Update: Trump Assassination Attempt & Biden Oval Address
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The alleged shooter, who was killed by the Secret Service, has been identified by law enforcement as Thomas Mathew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Bethel Park, Pa., a town south of Pittsburgh. The motive behind the attack is not yet understood.
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| 0:00.0 | This election season you can expect to hear a lot of news, some of it meaningful, much of it not. |
| 0:05.8 | Give the Up First Podcast 15 minutes, sometimes a little less, |
| 0:09.6 | and we'll help you sort it out what's going on around the world and at home. |
| 0:13.4 | Three stories, 15 minutes, up first every day. |
| 0:17.0 | Listen every morning, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:19.7 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. It is Sunday, July 14th, and it is 934 PM |
| 0:29.3 | Eastern. I'm Susan Davis. I cover politics. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm Carrie Johnson National Justice Correspondent. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Tamar Keith I cover the White House. |
| 0:37.0 | And I'm Franco-Adonias. I cover the campaign. |
| 0:40.0 | And tonight the tonight. Carrie, let's start with the investigation. |
| 0:53.2 | Last night, when we did the podcast, we did not have details about the shooter. |
| 0:57.0 | Today, we've learned a lot more. |
| 0:59.0 | Tell us who he was. |
| 1:00.2 | The FBI's identified him as Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from suburban Pittsburgh. |
| 1:06.7 | He was killed by the secret surface after he allegedly fired those shots yesterday at the rally. |
| 1:11.6 | And right now authorities have his cell phone. |
| 1:15.0 | They've shipped it to the FBI lab in Quantico to try to extract all the data from it. |
| 1:20.0 | So far they still have no motive. |
| 1:22.0 | They don't understand why this person did what he did. |
| 1:26.3 | And they're looking to create a picture of his last days and weeks, people he contacted, websites he may have visited, but so far no connection |
| 1:36.6 | to any particular ideology and authorities think that he acted alone here. |
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