President Trump narrowly escaped a shooting at the Washington Hilton where a radicalized gunman targeted administration officials, citing false allegations of pedophilia and rape in his writings. Investigators found critical security lapses, including unchecked luggage and missing ID scans, prompting calls to designate such events as Tier One national security operations. While the president expressed shame over the claims, political tensions flare regarding unpaid Secret Service agents and Senate Democrats allegedly holding law enforcement hostage. Ultimately, the incident underscores severe vulnerabilities in protecting high-level officials during wartime, demanding immediate legislative action to prevent future assassinations. [Automatically generated summary]
A source tells CNN that investigators have recovered writings from the suspect and they indicate strong feelings against the Trump administration and its officials.
We're also learning that Allen's family was alarmed by the writings and contacted authorities just minutes before the attack.
Today, Trump's acting attorney general tells CNN the suspect was likely targeting White House officials.
Still looking to try to understand a motive from our preliminary investigation.
It does appear the suspect was targeting members of the administration.
I don't want to go beyond that because we don't have specifics yet about particular members of the administration, except that we do understand that that was his goal and his target.
People did tell me that they saw, they believed that the gunman was shot and killed.
That's why a lot of people were reporting that at the time.
Many witnesses believed that they saw him on the ground, perhaps.
And so, yeah, that was the source of that misinformation.
But you're right.
Todd Blanch, the Deputy Attorney General, and others have made very clear, the Secret Service Director, that as far as they're concerned, the Secret Service did its job.
The system worked.
He did not breach the defenses, the perimeter.
I mean, you can see on that video, he sprinted through.
An initial tranche of DC police officers who were milling around.
But as soon as he got past them, they all drew their guns.
Eventually, he was tackled.
There was no way he was going to make it into the ballroom because there were other Secret Service agents armed outside the doors.
So, in that sense, the system worked.
But the larger question around this entire event is the way it's always been structured for decades, which is that it's in the Washington Hilton, known as the Hinckley Hilton because it's where Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981.
That is a working hotel.
They don't close the hotel during the event.
And so The members of the public can go in and out of the lobby and the ballrooms before they get to this ballroom where the dinner takes place, which is down two floors, essentially in the basement, in the bowels of the building.
And there are lots of members of the cabinet, there were Trump administration officials going to pre parties.
There was no security for that.
So if this gunman had decided that instead of doing what he did, he wanted to walk into the Fox News pre party and start shooting, that would have been an absolute disaster.
This whole thing is being re examined because does it really make sense to have an open hotel with a dinner?
Like this was just essentially a State of the Union level gathering of the president, the vice president, members of the cabinet, prominent members of the media, business executives.
That's where people are saying, and that's not the Secret Service's fault, obviously.
There's a whole larger question of how do we secure this event, what decisions need to be made, Joe.
I mean, just remind everyone this was almost the entirety of the president's cabinet, the president and vice president himself.
And 2,000 members of the media.
This is something the movies don't even write about.
Something like this, this kind of scenario, this kind of tragedy.
And thankfully, the quick reaction of law enforcement, we're going to be able to present to the world in less than 36 hours almost exactly what happened.
This individual's entire background, entire background, who he knew, where he lived, who he was talking to, everything about the firearms, everything about the ballistics.
Axiost is reporting this morning that Iran has proposed a deal to reopen the strait and end the war with nuclear negotiations postponed for a later stage.
That is according to.
U.S. officials and two sources with knowledge who spoke to the outlet.
This comes as another round of talks in Pakistan over the weekend between the United States and Iran did not take place.
Envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump's son in law, Jared Kushner, were supposed to meet with Iran's foreign minister in Islamabad before their trip was canceled.
Iran's foreign minister arrived in Pakistan on Friday night.
Soon afterward, a spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry said there would be no face to face meetings with the American side and that.
Messages would be conveyed through intermediaries.
On Saturday afternoon, President Trump posted on social media that he had called off the meeting, saying it was too much time wasted on traveling and too much work.
Trump told reporters on Air Force One Saturday that within minutes of the trip's cancellation, Iran sent a much better proposal.
It was a very strange night for everybody that was involved, as I'm sure everybody here has been covering all day, quite rightly.
And I was in the ballroom.
Along with, I think, some of you and certainly many of your colleagues.
And eventually we got out.
And about two hours later, I decided I had to go upstairs to get the charger for my phone because I was running out of charge.
And when I got upstairs, a Hilton security man was standing just beside my door in the corridor and three or four uniformed officers and said, Can you come back in maybe 20 minutes?
Well, President Trump, who is magnanimous, after being the target, I think it's 19 assassination attempts.
Jack Posobic is here with me this morning by phone.
Mike Davis is going to join in a while.
As we got to work this through.
Jack, the president was very magnanimous.
First off, his courage, his physical courage in the face of this is incredible.
This is the third time we've had an incident that actually, I think, led to shooting.
I believe there's been 19, if you count all the kind of quasi threats, I think there have been 19.
He didn't flinch at all.
It's quite remarkable.
He didn't flinch at all.
But then he was very magnanimous.
At the press briefing at like 10 o'clock in the press briefing room.
And then he goes, you know, trying to put the olive branch out to the media, to the White House correspondents, particularly 60 Minutes.
Nora O'Donnell, who'd already been fired as a CBS anchor, this is her rebound job.
You know, she's got to go full snark.
And the president finally had a belly.
Full of it.
Mr. President, they're never going to cut you a break.
They're the ones responsible for getting this guy ginned up because the pure, unadulterated hate that they target you and certain members of your cabinet is relentless.
Look, Steve, I'm going to be very serious right here for a second.
The security around the president is unsat, as we would say in the United States Navy.
It is unsatisfactory.
The entire event was unsatisfactory in terms of security.
It needs to be revamped, and that includes any events going forward for the president where the public is going to be available.
I'm talking about rallies.
I'm talking about America 250, which we know is coming up.
And let's get serious here, Steve.
We have three aircraft carriers in the Middle East right now, three.
And we know that we are a country that is engaged in military operations.
If you've got the entire head of the government in one place together, no matter where that is, if it is outside government property, it needs to be.
Designated a national security tier one event like the Super Bowl or the State of the Union.
And if it is not, then we have to have serious questions as to why there was a massive security lapse here.
Steve, I don't even want to talk about just the ballroom.
How about the fact that when people were coming up to this hotel, there was no security?
You had a huge row of left wingers outside.
They were not screened.
There was no security on that, no security inside the building in terms of the suitcases.
And you hear the stories of people nobody checked this, nobody checked that.
I've got attendees who were there telling me that they didn't even have ID checks when they were going in, that people were just looking at the ticket and letting them walk right into a room with the president of the United States.
And we saw, by the way, that Code Pink had been there earlier.
The day before Charlie was shot, we had Code Pink get within feet of the president at a D.C. seafood restaurant.
So you get one of those guys, they pick up a knife, they pick up something else.
It could turn out very, very badly.
And Steve, just like I said at the Antifa political violence roundtable after Charlie's murder, that unless this situation is fixed and we get proactive, number one, proactive about security around the president and everyone associated with the cabinet, and number two, proactive about going after these violent left wing groups, then unfortunately, At some point, one of them is going to slip through the cracks and something bad is going to happen.
We had the entire high command of the American government there.
If this assassin, or if he had accomplices, or if they're Iranians, because he's mocking on his manifesto, he mocks.
The security.
He says, hey, if the Iranians have been there, they get taken out of everybody.
Chuck Grassley would have been the president of the United States at about 9 30 on Saturday night.
Think about that for a second.
Big Corn with Father Corn with Chuck Grassley would have been president of the United States because the president, the vice president, I think the speaker of the house were all in the room.
It's also, let me just make an observation as someone who's never gone to that and would never go to it in a billion years.
It's too thirsty.
These people are generally scumbags.
They hate the MAGA movement.
They hate President Trump.
You can see it every second of every day.
And Nora O'Donnell just couldn't control herself.
Couldn't control herself.
Had to take the dumbest of the cheap shots because that's not really the manifestos got so much more in it.
Of course, she couldn't read that.
You saw President Trump.
It tried to reach out to Olive Branch.
That's what you get, President Trump.
It was just too thirsty having the entire U.S. government there, the senior leadership, all in one room in a time of war.
Let me take my number two principle out and just highlight that.
At a time of war, I don't know who planned this or who scheduled it, but got to be some very tough questions asked on the overall security, but it's got to be some tough questions asked on exactly what was the construct here.
This is something, again, the president, the vice president, speaker of the house, multiple members of the cabinet who are in the line of succession, the high command of the military at a time of war, they're all in the room.
The FBI director.
The Secretary of War is sitting right there.
And you've got dignitaries, you've got members of the press, but you've also got members of people's families who are there.
And you're going to have something like this, Steve.
It's real simple.
They have not priced in the fact that there are an exponentially higher level of threats against this president and this movement than we've ever seen in modern politics.
They still refuse to accept the fact that this president has been trying to.
Third armed attempt in three years, excuse me, two years.
Third armed attempt in two years from 2024 to now, where the president was present and the assassin was way too close, was way too close.
And by the way, I'm going up on Twitter today and I'm going to call it and I'm going to say it again.
They should seek capital punishment in this case.
This is something that should be done.
I understand that Todd Blanch is bringing back the firing squad.
I think that would be appropriate in this case.
That is what must be done with assassins, it is very Clear.
There's a direct threat to our way of life.
And what the president says is a threat in our republic is exactly correct.
That is what an assassin is.
That's why it's different than a murder.
That's why it's different than all of the other things.
This is a direct assault on our American way of life.
And they have not priced it in yet, Steve.
The people in this town have not taken seriously the threats to President Trump and the threats to conservatives because we all know.
All right.
I'm not going to play that line of like, what if, what if.
But if this were Barack Obama, I think we'd all know he wouldn't be up there in 60 minutes.
Nora O'Donnell is telling him that, oh, maybe you made the guy mad in Manifesto.
This city would be under lockdown if this was Obama, if this was Biden, if this was Pelosi.
But when it's Donald Trump, It's becoming normalized, Steve.
And that's the problem.
Charlie Kirk murdered seven months ago, shot him dead on his college campus.
Now we got President Trump, the third attempt.
What is it going to take to get the town to wake up?
And so, for everybody who's involved in federal law enforcement, federal national security at every level, you need to do a better job of getting proactive against these events and also about these groups because they're telling us that this guy was a member of a group.
This is why President Trump tried to put the olive branch out.
People are saying, oh, Miranda Devine's got a great piece today in the New York Post, but she says it's now time that we got to come together and put this in the back of us.
That's not happening.
This is their model.
Look at Southern Poverty Law Center.
Southern Poverty Law Center, they're paying racist groups to gin up racism so they then can come and say, You're white nationalist, white extremist.
That Biden can go out there and say, Remember, he made the speech.
You're the most dangerous people in the world.
They understand the power of the MAGA movement.
They understand the power of Donald Trump and what he means in his movement and what he means to the nation.
He had a brilliant comment there when they asked him at the press briefing, Why does it keep happening to you?
Because he's an agent of change.
Reagan, Lincoln, FDR, all assassination attempts.
And there were assassination attempts on General Washington when he was commander of the troops.
So it's those agents of change that bring this.
And President Trump's, but it's not, we're not going to come together.
Right now, because they control the institutions and we haven't seized the institutions or all of them or even some of the most important ones, Jack, they think they're winning.
Because they think this intimidates us.
That's what President Trump, and that's why I don't quite get the ballroom analogy because he says, hey, we can't surrender to the assassins because he wants to do it again in 30 days.
When we do it again in 30 days, you've got to do it at a hotel.
You just have to take precautions if we don't want to change our life.
And I agree with President Trump.
I don't think this ought to be done in 30 days.
I would tell the White House correspondence group to go screw themselves.
You had a chance, and look, he was saying nice things about the woman that was in charge of it.
But she's a disaster.
I didn't hear her pushing for the, which anybody logically, like, what's the security level here?
Are we tier one?
Because we got everybody in the freaking United States government.
You got National Security Advisor, Secretary of State, Secretary of Treasury, Secretary of War, Attorney General of the United States, Director of the FBI.
I could go on.
The Vice President, the President, Speaker of the House, other prominent members of the House and Senate.
Right there.
And we're at war.
You know, I keep hearing about Hezbollah and how they have terrorist organizations, how they blew this, because they could have taken, in a time of war, the entire apparatus down Jack Vasovic.
Speaking to at 2 p.m., we're going to be speaking to multiple eyewitnesses who were there, not just people who were at the dinner, but we're actually, we've got Krupp, we've got Alina Hava, who's going to be coming on.
We're working on, we might have Carrie Lake on, and we're going to have an exclusive interview with an eyewitness, a man who is standing right next to Wolf Blitzer, former Trump advisor.
Steve, one of your favorites, Sam Nunberg, will be on Human Events Daily today.
Okay, Governor DeSantis is having a special session.
I think it starts midweek this week.
We're going to be all over this.
Two things a special session.
Number one is the redistricting, and he's just unveiled his new map.
I'm getting that to my team so I can put it up.
Four seats, extra four down in Florida.
So Democrats suck on that.
Also, he's going to be coming in with a very tough.
Artificial intelligence bill since the powers that be, the oligarchs are trying to end run everybody, including Mike Davis, who's fighting like hell to make sure that we get the appropriate artificial intelligence regulatory apparatus.
But, Mike, I got you here for a different topic today.
This confusion of people think that you can jerk around the Secret Service agents, DHS, Mark Wayne Mullins, who's the new head of it, it's gotten out of control.
And it's not that these people won't do their job.
When they're not getting paid.
But it's just the symbolism that we don't think they're worthy enough and they could be a political plaything.
It's disgraceful that we have Secret Service agents, we have immigration officials who have not been paid for over 70 days, more than two months.
These are people who are working paycheck to paycheck.
They have families, they have to pay their bills, they put their lives on the line.
Every day to protect our border, to protect our country, and to protect our presidents.
And Senate Democrats are holding them hostage.
So we can, Senate Democrats are holding law enforcement hostage so they can take care of their illegal immigrant voters, people who are illegally voting in our elections.
And it's sickening that this is happening.
And I would say this to the Senate Republicans what the hell are you doing?
We just had the third.
Assassination attempts against the president of the United States, right?
And the Senate Republicans can't force the Senate Democrats to pass DHS funding for the Secret Service.
Are you kidding me?
Maybe it's time for the Senate Republicans to think this way.
The Democrats are literally trying to kill us, and Senate Republicans are concerned about.
The niceties of the filibuster.
They need to get rid of the damn filibuster and go to a simple majority threshold to pass legislation and get DHS funded, get the Secret Service funded, get our border patrol and immigration officials funded.
And look, I love Chuck Grassley, but I don't think he wants to be the president of the United States at 91 years old.
I mean, this is insanity that the Democrats have the Secret Service not getting paid right now, to have our Border Patrol not getting paid right now.
It's unacceptable.
What's even more unacceptable are Republicans.
Senate Republicans are so stupid and weak.
That they think that, oh, if we keep the norms of this 60 vote threshold for legislation, it's going to protect Senate Republicans going forward.
Are you kidding me?
The next time Democrats win the White House, the House, and the Senate, which could actually happen in 2028, the second that happens, Senate Democrats are going to nuke the legislative filibuster immediately.
They're going to pack the Supreme Court with left wing radicals.
This is the problem, even with all the cabinet guys who wanted to go, the whole construct of this, people are still looking at an old model.
You had a tweet up late on Saturday that I think spoke to what the problem is here.
You can't play by the old rules.
The old model doesn't work.
That's how the Republican Party has been the Washington generals to the Democrats, Harlem Globetrotters.
They're just there to be performative.
It's called controlled opposition.
The way Thune and these guys think is controlled opposition, the way that people that want to go.
The White House correspondence dinner.
And I realized President Trump was going there like an Old Testament prophet to throw down the tablets and say, hey, I'm going to hold you guys accountable.
But you put up something.
This gets back to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Folks have to understand that the Democrats are running a color revolution on this nation.
They are not playing out of the same playbook the Republican Party is.
And that's why they're winning.
Mike, you connected all the dots.
This guy that went to Caltech, you know, by all interviews with people, the Newman High School, Caltech, He was not radicalized then.
If you look at his Twitter feed, he's been radicalized by, wait for it, left wing media, places like Southern Poverty Law Center, places like things funded by George Soros, all these groups, and mainstream media that is basically run by neo Marxists, Mike Davis.
Yeah, I mean, when the Democrat Party of today, their entire job is to dehumanize their political opponents, label them as fascists.
And then wink, wink, nod, nod, let their rank and file everyday Democrats, you know, this guy was a pretty everyday Democrat, let them do the dirty work for them and pretend like, oh, if they actually don't succeed, they say it was a hoax.
That assassination attempt against Trump was a hoax, according to many Democrats.
Yeah, I would just say this to these Senate Republicans with whom I worked and had to drag them kicking and screaming at President Trump's first term to confirm.
His judges, including Kavanaugh, when too many of those Senate Republicans were so weak and stupid and got duped by the bogus allegations against Kavanaugh.
I would say this: remember, Barack Obama had Senate Democrats nuke the filibuster to stack the DC federal courts, the DC district court, and the DC circuit with left-wing radicals.
The second Democrats controlled the White House, House, and Senate again, which could be after the 2028 election, it's Game over America.
Senate Republicans need to wake up.
If you can't get Senate Republicans to pass the SAFE Act that has support of over 80% of Americans, including a supermajority of Democrats and even a supermajority of minorities who Democrats pretend don't have the wherewithal to get a voter ID like everyone else.
So they, when the real reason is they can have illegal aliens vote, if you can't get support to pass the SAFE Act, if you can't get support to fund the Secret Service, After the third assassination attempt, what the hell are Senate Republicans doing?
What is John Thu doing?
What does he think his job is?
Nuke the legislative filibuster and fund the Secret Service.
Well, I would tell you, might not be able to get to 51, to 60 or 51, but Mike, I think you could certainly get to 27.
And I think that's got to be on the table now.
I mean, if he's not going to, a leader's got to go find the votes, got to go twist some arms, got to do what Lyndon Johnson did bang some heads and get those votes.
If you don't get the votes, I think we've got to go to plan B. Would you agree?
I would just say this really fast about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
He is America's best governor.
I know there was some squabble between Trump world and DeSantis world during the primary, but DeSantis is truly America's greatest governor.
So hats off to him for being bold and fearless.
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Mike Davis, the Viceroy, thank you for joining us today, this morning, to kick this week off.
You know, Ron DeSantis, I don't think anybody came harder at DeSantis.
And I understand the audience is still very upset, as I am.
He never should.
It was a huge mistake.
The logic of American history was certainly going to have Trump, if he decided to run, the president would have the courage to run again to make sure he could sort out everything that happened in 2020.
He would definitely win the primary and then come back and win the presidency.
We said that every day on the show, including on the afternoon of January 20th, 2021, when Biden illegitimately, with that phony inauguration ceremony, But Governor DeSantis has taken on some of the hardest topics.
This special session where the Florida House and Senate, I think the Senate did maybe, didn't want to go along, so you call them back in special session for artificial intelligence and for redistricting.
This is a quite bold map that shows the demographic changes in the state of Florida.
An offer from the Iranians that dealing with wait for it, straight to horror movies and the blockade.
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Of course, they want to get back to us on the nuclear weapon part of it.
So I'm sure President Trump's going to at least turn that down, but maybe work it around the edges.
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