Tommy Vietor

I'm glad you're OK.

But like, why do you why do you think people are trying to hurt you?

You probably could have just asked that, I guess, and not done that.

But anyway, yeah.

There's been a lot of reporting already about the security protocols at the event and how they seem to have been lower than at other comparable events.

What did you guys make of those stories and the security in general, how it went both this time and in general, the security of those events?

the process worked the way it was supposed to largely yeah so people know what it's like there it's where they got him he was running towards probably the escalators that would have gone down one flight and then you would have had the doors into the ballroom because the dinner had started once it started those doors to the ballroom were closed and they were guarded so even if

the shooter had gotten past that security checkpoint and hadn't been shot there, would have gone downstairs, would have faced another several Secret Service agents, would have had to get through the doors at that point.

There would have been others at Service.

But in general, I think the Hilton is a bad location for this.

And I think part of it is because the guests in the hotel should never have been able to get close to the ballroom if you're not part of the event.

or the pre-dinner receptions, right?

Like, a lot of other people could have been hurt, aside from the president, who was, I think, well-protected.

And it's like, like you said, Tommy, about the senior, all the senior officials in one place, like, what if someone had brought explosives, right?

Like, I mean, I don't want to go into all the different things that could have gone wrong, but if you were a guest at the hotel,

even if you weren't that guy with those weapons, if you had like worse weapons or something, but you were still a guest, you could have probably done a lot more damage.

I don't agree with that.

Well, Service said that.

I mean, Service was saying to people on the record that like, or on background at least, that, you know, we now have a convention center in D.C.

that is much easier to protect there.