kimberly cheadle _ at his hotel in milwaukee. kimberly cheadle is — at his hotel in milwaukee.monday and is due _ house oversight committee on monday and is due to testify before the homeland security committee on tuesdav — homeland security committee on tuesday. meanwhile, here in freeport, _ tuesday. meanwhile, here in freeport, the town of the mood is very sombre and there are several us fla-s very sombre and there are several us flags flving _ very sombre and there are several us flags flying at half— mast. very sombre and there are several us flags flying at half-mast.— flags flying at half-mast. jenny, our correspondent _ flags flying at half-mast. jenny, our correspondent reporting - flags flying at half-mast. jenny, l our correspondent reporting there flags flying at half-mast. jenny, - our correspondent reporting there in pennsylvania. thank you so much. let's talk a bit more with our guests nowjoining us here at the republican national convention in milwaukee. with me is representative mike lawler. great to have you back on bbc news. we have just been hearing about al

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stuart: kimberly cheadle will testify publicly in the house about the trump assassination attempt.had, it seems a lot of opposition to kimberly cheadle among republicans. >> they are mad as fire. four gop senators invited cheadle when they learned she was at the gop convention in milwaukee. cheadle was having none of it. she told the gang of 4 that the convention was not the appropriate forum. [shouting] >> reporter: cheadle agreed to appear at hearing monday before the house oversight committee was oversight committee chairman james kober issued a subpoena for cheadle to testify with lawmakers were frustrated how little information they received on a conference call after the shooting on wednesday. cheadle, fbi director christopher wray. >> there's a major breakdown between local and the inner core close in detail but i keep pointing out that because the detail was denied additional secret service agents they were reliant on local law enforcement they hadn't trained with before, maybe didn't have the same communications systems. >> reporter: there's a push for cheadle to quit or b

mike, of course kimberly cheadle was in the hot seat yesterday, testifying before the house oversight committee. kind of surprising that she took this long to step down given the calls for her to step down yesterday from both sides of the aisle. >> based on what we saw yesterday, she wanted to present her view and her version of events before making a decision about whether she would stay at the agency. as was raised during the hearing, her departure was written in the stars. after the 1981 attempted assassination of reagan, the director of the secret service resigned. that's the kind of reminder to her of the steaks and a reminder to all of us that the stakes in the shooting of donald trump and three rally-goer's sands has the biggest security since the attempt on his life more than 40 years ago. scarlet: what is the next step for her replacement? my understanding is that these were presidential appointments. matt: that's -- mike: that's right. rowe is inheriting an agency in turmoil following the attempt on trump's life and all of the scrutiny that will come. there are multiple inve

that's what was said to kimberly cheadle today. we have 20 seconds left. do you think she will quit? >> after today? maybe. but then again, for lack of a subpoena she doesn't show up today. she's back tomorrow to and the house homeland security committee. i would imagine the same tone will happen tomorrow. but again on wednesday morning christopher bray, maybe he brings answers that america wants to know. >> kimberly cheadle probably and one of the most uncomfortable seats in america right now. not answering questions. "america reports" now. >> kamala harris will be a formidable contender. >> people are fired up. they are excited. 106 days to go. we can do it. >> she is primed and ready to take over as the leader of our country and she will be the one to keep donald trump out of office. >> john: democratic lawmakers rallying around vice president kamala harris after president biden made the stunning decision over the weekend to end his candidacy and adores her to take the reins. the monumental shake-up all happening just 15 weeks before election day. i'm j

turning now to new developments following the resignation of secret service director kimberly cheadle. both president biden and former president trump are speaking out. this comes after widespread calls by lawmakers for her to resign following the assassination attempt of trump at a campaign rally in pennsylvania yesterday. she was grilled by the house oversight committee. cheadle took responsibility for security failures that led to the attempted assassination. however, she sidestepped several major questions, including whether the secret service had secured the building from the gunman, where he fired from, as well as how he gained access to the roof and warnings about a suspicious person at the event. in a statement on his truth social account following news of cheadle's resignation, trump says, quote, the biden-harris administration did not properly protect me and i was forced to take a bullet for democracy. it was my great honor to do so, unquote. in the meantime, president biden released a statement thanking cheadle for her service that reads in part, quote, the independent revi

host: what were legislators looking to hear from kimberly cheadle?uest: committee members scheduled this nine days after the shooting and made a point of saying that we could have asked for a hearing immediately and we had the appetite for the information to do that, but we wanted to give you time and understood that you needed time to get the answers and have various law enforcement agencies examine what happened. they emerged entirely unsatisfied, yesterday. one question after another. questions that they saw as basic, things that one lawmaker said every american was asking at their neighborhood diner or at a ballgame. the director was often not able to answer. in fairness to the secret service, some of that came down to the sensitivities of an ongoing investigation and not wanting to divulge information that could complicate that process, but we are still talking about the first attempted assassination of a current or former president since 1981. as i mentioned, there was just this appetite for answers and they really came up dry and frustrated. h

thank you gentlemen. yields back today we are joined by kimberly cheadle who was sworn in the office on september 17th, 2022 as the director of the united states secret service. prior to our appointment director to, to a senior director of global security at pepsico before her role at pepsi, she served 27 years and the secret service. for sure, the committee rule 9 g. the witness will please stand and raise her right hand. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony that you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. so help you god let the record show that the witness answered in the affirmative. thank you. we certainly appreciate you being here today and look forward to your testimony. were we normally limit testimony to uh, open statement to 5 minutes, but take all the time that you need. uh, obviously the rules that, that we will, and about that when you're finished with your statement, we will then turn to questions. each member will have 5 minutes. and just a note to the members, i'm going to strictly adhere to the 5 minutes. what's 5 minu

in washington the secret service director kimberly cheadle tightlipped and under fire failing to answer questions from both sides of the congressional aisle about who is responsible for the epic security failure in the assassination attempt against president trump, the house oversight committee issued a bipartisan demand for cheadle's resignation as a delegation that is touring the site hoping to see what the secret service missed. i presented a moment in time all morning long take a look at futures again for the dow industrials at the start of trading factually so the nasdaq right now is down 41 and the s&p 500 down four points, this after stock start the week prior yesterday led by nvidia and tech stocks investors are betting the trump return to the white house dow industrial port hundred 27, the s&p of 59 and the nasdaq strong up 280 points at 4:00 o'clock on wall street, we are previewing the inflation story with the june pce index on friday and the federal reserve july monetary policy meeting coming up next week, earnings, gm, coca-cola, general electric coming out this morning bef

lawmakers thought kimberly cheadle might give them the slip on monday but not now.uld be the most-watched hearing on capitol hill in years. lawmakers have questions. >> martha: they admitted that this was the biggest security failure for the secret service since ronald reagan was shot. there was evidently a shortage of people. >>> cheadle to not do herself any favours in milwaukee. she alluded 4 gop senators who pointed questions about the shooting. lawmakers are mystified at the number of security failures which led to the incident. >> we know that 3 hours beforehand he was flagged for trying to bring in a rangefinder. that should have raised alarms to anyone. why did they receive all these red flags and still allow the president to take the stage. that's what's so crazy to me. gop missouri senator josh colley says his offices hearing from whistleblowers about the attempted assassination. holly rowe to the department of homeland security citing examples of people gaining access to places at the rally where they were not supposed to go. martha. >> there's a lot of q

house oversight is issuing a subpoena for secret service director kimberly cheadle to testify on monday as lawmakers fumed increasingly over all of the lack of answers we are getting on any of this. >> should the roof have been secured. >> that building a predicament has a sloped roof at its highest point. so, you know, there is a safety factor that would be considered there and we wouldn't want to put somebody on a sloped roof so the decision was maid to secure the building from inside. >> martha: congressman mike turner is chairman of the intelligence committee and he joins us but first let's go to senior congressional correspondent chad program with the latest on capitol hill hello chad. >> martha good afternoon. house speaker mike johnson is consolidating the houses investigation of the shooting early next week he will create a task force, members of both parties will investigate the shooting. he is disappointed at information congress is receiving. >> the reason we're going to do it that way is because that is a more precision strike, it goes quicker. there's not a lot of procedura

kimberly cheadle admit, failure on the part of her agency, the secret service. here's what she did say in her testimony, a disaster nation attempt, a former president donald trump, on july 13th is the most significant operational failure of the secret service. in decades, the secret service, a solemn mission, is to protect our nation's leaders. on july 13th, we failed as a director of the united states secret service. i take full responsibility for any security lapse of our agency. however, when it came to specifics about what went wrong, she didn't really have the answers. she gave a lot of vague answers, people and members of congress. they directly asked her about the fact that the roof on which the shooter mounted his rifle was not occupied. and protected by a secret service agent, but that very roof was not within the security perimeter of that people in the crowd had identified this suspicious man with his rifle and the trump was still allowed to take the stage. no sufficient answer was given. it's worth noting that kimberly cheadle would not confirm that

stuart: hold on the second and temple on the second, the secret service director, kimberly cheadle is resign as you know and listen it was she said just last year about diversity within the agency rule and. >> i'm very conscious as i sit in this chair now making sure that we need to attract diverse candidates and ensure that we are developing giving opportunities to everybody in our workforce particularly women. stuart: is diversity tim, is a problem secret service and should be a meritocracy but is not. tim: when i certainly think that it is the focus of a lot of departments across the government today, based on this administration but it absolutely should not be. if you were checking the leaders of the world as you know matter let me say this though was a marine and a police officer and a secret service agent and i work with some great females in the qualified confident and strong and able to do the job but for hiring people based on the class, not based on the talent and more importantly their warrior skills, indisposition, houston, we have a big problem see what you think rfk jr.

us secret service director kimberly cheadle . director kimberly cheadle testified before an oversightbout her team security failures that allow the government's open fire on former president trump at a rally in pennsylvania about a week ago. the gunmen killed one person and injured three others including mrtrump, the 20—year—old was shot dead by agents, faces calls to resign by republican and democratic lawmakers in the days following the assassination attempt but she says that she will stay in her role. onjuly 13, we on july 13, we failed. onjuly 13, we failed. as director of the united states secret service, i take responsibility for any security lapse of our agency. we are fully cooperating with ongoing investigations. we must learn what happened and i will move heaven and earth to ensure that an incident likejuly 13 does not happen again. earlier i spoke to charles moreno, a former secret service agent and security expert. what you think of the testimony we heard from the secret service director? when it was going to be a tough day for the agency, because as a director said, they

kimberly cheadle admit, failure on the part of her agency, the secret service. here's what she did say in her testimony, a disaster nation attempt, a former president donald trump, on july 13th is the most significant operational failure of the secret service. in decades. the secret service of solemn mission is to protect our nation's leaders. on july 13th, we failed as a director of the united states secret service. i take full responsibility for any security lapse of our agency. however, when it came to specifics about what went wrong, she didn't really have answers. she gave a lot of vague answers, people and members of congress. they directly asked her about the fact that the roof on which the shooter mounted his rifle was not occupied and protected by a secret service agent. but that very roof was not within the security perimeter of that people in the crowd had identified this suspicious man with his rifle and the trunk was still allowed to take the stage. no sufficient answer was given. it's worth noting that kimberly cheadle would not confirm that the sh

this is the oversight committee with kimberly cheadle is the head of the secret service and james comer, the chairman of that committee. here is what he wants to talk about on monday. because so we have a lot of questions that every american has that we hold to be able to ask the director on monday. and then, hopefully she will give us some transparency. by then she will be able to answer all the questions as to what went wrong. >> we've also learned that the house homeland security to many chaired by mike green republican of tennessee he will try to hold a hearing on tuesday. he wants the home and homeless garrity secretary alejandro mayorkas to appear along with the fbi director christopher rae and also kimberly cheadle. the other thing we just got a statement from jim hans a democrat from connecticut and he is the top democrat on the house intelligence committee. he is calling for full transparency in this investigation. you know, there was a statement a couple days ago from josh hawley, their public and senator from missouri, who indicated he did not think anything should be classif

cheadle and it's getting rather heated. >> it is getting heated director kimberly cheadle did show upquestions but she hasn't given many answers that explain how the assassination attempt on former president trump was allowed to happen. her hands are tied and she wants to wait for the multiple investigation into this event to play out which will be two months from now. lawmakers wanted more information on why the secret service denied trump's campaign request for the month leading up to the attack but cheadle did not have insight and tried to deny the her part untrue department to that. >> more than once i asked for additional help and you turned them down, what did they ask for and how many times did you turn them down asic questions. >> without having all the details in front of me, what i can tell you. >> you didn't get briefed on how many times you turned down the trump detail when asked for additional help. >> you didn't get briefed on that before you came to the hearing knowing you to get asked that question the fact that you can't answer how many times you did that is printed o

and us secret service director kimberly cheadle has no intentions to step down. that was from secret service spokesman. so not going to happen. anyway, let's get to events because i know you're excited to talk about a man who is a fellow marine. >> yes. tell me what you thought of his speech. i thought his speech was great . i will say this, though, as as a marine myself, my life has been bookended by service to my country. so originally i served in the in the marine corps, and now i'm serving veterans. you know, helping put va disability compensation in their pockets. and i felt like he was a little light on the veteran front. you know, it's not that he just served in the military, you served in the marine corps and every marine that watched you tonight was a little shocked that you only dusted it, put a little sprinkle of that into your speech. i appreciated all the talk your your mama and your and your mom and your plans for the country, your support of donald trump. but i think people underestimate military members as a voting block. >> so don't just tell me

stuart: coming up, secret service director kimberly cheadle says the buck stops with her. >> the secretble. >> the buck stops with you? >> the buck stops with me. stuart: after trump's assassination attempt, she's refusing to resign. tom homan on that. special coverage of the national convention continues at 7:00 p.m. :00 pm eastern on fox business, stay with us. we are coming back. ♪ ♪ (fisher investments) at fisher investments we may look like other money managers, but we're different. (other money manager) you can't be that different. (fisher investments) we are. we have a team of specialists not only in investing, but also also in financial and estate planning and more. (other money manager) your clients rely on you for all that? (fisher investments) yes. and as a fiduciary, we always put their interests first. (other money manager) but you still sell commission -based products, right? (fisher investments) no. we have a simple management fee structured so we do better when our clients do better. (other money manager) huh, we're more different than i thought! (fisher investments) at

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s. secret service director kimberly cheadle has admitted that her agency failed to protect donald trump against and assassination attempt in pennsylvania. on july, the 13th lawmakers had been expressing anger over how the gunman could get so close to the republican presidential nominees when he was supposed to be carefully guarded. the secret service has acknowledged that it detained some request or denied rather some request by trump campaign for increased security as events in the years before the assassination attempt addressing congress directory cheadle described it as the agencies quote, most significant operational failure. for decades. the secret service, a solemn mission, is to protect our nation's leaders. on july 13th, we failed as a director of the united states secret service. i take full responsibility for any security lapse of our agency. we are fully cooperating with ongoing investigations . we must learn what happened and i will move heaven and earth to ensure that an incident like july, 13th does not happen again. and here's a quick reminder of the top story we're foll

cheadle and cannot wait to see with the testimony just might look like we do have more information as mentioned arthel, white mail-in his 20s, and there's a lot of reporting a no underline about who u.s. what he may have done in his past, and there's a reporting covenant mr. thomas matthew crooks was a registered republican be donated to progressive democrats and we also know that he's relatively young account is graduated back in 22, very young person. now i can also this very quickly, the rnc a lot of people wondering where the president go shooting one is scheduled with, were beginning tonight is yes and yes and back to you. arthel: is 20 years old there's going to be a lot of there is you will know kevin online and of course, we will that every thing is journalist and bring the facts and you very much kevin, eric. eric: okay for thomas matthew crooks, were now joined by retired fbi agent bobby and bobby, we just heard in the new information that we have the report say, that 20 years old, he graduated 2022 for my school has given just that cummings registered republican with the sa

. >> ronald road took over the acting secret service director when kimberly cheadle resigned.el at 10:00 a.m. eastern all eyes will be on it we will hear new details in the hearing about communications leading up to and directly following the shooting as well as the security plan used by secret service and police. fox news told they will provide more substitute testimony thank kimberly cheadle, former president trump says the secret service showed great bravery during the assassination attempt and revealed his wife melania is free action, listen. >> i want to say one thing about secret service they were very brave, bullets were flying over me because i went down i had a lot of people on top of me a lot of big strong people on top of me and they were very brave. >> what was melania is reaction. >> she was watching it i said what we feeling and she can't really talk about it. >> which is okay because that means she likes me or she loves me. >> fbi director will also testify this morning after revealing the gunmen access the roof by climbing up the buildings pipes he then travers

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host: what were legislators looking to hear from kimberly cheadle? guest: committee members scheduled this nine days after the shooting and made a point of saying that we could have asked for a hearing immediately and we had the appetite for the information to do that, but we wanted to give you time and understood that you needed time to get the answers and have various law enforcement agencies examine what happened. they emerged entirely unsatisfied, yesterday. one question after another. questions that they saw as basic, things that one lawmaker said every american was asking at their neighborhood diner or at a ballgame. the director was often not able to answer. in fairness to the secret service, some of that came down to the sensitivities of an ongoing investigation and not wanting to divulge information that could complicate that process, but we are still talking about the first attempted assassination of a current or former president since 1981. as i mentioned, there was just this appetite for answers and they really came up dry and frustrated.

. >> the secret service director, kimberly cheadle, is set to testify before the house oversight committeemonday. it comes after last week's security breach at donald trump's rally in pennsylvania. fox's chad pergram reports from capitol hill. >> the marquee hearing comes monday before the house oversight committee, with secret service director kimberly cheadle. lawmakers are raging at cheadle over a lack of transparency. >> we had just gotten off an hour long conference call with the secret service where they told us nothing. they basically spent an hour saying nothing for senate republicans, even don cheadle, through the hallways of the republican convention in milwaukee. >> i can't tell you the answer to us. >> the answer to us. >> this is exactly what we were doing today. >> stonewalled attempts. you know, nothing. you owe president trump answers. >> lawmakers were already livid with the secret service for the catastrophic security breach at the rally in pennsylvania. but cheadle, ducking senators infuriated them even more. >> she says it's not appropriate to talk about it here. we nee

they know kimberly cheadle is not going to under her own volition come in.lly anticipate by today having to subpoena her. >> emily: wow. we will bring you any developments on that as they arise. coming up, powerful messages from american speaking at the rnc and what we can expect from j.d. vance's major address as trump's running mate. that's tonight. stay with us." let's get started. bill, where's your mask? i really tried sleeping with it, everybody. now i sleep with inspire. inspire? no mask? no hose? just sleep. learn more, and view important safety information at inspiresleep.com [water flowing] [phone dings] oh my god. what? the host is coming back. (♪) meanwhile, at a vrbo... when other vacation rentals have surprise drop-ins, try one you'll have all to yourself. if you have generalized myasthenia gravis, picture what life could look like with vyvgart hytrulo, a subcutaneous injection that takes about 30 to 90 seconds. for one thing, could it mean more time for you? vyvgart hytrulo can improve daily abilities and reduce muscle weakness with a treatmen

cheadle all testify next week.increase on saturday over an intelligence report that iran was plotting to kill the 45th president, morgan ortagus says this is been known in place for a while. secret service director says the buck stops with her but she will not resign and here's her explanation why the roof the gunman was on was not secure. watch. >> the building in particular has a sloped roof at the highest point in there is a safety factor that will be considered we want to put somebody on a sloped roof so the decision was made to secure the building from inside. maria: a sloped roof. >> the american people are going to demand answers, congress will demand answers, you and i love the constitution and one of the key things that congress does is oversight in the american people want oversight right away and they will get it right away from a plethora of committees in the house oversight in the homeland security. i'm sure appropriators will get involved somewhere in the mix but we need answers and we need them swift

kimberly cheadle, of quickly.us secret service on july the us secret service on july the 13th, that astonishing assassination attempt on donald trump's life was brutally cross—examined in washington, dc on capitol hill, and the questions were just relentless. one was this why wasn't a secret service agent on the roof? of course, to counter the sniper, there was a plan in place to provide overwatch, but we can't go into the operational details today. she was heckled. she was booed. it was a brutal, brutal session. we'll have full analysis on that after this , analysis on that after this, including we'll go back to the white house and pick up on kamala harris's speech on the steps of the white house expected to be her pitch for the vice president nomination for the democrat party. loads to come up, make sure you don't go away. now, let's have your weather. and it's alex burke. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news >> hello again. i'm here with your latest gb news. weather updat

an event that secret service director kimberly cheadle says the agency is ready for. acknowledging it's been reviewed, strengthened in the way of saturday's shooting. joining me now is robert mcdonald and daniel harvin. bobby, let's talk about what focus there is on the secret service now. i'm going to pause, an excellent organization, a great agency, but certainly having to answer some questions in congress and already this week about what happened with that rooftop or what did they need to do regarding the rnc. >> good afternoon, andrea. you're slil right, the questions are still out there as we talked about yesterday with what happened, why it happened, how it happened and how do we make sure it doesn't happen again. we need to allow the secret service to take a deep dive as i said to you yesterday, to look at its situation and why this was allowed to happen, why we didn't find a way to mitigate that situation. you know, looking at that schematic again of that field where the event was, that building was incredibly close, you know, the sharp shooters are trained ou

. >> the bow director kimberly cheadle resigns as answers about the attempted assassination of formersident donald trump remain elusive. >> that was a dead aim right onto the stage. >> we'll ask the sunday panel about the bipartisan task force formed to investigate all this week on fox news sunday. ♪ >> shannon: what does the exit of president biden from the race mean now for his lame-duck status and for us national security? well, there is this. and mark's 100 days to election day and its turn to the democratic party and presumptive nominee current vice president kamala harris. the delicate -- delegates and top democrats rally behind her after president biden dropped out just one week ago. new fox news polling states that michigan, minnesota, pennsylvania and wisconsin showed democratic voters support harris as the replacement nominee. democratic delegates are up going to nominate harrison her vp pick before the dnc convention using virtual voting. they cite august 7th on -- ohio ballot deadline for publicans dispute that said there's been a legislative fix to suspend this to the fir

there are big questions about secret service director kimberly cheadle and how she ended up leaving the agency. our hillary vaughn's lab on capitol hill and hillary, how is cheadle reacting to all of this? >> don, john, cheadle insists the buck stops with her and following the assassination attempt on former president trump so now cheadle herself is under a microscope since president biden appointed her as secret service director almost two years ago. she has made diversity a day one priority at the secret service setting a goal to get 30% of new recruits to be women by 2030. on trump's detail in butler, pennsylvania, there were several female agents. 's who >> i'm very conscious as i sit in this chair now of making sure we needed to attract diverse candidates and ensure we are developing and giving opportunities to everybody in our workforce. particularly women. >> part of cheadle's or a woman push included having a youtube influencer come and train with the secret service in a lighthearted comedic style documentary while diversity has been a big priority for cheadle, republicans want

we have criminals. >> is on the roof. >> secret service director kimberly cheadle refusing to step downsponsible for the former president. >> so the buck stops with you? >> 's subsidy and the director of the secret service. it was unacceptable and something that should happen again. we will continue to be transparent and communicate with people. >> you plan to stay on absolutely? >> i do plan to stay on. >> the federalist wrote this. any assassination investigation that includes merrick garland or christopher wray is a cover-up. your reaction. >> this is where merrick garland and christopher wray have brought us there is not a belief that they are fair and independent because of the way that they have gone after donald trump. as i mentioned when i sat down i'm still rattled by what happened on saturday and i think what happened can never happen and it did. there is going to be a lot of soul searching but there's nobody taking responsibility this goes to president biden on down and secret service director and i love the minimum and of law enforcement. i'm always going to back them and su

cheadle announced her resignation one day after her disastrous house hearing where she failed to answerquestions on how the gunmen can get so close and be able to shoot at president trump and that assassination attempt last weekend, house homeland security chairman mark green is here in the next hour with reaction to that as well as a security threat of the open border, markets look like this, futures right now showing a decline at the start of trading after muted day on wall street, investors keeping a close eye on small-cap which you been bouncing, we're on it this morning, growing optimism over to rate cuts this year beginning in september perhaps all the head of the federal reserve preferred rating on inflation out this week the june pce on friday we have a preview, google and tesla reporting earnings last night to mixed results we will get into it, the stocks on the move, european markets in the red right now, take a look at the eurozone, declines pretty much fractional moves but largely lower. asia right across the board, the nikkei average in japan data entry better than 1%, join

that's what was said to kimberly cheadle today. we have 20 seconds left. do you think she will quit? >> after today? maybe. but then again, for lack of a subpoena she doesn't show up today. she's back tomorrow to and the house homeland security committee. i would imagine the same tone will happen tomorrow. but again on wednesday morning christopher bray, maybe he brings answers that america wants to know. >> kimberly cheadle probably and one of the most uncomfortable seats in america right now. not answering questions. "america reports" now.

nick: kimberly cheadle was tightlipped despite demands from both parties for her resignation. >> i believeyou should resign. >> because donald trump is alive, and thank god he is, you look incompetent. if he had been killed, you would look culpable. nick: it has been nine days since the secret service's no significant failure in more than 40 years. former president donald trump, his ear pierced by bullets fired from a military style rifle from 450 feet away. she confirmed local law enforcement photographed the shooter 18 minutes before trump began but the secret service initially identified him only as suspicious rather than a threat. illinois democrat roger christian. >> that doesn't look like suspicious behavior. that looks like threatening behavior to me and the rally was not paused at that point either, correct? >> i can tell you as i stated earlier, sir, the moment that the shift surrounding the president were aware of an actual threat -- >> that is a threat right there. the guy is on the roof and everybody yelling at him. nick: she confirmed that the shooter, thomas matthew crooks, u

kimberly cheadle went through hours of intense scrutiny by both democratic and republican lawmakers yesterday. she said she apologized to mr. trump and accepted responsibility for the security failure. she'd refused to step down in the days following the shooting. in her email to staff this morning, cheadle wrote i take full responsibility for the security lapse in light of recent events. it is with a heavy heart that i've made the difficult decision to step down as your director, house speaker mike johnson says the resignation should have come sooner. >> now we have to pick up the pieces. we have to rebuild the american people's faith and trust in the secret service. as an agency, it has an incredibly important responsibility in protecting presidents, former presidents and other officials have an answer for that. >> cheadle had served as director since august of 2022. secret service deputy director ronald rowley has been named as acting director. he's been with the agency for 24 years. >> also in the news this afternoon, the city of oakland has canceled the planned sweep of a small homeless

gyp one week after the resignation of secret service director kimberly cheadle, her acting successor, ronald roe, spent this morning acknowledging the agency's failures and trying to reassure congress in a hearing that the secret service is capable and accountable. he was joined at the hearing of the senate judiciary and homeland security committees by the deputy director of the f.b.i., paul abate. >> do you swear the testimony you will give -- geoff: for the second time in just eight days -- >> somebody has to be fired. geoff: members of congress grilled the head of the secret service of the security failures leading up to the assassination attempt of former president donald trump earlier this month. >> how could they not see? they're in an elevated position. they're checking rooftops. they're looking around. there's two government snipers. how could they not see him? geoff: this time under oath, acting director ronald ro wervetion a week into his tenure calling the efforts to protect mr. trump a, quote, failure on multiple levels. >> i went to the roof though building where the assa

>> tensions really flared up at the hearing even before kimberly cheadle arrived.ear she knew she was getting no sympathy from anyone in that room. we heard the clip at the start. she said what the room was feeling. the secret service had failed in its duties that day. she stopped short of resigning. that was something many of the congressional committee recalling on her to do. onof the most important questions they wanted answering was why was there not an agent on the rooftop which was near the rally where the gunman was able to climb onto and fire those shots. she kept saying the investigation is still ongoing. she was told these are the reports that are out with her. she was accused of stonewalling. she did make a bizarre comment in which she said something about how the secret service preferred sterile roofs. she had previously said the secret service did not like sloping roofs which sparked huge condemnation. she rectified it. the inference was sterile roofs. there was a moment in the hearing where one of the republican, nancy mace, swore at her accusing her

>> tensions really flared up at the hearing even before kimberly cheadle arrived.ear she knew she was getting no sympathy from anyone in that room. we heard the clip at the start. she said what the room was feeling. the secret service had failed in its duties that day. she stopped short of resigning. that was something many of the congressional committee recalling on her to do. one of the most important questions they wanted answering was why was there not an agent on the rooftop which was near the rally where the gunman was able to climb onto and fire those shots. she kept saying the investigation is still ongoing. she was told these are the reports that are out with her. she was accused of stonewalling. she did make a bizarre comment in which she said something about how the secret service preferred sterile roofs. she had previously said the secret service did not like sloping roofs which sparked huge condemnation. she rectified it. the inference was sterile roofs. there was a moment in the hearing where one of the republican, nancy mace, swore at her accusing he

kimberly cheadle, refused to answer nearly every single question she was asked from members on both sides of the aisle about the egregious security failures of july 13. this is what we have experienced over and over again. that is why i am introducing the stop act. this legislation will make it clear that those bureaucrats who refuse to answer the questions of the american people will be permanently disqualified from federal employment. it will further empower committee chairs and ranking members, members from both parties, to refer cases to the department of justice for prosecutions. lastly, it will give the united states congress more tools to withhold the salaries of those who obstruct our oversight efforts. we cannot allow the swamp, the entrenched bureaucrats in washington who believe they know better than the people they are supposed to serve, to continue to dodge the oversight of congress and rule by fiat over the american people. we must stand up for the american people and demand transparency and honesty from those who serve in our government. our republic's survival hinges on it

kimberly cheadle has been testifying today before a congressional heanng today before a congressional hearing in an effort to explain herself following that attempt to kill donald trump last week, she was being questioned closely about the security lapses that allowed a lone gunman to successfully take aim at mr trump , saying she does take full trump, saying she does take full responsibility for what went wrong. >> the assassination attempt of former president donald trump on july 13th is the most significant operational failure of the secret service in decades, and i am keeping him and his family in my thoughts. the secret service's solemn mission is to protect our nation's leaders on july 13th, we failed . we failed. >> meanwhile, financial donations to the us democrats have surged after president biden's announcement that he is stepping down from the us presidential race. in an online statement yesterday, joe biden endorsed his vp kamala harris , endorsed his vp kamala harris, as his favourite candidate for president, with the clintons backing that up. although the same endorsemen

on july 13th, we failed kimberly cheadle speaking there. >> meanwhile , financial >> meanwhile, financialonations to the us democrat party have surged after president biden's announcement that he's stepping down from the us presidential race. in an onune us presidential race. in an online statement yesterday, joe biden endorsed his vp, his vice president, kamala harris, as his favourite candidate for president. but the same endorsement was missing from the former president obama. it comes after he faced increasing calls to step aside since his poor debate performance against donald trump last month. here, though, the prime minister, sir keir starmer, praised joe biden, a man who during five decades of service never lost touch with the concerns of working people and always put his country first. >> a true friend of the labour movement, his presidency will leave a legacy that extends far beyond america to freedom and security. on this continent . security. on this continent. >> now, the prime minister has also been setting out plans today to cut our reliance on foreign workers by improving

kimberly cheadle was facing calls for resignation after the security failure at the trump campaign rally in western pennsylvania. cheadle appeared before congressional committees yesterday where she took responsibility for what she called the most significant operational failure in decades. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle asked her to step down, and were infuriated by her lack of answers. >> can you answer why the secret service did not place a single agent on the roof? >> we are still looking into the advanced process and the decisions -- >> i believe director cheadle, that he should resign. >> she worked for the secret service for nearly 30 years. in a statement, president biden wished her the best, and said he would appoint a new director very soon. >>> now to a consumer horror story becoming all too real for thousands of homeowners. mortgages they thought were long paid off are coming back to haunt them, putting some at risk of ending up on the street. national consumer correspondent usher karachi reveals the growing threat of zombie debt. >> this is where the kids play? >> my d

cheadle, who resigned last week, and new details just into our newsroom. yet another big burn keeping fire crews busy this morning. a bookstore on college avenue in oakland caught fire this morning around five 3060 firefighters are still on scene there, putting out the flames in what's now a three alarm fire. fortunately, no injuries so far. >>>>daytime >>highs today are right around average, but we do have a little bit of a warm up as we head closer into this weekend's forecast. daytime highs today sitting in the 70s and 80s throughout the santa clara valley we head all the way along the 101 into redwood city 70s throughout this afternoon. right behind me, the east bay is warming up into the 80s today. anywhere from antioch down into livermore, concord, a very similar trend 87 degrees throughout this afternoon, you cross the bay bridge over into san francisco. now we're talking about low 70s, upper 60s. just along that coastline. beautiful weather for us today up into napa and sonoma. we have 70s and 80s in store for us throughout the afternoon hours. now

monday, kimberly cheadle told a congressional committee she was still the best person to lead the secretthis afternoon, she resigned, bowing inevitably to the pressure she's been facing since the attempted assassination of donald trump. in her opening statement, she acknowledged the agency had failed. >> the secret service mission is to protect our nation's leaders. on july 13, we failed. as the director of the united states secret service, i take full responsibility for any security lapse of our agency. christian: one moment, the director confessed that they had been alerted to assistances just individual -- a suspicious individual before the government open fire. there's an ongoing investigation into what went wrong but this particular exchange in the hearing reminded us how close they came to disaster. >> i've never had any long gun trainingn my life. i own an ar-15. i shot it one time my whole life , six years ago. that is until saturday when we re-created the events. i was lying prone on a sloped roof at 130 yards at 6:30 at night. i knew we had a scope. i didn't know what kind. i s

cheadle ante el comite de s supervision de la camara baja se centro en demandas incansables para que acusandole del fallo de se seguridad mas grande a un p presidente en 40 anos. >> la congresista republicana nancy mace al escuchar la misma respuesta que se repitio durante horas. >> republicanos y democratas esperaban respuestas a preguntas especificas desde como el arma r-15 llego ahi y por que si algunos asistentes alertaron del tirador en el techo, el discurso de trump debe ella dejar su puesto para que otra persona mas capacitada, porque esto sucedio bajo el mando de ella. >> es una persona mas cap capacitada, segun inve investigadores, matthew crooks, el mando de ella. >> de la sospechoso incluso volo un dron horas antes sobre el al preguntarle sobre el posible motivo, hoy tampoco hubo directamente sobre su capacidad en el cargo, la directora re respondio diciendo que por ahora ella cree que es la persona m mejor calificada, mientras habra que esperar 60 dias para un reporte detallado de la agencia. >> francisco fajardo, noticias telemundo. >> y aqui le daremos seguimiento a esa

yesterday, during house committee hearings, kimberly cheadle provided little clarity on how a gunman was able to get access to a roof with a clear line of sight of the former president. she refused to answer many questions, citing an ongoing fbi investigation. >> we are just nine days out from this incident, and there's still an ongoing investigation. >> so lawmakers, both republicans and democrats, have been calling for cheadle's resignation. >> i'm happy to see that she has heeded the call of both republicans and democrats, now we have to pick up the pieces. >> meanwhile, congressional investigations into the assassination attempt are picking up with the house homeland security committee today and the approval of a bipartisan congressional task force expected tomorrow. ronald roe, the us secret service deputy director, will now act serve as acting director. he's a 24 year veteran of the department. okay, shifting gears, you'll be able to turn down that ac soon as cooler temperatures come to the bay area. abc seven meteorologist drew tuma has the latest in the accuweather forecast.

. >> reporter: director kimberly cheadle offered few answers as to how and assassin was able to position himself on a rooftop about 500 feet from the podium. >> i will not get into specifics of that day. >> reporter: frustrating lawmakers with unanswered questions. >> the lack of answers and the lack of report is just something we cannot accept here. >> reporter: cheadle did admit agents have been told five or six times a suspicious person had been spotted but was still allowed to create the stage took >> every detail had been called a threat, he would never have been able to go out on the stage. >> committee chair, james coomer says the secret service needs new leadership. >> this has now become the face of incompetence. >> cheadle has been with the secret service for nearly 30 years and still has president biden's support, but, multiple lawmakers are calling for resignation. >> i call on you to resign today. today. >> i believe, director cheadle, that you should resign. >> the secret service has confirmed at times, denying trump campaign request for more security. cheadle says that was