00:35:36.460We've got Greta Brawner on Connecticut Avenue outside the Washington Hilton.
00:35:41.700Greta, do you have any updates for us?
00:35:45.980I have made my way to Connecticut Avenue, Peter, and I'm listening to all of you.
00:35:52.180I heard what the president posted on Truth Social, and it will be interesting to see if the show goes on, what sort of attendance there is.
00:36:06.260They are, you know, trying to find Ubers, walking blocks, because this perimeter has extended from what it was when we arrived here this evening.
00:36:16.940and you no longer are allowed to access the Hilton.
00:36:24.240I'm about one block off of the Hilton, and it's roped off.
00:36:32.480I do want to add one bit of, I guess, color to the evening.
00:36:38.880When we heard the Secret Service tell folks to get down,
00:45:58.720Now it'll be interesting to see if he's still at the Hilton
00:46:01.140or if he has already been returned to the White House.
00:46:06.540He's definitely at the White House, bro.
00:46:07.980Sounds like Greta was telling us about around the Hilton.
00:46:10.540It sounds like he still might be at the Hilton.
00:46:12.540He could very well be, but if they're making that decision.
00:46:15.320And here is the Secret Service and their press release.
00:46:19.020The U.S. Secret Service, in coordination with the Metropolitan Police Department, is investigating a shooting incident near the main magnetometer screening area at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
00:46:30.580The President and the First Lady are safe, along with all protectees.
00:51:59.500You know, in 2011, I immediately began planning for the dinner in 2012.
00:52:06.720You know, that starts with finding the entertainment, which presumably doesn't have an issue there
00:52:14.540because presumably O's Perlman would return for that.
00:52:18.960But all of the logistics around the dinner, I mean, you're talking about an event.
00:52:23.180I see some people in my chat are confused. Guys, to clarify, this was at the Hilton. This was not at the White House.
00:52:27.640Yeah, it was a White House correspondence dinner, but it was, yeah.
00:52:30.760Yeah, well, it wasn't at the White House.
00:52:32.500A social post by Donald Trump. Law enforcement has requested that we leave the premises consistent with protocol, which we will do immediately.
00:52:40.320So it sounds like he is still at the Hilton. I will be giving a press conference in 30 minutes from the White House press briefing room.
00:55:25.940...happening there, assessing the situation to make sure that they could get him up and move him out.
00:55:31.480It was, again, I hate to keep referencing this, but we saw a very similar action in Butler.
00:55:36.920And you've seen this with other presidents as well, where they make sure that he is protected by a body, in this case, of a Secret Service agent.
00:55:45.920And then when it's safe to move him, move him out quickly.
00:55:49.980Yeah. And it looks like the journalists now, Karen Bohan, are being.
00:55:52.980All right. So for those of you guys that are just joining, because we've got a lot of people watching right now between all the different platforms, we got what, like four or five thousand of you guys in here.
00:56:00.600So between my brother, four to six thousand of you guys in here.
01:01:57.560He was our guest, so I wanted to make sure he was okay.
01:02:00.840You know, he's older, he's had some health conditions, and he was cool as a cucumber.
01:02:04.980And he told me it's because he remembers what happened on January 6th.
01:02:09.040And he brought up the fact that people have been talking online, you know, conspiracy theories floating around about the assassination attempts that we know happened to the president.
01:02:17.900So this is a very fraught environment.
01:02:20.360And I think, you know, covering the White House as well, in addition to Congress, it's clear the president wanted this to go on.
01:02:26.440Jamie Raskin actually said he was going to return inside because he told me the show must go on.
01:02:32.940But of course, the president realizing, as he said in his post with Secret Service, that that was just not a safe environment, especially as they're still trying to figure out and process the scene, what happened, all of the exits, all of the entrances, all of the hundreds of people who are staying here completely unrelated to this event.
01:02:49.700I think this will be a security posture that we're going to see for some time tonight.
01:02:53.520And I think the president obviously going to address that soon.
01:02:56.840and julie we do want to remind our viewers that the president probably in the next 10 to 15 minutes
01:03:03.360will be making a statement from the white house briefing room you can see uh the podium empty at
01:03:08.560the moment but people reporters correspondents are gathered totally unnecessary just has to say
01:03:13.800something extraordinary evening julie can you tell us where you were sitting in that ballroom
01:03:20.040in relation to the president and and to the in the relation to the stage and that head table
01:03:25.340and how the president's demeanor appeared to you as this was all happening?
01:03:32.640Yeah, I'm going to be completely forthcoming.
01:03:34.960Where I was sitting, I was facing the stage.
01:03:37.700I was a couple of tables from the stage.
01:07:31.960This is what they're trained to do, but that orchestration of quickly and sort of calmly evacuating that head table, the president and other dignitaries up there.
01:07:45.140I wonder how that moment felt to you, Julie, as all this was going on.
01:07:49.740Did it feel under control or did it feel completely panicked?
01:21:30.840has a serial number. But what I know for a fact,
01:21:33.860He's definitely going to get hit with assaulting a federal officer, maybe even attempted murder, because he shot one, and then possession of firearm and furtherance of crime of violence, and then attempted assassination of a major thing.
01:21:43.740Now, the thing is, attempted assassination of a president statute.
01:28:24.140And I expected to see scrutinizing of my ticket, my identification to be shown, as if I were to show up at an event like I have many times.
01:28:34.320Yeah, I guess it was searched in Israel two days ago.
01:42:30.820okay thing to see a man all right trump is live point armed with multiple weapons
01:42:38.460make it full screen taken down by some very brave members of secret service and they acted very
01:42:43.860quickly and have just released for purposes of transparency clarity i've ordered it to
01:42:52.040be put out you probably have it by now put out on truth and put out on many of the platforms
01:42:58.700A tape showing the violence of this thug that attacked our constitution and also showing how quickly Secret Service and law enforcement acted on our country's behalf really did a great job.
01:43:13.320One officer was shot, but saved by the fact that he was wearing a obviously a very good bulletproof vest.
01:43:21.740He was shot from very close distance with a very powerful gun.
01:43:45.800He's very proud of what he does, Secret Service agent.
01:43:49.400and we looked at all of the conditions that took place tonight and i will say you know it's not
01:43:58.020a particularly secure building and i didn't want to say this but this is why we have to have
01:44:06.840all of the attributes of what we're planning at the white house it's actually a larger room and
01:44:14.420it's much more secure it's got it's drone proof it's bulletproof glass we need the ballroom that's
01:44:19.780why secret service that's why the military are demanding it they've wanted the ballroom for 150
01:44:25.700years for lots of different reasons but i'll let them talk i'll let them talk a little bit different
01:44:30.960because today we need levels of security that probably nobody's ever seen before
01:44:37.100But everyone owes a tremendous debt of gratitude to the courage of law enforcement.
01:44:43.840The law enforcement and working with the D.C. police and just spoke with the mayor.
01:44:49.880And when we're finished, the police chief is going to take over and discuss it also from their viewpoint.
01:44:59.160But they also performed exactly as they were supposed to.
01:45:03.140And you see the attacker in different positions, but you also see the attacker totally subdued and under control.
01:45:11.760So, as you know, this is not the first time in the past couple of years that our republic has been attacked by a would-be assassin who sought to kill in Butler, Pennsylvania, less than two years ago.
01:48:50.400attorney general this is the new ag yep yeah he's gonna be cut he's acting but he's gonna get it
01:48:58.120thank you very much mr president uh tonight you saw the very worst and the very best of this0.63
01:49:05.340country you saw the very worst by the actions of that coward that the president just talked about
01:49:09.980but you also saw the very best because you saw law enforcement do exactly what they're supposed to do
01:49:15.700And you'll see the videos come out, I expect, very shortly, and you'll see law enforcement do exactly what we want them to do.
01:49:24.520And so I echo what President Trump just said, that we are extraordinarily grateful and appreciative of the men and women of law enforcement that did their jobs tonight, including one who was injured.
01:49:38.620I expect you will see charges filed shortly.
01:49:42.060The charges should be self-evident, given the conduct.
01:49:44.980But as you'll hear, there will be multiple charges around the shooting, around the possession of firearms and anything else that we can get on this guy.
01:49:54.960The investigation is obviously ongoing and just started.
01:49:59.240There is federal law enforcement already working on search warrants and doing their job,
01:50:05.020and I don't want to get ahead of them and don't want to get ahead of the work that they're doing even as we speak.
01:50:10.020Director Patel and I were just on the crime scene a short while ago, and everybody in this room should rest assured that the Metropolitan Police Department, the FBI, Secret Service, everybody's on the scene doing their job.
01:50:23.500I know that the police chief is going to give an update from the scene as soon as we're finished here, and I obviously will lead the details of what they have learned to him.
01:50:34.120But in the meantime, I just want to thank everybody in this room for the courage, and
01:50:41.520I want to thank President Trump for his words, and I promise you, justice will be served.
01:56:56.320You know, he charged from 50 yards away, so he was very far away from the room.
01:57:00.560And what did you think when you saw the video of how fast he was running?
01:57:03.000he was moving he was really moving and the reaction time was great boy those guys they had their guns drawn
01:57:10.440literally by the time he was there they were shooting that's right they were i thought they
01:57:14.120were very impressive i thought they were very impressive and if i didn't i'd let you know you
01:57:18.760know i'm not going to be i would not stand for that no i thought they were very impressive
01:57:25.080thank you president trump and thank you for updating us on the suspect earlier were you
01:57:29.080you aware of any threats? Were your team aware of any threats beforehand? And do you believe you were the target of this tonight? I guess. I mean, these people, they're crazy. They're crazy. And, you know, you never know. It was very far away from me. I had to go through a lot. We had, we had resources all over. We had resources sitting at tables, literally in disguise, sitting maybe at your table. Who knows? But we had, we had people all over the room. So he had a long way to go. That was really a first line of defense.
01:57:58.840and they got him and they really you know they acted incredibly no we have we've had no there was no
01:58:05.680notification we had no idea go ahead do you know any political motivations from this well you never
01:58:10.380know we'll be able to tell you that maybe by tomorrow or the next day you know he's in custody
01:58:15.340and uh they're asking him a lot of questions i guess they're going over todd and they're
01:58:20.040they're already at his apartment he lives in california yes sir and they'll be they're over
01:58:26.020there, so they'll be able to tell you. Thank you, Caitlyn.
01:58:29.960President Trump, did the suspect say anything, or was he wearing anything that would
01:58:34.820allege some type of motive here? Nothing. No. I mean, he was a guy who looked pretty evil when
01:58:42.040he was down. You know, they had him down. He was fighting hard. He was an obvious, in my opinion,
01:58:47.280a sick person. Who would do that but a sick person? But I think you're going to find everything0.99
01:58:51.560about him. No reason to talk about it now. But tomorrow at this time, long before this time,
01:58:55.880You're going to know a lot of things about him.
01:58:58.920They seemed to think he was a lone wolf, and I feel that, too.
01:59:02.480Are you concerned about U.S. Secret Service protection ability?
01:59:06.100We saw several of the details take minutes to be escorted out of the room.
02:18:08.340Police Department. This afternoon, this evening, members of the United States Secret Service and the Metropolitan Police Department were here at the Washington Hotel for a site detail for the Correspondence Center.
02:18:20.500As the mayor mentioned, at approximately 8.36 tonight, an individual charged a U.S. Secret Service checkpoint here in the lobby area of the hotel.
02:18:30.140He was armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives.
02:18:34.420As he ran through that checkpoint, members of law enforcement from the United States Secret Service intercepted that individual.
02:18:41.200This is a very preliminary investigation at this point.
02:18:44.320We do know that law enforcement exchanged gunfire with the individual.
02:18:48.540We do know that a U.S. Secret Service uniformed division officer was struck in his vest.
02:18:54.400He was transported to a local hospital for treatment.
02:18:57.040He seems to be in good spirits at this time.
02:18:59.460The suspect in this case, he was not struck by gunfire.
02:19:02.800However, he was transported to a local hospital to be evaluated.
02:19:07.740Again, we're very early in the investigation.
02:19:09.800We have members of the United States Secret Service, the Metropolitan Police Department, and the FBI here to continue to investigate this matter.
02:19:16.900But at this point, it does appear he is a lone actor, a lone gunman that does not appear to be any sort of danger to the public at this time.
02:21:36.460i'm janine pierre i'm the united states attorney right now the defendant is being charged with two
02:21:47.080counts 924c using a firearm during a crime of called it violence yep you said it a second crime
02:21:55.380under 111 which is assault on a federal hey let's go
02:22:00.260called it the same charges what they might do when they interview him is they're going to add
02:22:07.280another charge probably attempted assassination of a president if he admits to it sir using a
02:22:12.400dangerous weapon or if they find proof like a manifesto or some shit like that now as you all
02:22:17.840know there was an individual a uniformed secret service officer who was shot and fortunately uh
02:22:25.000he is doing all right and he will be fine but it is clear based upon what we know so far
02:22:31.240that this individual was intent on doing as much harm and as much damage as he could
02:22:36.880and thankfully because of the checkpoint right outside the ballroom where thousands of people
02:22:43.340were situated to hear the president of the United States because that checkpoint worked
02:22:48.820there was no one who was injured when it was clear where this defendant was going
02:22:54.820Now, I want to make one comment. As a participant, someone who was in the ballroom, who came this evening to be part of a very lovely event at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, I, for the first time, was in a situation where there were shots fired, shots heard, and a whole room went silent.
02:23:18.260When I lifted my head and when I looked up, every law enforcement officer was out there, as we all had our heads down, thousands of them.
02:23:31.240These are the men and women every day who do what they do silently, and they do it with courage and with dignity.
02:23:39.640Thank God for our partners, the FBI, the Secret Service, the Metropolitan Police.
02:23:47.240All of them tonight acted so quickly that they prevented what could have been a horrific event where we were all sitting there in one room.
02:23:59.780The defendant will be arraigned on Monday in federal district court.
02:24:04.840But make no mistake, there will be many more charges based on.
02:24:08.940So the case is 100% going federal first.
02:24:11.640On the information that we are learning in this very fluid situation.
02:25:40.100Those are all things that the FBI, the Metropolitan Police Department, and the Secret Service are working together, joining to determine, is there anything else that's available?0.99
02:25:47.060So I would imagine as we continue to go through this investigation, there will be additional search warrants and things of that nature as the investigation progresses.
02:25:53.620Is this right to him to law enforcement?
02:25:55.640At this point, he was not known to the Metropolitan Police Department.
02:26:00.380There are multiple other parties and events happening associated with this weekend tonight.
02:26:04.740Is there any reason to believe that there will be security concerns at those events?
02:26:08.460Are there preparations being made locally to protect those attendees?
02:26:12.340Absolutely not. So we have no indication this is an isolated incident with one individual,
02:26:16.340is the information that we do have. However, we do have additional officers across the city
02:26:20.160that are giving special attention. We do know there were some after parties and events that
02:26:24.060are planned that we will be providing coverage for those events.
02:26:26.580The president said that this is not particularly secure.
02:26:31.120I'm not exactly 100% familiar with this building. I do know in this in this incident tonight, I know there was security plan that was developed by the Secret Service that the Metropolitan Police Department assisted with. And I know that security plan did work this evening. Right here. Thank you so much. And can you speak to their reporting about the suspect assembling a log weapon and get into the vault?
02:27:01.120yes as we said before we do know the president was inside the ballroom we know there was cabinet
02:27:06.000members and many guests in there who specifically he was targeting at this point that's part of the
02:27:10.440investigation we do know that he was armed with a shotgun when he ran through that checkpoint so
02:27:14.980that would look like a long weapon in video all right so now we got a little bit more description
02:27:19.340it's it was like a makeshift shotgun right here yeah clarify earlier you said there was an exchange
02:27:25.080been fired did the suspect fire any shots and did the unit chat that's not us that's this0.96
02:27:30.260fucking guy's breathing on the mic officer do you know yet which weapon he was shot yeah obviously0.90
02:27:36.960we're only a couple hours into this instance so we don't have that level of information the fbi's0.98
02:27:41.080evidence response team is here they're processing the scene so as the investigation develops all
02:27:45.920that information will be figured out with the ballistics the atf is also on scene here with us
02:27:49.780the suspect did or did not fire a shot sure so again it's very preliminary information we do
02:27:53.960believe he did however as the investigation determines we'll pull the shell casings we'll
02:27:58.120be able to get more information as we review more evidence we're very early in the investigation
02:28:01.720all right we can take a couple more right here and right here and one more over here thank you so
02:28:06.600much so um the president said that he wants there to be another event within 30 days given what
02:28:12.280happened tonight do you have any sense of what additional security measures might be put in
02:28:17.000yep this is what we plan for every day so we we take each and every case uh and we evaluate it
02:28:29.480and we do site assessments and that's why we go out and and build these sites per per what the
02:28:35.760event is and all i know is he's going to use this as motivation for the capital now
02:28:40.220or sorry for the ballroom yeah we're gonna have to evaluate uh this evening
02:28:44.900because if i'm not mistaken i think there was another halt on his ballroom
02:28:56.520another judge halted it again it got halted and then they released it they allowed them to continue
02:29:01.620and then it got halted again however i don't know what happened following that able to weigh in on0.88
02:29:05.880him fucking building the ball building the ballroom absolutely yeah and so a couple judges0.82
02:29:11.080have already stepped in and tried to stop it, saying it's not constitutional, he didn't get0.99
02:29:14.880approval from Congress, so on and so forth. However, it was proving to be a little bit
02:29:18.800difficult for him. So, you know, I like I said earlier, I already see the conspiracy nuts
02:29:23.160jumping on this like, this is him trying to enact some motivation or bragging right or like talking
02:29:28.480point for him to actually have that ballroom. Hey, the Hilton doesn't have security, so on and so
02:29:32.420forth. But I'd really love to see how that guy acquired that firearm. Because obviously, he's a
02:29:36.520californian right so is he you know dual residency does he also live in dc somewhere around there
02:29:43.020did he acquire the firearm from a friend that'll be really interesting to see in the next coming
02:29:46.180hours because i'm sure that's all going to come out very soon thanks very information we do believe
02:29:51.220he was a guest here at the hotel we have secured a room here in the hotel and again we'll go through
02:29:55.520the appropriate procedures to to determine what was inside there but that is secure
02:29:59.020at this point like i said we believe he is the only suspect in this case okay to jump on that
02:30:04.920Sure. So again, I mean, we're very early in the investigation, so we'll have to determine
02:30:20.440how it got down here. Those things will come through the investigation. At this point,