The Secret Service is in the hot seat again, this time over its actions before and on January 6th.

A new report from the Homeland Security Inspector General lays out several things the agency could have done better from detecting a viable

pipe bomb within 20 feet of then vice president-elect Kamala Harris to reporting

signs of potential violence like rallygoers wearing ballistic helmets, body armor, and other military-grade

equipment.

Joining us is Washington Post investigative reporter Carol Lennig.

Carol, thank you so much for your time.

This report, Secret Service officials never testified before the House Committee

investigating January 6th, and now this report seems to leave more questions than it does answers.

What are your main takeaways from it?

You know, we knew some time ago that there had been a pipe bomb laid outside of both the RNC special

offices on Capitol Hill and the DNC minutes before Kamala Harris was going to be coming out and was in that building.

She was spirited out of the building.

It was known at the time, but this sort of concretizes this and makes it official.

It's no longer just reporters learning it

from their sources, but it's actually the government affirming this.

The PyPOM investigation by the FBI and the US Attorney's Office in DC has been one of the most

labor intensive investigations in recent memory and most labor intensive for one that did not reach an answer.

The FBI has still not discovered who were the people or persons who laid this potential explosive that could have gone off in both

locations in the minutes before the capital was actually breached and its security line was pressed through by

protesters and supporters of Donald Trump's that day after they stormed away from

his rally and towards the capital as he urged them to do.

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