Acting Secret Service head grilled over failures leading to Trump assassination attempt

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🗓️ 30 July 2024

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One week after the resignation of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, acting successor Ronald Rowe spent Tuesday morning acknowledging the agency's failures and trying to reassure Congress during a hearing that the Secret Service is capable and accountable. Rowe was joined at the hearing by the deputy director of the FBI. Geoff Bennett reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0	One week after the resignation of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheetle, her acting successor
0:07.1	Ronald Rose spent this morning acknowledging his agency's failures and trying to reassure Congress during a hearing that the Secret Service
0:15.7	is capable and accountable.
0:18.0	Roe was joined at the hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees
0:22.3	by the Deputy
0:23.2	Director of the FBI, Paul Abate.
0:25.8	The right hand.
0:26.8	Do you swear that the testimony you will give...
0:29.0	For the second time in just eight days...
0:31.2	Somebody's got to be fired. Members of Congress grilled the head of the
0:34.8	Secret Service over the security failures leading up to the assassination attempt of
0:39.4	former President Donald Trump earlier this month. How could they not see him?
0:44.0	They're in an elevated position.
0:46.0	They're checking rooftops.
0:48.0	They're looking around.
0:49.0	There's two government snipers.
0:51.0	How could they not see him?
0:52.0	This time, under under oath acting director Ronald
0:55.3	Rowe just a week into his tenure calling the efforts to protect Mr Trump a quote
1:00.6	failure on multiple levels.
1:02.6	I went to the roof of the AGR building where the assailant fired shots and I laid in a prone position to evaluate his line of sight.
1:12.0	What I saw made me ashamed.
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