Welcome to the news hour. The director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheetle resigned today

ten days after a stunning security failure nearly led to the assassination of former President

Donald Trump.

Cheetel faced withering bipartisan criticism yesterday for her approach and her lack of answers

during testimony before the House Oversight Committee.

We're joined now by Carol Lennig,

investigative reporter for the Washington Post

who's been covering the Secret Service for years.

Carol, welcome back.

And let's just look back, given how the last 10 days unfolded and yesterday's hearing was

this resignation inevitable? You know the first day of the shooting I wouldn't

have said inevitable but it became

increasingly obvious that she had not just lost the Republicans who were

following her almost chasing her at the RNC, but she had lost the support inside

her own agency. People that I spoke to who were defending her on the night of the shooting

and saying, you know know this was a security failure

no question about it but it can't be totally on her head they changed their tune and

felt very differently people who had been her defenders said that her handling of the after

action was her downfall. In essence, she didn't want to answer questions. She had not made herself

available for a press conference or anybody from the

Secret Service that would be available at a press conference the night of the

first assassination attempt on a secret service protectee in more than 30 years.

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