Congressman Gabrielle Giffords of the 8th District in Tucson, Arizona.

She has been shot outside a supermarket.

A gunman opened fire on Republican members of Congress during a baseball practice near Washington.

Several people were wounded including House of Representatives majority whip Steve Scalise.

It is hard to put into words what exactly we witnessed today because we have not seen this before.

Thousands storming the capital after a rally with President Trump.

Six men connected with a right-wing group are charged with attempting to carry out an elaborate plan to kidnap

Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

The man convicted of attacking Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer inside of their San Francisco

home in 2022 has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Multiple U.S. law enforcement agencies this morning

are investigating the attempted assassination

of former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania

yesterday.

There's no place in America for this kind of violence.

It's sick.

It's Notes from America. I'm Kai Wright. Welcome to the show. We are responding this week to the latest example of

political violence in our lives, the attempted assassination of former President

Donald Trump. As of now, there are still many of is rapidly filling that information gap. We're going to sort through some of that chatter.

We'll talk about the way misinformation has spread,

and then consider the broader story of political violence

both in the US and globally.

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