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Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
And we 're beginning with the latest on the Washington shooting,
the incident on Saturday when a gala dinner featuring the president,
the vice president, and large numbers of the most powerful politicians in the US was interrupted by gunfire.
US Secret Service agents quickly disarmed and detained the alleged shooter.
The VIPs, including Donald and Melania Trump, were unceremoniously hustled to safety.
A job well done, said the White House at the time.
But that is nowhere near the end of the story.
Big questions about who the suspect is, why he acted as he appears to have done,
whether the security worked or whether it actually had been breached,
and what we can say more broadly about political violence in the US.
On which point that White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt,
who 'd been with the President and the First Lady on Saturday night at that dinner,
made an appeal today for greater civility in political discourse, but also had this pointed rebuke.
Nobody in recent years has faced more bullets and more violence than President Trump.
This political violence stems from a systemic demonization of him and his supporters by commentators,
yes, by elected members of the Democrat Party and even some in the media.