Reporter who interviewed Trump assassination suspect in 2023 'instantly' recalled interaction: 'He seemed off'

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A reporter who previously interviewed the man accused of trying to carry out a second assassination attempt on former President Trump said she "instantly" recalled the interaction with the would-be assassin.

The Free Press reporter Tanya Lukyanova interviewed 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh for a Semafor story in March 2023 on Ukraine turning down foreign fighters who wanted to aid in the war against Russia. Lukyanova spoke about her interaction with Routh during "America's Newsroom."

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"He seemed off," Lukyanova told co-anchors Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino on Monday. "If you look at the video interview, you can see like it looks like it's a scene out of a Coen Brothers movie… he seems distraught, but then at the same time, he wasn't even the most colorful of the big personalities that I spoke to as part of the story."

Routh was arrested Sunday afternoon after fleeing Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla. Authorities said Secret Service agents fired at him after seeing the muzzle of his AK-47 pointing through a chain-link fence one hole ahead of where Trump was playing.

Lukyanova said she got a call from her editor at Semafor, bringing to her attention the identity of the suspect and the fact that she interviewed him for the Ukraine story last