I want to say it was tougher for my wife, who was at home with the kids and started hearing things through, you know, text messages and social media, than it was for me.
I really didn’t know what was going on. Just to give you my perspective, I’m sitting up there on the dais with some journalists, and obviously with the President of the United States, a few seats to my right, and there’s a lot of commotion, you kind of hear some loud noises. I had no idea what it was. And before I had any idea what was going on, I started seeing people sort of duck under their tables or respond to what was going on, far in the back of the ballroom, and then an agent comes and whispers in my ear, basically says, “Sir, we have to leave,” and you can kind of, you see the video, Will, where the agent sort of lifts me to my feet, and then I walk off stage and then go to my hold room and kind of wait and see what’s going on.
So, you know, the first thing that happened that actually freaked me out a little bit, Will, is that we heard that an agent had been shot, and in the fog of war, I thought, you know, Oh, my God, this guy’s actually seriously injured, or maybe worse. And then we found out later, of course, that he was uninjured or not seriously injured.
