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PBS News Hour - Segments

News Wrap: Secret Service admits it denied past Trump campaign requests for more security

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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In our news wrap Sunday, the Secret Service acknowledged it had turned down requests from Trump's detail for extra federal resources over the past two years, Israel's military said it intercepted a missile fired by Houthi rebels in Yemen, and more than a thousand people are still without power amid stifling heat nearly two weeks after Hurricane Beryl made landfall in Texas. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

There is other news. New details are emerging about the assassination attempt

0:04.7

against former President Trump as the House prepares to interrogate the head of the

0:08.4

Secret Service. A week after denying it, the Secret Service acknowledged that it had turned down

0:13.9

request from the Trump detail for extra federal resources over the past two years.

0:19.1

Now lawmakers in both parties are demanding answers with many Republicans calling on

0:23.9

Secret Service director Kimberly Cheetle to resign.

0:27.0

We need the secret service to do one simple thing, protect our presidents and

0:31.4

former presidents in these cases.

0:33.2

That's not happening and the initial excuses that she has given for the

0:37.0

lapses that happened last Saturday

0:39.2

are just are just unbelievable. I mean the Democrats are just as for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkus, whose department oversees the Secret Service.

0:56.0

Tensions in the Middle East are escalating.

0:59.0

The Israeli military said it intercepted a missile fired today by Huthi rebels in Yemen.

1:04.0

The Huthi said they were trying to hit the Israeli resort city of Elat on the Red Sea.

1:09.2

In recent days, Israeli fighter jets hit the Yemeni port of Houdetah in response to a drone attack that

1:15.2

killed a man in Tel Aviv.

1:17.4

Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Barrel made landfall in Texas, more than a thousand people are still without power amid stifling heat.

1:26.3

More than half of the 23 storm-related deaths are now being blamed on heat.

1:30.9

Centerpoint Energy, Houston's power provider, faces two class action lawsuits, including

1:35.8

from restaurant owners who say they've lost income and paid for food that's now spoiled.

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