Missy Ryan

And, you know, he has had a famously adversarial relationship with the press.

And so it was kind of a surprise that he was going to be there.

So we all go down to the ballroom.

There is security, security screening, these mag gates that were two levels down from the lobby.

So you had to go quite far in down into the hotel in order to show your ticket or show your ticket again.

I think you had to do it once up above and then get screened for any sort of threat.

It was about 15 minutes into the dinner after President Trump had showed up where all of a sudden we hear screaming.

People were shouting to get down.

I heard a big crash.

Everybody was diving under the tables and there was

Secret Service or police climbing over people, trying to get to the stage area, to the dais where President Trump, his wife, Vice President Vance, and a number of other people were seated.

Yeah, so according to the footage that we saw after the fact, Vance's production team got to him first, and then the president's team kind of swarmed him and took him out just seconds later, essentially.

And what we heard was that they were...

holding somewhere on the premises briefly before they left.

You know, the president said last night at the news conference that he really wanted to return and continue with the event, but the Secret Service deemed it, you know, insufficiently safe.

Yeah, I mean, I think Donald Trump, if nothing else, can sense a political window opening.

And, you know, this certainly seemed to be something that he was comfortable talking about after the fact, comfortable sort of anchoring the news cycle.

He praised the Secret Service and the security officials.

But there are ways in which it is beneficial for the president.

You know, he looks presidential.