All I needed to get into this event was a ticket to the White House Correspondents Association dinner. No name on it, no passport. I took my passport thinking it’s going to be high security. I arrived at the Washington Hilton, and I got into the gate just by showing a ticket.

And then I got into the hotel itself, no security. Then I went through the reception, no security. Then I went down downstairs to the terrace area, no security.

Essentially, this man, armed with at least two guns and several knives, was one door away from being able to get into a room full of some of the most powerful, important, influential people in the United States.

If he’d got through those doors, it’s dreadful to think what he could have done.

As Trump himself said in his briefing, it’s not a terribly secure building. This is also the same building where an assassination attempt was made on Ronald Regan in 1981.

Yet again the Secret Service in America will be called upon to ask why a simple yellow ticket was enough to get anybody within a door of the president of the United States.

Fortunately, that single checkpoint that this man tried to storm was the only difference between him getting stopped and him getting into the room with the president. ABC reporter at the correspondents dinner.