00:00U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday, the suspect in Saturday night's White House Correspondents Association dinner shooting had
00:08an anti-Christian manifesto and a lot of hatred in his heart.
00:12He told Fox News the suspect was a, quote, sick guy.
00:16Trump was rushed out of the event along with members of his administration, none of whom were hurt.
00:22An official identified the shooter as Cole Thomas Allen of Torrance, California.
00:26Officials said he fired a shotgun at a Secret Service agent at a security checkpoint in the Washington Hilton Hotel
00:33before being tackled and arrested.
00:36The agent escaped serious injury because the bullet struck his protective vest, Trump said.
00:42The suspect called himself the friendly federal assassin in a manifesto he sent to relatives before the attack, according to
00:49one official.
00:50Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told NBC's Meet the Press that Trump and top members of his administration were the
00:57likely targets.
00:58Police searched the suspect's California home looking for clues, and Blanche said he will be charged in federal court on
01:05Monday, and the number of charges could rise over time.
01:09Washington Interim Police Chief Jeffrey Carroll said the suspect was armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives.
01:16The chaotic events at the dinner raised fresh questions about the security of top U.S. officials, many of whom
01:22were gathered in the hotel's expansive ballroom.
01:25Former Secret Service Special Agent Mike Mantraga says he has concerns about that, too.
01:30But he thinks his former agency did a solid job overall, and Trump was appropriately protected.
01:37I think that last night's security plan went according to the way it was supposed to.
01:43Again, I don't think that he was ever in any imminent danger.
01:47I've been in that hotel.
01:50You know, that's the infamous hotel where Reagan was shot in 1981.
01:55The United States Secret Service knows that hotel very well.
01:58They've set up this layer of security in the security plan for decades now.
02:04Mantraga, though, did express concern that Trump's participation was announced so far in advance of the event,
02:10and said perhaps the president's movements should not be broadcast.
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