Today’s episode sets out what we know about the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday evening. Doug Mills, a photographer for The Times, recounts what it was like to witness the shooting, and Glenn Thrush, who covers gun violence for The Times, discusses the state of the investigation into the man who did it.
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The nation is waking up to a new reality after former President Donald Trump was injured in an apparent assassination attempt.
Gunshots ripping through a Pennsylvania campaign rally and carving their way into the history books.
I heard pop, pop.
I think a lot of people in the crowd just thought it was fireworks going off.
I knew immediately it was gunshots.
And everybody's screaming, drop.
And you can see the blood, like.