As we continue to monitor that i don 360. How did this man allegedly get within a few hundred yards of the former president, armed authorities say with a rifle and scope how does that square with the secret service's claim? they're providing the highest level of protection also tonight, despite calls from both parties to tamp down the rhetoric, donald trump is amping it up instead. And trump running mate j. D vance defended falsehoods. He spread about haitian immigrants that today brought more threats and school closings to springfield, ohio those are parents waiting for their kids. Springfield's republican mayor joins us tonight. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. We begin with what we know and don't know right now about the apparent second attempt on trump's life. The man arrested yesterday, ryan ruth, was arraigned today on federal gun charges. Authorities today said that ruth did not have the former president in his line of sight. And he was discovered by a secret service agent in the tree line of the trump golf course near maralago the agent, as you know, fired at him, ruth, they say fled and was caught a short time later. This is some of the bodycamera footage do you understand want to go was? ryan still a lot of questions about the suspect and the former president's security, namely how for the second time in as many months, didn't come and get within range of the republican presidential candidate, especially given president biden's call in the wake of the butler shooting for trump and vice president harris to receive what acting secret service director ronald rowe today called the highest level of protection except as he admitted when asked this protection did not include sweeping the golf course perimeter at all during the 12 hours this man was allegedly there or nearby only agents walking a hole or so ahead of the former president as he played so this wasn't off the record, movement it wasn't a site that was on his scheduled it wasn't part of his scheduled, so there was no posting up of it because he wasn't supposed to have gone there in the first place when i go back to as yesterday was off the record, movement off the record and the president wasn't even really supposed to go. There was not on his official schedule. And so we put together a security plan and that security plan worked lots of coverage tonight with their team of correspondents, law enforcement, and security experts. And because this is taking place in a heated political climate, not a vacuum will also look closer at that. First though new tonight details on president biden's call to the former president. Cnn's kayla tausche at the white house. Has that. So what are you learning? well, anderson, president biden reached former president trump by phone from the white house earlier this evening after trying to reach him earlier in the day, unsuccessfully, a white house official described the conversation as cordial with trump at one point, thanking biden for the call. Now biden has no love lost with trump. They've sparred over politics and policy i see for ages. But at an event today, president biden reiterated that there is no place in this country for political violence. Here's what he said there's no, and i mean this in a bottom, those, you know, we many of you do no place in political violence for political violence in america, none, zero, never in america. Resolve our difference peacefully. The ballot box, not at the end of a gun that phone call, the transpired between the two men today is the second in two months, of course, they last spoke in july after the first assassination attempt on former president trump has person biden suggested something about the security that should be done well, he suggested that the u. S. Secret service needs more and better resources, specifically personnel. We know that the secret service for years has been plagued by thin staffing, long hours, and low morale, which is only exacerbated in election years when more candidates and their families need protective detail's, we do know that funding for secrets service has gone up in recent years and it's higher in 2024 than an even was in 2016 and 2020 during those elections. But anderson, this is now a new conversation that is taking place as government funding is set to take center stage in the coming weeks. And we'll see if this becomes part of those negotiations between the white house and capitol hill. All right. Kayla tausche. Thank you. Before bringing in our security experts, including former secret service agent jonathan wackrow. Here's randi kaye with what we've learned so far about the suspect, both moment by moment and going back years ryan wesley ruth may have already been lying in wait for donald trump court documents unsealed today included an fbi affidavit indicating ruth cell phone may have been in the vicinity of the bushes for up to 12 hours before he was ultimately spotted by secret service secret service caught a glimpse of the barrel of the suspect's gun and opened fire terms of him being 70, based on his phone records, is there any evidence to show that routh was in this obscenity in the area before sunday. And when you say in the vicinity, does that mean right there that spot in his book? excuse or could it have been down the street at a restaurant? it was in very close proximity to where he was spotted by the secret service in terms of your first question whether he was there earlier, are investigation is still working to determine that at 1:30 p. M. Secret service agents calling shots fired to west palm beach police who will immediately seal off the area. Trump international golf club is now on lockdown the alleged gunman was on the public side of the fence near the six green, the subject who did not have line of sight to the former president, fled the scene. About 25 minutes later, at 1:55 p. M. The martin county sheriff's office receives a bolo a be on the lookout alert, a suspect is heading north on interstate 95. A description of the vehicle and a tag number is also provided every available unit, about 30 in all joins the hunt. We immediately deployed out to the interstate because information was that the suspect was possibly headed north online 95 minutes later, just after 2:00 p. M. Martin county sheriff's units locate the suspect's vehicle body camera video of his arrest. The witness from the incident at at trump international i was flown to the scene by the palm beach county sheriff's office and he was able to make a positive i. D. At 2:24 p. M. Less than an hour after the incident, the trump campaign sends out a statement saying, trump is safe following gunshots in his vicinity in the bushes at the golf club. Authorities recovered in sks style rifle with a scope, two backpacks equipped with ceramic tiles for a makeshift bulletproof vest, and a gopro. Do you have any detail on where he might have gotten the gun? that's part of the investigation as well. Again, that's going to be a little bit challenged until we're able to determine the serial number on that gun. So we're hopeful to be able to do by 10:00 a. M. This morning, ryan ruth was in court in west palm beach, florida, facing charges of possession of a firearm while a convicted felon and possession of a firearm her arm with an obliterated serial number in court, ruth told the judge he had zero funds and was making $3,000 before his arrest. He said he had no assets beyond his two trucks in hawaii, the judge appointed a public defender since the alleged attempt on trump's life, a complicated picture has emerged of ryan ruth of 58 yearold's small business owner from hawaii cnn has learned that ruth supported trump in 2016, but later dismissed him as a buffoon and a fool. Ruth also mentioned trump in his selfpublished book titled ukraine's unwinnable war ruth traveled to ukraine in 2022 and encouraged others, including afghan fighters, to sign up to fight. He did an interview with afp news agency from kyiv in april that year, putin is a terrorist and he needs to be ended. So we need everybody from around the globe to stop what they're doing and come here now, court documents also detail past runins with the law, including felony convictions in north carolina in 20 o2 he pleaded guilty to felony possession of a weapon of mass destruction, and carrying a concealed weapon. That same year, he barricaded himself inside a business after he was pulled over by police other charges over the years included possession of stolen goods driving without a registration, and failing to pay his taxes on time. Given his history, law enforcement is grateful. They saw him the suspect did leave and get close off and anderson tonight, authorities still are unsure if the suspect acted alone. They say all indications are that he did, but they're just not 100% sure yet. They also don't know where he got this weapon or how long he was in the state of florida before this happened, but we did get some new information today. We now know that they interviewed you'd seven civilian witnesses on the scene, and that they've collected dna from the suspect's items that were recovered at the scene that would include those two backpacks, the sks rifle and the gopro and those dna samples have been sent to quantico to be analyzed. So anderson there's going to be it's going to take quite some time to figure all this out for indicated. Thanks so much joy. One thing i've seen in chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller, former secret service agent jonathan wackrow, for fbi, deputy director andrew mccabe, and retired fbi supervisory special agent. Daniel brunner john first of all, what do you make of what? we've learned today and where things stand i think what we learned today was they're going backwards through all of his things, but there were a couple of interesting points. Number one as randi reported, there's that 12hour capture of his cell phone, the wording is interesting in the vicinity of the area. It suggests that's two different things. First thing is he used the cover of darkness the night before to get through the bushes to the fence line do his reconnaissance as to what's the best place to set up and then he lay in wait there. The other alternative is that he set up his gopro. They're set it to a streaming setting and then went back across the street where there's many commercial places in parking lots and just settled into that's an important point. I mean, in that area right across the street, there are there's a parking lot, there's places he could sit in his car if he wanted to or in starbucks or something, lots of like, there's a gas station, there's a burger king, there's a library, there's a school, there's a big empty parking lot. There's this when 11. So within that block on summit boulevard, there there's everything the question is the special agent in charge veltri said it was his phone was detected very close to that tree line where he fired from, but when you're doing tower triangulations for a signal, there's a difference friends of that can vary from a couple of hundred feet to a place it could have been across the street i think what they're going to end up doing that was going backwards through that phone triangulation and say, how many other days was he there? was he building this surveillance? jonathan? i mean, in terms of there's questions. Well, if this wasn't on the schedule and we heard that from the acting secret service director would he have just been this alleged assassin been this has been the first time he'd done that. Would he have scoped this area out if he was sitting in that parking lot, would he have been enabling see the motorcade of the former president coming to that golf club resort and then having an hour before he got to that spot. But let's unpack that a little bit the reference to an otr and off the record movement really is playing to the secret service advantage of surprise, you don't know that a protectee is going to be there, but that's not the case. This with donald trump. You only know that you he is a creature of habit. You know, if he has nothing on his schedule at maralago, there is a high probability that he's going to play golf. So it doesn't take a sophisticated assassin to understand that behavioral traits. He's in town and it's a sunday and he's not doing anything officially. You're going to hedge i'm going to head and i'm gonna go to that location because we're else does he go in the area? he really doesn't travel outside of maralago in his controlled environments. That's where he spends his time. And if he was just watching from the outside, he would have seen a motorcade coming in and he still would have had from the time trump got there to getting to that to that hole on the golf course, there have been more than an hour well over an hour. So again, into your commissioner miller's point, i think that as they go through this digital exhaust here and there is just volumes of digital evidence here. We're going to see that this individual was probably hiding in plain sight over at that at starbucks across the street you're going to see a lot of preattack surveillance in the 12 hours or so beforehand. But on previous days, and what we haven't heard yet, what other locations was he potentially looking at? was he looking at areas around maralago as well? again, it's not normal for somebody to do is to wake up and go, well, i'm going to so kill the former president today. There has been a lot that has been manifesting within this individual. There's a lot around the motivation and intent that he had to launch this attack as this investigation, pulls the mosaic of evidence together, we're going to start getting a clearer picture, take a quick break while more with the panel afterwards. Take up the question of how the suspect has been charged so far and what the prospects may be. Additional charges against them is just gun charges so far later, the former president's decision to take an already tense and traumatic moment for the country and turn it up, includin