00:00Major scrutiny is also focused on how the suspect, Cole Thomas Allen, was a guest at the hotel and reached
00:07a floor directly above the ballroom.
00:09Why would an event with this many top-level officials not be designated as a national special security event, which
00:17would have provided a much larger federally funded security perimeter?
00:21Yeah, you're asking a question that many in the security field are asking as well today.
00:25And when you have virtually the entire line of succession to the presidential office in one room, you would have
00:36incredibly enhanced security, possibly through a designated national security special event.
00:41I mean, we designate a football game, the Super Bowl, as a national security special event.
00:47Why would we not do this?
00:48I think you're going to see that moving forward.
00:50I also think you're going to see measures to not have all of those people, the successors in the line
00:56of succession, in the same place at the same time, perhaps never having the vice president and the president in
01:02the same room.
01:02The other challenge here, of course, is having this massive event in a venue that also operates as a large
01:11hotel with 1,100 guest rooms at the same time.
01:15That creates a monumental security challenge, and I wonder, moving forward, if we'll ever see that happen again.
01:22The problem is this is the largest ballroom in the District of Columbia, and so the alternative options are few
01:30and far between.
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