Dana Perino: This was like watching a ‘warrior president’

TRUMP BEING ACCIDENTAL THREAT TO DEMOCRACY. HE IS NOT. HERE WITH REACTION TO THE HORRIFIC EVENTS IN THE DAY, AMERICA'S NEWSROOM, BILL HEMMER ALONG WITH COHOST AND COHOST TO THE FIVE, FRIENDS OF MINE, BOTH DANA PERINO. IT LOOKS LIKE BOTH OF YOU ARE IN MILWAUKEE TONIGHT. TWO THINGS THAT STAND OUT AND I DID SPEAK TO SOMEBODY WITH THE PRESIDENT IN THE HOSPITAL AND I CAN REPORT THIS PART IS THAT THE PRESIDENT, HE WAS FINE AND IN GOOD HEALTH. HE HAD A FULL UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT HE HAD JUST BEEN THROUGH. ONE THING A LOT OF PEOPLE HADN'T FACTORED IN IS THE SECRET SERVICE AGENTS THAT JUMPED ON HIM. THE OTHER THING THE PERSON NOTED A TYPICAL DONALD TRUMP PASSION AND NEW MATTER YEARS BEFORE HE RAN FOR PRESIDENT IS HE GOT UP AND WANTED TO SHOW THIS AUDIENCE THAT HE WAS OKAY AND WAS GOING TO STILL FIGHT. YOU GOT TO ADMIRE THE SPIRIT. >> I WAS ON A FLIGHT ON MY WAY HERE TO MILWAUKEE WHEN THIS HAPPENED. BEHIND ME I HEARD HIM CURSING AND I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS GOING ON AND QUICKLY CAUGHT UP SO I JUST LANDED SO MY FIRST CHANCE TO COMMENT, THANK GOD HE IS OKAY. I AM VERY THIS COUNTRY, OBVIOUSE HAVE A LOT OF DIVISIONS, A LOT OF PROBLEMS. THERE ARE PROBABLY A MILLION AND ONE QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW THIS HAPPENED AND ETC. BUT THE OTHER THING IS HIS WORDS WERE TO THANK THE SECRET SERVICE AND I'VE NOTICED FROM MY EXPERIENCE, THAT IS ALWAYS THE THING THAT PRESIDENT BUSH WOULD SAY. HE PUT OUT A STATEMENT RIGHT AWAY THANKING GOD THAT TRUMP WAS OKAY. IT IS GOOD TO HEAR HE WALKED INTO THE HOSPITAL BUT IS INSTINCTS WERE TO THANK THE SECRET SERVICE AND THERE WILL BE A HUGE INVESTIGATION BUT WE ALSO HAVE A BIG CAMPAIGN AHEAD OF US. OBVIOUSLY HE WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT. THERE WILL MAYBE BE SOME CHANGES THAT HAVE TO HAPPEN AT RALLIES IN ORDER TO PROTECT HIM BECAUSE I WAS THINKING JUST TWO NIGHTS AGO BARRON TRUMP, HIS 18-YEAR-OLD TRUMP SON WAS WITH HIM. I'M SURE THE FAMILY IS RIGHT NOW THINKING WE ARE GRATEFUL THAT HE'S OKAY AND HE WANTS TO CONTINUE FOR THE COUNTRY BUT THEY MUST BE EXTREMELY WORRIED AND OBVIOUSLY HAVE A RIGHT TO BE. >> YOU HAVE LITTLE EXPERIENCE. I AM NOT COMPARING AT ALL WHAT HAPPENED TO PRESIDENT BUSH BUT YOU WERE THERE. YOU WERE THERE THAT DAY AT THAT MOMENT WHEN NOT ONE BUT TWO SHOES WERE THROWN AT BUSH AND I THINK YOU ARE INJURED YOURSELF IN THE PROCESS THERE. I SEE THIS WAY AND THAT WAY AND SHOWED GREAT AGILITY AT THE TIME. OBVIOUSLY NOT AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT BUT SHOWS -- >> COULD HAVE BEEN. YOU ARE RIGHT, IT COULD HAVE BEEN. THERE WAS ANOTHER TIME MAY 9, 2006 I BELIEVE IN JORDAN WHERE IT WASN'T UNTIL AFTERWARDS THE DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY FOUND OUT THERE WAS A GRENADE THAT DID NOT GO OFF THAT WAS JUST FEET FROM WHERE HE WAS SPEAKING. BY THE GRACE OF GOD, IT DID NOT GO OFF. WHEN I WOULD ASK PRESIDENT BUSH ABOUT POLARIZATION IN THE COUNTRY, HE WOULD REMIND ME THAT WHEN HE GRADUATED COLLEGE, THE COUNTRY WAS LITERALLY IN THE STREET FIGHTING EACH OTHER AND SAID WE HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO UNTIL THEN. THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON RONALD REAGAN, SEEMS PERHAPS. WE ARE NOT COMPLETE STRANGERS TO IT. THIS IS NEW FOR OUR COUNTRY. RESET AND RESTART HOPING WE CAN

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Length: 4min 59sec (299 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 14 2024