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The White House Fence Didn't Fail. The System Behind It Did.

A 51-year-old man walked up to a checkpoint on 17th Street, claimed he had a weapon, moved aggressively, and got shot. The President was pulled off live television. And we're supposed to call this a success. I watched the video before I read the statement. That's how I do it now — watch first, read later, because the video doesn't come with a press release, and the video is usually closer to the truth. ABC's Selina Wang was recording a social media video on the North Lawn when the shots went off. You can hear her gasp. You can hear a guy off-camera yelling "Get down." You can hear her drop. And then you hear dozens of people who had been standing around the White House press area two seconds earlier doing exactly what she was doing — hitting the ground, running, trying not to die in the place that's supposed to be the safest square mile in America. Minutes earlier Trump had been at the podium in the Brady Briefing Room, doing what he does. Then a Secret Se...