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Hey there, folks.

It is Monday, April 27th, and we just got a whole lot new detail about what happened

at the Washington, D.C. event over the weekend at the White House Correspondents' dinner,

the suspect has made a court appearance.

And we just listened to a press conference by the top Justice Department officials.

With that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J.

What, I guess, what jumped out in me immediately, Robs, was that they are making clear,

mincing no words and wondering, this was a bona fide assassination attempt.

Yes, I felt like that was the main objective of this press conference was to, I'm sure,

they have read all of the chatter online. Some folks saying it's staged, some folks saying

that it's not what it is being made out to be. They made it very clear

that Cole Thomas Allen was targeting the president of the United States first and then had the

intent to kill to take out members of his cabinet from top to bottom in terms of rank. So Cole Thomas Allen, the suspect,

31-year-old part-time teacher from California, has been charged now facing three charges. They did

make clear there will be more. But charge one, attempted assassination of the president.

Charge two, interstate transportation of a firearm. And charge three, discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence.

And let's go with that one, first of all, Robes. Number three, discharge of a firearm.

But what you don't see in there is assault on an officer.

We do know one officer was hit in the vest, going to be fine.

But Robs, these were questions we had about do they know if the suspect actually shot that officer?

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