 He had a direct line of sight to the former president, roughly 400 feet away from the stage. Officials say a police officer confronted him moments before. Videos from the scene show people tried to alert police 86 seconds before the first shots began. Following the shooting, Trump and Biden spoke on the phone. Trump describing the call to ABC's Jonathan Karls saying, it was very nice. He couldn't have been nicer. Biden telling NBC the political climate is too heated.