to see the president pick this up. as you saw today, he s eager to get back to the big epic battle with congress over the budget battle. i think he would have better to save the remarks for another time because nobody listened to them. and if they did, they probably heard a tone that was not appropriate for today. but i don t think we re going to be back where we were after newtown. this is ed henry saying he heard at least two gunshots outside the northwest gate, saw secret service officers engage, others running around. they just locked down the lawn. and i think we have new video of secret service agents taking down someone who had a gun. those are uniformed officers, the capitol police and secret service. and there you see the officers taking someone down. this has happened before. people firing weapons at the
are expected to have 65,000 united states troops on the ground and reduced downed to 65,000 by the end of this year. and, then, most all of u.s. forces out bit end of 2014. this is a lost work to do but i remember a year ago tonight, being here, reporting from the white house, where this were a lot of young people, students from the washington, dc area, who upon hearing that osama bin laden was killed, they raced over to the white house, were outside the northwest gate, there, and were chanting usa, usa, as you mentioned. there was a lot of afternoonty that night a year later, there is a lot of continuing right now as we get closer to the november election. about whether the anniversary is politicized. shepard: there s here in new york as we return from europe as i mention people chanting the same thing around the fence that was the world trade center and the pit on our city and thousands upon things of people descended on lower manhattan and in times square, and came together in un
outside of the north gate of the white house. the northwest gate. this is pennsylvania avenue, lafayette park. you can see the crowds there. large crowds have gathered. we re told a lot of students from george washington, american university and the schools in the area. the students are coming down. they are getting ready. they wanted to celebrate. many of these students of course remember what happened almost exactly ten years ago when al qaeda operatives did what they did in new york, pennsylvania, and right here in washington over at the pentagon. gloria borger is watching this unfold for us. gloria, rare that a president of the united states can make an announcement like this one did? i guess it was about three hours ago? well, that s right, wolf. i just literally got off the phone with the national security council who described this as one of the best days of his life and was asking about the confirmation about the fact that
pennsylvania avenue a few hundred feet away from where this crowd is, they just have also been spontaneously singing the star spangled banner and the contrast, as our colleague was saying, that on 9/11 outside the northwest gate into lafayette park, which that crowd of 40 people from a couple hours ago is now well into the thousands as they look out there, stretches across lafayette park, a large park here in washington, d.c., as many of our viewers know, now appears to be pretty full. stark comparison to 9/11 where white house aides and press corps were run outthinking that a plane was going to hit here. now instead of the horror and
after he had had phone conversations with egyptian president hosni mubarak but since the violence escalated this is the first opportunity to hear on the situation in egypt and his version in terms of the transition. some of the reports have been in the papers about possible new governments, transitional governments until the elections can be held should be interesting to hear the president s views on that subject should it come up in the news conference. shepard: there is a demonstration outside the white house right now, and mike is in the briefing room. this is long the street, and the gate . the northwest gate to the east where the white house correspondents arrive, to the right hand side of the picture in the background is where reporters usually stand outside. in the near area is people standing in solidarity with the people of egypt so they are anti-government pro demonstrators and looking for reform. mike, with that in mind, robert gibbs talked about the violence