Hugh Dougherty: It does not take a security expert to unravel the layers of failure that happened at a Washington, D.C. hotel on Saturday night. How on earth could someone with a disassembled long gun check into a room at a hotel where the president was going to speak? I can answer that: Nobody even looked at my luggage on Friday afternoon. ... No magnometers, no hand checks, no I.D. checks. Nothing.
How on earth could that person get downstairs and assemble a long gun? I can answer that too. I moved up and down from Floor 10 all day.
A security incident that might have involved gunfire occurred outside the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday night and led to the evacuation of President Donald Trump and other political leaders. So far there are no reports of injuries. C-SPAN video shows security escorting Trump away from the head table.
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