White House Dinner Shooting: Security Rethink

0:00On April 27, a shooting rocked the White House correspondent's dinner at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night, with President Trump in top officials right there in the ballroom. The gunman rushed in, fired at a secret service agent who took the hit in his vest, then got tackled before causing more harm. Officers swarmed to shield everyone inside. Joe Scarborough lit into the setup on Morning Joe, calling it extraordinarily stupid to pack that much power into an open hotel, especially with, tensions high against Iran, a hot bed for terror since 1979. He pointed out folks milling around parties, posing for picks, no full hotel lockdown, like at a state of the union. Listeners and pundits are buzzing over the risks, with Scarborough and Mika Brzynski slamming the Trump team for clustering the president, vice, president, cabinet heads, and FBI director in one spot during wartime. Scarborough even called out MAGA voices for rushing post backing Trump, like it was scripted from the White House. Details emerging showed the event got labeled a lower threat level, not a full national

1:03special security event, that hands rains to secret service. That call sits with the Homeland Security Secretary, now Mark Wayne Mullin, after Christy Nome. Security pros agree it's time to rethink these dinners. History's cool, but not worth a gamble, when lives hang in the balance. That calls to shift venues, or amp up protocols for good. That wraps entertainment and celebrity news, today brought to you with AI, I'm Cory with the story.