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News Wrap: Secret Service admits complacency before Trump assassination attempt

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In our news wrap Friday, the Secret Service acknowledged communication lapses and complacency in the days leading up to the Trump assassination attempt in July, torrential rains across Western and Central Africa triggered the worst floods the region has seen in decades and the Federal Trade Commission is suing the nation's three largest pharmacy benefit managers for inflating the price of insulin. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

The day's other headlines begin with the heightened scrutiny over the work of the US Secret Service.

0:06.0

Today the House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill that would boost protections for presidential candidates.

0:12.0

Senate leaders haven't yet said whether they'll consider the bill.

0:15.7

Meantime, the Secret Service is acknowledging communication lapses

0:19.6

and what it calls complacency in the days leading up to and during Donald Trump's Butler, Pennsylvania

0:24.8

rally back in July.

0:26.7

That's according to a new internal review.

0:29.5

Acting Director Ronald Rowe vowed to hold the agency accountable and he called for major change. R

0:35.0

Rau vowed to hold the agency accountable, and he called for major change.

0:36.0

We're at a pivotal moment in the history of the Secret Service,

0:39.0

and at a pivotal moment in the history of our country.

0:42.0

And I've directed that the Secret Service embark on a... pivotal moment in the history of our country.

0:42.8

And I've directed that the Secret Service embark

0:44.8

on a significant paradigm shift that will redefine

0:48.1

how we conduct protective operations.

0:50.8

Roe defended the Secret Service's actions in the apparent second assassination attempt against Mr. Trump in Florida this past weekend,

0:58.0

but he called for more resources saying the agency is simply spread too thin.

1:03.2

A severe storm left one person dead in a small city in northeast Oklahoma.

1:08.5

Winds up to 72 miles an hour and golf ball-sized hail-battered Pawnee, about 60 miles west of Tulsa.

1:15.9

The storm flipped multiple camping vehicles and brought down trees and power lines.

1:20.5

City officials said the fatality was due to an overturned camper.

1:24.0

Many roads and schools were closed today to deal with the damage.

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