Wolf Blitzer, the CNN anchor, was near the men’s room at the top of the stairs above the basement when the shooting took place, he told his network. Blitzer described being a few feet away from the shooter. “I did see the gunman on the ground after he started shooting,” Wolf Blitzer says on CNN.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “is fine and has left the dinner,” according to his closest aide, Stefanie Spear.
The Department of Justice has directed the Bureau of Prisons to expand federal execution protocols to include pentobarbital injections and firing squads. The move is part of a broader effort to strengthen enforcement of the federal death penalty under the Trump administration.
Vice President JD Vance and members of Trump’s Cabinet, who were also in attendance, were also rushed out
The directive was outlined in a memo obtained by Fox News. Officials said the changes are intended to ensure that capital sentences are carried out once legal appeals have been exhausted, Fox News reported.
“Today, the Department of Justice acted to restore its solemn duty to seek, obtain, and implement lawful capital sentences — clearing the way for the Department to carry out executions once death-sentenced inmates have exhausted their appeals,” the memo said.
The department said it will reintroduce lethal injection protocols used during the first Trump administration. It also plans to expand execution methods to include additional options such as firing squads.
Wolf Blitzer, the CNN anchor, was near the men’s room at the top of the stairs above the basement when the shooting took place, he told his network
“Among the actions taken are readopting the lethal injection protocol utilized during the first Trump Administration, expanding the protocol to include additional manners of execution such as the firing squad, and streamlining internal processes to expedite death penalty cases,” the memo said.
