on WNYC, the assassination attempt against former President Trump has put a question

into the public's mind that generally we don't think about, how does the Secret Service

keep presidents and others who they protect safe?

With so few incidents like this in U.S. history, certainly in modern U.S. history, we generally

just take for granted, I think, that that is a rock solid agency that crosses every T and dots every eye

but somehow this shooting happened Trump and two other people were wounded and one rallygoer was killed.

As you've been hearing on the news, the director of the Secret Service,

Kimberly Cheetel, resigned under bipartisan pressure yesterday.

But the director of the Secret Service is really not the central issue.

Somehow, a would-be assassin got that close and had that clear a view of Trump.

And now the Washington Post is reporting that the Secret Service is encouraging the

Trump campaign to stop holding outdoor rallies.

NBC News reports that the Trump campaign has accepted that request and will rally indoors only for now.

So how did July 13th happen?

What should the safety protocols be

in this supercharged political environment

and the AR-15 era and how does the Secret Service do its job anyway?

With us now, Carolenic National Investigative Reporter for the Washington Post focused on the White House and

government accountability. Carol is a perfect person to have on for this because as

her Washington Post bio page notes she won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting back in 2015 for her reporting that revealed broad misconduct and security failures within the Secret Service that put President's lives in danger.

That reporting was published a decade ago, but here we are again today.

Carol was also co-author of two books about Donald Trump called a very stable genius and I alone can fix it.

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