All right, also breaking at noon,
Fox News reporting that former President Donald Trump will announce
his pick for vice president later today.
This comes just two days after the former president survived
in the assassination attempt.
Officials say the alleged shooter,
20 year old Thomas Crooks,
brought 50 rounds of ammunition at a gun store right
before carrying out this attack.
President Biden has issued an independent review of the US
Secret Service,
and Donald Trump is in Milwaukee now for the Republican
convention.
Let's bring in Michelle Ross.
Michelle, what is the very latest happening around all this?
Hey there. Bianca Trump is in Milwaukee right now after
arriving yesterday.
Now, the former president will take one of the biggest
political stages in the country,
and he says we can expect a change in tone
for his speech.
Donald Trump, now a gun violence survivor,
will formally accept the Republican Party's nomination at the Republican
National Convention,
which begins today. Despite suffering a gunshot injury to his
ear.
The former president arrived in Milwaukee on schedule.
He said yesterday that he is rewriting his speech to
focus on unity.
President Joe Biden expressing the same message all weekend following
the shooting.
He spoke from the Oval Office yesterday.
There's no place in America,
this kind of violence for any violence ever,
period. No exceptions. We can't allow this violence to be
normalized.
Saturday's assassination attempt at the Butler,
PA rally is being investigated by the FBI as a
potential act of domestic terrorism.
20 year old Thomas Crooks is identified as the shooter.
Records show Crooks was a registered Republican who contributed
$15.00 to a progressive political action committee in
2021 and worked as a dietary aide at a nursing
home in Bethel Park,
where he lived about an hour South of the rally
site.
An administrator at the nursing home said his background check
came back clean.
50 year old Corey Compatur,
a former Fire Chief, was killed in the attack.
Corey died a hero.
The Corey dove on his family
to protect them. Corey was the very best of us.
May his memory be a blessing.
According to The Associated Press,
several attendees reported to officers that Crooks was acting suspiciously
and pacing near the magnetometers.
Officers couldn't find him before he made it to the
roof of a building about 400 feet from where the
former president was speaking.
The Butler County sheriff says when an officer did make
it up to the roof,
crooks turned toward him. The officer,
unable to pull out his weapon,
went down the ladder. Crooks fired Secret Service shot and
killed him.
An AR15 style rifle that his father bought was found
near him.
Why the shooter carried out the attack is still unconfirmed.
I urge everyone, everyone, please
don't make assumptions about his motives or his affiliations.
Let the FBI do their job.
And suspense has been building around who Trump will choose
as his vice president.
As you mentioned earlier, Bianca,
Fox News anchor Bret Baier reported this morning that Trump
will reveal his pick later today.
Now reportedly on that shortlist,
Senators Marco Rubio, JD Vance,
Tim Scott and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum.
Back to you, Bianca.