That ended up with a lot of questions. And we need to continue to show skepticism. Heres the big thing, fred. When trump was on with sean hannity thursday night, he acted like this was no big deal. He downplayed hope hicks diagnosis. He said he was going to get a test and see what happens. If, in fact, he knew he had been diagnosed on wednesday, then he was lying to the public again on thursday night. And we know the downplaying, he admitted on tape to bob woodward that was his strategy. Downplaying this and now potentially were learning just from that short press conference from his doctor now bringing into question, was he also, you know, being deceitful with the public about not really revealing his situation. Also with us, political analyst mark preston. Mark, while the team may have thought this was going to bring some real clarity and some relief, it has instead brought other potentially disturbing revelations. Well, fred, just about a half hour ago, we were sitting and talking a
Changed, but the mayor has vowed that the mass massive show of force tonight, that the violence will not continue and also been clear that they think the violence is coming from outsiders. Here is the mayor. This is no longer about verbal expression, this is about violence and we need to make sure that it stops. We are in the middle of a pandemic right now. We have two crisis that are sandwiched on top of one another. Steve you might see a lot of people in the crowd with brooms, dust pans and volunteers trying to clean up after tremendous violence and chaos last night. There was hooting, there were shots fired at police, there was really a sense that no one was in charge overnight and the next hour or so we should see a protest, we will see what those numbers will look like. It could be anywhere to 70,000 people coming out that they brought in the full complement of the National Guard, the National Guards mother states and the governor and the mayor vowing that tonight will be safe. Jo
Reporters were shepherded into the shelter. We dont know how many victims there might be or what condition they could be in right now and well go to joe johns in the Briefing Room and he can give us the latest information. Joe, what do we know right now . Jake, a short time ago here at the white house complex, the guns came out. Secret service pushed people outside of the building on this Beautiful Day inside and told individuals who were on the complex to stay inside. A shelter in place and the white house in and of itself and what we found out was apparently one individual who brandished a gun was spotted by secret service, uniformed secret service, apparently, at 17th and state place, which is right next to e street here and it is right at the intersection near the white house where there happens to be a visitors center. He was transported to a hospital and the tweet indicated that that individual was in critical condition. No confirmation of that so far. So what we do know is that
North lawn. That happened once before but they were all corralled and sent back in here. At one point the u. S. Secret service was trying to evict everyone from the Briefing Room, even from the locked Briefing Room, and force us down into the white house basement where some of us have our booths. But they desisted in that. This all erupted a quarter after 3 00 p. M. Eastern time, and the reports early on here are that there was some kind of shooting incident on west executive drive, near the south gate. The west executive drive is a narrow gated street, blocked to all vehicular traffic for the public, that separates the white house from the executive Office Building. Youre stepping foot on west executive drive, you have a pass or a white house aide or secret service or visitor to the white house, very unusual to hear of gun play. The unconfirmed reports are that one person approached the southedgate year with a weapon in hand, was ordered by secret service to drop it, did not, and was
Accusing sayoc transporting a an explosive, knowingly and willfully threatened to kill and inflict bodily harm. He threatened to blow up a utility company, saying it would be worse than 9 11. The van had disparaging images President Trumps perceived enemies, including a cnn sucks sticker on the side of the van. A list of intended recipients that entirely made up of individuals whom President Trump has attacked and demonized repeat repeatedly, including Hillary Clinton, billionaire george soros, robert de niro. Drew, authorities just minutes ago underlining again these are not hoax devices, these are real. Reporter absolutely not, containing all the components or most of the components of a real bomb, including potentially explosive material. Unknown at this point is if they could have detonated. We do know that the fbi brought this person in for questioning, sayoc. We believe he was questioned here at least briefly. Cooperative initially, telling investigators he didnt intend to blow u