Details emerge of alleged shooter at White House correspondents' dinner

Agents stand guard after the shooting at the annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner on Saturday. Andrew Harnik/ hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/ Hours after a gunman attempted to breach the White House Correspondents' Dinner, details are slowly emerging about who he is. The alleged gunman has been identified as Cole Allen, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. He is believed to have been targeting administration officials, as acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told NBC's Meet the Press Sunday morning. The incident brought America's commonplace gun violence just feet away from a room full of lawmakers, top officials, and journalists. It also may add to a string of troubling political violence in the U.S. that includes two assassination attempts on President Trump. It also injects more chaos into what was already a turbulent time for the Trump administration, which is attempting to negotiate an end to the war in Iran that the U.S. started at the end of February. The latest information Allen had written what a White House source characterized Sunday morning as a "manifesto," and Allen's brother notified the New London, Conn., police of that writing just minutes before the incident at the dinner. …