How Does the Secret Service Work?
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Laird 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. |
| 0:19.9 | How does the secret service |
| 0:21.4 | keep presidents and others who they protect safe with so few incidents like this in u.s history |
| 0:27.5 | certainly in modern u.s history we generally just take for granted i think that that is a rock |
| 0:33.2 | solid agency that crosses every tea and dots every eye. But somehow this shooting happened, |
| 0:39.3 | Trump and two other people were wounded and one rallygoer was killed. As you've been hearing on the |
| 0:44.2 | news, the director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheedle, resigned under bipartisan pressure yesterday. |
| 0:50.3 | But the director of the Secret Service is really not the central issue. |
| 0:54.5 | Somehow, a would-be assassin got that close and had that clear a view of Trump. |
| 1:00.6 | And now the Washington Post is reporting that the Secret Service is encouraging the Trump campaign to stop holding outdoor rallies. |
| 1:08.0 | NBC News reports that the Trump campaign has accepted that request and will |
| 1:12.5 | rally indoors only for now. So how did July 13th happen? What should the safety protocols be |
| 1:19.0 | in this supercharged political environment and the AR-15 era? And how does the Secret Service do its |
| 1:26.2 | job anyway? With us now, Carol Lennox, National Investigative |
| 1:30.3 | Reporter for the Washington Post, focused on the White House and government accountability. |
| 1:34.9 | Carol is a perfect person to have on for this because, as her Washington Post bio page notes, |
| 1:40.4 | she won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting back in 2015 for her reporting that revealed broad |
| 1:46.7 | misconduct and security failures within the Secret Service that put President's lives in |
| 1:52.7 | danger. That reporting was published a decade ago, but here we are again today. Carol was also |
| 1:58.1 | co-author of two books about Donald Trump called A Very Stable Genius and I Alone Can Fix It. Carol was also co-author of two books about Donald Trump called A Very Stable Genius, |
| 2:02.6 | and I Alone Can Fix It. Carol, thanks for coming on for this. Welcome back to WNYC. |
| 2:08.2 | Oh, thank you. It's my pleasure, Brian. |
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