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What Saturday's awful event does not change is that the Constitution and multiple federal statutes require Congress to authorize construction of a ballroom on White House grounds, and that Congress has not done so.
We also send out a prayer of thanks that our president, nor anyone in the administration, nor anyone attending was injured in last night's incident at the press correspondents' dinner.
I was guessing letter by letter, how many letters were in the name, and then right at the moment when you see it happen, I wrote down the name and said, How did I do?,' and then I turned around.
An armed man stormed the lobby of the White House Correspondent's Dinner, opening fire and prompting the evacuation of Donald Trump and top White House officials. The suspect, identified as Cole Tomas Allen, was arrested at the scene.
It started to get noisy. Tables getting flipped over, guys running in with guns. They were telling me to get down, I didn't get down. It was f--king awesome. I literally took every minute of it in. And it was pretty crazy, unique experience.
Stelter asked Leavitt about Trump's attendance, questioning if it indicated an acknowledgment of the press's importance. Leavitt responded that Trump believes in the press's role and is very accessible to journalists.
Campos-Duffy argued that jokes made at Trump's expense by then-President Barack Obama kicked Trump's political ambitions into high gear. Obama thought he could mock him, and when he did this is what happened, and I think this was the deciding moment President Trump was like, you did this to me, I'm running to show you.
Bill Zanker, the man at the center of Trump's meme coin operation, appeared to have taken the trip down to Mar-a-Lago with us from DC, snacking on commemorative AF1 m&ms while we waited.