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ABC News correspondents Olivia Rubin and correspondent Jay O'Brien both in the ballroom when the shots were fired.
Jay, let's start with you.
Must have been a terribly frightening experience.
What did you witness?
Yeah, Whit, good morning to you.
We heard several loud pops and we got down on the floor for cover.
Some at my table hiding underneath the table.
There was terror inside that room and law enforcement who were there on the perimeter of the ballroom started to rush into the middle of the room to get their protectees, the dignitaries that they were assigned to keep safe, out of that room.
It's worth pointing out much of the presidential line of succession from the vice president to the speaker of the house on down were inside that ballroom and we saw those dignitaries rushed out.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson seen sprinting out of the hotel with his security detail.
He later thanked law enforcement for their quick work and I can tell you I saw law enforcement agents, Capitol Police and other agents jumping over chairs, running into the middle of that ballroom to get to their protectees and in some cases literally picking them up and carrying them out of that ballroom.
There are also moments this morning we're learning of bipartisanship.
Jared Moskowitz, Democratic Congressman of Florida, says that he was protected and pulled into a secure room by the number two Republican in the House, Steve Scalise, who is of course no stranger to political violence.
He was wounded in 2017 in the congressional baseball game shooting.
Steve Scalise saying this morning, quote, "This is an event meant to bring people together.
Violence has no place in our country.
So many people inside that room were rattled by what they saw.
As I was walking out of this hotel being evacuated last night, I came across a colleague of mine, another journalist from another outlet.
She was crying and she just kept saying, guys, why does this keep happening?
Guys.
Yeah, rattled, thankfully nobody seriously hurt.
Jay O'Brien, our thanks to you.
Let's bring in Olivia Rubin.
I know you were also in the ballroom there.
What did you see and hear?
Well, Whit, thanks for having me.
Just to sort of set the lay of the land for a second.
Large ballroom, thousands of people, the president at the front of the room.
And of course there's sort of this peripheral seating around the back and by the door.
That's where a bunch of us, myself and ABC colleagues, were seated and that seems to be right by the door where this sort of unfolded.
So the first thing we knew, at least that I heard, was the three very loud bangs from what appeared to be right outside of the main entrance ballroom door that some of us had walked through earlier in the night.
I Whit, immediately thought that it was gunshots and many of us immediately dropped down to the ground.
You heard Mary describe the chaos and the confusion.
This is a tight ballroom, Whit, thousands of people.
So many of us couldn't even get all the way down to the ground.
There wasn't room.
So we were crouching on chairs, but that's when again, the three loud bangs, those doors immediately fly open and you've seen those sort of harrowing videos of Secret Service and other law enforcement flying down the center of that room to get to the president, to get to other cabinet officials that were in the room.
You know, I looked back at video on my phone and there's some video of what appears to be Secretary Kennedy being led out of the room, but certainly, Whit, it it was those three loud bangs.
I can't say if there were more loud bangs, but I heard those.
Immediately I knew that it seemed to be gunshots and that is when this sort of chaos unfolded, people hitting the floor, Whit.
So I've been to that event a number of times.
Hard to imagine thousands of people then trying to race out of that room.
Olivia Rubin for us, thank you so much.
>> Yeah, thank goodness everyone is safe.
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