Allen Charges Pile Up | Ben Sasse on Suffering Well | 4/28/26
The A.M. Update
Aaron McIntire
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🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announces more charges are coming for White House Correspondents' Dinner shooter Cole Allen, while Jimmy Kimmel somehow thought assassination jokes were still funny the night before the attack. Plus, former Senator Ben Sasse sits down with 60 Minutes and delivers a masterclass in facing mortality with faith.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, April 28th, 2026, the latest on the latest would-be Trump assassin. |
| 0:04.8 | It's redistricting season, a few updates from there, and one former senator is heaven-bent on suffering well. |
| 0:11.6 | Next on the AM update. |
| 0:17.1 | U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Janine Piro, has the latest on the latest Trump-would-be-Assasson. That would be Cole Allen. |
| 0:26.1 | Cole Allen's journey of accountability in the criminal justice system starts today. |
| 0:33.2 | Todd Blanche just indicated to you the charges. Those charges are only three charges that are in the complaint |
| 0:41.3 | that has been presented in federal district court about an hour ago. There will be additional |
| 0:47.3 | charges as this investigation continues to unfold. But make no mistake, this was an attempted assassination of the President of the United |
| 0:58.5 | States with the defendant making clear what his intent was. And that intent was to bring down |
| 1:05.6 | as many of the high-ranking cabinet officials as he could. That is U.S. District, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, |
| 1:15.0 | Janine Piro, making it clear what the Justice Department's view of the latest would-be assassination of President Trump clear. |
| 1:23.4 | This was an attempted assassination, according to U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, |
| 1:28.0 | Janine Piro, saying that this charge against Cole Allen, there will be more charges. |
| 1:35.2 | It was basically some form of assault on a federal official with a deadly weapon. |
| 1:42.6 | There could be a terrorism charge coming as well from what I have read, |
| 1:46.2 | which means that he could be facing life in prison. |
| 1:49.0 | Now, when I saw the original charges against Cole Allen, I thought, |
| 1:53.5 | that's all well and good, that's great. |
| 1:55.2 | This is the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C. |
| 1:58.0 | He obviously did this. |
| 1:59.2 | He was a lefty doing this. |
| 2:00.6 | How likely is it the justice will also, you know, actually be served? |
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