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New video of Correspondents' Dinner shooting raises questions about presidential security
The Justice Department has released video showing the moment an armed man stormed past security at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The incident is raising serious questions about security surrounding the president at high-profile public events. Geoff Bennett speaks with Juliette Kayyem of the Homeland Security Project at the Harvard Kennedy School to learn more.Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. Geoff Bennett: The Justice Department released high resolution video showing the moment an armed man stormed past security at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.The incident is raising serious questions about the security posture surrounding the president at high-profile public events.We're joined now by Juliette Kayyem of the Homeland Security Project at Harvard's Kennedy School. She previously served as assistant DHS secretary in the Obama administration.Juliette, it's great to see you.So, look, there are lots of questions, as you know, about the shot that struck the U.S. Secret Service agent. The U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, says there's no evidence of friendly fire.But the video, this single video, is not definitive. What does this footage show us and what does it not show us? Juliette Kayyem, Former
New Cole Allen video raises questions about Trump dinner shooting
Prosecutors have released new footage showing Cole Allen, the suspected shooter at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association dinner, moving around the Washington Hilton hotel before rushing past security in an apparent attempt to storm the ballroom where President Donald Trump was seated.On Thursday, Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, released a five-minute video on X that contained surveillance footage from the hotel, where dozens of political and media figures had gathered for the annual event.The footage has emerged as the Secret Service faces renewed scrutiny over its ability to protect the president and his entourage—following the third attempt on Trump's life in two years. While the agency's response ultimately proved effective, drawing praise from the administration, the incident has raised questions about staffing and training during a year packed with public appearances for Trump and his Cabinet.The video shows Allen, 31, "casing the area in the Hilton" the day before the incident, Pirro wrote, and speaking with staff at the hotel. The footage then cuts to the following night and shows Allen running through a security checkpoint a floor above the main ballroom. According to Pirro, the video shows the moment Allen shot a Secret Service
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