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It's hard to believe.

First of all, it's hard to believe it's over a year since Trump got shot in Butler, Pennsylvania.

It took a bullet in the ear.

And if you remember, the Secret Service counter--snipers, they took care of the attempted

assassin who'd somehow got on top of a warehouse rooftop by himself.

How he got up there and was unattended is one thing.

But now, you know, the Secret Service shot him and killed him,

and the Department of Homeland Security has an inspector general, and they did a report

to see what's going on with the Secret Service, and they found that it's still chronically

understaffed. They still have a serious shortage of

counter-snipers, even though the demand obviously has increased quite a bit in this crazy

era that we're living in. We're going to talk with Don Mahalek. He's the ABC News law

enforcement contributor, and he's a retired senior secret service agent. We always like having him on to talk to him. We're also going to talk about the Minneapolis shooting at that school last week. Let's get Don on. How are you, Don? Good, John. How about you? I'm all right. It would, is it really difficult to hire counter snipers?

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