Secret Service orders lockdown of White House after object thrown over fence
It appears that a phone was thrown over the fence on the North Lawn of the White House according to a source close to the situation.
Security quickly shutdown the building and park and closed off Pennsylvania Avenue. Agents ushered press standing outside into the briefing room without providing further details at around 11:30am ET.
The Secret Service declared an all-clear order roughly 30 minutes later, allowing reporters back onto the North Lawn.
The White House has not provided additional details on what triggered the lockdown, which occurred about an hour before President Trump departed the premises for an event in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Department of Education Sec Linda McMahon was also forced to cut a live interview short and head inside due to the incident.
Reaction: President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he leaves the White House
It's the latest in a series of security issues plaguing the Secret Service.
In March, a Secret Service agent carried a young boy back to his parents after he breached the White House perimeter.
The child slipped through the north fence of the presidential residence before agents quickly swooped up the child and reunited him with his parents, without incident.
The latest lockdown occurred just days after the one-year mark of Trump's assassination attempt at his Butler, Pennsylvania, rally.
The tragedy left Trump with a bloody ear, two men with life-altering injuries and father and firefighter Corey Comperatore dead.
There are still scores of questions left unanswered, including why 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks shot the president-to-be.
The President's security arrangements have bolstered in the aftermath of the assassination attempt, and another that followed just two months later at his Florida golf course.
One year on, America is still in the dark and left to wonder how such a brazen attack was so nearly able to kill the most identifiable U.S. politician.
Kentucky Republican Rand Paul, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released on Sunday his final report on the Butler investigation.
Paul's report is full of a 'disturbing pattern of denials, mismanagement, and missed warning signs' from the Senate investigation into the assassination attempt.
'What happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, was not just a tragedy - it was a scandal. The United States Secret Service failed to act on credible intelligence, failed to coordinate with local law enforcement, and failed to prevent an attack that nearly took the life of a then-former president,' said Chairman Paul.
'Despite those failures, no one has been fired,' Paul noted.
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