Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was on “Fox News Sunday” with host Shannon Bream to discuss the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ dinner on Saturday night.
Cole Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, stormed the lobby of the Washington Hilton on Saturday night and opened fire. President Trump, First Lady Melania, Vance, and others were safely evacuated as the Secret Service took Allen into custody.
Blanche weighed in on the shooting on Sunday morning.
“Let me ask you where we are in this investigation?” Bream asked.
“Do we know anything more about ideology, motive, if he was working alone?” Bream asked.
“Law enforcement, you are right, executed multiple search warrants last night, not only in Los Angeles, but also in Washington DC,” Blanche said.
“What we have learned and what they’ve learned just overnight is that it appears he traveled from Los Angeles through Chicago, to Washington DC, and it appears he traveled by train both during both legs of that trip,” Blanche said.
“The investigation is rapidly developing, and I expect by the time formal charges are filed, which will likely be tomorrow morning, we will have a better sense of what happened,” Blanche continued.
“It appears he was targeting members of the administration, but I say that generally because that is all we know right now,” Blanche explained.
“There are reports that he quote, ‘told law enforcement following his arrest that he did want to shoot Trump administration officials.’ Can you speak to that specifically?” Bream asked.
“Not more specifically than what you just said. I mean look, this is just starting. There’s multiple, there is emails, there’s things we are looking through right now to help us understand what his motivation was,” Blanche said.
“We are talking to witnesses who knew him and we will be doing that law enforcement work through the night, and they’ll work through the day and continue to work to figure out what happened,” Blanche continued.
Bream asked Acting Attorney General Blanche if the alleged gunman traveled by train to avoid detection.
“Does the train spark any red flags for you?” Bream asked.
“It could be the reasons you just described. It could be other reasons. We don’t know whether he had the firearms with him,” Blanche continued.
Blanche explained that since law enforcement was doing their job, the alleged shooter did not get near the President and the administration members.
“There is a lot of talk about how close the alleged gunman got to all of us and President Trump, but the reality is he didn’t really get past the perimeter,” Blanche said.
Watch:
WATCH: @DAGToddBlanche says the suspect in the White Huse Correspondents’ Dinner shooting traveled by train from Los Angeles, to Chicago, to Washington D.C. Law enforcement is still investigating the motive behind the shooting. pic.twitter.com/TpwEBf4prt
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