white house residence which is where president trump was when this happened, according to officials. now, officials say nobody this intruder there was no contact between the intruder and president trump. the president was alerted to the incident taking place and the secret service were then able to arrest this man without further incident. again, clearly no gunshots fired, nothing very loud because nobody found out about this until cnn reported it first and broke the news earlier this morning. so, the secret service arrested this man, they have done a search of that backpack. inside they apparently haven t found anything hazardous. the big question now, what was the point of this? was this for fun for this intruder to jump the fence and see how close he could get to the white house or something more sinister? was this perhaps a dry run for some event in the future? these are things that the secret service is now investigating.
the rest of the world didn t. the secret service clearly did, but he obviously felt okay enough to tweet this morning about health care reform and said there had been a lot of great progress made. are we expecting any news out of the white house or do you feel like what s happened the past 12 hours, with the intruder shut that down or the white house is business as normal for a saturday. based on the fact that he s been up and tweeting about something entirely separate, something he believes, obviously, to be very important health care, and the republican plan to repeal and replace obamacare, he s focused. this is more being handled by the secret service. there s a chance that president trump might be heading somewhere a little later today. i don t know where exactly, but the pool, the press pool that follows around president trump, they have been mobilized and they may be standing by for some kind of movement involving president trump. so, it doesn t appear like he has been at all d
just said. you said, well, it wasn t a multi-man tactical assault on the white house, but one guy made it all the way up to the south portico and this is the second time we re having this conversation in, you know, in what, three, four years, when did the last event happen, probably less than that? how much more sober analysis can you get? they re not ready and not serious about it because they know the ramifications what would happen if there were multiple people with heavy weapons jumping that fence. they know it. that means they re not being serious about it. and alarm bell from you, not that we ve heard from the secret service director or dhs security. your insight. dan, thank you for joining us. 12:10 on the east coast and up until about an hour ago when we learned about the intruder here at the white house, we were going to have this as our top story. the big push by the trump administration as well as top congressional republicans when it comes to health care. the republican p