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us presidentjoe biden has paid tribute to the former head of the us secret service, kimberley cheatlere to prevent the assassination attempt on donald trump. ms cheatle had been facing calls from republicans and democrats to stand down, as nomia iqbal reports from washington. take a look at what happened... former president donald trump was close to being killed. and the secret service has been under huge pressure to answer for it. its director, kimberly cheatle, attended a hearing on capitol hill yesterday, immediately accepting blame. the secret service's solemn mission is to protect our nation's leaders. on july 13th, we failed. as the director of the united states secret service, i take full responsibility for any security lapse of our agency. donald trump was on stage in pennsylvania. secret service snipers were on a roof behind him. outside the rally venue, more than 100 metres away, were these buildings. from the rooftop, the gunman had a direct line of sight to mr trump. the crucial questions for kimberly cheatle included, why weren't any agents on the rooftop beforehand, espe

. >> reporter: all of it as pressure mounts on director kimberley cheatle to resign. group of gop senators confronting her this past week at the rnc. >> this is exactly what we were doing today on the call, stone walling. >> george joins me now from butler. and george, secret service director kimberly cheatle says she has no plans to resign. >> reporter: that's right, jose. no plans to resign. and comes as she is expected to testify before the intelligence committee about the agency's response and security at the rally as those calls for her to resign only grow louder. jose? >> george solis in butler s foro pennsylvania, thank you. >>> there are calls tonight for president biden to quit his run for another term. but this time they aren't politicians, they are voters protesting outside the white house. but this time they allie raffa has the story. >> reporter: tonight, calls on president biden to drop out of the 2024 race extending beyond capitol hill. >> we are ready to unite behind a new nominee. >> biden is losing. >> reporter: protesters at the white house today --

kimberley cheatle has faced course to reserve after mr trump was injured in a campaign rally earliert identified sooner. at least six people have died after a gunman opened fire in a care home in croatia. five people were killed in the home while another person died later in hospital. several people were also injured and four remain in critical condition. the suspect fled the scene and was later arrested at a cafe. a court in russia has sentenced a russian—american journalist to 6-.5 russian—american journalist to 6—.5 years in prison after a secret trial. the man, who works for radio free europe, radio liberty, had edited a book that contain criticism of russia's war in ukraine. detention has been condemned by human rights groups, us officials and seven western governments. police in greenland have arrested a prominent anti—wiring environmentalist under an international warrant issued by japan. forwatson's international warrant issued by japan. for watson's campaign group said his ship had docked in greenland to refuel. the group said it was on the way to intercept a japanese whalin

secret service boss kimberley cheatle said her "personnel on the ground moved quickly during the incidententing protective measures to ensure the safety of former president donald trump." but critics say they were too slow to get him to safety. ms cheatle has been summoned to a congressional hearing in one week's time. so, in summary, the biggest failure was in the preparation phase — not securing that nearby rooftop. information was also not getting acted on in time. but, in terms of immediate reaction to the attack, the secret service did perform well. reeta. frank, thank you. donald trump survived the attack in pennsylvania, but 50—year—old corey comperatore, who was in the crowd at the rally, died while trying to protect his family, according to the authorities. when the shots rang out, he dived on top of family members and was killed in the process. the governor of pennsylvania josh shapiro says he "died a hero". our correspondent tom symonds reports. screaming. as security service agents put their bodies between donald trump and the shooter, in the crowd, a father did the same for h

tomorrow, those lawmakers will take those questions directly to secret service director kimberley cheatle>> we were told there were resources diverted to nato and the first lady. did that happen? there were a finite number of buildings that needed to be secured. why wasn't that done. this shooter is identified at 6:09. 6:11, president trump is shot. that critical two minutes, what happened? >> reporter: tomorrow's congressional hearing could be the first of many to probe the assassination attempt. house homeland security committee chair mark green and ten of the committee's members are set to visit the rally site on monday morning and now representative brendan boyle has become the first congressional democrat to the join a chorus of other republican voices calling for the secret service director to resign. he released a statement saying, quote, the evidence coming to light has shown unacceptable operational failures. back to you. >> thank you. that's an important note. that's an important he position for a democrat to stand up and ask questions about. we highlighted it and sometimes -- i

kimberley cheatle testified before the house oversight committee on monday answering questions surroundingontentious hearing lasted more than four hours and involved multiple calls for her to step down during those proceedings. in her resignation letter to staff which was obtained by nbc news, cheatle wrote in part this. "the secret service's solen mission is to protect our nation's leaders and infrastructure. on july 13th we fell short on that mission. the scrutiny over the last week has been intense and will continue to remain as our operational tempo increases. as your director, i take full responsibility for the security lapse." she served with the secret service for a total of 29 years, becoming its director in the fall of 2022. joining us now democratic congressman game olmo of rhode island. congressman, thank you so much for being with us. let's start here with the secret service director's resignation. let's get your reaction as to her decision as well as the abipartisan announcement they'll be setting up a task force to see just what went wrong. >> good morning and thanks for havi

officials that have appeared on capitol hill this week including now former secret service director kimberley cheatleg on monday and then proceeded to resign after a pretty contentious hearing for her. christopher wray, though, was able to offer additional details but still some lawmakersry main fairly frustrated about the lack of answers. as you just noted about the clip just played and the lack of identification for crooks. what we're going to see this week and really the bulk of the work postponed until after the august recess is see these appointments for the task force going to put together an even more comprehensive time line and investigate what exactly happened, what led to these security failures that allowed thomas crooks to open fire on former president trump and bring firearms into such a secure space. >> and later drew the wrath of donald trump on social media for suggesting his interactions with joe biden, biden seemed coherent and for saying we simply don't know yet if trump was struck by a bullet or some sort of other fragment or shrapnel. let's talk about the other topic sweeping cap

rowe was appointed acting director last week after kimberley cheatle resigned.mycaohe snell. last week they created a task force to investigate the assassination attempt on donald trump. when can we expect to see some of the fruits of its labor? >> i think pretty quickly. there's urgency behind this effort to figure out, "a," what went wrong, what were the security lapses, and of course the big question what reforms could happen to make sure it doesn't occur again. so johnson and jeffreys took that step last week of naming members to the task force, officially getting things started. johnson has set a sort of ambitious time line. he says he wants the final report out some time in mid-december noting interim reports will come out before that. essentially the purpose of the task force was to consolidate all the different panels and committees separate investigations into one. obviously, there have been several different committees launching probes into this. so i expect them to get started pretty quickly. "a," because there's a lot of interest in knowing what happ

. >> for secret service director kimberley cheatle it was a bipartisan unloading. >> not only should you resign, if you refuse to do so, president biden needs to fire you. >> if you have an assassination attempt on a president, a former president, or a candidate, you need to resign. >> would you like to use my five minutes to draft your resignation letter? yes or no? >> no, thank you. >> reporter: cheatle appearing by subpoena and testifying under oath directly addressed the attempted assassination of former president donald trump. >> 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. >> reporter: but facing off with members of congress, she left many frustrated. >> was the gun already on the roof, or did the shooter carry the gun up with him? >> i do not have that information at this time. >> reporter: cheatle pressed on why the building thomas crooks fired shots from, less than 150 yards from the stage, wasn't secured. >> wasn't that building within the perimeter that should be secured? do we a

why weren't there drou drones, t that kimberley cheatle is incompetent. is it dei? what's going on. >> it's my job if i'm going to give an opinion to back it up. opinions are like holes, everybody has one. the difference between one opinion over the other in a courtroom and anywhere else is can you back it up. i want everyone at home, go to your phone or computer now i want you to look u.s. secret service red ties, donald trump. the secret service was more concerned about protective agents around donald trump, if you think i'm making this up, go to -- go to a left wing search engine, go to scroogle, they were more concerned about the color of the secret service agent ties around donald trump given the perception that a red tie was some -- i'm got red ties, i'm a republican p. it's nothing to do with it. red ties go nice with white shirts. that's an actual -- you see it right now. i'm not crazy. this is what the secret service was concerned about. they put out 1,000 tweets about all of this dei stuff. do i know that's related? i don't. i'm saying like there were -- y

on monday kimberley cheatle told a congressional committee she was still the best person to lead theemn 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. in one particularly damning moment, the director confessed that those protecting the former president had been alerted to a suspicious individual "somewhere between two and five times" before the gunman opened fire. there is still an ongoing investigation into what went wrong, but this particular exchange in the hearing reminded us how close they had come to disaster. i have never had any long gun training in my life. i own an ar15, and the last time i shot it — i shot it one time my whole life — was six years ago. that is until saturday, where we recreated the events in savoy, texas _ we recreated what happened. i was lying prone on a sloped roof at 130 yards at 6:30pm at night, and i knew he had a scope, i didn't know what kind, red dot or magnify, so i shot eight rounds from both. you know what th