00:00Who exactly is Cole Allen, the 31-year-old accused of opening fire at this weekend's
00:05White House Correspondents' Dinner? We've learned quite a bit about the alleged shooter
00:09and what may have motivated his violence since Saturday evening. About 10 minutes before the
00:14incident, Allen reportedly sent an anti-Trump manifesto to his family. In it, he gave himself
00:19a truly ghoulish moniker, the quote, friendly federal assassin, and revealed that he was
00:26hell-bent on killing administration officials. Allen's list of potential targets read bizarrely.
00:32One portion said he was going after, quote, administration officials, not including FBI
00:37Director Kash Patel. They are targets prioritized from highest ranking to lowest. Why Patel
00:43specifically was excluded is unclear. Now, Allen, also apparently referencing President Trump,
00:49wrote, quote, I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands
00:55with his crimes. According to his LinkedIn profile, Allen was a teacher at a tutoring and test prep
01:00company. He graduated from Caltech in 2017. Authorities say he traveled by train from Los
01:06Angeles to Washington, D.C. with a stop in Chicago. To get access to this storied annual event, he
01:11basically exploited a security loophole. He booked a room in the Washington Hilton, the hotel where the
01:17dinner was taking place. As a hotel guest, he was able to smuggle weapons inside his luggage.
01:22Allen even mocked the security around the correspondence dinner in his manifesto,
01:27suggesting an Iranian agent could do a lot of damage, and then added, quote,
01:31I will walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there
01:34considers the possibility that I could be a threat.
01:37Allen even mocked the trache in the U.S.
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