White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles is pulling top security officials into a room this week to look at what needs tightening—and what went right—after the weekend's scare at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. A senior White House official says Wiles will meet with the operations team, the Secret Service, and Homeland Security leaders to review "protocols and practises" for major events involving President Trump, with an eye on a packed schedule tied to the America 250 celebrations, Politico reports.
The official says the group will examine how existing procedures helped stop Saturday's alleged gunman before he reached the ballroom at the Washington Hilton, while also looking at ways to further strengthen protections ahead of upcoming high-profile appearances. Trump, the White House says, continues to back Secret Service leadership and believes agents "did an excellent job neutralizing the shooter and moving the President, First Lady, Vice President and Cabinet to safety."
The incident has prompted broader scrutiny of event security. Key figures in the presidential line of succession, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, were at the event, the Guardian reports. On Monday, Rubio told Fox News that after they were rushed out of the ballroom, administration officials "went backstage to the command center, where the president sat in the back" and it was "quickly assessed" that the continuity of government was in place.
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