Shots Fired at White House Correspondents' Dinner | Is Iran the New Ukraine? | 04/27/26
The A.M. Update
Aaron McIntire
4.9 • 833 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
A gunman rushes a Secret Service checkpoint at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, and his manifesto reveals a chilling window into radicalized thinking. Plus, the Iran conflict gets foggier by the day, and oil price might be the only honest indicator we have left.
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| 0:00.0 | In the suburbs of D.C., a woman fails to show up for work and is found brutally murdered. |
| 0:05.8 | I wonder which emergency. |
| 0:07.0 | We just walked in the door and there's blood in the foyer. |
| 0:10.1 | For the next two decades, the case remained unsolved until new technology allowed investigators to do what had once been impossible. |
| 0:19.0 | A new series from ABC Audio in 2020. |
| 0:23.4 | Blood and Water. |
| 0:25.2 | Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:28.4 | It's Monday, April 27th, 2026. |
| 0:30.8 | They missed again is Iran the new Ukraine. |
| 0:34.4 | And a few personal updates. |
| 0:35.8 | That's next on the AM update. |
| 0:41.1 | Back again. Thanks for understanding my absence last week. We'll talk about that at the end of |
| 0:45.5 | today's episode. But first, really the only story anybody's talking about over the weekend is |
| 0:50.5 | what went down at what didn't end up being the White House Correspondents Association's |
| 0:54.6 | dinner. Here's the timeline of events on Saturday evening as a gunman fired shots in the hotel |
| 1:00.8 | hosting White House Correspondents Association dinner. Around 8.35 Eastern time that night, guest |
| 1:06.4 | at the Washington Hilton dinner took cover when shots were heard. Video footage emerged showing people |
| 1:12.4 | dodging underneath tables and chairs and generally trying to get out of there. Several |
| 1:16.7 | members of the Trump administration, its cabinet were in attendance as well. Secret Service |
| 1:21.6 | swarmed the stage, rushed Trump and Vice President Vance off the stage. Soul gunman had rushed, as we came to find out, |
| 1:29.4 | had rushed a Secret Service checkpoint in a lobby. |
| 1:32.8 | The suspect charged the Secret Service checkpoint in the lobby |
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