What’s next after Trump assassination attempt
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
The US Congress launches a probe into ‘inexcusable’ security failings following the Pennsylvania rally shooting, and workers at an Amazon warehouse in the UK await results from a union ballot. Plus, the UK’s home building ambitions might be a bit of a slog. Credit: AP
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.0 | Learn more at equinore. |
| 0:10.0 | At equinore. UK. Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Monday, July 15th, and this is your |
| 0:18.1 | FD news briefing. The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump is threatening to rip the US apart |
| 0:26.6 | and will get the results from a big union drive at an Amazon warehouse in the UK. |
| 0:32.0 | Plus, labor is promising to build Amazon warehouse in the UK. |
| 0:37.0 | Plus, labor is promising to build a lot of new homes. The magic number in the UK housing debate |
| 0:40.0 | has been 300,000 new homes a year, |
| 0:42.0 | but how you deliver is a really difficult issue that successive |
| 0:46.2 | governments have tried to tackle. |
| 0:48.4 | I'm Kasha Brosyllian, and here's the news you need to start your day. People in the US are still trying to process Saturday's shocking assassination attempt on Donald Trump. |
| 1:14.0 | The former president was injured in a shooting while speaking at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. |
| 1:19.0 | One attendee was killed and two others were injured. |
| 1:22.0 | The FD's Lauren Fedor has been |
| 1:24.4 | closely following the aftermath of the attack and she joins me now. Just a note |
| 1:28.3 | here, we're speaking on Sunday afternoon. Hey Lauren. Hi, Kasha. |
| 1:34.0 | So what do we know at this point about the suspected gunman and even potentially his motive? |
| 1:39.0 | Sure, so the suspected gunman was killed by the Secret Service within seconds of all of this going down. |
| 1:48.0 | The FBI early on Sunday identified him as Thomas Crooks. |
| 1:52.0 | He's a 20 year old man from somewhere called Bethel Park, |
| 1:55.0 | which is just south of Pittsburgh, about 40 miles |
| 1:58.0 | from where the rally took place. |
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