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And now his attention is spent elsewhere. But i'm thinking of her the whole time. That's so much worse. Why is that thing in bed with you? this is where it gets the best signal from the cell tower! i've tried everywhere else in the house! there's always a new excuse. Well if we got xfinity you wouldn't have to mess around with the connection. Therapy's tough, huh? mmm. It's like a lot about me. [laughs] a home router should never be a home wrecker. Oo this is a good book title. Health to the amateurs. Choose doctors preferred the lead with jake tapper. We days it for cnn breaking news i'm erin burnett in new york on this sunday night, our breaking news continues at this hour, the fbi, as i speak, is investigating a second assassination attempt of former president trump just about two months to the day after trump was shot at a rally in pennsylvania. Now the former president was not harmed during the incident this afternoon, but there are so many mounting questions tonight about how another gunman was able to get so close to cut to trump this time. It was this afternoon. Trump was at his club in west palm beach, who was playing golf he was somewhere between holes five and six, as you can see on your screen, you want to secret service agent spotted a rifle barrel picking through a fence and the secret service agent and opened fire on a suspect who was hiding in the bushes. That suspect ran away gotten a car and escape for a awhile. He is now in custody at the time of this, though, trump was 300 to 500 yards away, at least twice the difference distance that he wasn't pennsylvania. But we understand that the suspect had this long rifle, an ak47, with a scope, which of course would make three to 500 yards. Certainly a shot officials say the suspect also had two backpacks and a gopro with him in those bushes. As you can see here, that gopro, the sheriff said set to film what the suspect thought would be an assassination of a former president we are learning that a witness then took a picture of the getaway car and the plates after that secret service agent fired. And the suspect ran and it was that witness, though, taking that picture of the car that was so crucial to the suspect's capture. He drove north but is now detained in connection to the incident, and he has been identified as ryan wesley row, according to sources, a lot more details unfolding as i speak about how this happened and who he is initially, we understand that he was not answering questions, but that may have changed here in these past few minutes. So let's start with kristen holmes homes obviously covering the trump campaign and kristen, you have some new reporting from your sources. I know you were just on the phone talking to people inside the trump campaign. Campaign managers, just releasing a letter to the staff moments ago, what are you learning? yeah, there are a lot of questions right now, particularly around what exactly happened and how exactly this happened as you had mentioned, he was on the golf course, he was with his donor, an ally, a good friend of his steve witkoff. He was between holds five and six. There was an advanced secret service team ahead of him. We're not sure entirely how far ahead of him they were. They are the ones who were scouting out as they were rounding the corner, as they were waiting for donald trump to come to that hole. That is when they saw this rifle that and that is when they engaged with this suspect, who as you said, ran away. Now, there are questions, of course are not necessarily just around the security of the perimeter. We know that there has been enhanced security since that u. S. First assassination attempt in butler, pennsylvania that has included particularly around his maralago home. Of course, this didn't occur at his maralago home, but roughly 15 minutes away at his international golf club, which is in west palm beach. You can see there that there is a lot of trees. It's very dense area, it's also wide span saying it is a golf course. They are notoriously hard from our law enforcement sources to completely secure, but we are in an unprecedented time where there was just a recent assassination attempt on the former president as well. Now the questions are how exactly that person one got onto the property, but two, more importantly, how he knew that donald trump was going going to be there at that time. We were told i was told by one source who said that it was a change of plans for donald trump to be playing golf that day and at that time, that i spoke to a number of people who are very close to the former president who actually weren't aware that he was even in maralago. They've had a hard time keeping up with his schedule because he has been between multiple properties, including trump tower, bedminster, and mar alago, as well as on the campaign trail. So there are questions about how exactly this person one got access and to knew his schedule and was apparently lying in wait for the former president. Now in terms of the campaign, as you mentioned, we just, just learned from sources inside the campaign heads of the campaign, chris lacivita and susie wiles put out an email to staff, partly which reads this, says today for the second time in two months, an evil monster attempted to take the life of president trump. Thankfully, no one was injured at the golf course. This is not a matter that we take lightly. Your safety is always top priority. We ask that you were remain vigilant and your daily comings and goings be observant and maintain a constant level of situational awareness earlier today, we know that they did at least for some time, put those west palm beach offices, donald trump's campaign headquarters have moved west palm beach on lockdown as well as that golf course at donald trump it was on it's not that surprising after the assassination attempt in butler, pennsylvania, they put all of the campaign headquarters outside of washington, dc as well as in west palm beach onto a lockdown. They encouraged people not to go into work as they were trying to figure out exactly what the scope of all of this looks like now in terms of where donald trump is we know he was held at the west palm beach golf club for several hours without scene was cleared. He was put under security surveillance. They made sure everything was safe, then they move him for at least some period to maralago. Now, there are questions as to whether or not he remains at maralago. It does seem to indicate we saw a motorcade or at least parts of it a motorcade leaving that maralago property, but i had been told at least few hours ago that he was expected to be at maralago until he left for detroit. He has an event there in excuse me, in flint, michigan on tuesday, so unclear right now whether or not he remains at maralago, but of course, as we know, it is not uncommon to be the unaware of a principles movements at a time like this, there were moments in butler or at least hours went by when it appeared he was leaving the hospital to go to the airport. And then we didn't see him at the airport for quite some time much longer than the drive would have taken. That is what i'm told by secret service protocol to make sure that he is safe, that he is secure, that there are no other outstanding factors in terms of a potential second gunman or a second location that could have been under attack. Obviously, we are still learning more details about the person behind that. I believe our law enforcement experts will weigh in on that, but this is still the campaign learning in real time where donald trump is right now, where his head is, and what exactly happened today on the golf course at a time when they really would have let their guard down because it's not official event and he's surrounded by so much secret service. Right. All right. Kristen, thank you very much. And we do know obviously he posted on social media that he's okay and we know obviously he was not shocked, but but we haven't heard from from him yet. An interesting from your reporting that at least the current public schedule was that he would have been in flint, michigan on tuesday, so we'll see what happens, whether that shifts tomorrow, which of course it would seem it very well may all right. Kristen, thank you very much. It's going to randi kaye because she is there outside maralago right now as new details are coming in and what's the latest you're learning? randi erin were actually outside a trump international golf club where all of this happened today. So we're about 15 minutes from maralago but right now, i can tell you we are learning just a little bit more about this suspect. I know our john miller, we'll we'll share certainly more on that. But we know that he lived in hawaii. This is the man who was detained today. He lived in hawaii his 58yearsold, and the car that he was picked up in was registered to his daughter. We also know from law enforcement that he was very calm when he was detained and he didn't show much emotion, but let me just set the scene here in terms of the law enforcement a picture. I live here in palm beach county and i'm used to law enforcement when donald trump is in town, roads are closed. There's a police presence. I've never seen anything like this following this incident today here at trump international golf club. We are here on summit boulevard. That's the main road that runs right in front of the golf clubs entrance and when we talk about holds five and six, which is where this incident, apparently happened as he was turning the corner between 5, 56, that area that is right at the corner, those holes are ready. The corner of summit boulevard behind me and congress. So just down the way here, so that explains a lot about why summit boulevard behind me, erin would be shut down. It has remaining shutdown since this occurred earlier today. The other heavily trafficked roads around the club are also still shut down. That would be kirk road and congress avenue as well. So there is a lot of activity here still there's a big police presence, there's been crime scene vans coming in and out of the club. Apparently, they are still collecting evidence processing the scene as i mentioned, maralago is just about 15 minutes from here, and that is where we know that the former president was taken following this after he was detained here for several hours to make sure that always well, and i can also tell you that cnn has learned that speaker mike johnson visited donald trump at mara lago after this incident occurred so that was also something someone who was checking on him today, but we do know that as you said, he was not shot. He's doing well and that is the report from the trump team erin randi. Thank you very much. Outside the golf course of course where this happened. Just hours ago. Let's go to our senior justice correspondent, evan perez, along with john miller our chief law enforcement intelligence analysts. Thanks to both of you and i know that you both have more information about the suspect because as i've been saying, evin unlike in the pennsylvania his situation and in many shooter situations often the shooter is killed. That's not the case. This man is in custody and he will be brought to account and we're learning a lot about him because it appears that there is a lot to learn about him, which again, there really wasn't so much in the pennsylvania case. What are you learning? yeah, erin, this is going to be obviously a fullscale investigation and we expect obviously that he is going to face charges. The fbi is working to try to make sure that whatever charges are brought against him that they can try to make sure that they have all of the evidence before that happens, but but but in this case right now, you saw press conference there there was the state prosecutors. They say they're holding him for now with the anticipation, obviously that the fed, the federal judge, the justice department, the u. S. Attorney's office down there in the southern district of florida is likely to bring some federal charges. And as you heard earlier, the fbi is treating this as an apparent assassination attempt on one of the things that they're doing at this moment is obviously they're trying to go back and see what information they can get from family members, from any social media accounts that the person may have from obviously their devices, their phone all of that is going to give the fbi a better sense of how long this person has been planning this. And any of course, any motivation which is something that because you have a suspect or a person who is been arrested, someone who's alive at this point. There's a lot more to learn from that as in comparison to the butler, pennsylvania suspect where to this day the fbi still going through some of his devices trying to gain any information they can because that person didn't leave behind any intention. So that's where things are at this hour and we expect that certainly in the next day or so the charges will begin. You'll begin to see these charges from federal prosecutors. There and john, what are you hearing from your sources about the suspected wouldbe assassin so they're developing a picture of who it is. They're talking to. Ryan route 58yearsold as evan said, in his randy said from hawaii, but it was a construction worker in north carolina he is an individual who has been living out loud on the social media platforms that we all use. But most interestingly, has been his continual postings about efforts to recruit fighters to go to the ukraine he has called out for people to send him their passport copies. Their military experience, their resumes, and what other battles they have fought in. He has provided a link for fighters to populate this inference formation. He has indicated that he's been in theater in ukraine so as we kind of cast about for a motive that doesn't mean that the motive is connected to ukraine, but it is an issue where donald trump has been accused of dodging the question about whether he would support 40 griner zelenskyy. So it's something that they'll be curious about as far as him talking and randy said that might be changing this is an individual who's been out front on social media who went to what appears to be an attempted assassination with a gopro camera attached to the fence indicating he intended to film that film it to post where filmer to stream live film it to stream to somebody else. Or to do something with it later. He is probably not the kind of offender who is going to be able to not want to talk about this. So i think in the coming days is will learn not only what we find out about them, but what he says. Also, the remarkable thing is all the way back in 2002 in north carolina, he has an arrest. One of his

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