It's Monday, April 27th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is What Today, the show that is not rooting for the Dallas one step closer to being confirmed as Federal Reserve Chair.

And President Donald Trump backs out

of negotiations with Iran in Pakistan. But let's start with a shooting at the White House

correspondence dinner. President Trump was preparing to give his remarks in front of hundreds of

journalists and political figures on Saturday when guests heard gunshots fired outside the

ballroom. As of the time of this recording Sunday,

law enforcement has a suspect in custody, a California man who traveled to Washington and was

staying in the hotel where the dinner took place. According to police, he sent his family messages

that indicated he was planning to take violent action against members of the administration.

But there's still a ton we don't know.

Namely, how on earth did someone with a gun get so close to the president again?

Typically, an event featuring the president has incredibly tight security. But according to the

New York Times, there were no metal detectors at the hotel entrances. Other journalists noted that security at the hotel seemed weirdly lax.

So did the shooter, according to his alleged manifesto published by the New York Post.

He wrote that there was, quote, no damn security, and that, quote, this level of incompetence is insane.

But acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanch defended law enforcement's actions

on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday.

We don't have all the answers on to how he got far, but the perimeter is the perimeter.

So necessarily, if somebody's outside the perimeter and they try to breach it, assuming they

don't get very far, that's what we want. That's what we want law enforcement to stop.

And they did.

The Washington Post also reported that the Trump administration did not designate the White House Correspondence Dinner to be a, quote, national special security event, despite the

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