From New York, this is Democracy Now.

This was tragic.

It was a night that none of us will forget for a very long time, but do not forget that

the system worked.

The Secret Service kept us safe and that man was quickly apprehended and subdued minutes,

seconds after he tried to breach the perimeter.

A gunman tries to storm the White House Correspondents Association dinner Saturday night,

shooting at security before he was tackled to the ground and arrested.

He'll be arraigned today.

The Secret Service evacuated President Trump and other officials as attendees fled or took cover

under tables. In his reported manifesto, the gunman said he planned to target Trump administration

officials. We'll be joined here in New York by California Congress member Rohana. He's calling for a bipartisan national commission on political violence.

And we go to Vermont to speak with journalist and professor Jeff Charlotte, author of The Undertoe,

Scenes from a slow civil war.

Then the Trump administr's announced new measures to

ramp up and expedite executions of death row prisoners, including authorizing death by firing

squad. We'll speak to longtime anti-death penalty advocate, sister Helen Prejean.

I am not at all surprised that Trump is doing this to try to expand the methods of executions

and to get as many executions as he can. We already saw what he did in his first term when he had 13 people executed before he left office.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report.

I'm Amy Goodman.

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