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House committee grills Secret Service director over security gaps during Trump shooting

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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A little more than a week after the assassination attempt on former President Trump, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle appeared in front of the House Oversight Committee and lawmakers from both parties were visibly angry with her testimony. It comes as calls for her resignation grow and the investigations into the agency multiply. Nick Schifrin reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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More than a week after the assassination attempt on former President Trump, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheetle testified before the House Oversight Committee today.

0:10.0

Lawmakers from both parties were visibly angry with her testimony.

0:14.1

It comes as calls for her resignation grow and the investigations into the agency multiply.

0:20.1

Nick Schifran has our report.

0:25.0

Committee on Oversight and Accountability will come to order. During a four and a half hour bruising bipartisan blow up...

0:30.0

Cut corners when it came to protect one of the most important individuals, most well-known

0:33.2

individuals on the planet.

0:34.8

That is not my question, and now I think you're evading the answer.

0:39.7

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheetel was chastened but tight-lipped, despite demands from both parties for

0:45.6

her resignation.

0:46.6

I believe Director Chishetel that you should resign.

0:49.8

Because Donald Trump is alive and thank God he is you look incompetent.

0:53.6

If Donald Trump had been killed you would have looked culpable.

0:56.6

And you know that's a little bit.

0:57.6

It's been nine days since what Cheetal called the Secret Service's most significant failure

1:01.9

in more than 40 years.

1:05.0

Former President Donald Trump, his ear pierced by bullets fired from a military-style

1:10.6

rifle from just 450 feet away.

1:13.4

Right here, right on the road.

1:15.9

She'll confirm local law enforcement

1:17.9

photographed the shooter 18 minutes

1:20.0

before Trump began, but the Secret Service initially identified him only as suspicious

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