'I think about the gunshots': The fallout from the correspondents' dinner
4/29/202634 min
Our Washington correspondent Paul Hunter was in the room at the White House correspondents’ dinner when shots rang out. Today on Two Blocks from the White House, he shares new details about the scene. Fellow correspondents Katie Simpson and Willy Lowry bring us the latest on the suspect. As the political fallout continues, we ask what a third alleged attempt to assassinate Donald Trump says about the state of America.
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[upbeat music] [gunshots] [crowd murmuring] Like, we don't even know what's happening here. The room now is on a kind of... I mean, it, it's on lockdown. All we heard, we were sitting over here. You'll see just over my shoulder, sort of at that table over there. And just as the, uh, thing was getting underway- Mike Pence ... uh, like loud pop, pop, pop, pop, gunshots, and, like, everybody hit the floor, having no idea what was going on. Like, at first, I, I thought it was a, some sort of play act thing, as a staged, macabre kind of