Tuesday, April 28, 2026
4/28/202627 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the charge of attempted assassination of the President of the United States brought against Cole Allen, the historic shift in security of the President of the United States Saturday’s attack will lead to, and the visit of King Charles III to the U.S.
Part I (00:14 – 10:41)
The Attempted Assassination of the President of the United States: Federal Prosecutors Pursue Historic and Deadly Serious Charge Against Cole Tomas Allen
- Read White House Correspondents’ Dinner suspect Cole Allen’s full anti-Trump manifesto by The New York Post (Steven Nelson and Chris Nesi)
Part II (10:41 – 16:01)
This Will Lead to an Historic Shift in Security of the President of the United States: The Would-Be Assassin of President Trump Never Should Have Been This Close
Part III (16:01 – 00:06)
King Charles III Comes to the United States: U.S. and Great Britain Look to Improve Historically But Strained Relationship
- King Charles hopes to mend rift with US. Is he up to the task? by USA Today (Michael Collins)
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[upbeat music] It's Tuesday, April 28, 2026. I'm Albert Mohler, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Yesterday is one of those days we're going to remember simply because of the big events that happened within it, and we're talking about the, the mixing and the meeting of so many issues of world consequence and the intersections of so many points of history. Most urgently, we need to look at what happened yesterday in a Washington, D.C. federal courtroom where the man now charged with the attempted assassination of the President of the United States, Cole Thomas Allen, was officially charged with those crimes. Now, there were, in legal terms, some very interesting things that happened there, and some of them are under the surface, some of them were right up front. Number one, that court appearance yesterday was the first time that the Department of Justice had officially used the defendant's name. And as we say, that is legally very, very important. He had been in custody, and there were others who were connecting dots and identifying him. There were even copies of the document he'd written, identified as a manifesto, that were being passed around. But the important thing to recognize is that it is absolutely important, under the rule of law, that law enforcement and those who will prosecute crimes follow the law specifically. And so it is a part of our entire system of law that brought about what happened yesterday.