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President Trump and a number of members of his administration were evacuated from the White
House correspondent, Stinner tonight, after a man began firing a weapon outside the Washington Hilton Ballroom where the event was being held.
“afterward, President Trump praised the Secret Service agents who quickly tackled the suspects.”
"Fact that they just unified, I saw a room that was just totally unified, it was in one way very beautiful, a very beautiful thing to see a man charge a security checkpoint armed with multiple weapons, and he was taken down by some very brave members of Secret Service and they acted very quickly." One secret service agent was shot at close range, but he was wearing a vest, Trump said
he spoke with him later, and he's fine. There have been no other reported injuries from the shooting. The annual dinner was canceled after the incident, but Trump says he wants to have it rescheduled soon.
NPR's Franco Erdonias, listen to Trump as he spoke tonight.
"I mean, I was taken by his kind of the conciliatory nature, you know, he was talking about how, you know, he really spoke well of the press, he was very thankful, I was touched that he called on Wija, who is the president of the White House correspondent to association.
“She was up there with the president at that moment in these video replays, you can see her”
kind of rushing over to kind of try to help. So I was very touched that the president kind of, you know, pointed her out, and you know, spoke, spoke for any else, spoke well of the press, and you know, I will be, I am encouraged by his thoughts that he does want to do it again, even if it is, you know, in a hard event to do."
That's NPR's Franco Erdonias with the report. He was at the correspondent's dinner when the firing began, authorities have not identified the shooting yet, but they say they are confident that he was acting alone. President Trump says he's canceled the U.S. delegations trip to Islamabad for ceasefire talks with Iran, and Piers de Peshivram has more on that story.
Trump says there was too much time wasted on traveling for in-person talks, on the way back to Washington, Trump told reporters in Palm Beach, Florida that Iranians could continue negotiations over the phone. "Have people traveling for 16, 17 hours? We're not doing it that way.
We'll do it when they want they can call me." He also claimed that there is infighting among Iranian leadership and confusion over who's in charge. Trump extended the ceasefire with Iran earlier this week, though it's not clear when it will lift.
The White House has just said that's up to the president. Trump says that after he canceled the travel to Pakistan, Iran came back with a better deal. He said Iran offered a lot, but not enough. Deepishivram and PR news.
"And you're listening to NPR news." The king of pop is back on top. The Michael Jackson biopic Michael appears headed for a record-breaking opening, and Piers Bob Mondello has ideals. "Oh, we could go.
Industry observers were saying Antoine Fuqua's long-delayed portrait of pop superstar Michael Jackson was likely to sell about $50 million with his tickets in the U.S. this weekend." Then critics waited and talking about a troubled production history, and mostly crashing the film as a sanitized PR pitch by the Jackson Estate. And audiences apparently decided they didn't care.
With about $40 million in the till for Michael Onney, it's first day.
Weekend estimates have risen to as much as $100 million in North America, and another $100 million plus overseas easily a record for a pop music biopic, Bob Mondello NPR News. Paul Estenian Saturday buried a pregnant woman and her two children. They were killed Friday in Israeli strikes in Gaza. At least 13 people died in those attacks, including eight people in Khan Yunus, who died
when Israeli forces targeted a police vehicle. Israel's military says militants threatened troops, which prompted those air strikes. Officials in Mexico say the two U.S. federal agents killed their recently in a car crash were not authorized to participate in operations in Mexico. The two were returning from a destroying a clandestine drug lab in the northern state of
Chihuahua when the accident occurred. Their role in the country remains unclear. Officials said Saturday that one of the men entered the country as a visitor, while the other had a diplomatic passport. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News, every episode of NPR's It's Bittimint podcast starts with
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