White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting: Who's Fault Is This?!

The Don Lemon Show

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News, Society & Culture

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This morning, we break down the shocking shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and the confusion that followed. An armed suspect breached a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton and opened fire, prompting Secret Service to evacuate Donald Trump and other top officials. A suspect has been taken into custody, but beyond the immediate facts, the story has quickly become more complicated. Questions are mounting about security gaps, conflicting early reports, and the flood of conspiracy theories spreading online. At the same time, Trump and his allies are already assigning blame and using the incident to push broader political arguments, including renewed calls for a White House ballroom. So what actually happened, and why does the narrative seem to be shifting so quickly? Boston Globe’s media reporter Aidan Ryan and Semafor’s media editor, Max Tani, were on the ground at the dinner during the shooting. They join us this morning to break it all down. This episode is sponsored by “Bullies Parasites and Slaves” by Dr. George Byron Koch. Get your copy of “Bullies, Parasites and Slaves” at https://www.BPS.online or text the word, “BULLY” to 511511 and receive an immediate link to get the book – paperback, E-book or audio. Text Fees may apply. This episode is brought to you by Aura Frames. Save now on the gifts moms love. Exclusive $25-off Carver Mat at https://on.auraframes.com/DONLEMON. Promo Code DONLEMON This episode is sponsored by 120Life. Go to https://120Life.com—and use code DON for 20% off. Try it risk-free for two weeks. If your blood pressure doesn’t come down, you get a full refund. Don’t wait until next month. Nothing to lose except higher blood pressure numbers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.3	Good morning, everybody.
0:42.7	Welcome to the program, and we can say this morning, breaking news.
0:47.8	We always say it, but this is definitely breaking news, and we've got a lot for you today. We're going to talk about things in ways that they are not discussing on mainstream media,
0:52.7	and we're also going to challenge
0:54.2	some of my former mainstream media colleagues and go into all of this why this
1:00.5	happened but we're going to do it in a way that is not necessarily the way that
1:04.1	you're going to see it on cable news or broadcast news or whatever it is they're
1:08.4	doing their thing but welcome hit the like and the thumbs up it affects algorithm. More people become aware of our conversation, and that's very, very important to us. So thank you so much for joining this morning. And so, look, I want you to go into this show with an open mind about what we're discussing because that's the only way that we're going to get through this. So thank you. Welcome to Hot Topics. How you doing? I'm okay, not great because this weekend was nuts. And as you know, I was in Washington, D.C. So, but before we get into anything this morning, I just want to show you something. Because we have exclusive video. I'm not sure if you guys are aware of this. we have exclusive video that has now been seen, this is from the Don Lemon Show, by 53 million people, that's
1:50.3	just on Instagram alone, and millions and millions, maybe hundreds of millions of more on
1:55.5	other social media sites.
1:57.8	Okay?
1:58.1	And our footage of Cash Patel, it's him inside the Washington Hilton on Saturday
2:03.8	night. And there it is. This is him just kind of sitting there. And remember, Cash Patel is the FBI director who just before this happened, it was reported by our friends over at Politico,
2:30.3	Ouija Zhang, that he is eminent on the chopping block. So we'll see.
2:35.0	And there's also video of him standing outside as well on a phone not knowing it appears
2:43.0	like he's getting into an Uber.
2:44.0	It's bizarre.
2:45.0	This is the FBI director just standing there.
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