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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics, power and prejudices.

This year, 2024, is an election year in America, a presidential

election year. And so we will be doing two podcasts a week, rather than our usual one, because

we want to and because we know you can't get enough Americano in your life.

I'm delighted to be joined by Kate Andrews, our economics editor,

where we are going to talk about the very dramatic story

that broke out from America last night

after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania.

They see something that said, take a look at what happened.

Go ahead, get down, get down, get on. The first thing.

The first thing to note, I would say, is that it was incredibly close.

If Donald Trump's head had been just a few inches to one side,

we would now be talking about the death

and the killing of Donald Trump on the presidential trail last night.

First of all, let's talk about that point just about how close it was.

I mean, we're talking centimetres from Donald Trump being killed last night.

He is incredibly lucky to be alive. The video footage is very clear. It's very frightening to watch.

You see, you hear the bullets, you hear the shots. You see as his ear is hit.

It isn't really a delayed reaction.

It's just clear though he still hasn't quite clocked what's going on.

Nobody has.

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