Todd Blanch

It was a crazy moment.

And I went on to win the presidency.

Just admit you staged it in Butler.

So right after there are gunshots fired at a campaign event, Trump's team's first reaction is to go get the photographer's.

Violence has no place in civic life.

It cannot and will not be used to disrupt democratic institutions or intimidate those who serve them, and it certainly cannot continue to be used against the President of the United States.

have you been able to determine whether the gunman fired shots watch what he says here play this clip have you been able to determine whether the gunman fired shots if so how many shots he fired and who exactly whose bullet hit the agent we're still we want to get that right so we're still looking at that we it appears and i don't want to to overstate because we are still looking at this that there were five five shots that law enforcement fired we are we we have

All the evidence is being examined very carefully and expeditiously, and we'll know more soon.

We do believe that, as the complaint lays out, that the suspect, that the defendant fired it out of his shotgun, and we know that that happened.

But as far as getting into exacting ballistics, I'm not going to do that today because it's still being looked at and finalized.

Well, we filed a motion today asking the court to do what the plaintiffs refused to do.

We absolutely believe that there is no better example of why this ballroom is necessary, aside from all the very positive things the ballroom will bring to this country and to Washington, D.C., than what happened on Saturday night.

You guys, many of you all were there.

That's one of the only places in DC that you can hold an event like that due to its size and the structure of what we need.

So we're basically stuck at this point in the city with having an event like that at a hotel.

So underneath a ton of hotel rooms.

and so the fact that we aside again aside from the fact that the ballroom is spectacular it's going to be beautiful it's going to make this country look great every time it's used it's also a meaningful safety issue and so i'm not i i very much wish that the plaintiffs and their counsel would take a different view but if they don't we are going to continue to fight in court like we have been and and hopefully the the judges at the dc circuit will court will will do the right thing

Well, you just described the current threat environment pretty accurately, which is that the political violence and rhetoric has got to stop.

And that's something President Trump said right after the incident on Saturday night.

It's something that Carolyn Leavitt talked about a couple hours ago.