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Live updates: Officials say Trump rally gunman is a young man from Pennsylvania

Former President Donald Trump has been released from the hospital after an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally.

Trump was rushed off stage by the Secret Service on Saturday after shots were fired that grazed Trump's ear. The shooter, who authorities identified only as a man from Pennsylvania about 20 years old, was killed by law enforcement.

One attendee was killed and two others are in critical condition, law enforcement officials said.

Trump could be seen on video contracting his body to the right, clutching his ear and dropping to the ground. He was then surrounded by Secret Service agents who rushed him to his car. What appeared to be blood could be seen on the right side of Trump's head.

One spectator from the rally is dead, and two more are in critical condition according to the Butler County district attorney. The shooter is dead.

President Joe Biden delivered remarks on Saturday evening, saying "There's no place in America for this kind of violence."

Biden had planned to spend the weekend in Delaware, but late Saturday the White House said he would return to Washington tonight.

CNBC's politics reporters, video team and breaking news reporters are covering this story live from New York and Washington, D.C.

The Secret Service did not field a representative for a law-enforcement press conference on the shooting, leaving unanswered questions many reporters had about whether there were failures in securing the rally scene that became the site of an assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

Instead, Kevin Rojek, the FBI's top agent in Pittsburgh and the commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police handled questions from the press, often saying they could not, or would not comment on the Secret Service's

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