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PBS News Hour - Segments

News Wrap: Secret Service not on radio system with local police at Trump rally shooting

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In our news wrap Friday, acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe said agents were not on the same radio system as local law enforcement on the day of the Trump rally shooting, the leading global authority on food security officially declared a famine in the Darfur region of Sudan and the Justice Department and FTC sued TikTok and its parent company on accusations of child privacy violations. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

New information about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump starts the day's other headlines.

0:06.5

Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rose said today that his agents were not on the same radio system as local law enforcement on the day of the

0:14.4

shooting. That cost valuable time when local police warned via radio that there was

0:19.8

an armed assailant on the roof of a building outside the security perimeter.

0:24.4

This afternoon, Rowe told reporters his agency takes full responsibility.

0:29.2

That's after he partially blamed local law enforcement during congressional testimony

0:33.8

earlier this week.

0:35.0

This was a secret service failure and so they should not be blamed.

0:39.2

There was somebody who did in fact radio out that they had seen the individual with a weapon.

0:45.0

What I can tell you is that that piece of information, that vital piece of information,

0:50.0

and by no fault of anyone, it was a very stressful situation.

0:53.8

It did not make it over.

0:55.9

Rose said he'll consider having secret service inside what's called the Unified

0:59.8

Command Post, which is operated by local authorities at all times going forward

1:05.0

to ensure better communication.

1:07.0

Turning abroad now to Venezuela's disputed presidential election,

1:11.0

the Biden administration has now officially recognized

1:14.3

Nicholas Maduro's challenger, that's opposition candidate Edmondo Gonzalez,

1:18.7

as the winner. Other countries, including Argentina, Ecuador, and Costa Rica, have done the same.

1:25.0

It all comes as a fellow opposition leader, Maria Karina Machado, said masked men ransacked

1:31.3

her party's headquarters overnight.

1:33.0

That raid follows threats by top officials, including from Maduro himself,

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