Former Secret Service agent provides insight on security failures at Trump shooting
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🗓️ 18 July 2024
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| 0:00.0 | The Secretariat is under intense scrutiny after the attempted assassination on former President Trump. |
| 0:06.0 | A homeland security and congressional probe are underway and the agency's director, |
| 0:11.0 | Kimberly Cheetle, is expected to testify before the House Oversight Committee next week. |
| 0:16.7 | Yesterday, here on the floor of the Republican National Convention, |
| 0:20.2 | lawmakers confronted Cheetel as she walked through the venue. |
| 0:23.0 | Stonewallman! |
| 0:25.0 | Aetman! |
| 0:26.0 | You owe the beautiful answer. |
| 0:28.0 | For a closer look, I'm joined now by Anthony Kangelose, |
| 0:32.0 | a former Secret Service agent, and a lecturer at the John |
| 0:35.2 | J College of Criminal Justice. |
| 0:37.2 | Mr. Kangelose, welcome. |
| 0:38.2 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:39.2 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:40.6 | So the more we've learned about what happened here, the more questions it seems to raise, |
| 0:45.0 | knowing as we do now that the shooter was able to get less than 500 feet within a former |
| 0:50.6 | president to climb on top of the building, get a line of sight to him, and get off those |
| 0:55.7 | shots. |
| 0:56.7 | Do you agree when lawmakers look at this and say this was a failure of the Secret Service? |
| 1:00.9 | Yes, it's undoubtedly a failure. |
| 1:04.7 | You know, when I first started watching video footage of it, |
| 1:09.0 | my first reaction is, you know, |
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