |
| 0:23.9 | Fox host Sean Hannity reported that an AK-47 rifle |
| 0:28.1 | was found nearby and that Secret Service |
| 0:30.5 | acted quickly to protect Trump. The agency is investigating. |
| 0:35.6 | A university in Springfield, Ohio today cancelled all planned activities and events |
| 0:40.2 | after it received an email threatening a potential shooting. |
| 0:43.8 | A Wittenberg University statement said the threat especially targeted Haitian members |
| 0:48.4 | of the community. |
| 0:49.7 | Springfield has come under a microscope after the Trump campaign's claims without evidence of |
| 0:54.2 | Haitian immigrants eating local pets. |
| 0:56.8 | On Sunday morning political shows, Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance stood |
| 1:01.7 | by those false claims here on CBS's face the nation. |
| 1:05.9 | Whatever some local mayor said about this case I am hearing from dozens of |
| 1:10.7 | constituents who are concerned about these issues. |
| 1:13.3 | They are allowed to be concerned about these issues. |
| 1:15.3 | And I think it's shameful how the American media ignores them. |
| 1:18.7 | Vance also was asked about a small rally of right-wing extremist group, the Proud Boys, in Springfield yesterday. |
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