Why the Secret Service Director Resigned
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🗓️ 24 July 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned after the catastrophic security breakdown during a Trump rally in Butler, Penn. But the assassination attempt was only the latest Secret Service disaster, and the agency’s problems won’t be solved by a simple change in leadership.
Guest: Abdallah Fayyad, policy correspondent at Vox.
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| 0:42.0 | So Abdullah, we have breaking news you changed. |
| 0:43.8 | So Abdullah we have breaking news this morning. |
| 0:45.8 | Yes. |
| 0:46.8 | The head of the Secret Service is resigned. |
| 0:49.2 | I just saw that, yeah. |
| 0:52.4 | I'd called Abdullah up to explain how the secret service botched things so badly |
| 0:58.0 | at the rally where former President Trump was grazed by a bullet. |
| 1:02.0 | Almost immediately after, much of the blame landed on the |
| 1:06.4 | woman in charge of security for the West Wing, and until yesterday morning, that was Kimberly Cheetel. Are you surprised by this news? |
| 1:16.0 | Honestly, you know, it's it shouldn't be surprising. Obviously she's not directing every single event and not every failure is necessarily because of a lapse in her judgment. |
| 1:27.0 | But how we've seen her respond is, I think, itself disqualifying to continue on as Director of the Secret Service because she has been so reluctant to be transparent even with lawmakers |
| 1:40.0 | about how the agency or even Congress should move forward in order to prevent this from happening again. |
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