The Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump
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BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Laura and Paddy react to the news overnight that Donald Trump was the subject of a failed assassination attempt. We hear from our North America Correspondent Gary O’Donoghue who was at the scene when it happened.
And also from Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, whose sister Jo Cox was murdered in 2016 when she was a sitting member of parliament.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | So we join you on Sundays newscast today on the day of a monumental international story. |
| 0:11.2 | Former President Trump survived an attempted assassination attempt when he was at a rally speaking in Pennsylvania. |
| 0:19.1 | It happened in the middle of the night in the UK and in the evening in the US and everybody's been |
| 0:23.4 | waking up to a truly one of these moments a huge moment of headlines around the |
| 0:28.8 | world and here are the shots which will be played for years to come. |
| 0:32.8 | What happened? |
| 0:33.8 | So that was the situation in Pennsylvania. It was an outdoor rally. He turns his head to the direction of the shots, which some people have speculated could have saved his life. |
| 0:52.0 | And we'll get to grips with what |
| 0:53.5 | we know and what we don't know on this episode of newscast. |
| 0:58.1 | Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:02.1 | Hello it's Patty in the studio and it's Laura in the studio good morning good morning to you |
| 1:08.5 | well it's one of those days when you are saved by what you know and what you don't know. |
| 1:13.6 | I think that's a kind of tone that you learn to help you in moving situations. |
| 1:18.4 | That's absolutely right. |
| 1:19.4 | So let's do that right now. |
| 1:20.8 | So what we know this morning is that President Trump has survived |
| 1:24.2 | an attempt on his life by a 20 year old gunman who's been named by the FBI as |
| 1:31.0 | Thomas Matthew Crooks he was was 20 years old, we don't know what his motive was, |
| 1:36.7 | but he was shot and killed by the secret service. |
| 1:39.9 | President Trump himself has gone on social media and said that it was like a bullet |
| 1:45.3 | ripping through his skin. He was caught on his ear. There are lots of very |
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