00:00Former President Donald Trump is safe and unharmed following a protective incident shortly before
00:062 p.m. on Sunday at Trump International Golf Club at West Palm Beach. The U.S. Secret Service
00:13personnel opened fire on a gunman located near the property line and this matter is under
00:19investigation. In the bushes where this guy was is an AK-47 style rifle with a scope,
00:27two backpacks which were hung on the fence that had a ceramic tile in them and a GoPro
00:33which he was going to take pictures of. So those are being processed right now.
00:38The Secret Service agent that was on the course did a fantastic job. What they do is they have
00:46an agent that jumps one hole ahead of time to where the president was at
00:50and he was able to spot this rifle barrel sticking out of the fence and immediately
00:55engage that individual at which time the individual took off. Because we're in constant
01:00contact with them all the time we were notified of that and we had units here that immediately
01:07sealed off the area. Fortunately we were able to locate a witness that came to us and said hey
01:14I saw the guy running out of the bushes he jumped into a black Nissan and I took a picture of the
01:21vehicle and the tank which was great. So we had that information our real-time crime center put
01:29it out to the license plate readers and we were able to get a hit on that vehicle on I-95 as it
01:39was headed into Martin County. We got a hold of Martin County Sheriff's Office alerted them and
01:45they spotted the vehicle and pulled it over and detained the guy. After that we took the victim
01:53I'm sorry the witness that witnessed the incident took flew him up there and he identified as the
02:00person that he saw running out of the bushes and jumped into the car. The FBI has assumed the role
02:05as the lead federal law enforcement agency in the investigation of the incident that occurred
02:11earlier today at Trump International Golf Course here in West Palm Beach Florida.
02:17We've deployed a number of resources including investigative teams, crisis response team members,
02:24bomb technicians and evidence response team members as well. What we need right now is for
02:32the public to avoid the area around the golf course. We will continue to support this investigation
02:38with the full resources of the FBI alongside our partners with the United States Secret Service
02:44and the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office as well as Martin County Sheriff's Office
02:48and state and local law enforcement. I'm here because our prosecutors are currently working up
02:54warrants and a motion for pre-trial detention for the suspect in that way he will be kept in custody
03:02but our filing of these warrants and charges at the state level does not preclude federal
03:07charge that could be coming but in the meantime it looks like the warrants and the pre-trial
03:13detention motion will happen first. Probably between 300 and 500 yards but with a rifle and
03:19a scope like that that's not a long distance. Well you got to understand the golf course is
03:25surrounded by shrubbery so when somebody gets into the shrubbery they're pretty much out of sight
03:30all right and at this level that he is at right now he's not the sitting president. If he was we
03:36would have had this higher golf course around it but because he's not the security is limited to
03:41the areas that the Secret Service deems possible. So I would imagine that the next time he comes
03:48at a golf course there'll probably be a little bit more people around the perimeter but the
03:53Secret Service did exactly what they should have done. They provided exactly what the
03:57protection should have been and their agent did a fantastic job.
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