The White House says the President Biden spoke with Trump and conveyed his relief that the former president is safe.

Let's look a little deeper now at the challenges facing the Secret Service.

Late today, Acting Director Ronald Rowe again vowed to take a hard look at the

agency strategy and procedures after the latest threat to former President

Trump. The Secret Services Protective Methodologies work and they are sound and we saw that yesterday.

But the way we are positioned right now in this dynamic threat environment it has given me guidance to say you know what we need

to look at what our protective methodology is we need to get out of a reactive model and

get to a readiness model.

For more now, we're joined by Carol Lennig,

investigative reporter with the Washington Post

and the author of Zero Fail, the rise and fall

of the Secret Service.

Carol, good to see you.

Let's just start with what we learned from the acting director there this afternoon.

The suspect here did not have a line of sight to former President Trump never fired his weapon.

So what are you hearing from your Secret Service sources?

Do they consider this a success?

They do consider it a success in one respect,

omna, and that is that this gunman never got a shot off at the agents or at

president former president Trump and that's a lot better than what happened on

July 13th in in other words, they had a heavy contingent of agents

with Trump while he was golfing on Sunday.

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