Security banquet: queries over Trump protection

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  Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm Rosie Blue.

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  And I'm Jason Palmer.

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  Today on the show, we speak to Germany's top general

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  and responses to our weekend intelligence episode on the passport bros.

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  But first.

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  At the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday,

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  Donald Trump along with hundreds of reporters had been served his first course burrata salad.

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  Then at 8:32 p.m., a gunman ran past security,

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  shooting a Secret Service agent and attempting to burst into the crowded ballroom.

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  Trump and his Vice President J.D. Vance were rushed away.

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  The shooter was detained, later identified as 31-year-old Cole Thomas Allen from Torrance, California.

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  Trump, still wearing his tuxedo, gave a press conference.

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  Nobody told me this was such a dangerous profession.

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  If Marco would have told me maybe I wouldn't have run,

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  maybe I would have said I'll take a pass.

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  No, it's a dangerous profession.

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  Havoc at the Hilton and the third assassination attempt on Donald Trump

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  revives questions about the competence of the Secret Service.

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  The White House Correspondents' Dinner is a really odd institution.

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