After a Fiery Hearing, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle Resigns
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:18.0 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:27.0 | The head of the Secret Service resigns after a blistering congressional hearing on its failure to protect former President Trump |
| 0:35.0 | from the assassination attempt recently in Pennsylvania. |
| 0:38.2 | Meantime House Republicans and Democrats agree to set up a bipartisan task force with subpoena power to get to the bottom of what went wrong. |
| 0:46.0 | Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:49.0 | We are joined today by my colleagues, editorial board member Colin Levy and columnist Kim Strassal. |
| 0:55.9 | Kimberly Cheetle, the director of the Secret Service, sent an email to her staff on Tuesday. |
| 1:01.4 | Here is part of what she said. I do not want my calls for |
| 1:04.0 | resignation to be a distraction from the great work each and every one of you |
| 1:08.0 | do towards our vital mission. She added that in light of recent events it is with a |
| 1:11.5 | heavy heart that I have made a difficult decision to step down as your director. |
| 1:16.5 | Let's listen to speaker Mike Johnson reacting to the news that the Secret Service Director had stepped down. |
| 1:22.8 | She just resigned. |
| 1:23.8 | Can you say how this changes oversized |
| 1:26.3 | your assassination attempt to now? |
| 1:28.0 | Well, she must have been watching our press conference. |
| 1:29.8 | I'm glad she did the right thing. |
| 1:32.0 | Look, our reaction, the immediate reaction to her resignation |
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