WTH: How Will the Trump Assassination Attempt Impact the Election? Brit Hume Explains
What the Hell Is Going On
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4.4 • 633 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Following the assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life in Pennsylvania, the former president is moving full steam ahead with his campaign as the Republican National Convention kicks off in Milwaukee. Trump started the convention Monday off with a bang, announcing his VP choice, Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) – a controversial decision that promises handwringing around the globe. Meanwhile, the Biden campaign continues to flounder, struggling to reset post-debate disaster, with Democrats still speaking privately about a forced exit strategy for the ailing incumbent. How might Vance help or hurt Trump’s chances in November? And how are both parties shifting their tones following the tragic events of the weekend?
Brit Hume currently serves as a chief political analyst for FOX News Channel (FNC). He acts as a regular panelist on FOX's weekly public affairs program, FOX News Sunday, and contributes to all major political coverage. Before joining FOX News, Hume was with ABC News for 23 years and served as ABC’s chief White House correspondent.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.0 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. What hell's going on? |
| 0:01.1 | Who in God's name knows what it's all about. |
| 0:29.1 | Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka. |
| 0:31.1 | And I'm Mark Tiesen. |
| 0:32.2 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:33.6 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:35.9 | Mark, you're at the Republican Convention. What the hell is going on? Mark, you're at the Republican convention. What the hell is going on? |
| 0:41.8 | What the hell is going on is Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt this weekend. If you thought |
| 0:47.6 | that things couldn't get worse in this campaign, somebody tried to kill the former and perhaps |
| 0:53.4 | future president of the United States. |
| 0:55.4 | He survived that. |
| 0:56.6 | There was an incredible New York Times picture. |
| 0:59.8 | I don't know if you saw Danny over where you are. |
| 1:02.0 | I did. |
| 1:02.8 | Literally caught, you can see the bullet whizzing by his head. |
| 1:07.7 | I mean, he literally caught the bullet in mid-flight. |
| 1:09.6 | If he had been turned towards |
| 1:14.4 | the crowd speaking instead of turned with his head to the right, looking at a screen that had |
| 1:20.2 | a chart, he'd be dead right now. I mean, we literally were millimeters away from a successful assassination. It's just remarkable. Just remarkable. No, |
| 1:32.4 | absolutely. Look, you know, this, I think that it created a moment, not a terribly lasting |
| 1:37.5 | moment, but a moment in which people paused. They stopped saying bad things about their political |
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