 Questions now about whether local authorities had an encounter with the would-be assassin, Thomas Crooks, before he fired on the former president. Fox's David Spont has that. A lot of questions about this AP report of a local police officer potentially climbing up a ladder, made contact with Crooks, then allegedly retreated, and that's when Crooks apparently opened fire. But we are learning from the Secret Service that locals did engage, and once they started to engage, that's when the firing took place.