And Liz joins us now along with Lisa Desjardin, our congressional correspondence.

You were both at the Correspondence Center this past weekend when this all unfolded.

Walk us through what you experienced. Liz, you first.

I heard the gunshots and at our table we hit the decks. We got under the table pretty quickly.

And I started recording on my phone. I think that the instinct to be a reporter and document what you're seeing kicked in pretty quickly.

So got some of that video, and, you know, it was, it was scary to be there and to not know what

was happening. And once we saw that the room was sort of stable and that the cabinet secretaries had at least left,

Amna and I tried to get out of the room to get cell phone service so that we could start doing reporting.

Outside of the ballroom, I ran into a White House official who was able to give us some preliminary information

about the status of the president, vice president, and the first lady at that moment.

And then when we heard the White House Correspondents Association, President Ouija,

announced that the president was going to have a press briefing, I thought, okay, I have to get

down to the White House for this. And she said in 30 minutes. And she said in 30 minutes, exactly.

So I thought, how am I going to do that in this amount of time? The streets all around the Hilton were locked down. I found a scooter and was actually able to hop on a scooter, get down to my apartment, to grab my credential to get into the White House, scoot it down to the White House, and did make it in time for the President's briefing. And a photographer outside snapped that picture of you. So Lisa, what was going through your mind? It's an incredible picture. Liz's table was right on the aisle. Mine was one row back from that. Both of us were sort of closer to the back of the room, which is closer to where the shooting was up the stairs. So I too heard the shots, but I heard also the crash of dishes. of dishes. A lot of people were confused. Was this really a shooting? Was this some crashing of dishes by a waiter? But, you know, instantly, I think training kicked in. And just like Liz is saying, the professionalism and journalism, the training that we have. And also my experience of January 6th really kicked in, which was, I think I know what you need to do, and I need to make sure I know where all the exits are. Make sure the team that I'm with is able to leave this room safely. I need to watch law enforcement. Are they yelling? They weren't yelling. That made me think, okay, there's not a threat in the room. Now I can do my reporting. I talked to several members of Congress. They were mostly worried about their spouses. The people most nervous in the room were those non-lawmaker spouses. And I think even in this moment, we should expect security at almost any number of events on the Capitol to change because of the people in that room and what they experienced.

And Liz, today I know you've been speaking with your Secret Service contacts about presidential protection protocol.

What have they been telling you?

I spoke with two Secret Service agents today, and that agency has been under enormous scrutiny since the Butler assassination attempt

happened against President Trump.

But both of these agents said that they felt that the agency and the training kicked in for what happened

for the incident, the shooting that happened on Saturday. One of the points that people have

been asking about is the time, how long the president stayed on the stage there on Saturday.

One of the agents that I spoke with said that the president, who said this in the 60 Minutes interview,

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