Good to be with you from Washington tonight. I'm Turner de Copp. The breaking news right now.

Apparent assassination attempt, the alleged White House correspondent's dinner shooter charged with

three federal counts. Make no mistake, this was an attempted assassination of the president of the

United States. And what President Trump said in a broadcast exclusive interview with Nora O'Donnell for 60

minutes about conspiracy theories surrounding Saturday's shootings.

I think they're more sick than they are con people, but there's a lot of con in it too.

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This is the CBS Evening News with Tony DeCopal, reporting tonight from the White House.

And good evening. He was a star student, an award-winning teacher, and now he's charged with an attempt to assassinate the president. 31-year-old Cole Allen, according to new documents

filed today in federal court, bought these weapons, a semi-automatic handgun and pump-action shotgun

legally as far back as 2023.

But in early April, investigators say he booked a room at the Washington Hilton and made a plan

to attack the dinner there on Saturday. According to his own writings, his targets included

President Trump and members of the administration, and he would go through most everyone to get there.

Alan has not yet entered a plea.

Chief correspondent Matt Gutman has been following the investigation

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