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a mock white house with a mock white house grounds. unless this individual passes away, it shifts to the metropolitan police department, a d.c. police investigation. back to you. >> thank you very much, scott. we're going to go back down to the scene. shomari stone is on the other side of the executive office building. what are you seeing, hearing at this point, shomari? >> reporter: we actually talked to a man who actually heard shots, but before we get to that, i'm going to set the scene where i'm at. i'm at 17th street and f street northwest. you look across the street. you have tourists, a lot of folks in town who are trying to get to the white house. this is the dwight d. eisenhower building to the left. mark segraves is on the other side about two blocks away. that shooting occurred at 17th and e street about 3:00 d.c. police said. i'm joined by otis. he is in town from detroit, michigan. he was with a group of people who were supposed to go to the white house to receive a presidential award. i want you to tell me what you heard.

of the white house. at least seeming they feel as though the immediate threat has ended and that would be consistent with the reporting that we have heard, although the area where this instance don't occurred, you -- incident occurred you can still see res secret service agents walking around with heavy weapons out. something we rarely see here, and you can see the fear and confusion on the faces of tourists who had shown up to come visit the white house and then were herded out by men with automatic weapons in a very different scene than anybody we would typically see on a friday afternoon. to give you a sense, the southwest corner of the white house complex, where west executive drive is would be the first chick -- checkpoint you go how to to present your credentials or pass 00 star i'm here for an appointment and that's exactly where the fluoroy of police activity is right around that area where the check take place. the area with the most activity is the area where would be an unsecured area typicall

david: to race for white house. democrat race is pretty much over, according to hillary clinton, democratic candidate declaring she will be the one on the ballot in november. >> my party -- that is already done in effect there no way i won't be. david: al all right done, a done deal, it is cooked. so what is bernie doing in the race? here brett baier host of special report. a lot of democrats are wondering? >> they are, say are saying by the numbers, because of superdelegates, hillary clinton the definitively be the nominee barring some other determination from the fbi or the department of justice on the investigation. and that is what she is saying in this interview yesterday. this said, bernie sanders, says he is sticking in it until the last vote, he will go to philadelphia and fight for it we may have one more debate, he said he is going to take part in a fox news debate in california, we're waiting on word from hillary clinton whether she will do that. david: we always happy to host the debates. but what about

all our information is it did not happen on the white house grounds, near the white house fence, white house grounds fence some distance from the white house building itself but the white house campus encompasses the white house itself, old executive office building and north lawn and huge ellipse, which is at the bottom of that map. those are all the details i have at this point. i hesitate to use the word details but that's our best understanding. >> that's a lot more than we knew five minutes ago. i appreciate that. to reiterate, it was one individual, as far as we know, shot in the chest, a white male, taken to the hospital by medevac and we don't know who fired the shots and perhaps someone in law enforcement and we don't know that yet and this all happened around the corner of 17th and e, northwest washington, d.c. just to the south and west of the white house itself, very importa importantly, outside of the white house grownsc white house grounds. we've been here before in recent weeks you and i had to talk about lock-downs in washington near the capitol most recently. this is c

with the white house was injured and everyone in the white house is safe and accounted for.dent has been made aware of the situation. the lockdown here has been lifted. as you can see, we are out on the lawn, though, out on the street. there are a number of secret service officer who is are there. it appears that the street in front of the white house is still blocked off for pedestrian traffic. now, we want to go to a piece of video that was shot just a little while ago from a woman who described what she saw when the shooting occurred and we are told from sources that this was a male suspect who was confronted by the officers, gun in hand. listen. >> well, we were standing right in front of the house and getting ready to take a picture of all of us and all of a sudden we heard a gunshot. now, we didn't think it was for real until my father was standing just a few feet away from the fence and my father tells us that he all of a sudden sees this guy that was very close to the fence drop down on the floor. and that's when he told us, hey, hey, be careful. i think somebody got

white house also stating that there were no injuries to any white house personnel. we are obviously in a bit more tense situation. when it comes to security in light of what may or may not been the cause of the plane going down, the egyptair flight. there were a series of fence jumpers and even in 2011 someone did fire a gun and hit the white house building as well as a window. they have been stepping up efforts some bit over the past year. including adding spikes to the top of the fence line and second level of barricades. this is just one more reason the se up all of the protective measures there at the white house. leon: scott thuman reporting live from the newsroom. appreciate that. right now, the abc7 news team is pressing its sources looking for any more information available on what happened outside the white house. we will bring you that new information as soon as we learn it in the coming hour. alison: okay, leon. also a big story tonight breaking. firings at metro. we are talking about major firings here. abc7 has now confirmed 20 of the transit agencies m

let's call it two buildings away from the white house, but in the white house complex.s amateur video just coming in to us from, i believe, snapchat, shows some of the early moments after the shooting. pete williams has been working the phone and his sources since that moment and is with us from our d.c. newsroom. pete? >> right, so this picture would appear to be taken from a number of different places. some close to the white house, some not so close. what you're looking at right now is the police search of a car which is believed to belong to the man who approached the white house with a gun. it's pretty well over. they've opened the doors, the trunk, the hood. they've looked all through it. this is the beginning of what will be a long process to investigate what brought this man to washington. but let's back up here, we're now told that this happened almost two hours ago at 3:06, when a white male, we're told, in his early 30s approached a checkpoint on the west side of the white house grounds. when he walked up, we're told by law enforcement officials and by the wa

at the white house.y. that's a densely populated area, a lot of foot traffic, all kind of standard urban traffic going through that area. if somebody said there was a shot blocks away and it's unrelated, i am not surprised that's not related. west executive area, who was it who got a pass and carried a weapon into this environment? >> joe johns, let me bring you back n. you are holed up inside of the briefing room as per protocol right now. again, if you are just joining us, reports of a shooting on or near white house grounds. the president is not on property. but, joe, pens pen avenue, lafayette park there on the back side of the house -- can you walk our viewers through what is in that general vicinity? >> it is a large complex. as you said, lafayette park across the street from the white house. as you walk your way around, you see the old eisenhower executive office building. obviously we have the west wing on the grounds. it's a fairly large area. and there is activity here from time to time. we hav

an invitation from the white house correspondents. >> this is the time when the white house insiders need be accessed. it is reversed. [indiscernible] >> in the sense it makes a people uncomfortable, these celebrities and politicians mixing? there is never come fox. verypeople feel uncomfortable. some journalists feel very uncomfortable. the new york times does not participate anymore and this event. i think it is a valid question to ask if it is appropriate for celebrities and politicians to mingle with the press. on the other hand, it gives people a chance to see both power centers with their hair down a little bit. a different window. >> and that is a rising star. by the way, is this a hand invitation that folks and hollywood angle for? >> oh, yeah. this is incredibly important in hollywood hand people really do and enjoy coming to the show. >> that is jamie alexander. jamie alexander, one of the hottest new stars in television. career as a rising star. >> i apologize, i keep telling you we are not on camera but studios and in keep seeing people i recognize. >> the mix makes it in

white house on lockdown.s been cleared but now we have that the white house is on lockdown after reports of what sounded like gunshots. sounded like gunshots. it sounded, according to police, that somebody had shot to the west of the white house. that's why secret service, as i reported earlier, had their guns at the ready. we don't want to say drawn but at the ready, and let me get to peter barnes, we're hearing from leland vittert of fox news, nearby in the building. please explain. >> reporter: that's right, leland talked to a witness who said that a secret service agent, division uniformed agents were yelling, quote, this is not a drill. uniformed officer at scene says that it will be a while until this situation is resolved. we're monitoring developments there. we don't have any more oo ooch more information than what you've been getting off the wires, liz, obviously we're watching it closely. our colleagues in the news media were told to go downstairs in the briefing room area and the adjoining office s

less than a block from the white house. or at least where the white house property is. we know that someone was hit. d.c. fire say they transported a victim in critical condition. when we got here on the scene we saw an ambulance driving away. not 100% sure it was the victim. but d.c. fire did transport condition. the secret service is investigating this right now. we had a shooting near the white house. where it happened is in the area where you can't drive closer, where they shut the streets off. you can't take a car closer unless you are authorized. that is the area where it happened. there were a lot of tourists around at the time. we just talked to a couple of folks who were right there when it happened. they had a video we are hoping to get for you of the aftermath of what happened. where the victim was actually on the ground shot out here. this happened on a beautiful day out here. a lot of tourists around. all of a sudden gunfire less than a block from the white house. we'll stay on the scene and bring you the latest. i'm tom roussey, abc7 news. michelle: tom, i

. >> he said, "it's from the white house." and i go, "talking about d.c. white house?" i was just stunned. >> the white house neither confirms nor denies... >> what do you see? >> gold! [ laughs ] >> let's investigate! >> i scrape the paint layers down to the wood. >> and when you heard what it was worth? >> and sold! [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] >> i'm jamie colby, and today i'm in boston to meet an heir who has an inheritance so strange, it takes years just to figure out what it is. >> my name is mike meister. my siblings and i inherited something that goes back to our great-uncle more than a hundred years ago. we'd always been told that it came from the white house, but it was just a family story. hi, jamie. welcome to boston. >> thanks, mike. nice to meet you. >> yeah, nice to meet you, too. >> mike leads me inside, saying he has something amazing to show me. he keeps it in its own molded, air-tight protective case. can i take a look? >> sure can. >> you brought me all the way here, mike. this is... what is it? mike's strange inhe

this year's theme is road to the white house. students were asked what issue do you want presidential candidates to discuss? our first prize high school winners are from troy, michigan. kristen ola's, michael fraser, zehn wani. they want them to discuss the scarcity of freshwater. the great lakes and the flint water crisis. their video is titled "the 1%." >> today, americans are drowning in overly debated issues, such as immigration, medicare, terrorism, leaked e-mails. although these are important topics, the issues that will affect the most americans is the issue of the 1%. >> 1%. >> 1%. >> no, not that 1%. this 1%. the shining blue jewel of the united states, the great lakes. >> one of the unique resources the world. nothing like it. everyone has a responsibility to do what we can to protect those waters. >> in the u.s., we are lucky. we have the best drinking water in the world. i think that's allowed us to become a bit complacent about our drinking water. we take it for granted. >> about 70% of our freshwater is right here.

september 2014, a fence jumping at the white house. an individual jumps the white house fence. there's that man doing so. he makes it all the way inside the white house through an unlocked front door, then to the east room. the secret service under scrutiny for that and what happened in 2011. gunfire. bullets were found in a second floor wall of the white house, but they weren't found for a few days after the shots were fired. the president and mrs. obama were out of the town at the time, but some of the first family were there. secret service had to answer questions about that. the secret service under pressure to raise the white house fence from six feet to 11 feet. the secret service, according to documents obt i-team today, had planned to begin construction of the new fence, not this temporary one, in 2015 mid year. as of today, may 2016, construction hasn't begun and there's no timetable for it to happen. the president is now departing joint base andrews. he spent the afternoon there golfing. he arrived at 1:30. at 6:00, the motorcade began moving out of andrews and potent

no the white house doesn't have any -- mr. earnest: no. the white house doesn't have that view. we're going to be strongly supportive of our friends in brazil as they tackle the significant challenge they're facing right now. we've talked about the support that we've offered in terms of confronting this public health challenge related to the zika virus. and there is some assistance the united states has already provided. we stand ready to provide additional assistance as needed to help brazil fight zika. we do that because, as we learned from ebola, our investments in the capacity that other countries have to confront public health challenges ultimately has an impact on the public health and well-being and safety of the american people. so we know that the preponderance of the zika virus is much more intense than brazil. so we certainly stand ready to help them confront that challenge. as it relates to the olympics, -- hosting the summer olympics is a significant undertaking for any country. thank chooses to a-- that chooses to assume that challenge. the truth is, the world is r

the white house. this is the security check point where the incident went down. the man, the pennsylvania man is at a hospital in critical condition tonight. after he was shot here and as he was being taken to the hospital he suggested he had cop incident. >> a moment of chaos. we were all scared. >> reporter: they were visited and sightseeing. she was walking into the white house to receive an award. they were taking a group picture. >> all of a sudden we heard a gun shot. we didn't think was for real. security guards coming out, pushing everybody out, telling everybody to leave. >> move, move, move. then i could over hear on his walkie-talkie that shots fired. shots fired. suspect down. suspect down. and, you know, at that point we were trying to -- they got us out of there. >> reporter: he approached a white house check point that is accessible via e street commands to drop the gun. that is when he was shot. once in the chest by secret service agent. >> i saw him with -- [ indiscernible ] i turn. i

i would like to think my other family, the white house press corps.ed to washington eight years ago from a small newspaper in florida to cover the white house. i have had the pleasure to work alongside some of the smartest, funniest, kindest, and weirdest people i know. you know who you are. they are competitors but we collaborate, we speak the same , we spend more time with each other than with our colleagues at our news organizations, and often times more than our own families. could you please stand -- i want to thank you for the work that you do which i admire, and for just being her quirky, entertaining, fun, dedicated cells. thank you -- dedicated s elves. thank you. [applause] carol: obviously, this is president obama's last dinner while in office. , being thent enterprising reporters that we are, we wanted to give you something you can turn to have to you leave the white house and you miss having this around to record your every move. thank you for putting this together, let's take a look. [begin video clip] >> the white house correspondents a

after we soon got into the white house, mrs. kennedy asked if i would have tom kitten board at the house has -- board at the house. i was not aware of the president was allergic to animals. but caroline's cat, because she was the same a's -- same age as our two sons, they would come to visit and she would come periodically, mostly on wednesdays to come and visit, but before mrs. kennedy went on her trip to india, she wanted a day to herself so caroline and she could come visit with tom kitten and that would give her a day of relaxation. that was one of the happier moments and there were several others, but there is so much to talk about, it could not cover it in just a few minutes. >> i have read the book and i would recommend the book. [applause] >> nancy hogan dutton worked in the campaign for fred dutton. she worked in his office in the white house and he went on to run robert f kennedy's campaign. your husband was special assistant to jfk. tell us about how you met and what that experience was like. he went on to found earth

press corps and the white house. that is always going to be there and the day that it's not, the day that there is not friction the white house press corps and the white house is the day that you guys stop doing your jobs, the day you walk in here and sit in the front row and say, josh, i think you just answered all my questions, there's not another single thing i could possibly ask about -- haven't taken you seriously your responsibilities to push and prod and hold the presidenttion and the accountable for the decisions he's making and the consequences of those decisions and i think fact that i come out here and stand here for an hour, hour and a half every day to answer questions is an indication that we take that process quite seriously. that in theink coming months or weeks that the president might increase his engagement with the press? remember that day he took many questions from the students but his interactions with us are more limited, perhaps not over course of the whole -- there are a lot of ways to parse

white house. >> the streets and the buildings near the white house also being impacted by this shooting. let's go to jackie bensen. she's live along constitution avenue where secret service agents are focused on a parked car there. jackie? >> reporter: jim, yes. this is where they believe the man was walking around. you can see the ellipse behind me. you can see the uniformed secret service officers and the the man is said to have been walking around the ellipse. when we show you where this vehicle was found, the vehicle you mentioned that we believe is associated with this shooter, you can see it over there. a white chevrolet malibu that we're told has pennsylvania license plates, and we are told that vehicle parked on constitution avenue here very close to the ellipse, that vehicle was discovered within a few minutes, three or four minutes of when this shooting happened. d.c. police bomb squad came here to assist the secret service to search that vehicle. there was a concern that there was ammuni

as you face the white house, this would be the entrance that you see the right side of the white housethere is a guard house there. it is where most of us grunt media enters the white house everyday. we get checked in and we go through the medal tedetectors before we are allowed inside the white house. you can see that gentlemen out there is walking towards the guard post to our right and it appears and you see there the doors are opening. he's gone inside. not everybody is dressed in hazmat gear. it must be an object that they have yet decided to move because as we see this one gentleman in the foreground, he started out with his hazmat suit just half way down his waste and now he's got it to fully up his oxygen tank, air tank on the back and the hood which he would obviously pull up over his head if it is deep necessarily. no for medic activity, very calm and methodical but it is something never seen outside the white house before. >> give us the distance of where this red structure on the left is and looks to be portable on the right hand side of the fire truck. what's the distance

after we soon got into the white house in 1961, mrs. kennedy asked if i would have tom kitten flown to the house. the president, he was allergic to animal for which i was not aware of -- animal fur, which i was not aware at the time of either. caroline was the same age as chris and greg. they would come to visit, and she would come periodically, mostly on wednesdays when it was a day off. however, before mrs. kennedy went on her trip to india she wanted a day to herself so that caroline and she could come and visit with tom kitten and that would give for a day of relaxation. so, anyway that was one of the more happier moments and there were several others, but as i say there is so much to talk about that we cannot really covered in just a few minutes. >> i have read the book so i recommend the book. [laughter] >> thank you. [applause] >> nancy duggan, worked in the campaign for fred duggan. she later ran robert f kennedy's campaign. your husband was a specialist for jfk. tell us a bit about that and how you met and what that entire exper

some family event in the white house. he loved that solitude and we worked much differently in the nixon white house. the senior people there, price harlow -- henry not so much, henry worked directly with the president. the other senior people had to work, i'm sure they didn't like this. they had to work through haldeman and/or me, nixon didn't like -- that's why i had so much trouble -- >> can i suggest he tell the story about the state dinners? nixon calls you in and says, i'm sick and tired of those sob's that come to the state dinner sticking their face in mine and bothering me. and he had a solution. tell them what the solution was and what you did. >> do you mind, is this okay? >> no, this is all good. >> this was almost unbelievable. at a normal state dinner, for those of you who don't know, there's a big cocktail party in the east room for about 30 or 40 minutes. the waiters are passing drinks on trays. ready made drinks of all kinds. and then the receiving line forms and you go through the receiving line, the pre

traffic is crazy down here due to the shooting near the white house. and of course we are told that area will be closed for at least another couple more hours while they continue to investigate that area. garrett writing pennsylvania avenue still entirely shut down in front of the white house. and then finally minni writes tourists pushed to peripheral of white house after shooting. of course e the top trending stories right now on twitter. adam. >> jan, thank you. we know that president obama was not at the white house when this happened. vice president biden, though, was on the property. secret service say he was, quote/unquote secured during the course of this. as more details emerge on this story, we will bring them to you throughout the newscast. >> look for breaking news 24 hours a day on our wusa9 news app. >>> other news to get to on this friday. a fairfax county school teacher's assistant is killed in an early morning shooting and police are still looking for the gunman. >> yeah, this happened around 2:20 in the morning in the parking lot of t

he continued to advance towards the white house., the protocol, the procedure for uniformed officers is if somebody conti they refuse to acknowledge the officers' orders, you have to take that person out. what the secret service officers did, shot the guy one time in the stomach. then he went down at that point. there were a lot of people. so the viewers know. there were a lot of people in that area. the secret service right around the white house -- this is good information, sean, we use in the dc area a layered security protocol. a layered protocol means that you have to go through various layers of security in order to access the white house. now, what's interesting in this case is that this individual today never got past the outer layer of the white house perimeter. everything appeared at this point to have worked the way it's supposed to work. >> we know generally as the public, we can see things that are happening. we see there are sharp shooters on top of thes white house. there's a live shot. we can see a little bit of step

when i met larry wilmore he told me it's his dream come true to follow the president at the white houses the house of the nightly show on comedy central and it is our pleasure to welcome him tonight. ladies and gentlemen, larry wilmore. [applause] larry: thank you. thank you very much. thank you for keeping that applause going all the way. i appreciate that. welcome to negro night here at -- [laughter] larry: two thugs disrupt elegant dinner in d.c., as fox news would report it. nice to be here though at the white house correspondents dinner. they're going to college next aar, donald trump presents luxurious evening hosted by mexico. it is an absolute honor to be here tonight. i want to thank the president, the first lady. the correspondents association for hiring me and mitch mcconnell for not blocking my nomination. seriously, you have to give mr. mcconnell credit. this one, he could block lebron james. a little bit about me, i am a black man who replaced a white man who pretended to be eight tv -- pretended to be a tv newscaster. in that way lester holden and -- lester holt and i hav

having been on the inside of the white house bureaucracy, the white house, not the executive branch ofent. the 18 acres has its own bureaucracy and i am sure that decision sadly had to be vetted. and that the acthetics were determined and when it comes to the white house, nothing is easy. >> we are looking at it right now, and guys are putting up additional fencing at the top. they can literally reach the top of it. and that suggests. we all have been there. it is not a terribly high fence. goodness, you can pole valt over it. do you think that the white house is secure? >> you know, i think the white house is secure as it can be right now. i think the secret service agents that i work with and in charge of management and i can say things they can't. they are dealing with a bureaucratic and staff concerns about p the look of the white house. there is things they could do personnel and mechanical wise. a tactical assault, we are vulnerable at the white house. >> what kind of assault are you talking about. >> if you had a trained assault team of 20 or 30 guys it could create problems. i

on security alert after a shooting on the street right outside the white house. uspect brandishing a gun was shot in the chest by a secret service agent and then taken to a nearby hospital. president obama was golfing at andrews air force base at the time, but he was briefed on the situation. >>> supporters of shiite cleric muqtada al sadder rallying for reforms. iraqi security troops and riot police used tear gas to disperse the crowd which left scores injured. >>> camille cosby's deposition from february was unsealed. she invoked her spousal privileges not to testify about conversations between her and her husband bill cosby. that deposition lasted approximately six hours. >>> a 1996 hummer once owned by tupac shakur sold for $337,000. it comes equipped with a tur bediazen v-8 engine and an interior. the license plate, yaknpak comes all included. >> thank you so much. we have a news alert on valiant. >> valeant putting out an alert. brian stolz resigning from valeant effective may 30th. the same week they said they're going to pay three other executives' retenti

another source of frustration for the white house said e what congress has is the cuts the white house has proposed in coming years to army and strength, army and strength in particular but some of the other services as well, is too leave the will military not prepared to face the threats of the future. obama administration request for next year, we're looking at about 20,000 more soldiers added to the bottom line. what folks on capitol hill, the republicans will say, is we're actually keeping it fairly steady, a slight increase, but we're looking at maintaining the it down as tting much as obama wants to and you now, adding more people means adding more personnel cost, healthcare costs, family and housing costs and stuff like that so it's a compounding problem that they can't figure out how to pay for it past next year. host: and the military pay increase, you said, the measure calls for 2.1% military pay rate start nothing january. guest: if that goes through, it would be the first time military private pace with sector wages, first time in four years that that has come up and source

jonathan karl at the white house tonight. >> reporter: police officers in tactical gear race to the white house as a frightening situation unfolded just a block away. it was just about 3:00 p.m. not far from the south lawn. a man walked up to a white house checkpoint carrying a firearm. secret service officials say he was ordered to drop the gun but refused, waving the weapon in a threatening way. an agent nearby fired a single shot, hitting the man in the abdomen. this one of the few sunny days we've had in washington all month. so there were families out here, joggers, tourists. the place packed with people when that shot rang out right over there. confusion as authorities raced to the scene. stopping traffic, securing the lawn, yelling at people to get back in place. >> get back over that way. >> we heard a shot and we got scared. >> a single shot. the cops come out of the side. they've got their guns drawn. >> reporter: the white house was put on lockdown. the president was out golfing but vice president biden was on white house grounds. >> chaos at the white house today. jon karl at

you're the one who has worked in the white house. what are they doing in the white house?es off. they deserve it. the president did a great job. it was a hell of a night. >> i can't thank you enough for being here with me covering this event no its very beginning. the president's final white house correspondents' dinner. you saw it all here. stay with cnn for more coverage of the dinner all night long. thanks. >>> 4:30 a.m. on the u.s. east coast and we welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. you are watching cnn "newsroom." it is good to have you with us. i'm george howell. the headlines we're following for you this hour. in southeastern turkey, a blast outside the police headquarters has killed one officer and left 13 others wounded. state media report that a car bomb exploded outside of that building. >>> the iraqi capital is under a state of emergency after hundreds of protesters breech the green zone.

the annual white house correspondents dinner.liticians, some journalists as well, all inside that room. it's a spotlight here in d.c. every year. this year, though, especially special given it is the last time president obama will be speaking at this dinner. we're told that they are moving on schedule for the most part. president obama set to take the mike in roughly, oh, 20, 25 minutes. after the president sits down, larry wilmore will take the mike. he of course host of comedy central's "the nightly show." let me start with you, nancy. what can we expect from larry wilmore? >> okay, well, he's very, very funny and very, very droll. i think he and the president actually kind of match each other in terms of not only their background but their style. and among other things, i'm sure that larry wilmore will have fun with some of the concepts that i like to have fun with as a comedian, people making assumptions racially when it comes to the president and concepts like the president not being black enough or down with the people or w

according to a white house official, quote, no one went or associated with the white house was injured during this incident. and everyone in the white house is safe and accounted for. the president has been made aware of the situation. deirdre. deirdre: thank you for that update, we'll come to you for new information peter barnes with me from dc. a look at market, stock close off the highs but still in the green, some say investors are adjusting to idea of a potential interest rate hike in june, ashlee webster with me now from the latest. stocks up for day but a rocky week. >> all of the talk about fed, watching fed, has become a robust industry. trying to make sense. traders not always biggest fans of fed, yesterday we say a fell sell-off on market because of the fear we would get a rate hike this summer, today the psyche of market changes a bit, thinking , well okay it fed raises races in the sum -- raises rates in the summer maybe the economy is better than we think, it is strange thing day-to-day, markets up 65 on the day but down 35 for the week, we were hoping that dow could snap

you're the one who has worked in the white house. what are they doing in the white house?r" party and dri their faces off. they deserve it. the president did a great job. it was a hell of a night. >> i can't thank you enough for being here with me covering this event no its very beginning. the president's final white house correspondents' dinner. you saw it all here. stay with cnn for more coverage of the dinner all night long. thanks. >>> this is no ordinary dinner. this is a big [ bleep ] meal. >> i want to welcome all of you to the white house course correspondents association dinner. >> the night when washington celebrates itself. somebody's got to do it. supreme court ruled that the

arrived at the white house. he was a little older than 27.ign policy experience and had come up through campaigns. >> and prided himself on being a novelist. a story teller. >> and somebody who was unburdened. >> and don't we know it? >> because another thing he says in this piece is that there's something in washington he calls the blob, which is all the talking heads and foreign policy establishment people. i must say, i think there's something to it. it was kind of a refreshing dose of irreverence by ben rhodes there. people had made a lot of mistakes in iraq and i can understand that. but you know, nevertheless, there were some very seasoned people out there, some like leon panetta and bob gates who helped this president, or at least tried to, and probably don't deserve to be thought of as part of a blob. >> julie? have you since this article came out, have you talked to people at the white house? >> yeah. i mean, you know, it's interesting, because this white house really prides themselves on being the smartest kid in the room. that's th

welcome to the white house. i guess it is the blue and white house today because we're gives it up to the ncaa champion villanova wildcats. you should know we have big nova fans here from both sides of the aisle. we want to acknowledge villanova president, peter donahue who is here. athletic director mark jackson, who capped off his first year as athletic director with a national championship. pretty good job. pretty good. unfortunately perhaps the most important nova grad here, dr. joe biden, jill biden could not be here. i think she's teaching. her husband, joe, wanted me to remind you that he picked nova to win it all. this is the type of wise counsel that you are looking for from a vice president. unfortunately i didn't follow his counsel so my bracket was busted. we have the best dressed man in college ball. the george clooney of coaches. jay wright. and today we celebrate a remarkable team that worked tirelessly to make coach look good in terms of his job and not just his wardrobe. his taylorilor and styli

ben rhodes commented that the white house -- commented on the white house's desire to avoid scrutiny. i'd like to look at video clip d and ask you a question about it. [video presentation] >> we are already looking at how to restructure this. glenn grothman: ok. how do you feel the process circumvented the transparency with congress? michael s. doran: the -- they structured the deal so that they could take it to the security council and effectively move out on it before the -- before congress ever really got to -- really got to look at it. there's a second dimension to what we just heard that's disturbing. that was -- that was ben rhodes talking to -- to a group of progressive activists and telling what was coming down the line and giving them the talking points about -- about a -- about a -- about how to -- about how to support it. i mean that -- what -- what you just heard was -- was ben rhodes talking to the -- the foot soldiers that are going to create his -- that are -- in his -- in his echo chamber. glenn grothman: tell us let me begin who those foot soldiers are? michael s. dor

>>> tonight, breaking news, shots fired outside the white house. a suspect pulling out a gun. the white sox on lockdown. the vice president inside and was secured. the shooter taken down. we're on the scene tonight. >>> breaking developments in the crash of flight 804. was there a fire on board? our team there tonight as teams fly over the search area. what's now been discovered and the focus on who was nut the cockpit. >>> here at home, the frightening moment in court. the uber driver charged in a killing spree, lashing out with one of his alleged victims in court. they rush in to drag him out. >>> was this man stunned to death? >> tase him! >> the officers with the taser and the moment after the struggle when one of the officers says, "i'm fired." >> i'm fired. >>> an abc news exclusive. inside rikers with its history as one of the most violent jails in america. diane sawyer inside tonight. >>> and graduation day. you need to meet our very little persons of the week. >>> good evening and we begin tonight with that alarming scene playing out at the white house late today. a ma

rhoades represent a rogue employee of the white house or does it spin more deeply on how the white house handled the iran deal? >> i believe it represents the president's strategic vision and the president's will. the president is on record as early as 2006 saying he wanted to improve and he saw iran and syria as sharing core interests and stabilizing iraq and we should work with them to do that. i don't think he ever oust that. >> you would say that his ultimate responsibility for developing this frame of capitulation? >> absolutely. that's the key factor to understanding why we made the concessions. we are not trying to stop it from getting a nuclear weapon, we are developing a partnership. the lies and misrepresentations that are deep within the capitulation agreement are just the latest example of what the administration's mo since the inception. let's not forget that they are sold in the american people under the guides of health care reform. the president drove a legislative garbage truck full of giveaways through congress and over americans's pocket book by repeating the lie. if y

the president is there at the white house right now. white house is on lockdown. number two.ve heard that there's at least one person who has been put into custody. the associated press reports that was a woman put into custody as this event was going on. three, as you watch the dc fire department suit up, important to know they are in their has douse materials suit and can you see them putting on some of their breathing apparatus and protective suits but not their bomb suits. what, if anything, can we read into that? perhaps they have inspect that had package with a robot. oftentimes that happened. happened just after president obama returned from his memorial day speech at arlington cemetery so around 12:30, 15:45 when this would have begun. it's already 2:15 now. as we are watching them just getting ready to go investigate the suspicious package thrown over the north lawn fence. more details as they become available. heather. >> more visitors there than normally. >> tons and tons of tourists. >>> latest polls predicting a very close general election matchup between donald

the white house doesn't have that view. we're going to be strongly supportive of our friends in brazil as they tackle the significant challenges they're facing right now. we have talked about the support we have offered in terms of confronting this public health challenge related to the zika virus. and there is some assistance the u.s. has already provided and we stand ready to provide additional assistance as needed to help brazil fight zika. we do that because as we learned from ebola, our investments in the capacity that other countries have to confront public health challenges ultimately has an impact on the public health and wellbeing and safety of the american people. so we know that the preponderance of the zika virus is much more intense in brazil, and so we certainly stand ready to help them confront that challenge. as it relates to the olympics, i think -- hosting the summer olympics is a significant undertaking for any country that chooses to assume that challenge. and the truth is, the world is rooting for brazi

a white house statement says no one within or associated with the white house was injured and everyone in the white house is safe and accounted for. it's the latest in a string of security incidents at the white house in recent years. in 2011, a man fired eight rounds from his car into the building, and a number of jumpers have scaled the fence, including a man in 2014 who made it all the way inside the mansion before being arrested, eluding eight secret service members. a follow-up report cited communication snafus and severe understaffing of uniformed officers. a plan to almost double the height of the perimeter fence is in the works. the shooting occurred at that checkpoint behind me. you can see the white tent where it occurred. charlie, we are told the sudden has been identified as jesse olveery of pennsylvania, and we're told he's now in critical condition. >> rose: thanks, chip. the white house is, agz the sign says, a gun-free zone, which means visitors are not permitted to bring weapons inside. today, donald trump told the n.r.a. he would eliminate gun-free zones as he won the

brit, the white house continues to say this is not a combat mission, isn't that getting to be hardernd harder to maintain? >> yes, it is, chris, but i don't think we should be believing here that what we really have is some kind of a covert serious major combat undertaking. the president is clearly doing this in very, very maul steps and i don't think he intends to go beyond that. you're always reminded of the slippery slope that we've encountered in other conflicts where you start with a few and the next thing you know it's a few more and pretty soon it's many and pretty soon you are in a full-fledged combat role. i don't sense that that will come here. it is getting a little silly for the white house to say that this is not combat and you have the secretary of defense saying something else. that's just absurd. i don't think we should believe that president obama is going to be i waging any wars here. >> president obama currently announced that he's sending 250 more special ops forces, i think there were already 50 on the ground, but 250 more special ops forces to syria, our militar

lincoln's bed, monroe's gold set - all these make these men much more alive so i think it makes the white house a stronger panorama really of our great story." "do you mind living in a house that has as many visitors as this one has?" "well, last year, we had the largest in history which i think shows that the white house is becoming more and more important to american people. more than one million three hundred thousand people passed through our home. but i'd like to see that number double this year and what is particularly interesting is that at least two thirds of them were young boys and girls at school. i have always felt that american history is sometimes an adult subject. there's so much emphasis on dates but i think if they can come here and see alive this building and in a sense touch the people who've been here then they'll go home more interested and i think they'll be better americans." "history can be helpful in understanding the present?" "yes. history isn't a guide to the present. in the archives building down pennsylvania avenue there is stone or plaque which says, 'what is pass

we only found out about that afterwards, because the white house kept it secret. testimony,had sworn in a number of house committees and senate committees, where the sworn testimony by administration officials were that there are no, and were no, secret side agreements. would you say that is a credible ?rgument under sworn testimony >> they are lying to congress. >> that is a bold statement, that they are lying to congress. if we go back and look at the tapes where they say that there was no side agreement in sworn testimony, do you think it is incumbent upon this committee to hold those particular individuals, who gave sworn oftimony in contempt congress? >> yes. >> thank you, mr. rubin. let me go further. the troubling aspect of this is, somehow, members on the other thatof the aisle suggest there is run doing in previous administrations that would justify wrongdoing in a current administration. is it your opinion, mr. rubin, that regardless of who the be, whetheron might it be republican or democrat, that it is incumbent upon them to be honest and straightforwar