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Thats it for us. The news continues. Ill be back tomorrow. Hope to tune in then the source with Kaitlan Collins starts. Now Source Tonight, Donald Trump describing for the first time the moment that he heard shots, were now on was playing around of golf as a Secret Service says its plan to protect him worked so how did an armed combat with the lengthy criminal Record Ligand wait for 12 hours before getting within Shooting Distance of the former president of the united states. Im Kaitlan Collins. And this is the source on the Air Tonight at 9 00 p. M. We are hearing for the first time from Donald Trump about that moment on the Golf Course yesterday, when a secret Service Agent, who was walking ahead of him spotted an apparent Assassin Hiding in the bushes All Of A Sudden we shots being fired in the air and i guess probably four or five and it sounded like bullets, but what do i know about that . But Secret Service knew immediately bullets and they grabbed me and i think probably the other ones, steve is one of the people see what gov, a great friend of mine, a secret Service Agent had seen a barrel of a ak47, which is a very powerful gun rifle. And you started shooting at the barrow and started shooting in the bushes . Well, could only see the barrow. How good is that . Right . But could only see the bear on based on that, he started shooting and ran toward the target. And was shooting a lot of i mean, those were the shots we heard. The other one ever got to shut off and he ran across The Street and grabbed his car, popped into his truck or a car . And amazingly, a civilian in that area. So Thats Something that looked very suspicious and in the car drove the car to the back of his truck of some kind and took pictures of the License Plate Game to the Sheriffs Office i just want to note as we are hearing from trump on this, what we did hear from Authorities Today is his rifle was actually not an ak47, is they initially thought today it was a different kind of rifle. And this also comes as late this evening, were hearing from trump, were also hearing from his Running Mate, senator j. D. Vance who is speaking for the first time in public about the Phone Call that he had with trump just minutes after all this happened i answer it. And he says, jd, youre not going to believe this, but they tried to do it again i said, no, they didnt joshua, whats going on here, Sir End he says no, i was playing golf and the Secret Service found somebody who was trying to shoot me a lot more on what we are hearing from them tonight. What details theyre revealing as were also learning more about the multiple investigations now underway to determine whether this latest apparent attempt on Trumps Life could have been prevented if enough is being done to protect the republican nominee the fbi tells us that the suspect appears to have moved under the cover of darkness in the middle of the night around 2 00 a. M. When Cell Phone data shows Ryan Ruth in the area of the Golf Course at Trump International. He may have remained there for nearly 12 hours. Armed with that powerful gun the Acting Director of the Secret Service, who is now indefinitely in florida as they investigate this, as he spoke to trump. And that he has the highest level of protection right now few people know all things. Donald trump in south florida, more than my lead Source Tonight, the State Attorney for Palm Beach County, florida, Dave Aronberg and david, its great to have you here because we were talking yesterday, just as all of this was happening and this was getting underway and we were a lot of details. Were just coming out, but given this is all happening in your backyard, whats your assessment of what weve heard from Officials Today about where all of this stands right now good to be with you. Kaitlan. Well, the feds are on top of this, are doing a full thorough investigation and they have charged this suspect with two charges that will stick this. These are the easy charges punishable by up to ten years in prison for an Ex Felon possessing a firearm while all you need is an Ex Felon check and then he was possessing a firearm check. You dont need any more intent or anything. So were going to keep behind bars for that and youve got the other charge obliterating a serial number on a firearm. They got that to punishable by up to five years in prison. Theres still maybe a chance up. And i think a probability that more charges could come, like aggravated assault with a firearm against a federal law enforce horseman officer. Thats when the suspect pointed his rifle allegedly at a secret Service Agent. So that can get you up to 20 years in prison. So i think the feds are going to keep investigating and ultimately they could add on some new charges. Well, what about given clearly there was premeditation here. There was the gopro, this person was lying there and wait for about 12 hours. They still the Cell Phone data. What other charges could we potentially see here . Because that was a big Question Today when it was just those first two per pertaining to this gun itself . Well, that aggravated assault with a deadly weapon thats a possibility. Theres also a federal statute on threatening an Ex President that can get you up to five years in prison. Theyre going to look to see what is Social Media sites say, what was in the bag, what writings hes had, what kind of threats hes given. And that could be an additional charge generally, when it comes to like, attempted murder, thats more a state charges and a federal charge, but also i think you need more than you have right now. You really have to get into his state of mind. Hes got to take us a substantial step into taking action that mean its always a possibility, but generally, those kinds of charges are really at the State Level rather than the federal level, but make no mistake. I think this guy is a whole world of hurt. Hes going to be facing many years in prison and hes not going to get out of jail pending trial. Theyre going to show that hes a danger to the community. So hes not going to get pretrial release. We heard from the sheriff and Palm Beach County earlier today talking about how maralago is about a safe as it can be at this point, talking about the level of protection at that place. But obviously the Golf Course is separate than that. Its about a 15minute Drive as you will know, its across the bridge in west Palm Beach. How much harder . For is it to secure something like the Trump International Golf Course that it is the maralago club, which has that one entrance in one entrance out with obviously a Guard Shack at the front of it and a much harder perimeter. It seems yes. In fact, maralago is bordered on one side by water and they can easily shut down the roads. In Fact Theyve shut down the road, one major road outside of maralago, even when the former president is not there and thats the consternation of the Palm Beach residence now, in west Palm Beach, as much harder to shut down the roads, you got made youre roads right outside of the golf club, which youre correct about ten to 15 minutes away. Theres also those large shrubbery, the trees that are right in front of the fence. And so someone could hide in that and some very large perimeter. Its very difficult to monitor that entire area, especially if youve got someone willing to wait for 12 hours hours to go there on the cover of darkness. This is not the first time youve seen someone breached the trees into the fence. There have been paparazzi been media members. Now, a lot of times the media will alert Secret Service sometimes they dont, and they take pictures of the former president while he was golfing. This is just the first time someone has pointed a rifle at the former president leeson, his direct section and so i do anticipate therell be more security, but its just really hard to monitor that property that closely yeah. And you know, yesterday when there was that first briefing by officials, you were there and you spoke to reporters this just before wed actually seen charges now weve seen that brief Body Cam Footage that theyve released of them actually arresting Ryan Ruth. You can see officials have their guns drawn. Theyre directing him to back up with his hands in the air. He lifts his shirt seemingly to it to show he doesnt have any weapons or anything on him. As he walks backwards and then they arrest him what are you hearing from other colleagues . Law enforcement People Tonight about just the aftermath and i mean, are they shocked that this was able to happen . Theyre grateful at the good samaritan. Think about it. You had a Passerby Who saw something suspicious, took a photo of the Cars License plates, so Law Enforcement was armed with that knowledge, not just the Make And Model of the car, but the license plate. And he still was able to get out 45 minutes of a Head Start driving north apparently perhaps driving back to North Carolina but he only got as far as the County North of Palm Beach, Martin County where the deputies at a great stop. And i think this shows also that the suspect is used to this. Maybe not this type of crime, but hes got a long Felony Rap Sheet back in North Carolina. So he knows enough not to try to do anything weird on that Traffic Stop roles, you could get shot. He knows enough not to talk. Apparently he didnt. He clammed up, didnt Say Anything when he was stopped and now he was joking with his Lawyer Today in court. So yeah, this guy has been through the process time and time again, but as his attorney will be getting out any time soon well, yeah, the word was that he was all smiles in his initial appearance, joking with his attorney. I dont know if he was trying to show that hes insane or he just is that kind of person. By the way, its going to be very hard for him to establish an Insanity Defense because although hes clearly got a screw loose, when he fled, is showed that he knew the difference between right and wrong to establish an Insanity Defense, you have to not know the difference between right and wrong. Why do you flee . Because he knew what you did was wrong and against the law thats really interesting. David aronberg, thank you for that. As you hear more, please keep us updated and come back to us here on the source thank you. Kaitlan. And as you heard, mr. Aronberg mentioned there, brian who did make that first court appearance today, where he was apparently joking with his attorney, didnt seem like much of a joke. He had his hands and his feet shackled together as he was facing those two federal gun charges that we mentioned a short time after that, we learned that route that actually popped up on the fbis radar. Back in 2019 after there was a tip about a felon in possession of a gun, even as Law Enforcement tried to run down that what led up to this, we should note tonight the Secret Service is still facing a pretty immense challenge, which is what comes and what happens with trumps Golf Course and just how accessible it is. We know this firsthand here at cnn because lets take a look at these images as mr. Ehrenburg just mentioned, when trump was in office, our Photo Photojournalist could often capture video of him golfing at Trump International. Now this would come, you if the White House didnt say whether or not the president was golfing or who it was would journalists often relied on images like The Ones that youre seeing here to get a sense of the president s schedule, but to capture these images seen him, photographers were not on the property. Its still itself. Instead, we were positioned across The Street on public property. Oftentimes officials knew we were there. Sheriffs would ride by. But trump has often still very visible through our cameras through the treeline of the property itself. Our top Law Enforcement Sources Tonight are cnn, National Security analyst, and the former Assistant Secretary at the department of homeland security, juliette kayyem, and also former fbi senior Intel Officer filled, but its great to have you back fill because what we heard from the Fbi Today and this ties back to what dave was just talking about. There are potential maybe Insanity Plea if thats what the suspect goes for here, theyre talking to witnesses were at the scene there talking to members of his family. One of those interviews what what kind of questions are they asking . Boy, theres a lot of them, but first question is are going to be about whether theres there are other people who were involved in this. You got to ensure even if you are 99 certain there was no conspiracy, you got to ensure that nobody was helping him. Nobody told him that trump would be their you also have questions obviously about who provided the weapon, but then investigation gets more complicating. As you add in things like whats on his Cell Phone, whats his email . What whats his Google Search History . You might be going back to reinterview people with what happened a year ago, what happened two years ago . How did you get motivated to do this . Was he inspired by somebody so the initial questions are about threat, but they the investigation starts to get worse complex as you get a timeline going back, maybe 2345 years, kaitlan. Yeah. And obviously the gun is a big question here. Phil and juliet, thats thats why im wondering about this 2019 investigation that an Fbi Tip that they got that he was in possession of a firearm, that he was a felon. Hes obviously not allowed to have one but the Click Case we were told was closed because the bureau said they didnt get any more information. I mean, when i heard that It Kind of raised my eyebrows in a sense of why would that be the case here . Why would they wouldnt look into this any further if that is something that they were worried about. Right. And then the question is who, who tipped them off . Was it a Family Member . We know it was his daughters car. We know the sons spoke yesterday. There have concerns of what his possession of how he came into possession of the gun as well as why the fbi did not pursue it, could they not find him . Well, all of those questions that will be asked because you go back in any of these cases, theres always these moments, right . If only someone had stepped in or theyve gone and investigated this, if only than this could have been stopped. So those are going to be the main questions for, you how did he possess this . Why wasnt he stopped before . Or how did he stay at the Golf Area for so long with a car . Amancio is not just him hiding. There was a car right there and how did you why is he doing this for me as someone who studies radicalization and talks often with you but about political violence. There is a definite disconnect between what were seeing before and All Of A Sudden, this political violence and what hasnt, what happened in the last couple of weeks, months, or years that would have turned him from some guy whos very into ukraine to now being a potential assassin against trump. And thats what youre going to want to look for. Were there other people egging them on . Was he online . Did he get radicalized by the butler, Pennsylvania Assassination Attempt . And hes a copycat and therefore, we should worry about others yeah. And he obviously has a pretty massive online presence. If you look through his Social Media feeds, theres a lot for officials to pour over here, but feel on the Golf Course the other thing we heard from the acting secret Service Director Today was there was no full sweep of the Golf Course. He kind of seemed to imply it was a Lastminute Trip to the Golf Course that it wasnt really on the schedule. It certainly wasnt on any public schedule. But instead of securing and sweeping the whole course, an agent was just moving one to 21 to two holes before him, gratefully because thats how they they saw this guy but given its public knowledge, trump regularly plays golf. It was a sunday afternoon. Hes got a big motorcade. Its not hard to know where he is at a given time i mean, what was your reaction to that today my reaction is that the american population will overreact to this look, therell be legitimate questions about resourcing for the Secret Service. There will be a question about whether you have to shut off every street every time the president united states decides to go golf but when you ask for that level of Security And Assurance that the president will never be touched what youre going to get as a president who is not accessible to the american people thats not been the american way. Think about when president obama won 20 years ago. I remember that fewer than 20 years. I remember that there were thousands of people in chicago, washington, should he youre not done that. Think about what President Bush that was 20 years, years ago. President bush went to Ground Zero in New York. Should that have not happened because he was accessible to people if you want assurance of perfect security, youre going to have president s who arent accessible. So thats going to be a tough question to ask kaitlan. Whats the balance . Yeah, its a good question thats now going to be raised by two of these incidents happening within two months. Phil mudd, juliette kayyem. Thank you. Both tonight after that first attempt on his life, we remember Donald Trump reacted by calling for unity. After this one, he said he knows whos to blame i am its not the suspected gunman who is lurking in the bushes more on that tonight, also, the richest man in the world, but his tweet and his mouth again, Kara Swisher is here on the fallout were seeing from a statement that was so out there, the normally pretty shameless billionaire actually ended up deleting it better with the credit gods on your side rewards once bailable to the few are now accessible to the many Credit One Bank get Cashback Rewards and lives launch i have dry eye, tired itching burning my symptoms got worse over time. My Eye Doctor explained the route was inflammation, so he prescribes dr. Saju of works differently. Zeidler targets Inflammation Overthecounter drops dont do this. The only Hit Pause and they symptoms. But twice daily zeidler gives me lasting relief. Sides are treats the signs and symptoms of dry Eye Disease dont use of allergic desired dre and seek medical help if needed. 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Vance, says the apparent Assassination Attempt is a sign in his eyes that democrats need to tone down their language you know, the big difference between conservatives and liberals is that we, No One has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last couple of months and two people now have tried to kill Donald Trump in the last couple of months, id say thats pretty strong. Olga evidence that the left needs to tone down the rhetoric and needs to cut this crap out. All of us. And i promise i will do my part to tone down the rhetoric. But in particular, that the people telling you that Donald Trump needs to be eliminated, you guys need to cut it out, or youre gonna get somebody hurt my political Sources Tonight are trumps former White House Communications Director, alyssa farah griffin, and Vice President harris is former Communications Director Jamal Simmons and Alyssa Vance said that tonight. He also said, quote, im not going to say were always perfect. Im not going to say that conservatives are always getting things exactly right, but i want you to listen to what trump had to say about who he believes is responsible for whats happening a lot of rhetoric going a lot of people think that the democrats, when they talk about threat to democracy and all of this and it seems that both of these people were radical lefts i mean, just im viewing this through how were talking about this now, how hes talking about this now compared to what we were people were saying two months ago after what happened in butler right obviously, what happened was horrible. Theres gonna be a lot that comes in the course of the investigation never should have happened. Itd be terrible for the country, obviously, if anything were to happen to the former president but the Conversation Today does need to be about political rhetoric. But one of the biggest offenders, escalatory rhetoric is Donald Trump and j. D. Vance. And the very clip or j. D. Vance says that hes going to work on himself. Hes basically accusing democrats of their rhetoric leading to this. And i think that it is this moment as a moment for sobriety that calls for serious leadership. And unfortunately its doesnt seem to be a selfreflective moment, even though it was the candidate, Donald Trump that himself was a victim. And i just want to say this because Donald Trump put out this screen afterward, basically saying democrats are responsible for the rhetoric, but then also saying theyre the enemy from within. Thats the kind of language or adversaries love to hear us throwing around. It tears us apart from within. And by the way, it does put people at risk and i want to know Kamala Harris has also faced threats got and thankfully, shes not actually become a target. As directly as Donald Trump has over the weekend or rightwing handle called essentially for harm to be done to her. This is something that happens every day online, but the step that it takes to then go further and somebody act, its actually a very small step and were all responsible for taking it day that was national libertarian party of new hampshire. I believe that had posted that just hours before all this happened and in this environment, we heard from Hillary Clinton tonight. She said, what happened to Trump Yesterday is a horror. She said this idea that political violence, the violence is being used in the wake of a political campaign is frightening. And she was also asked about what but trump has been saying about democrats rhetoric. This is what she had to say know, it is so regrettable that the former president would take what is a genuinely terrible event of someone stalking a former president and current candidate and turn it into, as he did with that tweet, that you just read . A political attack on the opposition and a little literally Everybody Else who does not support him the idea that a national candidate for the White House for the presidency of the united states. We use a kind of rhetoric. Donald trump does and always raise the temperature and moments when we shouldnt be bringing it down so that everybody can catch their breath and moving in a different direction. That is something that should be disturbing for everybody. And heres the thing. These, these people, whether its the president , the Vice President , and the candidates, theyve got Secret Service protection. Theyve got people who are looking out for them. There are a lot of people who are their supporters who dont have Secret Service protection. What about those folks that are out there and we know that rhetoric gets people for amped up about this so weve got polling places. Were going to have to protect come election day. There are people who often show up a polling places, not looking to do the best not looking to be the be their best selves right . So weve got to make sure i think All Of Us are bringing it down to there is a there isnt a calmness that we can get this election and done without having anything serious happen. Well, and initially after what have been in butler, people were saying everyone needs to calm down their language. Thats what you were hearing from republicans, from democrats. They were saying that trump was going to be a unifying force. Obviously, we heard his his Convention Speech that even some of his own aides on what kind of missed the mark but also on this the Trump Campaign Today he is pulling every quote of anyone who said Donald Trump, including harris, is a threat to democracy. Hours where this happened, trump tweeted and all caps that the New York times, the failing New York times is a true threat to democracy. I mean, he himself has also using this language. I also think we have to be honest in our discourse. Were in a political season. We make her for voices heard at the ballot box, talking about someone being a threat to democracy who tried to overturn an election is a legitimate criticism of the former president. Language that goes further than that is not language that mischaracterizes him or calls him an enemy from within. I would never come that i would never call them americas hitler, as has now Running Mate dead or a Pit Possibly Americans Hill that kind of escalatory language doesnt have a place in our politics. But if youre action, show you where threat to democracy thats a very legitimate thing to point out. Its a good point. Alyssa farah griffin, Jamal Simmons. Thank you both for being here up next were going to take a closer look at the Secret Service tonight. 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I have never seen this before where im from all the stories that hes been able to hand me throughout the years 108796800 for ten at 796 Look Everything you write about me, its true penguins streaming exclusively on Max President Trump said that he does believe he needs more agents on his protective detail that comes after we heard from the acting secret Service Director Today who said his agency, hes more support you cant just give me money and say, hey, were gonna make sure that everybody gets over time because the men and women of the Secret Service right now, we are redlining them. We dont have an alternative success we have to have it every day. We cannot have failures. And in order to do that, were going to have some hard conversations with congress and were going to achieve that my Sources Tonight are on the other end of those conversations, congressman Jim Himes is the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee and congressman Jared Moscowitz is a member of the congressional Task Force investigating the Assassination Attempts. Now plural, on Donald Trump, great to have you both here. Weve heard from President Biden on this today, who said, you know whats going . Going on is not sustainable. He said the Secret Service needs more help. And i think congress should respond to their needs if they in fact need more service, people are we going to see a congressional response to this i think we will. I think the Judge Committee is going to do some good work and really get to the bottom of what happened the first time, the first time the attempt on the president s life in pennsylvania was obviously an egregious failure operationally the question of whether more resources are needed. I mean, i heard the same quote you did from the Acting Director obviously, the mission is so critical that if more resources or the answer to the question, theyre going to get more resources well, what does that look like . Because i mean you kind of have an indication of this since for two Months Congress has been investigating what happened the first time i think its hard to believe that now youre tasked with dealing with a second Assassination Attempt what is the need of the Secret Service when it comes to what we saw happen yesterday, you will look, i appreciate the new director coming forward and saying he needs more resources. Right . We had a first Assassination Attempt. He wasnt jumping up and down for more resources at the time. Now we have a second one and now a sudden, we need more resources. Look like bear. He wasnt the director at the time when it came Acting Director because the first one was booted because of what happened know, of course. But but today hes asking for more resources. Hes been the Acting Director now for several weeks since i look i think if he needs the resources, he will get those resources from congress. But i also think we have a Process And Protocol problem, not just a resources and manpower issue. Theyre saying Donald Trump is getting the highest level of protection. Well, this is the highest level where we need to see several higher levels that they need to create for level of protection because its inadequate clear i mean, theres not a single american right now in my opinion that has faced in the Secret Service. Do you have faith in the Secret Service . Not at this moment. How can you have faith . Its 60 days. Weve had to Assassination Attempts. That doesnt mean theres not great men and women working there. It just means at this moment, theyve had to fails in 60 days do we need to change how we clapped . Ossify, what Details Someone gets Something Trump does not have the same level as President Biden. I was told yesterday, its closer to what Vice President harris has now to a degree, but doesnt need to be based not just on your position as a former president or major party nominee, but on the Threat Level against somebody sure. But the Threat Level matters. But so does the fact the president is in a unique position. The president holds nuclear Command Authority No One else does know Ex President dies. So of course youre going to double down on protection around The One individual in the united states who has nuclear Command Authority. That said, the notion that there should be risk you know, theres an awful lot of conversation on my committee around how serious the iranians are of in their stated goal to assassinate a u. S. Official that is not acceptable. So even though there may be different levels of protection, as the secret Service Director just said, you know, failure is never an option. Well, and just quickly on that, i mean, if congress does need to move here, can they move before the election . I mean, weve got, you know, two months left. Of course i mean, weve got a must pass piece of legislation that will be voting on the next two weeks. Im confident that were actually not going to shut the government down whatever continuing resolution, whatever bill keeps the government open can carry along a ride youre which i suspect would have bipartisan support that were going to provide the resources that the Secret Service needs. And of course, by continuing resolution, what congress is looking at is only funding the government through december and then revisiting this fight again in just a few months. I want to ask you, youre from florida Governor Desantis has said that essentially hes opening his own investigation into whats happened happening, not just leaving it up to the fbi and the Secret Service. Is that a move that is reasoning for it . We were looking at today was essentially and we were hearing from others who said they dont trust the front, the feds that includes, includes Senator Mike Lee, are republican. Do you agree with Desantis Has moved to conduct his own investigation . Look, i actually dont have a problem if the folks at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement want to conduct your own investigation. I think the folks obviously at the Sheriffs Office in Palm Beach are going to be helping with the investigation so that i dont have a problem with that. Obviously, No One should be playing politics with this. I think we want to get answers right now. I think the federal governments one of the largest failures in this moment, and its a failure youre from the Butler Moment as well as the american people want information. And they havent still gotten information from butler. Were still not we still dont know the motive of the first shooter. And so if you look for people on the left, think the first, the first Assassination Attempt was staged people on the right thing, it was the deep state. And thats because theyre filling the void with misinformation and its information because these agencies are not sharing information. I get it that its protocols usual, lets complete the investigation and then well share with the american people. But we have to think outside of the box, these are extraordinary circumstances. We need these agencies weekly to be Sharing Information With The American public. Otherwise, more of this is going to Go On. Yeah. And youre both democrats . Given the conversation we were just having of the Trump Campaign pulling out anytime a democrat has said trump is a threat to democracy as a point of democrats needing to tone down their rhetoric. I just wonder what your take on that is. I mean, two things about this conversation are really bothersome and actually deeply dangerous. Number one, is making that statement. Now, the left lets thing i want to do is get into a for tat here. But the american people know who has advised the police to not be too nice in their apprehension of suspects. They saw what happened on january 6. Its absurd that the Vice President ial candidate and Donald Trump are pointing the fingers at democrats. And by the way, is precisely what they shouldnt be doing at a moment when they should be taken down the political temperature. The other thing that just made me bristle when you said it is Senator Mike Lee and others who are saying they dont trust the feds the misinformation and the notion that the federal government, and look, we do oversight of the federal government. So it will be the first to tell you that there are challenges inside the federal government. But when you constantly beat the drum that you Cant Trust the fbi, that the Intelligence Community is in the tank for democrats are for whoever it may be, what you do is every time you say that a few more americans get angry at their own country for no good reason. There is no evidence backing any of this stuff. And if you work hard enough to delegitimize the government in the eyes of americans, youre going to create a very dangerous environment. Congressman Jim Himes, jared moskowitz, great to have you both here. Thats tonight. 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Kara just just someone who has studied Elon Musk. Why do you think he ultimately actually deleted this post . Well, because im sure his legal team said, you need to delete this post is a very serious thing to do, especially when its 193 Million people following them are being forced, followed in some cases with him has been widely reported. So i think it was it was a step too far, although he takes steps too far all the time, it was actively retweeting and commenting on the haitian pet eating situation, which was all false and he doesnt regularly. But this one was a little too far, i think even for him. Yeah. And you know, when we say the Secret Services aware of it, that theyre looking into it. I mean, they have to investigate all perceived threats even as the person does say that theyre joking. I was thinking today about john im eleni when he was on snl, he made a joke comparing trump to julius cesar, who was assassinated and he was investigated for that for Elon Musk. He has major Defense Contracts with the u. S he has access to highly sensitive information is as we were just talk about the congressman. They are sending spacex has company you two go and retrieve the astronauts that are stuck in outer space. And this is not just your uncle, your crazy uncle tweeting this, you know no, its not and let me tell you if the ceo of lockheed do did this third be held a barrier essentially. So i think its, you know, he obviously is being treated differently from the average citizen and definitely from any other ceo and he can say its a joke and of course that reminds you of someone else. But he cant. He uses this thing as a rich toddlers playground, i guess we can say essentially hes, hes trying to say dirty words all the time. A version of that and this case he probably said it in front of some of his employees and they laughed because thats what you do when your boss says isnt this funny . And then posted it. Last time he did something like this. The person who said he shouldnt put it up was fired, so nobodys going to tell him its not funny. You know, hes in a group of people who enable a mumbles constantly, but its his own fault. Its not their fault well, thats a good question because i do think people ask, why didnt anyone tell him not to do this . Which is often something you can say also about trump, is they have this growing alliance, but really its just the individual themselves who makes the decision thats absolutely true, but he actually Elon Musk fires people who disagree with them regularly. So i think thats one of the issues and a lot of people are sort of in this and they think its one Giant Joke about everything including the haitian pets or its trans people or whatever he constantly and of course, he retweeted tucker Carlsons Interview with a Hitler Apologist and he just does this just to cause problems and very much like trump he if attention is away from him for five seconds, its like you cant breathe and so he does these things to create drama around themselves. So he stays in our daily lives constantly eventually hint trump will start to fight over attention if President Trump wins again. And thatll probably be a problem. But eventually theyll come to blows because both of them seek attention there, heatseeking missiles to attention kara, while i have you, i want to ask you about Something Else tonight because meta said just now that theyre banding the russian State Propaganda Broadcaster rt, as its known, and other kremlincontrolled networks saying that theyve engaged in deceptive influence operation. And attempted to evade detection. How big of a deal do you think this decision is . Its a Big One from mark zuckerberg. Trump has threatened to put him in prison. If you recall and so its a big deal to make this call. Obviously these are, as you said Propaganda Machines that are, that are sort of trying to create discord in our, in our world and in our society and so its the right thing to do. Itll be interesting to see if youtube will do the same. Obviously, X And Twitter we will not will welcome that propaganda because it does it on a daily basis. But itll be interesting, see if the other companies that are run by adults will think very hard about cutting off our t, which is a Propaganda Organization and simple, its a great point because its always great to have you thanks a lot. Thank you so much. And i should note tonight theyre not many people who really have their own Secret Service detail. Of course, its a lot for the Secret Service. But when you look at the larger population, not that many know what its like to have that are to be the target of an this is a nation plot. By next source though, knows both former trump national Security Advisor Ambassador John Bolton is here online, Call Or Scan this code to support wwfs Global Constant Starvation efforts by symbolically adopting an elephant for only 12 a month. Its just 0. 40 a day to protect wildlife and their habitats do it in the next five minutes. 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Sounds today some new reporting that i broke after the second apparent Assassination Attempt on former President Trump as sources confirmed to me and to my colleague Zach Cohen and sean lyngaas, that senior intelligence officials recently briefed trumps campaign about new intel that iran is planning to escalate Attacks On Trump. And those round him. Now i want to be clear. There is no evidence that what happened yesterday or at that rally in butler, pennsylvania is connected to this new reporting, but it does speak to the Threat Environment overall that is facing a candidate for a major party in the united states and a former president its one thats known well by my next guest, trumps former national Security Advisor, John Bolton, who in 2021 when officials uncovered an iranian plot to kill him, Ambassador Bolton joins me live and abbas are just looking at this. I mean, you yourself still have protection to this day because of the threats against you for people who do not know what that is like, could could you just describe it for us well, i dont want to describe it in full detail for obvious reasons, but my home is under protection 24 7, very much like the way it was when i was national Security Advisor and i have the Secret Service with me when i when i travel so that again is very much like when i served in the government and i think thats typical of some of the others. Mark esper and others who are under the same general threat from iran. Obviously so he trump is at the top of the list, but its very robust protection. Well, and of people who work in washington know a lot of the Rank And File secret Service Agents. They worked very hard. And The One who is certainly with Trump Yesterday did an amazing job in spotting this person but overall, when you look at the Secret Service and just the questions that are being raised, does what happened to Trump Yesterday make you question your own safety . Not at all you know, i have listened including just now on your show to hear yesterday being described as a Secret Service failure, wasnt a failure the guy was never able to take a shot at trump the secret Service System it is based on layered protection. You cant stop. Every Wouldbe Assassin before he gets out the front door of his home you have to ask what intelligence was there out there on this particular shooter there are a lot of theories, a lot of them have to do with politics im not at all sure that this Pennsylvania Episode and this episode at maralago is to not cases is the only way i can think of to describe them. The second one in particular triggered by having seen the first one in a copycat action. Its a mistake, i think on insufficient evidence to jump automatically to the conclusion that these people are politically motivated. I dont think we know, but i would distinguish that from the threat against trump and others from the iranians, which is deadly serious and its not internet chatter, its not nut cases. Its the revolutionary the Guard Corps and the Quds Force actively seeking to hire a hitman. So that for trump, i think would justify an increase in security even if these two attempts had nothing to do with it. And because of the risk of a copycat additional attempt, i think Thats Justification for more security for trump too. Well, i think the question when it comes to the iran and tell which i should note again, not we dont know that its related at all to yesterday, but but if the Trump Campaign is briefed on that in recent weeks by senior intel officials about these that iran is trying to ramp up its Attacks On Trump directed at him. Why would that secret Service Level not changed in the interim period between what happened yesterday when they got that intelligence . No way to be on high alert that that threat was out there well, it depends on what theyre hearing about specifically about trump, what to do. And i am not briefed on that or on the intelligence on anybody else. I think i have a handle on what what what what affects me, but but its for good and sufficient reason not briefed to Everybody Else Whos Part of this. Id like to go and the iran threat, though to an antecedent question that this is really threats against former american officials and some who are still serving for carrying out their responsibilities as Government Employees and that is that is a threat really by a foreign power against i just the individuals, but the government of the united states. And its a good point to ask, why are we waiting for one of these targets to get hit weve been so solicitous of iran for the past threeandahalf years our troops and our civilian employees in iraq have been subject to attack by iran armed equipped, trained, and financed Shia Militia in iraq and syria. Why, why are we waiting to be attacked before we, before we impose costs on iran and hopefully deter them from this kind of activity. Ambassador John Bolton. Thank you so much thank you do want to know we have some breaking News Tonight as we can now report here at cnn, that the embattled Musician And Producer Sean Diddy combs has now been arrested as according to the moguls attorney. And what they are telling Cnn Tonight according to a source, combs is arrested in a Manhattan Hotel this evening. He is right now being processed. The charges are unclear at this time, and an attorney for combs tells cnn, quote, we are disappointed with the decision to pursue what we believe is an unjust prosecution if mr. Combs. Cnns Elizabeth Wagmeister is with us right now, elizabeth, what can you tell us about this Arrest Tonight we dont have that many details at this moment, but just hearing from his attorney directly that he has been arrested. I am hearing that even his attorney these are not clear on what these charges are at the moment, but he was arrested tonight in a Manhattan Hotel. He is currently being processed. And of course we know that this comes after months and months of this mobile having an immense fall from grace diaz, ten civil suits against and tim, many of which include very disturbing allegations of sexual assault, of drugging. Its important to note that combs has denied most of these allegations, but youll remember a few months ago when we broke that video of combs violently feeding his ex girlfriend, cassie, in the hallway of a Los Angeles Hotel room. And that came after he had denied many allegations that were in her lawsuit. I want to remind our viewers that that lawsuit came out in november of 2023. And ever since then, it has been a constant Domino Effect we heard the time that diddy was the target of an investigation. We learned that investigation was tied to Sex Trafficking and months later, we exclusively broke at cnn that a Grand Jury that this was presented to a Grand Jury and they were prepping accusers