Donald Trump says Melania can't even talk about assassination attempt

Former President Donald Trump told Fox News host Laura Ingraham that his wife Melania watched the assassination attempt on his life live on television and that she can't even talk to him about what happened.

"She was watching," he said. "She was watching live. It was all over the place. It was on television."

"She can't even really talk about it. That's okay, that means she likes me -- she loves me. She could talk about it freely, I'm not so sure which is better. She either likes or loves me, that's nice," he said.

Trump called the Secret Service agents who threw themselves on him and shot down the person who tried to kill him "brave" while admitting there were failures that day.

"I just want to say one thing about Secret Service... they were very brave," he said. "They were coming. Bullets were flying over me. I went down and they were -- they were on top of me, I had a lot of very big, strong people on top of me."

"Should've been somebody on the roof, should've been communication with the local police," he said, adding that taking down the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks "'should've happened nine seconds earlier."