Lets begin now with cnn ryan noble in washington there on the white house property. Tell us more about whats believed to have happened, ryan. Reporter fredericka, we are still piecing together all the information thats coming from our various sources within the administration and within the secret service. What weve been able to drill down is a man was arrested after gaining access to the white house grounds. We believe from the east side of the white house. He made it all the way up to the south portico entrance which if youre looking where i am, im on the north side of the white house. It would be on the complete opposite end. This is a wellknown entrance into the white house. This is where the president would exit and enter if he were leaving on a trip to get on marine one. Its also a place where president s often greet guests that come to the white house through that entrance. Its also very close to the white house residence where President Trump was at the time that this man was arrested. Were told the man did have a backpack with him. We dont know the contents of that backpack. We also dont know what his motivation was. The white house was put on a orange level security which is one of the highest security levels that the white house can go to. But after the man was apprehended and the grounds were searched, the security situation was put back to normal. I can tell you ive been here since about 9 00 this morning and there was really no sign that anything had happened here in the past 24 hours. It was a relatively quiet morning before we heard these reports come out. The white house is back to operating at normal, but this was certainly a major Security Breach that happened here last night. We understand donald trump tweeting about the health care gop plan even in the midst of perhaps all of this early this morning in terms of the amount of time that youre been at the white house. Lets also bring in tom fuentes and jonathan. Thanks to both of you to join us. Tom, let me get your impressions on what weve learned by way of ryans reporting, cnn reporting, about the Security Breach. What are your concerns here . Well, i think as ryan mentioned, this took all night before secret service made a public announcement for that. Theres a very good reason. They would want to get offduty personnel in as quickly as possible to supplement the manpower at the white house and at the perimeter of the white house to keep it secure. If they make an announcement right away that we caught someone, even if its not a major conspiracy, it could prompt copy cats to come out running right away to. I think the secret service will have this well in hand, that its not part of a larger conspiracy, that there arent additional attackers on the way and theyd like to have the advantage of having the security in place before the sun comes up so that they can have the extra advantage of security at the white house. And then, jonathan, when Something Like this happens, we know there have been a number of breaches of security in the last administration. This now as far as we understand the first happening while this president is in the white house. What is your view on the likely precautions being put into place or heightening security by way of secret service or any other body right now as a result of this breach . So the point that was just made, we want to make sure that this isnt an organized group thats trying to test the security measures at the white house. That this wasnt, you know, really a dry run for a more coordinated attack later on. But i will say that the secret service has, you know, multiple layers of protection in place. We actually saw that with the arrest being made outside of the white house. Since the well publicized breach in 2014, the secret service has revised their protocols and layered their defenses of the white house when the president is there and when he is not there to mitigate this type of vulnerability. Ryan, let me go back to you. Have you learned anything new in your reporting . Yes. Just in the last few seconds ive got a statement from the u. S. Secret service which confirms our reporting. On march 10th, 2017 at approximately 11 38 p. M. An individual scaled the south Grounds Fence line of the white house complex. Secret Service UniformDivision Officers arrested the individual without further incident. This is new information that were receiving. A backpack carried by the individual was screened and searched as a precautionary mesh. The backpack was found to be free of any Hazardous Materials. Following the established protocols, the south and north grounds of the white house complex were searched by secret Service UniformDivision Officers. Nothing of concern to Security Operations was found. And were also being told that the department of Homeland Security secretary john kelly was fully briefed on this incident. Theyve not told us the name of the suspect in this statement, but they have confirmed what we didnt know and that backpack did not contain any Hazardous Materials. Also theyre also confirming the fact that he did scale a fence in tord gaorder to gain ao the white house grounds and were being told it happened on the south grounds of the white house. That information just coming to us confirming our reporting that an intruder did gain access to the white house grounds last night. What are the benefit are or potential pitfalls that come with the urgency in which the u. S. Secret Service Reports publicly that there hasnt been a breach in security . Well, their concern there is that you dont want to put this out in public and have people who have no involvement whatsoever suddenly get a major brain wave that oh, what a great idea, im going to go fence jump at the white house and get on television. So they dont want to have copy cats come out, spshlespecially e middle of the night before they have enhanced screening in place by calling in people. They want the advantage of daylight if possible before this goes out public. They want to make sure they dont have a larger conspiracy. So they have to worry about people that may be involved in the plot already and are still yet to come over the fence and people that have nothing to do with it but may hear about it in the media at midnight, 1 00 in the morning and then come racing to washington to be part of the activities. So thats their concern with that. Also we dont know yet the security measures that have been put in place, other than the person being able to scale the fence, the rest of the measures may have worked fine. The sensors and alarms and cameras, may have been operating adequately to inform the officers at the building to watch for this guy. Hes on his way or hes circling the building and get him before he actually makes an entrance like the last jumper did a couple years ago. And then, jonathan, we know the suspect has been apprehended. What kind of line of questioning is likely happening right now . Whats the process as far as you can tell . What the secret service is going to do now is theyre going to interview the individual and ascertain the means, opportunity and intent for this individual to cause harm. Why was he well . What was he doing . To the point earlier, is this part of a larger organized attack or is this a lone individual thats doing this. But what it speaks to is back in 2014 there was a protective panel, Mission Panel that recommended raising the level of the fence. And, you know, its now 2017. That action still hasnt happened. Theres been, you know, a lot of reasons why. A lot of it is bureaucratic, congress, dhs and other entities figuring out the optics of the fence. Here were seeing again theres been a breach of the white house. The fence is not an adequate defense. It still isnt mitigated. It only put the secret service in a bad position once again where they have to use other means to stop threats other than the primary, you know, asset, which is the fence line zbl. Ryan, back to you, if you could explain this 16acre white house property there and that south side of the white house and the access of the general public. But at the same time, the kind of security in place. Can you kind of participate a picture, give us a lay of the land of potentially the route this suspect may have taken. Yeah. I should point out its 18 acres. I said 16 before. I left two acres out. Yes, it is 18 acres. Essentially if you take a look at the white house, if youve ever been to washington, this is obviously one of the top tourist destinations, im standing on the north side of the white house. This is what youd see if you were on pennsylvania avenue. Of course, to great fan fair, they have just reopened tours to the public at the white house. They were initial le closed down while the Donald Trump Administration got its bearings and Melania Trump was able to prepare for those. If you come here to take a tour, you would center from the east side by the treasury department. According to the statement, the suspect gained entrance from the south side of the white house which would be if you are looking at the Washington Monument, if youre at the Washington Monument and looking over towards the white house, thats where that south portico is. You get a pretty good view of it from the Washington Monument. Thats a pretty famous entrance. Its where marine one lands. Yes. In fact, just a few days ago the president greeted the Prime Minister of isreal was at that spot. The idea that this person could have gained entrance and we dont know exactly how far he made it across the white house grounds, but it would be a significant distance to get all the way up to that point and then be only a few hundred yards away from where the president was in his residence at that particular time is pretty astounding. It harkens back to the incident that happened back in 2014 where someone scaled the fence, was able to get all the way across the white grounds and enter into the north portico and get inside before being apprehended. Thats what led to this kind of beefed up security with the fences being raised and the greater uniformed presence around the white house. So its not as if the secret service hasnt worked on preventing incidents like this from happening. But apparently there are still the opportunity for to take place. Tom, what question do you have now as the investigation moves forward . My question would be for congress and the other authorities. You know, deciding to increase the security perimeter at the white house and actually doing it are not necessarily the same thing. And so at this if the recommendations to make the white house safer in every way have gone unheeded and no changes have been made and theyre still discussing it and all of that, why . Jonathan, questions you might have . I absolutely agree. L listen. Youre putting the agents in a very difficult position. I think in this case, this is a successful ending. The structure of the white house prevailed. The circles of protection around the white house, you know, proved its value. The first line of defense, though, is that fence line. And its inadequate. Its been determined to be inadequate. It needs to be resolved right away and that means dhs and congressional funding now to yi initiate that change. That suspect getting just within a few hundred yards away from the president who was in the white house at the time. But as we know, there was no contact, direct contact between that suspect and the president. The approximate is okay, right . Right. The president was not harmed at all in this incident. He was made known. He was made aware of the fact that it took place soon after but in no way was hoe in any harm. Theres still an open debate about increased security. This is the peoples house. Its not necessarily easy to get a tour of the white house. You have to get you have to be brought in by a member of congress. This is a place that people love to come to as tourists in washington. Its one of the mof popular d t destinations. There is a delicate balance that i think administration and the government is trying to balance here between the safety and security of the head of state. But at the same time giving access to this taxpayer funded entity that americans should have access to. All right. Gentlemen, thank you so much. Keep us posted as you get more information. Appreciate it. Meantime, all of this happening while right now Vice President mike pence is in louisville kentucky where is he pitching the republicans plan to appeal obamacare. Well monitor this and bring it to you live as it happens. Straight ahead. Because this scent lasts up to 12 weeks, which is longer than any relationship ive ever been in. Freshness for weeks nobody does unlimited like tmobile. While the other guys gouge for unlimited data. Tmobile one save you hundreds a year. Right now get two lines of data for 100 dollars. With taxes and fees included. Thats right 2 unlimited lines for just 100 bucks. All in. 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In our reporting were also learning the secret service used canines to go through the ground, surveil as much as they could including the first ladys garden there near the South Entrance. Ryan nobles is there on the white house grounds and helping to bring us the details of the this. Also joining us again senior Law Enforcement analyst tom fuentes as well as jonathan. Good to see all of you back with us. Ryan, if you could, fill in the blanks for the latest information were learning about this breach. We now have official secret Service Confirmation that a man did jump over a fence on the south side of the white house and make it all the way to the south portico entrance of the white house around 11 38 last night. That would have left him only about 100 feet away from the president who was in the residence at the time. He was apprehended with a back back and inside that backpack was no hazardous material. The man was arrested and put into custody. Now at in no time was the president in any danger. But he was alerted to the fact that this incident did take place. The security level here at the white house was raised to level orange which is one of the highest security levels at that time and then according to the secret service the grounds were completely searched on both the north and south sides to make sure there was no other threats. But by this morning everything was back to normal. I was here at around 8 45 this morning. It was business as usual