This man, from what we know from video surveillance and from witnesses who were there, barely got past the perimeter.

He was immediately subdued, and yes, he got off a couple shots, our brave Secret Service agent who took one to the chest, although he was wearing a bulletproof vest.

The president talked to him last night from the Oval Office. He was in great spirits.

He was very appreciative. The president expressed his appreciation, his gratitude. And so yes.

But no, I do not think, to the contrary, this was a security failure. This is law enforcement

doing exactly what they trained their whole lives to do. Barely got past the perimeter, immediately subdued.

That's what the acting attorney general Todd Blanche said.

In tactical security terms, that's a near miss that became a success story because the layers of protection held.

The shooter got one officer, didn't get any further.

It's a box within a box.

That is the security strategy, but the perimeter was too tight.

It contained the threat, but the perimeter being the hotel was breached.

You can say the system worked, though a better outer layer would have prevented that breach entirely.

Yeah, I think this is probably a case of this is the way we've always done it,

because they've had the White House correspondence dinner at that hotel for decades and decades

in the Secret Service whenever the president's there, or ever high-ranking officials attend. They've had the White House Correspondents dinner at that hotel for decades and decades.

And the Secret Service, whenever the president's there, or ever high-ranking officials attend, which they have regularly done in the past, secret service is there and has their

normal layers of security.

And I think that's probably what happened here is they're like, okay, it's another White

House Correspondents dinner.

This is the way we do security at this hotel.

But what's different about it is we've never seen a president like Donald Trump,

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