CNN’s Wolf Blitzer was just a few feet away from a gunman when shots were fired outside the main ballroom at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner.
Blizter had just left the men’s restroom on an upper floor outside the ballroom at the Washington Hilton when he saw a man with “a very, very serious weapon.”
“All of a sudden I heard these loud, very loud, very scary gunshots right near me. Next thing I knew, a police officer threw me to the ground and was on top of me,” Blitzer said. The officers took him back
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