Secret Service director says threat environment heightened ahead of correspondents’ dinner

What was said

"We are in a heightened level of a threat environment right now. It's no secret. There are things happening around the globe that are always going to impact, you know, how we move, and that's how we evaluate, you know, what our security plan is going to be."

Sean Curran, identified in the report as the director of the US Secret Service, says the agency is operating in a “heightened” threat environment ahead of the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington. The report says the venue change from the Washington Hilton comes after an April incident in which a gunman allegedly tried to enter the ballroom to assassinate President Donald Trump, prompting revised security planning and screening measures.