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I'm going 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.440 to give you my first hand account of what happened 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:07.560 at the White House. Correspondence dinner from my point of view, Yes, 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:10.760 I attended as a guest of National journal I will 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:15.079 literally share all the details on that and then take 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.160 a step back and just sort of talk about this 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:21.240 moment that we're living in politically basically through my through 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:27.040 my political anthropologist glasses here, because I think, you know, 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.720 there's no doubt that we don't have the political leaders 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:32.120 to deal with the moment that we need to be 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.400 dealing with at the moment. So and I will get 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:36.560 into all of that, but we just this is a 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.800 this is this is the worst set of political leaders 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.160 that we could have to meet the moment that we need, 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:47.200 which is why we need clearly, we need new leadership 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:51.200 in this country collectively. And this is across the board, left, right, center, 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:54.440 et cetera. We will get I will get into that. Course. 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:56.720 This is Monday, which means I have a new time 0:02:56.760 --> 0:03:02.919 Machine segment, and we are we are going back to 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:13.280 a story that would eventually help create the name for 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:17.480 one of the most popular bands of my generation. So 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:22.519 there's your clue. There's your clue to what historical event 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.560 I will be taking a deep dive in with the 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:26.640 time machine this week, and of course we will do 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:32.440 questions from you, and yes, despite the events of the weekend, 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:36.160 I do have a few thoughts in my compartmentalized brain 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:40.440 on sports, the draft and all things from there. But look, 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.600 let me start with I figure the best thing I 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:48.480 can do is just sort of take you through, take 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:53.080 you through what I did with the dinner, and it 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:58.800 really my evening begins at six pm Eastern time. I'm 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:02.240 walking out of the house, and just to give you 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:04.200 a full picture, I had planned to go to the 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.880 after party. My friends at ms NOW had invited My 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.120 wife and I did the after party there after party, 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:14.080 and we were planning to attend. I was attending the 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.320 dinner itself as a guest of National Journal. I've been 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.760 doing a lot of work with them lately. National Journal, 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:20.680 for many of you know as my former as a 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:25.160 former employer of mine, I've been we've been doing doing 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:29.400 some brainstorming together and we're we're in this collective world. 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:33.680 And so that's that's why I was attending. That's the 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:38.039 that's who whose guest I was. My wife was going 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.040 to meet. She did this was one ticket, so she 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:45.000 was gonna we were gonna meet essentially at the at 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.640 the after party about eleven pm. And as I'm leaving 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:51.240 the house in the uber at six pm, I turned 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:52.400 to my wife and I said, how ab I'm not 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.840 making a mistake? And what did I mean by that? 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.240 All Right? I just said it out loud, and I 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.000 had a lot of sort of tr nation about going. 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:05.600 I hadn't been to the dinner in probably four or 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.760 five years. I used to frankly when I had a 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:10.880 job on Sunday morning. Some of you might might know, 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.440 so I had stopped doing these Saturday night dinners. Sometimes 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.560 I would go for basically like the first hour and 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.760 leave early, frankly, just to get a tiny bit of 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:21.960 rest before the next morning. Sometimes I didn't go at all. 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:28.600 It just, you know, it just it's just a it 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.120 can be. It's a It's a I used to joke 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:33.360 with when I was in my twenties the dinner was fun, 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:40.000 when by my forties it became work. But I was going, look, 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:42.360 I'm doing a lot more in the media entrepreneur space, 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.960 and this is a so there's certainly a lot of 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:48.960 interesting people that I am working with I'd like to 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:50.720 be working with, and I thought this would be as 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.080 good of a time as any to connect with some people, 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:55.120 But I knew that there was going to be a 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:56.640 lot of protests. I knew there was going to be 0:05:56.640 --> 0:06:01.680 a lot of tension. And so when I said that 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:03.680 to my wife, she was like, why did you know? 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.040 She sort of haunted her as I laughed. And then 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:09.320 of course we all thought about it a lot after 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.440 the incident itself. And I'm not going to sit here 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:14.479 and say I thought violence was going to happen. You know, 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:16.560 I didn't know if it was going to be just 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.800 you know, was I walking into something that I didn't 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:21.840 really want to be a part of. It is probably 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:26.520 a better way to describe it, right, I think I 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:28.840 told you. I think I expressed earlier. I thought all 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.719 the look, this is one thing people need to understand. 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.680 This is not the president's event. This is the This 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:37.240 is the White House Press Association's event. He is an 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.000 invited guest. It is tradition to invite the president. Hardstop. 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:42.440 He chose to come for the first time. This is 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:44.680 not his event. And this is an important point because 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:45.960 this is not an event to be held at the 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:48.839 White House. If he doesn't feel comfortable coming, then he 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.800 doesn't come. Right. This is a trade associatiation event for 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:54.400 White House Press, for members of the White House Press Corps. 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.200 At the end of the day, so I sort of 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:01.279 I've found the sort of hand ringing about, you know, 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.840 whether press should attend or not. This is not the 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:07.400 president's dinner. Look, everybody made their individual decisions about who 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:11.520 they invite, right and that's a different decision. And you 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.840 can hold individual organizations accountable for who they choose to 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:16.320 invite or not. But at the end of the day, 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:20.680 we're journalists and I just wanted a story. You have 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:25.880 to have good sources in order to report, period, And 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:29.600 so I understood the criticism of those that say, oh, 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.280 don't give them a platform, don't do this, don't do that. 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:34.760 At the end of the day, it was his choice 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:39.840 to come, and you know, the press can. To me, 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.680 a good journalist should be able to handle handle that 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:48.560 situation and should be comfortable going in. You don't, you know, 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.520 nobody's asking you to become a maggot cheerleader or a 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:55.480 left wing activist. If you're going there to be an activist, 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.800 don't go right that. You know, if if you're if 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.840 you're more interested in and being an activist, and then 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.560 you shouldn't have gone but look, I'm not. I you know, 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.080 I thought all of that was overrated on that front. 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:12.920 So but I you know, I wasn't. I knew the 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.840 protests were going to be large, and I've certainly been 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:17.880 to that hotel so many times. I knew that there 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:22.240 were alternative ways to get into the hotel. So I 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.320 was very careful where I had the Uber drop off. 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:27.600 In fact, I knew I was going to decided I 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:29.680 was going to basically, for those of you familiar with 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:31.480 the Hilton, go in the back way, go in the 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:35.920 other you know, don't come in on Connecticut Avenue. I 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:41.079 basically came in behind sort of between. Essentially, it was 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.840 dropped off not quite at the corner of Florida Avenue 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:50.480 and in Columbia excuse me, in eighteenth but close ish, 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:54.400 it's basically like nineteenth in Florida. Because I knew I 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:58.120 could walk now with those terrible tuck shoes, I even 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:00.560 double socked, knowing I was probably going to be walking 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:03.040 more than usual in order to Little did I know 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:06.200 how much I was going to end up walking after 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:09.360 the event, says it was so look, I was pretty 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.720 you know, I get dropped off by the Uber walk 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.960 in get in the essentially the back way without without 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.360 going through any of that protest or stuff that was 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:21.640 taking place, which was on the other side of the hotel, 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:26.080 which is basically it where Florida and Connecticut come together, 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:31.640 which is essentially where the Hilton Washington Hilton is. And 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.120 if you're wondering and getting into the Hilton, you know 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:39.400 there is no magnetometer to get into the hotel itself. 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.520 This is look, it's there's a reason why this dinner 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.400 is always held at this hotel. They have a unique 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:48.840 situation where you really can take the ballroom sections and 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:53.200 essentially secure it away from everything else, which is what 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:55.960 they have done. In my experience, I've been going to 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:58.120 these dinners. I think the first one I went to 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:00.720 was probably in nineteen ninety five, nineteenninety six, something like that, 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:06.120 and it is you know, this is why there's been 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:08.720 chatter about moving it to the convention Center or moving 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:10.719 it to some other places. But this really is sort 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:14.000 of a unique ballroom. You know, every comedian has come in. 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:15.800 I can't believe this is at a Hilton, like sort 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:17.640 of mocking the idea that it's at a Hilton. No 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:19.959 offense to my friends at Hilton, but it's always been 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.040 kind of a bud of jokes at this fancy black 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:25.720 tie dinner is at a Hilton. But this ballroom setup 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:29.160 is an incredibly unique setup. After the Reagan assassination attempt, 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:36.760 they even created more secure areas. They basically they they 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:40.560 have some of the easiest ways for a highly secure 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.360 individual to be brought in and out of the hotel, 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.760 more so than really any other hotel in the city, 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.520 especially with a ballroom like that of that size that 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:55.120 they can do. So it is why it's there, and 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.440 they've always the hotel itself has always sort of been 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:01.440 divided like that when when this dinner is here, so 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:03.280 you can just like walk into the lobby, which is 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:05.120 where I went. You just go into the lobby, and 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.319 I was going to the pre cocktail parties National Journal's 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.960 cocktail party to go most a lot of times, if 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.000 you're an invited guests, that's how you pick up your ticket, 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:19.160 is you go to your sponsoring organizations pre pre dinner event. 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.880 It's sort of been what a lot of news organizations do. 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:29.080 So so you ignore all that, and it was you know, 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.800 you could tell, I mean, it was pretty heavy. The protesters, 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.160 the rain probably made it. It was did I bring 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:37.040 up it was raining at that point in time. So 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.720 everybody is sort of you know, there with your hairdoes 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:43.720 and stuff like that on that front. So we get 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.440 into the dinner and it's the usual. Everybody is mag 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.520 that you before you can get to even the ballroom area, 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:52.800 there is a set of magnetometers that everybody goes through 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:58.200 and essentially just about everybody not you'll not only go 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:01.360 through a magnetometer, but if they're there's anything that pops 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.880 up in the magnetometer, you get one, you get the 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:07.160 wand and it's pretty If you've ever been to any 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:13.959 presidential events, it's very similar to that. It's if you've 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.079 ever been to even a sporting event where the president 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.000 was going to be there, you'll notice it. Sometimes there's 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.040 a little bit more extra security. You go through magnanometers 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.400 and there's a person wanding. This was the same setup. 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:28.320 And then the dinner itself, you go down a set 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:32.160 of staircases yet another sent it's sort of almost like 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:33.719 a sunken You come in at one level and the 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:37.559 ballroom itself is like further down, and you walk down 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:42.840 it's two sets two flights of stairs This is important 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:47.520 because I don't the attacker. The gunman did not get 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.760 even down one flight of those stairs. It's two flights 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:55.880 of stairs to get into the ballroom area itself. So 0:12:55.880 --> 0:13:00.720 we're in the ballroom, they serve. They're serving the salad first, 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:04.240 and everybody was done with a salad. And the timing 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:09.760 I was fascinating because it's so the shots ring out 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:14.160 right about one minute after the There was probably two 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:19.000 hundredweight staff that all came out at the exact same time. 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.280 This was sort of a bit of an orchestration, and 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:24.599 it's almost it's the server ballet, if you will, that 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:28.520 we've we've it's always it's very impressive how it's done, 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:31.800 where essentially every table is cleared and every table is 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:36.559 served pretty much simultaneously. Right, it's an incredibly quick turnover. 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.000 So you have this rush of people come out, so 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:41.520 my initial thought. And then so this rush of people's 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.560 coming out and you see and you know, the tables 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.120 are all close together, and it's pretty crowded anyway, because 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.160 people are it's still early in the dinner, so there's 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.200 still a little socializing. People are doing a little table 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.720 hopping to see to catch up with people you know, 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:56.679 you might get a text. I'd gotten a text from 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:58.160 a friend of mine. It was two tables over that 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:01.719 I didn't see until after the incident itself. So so 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:04.440 we're sitting at the dinner, everybody's finishing the salad, and 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:09.400 you know, they just they had just finished the head 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:14.000 table introductions. President of White House correspond Association basically said, Okay, 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:16.320 now we're gonna now we're going to serve dinner, so everybody. 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:18.720 So it was actually gonna be a quick pause in 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:22.320 the program. I think, as far as timing events is 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.920 the minute dinner was served that it was going to 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:26.640 be pretty soon after that that we were going to 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:34.320 hear from the President. So the rush of white staff 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:38.600 floods the ballroom and it's about a minute later in 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:42.920 my recollection that I hear. You hear the pop, pop pop, 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.120 And that's what I heard, pop pop pop, some of 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:48.360 you saw. I did a preliminary Instagram last night that 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:50.280 went on a few of my socials just to give 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.080 you a quick sense of what I saw. So you 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.640 hear this pop pop pop, And I'll just be honest. 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:58.560 At first, you know you're not You don't expect to 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:01.600 hear gunshots and so you don't automatically assume that's what 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:05.440 you heard. And I didn't within you know, it's sort 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:08.160 of like within two seconds do you sort of realize Jesus, 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.440 I think that was gunshots. But that like the first 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:13.640 thing in my mind was, oh, what just happened? What 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.720 accident just happened? I mean, as the President himself said, 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:19.040 did somebody drop our tray? It just just felt like 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:21.640 an accident. Because again, this is the case where your 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:25.360 visuals in your audio can sometimes be in conflict. What 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:28.320 were we all seeing. We were seeing this rush of 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:32.640 people of weight staff coming to essentially do this, do 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:37.520 the appetizer plates clearing, and the entree survey, and so 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:41.200 that's in your head. So any noise you hear, I 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:45.480 think automatically you're just associating with what you see, and 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.800 then you realize pop pop pop, And then somebody heard shots, 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.200 and then you saw a whole bunch of people just 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:54.800 drop to the ground, including all the white staff. I 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:57.280 will confess I was a little slow getting to the ground. 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:01.280 I was like continuing to just try, and even even 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.680 when I knelt on the ground, my table mates were 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:06.480 like get down, and then I like poke my head 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:10.400 up to try to get a sense because I was 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.320 trying to I generally heard where I you know, where 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:15.320 I heard. Where I thought I heard the shots from 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:17.640 turned out to be exactly where the shots came from, 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:21.040 which is it felt like it was coming from behind 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.840 the entrance to the ballroom. And the question was with 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.200 these shots had fired in the ballroom. And it's now 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.720 pretty obvious to me because of the why they weren't 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:31.760 loud loud. They were loud enough to hear the pop, 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.440 pop pop, But then you realize it was not in 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:37.240 the ballroom, right, So everybody's just we're first looking around here, 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:39.480 do we hear anybody screaming to you? Do you see 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:42.120 any paramedics? And then you realize, Okay, nobody was shot 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:46.640 in the ballroom. It was clearly coming from the quest 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:49.000 At this point in time, I don't know whether it 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:52.360 is right outside the doors where they come in down 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:55.200 those two flights of stairs I was talking about, or 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.720 if it was further up the two flights of stairs, 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:01.160 sort of where the magnetometers are before you go walk 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:04.560 down after you've been cleared of security. 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First of all, there was security everywhere, 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:01.919 and in fact, it probably pretty clear that there were 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:04.959 a handful of tables where they were undercover security. Right. 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:06.639 There was just too many people in that room not 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:11.760 to have something like that. You immediately see probably one 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:15.359 hundred law enforcement throughout the ball room, essentially just trying 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.880 to clear everything. Right, everybody had guns drawn. They're trying 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:20.320 to clear everything. And then you say, you have these 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:23.520 security details, and I think most of these people were 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:26.320 associated with a security detail I don't know this yet 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:29.200 for a fact, but it seems that way because you'd 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:31.359 start to see this parade first. You know, I think 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:35.000 I saw hag Seth get escorted out. I saw Scott 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:38.440 Bessett get escorted out. I saw Mike Johnson get escorted out. 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:41.480 I saw Steve Scalise get escorted out. And so you 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:45.640 started to see those folks getting escorted out. Then there's 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:48.680 a lockdown in the room right as you might expect, 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:53.399 as they're now in hindsight, it's because the main entrance 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:57.000 to the ballroom was a crime scene. So you know, 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:59.760 I think they were trying to make a quick determination 0:19:59.840 --> 0:20:02.080 to see if this was some sort of conspiracy. I 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:03.760 could tell you what I first thought is, oh, did 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:05.800 this person come in with the weight staff? And then 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:09.600 use that moment, you know, I probably watched too many movies, right, 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:11.640 you know, you have too many movies in your head 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:14.439 and you start thinking about different things. Although there's a 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:18.800 there is a weird movie life imitates art aspect to 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:25.040 the uh the alleged assassin who apparently got a room 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:27.639 in the hotel, which, by the way, is a security loophole, 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:31.240 which I'm going to get to in a minute. So 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:34.600 at this point, everybody and it looks like we're sealed 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:37.560 in and then you're then the question is and you know, 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:41.159 everybody's comfortably you know, starts popping their head up, and 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:43.639 we're all trying We're all trying to work, you know, 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:47.080 I mean, everybody you know is just trying to We're 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:48.600 all trying to find out what happened. You have a 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:54.600 room full of of reporters plus uh self important people 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:57.399 plus actually important people, and everybody wants everybody wants to 0:20:57.440 --> 0:20:59.240 know what the hell is going on, and everybody's trying 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:03.600 to figure out what's going on. And you know, at 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:06.399 first it's just simply everybody trading. Did you hear gunshots? 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:09.280 What did you see? Did you see anything? Did anybody 0:21:09.280 --> 0:21:11.359 get hit? And that was just sort of the determination, 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:14.840 was there any in anything, anybody hurt within the ballroom? 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:17.639 You know, trying to figure out if anybody had gotten in, 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:21.119 you know, it was it somebody who took a shot? 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:24.400 You know, did the shots come into the ballroom? Right? 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:26.960 And that is you know, now it's like I said, 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:30.359 the sound was not loud enough to have been in 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:32.920 the ballroom, which is why it wasn't one hundred percent 0:21:33.000 --> 0:21:37.440 convinced it was gunshots right away. Now I know exactly 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:41.560 what I heard. I heard the gunshots based on behind 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:45.480 closed doors two flights up but within earshot of where 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:48.760 we were right So now I understand. Now I couldn't 0:21:48.840 --> 0:21:53.040 process why they were, you know, sort of heard, but 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:59.639 not just dominant as far as the audio in that 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:06.919