A ghost story in the nation's Capitol

Fox News reporter Chad Pergram has offered his own account of the stumble he took at the U.S. Capitol while approaching Justin Trudeau, then Canada's prime minister, who was leaving a meeting with then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Trudeau extended a hand to help him up. Pergram says people regularly ask whether something snagged his leg, and he insists nothing did.

He points to likelier causes: a raised edge on a small staircase near the Memorial Door, brown rubber-soled loafers, a tired day, and eagerness to get a story. He adds that he exercises daily, holds a second-degree black belt, and has fallen before on early-morning runs in Alexandria, Virginia, so he considers himself as prone to tumbles as anyone.

The rush, he explains, was about baseball rather than diplomacy. Pergram wanted to ask Trudeau about the Montreal Expos, a team Trudeau followed in the 1980s, when its roster included Andre Dawson, Warren Cromartie and Steve Rogers. The franchise relocated to Washington in 2005 and became the Nationals, leaving Montreal without a major league club.

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