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New video of Correspondents' Dinner shooting raises questions about presidential security

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

Daily News, News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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The Justice Department has released video showing the moment an armed man stormed past security at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. The incident is raising serious questions about security surrounding the president at high-profile public events. Geoff Bennett speaks with Juliette Kayyem of the Homeland Security Project at the Harvard Kennedy School to learn more. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

The Justice Department released high-resolution video showing the moment an armed man stormed past security at the White House Correspondence Dinner.

0:08.6

The incident is raising serious questions about the security posture surrounding the president at high-profile public events.

0:15.9

We're joined now by Juliet Kayam of the Homeland Security Project at Harvard's Kennedy School.

0:20.6

She previously served as

0:21.8

assistant DHS secretary in the Obama administration. Juliet, it's great to see you. So look,

0:27.3

there are lots of questions, as you know, about this shot that struck the U.S. Secret Service

0:32.1

agent. The U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Janine Piro, says there's no evidence

0:37.3

of friendly fire.

0:38.9

But the video, this single video, is not definitive.

0:43.1

What does this footage show us and what does it not show us?

0:46.9

So it shows us.

0:48.5

It shows the suspect going through, you know, a security metal detector, essentially. It also shows him speeding up. It shows

0:57.6

him trying to reach a gun. And then the frame by frame shows some dust, sort of a dust up, literally

1:04.4

up above, which would suggest that there had been a gun fired, because afterwards you then see

1:10.5

the Secret Service pick up their

1:12.5

guns. So the prosecutors will say that shows that he had deadly intent and that the Secret

1:18.6

Service were responding. But I will be honest with you, the frame by frame is not dispositive

1:24.4

in any way. What the government released was, you know, it was on different

1:29.2

speeds. It sort of slowed down and sped up. So a good defense attorney is going to, you know,

1:34.9

wonder why that is happening. What you also don't see is you don't see any movement, like a sort

1:41.0

of a muzzle from from his gun, go off. So it's a long way of saying lawyers

1:46.3

are going to debate this in court. It's certainly not definitive. The more important thing is

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