the secret service -- mr. waltz: the secret service should have been aware. mr. sullivan: absolutely. mr. waltz: you had been in charge, would certainly make local law enforcement aware. hey, we not only have ongoing plots, we just arrested someone in the united states putting down payments to kill president trump. this is on top of the ongoing domestic threats. correct? mr. sullivan: yes. mr. waltz: you would make your counterparts aware? mr. sullivan: i would think the secret service headquarters knew about that. i'm assuming that. i don't know for a fact. but i've been in law enforcement my whole life. unless you're in the room, unless you're one of the persons putting handcuffs on the suspect and bringing him in the room and conducting the interview, you're never going to get the whole story. you have to be part of that arrest. mr. waltz: at least an awareness to your local law enforcement. so were you also aware, was anyone aware that president trump had been denied additional resources but the reason the secret service countersniper team wasn't there to coo

secret service.is important that we hold ourselves accountable for the failures of july 13th and that we use the lessons learned to make sure that we do not have another failure like this again. the findings of the mission assurance review have prompted the secret service to move into the accountability phase of this process. the office of professional responsibility and the office of integrity are reviewing the findings. as a result of these failures, what has become clear to me is we need a shift in paradigm in how we conduct our protective operations. as was demonstrated on sunday in west palm beach, the threat level is evolving and requires this findings from this mission assurance review. with respect to command and control of the site in butler, pennsylvania, the secret service has the main responsibility of building the site plan. we cannot abdicate or defer our responsibilities to others. advance team personnel have an obligation to ensure that each site meets the protective requirements and

we know the secret service director is either in or on his way to florida from two secret service officials, kelly o'donnell earlier this evening, and you can imagine that he is going to be hands-on for the after action reporting on this from the secret service perspective. we know he is a former police officer in west palm beach, florida, and he was the deputy director the secret service prior to becoming the actor director this past summer. he would've been in charge of the day-to-day operations of the agency. now, he will be on the ground to get information about what happened there from the secret service perspective. he likely would be part of the president's daily briefing tomorrow morning when he gets his update from his national security and homeland security -- from the secret service director in front of the cameras potentially, tomorrow, as this develops. >> thank you. >>> we will get reaction from a congressman is sits on the arms services committee. services committee. (man) mm, hey, honey. looks like my to-do list grew. "paint the bathroom, give baxter a bath, get life insuran

it is the secret service's responsibility to secure a site. we certainly have conversations, and it doesn't matter when it's a campaign staff or a white house staff. we have conversations and we have very good working relationships with those staffs. but ultimately it's the secret service's responsibility to secure a site. reporter: director, thank you. based on your review and analysis, what is the reason -- what's the best explanation for why there was not law enforcement personnel covering the roof, ifley on the roof itself, or making sure someone could not get on top of the roof? and the follow-up question would be, how disappointed are you in what you described as deficiencies in diligence? mr. rowe: ultimately, we have to be very direct and clear when we're talking to our state and local counterparts. with respect to butler, i think what the mission assurance review has identified is that there was that lack of clarity. and i can tell you since july 13, when i've been out on the road and i've watched field offices and i gave guidance upo

the secret service, it should be transparent about that. and the goal is to protect american citizens and protect the elective elected officials regardless of of party. right. and i think, you know, the secret service is a gnostic to, to politics, their job. and these are people that lay their lives on the line every day. and it's a very difficult job. what's not take the slightly for what they have to do. but yeah, there will be a review of what's going on. there will be an intense after action report and there should be look and meet. we should demand that as american citizens, right, as taxpayers that we hold these agencies and institutions to the highest account. and we've had to, it's donald trump isn't exactly the easiest person from the secret service has point of view to i guess the cue a, a to protect. so many people have said that he will just do whatever he pleases. i mean, that must make it incredibly difficult uh, from the secret service has point of view to actually give him the best service that they possibly can. i guess tha

of the secret service? >> there were so many. it is getting to the point now where i thank them and say i have already heard that from 10 other guys. i bring that up because none of these problems are new. anybody telling you that is lying directly to your face. you better hope they are not under oath. anyone suggesting in a congressional hearing or elsewhere, that these problems are new, personnel problems, logistics problems, the manpower problems, technology problems. i just told you a sad running joke in the service. i am gone since 2011. last time i checked it is 2024. it was yesterday's technology tomorrow. other things that are inexcusable that have been brought up before like ben and erik brought up. the communication failures are basic. this is not like the secret service million-dollar radio system that uses nsa-level encryption magically broke down that day. they literally handed them a radio they didn't take. this is why when congressman mills says, borderline criminal negligence, you should tak

that is not what you see or expect of the secret service. the director at the time has to leave their job. her job, a lot of senior officers, officials in the department had to leave. there's multiple congressional investigations going on and it was just failure after failure in pennsylvania. did that you're seeing right there. the suspect was allowed to get incredibly close to the former president with a clear line of sight. and experts that you talked, you said if, if he hadn't been a really bad shot at that stuff, is that it would have worked at a donald. trump moved his head obviously at the exact right time. but it was an incredibly easy shot. the suspect didn't able to make, wasn't able to be on their rifle squad at high school because it was such a bad shot. but there was a lot of criticism. they were slow to get on stage with and then and again, never seen anything like it. they allowed him to stand off when the area wasn't secure and the zip air picture easy of him with is vir fist raised. and they took a really long time getting hi

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i know it's a challenge to secret service and something every secret service agent wants to wake up every day and avoid so please pass on our gratitude for the work they're doing every day and the work they're doing and appreciate about that. i want to ask you about the interviews that's happening and you've done about 400 to this point. the counter team that was law enforcement that was on the rooftop, have they been interviewed? ronald: i believe so. sen. lankford: do you know they were at that post sometimes, were they at that post 6:08 to 6:11. ronald: i have not read the reports directly, to be fair but briefed on some of it. paul: they were at times during the time frame i'm talking about here on post within the a.g.r. building and i do believe, i'd want to confirm it at some point, one or more did venture out in an effort to locate and isolate. sen. lankford: they also were looking for this individual that was suspicious and they left that post to look for him on the ground at different points to see if they could get a different perspective and we're trying to discover if during t

the secret service has directed their team to make sure the secret service has all of the resources itneeds to carry out the task of protecting former president trump. we know roe. he's going to be hands on from the afteraction reporting on this from the secret service perspective. we know he's a former police officer in west palm beach, florida. and he was the deputy director of the secret service before becoming the director this summer. he is going to be deputy director. he likely would be a part of the president's daily briefings tomorrow morning when he gets his update from his tphalgts security and homeland security teams. and we'll be looking to see chris too, if we hear from the secret service director in front of the cameras potentially tomorrow as this story develops. >> aaron gillcrest thank you. >>> up ahead we get reaction from the security committee. when they're dehydrated, pedialyte is great for— wait... umm... isn't that for the kids? —isn't this for the kids? —yup. good point. when you're feeling super hot or super not, it's pedialyte. the #1 dr. recommended brand for

secret service. just to give you a little information, as you well know, the road down there on summit is still blocked off. it will be blocked off probably for the remainder of today and probably a good portion of tomorrow until some of the investigative things need to be done is finished. but we are accommodating people in and out, getting them to the library, the post office. so with the public is not going to be that far inconvenienced. the security level at mar-a-lago is the highest it can possibly be now. the road closures are back in place and will remain there. the checkpoints are in place. and my commitment to the secret service is to give them every possible resource from pbso once they determine the level of security they need. they will get all the resources possible. so having said that, i will let you talk to the u.s. attorney. >> thank you, sir. good afternoon. thank you for joining us today. i am the united states attorney from florida. i want to start by expressing my deep gratitude

secret service. these men answered a call to play a role protecting the public and our political process even though providing security at a political rally is not their usual line of work. our country already knows what happened. at 6:11 on sunday, july 13 in butler. the law enforcement professionals are here to tell us about specific actions and events that led to this outcome. testifying today we also have the medical examiner who performed the autopsy on thomas crooks. he's testifying to answer questions about how crooks died and to hopefully put to rest some theories and doubts that often seem to follow high profile violent events. finally, our panel includes a distinguished retired secret service agent who played no role in the events of july 13 on this panel to provide insights into secret service protocols and practices. after this hearing, the task force will use what we have learned from today's testimonies. additional documents and local law enforcement resources and the next phase of our

that led tote resing naz of the secret service director. kelly o'donnell has more on what this latest incident means for the service. >> reporter: tonight, a new security challenge for the u.s. secret service in what has been a season of danger and heightened scrutiny. only nine weeks after gun fire erupted in butler, pennsylvania, wounding former president trump, killing a rally goer and injuring two others. the protective agency has been making changes and facing hard questions and consequences. much of the focus for the july 13th assassination attempt centers on how that gunman, thomas crooks, was able to reach a rooftop with a line of sight fewer than 150 yards from mr. trump, but outside the protected perimeter. the security failure forced the resignation of then secret service director kimberly cheatle. later the acting director said the lapses were unacceptable. >> what i saw made me ashamed. >> another key issue, lack of coordinated communications with other law enforcement works that day. >> there were clearly radio transmissions t

secret service. garrett, first to you. what is the former president doing today? how has this attempt impacted him from your reporting? >> reporter: he's expected tonight to make an announcement about a new crypto enterprise he's working on that has nothing to do with his campaign. what i can tell you now based on his social media posts and an interview with another network, the former president is angry. he posted on truth social a little while ago, fight, fight, fight, which became his mantra after the first assassination attempt in butler, pennsylvania, and in a lengthy interview he told fox news he blames president biden and vice president harris' rhetoric on the campaign trail about him for this attack. he assumes the suspect's motivation here saying this person was clearly motivated by the language that is used against him, describing him as a threat to democracy and so forth and that's why he was targeted here. it's a shade upgraded from what he was saying at the debate, the idea he believes p

and the secret service. just to give you a little information, as you well know, the road down there on summit is still blocked off. it will be blocked off probably for the remainder of today and probably a good portion of tomorrow. until some of the investigative things need to be done are finished. but we're accommodating people in and out. getting them to the library, getting them to the post office. the public is not going to be that far inconvenienced. the security level at mar-a-lago is the highest it could possibly be now. the road closures are back in place and will remain there. the check points are in place. and my commitment to the secret service is to give them every possible resource from pbso. once they determine the level of security they need they'll get all the security resources possible. having said that, i'll let you talk to the u.s. attorney. >> good afternoon. thank you for joining us today. my name is markenzy lapointe. i want to start by expressing my deep gratitude to sheriff bradsha

it's a combination of the secret service.not going to congress and asking for more money and resources over several decades, and which causes kind of a ripple effect, right? like a compounding issue year after year after year, with increasing mission demands and sort of stagnant orjust minimal increases in budget and resources. so, you know, ithink it's a combination of factors. and so, you know, was human error involved in butler, pennsylvania, and in the golf course? possibly. i think that will come out in some of the reports. but in my opinion, again, formerly being on the inside, i think it's mostly going to be an issue of resources with a little bit of possibly incompetence. tell us more about the golf side of all of this, cos you must have spent a lot of your time on golf courses. it is weird, isn't it? something about presidents and golf and just the difficulty of looking after them on the course. yeah, and the secret service uses sort of a protective model they've used here in america. you guys are probably familiar f

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just went through the secret service numbers againment how much is their budget gone up? >> from 2 trillion, from 2 billion to 3.3 billion, so that's 65%. they protect 36 people. larry. 36. and you only have a couple that need the presidential level so they have plenty of people, plenty of resources and dhs, is a management problem. larry: many people have said with respect to the personnel, of the service, that unfortunately, affirmative action and dei and woke hiring practices have entered it, just as they have entered a lot of our security areas including the military in recent years. do you find that to be true in your investigations? >> i think that was probably cheatle's primary mission was dei, and that reflects the management level. i agree with president trump. the agents on the ground first class. the one guy obviously president trump's life throw their bodies in front of him so it's not the agents on the ground. it's their management and that is probably eroded by dei, like our diluted. it's a travesty. larry: all right, well i have to leave it there senator ro

tell us about staffing with the secret service. because it was raised after the first assassination attempt and already those questions are being asked now. >> aschris, you know there is a lotkn of struggle in the secret service at all times, because for the last 12 years, there have been caps on how much -- how many people they can hire. and what i have heard, ever since the last assassination attempt, i can't believe i'm saying the last assassination attempt in july, is that the number of people who are specially trained tacticians is exceedingly low. in other words, the stable of people who do countersurveillance, countersniper, or cover evacuation or what's called the counterassault team, those specialists who are really important in protecting the president, in addition to his working t,shift, the security detail that's immediately around him, that group is really on hardgr times. there are far fewer of them than have been in the past. that's a real challenge. and tom is exactly right that this agency is responsible right now

it could have been the secret service about how the secret service agents were a hole ahead of the formernt. that's how the agents saw the gun then engaged the alleged potential shooter. >> a lot to boil down, the secret service is not going to necessarily shut down every venue that any former president is at during the course of the day. what this says to me today, the agents being a couple of holes ahead and a couple of holes behind and a couple of holes to the side provided a protected bubble for the former president and his golfing partners and were able to spot this alleged shooter in the woods with his weapon. so whral that says to me, some good what that says to me, some good thing, this individual was able to be spotted before incurring any damage on the former president. yeah, would it be the best possible scenario to shut every venue down that every one of our protectees go to, you bet. but that is not always able to happen. >>> and i want you to talk about the weapon. he said it was an ak47 along with a go prothat were discovered on the fence outside of the perimeter of the gol

the secret service director patted himself on the back.pment yesterday was an off the record movement, off the record. and the president was not even supposed to go there, not on his official schedule. so we put together security plan and that security plan worked. >> jesse: it worked because trump is alive. but it failed because it was too close for comfort. it's just odd that this was a last-minute decision to play golf and the assassin was already at the core since 2:00 am. and then an agent fired rounds and he escapes into a different county, only captured because of sharp citizen nabbed pics of his plate. the second time in two months were trump almost died because of an unsecured perimeter. the biden and harris administration are in charge of protecting that perimeter. and they failed twice. biden still does not seem angry about it. and has not fired a soul. >> do you have any more information on the assassination attempt? >> president joe biden: thank god the former president is okay. we got a full report and one thing i want to mak

why did the secret service not? can you enter why the secretaries didn't place a single agent on the roof? we are still looking into the advance process, the, the secret service using the drones for surveillance that day. so again, i'm not going to get into specifics. there were reports that the shooter used to ground just a few hours before the rally start time. is that accurate? i have heard those same reports and again and waiting for the final report, how many secret service agents were assigned to president trump on the day of the rally? again, i'm not going to get into the specifics of the numbers. okay. you say you're fully cooperating with this committee on july 15th, this committee sent you a list of demands of information that we wanted. has the secret service, provided this committee, a complete list of all law enforcement personnel that were there that day? yes. or no. have to get back to you on that. that is a no. have you provided all audio and video recordings in your possession to this committee as w

>> you mean secret service, not f.b.i. >> sorry, yeah, secret service, right. >> yes, sir. what should have happened in my opinion when a suspicious person was identified the detail leader and shift agent should have been told there is an issue we're working a suspicious person. and then at that point it was probably would be inappropriate to remove the president from the stage but the detail leader should know there is an issue, i may have to react quirk. at a minimum with a suspicious person the detail leader and shift agent should be told there is an issue. >> have there then situations as a secret service agent where it's coming up where you have had to pause an event or respond to something until it's been addressed. >> yes, it happened during my career. never had a dramatic situation where we had to remove the president from the stage but we have had situations where the shift agents were told we have a situation, suspicious person in the front row. then you have to mitigate that. usually the protective intelligence team will then come, take that person and conduct th

we've also now gotten a statement from secret service that says it secret service is investigating what they are calling a protective incidents following trump and following those gunshots being fired. so this is clearly an evolving situation we are still trying to understand what exactly the gunshots look like. and i heard you talking to one of your former guest about his security and just to explain as somebody who has followed this closely since that shooting assassination attempts in butler, pennsylvania, trump has had an extraordinary amplification of the security around him that includes when he has those at home with local pd, as well as traveling with local pd, as well as with secret service. that means that he has people traveling with him at all times. i've seen him on the golf course. i've seen the videos of him on the golf course. he has he goes around one cart. he has secret service in the cart behind him the amount of people traveling with him has also gone up since that assassination attempt. they have been amplifying that, again, both with local pd and with secret servic

host: back to the secret service, it was 2003 when the secret service and the department of homeland security from treasury, has there been any discussion about reorganizing the secret service, but their mission is and should be in the wake of what happened in july? guest: yes. it was established in 2003 in the aftermath of 9/11, a massive reorganization of government with a lot of agencies coming together at a lot of them have been wishing they could leave ever since. host: why? guest: new department, growing pains. 20 years old now but that is still relatively new. a lot of public scrutiny and unpopular work. when you think about the mission, border security, tsa, counterterrorism, it's sticky stuff and they often get a lot of public scrutiny. agencies that used to be -- the secret service use to be in the treasury department, back to their legacy work combating counterfeiting and they still do do financial work. in treasury, they were kind of big shots, secret service, within the department of treasury. in the department of homeland security they are one of many, one of many law e

shift that has to happen at the secret service. and that's not something that can be motivated simply by more resources or more money. now he did say that the secret service stretch incredibly thin from a personnel standpoint that they don't have enough people to carry out the mission at the rate and at the level that they're doing. now, you mentioned that both the president, donald trump and vice president kamala harris there's are all receiving that highest level of protection, that presidential level of security and obviously the sitting president received some additional resources from other agencies that are unique to present. that's like classified communication systems that air support when they're flying through restricted airspace. but from a secret service level, acting director wrote, made very clear that donald trump receives exactly we the same protection that president biden does. and look, he didn't have a good answer for what additional resources or what that additional money are funding could, how that could help r

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that's bad for the secret service. they cannot conduct their protective mission without the support of them. so that includes everything from motorcade advances to street closures to site security. so the secret service has to take the hit on this, but they've got to make sure that their personnel that are going out to these assignments have the 10-year in the job, have the experience, and have the know-how and follow-through on d local partners to make sure the job is getting done. >> john: i thought it was very interesting that the agent who spotted the rifle at the trump national doral course in west palm beach was a relatively new agent. experience and motivation can go hand-in-hand, motivation can certainly sometimes trump experience depending on who you are talking about here. charles, thank you so much for being with us. we really appreciate it. a lot more on this to come. >> sandra: thanks a lot for joining us on the breaking news. we are going to have more reaction to that news conference, a lot to dig into, c

but we have the highest levels for the secret service. so when we worked with the palm beach county sheriffs office, like for example, yesterday during that emergency action response, we had their local tactical team as it's partner with our local tactics, topical team assets. we had their helicopter up in the are providing us 360 and situational awareness of the overhead for any if there were any potential threats coming through at us. so what we did yesterday was exercise our mercy plan based on a number of tactical assets and the highest level of protection that we're providing. uh, the sheriff and i have talked now clearly when you go down southern boulevard right now, and you transferred over to palm beach and you see the robust presence that's existing outside of mar logo. the heavy uniform presents the additional assets of the secret service. and for those you that were here and 20 and in 2017 and the president was in office. when you look at that footprint now and you look at it today, i the, there's not much difference there. the

enforcement, where's the secret secret service questn records the fbi? no one is a charge because we have a president of the united states who is mentally incapacitated with the vice president of the united states who is incompetent in way over her head. we have an attorney general of the united states who just held about violence and he is in that witness protection program the top three people in charge of law enforcement in the united states of america two of those tweeted one did nothing. this is not about to eating i'm so glad president trump as well. isn't that nice? the executive branch is run by the president of the united states. number two the vice president of the united states ultimately the attorney general of the united states they are all awol. they are nowhere. it's perfectly fine if we keep banging heads about the head of the secret service they had of the fbi these are bureaucrats mostly. mayorkas we know it he is he is a complete incompetent buffoon. but where is the president, the vice president who wants to be president and the attor

secret service sweep behind that fence line for threats? >> having been there and seen the vantage point, whether they were on the public side or the private side, the bottom line is the individual was detected. >> reporter: and today, acting director rowe commended the young agent he said spotted the suspect and took swift action, adding that secret service will hire more than 400 new special agents this year, but still faces retention and recruitment challenges. jericka? >> jericka: nicole sganga for us in washington, d.c. thank you. with 46 days to go until election day, the first in-person votes of the 2024 presidential election were cast today in virginia, south dakota, and minnesota. and tonight, there are new concerns about election night chaos in the battleground state of georgia. that's because today the state's republican-led election board passed a controversial measure requiring every single ballot to be counted by hand. cbs's scott macfarlane is in atlanta looking into how that could all play out. >> reporter: just as vice pres

the secret secret service agent to grabbed her hand and the gun. i couldn't judge. how long a time. it might have been pointed at. all right. did you ever hear the gun? click. i have no recollection of it clicking or not clicking. did you hear any noise from the gun at any time that you can recall? not that i can recall. were you able to tell the caliber of the weapon? i could not. what was her position in relation to your position when she had the gun in her hand? as i understand. in order to clarify that you were shaking hands with the people and you would turn to your left. would that be correct or incorrect? i was moving from my left to right, from elm street to the capitol. i was shaking hands and speaking to people as i was moving towards the capitol. my best recollection is there was a series of other prominent trees, and we were in the approximate area of one of those trees. when i noticed this person in the second or third row of those individuals who were in the crowd. i would say that she was 3 to 4 feet from me when i first noticed her. she appeared to want to come forwa

secret secret service.your point, standing is the right word. >> harris: democrat senator blumenthal to charles point told it when it came to communications, kele, catastrophic collapse. >> kayleigh: that is exactly what it was. look until we know now that iran had a threat against president trump ahead of the rally. you are telling me there were no visual barriers outside of the rally that there was catastrophic communications to your point, and that there was not intelligence sharing the secret service officers on the ground that iran wanted to take out former president trump? you didn't have drones in the sky but one hour and a guy had to call a toll-free hotline about the throne and meanwhile the shooter had a drone in the air 11 minutes? ... , and my question is what was kimberly cheatle doing? she was jill biden protect and a good job in secret service but what was she doing? if i knew i had someone protected by iran i would manage the protection and her deputy who is now ahead of secret service. >> h

like they were unless they were firing it secret service. but the secret service definitely saw him and you had a witness that actually saw an individual digital run out of the shrubbery, get into a car and had the presence of mind to take a photograph of the car and the tag. >> i mean, without that, this person probably would still be out there and police would be searching for so that witness really deserves an awful lot of credit. >> we don't we know that it was an ak 47 firearm. it rifle with a scope, which makes it even more dangerous than it would normally be and that the fbi is the lead. now on this and that information from the fbi that came out now officially saying it looks like an attempted assassination again, just two months ago we were talking about this butler, pennsylvania and here we are again, this individual was equipped and ready to film, probably livestream maybe, who knows? that's the world we're in right now. and i think the secret service sack said it right? these are dangerous times right now. and it's straining reso

the secret service did a great job. in light of the new reporting the secret service did what it is supposed to do. saw a threat to the present a potential threat amount and ak-47 within the vicinity of the former president on the street a few hundred yards apparently away from the fifth hole. the secret service agent did what they are trained to do, check out the service revolver their weapons and tried to stop this apparent suspect this now with a gun and the shots were fired and now he is in custody. we do not know if he was shot we do know this man is in custody. so at least in this case right now it appears the secret service protection worked. but as a sean hannity was saying there's certainly a lot of question why was i was an ak-47 why was he allowed on that street in the vicinity closed so this could not have happened in the first place question. >> and ak-47 is very hard to conceal. it's a rifle, not a hand got in unless the man was wearing a long jacket. again it's probably 80 degrees down there so it would l

takeaways from the secret service's conference, secret service has president trump right now the highest level of protection, ths president biden. >> john: the first assassination attempt on july 13th and butler, pennsylvania, investigation finds communication gaps and a lack of diligence from the agency. >> sandra: let's get right to david spunt, who was in that room. for the news conference. david, we learned a whole lot more but possibly it is one of those moments where it raises a whole lot more questions. >> yeah, sandra, john, i think it really does. i have plenty of more questions to ask director rowe and we are waiting on this interim report from -- internal report from the secret service. we got a summary today with some observations of things that will be changing. first of all, director rowe was candid and came out and said after two plus months since juls now in the disciplinary phase, meaning some people are going to get punished here, watch. >> this agency has among the most robust table of penalties in the entirety of the federal government. in these penalties will be admi

secret service. whether that be under director cheadle or whether that be under rowe. to quote a former secret service agent, he said that he does not feel any safer or better now than he did under cheadle, having rowe at the helm. i think leadership as we can all admit to, whether it be in the military, the police force or whether it be here in the house, leadership is one of the things that we must rely upon heavily and there's a crisis in leadership. i also want to look at the fact that there is a prioritization across not just our military but other departments and agencies to prioritize diversity, equity and inclusion under d.e.i., the meritocracy and readiness of our actual capabilities on the ground. the further thing needing to be explored is the doctrine itself that is being utilized by the u.s. secret service. for too long they've continued to go under a very specific and very understandable thing where whatever your title is that you hold, results in the amount of resources and assets bein

service, thatis the job of the secret service, that is what they do.- the job of the secret service,ery much- _ let�*s speak to our north america correspondentjenny kumah. shejoins us from she joins us from washington. i guess it is important to remind viewers that are very little details we have in terms of has happened in west palm beach. but what can you tell us so far? ~ . . but what can you tell us so far? ~ ., ., ., ., , ,, far? we are waiting for a press conference _ far? we are waiting for a press conference from _ far? we are waiting for a press conference from the _ far? we are waiting for a press conference from the palm - far? we are waiting for a press i conference from the palm beach sheriff county office of hopefully we will have some more official details. but we do understand from our news partners cbs that one person is in custody. a weapon has been removed. but no motive has been determined at this time and the fbi is leading this investigation. we have had an e—mail through from donald trump. he reiterates that he is safe and he says that gunshots were in his vici

it led to the resignation of the secret service director. tonight the secret service has increased security around the white house and the vice president's residence. abc chief justice correspondent pierre thomas leads us off with the very latest. >> reporter: tonight, another security scare inful voing former president trump in what's being described as a possible assassination attempt. sources telling abc news a man with an assault-style rifle was near the gulf coast as donald trump was playing. >> fortunately, we were able to locate a witness that came to us and said, hey, i saw the guy running out of the bushes. he jumped into a black nissan, and i took a picture of the vehi vehicle. in the bushes where this guy was was an ak-47-style rifle with a scope, two backpacks that were hung on the fence that had ceramic tile in them and i gopro. the former president was not injured. sources telling abc news around 2:00 p.m. secret service personnel saw a suspect who appeared to be aiming an assault-style rifle. the secret service shot at the sus

secret service yesterday. they're scouting the perimeter of the golf course that potentially saved the life of the republican nominee, with just 50 days left to the general election. it was the stellar work of law enforcement just north of here. sheriff's deputies tracking him down on the highway that was shut down, and they were able to effectively order him to step away from his car. the body cam footage shows him walking out of his car and being handcuffed there on the spot. he made his initial court appearance this morning, facing charges related to the gun that he possessed at this time, as officials, federal and state, begin their investigation, into the apparent attempted assassination. this press conference, we are waiting to gather more details, but from the criminal complaint filed against ryan ruth, our understanding here is that he made his way to this west palm beach golf course of donald trump's, about 2:00 a.m. yesterday morning, scouting the area for about 11 hours, until donald trump was anywh