Hamed Aleaziz

As part of that gunfire, he himself takes on shots, and he is down on the ground.

These shots were heard by colleagues here at the New York Times.

Our bureau is very close to the site of this shooting.

And just a day later, we found out that

One of the guard members, Ms.

Beckstrom, had died from her gunshot wounds.

Yeah, definitely.

And you can see how for President Trump, this is something that he personally is tied to.

And for him, I think it really confirms a lot of the claims that he's made in the past, a lot of his worst fears that an immigrant from a far-flung country would come here and shoot two U.S.

military members near the White House.

And I think that's really reason for him and in his mind and his advisor's mind to undertake a crackdown on the immigration system that's unlike anything that we've seen this year.

And they're telling top Trump administration officials

Including U.S.

Attorney Jeanine Pirro.

The FBI director, Kash Patel.

He was flown in by the Biden administration in September 2021 on those infamous flights that everybody was talking about.

Nobody knew who was coming in.

Nobody knew anything about it.

His status was... And President Trump himself.

This shooting was the result of a series of Biden administration failures, not only in the way that they ended the war, which President Trump has often criticized, but in the way that they let these Afghans, including Mr. Lackawall, into the country without, in their words, the necessary vetting.