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Roque Planas

Trump tells 60 Minutes in testy interview he ‘wasn’t worried’ during Washington shooting

Trump in a bow tie
Donald Trump in the White House press briefing room after the incident at the correspondents’ dinner on Saturday. Photograph: Will Oliver/EPA

Donald Trump spoke with the CBS correspondent Norah O’Donnell in an interview that aired on Sunday night on 60 Minutes describing his ordeal at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner when shots rang out.

A gunman opened fire at the Washington Hilton hotel Saturday night, though he did not breach the basement-level ballroom where Trump was sitting at the time. The president described the events in an even tone, saying that he did not feel particularly alarmed as they unfolded.

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