the car is built as unarmored and standard lincoln, modified a stretched a little. this is a car built from the ground up as an armored vehicle. designed to provide maximum protection for the president. bullet proof glass, and run flat tires, the vehicle can drive away to safety if it gets punctured. built for nixon. it is most often associated with president reagan. he was shot in 1981. he survived and it was close more dangerous than we realized at the time. this was the car he was getting after he made the speech to the union at the washington hilton when shot. as the president was getting into the car. being pushed in by secret service agents, he was hit by a bullet that ricochetted and it was a perfect shot it went through gap between the door and the body. so had things moved a fraction of an inch one way or another, it is possible he may not have been hit. he was pushed into the car and sped off to the hospital. the car continued to be used any damage was minor. we think about this car as being glamorous. they lived rough lives. they were bumped and pushed ar

kennedy as transitional cars, standard lincolns modified, stretched a little, but no other that i think so than that. this is a car that was built from the ground up as an armored vehicle. designed from the get-go to provide maximum protection to the president. so you have armor plating behind the doors, bullet proof gas, run flat tires which are reenforced with steel inside, if the tire gets punctured the vehicle can still drive away for safety. this car built for president nixon and became the primary car after 1972. it was associated with president reagan. he was shot in 1981. he survived. this is the car in which he was getting after he made the speech to the union at the washington hilton when he was shot. as the president was getting into the car, he was actually hit not by a direct bullet, but by a bullet that ricochetted off of one of the armored panels on this car. it was just a perfect shot for lack of a better term, the ricochet went through the gap between the door and the body. had things moved a fraction of an inch one way or the other it's quite possible he may not have b

but this is standard lincoln stretched a little bit and given perhaps a little more rigorous upholstery to hold up to the wear and tear of people getting in and out. there are platforms for secret service agents and flashing lights, sirens that sort of thing but fairly modest in terms of its appointments but certainly served the presidents very well right into the kennedy administration. the size of the presidential fleet really varies from year to year. starts fairly modest then grows a little bit. but primarily one main parade car for the president and that car certainly would be used whenever he was traveling in some kind of some kind of a motorcade in washington d.c. might taken with him when he's traveling. this car could have traveled by rail or air at that time, started so move to cargo planes by the time eisenhower is president. but president might use vehicles furnished by local dealer if he's traveling so some city they must go to the local lincoln agent, provide a new car that looks decent, convertible, and that was it. these state cars were really used for special purposes,

and then lincoln's transitional cars, the point where the cars are built as unarmored, just standard lincoln's modified, perhaps stretched a little but no other changes than that. this was a car built from the ground up as an armored vehicle. it was designed to provide maximum coverage of the president. you have one flat tires which are reinforced with steel inside so if the tire gets punk tured the vehicle can still drive away to safety. this car built for president nixon and became the primary cav after 1972 but it is most often associated with president reagan. he was shot in 1981. he survived, of course, though it was very close. it was more dangerous than perhaps we realized at the time. and this is the car in which he was getting after he made the speech to that union at the washington hilton when he was shot. and it's almost ironic, as the president was getting into the car, more properly being pushed into the car by secret service agents, he was actually hit not by a direct bullet but by a bullet that ricochetted off of one of the armor pan heels of this car. s it waya perfect shot, th

lincoln. this is a moment to celebrate, but also a day where we say, this is what the american standard is.should expect the people today to try to meet it. >> dana: all right, chris stirewalt, thank you. i'll see you wednesday for that pod cast. secret service detaining a driver with a gun in the president's official press motor pool. kevin cork is life in west palm beach. i have never heard anything like it. >> reporter: i was just telling some of my colleagues here that having covered the white house, when you are the press secretary certainly nothing like this happened that i recall. but what happened here today is something that you would well understand, meaning the screening actually takes place pretty far from the actual location where the president himself would have been. so what you have here, dana, were a number of press vans and you had a driver of one of the press pool vans. that driver apparently took his personal bag into the van like he would do every day. unfortunately for him, or so he says, he forgot he had his personal firearm inside that bag. and so as they do the swee