Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 26/04/2026

4/26/202618 min

Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows.

President Trump survives another potential assassination attempt, as shots ring out at the White House correspondents' dinner.

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Isabel Hardman· Host0:00
[instrumental music] Hello, and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectator's daily politics podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman, and this is the Sunday Roundup. On Saturday night, shots were fired as an armed suspect charged security at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. President Trump and others were quickly evacuated, and a Secret Service agent was saved by his bulletproof vest after being shot at close range. The suspect has been identified as Cole Thomas Allen, a thirty-one-year-old man from California. At a White House press conference held immediately after the incident, Donald Trump described the suspect as a "very sick person." This morning, Sky's US correspondent, James Matthews, who was present in the ballroom, gave his account to Trevor Phillips.
James Matthews· Soundbite0:51
It was all so normal, all so routine. I, I had been working, so I was quite late actually to the affair, round about 7:30. It starts at 8:00, the dinner. So 7:30, myself and Michael Blair, our bureau chief, were walking up to the Hilton Hotel, the same Hilton Hotel outside of which, you know, Ronald Reagan was shot and survived an assassination attempt in 1981. You always think of that actually when you go to that hotel. We mentioned to each other that security seemed lax. We had tickets, uh, and that was all we needed to get,