All right, Alexander, let's talk about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. What are your

first thoughts, Alexander, on this attempted assassination? Obviously, the biggest story of the year.

Well, by far the biggest story of the year up to now, and in many most respects,

I think the most consequential one. The first thing to say is that we, you and I, have discussed

the possibility, probability that there would be assassination attempts on Donald Trump informally with each other.

We've hinted at this, our concerns that this might come in various programs.

Certainly programs I've done on my channel, programs we've done together.

Other people have talked about it in even more forthright terms than we have done. There's nothing at all unexpected about this.

We've had the implosion of the Biden campaign over the last 17, 18 days.

We've had weeks, months, years of hysteria, panic about what the prospects of a Trump presidency

might be all about.

And that inevitably works on some people's minds.

You would have expected, in this kind of situation that the Secret Service, which was an

organisation, which I have always up to now, held in the highest regard, would make absolutely

sure that the candidate, Donald Trump, would be securely and properly protected.

And whatever your views about this assassination attempt, about how it came about who this

person who carried out was, the thing that immediately stands out is that the security service,

the secret service, failed and failed abysmally. Now, even my inexpert eyes can see that, but if you want an absolutely excoriating

analysis of this.

The person who's provided it is Eric Prince,

who this is his job.

He's pointed out in every particular way

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