The President and The Press
Runaway Country with Alex Wagner
Runaway Country with Alex Wagner
4.8 • 13.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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| 0:30.5 | Hi everyone. It has been another runaway week. |
| 0:33.9 | On Saturday night, a gunman stormed the White House correspondence dinner, allegedly attempting to assassinate President Trump and his cabinet. |
| 0:41.2 | It is the third attempt on the president's life. |
| 0:44.3 | The suspect, 31-year-old Cole Allen, wrote in a manifesto that administration officials were, quote, the primary targets, prioritized from highest ranking to lowest. |
| 0:55.3 | Alan went on to write, I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets |
| 0:59.9 | if it were absolutely necessary. Over 2,000 journalists attended the event. |
| 1:05.9 | The first correspondence dinner that America's roast-averse leader has attended in his nearly six years leading the country. |
| 1:13.4 | But before Trump could even speak, people were scrambling to hide under their tables as shots rang out. |
| 1:23.7 | After the attempted shooting for a few hours on Saturday night, there was a truce between the president and his press corps. |
| 1:30.3 | And then Sunday came. |
| 1:31.8 | In an interview for 60 minutes, CBS's Nora O'Donnell asked the president some questions he apparently really did not like. |
| 1:39.0 | He also wrote this. |
| 1:40.6 | I'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes. |
| 1:46.7 | What's your reaction to that? |
| 1:47.8 | Well, I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would, because you're horrible people, horrible people. |
| 1:54.0 | You should be ashamed of yourself reading that because I'm not any of those things. |
| 1:58.5 | Mr. President, these are the gunman's words. |
| 2:00.5 | Excuse me. You shouldn't be reading that on 60 minutes. |
| 2:04.4 | You're a disgrace. |
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