WEBVTT - Shots Fired, Trump Rushed Off Stage in Chaotic Scene at WHCD 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:04.840 Hey, that folks did. It's Sunday, April twenty six, and 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:09.920 we are waking up once again to another incident, seeing 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:14.800 people scramble after shots fired, and this time, once again 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:17.560 it was near President Trump. Welcome to this episode of 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:20.280 Amy and TJ. Let's start with that White House Correspondence 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:24.000 dinner the President. Everyone is safe, but the White House 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:28.040 Correspondents dinner interrupted, robes stopped because the President had to 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:31.720 be rushed off stage because of incidents and shots being 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:32.600 fired in the building. 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:34.480 This was a surreal situation. 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:37.440 In fact, we had already planned We're like, you know 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:40.160 what you said, something usually comes out of the White 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:43.720 House Correspondence Center every year. That will be our first. 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:46.159 Episode of the morning on Sunday. We had no idea. 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:49.760 We thought maybe the President would have said something outrageous, 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:53.960 of course, for the comedian would have roasted him in 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:57.320 a way that would have been worth mentioning these types 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:01.400 of things. No, we were not expecting that an armed 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:05.720 gunman would try to rush a security point to get 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:09.880 into the ballroom to wreak havoc with He had two guns, 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.560 a couple of knives, and it certainly seemed like an 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:14.880 intent to do massive harm. 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:17.039 Okay, so you all know this event. It's an annual event. 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:18.800 It's a big event. They call it the Nerd prom 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:22.560 there in DC. But yes, all the journalist from all 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:27.520 over the country, but it's mainly a Washington, DC event. 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:29.320 It's a prom. It's for all the people who cover 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.480 the White House to get together this big event the president. 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:34.240 This is his first one right that he has attended 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:38.199 as president. He skipped them all during his first term, 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:40.640 and Rolvey decides to go to this one. We know 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.679 about the relationship between the president and the press, but 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:48.080 this was going to be robed. Actually, all eyes on 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:50.480 this moment and an opportunity maybe for everybody to get 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:52.440 in the room, maybe have some fun, poke fun at 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:55.080 each other instead of being combative. So all eyes are 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:56.880 on it for a lot of reasons and maybe some 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:57.520 positive ones. 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:58.920 Even Yeah, I think we were hopeful. 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:00.880 Look, you and I have both did this event in 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:05.080 years past, plenty of times and seeing presidents, and that's 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.920 like the highlight to see the sitting president. Basically, everyone 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.880 puts down their arms, so to speak. Where you know 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:16.040 it's an adversarial role oftentimes the White House correspondence and 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:18.400 the White House itself and So this is a night 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:22.480 where everyone can laugh together, raise a glass together, share 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.079 a meal together, and have a few laughs at each 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:30.160 other's expense. Everyone basically puts away their egos and laughs 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:32.400 a little at themselves. So this is a fun evening 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:36.240 that can be really communal and healing. Honestly, after a 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:37.840 lot of back and forth, and so the fact that 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:40.960 he had never attended one was a big deal, was 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:44.600 a rub, so to speak. And so this this was 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.000 going to be an exceptional year that President Trump was 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:48.960 finally a sitting president going to attend. 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:52.040 So with that, the event was just getting going. It 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.680 was around eight thirty. You still had people actually trickling 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:58.760 into this ballroom, huge ballroom, and some of the most recognizable, 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:01.840 some of the most not just in journalism, but in business. 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:04.880 You had a very important room. And you got just 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.799 about the whole damn cabinet in that room as well, 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:09.680 members of Congress in that room as well. So it's 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:11.560 an important room. I'm going to let you hear. Now, 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.600 what you're going to hear is the moment that shots 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.280 rang out. Now what you're going to hear is video 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:19.640 that was taken when people were still on the red 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:23.120 carpet so this is outside the ballroom. Most people are 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:25.760 already in, but this is when it's soon. As we 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:27.799 start this clip here, you'll hear it at the very top, 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:30.359 the shots ring out, and then you'll hear some chaos. 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.600 But just to give you an idea of what happened 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:56.960 last night, the second doc, it's something there at the 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.960 end to hear robes the chaos. You hear a member 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:01.920 of law enforcement and the video you could see him 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.720 with the gun out. He's screaming, where is it coming from? 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.720 That's the chaos, where is it coming from? They actually 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:11.360 did not know in ropes. It wasn't like a stationary 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:13.880 gunman or assailant. He was on the move. 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:16.720 Yeah, I went back and rewatched it, and you'll see 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:18.320 it on TV if you turn on the news or 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:21.400 if you flip up your computer. But it really is 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:25.400 intense and remarkable and fast. This guy, and will tell 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:28.039 you who he is, who the shooter is, came out 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:31.680 of nowhere seemingly and was running at full speed as 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:36.080 fast as he could humanly run past this checkpoint where 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:37.839 they were kind of chilling because most of the people 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:40.880 had already gone through the president and his cabinet first 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:42.800 lady were all sitting up on the dais up on 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:46.520 the stage and just enjoying the just some small talk 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:49.039 before the event got started. So yeah, things were winding 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:52.239 down in terms of the checkpoint and the security area, 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:56.160 and he just comes tearing through so fast. You can 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.960 see the Secret Service ation's just kind of chillin all 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:00.920 of a sudden boom and like turns around and has 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:02.760 to try to get down on his knees to find 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:04.200 him to shoot at him. 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:05.839 Don't know how the guy did it, but by the 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:09.120 time he got to the checkpoint, he was in full sprint. 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:12.440 He had while he had gotten a running start from 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:14.919 somewhere down the hall around the corner, but he was 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:17.800 in full sprint and they were in robes. What I 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:19.920 saw from the video, they didn't most of them give 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.200 full chase after him. They pulled guns. 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:23.359 They pulled guns, and. 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.720 There was no question that that person meant to do 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.520 somebody harm by the way they ran through there. Now 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:31.520 we did call him a shooter. He has been called 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:35.239 a shooter, but not quite sure what shots he got off, 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:39.320 because we do understand that one member of law enforcement 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:43.160 was hit by a bullet. But the toll we're told 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.160 the vest stop that bullet. That officer is going to 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.000 be okay, it's actually already out of the hospital been 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:50.400 checked out. The potential shooter that we're gonna id here, 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.680 at least that's been given us Robes did not sustain 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:58.240 a shooting injury, but was taken down. We do know 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:00.919 shots were fired, but those shots we heard there apparently 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.039 were as law enforcement shooting him. 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:04.320 And you can see that in the video. 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:06.760 You can see the officer who has no chance of 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:10.200 catching him when he flies by him, goes down on 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.400 one knee and starts to pulls out his weapon and 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.000 is aiming and apparently shooting. 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:21.240 What a scene last night, obviously, Robes, this brings up 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.279 alarm because the president has had at least two other 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:28.960 bona fide assassination attempts Butler and then down at the 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:32.320 golf course in Florida. Correct, we do not know, Robes. 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.320 We have to mention, as we id the suspect, we 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.400 don't have a motive and we don't know his target. 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.400 At least law enforcement hasn't explained that to him. 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:43.400 Yes, there are a few outlets that are reporting that 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.360 he just said in some way, I don't know how 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:50.880 and to whom that he was targeting administration officials. 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:52.480 That was what has been floated. 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.680 So they're not even sure if President Trump was the 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:57.760 target at all, if in fact he was, but certainly 0:06:57.760 --> 0:06:58.480 he wanted to. 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:01.880 Do harm, just don't know how much and to whom. 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:05.200 But as far as we understand as well, he did 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:08.039 not get into should make this clear, did not get 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:10.680 into the ballroom, did not get into where all the 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:14.040 journalists and important folks and the president was, did not 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:17.560 get into it. Not actually sure how close he even 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:19.560 came to it. But still that doesn't take away from 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.240 the scene we saw last night. To set it up, 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.680 this is around eight thirty in robes. If you're looking 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.840 up at the dais, you're looking around the room. Shots 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:30.120 were heard, but it was so faint and in the distance, 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:31.760 at least for the people who were in the ballroom 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:36.800 to where robes. The ballroom itself wasn't necessarily a chaotic 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.960 scene that they felt imminent danger and started rushing towards 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:43.520 the exits. The scene in the ballroom was a little. 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.080 Confusing, Yeah, I think didn't Trump say that he thought 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:49.000 that maybe some trays had dropped, so it was you 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:52.280 heard these loud noises you heard some chaos, but I 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:54.800 don't think it didn't appear that anyone felt like they 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.640 were in imminent danger. No one reacted that way, including 0:07:57.680 --> 0:07:58.679 the folks on the stage. 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.400 And we should say they got folks started to understand 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:04.600 they need to get down. They started getting under tables, 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:08.320 but there wasn't a chaotic rush out. Now, different scene 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:11.239 on stage that you mentioned, their robes where the vice president, 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:15.360 the president was the first lady in that that scene 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:20.640 was chaotic and confusing in some ways, robes a little 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:24.120 more of a slow burn that you would anticipate given 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:24.800 what was happening. 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:28.200 Yes, so you've got secret Service rushing the stage to 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.320 get President Trump and the first Lady and just all 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.440 the administration officials but mostly Trump off the stage. 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:34.880 And yes, they kind. 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:36.440 Of pulled him down and it almost looked like he 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:39.120 stumbled and fell because in the chaos, and they had 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:41.080 to go down and kind of get him up to 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:41.880 get him off the stage. 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:45.040 But it took longer than you would think it did. 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:49.240 Robes even and we're seeing it being replayed here, but 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.240 they got jd vance. They snatched his butt off the 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.600 stage and he ran right off pretty quickly. But robes 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:58.080 even as it was happening. I don't know. I guess 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.760 maybe that's why folks didn't feel the same chaos, because 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:07.679 it didn't seem like that much of an imminent emergency. 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:09.679 On the stage. I even saw a couple of law 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:12.800 enforcement officers walking up to the stage. Kind of it 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.000 wasn't a full It didn't feel like that. 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:17.720 My thought is that this was after they already had 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:21.280 the suspect on the ground arrested and they knew he 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:24.160 wasn't Now, if he had run off and they couldn't 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.880 find him, oh, it would have been a much different season. 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:29.079 When they came into that ballroom, it would have been 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:32.079 like everybody down. They would have pulled the president. Now, 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:36.920 look when you see Secret Service and armed members of 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:41.440 Trump's security team pointing rifles and flashlights into the crowd, 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:42.520 that's a little scary. 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.200 Yeah, look at it. See this is a even that 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.120 right there, Robes is a different scene from Butler. Yeah, 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.319 they surround him. You don't see the presidents facing it. 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:52.720 No you don't on this one. No, No, they got him covered. 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:56.640 There are at least three fully armed, full tactical geared 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:01.520 officers with automatic rifles standing at the already looking out 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:05.120 at the crowd waiting. It's just chaos. You see people 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:08.040 running and ropes. Right afterwards, it should be noted the 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:10.000 president was going to be during a press conference. All 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:12.840 these reporters need to get on TV, all in tuxedos 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:13.400 and gowns. 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.000 Yeah, it was. It was quite the scene. And then yes, 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:17.079 even seeing the. 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.520 Folks, I think the biggest chaos not I think, I 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:21.440 know the biggest chaos was the folks who had not 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:24.679 fully cleared the red carpet yet in the area closer 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:28.240 to where the suspect was apprehended. That area got pretty chaotic. 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:30.920 Folks were running out and I understand, like you, just 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:33.760 this is not what anyone is expecting when they're going 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.400 to an event like this, And it takes a second, 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:38.720 I think, for folks to recognize what's happening, that there's 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:43.280 something potentially life threatening happening. But to start seeing people running, 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.360 that's a scary deal, especially when you're somewhere near the 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:50.400 president and you've got basically every important cabinet member there 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:54.240 and pretty much every major journalist who covers the White 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:55.600 House there in that room. 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.600 Oh, this chaos again. They just didn't know. This is 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:01.320 a big we should mention this is the why Washington Hilton. Yes, 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:05.240 that one, this right outside was where President Reagan was 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:07.640 shot back in nineteen eighty one. This is that building. 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:11.240 It is an old building, and frankly, robe that can 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:13.880 be a little run down. As fancy as this event is, 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:15.160 it's an old. 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.640 It's a little shooting when you go and you attended, especially. 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:19.880 I remember when I walked in or when I went 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:23.280 to my first event. I was in my twenties and 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.800 I was so excited. But I remember thinking, oh my goodness, 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:27.920 this is where Ronald Reagan was shot. I remember where 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:29.920 I was when that happened. I was in second grade. 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:33.120 The history of the building, but I don't think anyone imagines, 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.240 even in the times we're living in, that it could 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:36.440 be the scene of another shooting. 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.240 That just was. I don't know, it was never ever ever. 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.880 I guess you kind of think because it's the president, 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.120 you feel safer in a way. I know that might 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.560 sound silly because he's a target, but you also know, 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:51.800 especially after the previous assassination attempts, you would think, and 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.400 we've joked before, well this is the safest room in 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.600 America right now, wherever the president is that's where you've 0:11:57.640 --> 0:11:58.640 got the most security. 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:00.320 So yeah, yeah, I. 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.679 Don't think a lot of people were feeling in any 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:05.640 way vulnerable, No, not at all. 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:07.640 That should be the safest room in America, the room 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:09.440 that the president is in, but it's also maybe the 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:12.280 most targeted. Maybe it's the one that does attract crazy people. 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:15.880 This and we don't know anything about the suspect right now, 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:18.200 Robes other than where he's from, where he went to school, 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.600 what degree has his name and his age? After that, 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:23.280 we don't know a whole lot, but there will be more. 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:27.040 That's right. He is Cole Thomas Allen. He's thirty one 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:27.600 years old. 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:31.720 He's from Torrence, California, and he's a graduate of California 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.240 Institute of Technology in twenty seventeen and then he got 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.079 his master's degree in twenty twenty five in computer science. 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:38.880 So a smart guy. He was a. 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:43.160 Teacher, part time teacher, part time video gamer, and he 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:45.880 was a guest at the hotel according to CBS. 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.280 And what he's doing and why you see his picture 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:52.920 and you wouldn't pay attention to this guy if you 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.679 were walking past him in the hallway. Nothing about him 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:59.439 that's menacing, alarming, noticeable, even Robes. 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:02.760 Who knows he was teacher of the month last year 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:06.760 at his place of work. So this is just not 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.600 somebody who anyone had their eye on, like whoa, he's 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:12.160 a loose cannon, or we wouldn't want him around children. 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:15.080 No, he was quite the opposite. So it's very puzzling. 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:17.000 Right now, we know he was carrying knives, a shotgun, 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:20.080 a handgun, and right now his charges are use of 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:23.800 a firearm and assault. But those charges are going to accrue. 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.600 He is going to be facing almost certainly many many 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:28.800 more charges. We heard from jean Peiro last night, who 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:29.720 said as much. 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:32.360 We heard from Jeanine Pierro. She had a press conference 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.960 with DC officials and law enforcement, but the President himself 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.480 had his own press conference. Stay here, well tell you 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:41.640 what the President said. Immediately after this whole incident took place. 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:45.199 He put out a couple messages on truth social also 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:48.960 put out a picture and a video we'll describe. Also, 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:51.680 we'll let you hear what the President said at that 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:55.079 press conference that had a couple people raise an eyebrow 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:58.319 or two. Really we're talking about the ballroom right now. 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:02.800 And also we will let you know why one of 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:07.520 the top trending topics on social media right now is staged. 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:18.560 All right, we continue here on Amy and TJ. I 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:22.680 need to let everybody know the President is safe. Everybody 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.080 in that room at the White House Correspondent's dinner is safe. 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:28.200 After that incident last night, shots rang out after a 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:31.040 man rushed past one of the security checkpoints at the 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.840 hotel whether the event was taking place, carrying two guns 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:36.400 and several knives. He has been charged now, don't know 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:39.600 what his target, who his target might have been, but 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:42.400 the investigation is ongoing. Aforus this morning Roll the President 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.280 was the first person we heard from and got information 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:46.760 last night. You know, as much as we talk about 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:49.720 the President and true social and stuff, he says, sometimes 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:53.720 it's nice to get information from the guy at the center, 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:56.320 and he was giving it to us almost in real time. 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:58.480 Yeah, it's wild. He's the one who was rushed off 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:02.160 the stage. Obviously, the crowded journalists were left wondering what 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.240 the hell is going on? All they had to do 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:07.160 was pop on a truth social because moments later Trump 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:09.840 put this out quite an evening in DC. Secret surface 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.920 and law enforcement did a fantastic job. They acted quickly 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:16.480 and bravely. The shooter has been apprehended, and I have 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.960 recommended that we let the show go on, but will 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.800 entirely be guided by law enforcement. They will make a 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:26.000 decision shortly. Regardless of that decision, the evening will be 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:28.760 much different than planned, and we'll just plane have to 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:29.600 do it again. 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:31.720 All right. Well that was the first one. He sent 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:33.600 another one twenty minutes later. But in that one, robes 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:36.040 it sounded like he was standing by waiting go back 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:36.480 on state. 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:39.840 Yeah, he really wanted to come back on and finish 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.560 the evening, And so all the folks there were some 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:46.240 obviously most of them were going on live television explaining 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:48.560 or reporting what just happened, but also waiting and maybe 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:50.320 hoping that the show would go on. 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:52.240 But twenty minutes later Trump put this out. 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.960 Law enforcement has requested that we leave the premises consistent 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:58.960 with protocol, which we will do immediately. I will be 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:01.240 giving a press conference thirty minutes from the White House 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:04.280 Press Briefing Room. The First Lady plus the Vice President 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:07.520 and all cabinet members are in perfect condition. We will 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:09.600 be speaking to you in half an hour. I have 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.400 spoken with the representatives in charge of the event and 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:15.680 we will be rescheduling within thirty days. 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.600 That's what a scene that's going to be. What a 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:23.600 different security situation that's probably going to be. I mean, 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.120 you can make the argument that it worked. I mean, well, 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:29.120 somebody what he's supposed to do now, barricade the area 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.120 in case somebody gets a running start. I don't know 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:34.280 how else you do that. But Robes, nobody was hurt. 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:39.080 Somebody went into their armed planning to do harm, and 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:42.240 nobody was harmed save that one law enforcement officer who's 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.920 already out of jail. I mean, Robes is as awful 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:47.480 as this looks, and you got a loan nut. Possibly 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:50.520 this security worked. 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:50.840 I agree. 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:52.640 I mean at first, when we started to hear the reports, 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:56.080 we thought, how did someone get into that area? Because 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:58.400 we've been through it, we know what those checkpoints are like, 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:01.800 we know it's heavy the security to get into that ballroom. 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:05.600 So initially we were just like, how could someone bring firearms? 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:08.120 Then you see the video and see how he runs 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:10.840 like there's no tomorrow. Then you're like, okay, that would 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.040 be the only way, and it didn't and he didn't 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:15.000 get far, like he didn't get far enough. 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:16.240 I guess to do any harm. 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:19.560 Well, if that's important today. No one got into the 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:24.200 ballroom with a gun last night, right, That did not happen. 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.400 And so when we first saw this happening last night, 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.000 we both of what the hell, How the hell did 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.000 somebody get in there? And Robes, if you would have 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:32.840 gotten in that room and just started firing, Oh my 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:35.240 good god, the type of damage. Jesus. 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:39.800 The wine is flowing, conversations are going, everyone's ready to 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:43.320 have a good time after especially it's just been so contentious, 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:45.479 and so he did so much back and forth. This 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:47.760 was going to be a night to just really let 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:50.600 out or let off some steam. So no one was 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:53.919 on guard to you know, no one was thinking to 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:55.960 be weary of anyone or anything. 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:57.760 So that would have been disastrous. 0:17:57.920 --> 0:17:59.560 So the bresident puts out these tweets, Robes you say, 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:01.240 he's gonna have this press conference. He does. Come to 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:05.920 the White House Press briefing room, has Cash Mattel, has 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:08.359 the DHS Secretary of the new one Mullins next to him. 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:10.920 He had the first ladies in there, Pete Hexa's in there, 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:13.399 the Vice President's so they all collect over there with 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:16.320 all these journalists with informal gowns and tuxedos, sitting in 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.040 the room to ask questions now the president and else. 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:21.879 He didn't, you know what, it's okay for us to 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:25.560 say how he appeared. The President appeared just fine, and 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:27.560 I think a lot of people noted that it was 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:30.880 important for him. In all this chaos and all we've 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:33.760 seen in this country, we needed to see the president, 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:36.919 the first family, We needed to see the cabinet, We 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.440 needed to see our government still function into working. 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:41.440 I would say I would go so far as to 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:44.440 say the President appeared in good spirits. 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:49.159 I think that's accurate, and I think I believe him 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:51.280 when he said, yeah, I wanted the show to go on. 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:53.359 I wanted to go back out there. It felt like 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:54.800 that then, And yes. 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:55.960 I agree with you on that. 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:58.359 And I also think that for the first time in 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:03.080 a long time, we heard him sound presidential, where he 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:08.800 was talking about not being so adversarial towards the press, 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:12.640 about unifying the group that was gathered there that night. 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:14.520 It was the first time in a long time we've 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:15.320 heard him. 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:15.760 Talk like that. 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:18.600 Roase he said something last night that I can say 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:22.320 I have never heard him say before. He complimented the 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:25.679 press as a whole. He said, I've been watching some 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:27.600 of your coverage, and you've been doing a good job. 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.280