Fox News’ Shannon Bream Talks About Anchoring In Frantic Live Moments Of Trump Rally Shooting: “My First Thought Was, ‘Just Try To Stay Calm'”

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Fox News was carrying Donald Trump‘s rally in Butler, PA, live at 6:11 p.m. ET when suddenly, chaos ensued as the former president grabbed his ear, then plunged to the ground and Secret Service pounced on top of him for protection.

Shannon Bream, the host of Fox News Sunday and legal correspondent, had been in Milwaukee, anchoring in the lead up to the rally, and was still in the chair as she watched on a monitor what was unfolding. “We had just tossed to the live rally, and we all stayed in place just to be ready for any kind of coverage wrapping out of the rally, and very quickly, as I was sitting there just maybe five, six minutes into the speech, I heard some popping,” Bream told Deadline in an interview today. “I saw the president go behind the podium.

I heard screaming, and just motioned to all of us who were still there in coverage mode, ‘Wait a minute, what’s happening? What’s happening?’ Because we had all kind of taken just a little bit of a breather.” Producers were telling her in her earpiece, ‘We got to take this live.” At about 6:12 p.m.

ET, forty-four seconds after the first popping sounds were heard, Bream came on the air and told viewers, “OK, we are watching live at a rally in Butler, PA, where former President Trump was speaking on stage.