Damian Paletta

As we got through, I could see the Treasury Secretary talking to the Transportation Secretary and others.

Obviously, the event could have been a terrible, terrible tragedy given how many people were there and how tightly packed that room was and how there was really no way to get out in the event of a mass shooting.

The president's also said that this reinforces his call for why he needs

a ballroom at the White House that can be controlled much better in terms of the security.

There's been a lot of questions about the lax outside perimeter of the Washington Hilton, especially it felt like there was a way to figuratively climb in the side window by checking in as a guest at the hotel.

the day before, allowing you to bring in whatever you might want to before the security stuff is in place.

And there's a lot of questions, again, about political violence and how to make the country safer and how to make situations like this safe, if they even ever can be safe.

And if not, are events like this possible relics of the past?

So in getting rid of the Navy secretary, he's getting rid of someone who is in the middle of this Iran conflict, in the middle of this naval blockade that's core to the White House's strategy of trying to pressure Iran.

And it's very unusual in the middle of a war to do something like this with someone so senior.

The reason that this appeals to President Trump, though, is because part of his whole agenda, his economic agenda...

is reviving, and his military agenda, quite frankly, is reviving the shipbuilding industry in the United States after really decades of lower output.

And the Naval Secretary who was just fired actually was very plugged in with President Trump.

They would meet at Mar-a-Lago and talk quite often.

But President Trump believes that the shipbuilding industry needs to be reborn much faster than is happening.

Right.

Well, it's one thing to be able to talk to President Trump and text him about it.

It's another thing to actually build the ships.

And so maybe that's what, after months and months, the president is looking for.

President Trump envisions this Trump fleet of naval ships.