Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi spoke on the phone with former US President Donald Trump to check on his health after an assassination attempt, the Egyptian presidency said.
Trump had expressed strong support to Sisi during his term in face of protests against him in 2019, calling Sisi a great leader.
Meanwhile, the US House of Representatives is forming a bipartisan task force to investigate the shooting of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, its Republican and Democratic leaders said on Tuesday.
The panel, comprised of seven Republicans and six Democrats, will make recommendations for reforms to relevant government agencies and will have subpoena authority, according to a statement from Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson and Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries.
"The security failures that allowed an assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life are shocking," Johnson said in a statement, adding the task force would move quickly to "make certain such failures never happen again."
He said House lawmakers will vote on a resolution this week to establish the force and its members.
Cheatle on Monday called the shooting the agency's most significant operational failure in a decade but has rebuffed calls to step down.
